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Feb 15

It ran through the brush taking huge steps

While serving in the Marine Corps I was stationed at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard on the USS Carl Vinson. We went to Ft. Lewis Washington to conduct some day and night patrols.

I remember the exact day because we listened to the Mike Tyson fight on the radio earlier in the day while in the field where he bit off Holyfields ear. While at Ft. Lewis during a night patrol we got off of the path we were supposed to be on and ended up in some deep brush that was thick and hard to get through.

I was the point man on the patrol and carrying a SAW which is a fully automatic machine gun and it was loaded with blanks. While busting through the brush I encountered something that was very big and shaped like you would think bigfoot would be shaped but only saw it in the dark with no lights except for the moon. This large thing and myself were within probably ten feet of each other and it scared us so badly that I opened fire on it with the SAW and the blank rounds to run it off. It ran through the brush on two legs taking huge steps each time and busted through the brush like it was nothing and disappeared over the hill in seconds. Ever since this day I have always known that it was a bigfoot that I saw that day.

This was in 1997 before computers and google so I had heard rumors afterwards that Washington was a hot spot for bigfoots. I never knew until now when I ran into this website that there is more sightings of bigfoot in that area than anywhere else in the US. I googled to see what county Ft. Lewis was in and was very surprised when reading through the stories from that county that there was several other sightings on the base such as mine. I don’t tell many people this story unless they talk about bigfoot first because as you know most people who have not encountered something like this themselves will not believe you anyways.

 

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10 Responses to “It ran through the brush taking huge steps”

  1. thomas w

    would love to hear this persons account and other service members they may know or some that Wes may know… i always do look every day and hope to see more and more stories from Natives and tribes. not legends, but first hand stories. they really tickle my fancy ! thanks for all the updates today, Wes!

  2. Christopher c

    That is one of the greatest reports so far ,the detail was all there right down to the Tyson ,Holyfield fight I mean you don’t just put a detail like that in a Sasquatch report unless it happened that way,not to mention this is one of about a dozen such reports from Joint Base Ft. Lewis ! wow what a great report that is ,it adds more credibility to the reports coming out of that vicinity.

    • Eddie M

      Not if the SAW was loaded…Those things can literally cut a flesh and blood being in half…unreal firepower that close. 3200′ per sec muzzle velocity by 800 rounds per minute. Real suppression weapon. Good thing for Booger and family it was blanks…I’m sure it scared the SHIITE out of the poor thing. Good Ending or good as it could be.

  5. Elaine C

    This is my backyard. I am directly across the water from the Naval Base and shipyard. I worked many long days on the Carl Vinson at this time.

    I lived on Fort Lewis growing up and went hunting, fishing and dirt biking all over those woods with my Dad. I have no doubt of the authenticity of the encounter. At the time in this area I was oblivious of what I was hearing. My Dad always telling me it was this animal or that. I do recall he didn’t let me go off on my own at those times. Could he have known more than he let on? I will never know as he has passed on.

    Oddly, I was in Squatch central and never saw a thing. I had to travel many miles to the Gifford Pinchot National Forest to have a real encounter.

    Reality bites.

    Elaine

  6. Tam C

    Just glad to hear someone encountered one prepared to scare it off. I’ll bet he was sweating his hairy bottom off with every step. My thought is why was this thing so close.

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