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12 foot tall Bigfoot gives chase 40 year veteran Bigfoot
investigator Peter Gatila sent me a yellowed article published
in the Post Register Idaho Falls, ID.
It reported a most unusual encounter with Bigfoot by two
men from Jackson Hole, Teton County, Wyoming in 1980.
Robert Goodrich and Glenn Towner excitedly reported to
representatives of the Jackson Hole Police Department in
Jackson, WY that they were chased off Snow King Mountain by
a Bigfoot like creature that was, according to the witness
report, a full 12 feet tall with long dark hair and arms that
hung to the ground. The report said that the two men
were trying to visit a friend at his lean to on the mountain when
the encounter took place. There was concern for their
friend because he had not been seen for 1 1/2 weeks.
They decided to check on him around 3:00 in the morning, but
when the pair of would be rescuers got within a few yards
of their friends lean to, they met up with the 12 foot Bigfoot
instead. The report stated that the
creature breathed heavily and made a moaning kind of growl.
They described the creature as having a face as big as a stop
sign and said the 12 foot beast was hunchbacked.
The two men turned and ran, and the Bigfoot followed in hot
pursuit. The last time they saw the
creature, it was standing under the street light near the Ramada
Snow King Inn in Jackson. Police determined neither man
had been drinking. The report made no mention of
the fate of the man in the Lean to Ron Schaffner, 2000, and
Peter Gatila, March 21st, 2010. Other Chases There are several
more listings in the data describing A Sasquatch chasing
after various things, including people, cars, and recreational
vehicles. For unknown reasons.
It almost seems like the Sasquatch gets some sort of
perverse pleasure out of chasing and bluff charging or whatever
behavior scares the. Wits out of us, arm waving.
In 2009, two men hunting bullfrogs were reportedly chased
off a sandbar by a Sasquatch at the mouth of the Endless.
Brook that runs from Lake St. Catherine, Vt.
There were other witnesses to the incident watching from the
shore, who described the creature as enormous and wildly
waving its arms in a circular motion, yelling like Tarzan of
the Jungle. Hearing of the incident, the
owner of a rural. Cafe went to the site and poured
2 castings of a left and right footprint that measured 16
inches from toe to heel. According to the cafe owner, the
area is rich with the giant bullfrogs the locals enjoy
eating, marinated in garlic and lemon juice.
It is supposed that the big people also enjoy eating frog
legs. Readers may be surprised to
learn there's a very long history of Sasquatch sightings
in Vermont. In his book The First
Vermonters, former University of Vermont anthropologist William
Havilland remembered that the Abenaki Indians recounted
stories of a forest wanderer, a giant humanoid creature that
occasionally left footprints behind.
The accounts parallel Algonquin tales of the Wendigo, said to be
a hair covered cannibal giant. The Wendigo legend of hulking
hairy man beasts can be found throughout the New England
states among all Algonquin speaking people.
According to one early date Native American description of
the Wendigo. It is a giant thing, swift and
covered with hair. It has eyes like 2 pools of wild
fury. They say his smell is like
rotting meat. This description is similar to
reports today, except not all Bigfoot carry an odor.
Slapping his sides, a Sasquatch chases a coyote.
A description was sent to me recounting a coyote being chased
out of an Elm tree woodland area.
He never spoke to anyone about his 1980s incident until. 1996
while. Counting trees killed by Dutch
Elm disease, the former inspector for the Agriculture
Department reportedly observed a Bigfoot slapping his sides as he
galloped after a coyote. The inspector said the hair on
his head was wild looking, was dark brown, curly, and that
there was an unmistakable stench in the air that caused his nose
to run. If it was not a Bigfoot, if my
eyes deceived me, then it was a tall Wildman loose.
In the woods of the USA National Forest Reserve.
Wearing a bearskin coat on a day when the temperature outside was
96° of the coyote. I am sure it was not a fox, a
wolf, or a domestic canine. Charles AR 2002 chasing 2
Rottweilers. One more version like that
account was of a light brown, 8 to 10 foot tall Sasquatch
chasing a family's two yelping Rottweilers across the Quinault
River in Washington state in 1993.
The event casually told to me in 1998 by the late ISC
Secretariat. J Richard Greenwell named the
three observers Rich interviewed who argued over the height
estimate, which ranged from 8 feet to 10 feet tall.
He said the men were so ensconced in arguing over the
height of the Sasquatch that only one of the three noticed
other details, such as its color or whether it was male or
female. Rich grumbled in character.
The damn thing could have been deep purple or green with
stripes and they didn't notice. Richard Greenwell chasing a
rabbit. A West Virginia fish hatchery
management worker described watching a bellowing Bigfoot
haul in butt after something running in deep grass that he
couldn't make out, but thought it might have been a rabbit.
Apparently the Bigfoot was chasing whatever it was with
flying leaps out into the field, each time falling down by
regaining itself to continue the pursuit which lasted maybe 2
minutes before the worker went back in the building.
The Bigfoot was black haired, built well, but thin looking and
about 6 feet tall. DM 1996.
Jackson and Tulane Porter knew of several sightings, this one
also involving a rabbit. A fellow told them there was a
family of hairy giants seen crossing Stud Mill Rd. north of
Lower Sabeo Lake in northern Maine.
What made that behavior memorable was the hair giant was
carrying a horseshoe hair by the ears that was alive, kicking and
squealing, eating rabbit. East Coast Bigfoot author Bill
Bran posted an interesting article published in the Capital
Journal in Salem, OR, which said in part that Utah Wildlife
Division officials were investigating A sighting by
multiple witnesses. 8 North Ogden residents reported seeing
a 10 foot tall creature covered with a mantle of white hair
while they were hiking a Ridge at the head of the Weber
drainage between Past Lake and Kuberant Basin.
Witness Jay Barker told the Utah Conservation the group looked
down and observed the creature standing at the edge of a small
Alpine lake. It walked off after a youngster
in the group knocked a bunch of rocks loose.
The hikers found a dead rabbit near where the creature was
seen. It appeared to be skinned and
partially eaten. For all the confusion, disbelief
and opinions floating around, there are still great reports of
encounters with the Sasquatch that echo the same description.
West Coast through mid America to the eastern seaboard.
It appears there are no differences in descriptions, no
subspecies. If we accept that the Sasquatch
is a fully modern human with a few genetic differences that
cause the physical differences, then I think a subspecies can be
eliminated. Hudson Falls, NY Archaeologist
Dr. William Bill Bran, founder and director of Northern
Sasquatch Research Society, is an investigator, researcher and
co-author of the 1992 book Monsters of the Northwoods.
Along with Paul Bartholomew, Robert Bartholomew and Bruce
Hollenbeck. The book is one of two books
that speaks solely to the issue of Bigfoot in Eastern USA.
Bran filed a report with Bigfoot Encounters March 17th, 2000
regarding the creature alleged to have crossed the road in
front of a fire engine in Chimong County, New York.
The Eastern Sasquatch was described much like the Western
archetype, except this one in Bran's report was much thinner.
A portion of Doctor Brand's report read this way.
The man who put it out over the web was also the driver of the
car that almost hit the creature.
He is 29 year old Joe Sabin. He and his brother encountered
what they described as being a 7 foot £300 Bigfoot.
It was 9:00 PM. The creature moved.
From the left of the road, directly in front of a fire
truck. It was stooped at the shoulders
with arms swinging at its side. Dark in color, the entire siding
took exactly 3 or 4 seconds. The approximate speed of the
fire truck was 60 mph, so they nearly collided with the
Sasquatch at this point, he states.
I felt that I've seen something I shouldn't have, he and his
brother said almost simultaneously.
It's a Bigfoot it. Didn't look anything like the
one in the Patterson film. It was much leaner, resembling a
basketball player in a fur suit. I first thought it came out of
the cornfield by the side of the road, he said.
The next day he went back and found broken branches where it
came up. Out of the swamp, which also
borders this particular stretch of highway.
I feel he continued that the siren of the fire truck probably
spooked it. William Bran chasing salmon up
the Nisqually River, also from Washington state in 2001.
A Nisqually gentleman C1 Eye, nicknamed that after he lost his
right eye in a dark game with drunks, described a tribe of
Sasquatch chasing salmon up the Nisqually River.
They fish with their hands and take only what they can eat in a
day. You see them if you don't look
away, they are quick. It is not a good sign to see
once to tell by himself. It is a good sign to see a
family of the Satelle. They are the hidden ones who
guard the river. Salmon C1 eye 2001 Hair covering
Bigfoot's face In this example, the Sasquatch is described with
hair covering its face. This is a common description.
There are cases that describe hair draped over the forehead
and hair draped over or hanging in the face reported in Texas,
Missouri and Tennessee, and also in the Pacific Northwest.
Here's another example, this one out of New York, Chenango
County, South of Bainbridge, NY. My Bigfoot sighting occurred on
our dairy farm in Chenango County, South of Bainbridge, NY
in May 1961. I was 14 years old.
The sighting was around 1:00 PM in the afternoon in our farm
Hillside wood lot, which was made-up of primarily oak, Maple,
cherry and Beech trees. At the time, I was active in Boy
Scouts and having my own campsite was a priority.
I located my campsite next to a small spring.
Now to a 14 year old boy, this meant all the comforts of home
in a campsite. Plenty of wood for campfires,
plenty of water, and plenty of protection against the elements
in this section of woods. I was making my way to the
campsite when I heard a rustling noise at the spring.
I thought it might be a deer coming in for a drink, so I
moved as quietly as I could in the underbrush.
Instead of a deer about 50 to 100 feet from me, up rose this
coal black form looking directly at me.
At first I couldn't figure out what I was looking at.
My brain just couldn't sort it out.
It wasn't a bear in the shade of the trees.
Its eye reflected a brilliant yellow and its coat was shiny
black. Very broad shoulders, no neck to
speak of, and its head was rounded like a human's.
What bothered me was I could not discern a face.
It seemed covered in hair. The eyes seemed to be peeking
out of the hair that fell over its face.
Its arms were at its side and I could not see below its torso as
brush covered its lower half. So I could not see its hands or
feet. It had a very broad trunk.
It's estimated height was around 6 feet.
It just stood there swaying side to side looking at me as if to
say what am I looking at, just as I was.
It never made a sound. John Nichols Sasquatch runs
alongside. Vehicle Oregon City veteran
Sasquatch investigator Cliff Olson was able to recall for
this effort a story about a Sasquatch giving chase.
He. Wrote.
It might have been from Ray Crow's track record, but the
story goes that this older gal was driving South of Lapine,
Oregon on Hwy. 97 headed for Chilloquin when this Sasquatch
ran up alongside her vehicle on the shoulder side of the road
and was able to somewhat bend over while running and looked
into the window at her. The creature scared the bejesus
out of her. She speed the car up and the
Sasquatch veered off. Seems that there were other cars
on the road at the time too. Cliff Olson, Oregon City, OR.
The Track Record was a monthly newsletter Raycro published in
Hillsboro, OR, often referring to the newsletter as the TR
Track Record. Issue #1 was published in July
1991 and the final issue, 144, was published in December of
2004. Joe Bielhardt told me the Track
Record was sold April 30th, 2008.
Crow always reminded people to put on their skepticals when
they read his newsletter. I took his warning to heart and
put aside many a case simply because at the time I didn't
believe them. When I asked Ray about some of
the questionable reports he published, Ray told me great
entertainment, Bobby. I knew in that moment that Ray
had never seen a Sasquatch. Entertainment for me was the
last adjective I would have used to describe a Bigfoot sighting.
To raise credit, he worked tirelessly with his wife Theta,
famous for her Yeti spaghetti until her passing, to keep
Bigfoot research solvent in years when interest was low.
Ray was the muscle behind many of the West Coast conferences in
summertime every year, beginning with Bigfoot Days, an outdoor
gathering for Bigfooters generally held in Carson, WA for
five consecutive years, then in Hillsboro OR for another three
years, and finally four years worth of conference meetings in
Sweet Home OR where Vice President Patty Reinhold took
over reserving the park. All of Ray's events were
successful, including once a month dinner meetings that
included speakers and lively discussions at Dad's in Portland
and then home plate. Regulars included Trapper, Steve
Woody Woodruff, Doctors Ruth McFarland and Lloyd Sipes, Joel
Bielhardt, Henry Franzoni, Dr. W Henner, Fahrenbach, Rainy
Knight, Cliff Olson, Peter Byrne, John Cordell, Todd Neese,
Sally Newberry, Patty and Bob Reinhold.
Darr Addington, Datis Perry, Fred Bradshaw, Bill Harper, Rob
Butler, Dave Mann, plus others whose names I've probably
forgotten. So many are gone now.
The first meeting was in July 1991.
Guest speaker was Datis Perry. The first outdoor conference in
Carson, WA was in September 19th, 1992.
RIP Little talked about Gilgamesh and Beowulf.
The meeting included a trip over to the Ape Cave site, Mount
Saint Helens, Washington, August 1991.
The overwhelming opinion in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s
was that the Sasquatch was just an ape and shooting them was
permissible. Canadian newspaperman John Green
in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia, was the cause of that
heavy influence. But he was wrong.
Those that were in Green's camp were also wrong.
Why? Because the Sasquatch could not
be an ape and still be able to produce viable offspring with
Native American women. Humans can only reproduce A
viable offspring with other humans.
There is no hybrid human ape cross.
The Sasquatch must be human to a major extent for the early
stories of live births between the Sasquatch and Indian maidens
to be true. I puzzled over the majority of
the pH DS interacting with this research and others who swore
Bigfoot was real and that they were apes that evolved to walk
upright. No ape has evolved to walk
upright. No ape human cross exists.
The genetic makeup of each would need dramatic changes for that
to occur. So I puzzled over the insistence
of anthropologists and anatomy professors who, conference after
conference, postulated that hypothesis.
Humans cannot reproduce anything with an animal, apes in
particular. Green, of course, went about
demeaning government teacher JW Burns on his work for suggesting
there was any truth to the Chehalis stories of captive
Indian women giving birth. Again, Green was wrong.
According to the work of Doctor Ed Fuchs, PhD Beyond the work of
JW Burns, there are still living descendants of Sasquatch and
Indian couplings alive on the Coalville Indian Reservation
today. It wouldn't surprise me to find
Sasquatch DNA on other reservations, in particular the
Chehalis Reserves. But I digress.
Back to the Oregon Sasquatch types, I was recently reminded
that Cape Apes is a 200 year old Oregon coastline idiom for a
Sasquatch like life form. Who it was said frequented the
beaches of Coos Bay OR at low tide to harvest rich beds of
oysters, clams, mussels and other shellfish during certain
times of the year both at dawn and sunset.
The term Cape Apes was early white man slang.
The Indians watched from the dunes and learned from the
haired ones where the largest clam fields were located.
Other tribes often joined in the seasonal dig.
The hair covered giants were seen digging without a care and
then observed crushing shellfish between the palms of their
hands, picking out the shells, then eating the meat.
Some Cape Apes would break open the shells with their teeth, but
most open shellfish with a quick slice from their thumbnail.
I have these brief chase listings.
A white Sasquatch ran after departing Volkswagen Bug,
following it up a dirt Rd. in Texas at roughly 30 mph.
That was Arizona Bigfoot enthusiast Randall Chapman's
father, a story he told on discussion list back in late
1996. Ken Johalski cited an incident
where an off white Sasquatch that chased a group of kids off
a bike path not far from Jamestown, NY.
Djokovsky reported that during his own frightening encounter,
there was no smell associated with his sighting and no
vocalization, only heavy breathing and what sounded like
a low guttural growl and some form of what sounded to me to be
lip smacking. As time goes on, I've come to
realize that low tones that sound like growling as well as
heavy breathing and this lip smacking behaviour is apparently
a common notation by witnesses. Bears also smack their lips and
make mouth popping, tooth clacking noises in apparent
contrast to the Sasquatch. However, bears will eventually
wander into camp or make themselves known.
Sasquatches prefer to stay covert.
I don't know which I'd rather meet up with.
Maybe take a chance on the Sasquatch since bears are so
unpredictably vicious, especially sows with Cubs
attacking cars. In an article published in the
Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2002, long time researcher Mike
Quest, a resident of Moorhead, MN, is quoted as saying.
I think one of the main reasons why science doesn't take this
animal seriously is because we have labeled it a monster and
nobody is supposed to believe in monsters, He said.
If it had just been thought of as a new species of wildlife,
there would have been scientists out there looking for it.
Mike told a great story. It was one of the first he would
chronicle. It was about a car being
attacked by a Sasquatch. Captivated by the behavior of
the Sasquatch and made note of the reported conduct in an old
computer. Then in 2010, I found the
reference again to this unusual behavior.
Ever the investigator, Qwest tracked down a mechanic who told
his brother-in-law that he and his brother and his brother's
girlfriend were driving around in a wooded area near Vurgus,
Minnesota. Suddenly a hair covered creature
leapt out at them as they went by.
When they turned the car around to get another look at it, it
attacked their car. They later found a large dent in
the trunk lid. The description was typical
weight, approximately 300 lbs, standing 7 or 8 feet tall.
I wondered how anyone would explain a dent that size to
their insurance adjuster. An angry Sasquatch chased my
vehicle and with his first dented the trunk of my car.
Right. What insurance adjuster in their
right mind would believe that story?
Chasing and attacking a swarm of devil creatures?
Chase man. The Harry Culp story as told by
his daughter Virginia is fairly well known and being attacked by
hairy giants is worrisome. Here is just the pertinent
excerpt. Looking over the top of this
tree from where I stood, I could see out on Frederick's Sound
Cape of the Straight Light, the point of Vanderpot's Spit, and
turning a little to my left I could see Sukhoi Island, Kodiak
from the mouth of Wrangled Narrows.
Satisfied with that, I turned half round to get a back site on
some mountain peaks, and lying below me on the other side of
the Ridge from the ledge was the Half Moon Lake the Indian had
told me about. Right there, fellows, I got the
scare of my life. I hope to God I never see or go
through the likes of it again. Swarming up the Ridge toward me
from the lake were these most hideous creatures.
I couldn't call them anything but devils, as they were neither
man nor monkeys, yet looked like both.
They were entirely sexless, their bodies covered with long,
coarse hair except where the scabs and running sores had
replaced it. Each one seems to be reaching
out for me and striving to be the first to get me.
The air was full of their cries, and the stench from their sores
and bodies made me faint. I'd forgotten my broken gun and
tried to use it on the first ones and then I threw it at them
and turned and ran. God, how did I run?
I could feel their hot breath on my back, their long claw like
fingers scraped my back. The smell from their steaming
stinking bodies was making me sick while the noises they made
yelling, screaming and breathing drove me mad.
Reason left me. How I reached the canoe or how I
hung on to that piece of quartz is a mystery to me.
When I came to it was night and I was lying in the bottom of my
canoe, drifting between Thomas Bay and Sukhoi Island, cold,
hungry and crazy for a drink of water.
But only to satisfy the latter urge.
I started for Rangel and here I am.
You no doubt think I'm either crazy or lying.
All I can say is there is the quartz.
Never let me hear the name of Thomas Bay again, and for God's
sake, help me get away. Tomorrow on that boat.
So past Charlie from our lives, we put his story down as fantasy
caused by loneliness and morbid thought.
Harry D Culp via his daughter Virginia.
The Culp story is more of an account of Sasquatch attack
rather than a chase story. For me, the realism of it came
when I read his words. Stench from their sores and
bodies made me faint. That brought it home.
It would take a special kind of field man to soldier through an
ordeal like Harry Culp endured. Of interest.
Thomas Bay, Alaska gained the name Devil's Country when in
1900 people claimed to have seen devil creatures in the area.
The locals refer to it as Kushtika, a shape shifting
creature of Tlingit legend that can take the form of either man
or Otter. There have been older reports of
lives lost in untamed regions of Alaska.
I remember I was sent an old September 1930s issue of Sports
Afield magazine, which ran a blurb about a hairy giant the
Nalchina aboriginals called Gileac.
In the article it said the cannibal giant killed one of the
Indians and it left a sapling tree twisted to shreds as a sign
of what he had done. 13 years later, John Mcquire, known as
the Flying Dutchman, was in Dewilde's camp some 18 miles
down the Yukon from Ruby, Alaska, when he was attacked by
a Sasquatch. Mcquire fought back but later
died of internal injuries. Bob Betts acquired the story 1st
and then sent it to John Green. Many of these are very old
stories, but what it tells those of us in general research is
that the stories continue with no regard for time or calendar.
In 1920, Albert Petka died after fighting with an Alaskan bushman
that openly attacked him on the boat where he was living near
Nolato, Yukon, Koyukboro, Alaska.
Petka's dogs drove the bushmen off, but Pekka died later from
his injuries. One of the Tanana elders
reported 19 inch tracks crossing Berry Picking trail in northwest
Nolato, Alaska in 1996. Stride length was reportedly 5
foot lengths between the impressions in deep snow.
Snowmelt may account for some discrepancies in track length
measurements. In 1996, George Yellowhand was
fishing the Yukon with his brother when 2 male Bushmen
began throwing rocks from the banks.
Startled, if not completely astonished, the two brothers
watched the 2 black hair covered giants wade into the river up to
their waists, gathering rocks. As they waded toward the
brothers sitting in their John boat, the rocks gained
inaccuracy and the men finally realized their situation and
left the area. Yellowhand wrote that before
they noticed the two Bushmen, they heard loud whistling but
didn't know what. It was probably some strange
birds, but when the whistling stopped, the rocks begin flying.
They have not been back since. Yellowhand had no wish to talk
about it further, so upsetting was the subject.
It seems most of the brutal attacks occurred in years past.
We don't hear much about deliberate attacks anymore.
Are these attacks happening and just being covered up, perhaps
written off or blamed on bears? The Fred Beck attack story in
1924 I believe was in retaliation for the shooting of
a Sasquatch family member earlier in the day.
Be mindful of what you might be in for if you shoot one.
The Anchorage Daily News reported a teacher and his wife
at English Bay stated a hunter from Portlock failed to return
home. In 1949.
Giant man like tracks 18 inches long were found closing in on a
moose kill. Tracks were found indicating
signs of a struggle. The 18 inch man like tracks
headed up into the higher mountains.
Residents were afraid to talk about the incident there in
English Bay and eventually the village was abandoned, so great
was their fear, the journalist for Sports Afield magazine
reported. Gilliak, the cannibal giant,
killed one of the Indians in Nalchina Plateau, Alaska in
1930, according to Renee Dehindon.
The article said the sign Gilliak left behind were sapling
trees twisted to shreds. One end twisted left, the other
end twisted right. One could postulate that the
thick trees twisted into shreds may simply be a show of
strength. Or it could be a warning to
come. Meaning, notice what I can do to
this tree limb. I'm able to do it to you too.
A horrifying thought. Notice also that the mention of
tree twists is not a product of this new Internet generation.
Apparently it goes back to the 1930s and maybe further.
Little is understood about the branch twisting or the snapping
off of the tops of trees. Some of them might be way.
Markers, or perhaps a release of frustrations or a message,
meaning see what I can do. Blaming the broken top of a tree
on weather conditions doesn't always work, especially when
only one or two trees among many trees are tipped, the others
untouched. Some of the First Nation people
call the broken top trees a sign of the black giants.
To the Danaya Ine people of the Chickaloon region, Gileic was
not a legendary creature. Their fathers grandfathers told
them he was a reality and they spoke of the Gileac people with
all the same realities as the bear and wolf.
Gileac, they said, was a shaggy haired giant who wore a little
hat and ate men, women and children.
So goes their folklore. And according to the
Athabascans, Gileac doesn't molest white men.
The journalist for the Sports Afield article was Russell
Annabelle. He stated it this way.
The Gilex are a remote tribe of native people of Siberian
ancestry who claim that there are animals inhabiting the
frozen forests of Siberia that have human feelings and travel
in family units. However, in 2005, Ken Howell of
Quemato, New Mexico, wrote Russell Annabelle, a neighbor
when I lived in Alaska, was a facile, skillful writer of pure
fiction. His adventures were creations of
a fertile imagination fed by others experiences.
I like to think of 1's imagination as his intelligence
having a bit of fun. At any rate, perhaps Mr. Howell
was a skeptic when it comes to stories of the haired primitives
because I find it hard to understand how Russell Annabelle
could fabricate a truth as regards tree twists in the
1930s. Eighty years later we are still
finding twisted tree limbs and tree trunks.
Was Annabelle a liar? I think not.
The Alaskan Danina, also the Tanena, are people whose
traditions are not unique to them alone.
Many First Nations and Native Americans have similar stories
of kidnappings, killings and wars that broke up between them
and the herd ancients. They are not difficult to
believe, so I am hard pressed to think the Gileak stories untrue,
the Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, Great Britain's Prime
Minister in the early 1940s, said of Arthurian legends.
They are all true. If they are not, they ought to
be from time to time. I think that applicable to what
we hear. About the Sasquatch or not as
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Thank you. In the fall of 1998, a resident
in a rural area outside Grants Pass OR reported seeing a large,
unknown creature near the edge of a field while walking a
neighbour's dog through the woods.
The dog, a German shepherd, had wandered from its home and was
known to visit the witness's property.
Instead of taking the road, the witness chose to return the dog
by walking a wooded trail that led into a clearing next to a
farmer's field. As they entered the clearing,
the dog became uneasy. It repeatedly wind and pushed
against the witness's legs, showing clear signs of not
wanting to proceed. This behaviour occurred several
times, prompting the witness to pay closer attention to the
surroundings. On the far side of the field,
near a break in a wire fence close to an old household
garbage dump, the witness saw a creature crouched low to the
ground. It appeared to be reaching
through the fence towards the trash.
The creature was completely covered in dark hair and had a
large frame. Although it was hunched down, it
still matched the height of a nearby fence post, indicating it
was quite tall even in a crouched position.
It seemed focused on the trash and did not appear to notice the
witness or the dog. Without drawing attention, the
witness turned and quickly walked back to the road, leading
the dog home using the road instead of the trail.
No sounds were heard during the sighting and there were no other
people present at the time. The witness noted that this was
not the only strange occurrence in the area.
Around the time of a severe storm and flooding the year
before, there had been a number of unusual events.
Some locals believe the flooding may have driven wildlife from
the mountains down into the valleys.
In a separate incident, while hunting near an old Girl Scout
camp, the witness reported hearing a loud vocalisation in
the woods that resembled monkey like sounds.
This sound was strong enough to scare one of the hunting
partners, who immediately suggested they leave the area.
There were also past reports from others in the area of
stones being thrown late at night and sightings of tall
forms moving through the woods. One night, the witness recalled
seeing a shape pass in front of a window, blocking it
completely. A family member claimed to see
glowing red eyes during the same event.
This event occurred in a remote part of Humboldt County,
California, close to the Six Rivers National Forest.
The area is elevated and thickly wooded, mostly with Douglas fir
and Redwood. The undergrowth includes heavy
patches of huckleberry and manzanita, making visibility
difficult beyond a short distance.
Early one morning in late October, the witness left their
home to go bow hunting. The plan was to reach a spot
roughly half a mile from the house, where signs of deer had
recently been observed and the dry ground made the forest floor
loud under foot. There was no wind.
About 200 yards from the hunting stand, while still dark, the
witness heard a loud howl. The sound was unfamiliar and
unsettling. Though initially brushed off as
a possible wild dog or a coyote, the sound was unlike any known
animal in the area. Once positioned in the tree
stand, the witness waited quietly.
As daylight broke, a group of 4 deer ran past, appearing to be
startled or fleeing from something.
The deer moved quickly and came within a short distance of the
stand. Not long after, the witness
heard more movement approaching through the undergrowth.
The sound was unusual, different in rhythm and weight from
typical animal movement. Through the dense foliage,
flashes of brown hair were visible.
A tall bipedal creature, estimated to be 7 to 8 feet in
height, emerged. It had matted dark hair covering
its body and moving rapidly past the stand without stopping.
A few moments later, more noise came from the same direction.
Two additional creatures approached at a fast pace. 1 was
noticeably smaller than the first and appeared to be
carrying a smaller creature, possibly a juvenile.
These two stopped briefly, allowing for a clearer view,
before following in the direction of the first.
After the activity ended, the witness remained in the stand
for some time. A strong, unpleasant odor
resembling rotting garbage lingered in the area.
When the witness felt safe again, he climbed down and
returned home. The location has not been
revisited since that morning. Following the incident, other
signs suggesting the presence of these creatures had been noted
in the same general area. The witness believes that this
part of the forest may support an ongoing presence of these
creatures. In the summer of 2012, a young
witness was staying at a family owned cabin in the Blue Ridge
Mountains of Virginia. The cabin, built decades ago,
stood on a wooden slope accessed by a long gravel driveway.
It had three floors and a raised front porch that sat a few feet
above the ground. The surrounding forest was dense
and quiet, often used by the family for hiking and climbing.
The witness, who was around 8 years old at the time, was
sleeping in a room near the front door.
It was late around midnight, and the rest of the family had
already gone to bed. The night was still, and the
only sound came from the usual creaks of the old cabin.
While trying to fall asleep, the child heard something outside.
It wasn't the usual groaning of wood or wind through the trees.
It was heavy stomping, uneven and slow, with a dragging sound
between steps. The stomping came from the porch
just outside the window. Although the window curtain
blocked a Clearview, the moonlight hit in a way that made
any passing shadow visible. As the witness watched a large,
upright creature move slowly past the window.
It slumped forward as it walked. Its height was estimated between
5 and 6 1/2 feet. It's head looked larger.
Than a human's and it's shoulders were very broad.
The creature made no sound other than the weight of its steps on
the old wooden porch. Frightened and unsure of what
was outside, the witness stayed silent and pulled the blanket
over their head until they eventually fell asleep.
The next morning, the witness went out to the porch to see if
anything had been left behind. Near the end of the porch, close
to the window, a single large footprint was clearly visible.
The rest of the porch was clean, which made the mark stand out.
The print was surrounded by a patch of dirt and grass.
There were no other footprints. This was the only physical sign
left behind. The creature had not made any
vocal sounds or returned. No damage was done to the cabin.
And no one else in the family reported hearing anything
unusual that night. The witness never told their
relatives about the incident, but shared it with a few friends
later on. The creatures broad build,
dragging steps, and the single footprint matched common
descriptions of what many believe to be a Bigfoot.
In the summer of 1965, a witness reported a close encounter with
an unknown creature while attending a Thursday night bingo
event with their mother in a small town outside Asheville,
NC. The location was a local
community hall known for hosting various events, including
shooting matches. Behind the building was a target
box used during these matches, and the area around it was dimly
lit by a few exterior lights on the building.
The witness, then about 13 years old, was outside playing with
other children. While hiding during the game,
the witness backed against the edge of the wooden target box
and unintentionally made contact with something large standing
behind it. Turning to look, the witness saw
a creature that stood just over 5 feet.
It had a human like shape but was covered in long rough hair
that hung in strands similar in texture to the hair on the lower
legs of draft horses. It did not appear bulky, but was
solidly built. The most noticeable detail aside
from the hair was the strong scent that came from the
creature. The smell was sharp and musky,
like animal sweat mixed with the odor of deer during the rutting
season. It was intense enough to be
remembered clearly even decades later.
The creature did not make any noise or react in any visible
way. The witness ran from the area in
fear and told others. When some of the group returned
to the spot, there was no sign of the creature.
No physical evidence was found and no one else reported seeing
or hearing anything unusual. The location was near a
populated area and not far from roads and homes for many years.
The witness dismissed the event as a misunderstanding, thinking
such creatures could not be found in such places.
However, the details of the sighting, the appearance, smell
and silence of the creature remain clear in his memory.
On the morning of January 22nd, 2020, at approximately 8:30, AMA
man sitting in a fourth floor apartment observed an unusual
wildlife event through the window.
The temperature outside was between 28 and 30°, with snow on
the ground and a light wind under overcast skies.
The witness first noticed a group of 15 adult wild turkeys
quickly moving down a hill beside the apartment building.
Although it was normal to see a few turkeys in the area, that
many at once was unusual. The birds did not appear to be
running, but their movement was quicker than normal.
A few minutes later, 3 deer came down the same hill, moving in a
similar manner, faster than a walk, but not at a full run.
The number of turkeys caught the witnesses attention, but the
deer seemed less surprising. The turkeys crossed a nearby
parking lot and disappeared behind a church at the edge of
the property. The deer followed shortly
afterward. Within 5 minutes of the animals
leaving the area, the witness noticed motion again on the
hillside. At first it was just a glimpse
in his peripheral vision, but when he turned to look.
He saw a large hairy creature near the top of the hill.
The creature was first moving on all fours, covering ground
quickly with only a few strides. When it reached the top of the
hill, it rose onto 2 legs and ran into the wooded area nearby.
It did not stand completely upright, its posture was forward
leaning, but it was clearly bipedal.
The sighting lasted for about 7 seconds.
The creature was dark coloured and very large, with thick hair
covering its body. Its movement was fast and
strong, and it disappeared into the trees at the edge of the
field. The area where the sighting
occurred is close to South Hills Park, which contains forested
areas and local wildlife. The witness, who had years of
experience hunting in the Allegheny Mountains and had
worked over 2 decades in law enforcement, stated he had never
seen an animal like this. Based on his training and
background, he could not identify the creature.
He compared its body type and movement to a gorilla, although
the location and behaviour did not match any known species in
the region. Based on the sequence of events,
he believed the creature may have startled or chased the
turkeys and deer from the woods. It possibly followed them too
far and then quickly returned to cover after it had realized it
had moved into a more developed area.
No other sightings were reported that day, and no physical
evidence was found afterward. The encounter remains
unexplained. In July 2007, a witness and her
friend were sitting along a cleared pipeline corridor
outside Bozeman Mt. The area was surrounded by
forest and they were resting during a hike.
It was quiet until they began to hear an unusual sound.
The noise was similar to what a large bird might make, a loud
call echoing through the trees. A short time after the first
call, they heard another sound that resembled wood striking
against wood. This second noise repeated at
regular intervals and seemed to alternate with the bird like
calls. The sounds continued for around
20 minutes, growing louder and seeming to come from the same
spot nearby. The two individuals stood to
look toward the source and that's when they saw the
creature. It was standing just inside the
tree line, about 20 yards away. The creature was tall, roughly 7
feet, and had a build similar to a human but with longer arms.
It was covered in long, rough grey hair, estimated to be two
to four inches in length. Its posture was upright.
The face was not clearly visible due to distance, but no facial
features stood out as overly threatening or extreme.
As soon as the creature noticed the humans, it turned and ran
into the forest, moving directly uphill.
It did not weave or hesitate, but went straight through.
Thick vegetation, trees and brush cracked and snapped as it
moved through them, not slowing down for obstacles.
The witness glanced back multiple times while retreating
and saw it continuing in a straight path up the slope
toward a road nearby. Years later, during a visit to a
wax museum in Niagara Falls, the witness saw a life-size display
labeled as Bigfoot. The body shape and hair were
similar to what they'd seen that day in the woods.
The only difference was the face.
The museum version had exaggerated features, including
large, pointed teeth and an aggressive expression.
The creature observed in Montana did not display those features.
Its face remained unclear, but there were no visible signs of
sharp teeth or hostility. No tracks or physical evidence
were collected at the time, and no follow up sightings were
reported from that location. The encounter lasted only a few
moments, but involved both sound and a clearview of the
creature's body. The witness, familiar with local
wildlife, could not match the appearance or behaviour to any
known species. On the evening of August 14th,
2016, a young woman was sitting outside her home near Flagstaff,
AZ. The property was bordered by
forest and she was having a conversation with her boyfriend.
During this time, she heard movement in the trees beside the
house. At first the sound was dismissed
as likely coming from a local animal.
About 20 minutes later, she noticed a strong, strange smell
in the air. It was at that moment she looked
toward the field that stretched out from the edge of the woods.
In the middle of the field stood a large creature estimated to be
between 8:00 and 9:00 feet tall. It was massive in build and
covered head to toe in dark brown or black hair.
The creature was standing upright.
Its face appeared to have some human like structure, but did
not fully resemble a human or any known animal.
Startled by what she saw, she ran inside, locked the doors and
shut her blinds. Her sudden reaction alarmed her
family, although they didn't see the creature themselves.
Her mother later went outside with a flashlight and scanned
the area, but found nothing unusual at the time.
The next morning, she and a cousin went outside to look
around the property in daylight. They found patches of flattened
grass in the field and three separate areas inside the nearby
woods where vegetation had been disturbed.
Tracks were visible leading deeper into the trees.
The prints were spaced in a way that suggested a large stride.
Despite their curiosity, both chose not to follow the tracks
further into the forest due to the uneasiness left by the
encounter. No sounds were heard from the
creature during the sighting. It did not make any gestures or
movements before she ran. Its behaviour appeared passive,
but its presence alone was alarming.
The location was quiet for the rest of the night and no further
activity was reported in the following days.
The creatures height, body shape, and full hair coverage,
along with the strange smell and the physical evidence left
behind were all noted by the witness and her cousin.
On the morning of October 9th, 2021, a hunter had a brief but
clear sighting of an unknown creature while in his tree stand
near the Washington National Forest in western Arkansas.
He had settled in by 4:30 AM and noted how silent and still the
forest was. There were no typical early
morning animal sounds. Around 5:00 AM, he heard a loud
cracking noise that resembled a log striking another log.
At first he assumed it might be related to a construction site
located farther up the hill. By 5:20 AM, he began hearing
something walking in the woods coming from behind and to his
left. The steps came from near the top
of the Ridge above him. He was positioned about 1/4 of
the way up the hillside. The sound of The Walking pattern
was clearly bipedal. His first thought was that
someone was trespassing and interfering with his hunt.
As The Walking continued, the sky had lightened just enough
that he could see a silhouette moving along the top of the
Ridge. He raised his binoculars to get
a better view and realized the shape was not human.
What he saw was a large creature walking upright.
It stood approximately 7 1/2 feet tall and was massive,
likely around 650 lbs based on its body structure.
Its hair was dark brown or black and looked to be about two
inches long. The creature's arms were long
and its hands hung noticeably below the level of its knees.
The hunter was not able to see facial details due to the early
morning light and distance. After a few seconds, the
creature suddenly moved and disappeared into a dense patch
of grapevines nearby. It crossed the visible area in
only three strides. The sighting only lasted about
15 seconds from the time he first saw the creature to the
moment it vanished into the thicket.
No sounds were made by the creature during the sighting
beyond its footsteps. The hunter did not report any
strong odor or additional disturbances after the event.
The creature size, posture, and movement did not match any known
wildlife native to the area. In November 1988, a hunter
experienced A brief but significant encounter with an
unknown creature while preparing for a hunt near Eugene, OR.
The location was just off a dirt Rd. bordered by steep hills and
thick brush. The time was around 5:30 AM.
It was clear, cold and still dark when the hunter arrived and
parked his vehicle near the base of a wooded hillside.
After stepping out and opening the back of the vehicle to
gather his gear, he heard a sudden noise about 20 yards
ahead and slightly to his right. The sound came from a dense
patch of vegetation at the base of the hill.
Within seconds, a large, broad creature rose from the thicket
and quickly moved uphill. The creature's body was tall and
human shaped, but much larger than a person.
Its movements were strong and fast, and it crossed the steep
slope in only a few seconds before disappearing from view.
The witness did not see facial features or fine details due to
the darkness and quick motion, but the body shape and size
stood out clearly and appeared upright and massive.
After the sighting, the hunter waited until daylight before
entering the woods and spent the rest of the day in his tree
stand without any further activity.
The area was not remote wilderness, but a series of
wooded hills and thick brush patches near residential
neighborhoods and public Parkland.
The witness had haunted and explored these woods since he
was a child and was very familiar with the terrain.
He had not seen anything like this creature before.
He also recalled a past event from childhood when he and a
group of friends were walking through the same area and had
rocks thrown at them from a nearby hillside.
He later questioned whether that earlier event might have been
connected to the creature sighting.
Years after the sighting, the witness read reports of similar
encounters from nearby areas and began to reconsider what he saw.
Though he rarely spoke of the incident, the details of the
creature's appearance and speed remained clear in his memory.
In October of 1999, a resident in Missoula, Mt reported seeing
a large, unknown creature at night.
The time was around 9:00 PM and the witness was outside on the
back porch of their home. The night was clear and
visibility was good under the moonlight.
After being outside for only a couple of minutes, the witness
heard a loud, high pitched screech coming from the
neighbour's yard approximately 30 yards away.
The sound was unusual and stood out sharply in the quiet night.
Immediately after the sound, the witness saw a large, upright
creature moving quickly through the yard.
It was tall, estimated to be between 8:00 and 9:00 feet in
height, and appeared white in colour, which was easily visible
against the darker surroundings. The creature was running and had
its head turned slightly toward the witness.
Though the face could not be seen in detail, the general
shape of the head and shoulders was visible and its outline was
darker against the white hair or fur that covered the rest of its
body. Its motion was fast and fluid as
it crossed the neighbour's property and entered a wooded
area behind the witnesses home. After it disappeared into the
trees, the sound of it moving through the woods continued for
about 10 to 15 seconds. Branches and brush could be
heard breaking as the creature moved deeper into the forest.
The witness alarmed by the experience.
Quickly went back inside and did not return outside that night.
There was no further activity reported in the area that night
and no evidence was found the following day.
In July 1985, a witness and a friend were exploring a wooded
area near the edge of Springfield, MO.
They had often hiked these. Woods and were familiar with the
trails and wildlife. On this morning around 9:00 AM,
they followed a familiar path that led about 400 yards into
the forest to the rim of a steep hollow to descend safely.
They used ropes as the slope was too steep to walk without help.
Once they reached the bottom, they began walking through a
section of the hollow that hadn't been explored before.
The area was thick with vines, young trees and fallen logs.
As they moved quietly through the woods, they approached a
large downed tree covered in growth.
The log was around 80 to 100 feet long and raised about 3 to
4 feet off the ground because of its crown.
They had just reached the base of it when they noticed a humped
shape in the brush about 10 feet ahead of them.
It was covered in brown hair or fur and partially hidden by
vines and saplings. At first they thought it had to
be a bear, which some people had occasionally reported in the
area. They froze in place, watching it
closely. The creature was not moving, and
it appeared still enough that they considered it might be
injured. The witness decided they should
leave and inform someone, but just as they began to turn
around, the creature stood up. When upright, it was clearly at
least 2 feet taller than both of them, who were about 5 feet 5
inches at the time. That put the creature at around
7 foot 5. It didn't have the shape of a
bear. Its body was muscular and broad
with sloping shoulders. It stood on 2 legs and
immediately ran off through the brush.
It moved quickly, covering an estimated 20 yards in a matter
of seconds, crashing loudly through trees and undergrowth.
The direction it ran LED toward a road that divided the hollow.
The other side of the road had a steep incline and more
continuous tree cover. The two left the area in fear
and climbed out using the ropes without looking back.
They did not talk about what happened until days later.
Eventually, they returned to the same location with three other
people. At the site, they found a large,
clear space behind the tangler brush where the creature had
been. The ground was covered in thick
layers of leaves and no tracks, human, hoofed or otherwise, were
visible. The creature's speed, upright
movement, and size did not match any known animal to the witness.
The body was not shaped like a bear, nor did it resemble a deer
or large dog. No scent was noticed during the
sighting, but the sound it made crashing through the woods was
loud and distinct. Nothing else unusual was found
in the area during the return visit, and no additional
sightings were reported by others nearby.
The witness did not discuss the incident further outside of that
summer. In the summer of 1988, a group
of teenagers working on a hay crew had a sighting of an
unknown creature near Coos Bay, OR.
The location was a field and wooded Ridge overlooking an old
industrial site once used for mushroom harvesting.
The area sat just off a dirt Rd. that ran parallel to the field,
surrounded by forest and rolling hills.
At the time, the group was about 2/3 finish loading hay onto a
wagon. One of the teens glanced across
the road and noticed a large, upright creature standing near a
tree. It appeared to be between 7:00
and 8:00 feet, which was later estimated by comparing its
height to the nearby tree. The creature stood still with
its arms hanging straight by its sides and looked in the
direction of the group. The tractor was shut off and
everyone stopped working to watch the creature.
It did not move aggressively or make any sound.
After about two minutes, it turned and walked away at a
steady pace, staying upright on 2 legs.
It disappeared into the woods without making any signs of
distress or leaving any noticeable tracks from that
distance. The boys shared the event later
that day with family and classmates, but no one took the
report seriously. The local area was well known to
the witness, who had grown up hunting and hiking in those same
fields and forests over the years.
He recalled hearing strange vocalizations in the woods, long
howls, cries or moaning sounds that were difficult to explain.
These sounds had caused unease on more than one occasion,
especially during early morning or evening hours.
No follow up sightings or investigations occurred at the
time. The creature made no threats or
gestures, and there was no signs of damage or tracks left behind
in the field. Its body was large, upright and
quiet, and it moved confidently into the surrounding trees.
In May 2003, two individuals were exploring an old strip
mining area near the edge of Butte, Mt.
The site was near a group of abandoned underground tunnels.
These. Tunnels, originally part of a
coal mining operation, had been converted decades earlier into
controlled environments for mushroom cultivation.
By this time, they were no longer in use and had been left
vacant. While walking near the entrance
to one of these tunnels, the pair.
Heard a loud groaning sound echoing through the area.
Concerned that someone might be injured inside the mines, they
moved closer to investigate. As they approached, they saw a
large creature standing nearby. It had a heavy build and was
covered in medium length dirty brown hair.
One of them shouted, expecting the animal to flee.
Instead, the creature turned and looked directly at them.
It did not act aggressively, but quickly turned and ran and moved
on 2 legs and covered ground fast.
The creature was estimated to be just over 6 feet tall with a
wide frame and strong. Bulky body similar to that of a
heavyweight athlete. The hair was.
Uneven and matted in places, but not extremely long after the
creature disappeared, the witnesses spent around an hour
searching the area and checking the nearby tunnels.
But they did not see it. Again, no tracks or physical
signs were found. The animal made no vocal sounds
after the initial groan and left without incident.
In early February 1991, a hunter experienced a close range
sighting of an unknown. Creature while grouse hunting in
the mountains outside Missoula Mt.
The location was in a state managed wildlife area with.
Steep terrain and deep winter snow.
At the time of the encounter, the snow was 10 to 12 inches
deep and had a layer of ice roughly half an inch on top.
Walking through it required effort.
The hunter had shot a grouse on the top Ridge of the mountain,
about 3/4 of a mile from where the hike had begun.
His hunting partner was 75 yards away when the bird was taken
down and took him a while to reach him due to the conditions.
After meeting briefly, the partner returned along a trail
toward the Access Rd. while the hunter stayed behind.
After the sound of his friend's footsteps faded, the hunter
turned to look across the Ridge they had just come up.
At that moment, he saw a large, dark creature running along the
ridgeline and moved across the Ridge for roughly 50 to 100
yards before pausing in an open section of trees.
Then it turned and changed direction toward him.
The creature crossed a difficult, icy slope of about
100 to 150 yards in what seemed to be only a few minutes.
It moved with surprising speed and power, covering the distance
easily while the hunter remained frozen in place.
The animal came within 40 to 50 feet and stopped staring
silently at the hunter for one to two minutes.
It made no noise, showed no signs of being out of breath and
it's breathing was not visible even in the cold air.
The hunter was wearing a blaze orange hunting suit, and he
believed the creature spotted the colour when it paused on the
Ridge. After seeing him, it ran faster
in his direction as if it was investigating.
When it reached the closer distance, it stopped and held
its position calmly. The hunter raised his shotgun
out of fear, but the creature did not react.
It showed No Fear or aggression. After the short stand off, it
turned and walked back in the direction it came from, glancing
back once before disappearing into the trees.
The animal was entirely black, with long, thick hair that it
made its face hard to see. It stood around 7 to 7 1/2 feet
tall and was estimated to weigh between 4 and 500 lbs.
Its movements showed strength and balance that seemed
unaffected by the icy snow, which was especially noticeable
because even walking was difficult for a human in those
conditions. Later, when the hunter described
the encounter to his friend, the friend attempted to run a short
distance in the flat Rd. nearby and fell within three steps,
showing how tough the surface was to move across.
No other sightings or physical signs were found in the area
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