Fears of mysterious beast spread in Ohio after locals record eerie howls, enormous footprints: I know what I saw
Bigfoot, go home!Ohioans are battening down the hatches as locals fear a not-so-friendly neighborhood Sasquatch is making a comeback after a half-century of silence — with a new brood in tow.Northeast Ohio, the gloomiest corner of the Buckeye State, has been ripe with Bigfoot sightings since March.Some residents suspect a whole family of Sasquatches is moving into the region after a particularly brutal winter, Fox 8 reported.Many anonymous witnesses shared pictures of hulking footprints scattered primarily between Akron and Youngstown in Portage County.
Most of the prints are an estimated 17 inches in length—which can only match a creature that is at least 7-feet tall or more.Believers who were brave enough to take their findings to the media described a creature between 6and 10 feet tall completely covered in dark fur, the outlet reported.Mike Miller, the co-founder of the Ohio Nightstalkers Bigfoot Research Group, is leading the charge on the ground.This isn’t his first rodeo as the emergent expert on all things Sasquatch in Ohio, which ranks fourth in the nation for purported Bigfoot sightings.
The last Bigfoot flap, or mass reports of sightings in one area, was in 1978, the outlet reported.That winter is categorized as one of the worst in US history, capped off with the Cleveland Superbomb snowstorm that devastated the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.When the season finally started to change, Bigfoot sightings spiked in northeast Ohio.Miller suggested that this year’s winter, where dual snowstorms swept across the country in just one month, flooded the Sasquatch’s habitat, forcing it closer to civilization.“It could be rearing young in that area or it’s just, you know, you’re in their area and they want you to go,” Miller said.
Miller even captured recordings of apparent howls he claims don’t match any “known animal in North America.”“Some of those screams pegged higher than a baboon on the spectograph, and that is evidence,” he insis...