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Did a 2001 nature documentary accidentally catch Bigfoot on film? That is what many people believe and even the cameraman who worked on the film didn’t rule it out.
The resurfaced footage from the documentary Great North has received new attention for possibly containing a quick glimpse of Bigfoot after recently being shared on Reddit and other social media platforms.
In the video, the film crew is in a remote part of Quebec, Canada attempting to show “the landscape of the Arctic and long-standing Inuit traditions.”
Shooting from one side of a river to the other, the camera captures a herd of caribou making their way through the water then running off into the distance.
Just behind the caribou, on the right side and about four seconds into the video, appears what looks like a black figure standing up and looking over the top of a small ridge then running to the right towards the caribou before disappearing behind the grassy knoll.
For years, this video has been put up for debate as to whether or not the film crew captured Bigfoot on camera, or if there is some other more benign explanation.
Adding to the intrigue, William Reeve, one of the cameramen on the documentary, swears all of the logical explanations for the creature that appears on film don’t hold water.
“There was no one on camera except for myself at the riverside,” he said in an interview in 2016. “And the entire crew was on the riverside of the camera, the riverside of the shoot […] There was no one on foot. Anyone who got into the shot who was a crew member would have to buy the beers at night, so that’s just bad protocol. There’s absolutely no way we would put a human being in that peril.”
Reeve also strongly disputes the idea that the shadowy figure could just be a random person who wandered into the shot.
“Absolutely not,” Reeve continued. “There were no strangers for hundreds of miles of where we were. It was only us and a very small crew. We had a skeleton crew of only nine people and used two helicopters to sometimes reposition the herds, being very careful to avoid stressing the animals.”
He also shot down the notion that the creature was merely a bear, saying that he and the film crew saw no bears the entire time they made the documentary and that where they were would have been at the “northern limit of their range.”
“Furthermore, if a bear had given chase it would have been running on all four paws and in a horizontal position – and this object that we’re seeing is more upright and appearing to be running on two legs.”