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Reported brush with Bigfoot stirring interest
The Intellingencer ^ | 21 Dec 2021 | David C L Bauer

Posted on 12/22/2021 3:58:02 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

CHANDLERVILLE — It was an encounter along Illinois 78 near Chandlerville that lasted just seconds. But it left a lasting impression on a driver going from Cass County to Tazewell County that night.

"When it hit the shoulder, it looked back at me," he said. "I said to myself out loud, '(expletive)ing Bigfoot!'."

Garver was driving the stretch of road about 10:30 p.m. Nov. 29, heading north, about 85 miles north of Alton.

"I saw a large animal jump into the road about 40 yards ahead. When it hit the road, I could see very large legs spread wide in a dead run with large, swinging, hairy arms. The arms switched back and forth close to the ground as its body was leaning forward. It leaped across the road in two jumps," he told investigators for the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, a scientific research group founded in 1995.

Garver said it was about two seconds before the creature vanished into the darkness.

"I could see it clearly," he said. "It was very large and, even though it was hunched over nearly horizontal, it still was close to being wider than my car and nearly to the top of my windshield. It blocked out the lights of (a) car ahead." He recalled it having shiny black hair and a huge stride. "It was running and leaping very fast," he said. "Nearly as fast as a white-tail deer."

(Excerpt) Read more at theintelligencer.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bigfoot; cryptobiology; fringe; illinois; nutjobs; ohsomysteriouso
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To: DUMBGRUNT
And easy to spot


41 posted on 12/22/2021 4:33:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: muir_redwoods
You think by now a few skeletons or at least skulls would show up

A doctor and outdoorsman who went to our church (he passed away a few years ago) found a very unusual skull deep in the backcountry wilderness of the High Sierra back in the 1960s. He described it to me as looking human like but very large with a sagittal crest along the top like gorillas have. This was before all of the hoopla about Bigfoot hit the mainstream. He kept the skull and then sent it to two biologists he knew the science lab at USC to have it examined. After not hearing about it for a few weeks, he inquired about it was told that the skull was lost somewhere.

Regarding skeletal remains, I have hunted, hiked, and backpacked for decades in wilderness areas and have never found a bear or mountain lion skeleton let alone that of a chipmunk.

42 posted on 12/22/2021 4:34:14 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: BenLurkin

HAAAHAAAAAAA! My belly laugh for the day! Love it!


43 posted on 12/22/2021 4:34:30 PM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

What was Jussie’s alibi?

;-)


44 posted on 12/22/2021 4:35:57 PM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: allendale

Couldn’t be Santa he has to come from the North and there is no way Canada would let him in if he wasn’t vaxed and had a negative COVID test.


45 posted on 12/22/2021 4:36:36 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Hatteras

These half-wits couldn’t find their own butts with their own hands. That being said I have not seen one but had things happen about my place out in the boonies that’s pretty strange. I won’t say I believe, but I am open to their existence.


46 posted on 12/22/2021 4:41:25 PM PST by sarge83
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To: DUMBGRUNT

No pic - didn’t happen.


47 posted on 12/22/2021 4:42:48 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
A trusted down to earth family member has had 2 similar but even closer up experiences in Northern Minnesota.

There is zero doubt.

Healthy skepticism is one thing, but flat out denial is stupidity.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

48 posted on 12/22/2021 4:44:32 PM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Add some fur, and she could pass for one of those fake things.


49 posted on 12/22/2021 4:46:57 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

If it’s the wrong DNA, please throw it away.


50 posted on 12/22/2021 4:48:52 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Nearly as fast as a white-tail deer.”
Nope.


51 posted on 12/22/2021 4:51:34 PM PST by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: Libloather

Have pic, it is fake. The old Kobayashi Maru affair.


52 posted on 12/22/2021 4:51:48 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Mr. Jeeves; madison10

IF it exists, there’d be a common burial area — assuming they did the ritual burials — or remains would be found in caves, mounds etc. Nothing so far. Nothing.

And all hair collected from shrubs, tree bark so far, has turned out to be known DNA: bears, wolves, badgers etc, and even human hair.

Give me a carcass or skeleton, with viable bone DNA.


53 posted on 12/22/2021 4:53:09 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Probably was a whitetail deer seen at a weird angle and in the shadows and darkness....


54 posted on 12/22/2021 4:53:28 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I have a family member who thinks aliens visit him from UFO’s.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia 🤪


55 posted on 12/22/2021 4:53:35 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: freedomson

You saw a man in black.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1K5Y1ZOZw8


56 posted on 12/22/2021 4:58:44 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

He saw Johnny Cash?


57 posted on 12/22/2021 5:02:08 PM PST by Publius
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To: Justa

Wonder why the horse owner didn’t respond that night?
Bigfoot? Nothing that a 20 round mag of .308 couldn’t deal with . Even a full clip of .45 , if he had the balls to get that close.


58 posted on 12/22/2021 5:10:37 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: MachIV

I heard it. No way was I going to be walking around at night.


59 posted on 12/22/2021 5:14:40 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Guiness Book of World Records

Robert Wadlow (USA, 1918 - 1940), the tallest ever man, wore US size 37AA shoes (UK size 36 or approximately a European size 75), equivalent to 47cm (18½ in) long.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-feet-ever


60 posted on 12/22/2021 5:22:33 PM PST by DFG
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