Background

On January 22, 2020, the Washington State Department of Transportation tweeted out photos, which they believed, may have been Sasquatch. Here is the original tweet:

Sasquatch spotted!!! I'm not superstitious… just a little stitious. Have you noticed something strange on our Sherman Pass/SR 20 webcam before? If you look closely by the tree on the left there looks to be something… might be Sasquatch… We will leave that up to you! pic.twitter.com/RaDGqQdEUF

— WSDOT East (@WSDOT_East) January 22, 2020

Photographs

Explanation

Going to the “WayBack Machine” and seeing previous archived live-camera still frames captured, the silhouette is there, even months ago. On June 13, 2019, the WayBack Machine took a snapshot of the WSDOT website that streams this webcam. Here, you can see the same area that is not covered in snow, and the figure is still there.

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Date of incident: April 17, 2016
Location: West Newton, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County

Synopsis

Recently I learned of another Bigfoot encounter when I was giving a presentation on UFOs and Cryptid reports.  A woman and her daughter approached me and told me about an experience that the mother had on April 17, 2016. The witness, who was quite upset after the incident, called her daughter soon after it occurred. She gave her daughter a lot of details on the phone and her daughter proceeded to write them down.

Her daughter had brought along her note pad and shared that information with me. I had the chance to talk with the witness in detail and later that day, I went with the witness and another relative to the sighting location just a short distance outside of West Newton. I searched the immediate area, but nothing unusual was observed.

The incident occurred during the evening on a rural road just a short distance from West Newton. The woman was driving about 35 miles per hour and traveling towards West Newton. As she drove along the stretch, on the passenger side of the road to her right, she saw a tall dark figure come out of a clearing and walk up on the road just as she was about to pass that area. She slowed down to look and saw the creature was at the passenger side of the car. What she saw stood approximately 7 feet tall. It was covered with long brownish-red hair. The arms were long and skinny.

What frightened her the most were its large shiny red eyes that seemed to be luminous. The creature was looking into the passenger side window at her. The woman told me she was very frightened and hit the gas and sped down the road to get away from the creature. The witness mentioned that she doesn’t like scary things and had no interest in Bigfoot or watching such TV programs about the creature. She also stated, “I never thought it would happen to me.”

Addendum

The West Newton area and other nearby Westmoreland County communities have had a long history of Bigfoot encounters. In the late 1960s, local residents reported encountering the “Lowber Monster.”  A white hair covered creature was reported by locals and strange footprints were found. There have been many other reports since that time including this encounter from 2014. http://www.stangordon.info/wp/2014/06/06/bigfoot-sighting-reported-near-west-newton-pa-may-17-2014/

This is the second  report in recent months where a Bigfoot came very close to a vehicle here in Pennsylvania. http://www.stangordon.info/wp/2016/05/12/bigfoot-touches-witness-vehicle-in-fayette-county-pa-a-report-from-researcher-jim-brown/

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I obtained this artifact from the estate of a woman in Iowa about 9-10 years ago. I purchased it from her grandson, who had characterized it as simply a “carved stone head”. He knew nothing about it – only that he had found it in a box of his grandmother’s possessions after she passed at age 85 or so. After I purchased it, I pressed him for more details about its possible origin. He indicated he would ask his older relatives and get back to me. What he learned was that she was always interested in curiosities and indian things, and that she had the item most of her life. She had done some traveling when she was younger.

I then contacted Dick Hilton, a respected geology professor at Sierra College in Rocklin. He agreed to meet with me at his college office sometime in late 2008 or early 2009. He examined the stone and said he thought it was likely a form of porphyry, which is similar to granite. Looking at the patina of the stone and the wear evident on the high points of the carved surface, he indicated that it appeared to him to be “of some age”. He agreed that it may be native American, and if it was, it likely represented some stylized ancestral figure. I did not reveal to him my personal belief that it may represent a sasquatch face, as academics often scoff at such assessments.

I finally did reach Dr. Sprague a few years ago, but he was ill at the time, and not able to give me his assessment of the carving. He died soon thereafter, but his wife, an archaeologist, thought the carving merited further research and encouraged me to continue my quest.

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