Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about a Nevada Bigfoot Roundup.
That's correct, a Nevada Bigfoot Roundup.
We found these awesome stories over at bfro.net.
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Now this first sighting comes to us.
Says it was submitted on August 11th 2007 but it happened back
in February of 2005. They described the season as
winter. The county was Humboldt County,
Nevada. Location details.
Says you can see the mountain from the outskirts of town.
You can basically see the peak of the mountain where the
sighting occurred. Nearest town Winnemucca.
Nearest Rd. There was a small dirt Rd.
I don't think it was even marked.
Observed my uncle. My 6 year old cousin and I were
on one of our weekly expeditions to explore the surrounding
mountains in Winnemucca, Nevada. We were walking up the foot of a
mountain on the Ridge of a Washington and there was still
about a foot and a half of snow on the ground.
My cousin said she saw a guy standing on top of the mountain
and I replied there's no one up there, it's too far from any
civilization. It's probably just a juniper
Bush, but about 5 minutes later our £95 Doberman greyhound mix
made a mad dash underneath the truck at the foot of the
mountain. Our dog was not one to scare
easily. It scares away anything that
comes close to the house, and it even took on a Mountain Lion
once. It has scars on its upper belly
to prove it. Just as my uncle and I looked
toward where my cousin was pointing, we heard a low droning
howl. What I thought was that Jennifer
Bush was now animated walking downward and swing side to side
slightly. It spooked us because on the way
up we had seen a completely decimated Cal carcass.
At that point we headed to the truck because we were pretty
shaken up by what we had seen. We were reluctant to tell anyone
for fear of being laughed at or ridiculed.
It says. Also notice the decimated Cal
carcass. It wasn't a bear because there
have never been any reports of bears in that area.
Other witnesses, my uncle and little cousin, other stories,
none that I know of. Time and conditions.
It was about an hour and a half before sunset.
It was a clear winter evening and the sun was behind the
mountain at that time. Environment.
Snowy mountainous landscape dotted with numerous Jennifer
bushes and small Pines. Follow up investigation report
says BFRO investigator John Salman.
The witness said they watched the subject for close to 5
minutes. One of the comments that really
struck me was that of the young cousin who said there is a man
up there quote UN quote noting that the subject was on two legs
and moving like a man. It was also noticed that the
subject did not have a visible neck, and the head seemed to
slope into the shoulders. The figure was entirely black,
with no color variations or clothing lines.
It's size reminded the witness of a very large, burly guy.
I found the witness to be credible.
Wow. Yeah, three people see this
saying. John, Salmon says, grew up in
Utah and is a lifelong outdoorsman and former hunter.
His father owned a motel in West Hillstone where John would spend
summers exploring and photographing wildlife.
He is a certified visual tracker, level level 1 human
tracker, Sasquatch emphasis, BFRO expeditions, and he's been
all over the place, man Northern California, Washington, UT,
Wyoming, you name it. This guy definitely has has his
bona fide he's a Bigfoot investigator.
Well, very cool sighting. Let's take a look at this next
one here. This next sighting is dated
October 2004. It says Esmeraldo County, Nevada
location details. It was about 1000 feet southeast
of the peak to Boundary Peak Mountain nearest town Dyer,
Nevada nearest Rd. Canyon Trail Rd.
I had been a police officer in Nevada for over 19 years.
In 2004, two of my college roommates called me from Idaho
and wanted to set up a climb to Boundary Peak.
Boundary Peak is the highest mountain in Nevada at over
13,000 feet. It is located in the White
Mountains east of Bishop, CA. One of my room mates is a loan
executive for a bank in Idaho and the other is a farmer.
We left Boundary Peak trailhead on the last Saturday morning of
July 2004 around 6:00 AM. Around 2:00 PM, we were several
100 feet from the summit of Boundary Peak.
There were two climbers making their way down the trail toward
us. The last 300 feet of the climb
is steep with lots of obstacles and the trails very narrow.
We waited at our location so that the two climbers coming
down would have room to pass on the trail.
As we were waiting, I spotted a lone climber making his way
across the Rimrock Trail between Montgomery Peak and Boundary
Peak. He caught my attention because
he kicked a rock off the West side slope of the sheer Rock
Cliff. When the two climbers reached
our location, I observed something moving S about 300
feet from us in a large bowl. The movement was too fast to be
another climber because the area that it was in was full of small
shale rock. This rock is extremely hard to
walk in and keep your balance on the steep mountainside.
There were also several large boulders in with the shell rock
where the where the trail was that this climber was using.
When I first observed this subject, I said out loud, look
at that guy go he's wearing a funny hairy climbing suit.
My first thought was that he was some expert climber wearing a
modern high tech climbing suit. All five of us looked at what I
just pointed out and there was a dead calm silence among us.
We all sat there for about two minutes and watched as this
creature made its way to the trees below us.
While I was watching it, I made the listed observation.
The creature would run on two legs upright until it came up on
a large boulder and then it would crawl over it on all four
legs and run for a while on all four legs.
After a short distance, it would stand back up on two legs and
run until it came up to another obstacle.
The creature was between 5 feet and five and a half feet tall.
Its arms hung down to almost its knees.
The head area appeared to have a long hair around the face and
head. It appeared to be light brown
and collar with dark hair around the head and groin area.
Once it reached an area of heavy vegetation, we lost sight of it.
It took over 60 seconds to reach the vegetation from the 1st
place that we observed it. I asked the other climbers if
they knew what it was that we just saw.
They did not say anything. My first thought was that it
looked like an orangutan. I told this to one of my friends
and they replied, yeah, maybe it escaped from captivity.
But everyone, everyone left it at that and we all started back
up the mountain while the other climbers made their way down.
Before the other climbers left, I asked them where they were
from and they said Southern California.
As we were going back up, I spotted the other lone climber
crossing the divide between the peaks.
He was about a half a mile South of Boundary Peak.
I thought to myself that this climber might have scared the
creature from his hiding place when he knocked a rock off the
Cliff. Once we were on the peak, the
lone climber met up with us. He was an Asian male.
I asked him if he saw anything down the South slope of the
divide that he just came across. He said he didn't see anything.
All three of us in our climbing party had cameras.
They were all in our backpacks. When we observed the creature, I
initially thought of trying to take my gloves off and taking
off my pack to get my camera out.
I realized that my camera did not have a zoom on it and that a
regular 35mm would only show a dark spot at a distance of over
300 yards. When I returned home, I told a
couple of my close friends about the creature that I saw.
I did not want a lot of people to know about what I saw because
I did not want them to think that I was losing it.
In February of 2007, I bought 10 acres of land about 5 miles from
the area that I saw the creature.
I did not know it at the time, but this is where I'm going to
retire. I was talking to one of the
local residents and I told them about what I saw up in the
mountain. They did not seem surprised and
told me about a local prospector who saw something in the forest
that secured him to the point that he does not want to talk
about it ever again. Under also notices said no, we
did not go down to the area where it was observed because of
the climbing conditions. Other witnesses Four other
witnesses, two were climbing friends of mine and two others
were from South Carolina. The two climbers from South
Carolina were coming down the trail toward us toward the three
of us. When we all met on the trail is
when I observed the thing. All five of us saw the creature
for about a minute or two. Other stories one of the local
residents told me about a miner had mentioned that he saw
something in the forest that scared him so badly that he does
not want to talk about it. Time and conditions 2:00 PM.
Weather conditions, clear and warm environment.
Shell rock, sagebrush, juniper and other small trees and
shrubs. Then it says follow up
investigation reported by VFR investigator Richard Huckleberg.
I made contact with his witness, a Reno Police officer, on the
afternoon December 21st, 2007. We went over his report.
He couldn't add much more to what he and his friends saw on a
boundary on Boundary Peak Mountain.
He has bought property close to where this all took place, but a
little further down the mountain.
The reason he mentioned the property is because something
unusual happened there long after the sighting described
above, which may be connected. After he cleared a pad for his
5th weed or camper on his 10 acre parcel, he and his dog were
burning off the brush and weeds the following night and had a
pretty good sized fire going. His dog started to look out into
the darkness and begin to bark and growl at something.
He only had a strong spotlight to look around with but he
didn't see anything. He was a non believer about the
Sasquatch phenomena before the sighting.
He is now a 100 percenter and he is going to do more
investigating in and around his new property.
As mentioned in his report, there were two friends with the
witness as they were hiking. Climbing up toward Boundary
Peak. They spotted the figure as the
group stopped and were waiting for two other climbers that were
on their way down the trail. The trail was narrow at this
point. As the two groups were passing
on the trail, this creature decided to start moving across
the mountainous bowl area. According to the witness, all
five of the mountain climbers observed this movement.
As mentioned in his report, there were two friends with the
witness as they were hiking, climbing up toward Boundary
Peak. They spotted the figure as the
group stopped. And we're waiting for two other
climbers that were on their way down the trail.
The trail was narrow at this point.
As the two groups were passing on the trail, this creature
decided to start moving across the mountainous bull area.
According to the witness, all five of the mountain climbers
observed this movement. The witness said that he first
saw the figure about 200 yards below them and about 300 yards
out in front of their positions on the trail.
They were somewhere above the 1200 foot level on the mountain.
He thought he first heard a rock falling, which might have
startled this figure because it began to move in the opposite
direction from the climber who dislodged the rock.
That climber was on his way down, but he was even higher up
on the mountain trail then the witness and his friends.
The witness was very impressed by how fast this creature was
moving in this loose shell that was on the surface of this very
steep slope that was part of a large bull area.
If this had been a human, it would have taken one step
forward and two steps back. Total viewing time was
approximately 2 minutes or less, but before it disappeared into
the vegetation on the other side of the of the large bowl area.
When this figure came to some larger boulders or rocks that
were in its path, it went down on all fours and climbed up and
over these boulders and then continued on on all fours for a
short distance. Then it went back up on two
legs, still moving relatively fast.
The witness thinks the figure didn't even see his group of
hikers. The figure had long hair on the
head. The figure had longer hair on
the head than the rest of the body.
It was also darker hair on the head.
The rest of the body hair was light brown except for the
crotch area, which was darker than the body hair.
The witness could not tell if the area was male or female, nor
estimated sight. It was too far away, he thought.
His arms appeared to be longer than an average human's arms.
The witness has haunted and taken bear in Idaho and Montana.
He knows what bears look like and what they can and cannot do
on their hind feet. He was certain it was not a
bear. He first became aware of BFRO
because of the recent Pennsylvania Trail camp photo.
He said this also is no bear, and he's right.
Then the investigator says I used to hunt deer on the
California side of where this took place back in the 1980s.
This mountain range has its own spatial beauty and loneliness
that keeps drawing you back in certain places.
You feel like you're on a different planet all together,
like the moon. There are bristlecone pine trees
in the area. One of these bristlecone pine
trees is the oldest known living thing on the planet.
It is 4000 plus years old. I have a picture of it.
He says at one time it was marked so people could find it
and photograph it and now the Forest Service has wisely
changed the trail and removed the sign to protect it.
There's always some idiot out there that want to damage it.
The witness is a high, credible and unbelievable.
It seems he saw a Sasquatch, but what was it doing at that
elevation? Deer cross over the mountains
using those high mountain passes, so it may have been
following their path. And he's got a picture of this
area. Man, totally desolate.
Makes you wonder how they think he'd even live there.
It says. I spoke with one of the
witnesses friends by phone on January 10th, 2008.
One of the friends who was with him when the incident happened,
he confirmed the story but he couldn't say just what it was.
He said it was covered with hair and was moving very fast and
loose shell headed down and away from them.
He saw it moving for a little over 100 yards.
The following photos were taken about 20 years ago.
It says by me a few miles South of Boundary Peak Mountain.
Most of the high peaks in this mountain range are on the
California side, but some are over 14,000 feet.
Montgomery Peak is over 13,400 feet and lies just on the
California side of the Boundary Peak Mountain.
These two mountain peaks are connected by a high Ridge saddle
that intersects the state line. The first photo says looks north
and was taken from a 12,000 hundred 500 foot Ridge.
Man, amazing area here. I mean beautiful, desolate.
I mean you got some of these pine trees, very kind of almost
short scurry pine trees. Somehow these Bigfoot seem to be
able to find a way to live in this environment.
Very, very strange story. Let's take a look at the next
one here. This one here is dated September
of 1984. Been a little while.
It says middle of the month Douglas County, Nevada and
location details. Go to the town of Genoa, drive
north on Foothill Rd. turn left on Centennial, pass the
cemetery. The road ends up behind some
residential homes, but where the road ends the land belongs to
the Forestry BLM and is the start of the trailhead.
It is a tough hike but eventually you will come to the
remaining foundation of the deer hunters cabin.
It was in this vicinity where we met this large, hairy, smelly
guy near the Creek going uphill. The Creek will be on your left.
Nearest town. Genoa, Nevada.
Nearest Rd. Centennial Rd.
Observed in September of 1984. My friend and I were hiking on
the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range above Lake
Tahoe and the Carson Valley above the town of Genoa.
Both of us grew up in this area, although in high school I was
kind of a cut up. My friend Linda graduated
valedictorian of our classified years later.
She is very logical. We have often hiked this trail
that basically goes straight up the mountain and over to Tahoe.
It is a strenuous hike. When we parked our truck at the
trailhead, there was another car parked there as well.
We were 1/4 the way up the trail when 2 teenage boys came running
down the mountain toward us. The trail was extremely steep
and they were running for all they were worth.
They stopped long enough to implore us not to go any further
up the mountain as they had seen a monster or something.
There was an old deer Hunter's cabin at about the halfway point
and we told the boys that we were only going that far.
We thought they were drinking or on drugs.
We shrugged off the incident, laughed and joked that we wished
we had what they were smoking. We reached the cabin without
incidents. Sit down on the bluff that
overlooked the Carson Valley. We split a soda that we had
brought and I took out my recorder, a flute like
instrument, and began playing some little tunes on it.
We were alone on the mountain, we thought.
After about an hour of putting around, we decided to head back
down the trail. I kept smelling dog dew or
something dead. I even checked my shoes.
We were near the Creek gathering pine cones for an art project.
I was facing downhill, Linda was facing uphill.
We were examining a particularly perfect cone when Linda looked
up and exclaimed. Oh my, it's a bear.
No, it's a guy in a bear suit. I looked up and couldn't believe
it. We were a stone's toss from a 7
foot hairy dude. He looked directly at us and to
this day Linda and I felt something pass between the three
of us. He stood across the Creek from
us. His hair was the collar of dry
pine needles and covered his whole body with the hair
thinning just on his chest and face.
He had a large broad chest, but not breast like a female.
His arms were hanging at his sides nearly to his knees and
when he walked he took long strides and his arms swung
freely as he walked. He didn't seem to fear us,
although he began to walk straight up a pine needle
covered slope, barefooted without slipping.
As he moved away, Linda grabbed my arm and began dragging me
down the hill. I couldn't take my eyes off him
and he never took his eyes off us.
I do not feel to this day as he meant to harm us, but instead I
feel he was just as fascinated with us as we were with him.
His face seemed almost serene with very intelligent eyes.
His face resembled an orangutan. He had large eyes and a flattish
nose. I sketched a picture as soon as
I got home and Linda confirmed that I had captured his
likeness. I wish I had a camera on me that
day. As we continue at a fast pace
down the hill, he remained on the Ridge above us, paralleling
in the same direction. We reached our truck and could
still see him crouching on a granite boulder at least a
football field distance between us.
I yelled up to him that he was very cool, but he shouldn't be
scaring the crap out of us locals.
He stood up on his boulder and Linda told me to shut up and get
in the truck. We were strangely disturbed that
afternoon and evening. We thought of going to the
Forest Service or the Sheriff's Department, but who would have
believed us? Plus, in our community, they
would just want to shoot him. We have since hiked there many
times, always hoping to catch another glimpse.
We are married ladies with kids and we take the kids up Bigfoot
Canyon periodically in search of our elusive friend.
A few years ago the wind blew down some trees during a storm
and exposed an area that we had not seen from the trail before.
When we went up to investigate, we found a large boulder and
some older pine trees with branches low to the ground
around it. You could duck down and go under
the trees near the wall of the boulder and it looked as if
something or someone had made a natural shelter there.
The pine needles had all been tramped down and it seemed to be
away from the prevailing winds. A great place for deer bearer or
perhaps a Bigfoot. We hope so.
I will never look at life on this earth the same way I have
seen Bigfoot, and not only does it make for a great tale or on
the campfire at night, it fuels my imagination about every
little sound I hear when I am in the wilderness.
I am intrigued. I only hope that no harm comes
to the Bigfoot. I believe that the great creator
of all life shares the sight of the Bigfoot with the people who
might grow from the experience. I know Linda and I have both
grown. Even if we share the experience
with someone who doesn't believe us, it really does not matter.
We know what we saw. He was so close in proximity.
It was obvious to us that this fellow belong there.
He was as natural as the sky Creek trees and the deer.
Also notice it says no, except he appeared to be studying us.
Myself, my best friend and whoever the two young boys were,
were the witnesses. Other stories, Yes.
I spoke with an Australian mountain biker who had a strange
experience five years ago directly on the other side of
the mountain on the Tahoe side. He said he was riding his bike
and exercising his German Shepherd.
He said he kept smelling something dead.
He said his dog was running ahead of him.
Suddenly he said his dog yelped and turned around without
waiting for him and ran back down the mountain.
This man said that he never did see anything, but he felt there
was someone watching him and he said he felt the hair on the
back of his neck and arms prickle.
He thought maybe it was a bear, but the smell kept coming back
to him. This story was shared with me
before I had told him my own and then it's this time of
condition. That was a beautiful day, clear
but a little bit a little bit of a bite in the air. 2:00 PM
environment, Ponderosa Pines and cedar near the foundation of an
old deer hunters can't cabin and a trickle of a Creek.
Follow up investigation report says following the investigators
review with the witness, the following information can be
added to this report. Just prior to the encounter the
witness reports having the sense of being watched.
The witness reports the hairy man as she called him had
possibly been nearby for some time without them noticing as he
was very close. When they did notice him, the
witness reported that he raised his nose to the sky and was hurt
to take a sniff, followed by a very loud deep huff which must
resemble a snort from a very large bowl which she was
accustomed to hearing. The witness reported he then
turned and ran off uphill in a very fluid and graceful yet
powerful and agile fashion. He ran up a very steep hill
covered with thick pine needles without missing a step or
slipping at all. He was reported to have run
uphill in a hunched over position, but he used his hands
for swatting objects out of the way rather than for a
locomotion, the witness reported.
He followed them down the hill, standing off to the side and
uphill from them. The hike backed down to their
truck took approximately 1 hour. Upon arriving at the truck, the
witness took a rest break and sat on the hood of the truck
while the Harriet man stayed on the Ridge above them and
appeared to be observing them. As they began to leave, the
witness shouted to him which may have caused him to rise from his
cross position and stand upright.
The witness had several observations.
Physical features to report as working from the top down they
are. The head was very large,
prominent brow Ridge, face flat, really complexion, nose flat and
wide. Estimated size 7 feet tall and
360 lbs. Shoulders and chest were very
wide and muscular, Abdomen very firm.
Says the definition of the muscles was quite visible.
Hair was varying length. Hands observed were described as
huge. The feet were described as
gigantic. The exposed skin collar was
described as being much the same as its collar, dirt giving a
very dirty appearance to it. The witness reports having been
in the same area many times since then, yet she has had no
further encounters. The witness also submitted a
sketch done shortly after her encounter.
She feels fairly depicts what she saw that day.
Yeah, she's got a pretty good drawing of this Bigfoot here.
Wow. This last sighting that we're
looking at is dated September 15th, 1980, says Story County,
Nevada. Location details.
Take Hwy. 50 E out of Carson. Turn left on 431 through Silver
City just before you get to Gold Hill there is a drive to the
left across from New York. Mine sighting was an old mill
site at American Flats in ravine just S the ruins of the old
mill. I believe this is all part of
the mining operation they had going on there.
Nearest town Gold Hill, Nevada, American Flats, nearest road
341. I was a reserve duty sheriff for
Story County Sheriff's Office. I was employed by the Houston
International Minerals Corporation at Gold Hill as
their on site security supervisor.
I had worked the day shift. I had to rent some kids out of
the old mill. At around 3:30 PM on 9/15/1980 I
was showing my swing shift officer the area I'd rent the
kids off from. We were in the security vehicle
parked on the high side of the South side of the old mill.
Gold mining. We saw that the boys, four of
them, were running back down the ravine to the Creek below.
It was 4:15 PM. As the boys reached the Creek,
they must have scared a group of girls at the Creek bottom
because they started screaming. There was a lot of noise being
made by both the girls and the boys laughing and yelling.
At first I thought they were. They had scared a deer West of
them near the rock outcrops. Then I thought, no, it's too big
to be a deer. I could see it moving among the
trees heading up the other side of the ravine at a very fast
pace. I thought it must be a lone
Mustang. As I watched, my security
officer got the binoculars from the seat and said Oh my.
I looked closer and realized it was not a Mustang.
I was looking at a large graying brown man shaped thing about 10
plus feet tall. It was obviously male because of
its build. As it cleared the trees near the
top of the hill I could clearly see it.
It was covered with hair from head to toe, graying like a
person in their 50s. It was at least three feet at
the shoulders. At the Crest of the hill it
turned to look back down the ravine.
It was maybe 100 yards across the ravine.
I had an unobstructed view at this point.
It stood on the hilltop maybe a minute looking back down the
hill, then turned and moved over the other side of the hill out
of you. We drove over to where we had
seen the thing last, about a two mile drive on dirt roads.
It was about 4:50 PM by then and we saw no further sign of it but
was able but were able to establish that the thing was
standing next to a tree that was 11 feet tall under.
Also notice it says the noise of little kids down lower on the
Creek. Happy sounds not fear, screaming
and yelling. Other witness myself and my
swing shift. Swing shift security officer
that says other stories none time and location. 415 broad
daylight, clear skies, warm almost hot environment.
The area is high desert across the ravine, 60 feet deep with a
rock outcrop on the other side with the Creek in the bottom of
the ravine. There are Cottonwood trees and
willows in the bottom of the ravine and pine trees on both
sides of the ravine. This opens up into a flat as you
move West. The siding was just South of the
old American Flats mill site, below the mill site and mill
pond. Follow up investigation says.
I talked with the witness by phone and the following details
can be added to the report. He remembers the date so well
because it happened just two months after he started work.
He remembers the time so well because the swing shift had just
started out. He was showing the swing shift
officer around. The area is filled with caves,
mines, tunnels and the like. Believed the creature to be male
due to the size and body structure.
There was a dark patch in the groin area.
Estimated the weight of the creature to be between 501,000
lbs. It's enormous creature seemed
familiar with the drain based on how it moved up the hill.
The creature seemed unconcerned with the kids and that was what
the creature turned to look at. No sounds from the creature were
heard. Witness worked there for a year
and nothing further happened nor were there any other stories
from the area. Known animals in the area
include deer and Mustang. Well, Nevada doesn't have quite
as many sightings as some states, but I'll tell you the
Bigfoot sightings that they do have seem to be up close and
personal. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.