A sheepherder, Peter was in the Chuska Mountains at about 5 p.m. on July 4, 2009.
“First, my dog Stookie started to growl,” Peter said through an interpreter. “I looked to where the dog was growling. Bigfoot didn’t see me, but I saw Bigfoot.”
Gesturing with his tattered NYC baseball cap, Peter indicated the creature was 8 or 9 feet tall, gray in color and about a quarter of a mile away.
“I could smell him,” he said. “He really stinks, like it doesn’t take a shower.”
The creature was walking among the trees, heading west, Peter said. His face was covered in “shaggy hair” and his legs were “big, like tree stumps.”
After the creature left, Peter said he found giant footprints in the damp earth.
“I didn’t have a gun,” he said. “After I saw that, I didn’t want to be there anymore.”
Bigfoot sightings on the Navajo Nation are not uncommon, especially on the pinion- and juniper-covered Chuska Mountains that frame the Sanostee community and tower over portions of the Nation in New Mexico and Arizona. Sheepherders often camp high in the mountains during the summer with their livestock.
“I know what people think,” Peter said. “People don’t believe until they see it.”
Reported sightings of Bigfoot on the Nation come in waves. Historically speaking, dozens of sightings were reported in 1973. Another wave of reports of strange phenomena came in 1989.
More recent sightings were reported in January 2011, November 2011 and last month. Those sightings range from actual views of the big animal to footprints left in mud or fresh snow.
And some residents believe Bigfoot had a presence in the area even in prehistoric times.
Carved into the bluffs north of Sanostee are etchings reminiscent of the big creature. Although no records exist to indicate when the pictures were formed or who made them, some locals point to them as further evidence that Bigfoot roams these hills.
Some of the pictures show giant figures with oversized hands and feet with six toes. Other pictures are simply enormous footprints.
Sanostee resident Jerry Lewis said he recently saw Bigfoot in the Chuskas when he took his horse and donkey into the mountains.
“My animals froze and I saw the thing walk over the hill,” Lewis said through an interpreter. “It was taller than 8 or 9 feet, taller than the bushes, upright and hairy.”
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