If you’re searching for Bigfoot in Pennsylvania, look to our western counties.

All the top counties for reports of Bigfoot sightings are in the western half of the state, according to Squatchermetrics, an online organization that specializes in crunching the numbers related to Bigfoot.

Westmoreland County in southwestern Pennsylvania is the top Bigfoot county in Pennsylvania, with 95 reports in Squatchermetrics’ database.

The group, which is named for the Squatch nickname for Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, has gathered 453 reports from across Pennsylvania, 6,498 across North America.

That’s a lot less than the 23,000 reports in the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization database, an analysis of which by the Travel Channel determined that Pennsylvania is the No. 3 state for reported Bigfoot. That analysis found 2,032 reported sightings in Washington, 1,697 in California and 1,340 in Pennsylvania.

But Squatchermetrics, which can be found on Facebook (@Squatchermetrics), works its numbers hard to find patterns and trends that it shares with other in Bigfoot-hunting community.

Westmoreland shares the southwestern corner of the state with Greene County, which is not among Squatchemetrics’ top Bigfoot counties but was labeled the most haunted county in America by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Kevin Paul in their 2018 book, "Haunted Hills and Hollows: What Lurks in Greene County Pennsylvania." They defined “haunted” as everything from Bigfoot and dogmen to ghosts to UFOs.

Pennsylvania’s No. 2 county for Bigfoot sightings is Allegheny, with 46 reports immediately west of Westmoreland County.

With 27 reports in the Squatchermetrics database, No. 3 is Clearfield County, where a park along the West Branch of the Susquehanna River carries a Bigfoot theme.

A towering, life-sized wood carving of Bigfoot is the centerpiece of Elliott’s Park at Clearfield, which John Crissman and his fiancé Carol Turner created in 2007 in memory of a chocolate labrador retriever named Elliott, who was Crissman’s constant companion as he battled oral cancer. The lab died in 2005.

With that carving and oversized, barefoot-shaped cement pads for its picnic tables, the park is also a tribute to local sightings of the creature.

Pennsylvania’s other top Bigfoot counties are Fayette, 25 reports; Armstrong, 17; Cambria, 16; Jefferson, 12; Beaver, 11; and Indiana, 10, according to Squatchermetrics.

All other counties in Pennsylvania has less than 10 reports.

While many Native American cultures have tales of Bigfoot or Sasquatch-like creatures in their folklore, modern interest in the phenomenon soared in 1951 with photographs of footprints in California.

Even those who want to believe in Bigfoot are skeptical of its existence in Pennsylvania. In a state with 12 million residents, it seems likely the creature would have been spotted by now if he is here.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission does not track reports of Bigfoot.

Loren Coleman, one of the world's most published cryptozoologists (researchers in the study of hidden species), thinks there is something real behind some of the Bigfoot reports.

Scott Weidensaul, a nature writer who has written about the search for lost species, doubts that bigfoot is here. In a 2010 interview, the former resident of Pennsylvania said, “It breaks my heart to say it, but I just don’t think it’s true. We would have had a body by now.”