Bigfoot is buzzing again after a TikTok went viral this week, with non-believers pointing and laughing ... but one Ph.D. expert on the subject tells TMZ the joke is on them.
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00:00Well, there are so many layers. It's like, you know, like Shrek said, it's like an onion.
00:08You can peel back the different layers from the fascination with the unknown. It's like
00:15we hope that there still are mysteries to be solved as a culture. And of course, the
00:24notion of a man-like monster. I think one of the most popular silver screen monsters
00:29was King Kong. And it's that humanoid, anthropomorphic quality that kind of draws us in. Almost like
00:38looking at a carnival show mirror, trick mirror, you know, that distorts our own image. We
00:45see our own anatomies and behaviors reflected. From an academic perspective, it is one of
00:51the most interesting questions facing researchers in human evolution. Are there other hominins,
00:58close human relatives, still alive today? Could this represent a persistent branch on
01:05a very bushy tree, which we've now come to recognize, that contain many species that
01:11might still, some of which, not just one, but necessarily, but even more. The Yeti is
01:17something different altogether, has a different looking footprint that's more ape-like. There's
01:22Russian almas that, based on its descriptions and behaviors, could be a relic Neanderthal
01:29population. Something much more human than this giant, ape-ish Sasquatch. So there's
01:36fascination on many, many different levels that draw people to this question time and time again.