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Bigfoot Sighting Reported In PA: Detailed Report Made

The "class B" sighting made by a former police officer was deemed "credible" by an investigator.

PENNSYLVANIA — A former police officer has apparently discovered something unusual in the deep wilds of the Pennsylvania woods, and bigfoot researchers are hailing it as the latest sighting of the mythical beast.

Large and unusual footprints with almost four feet between them were spotted near the town of Indiana, about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

"The tracks were similar to human tracks, but different," the witness said in a report made to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BRFO). "There were no shoe treads in the tracks."

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The man said that the tracks were in a large field that had four deer wandering near it at night. According to the BFRO, "deer are the main protein source for sasquatches."

The sighting was made on Dec. 20 and investigated and published by the BFRO in February. The group said that the man who made the report was "sincere and credible." They said the tracks are nearly identical to photos taken in Lewis County, Washington in 2020.

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It's considered a class B sighting, which indicates that a sasquatch was not directly seen, but evidence was spotted.

"In this researcher's assessment, given the step length and stride length of the prints, the lack of any identifiable shoe tread in the prints themselves, the chronological context of the track find, and its congruence to other bigfoot tracks found elsewhere, strongly suggests that the tracks are not human in origin but bigfoot in nature," BFRO wrote.

"Given the location of the trackway, it might come as a surprise to some that bigfoot would be found so close to human civilization," their report went on. "However, given the increasing body of anecdotal, transient, and conditional evidence of sasquatches exploiting the margins of human civilization, the location is not that surprising."

The full report is available online here.

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