It’s this type of closed minded attitude that puts the eastern North American Bigfooter against the western North American Bigfooter, if for no other reason, than to try to claim one of North America’s greatest mysteries as their own.
I have personally been in some tug of war matches with some PNW Bigfooters in the past, and to this day, some of them are still adamant that Bigfoot only exist in the PNW. It’s their monster; no one else can claim it. The Rockies will keep it from traveling east and southward.
In all fairness though, some well respected Bigfooters probably do put a lot of credibility in some of the eastern reports. One of these Bigfooters would be Dr. John Bindernagle of B.C., Canada. He wrote extensively about many reports east of the Rocky Mountains in his 1998 book titled ”North Americas Great Ape… the Sasquatch.” He also used a good bit of information I published in my newsletter The Monthly Bigfoot Report. He has even spoke at my Annual Bigfoot Conference / EXPO on two occasions.
As I write this, the thought crosses my mind several times that the well known Sasquatch Researcher Rene’ Dahinden often said “Where a bear can exist, a Bigfoot can exist.” Seems to me that bear can exist in many places of North America, not just the PNW.
My point is this… Bears are common animals in the PNW as well as West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the numbers are increasing in Ohio. The last I heard, animals could not read road signs. They can’t read when they are crossing into Ohio or the other way around. They haven’t picked up the latest edition of Outdoors magazine and read they shouldn’t be in Ohio because they don’t exist there. And the same thing can be said for Bigfoot.
North America is a large continent. Those of you who easily place Bigfoot in a category of “They don’t exist east of the Rocky Mountains” should sit back and rethink your evaluations a little more carefully next time. Hopefully a live capture or body of a Bigfoot will take place in the eastern part of North America one day. Then I guess we’ll have to say those Bigfoot didn’t read road signs and figure they were east of the Rocky Mountains. Things that make you go hmmmmm.