August 18, 2017
“Sunsquatch” is the only eclipse map a Bigfoot buff really needs.
Watching a total eclipse of the sun is a once-in-lifetime experience for most people. So is seeing Sasquatch.
If you’re looking to cross both items off your bucket list at once, there’s a map that shows the locations of Bigfoot sightings inside the path of totality, giving you a chance to see the eclipse with a hairy new friend:
The map’s creator, data visualizer/cartographer Joshua Stevens, isn’t a Bigfoot believer himself, but he had seen so many increasingly specific eclipse-related maps that he took it as a challenge to create a new one.
“I thought if eclipse maps were reaching the peak of absurdity, why not raise the bar a little?” Stevens said. “I knew just the data to use.”
In 2013, Stevens mapped the locations of more than 3,000 sightings listed by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization. This year, he used the organization’s data to map sightings within the eclipse path, and thus, “Sunsquatch” was born.
"There are no more eclipse maps to make"
Challenge accepted. pic.twitter.com/PnFJSXeSiY
— Joshua Stevens (@jscarto) August 3, 2017
Interactive Sunsquatch Map: click link
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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