Pennsylvania Hunter Shares Two Bigfoot Encounters in Allegheny Mountains

A recent episode of the From The Shadows podcast features a guest named Ricky who shares not one, but two unsettling encounters in the mountains of north-central Pennsylvania. If you haven't caught this one yet, it's definitely worth a listen. Ricky hails from Bradford County, right in the heart of the Allegheny Mountain Range. He mentions that within about 25 miles of his home, there are documented BFR (Bigfoot Field Researchers) reports going back years. The nearby town of LeRoy apparently has its own folklore—whooping sounds in the night and old footprint finds. Classic Sasquatch territory if you ask me. The first encounter goes back to the fall of 2001. Ricky was hunting with some buddies at a spot called Lamb's Vista (also known locally as Lamb's Lookout or Lamb's Point), which sits on the edge of Tioga County State Park and borders state game lands. It's a beautiful spot—you drive up a dirt road through the game lands and pop out at a vista overlooking the town of Canton. But on this particular day, something was following him through the hemlock and hardwood forest. Ricky was pushing through the woods, crunching through an inch-thick crust of half-frozen snow, when he started hearing crunching sounds off to his side and behind him. He stopped and looked around four or five times, expecting to see his hunting buddy in orange. Nothing. No orange, no movement, just the sound of something moving parallel to him through the trees. When he finally made it out to where the other hunters were waiting, he realized his buddy had already pushed his section and was back at the truck. So whatever was making those tracks in the snow wasn't any human he knew about. At the time, Ricky didn't think much of it. But looking back, he remembers the woods going completely silent. That's a detail that always catches my attention—witnesses frequently describe that sudden, almost unnatural quiet when something is nearby. The kind of silence that makes the hair on your arms stand up. The second encounter is the one that really got me. This time, Ricky and his buddies drove up to Lamb's Lookout at night just to hang out at the picnic table. The area wasn't gated back then, so they figured they'd just chill for a while. When Ricky stepped out of his car, he was hit with an immediate, overwhelming feeling that they didn't belong there. Not just the trespassing kind of "don't belong"—something deeper, something primal. He looked up toward the wood line, maybe 75 to 100 yards away, and saw them—two huge red eyes staring right at them. As his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he could make out a human-shaped figure. Shoulders, a head, a dark silhouette with what he described as little puffs (possibly hair?). His first thought was an owl—Pennsylvania does have owl species with red eye shine. But the eyes were too big, he said. Way too big for any owl. He glanced over at his buddies, who were completely oblivious, horsing around at the picnic table. When he looked back, the eyes and the figure were gone. No sound, no rustling, just... gone. The Allegheny region has long been considered prime Sasquatch habitat. The dense hardwood and hemlock forests, the rugged terrain, the remote hollows—it's exactly the kind of country where these beings could thrive unnoticed. Pennsylvania has a rich history of sightings, and Bradford County seems to be a particularly active area based on what Ricky describes. The hemlock sections especially are interesting—those dense, shadowy groves are the kind of places where something tall could easily disappear into the canopy. The episode cuts off before Ricky gets into the story the title references, so there's apparently more to come. Definitely a video worth checking out for anyone interested in East Coast Sasquatch encounters. Head over to the From The Shadows channel and give it a watch.