Hale County, Al Sheriff's Office Searching For Possible Gorilla

[gigantor]

Maybe it's a bigfoot...

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Hale County Sheriff's Office searching for possible gorilla

Posted: Mar 11, 2012 11:48 PM EDT Updated: Mar 11, 2012 11:59 PM EDT

By Erin Toffler - email

Hale County, AL -

The Hale County Sheriff's Office says they are searching for at least one gorilla. A gorilla was last spotted near a store on County Road 61 in Newbern.

A dispatcher with the Sheriff's Office said a crew consisting of the Newbern Volunteer Fire Department, police department, as well as Sheriff's deputies were searching for the animal.

Currently, it is unknown how many are loose or in what direction they are headed.

ABC 33/40 has a crew in Newbern and will provide more information as it becomes available.

Edited March 12, 2012 by gigantor

[Guest Bipedal Ape]

sounds squatchy alrite, they should bring bobo in to compare with what the witnesses saw

[bipedalist]

I think it's that escaped gorilla named "Arnold" from the local carnival in Williamport, Pa. in 1920 ......

hmmmm.... that would be one old ape.....

Edited March 12, 2012 by bipedalist

[Shelly]

Interesting. Someone reported seeing a "gorilla" out and about. No one has reported a gorilla missing or escaped. The nearest zoo with a gorilla is 100 miles away and that gorilla is not missing. I know people here and there own chimps (legally or otherwise) but I can't say I have heard of too many pet gorillas. Also you would think someone in the area would know that John Smith down the road had one. Could be a bigfoot report.

[Branco]

It's one of the "Black" type. They do look much more ape-like than the "Reds". Hair, face, body shape, hands, feet are different. More prone to travel in quadraped mode. Footprints look somewhat like a cross between a orangutan's and a baboon's. Several in that general area. Some highly agressive toward humans.

Edited March 13, 2012 by Branco

[Guest Micahn]

It will be interesting to see what comes of this story.

[Guest alford anthony]

This could be what we have all been waiting for

Edited March 13, 2012 by alford anthony

[dudeman]

one of those thing that make you go hmmmmm... maybe whoever saw it didn't want to report a sas thinking LE would think they're crazy.

[Guest Jodie]

Bigfoot probably never even crossed their mind. The majority of the population ( 17,000) in Hale County are indigent/rural African Americans, not particularly interested in bigfoot as a whole. Who did make the reports or report? Was it one or several different people?

Edited March 13, 2012 by Jodie

[dudeman]

would be good to know if it was walking bi or quad

[Guest Jodie]

There aren't any wildlife reserves that have gorillas close by, Hale County is also part of the Talladega National Forest. Maybe some of the Alabama folks can check it out or find out some more details for us.

[gigantor]

from cryptomundo:

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE HALE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

March 12, 2012

STATEMENT REGARDING ALLEGED GORILLA SIGHTING IN HALE COUNTY

On Saturday March 10, 2012 at approximately 7:33 p.m Hale County E-911 received a call from Perry County Dispatch advising several children on a school bus returning to Uniontown from a sporting event had seen what they believed to be a gorilla at AL Hwy 61 and Hale Co Rd 20 in the Town of Newbern.

Deputies responded and checked the area.

NO gorilla or other large primate was located. The Hale County Sheriff’s Office answers all calls for service in a professional and serious manner. This call, like all others, was investigated and until further evidence is discovered we consider this matter to be unfounded.

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and another article from ABC...

Gorilla Reported At Large in Alabama

Authorities in Alabama are on the hunt for at least one gorilla after reports that the animal was spotted near a store in rural Newbern, Ala.

The Hale County Sheriff’s Office said the town’s volunteer fire department and police have been searching for the gorilla since the sighting was reported over the weekend, according to local affiliate ABC33/40.

Newbern is a town of around 220 people in Hale County, approximately 50 miles south of Tuscaloosa.

Authorities say they are not sure how many gorillas they are searching for.

One sighting was said to have been made by a child, while another person reported seeing what may have been a bear. The sightings have not been confirmed by home video or surveillance video, 33/40 reports.

The closest zoo to Newbern is located nearly 100 miles away in Birmingham, Ala. Officials at the Birmingham Zoo confirmed to ABCNews.com today that the zoo’s sole gorilla, 16-year-old Cenzoo, is present and accounted for.

Edited March 13, 2012 by gigantor

[Guest]

Lesson: if you think you see a bigfoot, call the sheriff and report a gorilla sighting. Because a gorilla sighting out in the wilds of America is so much more plausible...right??

[Shelly]

Well unless the person that saw it was thinking bigfoot, a gorilla would be the closest thing to what they saw to describe to the cops.

[Guest]

Kids at a bus stop saw it,.

Conclusion: unfounded. So, reporting escaped Gorillas does not work, or reporting a hairy wildman, or a Bigfoot.

I interviewed four kids that saw a Bigfoot, they didn't call it that, they called it a weird bear.

The bear was sitting on it's haunches with back to them as they climbed a steep slope. It jumped up and ran away.

What was weird, the oldest said, was the long dark stripe or shadow down the middle of it's back, and when it first began to run on all fours up the slope, the front feet were weird and really small compared to the back feet. When it got close to the top of the ridge it ran on two legs and was gone.

This is the first time I have shared the story because it was a kid's sighting and we just don't trust a kid's perceptions generally. I talked to one mom seperately (the oldest) and asked her to quiz him privately. She called the next day and said: My son believes he did not see a bear, but a Bigfoot. So, mom wasn't able to sniff out a whopper and I trust that. No one else will. She advised him not to share at school, unless he was prepared to be teased and called a liar, or crazy.

Perhaps one of the most troubling things about the state of the BF Myth is how witnesses are treated. Left, not just without tangible solutions/support/education from authorites, but also with the disbelief (or ridicule) of so many, often those closest to them.

For all the difficulty we may as a society have handling the news, it is long overdue.

Edited March 13, 2012 by apehuman