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There has been a new bigfoot sighting and report coming out of Fayette County Pennsylvania. The incident occured on July 10th outside of the town of  Uniontown and was reported shortly thereafter. A motorist reported a near collision with a creature which description seems to fit that of bigfoot or sasquatch.

The incident occured on a two lane highway just outside of Uniontown. A lady was driving along on a nice clear day approx 35-40 miles per hour when all of a sudden she noticed a odd figure coming from the left side approaching her car. She suddenly swerved to attempt to miss what she thought was possbily a person walking out into the road, as she was making the turn she noticed that it was not a person but somekind of strange creature. As she stopped and sat there she looked into her rear view mirror and noticed the creature was now behind the car , she said “I looked into the rear view mirror and I saw it leap across my trunk.”! Just seconds later as she remained sitting in the car she saw the creature on her right side running quickly down the middle of another roadway approx 75 feet away. Then the creature disappeared and was not seen again , the whole ecounter lasted several seconds and was enough time for the lady to get a fairly detailed description.

She said she could be certain that the creature was not human or simply someone in a costume. She said the creature was a dark colored , hair covered man-like creature that was approx. 6-7 ft tall that walked upright on two legs and its head she said was large and elongated and all covered with wild looking hair. The creature she said also appeared to have a thin but long neck covered with hair but it looked strange as the head was big and the shoulders of the creature were quite wide. The face was also covered with hair except for a exposed area which appeared to be very white , hair was all over the face like a wolf. The nose on the creature was dark and flat but somewhat hairy and the mouth or ears could not be made out. The woman said the eye’s were the most prominent feature on the face as they were almost twice the size of human eye’s and circular in shape. She said the eye’s were very wild looking and had no iris or whites of the eye.

She said the creature had a very stocky and muscular body build. The shoulders were very wide and rounded and hairy along with the chest. The creatures arms were very long and hung down to the knee area with long ape like hair on them. Members of the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society and Loren Coleman went to the location of the sighing and also interviewed witness and her husband. They searched a wooded area near the location the creature was seen but did not locate any interesting objects or prints. But when they examined the car they did come across some unusual scratch marks on the trunk and left side of the vehicle. Its possible these scratches were left by the creature when it jumped across the trunk of the car. The scratch area was about 8.5 inches long and 2 inches wide and the car owners said they had seen the damage there before.

The interview was completed with the couple and members of the (PBS) team said that the witness seemed very sincere and was still noticeable shaken up. There have been many Bigfoot reports and sightings over the years in the Fayette county area of the state.

Midnight, March 5. A young man drives toward U.S. 19 on Gulf Trace Boulevard in Holiday, Fla. He turns on his high beams where the road curves along some woods, just past the recreation center.

His lights catch a pair of yellowish eyes, then a broad-shouldered figure, 8 or 9 feet tall, covered in brown hair. The creature freezes before running to the tree line. It stops to look back at the car.

The young man pulls over 20 feet away. There are no other vehicles on the road. He can now see the creature from the shoulders up. The man doesn’t know why, but he thinks to yell, “Hi!” No answer. The creature disappears into the woods.

Believe it?

The young man sure seemed convincing when he reported the sighting to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. It dispatched investigator Cathy Betz, whose job is to separate hoaxes from actual Bigfoot sightings in Florida’s Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando counties.

She’s never seen a Bigfoot herself, but she is convinced they exist. Someday, she says, we’ll get proof.

Meanwhile, she’ll keep her day job: saving lives as a registered nurse in the intensive care unit at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa.

Betz, 45, has believed in the cryptid ever since she was a little girl growing up in Florida and her father took her to see the 1972 docudrama “The Legend of Boggy Creek.”

She read up on the subject, exploring evidence, and she became convinced that something was really out there. In 2003 she joined the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

“I never imagined myself doing this kind of thing 10 years ago,” Betz says. “But I love it.”

She has been on four expeditions in Florida and one in North Carolina, and she is now on another in Utah. It was on the North Carolina expedition in 2008 that she had her closest encounter with Sasquatch.

At least she believes it was Sasquatch. It could have been a bear. Something walked around the tent, touching the fabric and grunting.

“I can’t say with certainty what it was,” Betz said, “but it was in a place with a lot of sightings.”

Two days after the Holiday man said he saw a swamp monster, Betz met him at the scene. She compared his story to the version he submitted to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization online. It was consistent.

They searched for tracks but didn’t find any. He told her he was sure he had not seen a bear or a human.

Betz’s notes are secret, she says, in order to protect the witnesses. She says the young man did not want to be publicly identified.

She considers her role to be much like what a police investigator does.

“We don’t want to be considered like a fluff organization,” she says. “In order to be taken seriously, we feel like we should separate out the stories that don’t pan out.”

As part of her investigations, she often cross-check facts, such as if the witness says it was a full moon. And she examines the area, looking for tracks, hair and other clues. She knows all about inspecting footprints for dermal ridges and mid-tarsal breaks.

“We’re really a research- and science-based organization trying to get as much evidence as we can,” she says. “We don’t want people to think that we’re just throwing everything out there that we get.”

Henry Cabbage, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said Bigfoot’s existence has not been confirmed. But the agency does keep a file on the subject, which includes news clippings and letters from people requesting permits to go out and catch one.

Source: scrippsnews

Sasquatch, the mythical “Bigfoot” of western North America, makes its home deep within the fertile imaginations of gullible people. If you insist on looking for one in the real world, though, you should search in the home of the black bear – at least according to a tongue-in-cheek study of the ape-like creature’s habitat preferences.

The study has a more serious message too: it’s easy to be fooled into believing a plausible-looking habitat analysis, even when the data is totally erroneous.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living – for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species’ range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so-called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species’ range.

Jeff Lozier, an entomologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was worried that some people may have been too uncritical in applying the technique. “Whenever you have these new, shiny, easy-to-use approaches, there’s a temptation to use them even before you know what the kinks are,” he says.

So Lozier and his colleagues decided to apply ecological niche modelling to an obviously false data set – Sasquatch sightings. They gathered all reported sightings in the US states of Washington, Oregon and California and used the environmental data to predict Sasquatch distribution.

They found that the model yielded a perfectly plausible prediction about Bigfoot habitats – a warning to modellers that spurious results will not necessarily announce themselves through obvious warning signs.

“The point of the paper is really well taken,” says Dan Warren, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in ecological niche models. “I think the literature is rife with people who are over-interpreting what comes out of these models.”

The researchers also compared the niche model for Sasquatch to one they developed for black bear. The two were statistically indistinguishable, they found. This suggests that many supposed Sasquatch sightings may simply be misidentified bears – a mistake that has been made on at least one occasion, Lozier notes.

Source: newscientist

FAIRFIELD — It goes by many names: Bigfoot, Sasquatch — the legendary half-human, half-ape creature that, according to legend, prowls the great northern woods of the U.S. and Canada.

Some insist, however, that the hairy beast is real. Sasquatch “sightings” have primarily been reported in the Northwest.

Until now, that is.

A woman driving on Unquowa Road about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday called police to report that she “almost hit Sasquatch,” which was standing in the middle of the road. She said it was 8 feet tall and very hairy, with a large body and “legs like tree trunks.” When she switched her headlights to highbeams, she said, the creature covered its face and ran into the woods.

The driver told police it was “human like,” but more “like an animal.”

Unlike other Sasquatch sightings, where the elusive beast melts back into the deep woods, this one was located in Fairfield.

Bigfoot turned out to be a big joke — a 16-year-old dressed in a gorillalike costume, police said. The teen told officers he was standing at the intersection of Unquowa and Sturges roads, waving at passing cars while friends watched.

A police officer escorted the sham Sasquatch back home and turned him over to his parents, who, the police report states, agreed he should have shown better judgment.

Source: connpost