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Got it Edition CA NY Open US News navigation US News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News US News Metro Long Island Politics World News Search Search US News NY Bigfoot sighting of ‘Syracuse Figure’ my have gross NSFW explanation: ‘Inhuman’ By Brandon Cruz Published Aug. 30, 2026, 2:24 p.m. ET See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google It’s big all right. A hiker snapped photos of what she believed was a mythical upstate New York Bigfoot — but critics claim the so-called “Syracuse Figure” may just be an elderly, overweight skinny dipper. An unidentified 25-year-old snapped two photos of the pot-bellied beast as she was hiking near a pond in an undisclosed slice of wilderness in Onondaga County, though some are dismissing the eerie snaps and saying the amateur photographer may have been an unwitting Peeping Tom. “It really looked inhuman,” the woman reported to Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which investigates Sasquatch sightings, according to Fox News . A creature now dubbed the “Syracuse Figure” is seen in a New York marshland. The photos have led to controversy over what exactly was caught on camera. Facebook/Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization The woman, who BFRO identified only by the initials KD, said she was alone when she arrived at the glacial pond around 1 p.m. on Aug. 10. She allegedly spotted someone wading in the water and initially assumed it was a naked man — until the figure snapped its head around and stared at her in a way she described as unnervingly strange. Explore More Trump calls for NBC’s Kristen Welker to face FCC ‘rebuke or punishment’ after comment about his endorsement record Mayor argues against lowering American flag for Dolly Parton after her death MIT student claims he synthesized one of the deadliest chemicals known to man — sparking massive hazmat response She left in a panic and snapped a photo on her way out, the outlet reported. A BFRO “investigator,” identified only as Ben C., later tried to recreate the photos himself but said it was nearly impossible, according to the report. It took him 10 to 15 minutes just to wade to the spot through debris, roots and waist-deep mud, while becoming scratched up from the debris in the process — a feat he argued would be tough for “a presumed naked and elderly man,” the report read. Using his own 6-foot frame as a reference point, Ben C. estimated the figure was about 4-feet-9 inches tall — extremely small for a normal human male — and pointed to what he called a visible brow ridge as evidence toward it being a juvenile Sasquatch rather than a skinny dipper. A creature now dubbed the “Syracuse Figure” is seen in a New York marshland. The photos have led to controversy over what exactly was caught on camera. Facebook/Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization Fellow investigator Matthew Moneymaker — who shot down claims that another investigator, Snake the Bigfoot Hunter, found a Sasquatch corpse in New York — went a step further, suggesting what looked like sagging skin in the photos could actually be wet fur, and cited recent reports of “mini-bigfoots” spotted in Pennsylvania in mid-August. Some online, however, weighed in on the photos with many displaying skepticism towards the figure being a real Sasquatch and instead believe it to be an old, hairy man skinny dipping. “I’ve never seen a more obvious picture of an old guy,” said one X user. “Oh for f–k’s sake that’s some hairy dude with man boobs doing a little catfish noodling,” another added. Filed under bigfoot peeping tom social media 8/30/26 Read Next More than half of senior citizens say they use cannabis s... 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