Why did the “Sasquach” cross the road? To give us another reason to make fun of the Garden State.
The legendary — OK, fictitious — “Bigfoot” was allegedly spotted in South Jersey’s densely-wooded Pine Barrens, adding to the dozens of sightings in the Garden State since the 1960s, according to a group that logs “credible” accounts of the big, hairy, bi-pedal creature.
“In a split second, I saw something brown on 2 legs and about 6 feet tall sprint behind the car,” writes breathless eyewitness “Tricia” in the latest sighting logged by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which tracks the hirsute hallucination globally, the Asbury Park Press reported.
“I caught it in my rear view mirror,” wrote Trica of the creature she said she spied on an overcast April 7 as she drove with her husband and dog near Brown Mills in Ocean County.
“I was kind of thinking to myself that my eyes were playing tricks on me but I just couldn’t shake it,” she wrote.
Reps from the BFRO reached out to Tricia the next day, and she elaborated.
“She explained that after taking some pictures of the wetlands, they got back in their vehicle and she started to drive on down the dirt road, and she glanced back in her rearview mirror and saw a tall, and lanky brown haired biped leap across the entire road,” wrote BFRO investigator Eric Spinner.
“She described how the legs were splayed like a dancer – each leg pointing opposite – and the arms too were moving back and forth,” Spinner wrote.
A trip to the “encounter location” uncovered no tracks, hair or other evidence, Spinner added. Still, “It doesn’t get much better than to have the chance to do an interview so soon after an incident.”
The BFRO has logged 68 Sasquach sightings in Jersey, going back to 1966.
There have been more in New York — the group has logged 105 — but Bigfoot hasn’t been seen in the Empire State in a good half-dozen years.
California holds the record for Bigfoot sightings, with the BFRO logging 437.