Timothy L

[Timothy L]

I camped at Standing Stone State Park about five years ago. A friend in the BFRO told me it was an active area for Sasquatch, so I camped at the campground that sits on the top of a hill next to the river. I picked a camp site closest to the ravine (not sure if it was technically a ravine, but it was a very steep slope) that drops down to the river. I figured if there were Sasquatch in the area, where I set up camp would be the area through which they would travel coming up the hill into the campground. After I set up my tent, I walked back behind my campsite into the woods to the edge of the ravine and found what looked like a path someone had made from the edge of the ravine to the campground. That was a bit odd. It was just after the Fourth of July, so the place was packed with families, many with dogs. The first day I was there, there were a lot of people setting off fireworks. With all the noise and the dogs, I figured nothing would come near the campsites. But I was wrong. Around midnight, something down in the ravine along the river started “barking.” I put barking in quotes because it sounded like something trying to imitate a dog. But the barking didn’t sound quite right. Whatever it was sounded very aggravated about something. (Maybe it didn’t like all the noise from the fireworks and the dogs???) The barking went on for about 15 minutes. It was interesting that none of the dogs in camp responded to this thing. It was dead quiet. I fell back to sleep, but a few hours later (around 2:30 am) I was woken up by something walking on the steep slope behind the campsites. My first thought was who would be crazy enough to be doing that in the dark. Attempting that during the day would be difficult enough. At one point, I heard whatever it was slip as it was walking, like when you are walking up an incline and you go to plant your foot, but the dirt is loose and your foot slides. This time, the dogs did start barking. Feeling a bit nervous (I was alone on this trip) and intrigued at the same time, I stayed up for the rest of the night. I didn’t hear anything else unusual until around 4:30 am, when my nervousness was overcome by the urgent need to use the restroom in the campground. The trip to the restroom was uneventful. However, I had just gotten back into my tent, zipped up the door flap, and settled back down on my sleeping bag, when something ran off from behind my tent. No clue what it was, but it sounded like a person running, not an animal. However, it could have been an animal for all I know. I am not an outdoorsman. I had planned to stay a second night, but something inside me said I should head home, so I did. In the end, no clue what it was that was making that noise or what it was that was apparently sitting behind my tent that night, but it was definitely an interesting night.

One of the things about this campground that might attract a Sasquatch, at least at the time I was there, was that the garbage bins set up for the campers were not designed to keep animals out. They were basically small garbage cans mounted to posts with a simple lid, easy to open. These garbage bins would most likely be attractive for a Sasquatch…an easy source of food with little to no work involved, just rooting through people’s trash.

Stand Stone State Park is a pretty nice place. Hope its a good time for you.

Tim

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