Police in Damariscotta, Maine, resolved a string of reports about a mysterious hairy figure wandering the town after determining it was a man wearing a Bigfoot costume, according to an enthusiast source.
According to that source, several local residents called police after witnessing what they described as a hairy hominid walking around the area, with roughly a half-dozen calls reporting a strange bipedal figure covered in hair. The figure was reportedly seen on Main Street and outside a local school, the source said.
Officers apprehended the figure, according to the enthusiast source, which reported that the individual turned out to be a man dressed in a Bigfoot costume.
Damariscotta Police Chief Erik Josephson said no charges were filed against the man. Josephson also said that after investigation, Bigfoot is not real.
The enthusiast source reported that the exact reason why the man was wandering around town dressed as Bigfoot remains unclear.