Where's Bigfoot?
Mysteries of Science
Fun Kids
4.6 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this monster-sized episode, Dan and Ciaran lace up their hiking boots to probe one of North America’s most legendary mysteries: Bigfoot.
Is this giant, hairy, mysterious figure a real creature stomping through the forests, or is it just a brilliant tale best told around the campfire? We begin by tracking the legend back a thousand years to Indigenous cave art to modern-day giant footprints and strange noises in the woods...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back young detectives to Mysteries of Science. This is the podcast that always attempts to |
| 0:05.9 | reveal the truth behind the world's greatest mysteries, no matter how hairy it gets. From the |
| 0:12.7 | archives, we've dusted off a legendary case here. It's Bigfoot. We want to know, is it just a tall |
| 0:18.5 | tail or is there something big and hairy looking in the woods? |
| 0:23.1 | Get ready to follow the giant footprints, pour over blurry footprints, and untangle this myths. |
| 0:29.0 | We're tracking down the truth step by step. |
| 0:31.4 | Lace up your boots. |
| 0:32.6 | This mystery is about to take us into some wild places. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello and welcome to another monster episode of Mysteries of Science. |
| 0:41.9 | My name's Dan and I'm the editor of Science and Nature, the monthly magazine from the team |
| 0:46.4 | behind the week junior. |
| 0:47.9 | And I'm Kearen, the features editor. |
| 0:49.9 | In each issue of science and nature, we explore the universe through in-depth features, news stories, |
| 0:55.8 | all inspiring images, interviews with top experts and much more. |
| 1:00.6 | We had so much fun right at the start of this series when we investigated the Loch Ness monster, |
| 1:05.8 | so we couldn't help but take on another mysterious and possibly mythical creature, Bigfoot. |
| 1:12.6 | This is a giant, hairy, human-like ape who's loping through the North American forests. |
| 1:18.6 | I absolutely loved that episode, but if you haven't listened to it yet or any of our other mysteries, don't worry, because this one is as good a place to start as any. |
| 1:27.8 | And it wouldn't be mysteries of science without some top-notch experts. |
| 1:32.3 | So who have we got for you this time? |
| 1:33.9 | Well, we've got four authors who have done their own investigations into the big book |
| 1:39.2 | stories, and they have actually reached very different and I would say wildly different conclusions. |
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