Bigfoot Spotted in New Mexico?

Whether you believe in the creature or not, a handful of people across the America are convinced that Bigfoot exists and are out to prove it.

In 2011, footage emerged from the Valles Caldera in the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico of what appears to be a large mammal caught on thermal imaging, grabbing the attention of field researchers as well as Animal Planet’s series Finding Bigfoot.

After discovering the video, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) decided to investigate further and traveled to New Mexico in an attempt to determine the size of the creature on video by comparing it with their own thermal imaging of a team member from the exact location.

Local channel KRQE News 13 picked up on the story this week and revealed their own 2008 interview with Tom Biscardi, a 40-year veteran to the hunt for Bigfoot who showed the news crew what appeared to be footprints near Farmington, N.M. Sightings of the creature, KRQE notes, have been reported in the area since 1998.

In their own search, the BFRO heard stories from local citizens at a town hall meeting Jemez Springs.

”I woke up in the middle of the night, went to get out of the bed. My window faces this way, and there was something in my window. It didn’t have a neck at all,” one local resident explained.

Of course, some skeptics have their doubts. Ben Radford, managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, explained to KRQE that the lack of a dead body of one of the creatures leaves a hole in the theory.

“If the creatures are out there they have to die somewhere why hasn’t anyone found them?” Radford he said.

Many commenters on the news story added their own theories—namely that the creatures could be intelligent enough to bury their dead. Either way, the hunt is still on in New Mexico—and across the country—for Bigfoot.