An alleged Bigfoot sighting in Colorado seems to be a big footstep in the wrong direction, experts say.

Earlier this week, Wyoming resident Laura Parker posted photos and a video online seeming to show Sasquatch traversing a rocky area before popping a squat in the southwest part of the state.

“If you asked before our trip, we would have said maybe [Bigfoot] could be real, but now we’re convinced,” she told The Post of the “unexplainable” sighting witnessed by her and her husband, Stetson.

However, Matthew Moneymaker — head of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization and former host of the Animal Planet series “Finding Bigfoot” — told The Post that there are several giveaways that debunk the sighting.

One in particular stands out: the beast, he said, “looks suspiciously like a $200 Jack Link’s Beef Jerky costume.”

He also inferred that the 6-to-7-foot-tall, tan monster — filmed moving through a mountainous region of the Animas River canyon between Silverton and Durango — appeared similar to a Bigfoot costume that a local business, Sasquatch Expedition Campers, is known to use in promotional activities.

A representative from Sasquatch Expedition Campers confirmed to The Post that they do have a furry suit but denied any involvement in what was seen by the Parkers while traveling on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.

That’s not to pop the Bigfoot bubble, though.

‘There’s so many reported sightings’

Wild stories have claimed that the creature has glowing red eyes, has thrown rocks to defend itself — and is seemingly able to “taser” prey in a bizarre, metaphysical manner.

And Moneymaker is all in for tracking the ongoing spectacle.

He told The Post that he actually shot a “Finding Bigfoot” episode in the same Colorado region because “there’s so many reported sightings … and some people said they have seen them from that scenic railroad in the past,” adding that most witnesses observe a much darker fur than the light brown captured on film.

The railroad company itself even wrote in Thursday Facebook post: “talk to any train crew or staff member and they’ll have stories about strange happenings in the remote Animas River Canyon.”

All that drives Moneymaker and others to attempt to answer the million-dollar question: How has Bigfoot — a mythical creature that actually has an FBI file — been sighted across the country, even worldwide, and over centuries of time?

He’s not a lone ranger, according to Moneymaker.

“It’s a very basic understanding that there’s more than one. Sometimes people see two at a time, and sometimes it seems like adults and young ones together,” he said. “The singular misconception carried by the idea that we hear the word Bigfoot or Sasquatch: it sounds like a single thing, which is why we all always emphasize the plurality of Sasquatches and Bigfoots.”

Researchers from the University of Arizona have even speculated that what witnesses describe as Bigfoot can be traced back to an ancient giant ape known as Gigantopithecus, which existed with early humans.

“They were hunted to extinction by the homo erectus,” Moneymaker theorized. “We believe that these are the ones that were smart enough to not get hunted by adopting a strategy of being nocturnal and always retreating in confrontations with humans.”

‘I was looking right at it … I could see in its eyes’

Some purported eyewitnesses, though, may feel more like prey than onlookers.

A fellow BFRO member, Rick Roles, a 65-year-old musician and retiree from Henderson County, North Carolina, claimed to The Post that he spotted a Bigfoot on three separate occasions — and in three different states — between 2010 and 2018.

“I’ve had rocks thrown at me by these things. I’ve smelled them … It’s putrid. It can be wet dog, feces, that sort of thing,” Roles, who even recorded a song about Bigfoot, told The Post. “I’ve cast their footprints. I’ve seen their stick structures that go in the woods. I know it’s real.”

Roles claimed that, in 2016, he was just 90 feet away from a “juvenile” Bigfoot in Colorado that he believed towered at roughly 6½ feet tall.

“I was looking right at it, I can see its face was flat, there wasn’t hair around the middle of the face, its color was black, there was no neck, and it was disproportionate to humans at the legs,” he said.

“I could see in its eyes. There was no white in its eyes — it was all dark brownish-black pupils, and the face was flat mouth, was sort of open. It swayed side to side, almost like, ‘Oh, I’ve been spotted,’ then it took three steps and dashed off at an angle into the woods.”

However, one scientist named Floe Foxon — who specializes in debunking urban legends and folklore, such as the Loch Ness monster — has put out a report that may throw water on those theories and accounts.

“Sasquatch sightings were statistically significantly associated with bear populations, such that, on the average, every 1,000 bear increase in the bear population is associated with a 4% increase in Sasquatch sightings,” Foxon wrote.

“Thus, as black bear populations increase, Sasquatch sightings are expected to increase also.”

Bigfoot and the paranormal: ‘They can hit you with what feels almost like a taser’

If a race of Sasquatches does exist, they may be more paranormal than primitive, according to Moneymaker.

Witnesses have described surreal experiences when in the presence of a Bigfoot — though it could just be primal fear coursing through their bodies.

“They can do bioluminescence, specifically from their eyes, and make them glow red, like coals on a fire,” Moneymaker bizarrely claimed. “People think they’re looking at the devil … It’s a very eerie thing to see in the woods.”

He also claimed that Bigfoots have evolved to a point where they can somehow create defensive electrical surges — possibly brought on by noises below the human range of hearing called infrasound — when approached.

“The manifestation of it is that when you’re near them, and when they want to, they can hit you with what feels almost like a taser … It’s happened in different states, enough different times, to enough striking skeptics that peed their pants as a result, that we know they can do it,” Moneymaker said.

“We think they probably evolved to do that to stun prey and deer just long enough for them to come up and grab it.”

Once, up close, Roles claimed that he was engulfed by that so-called “zapping” firsthand.

“My experience is that it felt like an electrical current go through me,” he told The Post.

“They have the ability to make you feel very, very scared and that you gotta get away quick,” Roles said.

“If they don’t want you around, they have ways of making you feel uncomfortable.”