Researchers shooting a documentary series about Bigfoot captured footage of what they say is the legendary ape-man of the forest peeping out at them from behind a tree.

The video, shot on a thermal camera shows a mysterious heat signature that does certainly appear to be a large human or ape-like figure peering out at the camera from behind a tree.

As commenters on a Reddit Bigfoot group point out, to register on the the infra-red camera the figure in the footage couldn’t be a human hoaxer in a suit.

A “gorilla suit” of the kind critics say is used in some faked videos would tend to mask the wearer’s heat signature.

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