Bigfoot sightings in Apollo, Pennsylvania: A farmer's startling encounters

What began as routine farm work in Apollo, Pennsylvania, quickly turned into a chilling mystery when a farmer discovered massive footprints, a foul odor, and eventually came face-to-face with a towering Bigfoot at sunset. But as investigators confirmed the presence of multiple creatures, and a second red-furred Sasquatch was later spotted near his daughter’s farm, the question remains: how close are these beings living among us?

"On my farm in Apollo, Pennsylvania, there is a public area surrounded by houses. I'm a farmer, and I went there to do some electrical fence work over the course of four days. On the first day, I noticed a strong smell that reminded me of an outhouse, even from a thousand feet away, but I didn't think much of it.

The next day, I discovered a large footprint in the ground. I thought, "Wow, what a crazy person to be wandering up here." The footprint was perfectly human-like, just much larger than ours. The following day, while I was working on the fence in the evening, with the sun setting behind me, something caught my eye. About 10 or 15 feet away, I saw a Bigfoot walking away from me. It was stunning, with its hair shining in the light. It moved like an ape, but I felt a primal fear that made me want to cower in terror. I turned to run to my tractor, thinking about whether I could chase it down, but by the time I had turned the tractor around, it was gone.

Before this incident, I had called an investigator to look at the footprint I found. I cast the footprint, and before he could come over, someone had placed two trees across our farm road. When the investigator, who had a PhD, arrived, he examined the footprint and noted that it resembled ours but was much larger. He also evaluated the site where I had seen the Bigfoot and said, "You know what? There were three of them here. There’s the female, there’s the mate, and there’s the little one." This all occurred right in sight of our farmhouse and the neighbor's house.

A year or so later, at my daughter's farm, I became aware of a trail in the woods where Bigfoot might walk. While I was out doing some haying and re-stacking hay, I looked through a small wooded area into another field. I saw a creature with reddish fur walking in the woods. At first, I thought it might be a deer or some briars, but it was definitely a red-coated Bigfoot. I couldn’t do anything at that moment, so I told my daughter what I had seen down in the corner of the marsh at the back of the field. Once again, there were people around; this wasn't out in the middle of nowhere.

I told my daughter's boyfriend about it, but of course, they all laughed. However, he went over to the pub, and there were five guys there talking about seeing a red Bigfoot. So, I knew my eyes weren't deceiving me; I had indeed seen it twice. How about that?” R

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By Lon Strickler / Author Fortean Researcher

Lon Strickler is a Fortean researcher, author, and publisher of the syndicated 'Phantoms and Monsters' blog. He began the blog in 2005, which has steadily grown in popularity and is read daily by tens of thousands of paranormal enthusiasts, investigators and those seeking the truth. His research and reports have been featured on hundreds of online media sources. Several of these published reports have been presented on various television segments, including The History Channel's 'Ancient Aliens,' Syfy's 'Paranormal Witness', 'Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files,' and Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America.'

He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio & online broadcasts, including multiple guest appearances on 'Coast to Coast AM.' He was also featured on Destination America's 'Monsters and Mysteries in America' television show for 'The Sykesville Monster' episode. Lon has written 9 books and is currently the host of Phantoms & Monsters Radio on YouTube.

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