What I saw on the Yorkshire moors last October - still can't explain it

I've been lurking here for months, trying to work out if I'm mad or just experienced something genuinely weird. Last October, I was hiking solo on the moors near Hebden Bridge - early morning, about 6am, clear as anything. I'm not prone to fanciful thinking; I'm a geologist by trade so I'm used to examining things rationally.

I saw something moving through the bracken that was not a person, not a deer, not any animal I recognised. It was roughly humanoid - maybe 7 or 8 feet tall - and it moved with an unusual gait. Shoulders hunched, arms longer than they should be proportionally. I had my camera but honestly I was transfixed, just watching. By the time I thought to film, it had vanished into the mist.

The frustrating part is I know how this sounds. No footage, no evidence, just a story. But I'm putting it out there because I need to know if anyone else has seen anything similar in that area. I'm not claiming Bigfoot or anything daft - I'm just saying something moved through those moors that I couldn't identify.

The moors around Hebden Bridge get reported quite a bit for weird sightings. Can't speak to yours specifically, but that area has water, dense vegetation, wildlife corridors. Could've been a very large deer (they can look surprisingly humanoid in the right light and angle), or a person in some kind of costume (dark tourism is big on the moors). The fact you were alone, watching something move at distance in poor visibility at dawn - all the conditions for misidentification are there. Not saying you're lying, just that the human brain is brilliant at making patterns.

I've spent a lot of time on those moors and I've never seen anything genuinely anomalous, though I've definitely had moments of 'what was that?' Usually it resolves into something mundane once you get closer or once daylight comes. The moors are genuinely eerie though - isolation, weather changes, limited visibility. Those conditions play tricks on perception. Did you feel threatened? Because that can actually colour how we remember what we saw.

Yorkshire has had a few Bigfoot-adjacent reports over the years - nothing officially documented, but in local folklore there's definitely something. Some people think the tales come from escaped circus animals or misidentified large primates. Unlikely but not impossible. I'd be curious if you noticed any smell, any sounds other than movement, any tracks. Those details matter more than visual impression.

I'm not claiming Bigfoot or anything daft

Yet you've described something that matches reported Bigfoot characteristics. Look, I respect the 'I don't know what I saw' approach - that's more honest than most reports. But we should be clear: the Yorkshire moors are well-walked, well-documented. If there was a large unidentified primate there, we'd probably have more evidence by now. What you saw was probably identifiable with better lighting and closer inspection.