West Virginia Researcher Details Multiple Bigfoot Sightings and Evidence

There's a new episode over on The Cryptid Profiler channel that's worth carving out some time for. Host Dano sits down with David from West Virginia, a member of the West Virginia Case Bigfoot Collective, and the stories that come out of this conversation are the kind that stick with you long after the episode ends. David opens up about three separate encounters, and each one has its own unique flavor that adds another layer to the ongoing mystery in the Appalachian region. The first happened on June 24th, around 3 in the morning. David let his hound Ted out to do his business, and that's when he noticed something grayish standing on a little path near his pumphouse up on the hill. He grabbed his Maglite and shined it up there. The figure just stood there, completely still, for about two to three minutes. David describes the feeling as non-threatening, almost like the two of them were just observing each other. The moment Ted came back around the corner of the house, David looked away for a second, and when he looked back, the figure was gone. The brush was cracking and breaking as something moved away, though. Ted didn't bark or react aggressively, just sniffed the air like he was picking up a scent David couldn't identify. What really got me was what David did the next morning. He went back up to that path and measured from where he estimated the feet were standing up to a branch on one of the apple trees in the orchard. Six and a half feet up to that branch from the ground, which means the figure was somewhere around seven feet tall if you account for the distance from the branch to the top of the head. That's a foot taller than David himself, and the rocky terrain up there made it nearly impossible to find any tracks. Classic Sasquatch behavior, honestly. They're known for being aware of their surroundings and choosing spots where they won't leave evidence behind. The second encounter happened during the day in March, while David was up at a spring on his property cleaning it out. He got that unmistakable feeling of being watched, looked around, and spotted a figure crouched up against a tree. It was backlit by the sun, and he could see reddish-brown hair hanging down off the arms, almost shiny in the sunlight. Unfortunately, he couldn't make out the face, so he couldn't tell if it was facing him or turned away. He watched it for about 30 seconds to a minute, and then his phone rang. Of course it did. By the time he silenced the call and looked back up, the figure was gone. No sound of movement, but that smell hit him, the one so many witnesses describe, a pungent mix of wet dog and decaying vegetation. When he went back to investigate, he found a matted-down area of grass where the figure had been sitting, and the smell was concentrated right there in that spot. Then David shares his wife's encounter, and this one is genuinely chilling. She was walking back from what sounds like the Grape Festival in West Virginia, and she had gone about as far as she could go, so David went to get their daughter to bring the car around. While she was waiting alone on a guardrail near the railroad tracks, she heard something hit the guardrail. At first she thought it was a deer jumping and hitting it, or maybe a rock that had been kicked up from the tracks. But there was nothing on the tracks at the time. Then she looked up and across the road, maybe 20 to 30 feet away on a bank with a whole stand of trees, and she saw one eye. A greenish-yellow eye shine, lit up by the railroad guard lights behind her. She started moving, and the figure turned its head, revealing two eyes that blinked at her. She tried to rationalize it as a signal down the railroad line, but she knew it was too close for that. As she moved further down the guardrail, the figure followed her movement. What she said next is something every researcher