STRATHCONA PROVINCIAL PARK, B.C. — A man captured the video of an unidentified animal Saturday and he believes it could be Bigfoot.

The man, who didn’t reveal his name, told Cryptozoology News that he didn’t know who to turn to about the video.

“I thought I should pass long my video as I don’t really know who to turn to,” he said. “Please don’t publish my email,” he requested.

“I spent the past few days debating whether or not to post this video online and only decided to do so after showing the video to my father, who encouraged me to publish it.”

The witness claims that he was walking alone at the Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island when he had the unusual encounter.

“My walk was interrupted by a large rock thrown in my direction,” he says. “I scanned the area thinking it was kids but saw nothing, so I continued along. I only made it a few steps though before I heard a loud cracking sound, like a branch being snapped from a tree or something. I turned and spotted something moving in the foliage.”

The 30 seconds long video shows the alleged primate walking upright behind a line of bushes, allowing to see only its torso and head covered in brown-red hair.

But according to the man, the beast was initially standing on four legs.

“I raised my arms and let out a yell, thinking it was a bear and hoping to scare it off, but that’s when this something stood up. I instantly became overwhelmed with fear, this wasn’t a bear. It was more like a gorilla. As it turned and began to leave I quickly pulled out my camera and shot this video,” he explains.

The way it walked, he admits, “completely freaked” him out.

“It was almost human.”

He interrupted the video after reportedly losing track of the animal, concerned that this could be a young one and that there could be adult individuals in the area.

The witness reports that there were not branch structures around, otherwise known as “nests” by some researchers.

“I didn’t really notice any weird trees, though i wasn’t really looking. I tend to

spend my walks focusing on snapping photos of birds,” he said.

What was present, he said, was an odor that he attributes to animal droppings.

“I caught wind of a few unsettling smells a few times on my

walk but chalked it up to animal droppings as I spotted some earlier in my

trek. The area where I encountered this thing though did have a similar

stench to what I had encountered earlier. Kind of a musty dung smell, like

animal poop on a hot day.”

Even though the witness originally contacted Cryptozoology News, he is requesting anonymity and asks not to be additionally contacted about this incident.

“I don’t want my name known out of fear that my friends, family and co-workers may think that I’m crazy, so I created a new anonymous Gmail/YouTube account to post this. Please don’t contact this account, I don’t have any answers. All I know is that it was an unsettling incident and I’d like to move on with my life,” he explained.

The Strathcona Provincial Park is the largest park in Vancouver Island, at 607,384 acres.

In 2013, two people were hiking in Mission, B.C., when they captured the video of a similar creature.