People are convinced that a documentary unintentionally caught Bigfoot on camera

Conspiracy theorists are convinced a nature documentary unknowingly captured Bigfoot on camera two decades ago.

Bigfoot, often referred to as a Sasquatch, is a mythical creature who regularly crops up in American and Canadian folklore.

It’s commonly believed that the Sasquatch is a nonaggressive animal endowed with humanlike intelligence and is thought to be as tall as it is hairy.

Over the years, various travellers have claimed to have met and actually spoken to Bigfoot, while others say they’ve captured definitive proof that the legendary figure exists.

However, it’s now believed Bigfoot has been caught on camera after footage from the early 2000s has resurfaced on Reddit.

People claim they have actually met and spoken to the creature. (Nisian Hughes / Getty Images)

In 2001, Martin J. Dignard and William Reeve put out their documentary Great North, in which the pair ‘examine the landscape of the Arctic and long-standing Inuit traditions’.

A clip from Great North is currently doing the rounds online and it innocently shows a herd of Caribou racing alongside a river in the far north of Quebec, Canada.

However, some eagle-eyed viewers have spotted a dark figure keeping pace with the Caribou for some time before quickly disappearing behind a ridge.

Of course, a logical explanation is that this dark figure is just one of the crew members who got in the way of the epic nature shot.

But according to Reeve, he’s convinced that isn’t the case.

Speaking to the popular ThinkThunker YouTube channel, the cinematographer claimed there was ‘no one’ by the river except for himself.

“The entire crew was on the riverside of the camera, the riverside of the shoot [...]

“There was no one on foot. Anyone who got into the shot who was a crew member would have to buy the beers at night, so that's just bad protocol. There's absolutely no way we would put a human being in that peril.”

Redditors have been debating whether the object could be Bigfoot. (ThinkThunker/YouTube)

He was also adamant that there was ‘no strangers for hundred of miles’ and that the only people at the scene were himself and a ‘very small crew’.

“We had a skeleton crew of only nine people and used two helicopters to sometimes reposition the herds, being very careful to avoid stressing the animals.”

Furthermore, Reeve claimed that the supposed Sasquatch couldn’t have been a bear either due to the area being past the ‘northern limit of their range’.

Following the Great North clip being posted to Reddit, users have come out in their droves to debate what they believe to have seen.

One Redditor typed: “Definitely doesn’t look like a Caribou running.”

“I’m looking at it on my phone and it looks like a person with a pack on, maybe a hunter or another part of the film crew, who is either trying to avoid being in the shot or avoid the caribou,” commented a second user.

A third typed: “Looks to me like a guy hunched over riding a mountain bike.”

“I’m up, he sees me, I’m down. Bigfoot doing military drills, nice,” joked someone else.