I grew up in Boise Idaho in the 60s. My dad was a minister and loved camping and fishing. One of his best friends in the church was Mr. B., who was an avid outdoors man and hunter as well as fisherman.
One summer, in the early 60s, my dad, Mr. B and I were somewhere in central Idaho camping and fishing. I remember we would often go to the Lowman area so we might have been near there this time in Boise County.
My memory of that trip is vague but I have a very clear memory of one thing. We were camped on top of what can best be described as a cliff or a fairly sheer drop off. Mr. B and I were in camp, my dad must have been still out fishing in some stream so I suspect it was probably late afternoon. Dad really loved to fish.
It had come out from the trees down across the valley and because we were looking down at it, it is hard to estimate how tall it was. I can say that it was ½ as wide as it was tall. In other words, if it were 8 feet tall, it seemed it was 4 feet wide at the shoulders. It was walking up right, very gracefully, almost leisurely and not in a hurry. It was at a pretty fair distance so I don’t remember seeing any detail other than it was big, black and walking along. We were so far away and so high up that there is no way it could have seen us.
I was 10-12 at the time and had never heard of Bigfoot or monsters in the woods even though we camped and fished a lot. Mr. B was a very experienced hunter and outdoors man and he did not know what it was. It was not a bear. That was very evident because it was walking upright on 2 legs in a very coordinated fashion. When bears walk upright they only do it for a few feet and are very wobbly. This was not a bear. And, if it were a human in a monkey suit, it was a huge human and why in the world would he be out walking down a game trail in the middle of nowhere Idahoin a monkey suit unless he had a death wish? Someone recently suggested to me that it was my father playing a practical joke. Well, dad was definitely not a practical joker and if he had decided to pull a prank and dress up in a monkey suit, he would have done it a lot closer, like maybe hide behind a tree. He definitely would not have climbed down into that valley for a joke and then have to climb back out. Plus dad was a pretty skinny dude. And this was before the Patterson/Gimlin film so apes in the woods were not the kind of thing you would automatically think of to play a joke. It was a real living creature.
That is all I remember about the sighting. I don’t remember ever talking to Mr. B about it again nor do I remember ever talking to my dad about it. It just kind of stayed there in the back of my memory for 50 years as a kind of an odd curiosity like “hmmm I wonder what it was?” until, just recently when I put 2 and 2 together. I believe there are just too many similar reported sightings, footprints etc. going back too many years for there to not be something out there. And just recently a light went on and I realized that massive black creature I saw as a child was probably a Bigfoot.
Most of my friends think I am crazy about my belief in their existence so I’m not ready to have my name out there in a public forum so would like to stay anonymous on this.”
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