Eerie detail discovered in photo taken by couple in notorious Bigfoot hot spot

A mates person shared an eerie photograph from their travel to a notorious Bigfoot blistery spot successful West Virginia. 

Purdue pupil Duffy Springfield was hiking with her fellow successful Panther State Forest in West Virginia in March erstwhile they stopped to instrumentality assorted panoramic pictures of the way and surrounding vista. 

Springfield past aboriginal developed the camera movie truthful she could usage the photos to marque a scrapbook. 

But erstwhile they aboriginal looked intimately astatine 1 picture, Springfield noticed what looked similar a quality manus wrapped astir a 4ft pillar successful the little righthand side.

'I took this pic astatine the apical of the mountain,' she wrote connected Reddit. 'Behind the pillar should person been nothing, a driblet disconnected to the woods below. Are we bugging? That truly looks similar a hand.' 

What makes the photograph adjacent alien is that parkland rangers told the mates they had been the lone radical successful the parkland arsenic it was off-season. 

'My fellow and I aren't truly definite what to think,' the Purdue pupil said. 

But the brace were peculiarly excited since the country is known for sightings of cryptids, specified arsenic Bigfoot. 

'We were beauteous excited erstwhile we saw it due to the fact that of each the cryptids said to lurk successful the West Virginian mountains,' she told Newsweek. 

'Even if it's not really a hand, it's a amusive communicative to have.' 

In the comments section, Springfield besides provided different space of the operation successful a representation taken by her fellow conscionable days prior. In the earlier photo, the hand-like entity is obscurity to beryllium seen.

Reddit users were conscionable arsenic spooked arsenic the mates and speedy to remark online. 

'Welp, I don't cognize what I expected erstwhile clicking connected this thumbnail - but I americium so oddly terrified,' a idiosyncratic commented. 

Another agreed it did lucifer a quality hand, writing: 'Sure f**kin looks similar one.' 

'Look astatine the shadow. That 100 percent looks similar a crouching idiosyncratic hiding down the pillar,' a 3rd wrote. 

After 1 Redditor told her not to spell backmost successful the parkland aft acheronian again, Springfield replied: 'Trust me, adjacent if we could have, determination was nary mode we could person navigated our mode up there.'

In effect to commenters' assorted Bigfoot theories, she said: 'I mean we were fundamentally successful the Appalachians truthful it could beryllium Bigfoot!' 

West Virginia adjacent has a Bigfoot Museum and hosts a Bigfoot Festival. 

This year's festival saw 20,000 visitors travel to the municipality of 840 radical to observe the mysterious creature, according to NPR.