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Welcome to the Bigfoot Project. 
Get comfortable wherever you are

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and prepare for stories that 
blur the line between legend and

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reality. 
In this video, we're going way 

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back to explore the earliest 
reports in my entire archive. 

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These are some of the oldest 
encounter records I've ever 

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found. 
From here, we'll move forward 

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through time, century by 
century, all the way up to the 

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most recent cases in the videos 
ahead. 

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This is the full timeline of 
encounters, starting at the very

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beginning. 
Some of the wording in this 

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video may feel outdated or 
uncomfortable to modern ears, 

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and I want to acknowledge that 
upfront. 

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These reports come from a very 
different time, and the language

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used reflects the area in which 
they were written. 

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I'm sharing them as historical 
accounts, not as current 

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viewpoints. 
Please keep in mind the context 

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of the period as you listen. 
Native tells of his abduction by

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hairy giants Nespelem, 
Washington, circa 1670. 

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A Nespelem native who 
disappeared while hunting with a

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group about one year ago was 
found today at about the same 

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spot he had been last seen. 
When approached, he was simply 

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standing with his arms folded 
and his eyes staring straight 

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ahead as if in a trance. 
By his side was a dog that had 

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been trained to bark once in 
mourning and then to remain 

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silent. 
Upon regaining his senses, the 

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native told of being captured 
and held prisoner by a group of 

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hairy giants. 
He stated that he was not 

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physically harmed by the 
creatures and shared their food 

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and cedar bark shelters almost 
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He described his captors as 
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prowess, able to scamper up 
steep slopes or to shoulder 

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heavy loads of game. 
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hunting with them, he was 
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mountains at night. 
He said they used whistling 

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noises to communicate while 
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Apparently the creatures also 
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powers. 
As he stated, they put him into 

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a trance before taking him to 
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The dog by his side was a gift. 
Jesuit priest reports native 

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fear of mystery animal. 
Natchez, Ms. December 26th, 

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1721. 
Father Pierre Francois Xavier de

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Charlevoix recently arrived 
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settlement. 
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there was in the neighborhood a 
beast of unknown species of 

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extraordinary bulk, and whose 
cry did not in the least 

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resemble that of any known 
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However, when he questioned the 
natives, none had actually seen 

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the creature. 
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strength from the fact that it 
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calves. 
Father Pierre suggested that the

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creature was probably a large 
wolf, but none could be 

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persuaded in this regard. 
The creature was hurt again and 

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the natives ran out armed with 
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find, but it was to no purpose. 
Bothersome Bear just does not 

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like people. 
Northern Vermont, 1759. 

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A strange bear in this region 
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years. 
He destroys fences, rips up 

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gardens, frightens cows and 
sheep, tromps through cornfields

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and caused no end of mayhem. 
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say always runs on his hind 
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Recently, Major Robert Rogers 
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reportedly harassed by the 
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It tossed pine cones and nuts at
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ledges. 
Indians have a name for the 

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creature Weejuck or Wetskin. 
Wildman, seen in local woods. 

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Lasso, Wisconsin, circa 1764. 
A Wildman has been reported in 

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local woods. 
He is said to be very tall, 

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strongly built, hairy like a 
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perfectly harmless. 
His delight is in coarsing the 

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sheep and dispensing them, 
uttering loud peals of laughter 

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at the confusion he creates. 
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their dogs after him, but he 
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with him. 
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traced respecting his history. 
It is assumed he is some child 

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left by accident or design in 
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like Orson, some bear nourished 
him, but never found a Valentine

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to restore him to humanity. 
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was found in the same forest. 
She was captured and placed in a

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hospital, where she died a short
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New World Wildman arrives in 
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There has lately arrived in 
France from America a Wildman 

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who was caught in the woods 200 
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Woods by a party of Indians. 
They had seen him several times,

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but he was so swift afoot that 
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with him. 
He is near 7 feet tall, covered 

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with hair, but has little 
appearance of understanding, and

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is remarkably sullen and 
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When he was taken, half a bear 
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had just killed. 
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article that the reporter 
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it arrived in France. 
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to light to my knowledge. 
Bickerstaff's Almanac. 

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What's that on the cover? 
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Boston Almanac for the year 
depicts some sort of monkey man 

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or hairy man on the cover. 
What we don't know is why this 

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image was chosen. 
Natives, however, have for many 

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years spoken of a giant hairy 
man, sometimes seen in the 

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forest. 
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New World natives expressed 
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Nootka Sound, British Columbia, 
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naturalist on a Spanish voyage 
of exploration, reported that 

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native people on the Pacific 
Coast of North America have a 

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strong belief in terrifying 
creatures called matlocks that 

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are said to inhabit the vast 
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Mozino stated. 
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Matlock's inhabitant of the 
mountainous district of who all 

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have unbelievable terror. 
They native people imagine his 

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body as very monstrous, all 
covered with stiff black 

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bristles, a head similar to a 
human one but with much greater,

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sharper and stronger fangs than 
those of the bear, extremely 

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long arms and toes and fingers 
armed with long curved claws. 

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His shouts alone, they say, 
force those who hear them to the

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ground, and any unfortunate body
he slaps is broken into 1000 

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pieces. 
Almas were said to have 

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medicinal properties. 
Peking, China, 1700s. 

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A medical book originally 
written and produced in Tibet 

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many years ago using primitive 
methods has been printed here 

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using up to date processes. 
The book is entitled Anatomical 

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Dictionary for Recognizing 
Various Diseases. 

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It contains drawings of beasts, 
birds, reptiles, insects and 

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other animals and plants with an
account of their medicinal value

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to man. 
There is also a drawing of the 

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Almus just as the creature is 
believed to appear. 

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The caption for this drawing 
reads the man animal lives in 

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the mountains. 
His origins is close to that of 

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the bear. 
His body resembles that of a 

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man, and he has enormous 
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His meat may be eaten to treat 
mental diseases, and his gull 

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cures jaundice. 
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of any mythological creatures. 
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creatures shown in the book are 
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The inference here is that the 
Olmus was also real. 

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The original book, which is very
old, consists of long narrow 

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strips printed by a woodblock 
process and bound together. 

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It is housed in the Gandin 
Lamisserie at Yulon Batur, the 

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capital of Mongolia. 
It was examined by an 

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anthropologist who later found a
copy of the work printed in 

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Peking. 
The book was reprinted about 100

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years after the first edition. 
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work changes the word man animal
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Old Slippery Skin, a bear that 
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settlers, outsmarts all who 
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Vermont early 1800s settlers and
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Maidstone, Lemington, and 
Victory report trouble with a 

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mischievous, cunning super bear 
nicknamed Old Slippery Skin. 

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The creature walks on 2 legs and
outwits farmers and others who 

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pursues him. 
Vermont Governor Jonas Galusha 

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recently LED a hunting party in 
hopes of shooting slippery skin,

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but was unsuccessful. 
A group of hunters tracking the 

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animal near Morgan reported that
the bear had cleverly 

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backtracked on its prints before
sending a large tree rolling 

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down a mountainside toward the 
party, which then gave up the 

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search. 
Monster Tracks. 

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Puzzle Explorer. 
Geographer Jasper Present Sight 

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of Alberta January 7th, 1811 
Geographer and explorer David 

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Thompson reported the discovery 
of highly unusual footprints 

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found in snow near here. 
The snow was about 6 inches deep

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on ice and the prints measured 
about 14 inches long by 8 inches

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wide at the widest point. 
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four inches long and each had a 
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The ball of the foot sank 3 
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The Prince were headed in a 
southerly direction and Thompson

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estimated that they had been 
made about 6 hours before his 

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arrival. 
He believes the Prince are those

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of some monstrous bear. 
Note it is unlikely the tracks 

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found by Thompson were those of 
a Sasquatch. 

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Generally this creature has five
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However, other 4 toed tracks had
been found, although I know of 

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only one other case where claws 
or nails were indicated in 

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possible Bigfoot tracks. 
Unfortunately, Thompson does not

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indicate whether the prints were
those of a creature with two or 

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four legs. 
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there are possible bear prints. 
4 legs are indicated a monster 

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animal. 
He was 7 feet high, covered with

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hair and walked erect. 
Tugalo River Area, South 

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Carolina, circa 1816, a native 
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a monster animal in this region 
that was most unlike other 

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animals. 
One of the hunters related that 

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after establishing a camp east 
of the Tugalo River, they all 

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went hunting, leaving a deer 
they had killed the evening 

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previous at camp. 
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camp the deer was gone, and the 
next day the same thing was 

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repeated. 
They then decided to leave an 

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old Indian to guard the camp and
see what was happening with 

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their deer. 
That day the old Indian saw a 

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monster animal come and carry 
off the deer and was afraid to 

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make any attempt to kill the 
monster, which was about 7 feet 

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high and walked erect like a 
man, hairy all over, and its 

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mouth was in the chin and great 
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The next day all seven of the 
Indians stayed at camp, and as 

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usual the monster came, gathered
up the deer and started off when

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one of them fired at it, the 
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The animal dropped the deer and 
turned and started toward them, 

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when the other six poured A 
volley into its breast and it 

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fell dead. 
About 3 hours after that the 

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Indians heard a noise like 
someone hollowing about a mile 

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distant. 
The Indians left the camp and 

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called on the posse for 
protection, a party of whites on

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horses with all the dogs they 
could get. 

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They went in search of the other
animal and found it. 

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It was like the one the Indians 
had killed and putting the dogs 

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after it. 
When it appeared insight the 

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animal would run, but it would 
whip every dog they could get to

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attack it. 
The party pursued it to the 

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river and at 2 jumps it went 
across where it was then shot. 

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Note the original time frame 
place on this article was during

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the time the Indians were in the
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The area where the incident took
place was home to the Cherokees 

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who gave up their lands in 
treaties signed in 1777 and 

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1816. 
I have arbitrarily placed the 

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incident at circa 1816. 
Wild animal like a baboon seen 

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Apalachicola, Florida, June 1818
The Apalachic Gazette states 

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that the habitation of some 
unknown animal has just been 

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discovered in the upper part of 
Apalachicola, which has given 

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rise to many strange 
conjectures. 

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It is said by those who sought 
to resemble somewhat the baboon,

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and for the size of the nest it 
is judged to be 5 feet in height

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and a carnivorous description, 
as many bones were found about 

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the premise. 
The nest was nicely made of 

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loose cotton between several 
bales. 

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Another wonder. 
Sacketts Harbour, New York, 

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August 30th, 1818. 
Reports say that in the vicinity

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of Ellisburg was seen on the 
30th by a gentleman of 

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unquestionable veracity, an 
animal resembling the Wildman of

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the woods. 
It is stated that he came from 

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the woods within a few rods of 
this gentleman, that he stood 

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and looked at him, and then took
his flight in a direction which 

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gave a perfect view of him for 
some time. 

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He is described as bending 
forward when running hairy, and 

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the heel of the foot narrow, 
spreading at the toes. 

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Hundreds of persons have been in
pursuit for several days, but 

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nothing further is heard or seen
of him. 

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The frequent and positive manner
in which this story comes 

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induces us to believe it. 
We wish not to impeach the 

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veracity of this highly favoured
gentleman. 

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Yet it is proper that such 
naturally improbable accounts 

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should be established by the 
mouth of at least two direct 

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eyewitnesses, to entitle them to
credit. 

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Native art depicts cannibal 
monster. 

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Northern Carolina, 1820 David 
Cusick, a Tuscarora native, has 

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depict what he terms a cannibal 
monster in one of his unique 

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drawings. 
In his artwork, shown here, the 

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ominous creature is seen 
watching a native woman parching

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acorns. 
It was frightened away because 

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it thought the woman was eating 
red hot coals. 

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Natives have long believed in 
the existence of such creatures 

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and often depict them in their 
art. 

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Note This drawing is probably 
the earliest that depicts what 

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appears to be the Sasquatch 
other than petroglyphs and 

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pictographs. 
Mountain Monster mystifies 

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Huntsman Appalachian Mountains 
May 10th, 1829 Massage Browning 

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A Huntsman tells of a strange 
encounter with an unusual beast 

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while out hunting in the local 
mountains. 

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Browning stated. 
I saw a bear coming to his 

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feeding place and such a looking
animal I've never seen in my 

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life. 
It was long and tall and his 

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back bowed up like a fighting 
hog. 

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His legs looked like a naked 
man's arms and he walked along 

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as if he scarcely felt the 
ground. 

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In fact he was the poorest 
looking beast I had ever seen. 

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He came out until he reached the
tracks which I had made in the 

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fore part of the day. 
When he broke off I sent 2 good 

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dogs after him, and in a few 
minutes they were out of 

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hearing, but in an hour or two 
the dogs were turned completely 

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tired. 
Browning recounted another 

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incident that night or early 
morning, this time concerning an

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unusual forest sound. 
He tells us sometime late in the

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night I was awakened by the most
frightful noise I had ever heard

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in my life. 
It was loud and harsh as the 

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lowing of an ox, and seemed to 
echo from the other side of the 

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hill on which I was camped, and 
the whole space above seemed to 

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resound with the noise. 
It continued for 20 minutes as 

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near I could judge, and seemed 
to die away by degrees until all

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was again quiet. 
I suppose then, and yet think 

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that it was caused by two old 
male Panthers which had met and 

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gone into a fight, and being of 
the cat species they made a 

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similar noise, only much 
stronger and coarser. 

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But I cannot say for certain 
what animal made the noise. 

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Was Ohio an abode of giants? 
Morrill County, Ohio, 1829. 

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Construction workers building 
the new hotel in Chesterville 

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are all abuzz this morning after
making an unusual discovery. 

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The workers dug into a nearby 
native burial ground to get 

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material for making bricks and 
uncovered a large human 

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skeleton. 
Particularly noteworthy was the 

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jawbone, which was larger than 
the jaw of a notably large jawed

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local citizen. 
A local physician examined the 

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cranium and reported that it was
proportionately larger and had 

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more teeth than the white race 
of today. 

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The skeleton was taken to 
Mansfield for further 

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examination. 
Note this skeleton has since 

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been lost in history, most 
likely in an unmarked box in 

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some museum storage room. 
There may be some connection 

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here with the giant skeleton 
found in Yosemite Valley in 1895

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and the giant bones found in the
Lovelock Cave area, Lovelock, 

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Nevada in 1911. 
Rare specimen of American 

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antiquity. 
New York, March 1831. 

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Benjamin Harding of Missouri 
claims to have uncovered the 

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skeleton of a giant while in the
western country. 

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He wrote to a Doctor Mitchell 
informing of his discovery. 

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The following is an extract from
his letter, which is dated 

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Missouri, March 16th, 1831. 
Respected Sir, permit me to 

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commune with you on the subject 
of a natural American relic of 

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antiquity. 
It is the skeleton of an 

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individual of the human race, 
measuring nearly 10 feet, which 

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I have discovered in the western
country. 

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Should you think it's worthy of 
a place among the rarities of 

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the land, be pleased to inform 
me. 

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The Fredonian Sensor, New York 
reported on the find as follows.

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From this account we can see 
that the location was in 

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Mississippi, New York, May 18th,
1831. 

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A human skeleton measuring 
nearly 10 feet in length was 

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discovered in Mississippi a 
short time since by Mr. Benjamin

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Harding. 
There were giants in the land of

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those days. 
Note. 

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Unfortunately, we do not have 
anything further connected with 

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this find. 
However, it is information like 

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this that leads some researchers
to believe that such remains are

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in an old crate marked bones of 
some sort in a state museum, 

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basement or storage room. 
Strange erect creature seen in 

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Himalayas Himalayas, circa 1832 
Native hunters in this region 

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reported that they encountered 
an erect, tailless creature with

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long dark hair all over its 
body. 

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Believing that it was a demon, 
the hunters fled in terror. 

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It is thought the creature was 
an orangutan. 

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Fast forward, This incident was 
reported in 1832 by BH Hodgson, 

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a British Resident of the Court 
of Nepal. 

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Hodgkin stated that he and his 
native hunters were collecting 

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specimens in a northern Nepal 
province. 

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The natives told them they had 
the encounter. 

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He subsequently wrote an article
containing the information in 

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the Journal of the Asiatic 
Society of Bengal. 

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This was probably the first 
reference in English to the 

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existence of a strange erect 
creature in the Himalayas. 

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Saint Francis, Poinsett and 
Greene Counties, Arkansas, 1834.

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A hair covered creature of 
gigantic size has been seen in 

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these counties by sportsmen and 
hunters. 

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There's no speculation on what 
the oddity may be, but it is 

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very different from other 
animals common to this area. 

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Natives express belief in giants
Washington State circa 1835 The 

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Spokane natives in Eastern 
Washington have expressed the 

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belief that a race of giants 
inhabits a certain mountain in 

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this region situated to the West
that is continually covered with

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snow. 
They say it frequently steals 

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their salmon, which it eats raw 
and is identified by its 18 inch

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long footprints. 
They have learned to know when 

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it is near because of its 
intolerable odour. 

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Whistling wild boy of the Woods,
Southwest Bridgewater, August 

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1837. 
There is considerable talk about

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a strange animal said to have 
been seen in this area. 

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Although the individual who 
described the animal persisted 

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in declaring that he had seen 
it, and was at first 

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considerably frightened by it, 
the story was heard and looked 

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upon more as food for the 
marvellous than as having any 

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foundation in fact. 
He represented the animal as we 

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have it through a third person, 
as having the appearance of a 

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child 7 or 8 years old, though 
somewhat slimmer and covered 

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entirely in hair. 
He saw while picking berries, 

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walking toward him erect and 
whistling like a person. 

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After recovering from his fright
he is said to have pursued it, 

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but it ran off with such speed, 
whistling as it went, that he 

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could not catch it. 
He said it ran like the devil, 

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and continued to call it after 
that name. 

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Hairy Whistling. 
Wild boy dodges bullets, Silver 

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Lake Township, Pennsylvania, 
1837. 

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A youth, some 16 years old, 
working in the backwoods near 

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the New York State line is 
greatly perturbed over an 

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unusual incident. 
He heard someone approaching 

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him, whistling merrily, whom he 
took for his younger brothers. 

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It approached within about 16 
feet and stopped, whereupon the 

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youth looked upon it. 
To his amazement and utter 

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shock, he gazed at something 
that had the appearance of a 

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human, but was covered in black 
hair. 

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In size it was about the same 
size as his six or seven-year 

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old younger brother. 
The youth had a gun, but it was 

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some distance away. 
He quickly ran over, got the 

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weapon and fired at the 
creature, but was trembling so 

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much that he couldn't hold the 
gun still. 

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Just as he fired, the creature 
stepped behind a tree and then 

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darted off, whistling in the 
same manner as it approached. 

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The youth's father stated that 
his son was greatly frightened 

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by the incident. 
At a number of times during the 

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afternoon when thinking about 
the animal he had seen, the 

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youth would burst out crying. 
Ape like creature and Cubs 

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captured along Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi River April 

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1st, 1839 Mr. Robert Lincoln of 
Boston and his timber survey 

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crew, Western Lumber Company 
recently captured 3 unusual ape 

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like creatures along the 
Mississippi River. 

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The creatures, one adult and two
Cubs, were encountered during 

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surveillance for lumbering 
prospects in the area. 

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As it happened, the adult 
creature was sighted a couple of

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times and Lincoln gave orders to
capture it alive if possible. 

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As he was giving his orders, the
creature appeared at some 

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distance and Lincoln observed it
with his pocket glass. 

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Lincoln estimated its height at 
between 8:00 and 9:00 feet. 

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The group pursued the creature, 
which at one point turned upon 

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them, so Lincoln shot it in the 
calf of the leg with buckshot. 

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The creature was bound and taken
back to camp. 

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The next morning, 2 Cubs, about 
3 feet high and very similar to 

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the large creature, wandered 
into the camp. 

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The Cubs were captured without 
resistance, and when the adult 

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creature saw that it reacted 
violently. 

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Lincoln took the creatures to 
Boston, where he invited Boston 

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Times people to see them. 
A Times reporter and old 

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acquaintance of Mr. Lincoln went
with other newspaper people down

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to Lincoln's rooms to examine 
the creatures. 

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The reporter provided the 
following description of the 

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adult creature. 
He is a horrid looking creature,

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00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,600
and reminds us very strongly of 
the fabled satyrs as we have 

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pictured them to our own mind. 
He is about 8 feet 3 inches high

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when standing erect, and his 
frame is of gigantic proportions

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in every part. 
His legs are not straight, but 

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like those of other 4 footed 
animals, and his whole body is 

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covered with a hide very much 
like that of a cow. 

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His arms are very large and 
long, and I'll proportioned. 

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It does not appear from his 
manner that he ever walked on 

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all fours. 
The fingers and toes are mere 

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bunches armed with stout claws. 
His head is covered with thick, 

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coarse black hair, like the mane
of a horse. 

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The appearance of his 
countenance, if such it may be 

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called, is very disgusting, say 
almost horrible. 

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It is covered with a thinner and
lighter coat of hair than the 

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rest of its body. 
There is no appearance of 

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eyebrows. 
The mouth is very large and 

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wide, and similar to that of a 
baboon. 

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His eyes are dull and heavy, and
there's no indication of cunning

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or activity about them. 
Mr. Lincoln says he is beyond 

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dispute carnivorous, as he 
universally rejects bread and 

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vegetables and eats flesh with 
great avidity. 

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He thinks he is one of the 
orangutan species, but from what

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we can see we are inclined to 
consider him a wild animal, 

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somewhat resembling a man. 
He is, to say the least, one of 

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the most extraordinary creatures
that has ever been brought 

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before the public from any part 
of the earth or the waters under

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the earth, and we believe will 
prove a difficult puzzle to the 

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scientific. 
He lies down like a brute, and 

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does not appear to possess more 
instinct than common domestic 

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animals. 
He is now quite tame and quiet, 

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and is only confined by a stout 
chain attached to his legs. 

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It is Mr. Lincoln's intention to
submit these animals to the 

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inspection of the scientific for
a few days, in order to 

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ascertain what they are, and 
after that to dispose of them to

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some person for exhibition. 
Mr. Lincoln himself will return 

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to Saint Peter's in the course 
of two or three weeks. 

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Wild Child Fish Lake, Indiana, 
December 4th, 1839 Strange as it

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may appear, it is currently 
reported, and very generally 

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believed, that a wild child or 
lad is now running at large 

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among the Sandhills, round and 
in the vicinity of Fish Lake. 

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It is reported to be about four 
feet high and covered with a 

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light coat of chestnut colored 
hair. 

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It runs with great velocity, and
when pursued, as has often been 

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the case, it sets up the most 
frightful and hideous yells, and

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seems to make efforts at 
speaking. 

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It has been seen during the 
summer months running along the 

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00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,640
Lakeshore, apparently in search 
of frogs and fish, and appears 

455
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,760
to be very fond of the water, 
for it will plunge into Fish 

456
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,280
Lake and swim with great 
velocity, all the time whining 

457
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:33,240
piteously. 
Natives complain of bigfooted, 

458
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,800
foul smelling thieves. 
Spokane, WA 1840. 

459
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:42,680
Some kind of creature has local 
natives upset and constantly on 

460
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,560
guard. 
Whatever it is steals fish from 

461
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,160
their Nets, leaving footprints 
about 18 inches long and an 

462
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,760
intolerable odor that lingers in
the area. 

463
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:59,520
Warriors kill strange creature. 
Junction of the Yass and Marum 

464
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:03,240
Bridge, rivers, Australia, circa
1840. 

465
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,880
Harry Williams of Nungowal 
reported seeing a large group of

466
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:10,880
warriors kill a strange 
creature, now considered a 

467
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,280
yowie, on a hillside. 
They dragged it down the hill by

468
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,840
its ankles. 
He described it as like an 

469
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,120
Aborigine, but covered all over 
with Gray hair. 

470
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,640
Race up a different species 
reported in Pacific Coast 

471
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:31,000
Wilderness, Mount Saint Helens 
area March 26th, 1847. 

472
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:35,560
Explorer and artist Paul Kane 
arrived in the Mount Saint 

473
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:38,400
Helens area today and was 
surprised to learn that the 

474
00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,360
mountain has never been visited 
by Europeans or native people in

475
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,040
the past. 
He tells us that the natives 

476
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,480
believe the mountain is 
inhabited by a race of beings of

477
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,240
a different species called 
Skookums who are cannibals. 

478
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,840
The natives hold these creatures
in great dread, so do not 

479
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:59,360
venture too near the mountain. 
These stories come from one of 

480
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,720
their people who went to the 
mountain with another and 

481
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,920
escaped the fate of his 
companion, who was killed and 

482
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,880
eaten by a skookum. 
Cain offered a considerable 

483
00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:12,840
bribe to any native who would 
accompany him into the area, but

484
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:14,520
none were Hardy enough to go 
with him. 

485
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,000
In 1980, Mount Saint Helens 
erupted, totally changing the 

486
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,160
entire landscape. 
The mountain is still restless 

487
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:24,400
and another eruption is 
expected. 

488
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,160
The whole region continues to be
a prime area for Sasquatch 

489
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,040
related incidents. 
One can easily see how it became

490
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,160
forbidden territory for early 
First Nations people. 

491
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:42,880
Fearless Dogs Fear Hairy Man 
Cunningham's Creek, Australia, 

492
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:48,800
circa 1848 A shepherd in the 
employ of W Sutton claimed that 

493
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,360
he saw a hairy man in a scrub 
north of here. 

494
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,920
He said that it walked upright 
and that his dogs, which haunted

495
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,920
everything insight, ran back 
from the creature with their 

496
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:04,680
tails between their legs. 
Odd Critter seen in Swamp Eagle,

497
00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:10,640
Oklahoma, May 1849 Mr. Bascombe,
commonly known as One Eyed 

498
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,040
Bascombe, reported that he saw 
an odd critter in the swamps 

499
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,880
southwest to hear that he could 
not identify. 

500
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:21,120
It had a stooped posture, long 
arms, and was covered in grayish

501
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,280
black hair. 
It fled in a strangely loping 

502
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:30,720
gait. 
Curious Creature Visits Trappers

503
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,320
Mount Cadaddan, Maine early 
1800s A local trapper named 

504
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:39,840
Chloe reports that Mount Caddan 
appears to be the home of a 

505
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:44,040
highly unusual inhabitant. 
While camping near a lake with a

506
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:46,400
friend. 
Khloe stated that a man like 

507
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,520
creature covered in hair 
approached their camp at night 

508
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:53,600
and then simply walked away. 
The next day at dawn, the same 

509
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,760
creature was seen standing on a 
rock by a small island in the 

510
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,360
lake. 
Khloe referred to the creature 

511
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,560
as Pamula, the Indian Devil, a 
name he apparently heard from 

512
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:09,360
others. 
Ape of some sort influenced 

513
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:15,400
Native art British Columbia, 
Canada, circa 1850 A Niska 

514
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,760
native artist living in the Nass
River area of northern British 

515
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,640
Columbia has created a 
ceremonial mask that appears to 

516
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,160
depict an ape or monkey of some 
sort. 

517
00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:29,040
As there are no wild creatures 
of this nature in North America,

518
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,200
we are left to wonder as to the 
source of the imagery. 

519
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:37,000
A possible explanation might lie
in sightings or stories of a 

520
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,240
giant hairy ape like creature 
that is said to inhabit the 

521
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,080
forests. 
Note the mask was collected by 

522
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,920
Lieutenant GT Evans in about 
1914 and is said to date back to

523
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:52,840
the mid 1800s. 
In documentation accompanying 

524
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,720
the mask, Evans wrote that it 
represented a mythical being 

525
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,240
found in the woods and called 
today a monkey. 

526
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,400
It has been determined in 2004 
that the Niska native people 

527
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:05,760
hold a strong belief in mountain
monkeys. 

528
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,400
This is odd because British 
Columbia's climate is hardly 

529
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,199
suitable for any known monkey. 
Certainly few monkeys, if any, 

530
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,520
had been brought into the area 
back in the mid 1800s as pets of

531
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:22,000
fur traders or other travellers.
Marjorie Halpin, assistant 

532
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,400
professor at the Anthropology 
department at the University of 

533
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,480
British Columbia, prepared a 
paper on the mask that was 

534
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:32,600
published in 1980. 
She is quoted as follows. 

535
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,159
A good way to begin is by 
attempting A zoological 

536
00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:40,920
classification of the creature 
represented in the Peabody Mask.

537
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,600
According to physical 
anthropologist Rde Mashpee, it 

538
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,840
does not resemble any known 
species of primate closely 

539
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,960
enough to be identified as a 
zoologically verifiable animal. 

540
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:56,520
It does have primate attributes,
4 of which are especially 

541
00:34:56,520 --> 00:35:00,680
noteworthy, the brow ridges, the
shape of the nose, the distance 

542
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,360
between the base of the nose and
the upper lip, and the 

543
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:07,400
prognathic chinless lower face. 
The brow ridges appear from the 

544
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,160
photographs to be bow shaped and
sharply delineated from the 

545
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,840
forehead, a form replicated in 
many monkey species. 

546
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,320
And quite unlike those of man, 
Fossil. 

547
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,400
Or recent The dished out nose 
with its rounded, somewhat 

548
00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:25,160
laterally directed nares is 
striking and is perhaps the best

549
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,280
single monkey like feature of 
the mask. 

550
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,480
While the larger mobile upper 
lip is prominent in apes, it is 

551
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:34,040
also characteristic of numerous 
monkeys. 

552
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,200
The prognathism of the lower 
face and its lack of a chin also

553
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:40,640
strongly evoke the non human 
primates. 

554
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,160
Such identification is, however,
counter reacted by the lack of 

555
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,520
large canines which are 
characteristic of every other 

556
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:51,960
primate except man. 
Comparing these and other 

557
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:55,440
attributes with those of both 
Old and New World primates, 

558
00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,080
McPhee concludes that except for
the absence of prominent 

559
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,400
canines, if the mask represents 
a monkey, the most likely model 

560
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:06,640
would be found among the short 
faced monkeys of the Old World. 

561
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,600
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562
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566
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:35,520
Humboldt County, California. 
I was about 10 or 11 years old, 

567
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,720
my brother 15 months older and a
friend my age. 

568
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,120
I'm now 53 years old. 
We lived in the countryside 

569
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,680
outside of Eureka, CA. 
We went fishing at the end of 

570
00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:49,520
our rural Rd. old Hansen Rd. 
As kids would do, we wandered 

571
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,320
off in the woods and found an 
old logging Rd. that we decided 

572
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,680
to walk up. 
About 15 minutes up the road we 

573
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,960
heard a noise in the woods on 
the other side of the road. 

574
00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:00,800
We huddled together and waited 
to see who was there. 

575
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,480
We saw a. 
Creature on the other side in 

576
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:06,000
the trees. 
We began to run back down the 

577
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,480
road and the creature kept pace 
with us although we knew due to 

578
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,880
the size it could easily go 
faster. 

579
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:15,240
It stayed in the brush and trees
and when it would get ahead of 

580
00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:18,560
us it would stop and watch us 
but never came across the road, 

581
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,040
just followed and watched from 
across the road. 

582
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,400
When we reached the centre of 
clearing on Hanson's property we

583
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,240
stopped and looked again. 
It was no longer there. 

584
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:31,160
About two years ago I asked my 
brother if he remembered the 

585
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,000
incident. 
Thinking was something I had 

586
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,720
just imagined and he said just 
as wide eyed as that day. 

587
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:40,800
Yes, it was real. 
As I think back on it now, I 

588
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,360
feel that it was very curious of
us, although we were very scared

589
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,560
at the time. 
It was about 7 feet tall with a 

590
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:49,320
very. 
Large build and covered with 

591
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,160
hair, it walked upright with 
long strides. 

592
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,200
The hair colour was reddish 
brown and although we were 

593
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,640
within 100 feet of it, we can't 
remember any facial details. 

594
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,480
This was a long time ago where I
grew up in Northern California. 

595
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:06,920
I lived in a small town called 
Pearcy. 

596
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:10,440
This encounter was located in a 
small milltown called Myers 

597
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,920
Flat. 
Two friends and I were hunting 

598
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,400
up an old logging Rd. roughly 2 
miles up the mountain across the

599
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,800
Eel River from town. 
I was far ahead of my friends 

600
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,360
and decided to scare them as 
they came up the trail. 

601
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,560
So I climbed up some rock cliffs
for a better advantage and 

602
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:28,200
settled down within some 
huckleberry bushes to wait for 

603
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:28,880
my. 
Friends. 

604
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,880
After things quieted down, I 
noticed a heavy smell and 

605
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,880
started looking around. 
The breeze was blowing straight 

606
00:38:35,880 --> 00:38:38,800
from the brush behind me and I 
felt the hair on my nose start 

607
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,360
to rise up. 
My 2 friends were nowhere 

608
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,000
insight. 
I noticed a small movement in 

609
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,480
the Berry bushes right behind 
me. 

610
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:49,320
I stood up ready to run when 
this thing stood up also. 

611
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,880
It didn't hesitate but turned 
and walked off into the brush. 

612
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,680
I heard trees snapping and the 
crunch of dry leaves echo away 

613
00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,880
as I ran back to my friends who 
were still 200 yards away. 

614
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,680
After I calmed down we went back
to the spot to look for some 

615
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,400
sign. 
They believed I saw a bear, but 

616
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:09,040
I know what I saw. 
We found where something was 

617
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,840
squatted down and stripping 
berries. 

618
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,840
I had disturbed its meal. 
Small trees were just broken off

619
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,920
about four feet from the ground.
As this thing made its retreat, 

620
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,960
the creature. 
Walked on 2 legs with two long 

621
00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,600
hairy arms. 
It had big shoulders but an 

622
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,840
overall medium build. 
No details of the face can be 

623
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:29,080
remembered. 
The colour of the hair was 

624
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:32,160
medium brown and the creature 
was more than 6 feet tall. 

625
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,920
The creature walked straight 
through the thick brush, not 

626
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:41,840
around it. 
I grew up on the mountain along 

627
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:45,680
the Eel River Kings Range. 
I cannot tell you the exact year

628
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,920
that I had this sighting. 
Not sure if I was 11 or 12 and 

629
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,320
that would put it at 62 through 
64. 

630
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,520
I was below our house and I used
to go down to the spring and 

631
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,200
just hang out. 
I got halfway down and looked 

632
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,000
across and there was this big 
ape looking at me. 

633
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,480
It is still so clear as that 
moment. 

634
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:06,320
I do know that I left first and 
never said a word to anyone 

635
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:11,560
about what I saw. 
Our house burned down in 67 or 

636
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,960
68 and we moved to Eureka when 
my sister and I became adults. 

637
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,800
I told her what I saw that day 
and she started crying. 

638
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:22,360
She had experienced the same 
thing, only she had gone down at

639
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,640
the spring and he was above her 
on the log. 

640
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:28,720
I moved back to the home place 
the spring of 72 and everything 

641
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,480
was fine. 
I lived there with my son and at

642
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,160
that time whoever needed a 
place. 

643
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,600
That fall everyone pretty much 
left and as the nightly custom I

644
00:40:37,600 --> 00:40:40,160
would build a fire and my son 
and I would sit around it and 

645
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,120
eat. 
We had no electricity or 

646
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:45,040
anything. 
That hillside always rang with 

647
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,040
birdsong, never a quiet moment. 
That night there was silence and

648
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,800
a weird feeling came over me 
like eyes were watching. 

649
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,160
I grabbed my son and a few 
clothes and we hiked down to the

650
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,880
nearest house. 
I never went back there to live.

651
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:01,200
It scared me that bad. 
There's a lot more stories I 

652
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,480
could tell you about this 
mountain, but I will leave that 

653
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:06,400
for later. 
I know what I saw that day and I

654
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,480
know the feelings that I had 
years later. 

655
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,200
I would like to say that this 
was 40 acres that I grew up on 

656
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,840
and always felt safe. 
After that night, I never got 

657
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,360
that feeling back again. 
Something changed. 

658
00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:24,560
Me and four other boys had found
an old logging cabin about 3 

659
00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:28,040
miles up in the woods for Myers 
Flats and used this old shelter 

660
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,640
for several summers. 
One night, the last one, we were

661
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,280
all camping for the weekend in 
this old place that we had fixed

662
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:36,840
up. 
After cooking the evening meal, 

663
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,520
we had all eaten and went to 
bed. 

664
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,600
Sometime during the night I was 
awakened by a huffing sound. 

665
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:45,720
I woke one of the other boys up 
and we listened to something 

666
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,080
slowly working its way all 
around the outside of the cabin.

667
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:51,680
We woke up the three others and 
all listened. 

668
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:55,400
Whatever it was outside was 
poking at the old rotted boards 

669
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:57,680
around the bottom of the shack. 
We could hear. 

670
00:41:57,680 --> 00:41:59,840
It shuffle around and pry at 
some of the boards. 

671
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:03,560
Finally it moved around to the 
front door which was only about 

672
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,240
5 feet high and Butch got my old
22 rifle and said open the door.

673
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,480
I did not want to open the door 
but did anyway. 

674
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,040
Whatever it was was standing 
right in front of the opening 

675
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:19,400
but because it was dark all we 
could see were hairy legs. 

676
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:23,440
Butch fired the 22 and this 
thing screamed and spun around 

677
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,600
and took off. 
Needless to say we were scared 

678
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,120
to death. 
We heard two or three heavy 

679
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,120
thuds and then everything was 
quiet. 

680
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,720
We tried to sleep but ended up 
huddled together in the middle 

681
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:36,280
of the floor the rest of the 
night. 

682
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:39,600
The next morning we went out as 
a group and searched the ground.

683
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,960
There was a tore up place where 
this thing spun around and about

684
00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:45,880
3 or 4 indentations in the 
ground where it took off. 

685
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,280
There was no blood on the ground
anywhere. 

686
00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:50,800
We picked up and never went 
back. 

687
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:56,760
A friend and I were on our way 
to the mouth of the Klamath 

688
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:59,600
River area to fish on a friend's
boat and pulled off the. 

689
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,440
Highway at Stoney Lagoon 
approximately 3 to 4 miles South

690
00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:08,040
of Orrick, California. 
We went W over a small hill and 

691
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,880
down to a camping area. 
Almost on the beach, passing 

692
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:14,280
through 2 to 300 feet of brush 
and trees, we parked our 

693
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,720
motorcycles 10 or so feet apart 
and built a small fire and 

694
00:43:17,720 --> 00:43:20,800
unrolled our sleeping bags. 
There was a bright moon over the

695
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:24,560
ocean West of the beach. 
About 100 feet West of us. 

696
00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:28,200
And 30 or so feet from the water
a large human like form was 

697
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:31,880
trotting S down the beach. 
My buddy yelled at him or it to 

698
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:34,160
come join us. 
It kept on going. 

699
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,720
We took our flashlight and went 
down to the beach. 

700
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:39,400
Don't know what made the Prince 
but they looked like they were 

701
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:43,520
at least 6 inches wide and at 
least 12 if not 14 inches long, 

702
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,440
maybe longer. 
We went back to the fire and my 

703
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,440
friend heard noises in the brush
behind us. 

704
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:51,520
He shined the light in the Bush 
and said he saw eyes. 

705
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,440
We rolled our bags. 
And lost no time leaving. 

706
00:43:55,240 --> 00:43:58,000
The prints in the sand were a 
good 10 feet apart. 

707
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:03,080
This sighting happened between 
Salyer and Willow Creek on Hwy. 

708
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:06,040
299. 
The creature entered the roadway

709
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,880
from the driver's side and 
crossed in three casual, 

710
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,000
unhurried steps. 
It stepped first with its right 

711
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,320
foot and as it took its second 
step with the left foot, it 

712
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:18,240
slightly turned its waist, a 
little more of the shoulders and

713
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:20,920
then a pronounced turn of a 
visible neck to look at the 

714
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,240
witness. 
The witness was a straight A 

715
00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:25,320
student and has an incredible 
memory. 

716
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:28,200
She said it looked almost 
exactly like a cross of the 

717
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:31,440
stills of the Patterson Gimlin 
film and the life-size 

718
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:35,120
recreation of Gigantopithecus 
with the man in glasses standing

719
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,120
next to it in Los Angeles. 
If you're familiar with the 

720
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:41,720
photos of the Giganto, she said 
the arms were exactly like that 

721
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:44,000
and the colouring and hair 
length is spot on. 

722
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:48,120
The entire body was covered in 
hair or fur, with it being much 

723
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,560
thicker and longer on the head, 
beard, neck, arms and shoulders,

724
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:53,840
and shorter on the chest, back 
and legs. 

725
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,440
The only place with no hair was 
the eye sockets, which were 

726
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,560
recessed under a heavy simian 
brow. 

727
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:03,720
The hair was shaggy and darker 
on the chest and the face with a

728
00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,120
rusty hue, while the arms were 
lighter, kind of a dirty blonde.

729
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,160
The nose was somewhat small and 
very human looking. 

730
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:13,680
The hands were almost extremely 
human looking with the palms 

731
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,920
facing inward and the thumb 
sticking out at approximately a 

732
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,600
70° angle while the fingers were
extended. 

733
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,440
She has since looked at various 
primates in several zoos and 

734
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,560
none had hands that looked as 
human as this creatures. 

735
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,840
It stepped with the left leg and
arms swinging in perfect 

736
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,400
synchronicity forward, and the 
same with the right arm and leg,

737
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:36,560
as opposed to humans who stepped
left foot, right arm 

738
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,960
simultaneously. 
The creature was very fluid and 

739
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:41,960
unhurried. 
She got the feeling that this 

740
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:45,360
creature was very accustomed to 
humans and had a very confident 

741
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:48,160
look about itself, not surprised
or scared. 

742
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:51,920
The witness was certain it was 
an adult male of at least 8 feet

743
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,240
in height. 
While the legs were long, the 

744
00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:58,040
chest was proportionately longer
and very robust and blocky with 

745
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,160
no discernible waist. 
It was also slightly hunched 

746
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,480
forward at the waist. 
This occurred September 1st, 

747
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,320
1991. 
We were in the Klamath National 

748
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,280
Forest, West of the Klamath 
River. 

749
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,440
We had followed the river north 
till we found a feeder stream 

750
00:46:13,440 --> 00:46:16,680
and headed West. 
We saw a form walking upright at

751
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:18,600
a. 
Distance of 200 plus yards. 

752
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,640
We were a little. 
Excited, well more like scared 

753
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,960
spitless. 
There was enough light to just 

754
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,880
make out that whatever it was, 
was moving on 2 legs. 

755
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:29,360
We found where it had gouged out
the soft. 

756
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,840
Earth on the stream it crossed. 
No discernible footprints, but 

757
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,360
whatever made the gouge was big.
We had to guess at the length 

758
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:39,400
over 19 inches. 
It was longer than the tip of my

759
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,000
extended. 
Fingers to my elbow. 

760
00:46:41,480 --> 00:46:43,840
The grass going across the 
Meadow didn't allow for 

761
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:46,680
footprints but was pressed down.
Several hours later. 

762
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,360
We didn't follow the trail 
towards the trees. 

763
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,160
It had been watching us for 
around 15 minutes, give or take 

764
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,520
five. 
I was asleep when my friend woke

765
00:46:56,520 --> 00:46:58,720
me up. 
Said he heard something moving 

766
00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:01,120
above us on the exposed rock 
above our camp. 

767
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,400
He had his nine millimetre in 
hand and was a little. 

768
00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:08,040
Wound up we listened to it move 
around with the occasional skip 

769
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,080
like someone was jumping a short
distance to another rock. 

770
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,520
It moved behind us, then down 
into the Meadow that surrounded 

771
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:18,160
the stream we were camping on. 
We saw it cross the stream and 

772
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,120
slip as it went across the other
side. 

773
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,720
It moved across the Meadow at a 
quartering angle away from us 

774
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,000
and into the tree line. 
We know it wasn't a bear. 

775
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,480
We had several run insurance 
with bears trying to get our 

776
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:33,160
food cash at night in Yosemite. 
Once we calmed down, we 

777
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,280
discussed what we think we saw. 
We both came to the same 

778
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,040
conclusion. 
I know we didn't hallucinate. 

779
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,760
Our eyes had time to. 
Adjust before we finally got a 

780
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:43,720
visual of it moving across the 
Meadow. 

781
00:47:44,240 --> 00:47:46,800
We stayed awake until we had 
enough light to look the area 

782
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,120
over quickly and then beat feet 
out of there. 

783
00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:53,960
While on vacation driving down 
from Seattle, we stopped and 

784
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,360
camped at KOA Fortuna, July 
1992. 

785
00:47:57,960 --> 00:48:00,240
On this trip was my wife and 
three children. 

786
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,760
We decided to get an early start
the next day so we could drive 

787
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,120
through Humboldt Redwoods State 
Park with little or no traffic 

788
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,960
to enjoy the landscape without 
too much distraction. 

789
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,320
We packed up and drove 
southbound as we approached an 

790
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:17,120
area of Hwy. 101 where the Eel. 
River makes a large bend toward 

791
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,320
the highway. 
I saw a movement down by the 

792
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:21,920
river. 
My vantage point was above the 

793
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,240
animal I saw and I was driving 
slowly. 

794
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,360
What I saw was a human like 
creature walking slowly away 

795
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,680
from the river across a rocky 
sandbar towards the forest. 

796
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:34,080
The colour appeared to be a 
reddish brown. 

797
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,920
The creature walked with the 
same apparent gait as the 

798
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:38,600
creature seen in the Patterson 
film. 

799
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,480
It wasn't a bear. 
Bears don't walk with an 

800
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,320
apparent human type gait. 
I talked to my. 

801
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,480
Wife after driving several miles
down the road and prior to me 

802
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:50,800
asking her if she'd seen 
anything unusual, she said yes. 

803
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,880
Later on, my daughter, who was 
sitting in the back, also said 

804
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,440
she saw the same creature. 
I'm a law enforcement officer 

805
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,240
and know that I saw Bigfoot. 
There is no doubt about that. 

806
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,880
In the summer of 1993 or 94, I 
had been riding horses with 

807
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:11,240
three other friends on the Six 
Hour Loop trail and stopped for 

808
00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:14,120
lunch where the outhouse is 
located at the One Day Trail 

809
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:15,760
junction. 
We were all. 

810
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,560
Sitting at the picnic table 
having lunch and was hearing 

811
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,440
much crashing in the brush. 
Not really unusual sounds, for 

812
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,160
there are elk everywhere in the 
park. 

813
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,120
We did notice, however, that a 
bear or something had an awfully

814
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:31,240
good time with the outhouse 
toilet paper, as it was strung 

815
00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:34,200
all over the place. 
We're all sitting there having 

816
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,880
lunch and I decided that I 
wanted to go see where the elk 

817
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,400
were, maybe see a big bull. 
So I got on my horse and rode 

818
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,600
down to where the noise and the 
trail is cut out on the logging 

819
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:46,560
road and a Creek crosses through
a culvert to the other side of 

820
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,000
the road. 
And the water forms a small pool

821
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,520
before moving on down to the 
larger Creek below. 

822
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,480
I could not tell you how long I 
was sitting there on my horse 

823
00:49:55,560 --> 00:49:59,320
watching this creature not more 
than 30 feet away trying to get 

824
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:00,840
a drink of water out of the 
pool. 

825
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:04,520
It was a challenge as the sides 
to the pool were fairly steep. 

826
00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:08,800
At first I thought it was a man,
then a monkey and at last my 

827
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,680
brain registered what I was 
looking at. 

828
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:15,360
Then I seen the fingernail and 
it was black and human, like I 

829
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,520
was looking at an adolescent, 
maybe baby Bigfoot. 

830
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:22,200
It never had a chance to turn 
and to look at me as the horse I

831
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:25,040
was on kept getting more and 
more upset the longer that I 

832
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:28,200
stayed there. 
I ran back on my horse to my 

833
00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:30,800
friends and told them in a 
stuttered manner what I had 

834
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,040
seen. 
Just by the way I was acting, 

835
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,680
they knew something was up 
because I've been in the woods 

836
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:37,120
on. 
Horseback almost half of my 

837
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,560
life. 
They immediately followed me 

838
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,560
back to the place where I had 
seen what I described as a young

839
00:50:42,560 --> 00:50:45,440
adolescent Bigfoot. 
My friends didn't see the 

840
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,440
creature, but they heard it as 
it walked away and seen the 

841
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:51,160
ferns moving as it rustled 
through them on its way down the

842
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,560
hill to the larger Creek. 
Never heard any sounds from him 

843
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,960
or her. 
My friend was going to follow it

844
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,080
and I cautioned her because I 
believe that mum was probably 

845
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,360
close by. 
The crashing in the brush we 

846
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,400
heard was not made by the 
adolescent looking creature, it 

847
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:08,400
was made by something much 
larger. 

848
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,280
The creature was silver grey and
had medium length hair like a 

849
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:16,000
bear, black human like 
fingernails, human like hands. 

850
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,400
I seen its thumb was totally 
covered in hair from top to 

851
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,080
bottom. 
I never got to see its face, it 

852
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,800
was always looking down. 
I never told anyone about this 

853
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,480
sighting and made my friends 
promise not to say anything for 

854
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:30,920
quite a while. 
I explained that this was a 

855
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:34,680
young animal and to allow me to 
get this close was inexperience 

856
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,520
and if I could get that close on
a. 

857
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,200
Horse. 
Then someone could get that 

858
00:51:38,200 --> 00:51:42,000
close with a gun. 
It was not long after that that 

859
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,720
there was a news report about a 
son and a father seeing a 

860
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:47,640
Bigfoot cross the road near 
Prairie Creek State Park. 

861
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:50,920
The news report was within a 
couple of weeks of my sighting, 

862
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,280
but I still kept my sighting to 
myself. 

863
00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:00,040
It was a typical winter 
afternoon in Humboldt County. 

864
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:03,280
It was raining intermittently 
and the river was on the rise 

865
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:06,920
and becoming too turbid to fish.
But I wanted to catch another 

866
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:10,120
steel before the river blew out,
so I drove down to the river 

867
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:12,800
bar. 
I parked about 30 yards away 

868
00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:15,400
from the river's edge. 
On a dirt Rd. surrounded by 

869
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:18,760
dense willows, I turned off the 
car and opened the door. 

870
00:52:19,240 --> 00:52:22,520
Immediately I heard two bellows 
that seemed far off. 

871
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,360
I initially thought that it was 
local kids. 

872
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,360
The sound was similar to the 
bugle of a bull elk. 

873
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,200
I used to work as a horse patrol
park Ranger on the eastern slope

874
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:35,760
of the Rockies in Rocky Mountain
National Park. 

875
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,840
I kept visitors away from the 
elk. 

876
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,640
In addition, I have frequently 
heard elk bugle near Oreck, 

877
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:44,440
California. 
I know the bugle of an elk. 

878
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,720
That's not what this was. 
Well, I didn't think much of it,

879
00:52:48,720 --> 00:52:51,600
so I got my waders on and 
proceeded to the river's edge. 

880
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:55,360
I waded into my thigh and began 
fishing, moving slowly 

881
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:58,320
downstream. 
The river was probably about 50 

882
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,600
yards wide and nearly at bank 
full. 

883
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,680
About 10 minutes went by and I 
noticed a dark figure downstream

884
00:53:04,720 --> 00:53:08,040
and across the river, seemingly 
standing behind a large root 

885
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,120
wad. 
I could see what I thought was a

886
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,120
head and shoulders of a bear or 
something. 

887
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,680
It was drizzling and I couldn't 
focus on it. 

888
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,200
At first I wasn't sure it was an
animal. 

889
00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:19,280
I thought it might be just. 
Part of the root. 

890
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:23,520
WAD as I fished downstream, I 
worked my way directly across 

891
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:27,200
from it and looked at it again. 
I looked right into its eyes. 

892
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,360
They were dark. 
It didn't move. 

893
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:33,480
I then saw another to its left. 
I could see its body from the 

894
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:35,280
thigh up. 
It didn't move. 

895
00:53:35,720 --> 00:53:38,240
It was looking slightly 
downstream and I couldn't see 

896
00:53:38,240 --> 00:53:40,880
its eyes. 
These things look taller than a 

897
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:44,000
man, had flat faces and large 
round eyes. 

898
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,720
Their shoulders were broad and 
their arms were long. 

899
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:49,360
They were mostly covered in 
hair, although the one on the 

900
00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,920
left seemed to have bald spots 
on its chest area like mange. 

901
00:53:53,600 --> 00:53:55,640
They stood still, never once 
moved. 

902
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,520
I kept fishing and tried to work
downstream of them to a tail out

903
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,400
where I could cross and sneak up
on them to get a closer look. 

904
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,240
The river was too high. 
As I worked back upstream, I 

905
00:54:06,240 --> 00:54:09,160
noticed a cocoon shaped object 
perched on the root wad. 

906
00:54:09,240 --> 00:54:12,840
Overhanging the river's edge, it
was shaped like a football, but 

907
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,200
it was probably 4 feet long and 
2 1/2 feet in diameter. 

908
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,440
This cocoon thing appeared to be
neatly wrapped in dry grasses 

909
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,720
like cattail or pampus grass 
blades. 

910
00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,600
I kept fishing, moving upstream 
of them back toward my car. 

911
00:54:27,240 --> 00:54:30,440
At one point I looked back to 
get another look and the cocoon 

912
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:34,520
thing and the animals were gone.
A day later I drove to the other

913
00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,600
side of the river to go see if I
could track them, but the river 

914
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:42,000
had flooded the entire area. 
I don't follow Bigfoot stuff, 

915
00:54:42,160 --> 00:54:44,280
but I do know no bones were ever
found. 

916
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:47,880
As a scientist, this encounter 
has stimulated me to develop a 

917
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,680
theory. 
I theorize that they warn each 

918
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,640
other with this whoop sound and 
that the reason they have never 

919
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,720
found their bones is that they 
clearly dispose of them by 

920
00:54:56,720 --> 00:54:59,920
waiting till the rivers are on 
the rise, packaging the bones 

921
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,760
and putting them in the rivers 
close to their mouths so that 

922
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,960
they wash out to sea. 
I'm not sure I believe in any of

923
00:55:05,960 --> 00:55:09,200
this, but that's what I saw and 
heard and that's my theory. 

924
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,880
My 8 year old son and I were 
hiking the Grasshopper Trail in 

925
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,160
Redwood State Park, Burlington 
Campgrounds. 

926
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,560
The time was approximately 
between 3:00 and 4:00 PM on 

927
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:24,040
Sunday, August 22nd, 1999. 
We were about 1/4 mile up the 

928
00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,040
trail from the river. 
We're walking relatively quiet 

929
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:30,440
and slow along the path when we 
stopped on the path for a moment

930
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:34,160
for my son to tie his shoe. 
As we waited, I surveyed the 

931
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:38,000
thick Redwood area above. 
As I looked, I saw something 

932
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:42,400
moving about 150 to 200 feet in 
the distance next to a large old

933
00:55:42,400 --> 00:55:45,320
Redwood stump. 
The more I looked, I began to 

934
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:46,920
see more mass of the. 
Creature. 

935
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,960
I finally realized what it 
probably was and what it was 

936
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,520
doing. 
It had a human like torso from 

937
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,600
the waist up and it appeared as 
if it was scratching its back 

938
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,280
against the. 
Stump I gained a back and 

939
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:01,600
profile view before I could no 
longer overcome the intense fear

940
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,920
I was experiencing. 
I urged my son as serious as I 

941
00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:08,760
could, to run as fast as he 
could after running for about 

942
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:10,800
30. 
Seconds to a minute we stopped. 

943
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:15,000
I wanted badly to go back and 
investigate but understood that 

944
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,040
I could not with my son. 
My neighbor is a seasonal. 

945
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,600
Wildlife Biological Technician 
for Redwood National Park. 

946
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:26,040
He had been working several 
seasons doing spotted owl 

947
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:29,040
surveys and is very familiar 
with local wildlife. 

948
00:56:30,080 --> 00:56:33,840
One evening in June 2000, just 
before sunset, he and his 

949
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:37,280
partner were walking with a cage
of 6 mice that had sat in the 

950
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,640
same cage without being cleaned.
For three or four days and it 

951
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:43,400
smelled. 
They were several miles South of

952
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,920
Bald Hills. 
Road and about 2000 feet up and 

953
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:49,600
approximately 3000 foot mountain
and extremely rugged and 

954
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,960
isolated terrain several miles 
from the nearest logging Rd. 

955
00:56:54,480 --> 00:56:57,720
After bushwhacking for about 30 
minutes heading downhill, they 

956
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:00,960
stopped in their tracks when 
they heard a large branch snap. 

957
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,440
There are a lot of bears and 
mountain lions in the area and 

958
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,960
they are familiar with the 
stalking cats the creature was. 

959
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,440
Quick and agile like a cat, but 
sounded heavier than a bear. 

960
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,440
It also sounded like he was 
walking on 2 legs. 

961
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:17,320
They would hear it behind them 
and a little later it would. 

962
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:20,200
Be way ahead of them, sometimes 
on the other side of them. 

963
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,280
They figured it was crossing 
right behind them and then 

964
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:25,080
passing them up on the other 
side. 

965
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,600
By this time it was getting dark
in the forest late twilight when

966
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,480
my friend started looking over 
his shoulder quite frequently. 

967
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,560
It was at this time that he saw 
a large dark. 

968
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,320
Animal dash across their trail 
on 2 legs. 

969
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:42,760
He had seen the PG film and was 
familiar with Sasquatch, and he 

970
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:46,240
says that it moved with the same
motion, just much quicker. 

971
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,560
He also noted it seemed a little
thinner than Paddy. 

972
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:53,120
His impression was that it was 
like a curious teenage boy 

973
00:57:53,240 --> 00:58:00,200
acting a little immature. 
On June 25th, 2000 at 6:10 PMI 

974
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:03,800
was driving back from the ranch 
on Johnson's Creek Road off of 

975
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:05,840
Bald Hills Rd. in Northern 
California. 

976
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:09,280
I was about two miles from Bald 
Hills Rd. on Johnson Rd. 

977
00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:12,240
I noticed in the forest a 
movement on my right. 

978
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:16,600
Then I noticed a large man sized
being striding very fast away 

979
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:18,680
from the road. 
Then it jumped off an 

980
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,440
embankment. 
The early. 

981
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:23,000
Evening air was clear with 
sunlight showing through the 

982
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:25,160
forest. 
The creature looked brown and 

983
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,760
gold in the forest and sunlight.
When I went by there was a bunch

984
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,480
of dust in the air where the 
being jumped off the embankment.

985
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,440
I drove a little ways and came 
out onto the Prairie. 

986
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:39,920
The creature was very. 
Fast and took long strides on 

987
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,600
July 13th, 2000 at about 7:15 
PM. 

988
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:47,080
My boyfriend, my 2 month old 
baby and I were headed back from

989
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,880
Eureka to Crescent City. 
Somewhere past Trinidad and 

990
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:53,960
right before the lagoon we came 
around the corner on a four lane

991
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,960
highway. 
Up ahead, around 50 yards away, 

992
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,920
a tall, dark brown, almost black
man with long hair all over ran 

993
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:03,560
full stride across the. 
Highway. 

994
00:59:04,080 --> 00:59:06,960
His arms hung long and the top 
of his neck seemed somewhat 

995
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,440
hunched over. 
The first thing that ran through

996
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,600
my mind was, what's a man doing 
running across the road right 

997
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:14,800
here? 
I thought this because we were 

998
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:16,720
completely out in the middle of 
nowhere. 

999
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:19,000
Then I yelled. 
That was a Bigfoot. 

1000
00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,200
My boyfriend turned to me and 
said shut up, you're playing 

1001
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,760
with me. 
I told him that I saw it with my

1002
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:27,720
own eyes by this. 
Time we had passed the point 

1003
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,360
where he ran across the road 
into the forest, so he. 

1004
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,600
Stopped and turned around. 
We drove back to the point where

1005
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:37,200
he had re entered the forest and
stopped peering into the thick 

1006
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,600
forest. 
It became too spooky for me and 

1007
00:59:39,600 --> 00:59:42,160
I drove off. 
I noticed where and when he 

1008
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,440
chose to cross the road was very
unique. 

1009
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:48,000
He waited until there were no 
cars except for hours, which 

1010
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,320
caught him off guard. 
Just coming around the corner 

1011
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:53,320
and where he crossed was flat. 
It was the only. 

1012
00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:54,920
Place throughout the woods that 
didn't. 

1013
00:59:54,920 --> 00:59:57,280
Have a little hill on either 
side of the highway. 

1014
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,960
Some of the people I have told 
of this asked if it was a bear, 

1015
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,120
but there's no way it could have
been at the speed it ran. 

1016
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:11,800
During the weekend of May 26th 
and 27th, 2001, I was conducting

1017
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:13,760
a sound. 
Survey project with three other 

1018
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:16,720
people near the town of Johnson 
and the Klamath River. 

1019
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:19,800
This area we were in. 
Had a sighting the year before 

1020
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,400
in July. 
The place where we decided to 

1021
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:25,520
set up was a recent clear cut 
that ran along the hillside. 

1022
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:29,040
It was about 1000 feet wide and 
1200 feet long. 

1023
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:32,560
At the edges were fir and oak 
trees that developed a thick 

1024
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:35,800
cover. 
Running the width and centred in

1025
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,680
the clear. 
Cut was a dirt Rd. that the 

1026
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,400
local people and loggers used on
a daily basis. 

1027
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:44,160
It also provided us with a place
to park and set up our sound 

1028
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,520
equipment. 
It also became base for our 

1029
01:00:46,520 --> 01:00:49,440
team. 
From our base looking down into 

1030
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,480
the valley about two miles, we 
could see the town of Johnson. 

1031
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:55,480
From our point. 
We're about 1500 feet above the 

1032
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:59,600
river and town. 
Just prior to dusk I had two 

1033
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:03,120
members climb to the top of the 
clear cut, about 150 feet in 

1034
01:01:03,120 --> 01:01:05,880
elevation and about 300 feet 
away from base. 

1035
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:08,480
I did this. 
So if anything was to come 

1036
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,280
closer to our base camp, they 
would have the best field of 

1037
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,960
vision and with their night 
vision device would be able to 

1038
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,240
determine what it was. 
We also had two way portable 

1039
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,440
radios for the upper lookout and
base. 

1040
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,960
Manny and myself continue to set
up the equipment and waited 

1041
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:27,760
until nightfall because I was 
scheduled to participate at 

1042
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:31,440
10:00 PM in a live broadcast 
with Jeff Rents Sightings 

1043
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:33,920
program. 
I was ensuring that my bag cell 

1044
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:37,160
phone was working properly. 
All the equipment checked out 

1045
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,920
other than the phone. 
It had some static in the line. 

1046
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:44,960
At 9:40 we started to broadcast.
The sound travelled very well 

1047
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:46,520
and seemed to echo. 
Forever. 

1048
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,520
The location we were at easily 
helped the sound to travel well 

1049
01:01:50,520 --> 01:01:53,640
over 5 miles from valley to 
Ridge top and saddle. 

1050
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:57,440
It covered a large area. 
Very happy with the sound. 

1051
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:00,520
We continued to broadcast a few 
more times before the show 

1052
01:02:00,520 --> 01:02:04,560
started. 
It was almost 10:00 PM when the 

1053
01:02:04,560 --> 01:02:06,160
phone rang. 
It was the show. 

1054
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,680
The show went fine for the first
few minutes, but the static was 

1055
01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:13,280
getting horrendous cutting Jeff 
Rents off completely at times. 

1056
01:02:14,120 --> 01:02:17,160
About 10 minutes into the show, 
Jeff asked me to try and find 

1057
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,760
another location where the 
reception might be a little 

1058
01:02:19,760 --> 01:02:22,040
better. 
A commercial was playing at the 

1059
01:02:22,040 --> 01:02:25,840
time so I quickly contacted the 
upper team and Manny and told 

1060
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:29,200
them that I had to move. 
I started my vehicle and drove 

1061
01:02:29,200 --> 01:02:31,160
about 600 feet toward the tree 
line. 

1062
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:34,560
I reconnected to the show and 
was relieved that it was a 

1063
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,720
better connection. 
I was in this new location less 

1064
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:41,480
than 15 feet to the tree line 
with visibility not over 5 feet 

1065
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,360
into the trees. 
I was parked for a few minutes 

1066
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,520
and heard what I thought was a 
bear charging me. 

1067
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:49,040
I'm in a convertible with the 
window down. 

1068
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,480
Not much protection in anyone's 
mind. 

1069
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,400
I looked for my revolver and it 
was gone. 

1070
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,240
I must have forgot it with Manny
when I was in a hurry to get to 

1071
01:02:57,240 --> 01:03:00,240
a better location. 
I sat there for a second and 

1072
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:03,600
again I heard this charging that
sounded like it was a few feet 

1073
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,480
away from me. 
This time I started my car. 

1074
01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:09,680
Got on the radio and told the 
upper team that I was moving out

1075
01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:11,800
because of something charging me
in the Bush. 

1076
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:16,000
I asked the upper team do you 
see anything and they replied 

1077
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,040
no. 
I decided to wait it out as this

1078
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:22,120
thing could expose itself to me.
Although I just realized. 

1079
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,000
That my camera was also with 
Manny. 

1080
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,000
The show continued on and I 
would hear footfalls, breaking 

1081
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,600
branches and at least one grunt 
growl. 

1082
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:34,080
I kept asking the upper team if 
they could see anything and they

1083
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,440
kept saying no. 
I at least had a flashlight, but

1084
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:39,880
I didn't want to use it in fear 
that I would scare whatever it 

1085
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:44,720
was off Obviously I was becoming
very concerned for my safety, 

1086
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,880
not knowing what it was, but I 
remained there on the chance 

1087
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,360
that I might be able to see a 
Bigfoot, or at least see 

1088
01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:53,080
something. 
I heard the charging again and 

1089
01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:55,560
again, and finally a crackle on 
the radio. 

1090
01:03:55,920 --> 01:03:58,600
John, it's looking right at you.
Can't you see it? 

1091
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:01,400
It's about 25 feet away. 
It's huge. 

1092
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:05,320
My heart started pounding fast 
and trying to carry on with this

1093
01:04:05,320 --> 01:04:08,760
live program without sounding 
distracted was even harder. 

1094
01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:12,280
The other upper team confirmed 
what they were looking at. 

1095
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,880
It was something that was at 
least 8 feet tall with shoulders

1096
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:19,880
that were four feet across. 
As I sat in my car, cell phone 

1097
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:23,160
to 1 ear and the other to the 
forest, I could hear it charge 

1098
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:26,680
again and that's when they would
say it went back into the trees.

1099
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,640
This happened several times. 
This sighting went on for 

1100
01:04:30,640 --> 01:04:33,400
several minutes with the 
Sasquatch looking at me by 

1101
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,400
moving its body from side to 
side trying to get a better look

1102
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:39,880
through the trees and brush. 
It was also observed moving its 

1103
01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,920
arms in a quick motion as if 
signalling to others. 

1104
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,880
This whole incident from the 
first charge heard to the last 

1105
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,560
tree branch breaking lasted 
about 30 minutes. 

1106
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:53,200
It was by far one of the most 
intense moments in my life. 

1107
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:57,000
The next day we did search the 
area and found the soil 

1108
01:04:57,000 --> 01:04:59,160
disturbed where the Sasquatch 
was spotted. 

1109
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:02,960
Due to the soil conditions, it 
did not allow any prints to be 

1110
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,640
left. 
Judging from a tree and stump in

1111
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:09,480
the area, it was determined that
it was at least 8 feet tall, but

1112
01:05:09,480 --> 01:05:13,240
closer to 9 feet from the 
Sasquatch's point of view. 

1113
01:05:13,440 --> 01:05:16,720
It had several windows to look 
at me and by moving its body 

1114
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,000
from side to side, it would have
had a clearview of my entire 

1115
01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:26,040
vehicle and me. 
Well, it's been years since it 

1116
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,640
happened, but here goes. 
I was stationed at Beale Air 

1117
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:32,320
Force Base, California and I 
would always drive around 

1118
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,200
looking for the next great 
fishing hole. 

1119
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:37,600
I had been driving for quite 
some time and decided to pull 

1120
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:39,320
into Humboldt Redwood State 
Park. 

1121
01:05:39,920 --> 01:05:42,880
Being from Alabama, I figured 
seeing these big redwoods would 

1122
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:47,240
be kind of cool, so I got off of
Hwy. 101 and took the Avenue of 

1123
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,240
the Giants exit. 
Driving down the road I was 

1124
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:53,160
amazed at the size of the trees 
so they kind of grabbed my 

1125
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,120
attention. 
I started seeing a lot of places

1126
01:05:56,120 --> 01:05:59,160
where I was thinking I could 
fish so I started to slow down 

1127
01:05:59,160 --> 01:06:00,840
even more to find a place to 
park. 

1128
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:04,560
As I kept driving the river kind
of started getting a little 

1129
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,440
farther away and I was about to 
turn around when out of nowhere 

1130
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,160
something walked across the road
and to say the least it shocked 

1131
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:15,200
the you know what out of me. 
The reason why it got me a 

1132
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:18,360
little jumpy was the fact that I
had to have come within a couple

1133
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:22,200
of feet of this thing. 
Now I'm a pretty big guy, 6 feet

1134
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:26,160
and about 220 lbs, but whatever 
walked in front of my truck had 

1135
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,320
to have been over 7 feet tall 
due to the height of the truck, 

1136
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:32,840
a Chevy Z71. 
Now when it comes to the 

1137
01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:35,800
poundage of this thing I would 
have to say it was well over 

1138
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:39,880
£350. 
As far as physical features, all

1139
01:06:39,880 --> 01:06:41,760
I saw was the back and arm 
swing. 

1140
01:06:42,160 --> 01:06:44,480
The thing never turned around 
for me to get a better look at 

1141
01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:47,680
it, but it had a large back and 
rather long arms. 

1142
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,960
As far as the neck goes, it 
didn't really have one. 

1143
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,440
The animals traps made it look 
like it didn't have a neck, kind

1144
01:06:54,440 --> 01:06:57,400
of like me. 
But after I did find a place to 

1145
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,560
turn around, I went back to look
around. 

1146
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:02,880
Dumb I know to say the least. 
And I only found a couple of 

1147
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,920
tracks. 
They had to have been 14 to 15 

1148
01:07:05,920 --> 01:07:08,160
inches long. 
Plus the stride of this thing 

1149
01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:11,560
was a lot longer than mine. 
Just to make the stride this 

1150
01:07:11,560 --> 01:07:14,080
thing did, I had to make one 
heck of an effort. 

1151
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:18,360
Now all I can say is whatever I 
saw that day was nothing like 

1152
01:07:18,360 --> 01:07:21,400
anything I'd ever seen in the 
woods, and I grew up in the 

1153
01:07:21,400 --> 01:07:25,440
outdoors. 
Then I had another encounter. 

1154
01:07:25,640 --> 01:07:28,080
This one happened in the spring 
of 2003. 

1155
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:31,120
This was supposed to be a 
fishing trip to see what the 

1156
01:07:31,120 --> 01:07:33,920
area had to offer. 
I'd been coming to this area for

1157
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:36,600
the past couple of months and 
started to learn it a little 

1158
01:07:36,600 --> 01:07:39,680
better, so I decided to go 
exploring for some fishing 

1159
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:41,080
holes. 
All I had. 

1160
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:44,440
With me at the time was a 
fishing rod and AGPS receiver so

1161
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:47,800
I wouldn't get lost. 
I parked the truck and stutter 

1162
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:50,600
and started out on foot. 
I had talked to two local 

1163
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:51,960
fishermen about what was in 
these. 

1164
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:55,480
Rivers and what to use. 
I'm from the South and this area

1165
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:58,280
was like a new world. 
So I made my way down to the 

1166
01:07:58,280 --> 01:07:59,840
river along the side of the 
bank. 

1167
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,520
At times the going. 
Got a little hard, but I 

1168
01:08:02,520 --> 01:08:05,240
managed. 
I tried several places but the 

1169
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:08,200
water was moving too fast so I 
thought that I would try and 

1170
01:08:08,200 --> 01:08:10,680
find a slack part of the river 
where the flow was a little 

1171
01:08:10,680 --> 01:08:13,160
slower. 
Now these woods are a lot 

1172
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:15,960
different than the ones I'm used
to, so I was a little excited 

1173
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:20,479
about this new area. 
I've been walking for maybe 45 

1174
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:23,520
minutes and covered maybe 2 
miles when I saw something in 

1175
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:25,960
the distance. 
At first I thought it was just a

1176
01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:28,720
stump seeing that I had left my 
glasses in the truck. 

1177
01:08:29,439 --> 01:08:31,920
Now my vision isn't that bad, 
but I still need them for 

1178
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,200
driving. 
But I started feeling a little 

1179
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,359
uneasy due to an earlier 
encounter. 

1180
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:41,040
Plus it might have been a bear, 
but being the idiot that I am, I

1181
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:44,319
had to get closer. 
I got to within about 75. 

1182
01:08:44,319 --> 01:08:46,880
Yards, because I was using the 
tree line as cover. 

1183
01:08:47,439 --> 01:08:49,319
That was as close as I wanted to
get. 

1184
01:08:49,800 --> 01:08:52,240
You could say that my heart was 
beating out of my chest. 

1185
01:08:52,399 --> 01:08:56,319
It was like I had buck fever. 
Well, now that I was within good

1186
01:08:56,319 --> 01:08:59,000
sight of the creature. 
It was easy to see what it was. 

1187
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:03,319
It finally stood up and I didn't
know until that point how big it

1188
01:09:03,319 --> 01:09:06,880
really was. 
Now I had a roommate who was 6 

1189
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:10,880
foot 7 and this creature would 
have easily stood over him at 

1190
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:12,720
best. 
Guess I would have to say that 

1191
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:16,760
it was 7 feet 6 inches tall and 
had to weigh over £400. 

1192
01:09:17,439 --> 01:09:20,680
It finally turned to me and made
me out in a second, but when it 

1193
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:24,040
turned it didn't run away 
instantly, it just stood there. 

1194
01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:26,439
I guess it was trying to see 
what I was. 

1195
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,040
We must have looked at each 
other for 10 seconds or so, but 

1196
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:33,720
it felt like 10 minutes and in 
that time all I could see was 

1197
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,840
that the creature had dark 
reddish brown hair and the arms 

1198
01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,880
easily hung down to the 
creature's knees. 

1199
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:42,080
But within an instant something 
spooked it. 

1200
01:09:42,439 --> 01:09:45,560
The creature turned and looked 
down the river and it just took 

1201
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:47,720
off. 
Now the ground that this thing 

1202
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:51,000
covered was amazing. 
I didn't move for a good bit 

1203
01:09:51,040 --> 01:09:53,920
because I was in shock after the
creature had left. 

1204
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,240
I did the same once I could get 
my feet working again. 

1205
01:10:00,560 --> 01:10:03,880
This sighting took place October
21st, 2000. 

1206
01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,160
The witness was driving home to 
the Bay Area from her mother's 

1207
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:10,960
place in Oregon. 
She was several minutes South of

1208
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:15,360
Orrick, California on Hwy. 101. 
It was 10/30 on a Sunday. 

1209
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:17,680
The weather was bright, clear 
and sunny. 

1210
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:20,840
She was accompanied by her 
three-year old son who was 

1211
01:10:20,840 --> 01:10:24,320
asleep in the back seat. 
She had rounded a corner and was

1212
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,600
driving parallel to a lagoon 
that flanked the Pacific Ocean. 

1213
01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:31,520
As she turned the corner and was
roughly 100 yards away, she saw 

1214
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:35,200
what she thought was 2 fishermen
in the lagoon, 1 standing in a 

1215
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,480
side profile facing the highway 
and the other sitting in the 

1216
01:10:38,480 --> 01:10:41,520
water with a knee up breaking 
the surface of the water. 

1217
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:44,240
About 60 yards from the 
subjects. 

1218
01:10:44,240 --> 01:10:47,440
She realized that the one 
standing was covered in long, 

1219
01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:51,560
deep brown Auburn coloured wet 
fur and was, by her estimation, 

1220
01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:54,920
7 to 8 feet tall, very muscular 
and heavy. 

1221
01:10:55,560 --> 01:10:59,720
She slowed her car to 10 to 20 
mph and watched intently as the 

1222
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:02,680
one seated with its back to her 
seemed to be searching the water

1223
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,600
for something with its hands 
while the other one standing was

1224
01:11:05,600 --> 01:11:07,400
slowly walking toward the 
shoreline. 

1225
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:12,000
From here on, her focus was on 
the standing animal, she said. 

1226
01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:15,000
As it walked, it swung its long 
arms with a strangely 

1227
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:18,480
exaggerated movement, almost as 
if it were propelling itself 

1228
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:22,400
forward with the motion of its 
arms, she says. 

1229
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:25,760
The shoulders were extremely 
large, rounded and muscular. 

1230
01:11:26,400 --> 01:11:27,840
The hair was. 
Wet and seemed to be. 

1231
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:29,920
Groomed, not matted or 
dishevelled. 

1232
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:33,960
Its head sat on the shoulders 
and was Oval in shape, kind of 

1233
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,320
rounded at the top but not 
conical, more Oval shaped. 

1234
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,880
At this point she was only about
40 feet away from the animals 

1235
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,840
still in her car, and she said 
she could see the face in 

1236
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:47,040
profile. 
The face itself was a dark cream

1237
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:51,160
colour, not brown or black. 
The face was hairless but framed

1238
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:55,120
by light brown, very fine hair. 
The nose was flat and slightly 

1239
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,800
rounded. 
From the profile she could see 

1240
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:01,240
that the eyes were black with 
almost no or no whites at all. 

1241
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,880
The animal never looked directly
at her. 

1242
01:12:04,760 --> 01:12:07,920
The animals never seemed 
concerned by her vehicle as she 

1243
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,080
passed them. 
She got scared and speed up her 

1244
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:18,160
car to leave the scene. 
August 12th. 2023 State Route 16

1245
01:12:18,160 --> 01:12:22,680
near Ozark National Forest, 
Arkansas While driving home from

1246
01:12:22,680 --> 01:12:25,160
a road trip through Missouri 
with a stop in northern 

1247
01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:28,280
Arkansas, we chose to take back 
roads instead of the main 

1248
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,200
highways. 
We were heading SE on a winding 

1249
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,920
stretch of Route 16 through the 
Ozark Hills. 

1250
01:12:34,480 --> 01:12:37,600
The road was narrow and curvy, 
so we were moving slowly around 

1251
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:41,320
30 mph. 
At one point, something caused 

1252
01:12:41,320 --> 01:12:44,800
the driver to react sharply. 
At the same time, the vehicle 

1253
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,880
following us braked hard and 
switched on its high beams. 

1254
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:51,200
We were rounding a bend and 
whatever was seen was briefly 

1255
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,440
visible in the open stretch 
beside the road. 

1256
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,920
The figure observed was large 
and upright, walking on 2 legs. 

1257
01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:01,400
It's build was broad and stocky,
and it appeared to stand at 

1258
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,760
least 6 feet tall. 
The entire body was covered in 

1259
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:08,840
long tangled hair or fur that 
hung heavily, described as the 

1260
01:13:08,840 --> 01:13:11,440
thickest and most matted the 
driver had ever seen. 

1261
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:16,040
The coloration was an unusual 
grey green, similar to tree Moss

1262
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:19,480
or weathered bark. 
The posture was slightly hunched

1263
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:21,800
with bent knees and arms that 
hung outward. 

1264
01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:25,320
The motion was steady but 
unnatural, More like an ape than

1265
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,480
a person, no? 
Facial features were visible due

1266
01:13:28,480 --> 01:13:30,800
to the thick hair covering its 
head and face. 

1267
01:13:31,480 --> 01:13:34,520
Both arms and legs appeared very
thick and muscular. 

1268
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:38,200
It didn't respond to the lights 
or noise from either vehicle. 

1269
01:13:38,480 --> 01:13:41,280
It continued moving along the 
edge of the road without pause, 

1270
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:43,280
showing no sign of being 
startled. 

1271
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,920
The area was remote, heavily 
wooded, and completely dark 

1272
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:50,600
aside from faint moonlight. 
No artificial light was present,

1273
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:54,200
and there was no homes, St. 
lights or visible trails nearby.

1274
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:58,240
Given the distance from any town
and the lack of light, it seemed

1275
01:13:58,240 --> 01:14:00,600
unlikely that this was a person 
in a costume. 

1276
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,000
There would be no reason to be 
walking in that area, especially

1277
01:14:04,000 --> 01:14:07,200
under those conditions. 
The sighting lasted only a few 

1278
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:10,880
seconds, but the size, colour 
and movement of the figure were 

1279
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:13,960
clear and distinct. 
It did not resemble any known 

1280
01:14:13,960 --> 01:14:23,000
wildlife native to the. 
Region May 27th, 2000 Highway 74

1281
01:14:23,080 --> 01:14:27,840
near Nantahela National Forest, 
North Carolina In the early 

1282
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,000
hours of the morning around 1:00
AM, while travelling along Hwy. 

1283
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:33,600
74, an unusual sighting 
occurred. 

1284
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:37,560
The road was quiet with very 
little moonlight and visibility 

1285
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:39,560
relied mostly on vehicle 
headlights. 

1286
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:43,000
The vehicle was moving at 
approximately 40 mph. 

1287
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:46,960
As it reached the Crest of a 
mountain pass at the top, 2 

1288
01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,120
figures appeared suddenly in the
road ahead. 

1289
01:14:49,640 --> 01:14:52,680
Both were upright and covered in
short hair, and they turned to 

1290
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:55,440
look directly at the vehicle 
before quickly launching 

1291
01:14:55,440 --> 01:14:58,120
themselves into the brush on the
right side of the road. 

1292
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:00,760
Rather than running, they dove 
head. 

1293
01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:04,560
First into the foliage in a way 
that did not resemble typical 

1294
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:08,360
animal flight behaviour. 
The figures had a lanky build, 

1295
01:15:08,480 --> 01:15:11,240
not bulky, with proportionally 
long arms. 

1296
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,240
They moved on 2 legs and were 
roughly human shaped but had ape

1297
01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:17,320
like qualities in posture and 
movement. 

1298
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:21,080
Facial features were only 
briefly visible, but notable 

1299
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:25,440
small flat noses and bright 
reflective eyes, possibly due to

1300
01:15:25,440 --> 01:15:27,120
the high beams being on at the 
time. 

1301
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,720
The witnesses fishing plans for 
the following day went ahead as 

1302
01:15:30,720 --> 01:15:34,040
scheduled, but the idea of 
camping in that area was 

1303
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:37,720
abandoned after the sighting. 
The overall experience left a 

1304
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,320
strong impression. 
Something clearly out of the 

1305
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,440
ordinary had crossed the road 
that night. 

1306
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:48,800
January 6th, 2022 near 
Blackwater falls State Park, 

1307
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:53,480
Tucker county, West Virginia for
years I never gave much thought 

1308
01:15:53,480 --> 01:15:55,160
to. 
Bigfoot or creatures like it. 

1309
01:15:55,480 --> 01:15:58,320
I've spent a lot of time in the 
woods hunting and hiking and 

1310
01:15:58,320 --> 01:16:01,800
never saw or heard anything 
unusual until this night. 

1311
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:04,800
Even now I struggle to label 
what I witnessed. 

1312
01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:08,480
I've gone over every possible 
explanation and still. 

1313
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:12,040
Arrive at the same conclusion. 
I encountered something I can't 

1314
01:16:12,040 --> 01:16:15,280
explain and it matches 
descriptions others have given 

1315
01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:18,280
of a Bigfoot. 
The sighting happened late on a 

1316
01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:22,120
Saturday night at around 11:30. 
It was raining steadily, at 

1317
01:16:22,120 --> 01:16:25,880
times heavily, as I drove on 
Route 32 towing a trailer. 

1318
01:16:26,280 --> 01:16:31,240
My speed was about 45 mph after 
passing a few local landmarks 

1319
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,480
near the edge of the State Park.
Including a brick house set back

1320
01:16:34,480 --> 01:16:37,040
from the road. 
I saw something on the left side

1321
01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,000
just ahead of me. 
At first glance, it looked like 

1322
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,440
a person wearing some kind of 
camouflage or Gilly suit, moving

1323
01:16:43,440 --> 01:16:47,440
at a loping pace, not running, 
but not walking normally either.

1324
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,720
The body was covered in long 
uneven fur or hair hanging in 

1325
01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:55,160
heavy clumped strands. 
It moved in a strange swaying 

1326
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:58,760
motion on 2 legs, its arms 
swinging low, nearly reaching 

1327
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:02,520
its knees or below. 
As I got closer, within about 20

1328
01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,200
feet, it became clear this 
wasn't a person. 

1329
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:08,880
The figure had an oversized head
that blended right into its 

1330
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:12,840
shoulders with no visible neck. 
The shoulders were extremely 

1331
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,960
broad and the. 
Build was tall and solid, the 

1332
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:19,720
hair or whatever covered it. 
Was not clothing, it extended 

1333
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,000
over the head and down the 
entire body. 

1334
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:25,800
I passed it and immediately 
pulled EU turn in the middle of 

1335
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:29,120
the Rd. trailer and all. 
I turned into a driveway near 

1336
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:31,920
the siding and aimed my 
headlights into the woods behind

1337
01:17:31,920 --> 01:17:35,280
the house, but saw nothing. 
I moved the vehicle onto the 

1338
01:17:35,280 --> 01:17:38,360
grass near where it had been and
used a flashlight to scan the 

1339
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:41,200
area. 
That's when things got strange. 

1340
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:44,560
From within the brush I could 
hear something large moving, 

1341
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,280
breaking branches shifting 
through heavy cover. 

1342
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:51,800
Then came a series of sounds. 
First a mix of deep grunts and 

1343
01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:54,920
odd high pitched squeals that 
sounded almost like distorted 

1344
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,880
laughter. 
Then came loud wood on wood 

1345
01:17:57,880 --> 01:18:00,640
strikes. 
Not like small sticks tapping, 

1346
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,160
but like heavy logs being 
slammed together. 

1347
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,240
The noises were powerful, 
intentional, and clearly meant 

1348
01:18:07,240 --> 01:18:10,560
to be heard. 
This activity lasted several 

1349
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,400
minutes, then completely 
stopped. 

1350
01:18:12,880 --> 01:18:15,880
The woods fell silent. 
I didn't see it again that 

1351
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,400
night. 
The following day, I returned to

1352
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:19,960
the spot and looked around the 
area. 

1353
01:18:20,440 --> 01:18:23,280
I found what looked like large 
footprints, wide and deep 

1354
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:27,320
impressions spaced in a pattern 
that suggested a bipedal stride.

1355
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,960
Later on a suggestion. 
I started looking into other 

1356
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:34,240
reports online. 
What shocked me was how closely 

1357
01:18:34,240 --> 01:18:37,760
other sightings matched what I 
experienced, especially the odd 

1358
01:18:37,760 --> 01:18:40,520
vocalisations and the sound of 
wood being struck. 

1359
01:18:41,400 --> 01:18:44,760
I know exactly what I saw that 
night near Black Waterfalls, and

1360
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:47,000
I know it was real. 
And I'm certain it wasn't a 

1361
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:50,160
person, a bear, or anything else
I've ever encountered in the 

1362
01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:55,240
wild. 
Early January 2011. 

1363
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:57,760
Rural. 
Property near Orc, Arkansas. 

1364
01:18:57,920 --> 01:19:02,600
Ozark Mountains. 
In early January 2011, my 5 year

1365
01:19:02,600 --> 01:19:05,520
old daughter and I were living 
alone in a rented house way out 

1366
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:07,520
in the country near Ork, 
Arkansas. 

1367
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:11,200
The house sat at the end of a 
long gravel driveway surrounded 

1368
01:19:11,200 --> 01:19:13,680
by woods. 
It was quiet and peaceful most 

1369
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:17,800
days, but also very isolated 
after a light snow the night 

1370
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,680
before the afternoon. 
Was cold and grey and still. 

1371
01:19:21,440 --> 01:19:24,920
Around 3:30 PMI walked down the 
driveway to meet my daughter as 

1372
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:28,320
her school bus dropped her off. 
We started walking back toward 

1373
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:31,520
the house and everything seemed 
normal until we got close to the

1374
01:19:31,520 --> 01:19:33,960
steps that led up to the second 
story porch. 

1375
01:19:34,960 --> 01:19:38,040
That's when I seen something 
that stopped me in my tracks. 

1376
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:42,040
Standing under the porch near 
the bottom of the steps was a 

1377
01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:44,760
huge figure. 
It looked like it was around 8 

1378
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:47,440
feet tall and was covered in 
dark shaggy hair. 

1379
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:51,080
It had broad shoulders, long 
arms, and stood upright like a 

1380
01:19:51,080 --> 01:19:53,200
person. 
But it was not a person. 

1381
01:19:53,760 --> 01:19:56,680
Its face was partly hidden by 
hair, but I could see its flat 

1382
01:19:56,680 --> 01:19:59,720
nose, its wide forehead, and big
round eyes. 

1383
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,880
It blinked slowly but didn't 
move or make a sound. 

1384
01:20:03,720 --> 01:20:05,960
I was terrified. 
I didn't want to scare my 

1385
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,480
daughter, so I just kept 
walking, pulling her to the 

1386
01:20:08,480 --> 01:20:11,480
other side of the porch to get 
up the steps from the upper 

1387
01:20:11,480 --> 01:20:13,240
porch. 
I could still see it standing 

1388
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,480
down there completely still, 
like it was waiting or watching.

1389
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,640
As soon as we got inside, I 
locked all the doors and 

1390
01:20:19,640 --> 01:20:21,880
windows. 
I kept the lights off and stayed

1391
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:24,560
near the upstairs window 
watching to see if it was still 

1392
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,000
there. 
At some point it was gone. 

1393
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:30,200
I never saw it leave. 1 moment 
it was there and the next it 

1394
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,840
wasn't. 
That night I couldn't sleep. 

1395
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,240
Every noise the house made 
scared me. 

1396
01:20:35,480 --> 01:20:37,360
I kept thinking it might try to 
get in. 

1397
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:39,640
The house didn't feel safe 
anymore. 

1398
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:43,120
I sat in the dark with my gun 
listening and waiting, afraid it

1399
01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:46,320
would come back. 
I've lived in Arkansas my whole 

1400
01:20:46,320 --> 01:20:48,680
life. 
I've seen bears, Bobcats, and 

1401
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,080
even a Mountain Lion once. 
This was none of those. 

1402
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,160
Of course, it wasn't a man 
either. 

1403
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:57,000
For the next week, I carried my 
gun while I walked my daughter 

1404
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,240
to catch her bus and after. 
School. 

1405
01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:02,840
I never seen it again after that
day, thank goodness. 

1406
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:07,080
Bitterroot Mountains, central 
Idaho. 

1407
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:11,040
During a late season hunting 
trip deep in the Backcountry of 

1408
01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,320
Idaho's Bitterroot Mountains, an
encounter took place that has 

1409
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:18,160
stayed with me ever since. 
I was 24 at the time and on 

1410
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,760
leave from the military, joining
my family and close friends for 

1411
01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:25,040
our annual deer hunt in an area 
we had visited for years. 

1412
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:28,560
The terrain was rugged and 
remote, and the logging Rd. we 

1413
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:31,800
used to access our camp hadn't 
been maintained in decades. 

1414
01:21:32,600 --> 01:21:35,880
After driving 8 miles into the 
wilderness, we reached a point 

1415
01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:38,400
where the road became too 
overgrown and washed out to 

1416
01:21:38,400 --> 01:21:41,960
continue, so we packed up our 
gear and hiked in another two or

1417
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:46,040
three miles to reach the top of 
a Ridge where we plan to hunt at

1418
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:48,240
Daybreak. 
I separated from the others and 

1419
01:21:48,240 --> 01:21:50,000
found a spot near the Crest of a
hill. 

1420
01:21:50,480 --> 01:21:54,160
It was early, cold and quiet 
with fresh frost still clinging 

1421
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,840
to the brush. 
After the long hike and the 

1422
01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:59,760
morning chill, I found myself 
nodding off in my spot. 

1423
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:03,160
Wanting to stay alert, I 
eventually stood up and wandered

1424
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:07,240
nearby, scouting a little bit. 
After about 20 minutes of light 

1425
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:10,240
hiking, I stumbled across an old
weathered tree stand. 

1426
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,680
Though it looked decades old, it
was in a prime location 

1427
01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,680
overlooking a clear section of 
the slope just beneath the 

1428
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:19,320
ridgeline. 
I climbed and settled in. 

1429
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:22,120
The morning sun filtered through
the trees and warmed the area 

1430
01:22:22,120 --> 01:22:23,800
slightly. 
I had the fruit. 

1431
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:26,880
I brought an apple and some 
oranges and began to feel drowsy

1432
01:22:26,880 --> 01:22:29,440
again. 
I dozed briefly, but something 

1433
01:22:29,440 --> 01:22:32,200
woke me up. 
It was a sudden overpowering 

1434
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:36,800
stench, musky, sour and thick. 
The forest had gone dead quiet. 

1435
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:40,400
I sat up, instantly alert, and 
could hear subtle movements, 

1436
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,560
light rustling mixed with faint 
throaty sounds, grunts and soft 

1437
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:46,800
whines. 
Peering over the edge of the 

1438
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:50,200
stand, I spotted something on 
the slope about 25 feet below 

1439
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:53,080
me. 
It wasn't a deer or a bear or 

1440
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:57,080
anything I expected. 
A creature standing roughly 5 

1441
01:22:57,080 --> 01:23:00,240
feet tall, covered in reddish 
brown hair from head to toe, 

1442
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:03,160
stood there. 
Its fur appeared tangled in 

1443
01:23:03,160 --> 01:23:06,400
places, matted as though it had 
been rolling through dirt or 

1444
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:09,800
bedding down in thick brush. 
The hair length was consistent, 

1445
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,080
about two to three inches across
its body. 

1446
01:23:12,400 --> 01:23:15,520
Its arms and legs were long and 
lean, with visible hands and 

1447
01:23:15,520 --> 01:23:19,280
feet, and the nails resembled 
human fingernails, short and 

1448
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:23,960
rounded, not claws. 
It was bent over, sniffing and 

1449
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:26,520
inspecting the orange peels and 
apple core I had dropped 

1450
01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,040
earlier. 
It seemed unaware of my presence

1451
01:23:29,040 --> 01:23:31,320
above it. 
I studied its movements, 

1452
01:23:31,480 --> 01:23:34,480
fascinated and confused. 
But then something else 

1453
01:23:34,480 --> 01:23:36,920
happened. 
From farther up the hill behind 

1454
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:39,920
me, a series of loud crashes 
broke the silence. 

1455
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,440
Something large was moving 
quickly, snapping branches and 

1456
01:23:43,440 --> 01:23:46,120
moving with purpose. 
The smaller figure below me 

1457
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,920
froze immediately, standing 
still as stone. 

1458
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:52,000
I couldn't see what was coming 
due to the tree trunks blocking 

1459
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,080
my view, but I could feel the 
approach. 

1460
01:23:54,760 --> 01:23:58,400
As the crashing neared, A 
bizarre vocalization began, a 

1461
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:00,440
sound unlike anything I'd ever 
heard. 

1462
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:04,120
It was a warped, garbled noise, 
similar to a recording, being 

1463
01:24:04,120 --> 01:24:07,640
played backward with a rhythmic,
almost speech like pattern. 

1464
01:24:08,200 --> 01:24:10,680
The smaller creature 
straightened, moved about 15 

1465
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,600
feet away from its original 
position, then stopped and 

1466
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,960
responded with its own calls. 
The tone and pace of the 

1467
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,360
exchange felt like a heated 
argument. 

1468
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:22,880
When the second creature came 
into view, the mood shifted. 

1469
01:24:23,160 --> 01:24:26,480
This one was significantly 
larger, at least 8 to 9 feet 

1470
01:24:26,480 --> 01:24:30,240
tall, and powerfully built. 
Its fur was darker, nearly 

1471
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:33,320
black, and its muscles were 
defined even beneath the thick 

1472
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,600
coat. 
It moved with caution but 

1473
01:24:35,600 --> 01:24:38,560
deliberate awareness, its 
attention shifting between the 

1474
01:24:38,560 --> 01:24:40,320
smaller creature and the 
surroundings. 

1475
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:43,200
At that moment, I felt it had 
sensed me. 

1476
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,520
The two continued to vocalize, 
deep booming howls from the 

1477
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:50,600
large one and sharp, urgent 
replies from the smaller. 

1478
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,920
The body language between them 
suggested authority and 

1479
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:56,480
submission. 
The larger creature towered over

1480
01:24:56,480 --> 01:24:58,640
the other and seemed to be 
reprimanding it. 

1481
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:02,720
Eventually they both moved off 
to my right, still within sight.

1482
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:05,880
The larger one now had its back 
to me, and I could clearly 

1483
01:25:05,880 --> 01:25:09,680
observe the smaller one's face. 
Despite the hair, the features 

1484
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:13,480
were surprisingly human. 
Round eyes, a flat nose, and 

1485
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:16,120
thin facial hair that allowed 
some skin to show through. 

1486
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,360
It noticed me, then its posture 
changed. 

1487
01:25:19,560 --> 01:25:22,160
It squatted and looked up 
directly at me. 

1488
01:25:23,240 --> 01:25:26,280
The larger figure, still turned 
away, dropped into a squatting 

1489
01:25:26,280 --> 01:25:29,280
position also. 
Then suddenly, the smaller one 

1490
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:32,400
let out a piercing howl. 
The larger responded with its 

1491
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:35,480
own deafening cry, pushed the 
smaller one away, and it 

1492
01:25:35,480 --> 01:25:37,120
sprinted off across the 
hillside. 

1493
01:25:37,480 --> 01:25:39,680
Its speed was unlike anything 
I'd ever seen. 

1494
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:43,120
Long loping strides that covered
ground effortlessly. 

1495
01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:45,760
It disappeared into the timber 
in seconds. 

1496
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,800
Now standing alone, the larger 
creature slowly turned to face 

1497
01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:52,160
me. 
It raised one arm, shielding its

1498
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:54,760
brow as if to block the sunlight
or get a better look. 

1499
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:57,240
It stared directly at my 
position. 

1500
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:01,520
The stillness was intense. 
I felt exposed, vulnerable. 

1501
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:05,080
I was terrified. 
Every instinct I had screamed to

1502
01:26:05,080 --> 01:26:08,600
stay still. 
I studied its face as best as I 

1503
01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:11,360
could. 
Deep set eyes, broad nostrils, 

1504
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:13,680
and a generally flat facial 
structure. 

1505
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:16,480
The lips were hard to 
distinguish due to the facial 

1506
01:26:16,480 --> 01:26:19,040
hair, but the mouth didn't 
protrude like an apes. 

1507
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:22,920
It was eerily human. 
After several long seconds, it 

1508
01:26:22,920 --> 01:26:26,360
lowered its arm and began to 
scan the area, turning slowly at

1509
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:28,680
the waist. 
Then, after a final glance in my

1510
01:26:28,680 --> 01:26:32,080
direction, it walked calmly 
toward the same path the smaller

1511
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,840
one had taken. 
It moved with long confident 

1512
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:38,080
strides, emitting drawn out 
howls that echoed across the 

1513
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:40,800
slope. 
I listened until the sounds 

1514
01:26:40,800 --> 01:26:43,200
faded and the creature vanished 
into the forest. 

1515
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:47,080
Not long after, I heard 
rhythmic, thudding wood hitting 

1516
01:26:47,080 --> 01:26:51,240
wood far off in the distance. 
Nearly half an hour passed 

1517
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,120
before I worked up the nerve to 
climb down. 

1518
01:26:53,400 --> 01:26:56,280
I carefully and quietly made my 
way back to where I had last 

1519
01:26:56,280 --> 01:26:57,800
seen my hunting partner that 
morning. 

1520
01:26:58,400 --> 01:27:01,680
When I found him, he was pale, 
sitting rigidly against a fallen

1521
01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,160
tree. 
He too had seen something 

1522
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:06,920
described a massive figure 
crossing the Ridge in front of 

1523
01:27:06,920 --> 01:27:10,400
him at high speed, upright and 
too large to be a bear. 

1524
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:12,920
We didn't speak much about it 
after that. 

1525
01:27:13,680 --> 01:27:15,640
The decision was made to leave 
the area. 

1526
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:19,840
The experience remains vivid and
I've never returned to that part

1527
01:27:19,840 --> 01:27:22,000
of the Bitterroots. 
It was something beyond 

1528
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:26,160
explanation, Intelligent, 
territorial, and absolutely 

1529
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:32,520
real. 
June 16th, 2017 N Fork Area 

1530
01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:38,160
Salmon Chalice National Forest, 
Idaho In early June of 2017, 

1531
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:41,400
during a short getaway with my 
son, we travelled to the North 

1532
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,920
Fork region of Idaho, a remote 
area in the Salmon Chalice 

1533
01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:48,080
National Forest that I had 
visited as a teenager with my 

1534
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:52,200
father decades earlier. 
Back then we had experienced 

1535
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:55,880
some strange moments in the 
woods, odd sounds and unshakable

1536
01:27:55,880 --> 01:27:58,560
feeling of being watched, but 
nothing ever concrete. 

1537
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:02,080
Still, the memory stuck with me 
and after retiring from the 

1538
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:05,760
military I decided to return to 
the area and show my son the 

1539
01:28:05,760 --> 01:28:08,760
same deep woods that had made 
such a strong impression in my 

1540
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:11,480
youth. 
We arrived late in the evening 

1541
01:28:11,480 --> 01:28:14,320
after a long drive through 
winding back roads, much of 

1542
01:28:14,320 --> 01:28:17,280
which had been overgrown and 
rough from years of neglect. 

1543
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,560
The road climbed higher into the
mountains and by the time we 

1544
01:28:20,560 --> 01:28:23,320
reached the end of the drivable 
trail it was near dark. 

1545
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:26,640
The sky was clear with partial 
moonlight, and stars shimmered 

1546
01:28:26,640 --> 01:28:29,880
above the treetops. 
We were alone in a vast empty 

1547
01:28:29,880 --> 01:28:32,840
forest. 
After turning the truck around, 

1548
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,120
I left the engine off but kept 
the headlights on. 

1549
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,160
I began collecting large pine 
cones from the forest floor, 

1550
01:28:38,320 --> 01:28:41,320
about a foot long, ideal for 
Christmas decorations. 

1551
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:44,480
My son had already fallen asleep
in the passenger seat. 

1552
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:48,560
I moved slowly, appreciating the
quiet, but remained alert as 

1553
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,400
something about the place felt 
heavy. 

1554
01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:55,000
That's when I heard something 
from up the slope to my right, A

1555
01:28:55,000 --> 01:28:58,360
loud, pounding sound. 
Heavy, deliberate steps cut 

1556
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:00,680
through the stillness. 
It was fast. 

1557
01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:04,120
Whatever it was, it was big and 
coming downhill directly toward 

1558
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:07,280
my location. 
I froze in place, a surge of 

1559
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,800
fear hitting me instantly. 
It wasn't the same kind of fear 

1560
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:12,520
I'd felt with bears or mountain 
lions. 

1561
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:14,920
This was different, something 
primal. 

1562
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,880
I dropped the pine cones and ran
to the driver's side, fumbling 

1563
01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:22,320
with the door in my panic. 
Just as I fired up the engine, I

1564
01:29:22,320 --> 01:29:24,720
could hear the movement behind 
the truck closing in. 

1565
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:27,800
I slammed the gear shift into 
first and stomped the 

1566
01:29:27,800 --> 01:29:31,520
accelerator as the truck jumped 
forward. 

1567
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,480
I looked into the rear view 
mirror and in the dim red glow 

1568
01:29:34,480 --> 01:29:37,640
of the tail lights I caught a 
clearview of something standing 

1569
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:41,000
upright behind us. 
It was massive, dark, and 

1570
01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:44,240
covered in thick hair. 
The moonlight and Starlight was 

1571
01:29:44,240 --> 01:29:46,080
just enough to illuminate its 
form. 

1572
01:29:46,480 --> 01:29:49,720
There was no mistaking it. 
This thing was not a bear. 

1573
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:53,000
My heart was racing. 
The panic didn't fade. 

1574
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,120
As I speed down the narrow 
mountain Rd. 

1575
01:29:55,440 --> 01:29:57,400
I nearly lost control more than 
once. 

1576
01:29:57,920 --> 01:30:00,960
My son was confused and scared 
and I couldn't answer his 

1577
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:02,680
questions. 
I couldn't speak. 

1578
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:06,160
By the time we pulled into the 
small town of North Fork, the 

1579
01:30:06,160 --> 01:30:08,240
adrenaline had finally begun to 
wear off. 

1580
01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,280
As I sat there dazed, the events
of the night replayed in my mind

1581
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,760
over and over. 
When we returned to a relative's

1582
01:30:15,760 --> 01:30:19,040
home outside of Salmon, my son 
teased me, brushing the whole 

1583
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,600
thing off. 
But the fear I had felt wasn't 

1584
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,200
imagined. 
I had seen something that defied

1585
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,960
explanation. 
Throughout my life, I've 

1586
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,800
encountered plenty of wildlife. 
I spent time as a ranch 

1587
01:30:29,800 --> 01:30:33,360
caretaker near Flagstaff, AZ, 
where black bears and mountain 

1588
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:36,920
lions are a part of daily life. 
I've hiked remote trails in 

1589
01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,120
South Korea and the Bavarian 
Alps. 

1590
01:30:39,520 --> 01:30:43,160
I've camped in the Colorado high
country with my family and never

1591
01:30:43,160 --> 01:30:45,880
once felt the fear I felt that 
night in Idaho. 

1592
01:30:47,040 --> 01:30:50,080
Years later, my son still jokes 
about it, but I know what I 

1593
01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,560
experienced. 
Since then, I've read up on 

1594
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,920
Sasquatch sightings, especially 
ones in the Pacific Northwest 

1595
01:30:55,920 --> 01:30:59,160
and the Rockies. 
Some reports describe the same 

1596
01:30:59,160 --> 01:31:02,120
pounding footsteps, the 
overwhelming fear, and the 

1597
01:31:02,120 --> 01:31:05,560
figure in the shadows. 
Tall, upright, covered in hair, 

1598
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:09,600
and powerful beyond reason, That
night changed how I looked at 

1599
01:31:09,600 --> 01:31:12,120
the woods. 
I no longer enter remote areas 

1600
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:15,920
unarmed, and I never camp alone.
If I were to go back to that 

1601
01:31:15,920 --> 01:31:19,440
part of Idaho, I'd do so only in
the company of others and with 

1602
01:31:19,440 --> 01:31:22,600
proper precautions. 
I didn't go out looking for an 

1603
01:31:22,600 --> 01:31:25,720
encounter, but I had one, and it
has stayed with me every day 

1604
01:31:25,720 --> 01:31:30,400
since. 
March 17th, 2016. 

1605
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:32,280
Selway. 
Bitterroot Wilderness. 

1606
01:31:32,480 --> 01:31:34,160
Idaho. 
Montana Border. 

1607
01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:38,920
The encounter took place in mid 
March of 2016 during my time 

1608
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:42,400
working as a seasonal tour guide
and groundskeeper at a remote 

1609
01:31:42,400 --> 01:31:46,200
wilderness outpost overlooking a
portion of the Selway River in 

1610
01:31:46,200 --> 01:31:50,080
North Central Idaho. 
The site accessible only by boat

1611
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,520
and a narrow. 
Trail was part of a seasonal 

1612
01:31:52,520 --> 01:31:55,960
ecotourism program offering 
scenic and wildlife focused 

1613
01:31:55,960 --> 01:31:57,800
trips. 
In one of the least disturbed 

1614
01:31:57,800 --> 01:32:01,200
wilderness areas in the 
contiguous United States, the 

1615
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:05,080
area was as wild and remote as 
they come. 2 days. 

1616
01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,200
Before the incident, I had been 
assigned solo duty near the 

1617
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,280
staging point where guests 
arrived by boat before beginning

1618
01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:14,960
the hike up to the outpost. 
My task that day was basic 

1619
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:17,880
maintenance, sweeping out the 
visitor cabin and prepping 

1620
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:22,160
supplies for the next tour. 
During that time I began to 

1621
01:32:22,160 --> 01:32:25,200
notice something strange. 
Small rocks were bouncing down 

1622
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:28,160
the steep brush covered slope 
behind the building and hitting 

1623
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:31,640
the tin roof and wooden deck. 
At first I assumed it was just 

1624
01:32:31,640 --> 01:32:35,560
loose debris dislodging on its 
own, nothing unusual for an area

1625
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:37,320
with frequent freezing and 
thawing. 

1626
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:40,880
But it didn't stop. 
Over the next two days, this 

1627
01:32:40,880 --> 01:32:43,760
activity increased. 
The rocks came down more 

1628
01:32:43,760 --> 01:32:47,200
frequently and with more force, 
sometimes thudding into the 

1629
01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:50,640
outer walls of the structure. 
The terrain above the slope was 

1630
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:54,720
densely forested with no trails 
or clearings, making it unlikely

1631
01:32:54,720 --> 01:32:56,800
that wildlife or hikers were the
'cause. 

1632
01:32:57,360 --> 01:33:00,280
It was odd, unsettling, but I 
didn't mention it to the other 

1633
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:03,160
staff at the time. 
Then came the final tour day of 

1634
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,720
the week. 
I remember it well because the 

1635
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:09,000
sky was a heavy slate grey and 
the clouds sat low over the 

1636
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:11,040
Ridge lines. 
There were only two people 

1637
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:14,560
scheduled for the late afternoon
tour, a man and a woman, both in

1638
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:17,000
their 30s, who had travelled 
from California. 

1639
01:33:17,880 --> 01:33:20,240
After meeting them at the dock 
and helping them hike up the 

1640
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:23,040
overlooked platform, we reached 
the Ridge near the viewing 

1641
01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:27,520
station just before 4:00 PM. 
At the top, we paused to take in

1642
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:30,520
what little view was visible 
through the mist, nothing but 

1643
01:33:30,520 --> 01:33:32,680
endless layers of trees and 
Ridge lines. 

1644
01:33:33,560 --> 01:33:36,560
As we stood there talking 
quietly, a deep rustling caught 

1645
01:33:36,560 --> 01:33:39,800
our attention from the slope 
opposite the river Canyon about 

1646
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:43,120
200 yards away. 
The sound was low at first but 

1647
01:33:43,120 --> 01:33:46,800
quickly intensified, branches 
snapping, heavy footfalls, 

1648
01:33:47,040 --> 01:33:50,400
followed by a visible shaking of
large trees that lined A narrow,

1649
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:52,840
overgrown gully that dropped 
toward the river. 

1650
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:56,600
The male guest had a high zoom 
camera and began scanning the 

1651
01:33:56,600 --> 01:33:58,880
area while I stood frozen 
listening. 

1652
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:02,560
Then emerging from the brush 
along what looked like a 

1653
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:06,440
previously unnoticed game trail 
or slide path was a large 

1654
01:34:06,440 --> 01:34:10,160
upright figure. 
It moved fast on 2 legs with 

1655
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:13,080
long arms swinging fluidly in 
rhythm with each step. 

1656
01:34:13,600 --> 01:34:16,560
The whole sighting lasted barely
2 seconds before it disappeared 

1657
01:34:16,560 --> 01:34:19,760
again into thicker growth, but 
its scale and movement were 

1658
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:23,480
unmistakable. 
It was massive, dark and agile, 

1659
01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:26,440
covering steep terrain in long, 
purposeful strides. 

1660
01:34:27,280 --> 01:34:29,400
We couldn't see it after that, 
but we could still. 

1661
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,240
Hear it. 
The footfalls continued booming 

1662
01:34:32,320 --> 01:34:35,680
rhythmic impacts as it barrelled
downhill toward the river. 

1663
01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:39,600
Then suddenly, nothing. 
A dead silence settled over the 

1664
01:34:39,600 --> 01:34:42,680
forest. 
I ran to the storage shed to 

1665
01:34:42,680 --> 01:34:46,120
grab the emergency radio and 
contacted the crew stationed at 

1666
01:34:46,120 --> 01:34:49,440
the base near the boat. 
I reported what we had seen and 

1667
01:34:49,440 --> 01:34:52,960
requested immediate pick up. 
My supervisor came through the 

1668
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:56,040
channel telling me to remain 
inside the structure until the 

1669
01:34:56,040 --> 01:34:58,960
boat arrived. 
The two other guests remain calm

1670
01:34:58,960 --> 01:35:01,160
but clearly affected by what we 
witnessed. 

1671
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:05,200
I quit the job 2 weeks later. 
The thought of being alone on 

1672
01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:08,600
that Ridge again with only a 
radio and a knife for protection

1673
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:10,800
was something I couldn't bring 
myself to do. 

1674
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:14,920
That area is deep, uninhabited 
wilderness for miles in all 

1675
01:35:14,920 --> 01:35:17,760
directions. 
With no Rd. access and nothing 

1676
01:35:17,760 --> 01:35:21,320
but dense forest and rugged 
terrain surrounding it, it was, 

1677
01:35:21,320 --> 01:35:24,840
in retrospect, a perfect place 
for something to exist 

1678
01:35:24,920 --> 01:35:28,560
unnoticed. 
Jessica was camping with her two

1679
01:35:28,560 --> 01:35:30,440
friends. 
They were the only people at 

1680
01:35:30,440 --> 01:35:32,240
this particular campground that 
weekend. 

1681
01:35:32,840 --> 01:35:35,320
The girls pitched their tent and
enjoyed their evening. 

1682
01:35:35,840 --> 01:35:38,160
They settled down for the 
evening and went to sleep. 

1683
01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:42,680
Sometime during the night, 
something started howling around

1684
01:35:42,680 --> 01:35:45,840
their campsite. 
This woke up the 2 girls, but 

1685
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:48,600
Jessica continued to sleep, 
blissfully unaware of what was 

1686
01:35:48,600 --> 01:35:50,880
going on. 
The two girls were both 

1687
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:53,800
frightened because something was
outside, making all kinds of 

1688
01:35:53,800 --> 01:35:56,720
noise, howling, grunting, and 
circling their tent. 

1689
01:35:57,800 --> 01:36:00,000
Whenever it got close to where 
they were standing in their 

1690
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:01,840
tent, they would move to the 
other side. 

1691
01:36:02,440 --> 01:36:05,520
Her two friends meanwhile were 
watching well as Jessica was 

1692
01:36:05,520 --> 01:36:07,720
starting to be pushed by 
something from outside of the 

1693
01:36:07,720 --> 01:36:10,760
tent. 
Jessica was still sleeping while

1694
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:13,920
this was happening. 
The amazing thing was, whatever 

1695
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:16,360
it was made her turn over while 
she was sleeping. 

1696
01:36:16,760 --> 01:36:20,960
Jessica didn't wake up. 
The stranger continued to circle

1697
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,880
their camp and drop what they 
discovered to be in the morning,

1698
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:28,080
pine cones on top of their tent.
Eventually it left and the girls

1699
01:36:28,080 --> 01:36:29,760
did not sleep for the rest of 
the night. 

1700
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:32,560
About four in the morning, 
Jessica woke up. 

1701
01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:35,280
She heard weird howling far off 
in the woods. 

1702
01:36:36,200 --> 01:36:39,160
The next morning the girls left 
and were quite shaken by what 

1703
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:43,080
had transpired. 
It was in the late fall, just 

1704
01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,280
past midnight, when our next 
report happened. 

1705
01:36:45,880 --> 01:36:48,920
The witness was driving on Hwy. 
50 on her way to Sandy Bay, 

1706
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:52,800
Manitoba. 
As she was driving, she suddenly

1707
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:55,000
spotted something squatting on 
the side of the road. 

1708
01:36:55,480 --> 01:36:58,520
She swerved to miss it and at 
the same time turned to see what

1709
01:36:58,520 --> 01:37:01,760
it was. 
Her mouth went dry and her 

1710
01:37:01,760 --> 01:37:05,920
heartbeat faster as she realized
it was a Sabe, A Sasquatch. 

1711
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:08,880
It was holding something with 
both hands and eating it. 

1712
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:10,080
Perhaps Rd. 
Kill. 

1713
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:13,880
It seemed to move in slow motion
as it lifted its head to look up

1714
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:15,560
at her passing by in her 
vehicle. 

1715
01:37:16,320 --> 01:37:19,320
The witness looked directly into
its face, which was covered by 

1716
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:22,360
dark hair and its eyes appeared 
small and beady. 

1717
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:24,840
Its face reminded her of a 
gorilla. 

1718
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:28,600
It was swarmed by what appeared 
to be a cloud of mosquitoes. 

1719
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:31,560
It looked hunchback because of 
the way it was sitting on the 

1720
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:34,240
road. 
The sorbet appeared to show No 

1721
01:37:34,240 --> 01:37:37,960
Fear, even though she had almost
hit it as she passed it. 

1722
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:41,200
She swerved into the other lane 
and when she was about 75 feet 

1723
01:37:41,200 --> 01:37:43,680
away from where it was, she 
slammed on the brakes. 

1724
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:47,520
She turned back to look at the 
sorbet and that's when it stood 

1725
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:50,400
up on 2 legs, very fluidly and 
gracefully. 

1726
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:53,760
She screamed and stepped on the 
gas pedal, fearing it would 

1727
01:37:53,760 --> 01:37:56,320
approach her. 
She drove like a maniac to her 

1728
01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:58,840
family's home and told a 
relative what she had seen 

1729
01:37:58,960 --> 01:38:02,080
crying while she talked. 
The relative had difficulty 

1730
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:05,120
believing the incredible story, 
as do most people when they are 

1731
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:08,400
told these stories. 
She had a hard time sleeping 

1732
01:38:08,400 --> 01:38:10,800
that night. 
To this day, she doesn't drive 

1733
01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:13,720
alone at night on this highway, 
and she feels anxious when she 

1734
01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:18,560
drives through the area. 
The third story comes from an 

1735
01:38:18,560 --> 01:38:22,680
unusual setting, a honeymoon. 
Mary and Joe were on their 

1736
01:38:22,680 --> 01:38:25,480
honeymoon and stopped off the 
highway in Oregon's beautiful 

1737
01:38:25,480 --> 01:38:29,120
mountains to take a picture. 
They got out of the car and Joe 

1738
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:31,120
climbed up on an embankment and 
posed. 

1739
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:33,840
Mary snapped his picture and 
they carried on. 

1740
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:37,000
After returning home to 
Winnipeg, they started showing 

1741
01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:38,560
their honeymoon pictures to 
friends. 

1742
01:38:39,280 --> 01:38:42,280
One friend gasped at the picture
of Joe standing on the outcrop 

1743
01:38:42,520 --> 01:38:44,800
and asked if they were afraid of
what stood behind him. 

1744
01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:48,720
Unbeknownst to them, at the time
the picture was taken, a dark 

1745
01:38:48,720 --> 01:38:51,960
figure was standing behind him. 
Though this figure is some 

1746
01:38:51,960 --> 01:38:55,360
distance in the back of Joe, it 
still appears larger than he is.

1747
01:38:56,320 --> 01:38:59,680
Both Mary and Joe cannot 
remember any unusual smell or 

1748
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:03,560
seeing any tracks at the sight. 
It is possible they may have 

1749
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:06,560
stumbled onto the path of this 
Bigfoot and caught it off guard 

1750
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:09,200
and it curiously looked on for 
the moment the humans were 

1751
01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:13,360
there. 
A man from Alberta was visiting 

1752
01:39:13,360 --> 01:39:16,680
his relatives in BC when he and 
his cousin went swimming in a 

1753
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,800
remote area lake. 
His cousin Fred returned to 

1754
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:22,480
shore ahead of him while he 
continued swimming for a while. 

1755
01:39:23,120 --> 01:39:26,040
He decided to sneak up on his 
cousin and swim quietly just 

1756
01:39:26,040 --> 01:39:29,520
below the surface to shore, 
partly seeing what he thought 

1757
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:32,240
was Fred standing on the shore. 
He jumped out of the water to 

1758
01:39:32,240 --> 01:39:35,320
startle him, but instantly 
became startled himself. 

1759
01:39:35,920 --> 01:39:39,880
Before him stood a large hairy 
man figure between 7 and 8 feet 

1760
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:42,520
tall. 
He noticed it was very muscular 

1761
01:39:42,640 --> 01:39:44,560
but thoroughly covered with 
black hair. 

1762
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:48,000
He thought it looked eerily 
similar to a human. 

1763
01:39:48,640 --> 01:39:52,720
His cousin was nowhere insight. 
This encounter lasted only a few

1764
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:56,040
seconds as he and the creature 
startled each other and ran in 

1765
01:39:56,040 --> 01:39:59,280
opposite directions. 
He said he was not happy to have

1766
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,240
had this rare encounter and will
not return to that area. 

1767
01:40:05,000 --> 01:40:10,200
The Harrison Sasquatch in 
Mystery Valley in 1930. 5 S the 

1768
01:40:10,200 --> 01:40:13,080
story goes. 
Two hairy giants came leaping 

1769
01:40:13,080 --> 01:40:16,480
down the jagged, rocky hillside 
near Morris Valley and stored 

1770
01:40:16,480 --> 01:40:19,360
across the duck feeding grounds 
with the agility of mountain 

1771
01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:22,080
goats. 
The giants walked with an easy 

1772
01:40:22,080 --> 01:40:25,720
gait across the swampy flats and
at Morris Creek straddled a 

1773
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:28,080
floating log which they 
propelled with their hands and 

1774
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:30,120
huge feet. 
Across the stream to the 

1775
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:34,320
opposite side, Mr. Gustav 
Tifting of Agassi saw the 

1776
01:40:34,320 --> 01:40:37,240
footprints of a big hairy man 
sighted earlier, along with 

1777
01:40:37,240 --> 01:40:40,280
several others which were 
followed across the garden and 

1778
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:42,600
into the woods beyond where they
lost the tracks. 

1779
01:40:43,320 --> 01:40:46,760
The footprints were 16 inches 
long, 8 inches across the ball 

1780
01:40:46,760 --> 01:40:51,280
of the foot, 4 inches across the
heel, five toes, but no claw 

1781
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:53,320
marks. 
The distance between the 

1782
01:40:53,320 --> 01:40:56,480
footprints was 4 feet between 
toe and heel, all across the 

1783
01:40:56,480 --> 01:40:59,640
potato patch about two inches 
deep in the wet ground. 

1784
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:01,720
They were the shape of a human 
foot. 

1785
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:05,600
Two prospectors returned to 
Harrison Hot Springs in June 

1786
01:41:05,600 --> 01:41:10,080
1957 from a trip into the Wilds 
of Harrison Mountains and told 

1787
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:14,440
of sighting a huge creature on 
Spasm Glacier, 30 to 35 miles 

1788
01:41:14,440 --> 01:41:17,880
North East of Harrison. 
It had quite a human appearance.

1789
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:23,960
And so the story goes, keeping 
Bigfoot alive. 

1790
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:29,360
A story from a bow hunter in BC.
I had been out on my own for six

1791
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,560
months, living by competing at 
rodeos. 

1792
01:41:31,960 --> 01:41:35,160
I was just 16. 
I had just finished a rodeo in 

1793
01:41:35,160 --> 01:41:39,040
Washington and had a couple of 
100 bucks in my pocket. 3 fellow

1794
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:42,240
hands asked me to go with them 
on a canoe trip in BC to get 

1795
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:44,960
their winter meat. 
They were all BC natives. 

1796
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:49,520
They were Jim Palmentier, Kid 
Chatlin and Earl Condon. 

1797
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:53,040
Jim and Kid were sons of French 
trappers and native mothers. 

1798
01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:57,080
Earl was a full blood native. 
They had lots of equipment and 

1799
01:41:57,080 --> 01:41:59,760
knew the area north and east of 
Risk Creek. 

1800
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:03,760
We would launch the freighter 
canoes 20 feet long with 7 1/2 

1801
01:42:03,760 --> 01:42:07,120
ever room kickers at a place 
near Horsley east of Williams 

1802
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:10,160
Lake and go north and east from 
there up a string of lakes and 

1803
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:13,440
rivers. 
We took two canoes with 35 

1804
01:42:13,440 --> 01:42:17,040
gallons of spare gas, spare prop
and 100 shear pins. 

1805
01:42:17,640 --> 01:42:21,040
We had a tent in each canoe, a 
rifle and shotgun, 2 fishing 

1806
01:42:21,040 --> 01:42:24,400
rods, 1 tackle box, bed rolls 
and grub box. 

1807
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:27,640
We travelled light because we 
knew there would be portages and

1808
01:42:27,640 --> 01:42:30,720
since they were all native they 
could shoot anything as we went.

1809
01:42:31,560 --> 01:42:36,240
We had 20 lbs of flour, salt, 
pepper, tea, lard, pemmican and 

1810
01:42:36,240 --> 01:42:38,240
tobacco to give to natives we 
encountered. 

1811
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:41,400
My friends were from 20 to 23 
years old. 

1812
01:42:41,680 --> 01:42:44,400
I was the baby. 
The first two days were 

1813
01:42:44,400 --> 01:42:46,760
uneventful. 
We made good time and moved 

1814
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:48,800
steadily up a series of lakes 
and creeks. 

1815
01:42:49,760 --> 01:42:53,080
The first night we camped and an
abandoned mine of some sort and 

1816
01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:55,280
dined on fresh fish and rice and
beans. 

1817
01:42:56,000 --> 01:42:59,480
Day 2 the streams got narrower 
and swifter and we had two 

1818
01:42:59,480 --> 01:43:03,760
portages still. 
We made nearly 50 miles in our 

1819
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:08,000
canoe, Jim Pellmentier and I. 
We had a Winchester model 11030 

1820
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:10,560
Ought 6 and my 12 gauge model 
12. 

1821
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:13,120
Pump. 
Ducks and geese were everywhere 

1822
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:15,040
and we had those for dinner the 
second night. 

1823
01:43:15,240 --> 01:43:17,440
Fixed with some French name I 
can't recall. 

1824
01:43:18,040 --> 01:43:20,520
You can pick them, rub them with
lard and season them. 

1825
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:24,320
A green branch is bent in a yew 
and inserted in the cavity and 

1826
01:43:24,320 --> 01:43:25,840
they are suspended over the 
coals. 

1827
01:43:26,360 --> 01:43:30,600
Best duck I ever ate. 
On day three, Kidd and Earl in 

1828
01:43:30,600 --> 01:43:33,640
the lead canoe rounded a bend 
and shot a young moose of about 

1829
01:43:33,640 --> 01:43:36,760
£600. 
He spent 4 hours dressing and 

1830
01:43:36,760 --> 01:43:39,320
boning, cashing the meat on an 
elevated platform. 

1831
01:43:39,760 --> 01:43:43,080
It froze every night. 
We were at the base of a small 

1832
01:43:43,080 --> 01:43:46,560
lake and as we were working, 3 
canoes with natives came down 

1833
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,440
the lake at full speed. 
Kidd waved them in. 

1834
01:43:49,920 --> 01:43:53,240
There were four adult males and 
two baby teenagers and three 

1835
01:43:53,240 --> 01:43:55,800
adult women and one girl of 
about 10. 

1836
01:43:56,360 --> 01:43:58,480
I assumed they were an extended 
family. 

1837
01:43:59,880 --> 01:44:03,160
We gave them about 100 lbs of 
meat and some flour and tea and 

1838
01:44:03,160 --> 01:44:06,120
tobacco. 
They spoke no English, at least 

1839
01:44:06,120 --> 01:44:09,480
not in front of me, and I 
understood not one word except 

1840
01:44:09,480 --> 01:44:12,760
twice when one of the women said
Sasquatch and laughed twice. 

1841
01:44:13,440 --> 01:44:15,880
At the time I assumed she was 
making a joke for me. 

1842
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:19,320
They left after smoking with us 
and giving us three big 

1843
01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:23,760
whitefish and some pamikin. 
We took maybe 20 lbs of prime 

1844
01:44:23,760 --> 01:44:26,440
meat, cashing the rest under a 
tarp and some bark. 

1845
01:44:27,000 --> 01:44:29,200
The platform was standard cash 
for that area. 

1846
01:44:29,280 --> 01:44:33,000
About 12 feet off the ground. 
We went on, still heading north 

1847
01:44:33,000 --> 01:44:35,520
and east. 
We left the small lake and went 

1848
01:44:35,520 --> 01:44:38,160
through a shoot into another 
lake and then east into a 

1849
01:44:38,160 --> 01:44:41,360
smaller river. 
This stream was maybe 40 to 60 

1850
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:45,720
feet wide and medium swift. 
About 7:00 we started looking 

1851
01:44:45,720 --> 01:44:48,680
for a campsite and found one on 
the north bank in a bend of the 

1852
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:51,080
river. 
The right bank was covered with 

1853
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:54,720
boulders rounded by glaciation 
and current, but the Left Bank 

1854
01:44:54,720 --> 01:44:57,160
was clear with a flat area under
some trees. 

1855
01:44:57,800 --> 01:45:00,640
We were all tired and hit the 
sack before full dark. 

1856
01:45:01,360 --> 01:45:03,360
It doesn't get dark there until 
tomorrow. 

1857
01:45:04,320 --> 01:45:07,440
Sometime maybe two or three in 
the morning, Jim and I were 

1858
01:45:07,440 --> 01:45:09,720
awakened by a loud crash in the 
campsite. 

1859
01:45:10,440 --> 01:45:13,160
Thinking Bear, we grabbed our 
guns and kicked back the tent 

1860
01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:14,960
lap. 
Nothing. 

1861
01:45:15,480 --> 01:45:17,400
Jim had a flashlight and he 
turned it on. 

1862
01:45:17,960 --> 01:45:20,240
Earl and Kid were now out of 
their tent and armed. 

1863
01:45:20,920 --> 01:45:23,720
A boulder about the size and 
shape of a bowling ball had 

1864
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:26,240
destroyed our Dutch oven and 
part of the cook box. 

1865
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:30,080
We stood around trying to sort 
things out when a second boulder

1866
01:45:30,080 --> 01:45:32,360
hit Kid and Earl's tent dead 
center. 

1867
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:34,600
It came straight down through 
the trees. 

1868
01:45:35,360 --> 01:45:38,600
I was standing there, open mouth
when both Kid and Jim grabbed me

1869
01:45:38,600 --> 01:45:40,800
and Earl and drug us deeper into
the trees. 

1870
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:44,080
Naturally there was a lot of 
discussion, but I won't relate 

1871
01:45:44,080 --> 01:45:46,720
the tenor of that. 
We spent the rest of the short 

1872
01:45:46,720 --> 01:45:49,400
night in a circle, back-to-back,
safety's off. 

1873
01:45:50,120 --> 01:45:53,720
From time to time we would hear 
more rocks hit and once, just 

1874
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:56,840
once, some sort of strange 
hooting from the other side of 

1875
01:45:56,840 --> 01:46:00,240
the river. 
After sun up, we slowly crept 

1876
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:03,520
back to the camp. 
One tent was toast, as were the 

1877
01:46:03,520 --> 01:46:05,600
cook box and most of the cooking
equipment. 

1878
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:09,920
I counted nine rocks ranging in 
size from bowling ball to beach 

1879
01:46:09,920 --> 01:46:13,200
ball size. 
The largest weight, maybe 150 to

1880
01:46:13,200 --> 01:46:16,440
200 lbs. 
Fortunately the canoes were 

1881
01:46:16,440 --> 01:46:19,400
undamaged and we quickly pulled 
up camp and started out. 

1882
01:46:20,080 --> 01:46:22,640
We got to the meat cache that 
morning and it was gone. 

1883
01:46:23,080 --> 01:46:26,840
Not destroyed, gone totally, 
100% gone. 

1884
01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:30,320
No logs, no rope, no meat, no 
carcass. 

1885
01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:34,760
I have no opinion. 
We ran wide open going out and 

1886
01:46:34,760 --> 01:46:37,200
camped that night in the canoes 
in the middle of a lake. 

1887
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:41,120
Jim and Kid are now dead, killed
in a float plane crash some 

1888
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:43,600
years ago. 
Earl, I don't know about. 

1889
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:47,080
I am certain of only 5 things 
regarding that trip. 

1890
01:46:47,760 --> 01:46:51,080
Number one, those rocks were not
on the bank where we pitched 

1891
01:46:51,080 --> 01:46:55,040
camp when we pitched camp. 
Number 2, they were not carried 

1892
01:46:55,040 --> 01:47:01,840
into our camp, they were thrown 
#3 No human being did it #4 I 

1893
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:07,240
have no desire to ever again go 
into that country #5 I'm not a 

1894
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:10,560
believer or a skeptic, but I 
don't exactly discount much of 

1895
01:47:10,560 --> 01:47:14,760
which I don't understand. 
Try and throw 150 LB boulder 

1896
01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:17,760
across a 50 foot stream. 
I saw it done. 

1897
01:47:18,160 --> 01:47:22,680
I don't know what did it. 
Thanks for listening everyone. 

1898
01:47:23,080 --> 01:47:26,320
Don't forget my books are all 
for sale, audio and written. 

1899
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:28,360
The links are in the description
below. 

1900
01:47:28,880 --> 01:47:30,520
Thanks again. 
Take care.