CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Researchers said they spoke with an eyewitness who claimed to have seen Bigfoot crossing Interstate 80 in early October, saying he was “sincere and credible.”
An Investigator with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) wrote in his report that the witness was a retired civil engineer and Air Force veteran.
The witness initially reported the sighting took place around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, around mile marker 169 on Interstate 80. He claimed he was traveling roughly 150 yards behind another vehicle when he noticed something strange. A dark figure appeared to enter the highway ahead of the other vehicle.
It was described as a human-like head and shoulders standing over the vehicle in front of him and the whole body was dark.
The witness told researchers he thought the figure was about to get hit. “What the hell is he doing?! He’s going to get hit,” the man said.
He continued by saying what “shook” him was the way the creature moved across the highway. Not quick or jerky like a sprinter, but fast and smooth, almost seeming to “glide” across the lanes. It was said the figure crossed the highway in about three seconds.
He claimed that whatever it was effortlessly disappeared into the woods without needing to climb over the guard rail, as most humans or bears would need to. He said everything happened quickly, and he wasn’t sure if the unknown creature stepped over the guard rail or effortlessly hurdled it.
In addition to the main witness, two others reported seeing something that day, too. One person claimed in his report, “I just want to add I know what I saw, but don’t know WHAT I saw. I’m an avid hunter with +50 years in the woods. This was not a bear.”
The BFRO reported the sighting was approximately 11.5 miles northeast of Bellefonte near Bald Eagle State Park, with the Sproul State Forest to the north. The low forested ridgeline (Sand Ridge) runs roughly 11.2 miles, rising to meet the high forests of Nittany Mountain.
What do you think these witnesses saw? Are sasquatch living and hiding in Central Pennsylvania? Could it have been a Bigfoot just “traveling through” our region? Or was this something more average, such as a bear crossing on just its hind legs?