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“I could hardly talk,” he remembers. “I just kept saying, ‘Squatch, Squatch!’ Sandy said ‘Hold on, I’m coming,’ but by the time she got there Pops had left."
Here is an older article that was published in the Potter Leader Enterprise in 2013 (No longer available):
"Although they don’t have substantiated evidence, some local “Squatch hunters” say they have had numerous encounters with the elusive creature in Potter County and the surrounding areas. They say Bigfoot (also known as Sasquatch, Yeti, Rugaru, Windigo, Abominable Snowman, Migyur, and many other names, each specific to one of the many locales around the globe where the giant beast has been reported) definitely makes its home in our area, probably because of the abundance of remote habitat and favorable terrain found here.
Sandy Cramer and Justin Prouty, two of the most dedicated hunters, say they started the local research project kind of on a whim.
“One night, Justin and his wife were at my house and we were kind of bored,” said Cramer, a semi-retired nurse. “Justin said, ‘Let’s go Bigfoot hunting.’ I thought he was kidding, but we went that night and had a lot of fun. We kept going and when we started having some encounters, we got to thinking, ‘Oh my God, this is real.’”
That was in the summer of 2011 and they’ve since gotten hooked on Squatch hunting, although Cramer points out that “hunting” isn’t really the right word. “What we’re doing is looking for evidence and researching. We’re trying to learn as much as we can about a creature that is not very well-known.”
The closest encounter they’ve had is with a Bigfoot they’ve named ‘Pops.’ They describe him as light gray and report seeing him several times. They suspect he is also the creature who has been enjoying the peanut butter they leave out in an area he seems to frequent. Once, when Cramer and Prouty walked along the edge of a field, two other Squatch hunters watching from a nearby barn saw a large, gray creature step out of the woods and follow them a short distance back.
Then, a couple weeks later, when Cramer and Prouty were at the barn, Prouty walked the length of the field alone, while Cramer remained by the barn doing call-outs, a vocalization similar to the whooping calls of a Bigfoot done in the hopes that a Bigfoot will respond.
As Prouty passed an old orchard along the edge of the field, he noticed what appeared to be a discolored shape in the grass. Just then, Cramer whooped and the shape stood. Prouty said that in the light of the bright full moon, there was no mistaking the creature. ‘Pops’ was only about 30 feet from Prouty and although the ground was about three feet lower there than where Prouty stood, he said they were at eye level. Prouty was so startled, that he dropped the parabolic dish he had been carrying, then tried to call Cramer on the walkie-talkie to tell her what he’d found.
“I could hardly talk,” he remembers. “I just kept saying, ‘Squatch, Squatch!’ Sandy said ‘Hold on, I’m coming,’ but by the time she got there Pops had left.
“He went about 50 or 60 feet up a steep bank in just four or five strides,” said Prouty.
He and Cramer checked the spot where Pops had been laying and found that the grass was warm, while all around it was covered in frost.
“If I’d seen just a glimpse of something in the distance, I could tell myself it was something else, not a Bigfoot, but when you see one that close, there’s nothing else you can tell yourself it is,” said Prouty. “It was a Bigfoot.”
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