BIG IRISH
08-12-2006, 03:39 AM
I believe that Bigfoot exists do you? The reason I beleive they do because I have seen one, and so has my aunt and uncle.
I was raised in Oregon, the great Pacific Northwest has thousands upon thousands of acres of heavy forest that provides a perfect habitat for an intelligent creature to avoid contact with man.
Before I enlisted in the Army I was a logger (lumberjack). And one time we were building a main logging road way, way, way out in the sticks.
I don't think any human being had ever been in that particular part of the woods in hundreds of years, that much was obvious to us all on the first day at this site.
One morning, as we were probing for cinder rock, I was operating a D9 Caterpiller and I saw a footprint in a small swampy area, so I hopped off the cat and examined it.
It was huge, it was a human footprint, but about four times the size of any human foot I have ever seen in my life! Of course, I got excited about it, and I called some of the guys over to look.
And I spent the day looking at it off and on. One of the guys on the crew was full blooded Klamath Indian, and he looked at it, shrugged his shoulders and said "Sasquatch" he went on to describe how his elders had relayed stories about the Sasquatch to him, how the indians beleived that Bigfoot has magical powers, they claim he lives underground, that he can turn invisible, and that he can control your mind by making you forget that you saw him.
Anyway, a couple of weeks pass, and I had not seen anymore sign, and I'd more or less forgotten about it. That day I was driving the water truck and I was on my way to the head of the spread where the belly dumps would dump their load of cinders and the blades (graders) would spread them over the cut that the road cats had cut.
We put water down on it to keep the dust down, so here I am, 19 years old driving an old Kenworth conventional cab, shifting that brownie like there was not tomorrow.
I rounded a bend where the forest cleared and opened up into typical high steppe desert terrain, two foot high straw grass, some shrubs and bushes, this plain was a couple miles across or so. And I saw something moving, I thought it was a bear, it must have been around a hundred yards or so away but it was definately moving.
I kept driving glancing at the road, shifting gears, and looking out the window at this bear. The road was taking me closer to it, although it was walking away from me, heading for the treeline on the other side of the plain.
I did get a little bit closer to it though, close enough that I could see this thing was walking upright, on two legs and pretty soon I noticed it's arms were swinging back and forth, just like a human being walks. By now, my heart is pounding, I'm breathing fast, and my adrenal gland is red lined.
I stop the truck but stay in the cab because being that high off the ground it offorded a better viewpoint. So, I open the door and get out and I jump up on the hood of the truck to get higher and I continue watching it walk, the stride was huge!
Then, I jump up on top of the cab, and I just watch it walk very quickly into the far treeline and disappear. While this was going on I didn't even notice one of the jippos had pulled up behind me (a jippo is an independant truck driver who contracts out to work with us) and when I looked back to see who it was I saw that he was also standing on the cab of his truck, but he had a set of binos!
He told me that it was a Bigfoot, that he'd bet his life on it. Its hard to say how big the thing was but we estimated it to be between 7 and 8 feet tall. To estimate it's height, I walked out to where we first saw the Bigfoot (with my 45 in hand) and the jippo looked at me through the binos and he compared how tall I appeard against the same background as the Bigfoot did.
Of course we told everyone we saw, and the guys had no problem beleiving us. Naturally we got a good ribbing about smoking dope on the job or something.
Up till that day I had been somewhat skeptical that Bigfoot actually existed. But like thousands of other eye witnesses, I know what I saw and there is no way that it was some kind of wild life that looked like a Bigfoot, it was a Bigfoot, no doubt about it.
About five years ago, my uncle and aunt who own a home in Klamath Falls, OR but lived in Auburn WA at the time were driving home on one of the holidays.
They were on a two lane state highway somewhere in southern Oregon, it was late at night and very dark. They came around a corner, and suprised a Bigfoot that was standing on the side of the road.
The drove by it so fast, it happend so quickly; they looked at each other and my uncle says to my aunt. "Was that what I thought it was?" She said yes that she thought so. So they turned the car around and drove back to where they saw it, but it was gone.
My uncle shut the engine off and got out of the car, with his rifle in hand. He said that the silence was almost total, he said that all he heard were crickets. And, the sound of something crashing through the thick under brush, he said he heard the sound of foot steps. He told me that they listend untill the sound disappeared and drove the rest of the way home.
I firmly beleive that Bigfoot exists, there is just too much circumstantial evidence, thousands of eye witness accounts from all over the country to write it off as mass hysteria or optical illusion, also, samples of hair have been brought in for DNA testing and the result of some of them have ruled out every known animal of the region, in short, the DNA was of something we have never identified before.
I think that the Sasquatch are highly intelligent beings who stay hidden from man kind, they have ample space to live their lives undetected and it could even be that they bury thier dead and that that is why we haven't found any remains.
We'll find one alive someday, probably in our lifetime., maybe even related to mouse.
I was raised in Oregon, the great Pacific Northwest has thousands upon thousands of acres of heavy forest that provides a perfect habitat for an intelligent creature to avoid contact with man.
Before I enlisted in the Army I was a logger (lumberjack). And one time we were building a main logging road way, way, way out in the sticks.
I don't think any human being had ever been in that particular part of the woods in hundreds of years, that much was obvious to us all on the first day at this site.
One morning, as we were probing for cinder rock, I was operating a D9 Caterpiller and I saw a footprint in a small swampy area, so I hopped off the cat and examined it.
It was huge, it was a human footprint, but about four times the size of any human foot I have ever seen in my life! Of course, I got excited about it, and I called some of the guys over to look.
And I spent the day looking at it off and on. One of the guys on the crew was full blooded Klamath Indian, and he looked at it, shrugged his shoulders and said "Sasquatch" he went on to describe how his elders had relayed stories about the Sasquatch to him, how the indians beleived that Bigfoot has magical powers, they claim he lives underground, that he can turn invisible, and that he can control your mind by making you forget that you saw him.
Anyway, a couple of weeks pass, and I had not seen anymore sign, and I'd more or less forgotten about it. That day I was driving the water truck and I was on my way to the head of the spread where the belly dumps would dump their load of cinders and the blades (graders) would spread them over the cut that the road cats had cut.
We put water down on it to keep the dust down, so here I am, 19 years old driving an old Kenworth conventional cab, shifting that brownie like there was not tomorrow.
I rounded a bend where the forest cleared and opened up into typical high steppe desert terrain, two foot high straw grass, some shrubs and bushes, this plain was a couple miles across or so. And I saw something moving, I thought it was a bear, it must have been around a hundred yards or so away but it was definately moving.
I kept driving glancing at the road, shifting gears, and looking out the window at this bear. The road was taking me closer to it, although it was walking away from me, heading for the treeline on the other side of the plain.
I did get a little bit closer to it though, close enough that I could see this thing was walking upright, on two legs and pretty soon I noticed it's arms were swinging back and forth, just like a human being walks. By now, my heart is pounding, I'm breathing fast, and my adrenal gland is red lined.
I stop the truck but stay in the cab because being that high off the ground it offorded a better viewpoint. So, I open the door and get out and I jump up on the hood of the truck to get higher and I continue watching it walk, the stride was huge!
Then, I jump up on top of the cab, and I just watch it walk very quickly into the far treeline and disappear. While this was going on I didn't even notice one of the jippos had pulled up behind me (a jippo is an independant truck driver who contracts out to work with us) and when I looked back to see who it was I saw that he was also standing on the cab of his truck, but he had a set of binos!
He told me that it was a Bigfoot, that he'd bet his life on it. Its hard to say how big the thing was but we estimated it to be between 7 and 8 feet tall. To estimate it's height, I walked out to where we first saw the Bigfoot (with my 45 in hand) and the jippo looked at me through the binos and he compared how tall I appeard against the same background as the Bigfoot did.
Of course we told everyone we saw, and the guys had no problem beleiving us. Naturally we got a good ribbing about smoking dope on the job or something.
Up till that day I had been somewhat skeptical that Bigfoot actually existed. But like thousands of other eye witnesses, I know what I saw and there is no way that it was some kind of wild life that looked like a Bigfoot, it was a Bigfoot, no doubt about it.
About five years ago, my uncle and aunt who own a home in Klamath Falls, OR but lived in Auburn WA at the time were driving home on one of the holidays.
They were on a two lane state highway somewhere in southern Oregon, it was late at night and very dark. They came around a corner, and suprised a Bigfoot that was standing on the side of the road.
The drove by it so fast, it happend so quickly; they looked at each other and my uncle says to my aunt. "Was that what I thought it was?" She said yes that she thought so. So they turned the car around and drove back to where they saw it, but it was gone.
My uncle shut the engine off and got out of the car, with his rifle in hand. He said that the silence was almost total, he said that all he heard were crickets. And, the sound of something crashing through the thick under brush, he said he heard the sound of foot steps. He told me that they listend untill the sound disappeared and drove the rest of the way home.
I firmly beleive that Bigfoot exists, there is just too much circumstantial evidence, thousands of eye witness accounts from all over the country to write it off as mass hysteria or optical illusion, also, samples of hair have been brought in for DNA testing and the result of some of them have ruled out every known animal of the region, in short, the DNA was of something we have never identified before.
I think that the Sasquatch are highly intelligent beings who stay hidden from man kind, they have ample space to live their lives undetected and it could even be that they bury thier dead and that that is why we haven't found any remains.
We'll find one alive someday, probably in our lifetime., maybe even related to mouse.