UPPER PENINSULA, MI - Bigfoot or big bear?
That was the question the oddball site Crypto Sightings posed to its readers when it shared a trail cam photo depicting the backside of a hulking, dark-furred creature.
The photo below, taken in August according to the trail camera time stamp, began making the rounds on the internet in the last week. Reactions seems equally split between believers and guffaws.
According to the site:
" ... the possible bigfoot picture was taken somewhere in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Many are wondering if this could actually be a Michigan bigfoot photo or perhaps something less spectacular. Some skeptics have weighed in on the photo and one theory is that it is nothing more than a bear."
The head-scratcher that caused so many sleepless nights was seemingly solved on Monday, Sept. 12, when a second photo taken by the same trail cam - just minutes after the first - was shared with readers. Of a bear. And it also zipped around the internet.
It was shared under the headline: U.P. Michigan Bigfoot Photo: Mystery Solved.
"So this was not the great bigfoot sighting many thought it was and is not the elusive bigfoot evidence many continue to search for. The skeptics have gotten this one right and the search for big foot will have to continue on as we log this one as a simple misidentification. The hunt for proof of the Michigan bigfoot continues and perhaps it will be the location of one of the next bigfoot sightings 2016."
Bigfoot hunters for years have said the woodlands and forest cover of Northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula make it a likely spot to find Sasquatch.
In 2012, a team from the Big Foot Researchers Organization stopped by several Northern Michigan towns to check out alleged sightings of the elusive creature. Footage aired on their Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot."
Now that this latest U.P. cryptid mystery has been crossed off the list, maybe we can move on to other important hunts. Anyone up for finding the Loch Ness Monster, or maybe a chupacabra?