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  1. While looking through some newspaper microfilm for something unrelated, I ran across this. Sherman Democrat, in Sherman TX. For those unfamiliar, Sherman is in Grayson County. Lake Texoma, and the Red River is along it's northern border. The article refers to "Highway 82" which is present day "Highway 56". I made a copy, but it was hard to read, so I re-typed it. Looked on Mapquest and Blue Creek crosses the highway in a couple of places. Huge Ape Reported Seen At Blue Creek By WILLIE JACOBS Democrat Staff Writer (July 20, 1960) BLUE CREEK- Is there a gorilla loose near this small community? J.O. Conrad, his wife and son, who live here three miles east of Sherman on Highway 82, say they saw "a seven-foot gorilla or some kind of monster" Monday night near their home. His story came to light only Friday. The animal has been reported seen near Bells by one other person. Some people merely shake their heads and smile at the story while others stand behind Conrad's report. Gorilla or not the citizens of Blue Creek are keeping their doors locked tight and firearms handy. Conrad said he had just gone to bed Monday night about 10:30 or 11. "I was smoking a cigarette when the dog started barking," he said. " I looked out the east window and saw him, He looked to be seven feet tall and about three feet wide across the back. He stood upright but hunched over." At first glimpse Conrad said he thought it might be a man walking through his yard. "Then I saw it was too big to be a man," he explained. "I jumped out of bed and got my flashlight and gun." Mrs. Conrad and their son, James, 13, watched the creature from the bedroom window. Conrad said he stepped off his front porch toward the animal and fired three times. "I know I hit him at least once. but he didn't even flinch. That's when I went after my shotgun," Conrad said. Mrs. Conrad called the sheriff's office in Sherman. Deputies warned against shooting the animal, afraid a bullet wound would cause it to attack. "I fired the shotgun over his head, but he didn't run, just shuffled of to the east down the side of the highway," Conrad continued. "I jumped in my car and followed. I got a real good look at him in my headlights while I was following him. "He looked black as coal. He was real hairy except for his face," he said. "I was about 20 feet from him when I shot, and I didn't try to get closer. I was scared." All the way to the Blue Creek bottom, a few hundred yards east of the community, Conrad said the animal swayed and shuffled slowly along on his back legs. "His front legs were just hanging down and swinging around," he said. After the animal went into the underbrush at the creek, Conrad said he gave up the search, afraid to follow the beast in the brush. Mrs. Curtis Wilson, who lives about 100 yards east of Conrad across the highway, said she and her husband were awakened shortly before Conrad saw the animal. "We heard something rattling around in the shrubbery beside the house, and our two dogs were going crazy," Mrs. Wilson said. "Then we heard something thump against the house and the dogs hushed, just like they had been turned off." When her husband went outside, Mrs. Wilson said the dogs were cowering in a corner on the porch and "shaking just like somebody had whipped them." At the same time, Mrs. Wilson said the Wilson's cows hehind the house had begun an uproar. The Wilson's first thought of a wolf. "Then we heard Mr. Conrad shooting and my husband got his deer rifle. But by the time he got out to the highway, whatever it was had gone into the creek bottom brush," she said. Mrs. Wilson said most of the people living near the community had kept their dooors locked since. Conrad said his wife was so scared that she did not go to sleep the rest of the night and had to have medical treatment the next day. W.B. Thompson of 716 S. Burdette, Sherman was working the same night at an all-night station in the Star community between Bells and Denison. He said a man drove into the station for gas and told him he had just seen a large, strange-looking animal along the roadside near Bells. Thompson did not get the man's name. Conrad said that as he started to follow the beast in his car another car came down the highway approaching the animal from behind. "That fellow must have seen the gorilla because he threw on his brakes and almost stopped at the side of the animal. Then he stepped on it and got out of there. I thought he would stop and help me, but he must of been scared, too." Grayson Sheriff's Deputy James Spaugh answered Mrs. Conrad's call for help. He said that as far as he is concerned "Conrad definitely saw something and it wasn't a man." Next morning Conrad took his wife to the doctor. When he returned around noon, he could find no tracks on the hard dry ground. "Some men who work around here had drug a wrecked car over the spot where I saw that thing standing. There weren't any tracks left," he said. Conrad said he had never seen a gorilla before. "I looked in my dictionary the next morning and found one. I know I saw a gorilla," he said. At the suggestion of a possible hunt for the beast in the Blue Creek bottom, Conrad said: "With that gorilla down there? Not me, buddy. I'm scared."
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  2. "By seeing Bigfoot on numerous occasions, knowing exactly where they live, having the skills to acquire tangible evidence, and yet still not acquiring tangible evidence does that not also mean that you have shifted the goalposts to suit? Or are you mistaken like the rest of us poor slobs who get mistaken about things?" Your assuming much, incorrectly. First, and this may be important: I haven't gone looking. Second, and this may be a surprise: I'm not a Bigfoot researcher. Not a BF hunter. Not a BF enthusiast. I don't even like the damned things. Third, and this may be confusing: I'm not going on a manhunt arbitrarily. Manhunting is draining, and requires a much different mindset than hunting. I know. Fourth, and this may sound counterintuitive: I do know where a clan lives, and have for centuries. And your point is . . ? Fifth, and this may tick you off: They have two unique abilities I refuse to discuss. Those must be circumvented. Doable. No fix, no see. Sixth, and this may be selfish: I don't have any motivation. Refer to #2. I know what I know for a fact. I'm not confused in the least. Seventh, and this may sound flippant: Acquiring tangible evidence is not my job. Maybe in the future - but not my task.
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  3. Sounds very conspiratorial... sources? You're not going to quote authors from the giant/Nephelim crowd, are you? By seeing Bigfoot on numerous occasions, knowing exactly where they live, having the skills to acquire tangible evidence and yet still not acquiring tangible evidence does that not also mean that you have shifted the goalposts to suit? Or are mistaken like the rest of us poor slobs who get mistaken about things? Plesiosaur comparisons to sea serpents and Nessie may be poor yet they have been made and continue to do so. People have also reported seeing live dinosaurs. There may be no fossil evidence of fairies (maybe they are too fragile to preserve) yet thousands of people have, and continue to, see them... just like ghosts and Bigfoot... Comparing Bigfoot to Homo/Giganto is equally poor even though the time-frames are relatively closer - the gap is still too large and there is nothing of Bigfoot to make any valid comparisons... I could add the thylacine - more sightings and supposed evidence occur on the mainland (go figure) - but it lacks legendary qualities of Bigfoot, etc... Which species of Homo/Giganto/etc resembles Bigfoot? Is Patty Homo/Giganto? It resembles neither... There is a wide variety of descriptive and behavioural discrepancies reported by a wide variety of people - it can't match all of them and that's the thing - for Bigfoot to actually match Homo/Giganto/whatever it takes creativity on the part of the enquirer to make it fit. This is surprisingly more common than you'd think: There are quite a few "wild man" sightings reported in newspapers throughout the 19th century - many with descriptions that seem to describe Bigfoot. Descriptions often emphasized animalistic features - the wild man's body commonly reported as being "covered with (long) hair)". Eureka - Bigfoot! Well, not so fast - some of those very hairy wildmen were later captured and despite being clearly human people who had run wild they were STILL often reported as being "covered with (long) hair". How can this be so? Because back then describing something as being "covered with (long) hair" was not a literal description but a cultural one that equated wildness with hairiness (and vice versa). Even Abraham Lincoln was described as an ape and gorilla. Furthermore, most sightings of these hairy wildmen (and sometimes women and children) occurred in times of great fascination with gorillas which were big news from about 1850 to the 1930s... As for betting how I'd react if I saw a reversed cloned Homo Hedelbergensis or Gigantopethicus or whatever - I'm not sure what is achieved by this fantastic scenario... However, if I couldn't capture clear images of it on my camera I reckon I'd be the first to question the objectivity of what I thought I saw... I don't come across many who would do that. Most are adamant: "I know what I saw"... despite not really knowing what it is they saw...
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  4. I had to plus that! (MIBs love irony ...)
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