May 4

Young Native American has a short face to face encounter

Siskiyou County, California
I was walking north on highway 96, on the riverside of the road, approximately 3/4 of a kilometer south of the Somes Bar store.

bigfoot-faceI saw something out of the corner of my eye, and when I looked across the road, I saw what appeared to be a big, hairy, extremely tall man. I froze, and we stared at each other for what seemed like many minutes, but was probably only 30 seconds or so. When I realized that whatever I’d seen wasn’t going to harm me, I turned away for a few seconds (to see how close I was to my cousin’s driveway), and when I looked back, it was gone.

The brush that the creature was standing in was at least two meters tall (6.5 feet), and the creature protruded above the brush from the upper chest up, so I would estimate it’s height at three meters (9.84 feet), or maybe just a bit more.

Follow up with the witness:
I talked with Tom A. on the night of the 23rd of August 2003. Tom was nineteen when he observed this creature standing behind, or in, some buck brush that was just across the highway from him. Tom is a Native American, belonging to the Karuk Tribe, located on the Klamath River. Per Tom, Karuk means, “The people who live up the river.” Tom and his people call the creature, “Motacata, meaning the people who live up the mountain.” Tom’s people have known about the Motacata people for many years, but stated this was his first sighting encounter of one of them. When he was younger, he heard a howling scream while with family members.

I asked Tom about what he had seen, and to describe further what he remembers. His answers are as follows:

Tom’s first reaction, at the time, was that he was startled and thought it might have been his cousin who lived close by. Tom estimated his distance from the creature to be approximately fifty to sixty feet. It was standing looking directly at him, but he never felt that the creature was menacing. The part of the creature he observed was from its mid chest up. It was covered in a dark brown to black hair. He estimated it to be nine to ten feet tall, and its weight to be eight hundred to a thousand pounds. To Tom, the creature’s arms and chest appeared very large.

When asked what he remembered of the facial features he stated the reason he first thought it might have been his cousin was because it appeared to have a bony face, and the eyes were set deep and dark, like his cousin. Tom said the bony facial structure stuck out, because the creature’s hair was all around its face. The encounter lasted approximately twenty seconds. Tom looked toward his cousin’s driveway because that was the direction he was going, but when he looked back, the brush was moving and the creature was gone. The only noise Tom heard was the noise the brush made as the animal departed. He went back the following day to determine the height of the creature and to search for possible tracks but only found a couple of indistinct impressions in the rocky ground. He did, however, smell a musty wet dog type odor. Tom did not tell anyone of the incident until much later. I asked Tom what he thinks the creature was, and his comment was, “They looked more human than anything else.”

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4 Responses to “Young Native American has a short face to face encounter”

  1. Christopher c

    This encounter happened less than 6 miles from my buddies house who mention in EP: 73 it is also less than 10 miles as the crow flies from the Patterson -Gimlin site @ Bluff Creek,not that you can see the profile pic well but the cat standing to my right next to the bluff Creek sign is Karuk or UP-RIVER,and he is more than likely loosely related to this person Tom A. they have at least some kind of connection with each other and I will be looking into it further so they can get together this year up at the world renewal held @ Somes Bar or-KITAMIN-every fall to honor the returning salmon run and the falling of the acorns,it is here that they perform the legendary “White Deer Skin Dance”-it is a closed ceremony-thank you for adding this report Wes,this is the”land of the Oh-Mah”.

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