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When In Search of Monsters premiered on Travel Channel in April, they published “The 8 Best Places to See Bigfoot Right Now.”
They used never before released data from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO). It was exclusive tracking information from BFRO’s Follow-up Log and Tracking System (FLATS) –”the world’s ultimate sasquatch database of compiled sightings and testimonies.”
That’s how Travel Channel determined the best states where you might have a Bigfoot encounter are these eight:
8. Texas
Sightings: 806
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: “East Texas, especially the areas that border Oklahoma and Louisiana.”
7. Oregon
Sightings: 1,009
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: Doesn’t specify in the Travel Channel article, but according to The Guardian, head towards Mount Hood National Forest and the upper Clackamas and Breitenbush River drainages, a.k.a. The Oregon Bigfoot Highway.
6. Ohio
Sightings: 1,042
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: The eastern half in the hills and forests of Ohio’s Appalachian plateau.
Note: If you hear anyone talking about “the grassman,” that’s Bigfoot. That’s what they affectionately call him around those parts.
5. New York
Sightings: 1,068
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: Whitehall, New York, near Lake George. It’s considered the Bigfoot capital of the east coast.
Note: There’s been so many sightings here, Bigfoot has been named the official town animal.
4. Michigan
Sightings: 1,131
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: The Seney National Wildlife Refuge in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
Question: Do you think Michigan’s Dogman and their Bigfoot get together and have howling/yowling contests?
3. Pennsylvania
Sightings: 1,340
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: The Appalachian range.
2. California
Sightings: 1,697
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: Northern California, home of the infamous Patterson-Gimlin film, perhaps one of the most studied Bigfoot video recordings ever made.
1. Washington
Sightings: 2,032
Best place within the state where you might meet Bigfoot: The Blue Mountains, Okanogan County, and Ape Canyon are all active and popular Bigfoot encounter areas. However, beware. Ape Canyon is also where one of the most aggressive encounters on record happened.
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Have you ever been Bigfoot hunting? Were you surprised any states weren’t on the list? Or maybe by any states that were?
I was surprised Alaska wasn’t on there. And that Oregon ranked closer to the end than the top. I figured it’d be in contention with Washington.
Courtney Mroch is a globe-trotting restless spirit who’s both possessed by wanderlust and the spirit of adventure, and obsessed with true crime, horror, the paranormal, and weird days. Perhaps it has something to do with her genes? She is related to occult royalty, after all. Marie Laveau, the famous Voodoo practitioner of New Orleans, is one of her ancestors. (Yes, really! As explained here.) That could also explain her infatuation with skeletons.
Speaking of mystical, to learn how Courtney channeled her battle with cancer to conjure up this site, check out HJ’s Origin Story.