{"id":6362,"date":"2020-01-23T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T20:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:27:25","slug":"washington-state-department-of-transportation-tweets-photos-of-sasquatch-january-22-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/washington-state-department-of-transportation-tweets-photos-of-sasquatch-january-22-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Department of Transportation Tweets Photos of Sasquatch? January 22, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Case File Status: Explainable, See Below<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sasquatch spotted!!! I&#39;m not superstitious&#8230; 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&#8230; might be Sasquatch&#8230; We will leave that up to you! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RaDGqQdEUF\">pic.twitter.com\/RaDGqQdEUF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WSDOT East (@WSDOT_East) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSDOT_East\/status\/1220090003805442048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 22, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Photographs<\/h3>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6362 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM.jpg'><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM.jpg 876w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM-150x116.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM-450x349.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-14-AM-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V.png'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"637\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V.png 637w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/EO6hY4zVUAAOf0V-450x336.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"584\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-11-2020-5-14-25-AM-104x69.jpg 104w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<h3>Explanation<\/h3>\n<p>Going to the &#8220;WayBack Machine&#8221; and seeing previous archived live-camera still frames captured, the silhouette is there, even months ago. On <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20190613085313\/https:\/\/www.wsdot.com\/traffic\/passes\/sherman\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 13, 2019<\/a>, the WayBack Machine took a snapshot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsdot.com\/traffic\/passes\/sherman\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WSDOT<\/a> website that streams this webcam. Here, you can see the same area that is not covered in snow, and the figure is still there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM.jpg 629w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/casefiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/6-19-2020-8-57-37-PM-450x333.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case File Status: Explainable, See Below 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&#39;m not superstitious&#8230; just a little stitious. Have you noticed something strange on our Sherman Pass\/SR 20 webcam before? 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