Tonight we speak to Pat from Oklahoma who had a couple of encounters back in the 1960’s and describes what he came across. We also speak to Melissa from South Carolina and has been investigating a property that has a lot of activity. She also describes some strange encounters with the police dept regarding Sasquatch. This is Part 2 for our members.
Tonight we speak to Pat from Oklahoma who had a couple of encounters back in the 1960s and describes what he came across.
We also speak to Melissa from South Carolina who has been investigating a property that has a lot of activity. She also describes some strange encounters with the police department regarding Sasquatch. Part 2 is coming for members
Thanks to Gord Olliver for sharing. Some of the facts written below have come out since he was a guest of ours back in October 2014.
Again, thank you Gord.
Click here to listen to Gord’s encounter on Episode 57. He is the second guest.
My name is Gordon Olliver and I had no knowledge of Sasquatch save for in search of
man in a monkey suit film done!
disregarded it
never thought of it again, and rode for 21 years in the mountains without even thinking they were out there, and scaring bears away like I didn’t care! They didn’t even phase me.
I became a mountain biker-so little bit of a background here.
I was driving home from work one day on the highway, when a gentleman pulled in front of me and we had a serious car accident. Created a lifetime of back problems
but also forced me into physiotherapy. That started the mountain biking, because riding an exercise bike was not going to get me motivated. So that led me to start getting into racing. Which got me into training a lot for mtn marathons.
And these races were held a lot of high altitudes, so I had to train at high-altitude.
That got me out alone, because I could never get anyone to ride with me, and if I did, I stood around all day anyway.
Now this is important.
My first years I was freaked out about riding alone, but as I got more confident, I just rode like I was king of that mountain.
I never had an issue with anything.
BUT, the first time I went to the deep back country with some friends,
I was leading the charge up the mountain really deep back-country trail about 175Kms out of Calgary and climbs up to about 8000 feet elevation. I was with two friends-one I sort of knew well
and one I just met, Laurie and Dave.
So, after pissing Dave off by making him climb 3000 feet up the wrong Mountain and the nastiest trail I ever tried riding, he did get an extra downhill but he was dead, completely, by the time we got to this last climb.
So, I stood around for a long time on the top of the mountain and after I yahoooood a high pitch wooohoooo, my entire switchback greasy push up that 3000 foot mountain to the teeny little pass.
It was deep trees for a about two thirds of the trail, very steep exposed trail hard to ride just push up. (Always rode it down after that)
It was wet from previous snow that had fallen 10 days prior and there had not been a single track horse, trailer, quad vehicle, or mountain bike.
Just animal tracks here and there. Mostly deer, never saw a thing. Kinda do remember not hearing much noise of birds, but I can’t really say if it was silent. I was looking out for grizzly bears, making noise hoping not to meet any was our plan. We were the first humans there in at least two weeks.
Saw a real cool cabin, halfway through the second trail that we did. We stopped, signed the guestbook and noticed the shipping container type bin made of corrugated steel, with the corner of it ripped open, from the bottom side, to the middle of one of the small ends of it. It had been pushed up sort of skyward about 4-5 ft, which had spilled out years of the metal garbage burned over a millennia.
All I thought was wow, that’s a pretty strong bear!!
So after I waited for about 20 minutes or so taking pictures and looking around, Laurie and Dave finally showed up to the top, and as soon as Dave put his bike down, he picked it back up, because I smell a bear, let’s get out of here. So I was ready to go-I jumped on my bike and said we’re done let’s get out of here! And then I started riding down the mountain. Laurie followed and Dave. I started to “Yahoo!” all the way down the mountain again I have a very high-pitched Yahoo! It’s like a siren, and I used it a lot earlier when I wrote because I thought that would scare away the animals. So when I have to explain the way I ride-I never stop. If you see a tree that you have to climb over it with your hands and knees? I’ll ride over it. I’ve had people follow me taking pictures as I climb up the mountain, even on close trails…hikers who would usually scream at me on a bike because I’m not supposed to be there, cheering me on because they can’t believe that they’re seeing what I’m doing. I’m a champion marathon biker.
I have four medals in Bow80, Bowness Nationals and Canmore 24Hrs of Adrenaline.
I was one of the best technical riders in western Canada.
Climbing DH cross country trials exposed Cliff faces, blah blah blah.
And I don’t like to put my foot on the third. If I can ride over a mountain without having to touch it with nothing but my wheels? I’ve won the day, and if I can do it faster than any other MF on the trail…so be it.
So, when I slammed on the brakes halfway down that trail for no reason,
I just stopped in one section because there was a buzzing in my head for a second, and I remember hearing it right off my left, coming down at me,
the low deep snarling cinderblock-grind sound. Growling, that was swaying side to side, I can never explain why it made me turn and look away to the right of me instead, and it just turned into the sound of water flowing. Fake sounding water, similar to a video game would sound like (it’s only thing I could hear that sounded similar), and then a wave of warmth rushed over me, and I just blocked out everything for 15 yrs.
I only recall hearing that water and then a big splash behind me and then it got suddenly really cold.
And I remembered the growling!
I turned and now I’m looking at Laurie beside me looking at me saying “what the f*** are you doing??”
And I’ve got only mesh first layer on.
I had my jersey, wind jacket folded into my stuffed pack, and I was trying to pack the rain jacket, that would never even fit by itself into that first generation Camelback. I just pointed to the loft and screamed “Growling!”
There is something swaying and growling right there!!
And we all shut up & went silent, and it was dead quiet. There was nothing.
Not a peep.
And Dave looks at me says,
“f*** you, asshole.”
And he clenches his fist, and looks like he’s going to smack me ” for trying to freak me out! ”
And Laurie sort of puts his hand up at him & says I believe him!
He then looks at Dave and says, “cause I’ve never caught this guy on a downhill!”
And also he knew I’d never do that to anyone in the mountains.
So I also did something I’ll never understand,
I said “okay guys get me out, I said, I’ll catch up to you
and I stayed in that spot!
I had to clean the shit out of my shorts in the creek and I could never understand how it got there.
Everything just let loose.
I still can’t remember it all.
I was so sick feeling, I’m embarrassed, so I got dressed real quick.
I felt like shit, and I couldn’t understand why.
Wasn’t altitude sickness cause I was ready for that elevation, and I wouldn’t have caught them if Dave didn’t have issues-cramps hit him bad.
So, in a few moments we were together and rolled onto a sort of clearing with scattered big willow bushes all randomly spaced, widely apart and the trail was just fresh wet mud, not a single track on it except for this one massive footprint and it was fresh.
Laurie said woah! Look at that!
And I stepped in the mud beside it and pulled my foot away and it was just as fresh as mine but it was 3 1/2 inches or so bigger than mine and we all just said that’s a big bear! A very big f***ing bear and it was just here let’s get the f*** out of here! Dave just rolls right through the footprint and says I don’t give a f*** if that thing kills me, my suffering is over! We laughed and followed him out we struggled back for the next 22 km over over and down Highwood pass.
I got home and told my kid holy crap, Corey what a day. We saw a bear tracks that were 3 inches bigger than my feet. My stepson Cory was 11 years old when I told him. Late September 2000.
He said holy cow that’s a big bear!!
Because Sasquatch never existed for me.
I only remember telling people about the growling A grizzly bear was swaying back-and-forth at me and you growling at me, guarding it’s kill?
Yeah right!
That was a grizzly bear?
Why did I stand there for 10 minutes and not get mauled?
I have come across a cougar, and I know what that sounds like in a tree, and I never heard that. I have heard cougars mating. Weeeeird!!
This was not that. In fact, Sasquatch never existed until Sasquatch Chronicles on the little tab on the YouTube under Stroud’s first Bigfoot episode when I heard Wes and Woody talk.
My gut hit the ground, and I started having a thump in my chest that I had that day.
While I was standing there, getting thumped by the growl.
It was just making me sick and I remember my heart hurting (felt like a five finger death Punch) but the growling turned into, water.
15 inch footprints and the swaying side to side.
Me undressing almost completely and packing my clothes, gloves, helmet, but yet that bear didn’t kill me? OoookaaY!
I never once remembered if it was silent that day.
I never knew anything about Bigfoot in my life.
That Patty? Monkey suit, and it was completely out of my mind forever. Until I heard the show.
Only recall one footprint, no claws.
Never smelled anything and completely disregarded the wall of a big metal container being torn open and pointing skyward. To me, Bigfoot didn’t exist.
If I was out there today, seeing all those signs, I’d be thinkin crap, we’re in a wrong place!
We rode 59 km climbed a boat 13,000 feet of elevation and rode over for mountain passes that day and all I remember was footprints 3 inches bigger than my feet and growling swaying at me with the sound of a grinding cinder block. No bears I have ever met smelled like that stinky stench of wet dog. I have smelled that at least 150 times. I have ridden almost 150,000 km in the back-country about two thirds of that at least maybe more, alone, and I have smelled the stench of wet dog.
It was mostly in the mornings, especially during that race when they were using the megaphone and playing music about half a kilometer away.
Also, late evenings. One time, we smelled it all day and I was with my girlfriend Valerie, who was two months pregnant but didn’t know it at the time.
I rode her bike up the mountain to where I’d leave mine. I then rode mine up, and ran down and grab hers again without letting her see me, because she was so scared. She kept saying something was stalking her just inside the fringe.
It was freaking her out and I kept telling her to just not worry because I was here and I was scaring it away by going “woo hoo!”
Wtf.??
On the way down the mountain, I was staying with her because she was still freaking right out, and something really big ran off into the bush. I said it was a deer to myself and I turned around, but I was freaked out because it was getting pretty dark.
So, when she saw me riding back up to her, really fast she stopped and said what’s wrong and I looked up and said, “bear.”
Without even thinking.
And she was wiped.
I was feeling like shit, but I didn’t want her any more scared than she was.
It worked and she got so pissed off at me she rode out of there like a champ. But I will never forget when I told her this. She actually said, you don’t remember me telling you about the growling at me, as I got down that one the corner with the big rocks?
I know exactly where she was talking about because that was about 100 feet above where I heard the thing rushing into the bush. I hadn’t talk to her in years!
But she remembers, and so do I, very well.
That horrible foul stink of dirty nasty wet dog just stayed with us all day long up the climb up Powderface Ridge.
The dream I had roughly January 5, I woke up choking in my sleep.
I remembered that black monster standing in front of me staring down at me in a brief memory.
It was pretty close about twenty ft.
It was black, not much hair of face, but dark eyes.
7 or so ft tall.
Wet muddy and not liking me.
Then, splash and it’s gone from my memory and my dream.
I’m just glad I didn’t have a full meal that night late. I was choking for about an hour with a burning throat.
I am now 100 Duralee percent convinced that I was hunted down that mountain after I called out to the animals. Whether they were just checking the outer ambushing I’ll never know. I’m still standing here but I was folding up my clothes when my friends showed up and saved my little white ass!
I know I’m forever known as the Mist Creek stripper, and that crazy ass Mr. Sasquatch which I initially thought was a growling growling grizzly bear story, did get me better results back then, but that would be lying. I don’t like making shit up. So if anybody wants to come stay in the cabin? I might not be going…
I clearly remember a boxy looking Sasquatch in front of me at the same time as one growling beside me, and he was way bigger than the one in front of me, because it was coming down at me. I really remember that mountain went down from me on that side.
The trail was the missed creek trail off of Highwood pass in the sheep valley in Canon ascus and sheep country wilderness area which is private land. There used to be a cool morning operation for one of the richest man in Alberta history. The owner of burns meats and they weren’t successful there. The area is spectacular backcountry the trail is very difficult to get to and by the time you’re there, you’re beaten to death.
We do a totally different ride now, and the floods of 2013 probably made the area so impossible to ride.
I fully intend to explore there this summer, and I haven’t been to the mountains since this memory came back. It all came back when I was listening to the Sasquatch Chronicles and the signs that were so evident in front of me, but were telling me all these different things. If that was a bear, I am dead. I’m sorry, there’s absolutely no way a swaying grizzly bear is going to stand there and watch me undress. I’m still trying to convince myself that it’s true because I’m having a hard time. We doubt ourselves, but I know…I know, this happened. I will swear it in any court in this country.
Gordon Olliver
49 years old
gold medalist 2006 Bow80
Cheers!
Gordon Olliver
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On this edition, I am joined by my new co-host, Dave Hallet, who is sharing one of his interviews done with Chris, from Washington State. Chris was present for a lecture by the late Dr. Grover Krantz, who gave his insight into the Patterson-Gimlin film. He will also tell of a couple of experiences he had in WA State.
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The Finding Bigfoot crew is headed to East Texas! This area of the Lone Star state, commonly called “The Big Thicket” is known for its bigfoot activity. Will Moneymaker and his cohorts be able to finally get some images of the elusive beast? They are looking for people who have had encounters in the area, so you might want to contact them if you have.
The crew of Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot” is currently working in East Texas and is looking for people to share their stories of run-ins with the ape-like creature.
The producers say the show works because so many people have claimed to see a bigfoot and they are not limited to one location.
“Every culture has their own kind of ape man or primitive man legend and so it is very interesting,” said producer Sean Mantooth. “Our viewers are some of the best in the world. And they just want to know where bigfoot was, and they enjoy watching the cast and see what’s out there.”
http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2015/02/can-matt-moneymaker-find-bigfoot-in.html
My daughter in-law saw a bigfoot cross the road in front of her on the way to work about 5:15 am on FM 10 out of Gary, Texas. She said it wasn’t a black bear and it was walking upright like a human. We called and talked to a local game warden to see if there had been any reported activity of such. He said there had been in the past months. This was all new to us. Because we haven’t heard of anyone seeing one in our local area.
5:00 am – Light fog.
Published on Mar 3, 2013
Description by witnesses:
Hey guy’s… We went back 4 days after the first video was posted and it was eating us up not knowing where the track’s might have led to. But when we went back a lot of snow melted and it was hard to find good prints, we did go up the mountain side follow tracks that seemed similar when we got to the top there we a lot of tracks going different directions some you cant see from the camera, the camera batteries were dying and so we took the tracks to the right and this is what we found, we don’t know what was laying there let us know what u guys think. We hope you enjoyed.. Thanks for watching.
Published on Mar 1, 2013
Description by witnesses:
Me and my brother were fishing at the south fork river on Feb – 26 – 2013 when sun down came we heard creepy noises like and owl and branches breaking coming from in the woods so we went to leave and saw these strange tracks it was dark so we went back up the next day to film it and see if they were something that may explain the stuff from the day before here is what we found.
Date: 02-17-15
Host: George Noory
Guests: Wes Germer
First Half: In November of 2012, Wes Germer and his brother lived through a life-changing experience when they were surrounded by a family of what they believe were Bigfoot/Sasquatch. Wes will discuss what happened during the freak encounter and how it changed him from a total skeptic into a researcher and investigator of this elusive creature.
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/germer-wes/71439
Investigation at a farm where a family has had many encounters with Sasquatch’s
Jack and Charlie, I apologize for not being there to answer your questions about Ohio. I wanted to put a little something together for you guys about our lovely state, and it’s Grassman sighting locations.
As far as a concentration of sightings, Portage County is number one. (of reported sightings, mind you) Following that, we have Ashtabula, Columbiana, Jefferson, and Coshocton. Those, as Wes mentioned spot on, are in the northeast part of the state. There is a little further south, Guernsey County, and that contains within it, Salt Fork State Park. I myself have heard an amazing whistle at Salt Fork, along with other pre-dawn tomfoolery by someone, or something, right outside my tent while camping there last summer. Was it Bigfoot tromping around? Can’t say for sure, but it was interesting at the very least.
As far as reports around your area guys, Butler and Preble County just north of you, and Clermont County to the East have all had reports of The Hairy Man. One of the Butler County reports from the BFRO reads as follows:
YEAR: 2002
SEASON: Summer
MONTH: July
DATE: SUNDAY
STATE: Ohio
COUNTY: Butler County
LOCATION DETAILS: WOODED AREA, COUNTRY WITH FARMS,FIELDS,CREEKS.
NEAREST TOWN: OKEANA, OHIO
NEAREST ROAD: Withheld per witness request
OBSERVED: My wife and I were out on our deck about 12:30am on July 14,2002. We often sit out on the deck until late at night and early morning. We enjoy watching the wildlife and listening to all the sounds of the night. We live out in the country with several wooded areas around us. While we were outside on this particular night, we heard a strange howling noise that neither of us had ever heard before. It was a very loud and deep howling. It lasted approximately two or three minutes. We had heard of sightings of Bigfoot in the area just a few days earlier. This prompted us to get on the internet and I found a tape of the howling from Columbiana County, Ohio. I played it, and it as the exact same thing we heard. We went back outside about 15 minutes later, and there was a very foul odor similar to that of a skunk with urine mixed.
ENVIRONMENT: Wooded farm area with creeks, ponds, and bridges. End report.
This is the audio the report mentions:
I also wanted to include a report from Clermont County, which is just East of you:
YEAR: 2009
SEASON: Summer
MONTH: June
DATE: 06/16/09
STATE: Ohio
COUNTY: Clermont County
LOCATION DETAILS: we were fishing on a sandy clearing just to the right of the floating dock at the Northshore boatramp,EastFork Lake State Park
NEAREST TOWN: Batavia,Ohio
NEAREST ROAD: old 32
OBSERVED: while fishing early in the morning at Eastfork Lake near batavia,ohio,my nephew and I heard first an owl hooting a couple of times and I told Cody that I’d never heard one there before.It was around 3 am,After a few more hoots all of a sudden a loud noise came from the woods.A noise that I’ve only heard in a jungle scene in a movie.The sound was of chimps in trees,warning of danger present,it was very strange.After about an hour had passed,we heard the owl noise again and then broke out in a loud low scream,over and over we heard this scream.then it went into what sounded like dogs barking,maybe a few dogs and then the barking went into yelping like they were being hurt.Then it stopped.We didn’t hear anything again.Occasionally we’d hear the sound of a large rock being thrown into the water about 100 yards away.We left a little later after all that went on. End report. BFRO.net
So guys, lots of places to look for for these things right in our own state. Below is a map of sightings and possible encounter locations as reported to the BFRO. Have fun in your search for answers, and never lose your fantastic curiosity.
Shannon LeGro
Bangor Daily News
By Nok-Noi Ricker, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 27, 2013
WATERVILLE, Maine — In the same month the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York in 1886, a handful of newspapers in New England published stories about a deadly encounter in the Maine woods involving what today likely would be termed “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch.”
The story of the 10-foot-tall “wild man” with 7-foot-long arms and hair growing all over his face and body was reported in broadsheets of the time after first gracing the pages of the Waterville Sentinel, a weekly paper that no longer exists. The Waterville Morning Sentinel was established 18 years later in 1904.
Tales of these seldom-seen, mysterious apelike beasts are found in Maine folklore, according to experts, but they are more prevalent in California, Washington and Oregon tales. Online searches yield hundreds of similar stories from around the globe.
The Maine story starts in early October 1886 when “an affrighted Frenchman from over the line” arrived in the Elm City to weave a frightening tale of woe, according to an excerpt from the Sentinel published in at least two other papers of the era, the Wilton Record and The Industrial Journal of Bangor.
“The Frenchman’s story, which is implicitly believed, is that three men were camping out in the woods about a hundred miles north of Moosehead Lake,” the 127-year-old newspaper articles state. “Two of the campers were away from the camp for a week and came back to find the dead body of their companion.”
The unnamed storyteller, possibly a Canadian, “had his fellows in town all by the ears” with the story about the giant wild man he encountered in the dense woods above Moosehead, according to the papers.
When he and the other camper discovered their friend was dead, they searched out others to form a posse to find his killer.
“They went for help and reinforced by a dozen others searched the woods for the unknown murderer,” the stories read. “It proved to be a terrible wild man, ten feet tall, with arms seven feet in length, covered with long, brown hair. The party fired several shots at him and finally succeeded in reaching a fatal spot, laying the monster low.”
Newspapers of this era used few images, and none of the articles had accompanying sketches of the “wild man.”
The Sentinel story was picked up by the Wilton Record and ran in the Franklin County town’s newspaper on Oct. 6, 1886, under “Items of Interest.” Two days later, the same article appeared in The Industrial Journal, a weekly newspaper based in Bangor, that was “devoted to the manufacturing, commercial, agricultural, railway & Steamship, hotel & summer resort and fish and game interest of the northeast.”
The 5-cent newspaper’s headline for the Friday, Oct. 8, 1886, story read, “A new kind of game.”
The story spread. The St. Albans Daily Messenger of Vermont listed the story under “Odd Gleanings” in its Oct. 12, 1886, edition.
There is no mention of the events in the Bangor Whig and Courier, the Bangor Commercial, Piscataquis Observer, the Aroostook Times or Houlton Pioneer Times, according to a quick review of the newspapers that have survived on microfilm.
The Vermont newspaper started its story, “The wild man is coming to the front this fall.”
“A Maine newspaper of repute says that one ten feet high was recently killed 100 miles north of Moosehead Lake. He had previously killed one of three hunters, and the other two got re-inforcements and slew the giant.”
The 1886 story is one of many “Bigfoot” accounts in Maine, according to Michelle Souliere, a Portland blogger who writes the “Strange Maine” Web journal about mysteries, legends and cryptozoology in the state.
“In Maine especially, there is quite a lot,” she said Friday. “It’s a little scattered over the years, but there is actually a lot of wild man, Bigfoot folklore around.”
“Bigfoot” sightings in Maine date to the mid-1850s and include stories of an Indian “devil” the local natives called “Pomoola,” who reportedly lived around Mount Katahdin.
Source: BangorDailyNews.com
Tonight we speak to Jack who is doing a school report on Bigfoot and asked if he could interview us.
South Carolina
DATE: JULY 1979 or 1980
TIME OF DAY: 9:00 PM
STATE: SC COUNTY: ANDERSON
NEAREST CITY: ANDERSON
WEATHER COND: Clear Humid Evening
ENCOUNTER DETAILS: A Father & his 10 year old son were fishing for catfish on a creek tributary and were approximately .25 mile from their truck. The area is dense southern pine forest with rolling hills and a meandering stream with heavy vegetation on both banks that eventually flows under a bridge near where they parked. After fishing for a few hours and light fading fast they lite their lantern to cast a glow on the area they were fishing. At approximately 9PM the 10 year old was looking across and at a slight angle upstream and noticed what appeared to be large 2 hairy arms wrapped around a tree 30-40 yards away. The tree was big enough to conceal the body and head of what was ever behind it. Unsure about what he was looking at he started to point out the unusual sight to his father. As the father looked in the direction he was pointing at the tree started shaking violently and they could notice the arms working in a manner that told them whatever was behind it was the cause of the shaking. Within seconds the large tree fell from the bank landing in the creek with a loud crash. Left standing was an approximately 8 foot tall bi-pedal creature familiar to the father but foreign to the son. The creature let out one chilling scream while staring directly at the father & son. It had black piercing eyes and a face like a man but only flatter with fang like teeth. The creature then turned and disappeared back into the dark woods directly behind it. The observation lasted less than 1 minute and due to the dense brush on the bank of the creek the witnesses could only observe the creature from the knees up. The arms definitely appeared to be long, similar to that of an ape which was noticed as it turned and walk away. The creature appeared to be malnourished (skinny) and both witnesses described the hair as dark brown but very patchy like a dog with mange. It had wide shoulders and a large head that appeared conical but no noticeable neck. The witnesses both noticed after the encounter that the tree pushed over was dead but had not been so for that long. When the creature disappeared the father & son immediately gathered their gear and headed quickly to their truck without further incident.
This encounter was investigated by Dave Moser. I interviewed both the father & son separately and then together and found them to be very credible witnesses. The Son who is now in his 30’s has lived in the area all his life and has never encountered anything like that since. He is an avid hunter & fisherman with vast outdoor experience just like his father. His father now in his 80’s and was interviewed by me before because of an encounter he had 5 years earlier, 2 miles downstream. He also believes it was the same creature that he observed in 1975. I find him to be very credible and an upstanding individual in the community who has lived in the same area all his life. The witness has a keen interest in this creatureand has multiple neighbors who have had encounters with a similar creature over the span of many years. He believes that they are not out to hurt anyone and that they only make themselves known to scare you away when you are invading their current territory. He believes they move around and do not stay in the same area for long but move through the area seasonally. Our data indicates that this may be the case and we have reports of a similar looking creature with similar habits (screaming & chest beating) 10 miles west of this target area. The area of this encounter is more or less across the street from one of my private research areas where I encountered 12 & 15 inch footprints in early 2012. A 15 mile area surrounding this location has had a number of encounters in the past 50 years that continue to this day. Power line & pipeline right ways intersect and connect this 15 mile corridor allowing for easy access to the different areas that these creatures have been observed and reported. Deer & Hogs are present in vast numbers and there is a lot of private hunting land and waterways including creeks, rivers & lakes in the area. This appears to be perfect habitat for a large creature to exist and stay hidden from most people.
Detailed description of the Creature as observed by the witnesses:
Approx Height: 8’
Approx Weight: 300-450 lbs.
Hair Color: Dark Brown with patches of hair missing as if it had mange.
Face: Flat nose but looked almost human, pale white face and when the creature screamed both witnesses observed fangs/K-9s.
Neck: none could be seen or observed.
Arms: Appeared longer than that of a human, ape like in proportion.
Body Build: Wide shoulders but the body appeared skinny looking as if malnourished.
Odor: Non-Noted
Source:carolinabigfootfieldresearch.com
“In the next 90 days were going to be adding a lot to www.sasquatchchronicles.com and to the bigfoot world in general, we haven’t begun to attack this subject, we’re just getting started”- Sasquatch Chronicles Team
The Augusta Georgia Chronicle
6 April 1997
“Tennessee bigfoot a disagreeable fellow ”
By E. Randall Floyd Special Columnist
There’s a bigfoot attacking cars and trying to snatch little children in the Tennessee foothills.
Exactly what the Flintville monster is or where it came from remains a mystery, but more than two decades of sightings and terrifying encounters have left many people convinced that the creature is not only real but dangerous as well.}More than two decades of sightings and terrifying encounters with a massive, hairy monster have left the folks of Flintville, Tenn., about 70 miles west of Chattanooga, convinced that the creature is not only real, but dangerous.
“That thing’s so big it could easily hurt somebody,” complained Ned Sinclair, a farmer. “Who knows how many head of our livestock have gone missing because of it?”
So far no one has been hurt by the Flintville monster, which often leaves behind 16-inch footprints and a foul, skunk-like odor. But there are those who claim to have had close calls.
One man said a “7-foot-tall hairy monster” chased him through the woods, howling and screeching at him like an ape. A woman said she hid on the floorboard when a similar creature attacked her car.
On at least one occasion, a child was nearly kidnapped by a thing with long, hairy arms.
The trouble began in 1976 when a woman told police that a “giant, hairy monster” broke her automobile antenna and then jumped onto the roof of her car and began bouncing up and down. When the woman’s story made news, other citizens stepped forth to describe similar encounters.
Several attacks were reported in the early 1980s, including one by a plumber who said his truck’s windshield was smashed by the monster and another by a housewife who said a “black, hairy creature” chased her inside her house and beat on the door.
In 1989 a church pastor complained that “something” had destroyed the windshield and antenna on his car. That same week a group of teens reported a “large, manlike ape” loping across a field at the edge of town.
Of all the stories, however, none can match the nearly tragic drama related by Jennie Robertson.
On April 26, 1976, Mrs. Robertson’s 4-year-old son, Gary, was playing in the yard when his mother heard him scream. When she ran outside to investigate, she became conscious of a foul odor that reminded her of a skunk or “dead rats.”
Then she saw a huge, apelike figure bounding across the yard toward the house.
“It was 7 or 8 feet tall,” she told investigators, “and seemed to be all covered with hair. It reached out its long, hairy arms toward Gary and came within a few inches of him.”
Seconds before the shaggy beast could grab the child, his terrified mother snatched him up, darted inside the house and locked the doors. When she got up enough courage to look out the window, she saw a “big, black shape disappearing into the woods.”
Minutes after she reported the incident to police, swarms of lawmen and hunters descended on her property, armed with shotguns and rifles. They resolved to track down and kill the creature.
Throughout the night, they combed the woods on the outskirts of town. They never found anything, but on at least two occasions the creature screamed at them and pelted them with rocks.
The next day the hunters found more 16-inch footprints, as well as hair, blood and mucus. The hair was scientifically analyzed but could not be identified.
No sightings have been reported since 1993. Does that mean the creature has gone away?
“I doubt it,” said Mrs. Robertson. “It’s probably just gone into hiding for a while.”
Throughout the South, from Arkansas to Virginia, reports of monsters resembling bigfoot continue to reach the desks of law enforcement officers and park rangers. Most sightings can be dismissed as hoaxes or illusions triggered by poor visibility or unsteady imaginations.
But a few – like the Flintville monster – cannot be explained away.
Bigfootencounters.com
YEAR: 1976
SEASON: Summer
DATE: Summer, 1976, late afternoon.
STATE: Michigan
COUNTY: Livingston County
LOCATION DETAILS: In Livingston County, MI, near Brighton, approx. 1 mile SE of Briggs Lake. N42 30.12′, W83 42.73′ , where the C&O Railroad crosses over the Huron River.
NEAREST TOWN: Brighton
OBSERVED: I was 8 years old, and very much a nature buff (when I was 10, I was helping grad students at the University of Michigan identify rare birds.) I was walking east along the RR tracks with my friend, who was 9. We were picking up rocks and talking, and as we were getting closer to the RR bridge that crosses the Huron River (a fast stream at that point) we noticed an odor that smelled like old roadkill mixed with cabbage(?); in retrospect, rather hard to identify but very strong and very distinct. We were expecting to come across a deer or some other animal that had been killed by a train. While crossing the bridge (about 80′-100′ long) my friend grabbed my arm and jerked it as if to show me something really quick. I looked over, and he was pointing down over the south side of the bridge. I took a few steps to look down, and about 20′ below us was the biggest pair of hairy shoulders I had ever seen. The creature looked like an ape, but its shoulders were MASSIVE ! – as if it was wearing football pads under its skin. Because of this, its head looked almost small. It had dark brown fur which covered every part of the creature, though we never saw its face. It was crouching by the east bank of the river, looking down into the water. It didn’t appear to be moving much, and I don’t remember splashing or ripples from where the creature was squatting. We didn’t stay long– I’d say we looked at it for 5-7 seconds before my friend started running east, and followed him. His home was about a mile down the tracks, and when we got there, he ran up into his room and locked the door. I had to call my father to pick me up (I lived on the east shore of Briggs Lake.) For some reason, this event ended our friendship. Although it frightened me a bit, I spent a lot of time in the school library trying to figure out what kind of creature that looks like a big-shouldered ape lives in the Midwest.This is when I first learned of the Bigfoot phenomenon.
ALSO NOTICED: I lived in the area for three years, and spent a LOT of time in these wooded areas, but this is the only experience I had at the time.
ENVIRONMENT: Mixed forest (not too thick) among small, rolling hills.There is a quarry about .5 miles east of the bridge, and Island Lake Recreation Area about 1.5 miles west.The nearest home to the bridge was about .7 miles west.
Source:BFRO.net
On this episode, I will have on with me, John and Adam. John has his own encounters to share from Tennessee and the Carolina’s. And Adam, much like myself has never seen one, but is very interested in the subject. We will also be taking as many calls as we can get to…so please join us! 646-716-8791 You can also visit us at sasquatchchronicles.com
Several years ago, a team of scientists from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, set out to put a human face to ancient hominid species that once walked the Earth. Using sophisticated forensic methods, they created 27 model heads based on bone fragments, teeth and skulls found across the globe over the last century. The meticulously sculpted heads are the anthropological products of years of excavation in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
In the last 8 million years, at least a dozen human-like species have lived on Earth. As part of the Safari zum Urmenschen exhibition (“Safari of Early Humans”), the facial reconstructions take us on a journey through time, going back seven million years to the species sahelanthropus tchadensis, and culminating with modern-day Homo sapiens. Each face tells its own story about the lives of hominids in their respective era, including where they lived, what they ate, and their likely cause of death.
The exhibition drew much controversy when it was first launched, mainly due to scholarly debates that have raged for decades regarding the classification of these ancient species. Fossils are extremely challenging to categorize as one species or another. Only a few thousand fossils of pre-human species have ever been discovered and entire sub-species are sometimes known only from a single jaw or fragmentary skull. Furthermore, like modern-day humans, no two hominids were alike and it is difficult to determine whether variations in skull features represent distinct species or variations within the same species. For example, the recent discovery of a skull in Dmansi in Turkey suggested that a number of contemporary species of early “Homo” – Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis, Homo ergaster, and Homo erectus – are actually just variations of one species.
Bones can only say so much, and experts are forced to make educated guesses to fill in the gaps in an ancient hominid family tree that extends back 8 million years. With each new discovery, paleoanthropologists have to rewrite the origins of mankind’s ancestors, adding on new branches and tracking when species split, and rather than providing answers regarding our ancient past, many discoveries simply lead to more questions.
Toumai (“hope of life”) is the name given to the remains of a hominid found over a decade ago in the Djurab desert in Chad, Western Africa, belonging to the species known as Sahelanthropus tchadensis. Dating back 6.8 million years, it is one of the oldest hominid specimens ever found. Sahelanthropus tchadensis had a relatively small cranium. The braincase, being only 320 cm³ to 380 cm³ in volume, is similar to that of existing chimpanzees and is notably less than the average human volume of 1350 cm³.
Australopithecus afarensis, is believed to have lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago and had a brain capacity between 380 and 430 cc. A number of remains of this species have been found in Ethiopia, including the individual modelled above, whose skull and jaw were found among the remains of seventeen others (nine adults, three adolescents and five children) in the Afar Region of Ethiopia in 1975. The most well-known example of an Australopithecus afarensis is “Lucy”, a 3.2 million-year-old nearly complete skeleton found in Hader.
“The Old Man of La Chapelle”
The “Old Man of La Chapelle” was recreated from the skull and jaw of a Homo neanderthalensis male found buried in the limestone bedrock of a small cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in France in 1908. He lived 56,000 years ago and was the first relatively complete skeleton of a Neanderthal ever found. Scientists estimate he was relatively old by the time he died, as bone had re-grown along the gums where he had lost several teeth, perhaps decades before. He lacked so many teeth in fact that it’s possible he needed his food ground down before he was able to eat it. The old man’s skeleton indicates that he also suffered from a number of afflictions, including arthritis, and had numerous broken bones.
Neanderthals are generally classified by palaeontologists as the species Homo neanderthalensis, but some consider them to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). The first humans with proto-Neanderthal traits are believed to have existed in Europe as early as 600,000–350,000 years ago, and they died out around 30,000 years ago. The Neanderthal’s cranial capacity was notably larger than the 1350 cc average for modern humans. However, they also had a larger body size. Recent research now points to the fact that they had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans.
