Big Foot

[Jauwater]

Well I started the thread because of some people I encountered recently while hiking the Black Mountain Crest Trail, that had some interesting experiences in those woods a few nights in a row while camping. The first lady, and her husband I met once pulling into the trailhead, which is a dead end road basically. They both came straight to my car before I even parked, acting kind of crazy about how they just seen two sasquatch roaming the woods a few miles up towards the ridge, and they basically ran down the mountain. I was basically like yea whatever, and went on up the mountain. Four hours later when I reached the ridges, where it starts to open up, and met a group of just two local high school kids who where hiking out with their dogs, and said they were hiking out cause they barely slept over the past 2 nights, due to the dogs freaking out all night long both nights. They hunt these ridges a lot with their family, as I do too, being a highly populated bear sanctuary they were assuming it was a bear stalking the wood line looking for the hanging food. You should have seen their faces when I told them some crazy lady, and her husband just seen two sasquatch less then a mile from their camp site. As two non believers they started reminiscing more bout it, and we all just got creeped out. I stayed out there the next two nights, and didn't experience anything unusual.

Did it ever occur to any of you that the UFO that dropped them off came back to pick them up? There hasn't been a sighting for quite a while

 

[Laelkhunter]

Well I started the thread because of some people I encountered recently while hiking the Black Mountain Crest Trail, that had some interesting experiences in those woods a few nights in a row while camping. The first lady, and her husband I met once pulling into the trailhead, which is a dead end road basically. They both came straight to my car before I even parked, acting kind of crazy about how they just seen two sasquatch roaming the woods a few miles up towards the ridge, and they basically ran down the mountain. I was basically like yea whatever, and went on up the mountain. Four hours later when I reached the ridges, where it starts to open up, and met a group of just two local high school kids who where hiking out with their dogs, and said they were hiking out cause they barely slept over the past 2 nights, due to the dogs freaking out all night long both nights. They hunt these ridges a lot with their family, as I do too, being a highly populated bear sanctuary they were assuming it was a bear stalking the wood line looking for the hanging food. You should have seen their faces when I told them some crazy lady, and her husband just seen two sasquatch less then a mile from their camp site. As two non believers they started reminiscing more bout it, and we all just got creeped out. I stayed out there the next two nights, and didn't experience anything unusual.

I understand there are things out there that defy explanation. I would have to wonder, why no one has shot one or the remains of one turned up? Surely if they exist (which they probably do), they have to die eventually. Why haven't hunters or hikers, found their remains? I hope to never have the direct contact with one. I would just rather hear other peoples accounts of their experiences.
I have seen quite a bit in my 40 years of Law Enforcement (30 years in New Orleans PD), and I don't wish to sight one on my Elk hunts in Colorado or New Mexico. An occasional Black bear or Mountain Lion is excitement enough.

 

[Jauwater]

Man, I bet you could write a book on that.


I have seen quite a bit in my 40 years of Law Enforcement (30 years in New Orleans PD

 

[fngTony]

I always wondered why no remains were found. I worked with a guy who was really into bigfoot and said even though they are always sighted single (maybe with a young one) that they eat the entire carcus. When I looked into it myself there is some convincing evidence. Basically I wouldn't be surprised if 100% proof was found.

While listening to a gritty bowmen podcast Aron described an area that was so remote and rugged that he didn't think humans had been there for a very long time if ever. So yeah there is habitat for them to hide

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[KodiakBrown]

Well, last year in Little Naches I heard some tree knocks real close to the area I was in but I would be willing to bet it was some other hunter being an ass.

When I was a kid down between Mt Adams and St Helens I found a series of tracks running up the side of a mountain we were picking huckleberries on with my little brother. Freaked my mom out enough that we left that hill lol.

Ever since finding those tracks I've thought that there had to be something out there that is pretty smart and real big. I suspect like most creatures they probably want to be left alone to do their thing.

 

[Ray]

Post #15 addendum - the buddy of my dad (Jim) when we lived on the OR coast grew up in Red Bluff, CA. As a teen Jim started working in the woods as a saw oiler. He and the other oilers/mechanics arrived to the site first to prep all the equipment. Always in the dark. The saw shed lean-too had a kerosene lantern Jim had to light by feel as he had not earned enough money to by a flash light.

One morning the oilers were complaining about some of their lube and fuel drums being missing again. Jim started up the saw sharpening tools and went to work. A few minutes into the first couple saws, there came over him a sharp smell of body odor like he had never smelled before. Mix of wet dog and hobo. He stopped sharpening for a few seconds, but decided to not turn around. He was sure something was standing behind him just outside the lean-too. He felt a warm "breath" against his neck a couple times. The smell faded away after 10 minutes or so. Trapped in the lean-too, he kept on his task.

As dawn approached and the rest of the logging crew arrived, Jim finally became brave enough to turn around. There in the mud behind him, over his own boot tracks, were a set of huge barefoot tracks about 14" long. With additional dawn light the crew found the missing oil/fuel drums over the side of the landing down in the brush. There were no obvious marks in the mud from the drums being rolled over the edge. They had been carried and thrown.

This happened three or four more times that month, until the company decided to post a night guard, then it stopped, but the guards kept quitting after a few weeks. The next year Jim met the guy that became famous for making castings of the tracks, which recently were determined to be a hoax when his grand kids showed people the wooden feet the old man had used to make the tracks.

Jim told us this story that day while riding back home. I pretty much never wanted to go into the woods again. Not without my rifle.

Jim also told us a story about one of the most frightening things he had ever seen in the woods. He was hauling the fuel cans and lunch buckets for a falling crew of two men. They were headed up hill over a slash pile from the previous season. The first sawyer made it up and over fine, but the second man slipped and his right leg slid down into the pile. Not a big deal, but as soon as he tried to stand back up he was yanked back down. He started to scream and tried to yank his leg out. Jim dropped his load of fuel cans and buckets and started to pull up on the man stuck in the pile. Just then a huge black furred hand with long claws reached up out of the pile and grabbed a hold of the upper part of the sawyer's leg. Both men are now screaming.

The first man ran back over the slash pile, started his saw and plunged it into the space between the logs/limbs. Blood and fur erupted up and out onto all three men. Jim was able to pull the stuck man up and out of the pile. Once things settled a bit they looked at the man's leg and he had puncture wounds from his ankle all the way up to his hip. They were able to walk him back to the log landing and get him a ride to town. Jim and the first sawyer went back up the hill and cut open the slash pile and found a large sow black bear and two cubs. The sow was cut almost in half through the neck and shoulders. Jim became a faller that day now that they were short handed. He went home that night wearing blood stained clothing, which he said gave his mom a case of the "vapors" when she saw him.

There I was, 12 years old, with Jaws out in the ocean where the salmon were, and bears and bigfoot up in the hills were the deer were. There are not enough fun sized snickers to help a kid cope with that kind of stress.

 

[Jaker_cc]

I understand there are things out there that defy explanation. I would have to wonder, why no one has shot one or the remains of one turned up? Surely if they exist (which they probably do), they have to die eventually. Why haven't hunters or hikers, found their remains? I hope to never have the direct contact with one. I would just rather hear other peoples accounts of their experiences.
I have seen quite a bit in my 40 years of Law Enforcement (30 years in New Orleans PD), and I don't wish to sight one on my Elk hunts in Colorado or New Mexico. An occasional Black bear or Mountain Lion is excitement enough.

I'm right there with you, I don't mind listening to people's stories or experiences about this. But I sure as hell don't want to walk up on one or have one walk up on me. I've always been a little freaked out by the thought of Bigfoot. Give me a bear any day.

 

[Felix40]

You guys are joking right?

 

[Dos Perros]

I never joke about bigfoot. Or chupacabras.

 

[Ray]

You guys are joking right?

Bob Grimlin isn't joking, so why should we?

The Man Who Created Bigfoot | Outside Online

The thing that gets me curious, is that there are hundreds of people in the PNW that have come face to face with "something" in the woods, others have encountered them at their remote homes eating out of their gardens, yet the one guy that is there when a critter gets filmed is pilloried.

 

[Felix40]

I never joke about bigfoot. Or chupacabras.

Jackalopes are ok then?

 

[svivian]

We have vampires in Colorado. I'll take Bigfoot all day

 

[W.D. Crawford]

We do!?

 

[ethan]

I would seriously really like to believe there is a large ape like creature out there, but just can't. I do tend to believe something like that once lived in North America just because of all the primitive cultures that have stories about them.

 

[svivian]

We do!?

VAMPIRE CAUSES CAR CRASH IN COLORADO! - Cryptopia - Exploring The Hidden World

 

[W.D. Crawford]

Well from now on I'm bringing some garlic and some wooden stakes!!

 

[CorbLand]

Do I believe Bigfoot exists? No. Am I going to argue that he can't exist? No. My theory is this. We have thousands of satellites, trail cams, roads, planes, helicopters, etc out there and no one, no one can get a half decent picture? This, and someone would have shot one by now.

 

[2ski]

We always try to explain the unknown. And groups of people of yore, like native Americans and even the Greeks and Romans all had ways of explaining things. Like the sun even. So if you're outside and hear something you can't explain.....

For me, the first time I went camping as an adult(and only time I've ever camped without a gun) my buddy and I were at Canyon Ferry Lake at a campground and in the middle of the night we hear this weird wheezing noise and something moving around outside our tent. It was blazing hot so the campground wasn't full at all so it wasn't as packed as it could be. It was kind of dead actually. Both of us too scared to look outside, we stayed awake for a while before he fell back asleep and I stayed awake the rest of the night. This all happened at probably 3am. I was sure we had a bear in our camp. That's how I explained the unexplained. What I've since learned is it was probably a deer that had come in around us. I've heard they will come in and lick up the salt from your urine where you peed in the bushes. I don't know that that is true because now if I hear deer I just go back to sleep.

 

[JigStick]

I have a SF buddy who swears to christ he saw one in western NC during a land nav training exercise. Listening to him tell the story made the hair on my neck stand up.

 

[freebird134]

My best friend through college, both of us top of our class in wildlife biology in Idaho, believed in Bigfoot. His dad saw Bigfoot around Kooskia. Not once, but twice.

I'd ask him, "isn't there a 1 in a hundred chance your dad was mistaken?"

"My dad knows what he saw."

"isn't there a 1 in a million chance your dad was mistaken?"

"My dad knows what he saw."

"isn't there a 1 in a billion chance your dad was mistaken?"

"MY DAD KNOWS WHST HE SAW!!!"

can't argue with that logic....

At this point in my life, I just can't entertain any supernatural/cryptozoological nonsense. UFOs, Bigfoot, zombies, Santa clause, long-bearded dudes in the clouds.....





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