Full Version: Anyone See Bigfoot?
You're seeing something built like a human, walks on two legs, but is not-Please describe the feeling when you first realize you've come across something soo-----I don't know, life changing!
My first impression was one of fear and amazement, but not the "run away screaming" type of fear. It was more a feeling of "What the hell? No, no it can't be, it just can't".
At the time, I just wanted to be anywhere other than the place I was at. But the creature that I saw did not display any aggressiveness, and also I was armed, so my fear and worry subsided after a short while. Then I became......, cautiously curious about what I was seeing.
At the time, I just wanted to be anywhere other than the place I was at. But the creature that I saw did not display any aggressiveness, and also I was armed, so my fear and worry subsided after a short while. Then I became......, cautiously curious about what I was seeing.
Hard to put into words on the first siting. An adrenaline rush definately. I wanted to see it up close but really didn't want to get the $hit smacked out of me by it either. I wasn't afraid but caution seemed like a good idea at the time. I've had a few more since then and the rush is still there. I've tried to give chase a couple of times to try and get a closer look and a pic. Although me in a foot chase after a squatch is about like pitting a 1970 Vega against a top fuel dragster.
I was totally petrified, I wanted to run but was frozen in my tracks. I coudnt move until after the sound of the footsteps had faded away. I was only 17 at the time and had heard of them in the Pacific Northwest, not the South. In Search of ephisode I think. I guess I was in shock to, I was looking at something that wasnt supposed to be there.
The second I realised it was not a black bear but a huge creature on two feet coming straight towards me. (it was about a mile away, I was using binoculars) I went into an emotional shock! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It seemed to be looking right at me as it came down the mountain, and it seemed to be telling me to stay off that mountain. My neck hairs stood up, my mouth probably hung open, and I about S__t my drawers! As soon as it walked out of sight I took about ten steps and sat down, I hung my head between my knees, and just took a few deep breaths. I was trying to mentally digest what had just happened. I got over the fear in a short time, but I will add one final thought. I have NEVER gone up that mountain.
Here are about 100 encounter-quotations I’ve gathered from a few books & sites. They have the ring of truth. I place a lot of faith in that sort of thing, and I have less confidence in hard evidence than most people. I think scientism and scofticism go astray in their denigration of soft evidence; I think it’s because analytical types lack the empathetic qualities that would allow them to relate to people, and to quickly size them up as solid or hinky. Perhaps soft evidence isn’t something one can use to convince someone else with, but it can be very valuable in helping one to make a personal decision as to whether there’s anything to the claims being made, and whether one wants to devote time to it. And it should also be used when funding agencies or groups of scientists want to decide whether to investigate an anomaly. (I’ll blather on more about soft evidence elsewhere.)
QUOTE(Quotes from Philip Rife’s Bigfoot Across America:)
it sounded like an elephant in full charge. The screams were so loud my ears hurt, and they reverberated in my chest. … I was beyond terrified.
[I saw] … a really huge guy, about 9 feet tall, in a fur coat.
I got out of there so fast I left everything I was going to sell the next day behind on the ground.
it moved quick. It was graceful. You could tell it was some kind of animal.
At first I thought it was someone dressed up, playing a joke. But the longer it stood there, staring without saying anything, the more scared I got … I had this feeling that the longer I stood there, the angrier it got ... There was something about the eyes. They seemed to get shinier.
[it] would make a gorilla look like a chimpanzee.
I have not been down that road since. I will drive 50 miles out of my way not to go that route.
I didn’t shine the flashlight at it as I was too frightened. I cannot detail the fear I experienced getting back to my Jeep.
What I saw then was nothing human. … When the light touched it, it jumped.
It stood every bit of 8 feet tall.
I first thought [it] was a very hairy human looking at me, until I realized it didn’t have any clothes on.. I became very frightened and dropped to the ground and rolled underneath the car.
I can’t even begin to describe what it sounded like.
But the deciding factor for me was the dog. She whined and smelled the air in fear.
The creature stood about as tall as a small shed.
It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back.
I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling.
I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong.
It smelled like it had taken a bath in rotten eggs. It made my eyes water and my nose fill up.
It grabbed its chest and ran like you can’t believe—like a track star.
I think it took me five or ten minutes to get my heart rate and breathing back to normal. I forgot all about the shotgun I was carrying.
He was all hairy. And the hairs were like quills.
All of a sudden this bear took off as if I had shot him. I mean this bear was terrified. … When I looked, I seen a creature that was walking upright and stood taller than any bears we have in Michigan. That’s when I knew it was a Bigfoot-type thing.
it had a staggering odor and emitted a sound something like a young bull would make.
You better believe I was scared. That creature could have tipped that car upside down and thrown it in the ditch. It was that big.
the creature’s hair felt like steel wool.
It took me 15 minutes to get scared. But then it really hit me.
I ran in my brother’s room. He was afraid too, so we hid in his closet.
he had dark hair covering his conical head and dark eyes in the front of his skull. I knew immediately that this couldn’t be a man.
I heard a noise in the brush and turned around, expecting to see my husband. Let me tell you, I almost died of a heart attack.
I sure am glad I didn’t get in its way. It would have plowed me under.
It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin.
At first, I thought I was seeing things, and closed my eyes and looked again.
we both wrinkled up our noses at the same time. I have never smelled anything as bad in my life.
it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors.
As I looked over my shoulder, it stepped over a four-foot high barbed wire fence without touching the wire. I knew I was in trouble.
It took a step towards us. That is all it took for us to leave quickly.
I saw something that night that I have never seen before.
I jerked the covers over my head and played dead.
We began to run. I’m not ashamed to say I was scared.
We ran through thorn bushes. We crashed through trees & brush a sane man would have gone around.
I’ve seen some people seven feet tall, but this thing was bigger than any man I’ve ever seen in my life.
This horse had a long mane, and I noticed it was standing part-way out ….
I hope I never run into anything like that again.
I don’t know if it came toward us or went the other way. I was too busy running.
It had a face of an ape. It was a big black something.
It was ugly and sinister. Sort of like something out of a horror movie.
I want you to know it scared me real bad.
Whatever it was, it didn’t want to hurt me or it would have.
I quickly went into the house and locked the door. We moved back to the city that summer.
I knew something was wrong, because the dog was never scared of anything.
I could see the brush moving around it & then I knew it was alive. I turned & ran, never looking back.
I looked too, but what I saw didn’t look like my husband.
They described the creature as having a simian-like face as big as a stop sign.
Then it made a noise … like it was clearing its throat, but louder. That did it for us.
She said, “It’s chasing some deer. My God, it’s got knees!”
I guarantee you this was no fake. … No human could run that fast across that rugged mountain.
It was fit, not fat.
I sobbed with absolute relief when the beast turned away.
The best way I can describe it is the hairiest man I ever saw.
Then I thought to myself, what would an orangutan be doing out in the middle of nowhere in Alaska? … there is no animal native to Alaska that could resemble this thing in any way.
… a gait that reminded the witness somewhat of an elephant’s.
… a head sort of like a pumpkin and eyes different than anything I’d ever seen before.
It went up the bank without hesitation, taking large unman-like strides.
I know I screamed, but nothing came out. I don’t know how I got out of there, or even getting back into my car.
The woman closed her eyes to pray, and when she opened them again the Bigfoot was gone.
Even though it was covered with hair, I could see the muscles flexing in its arms and legs.
I could smell it, and it burned my nose.
it moved its entire body in order to move its head. It was like the time my brother broke his neck in an auto accident and had it in a cast.
Something like the screech you get when you overload a tape recorder.
he had freckling on his hands
(The little one) was picking up a stick and trying to put it in his mouth. She gave a kind of grunt at the little one like she didn’t want him doing that, and he dropped the stick.
(1869) It was in the image of a man, but it could not have been human. I was never so benumbed with astonishment before. … Their only object in visiting my camp seemed to be to amuse themselves with swinging lighted sticks around.
He had the appearance of muscular bulk, like one would expect to see at Muscle Beach.
When one of the boys approached it, the creature extended an arm outward from its hip. The boy responded with a similar gesture, and the two of them exchanged the same movement three or four times.
anyone would be crazy to wear just black during deer and bear season.
[I saw] … a really huge guy, about 9 feet tall, in a fur coat.
I got out of there so fast I left everything I was going to sell the next day behind on the ground.
it moved quick. It was graceful. You could tell it was some kind of animal.
At first I thought it was someone dressed up, playing a joke. But the longer it stood there, staring without saying anything, the more scared I got … I had this feeling that the longer I stood there, the angrier it got ... There was something about the eyes. They seemed to get shinier.
[it] would make a gorilla look like a chimpanzee.
I have not been down that road since. I will drive 50 miles out of my way not to go that route.
I didn’t shine the flashlight at it as I was too frightened. I cannot detail the fear I experienced getting back to my Jeep.
What I saw then was nothing human. … When the light touched it, it jumped.
It stood every bit of 8 feet tall.
I first thought [it] was a very hairy human looking at me, until I realized it didn’t have any clothes on.. I became very frightened and dropped to the ground and rolled underneath the car.
I can’t even begin to describe what it sounded like.
But the deciding factor for me was the dog. She whined and smelled the air in fear.
The creature stood about as tall as a small shed.
It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back.
I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling.
I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong.
It smelled like it had taken a bath in rotten eggs. It made my eyes water and my nose fill up.
It grabbed its chest and ran like you can’t believe—like a track star.
I think it took me five or ten minutes to get my heart rate and breathing back to normal. I forgot all about the shotgun I was carrying.
He was all hairy. And the hairs were like quills.
All of a sudden this bear took off as if I had shot him. I mean this bear was terrified. … When I looked, I seen a creature that was walking upright and stood taller than any bears we have in Michigan. That’s when I knew it was a Bigfoot-type thing.
it had a staggering odor and emitted a sound something like a young bull would make.
You better believe I was scared. That creature could have tipped that car upside down and thrown it in the ditch. It was that big.
the creature’s hair felt like steel wool.
It took me 15 minutes to get scared. But then it really hit me.
I ran in my brother’s room. He was afraid too, so we hid in his closet.
he had dark hair covering his conical head and dark eyes in the front of his skull. I knew immediately that this couldn’t be a man.
I heard a noise in the brush and turned around, expecting to see my husband. Let me tell you, I almost died of a heart attack.
I sure am glad I didn’t get in its way. It would have plowed me under.
It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin.
At first, I thought I was seeing things, and closed my eyes and looked again.
we both wrinkled up our noses at the same time. I have never smelled anything as bad in my life.
it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors.
As I looked over my shoulder, it stepped over a four-foot high barbed wire fence without touching the wire. I knew I was in trouble.
It took a step towards us. That is all it took for us to leave quickly.
I saw something that night that I have never seen before.
I jerked the covers over my head and played dead.
We began to run. I’m not ashamed to say I was scared.
We ran through thorn bushes. We crashed through trees & brush a sane man would have gone around.
I’ve seen some people seven feet tall, but this thing was bigger than any man I’ve ever seen in my life.
This horse had a long mane, and I noticed it was standing part-way out ….
I hope I never run into anything like that again.
I don’t know if it came toward us or went the other way. I was too busy running.
It had a face of an ape. It was a big black something.
It was ugly and sinister. Sort of like something out of a horror movie.
I want you to know it scared me real bad.
Whatever it was, it didn’t want to hurt me or it would have.
I quickly went into the house and locked the door. We moved back to the city that summer.
I knew something was wrong, because the dog was never scared of anything.
I could see the brush moving around it & then I knew it was alive. I turned & ran, never looking back.
I looked too, but what I saw didn’t look like my husband.
They described the creature as having a simian-like face as big as a stop sign.
Then it made a noise … like it was clearing its throat, but louder. That did it for us.
She said, “It’s chasing some deer. My God, it’s got knees!”
I guarantee you this was no fake. … No human could run that fast across that rugged mountain.
It was fit, not fat.
I sobbed with absolute relief when the beast turned away.
The best way I can describe it is the hairiest man I ever saw.
Then I thought to myself, what would an orangutan be doing out in the middle of nowhere in Alaska? … there is no animal native to Alaska that could resemble this thing in any way.
… a gait that reminded the witness somewhat of an elephant’s.
… a head sort of like a pumpkin and eyes different than anything I’d ever seen before.
It went up the bank without hesitation, taking large unman-like strides.
I know I screamed, but nothing came out. I don’t know how I got out of there, or even getting back into my car.
The woman closed her eyes to pray, and when she opened them again the Bigfoot was gone.
Even though it was covered with hair, I could see the muscles flexing in its arms and legs.
I could smell it, and it burned my nose.
it moved its entire body in order to move its head. It was like the time my brother broke his neck in an auto accident and had it in a cast.
Something like the screech you get when you overload a tape recorder.
he had freckling on his hands
(The little one) was picking up a stick and trying to put it in his mouth. She gave a kind of grunt at the little one like she didn’t want him doing that, and he dropped the stick.
(1869) It was in the image of a man, but it could not have been human. I was never so benumbed with astonishment before. … Their only object in visiting my camp seemed to be to amuse themselves with swinging lighted sticks around.
He had the appearance of muscular bulk, like one would expect to see at Muscle Beach.
When one of the boys approached it, the creature extended an arm outward from its hip. The boy responded with a similar gesture, and the two of them exchanged the same movement three or four times.
anyone would be crazy to wear just black during deer and bear season.
QUOTE(Quotes from reports on the Net:)
his [BF’s] palms were out in a curious gesture almost as though in appeal for understanding.
Both Poling and Mrs. Riegler are believable witnesses. Each reacts with suspicion when asked about the creature.
Amazed at why she didn’t tell him [her then-sleeping child], her only answer was, “Would you?”
Mom, it’s a great big ape or gorilla or something.
I would have thought it was an illusion brought on by the snow, but the two other people with me saw it as well.
I didn’t even think Bigfoot. The notion that those animals were out there in Colorado never crossed my mind.
A look of amazement crossed its face. It looked so comical at the moment that I had to grin.
If it would have charged me I guarantee I would have just passed out.
I valued my army career more than a few moments of limelight.
The wife noted he was a candidate for an ugly contest.
I don’t know if profanity is acceptable, but I was more effin afraid than I could ever remember, praying that what I was listening to wouldn’t start moving towards my tent. … The dog barked a few more times and then it made that sound dogs make when they are brutally injured.
the wrist was the diameter of my biceps.
Did I follow them? Not on Aunt Betty’s tootie! … I was alone and not crazy.
So, who or what do you think would be hurling rocks into the river at two AM?
this “cub bear” stood up to walk away. At 18 years of age I couldn’t force my mind to accept what my eyes were telling me.
I cannot imagine another hunter looking like that, or disregarding my call in the midst of perfectly still woods. When I later saw Roger Patterson’s film footage, I was struck by the similarities between my sighting and what he captured on film.
I am a sworn peace officer for the state of California, and just telling you this could ruin my reputation and make me the butt of jokes for the next ten years.
from BFF:
SFS: My first impression was one of fear and amazement, but not the "run away screaming" type of fear. It was more a feeling of "What the hell? No, no it can't be, it just can't."
Fletch28: An adrenaline rush definitely. I wanted to see it up close but really didn't want to get the $hit smacked out of me by it either. I wasn't afraid but caution seemed like a good idea at the time.
NewMexRog: I was totally petrified, I wanted to run but was frozen in my tracks. I couldn’t move until after the sound of the footsteps had faded away. I was only 17 at the time and had heard of them in the Pacific Northwest, not the South. In Search Of episode I think. I guess I was in shock too. I was looking at something that wasn’t supposed to be there.
Both Poling and Mrs. Riegler are believable witnesses. Each reacts with suspicion when asked about the creature.
Amazed at why she didn’t tell him [her then-sleeping child], her only answer was, “Would you?”
Mom, it’s a great big ape or gorilla or something.
I would have thought it was an illusion brought on by the snow, but the two other people with me saw it as well.
I didn’t even think Bigfoot. The notion that those animals were out there in Colorado never crossed my mind.
A look of amazement crossed its face. It looked so comical at the moment that I had to grin.
If it would have charged me I guarantee I would have just passed out.
I valued my army career more than a few moments of limelight.
The wife noted he was a candidate for an ugly contest.
I don’t know if profanity is acceptable, but I was more effin afraid than I could ever remember, praying that what I was listening to wouldn’t start moving towards my tent. … The dog barked a few more times and then it made that sound dogs make when they are brutally injured.
the wrist was the diameter of my biceps.
Did I follow them? Not on Aunt Betty’s tootie! … I was alone and not crazy.
So, who or what do you think would be hurling rocks into the river at two AM?
this “cub bear” stood up to walk away. At 18 years of age I couldn’t force my mind to accept what my eyes were telling me.
I cannot imagine another hunter looking like that, or disregarding my call in the midst of perfectly still woods. When I later saw Roger Patterson’s film footage, I was struck by the similarities between my sighting and what he captured on film.
I am a sworn peace officer for the state of California, and just telling you this could ruin my reputation and make me the butt of jokes for the next ten years.
from BFF:
SFS: My first impression was one of fear and amazement, but not the "run away screaming" type of fear. It was more a feeling of "What the hell? No, no it can't be, it just can't."
Fletch28: An adrenaline rush definitely. I wanted to see it up close but really didn't want to get the $hit smacked out of me by it either. I wasn't afraid but caution seemed like a good idea at the time.
NewMexRog: I was totally petrified, I wanted to run but was frozen in my tracks. I couldn’t move until after the sound of the footsteps had faded away. I was only 17 at the time and had heard of them in the Pacific Northwest, not the South. In Search Of episode I think. I guess I was in shock too. I was looking at something that wasn’t supposed to be there.
QUOTE(Here are quotes from Don Monroe’s Sasquatch 2001:)
I kept wishing that my brother would show up. I really needed for him to see this.
It was really something—enough to give you a nightmare.
she insisted to refer to it as a “thing.”
[Said during a “hearing”]: Perhaps one of those poor creatures is having a baby.
No I’m not ever going back there. That was enough!
I did not feel to be in any danger. But I was not going down there over that bank either!
Well maybe I believe, I don’t know what to believe, but sure as hell that weren’t no man up there either!
If it had reached down and touched me … I’d have rocketed out like a cork does from a wine bottle!
Grandpa said that it looked MEAN!
That damn thing scared the hell out of me! I’m taking up golf!
The eyes were about eight inches apart. Man!
It began to run and so did we! … My brother doesn’t come over to visit anymore.
I figured that hunting season was just around the corner and somebody else was bound to see the thing and I’d let them tell about it.
Quotes from other sources:
And the scream was like I witnessed a cow getting hit by a train on the side of its leg and it didn’t kill it. It made a really awful, awful sound.
Then I saw that this thing certainly wasn’t a human, as we define the term.
(from Staten Island Advance): When she got to work that night, Ms. Daly repeated the same four words to her co-workers: “I know I’m sane.”
It was really something—enough to give you a nightmare.
she insisted to refer to it as a “thing.”
[Said during a “hearing”]: Perhaps one of those poor creatures is having a baby.
No I’m not ever going back there. That was enough!
I did not feel to be in any danger. But I was not going down there over that bank either!
Well maybe I believe, I don’t know what to believe, but sure as hell that weren’t no man up there either!
If it had reached down and touched me … I’d have rocketed out like a cork does from a wine bottle!
Grandpa said that it looked MEAN!
That damn thing scared the hell out of me! I’m taking up golf!
The eyes were about eight inches apart. Man!
It began to run and so did we! … My brother doesn’t come over to visit anymore.
I figured that hunting season was just around the corner and somebody else was bound to see the thing and I’d let them tell about it.
Quotes from other sources:
And the scream was like I witnessed a cow getting hit by a train on the side of its leg and it didn’t kill it. It made a really awful, awful sound.
Then I saw that this thing certainly wasn’t a human, as we define the term.
(from Staten Island Advance): When she got to work that night, Ms. Daly repeated the same four words to her co-workers: “I know I’m sane.”
QUOTE(Here are evaluations by people who’ve spoken to witnesses:)
he broke down in telling this story, but seemed relieved to have gotten it off his chest, yet after that he refused to discuss or even admit it had happened.
According to Father Anthony, he never left the settlement at Nootka, never went in the woods again for the rest of his life.
I might have blown this off as just a joke, but when he [his co-worker] told me, he seemed very uneasy, shaking and almost crying. His eyes looked like they were telling the truth.
I have talked to hundreds of witnesses who obviously are shaken up by what they have seen.
He says every word is true and talking with him makes you believe it.
most people (some politicians excepted) do not lie very convincingly under questioning, and I was quite certain Mrs. Chapman believed what she told me.
He told me I wouldn’t believe what ran by his deer stand.
He stopped only long enough to warn the horsemen that he’d seen a horrible monster in the field ahead.
He talked to those who said they had spotted Bigfoot, and saw fear on their faces.
He came running in crying and white as a sheet. He was always the macho type that showed no emotion, so to see him this frightened alarmed us.
A police spokesperson added that the man “was obviously very shook, and seemed quite sane when he came in.”
He almost turned pale white and he could not talk. He pointed to an area in the woods.
I can spot a bullshitter and Roger has a lot of experience with questioning and interviewing, and we are both convinced these people are on the level about their experiences.
She had thought of the possibility that they [the boys] were faking but is convinced that “they were too frightened for that.”
I have never seen one, but the people who said they did were regular churchgoers and would strap their kids for lying.
Larsen’s foreman … was blunt. “If Larsen told me he had seen Jeeze Louise, I would believe him.”
He returned home and stayed in his room for several days to get over the fright.
This elderly couple asked me to come out to their place to investigate…. These people are the sort that you just know are telling the truth ….
According to Father Anthony, he never left the settlement at Nootka, never went in the woods again for the rest of his life.
I might have blown this off as just a joke, but when he [his co-worker] told me, he seemed very uneasy, shaking and almost crying. His eyes looked like they were telling the truth.
I have talked to hundreds of witnesses who obviously are shaken up by what they have seen.
He says every word is true and talking with him makes you believe it.
most people (some politicians excepted) do not lie very convincingly under questioning, and I was quite certain Mrs. Chapman believed what she told me.
He told me I wouldn’t believe what ran by his deer stand.
He stopped only long enough to warn the horsemen that he’d seen a horrible monster in the field ahead.
He talked to those who said they had spotted Bigfoot, and saw fear on their faces.
He came running in crying and white as a sheet. He was always the macho type that showed no emotion, so to see him this frightened alarmed us.
A police spokesperson added that the man “was obviously very shook, and seemed quite sane when he came in.”
He almost turned pale white and he could not talk. He pointed to an area in the woods.
I can spot a bullshitter and Roger has a lot of experience with questioning and interviewing, and we are both convinced these people are on the level about their experiences.
She had thought of the possibility that they [the boys] were faking but is convinced that “they were too frightened for that.”
I have never seen one, but the people who said they did were regular churchgoers and would strap their kids for lying.
Larsen’s foreman … was blunt. “If Larsen told me he had seen Jeeze Louise, I would believe him.”
He returned home and stayed in his room for several days to get over the fright.
This elderly couple asked me to come out to their place to investigate…. These people are the sort that you just know are telling the truth ….
My feelings during my 30 minute siting at fairly close range:
I felt like a magicion was a playing a trick at first, but I could not figure out how it was done. After 30 minutes of watching Bigfoot watch me, in plain site, all three of us started to get the "heeby jeebys" and we left for home while BF was still there watching.
I only got this feeling once more while out catfishing during a storm one night about a year after my siting. Everything fell silent, a twig snapped and I got the heeby jeebies worse than the previous year. I went home and it took an hour to settle down. If I had stayed, I would have realized it was big Catfish just a few feet away and the twig break could have been anything.
Since then I have spent hundreds of nights out fishing or hunting, be myself and I have never that that feeling again. No BF nightmares to remember of, but it has been on my mind for 26 years now. Truefully, I believe they are so rare I will never see another BF, so I have no fear. Since that day I always carry a camera with me everywhere I go.
I felt like a magicion was a playing a trick at first, but I could not figure out how it was done. After 30 minutes of watching Bigfoot watch me, in plain site, all three of us started to get the "heeby jeebys" and we left for home while BF was still there watching.
I only got this feeling once more while out catfishing during a storm one night about a year after my siting. Everything fell silent, a twig snapped and I got the heeby jeebies worse than the previous year. I went home and it took an hour to settle down. If I had stayed, I would have realized it was big Catfish just a few feet away and the twig break could have been anything.
Since then I have spent hundreds of nights out fishing or hunting, be myself and I have never that that feeling again. No BF nightmares to remember of, but it has been on my mind for 26 years now. Truefully, I believe they are so rare I will never see another BF, so I have no fear. Since that day I always carry a camera with me everywhere I go.
Thanks for posting all of those quotes, Roger! They were a fascinating read!
mine was disbelief. I honestly thought i was seeing things, then fear. My brother and I were bear hunting at the time we left the woods and didn`t go back till day light. that was in 1987 we now never enter the woods without a video camera we hope lighting will strike twice in our life time
"I became very frightened and dropped to the ground and rolled underneath the car."
For some reason, this made me laugh out loud. Literally! lmao
For some reason, this made me laugh out loud. Literally! lmao
ROFLMAO! This one too... "I jerked the covers over my head and played dead."
Man, I have to save these babies.
Man, I have to save these babies.
My first good clear sighting ? Well, i tell ya, disbelief, denial.
I wanted all bigfoots to look like Patty, not this HUGE muscular long haired thing that was watching me. I even tried to tell myself it wasnt, it was the underside of a fallen tree, but theres no mistaking what he was. Larger than life, steady as a rock, and hairy.
"Put him next to a gorilla and he makes the gorilla look like a chimp" .. very good,very accurate. I always say the one i saw, if you put him next to Hulk Hogan, Hogan suddenly would look like Pee Wee Herman
Dead serious.
Cant wait to see him again
I wanted all bigfoots to look like Patty, not this HUGE muscular long haired thing that was watching me. I even tried to tell myself it wasnt, it was the underside of a fallen tree, but theres no mistaking what he was. Larger than life, steady as a rock, and hairy.
"Put him next to a gorilla and he makes the gorilla look like a chimp" .. very good,very accurate. I always say the one i saw, if you put him next to Hulk Hogan, Hogan suddenly would look like Pee Wee Herman
Dead serious.Cant wait to see him again
Well it sure is difficult being a skeptic after reading these posts. (Unless of course it's all one big conspiracy 
) Incredible!
t.
) Incredible! t.
I'd like to hear more about these sightings:
"the creature's hair felt like steel wool."
"It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin."
"it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors."
"It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back."
"I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling."
"I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong."
I wonder if the hitchhiker got in??
"the creature's hair felt like steel wool."
"It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin."
"it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors."
"It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back."
"I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling."
"I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong."
I wonder if the hitchhiker got in??
Here's a link to the Amazon page where Philip Rife's book, Bigfoot Across America, which contained all those stories, can be bought for $14.95.
Below each line you wrote I've given the page reference to his book, and then the source for the tale he gave in his list of Sources.
"the creature's hair felt like steel wool."
79; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82
"It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin."
95; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82
"it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors."
98; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82, 84
"It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back."
58; Fate, 12/1994, p. 66
"I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling."
62; Strange Monsters and Madmen, Warren Smith, 1969, pp. 70-71
"I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong." I wonder if the hitchhiker got in??
64; Saga, 4/1972, p. 35-36
Here's the rest of the story: "'I almost fainted when the thing stepped up on the running board and started to crawl into the cab.' ... the terrified man promptly exited by way of the door on the driver's side:
"'I ran like the devil was behind me. After a while, I stopped to get my breath. I saw the thing step down out of the truck and walk back into the swamp. Returning to the truck was the longest, most lonesome 200 yards I've ever walked. I've never been that scared in my life, not even during my tour in Vietnam.'"
Below each line you wrote I've given the page reference to his book, and then the source for the tale he gave in his list of Sources.
"the creature's hair felt like steel wool."
79; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82
"It stood at least seven feet tall, and was the last thing you’d ever want in the living room of your cabin."
95; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82
"it seemed to know there was an entrance into the car. This apeman actually tried to figure out how to open the doors."
98; Saga, 4/1972, p. 82, 84
"It looked at me and smiled the most terrifying smile I have ever seen. I stepped from the road and walked through the woods, afraid to look back."
58; Fate, 12/1994, p. 66
"I rolled up those windows and snapped those door locks. I started trembling."
62; Strange Monsters and Madmen, Warren Smith, 1969, pp. 70-71
"I figured it was a hitchhiker. I braked my truck, opened the passenger door, and waited for him to run up. That sound couldn’t have come from a human. I knew there was something wrong." I wonder if the hitchhiker got in??
64; Saga, 4/1972, p. 35-36
Here's the rest of the story: "'I almost fainted when the thing stepped up on the running board and started to crawl into the cab.' ... the terrified man promptly exited by way of the door on the driver's side:
"'I ran like the devil was behind me. After a while, I stopped to get my breath. I saw the thing step down out of the truck and walk back into the swamp. Returning to the truck was the longest, most lonesome 200 yards I've ever walked. I've never been that scared in my life, not even during my tour in Vietnam.'"
I was`t afraid but I for sure didn`t want the distance of the 30 to 35 ft to close.I had an axe handle, expecting to catch a burgler.I was in awe.I felt small.Don`t know how long we looked at each other.But did after a while decide I needed to get my rifle and backup(freind in the house).Once i had those two things and had it in my scope I changed my mind.Ithad done nothing to me.It deserved my respect.My freind couldn`t believe what he was seeing.I pointed my gun up and fired.the creature picked up speed and was gone accept for the amplified scream and the lingering oder.MY grandmother didn`t see it but sure heard it and it scared her bad.I`m thankful I shot into the air instead of it`s head.I don`t know if I could have lived with the thought of killing something so---awsome.
DOC: I would sure like to hear about your encounter in more detail. If you have allready posted it and I missed, I apologize. Thanks.
stanpaw
stanpaw
QUOTE(DOC @ Jan 9 2004, 06:12 PM)
.I don`t know if I could have lived with the thought of killing something so---awsome.
I know exactlly how you feel. Beautiful animals !! Not swamp monsters, eh?
I did add it to the sightings thing for Scioto county in southern Ohio for 1979 but I don`t see it up there yet. Maybe I didn`t` do it right.My e-mail is DEEDOCROC@MSN.COM.
...I was on a lonely stretch of highway in Eastern Oregon at about 1AM one fall morning. I was tired, having been six hours driving...I saw what looked like a very large bear straddling the fog line on the opposite side of the road, feeding on road kill..I came up from behind it..As I slowed and passed it, we made eye contact and I felt as if an electric charge ran up my spine...It had an apelike face...It also had an expression of tired disgust on it's face like..."Oh hell, I find this fresh killed deer and one of these idiot humans shows up!...Will you just GET OUTTA HERE?"........I hit the gas and watched it receed in the rearview....Wideawake, I spent the next two hours debating with myself: Did I really see that???
Following up on my post above, I notice that a high % of items cited came from one article in Saga, one of three defunct men's adventure magazines (the other two being Argosy & True). Of the 399 Sources listed in Rife's book, 20 at most came from that source.
But I'm worried about something that has just popped into my mind. About 20 years ago, when Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, was much in the news, he gave an interview in which he described his early career as an editor or writer at one of those magazines. He said he made a lot of stuff up. Someone should check with him (or other former employees of those publications) to see if this affected the Bigfoot story cited.
But I'm worried about something that has just popped into my mind. About 20 years ago, when Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, was much in the news, he gave an interview in which he described his early career as an editor or writer at one of those magazines. He said he made a lot of stuff up. Someone should check with him (or other former employees of those publications) to see if this affected the Bigfoot story cited.
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