Kevin Jones was only 16, in his third year of hunting in the Blue Mountains with his father, when he espied something through the scope of his high-powered rifle. But it’s with his 28-year background of adherence to strict military schedules that Jones, now 59 and a former Army colonel living in Benton City, speaks assuredly about how long he observed a hairy, two-legged, creature across a draw in what is now the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. “Approximately 45 minutes,” Jones said. “At about 250 yards through a 9-power scope. He filled about half the scope; it was like looking at him from 40 to 50 yards.”
Jones described it as “something man-like but hairy, standing up and moving real slow through what we call snowbrush or buckbrush … it would pull the limbs down hand over hand, holding (the limbs) with the left hand and picking the leaves off the tips with the right and eating the leaves.” Jones had been waiting as his father moved the elk from the other side of Buck Ridge up over the saddle. When the elk reached the top of the draw, they were briefly startled — perhaps seeing or smelling the creature, Jones said, but then “just relaxed and continued on like he was nothing.” When the elk passed within 15 feet of the creature, Jones had both within his rifle scope. “And he just dwarfed the elk,” said Jones, who said he was so focused on and fascinated by the creature that “I can’t tell you to this day if any of those elk had antlers on them.”
After the elk passed, the creature squatted when it became alerted to two hunters coming over the saddle. “It just turned away, without moving its feet … pivoted his upper body and curled forward and just looked like a stump sitting there.”
The hunters became alerted as they got to within 15 feet of the creature, Jones said, as if they “smelled something or saw something. I swear to God they looked right at him.
After the hunters walked on, the creature took off in the opposite direction, “and covered the ground faster than I could run, without ever breaking into a run. It looked like it was walking in water … the arm swing like it was using the hand as a paddle, the palms facing to the rear like they were big paddles, pulling it through the water as it walked.”
Asked why he didn’t shoot it, Jones said it appeared so much like a human — albeit an eight-foot-tall, hairy one — he “felt guilty” even looking at it through a rifle scope.
Source: bigfoot lunch club.
Robert P
I can’t blame him one bit. I do think they eat people though.
Kay S
I wonder if it would have attacked if the hunters had spotted it? Seems like it was content to hide as long as it wasn’t seen.
Nancy A
It is interesting that the elk relaxed after spotting the sasquatch. Maybe deer and elk can sense when the sasquatch are in hunting mode and when not.
Vinnie G
These creatures are the Ninjas of the forest and as usual, “skeptically omniscient” western “science” demonstartes that modern man’s ignorance is only outweighed by his arrogance. Silly Humans…! lol
Karen D
Makes you wonder if maybe of the 4 different kinds , some are more of a carnivore than others and the wildlife recognize them.
Also, what a great glimpse of how some of them react in a natural setting and how close people come without realizing it on occasions.
Great experience…thanks for sharing. 🙂
r v
This world is bigger than we are brought up to believe, wouldn’t you say?
Karen D
Totally agree rv. 🙂
Carol Germer
Makes me wonder just how many people have seen one, and thought it was just a tree stump.
r v
Ms. Germer, I would say you hit the nail on the head. They’re out there and they’re all around us, every time we venture out.
Eddie M
Every ounce of what has to be a great intellect is directed toward survival and that would include evasion of what has to be its greatest historical enemy….man.