Legend or myth? High Desert Bigfoot hunt set[Oregon]

KTVZ.com ^ | 17 Jan 2007 | Barney Lerten

[mtbopfuyn]

The cost: $300 per person, $600 for two or more in the same vehicle.

Why couldn't I have thought of that? (slapping forehead)

[mtbopfuyn]

Ok, I just HAD to go look at Google Earth. There was a forum post for the Gatesville, TX area that a hunter heard foot steps - "Bear have never been spotted anywhere in this region so it didn't take long for the frightening realization to set into to me that this might be a bigfoot." Oooh, footsteps in the middle of Central Texas. Yep, Bigfoot would be my first guess..........not.

[Portcall24]

My friends and I caught, killed and ate a Bigfoot in Southern Oregon a number of years ago. No it didn't taste like chicken...rather a cross between Bald Eagle and Spotted Owl.

[csvset]

Last seen in Seattle, on the set of American Idol.

[ExSoldier]

"These animals seem to be more bold and approach humans closer at night, when it is very dark out and no moonlight," the group states. ‘Nights around the new moon may be their most active hunting periods."

Gee they seem to have quite a bit in common with the INFANTRY and especially RANGER INFANTRY. I hear a lot about these recently popular BigFoot "hunts." Seems to be a lot of sheep running around the woods at night with cameras and infrared film. I wonder if anybody has paid attention to the last sentence from the above quote and figured out that looking for an eight foot tall creature in his environment that is a predator (meat eater) might be ummmmm hazardous to one's health? I wonder if there are any sheepdogs among the sheep wise enough to pack one of those S&W Survival "Bear Attack" Kits in a .460 S&W Magnum? They're profiled in the latest issue of GUNS Magazine and I'm definitely in the market for one. I think I'll use the BigFoot repellent justification with the wife for my obviously needed purchase.

[NavyCanDo]

First, I am somewhat of a believer in Bigfoot. There have been just too many sightings by very respectable people. Not toothless Gomers driving pick-ups, but Doctors, Police, Forest Workers, Military, etc. I would put myself in the 85% area as far as my belief. Enough so that I and a few other enthusiast I am friends with have struck out on own on several occasions to do field research here in Western Washington. And that is the way to do an expedition, on your own.

That being said – BFRO charges way too much to join one of their trips. The first one I checked up on would pay for a one person passage on an Alaska Cruise ship out of Seattle. Kind of a stupid thing to do is to tell the wife sorry honey I can’t take you on that cruise – me and some guys are going Bigfoot hunting. And you have to provide your own equipment, food, water, transportation and what do you get for it? 3 or 4 days in a muddy wet campground which is nothing more than a wide clearing along a logging road. Yea you can rub elbows with other believers, but that’s not worth the money they wanted. And on some of the past expeditions they have been joined by some pretty strange characters including one guy who got his jollies out of stocking the women that were part of the expedition through the woods. They don’t screen the people good enough. If you got your $700 in cash come along. The guy from BFRO I talked to on the phone was trying to make it sound like it was nearly a sure thing we would have an encounter which is so bogus. It was a sales pitch all the way.

[NavyCanDo]

See my post above - During our expeditions, (we average two a year) we have had one very possible encounter. You can read the entire account on the BFRO reports for Skamania County, WA Summer 2001. “Campers hear possible Bigfoot”. The loud vocalizations we heard at 2:00 AM from our remote campsite was real, it was very real. I have never heard any thing like it before and I have been an outdoorsman since my Dad would take me along on his hunting trips in the 60s.
In the same area (Skookum Meadow in Skamania County, WA) in 2003 we heard loud wailing sounds but from a long way off. We didn’t report that because of the distance from us, but it was again a very odd sound. We at first thought it may have been BFRO sound-blasting, which they sometimes do in that area, but they said they were not there during that period.

I am not saying any of these sounds were a Bigfoot - only that I don't know what the heck it was. But I can tell you it was loud enough to wake the three of us up

[FLOutdoorsman]

I've always believed that a small group or a single person would have the best luck.

Do you think they are mostly nocturnal and have you seen any other indications or signs while you were in the woods?

[LexBaird]

For those who missed out, I'm organizing a snipe hunt for a mere $150 per person, travel, equipment anf food not included.

[NavyCanDo]

"Do you think they are mostly nocturnal and have you seen any other indications or signs while you were in the woods?"

Yes mostly nocturnal like most large animals in the woods, bear, deer, elk, cougar. It's a survival thing.

And as far as other indications, we have found possible foot prints on a hillside about 200 yards off of a trail we left when we were taking a GPS aided shortcut to a meadow we wanted to check out. The prints were in solid ground so were no where deep enough for cast, but they did have the distinct shape of a foot and were spaced just like you would expect. Its hard to say - sometimes you want to see something so bad your mind can make conclusions for you and thats not the way to conduct research. We just list it as "interesting impressions". The most convincing part of our investigations is talking with "respectible" people who have had actual sightings. I tell you, you can read someone’s story and its one thing, but sit down and talk with them about it, and you get a whole new perspective. Put a face with the story, and see how normal and believable the people really are and you come away with a whole new outlook. Like I said these aren’t toothless gomers in pickup trucks, these are- a man and two teenage boys fishing who observe a Bigfoot for several minutes from their boat, a mom and her son returning from the store who see one crossing the road, a retired couple who have seen one on their property and have heard it’s late night screams in the surrounding hills. A Doctor who while leaving an Oregon hiking trail to relieve himself, spots a Bigfoot observing his family who are waiting for him on the trail. I have listen to their stories first hand and looked into their eyes and saw their honesty. That means allot more to me than a piece of disputed film, or a fantastical one-dimension story in a book.

[CollegeRepublican]

What caliber does everyone prefer to hunt bigfoot? .30-06, .270., .223, .32, .308, .38, 7mm?

[Safetgiver]

In the late 1960's, my brother and an in-law of his swear they saw a bigfoot in western washington at the camp they had built. I was coming back from Nam and spent a long while with him. Anyways, he asked me to go with them and I agreed, wanting to see the camp. They talked me into going out at night to "look' for this thing. The only thing I KNOW was out there in these deep, deep woods was rattlers. LOTS of 'em.

[NavyCanDo]

"What caliber does everyone prefer to hunt bigfoot? .30-06, .270., .223, .32, .308, .38, 7mm?"

Whatever caliber my bigfoot hunting partner is shooting him with is fine with me cause I ain't sticking around while he's making the 1800 pound 8 foot tall beast angry. I prefer to be the sole survivor.

[lowbridge]

[NavyCanDo]

Actually we do carry side arms when we are out in the field but not for shooting Bigfoot or protecting us from animals - but to protect us from some of the very bad elements of society you sometimes run into out there, even in very very remote areas you can find signs of people sleeping out over night, signs that a normally environmentally friendly backpacker would not leave. I’ll leave that to your imagination.
There are mobile meth labs moving from one remote campsite to another and pot growers who have patches that can be only spotted from a plane. Then you have the seasonal fern, mushroom, and berry pickers who have been known to stake out areas and get very upset if others intrude, even violently (these are mostly foreigners).

[NavyCanDo]

Below is one of the more believable stories I have heard coming from my neck of the woods.
I have listened to the three witnesses “in person” tell their story and could find no reason they would make it up.

AS REPORTED ON THE BFRO WEBSITE.....

YEAR: 2002

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: September

DATE: 14th

STATE: Washington

COUNTY: Lewis County

LOCATION DETAILS: There was actually a highway closer than SR 12 but I don't know what it is called. We put in on Riffe Lake @ Mossyrock State Park and ran all the way up the lake to Kosmos. We were at a point in view of what is called the "fishing bridge" and there is a highway there.

NEAREST TOWN: Mossyrock

NEAREST ROAD: SR 12?

OBSERVED: It was Saturday, 9/14/02, at around 11:15AM while fishing on Riffe Lake. I had my son and a friend of his in the boat with me. We had pulled up to a point and shut down to start fishing when I scanned the clearcut like I always do looking for deer or elk. About 150 yards off of the shore, I noticed something walking. My first thought was "it sure is awful warm to be bundled up like that" and then immediately thought "your coat sleeves are really long". I then said to the boys, "hey look, a sasquatch". They both spotted it and it was walking away from us at a 45* angle looking back over its left shoulder. It went behind a big stump and we didn't see it for several seconds. It came out from the other side and stood facing us and just looked at us for probably 30 seconds. At this point we all got serious because we could tell that it didn't appear to be a human and I know it was not a bear. It turned and started walking away from us looking back ever so often. It stopped just before going down a little raven and stood looking at us again. It went down in the ravene and up the other side then disappeared into the timber. The boys were very "excited & nervous" by now. We discussed this amongst ourselves and I guess we watched this thing for close to 5 minutes. I am originally from Arkansas, just a farm boy who has hunted and fished all of my life. I have heard people talk about these things for years and haven't given them much thought one way or another. What we saw definetly was not human, it was hairy from head to toe and was large, I don't know how tall. It walked with long strides and it's arms & hand swung in an long swings as it walked. At approximately 150 yards, coupled with the amount of time it was in sight, we had a pretty good look. We are going back to the lake this Saturday and I am going to get out and look around. This time I'm taking binoculars and a camcorder. I'm not one to get caught up in myths, but what we saw wasn't ordinary.

ALSO NOTICED: No

OTHER WITNESSES: 2 - My 13 year old son and a friend of his who is also 13. We had just shut the boat down and was getting ready to fish on the point


TIME AND CONDITIONS: 11:15AM - Clear & sunny

ENVIRONMENT: It was in a clear cut down by the lake

[CollegeRepublican]

Of course I was not serious about actually shooting bigfoot. Interestingly enough there have been bigfoot sightings very very close to where I grew up; in Maryland. Check this out. http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=3602

I have also read about the nefarious drug growers and meth labs on National Forest and National Park land around the country in my hunting magazines.

[semaj]

...just waiting for someone to say..."I'd hit it!"

[buffyt]

Legend or myth? Yes

Joking aside, I remember hearing about a huge hairy creature in Oklahoma out in the woods in the 1960s. I knew people who would go out in the woods with guns looking for the creatures. They claimed to have seen one, but didn't shoot.

[buffyt]

Just checked and they listed 62 sightings in Okla.