Urban Bigfoot, Seriously?

[Lake County Bigfooot]

Well it did not take too long to find one, but I think this represents what I was thinking, and kids tend to draw them in, so I think that is why they have sightings in places not normally active....

 

 

Report # 7300  (Class A)
Submitted by witness on Friday, October 31, 2003.

Girls see "blonde gorilla" just north of the Twin Cities

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YEAR: maybe 1988

SEASON: Winter

STATE: Minnesota

COUNTY: Anoka County

LOCATION DETAILS: north on Lexington Ave. from Highway 96. cross 85th Ave. continue past Flowerfield Rd. You will barely see Hidden Lake on your right. Take a right on Woodland Rd. (just past the church). Take a right on 92nd Circle. Take the long driveway straight ahead, or walk in there. On your left you will see a trail (actually more than one but they all seem to come together). Looking south toward Hidden Lake you will see the shelters. This is the general area where the Bigfoot was seen.

NEAREST TOWN: Circle Pines

NEAREST ROAD: Woodland Road

OBSERVED: This is a second hand report. Our daughter and her friend, a neighbor, were about ten years old and it was approximately 1988. The two were walking into the woods off a trail near our home and saw a huge beige gorilla like creature. The minute they saw it they were so scared they ran home. Our daughter said there was no way this was a costumed person or another animal. It was a tall two legged creature covered with beige colored hair. The two girls reported this incident to me almost immediately after it happened. There was snow on the ground and they were wearing boots.

I wanted them to show me the clearing where the creature was standing so I could look for footprints. They said they would not go back there, they were too frightened. On the way to tell me they saw another neighbor in her yard and told her but she did not believe them. In the years since their sighting I have not thought much about it. However, after reading websites on Bigfoot I really feel we have had Bigfoot living in the woods here. It is not a really large area, but hard to get around in due to the marshy conditions around the small lake.

ALSO NOTICED: I noted that even now, about 15 years later, there are "shelters" built near the area, and a very strong odor of excrement. Loud screams have been heard in the same general area, and footprints in the snow of a very large size with a very large stride have been seen.

OTHER WITNESSES: There were two witnesses involved. They were looking for a tree with boards on it to climb. In the process they came upon the Bigfoot.
 

OTHER STORIES: None. I suspect if anyone has seen anything they are afraid to be considered imagining it. The shelters, however, are real. I don't know how anyone could explain what they are doing there otherwise

TIME AND CONDITIONS: This was during the day, not sure of time, it was clear and plenty of light. It may have been early spring but there was snow on the ground.

ENVIRONMENT: The incident occurred in a clearing between the woods and Hidden Lake. The area is wooded but near the lake it is marshy and hard to get to.

 

 

 

 

 

Follow-up investigation report:

The place where this sighting occurred is just north of Minneapolis/St. Paul in a loosely populated suburban area. A chain of large marshy lakes with substantial surrounding low lands and some wooded areas extend into the area from the north.

I was shown the place where the sighting occurred by “G,†one of the witnesses (now 25), and her mother, the person who submitted the report. I also interviewed the second witness by phone. Both women described essentially the same thing to me. Fifty to one hundred yards away they saw an upright, blonde colored “gorilla.†It was seen within the wild area only a quarter of a mile or so from the house lined street where the girls lived.

The creature was standing on a rise and was entirely visible to the two girls. At first it seemed to be bending over, but then it straightened up and seemed to notice the girls. At that point they ran home. The sighting was brief but both women impressed me as completely honest and sincere in their belief that they saw what they described to me: a big "gorilla" entirely covered with “blonde†hair. The second woman, “K,†said the animal was dirty, especially the legs. G told me, at the time, they called it a gorilla because they’d never heard of a bigfoot.

The "shelters" mentioned by the G's mother appeared to me to have been made by kids.

G and K saw something extraordinary when they were girls that has steadfastly stuck with them as real. If it was a sasquatch it is noteworthy for having been so near the Twin Cities. The chain of wild lakes and surrounding marsh land would have provided a corridor from the country to the north into the developing suburb where the creature was seen.

It is also interesting that the animal’s color was described by both witnesses as blonde. A 2001 sighting near Bemidji, Minnesota involved an animal described by the witnesses as tan or cardboard colored, and a 1972 sighting near Willow River, Minnesota was of two white creatures.

 

Edited November 5, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[Lake County Bigfooot]

I guess this is what I should be doing here, posting some of these types of sightings. Anyone else familiar

with this type of semi-urban sighting please do post for the rest of us. I think it is really interesting how

this thing was so close to Suburbia, maybe it was just visiting the area, or perhaps had been there all along.

Seems as if it stuck around for some time, I wouldn't doubt it's still hanging around somewhere in the

vicinity, maybe the Vikings could draft him....

Edited November 5, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[coffee2go]

The Vikings are beyond help LCB.  We enjoy our area and the many opportunities it gives us to enjoy the outdoors as well.

 

My thoughts on a bigfoot in your or my area are the same.  The sighting I spoke of was near the town of Stillwater, east of St. Paul.  There are so many places to hide that anything is possible.  And there are so many parks, wetlands, national and state forests nearby that it would be easy for something to travel through undetected.  As far as the account you posted above, my question would be - why would two young girls lie and be so frightened of returning to the area if they had not seen what they described?

 

I also believe that for every report that is filed on a bigfoot sighting there are hundreds that go unreported due to the fear of being ridiculed.  I am in that group who would never report or discuss a personal experience for that reason and I applaud the many on these forums who have come forward to give their accounts or to defend those who have shared their experiences. 

 

[Lake County Bigfooot]

Yah, I am pretty sure you would not have to go that far from downtown Minneapolis to be in the Squatchy Zone. I think that

 

 

people are not aware that all those large forested regions in Wisconsin and Minnesota do not hold the majority of Squatches,
 

 

while they provide the cover, there is less dense food resources than compared to the edge areas areas near cornfields,
 

 

and marshy areas, which I think is a key to locating them. If you can get all three edge environments with streams nearby, bingo.
 

 

but it seems that wetlands, with light woodland, near streams, abutting  agriculture, these combination areas concentrate the deer.....

Edited November 5, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[Lake County Bigfooot]

Anyway, welcome to the forum Coffee2go, this thread is really kind of limping along, so I am trying to

breathe some new life into the subject...I spend some of my time in the Tar Pit discussing other matters,

and you'll find a range of opinions of the existence of Sasquatch, as well a host of other topics around

here so enjoy the landscape, and enjoy some of that tasty Java, I prefer the volcanic varieties, home roasted.

[Incorrigible1]

Are urban bigfoot less attuned to nature than their country kin?

[Lake County Bigfooot]

I think they prefer the semi urban vibe, constant challenges of hiding, outsmarting humans,
always can watch them from nearby, day or night, maybe even catch an episode of finding
bigfoot. Then there s the abundance of critters that like to eat human stuff, or that smooth
grass they grow, and them fancy gardens, heck almost anywhere a squatch discovers humans it is
likely to be curious, and even bold enough to show up uninvited for dinner.


I do not know how to answer that, but I would say that they are more adaptable.
The rules have to be a bit different to survive in this environment. If stealth
is at a premium in the forest west, then it is indeed magnified manifold here.
I just got back from trying to stir up something with some calls into the marsh,
and something heavy moved in, but would not respond. I usually startle the deer
or coyotes in the area with loud whoop calls. Nothing bugded and after a minute
or two heard some heavy foot steps coming closer, but continued effort got no response.
I am being slightly more aggressive, because I have not gotten anything as of late.
I am hoping to get a male to get a bit angry at my presence and show itself. Well if
it ever works I will be sure to need some extra toilet paper, as I can hardly stand
to hear the sound of loud movement in the night, much less a full blown territorial display.

Edited November 6, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[JDL]

Are urban bigfoot less attuned to nature than their country kin?

 

Maybe, but the people certainly are less attuned.

 

It's got to be like going to DisneyWorld.  Activity everywhere.  Noise, sights, smells, vibes.  Food and trash everywhere.  Oblivious people eating food and throwing away trash everywhere.  Small animals attracted to the food and trash everywhere.  The tastes.  The opportunity to glut oneself.  The temptations.  Can't leave without a T-shirt.

[Lake County Bigfooot]

Or perhaps a wax human figurine toy that melts in the sun later that day, and looks a whole lot cooler melted.

then there is the souvenir stick and rock from favorite haunts, it gets a bit exhausting. Maybe we could market

some squatchware to them, just some oversized fanny packs, maybe something to freshen up after a long hike.

All kidding aside we do not know what allows them to live in such proximity, but they seem to be quite content

to do that very thing. They seem to hang out near the place humans enter their world, and in places we already are.

Yet I am sure there are some hold outs, some stubborn old school types that stick to the remotest regions and

avoid all contact,just a steady diet of deer and coyote, some foliage, berries, none of that foo foo human garbage.

Edited November 6, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[JDL]

It's all about food.  Food.  Lot's and lots of food.  Food everywhere.  Food all the time.  Good weather, bad weather.  Food.

 

Wait till they discover alcohol and develop a taste for it.

 

In a couple of years we'll finally catch an obese, inebriated bigfoot sleeping on a park bench.

[coffee2go]

I have noticed that deer move closer to human civilization in the winter months.  This is very evident in northern MN where they have deer wintering areas right outside of town.  It may be due to the food source provided by the cleared land along the roadways or that humans are protection from the wolves.  We frequently see wolves while traveling the roads during the winter months near our cabin, but have not seen them other times of the year.  If the wolves are following the deer to more populated areas other preditors, like bigfoot, may be doing this as well.  Has anyone studied sightings or other suspicious activity occurring close to urban/suburban areas to see what time of the year they take place?

[Lake County Bigfooot]

This is an interesting angle, that perhaps seasonal movement toward civilization in the winter months occurs. Wow there might be some situations

out there that Squatches would actually do that very thing.  As the wolf so goes the Squatch, I will have to check the sightings a bit more, but it seems

that there is some evidence to suggest what you are saying. Either that or Squatches just get sighted more in winter months, or cannot hide those pesky

large footprints.  Man what a life to have to live.

 

I really like the idea of intoxicating a Squatch into submission, just better hope he's not the drunk beligerant type, wouldn't want that scap.  But the idea of someone intoxicating one with alcohol, or some other barbiturate, might hold merit, well at least till it wakes up.....

Edited November 7, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot

[JDL]

Nothing new to wildmen hanging out near human settlements.  European folklore, Native American accounts, settler accounts all indicate this in addition to modern sightings.

 

Remember the story, Three Billy Goats Gruff?  The troll hung out under the bridge just outside the village.

[Guest Boolywooger]

Here are a couple of pictures which are within 200 yds of my home in the suburbs of Atlanta.

 

 

 

Note the number of parallel smaller sticks that are leaned against the horizontal sticks throughout this structure.  I'm doubtful a human did it.

[Lake County Bigfooot]

Hey Boolywooger, while it is certainly possible that a human could have made it, I guess the question is why would they? It is really close to the houses, so it does not provides ample cover to hide a squatch, except after dark (maybe to spy on that house) which could be why a squatch might make it. Maybe a juvenile squatch, or human child, either one could be the culprit. I have not found anything like this, but some times along side a large log, with branches overhanging, a bit less conspicuous, maybe a sleeping spot, but those were not within sight of anything. Also check to see how the branches were broken, were any twisted off, because that would indicate something.

Edited November 7, 2013 by Lake County Bigfooot