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Welcome to the Bigfoot Project. 
Get cozy, dim the lights, and 

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make yourself comfortable. 
Tonight's stories come from 

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people who claim they came face 
to face with something waiting 

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in the darkness. 
Most stories come through 

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Bigfoot encounters, website and 
word of mouth. 

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I've had the good fortune to 
meet a number of really great 

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people this way. 
One of those was a federal 

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officer who reported a behavior 
that occurred near the Coeur 

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d'Alene River in Shoshone 
County, Idaho. 

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His story cites an incident 
where a fisherman, his brother, 

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watched a Sasquatch on his back.
On the river sandbar, wiggling 

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and squirming around as if 
scratching its back in the 

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gritty gravel in shallow waters.
The informant said it looked 

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like it was itching and thought 
ticks, but wasn't sure just what

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was up with the creature 16 
years earlier in the same 

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general region of August 1996. 
This sighting, a Kootenay County

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Highway Patrolman reported 
driving northbound on Hwy. 95 in

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the hours just before dawn 
headed for a business meeting in

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Bonners Ferry, a town about 80 
miles north of Coeur d'Alene. 

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The patrolman was possibly only 
5 to 10 miles north of Hayden, 

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ID. 
He just happened to look in the 

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rearview mirror of his cruiser 
and saw this large unidentified 

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hairy man like looking thing 
walking across the roadway just 

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a step or two behind his 
vehicle. 

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The officer turned his car 
around and went back to where 

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the creature crossed the 
highway, but the Sasquatch had 

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disappeared into thick timber. 
The Phantom of for Dice Lake for

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Dice Lake, Nevada County, 
California. 

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This is a great story and 
probably should have been listed

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in Favorite stories. 
Maybe you'll enjoy it as much as

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I did. 
My wife and I off in primitive 

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camp up and down for Dice Lake. 
At least we did for 10 years or 

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so. 
We have no children, so we come 

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and go often whenever we feel 
like it. 

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The fishing is usually good too.
The area has spiking pine trees,

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dense wooded areas dispersed 
between flat boulders. 

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It's in an area that is 
uninhabited, inhospitable and 

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mostly for high clearance. 
Vehicles. 

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ATVs and like that which we use,
we usually carry our gear and 

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get fairly remote somewhere 
along the north side of the 

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lake. 
About the sighting you wanted me

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to write out, there was only us,
but camped a distance from us 

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were some off roaders that we 
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But we could. 
Hear them playing guitars and 

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singing during the day. 
It was a spring day, crisp air, 

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snow left in patches here and 
there, Blue Jays squawking. 

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And like that I fished, caught a
good sized brown, cleaned it out

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and took it back to the frying 
pan where my wife Susan was 

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preparing dinner. 
She asked me if I had been back 

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in camp earlier and I said no, 
that I had been fishing the 

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whole day. 
She had fallen asleep on an old 

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army cot and woke up thinking I 
was in camp, but I wasn't. 

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She asked, Are you sure? 
I told her I saw a deer earlier 

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and maybe the deer wandered 
through our campsite, but it 

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wasn't me. 
She was sure someone was in 

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camp. 
We thought nothing more about it

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and finished the trout dinner. 
Is there anything better than a 

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skillet fried fish in the woods 
or frying bacon on a crisp cold 

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morning under a pine tree? 
I cleaned up and she gathered 

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wood. 
The singing got a little loud in

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the next camp over and we 
wondered how late that would go 

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on from the distant campers. 
We played several hands of gin 

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rummy under the light of a 
Coleman Lantern and turned in 

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before midnight and went right 
off to sleep in the night. 

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I vaguely remember hearing off 
road vehicles start up and some 

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screaming going on, but I went 
right back to sleep. 

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My wife woke me up around 3:00 
telling me she heard an ATV 

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roaring up the road which was 
located about 1/4 to half a mile

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from us. 
She thought one of the campers 

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was in our camp. 
She heard rustling but I didn't 

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so I laid down and drifted off 
again. 

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The next thing I knew I heard 
her rolling the barrel of our 

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pistol. 
Feeling in the dark to see if it

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was loaded, I sat up and asked 
what the hell, be careful with 

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that thing. 
Then she whispered something's 

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out there. 
My first thought was that she 

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was about to shoot the 
neighborhood campers or me, but 

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then I heard the iron firing pan
hit the ground and that got my 

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attention. 
Susan and I thought the ATV guys

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were probably drunk or lifting 
our stuff and I'm thinking my 

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box of flies and my expense of 
rod is out there leaning up 

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against a tree. 
The fire was nearly dead. 

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There was not much light left 
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I felt around and told Susan not
to shoot me as they unzipped the

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tent flap, but it wasn't light 
enough that I could see. 

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We listened and could hear 
someone breathing, otherwise it 

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was quiet. 
I stood up and said something 

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like I know you're there, get 
out of here before I open fire, 

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but there was no reply and 
nothing was moving. 

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I located approximately where 
the breathing was coming from 

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and heard some rustling like he 
was scratching himself and I 

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called out again. 
Move on buddy, I don't want no 

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trouble with you. 
Still I couldn't see a damn 

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thing, but we could hear him and
I wondered how he was finding 

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his way with no Lantern. 
Maybe he was just drunk. 

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We didn't know what was 
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I waited a few minutes and then 
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scared the daylights out of me. 
She handed me the pistol and 

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reminded me the safety was on. 
I took the safety off and 

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thought damn this guy is knuck 
and fuss to keep standing out 

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there. 
I could hear his breathing. 

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It was heavy rhythmic breathing.
I knew where he was exactly, but

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could make nothing out, so I 
aimed in the opposite direction 

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and fired into the air. 
I could hear the round whiz 

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through the branches of the 
trees. 

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Silence. 
Nothing but eerie stillness. 

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Maybe I'm imagining he's there 
again, yanking at my ankle. 

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My wife says he's still over 
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I hear him and I go, yeah, like,
I don't know. 

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I hear him, so I fire again, 
straight up in the air, and now 

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I hear someone off in the 
distance scream loudly. 

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Is everybody OK over there? 
The voice came from the other 

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campsite. 
I figured the ATV ers didn't all

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leave and screamed back. 
We have a man over here screwing

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with my head. 
Is it one of your people? 

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The camper hollers. 
No, I'm alone. 

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Then I heard him say again. 
Need any help over there? 

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Just then Susan finally found 
the flashlight and flicked it 

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on, handing it to me. 
I flashed the area where we 

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heard the guy breathing and all 
I see are tree trunks, ground 

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litter and nothing else. 
At first I keep the light on the

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area while Susan lit up the 
Coleman. 

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Then holding my light steady, I 
think I see this tree trunk 

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move. 
No kidding, the damn thing 

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moved. 
I'm thinking OK, what the hell 

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is going on? 
By the way, I'm sober as a 

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judge. 
I check to see I have only four 

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rounds left and tell Susan to 
get the box of cartridges from 

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the Taco box but she won't get 
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I'm beginning to shiver in my 
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The night air was very cold, my 
flashlight started to dim a 

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little, so I thought I would 
ease on over to this tree that 

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moved to see better. 
I took only two steps toward the

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thing and the light catches the 
upper part of what should be the

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branches. 
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shoulders. 
I about crapped on the spot. 

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I jerked and fired again, but I 
didn't mean to. 

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Then I see the bullet hit the 
tree next to it. 

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Now I'm down to three shots. 
Who are you I. 

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Shouted at it like a damn fool. 
I'm telling you, it's outline in

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the dark had to be 910 feet 
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I'm serious. 
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It's kind of hairy on its upper 
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I stand there shivering, half 
mad, half crazy with fear, 

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trying to figure this out and 
talk calmly to my wife at the 

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same time. 
Whatever this was, I only had 

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three rounds left in the pistol.
So you know, hero that I am, I 

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backed up to the tent, still 
keeping the flashlight aimed at 

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the hair covered tree. 
I hand the pistol to Susan and 

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tell her to reload. 
About that time the man in the 

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other campsite hollers again. 
If everything is OK over here. 

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I yelled back. 
No, do you have an extra 

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flashlight? 
So he yells back he's coming 

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over and to watch for his light 
in the trees and don't shoot me.

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He hollered. 
Susan loads and hands me the 

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pistol again while we wait for 
the other camper to make it 

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over. 
Meanwhile this thing in the 

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trees is still standing there. 
We could hear the thing breathe.

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I don't know what it is, but 
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It can't be. 
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was standing, Finally, this 
fellow makes it over to us. 

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And together we shine lights on 
this thing that turns out to be 

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a creature that was as big as a 
tree. 

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I mean, you could mistake it for
a tree. 

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It just stands there, well 
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It was frozen in place. 
Then I hear the neighbors say, I

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think it's a Bigfoot. 
It must be a Bigfoot. 

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Look how big it is. 
I think he was sneaking around 

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our camp earlier tonight. 
Still, if that is what it was, 

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it's very stupid. 
It just stood there half behind 

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a tree so we couldn't make out 
but half of him. 

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We can make out his hand, 
shoulder and left leg, and 

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that's about it. 
Just then, Susan launches the 

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frying pan in its direction and 
it lands close enough to its 

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foot. 
This made a jump and then we see

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his whole body step out into the
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Susan always proper muffled. 
A weakling. 

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Oh shit. 
The other camper, Sid Jones 

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yells. 
Don't shoot, that's what it is. 

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Dang if that ain't a Bigfoot. 
So we watch this thing turn and 

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walk off into the darkness. 
We were transfixed. 

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It had very wide shoulders and 
its height effectively ruled out

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any thought that it was any 
California bear in this region. 

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Before this night, I thought 
Bigfoot was a joke. 

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People played on one another. 
It was after five in the morning

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we invited the other camper to 
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It was then we learned that the 
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They left in the night on their 
ATVs. 

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That's what Susan thought she 
heard when she woke up 

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initially. 
That's the story of the Phantom 

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of Ford Ice Lake. 
All three of us saw the thing. 

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It's all true. 
The most impressive aspect of 

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the encounter was its size. 
I advised fishermen at Ford Ice 

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Lake to couple up and not to go 
in there alone and unarmed. 

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If that was a Bigfoot we saw, 
he's nothing to fool with. 

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That's our story. 
Susan and Lowell P May 2012. 

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The Bazaar, A very strange 
article was published in 

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December of 2011. 
Headline Bigfoot Attack prompts 

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man to build a flamethrower 
During a 2011 camping trip in 

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Northern California, Bigfoot 
hunter and survival expert Jim 

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Laboss claimed he was attacked 
in the darkness of his tent by 

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an 8 foot monster. 
Laboss said the creature held 

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him down and as he wrestled with
it, he realized it was a 

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Bigfoot, the article said. 
I'll let you draw your own 

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conclusions on the encounter, 
but know that whatever happened,

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it must have been bad because 
Jim was so thirsty for vengeance

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that he created a flamethrower 
in case he ever met the beast 

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again. 
Well, it's sort of a 

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flamethrower. 
It's more like a paintball gun 

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modified to spew flaming gobs of
paint. 

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But the important part is that 
it spits fire. 

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Jim was featured on the premiere
episode of the History Channel's

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television program Invention 
USAA series that tests the 

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prototypes created by inventors 
all over the country. 

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Did they like it? 
Not exactly. 

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You see, it has a pretty major 
flaw. 

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There was a three second delay 
on his flamethrower. 

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One of the show's hosts put it 
best. 

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A three second delay. 
Do you know how much ground a 

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Sasquatch covers in three 
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If you think that story bizarre,
I had an e-mail in 2002 from a 

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Missouri woman who was quite 
frank and matter of fact in 

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telling me that she had an 
amorous Bigfoot approach her in 

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her vegetable garden. 1 Summer 
unashamedly sporting his amorous

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intent. 
She said she used the power 

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spray nozzle on the garden hose 
on him and he quickly left, 

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covering his prized possession. 
I've known human men who didn't 

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get the message that quick. 
Her husband built her a 

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motorized scarecrow brandishing 
an axe, and since then, the 

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amorous Bigfoot hasn't been 
seen. 

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If that story was true, it's 
one-of-a-kind. 

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You just can't make some of this
stuff up. 

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It's so way out there. 
I just enjoy it and move on. 

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And really, life does have its 
freaky moments. 

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A show of physical strength. 
Mr. and Mrs. Colin F had a 

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bizarre occurrence to report. 
They occupy a cabin every summer

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for an extended amount of time 
in upstate New York. 

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They preferred not to say where.
This particular summer they did 

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as they routinely did, pulled 
into the gated property, closed 

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the gate and drove the 
additional mile and three 

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quarters up a rutted dirt road 
to the cabin. 

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It was an old log cabin situated
in a dense Grove of trees 

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overlooking a field of wild 
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deer on a daily basis. 
Each time they drove in, the 

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wildlife scattered. 
Finally, this day they were 

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unpacked and enjoying a light 
supper on the screen porch. 

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Returning to his automobile to 
retrieve his reading glasses 

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from the glove box, Mr. F was 
shocked to see his car a 

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measured 52 feet from where he 
parked it. 

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The drag marks indicated 
something pushed his vehicle 52 

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feet from where he parked it 
alongside the cabin. 

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Centered in between the drag 
marks of the tires were imprints

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of a bare foot that measured 19 
1/2 inches long and almost 8 1/2

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inches wide across the ball of 
the foot. 

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Each imprint had five toes 
showing in a straight line 

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across the top of the foot. 
The right foot was flat footed 

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and the left foot was arched. 
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perpetrator. 
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uneventful until late August of 
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While watering hollyhocks, 
Missus F told her husband she 

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felt like she was being watched.
I have only one report of a 

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vehicle being pushed or moved by
hand. 

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Many reports of vehicles being 
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this one was a first. 
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A tolerance for trucks and other
vehicles, but if not that, 

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perhaps the annoyance is where 
the vehicles were parked. 

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It's hard to know what ticked 
off this upstate New York 

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Sasquatch, but he appeared to be
annoyed by how the car was 

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parked, signs of intelligence 
breaking and entering general 

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thievery. 
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listing behaviours is the way 
the PhDs have summarily ignored 

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the testimony of reliable people
who came forward prior to the 

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Internet. 
One of the first reports to come

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by me was from a long time 
friend in Oregon, cartoonist Rob

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Butler. 
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1980s. 
I discovered the Flemingsburg 

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Times Democrat reporter Dean 
Muse was on the story. 

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The story was big news back in 
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It gave discussion lists plenty 
to talk about. 

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And talk they did. 
They were a new starved bunch. 

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JL Toomey in Fleming County, 
Kentucky had quite a story to 

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tell. 
Toomey was positive that he saw 

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a Sasquatch break into his back 
porch Friday night, October 

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10th, 1980. 
Toomey was relaxing watching the

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baseball game on television 
around 8:15 PM that night when 

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he heard what sounded like 
something being knocked over and

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then moving about the back porch
of his home. 

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Alarmed, Toomey grabbed his 
pistol and ran out the front 

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door and around to the back of 
the house. 

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That is when he engaged the big 
Sasquatch as it ran swiftly 

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towards the woods. 
Toomey claimed he emptied his 

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pistol at it. 
Then he ran into the house to 

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reload. 
Back outside again, Toomey 

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approached his stables suddenly 
and without warning, out rushed 

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the Sasquatch once again. 
Toomey believed he got off 2 

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more rounds, but doesn't think 
in his excitement that he hit 

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the thing. 
At least that time it was very 

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dark, so I really couldn't tell 
exactly if I hit it, but it was 

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running upright like a man. 
It was big, but it was so dark. 

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About all I could see was his 
dark figure that made a thumping

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sound as it ran. 
About that time, Missus Toomey 

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arrived home and heard the story
from her husband, She phoned 

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Gerriff GW White. 
The deputies arrived along with 

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a crowd of people who were 
listening on their police 

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scanners. 
According to Missus Toomey, half

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of the townspeople showed up 
with rifles to help hunt the 

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creature. 
Missus Toomey exclaimed. 

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It's a wonder somebody didn't 
get hurt. 

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An examination of the back porch
showed packaged frozen meat 

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scattered around the freezer. 
The deputies also found packages

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of frozen food scattered in the 
backyard where the creature ran.

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Dropping a few, Sheriff White 
found a package nearer to the 

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stable on the ground. 
So there was no question what 

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the Sasquatch was after. 
Apparently 2 loaves of bread, a 

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frozen chicken, and packages of 
hot dogs were unaccounted for 

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and missing from the freezer. 
Not much can be discerned in the

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dark, but the next day tracks 
were found. 

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Johnny Burke and S Still 
Helfenstein found very unusual 

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footprints where it slid down a 
steep bank and more tracks where

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the creature climbed up the 
opposite embankment. 

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The trackers followed the 
imprints along a deep gully into

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the dense part of the woods. 
They came upon clearer tracks 

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and sand that were 14 inches 
long by 6 inches wide. 

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Examining further, the tracks 
were not made by a boot or a 

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shoe, but showed a barefooted 5 
toe imprint. 

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But that wasn't all they found. 
The creature left white hairs 

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around the door knob to the 
closed in back porch. 

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Sheriff White sent the hairs off
for analysis. 

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But of course in 1980 hairs were
simply labeled from something 

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unknown or unknown primate. 
Today all that has changed. 

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DNA can easily be extracted from
hairs thought to be Sasquatch. 

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Rob Butler, Milwaukee, Oregon, 
May 1999 Not only did the 

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article portray the Sasquatch as
a thief in the Kentucky case, 

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but it also portrayed a very 
astute Sasquatch apparently 

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capable of watching that family 
long enough to know how to enter

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the porch area and to recognize 
there was food in the freezer. 

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They watch us for a reason. 
I was surprised that the family 

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was seemingly unaware of 
Sasquatches in the area, and 

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even more surprised that the 
Sasquatch watched long enough to

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discern what was in the freezer 
was edible. 

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The Sasquatch risked a great 
deal in that caper and probably 

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took a bullet or two for his 
effort. 

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Man shoots chicken thief. 
Fleming County, Kentucky wasn't 

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the only region to have such a 
frightening encounter. 

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There was a similar sighting in 
Mason County October 4th, 1980. 

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Mr. Charles Fulton opened his 
front door and observed a huge 

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white hairy creature holding one
of his squawking chickens. 

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Mr. Fulton said he blindly got 
off 2 rounds, but like the 

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Toomey incident, the Sasquatch 
ran off into the night. 

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Speaking of amazing stories, 
this next was equally unusual. 

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It's an old story that also made
the newspapers of the day, but 

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mentioned here again for the 
uniqueness of the Wildman's 

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behaviour. 
General Sasquatch Thievery. 

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The story caught the eye of the 
Lafayette, LA Advertiser in 

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1889. 
It happened in Jones County, 

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Georgia. 
The behaviour of the Sasquatch 

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is remarkable in this story and 
suggests extreme intelligence, 

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at least for some of them. 
JK Beale, a farmer in his time, 

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was going about his rounds on 
his large plantation. 

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He noticed in a field bordering 
the Pocosin swamp that the 

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newest railings of his fence 
line had been removed. 

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The older railings that were 
defective or decayed by time 

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were not stolen. 
The thievery continued for a 

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length of time and then his hogs
began to go missing, a few at a 

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time, particularly the piglets. 
He called for the hogs, but they

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did not respond. 
In the same field where the 

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railings were pulled up, the 
growing crop of corn began to 

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diminish by the bushel load. 
At the same time tracks began to

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appear leading into the 
mysterious depths of the Pocosin

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swamp. 
The tracks were huge and thought

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to be those of a bear. 
The crop loss was such that the 

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farmer was determined to track 
the thief down. 

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Accordingly a party was 
organized and the tell tale 

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trail of tracks followed. 
They became more and more 

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distinct. 
The trail was long and continued

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through the dark swamps, but at 
last they reached a large area, 

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rising almost like a hill from 
the murkiness of the swamp. 

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There, high and dry, the 
trackers were more than 

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surprised to discover a huge pen
as large as a house. 

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Upon examination it was found 
that the pen had been built with

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the stolen fence rails taken 
from the farmer's cornfields, 

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and his young piglets were fat 
and sassy, apparently well fed 

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on the corn the farmer grew 
himself. 

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In every direction were the 
tracks of a gigantic bear. 

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Inside the pig pen were the 
remnants of the missing corn 

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obviously fed to the pudgy 
piglets. 

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It was then the tracker sat down
to sort out how a bear could 

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have done all this structure 
building and knew to fatten the 

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piglets before winter. 
At the time, however, it was not

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a common practice to fatten hogs
for market on expensive corn, 

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especially not prize winning 
roasting corn grown for market, 

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not for pig slop. 
The stolen shots were recovered 

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and taken to Albany in Dougherty
County, Georgia, where the 

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butcher's and his customers 
raved about the deliciousness of

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the pork raised on corn. 
The flavour of the meat could 

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not be duplicated. 
As for the thief, Mr. H Savage, 

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while hunting, killed a mammoth 
bear in Pocosin swamp that 

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tipped the scales at 481 lbs. 
It makes modern man wonder how a

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bear could so skilfully build 
such a pig pen or have the 

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brains to steal proper railings 
for the pen. 

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The so-called bear also had the 
intelligence to know what to 

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feed the shots to fatten them 
sufficiently for tender juicy 

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meat. 
The article was graciously 

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supplied to me by Bigfoot. 
Article Archivist Scott McClain 

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Many years ago Bigfoot Fighting 
grizzly Kamchatka Peninsula In 

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this next story, a grizzly bear 
came to its end because there 

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was another Sasquatch nearby. 
Bill Lee, the voice of radio for

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34 years, contributed a most 
unusual second hand story a 

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friend of his in Idaho related 
to him. 

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The story involved an all out 
fight between an attacking 

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grizzly bear and a female 
Sasquatch that occurred on the 

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Kamchatka Peninsula in the late 
1980s. 

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Lee made a point of reminding me
that the location of this report

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was very near the Sakalin 
Islands, where the Soviets shot 

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down a 747 civilian airliner, 
Korean Kal 007, in September of 

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1983. 
Remember that one? 

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The peninsula looms low between 
the Sea of Alkhots and the 

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Bering Sea. 
It is a desolate bit of real 

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estate. 
Lee's friend Frank was on a 

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trophy bear hunt with guides. 
The guides knew there were 

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Bigfoot in the area, but 
regularly haunted the bears in 

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that region. 
One of the guides told Frank a 

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tale about a big battle that 
occurred between a female 

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Bigfoot and a grizzly. 
The grizz or brown bear 

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apparently charged. 
Or somehow. 

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Attacked the female Bigfoot. 
And the male Bigfoot came to her

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aid. 
Frank said the area of the 

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confrontation was about an acre 
in size and it looked like 2 

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bulldozers had gone at it. 
The trackers refused to track 

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the Bigfoot, but they did track 
down the grizzly. 

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It was harvested in the course 
of tracking that bear down on 

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snowmobiles. 
The men wandered away from them.

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Upon returning, they found a 
snow machine had been thrown 

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down an embankment. 
Lee said it didn't get there by 

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itself. 
The Hunter's guide skinned 

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hundreds of bears in his time. 
He was surprised to see large 

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teeth marks on the back of the 
bears hide. 

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Once it was skinned they deduced
the male Bigfoot jumped the bear

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from behind and bit into its 
back in defence of the female 

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Bigfoot. 
Bill Lee, 2011 The Mike. 

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Woolley Story, Kiichi, DeSoto 
County, Louisiana. 

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Mike Woolley's encounter with 
several Bigfoot was recorded at 

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the TBRC Bigfoot Conference in 
Tyler, TX in October 2010. 

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Woolley, an avid Deer Hunter, 
said that he saw a number of 

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Bigfoot in the woods, which made
him exceedingly uncomfortable. 

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He. 
Didn't know what they were in 

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the beginning. 
In fact, he kept silent for more

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than 20 years because of the 
ridicule that comes to most 

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00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,280
people who discuss Bigfoot 
openly. 

450
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:51,240
During the deer season of 1981, 
Woolly went down an old logging 

451
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,840
Rd. that went through a deer 
preserve and dead ended. 

452
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,440
It was there that he set up his 
deer stand and here is where his

453
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,560
story gets really interesting. 
While Woolly was sitting high up

454
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,880
in the deer stand, a doe came 
out of the dense brush and laid 

455
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,800
down at the foot of Woolly's 
deer stand, actually touching 

456
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,760
the ladder that went up to the 
deer stand high up in the tree. 

457
00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,440
The little doe was panting and 
foaming at the mouth. 

458
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:18,920
Woolly described her appearance 
as having been run hard or 

459
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,840
chased through the timber by 
what he thought was a big buck, 

460
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:26,120
a bear or something. 
Just then Woolly saw out of his 

461
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:30,120
peripheral vision, about 20 
yards to his right, a big black 

462
00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,320
tall gorilla looking thing duck 
behind a large tree. 

463
00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,040
The witness thought it was 
looking right at him. 

464
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,320
At first, Woolly thought it was 
someone in a suit playing a joke

465
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,200
on him. 
So he yells at this thing, 

466
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:45,720
chewing it out, telling it that 
this ain't no joke, get out of 

467
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,200
here or I'll take your head off.
But he got no reaction. 

468
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,080
Apparently this Sasquatch didn't
understand English, nor did he 

469
00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,920
appear to understand the tone of
Woolly's threatening voice. 

470
00:26:57,040 --> 00:27:00,000
The dark Bigfoot continued to 
look him up and down, more or 

471
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,040
less checking Woolly out for 
what seemed like a lengthy 15 

472
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:05,600
minutes. 
Woolly did his best to reason 

473
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,120
what this thing was and how it 
was able to come out of the 

474
00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:10,720
thicket like it did. 
As dense as the thicket was, 

475
00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,080
Woolly described the Sasquatch 
as evil eyed, an overall 

476
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:20,320
sinister look about it. 
It was not a look of welcome At 

477
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,640
this point. 
He lifted his rifle up and took 

478
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,040
a hard look through the rifle's 
scope at the face of the 

479
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:29,280
creature and knew instantly, 
hey, this is really something, 

480
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,960
this is the real deal, and right
here I've got a problem Woolly 

481
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,520
described as so many witnesses 
in my dad have, that when he 

482
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,400
raised his rifle, the Sasquatch 
growled at him. 

483
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:45,200
It was a really horrible growl. 
The creature's expression showed

484
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,240
intense anger. 
Woolly. 

485
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,840
Described the creature as antsy,
agitated. 

486
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,560
He got froggy on me, and when he
growled, I got nervous. 

487
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:58,320
Real nervous. 
About that time a real shrill 

488
00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:01,040
whistle came from about 100 
yards off in the woods. 

489
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,560
The creature heard the whistle, 
turned its head and looked in 

490
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,320
the direction toward the 
Whistler, and then replied to 

491
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,280
the whistle in the same manner 
as the other and in the same 

492
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:13,360
tone. 
The Sasquatch looked back at 

493
00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:17,240
Woolly and grinned or showed his
teeth, but when he did, the 

494
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,200
informant climbed down that 10 
foot deer stand and took off 

495
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,600
running. 
Woolly described the creature 

496
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:25,960
giving chase, flanking him in 
the woods about 20 yards off to 

497
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,440
the left in his retreat back to 
his vehicle. 

498
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,280
The informant said his legs felt
like lead and he felt like he 

499
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,280
wasn't going to make it back to 
his truck, but he ran for all he

500
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:38,920
was worth. 
When he got to his truck, he 

501
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,440
turned, aimed and fired a shot, 
thinking it would buy him some 

502
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,160
time in order to get the door 
unlocked and get inside. 

503
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,240
The shot almost hit the 
Sasquatch in the head. 

504
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,920
The bullet hit a tree 3 feet in 
front of the Bigfoot's head, 

505
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,840
which he described as 7 feet 
tall, 450 to 500 lbs. 

506
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Great shape, muscular build. 
He got in the truck, started the

507
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:05,760
engine and took off driving, 
looking in his rear view mirror 

508
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,240
plain as day. 
Here came the second Sasquatch 

509
00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:11,480
running behind his truck. 
Woolly figured the manner of the

510
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:13,360
whistle was a signal between the
two. 

511
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:17,240
That somehow meant the Bigfoot 
had themselves a situation, and 

512
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:20,840
Woolly was it. 
At that point the informant 

513
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,680
realized the two Bigfoot had 
been trailing him all the way 

514
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,640
back to his vehicle. 
Interesting behaviour. 

515
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,360
The informant went into a kind 
of depression after that 

516
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,720
encounter and never haunted that
place again. 

517
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:37,200
He moved to another hunting area
6 or 7 miles away, and there he 

518
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:39,440
had a half dozen sightings or 
more. 

519
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,720
From the height of his deer 
stand he observed the Sasquatch 

520
00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,480
under trees on their bellies, 
covertly watching their quarry, 

521
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,840
patiently waiting on roosting 
turkeys. 

522
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,640
Then in an instant, the Bigfoot 
would explode on them, 

523
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:55,800
successfully hunting turkeys 
that way. 

524
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,360
Woolly had a great deal of 
experience with the Sasquatch. 

525
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,000
He observed families with small 
babies and some adults that were

526
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,960
up to 8 feet tall. 
He feels that when hunting in 

527
00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:09,160
the woods, he was trespassing in
their home turf so to speak. 

528
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,800
He felt there is all manner of 
Bigfoot personalities, some 

529
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,800
harmless, some thugs. 
You never know what you're going

530
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,400
to get and coincidentally that 
is exactly what the data tends 

531
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:24,120
to show. 
Woolly concluded his interview 

532
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,720
by saying if you encounter a 
Bigfoot, leave quietly. 

533
00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:31,240
Don't point your weapon at them 
because they are awesome and can

534
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:35,120
RIP a person in two, just as a 
tiger can rip your face off in 

535
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:40,040
one SWAT. 
Sasquatch peering into a car. 

536
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,760
Woody, A is a native Alaskan. 
By tradition, he feeds his 

537
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,520
family by hunting and fishing. 
He started hunting at the tender

538
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,520
age of five. 
When he's not in the woods 

539
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:55,520
hunting, Woody carves sacred 
masks for tribal ceremonies and 

540
00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:58,400
for tourists only. 
The hunting puts food on the 

541
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,760
table. 
The family diet consists mostly 

542
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:05,080
of salmon and deer meat. 
With winter closing in soon, 

543
00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,200
Woody took his sister and went 
over in the forests of Prince of

544
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,560
Wales Island hunting. 
They were on the island a full 

545
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,720
week when it happened. 
The two were going to camp on a 

546
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:17,720
high mountain Ridge, but the 
weather increasingly got nasty. 

547
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:20,800
It rained so hard they couldn't 
keep a fire going. 

548
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,760
They decided to drive down to 
Eagle's Nest Campground, but it 

549
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,000
was closed for the winter. 
The campground is situated near 

550
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,400
Control Creek and Balls Lake 
within the Tongass National 

551
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:34,920
Forest, which covers nearly 
17,000,000 acres in Southeast 

552
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,760
Alaska and is the largest forest
in the National Forest system. 

553
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,080
It was a hard rain that 
continued mercilessly, so they 

554
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,040
pulled into the campground, 
tilted the seats back in the car

555
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,080
and decided to sleep there 
inside the car for the night. 

556
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,200
Woody tried to settle in for the
night, but increasingly felt 

557
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:56,400
that something wasn't right. 
He couldn't shake the feeling 

558
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,960
that they were being watched. 
As a hunter, Woody was on high 

559
00:31:59,960 --> 00:32:02,280
alert mode. 
The night, he said, was just too

560
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,800
quiet. 
But finally the rain stopped. 

561
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,440
Suddenly he opened his eyes and 
couldn't believe what he saw. 

562
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,640
Fear, he said, grabbed him in 
the chest. 

563
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,200
The Sasquatch was peering in the
car window at him, seeing 

564
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,920
something that big and that 
powerful and its enormous 

565
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,760
shoulders could have reached 
through the window easily if it 

566
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:23,680
had wanted to. 
But it didn't. 

567
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,680
Anderson said he felt a fight or
flight kind of fear race through

568
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,720
his body. 
I'm out in the woods so often 

569
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:32,680
that I knew instantly what I was
seeing. 

570
00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,160
You know, it's a life. 
Changing experience. 

571
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,280
I sat up and hollered. 
It was a Bigfoot plain as day. 

572
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,080
It turned and walked back into 
the tree line and was out of 

573
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:44,960
sight. 
There must be something about 

574
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,160
parked vehicles and campers that
work on the. 

575
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Curious side of the Sasquatch 
the. 

576
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,680
Behaviour of peering into 
vehicles, trailers and RV's 

577
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,280
ranks right up there in high 
numbers of reports. 

578
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,440
Probably second or third to Rd. 
crossings and sightings from a 

579
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:04,800
distance. 
Bigfoot advances on 3 hunters At

580
00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:07,440
the same time as the Woody 
Anderson story reached me, 

581
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:11,480
another sighting was reported on
QEU Island, not far from Prince 

582
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,720
of Wales Island in Alaska. 
An e-mail came in from three men

583
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,400
who had haunted 2 miles inland 
off Seclusion Harbour on QEU 

584
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,240
Island. 
The e-mail was hard to figure 

585
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,200
out and it would be nearly four 
weeks later that I was able to 

586
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:29,040
reach the men by telephone. 
If I understood correctly, they 

587
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,080
had bagged a huge buck and we're
heading down this draw to field 

588
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:34,320
dress it and carry it out in 
sections. 

589
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,880
The daylight was growing dim as 
they cleared away the foliage to

590
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,320
get to the deer. 
They were confronted by a 

591
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:45,200
humongous Bigfoot which brazenly
sprang out in front of the three

592
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,640
men blocking the last few yards 
to the kill. 

593
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,600
They said they didn't smell him 
or even anticipate an encounter 

594
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,120
of this magnitude. 
It so terrified the men that one

595
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,640
of them told me he could not get
his voice to work. 

596
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,080
I was unable to speak or 
articulate a full sentence. 

597
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,400
My mouth was dry. 
All I could muster was a long 

598
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,840
stare at this thing. 
The Bigfoot apparently made no 

599
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:10,520
noise other than the witnesses 
all said they could hear it 

600
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,199
breathing rather rapidly, its 
nostrils flaring with each 

601
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:16,320
breath. 
The sound of its breath was 

602
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,639
hollow and deep. 
Morris, the oldest of the three 

603
00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,360
men, raised his rifle and fired 
into the air. 

604
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,520
The informant said the report of
the rifle so shocked the Bigfoot

605
00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,760
that it jumped backward and fell
down but righted itself 

606
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,920
immediately. 
Then in a flash it came forward,

607
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:36,440
lunging at them again, stumbling
forward from a few yards away. 

608
00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:40,280
Afraid there was a bit of 
momentary chaos as they yelled 

609
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,120
back and forth at each other, 
wondering what they should do. 

610
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,199
The men feared for their lives. 
As the Bigfoot advanced towards 

611
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,679
the men, one of them fired, but 
the Bigfoot showed little 

612
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:54,560
reaction. 
At the same time hunter #2 fired

613
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,160
directly at the creature and it 
fell down but got up again, 

614
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,280
making deep guttural groaning 
sounds. 

615
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,120
Its mouth was open and it was 
drooling blood. 

616
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,440
He said. 
They thought then that it was 

617
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,920
mortally wounded. 
The Bigfoot advanced again 

618
00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,320
towards them with arms waving 
over its head. 

619
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,760
Two men fired almost 
simultaneously, striking the 

620
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,360
Bigfoot in the upper body. 
The creature went down and with 

621
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,720
it the peril they felt of being 
killed. 

622
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,560
They measured it at nearly 10 
feet tall and guessed its weight

623
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,320
at close to 1000 lbs of pure 
muscle. 

624
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,880
Mostly shoulders with reddish 
brown hair and a face that was 

625
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,440
so distorted that it didn't seem
real to them. 

626
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,160
It was ghostly. 
The eyes were the same size as 

627
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,520
ours, tiny for the size of its 
big face, the hooked nose too 

628
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,640
big for the face and Ruddy 
pocked marked skin that was the 

629
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,120
same colour as mine. 
Said one of the hunters. 

630
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,360
His beard was long and 
strawberry coloured with grey 

631
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,920
streaking. 
In the chaos, their only thought

632
00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:57,240
was the very real threat of 
being killed. 

633
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,840
Scared silly, the three. 
Hunters retrieved the buck and 

634
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,600
lit out of there as fast as they
could. 

635
00:36:03,400 --> 00:36:05,960
I asked each of them separately 
what they thought the behaviour 

636
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:09,800
of the Bigfoot was all about. 
The consensus was that its 

637
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,320
behaviour was most assuredly a 
challenge for who would win that

638
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,360
big buck. 
One of them said he wanted it 

639
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,400
pretty bad, but our winter would
be pretty bleak without that 

640
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,920
meat. 
The behaviour. 

641
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,920
Is interesting in that I don't 
have another confrontation 

642
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,480
exactly like this one where the 
Sasquatch actually charges three

643
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,120
men, but it resembles the Mike 
Woolley case where he ran and 

644
00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,520
the Sasquatch pursued him even 
as the vehicle left the area. 

645
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,360
I was assured that each of these
three men believed they were 

646
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,200
going to die that day. 
It was him or us. 

647
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:45,800
Once again, this is not the 
behaviour of just a curious, 

648
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:50,000
passive Bigfoot. 
In many hunting excursions to 

649
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,080
the woods behind Seclusion 
Harbour, this was the first time

650
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,680
they encountered A Sasquatch. 
It is hard to decipher what the 

651
00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,200
motivation might have been for 
the described behaviour. 

652
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,720
Why didn't the Sasquatch simply 
gather up the deer and be off 

653
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:06,080
with it? 
I can't help wonder why he chose

654
00:37:06,080 --> 00:37:09,640
to block access to the deer kill
when he was outnumbered 3 to 1. 

655
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:13,280
Seclusion Harbour is remote. 
Perhaps the Bigfoot was 

656
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,440
unfamiliar with hunters rifles 
and the end results of 

657
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:19,920
challenging hunters. 
The sad thing is, these are 

658
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,880
behaviours we may never 
understand. 

659
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,640
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660
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661
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664
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,480
I'd like to share an experience 
my friend Rob and I had this 

665
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:47,760
past summer in central British 
Columbia. 

666
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:51,000
We decided to do some placer 
mining along the rivers and 

667
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,520
creeks surrounding Wells Grey 
Provincial Park. 

668
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:56,840
We knew there had been a lot of 
historical mining in that area 

669
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,720
along the Clearwater and N 
Thompson Rivers and their 

670
00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:02,400
tributaries. 
We weren't expecting to strike 

671
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,960
it rich, Just the thrill of 
finding a bit of gold in our 

672
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:08,360
pans was enough for us. 
We were roughly following a 

673
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:11,200
route that started near Blue 
River, planning to circle the 

674
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,000
park, passing through Clearwater
and heading back S to Kamloops. 

675
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,200
We were waiting in the river 
just downstream from the 

676
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:21,680
confluence of the Clearwater and
the Quinell River, searching for

677
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,280
promising gravel bars, when we 
heard a strange high pitched cry

678
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:29,480
coming from the opposite bank. 
The river was probably about 75 

679
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,280
yards wide at that point. 
We thought it might be a bird of

680
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,680
prey or a cougar, but we felt 
safe on our side of the river. 

681
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,720
We continued panning, and then 
we heard a splash. 

682
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:42,040
We looked up to see a large 
branch floating downstream, 

683
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,160
which had clearly just entered 
the water. 

684
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:46,760
It couldn't have fallen from a 
tree, as there were no 

685
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,080
overhanging branches at that 
point where it entered. 

686
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,320
We stood up and watched the 
other bank. 

687
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,600
Then a rock came flying into the
water, landing about halfway 

688
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,080
across. 
Well, it wasn't close enough to 

689
00:38:57,080 --> 00:38:59,280
hit us. 
It was a substantial rock, 

690
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:02,640
judging by the splash, probably 
around 10 inches in diameter. 

691
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,080
We immediately scanned the tree 
line and through a break in the 

692
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,720
trees we saw it. 
It was massive, easily 8 feet 

693
00:39:09,720 --> 00:39:11,800
tall, covered in dark matted 
hair. 

694
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,080
Its shoulders were broad and its
arms were long and thick, 

695
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,800
reaching almost to its knees. 
Its face was partially hidden by

696
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,440
the foliage, but we could see a 
heavy brow Ridge, deep set dark 

697
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,520
eyes and a wide powerful jaw. 
It was standing upright, and as 

698
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,800
we watched it grab another large
rock, it let out another high 

699
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,440
pitched cry and through the rock
in our general direction, we can

700
00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:36,680
now see the details of its 
muscular build, the long thick 

701
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:38,920
hair, and the clear signs of its
power. 

702
00:39:39,640 --> 00:39:43,160
We decided we weren't welcome. 
We quickly gathered our gear and

703
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:46,400
headed back toward the truck. 
As we hurried along the trail, 

704
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,920
we heard more of the strange 
cries echoing through the 

705
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,560
valley. 
We didn't stop until we were 

706
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,400
well away from the river, 
somewhere outside of Clearwater.

707
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,440
We were shaken, but also 
incredibly excited. 

708
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,720
We'd seen it. 
A Sasquatch in clear detail. 

709
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,080
We discussed what we had seen, 
the sheer size of it, the 

710
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,600
powerful build, and the 
intensity of its cry. 

711
00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:10,120
We decided we had to return 
later this year and we'll be 

712
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,400
armed with cameras and audio 
recorders and maybe a few 

713
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,840
friends. 
It's unnerving, but also 

714
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,000
thrilling to have witnessed such
a creature. 

715
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,440
We spent the rest of the day 
discussing the encounter and 

716
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:24,360
making plans to document our 
findings on our next trip. 

717
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,280
I'd like to share 2 encounters 
my cousin and I had in the late 

718
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,360
1990s. 
We were both around 16 years old

719
00:40:33,360 --> 00:40:36,480
at the time and both incidents 
occurred within a few miles of 

720
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,520
each other northeast of Covello 
in Mendocino County, California.

721
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,920
The first was a rock throwing 
incident that happened near the 

722
00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:47,720
Eel River below Howard Lake. 
My grandparents and my cousin 

723
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,640
lived in Covello at the time and
I'd spend my summers there. 

724
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:54,360
My cousin and I were very close 
in age so we were more like 

725
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:57,040
brothers. 
For this first incident, my 

726
00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:00,160
grandfather dropped us off at 
Howard Lake for a three day, two

727
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,800
night camping trip. 
We only brought our sleeping 

728
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,960
bags, fishing poles, and a 
pellet gun. 

729
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:08,440
We had some fruit and we planned
to supplement that with fish and

730
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:11,240
small game. 
The first day we caught fish for

731
00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:13,240
dinner and nothing unusual 
happened. 

732
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,880
The second day we decided to 
hike down to the Eel River to 

733
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:20,520
fish and explore. 
After a while we got bored and I

734
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,360
found a piece of driftwood 
shaped like a baseball bat. 

735
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:26,720
Being kids, we started a 
makeshift baseball game, 

736
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:29,520
pitching small rocks from the 
gravel bar and hitting them with

737
00:41:29,520 --> 00:41:32,120
the bat. 
We did this for a while when a 

738
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,680
fist size rock came flying down 
from the hillside behind us and 

739
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,480
landed between us. 
We were startled to say the 

740
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,480
least. 
We yelled at whoever threw it to

741
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,400
stop. 
Due to the thick brush and trees

742
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,280
we couldn't see anything. 
My cousin thought it might be 

743
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,160
some friends from town who had 
followed us, but no one 

744
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,760
appeared. 
We moved closer to the river and

745
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:55,600
continued our game when another 
rock about the same size crashed

746
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,120
between us. 
Again, we were getting pretty 

747
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,720
freaked out. 
We yelled that we were armed and

748
00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:02,640
dangerous and to show 
themselves. 

749
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,800
When nothing happened, we 
grabbed our stuff and hiked back

750
00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:08,440
to our camp. 
We had to go up where the rocks 

751
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:11,080
had come from. 
My cousin carried the pellet gun

752
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:14,080
and I carried my bat. 
We made it back to camp to 

753
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:17,480
discover that someone had gone 
through our things, unrolling, 

754
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,440
sleeping bags and scattering 
everything. 

755
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,400
We had our fruit in a small pack
hung in a tree about 10 feet 

756
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,440
high to keep it away from bears.
The pack's zipper was open and 

757
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:30,400
our fruit was gone. 
Nothing else was missing, just 

758
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,280
scattered around. 
We grabbed our stuff and headed 

759
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,880
for the road back to town. 
Luckily, a family in a camper 

760
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:40,800
came by and gave us a ride. 
When we told my grandfather what

761
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,160
had happened, he just said damn 
kids. 

762
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:45,680
He didn't know who or what had 
messed with us. 

763
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,400
The second incident left no 
doubt about what was in those 

764
00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:52,280
hills. 
The next summer my cousin had 

765
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,800
his drivers license so we went 
further up than Howard Lake to a

766
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,200
place near Hammerhorn Lake. 
There was a stream we knew of 

767
00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,600
with native brook trout. 
We arrived and started fishing 

768
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,000
upstream. 
We were being very quiet as the 

769
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,640
trout would spook easily. 
We came to a large angled slab 

770
00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,360
of granite about 20 feet high. 
My cousin started up it and I 

771
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:14,680
followed. 
When he got to the top, we heard

772
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:18,560
a loud scream from below us. 
My cousin stepped back into me, 

773
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,920
startled. 
Almost immediately, we saw an 

774
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,080
animal take off from below us 
across an open sandbar. 

775
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,440
It was on all fours and it took 
4 leaps, making a hoof or woof 

776
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,960
sound with each one. 
It happened so fast that we 

777
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,120
stood there in shock. 
When it made its fourth leap, it

778
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:38,760
stopped, turned and stood on 2 
legs, staring back at us. 

779
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,560
It was about 20 or 25 yards 
away. 

780
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,080
We stood there for maybe 5 
seconds, then it made a huffing 

781
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,560
noise, turned and walked away on
2 legs. 

782
00:43:48,240 --> 00:43:50,120
It disappeared into the brush 
quickly. 

783
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,480
We just turned and left 
immediately. 

784
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,760
We were in shock. 
Let me describe it as I 

785
00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,200
remember. 
It was dark brown to black. 

786
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:02,120
It had hair, not fur. 
It stood semi crouched with long

787
00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:05,760
arms outstretched forward and 
slightly to its sides, palms 

788
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:08,080
down. 
It didn't have hair on its face 

789
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,360
or fingers. 
Its skin was dark grey. 

790
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:13,000
Its eyes were dark brown with no
visible whites. 

791
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,440
It had a flat nose with downward
pointing nostrils. 

792
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,080
I think it was about 6 1/2 feet 
tall. 

793
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,760
My cousin was 6 foot 3 and the 
creature was slightly taller. 

794
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,920
It had broad shoulders tapering 
down to its waist. 

795
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,080
I'd estimate it weighed about 
250 lbs. 

796
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:32,440
I think it was lying down below 
the granite slab and we 

797
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,040
surprised it, which is why it 
took off on all fours. 

798
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:38,680
We didn't see it until it was 
moving, and it was moving fast. 

799
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,720
The look on its face was shock 
or surprise, like it couldn't 

800
00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:46,720
believe we had gotten so close. 
We decided not to tell anyone to

801
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:49,920
avoid ridicule. 
We talked about it a few times 

802
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,080
and learned about Bigfoot and we
had no doubt that's what we saw.

803
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,120
My cousin was killed in a car 
accident in 2000. 

804
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,680
With all the research, photos 
and videos now, I think it's 

805
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,120
only a matter of time before 
there's definite proof of 

806
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:06,400
Bigfoot's existence. 
I think by reporting this I can 

807
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:11,440
get some closure. 
My girlfriend and I were camping

808
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,080
along Hwy. 128 in Mendocino 
County, California. 

809
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:17,880
We stayed at an area called 
Handy Woods. 

810
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,080
There are several stands of old 
growth redwoods in the area. 

811
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,440
We decided to go to Montgomery 
Woods 1 morning being told it 

812
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,160
was not a camping area and 
wouldn't have the motor homes 

813
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,280
and the kids filled campsites 
and the trees preserved there 

814
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:33,720
were spectacular. 
We arrived at Montgomery Woods 

815
00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:36,640
about 8:00 AM and we're going to
hike the self-guided trail. 

816
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,040
The parking area is small and 
looks like we were the first if 

817
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,400
not the only ones there. 
It was a cool foggy September 

818
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,160
day. 
About 1/2 hour into the hike my 

819
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,480
friend thought she heard someone
on the trail behind us. 

820
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,240
We stopped and waited but there 
was no noise. 

821
00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,880
We continued to the base of a 
huge Redwood and set to rest. 

822
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,720
The redwoods are an eerily quiet
place with the thick soft 

823
00:45:58,720 --> 00:46:01,920
Redwood bark and ankle deep tree
leaves and needles absorbing 

824
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,920
lots of ambient sound. 
Suddenly we heard something 

825
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,520
moving through the undergrowth 
20 or 30 yards away. 

826
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:10,280
It was big, heavy and moving at 
a good pace. 

827
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,680
I whistled and the movement 
stopped. 

828
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,080
This was as scared as I've ever 
been. 

829
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:18,640
It was silent for a minute or 
so, then the movement continued.

830
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,200
Whatever it was, it was close, 
and I was frustrated that I 

831
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:24,760
could only see brush moving, but
not the creature. 

832
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,640
It stopped moving about 100 feet
or so away, then let out a 

833
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,440
scream that would scare the 
dead. 

834
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:34,800
We froze, thinking this was it. 
From behind us, several 100 

835
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:38,520
yards to the West, came a 
similar scream, as if responding

836
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,320
to the first. 
We looked back but couldn't tell

837
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,800
where exactly it came from. 
Then the first creature screamed

838
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,520
again, louder and longer than 
the first time. 

839
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:49,720
I can't tell you how loud it 
was. 

840
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,160
The lung capacity was enormous. 
I can remember thinking that we 

841
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,320
might be surrounded and that we 
might die there. 

842
00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:00,360
Suddenly the first creature 
started to move, not away, but 

843
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,520
parallel to the trail. 
There's a bit of a clearing and 

844
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,080
we saw the left side of a 7 foot
tall, hair covered biped. 

845
00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:11,640
I've met Shaquille O'Neal at the
LA airport and this thing was so

846
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:14,600
much bulkier, huge through the 
chest and shoulders. 

847
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:18,520
I only saw the left arm, and the
wrist was the diameter of my 

848
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,600
biceps. 
It looked at us for two or three

849
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,640
seconds, then turned to its 
right and hustled down the 

850
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,040
ravine. 
We looked through the trees to 

851
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,280
follow its progress, but we had 
waited a minute or two and it 

852
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:35,440
was gone. 
MPI was an assistant caretaker 

853
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,960
with the Sierra Club Foundation 
at Horse Camp on Mount Shasta 

854
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:42,560
during the early 1990s. 
During the summer months, the 

855
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,480
regular caretaker, RW and I used
to take turns staying at Horse 

856
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,560
Camp during the weekends so as 
to police the place and offer 

857
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,960
assistance to potential climbers
on their way up to the summit. 

858
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,640
During these off days, we 
usually saw a very few people at

859
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,240
Horse Camp who would stay the 
night and climb the mountain the

860
00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:02,040
following morning. 
Normally day hikers came up to 

861
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,280
visit and look around, but then 
went back down before sunset. 

862
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,840
It was a Thursday and I was 
waiting for RW to come and 

863
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:12,000
relieve me so that I could go 
down to Shasta City to take a 

864
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:14,400
breather, get some food, and 
find a shower. 

865
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,800
RW was typically late, so I 
decided to retire once I 

866
00:48:18,800 --> 00:48:20,560
realized he wasn't going to show
up. 

867
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,960
I don't remember what stage the 
moon was in, but a faint glue of

868
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,680
light was present so that I 
didn't need to rely on my 

869
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:30,160
flashlight to get around. 
It was shortly before midnight 

870
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,280
and I was in my tent, which I 
had set up less than 100 feet of

871
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,760
the horse camp Hut. 
The area is a mix of stones and 

872
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,200
paths leading to other campsites
and other trails to explore the 

873
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,400
mountain. 
After settling down for the 

874
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,680
night, I heard someone walking 
around the Hut as stones moved 

875
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,960
against each other. 
Knowing that RW was a big 

876
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,840
prankster, I yelled at his name 
a couple of times but no 

877
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,560
response. 
Keep in mind, I spent a lot of 

878
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,440
nights alone on Shasta, so I 
never had anything to worry 

879
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,440
about, which means that I was 
rarely fearful of anything. 

880
00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,400
When I got no response, I 
started to go off. 

881
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,400
Pure instinct and the chain of 
events became vivid. 

882
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,480
The Walking sounds were getting 
closer to the left side of my 

883
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,920
tent and thinking about how 
vulnerable I was, I grabbed my 

884
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:16,120
ice axe in my right hand and 
slipped out of my sleeping bag, 

885
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,120
poised to open the mosquito flap
if anything was going to go 

886
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,320
down. 
My heart raced and the 

887
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:22,880
adrenaline was pumping through 
me. 

888
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:26,720
Out of the left side of the 
mosquito mesh door I saw a huge 

889
00:49:26,720 --> 00:49:28,960
outline of what I believed to be
Bigfoot. 

890
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,480
The outline walked about 30 feet
in front of my tent, stopped, 

891
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,280
turned and stood facing me. 
At the time I didn't think 

892
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,120
Bigfoot but rather someone was 
up there to cause trouble. 

893
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,280
So I ripped open the door of the
tent and jumped out with my ice 

894
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,920
pick in my hand. 
I'm 6 foot 3 and this being was 

895
00:49:46,920 --> 00:49:50,160
much bigger than I. 
We stood there for a few seconds

896
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:53,520
and the Bigfoot turned away and 
slowly walked into the trees. 

897
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,400
Needless to say, I didn't get 
much sleep that night, but just 

898
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:00,560
because of the spiritual and 
peaceful nature of Mount Shasta,

899
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,080
I didn't question my safety and 
life went on as usual, with my 

900
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:07,600
only regret being that I showed 
this entity such hostility by 

901
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,280
brandishing my ice axe. 
In hindsight, I believe this 

902
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,760
being was just passing through 
and meant no harm. 

903
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,000
I looked for footprints the 
following morning but only found

904
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:19,520
an area where it looked like 
something had a difficult time 

905
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,920
getting up a steep incline. 
I didn't smell anything since a 

906
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:26,080
small breeze was coming from 
behind me as we stood there face

907
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,800
to face. 
I finished out the caretaking 

908
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,240
season without further incident,
except for a group of thieving 

909
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:35,680
Boy Scouts from Sacramento, 
Michael Card. 

910
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,400
I was told this story 20 or more
years ago by my mother, who 

911
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,200
passed away in May 2006. 
It came up in conversation 

912
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:46,680
during which we were not 
discussing Bigfoot, but she 

913
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:49,600
retold a story that my 
grandfather had told her and her

914
00:50:49,600 --> 00:50:54,600
siblings 65 or 70 years earlier.
My grandfather and grandmother 

915
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:57,440
were Greek immigrants that 
worked in the fruit canneries in

916
00:50:57,440 --> 00:51:00,200
the Central Valley in 
California, and my grandfather 

917
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:03,160
worked many years for the 
Southern Pacific Railroad doing 

918
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:05,280
track maintenance and building 
railroad track. 

919
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,240
My mother told a story that was 
refuted by her and her siblings 

920
00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,640
when my grandfather told it. 
These were children of the early

921
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,080
1900s. 
When Grandpa told the story, 

922
00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:18,200
they were convinced that he was 
telling a tall tale, primarily 

923
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:20,720
because they all learned in 
school that there were no apes 

924
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:23,360
in North America, the story 
goes. 

925
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:26,360
Grandpa was working for the 
Southern Pacific Railroad 

926
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:29,840
building track in the Northern 
California Oregon border area in

927
00:51:29,840 --> 00:51:34,000
the early 1900s and during this 
work project he was dispatched 

928
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,760
to work on a line camp in the 
woods. 

929
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,760
They had a base camp that the 
work crew worked from and each 

930
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,600
week the work crew would split 
into two man teams that would 

931
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:45,720
work an area clearing logs and 
ground, and at the end of one 

932
00:51:45,720 --> 00:51:48,480
week they would go back to the 
base camp to check in and 

933
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:51,400
replenish their supplies and 
then set out after the weekend 

934
00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:55,400
for another week in the woods. 
During this time, one of the two

935
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,400
man teams came back to base with
only one man. 

936
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:00,960
They were told that the other 
man had disappeared. 

937
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,200
The group at the base camp 
apparently gave a brief search 

938
00:52:04,240 --> 00:52:07,760
but to no avail. 
The next week the crews went out

939
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,600
in two man crews and continued 
the work on the railroad line 

940
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,240
clearing. 
Some weeks later, I'm not sure 

941
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:16,360
how long this was as the camp 
moved north and the group of 

942
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,200
workers came upon the missing 
man. 

943
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,200
He was naked and hysterical, 
crazed and apparently died. 

944
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,880
Soon after he was found. 
He told of being abducted by a 

945
00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:28,760
female ape that kept him in a 
large open pit. 

946
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,120
During this time he was in the 
pit, the man told of being 

947
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,480
forced to have sexual contact 
with the ape many times and said

948
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,760
that the ape kept him in the 
hole or pit by licking his hands

949
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,120
and feet raw so he was not able 
to escape from the pit. 

950
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,880
Apparently, my grandfather saw 
this man's hands and feet and 

951
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,480
said that they were completely 
raw. 

952
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,720
My mother and her sisters and 
brothers laughed at my 

953
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,280
grandfather. 
As someone who was uneducated 

954
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,840
and unable to understand that it
was impossible due to the fact 

955
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,560
that there are no apes in North 
America, I've always found this 

956
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:06,840
to be an intriguing story. 
John Lewis While talking to a 

957
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,840
good friend a few days ago, she 
mentioned how her daughter had 

958
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:13,560
found a Bigfoot cake online. 
This stirred up memories of an 

959
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,560
encounter I had when I was at 
Bucks Lake, Plumas County, 

960
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,480
California, 17 miles southwest 
of Quincy about summer of 1996. 

961
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,640
I've never shared this 
experience for fear of ridicule.

962
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,400
I had taken my sons and nephew 
on a summer camping trip to a 

963
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,920
beautiful semi isolated 
destination at an elevation of 

964
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,280
5200 feet. 
One night I woke up in our tent 

965
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,760
sometime between 1:00 and 4:00 
to the most horrible rotten egg 

966
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:40,920
smell. 
At first I thought someone had 

967
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:44,360
broken wind, then when I looked 
up there was a large shadow over

968
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:48,320
my tent between US and the moon.
Upon opening the front flap and 

969
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:51,120
looking out toward the back of 
the tent, I observed what I 

970
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:53,800
thought was a man from another 
campsite walking by. 

971
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,120
I then noticed he was very tall,
very large and fluffy and 

972
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:01,280
wondered why someone would be 
wearing such an unusual garment.

973
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:05,320
Being down on the ground and 
looking up, it was huge, but I 

974
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,000
had no way to figure out the 
height of it. 

975
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,440
Never did I feel afraid or 
threatened during the encounter.

976
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:14,160
I never thought at the time it 
was a Bigfoot because I never 

977
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,520
believed there was one. 
I was very tired and only on 

978
00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:19,920
reflection did I figure out what
I really saw. 

979
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:23,840
The smell left when it did, I 
just didn't correlate it with 

980
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:26,960
the Bigfoot at the time. 
I never made eye contact with 

981
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:30,080
the creature or told anyone 
about my experience until my 

982
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,400
friend called. 
She encouraged me to tell my 

983
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:34,880
story. 
That's my story, believe it or 

984
00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:41,160
not, a heart. 
Saturday, February 13th, 1999 I 

985
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,840
was up just past Quincy, CA 
driving along in my new pickup 

986
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:47,920
when out of the trees jumped 
what I thought was a gorilla. 

987
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:51,360
But then when it froze in front 
of me I realized that gorillas 

988
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,880
are not 7 plus feet tall and 
they do not walk like a man. 

989
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,240
I could not believe what I was 
seeing. 

990
00:54:57,440 --> 00:55:00,440
I got out of my pickup because 
it was nearing sunset and I 

991
00:55:00,440 --> 00:55:02,520
couldn't see him that well 
because I've been off roading 

992
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:04,880
all day and my windshield had 
mud all over it. 

993
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:09,080
I took my gun with me because 
the creature was at least 400 

994
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:13,720
lbs and that's £250 more than me
and I was scared for my life but

995
00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:16,520
that didn't stop me. 
Bigfoot then walked into the 

996
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,640
woods with great strides, at 
least 6 foot strides. 

997
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,320
I then got back into my truck 
and left. 

998
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,800
It was 7:00 at night. 
I only saw the Bigfoot for a 

999
00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:28,160
total of about 3 minutes before 
he left. 

1000
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:33,760
In the late 1980s, I jumped fire
with two others in the Caribou 

1001
00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,200
Wilderness in the Red Cinder 
Peak area. 

1002
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:39,360
It was a single tree lightning 
fire and very little ground 

1003
00:55:39,360 --> 00:55:41,400
fire. 
We fell the tree and put out the

1004
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:45,640
fire without any difficulty. 
Afterward, we made camp next to 

1005
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,560
the burned area with the 
campfire inside the burned area.

1006
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:52,120
I awoke in the early hours just 
before dawn when I heard a 

1007
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,960
rustling in the brush. 
At first I thought it was one of

1008
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,680
the others, but when I looked 
they were both asleep in their 

1009
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,320
bags. 
We normally don't see wildlife 

1010
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,960
around fires. 
The noise and commotion seems to

1011
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,880
keep them away. 
Since our campfire had long 

1012
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:09,000
burned out and we were asleep, I
thought it might be some animal 

1013
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,920
coming to investigate. 
We're pretty careful about our 

1014
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,320
trash and waste. 
Anything that cannot be burned 

1015
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:17,080
is packed out. 
We don't want to be responsible 

1016
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:19,120
for something getting addicted 
to human food. 

1017
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:22,560
So I grabbed A headlamp and 
shone it toward the bushes to 

1018
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,320
scare it away. 
The first thing I noticed was 

1019
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,720
the yellow eyes shining back at 
me about 50 feet away from a 

1020
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:32,000
clump of small trees. 
They seemed to be 8 feet or so 

1021
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,840
above the ground with a large 
dark shape below it. 

1022
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,320
My first impression was a bear 
standing on its rear legs. 

1023
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,320
So I grabbed a stick and threw 
it at the animal while yelling 

1024
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,000
go away. 
The animal turned and ran off 

1025
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:47,040
downhill. 
As it ran, I saw it was moving 

1026
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:50,440
upright like a person with its 
arms swinging at its sides. 

1027
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:54,360
Bears will stand on their rear 
legs, but don't run or walk like

1028
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,760
that. 
About 150 feet or so downhill, 

1029
00:56:57,760 --> 00:57:01,240
it stopped, raised its hand and 
pushed a tree branch aside, 

1030
00:57:01,560 --> 00:57:03,120
turned around and looked back at
me. 

1031
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:07,040
It was still upright. 
The other two were awake now and

1032
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:08,480
looked where I was shining my 
light. 

1033
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:12,200
One of them asked a bear. 
I mumbled something like, yeah, 

1034
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,760
a bear. 
Then whatever it was ran off and

1035
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,680
disappeared. 
I said go back to sleep, I'll 

1036
00:57:17,680 --> 00:57:19,280
rebuild the fire to keep it 
away. 

1037
00:57:20,080 --> 00:57:22,960
They went back to sleep. 
I built a large fire and walked 

1038
00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:25,240
around the perimeter of our camp
gathering wood. 

1039
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:29,840
I kept shining my light around, 
but I never saw it come back in 

1040
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,520
the daylight. 
I checked the ground where I 

1041
00:57:31,520 --> 00:57:33,720
first saw it. 
The ground litter was visibly 

1042
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,160
disturbed, but I couldn't make 
out any footprints. 

1043
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:40,040
About noon we packed our gear 
and started to the trailhead to 

1044
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:43,040
get picked up while hiking. 
I kept turning around and 

1045
00:57:43,040 --> 00:57:47,040
looking but never saw anything. 
The others kept kidding me about

1046
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:50,600
being stalked by a bear. 
To this day I'm convinced it was

1047
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:52,800
not a bear. 
I've never seen a bear act like 

1048
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:57,120
that or walk or run on 2 legs. 
Over the years other smoke 

1049
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,160
jumpers and Hellita crews have 
told me they have seen something

1050
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,760
big that wasn't a bear, but they
go unreported. 

1051
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,160
Reporting things like that can 
affect your career. 

1052
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:11,200
I'm not entirely sure what we 
saw, but I'm certain it wasn't a

1053
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:13,440
human. 
This happened back in the late 

1054
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,680
1990s during a family fishing 
trip to Lake Paris in Riverside 

1055
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,840
County, California. 
We frequent this lake, usually 

1056
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,720
fishing at night. 
This particular evening, the 

1057
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:26,680
whole family was there. 
We found our usual spot and the 

1058
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:30,520
men cast their lines while the 
women and kids watched Someone, 

1059
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,920
I don't remember who, said, hey,
look at that guy over there. 

1060
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,840
He was squatting down in the 
shade of a large boulder, 

1061
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:40,440
partially hidden from view. 
At first we didn't think much of

1062
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,440
it, but after a few minutes I 
started noticing something 

1063
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:45,960
strange. 
He never moved, he just sat 

1064
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:50,240
there staring at us intently. 
My wife started to feel uneasy. 

1065
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,400
She said he's not moving at all,
it's really creepy. 

1066
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,520
As the sun began to set, the 
light faded. 

1067
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,760
An hour or so passed and we were
all getting a little on edge 

1068
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:03,400
watching this motionless figure.
My son and I yelled out. 

1069
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,160
Hey, what are you looking at? 
Stop staring. 

1070
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,680
My wife freaked out and took the
kids back to the campsite. 

1071
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:12,680
My sons and I continued to 
observe the figure. 

1072
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,040
It was getting dark and we still
couldn't make out much detail. 

1073
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,600
We were getting increasingly 
uncomfortable. 

1074
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:22,480
This man had been squatting 
there for over 2 hours without 

1075
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:25,520
moving a muscle. 
I'm not easily spooked, but I 

1076
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,000
was starting to feel uneasy. 
We decided to leave before it 

1077
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:32,480
got completely dark. 
As we drove away, we discussed 

1078
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:35,400
what we had seen. 
It was clearly a large, upright 

1079
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:38,360
figure, but it was hard to tell 
if it was wearing clothes in the

1080
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,160
fading light. 
We couldn't explain how anyone 

1081
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,960
could remain motionless for that
long. 

1082
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:47,560
We were all a bit shaken up. 
The next day, my son went back 

1083
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,440
to the spot to see if he could 
find any clues, maybe footprints

1084
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:52,760
or something, but there was no 
sign of the figure. 

1085
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,600
Whatever it was had vanished 
without a trace. 

1086
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:59,160
I grew up in a more rural area 
in the foothills of the Sierra 

1087
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:01,360
Nevada. 
I've seen some strange things in

1088
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:05,040
my time, but this encounter at 
Lake Paris was truly unsettling.

1089
01:00:05,360 --> 01:00:08,440
It may be question what I think 
I know about the natural world. 

1090
01:00:09,680 --> 01:00:12,640
This happened in the San 
Bernardino Mountains, California

1091
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:16,160
at the Barton Flats Campground, 
which is southwest of Big Bear 

1092
01:00:16,160 --> 01:00:18,680
Lake and I think it's off of 
Hwy. 26. 

1093
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,880
I was sleeping in my van and my 
two friends were sleeping in a 

1094
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,600
tent about 15 feet away. 
I couldn't get to sleep and I 

1095
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:27,360
heard something walking around 
outside. 

1096
01:00:27,640 --> 01:00:30,440
I could hear snoring coming from
the direction of the tent and 

1097
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,760
when I peeked out of the window 
I couldn't see anything. 

1098
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,640
I started to get up and all of a
sudden the van started rocking 

1099
01:00:36,640 --> 01:00:40,040
violently back and forth and I 
was thrown from side to side. 

1100
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,600
I yelled real loud and the 
shaking stopped. 

1101
01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,160
My friends called from the tent 
and asked what the problem was, 

1102
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,080
and at that point I grabbed my 
flashlight and pulled back the 

1103
01:00:49,080 --> 01:00:51,920
curtains covering the back 
window and shined the flashlight

1104
01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:54,720
outside. 
A figure moved towards the left 

1105
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,560
and I could see it walking 
upright like a man, but it had 

1106
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,960
hair from head to toe and in a 
second I saw it walk past the 

1107
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,200
front windshield and head into 
the forest. 

1108
01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,440
I pulled open the side door and 
jumped out, yelling for my 

1109
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:09,840
friends to get up. 
It smelled really bad, like a 

1110
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:13,000
cesspool around our campsite, 
and I was badly shaken. 

1111
01:01:13,680 --> 01:01:16,800
We started a fire and talked 
about what had just happened and

1112
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,400
I learned that something had 
been tossing pebbles onto the 

1113
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:21,600
top of the tent and they thought
it was me. 

1114
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,640
And then somebody had brushed up
against the back of the tent and

1115
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:27,960
they also thought it was me. 
But after I told them about the 

1116
01:01:27,960 --> 01:01:31,120
van rocking, they swore it 
wasn't them and we decided to 

1117
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:35,160
pack up and head home early. 
Later, I remember seeing a pair 

1118
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:37,640
of yellowish eyes through the 
trees after we had first 

1119
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:41,120
arrived, but I dismissed them 
almost immediately and figured 

1120
01:01:41,120 --> 01:01:44,520
it was just a deer or something.
I live in Redmond, WA. 

1121
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,440
I'm currently seeking others in 
my area that might have an 

1122
01:01:47,440 --> 01:01:50,680
interest in Bigfoot and I'd like
to participate in an organized 

1123
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,000
search. 
I've already done a few searches

1124
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:56,000
on my own in the North Bend area
and I've spoken with some 

1125
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,920
locals. 
That's where they or someone 

1126
01:01:57,920 --> 01:02:01,240
they know has cited Bigfoot. 
Brian Francis. 

1127
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,800
I was coming home from a night 
class at Deltek in the winter of

1128
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:08,800
2004. 
I usually take a back Rd. over 

1129
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:12,520
to Route 9 to get home faster. 
So I left college and made my 

1130
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,840
way home on my normal back Rd. 
detour. 

1131
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,400
I got through the first half of 
the twisted road and came up to 

1132
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,080
the stop sign to turn right on 
Ashbury Road. 

1133
01:02:21,520 --> 01:02:23,480
As I did, I turned on my high 
beams. 

1134
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,960
I came around a turn that leads 
to about 1/4 mile or a little 

1135
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:30,280
more stretch of Rd. 
About 3/4 of the way down the 

1136
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:34,000
road I could make out a standing
figure next to a utility pole. 

1137
01:02:34,440 --> 01:02:37,400
So I immediately turned off my 
high beams thinking it was a 

1138
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:39,000
person because it was standing 
up. 

1139
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:43,240
As I got closer to this being, I
was taken back by its size. 

1140
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:47,000
I started to slow down not 
knowing it, I guess because I 

1141
01:02:47,000 --> 01:02:51,760
was puzzled and curious. 
As I stared I could make out its

1142
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,920
bottom side broad shoulders, the
fact that it was standing with 

1143
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:58,080
its back to me looking into the 
woods and hair that came to a 

1144
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,000
point at the top of its head. 
The entire figure had a thick 

1145
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,520
black cover of hair with no hair
on its hands. 

1146
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:08,200
I could not see its feet. 
Standing next to the utility 

1147
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,120
pole gave me some reference for 
height. 

1148
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:13,040
I estimate it was around 7 or 8 
feet tall. 

1149
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:16,560
I was almost past this creature 
when it looked at me and then 

1150
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,360
looked back to the woods as if 
it didn't care I was there. 

1151
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:23,360
Once I made eye contact, the 
hair on my arms stood up and I 

1152
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,840
peeled out of the location. 
I was confused as to what just 

1153
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,080
happened and couldn't believe 
what I witnessed. 

1154
01:03:29,600 --> 01:03:33,080
It also is hard to comprehend 
that I had seen a Bigfoot and 

1155
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,400
have seen something that's not 
supposed to exist. 

1156
01:03:37,080 --> 01:03:41,040
It was a late summer evening in 
2021 around dusk and my buddy 

1157
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:43,960
Jake and I were standing on a 
quiet country Rd. outside the 

1158
01:03:43,960 --> 01:03:47,880
small town of Hope, Arkansas. 
Jake's cousin who was with us 

1159
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:50,600
had strolled up the road to a 
neighbors house to see if he 

1160
01:03:50,600 --> 01:03:54,280
wanted to join us for a bonfire.
We also had a handful of dogs 

1161
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,920
with us roaming around the road.
I remember at least a couple of 

1162
01:03:57,920 --> 01:03:59,920
them were hound dogs, good 
trackers. 

1163
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:04,680
As Jake and I waited, we both 
started to get an uneasy feeling

1164
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:07,880
like we were being watched. 
We glanced across the road and 

1165
01:04:07,880 --> 01:04:09,600
noticed a large watermelon 
patch. 

1166
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:13,240
We both commented on how eerie 
it looked in the fading light 

1167
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,440
and I jokingly dared Jake to 
walk across the road and into 

1168
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,920
the patch by himself. 
He just laughed and said no way.

1169
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:23,800
As we stood there, I noticed 
something standing behind a big 

1170
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:26,040
oak tree at the edge of the 
watermelon field. 

1171
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:28,400
It looked like a tall, upright 
figure. 

1172
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,440
I pointed it out to Jake and he 
saw it too. 

1173
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:34,880
By this point, the dogs were 
going absolutely crazy. 

1174
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,040
They were barking, growling, and
running back and forth on the 

1175
01:04:38,040 --> 01:04:42,000
road, clearly agitated. 
Then I heard the most terrifying

1176
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:45,280
sound I ever heard in my life. 
It came from the watermelon 

1177
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,720
patch and it sent shivers down 
my spine. 

1178
01:04:48,160 --> 01:04:51,600
It was a deep, resonant growl, 
like a bear, but much lower and 

1179
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,320
more intense. 
It was a steady, low pitched 

1180
01:04:54,320 --> 01:04:57,120
vibrating growl, like a warning 
to stay away. 

1181
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:01,400
I looked at Jake and we both had
expressions of pure fear on our 

1182
01:05:01,400 --> 01:05:04,000
faces. 
We turned and ran as fast as we 

1183
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,800
could. 
We completely forgot about 

1184
01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:08,600
Jake's cousin, who was 
understandably confused when he 

1185
01:05:08,600 --> 01:05:11,880
finally caught up with us after 
we told him what we'd seen and 

1186
01:05:11,880 --> 01:05:14,400
heard, he knew exactly what we 
were talking about. 

1187
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,720
He'd grown up in the area and 
was familiar with the local 

1188
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,520
stories. 
We were too scared to walk all 

1189
01:05:20,520 --> 01:05:23,320
the way back to their house, so 
we stopped at an uncle's place 

1190
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,320
down the road. 
He drove us back. 

1191
01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,360
He also shared some of his own 
experiences and stories 

1192
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,760
confirming that he believes in 
Bigfoot. 

1193
01:05:31,600 --> 01:05:34,560
Later that night, we could hear 
strange sounds coming from the 

1194
01:05:34,560 --> 01:05:35,560
woods. 
For hours. 

1195
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:37,680
They sounded like whistles and 
howls. 

1196
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,160
Eventually, the sounds died down
and we finally managed to get 

1197
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,480
some sleep around 5:00 or 6:00 
in the morning. 

1198
01:05:45,280 --> 01:05:48,320
In the summer of 2000, I went 
with my stepfather and his 

1199
01:05:48,320 --> 01:05:51,080
friend to some land that my 
mother inherited from my 

1200
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:53,600
grandfather. 
It's a fairly remote and 

1201
01:05:53,600 --> 01:05:57,080
sparsely populated area near 
Lake Tenkiller in Cherokee 

1202
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,120
County, Oklahoma. 
My grandfather had bought the 

1203
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:03,000
land because we went to the lake
multiple times every year when I

1204
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:05,240
was growing up and fancied 
building on it. 

1205
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:08,200
He passed away having never done
anything with the land. 

1206
01:06:08,920 --> 01:06:11,480
We were going to clear a road 
from the public road to as far 

1207
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:13,240
as we could go to the back of 
the property. 

1208
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:15,640
That meant clearing brush and 
cutting trees. 

1209
01:06:16,040 --> 01:06:18,240
We arrived around 9:00 AM and 
began work. 

1210
01:06:19,000 --> 01:06:21,760
We took a break for lunch and 
decided to explore the rest of 

1211
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,040
the property while they sat in 
the truck and ate. 

1212
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:27,680
At the back of the property, the
land dropped steeply into a 

1213
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:29,880
ravine. 
It was pretty clear all the way 

1214
01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:33,480
to the bottom and probably 80 to
100 feet of vertical drop. 

1215
01:06:34,360 --> 01:06:37,160
As I neared the bottom, I saw 
what looked like a cave on the 

1216
01:06:37,160 --> 01:06:40,120
opposing side. 
That side of the Canyon was much

1217
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,680
steeper and nearly solid rock. 
I walked down to The Cave 

1218
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:47,120
entrance and looked inside. 
I quickly realised it had 

1219
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,320
another entrance as it was 
fairly well lit being noon 

1220
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:53,080
during the summer. 
The entrance I was looking into 

1221
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,440
was about 5 feet high and three 
feet wide. 

1222
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,560
I couldn't see the other 
entrance from it as The Cave 

1223
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,520
made a curve. 
I went inside and realised 

1224
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,200
something had been living in 
there. 

1225
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,960
The other entrance was about 30 
feet from the 1st and roughly 

1226
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,920
the same size. 
In the middle of The Cave was a 

1227
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,640
large nest. 
It consisted of a shredded, 

1228
01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:16,480
filthy sleeping bag, various 
pieces of cloth, grasses, and 

1229
01:07:16,480 --> 01:07:18,960
leaves. 
It was clearly fashioned into a 

1230
01:07:18,960 --> 01:07:22,320
large sort of Oval shaped nest 
about 6 feet across. 

1231
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:25,840
There was a few pieces of torn 
up trash scattered around that 

1232
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:29,200
was mostly food wrappers. 
My first thought was maybe a 

1233
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:30,760
homeless person was living 
there. 

1234
01:07:31,200 --> 01:07:33,880
That would be really weird 
though because it's miles to any

1235
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:37,520
towns or even campgrounds. 
There are a few nearby, the 

1236
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:39,440
nearest being about 1/2 mile 
away. 

1237
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:42,520
I began to get a very uneasy 
feeling. 

1238
01:07:42,880 --> 01:07:45,600
I went out the other entrance 
and decided to go back and tell 

1239
01:07:45,600 --> 01:07:49,320
my stepfather what I'd found. 
I was about 25 feet from The 

1240
01:07:49,320 --> 01:07:52,280
Cave when I heard a huff like an
animal snorting. 

1241
01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,600
I looked back and up the 
hillside above The Cave, 

1242
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:59,280
probably 30 feet up, I saw the 
head and shoulders of what can 

1243
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:03,120
only be described as a Bigfoot. 
It was looking over the top of 

1244
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:05,160
one of the big rocks covering 
the hillside. 

1245
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:08,520
It was covered in reddish brown 
hair, and it didn't look like a 

1246
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,520
human or an ape, more like a 
cross between the two. 

1247
01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:15,560
It was looking directly at me, 
and I turned around and ran 

1248
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:18,160
screaming back up the hill 
toward my stepfather and his 

1249
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,000
friend. 
When I got back to them, I was 

1250
01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:23,640
out of breath and huffing and 
puffing and trying to tell them 

1251
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,359
what I'd seen. 
They laughed and told me I was 

1252
01:08:26,359 --> 01:08:29,439
full of crap. 
Despite my frenzied insistence, 

1253
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,040
they didn't believe me. 
They said they thought we'd 

1254
01:08:32,040 --> 01:08:35,080
cleared enough road for the day 
and we'd come back again another

1255
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:37,520
day. 
Well, we never went back. 

1256
01:08:37,680 --> 01:08:40,479
It's a 2 hour drive from where 
we live in Norman and my mum 

1257
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:42,520
decided it wasn't worth the time
and effort. 

1258
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:46,319
As far as I know, she still owns
the land, but none of us had 

1259
01:08:46,319 --> 01:08:49,080
been there since. 
I've never forgot that day. 

1260
01:08:49,279 --> 01:08:52,200
No one I know believes me, but I
know what I saw. 

1261
01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,920
I'll never go back there without
at least a pistol. 

1262
01:08:55,399 --> 01:08:58,399
Whatever that thing was, I got 
the distinct impression that it 

1263
01:08:58,399 --> 01:09:00,359
didn't like me being in its cave
times. 

1264
01:09:00,359 --> 01:09:03,000
Over the years I've heard and 
read of many sightings in the 

1265
01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:05,080
area. 
I always thought they were kind 

1266
01:09:05,080 --> 01:09:07,240
of kooky. 
Probably just people mistaking 

1267
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,439
deer or maybe even a bear for 
Bigfoot. 

1268
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,640
I'll never doubt them again. 
I'm 52 years old and I know what

1269
01:09:13,640 --> 01:09:16,120
I saw that day. 
At times I've tried to tell 

1270
01:09:16,120 --> 01:09:19,359
myself that I was mistaken, but 
I realise I'm just trying to 

1271
01:09:19,359 --> 01:09:20,760
make believe. 
It didn't happen. 

1272
01:09:21,080 --> 01:09:24,000
But it did happen, and it's 
something I'll never forget. 

1273
01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:29,439
In September 1984, my friend and
I were hiking on the east side 

1274
01:09:29,439 --> 01:09:32,880
of the Sierra Nevada mountain 
range above Lake Tahoe and the 

1275
01:09:32,880 --> 01:09:34,880
Carson Valley above the town of 
Genoa. 

1276
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:38,800
Both of us grew up in this area,
although in high school I was 

1277
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:41,399
kind of a cut up. 
My friend Linda graduated 

1278
01:09:41,399 --> 01:09:44,000
valedictorian of our class five 
years earlier. 

1279
01:09:44,399 --> 01:09:47,920
She was very logical. 
We have often hiked this trail 

1280
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,880
that basically goes straight up 
the mountain and over to Tahoe. 

1281
01:09:51,479 --> 01:09:54,880
It's a very strenuous hike. 
When we parked our truck at the 

1282
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:57,480
trailhead, there was another car
parked there as well. 

1283
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:01,200
We were 1/4 of the way up the 
trail when 2 teenage boys came 

1284
01:10:01,200 --> 01:10:02,760
running down the mountain 
towards us. 

1285
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,960
The trail was extremely steep 
and they were running for all 

1286
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,280
they were worth. 
They stopped long enough to 

1287
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:11,520
implore us not to go any further
up the mountain as they had seen

1288
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,520
a monster or something. 
There was an old deer Hunter's 

1289
01:10:14,520 --> 01:10:17,720
cabin at about the halfway point
and we told the boys that we 

1290
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,720
were only going that far. 
We thought they were drinking or

1291
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:24,080
on drugs and we shrugged off the
incident, laughed and joked that

1292
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,000
we wished we had what they were 
smoking. 

1293
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:29,800
We reached the cabin without 
incident, sat down on the bluff 

1294
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:31,320
that overlooked the Carson 
Valley. 

1295
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,200
We split a soda that we had 
brought and I took out my 

1296
01:10:34,200 --> 01:10:37,240
recorder, a flute like 
instrument, and began playing 

1297
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,600
some little tunes on it. 
We were alone on the mountain, 

1298
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:43,640
we thought. 
After about an hour of putzing 

1299
01:10:43,640 --> 01:10:46,080
around, we decided to head back 
down the trail. 

1300
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,960
I kept smelling dog dew or 
something dead. 

1301
01:10:49,160 --> 01:10:52,440
I even checked my shoes. 
We were near the Creek gathering

1302
01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:56,200
pine cones for an art project. 
I was facing downhill, Linda was

1303
01:10:56,200 --> 01:10:59,280
facing uphill. 
We were examining a particularly

1304
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,080
perfect cone when Linda looked 
up and exclaimed. 

1305
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,680
Oh my God, it's a bear. 
No, it's a guy in a bear suit. 

1306
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:08,080
I looked up and couldn't believe
it. 

1307
01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,040
We were a stone toss away from a
7 foot tall hairy dude. 

1308
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:15,640
He looked directly at us and to 
this day Linda and I felt 

1309
01:11:15,640 --> 01:11:17,480
something pass between the three
of us. 

1310
01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:19,720
He stood across the Creek from 
us. 

1311
01:11:19,960 --> 01:11:23,040
His hair was the colour of dry 
pine needles and covered his 

1312
01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:25,760
whole body with the hair 
thinning just on his chest and 

1313
01:11:25,760 --> 01:11:29,040
face. 
He had a large broad chest, but 

1314
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:32,000
not breasts like a female. 
His arms were hanging at his 

1315
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:35,560
sides nearly to his knees and 
when he walked he took long 

1316
01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:38,240
strides and his arms swung 
freely as he walked. 

1317
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:40,960
He didn't seem to fear us, 
although he began to. 

1318
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,160
Walk straight. 
Up a pine needle covered slope, 

1319
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:47,720
barefooted without slipping. 
As he moved away, Linda grabbed 

1320
01:11:47,720 --> 01:11:49,920
my arm and began dragging me 
down the hill. 

1321
01:11:50,240 --> 01:11:53,600
I couldn't take my eyes off him 
and he never took his eyes off 

1322
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:56,360
us. 
I did not feel to this day as he

1323
01:11:56,360 --> 01:12:00,080
meant to harm us, but instead I 
feel he was just as fascinated 

1324
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:04,080
with us as we were with him. 
His face seemed almost serene 

1325
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:07,360
with very intelligent eyes. 
His face resembled an 

1326
01:12:07,360 --> 01:12:10,240
orangoutan. 
He had large eyes and a flattish

1327
01:12:10,240 --> 01:12:12,680
nose. 
I wished I had a camera on me 

1328
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:15,800
that day. 
As we continued at a fast pace 

1329
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:18,840
down the hill, he remained on 
the Ridge above us, paralleling 

1330
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,800
in the same direction. 
We reached our truck and still 

1331
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:23,520
could see him crouching. 
On a granite. 

1332
01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:26,520
Boulder, at least a football 
field distance between us. 

1333
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:29,920
I yelled up to him that he was 
very cool, but he shouldn't be 

1334
01:12:29,920 --> 01:12:31,600
scaring the crap out of us 
locals. 

1335
01:12:32,240 --> 01:12:35,200
He stood up on his boulder and 
Linda told me to shut up and get

1336
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,880
in the truck. 
We were strangely disturbed that

1337
01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:40,040
afternoon and evening. 
We thought of going to the 

1338
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,800
Forest Service or the Sheriff's 
Department, but who would 

1339
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:45,680
believe us? 
Plus, in our community they 

1340
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:49,120
would just want to shoot him. 
We have since hiked there many 

1341
01:12:49,120 --> 01:12:51,640
times, always hoping to catch 
another glimpse. 

1342
01:12:52,120 --> 01:12:55,320
We are married ladies with kids 
and we take the kids up Bigfoot 

1343
01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,640
Canyon periodically in search of
our elusive friend. 

1344
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,960
A few years ago, the wind blew 
down some trees during a storm 

1345
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:06,160
and exposed an area that we had 
not seen from the trail before. 

1346
01:13:06,600 --> 01:13:09,640
When we went up to investigate, 
we found a large boulder and 

1347
01:13:09,640 --> 01:13:12,480
some older pine trees with 
branches low to the ground 

1348
01:13:12,480 --> 01:13:15,040
around it. 
You could duck down and go under

1349
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,560
the trees near the wall of the 
boulder and it looked as if 

1350
01:13:17,560 --> 01:13:20,760
someone or something had made a 
natural shelter there. 

1351
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:24,160
The pine needles had all been 
trampled down and it seemed to 

1352
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,920
be away from the prevailing 
winds. 

1353
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,760
A great place for deer, bear, or
perhaps a Bigfoot. 

1354
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,680
We hope so. 
I will never look at life on 

1355
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:35,920
this earth the same way I've 
seen Bigfoot, and not only does 

1356
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:39,400
it make for a great tail around 
the campfires at night, it fuels

1357
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,720
my imagination about every 
little sound I hear when I'm in 

1358
01:13:42,720 --> 01:13:44,920
the wilderness. 
I am intrigued. 

1359
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,720
I only hope that no harm comes 
to the Bigfoots. 

1360
01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:51,520
I believe that the great Creator
of all life shares the sight of 

1361
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:54,600
Bigfoot with people who might 
grow from the experience. 

1362
01:13:55,280 --> 01:13:57,200
I know Linda and I have both 
grown. 

1363
01:13:57,560 --> 01:14:00,320
Even if we share the experience 
with someone who doesn't believe

1364
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:03,240
us, it really doesn't matter. 
We know what we saw. 

1365
01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,160
He was so close in proximity, it
was obvious to us that this 

1366
01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:10,320
fellow belonged here. 
He was as natural as the sky 

1367
01:14:10,360 --> 01:14:14,520
Creek trees and the deer. 
Thanks. 

1368
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,920
Thanks for listening everyone. 
Don't forget my books are all 

1369
01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:21,360
for sale, audio and written. 
The links are in the description

1370
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:23,080
below. 
Thanks again. 

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01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:23,960
Take care.