Believe or not, that title is not a tease. Click bait is beyond my scope of operations. Or maybe behind. Either way, it’s a legitimate topic. For now.
My daughter has a dog. He’s fairly normal-sized for a dog of indeterminate origin. He’s part pointer, part husky, and looks those parts. But he has feet the size of an ottoman, which has always led me to describe him as a yointer. Part pointer, part Yeti. It seems that could be accurate – technical differences between Himalayan abominable snowmen and hairy North American cryptids notwithstanding.
Sasquatch, or good, old Bigfoot, the overly tall, overly hairy, overly plodding biped, bipedalling his way through dense forests has been sighted all over North America. But then, so have UFOs. Anyway, Bigfoot’s big believers see him everywhere, but usually in the Pacific Northwest. One of his names, Sasquatch, comes from the Salish Saquits indigenous people of that region.
But my daughter’s dog is an eastern U.S. mutt, raise from puppyhood in Western Pennsylvania. Where would a Bigfoot find his way into that animal’s lineage. Well, Pennsylvania apparently is a hotbed of Bigfoot activity. So hot there’s an annual Bigfoot Camping Adventure sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society. How did I live here for over 60 years and not pick up on that?
I just found out about it and them on Sunday when I was reading an article that they participated in a local town’s fall festival with merchandise, artifacts, and even bus tours to sightings sites. (I can hear the tour guide now. “Ladies and Gentlemen, if you look out the right side of the bus, you’ll see a break in the trees. We will depart the bus an’ go through that break about 30 yards, cross the crick, turn right, go 32 paces from the fallen hemlock tree to the spot where Ole Zeke heard Bigfoot a’moaning. You taller folk with long legs might want to stop at 28 paces. An’ don’t interrupt the UFO folks on the trail. They gots a sightin’ site one crick over.”)
It seems that just in the last 8 years there have been over 50 Pennsylvania sightings reported to just this one group, one pretty much in my backyard. So now when I say that my daughter’s dog is a yointer, I could be right!
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Enat a great way to spend a vacation! Looking for Bigfoot. Western PA has tots of forest and mountain for him to hide in
Claude
Easy to get lost in some of them too. I’ve spent a lot of time in the woods and never saw anything strange or even any odd tracks. But liked the Loch Ness Minster, Bigfoot sightings still pop up. Also like the Loch Ness Monster, I don’t think I’ll ever see a Bigfoot!
The search itself can be fun. Even though they’re believed to be extinct in VT
I sometimes hike there in search of catamounts
Claude
That could be a long search! Drop down our way and search for some mountain lion instead. We have lots of those!
Howling with my morning coffee…or is that Bigfoot moaning in the morning? Thank you for the chuckles, Michael, starting with the “click bait is beyond my scope of operations”. 🤣🥰🤣
I heard something this morning. Could it have been your howl? I’m happy I was able to start your week off with a chuckle.
Yup – that was me! 😜💕😜
Good coffee deserves a good howl! 😆
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Only you could come up with “yointer” and create a cross between a Yeti and a pointer. Who knew Bigfoot was so popular in Pennsylvania? Frankly, I’d love to spot him at some point just to mess with all those who question the existence of things we don’t normally expect in the world. You won me over with “yointer”.
I never knew Bigfoot was this popular here either. But we do have lots of places for him (them?) to hide in. Until one pops up in the neighborhood, I honor where there is a yointer nobody expects to see.
Wait a minute, Bigfoot is totally a PNW thing and can’t be in PA! But I’m still giggling about your tour bus!
I thought you guys had dibs on the big guy too but apparently there’s a branch of the family hanging out around the Alleghenies. Maybe they’re that side of the family nobody talks much about!
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Pennsylvania is a hotbed of Bigfoot activity? News to me. Aren’t you lucky!
I dunno. First they tell us this year will be a dull fall foliage season and now I have to look over my shoulder for a tall hairy visitor from Seattle. I can’t wait for winter. At least I’ll have the advantage of seeing tracks in the snow.
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Lived on the Or Coast for ages and one farmer’s daughter told our 2nd grade cub scouts that her family’s farm was protected by Bigfoot. Another friend had a water dowser visit and said he was only in the area for a BF birthing ceremony. I’m a believer—usually! Also there are spots in Alaska where BF is known to have been. My home state has many a tale hidden in the great land!
Lived on the Or Coast for ages and one farmer’s daughter told our 2nd grade cub scouts that her family’s farm was protected by Bigfoot. Another friend had a water dowser visit and said he was only in the area for a BF birthing ceremony. I’m a believer—usually! Also there are spots in Alaska where BF is known to have been. My home state has many a tale hidden in the great land!
And love the Yointer idea!
Wow. A Bigfoot Birthing. That would be something to see. I don’t understand though. Even given that there is so much that happens in the work we are unaware of, you’d think at least one of the sightings over the last 10 years would have been by someone holding onto their always present phone with built in camera.