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Were screams
in the night really Bigfoot - 20081107
By Mike Conley | The McDowell
News
As a kid growing up in the 1970s, I enjoyed
watching the classic documentaries about Bigfoot that were
produced in those days.
I would never miss a late night TV showing
of "The Legend of Boggy Creek," even though it scared
me at the time. I can't forget going to the House Theater
to catch the docudrama "Sasquatch" back in 1977.
For the past week, I have had the opportunity
to once again enjoy one of the best Bigfoot movies of them
all: "The Mysterious Monsters." Hosted by Peter
Graves, this 1976 movie takes a look at both the Loch Ness
Monster and Bigfoot mysteries. It also contains some of the
most vivid and scary recreations of Bigfoot sightings. You
can check this movie out on YouTube, even though you have
to watch it in 10 parts.
They certainly don't make documentaries like
those anymore. And that is a shame because today we seem to
hear about more Bigfoot encounters than ever.
The Web site for the Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization (BFRO) contains a tale about something that happened
this summer. The BFRO's Web site is a place where folks can
post their sightings anonymously.
In his report, a man talks about a camping
and fly-fishing trip he took in the San Juan Mountains of
southwestern Colorado in June of this year. The man states
that he had been camping, hiking and fishing in this area
for about six years. He was also very familiar with all the
sounds the various animals make in Colorado's forests and
mountains. He had only one companion on this weekend camping
trip, his Labrador retriever.
"The second evening, I had cooked dinner
and taken the Lab out for a last evening walk around the meadows,"
the man wrote in his report. "It had been a good day
of fishing and we were both tired. We went to bed in the tent
just at dark. It was a night of an almost full moon. We both
fell asleep quickly."
A bit later, the man was awakened by something outside his
tent. At first, he thought it was a deer.
"After about 10 minutes from out of nowhere,
I heard this unreal, LOUD, clear, resonant, scream/screech/howl/roar
type sound from not too far away," he wrote in his report.
"It sounded maybe 300 to 400 yards away and like it might
have been just across the canyon on the mountainside. It was
like no sound I have ever heard in my life."
He describes it as a "fairly high-pitched"
sound and was not like the screams of wild cats.
"It seemed to be two parts screaming
howl and one part roar, as it had that deep quality but was
still high-pitched," he wrote. "I sat there for
a minute stunned, and then realized what it must be."
The man wrote that he had previously read
accounts on the BFRO's Web site from folks who reportedly
heard the screams of a Bigfoot. What he heard that night matched
their descriptions.
"The sound seemed to be coming directly
toward me, like it might have been screaming at or towards
me or this meadow area where people sometimes camp,"
he wrote in his report. "It felt territorial, aggressive,
even a little threatening. Even though I had a (.357-caliber
Magnum) loaded with hot hollow points and a strong flashlight,
the prospect of encountering some big, hairy 'man-thing' outside
my tent in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere,
and alone, was a little more than I wanted to deal with."
The man got his dog into the truck and he
drove away from there as fast as he could, with his .357 in
his lap. He drove that night looking for a place to stay.
"I have lived and backpacked extensively
in Montana and in the Canadian Rockies and dealt with the
reality of grizzly bears with no real problem," he wrote.
"But this noise and the creature that most likely made
it really freaked me out."
He spent the rest of the night in his truck.
At daybreak, he went back to his campsite.
"I did not find any tracks in the greater
area in which I was camping as it was mostly grass, although
I did walk around and search for a bit," he wrote. "Now
I am paranoid and worry that I might not be doing any more
backpacking in this beautiful and remote area for fear of
running into one of these spooky creatures, especially at
night."
You too might have had an encounter like this
man. If you have seen or heard a Bigfoot, you can post your
story on the BFRO's site. It can be found at www.bfro.net.
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