Editing Point Pleasant, West Virginia (section)

=== The Sheepsquatch (The White Thing) ===
Point Pleasant is also home to a lesser known cryptid, the Sheepsquatch or the “White Thing”. The first Sheepsquatch encounter was in the 1990s when a car full of women were making their way home after a family reunion through the TNT area in Point Pleasant. As they were driving, they saw a creature step out of the woods. This creature was described as being seven to eight feet tall, covered in shaggy white hair with legs like a man. The face looked a bit long like a sheep and had horns like a ram’s. Over the years, there were many other similar sightings of the mysterious beast. A miner spotted a big white, grey thing who declared it was not an animal, a motorists spotted an animal on a hillside with a long face that looked to be covered in rags, a hunter encountered a creature crouched by a river for a drink with horns and human hands. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Wright |first=Andy |date=2013-12-12 |title=Move Over Bigfoot, Here Comes Sheepsquatch |url=https://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/move-bigfoot-comes-sheepsquatch/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=Modern Farmer |language=en-US}}</ref>

The Sheepsquatch was first documented by folklorist [[Ruth Ann Musick]] in her book “The Telltale Lilac Bush”, published in 1965. That account originates in [[Kanawha County, West Virginia|Kanawha County]] possibly in the eastern end of its range. This creature has since made its way all across the state of West Virginia, notoriously seen in Point Pleasant.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ghosts |first=West Virginia |date=2004-10-14 |title=Sheepsquatch - West Virginia Ghosts |url=https://www.wvghosts.com/true-stories/cryptozoology/sheep-squatch/ |access-date=2025-03-27 |website=www.wvghosts.com |language=en-US}}</ref>