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Nearest Town: Colorado Springs or Fort Carson

Witness Observed:

My son and I were turkey hunting on BLM land near Fort Carson, CO. We arrived in the area around 0930hrs. My son is only 3 and 1/2 years old, so we were moving slowly to find a good spot to set up. We were approximately 500 yards off the west side of Sate Hwy 115 in the Table Mountain area. We found a decent site to set up on and started our hunt. I called a few times with my diaphragm calls and we heard one turkey gobble about 100yds away. My sun was busy playing with rocks right next to our site. At about 1030hrs I noticed a truck driving down a dirt road that runs through the area. I watched the truck drive through the area and as it turned down a left hand bend in the road, I caught some movement out the corner of my right eye. The movement was approximately 600yds away. I picked up my binoculars to get a better look, hoping it was a turkey coming in to my calls. When I got focused on the object, it definitely appeared larger than a turkey, so I checked it out more and focused the lenses better. What I saw, I don’t know for sure, but it appeared to be walking upright on its hind legs and and was covering a great deal of ground in a short span of time but was not running. I estimated the being to be approximately 6-7ft in height. It was walking northwest from my location. After about a minute or two it disappeared into some high brush and thickets. That terrain went up and over a little rise. I did not see anything else after that. We left the area about an hour later. I was shaking a little bit from excitement, but didn’t want to hang around too much longer. I have told no one of this thinking myself to be a little crazy at the time, but I know I wasn’t seeing things and it actually happened. I only tell this now to get it off my chest and let you guys determine if what I have said and seen is true or not. The temperature was warm and the sky was clear and sunny.

Follow-up investigation report:

After a telephone interview with the witness, a few details can be added to his report. He is a soldier stationed at Ft. Carson and was in between tours of Iraq at the time of this sighting. Prior to this incident, he had not even considered the possibility of these creatures being present in this area but a subsequent internet search convinced him that he may have actually seen a bigfoot because of the numerous other reports in the same general vicinity. For fear of ridicule, he has not discussed his apparent sighting with anyone but felt compelled to make it known and get it on the record.

From his vantage point, the figure was off to the west toward Table Mountain and was headed in a northerly direction toward Cheyenne Mountain and the southern slopes of Pikes Peak. The location is on or very near the El Paso and Fremont County line.

After first noticing the movement, he watched the figure in the distance by eye for almost a minute. Realizing that it was much larger than a turkey, he continued watching through his binoculars for another thirty to forty-five seconds. Due to the uniform dark-brown to black coloring and apparent size, he then thought he was looking at a bear, and then a bear on two legs, at which point he was stunned by the certainty that it was not a bear. The figure clearly walked on two legs for the duration of the sighting. The witness was struck by the apparent speed of the creature walking, but never running, which covered an estimated three to four hundred meters or more while he was focused in on it. He felt certain that, in comparison, he would not be able to cover that amount of distance in that time. The figure was in the open in high grass until he lost sight of it when it went into the brush and then behind a hillside. He kept watching in that direction for several more minutes but saw nothing more.

Witness Observed:

I was sitting on my couch watching tv with my small dogs around me. My male Yorkie saw it when I did out our back door. It was sitll daylight. I thought it was a man at first, but it was too large, too dark, and fleeting. The dog jumped up and ran to the back door but I moved slowly over there, being a little frightened. When I looked out the door it was gone. My first impression of it being a man was because of the general shape, but the dark figure wasn’t wearing clothes and had to be over 10ft. tall to see it through the doorway like I did. I was able to see the upper body from where I was sitting. The porch drops off with a stairway to the patio around the pool. That’s where it was walking rapidly next to the house. By the time I got to the door to look out it was over the fence and gone. My instinct was to check the gate and I saw it was still latched and locked, never having been opened. It wasn’t a human it was too large. It wasn’t a bear it was running upright. I can’t come up with any other thing that could be that tall and that could do what it did and having seen what I saw in 1999 I don’t take this lightly.

I want to thank all of the members who have supported our endeavor to expand the show. With the release of the website I have been busy making sure everything runs smoothly for you all. In January you will start seeing several shows per week and new content being updated all of the time. I have several guests lined up after the holidays. I’m working on getting a few guests on next week including a police officer who discusses properties he has been called out on and issues that followed investigating Sasquatch on these properties.

Happy holidays everyone! This week we have a two part show. We have an “insider” who will be coming on to share his encounter and knowledge of some government emails he came across between the U.S. Department of the Interior and The Bureau of Land Management. I have asked him to change his story about how he acquired the emails because I want to keep him as a contact. He will share as much as he can without giving away his identity. No it’s not Mr. Black, a lot of what he has to say is shocking. The first part of the show will focus on a property he lived on where this creature was killing everything it could and the harassment towards his family that followed.

Location Details

Ft. Lewis, escape and evasion training area.

Witness Observed

Three large individuals, two very large and the other about two-thirds their size. When we first saw the individuals they were on the far side of the open meadow. I remember that there was a bright moon out because we could see features such as trees, and objects well enough to run without tripping. In fact we could see through some of the pines. That is where we saw the individuals.

At first we thought they were the capture team looking for us. They were back in the tree line when we first saw them. There was a road not far behind them and we could see what we thought were soldiers moving very slowly (not forward or back at first). When they breached the tree line, Mickles decided that we had enough space between us and them to escape if they were part of the capture team. He thought it might be some like ourselves who escaped early and got out of the boundary area.

Mickles got up and started walking towards them and I followed. They were just silhouettes, but as we got closer Mickles waved at them, then they started moving towards us faster; not really running, just faster. Mickles called to them and they came faster without answering.

I have never heard of bears walking upright, and for sure not that fast but I didn’t know that much about bears. I did know that something wasn’t right and I was really scared. I really didn’t think they were bears or people; I don’t know why. I just know I have never been that terrified and so was Mickles. We ran as fast as we could without looking back, but felt they were gaining on us. I told Mickles to follow me and dove under and crawled up under a large low pine tree. We just lay there. We could feel their presence but didn’t dare move.

That is when we smelled this weird odor. I am sorry I can’t describe it to you. It was strong is all I can say. We stayed there for probably fifteen minutes and then I said let’s head for the road and we did. By that time the maneuver was over and we saw a bus pull up by the compound. We ran as fast as we could and caught the bus. We never looked back, except in memory.

I have hunted all over the U.S. from Colorado, to Illinois, to Texas. What we saw the silhouettes of and smelled was not humans, or any bear.

Other Witnesses

Private Mickles and myself had left the training area earlier than we were supposed to and were staying out of the training area watching the escape and evasion activity.

I have thought about the incident many times in the past. At the time neither Mickles or myself had ever heard of bigfoot; we were in trouble for leaving the area early, so we had other things on our minds. This is just for your information. I have no idea if it is useful or not.

In 2001 or 2002 . Family sees creature while driving. The 2 kids were asleep in the back seat and both the driver and front passenger saw the animal

Jonathan Doyle says the First Amendment protects him and his character: Bigfoot. Last fall he dressed up as Bigfoot and surprised hikers at the top of a mountain in a New Hampshire park. Doyle claims it was a bit of performance art. Park rangers were not amused when Doyle did it again, and they kicked him out of the park. They said he didn’t have a permit.

Jonathan Doyle says the First Amendment protects him and his alter ego, Bigfoot. Last fall, he dressed up as Bigfoot and surprised hikers atop a mountain in a New Hampshire park. Doyle claims it was a bit of performance art, that’s all. Call them Philistines, but park rangers were not amused when Doyle did it again, but bigger, with singing and dancing. They kicked him out of the park. Doyle has filed a complaint. He says even Bigfoot has free-speech rights.

Sandra, an orangutan owned by the Buenos Aires Zoo, was given the right to leave the zoo after a court ruled she was entitled to more desirable living conditions.

In what may be a first, an appeals court in Argentina has recognized a nonhuman as having basic legal rights. A Buenos Aires judge ruled in favor of advocates who are calling for more freedom for a 28-year-old orangutan who was born in a zoo.

The advocacy group filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on the orangutan’s behalf, which would require proof of a justified detention.

Wired reports: “On Friday, an appeals court declared that Sandra, who is owned by the Buenos Aires Zoo, is a ‘non-human person’ who has been wrongfully deprived of her freedom.”

In the ruling that was officially published Monday, the court says that by following a dynamic interpretation, “it is necessary to recognize that the animal is subject to rights, and should be protected,” the AP says.

Sandra was born in a zoo in Germany and sent to Argentina 20 years ago. An animal rights group argued that she had been wrongfully forced into a life of incarceration. The group now wants Sandra to be transferred to a sanctuary.

Pablo Buompadre is the head of that group, the Association of Professional Lawyers for Animal Rights. After Friday’s ruling, he called for an inquiry into animal cruelty in Argentina.

“We believe incarceration and animal cruelty are not fair. We ask that it be investigated, but so far we have obtained an unprecedented ruling,” Buompadre said, according to the Buenos Aires Herald.

The attorney who represented Sandra, Andrés Gil Dominguez, says the case sets an important precedent.

“From this ruling forward,” Gil Dominguez tells the AP, “the discussion will be whether captivity in itself damages their rights.”

We’ve touched on animal rights in several recent stories, including the case of Raju the elephant, who famously seemed to weep this summer when he was freed from shackles after 50 years. Earlier this month, an Indian court said Raju could stay with the group that rescued him.

And in August, a spat between British photographer David Slater and Wikimedia over who owns the copyright to a photo taken with Slater’s camera — by a grinning black macaque — highlighted the question of animal authorship and copyright.

As the AP notes, a similar case to the one in Argentina has been brewing in New York, regarding a privately owned chimpanzee.