By Tim Binnall
2025 saw Bigfoot once again stand head and shoulders above its cryptozoological compatriots through an array of stories featuring the legendary creature. There were sightings sometimes caught on video, reports from bewildered witnesses who believed they had encountered the bipedal beast, and multiple cases of mysterious prints that some suspected were left behind by Sasquatch. Beyond those intriguing accounts were moments when Bigfoot's enormous cultural footprint was clearly on display, including an effort to officially recognize the creature as a state cryptid, appearances on an 'I Voted' sticker and as an emoji, and even a bizarre divorce case in which a man's quest to find Sasquatch came back to haunt him.
On the video front, this past year featured a few rather compelling cases that possibly provided a glimpse of the elusive cryptid. A camper in California captured footage of what may have been Bigfoot climbing a tree, a man playing with his dogs in the Sierra Nevada Mountains filmed a large bipedal figure dashing through some woods, and a research group in Argentina posted a video of what they suspected could be the country's version of Sasquatch, known as the Ucumar. Unfortunately, similar to 2024, the 'best' Bigfoot footage of the year wound up being a well-crafted hoax.perpetrated by a Colorado raft tour company.
Among the other interesting cases from the past year were a New Hampshire couple who snapped a fantastic photo of a small bipedal figure, thought to be Sasquatch, crossing a river, and a game camera in Missouri captured a similarly intriguing photo of what may have been the famed cryptid. A hiker in Argentina recorded a chilling howl that sparked headlines in that country, and possible Bigfoot prints were found in New York State, Maine, and Ohio. Throughout the year, a multitude of witnesses reported Sasquatch sightings, including hunters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, motorists in Kansas, South Dakota, and North Carolina, and even a search party looking for a lost hiker in Arizona.
Sasquatch further solidified its place as a unique American folkloric figure and pop culture icon in 2025. One of the more noteworthy stories of the year in that vein saw a California lawmaker introduce a bill to designate Bigfoot as the state's official cryptid. Similar stories of the beloved creature's broad appeal included a Seattle artist who painted hundreds of Sasquatch heads throughout the city and an Iowa community that aimed to drum up tourism by creating an 'influencer' character out of the legendary bipedal beast. Additionally, Bigfoot finally received the honor of being depicted as an emoji, and the cryptid was also featured on the 'I Voted' stickers for a county in Idaho.
No stranger to weird stories, Bigfoot also found itself at the center of a Canadian man's bitter divorce battle and a bizarre 'blood oath' ceremony that caused controversy for a Colorado seminary. Meanwhile, two separate marijuana dispensaries in Michigan embraced the famed cryptid, with one pot shop offering a free joint to anyone who could produce a photograph of the creature and another that installed a massive statue of Sasquatch outside the business, much to some community members' chagrin. And, finally, an attraction at the New York State Fair promised to showcase the recently discovered remains of Bigfoot, but the enterprise turned out to be a clever piece of performance art.