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Hoax or not, and many contemporary Bigfoot-believers insist that it’s not, the clip took hold of multiple imaginations, never letting go. And now there is something more to hold onto, a brand new film in the Bigfoot oeuvre. Only we haven’t seen it yet. Nobody has, outside of Akulivik, a tiny Inuit community in northwestern Quebec.

What can be glimpsed is a pair of photographs posted to Facebook by Maggie Cruikshank, a language teacher with the Kativik School Board. The photographs show two hands holding a yellow measuring tape beside one very large, very muddy footprint.

Ms. Cruikshank was travelling for work and could not be reached for comment. Her son, Kevin Kinglik, answered the phone at the family residence.

“I don’t believe in Bigfoot,” he said, firmly. “But my mother believes in Bigfoot, and she is not the only one around here who does.”

Ms. Cruikshank recentlygave an account of what she claims to have seen on a late September day to the Nunatsiaq News. She was berry picking with a cousin when a creature — not a man, and not a bear — appeared. It was black and hairy. She was frightened.

“It was a very large animal, a Bigfoot,” she told the reporter. “It walks like us but not standing straight like us, it can jump and crawl.”

Joe Nickell is the author of several books on creatures that people claim to see — the Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot, assorted Extra-terrestrials and Lake Okanagan’s own Ogopogo — but that nobody ever manages to get a good picture of, even now, in the age of point-and-click cellphone cameras.