{"id":5665,"date":"2010-11-01T23:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:51:20","slug":"west-virginia-man-sees-bigfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/11\/west-virginia-man-sees-bigfoot\/","title":{"rendered":"WEST VIRGINIA MAN SEES BIGFOOT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hairy-hominids.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"\" title=\"hairy-hominids\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-734\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurherald.com\/cgi-bin\/db_scripts\/articles?Action=user_view&#038;db=articles_hurherald&#038;id=40483\" target=\"_\">The Hur Herald<\/a> has reported that 44-year old West Virginia native, Stephen Summers, claimed to have seen a huge, ape-like creature walking down an electric right-of-way on the afternoon October 26, 2010.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to Summers, he was traveling south in a car, looking out the passenger side window when he claims he spotted the BIG FOOT or SKUNK APE-like beast on a hillside across the West Fork of the Little Kanawha, a short distance from Arnoldsburg along State Rt. 16. In Summers own words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was tall, about nine feet, hairy and the prettiest black I&#8217;ve ever laid my eyes on. I could see between its&#8217; legs. Its&#8217; legs looked as big as five-gallon buckets&#8230; I&#8217;ve lived here all my life and have never seen such a thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"\" title=\"sasquatch_road\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road1.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Summers said the driver of the vehicle couldn&#8217;t stop because a car was &#8220;on his tail,&#8221; indicating the driver and another passenger didn&#8217;t see the creature. Although Summers is just one of many who have claimed to have encountered a <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/hairy-hominids\/\" target=\"_\">HAIRY HOMINID<\/a> in West Virginia, his courage in coming forward has made him an object of derision:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Everybody is laughing at me, but I saw it. I swear to God. I&#8217;ve been in the woods all my life. I wasn&#8217;t drunk. God in heaven, be my witness, I saw it. I&#8217;ll take it to my grave.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would seem that West Virginia now has another cryptid to keep its already legendary MOTHMAN company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hur Herald has reported that 44-year old West Virginia native, Stephen Summers, claimed to have seen a huge, ape-like creature walking down an electric right-of-way on the afternoon October 26, 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[25,24,94,1121,272,440],"class_list":{"0":"post-5665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ape-man","9":"tag-bigfoot","10":"tag-mothman","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-skunk-ape","13":"tag-west-virginia"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/sasquatch_road41.jpg?fit=300%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10232,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/10232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}