Potential Bigfoot sighting in Oregon forest

A potential Bigfoot sighting has been recorded during the filming of a documentary in Oregon.

In "Expedition Bigfoot", a new Travel Channel documentary airing the US this week, a team of experts embarked on a three-week trip to find the elusive creature.

Lead by author and explorer Russell Acord, the team also included Mireya Mayor, director of the Exploration and Science Communications Initiative in the College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Florida International University.

She said the most common description of Bigfoot as being a large bipedal creature with primate-like behavior and mannerisms.

"And when we were in the field, we were able to capture something on video that fits this description: very big and moving in an apelike - if not bipedal - fashion," Mayor told Live Science.

"That, to me, is probably the most compelling piece of evidence that I've seen so far."

In the 1970s, the FBI tested a sample of alleged Bigfoot hairs "in the interest of research and scientific inquiry" that turned out to be deer hairs.