Dr. Jeff Meldrum Suggests Idaho Footage Filmed By Students Looks Like A Sasquatch

The footage that was uploaded by an Idaho student last March recently caught the attention of Dr. Jefferey Meldrum of Idaho State University. After examining the video, Dr. Meldrum said the dark figure in the video "bears a striking resemblance to descriptions of Sasquatch".

According to the student, it didn't look like a bear, and it didn't look like a human either. "It was big and bulky and black,” the student said.

Here's what the student wrote after posting the video:

I am the person who filmed this video, I was searching the video on google to see what came up and found this. I am not a Bigfoot researcher or anything, I don't even have an opinion on Bigfoot. To respond to some comments and hopefully answer some questions, we initially saw the figure from a different angle where it was a little easier to see. The way it walked and how easily it traversed through the deep snow seemed somewhat unorthodox. I got my camera (which I was using for other things, not searching for Bigfoot) out of my jacket and filmed until it went out of sight, thinking this could possibly be a Bigfoot. How did I zoom in on it? Most video cameras have view finders, and I use this camera quite often and I know how to point and shoot, its simply not that difficult when you're in a fairly open area. Also, its a 4 or 5 year old camera, sorry I didn't have an expensive hd quality camera. And, we did go up there to look for tracks. It was extremely steep down the canyon and up the other side, not to mention the 2 feet of snow covering the ground. We did find tracks. Not being a Bigfoot researcher I didn't think to video the tracks. But I am a hunter and know any track out there, and this seemed legit. If it was somebody up there performing a hoax, they went to new extremes to try and fool somebody else. It took us about an hour to get to where we saw it, and we're in shape people and it had us huffing and puffing. I don't know what it was, but it seems very unlikely to have been a human. And it definitely was not a bear. I hunt bears, know what to look for in a bear, and it's arms were way too long in proportion to its body to be a bear

From LocalNews8.com:

POCATELLO, Idaho -- A strange sighting by some high school students near Pocatello has Sasquatch hunters coming to southeast Idaho.

The students were on a school project near the west fork of Mink Creek south of Pocatello, when they say they saw a dark figure watching them from a ridge.

One student grabbed his camera and caught a glimpse.

A few fleeting seconds of a dark something disappearing into the tree line.

"It just didn't look humanlike. I don't know what that is, it's not a bear, it's not a moose or anything. It was big and bulky and black,” the student said.

The students climbed the ridge and took photographs of some big footprints they found.

Idaho State University professor Jeff Meldrum is a Bigfoot expert. His office is filled with suspected photos and plaster casts of Bigfoot prints.

He examined the photo and the short video of the distant figure.

"It nevertheless is a large dark figure that bears a striking resemblance to descriptions of Sasquatch,” Meldrum said.

Most people associate the Sasquatch with the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, he said. But Meldrum said there's a long history of Bigfoot lore in the Intermountain West and Idaho, though with different names.

"The notion of the immigrants coming into this place here and encountering strange and marvelous things like stories of wild men and mountain devils,” Meldrum said.

Or it could be a hoax.

But the high school student who shot the video, doesn't seem to be looking for attention. He requested that we not release his name or picture.

And he said he's simply not sure just what it was he saw standing on that ridge.

"I'm not going to say yes it was a Bigfoot or no it wasn't, because I don't know., and nobody knows,” the student said.

The Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot" is making a stop in Pocatello in mid June to see whether anyone else in the community has seen something Sasquatch-like.

Meldrum is doing a presentation on the history of Sasquatch along the Oregon Trail in Montpelier on Friday and Saturday.

Watch Dr. Jeff Meldrum talk about the footage on LocalNews8: