Where’s Bigfoot? He Might Be Closer Than You Think!

A new national report ranks the places in America where you’re statistically most likely to spot Bigfoot, and you’ll want to be somewhere a little more remote than downtown Indianapolis.

Based on reported sightings, forest coverage, and an ideal sasquatch temperature of 55 °F, Washington takes the top spot, followed by West Virginia, Oregon, British Columbia, Michigan, Maine, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Ohio, and Massachusetts. (Meanwhile, Indiana, Maryland, and Arizona sit at the bottom. Bigfoot apparently prefers trees to traffic.)

But don’t sleep on Texas, because the Lone Star State has its own Bigfoot lore. Texas is actually considered one of the hotbeds for Bigfoot activity outside the Pacific Northwest, thanks to numerous reports from the Piney Woods region of East Texas. The town of Jefferson, TX, proudly calls itself the “Bigfoot Capital of Texas,”.

The Sam Houston National Forest area, especially around Liberty and Montgomery Counties, has racked up a surprising number of modern-day sightings, adding fuel to the legend that something big and hairy still roams the woods.

And of course, there’s The Legend of Boggy Creek, the 1972 cult classic inspired by true events near the Texas-Arkansas border that helped cement the state’s status as Bigfoot country.

So if you hear twigs snap deep in the Piney Woods or near the Sam Houston monument, maybe don’t go looking.

Remember, if you heard or saw something – No, you didn’t!

Doug O’Brien