Bigfoot sighting late last year in Pennsylvania?
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Is Bigfoot out there somewhere roaming around?
Well, the folks at The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization seem convinced the legendary creature exists, and if you check out their website there’s all sorts of interesting info.
And, one of the most interesting features is the sightings section where you can filter sightings accounts down to state and even county. Washington state has the most reported sightings with 708, and California is second with 461 followed by Florida with 338.
Pennsylvania is somewhere in the middle of the pack with 125 reported sightings.
Of the state’s 67 counties, 27 have more than one reported Bigfoot sighting, while 24 have no reports at all. Allegheny and Cambria counties are tied for the most reported sightings, with nine. The most recent spotting in Allegheny County happened in 2012 at a senior apartment building near Bethel Park, while Westmoreland’s (with four total sightings) most recent spotting came in 2014 along Route 66 near Delmont.
Again, whether you believe in Bigfoot or not, folks are reporting that they are seeing things out and about.
Last year wasn’t overly active in spottings in the Keystone State. In fact, the BFRO had just one reported sighting in Pennsylvania, and it was fairly recent.
In a report that it has deemed “very credible,” it says that two witnesses reported seeing a sasquatch walking along Ghost Town Trail in Cambria County. The report says the sighting took place between Ebensburg and Nanty-Glo.
The report is below:
“On October, 5, 2022 while my boyfriend and I were biking on the Ghost Town Trails near Ebensburg, PA we saw a bigfoot coming about 150 yards in front of us. He was walking along the trail toward us,” the reporting party wrote. “We couldn’t see his face. When he saw us he turned and quickly walked into the woods. We were shocked at what we saw. As we went by, we looked into the woods and didn’t see anything. We didn’t stop then but continued on until we finally stopped to talk about what we saw.
“It was really shocking,” they continued. “There were no sounds or smells. Didn’t get a look at his face but as he was walking you could see how big his stride was. There was a huge space between his legs. On the way back we stopped and looked around for prints and marks but didn’t see anything. The leaves were really heavy there and blowing all over.”
They close with, “We thought this was a once in a lifetime thing and thought it was so cool. Yes, Bigfoot does exist.”
And, just in case you think the BFRO just took a submitted report, the site reported that it did a follow up and spoke with the witnesses (it even names them on the site) and found their testimony to be “very credible.”
It’s a pretty thorough report and breakdown, and you can read it all here. The investigator who put it all together? Matthew Moneymaker. Folks might remember him as the co-host of “Finding Bigfoot” which aired on Animal Planet from 2010 until 2017.