Besides the widely known bigfoot stories like Ostman's, Beck's, Roosevelt's etc, what are other stories about Sasquatch that you've heard and find the most interesting?

to start with, just about everything on the bfro site
and bobbie short's site

gael

Bobbie Short has the 'Here, chicky chicky' story. I like that one a lot.

Now where's that link...

Bear hunter Mike Macdonald's sighting account is one interesting story below. You'll need to download 'RealOne Player' software to see and hear his story.


http://www.rfthomas.clara.net/video/mac.ram

These two stories scared me and they are a few of my favs



http://www.gcbro.com/TXmilam0001.html
http://www.gcbro.com/TXpanola002.html

Cool stories, thank you. I think it would be frightening enough to have a Bigfoot encounter, but to have one in the dark where it showed any kind of agression would be especially chilling.

I really don't know where to begin, but I really found this report compelling:

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?ID...erFriendly=True

There are oh so many great stories. I often read them then can't find them again.

http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/mnbf/washreport.html

pretty good description of encounter.

Hey Varq....
This is ot but I saw that you are in Issaquah. I went thru there for the first time in 1979 and thought it was a possible BF habitat. Went thru again in 2003. It was unrecognizable!
Do you do any field research? Ever seen anything? Where might BF have gone? East towards Ranier?
Thanks,
Jan
p.s There was an earlier thread on favorite BF reports...with a lot of responses. You may want to check that out.

Jan!! Yes, Issaquah has really changed since 1979!!!! Major suburb now!! I have friends who live in Issaquah!!

Jan, so far I have not done any field research, mainly armchair research However I have lived in this area for most of my life and have seen it change tremendously. It's kind of sad how crazy it's gotten. But you still don't need to drive far to reach some prime BF country. I would have to say that BF, if around the area, has moved a little farther east, but not too much farther since Issaquah is in the foothills of the Cascade Mountain range. Rainier is farther south and would still be a great area for research since it is less populated. And the BFRO has sighting reports that come from all around the Cascades so BF may just be confined to the mountains in areas where suburban expansion has run rampant.

Great thread, Varg!
Welcome!!
Can't wait till Spring to hear about some of your Cascade outings.

and everyone, great report links!!
I'm gonna have to search to find one match these! Wow! really enjoyed them!

Merry Christmas! Enjoy your day!
- -Tom

Excellent story. Gets my vote. And although he's not really a better story teller than the rest, for some reason I could TOTALLY visualize everything he was saying/doing. Musta really been a HUGE creature if he associates it as being every bit as large or MORE than his previous elk. Soiling my pants comes to mind. Perfect example too of the supposedly 'human only' trait of being able to talk themselves out of/resist the fight-or-flight response.

That was an amazing story!!! It seems very believable, nothing outrageous. The more stories I hear, the more I must believe that there is SOMETHING out there!

I agree, that is a dandy story. 10 to 12 feet tall, though. That is one BIG mutha!...

I wonder if they actually get that big, or if the witness is so *flabberghasted* by the sight of it, that they overestimate the size...

This is a pretty good one:

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?ID...erFriendly=True

..."After listening for maybe 10-20 minutes (its really hard to know how long) my worst fears were realized. The crashing sounds stopped and soon there was the sound of footsteps coming up the slope directly toward us. It was on two feet and they were clearly audible, heavy footsteps.....

I'd say it sports a pretty robust pucker factor, and I consider reports from USFS employees, etc., to be among the most credible, in terms of the reporter's occupation.


And this one, if true, is just about something else:

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?ID...erFriendly=True

Wow!


This is pretty cool, too:

http://www.gcbro.com/LAnwaRep0001.htm


Even if they're all a bunch of hooey, they make for good readin'.

That one about the footsteps coming toward them always makes me go

There is a report about a ranchhand in Montana, Idaho or Wyoming, can't remember where, who was working on horseback and sees a sas, he goes back to his cabin and sleeps in the rafters all night. Next day he quits.

I have been trying to find that report for a while now, and can't. If anyone remembers it, maybe they could post a link. That was about as no-nonsense a report as I have ever seen. No exaggeration, no embellishment. Sounds like the person who reported it was superserious too, just an experienced cowboy out on the range.

One of my favorites.

Coco, I've read that but can't remember where. I'll be on the lookout for it.

There's a report with a tent camper who claimed to have come literally face to face (close enough to feel breath) that I'd like to see again. I think he was in a tent with his father, and the monkey might have had the grace to empty its bowels at a nearby tree before exiting. Anyone knows where that one is, that would be nice.

The William Roe account is also a great read. If accurate (and it seems pretty square to me), being able to see a Sas, at close range, go from leisurely eating to an expression of total astonishment in a split second.....man, that's the good life. You'd probably have to sit in quite a few bushes to replicate that one.

Monkey Man,
Here is the url for the story you wanted: http://www.gcbro.com/CAhumb001.html
Jan

A couple of years ago Kisal told a story about a friend of hers (on the GCBRO board) who was a ranger and ran into a BF on his porch late one night. He went back in and the creatures came and pounded on the walls and looked in the window. As I remember it this went on for several nights. He slept in the rafters (with his shotgun or rifle, I think) and after a week or so, walked out and quit.
I also remember a rider seeing a BF but I don't remember him sleeping in the rafters. Hmmm.
Yes, I'd like to see that one too. Please post it if you find it again.
Thanks,
Jan

WOW, what a terrific report!!! That will be something he will remember for a long time!!

Damn cool story. Love this line: "I whispered to him as lightly as I could that there was a HUGE bear out there and he had just fertilized the forest 60 feet from the tent. Dad was ready to fertilize the tent at that point, I think, but said nothing."

Also, here's GOOD advice my own late father lived by and I know SOME of you do too but probably not all of ya: "Dad was fully aware of what was going on and was silent to a fault. I saw that he had his .357 magnum in his hand (a necessity on any camping trip my dad ever went on) but to his credit he never used it."

On the down side: "Report Posted to the G.C.B.R.O. web site by Mary Green"

Party over?

"Harry"

ACK! I think the first time I saw that report I'd not learned about Mary Green yet. Still, a helluva report, if true. It does not seem to bear the characteristics of some idiot making up stories. I'll try to suspend my Mary-triggered visualization of more red flags than a Chinese honor guard as I go read the report again.

Thanks so much for finding that!

Here's another one - I read, on the web, somewhere, an account of some ranch hands chasing a BF on horseback in a very unique account. They were flabbergasted by what happened - I thought of this while reading the How Fast Is BF thread that's active now. Anyone know anything about that? I think it was WY or ID.

Here's a link to a story of an 1837 attempt by cowboys in Texas to lasso a Wildwoman. The horses refused to get close enough. This is the most famous "chasing a BF on horseback" story I know of.

How about the account of the truck driver who stops his rig to avoid running over an apparently "young" squatch and then, in an supposed gesture of thanks, the "mother" appears at his window and reaches in and touches his face.

The trucker one is on Bobbie Short's Bigfoot Encounters Website.
Look under Sightings/texas/anderson county.
I'd be interested to hear feedback on this one. What do you think?

Jan,

Thanks for the link. I copied and saved it this time, as it's definitely a keeper. If this account is true, it is by far, IMO, one of the most provocative anecdotal accounts out there. If it is bogus, then this guy is one great storyteller.

Assuming for a minute that the account is true, I feel the witness comes across as rather intelligent and articulate and he indicated that he had 'twenty one years of investigating experience". His manner of recording his observations seems to support that statement. What I find truly amazing regarding his actions, is how calmly and apparently fearlessly he dealt with the situation. I'd like to know what he did for those twenty-one years as I think that would shed some light on his ability to handle the situation the way he did.

Of course the behavior of the Bigfeet, especially the female, speaks volumes regarding their intelligence, behavior and family/social structures again IMO. I certainly hope some follow-up was done on this report.

I may have just found my new sig. line!

Here's one that's always stuck with me.....in part because I read it about a week before I was supposed to camp in this area:

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=2554

OBSERVED: My sighting occurred over twenty years ago, in the fall of 1978, so I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone or not. I was driving on highway U.S. 2 across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which skirts the northernmost shores of Lake Michigan. I had been been driving with my 18-month-old son in the car seat next to me, all day from Minneapolis towards St. Ignace,Mich. and had grown sleepy. So I stopped at a roadside picnic area about 20 miles east (maybe more) of Manistique, Michigan on the edge of the Hiawatha
National Forest. The picnic area contained only one picnic table and a trash receptacle, very rustic, and was surrounded by deep woods.
I locked my doors (driving a Saab station wagon) checked the baby and fell asleep in the driver's seat, figuring to catch a cat nap and drive the last 100 miles or so afterward, it was about ten or eleven p.m. when I fell asleep.
After only a short time, maybe two hours, I was awakened by a HORRIBLE smell, like nothing I'd ever smelled before, and I remember thinking the baby must be sick to have filled his diaper with such a rotten odor. So I turned on my interior light and grabbed the diaper bag from the back seat, but when I checked my son's diaper, it was clean !! He was awake and staring out the windshield (carseats didn't have to face ackwards, back then) and I followed his gaze . . .
At first glance I got scared, thinking a large bear was standing on its hind legs directly in front of my car, but when I turned on the headlights, thinking this would scare the bear away, I could tell this was no bear. I can't say how tall it was but it seemed to tower over the small car, bending forward at the waist and the lights didn't faze it at all. It was only three or four feet away from us, leaning over the hood and staring into the car through the windshield.
The creature was covered in very dark brown, long hair but it had no snout like a bear would have - rather, it had a flat face and a nose that kind of looked negroid (is that a politically correct description ?) and I focused on the face (so almost human) so I can't describe the body. The eyes were large, round, brown and bright but seemed to be set in the middle of the head. By that I mean the face was centered in the large head, with no hair on the cheeks, nose or around the mouth. The creature did not move or make a sound, but seemed to be in a staring match with my son even though the night had been very dark before I turned on all the lights !!
Even though the encounter lasted only a few minutes, I was frightened out of my wits but my instincts served me and I started the car, slammed it into reverse and hit the peddle hard. I didn't look back as I sped away east with a thumping heart. I didn't even talk about this incident for several months, thinking no one would believe me and I may have dreamed it all - but the memory has never faded and I've never dreamed of strong smells before or since. Over the next few years, I spoke with several people in the U.P. who have also sighted Sasquatch near or in the Hiawatha National Forest, but unfortunately cannot name them.

Spooky Stac. I've spent a little time north of US 2.

Want a weird fact? There's a Bluff Creek up near
Paulding (strange place itself). Makes me wanna
visit again. May get a chance to next summer, hafta
go poking around up in Gogebic county I think...

This is one of the most fascinating reports I can remember seeing. It really me makes suspicious, maybe like it's too good to be true.

I keep thinking that I first read that story on the BFRO site and then it vanished, like they had second thoughts about the story's veracity. I just checked and there's only one Anderson County, Texas report in their public database, and this isn't it.

Anyone know what the story is, did BFRO have this at one time and then pull the plug?

I don't know about this one but there was an interesting report on the BFRO about a sighting near Morgan Hill, CA. - near the Santa Clara Mountains. It was about a BF visiting an orchard but it disappeared quickly. Too bad. It sounded plausible but perhaps the reporter got cold feet.
I try to check the BFRO recent reports daily so I don't miss any. Some goofy ones get put up and taken down quickly but they are rare. It is more odd when a reasonable one goes up and gets taken down quickly. Sometimes I think they may be legitimate but then the witness just has second thoughts and shuts up.

Yeah, they are one of my first stops online just about every day. I've also noticed when one occasionally comes off the list but this one about the trucker really stuck in my mind. It's so unusual to have that kind of interaction between a person and a BF in a report.

Hadn't really considered that the witness may have changed his mind, just assumed the BFRO took a second look and didn't like what they saw.

That makes me wonder if they and other groups that investigate and post reports shouldn't provide explanations when something comes off the board, like "Upon further investigation, report #XYZ lacked credibility and was removed" or "Report #ABC was removed because the witness retracked his statement."

Yes, the BFRO does do their homework. They apparently try to stay on top of the reports listed on their database, and edit or remove any content for very good reasons.


The following is a prime example of what NOT to put in a sightings database(from the CBO sightings database):



Conclusions: None. Gee, wonder why. Laughable at best and a total waste of space.

Hi Vol,

A big reason I pay more attention to the BFRO site than most others is that they do check out reports before posting them and I trust they stand behind the reports, as much as they can reasonably be expected to.

I don't know anything about their procedures but it always make me wonder when I see a report disappear off-line within a couple of days. If it was suspect, why was it posted, or are all of these cases where the witness had a change of heart?

I can only imagine how many reports they get like your example.

Any of the stories that involve BigFoot at night or BigFoot and his reactions/couriosity of children

http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=96

This is still one of my favorites.
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=678

There is another about the truck driver that pulls over and a is startled when he sees a BF looking at him in his sideview mirror. Can't recall where it is though.

Thats a very good question.

I have a friend who stands 6' 8" We call him Lurch. Even though I know his exact height, he still SEEMS taller tyhan that. I know the dark can screw up peoples perception. I bet if he wore a shagy suit in the woods , people would guess him to be anywhere from 8 feet to 10 feet tall. Maybe taller if the person was scared shiftless and the lighing was right.

hear is one that i like from bfro. i have worked in this area a lot. and have hunted around theses part for about 15 years. but no seeing sas. for me.http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=4403

I believe that the policy is; if they are not able to contact the submitter of a sighting for a 'follow up', in the field...then the report is pulled. No matter how truthful the story sounds.
They would rather toss a dozen 'good' reports in favour of putting up a 'verified'. This stands for an example of how many reports come in every week. There is no need to print a story just for the sake of numbers. These days only the 'verified' explored sightings are kept online.
As explained to me...a researcher will go to the sight with the submitter and check it out. If the submitter does not want to aid the researcher..then the sighting is pulled and no more time is waisted on a follow up.

Here are my some of my favorites. I love really detailed descriptions and/or freak out factor ones.

On this first one it is important that you read the follow-up interview because he gives much more detail in the interview than he does in his report.

Report # 1382

This next one has a really great follow-up interview also.

Report # 986

This one has interesting bigfoot behavior and freak out factor.

Report # 1542

This one has a detailed description of a female with a juvenile with her. Again read the follow-up.

Report # 1625

Scared me too

Is it me, or does everybody seem to get away just in the nick of time? :rolleyes:
Maybe by design I guess. I’m thinkin’ that if these things really wanted to catch ya, it'd be very easy. They seem to go a bit over board with the intimidation tactics at times. For a creature so secretive, some sure don’t mind taking a risk.

Varq here is a link to one of my favorites,and being there were military police
involved makes it very credible, and very interesting!! ENJOY!!


http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=2393

There are two i find most interesting. 1.) In the Late 1800's near the base of Mt. Kahtadin Maine some people found the body of a man that was beaten up against a tree trunk and there were two fang holes in his neck. They dismissed it as a mountain lion attack LOL. 2.) this is interesting because this is about 2 miles from where i hunt. Near where the applacian trail meets the South Arm rd this lady who was hiking up ahead of her friends saw a 8 foot brownish creature walk on two legs into the woods about 30 yrds ahead of her. She says that that was no black bear.. That was in the year 2000 i think.

Thx tarran and Mainehunter! Keep 'em comin people, I can't get enough of these stories I remember reading that cobra story a long time ago but never saw the pics... very interesting and gives it a whole new perspective.

My personal favorite... Terry Reams report of a Bigfoot crossing in front of and running alondside his car.

from http://www.internationalbigfootsociety.com...port.php?id=629

"OR HOOD RIVER 1975 Track Record #74 * Terry Reams, comments that on Dec. 6, 1975, four people were in the car on I-84 near Hood River, OR, when a creature came up across the freeway and was possibly nicked by their car, as they slowed to 35 mph. Other traffic was also maneuvering in an attempt to miss the creature. The creature fled along the passenger side of the auto, where Terry was watching, cut across an exit (52 or 54), and ran into the side of a pickup and camper preparing to enter the freeway, then ran up the side of a steep hill. His father was driving and his mother also saw the creature. He reported it later from his home in Yakima and was told to call the local Hood River County Police, who said several others had called in the report, including four policemen. The creature had been in sight about two minutes, Terry said. Terry plans to attend the next meeting on March 26th, and I’ll ask him to fill in the report with more details. He plans to mail in a printed report with his subscription.

Track Record #75 The first speaker was Terry Reams, Castle Rock, WA, who reported on his Dec. 6, 1975 encounter with Bigfoot, recounted last issue of the Track Record. He added that they were headed toward Yakima when in the pouring rain and wind there were lots of tail lights ahead of them swerving to avoid the Bigfoot, near Hood River, OR. He and his wife Connie both saw the Bigfoot as did Terry’s mom and dad in the front seat. They had slowed to 30 mph when dad made eye to eye contact before brushing it on the right corner of the car. It then darted up ramp 54 and bounced off the rear quarter panel of a pickup-camper trying to enter the freeway, then ran off up the hill."

Another interesting account,
http://www.n2.net/prey/bigfoot/stories/nightsta.htm

I have a question about this one, and I'm almost certain it's been asked before but I don't remember if there ever was an answer, so if there was, I apologize. But does anyone know if there was ever any verification that there were so many witnesses and calls made to the police?

It is a cool report.

As much as it kills me to say this. I liked some of the fiction (admitted fiction that is) ones on Mary Greens old website. The pre-coy era. They were not written by MG (maybe why they were decent) but they were sure interesting. One was about some bumpkin who went hunting and three squatches came after him. He left his dog, put down his coat, and hauled but out of there. He came back the next day and the doggie was sleeping on the coat.

I know some of you are like ("Did he take a swig of kool aid?")

But really , I liked that one story in particular. As much damage as I think she had done to the field, I will give credit where credit is due. The story was good, now if only I can remember the author.