Stan Gordon – Pennsylvania’s answer to The X-Files’ Scully and Mulder – in his new book reveals reports of Bigfoot, UFOs, black panthers, thunderbirds, giant snakes and more from stunned witnesses across Pennsylvania.
Drawing on his almost 60 years of investigating those reports, including more than 50 years of operating a reporting hotline open to the public, the Greensburg man pulls from that database for “Creepy Cryptids and Strange UFO Encounters of Pennsylvania: Casebook Four” released earlier this year.
And, he explained, “it’s just a sample. It just never stops. Reports continue all the time.”
Among the man Bigfoot reports included in the new book, Gordon wrote, “I received a video of a series of large footprints in fresh snow that was taken in January of 2018, in North Huntingdon Township, Pennsylvania. It had snowed during the early morning hours and the family noticed them when they looked outside. I interviewed the wife and husband whose property this had taken place at. They recalled seeing a series of footprints about 16 inches long with a stride of about 4 to 5 feet between each track.
“The family was startled because the tracks seemed to just suddenly appear in the yard with no entrance point, then continued on about seventy feet across the yard. The tracks continued until they reached a play area for children and then suddenly just stopped.
“A witness in this case made a similar comment to the one made by the 1973 witness that I had referred to earlier, ‘Like something was walking then flew away or something like that.’ The general area where these tracks were found has a long history of Bigfoot encounters.”
Reports like that have flowed to Gordon for decades, drawn him and his various teams into countless follow-up field investigations, and made Gordon into a much sought-after interviewee with the media and speaker on the UFO/Bigfoot/cryptozoology conference circuit.
With his reporting hotline, Gordon explained, “people knew they could call and not be ridiculed, and their reports would be investigated.”
He observed, “In so many cases these are people who don’t believe in these kinds of things. Many of these people used to laugh at these reports. But it was life-changing event,” when they experienced their own encounters.
However, an openness to receiving the reports from credible witnesses is not the same as blind acceptance.
“When you take the time to properly investigate… many times these are manmade or natural” occurrences, Gordon noted.
For example, many recent UFO sightings and reports of “strings of lights across the sky” have been traced back to the proliferation of satellites being place into orbit around the Earth by private companies, such as the Starlink satellite internet constellation operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
But manmade satellites don’t seem to explain incidents like a June 4, 2019, encounter along the Chestnut Ridge in southwestern Pennsylvania that Gordon relates in his latest book.
“Hovering about sixty feet over the trees was a very strange looking object in the shape of a V,” he wrote. “The V-shape was made up of numerous small rectangular shaped white lights. These lights were glowing but would brighten and dim at times. The driver estimated that there could have been fifty or more lights. The object was estimated to be about forty to fifty feet long.
“Above the smaller lights were four larger round lights that were strobing and orange, blue, red and green in color. The brightness of these colors appeared pale compared to the smaller rectangular white lights. These lights seemed to strobe from left to right. There was a larger light that produced a beam that was scanning the sky above the object.
“The driver lowered the windows as they continued to watch the object. The two observers were amazed that the hovering object was completely silent.”
Later in his recounting of the report, Gordon wrote, “About thirty seconds after they left the location of the observation, a deer ran out from the woods in front of their car. The driver of the car is an experienced outdoorsman and said the deer looked dazed and confused. It was moments later that another deer did the same thing. Then just a short distance down the road, a bird hit the car windshield and continued on. As they continued for another short distance, an even stranger animal encounter took place.
“The driver, who is very familiar with the native animals around the area, saw a creature that startled him. He said this creature stopped about seven feet in front of his vehicle. This creature was directly in his headlights, and he got a good look at it. He knew what it was, but the animal has been declared extirpated in Pennsylvania for many years. He is certain he saw a wolverine.”
From “thousands and thousands of reports” already in his file and more coming in all the time,” Gordon has noted some patterns:
Many low-level, close-range encounters with UFOs coincide with Bigfoot sightings. He pointed out that the “biggest UFO outbreak ever documented” in 1973 occurred simultaneous to a massive outbreak of Bigfoot reports from the summer of 1973 into 1974.
Many of them occur in areas of manmade, high-energy sources such as power plants and cell towers.
Many who observe Bigfoot tracks report that they appear to begin and end out of nowhere. Gordon explained, “You’d follow these tracks that would abruptly end for no reason.”
Many reports of Bigfoot and other cryptids (undiscovered creatures) describe how the creatures fade, change shape, disappear and the like. They often seem to be unscathed by human weapons, from rifles and shotguns being fired into their bodies to be swatted on the side of a trailer with “a sturdy piece of wood,” as witnessed reported was done to a giant, seven-foot spider in Indiana County in 2014, and simply disappear in response. “They seem to come into our reality for a short time. They can leave physical evidence, then they’re gone.”
Even some of the mountain lion and black panther reports in Pennsylvania seem to have an element of something unnatural to them.
In “Creepy Cryptids,” Gordon wrote this about a July 2018 black panther encounter in Fayette County: “What caught the attention of the man was when the panther looked directly at him. It had eyes that appeared luminous that were bluish green in color. The creature was in view for about fifteen to twenty seconds. The witness hurried over to where the animal had passed looking for any evidence. There he saw some tracks in a mud hole that the creature had walked through.
“He immediately grabbed his fully charged phone to take a camera picture. All of the bars on the phone showed it had a complete charge. He aimed at the tracks and tried to take pictures, but the phone would not function, and the bars indicated that it had no charge. The witness could not understand why the phone wouldn’t operate. As soon as he returned home, he went to charge the phone and found that it once again was showing a full charge.”
Gordon sees it all as “something so beyond our scientific understanding. We don’t know what we’ve dealing with. We’re dealing with something that is not a flesh and blood animal. For lack of a better term, we might be dealing with something interdimensional.
But, he cautioned, “I don’t think anybody has the answers. I don’t have the answers. I think the government knows more than they’re telling, but they don’t have the answers.”
Gordon’s book is available amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=creepy+cryptids+stan+gordon&crid=17YEFOCR9S375&sprefix=creepy+cryptids%2Caps%2C72&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_3_15) and barnesandnoble.com (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22Stan%20Gordon%22?Ntk=P_key_Contributor_List&Ns=P_Sales_Rank&Ntx=mode+matchall). He will be a featured speaker at the July 22-24 Kecksburg UFO Festival. His website is Stan Gordon’s UFO Anomalies Zone.
Contact Marcus Schneck at mschneck@pennlive.com.
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