If I had a nickel for every ‘squatch I’ve written about, I’d be pretty rich and that’s without even leaving the mountains we call home.
Hailing from Boone County, North Carolina, with an average height of 9-feet and a shoulder width of 4-feet 6-inches is the Sheepsquatch.
Though this species would be pretty upset to hear themselves compared to Sasquatch–and supposedly kill their cousins if they see them. Perhaps with this in mind, we should call them sheepmen instead.
The only problem with a name like that is that I’m sure they would get confused for the Goatman (made famous by Buzzfeed Unsolved) given that they look almost identical except for the longer and curlier horns and the puffy coat that makes regular sheep iconic.
Multiple news stations discuss them, including West Virginia News Station (lets call West Virginia the cryptid capital) who states that it has been spotted since the mid 1990s. Despite its name, multiple sources report that it has a dog-like head. In a move that isn’t surprising to anyone, he is also a featured enemy of Fallout 76.
While some say he is the white Thang, others say he is some “thang” else and not simply a one-off creature, but a group of them. If the varying reports of size and weight are anything to go by, this certainly makes sense. On the other hand, it seems like most sources call him the white thing rather than Thang so it might be the case of either a simple misnomer or two different species sharing a similar name. Nonetheless I’ll refer to him as sheepsquatch for now.
Despite the fact that the first sighting is supposedly in the early 1990s, there is a book documenting its sighting that was published in 1965, “The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales,” by Ruth Ann Musick. Online there seems to be most common record in 1994 with a naval seaman watching him drink from the river, and again the same year by two children, he said that they had come across it in the woods, and that he was frightened away when he saw them while stretching up to his full height to look at something.
It seems that the last officially recorded siding was in 2015 by six campers in Fulls Run, Virginia. Those that saw him reported that he charged them, only being stopped by a river and a loud noise (most likely from a gun) and has not been seen since.
It seems that there is a lot to say about sheepsquatch and it makes sense that it would be one of the well-known cryptids. Like most species, it seems like they are neutral. They exist the same way that we do–good or bad depending on our individual identity rather than a widespread level. I can only hope that they are safe and living peacefully in the woods, though for how much longer is uncertain.
