By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:58:10 +0000

1983 Ohio bigfoot encounter after years of fishing hunting and camping the same area.for over 5 years. Previously we saw odd tree bends and a partial footprint that we didn’t fully expose. We thought the print was from a cougar but none were known to be in Ohio. Once while exploring a high walled strip pond a gigantic rock landed cleanly in the water just out of sight. Oddly the was no bank collapse or additional smaller stones splashing as one would expect from a slight cave-in from the steep banks which were almost vertical. It sounded like a 200 lb slab of rock landed cleanly in the water with no additional splashes. It was close enough to scare us both because that rock seemed thrown ! My friend didn’t care to check it out and I didn’t care to check it out alone as the grass was 5 feet tall plus and visibility was about 10 feet ahead. At this time we both felt like we were in the wrong place at the right time and got back to an area were we could see around better while we talked about how odd that big splash was and how it seemed like a request to leave.
Some time passed and we were scouting deer trails for the comming fall season. We were 2 miles into the woods on our way out. It was near 6 pm and it was a dry fall day. As we walked I could hear something paralleling us just to the right on a ridge and it was not a deer. The leaves were rustling and it was cracking branches on the ground like we would instead of a stealthy approach of a deer. I clearly remember the noise and thought it was unusual for anything to follow 2 armed hunters like that as these deer are wild and don’t except human presense without bolting. I remember thinking how bold it was and thought it was just a young deer who was curiously tagging along. Then my buddy said “let’s stop here for a minute”. I thought he wanted to wait it out and see if it would walk down out of the woods since it was very close to us. The sounds were less that 20 yards to the right. When we stopped it stopped.
That’s when it let out the loudest scream yell combination that went on for 15 seconds and then it did it again ! No human has that lung capacity or shear volume. The voice was oddly human like both shrill and deep low tones ending in a garbled turkey like sound. The first scream removed all doubt of this not being a known animal. The second scream removed the safetys from our shotguns as it was distinctly meaner. There was a short stand-off as we were frozen in our tracks and standing back to back locking around. Then it started to run. It started tearing through the woods and for a brief second we weren’t sure if it was running away or right at us because we couldn’t see 10 yards into the thick growth along the trail on that side. not only did it run but it was ground pounding and to my shock sounded like it was on 2 feet. I crouched down when I realized it was running away and I saw it ! It was black reflective fur and looked wide across the back and I saw alternating white spota . It pounded the ground like it weighed 900 pounds and you could hear it booming with every step. I wanted to chase it when all of the sudden it broke a thick trunk that sounded like it was as thick as my thigh. That was discouraging enough and my buddy was not interested in chasing it after that and I’ll admit it scared me out of the idea too. We stood still until we couldn’t hear it anymore and decided to start walking again. Then it occured to us that it ran in the same direction as we needed to go to get to the car. We sort of panicked and ran for about 100 yards before stopping and we both had shotguns. We just weren’t sure we should stick around after being warned clearly.

By: Judith Osborne

Judith Osborne — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:01:16 +0000

I have long been interested in the Bigfoot or legendary
Sasquatch. I was born in Oregon but moved to Yreka, California when I was in grade school. My Dad used to
work for the US Forest Service. He used to come home from work and tell us all about Happy Camp. He also had stories to tell about Bigfoot. This was almost 50 years ago. I’ll never forget the stories he told. The “Bigfoot” does not like construction crews coming in on their territory. They were known to be the culprits of destroying equipment and throwing 50 gallon drums down mountain sides. Very large footprints were everywhere. Nobody liked to talk about what they saw because people would not believe them. Sound familiar? Since I have purchased many books on the
subject of Bigfoot, I have become very knowledgeable. People that do not believe in Bigfoot
think it’s a hoax. I don’t think they have that many hairy costumes to go around for hoaxes. And, not that many people want to go far and deep into the mountains of the Happy Camp area just to create a hoax or a joke. People remain ignorant until they educate themselves or have actually seen them. I have found them to be fascinating creatures. I was reading that Roseburg, Oregon has a law that you cannot shoot a Bigfoot. It looks like we are getting somewhere. Thanks for allowing me to give you this information.

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:14:23 +0000

Cheryl’s commentis disturbing, sort of, but very fasinating. I have never heard of anyone finding a camp with food left. Someone should really look into it.

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