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Northeast Ohio, the gloomiest corner of the Buckeye State, has been ripe with Bigfoot sightings since March. Some residents suspect a whole family of Sasquatches is moving into the region after a particularly brutal winter, Fox 8 reported.
Many anonymous witnesses shared pictures of hulking footprints scattered primarily between Akron and Youngstown (about 50 miles apart) in Portage County. Most of the prints are an estimated 17 inches long — which can only match a creature that is 7 feet tall or more.
Believers who were brave enough to take their findings to the media described a creature between 6 and 10 feet tall completely covered in dark fur, the outlet reported.
Mike Miller, co-founder of the Ohio Nightstalkers Bigfoot Research Group, is leading the charge on the ground.
This isn't his first rodeo as the emergent expert on all things Sasquatch in Ohio, which ranks fourth in the nation for purported Bigfoot sightings. The last Bigfoot flap, or mass reports of sightings in one area, was in 1978, the outlet reported.
© X/bigfoot_societyThe earliest reports are from March.
Miller suggested that this year's winter, where dual snowstorms swept across the country in just one month, flooded the Sasquatch's habitat, forcing it closer to civilization.
"It could be rearing young in that area or it's just, you know, you're in their area and they want you to go," Miller said.
© FOX8Alleged Bigfoot sightings are spiking across northeast Ohio.
"Some of those screams pegged higher than a baboon on the spectograph, and that is evidence," he insisted.
Jeremiah Byron, host of the "Bigfoot Society" podcast, is helping the investigation from afar.
Of the dozens of sightings around northeast Ohio, Byron highlighted one from a pair of hikers who recalled that the beast turned with its shoulders, rather than its neck.
"That's a very important detail which hardcore Bigfooters will realize that that's pretty crazy," he said.
Byron said he contacted one of the shaken hikers, who told him, "I know what I saw, but I don't know what I saw."
© FOX8True believers fear that the mysterious Bigfoot entities are traveling in a pack.
Naysayers doubt the beast will last very long even if it is real — given the rough reputation of northeast Ohio.
Reader Comments
It was considerably easier to blend into the background for them back in the late 60s, since an old shirt, some Navy surplus bellbottoms and sandals would suffice as just another hippie. Not so much today, especially with all the phone cameras and un-social media baloney.
Besides, in this age of hypersonic transport, why couldn’t “tourists” from another dimension be possible?
Is that what you are meaning by the word, "tourist?" Do you think there's an agenda of some kind, nefarious or otherwise?
Bigfoot, Sasquatch or whatever other name has been placed on this unexplained anomaly, has been around since I can remember. There are other such anomalies in the rhetoric of the unexplained or unknown. Some of which are real and others totally bogus, All of which are presented as fear factors. Which is where the agenda comes into play.
I was playing off your “tourism season” since it’s a way of life where I live. Basically, we’ve all been conditioned to believe to fear anything we don’t understand, mainly by the fact that‘s what our handlers want from us—be fearful, trained animals in a cage. When you release yourself from said cage you are free to make informed decisions and choices to open your mind and see things in a different context.
The two hikers who happened upon this anomaly, possibly had it right, when one said, “I know what I saw but don’t know what I saw.” Correct if he/they were not fearful. Incorrect if living in fear. Fear has been ingrained into humanity, for obvious reasons.
This is not to say fear doesn’t have its place, simply that, said place shouldn’t be used everywhere on everything—especially the unexplained.
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