Something Inhuman Crossed I-80... Drivers Claim It Was BIGFOOT

A retired engineer watched in disbelief as a dark figure glided across a Pennsylvania highway in broad daylight.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
A stretch of Interstate eighty in central Pennsylvania sees thousands
of vehicles every day. Cars and trucks barrel along at
seventy or eighty miles per hour, crossing through Center County's
forested ridges without incident. On October fourth, twenty twenty five,
around five point thirty in the afternoon, something crossed those
lanes that made a retired civil engineer question everything he

(00:33):
thought he knew about the woods surrounding that highway. I'm
Darren Marler, and this is weird dark news. The witness
was driving his Dodge Ram westbound near mile marker one
sixty nine, traveling at about seventy seven miles per hour.
A Subaru cross track was about one hundred and fifty
yards ahead of him. Traffic was normal, the weather was clear.

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Then a dark figure stepped onto the highway directly in
front of the Subaru. The retired Air Force veteran and
civil engineer thought that he was about to witness a
pedestrian get hit by a car. The figure appeared to
stand upright on two legs, with a human like head
and shoulders visible above the vehicle ahead. The witness could
see that it was uniformly dark, either black or dark brown,

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but couldn't determine which. At that distance and speed, the
figure crossed all lanes of Interstate eighty in approximately three seconds.
The movement wasn't jerky like a sprinter or panicked like
someone running from danger. The witness described it as smooth
and fast, almost appearing to glide across the pavement. The
arms hung down below the waistline, noticeably longer than human proportions.

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The legs were also elongated, and the limbs appeared thin
and slender, not matching the stereotypical muscular big foot profile.
The figure reached the far side of the highway and
disappeared into the woods without climbing over the guardrail. The
witness couldn't tell if it stepped over the barrier or
cleared it entirely, but there was no pause or struggle.

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It simply vanished into the tree line. The Bigfootfield Researchers
Organization received the report and assigned an investigator to interview
the witness. The BFRO, established in nineteen ninety five, maintains
a database of sasquatch sightings and conducts follow up investigations
on reported encounters. The investigator noted several details that increased

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credibility of the account. The witness is a retired civil
engineer with the background that includes military service. He's also
an experienced bear hunter with over fifty years in the woods.
The investigator emphasized that someone with that much outdoor experience
would know the difference between a bear and something else.
The witness tried to rationalize what he saw. He checked

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his waysapp for disabled vehicle reports on that stretch of highway.
There were none. No broken down cars appeared on either
side of the road. He couldn't explain why anyone would
be crossing a highway where vehicles travel at eighty miles
per hour, especially someone dressed in uniformly dark clothing with
no reflective gear. The witness also reported he couldn't remember

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seeing a neck on the figure. He only saw a
side profile of its face and wasn't sure if it
lacked a neck or if long hair simply obscured it.
He saw no indication of clothing on the figure. The
BFRO investigator described the witness as sincere and credible in
the official report. The witness had never believed in bigfoot
before this encounter, and only reached that conclusion after reading

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other reports of similar creatures in the area. After the
BFRO contacted him, he drove over one hundred miles from
his home back to the site to provide more concrete
data for the investigation. Two other people reported seeing something
unusual on Interstate eighty that same day. One was an
experienced hunter who submitted his own report to the BFRO.

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He wrote, I just want to add I know what
I saw, but don't know what I saw. I'm an
avid hunter with fifty plus years in the woods. This
was not a bear. The BFRO classified this encounter as
a Class A sighting, which indicates a clear visual observation
of a sasquatch without ambiguity. Class B sightings involve indirect
evidence like tracks or sounds. Class A reports represent the

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organization's highest classification for credibility and clarity, The organization follows
a multi layered verification process. Witnesses first to submit online
reports describing what they saw. Investigators then call the witness
to check if the verbal account matches their written submission.
Depending on the case, investigators visit the location to document

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the terrain and search for physical evidence. The BFRO conducts
expeditions across the country, including Pennsylvania, using trail cameras and
audio recorders to capture potential evidence. The sighting occurred approximately
eleven and a half miles northeast of Bellefonte, near Bald
Eagle State Park. The Sprout State Forest lies to the

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north sand Ridge. A low forested ridge line runs roughly
elevenero point two miles in that area, rising to meet
the high forests of Nitney Mountain. Pennsylvania ranks third nationally
for bigfoot sidings, behind only Washington and California. As of
twenty twenty five, the state has one hundred and thirty
eight documented encounters in the BFRO database. The Alleghany Mountains,

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the Laurel Highlands, and the Pennsylvania Wilds have been active
areas for reported sightings. Two additional sidings were reported within
twenty miles of the Interstate eighty encounter, both near Game
Lands three thirty three and Fishermen's Paradise. One occurred on
February nineteenth, twenty twenty five, involving a penn State student
who was raccoon hunting in the woods around six thirty pm.

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The student reported feeling a dreadful sensation and later saw
black silhouette disappear into brush near a creek. The Center
County area provides the type of habitat researchers associate with
sasquatch activity, dense forests, water sources, and relatively low human
populations despite proximity two roads and towns. The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society,

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led by Eric Altman, maintains an interactive map plotting encounters
across the state. Their fieldwork includes collecting footprint casts, hair samples,
and audio recordings. In two thousand and nine, a Pennsylvania
Bigfoot Society expedition in Black Mushannon Forest in Clearfield County
documented unusual sounds and rock throwing incidents. In early twenty

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twenty five, west Moreland County had more bigfoot sightings than
any other county in America during February in March, according
to Squatchrometrics, a data tracking site. In twenty twenty three,
a former police officer reported finding large and unusual footprints
near Indiana, Pennsylvania, about fifty miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The
tracks showed almost four feet between each print. The BFRO

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investigator assessed the step length, stride length, and lack of
shoe tread and concluded the tracks were not human in origin,
but bigfoot in nature. The report noted that given the
increasing body of anecdotal, transient and conditional evidence of sasquatches
exploiting the margins of human civilization, the location is not
that surprising. Pennsylvania hosts an annual Bigfoot camping Adventure, a

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conference drawing over one thousand enthusiasts and researchers. The sold
out twenty nineteen event charged fees ranging from forty to
sixty dollars per day, with approximately three thousand dollars going
to local charities. The retired engineer never believed in bigfoot
before October fourth, He had no interest in cryptozoology or
paranormal phenomena. He was driving home from a trip with

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his wife when something crossed the highway that he couldn't
explain with conventional answers. The figure was too tall to
be a human, the proportions were wrong, the movement was
unnaturally smooth for something crossing a busy interstate at rush hour.
Bears don't lied across highways. People don't casually step over
guardrails without breaking stride. The BFRO investigator who evaluated the

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case has been on multiple Bigfoot expeditions. Based on the
infant the witness provided and his assessment of the witness's credibility,
the investigator concluded this was a genuine Sasquatch sighting. The
witness traveled over one hundred miles back to the location
to help with the investigation. If you'd like to read
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