[Johnny Shear]

I LOVE this stuff.

We had a Bigfoot type creature in my Indiana home town when I was a kid...His name was Mo-Mo!

Anybody ever REALLY see a Bigfoot?

[LibWhacker]

Janet Reno IS the real Bigfoot.

[LibWhacker]

Click here to hear Bigfoot howl (and do other nasty things).

[Physicist]

There's no obvious reason why something like bigfoot couldn't exist, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If someone claims to have discovered a new species of beetle, I'll take his word for it that a specimen has been placed in a drawer somewhere in the British Museum. If someone claims to have discovered a second living species of hominid, he'd better bring one in.

[cactusSharp]

I've studied this stuff or decades and am convinced
it is real...but evil,not to be flipped with

maybe some demon/like kicked outta heaven.....
....I know a Johnson credible type who saw the
same thing 18 years ago in Colorado and the
smell still nauseates him when he thinks about
it.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
This has come about after much badgering by you, my friends and extended family...

[ErnBatavia]

Bigfoot lurks, but probably not on FR....

[cavtrooper21]

how's about vacation next year? Sounds like fun! Scare the p**p outa MrsCT21!

[demosthenes the elder]

"Think about it: If illusion alone could generate such devotion, you'd have a Unicorn Society and a Leprechaun Society. But you don't,"

But we DO - we call them "wiccans"

haven't finished the article, haven't read the posts, but couldn't resist the potshot.

[AuntB]

Bumping for a later read....I want them trained to go after the envirofreaks that inhabit these same forests. :<)

To answer your question, a psychologist from Grants Pass tells the most credible tale of a bigfoot encounter (near Oregon Caves last year) that I've ever heard. Hey, Hillary got elected senator..anything is possible!

[oldfart]

I used to crawl around in caves a lot. There are a lot of them (caves) around the western mountains, so I got to spend a lot of time in the woods too. I met two people who had seen Bigfoot. One is a lady who was camped with her husband in southern Oregon. They had laid their sleeping bags out behind the car and were more or less sound asleep. She was awakened by a foul odor and realized something was between her and the car. She turned her flashlight on it and saw what she first thought was a bear. Then it turned to see where the light was coming from and she saw its face. She screamed and it took off. Her husband woke up but didn't even see it.
The other was a case where several guys were sleeping in the woods near their jeep. It was a clear night with lots of stars. Again, the odor woke my friend up. He said he could 'feel' something was near, but he couldn't see anything. As a matter of fact, he couldn't see the stars either. He shouted, the stars suddenly reappeared, he woke his partners and they adjourned their camping trip to a nearby city park.
I haven't seen one, but then, I haven't seen the other side of the moon either. I believe there is another side to the moon, just as I believe there is something out there that just wants to be left alone.

[matrix]

Skunk Ape Other mysterious primates of the world may more famous, and more fearsome, and more celebrated in tantalizingly indistinct frames of 16mm film, but only one big hairy monster can rightfully claim to be the stinkiest: the Skunk Ape of the Florida Everglades. The creature is generally described as being about seven feet tall and 300 pounds, covered in a dark fur the color of mud, and bearing a distinct and far-ranging aroma redolent of an unholy mixture of skunk, rotten eggs and cow manure. "It stunk awful, like a dog that hasn't been bathed in a year and suddenly gets rained on," Charlie Stoeckman said in an evocative account of his Skunk Ape sighting in the Florida Keys in 1977. Some accounts indicate that the Skunk Ape has been a part of Everglades lore for decades, but the swamp beast only became widely reported in the cultural aftermath of the 1967 Patterson Bigfoot film. In addition to being an era of Bigfoot mania, the 1970s were also the period when developers began a concerted foray into the Everglades. This led to large numbers of out-of-towners being exposed to the colorful legends of the local folk, who may have been willing to spin extravagant tall tales of the Skunk Ape just to fool the city slickers. Early stories of the Skunk Ape contained a conspiratorial edge, as it was rumored that the government had captured a living specimen and the Army held it captive in a secret vault at Everglades National Park, until the Skunk Ape smashed through a concrete wall and escaped. There are dozens of sightings on record from throughout the '70s, almost all of them containing a specification of the creature's pungent odor. And on the whole, the tales are more tongue-in-cheek than most monster sightings usually are -- the Skunk Ape is regarded as an old buddy rather than a terror of the wild, and in some cases, you can almost see the eyewitness winking at you in the words of his report. "Sometimes, sitting by the fire, I'd hear him walking in the brush," Jim Spink said in describing a Skunk Ape encounter from 1975. "He'd approach, standing there in the jungle. I knew he was there. I'd say, 'Hi, come on in. Have some coffee.' But he never did." Although Skunk Ape sightings have slacked off in recent years, the creature enjoyed something of a comeback in 1997. A guided tour group in Ochopee saw a large, ape-like animal ambling through the outskirts of a swamp. Soon afterward, Ochopee fire chief Vince Doerr saw a similar creature cross the road near his home and rush into the swamp. Doerr managed to take a distant snapshot of the supposed Skunk Ape (shown on this page) before it disappeared. This "first ever photograph" of the Everglades monster stirred a great deal of publicity, but Doerr himself denied that he had captured proof of anything extraordinary. The fire chief believed it was simply a prankster in a gorilla suit. "I just think someone's playing games. I just looked at it and laughed," Doerr said. "If I thought it was real, I would have run in there, beat it to death and sold it to the National Enquirer."

[matrix]

SKUNK APE_ HEAR SOUNDS!

[agrandis]

there was a guy who rode a mo-ped in a little town in FL I lived in who they called Sasquatch. That's the closest thing I've ever seen. Talked to him, too - a nice guy.

[tubebender]

From 1972 till 1993 we owned a fishing lodge on the Klamath River near Bluff Creek between Orleans and Weitchpec Ca. We were about 10 miles from a hot spot for bigfoot. I was listening to the CB radio one sunday in the mid seventies and heard the call for the search and rescue of the gal abducted by Bigfoot. (it was a hoax of some hollywierd types.) My neighbor up there was a retired sheriff told me he was on his hose looking for his cattle above our place when the horse bolted and threw him off. At the same time his three dogs started whining and cowering plus there was a horrible smell that gagged him. H esaid he damn near ran all the way back to the house with his hair standing on end. The horse was waiting for him there.

Do a goggle search for the Willow Creek Museum for further info.

[walkingdead]

I hail from way North-Eastern California (Burney), and I have in fact heard him before. Sounds like the deepest sound you've ever heard mixed with a super high pitch scream. Almost like something big killing something much smaller. Weird, and freaky.

A couple of buddies and I were out in the woods drinking some beers back in high school. Well we heard that sound (none of us had ever heard it before) and decided we'd better get the heck outta there. Anyway, a few months passed and we all kinda forgot about it. Well one night I was watching this bigfoot documentary where this dude caught the sound on audio tape. When they played that tape every hair on my body stood on end. It was pretty much exactly the same sound.

Another time we were out shooting our .22's and we heard something walking up the cliff from us, in fall, under oak trees, something walking on two feet, two big feet. If you've spent alot of time outdoors you know the sound of something walking on two feet. You cannot mistake it for any other sound, not deer, not bear not anything.

My last personal experience was the one where we actually smelt it, and boy are people right. I thought my buddy had done the unthinkable, and I was giving him a ration of crud before I realized he wasn't joking. Something stunk, and it didn't come out of any of us. (I was actually glad that smell didn't come from my buddy. I couldn't have been his friend much longer, if his butt smelled like that!)

Anyway, I have many more stories that I've heard from others who lived there, but these are just my personal experiences. Others have had way better......

[Revolting cat!]

"Who's that walkin' round here, Mercy
Sounds like baby patter, baby elephant patter thats what I calls it
Say up in Harlem at a table for two
There were four of us,
me, your big feet and you
From your ankles up, I'd say you sure look sweet
From there down there's just too much feet
Yes, your feets too big
Don't want ya, cause ya feets too big
Can't use ya, cause ya feets too big
I really hate ya, cause ya feets too big"

YOUR FEETS TOO BIG (Bensen - Fisher -The Four Inkspots), Fats Waller Version of Lyrics