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.
I don’t remember that we had driven to the camp site, probably had hiked in a bit to get to it. Looking down from our camp site, down the “cliff” was a huge (to my 10-12 year old perspective) valley. I remember Mr. B looking through his binoculars through some bushes down across the valley and stating that he was seeing something strange. He let me look through his binoculars at it. What I saw was a huge massive creature, black, and walking on 2 legs down a game trail.
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.”
Credit:http://www.bigfootbuzz.net/bigfoot-sighting-it-was-huge-8-ft-high-4-ft-wide/
Robert H
Okkkkk
Joni
I love you guy’s show/ encounters from normal people to police etc…..I have never seen or even heard sasquatch/Bigfoot but just hearing all these encounters from literally thousands of people can’t be wrong! I started getting into the paranormal after my Father in law passed in 2000 and my Dad passed away in 2005 . So I know for sure there is a afterlife when our little son 4 at the time was on the floor playing like he always did with my Father in law .We were trying to figure out how to tell him his buddy pap pap passed away. “HE’S IN HIS ROOM TALKING TO HIM” I walked by couple of times trying to hear what he was saying.asked him 1st time he just shrugged his shoulders. Finally I went in there got down on one knee (hair on my neck,arms .stood up ! I said _ _ _ _ who are you talking too…he looked over on the other side of him and looking back at me said his first middle last and then Sr. My son at 4 year’s of age never knew his pap pap by any other name…….. Yes people there is a afterlife.
I had another experience with my Dad,so has my mom and sister I could go on and on! All of this paranormal stuff that goes on a lot of it is true…..So why not Sasquatch ,So maybe flying spacecraft,good Lord just pray the devil stays below !
I worry about my twin brother , He laughs at me when I mention Bigfoot ,he lives up on a farm by mostly by himself. If one would ever come near him I know he would shoot and ask questions later. He has over 100 acres up on a mountain top with beef cattle ,deer ,turkeys,coyotes etc..running around.
Question what caliber hand gun or rifle would bring one of these creatures down ? Someone has to know. I’m trying to let him listen to just 1 of your shows which one would you suggest he listen too being a skeptic ? and then trying to tell him they live in family groups is another problem…if you would shoot one you would be invaded by the whole family right Scary Shit!
Copperhead120
I grew up in Boise too so I kn exactly where you’re talking about! I’ve had some creepy experiences there also.
Frank M
That’s what she said
Sid M
For Joan H’s last question about which show to listen to first..
Well..
Surely we all know..
(I think it’s easy anyway..)
It’s GOT to be Wes and Woody’s original encounter..
I think it shows up as episode 3..?
Or maybe 2..?
Not sure but I’m sure some kind member will correct me..
That’s got to give anyone the heeby-jeebies..
Jay Carlsen
You are correct , Episode # 2 . for Woody & Wes’s encounter .