Bigfoot sighting? Video taken in Colorado has some people believing

SILVERTON, Colorado — Maybe bigfoot is getting tired of the hard work of remaining so elusive.

A couple on a train ride in Colorado took photos and video Sunday of what appears to be a bigfoot walking along a mountainside. The post on Facebook by Shannon Parker has gone viral and created excitement among people who are fascinated by bigfoot, whose existence has never been proven conclusively.

Parker and her husband, Stetson, of Wyoming, were riding on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad when they made their sighting.

“After leaving Silverton and heading back to Durango, I asked Stetson to help me look for elk in the mountains,” Parker writes. “As we are passing by the mountains, Stetson sees something moving and then says I think it’s Bigfoot.”

Shannon Parker writes in her post that she was taking photos while a person next them recorded video with his cellphone.

“Y’all, out of the hundreds of people on the train, three or four of us actually saw, as Stetson says in the video, the ever elusive creature Bigfoot! I don’t know about y’all but We Believe!!”

The Durango Herald reports other passengers on the train spent most of the 3½-hour trip looking at the photos and video trying to determine what the Parkers and a few others had seen.

“We’re trying to think to ourselves, ‘Is it someone in a costume? What could it be?’” Shannon Parker tells the Herald.

The Denver Post reports that Sasquatch Expedition Campers, an RV company based in Silverton, has some people speculating that the business might somehow be involved with the sighting. The company issued a statement on Facebook denying its involvement, although the denial includes a paper with what appears to be fur on it and a picture of someone working on a camper while wearing bigfoot feet.

The Herald reports there also is speculation that it’s a hunter in a ghillie suit or that it is AI generated, or that the railroad is involved. The owner of the railroad says it had nothing to do with it but tells the Herald it’s been good for business.

DeAnne Gallegos, executive director of Visit Silverton, offered a solid theory to the Herald. Gallegos tells the Herald a man reportedly involved with a film production crew was at the Visitor Center last week and asked if there had been any recent bigfoot sightings in the area.

“And then all of a sudden there’s a video of a bigfoot and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s just them creating their own content,’” Gallegos said. She tells the Herald that Silverton residents are skeptical.

“All of us are just like, ‘OK, who did it? Who’s wearing the costume?’” Gallegos said. “Cause locals have done that before.”