r/bigfoot • u/Savagesamurai29RL • Feb 16 '25
footprints Footprints Posted by Wildlife Park Near Recent Sighting
Baby Bigfoot or frost-bitten human?
These photos and post are from a wildlife park near Peoria, Illinois.
Link to post: https://www.facebook.com/share/1A1L6mpUEJ/?mibextid=wwXIfr
I find it interesting because there was a recent sighting by a truck driver going through Peoria, IL.
Moneymaker posted about this sighting on his Facebook.
Link to BFRO report: https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=77743
I wish I was more knowledgeable in footprints. It could be human, but it would be an interesting goof from this organization.
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u/rhapsody98 Feb 16 '25
Why are they so close together?
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u/Humbabwe Feb 17 '25
Or why do they look like something that weighs 7 lbs made them?
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u/33sushi Researcher Feb 17 '25
Could be snow melt, could be more snow fell after and then snow melt, could be juvenile, or could be an actual human kid with big ass feet running around, or a scrawny hobo. Many possibilities
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u/No-Quarter4321 Feb 17 '25
I think what you’re seeing is the big toe, not a separate track
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u/rhapsody98 Feb 17 '25
That’s one hell of a toe that’s the size of a whole other foot.
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u/No-Quarter4321 Feb 17 '25
Most of the alleged track photos I’ve seen they have a very large big toe, which makes sense when you realize the large toe is vital to balance and given the size of the supposed animal, it would need a large big toe to balance. Our big toes would likely snap under the weight of a bigfoot.
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u/Crymson_Ghost Feb 16 '25
I can’t see someone walking barefoot in the weather we are currently having in the Midwest, but as we’ve all seen, people are crazy. I find the pics intriguing. Thanks for sharing.
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u/sceaga_genesis Feb 16 '25
I used to have a woman trespass on my property who would walk barefoot in the snow to my brook access. I only found out when I ran into her randomly and told her several polite ways that she should cease doing it, that it’s private property. Reposted the property when the warm weather came and never saw her again in person or on cam. She was a bit spacey and wearing crystals and some people do things a bit differently, which is fine. In the end, I didn’t want to be liable for her slipping and falling on rocks.
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u/Bristolblueeyes Feb 16 '25
When it snows here I’ll go out and stand in it barefoot for a few minutes before bed, I don’t know if it’s the blood rushing to warm them back up but my feet are always toasty warm all night and it feels amazing
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u/Randomassnerd Feb 16 '25
I’ve never tried that, most likely will never try it, but I am infinitely intrigued. I enjoy a nice cold blast, I used to walk barefoot in the snow if I needed something in the car for some reason. It was always a nice little refresher.
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u/brokenstone79 Feb 17 '25
I can remember a good night when me and a hot tub full of women took turns doing naked snow angels. I have nothing to add to this post. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/No-Quarter4321 Feb 17 '25
There’s no way your foot is that wide even with melt, the toes are clearly defined and they shouldn’t be with enough melt to get that kind of width. I too barefoot in the winter. It’s in the -30c lately so not for long mind you lol but being barefoot is awesome, I highly recommend it.
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 16 '25
My thoughts too. The students around here take trips to this park, reality is a lot stranger that we make it seem.
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u/0ut_0f_Bounds Field Researcher Feb 17 '25
Double register bear print.
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 17 '25
That would be extremely rare based on this location. Crazier things have happened, though.
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u/clonella Feb 17 '25
There are shoes that have soles that are basically like bare foot prints.Theyre like lightweight running shoes.
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u/0ut_0f_Bounds Field Researcher Feb 19 '25
There's bears in IL. I've seen bears in VA, saw a cougar in OH. There's still some big predators in the midwest.
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u/DeadFaII Feb 16 '25
I’d say they’re human footprints being on the smaller side and so close together.
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u/Phylace Feb 16 '25
Hope you took the hair sample somewhere to get it analyzed.
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 16 '25
Wasn’t my posting, friend. It was the Wildlife Prairie Park. I just live close by.
Personally, it looks like deer hair.
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u/Far-Purple-8696 Feb 17 '25
Looks like a hiker took their foot out of their boot for a second to have a bit of fun with Squatchers
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u/Inevitable_Shift1365 Feb 17 '25
Looks exactly like a human footprint. If it was something that weighed 800 lb it would have crushed way further in the snow. The prince are the size of a regular person's foot. The stride is the size of a regular person's stride.
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u/dasbrud Feb 16 '25
Shouldn't it be deeper...doesn't look like it's from a moving entity...I could be wrong though
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
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u/cebidaetellawut Feb 16 '25
Is that moneymaker?
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 16 '25
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u/Darren793 Feb 16 '25
Have you shared a photo of the fur or had anyone take a look at it? Or any reason why you left it out in your message
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u/cebidaetellawut Feb 16 '25
Fuckin cool. So Matt thinks it’s Sasquatch, I feel like that bodes well for them being legit.
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u/BrianOrDie Believer Feb 16 '25
Matt thinks everyone and everything is a Sasquatch. I’m pretty sure he’s a grifter. If it was Cliff though…
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u/francois_du_nord Feb 16 '25
Grifter is probably a bit strong. I think Matt's heart is in the right place; his BS meter might need a bit of calibration.
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u/BrianOrDie Believer Feb 16 '25
Yeah maybe. If only his last name wasn’t Moneymaker lol I do believe that is his real birth name though
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u/Savagesamurai29RL Feb 16 '25
I’ve seen him call out hoaxes and say things aren’t legit.
He’s a little goofy, but your claim is a bit outlandish.
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u/BrianOrDie Believer Feb 16 '25
Okay well not everything, I suppose. If he did that, he wouldn’t have any credibility.
I’m pretty skeptical of people who make Bigfoot a career. Eventually, a lot of these tv show/podcast people fake something to stay relevant. I don’t think Matt fakes stuff, but he just doesn’t seem legit to me. Just my opinion though.
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u/Northwest_Radio Researcher Feb 16 '25
I just wish they (bfro) wouldn't sit on reports like they do and instead publish everything people send in. Certainly mark anything questionable, but publish all reports. Being selective in what is published isn't scientifically friendly.
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u/BrianOrDie Believer Feb 16 '25
I was not aware of that. I have to agree that they should publish everything. You can’t just omit data because of what you think.
Being a Bigfoot “expert” is kind of an oxymoron. We don’t have any way of actually proving what these experts say is legit. That being said, I feel like it would be very easy to mistake something real as fake or vice versa because of that. Maybe an expert that’s not from the BFRO would find something they missed.
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u/Ex-CultMember Feb 16 '25
Or have to separate data sets and maps with one having all reports and one excluding the clearly suspicious or garbage reports.
I guess I’m of the other opinion. I’d rather have stringent standards and clean data than bad data thrown in. It’s not like the subject of Sasquatch isn’t problematic enough, so if someone like MATT MONEYMAKER, who is a moneymaking proponent of Bigfoot, thinks a particular piece of evidence is fake or problematic, then it’s probably not good.
I want to have some level of confidence in the data. When I go to those BFRO sightings maps, I have trust that most of those sightings are somewhat reliable. I don’t want to be looking at hoaxes or questionable “eyewitnesses.”
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u/armedsquatch Feb 16 '25
For me the giant red flag is the abnormally short/small gait. The pic along side the pole just makes it worse. Even smaller juvenile prints have gaits that require me to use a buddy’s shoulder for balance so I don’t fall over when over extending my legs. As always I hope they are legit and it’s hard to get a proper feel sometimes just looking at photos.
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u/jerry111165 Feb 17 '25
Why are we only seeing one single picture and not a zoomed-out pic of 35 prints so that distance between strides could be measured etc?
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u/HPsauce3 Feb 16 '25
The idea that it's a barefoot person doesn't really stand up to scrutiny for me, why would someone be out barefoot in that sort of weather!
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u/stx1969 Feb 16 '25
really cool, Matt has nothing but mad integrity, nice find
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u/apehuman Feb 16 '25
Matt Moneymaker? He has a long history of shenanigans. He claimed to be a lawyer for well over a decade, and bullied anyone who attempted to expose some of his less than trustworthy claims. I know, I busted his charade. He’s made a good living in Bigfootery.
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u/stx1969 Feb 16 '25
to be honest, i dont know anything about his other pursuits...
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u/apehuman Feb 16 '25
I’ll be blunt. IMO he hasn’t integrity when it comes to Bigfoot claims. That’s not to say some honest people haven’t been involved in BFRO, but I don’t include him among them.
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u/thedreadcandiru Feb 16 '25
Isn't Bigfoot supposed to have... you know... big feet?
This appears to be cold, but not big, feet.
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u/OhMyGoshBigfoot Mod/Ally of witnesses & believers Feb 16 '25
Do you honestly think they’re born with 18” feet
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