It was a perfect night at Beans Camp a few days ago, just east over the ridge from the headwaters of Bluff Creek, CA. It's a superb staging area for exploration of the area, especially if you don't want to drive all the way to Louse Camp. The weather was perfect, and a couple of strange things had happened that made us hopeful of some bigfoot action that night. Camp was about 100 meters up a game trail from a crystal clear watering hole, and things seemed right.

I had just set up motion- and sound-activated surveillance equipment and was focusing my night vision scope. Walking away from the campfire, I approached the slope that bounded the west side of our campsite while gazing through the NV scope.

Like always when using NV, I'm marvelling at the technology. Wow...I can see in the dark. This is sooo coo.....

.....whoa. WHOA! Standing right in front of me, perhaps 12 feet away, was a large bipedal figure. I could only see the shape, but it was HUGE and very clearly defined. A rush unlike anything I'd imagined possible swept my body. THIS IS IT!

It was at least 8 feet tall and standing absolutely still. Strange, but I'm aware of several reports of a BF standing still while watching campers at close range. My heart's beating in my ears as I realize I'm not afriad, but smiling broadly. Time to implement my plan for such a moment. Sit on the ground, appear nonthreatening and disinterested, and start snapping as many photos as possible.

I stared at the figure while quickly working out where my gear was in the various pouches of the tactical assault vest I was wearing. The figure was still, with the left arm apparently shading the eyes from the campfire and the right arm held out at an angle from the body, seemingly in a state of readiness. It appeared to be staring right at me. OK, time to act.

I began to move to sit down, and noticed the huge figure doing the same.

I was the bigfoot.

As I scanned the slope with the NV, I eventually reached a point in alignment with my body and the campfire. The campfire projected my shadow onto the slope, and that's what I saw with the NV.

I had one arm held up to my head operating the NV, and the other held out in case I fell down because of the loss of depth perception when using a scope. The distance from my body to the slope made my shadow appear immense. Ambient light from the campfire interacting with the NV made my shadow very vivid and well-defined.

We got a helluva laugh outta that one.

Later that night, I was trying to go to sleep. Unwinding from my "encounter" took a while. Finally I was about to doze off, and CRASH! There was a large animal in our camp. I sat up in a flash and checked the NV camera on the laptop. Nothing.

Turned out to be the grille on the fire ring falling over and hitting some beer bottles by the ring.

After another calming-down period, I mercifully went to sleep.

More things going bump in the night.

Priceless.

Poor MonkeyMan, It really is funny though.

At least you got a bit of practise into how you would react if you do come across sassy one day.

hi monkeyman good morning WOW thats wonderful you might gotten to taken photos of a bluffcreek sasquatch congrats looking forward seeing them posted in this thread. definetly keep me and researchers informed. well at least sasquatch activity is still happening at bluff creek. wonderful bigfoot bluff creek expedition report as well. im sure everyone here will agree.

good story MonkeyMan!

omg, my adrenaline was rushing just from reading it. you must have been on overload at the time. wow! great story

gael

That was classic! ....thanks for the story.

Been there, done that!! It's a rush for a few seconds til you realize what you're seeing, then you're glad nobody can see your face burning red in the darkness.

Thomas Biscardi -- con-man MonkeyMan -- priceless :notworthy:

:rotflmao: ... :surrender:

Monkeyman, would you say that the creature was more ape-like or human-like? Was there an offensive or strange odor present at the time?

I think a couple people missed this part.

Funny story, Monkeyman. I'll bet that was quite a rush.

Good one MM errr...MonkeyMan

I love this story, it's something that would happen to me.

:rotflmao:

Been there, got the t-shirt

Sorry everybody false alarm... But that would have been pretty cool if it really happened the way you mentioned...

What they said . . . thanks for the story!

lol... good one

Hi Bill,

Read the post carefully buddy...it was a false alarm.

t.

Edited for double post.

t.

,, :rotflmao:

D'OH!!

You will know when you see one up close. It won't be mistaken for anything else either. Keep searching they are out there.