How Many Members have had a sighting/experience?

[Incorrigible1]

29 minutes ago, Catmandoo said:

 

 

I don't know who Mike Meyers is or what he does. Doesn't matter.

 

 

 

[Incorrigible1]

[BlobSquatch]

I have had 4 "sightings" since moving to the mountains. But I have to put that in quotes because in all cases, it was far enough away to be indeterminate and one of those is that an all black person or Sasquatch?

[whatwasdat]

I believe because - When I was a child it made itself known to me and 2 other adults at the time in a cemetery - near our family property  I was at a hand pump well getting water and the adults were probably visiting  a loved one - we never spoke as they drove off quick 

Edited September 17, 2019 by whatwasdat
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[NatFoot]

3 hours ago, whatwasdat said:

I believe because - When I was a child it made itself known to me and 2 other adults at the time in a cemetery - near our family property  I was at a hand pump well getting water and the adults were probably visiting  a loved one - we never spoke as they drove off quick 

 

Ok. I will bite.

 

How did it make itself known to you guys?

[Guest believeRN]

I've only gone out with the intention of searching for Bigfoot once (and didn't find one) 😋 In 2011, I saw eyeshine that I can't find any explanation for other than Bigfoot. This was in central Oregon, near Silver Lake. On two occasions heard vocalizations that didn't sound like any other animals I know of - once in the Tillamook Stare Forest and once at a lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon. And found 1 possible print while on a hike in the Columbia River Gorge. Although I grew up in Oregon and undoubtedly had some level of exposure to Bigfoot being a "thing", until my encounter in 2011 and subsequent researching to figure out what the heck we saw, I didn't really every spend any time thinking about Bigfoot 🤔

[georgerm]

On 9/7/2019 at 8:01 AM, OkieFoot said:

 

To a certain extent, this is true. It's not always this way but at least a good deal of the time it is. There have been quite a few witnesses that have been out engaged in various activities that have reportedly seen what they describe as a Bigfoot standing behind a tree etc. already watching them. Or campers or cabin dwellers in the woods having rocks thrown towards them by something that came to check them out. Whether due to hearing humans making noise and were curious, the creature sought out the humans, which led to the sighting. 

 

 

 

My friend and I went wood cutting in the Butte Falls area that is North of Medford, Oregon. This was around 1977. Bigfoot was not a consideration for me or my partner, Bill. We cut up fire wood all day until we dropped, and spread out our tarp and plopped our sleeping bags down for a night’s sleep. It was a warm summer night in the open forest with tall trees spread all over. We were on the forest floor that was flat ground with tall fir and hemlock trees with some brush here and there. Something woke me up. I looked across this clearing to this dimly lit, huge fallen log about forty feet away. This hair covered creature is behind the log staring at me. It has no big fuzzy ears like a bear. A Black Bear has a flat head and long snout, and this animal had a cone shaped head and no snout. This animal had broad shoulders much wider than a bear. Only the top one fourth of its body was showing since the log blocked the rest of the view. Having no fear still puzzles me to this day and writing about this event helps. Welcome to the new forum members.

Edited January 23, 2020 by georgerm

[wiiawiwb]

What did you do....just watch it, wake your friend up, get up and walk over,  turn over and go back to sleep, other?

[MIB]

16 hours ago, believeRN said:

This was in central Oregon, near Silver Lake.

 

16 hours ago, believeRN said:

once at a lake in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon.

 

I don't want to put you on the spot, but if you are willing to give more detail, or willing to give it by PM, I am curious since I spend a bit of time over around Silver Lake and also at lakes in the Cascades, especially the southern part, I'd appreciate it.  It might add more to my map o' data points.

 

Thanks ..

 

MIB

 

[7.62]

Not really  but I saw something 

[NorthWind]

I’m not sure if I ever told my stories here on the BFF. And though I live in Oregon, all three of my "experiences" happened in Florida, less than ten miles from Myakka River State Park about fifteen years ago.

 

I was living at a country club / older folk’s community while I was in Florida going to school for a couple of years. Whenever I could, I would get out into nature by hiking up at Myakka River State Park and surrounding areas. Beautiful place, but it can be dangerous. There’s a lot of wildlife and it seems everything out there is looking to hurt or kill you. Lots of gators, poisonous snakes, spiders, boars, panthers, and my wife and I even saw two jaguarundis once at Myakka River State Park.

 

My experiences though, happened at the golf course, strangely enough.

 

The first experience we had, I was with my wife and we were out sitting on our screened in porch on the second floor enjoying a cigar and a cold fermented malt beverage. It was very late at night, I would say maybe 2AM, and we had the lights out so I wouldn’t get busted for smoking a cigar. Just talking and relaxing. This second-floor porch overlooked maybe 20 feet of grass, then a retaining pond (lake), and the golf course itself. We could see none of it though, it was a very dark night.

 

Well this night was very quiet. Suddenly, we heard bipedal footsteps sloshing through the water. Big. Deliberate. Not fast, but not slow. It was covering a lot of ground with those steps. Now it was too dark to see, but I knew at the time there are only two things in the water at night in Florida. Gators, and gator food. If you are not one, you are the other. But even though you could hear the sloshing of the steps, you could almost feel the ground thumping as whatever it was moved. It wouldn’t make sense that a person would be walking through the water at night after midnight with no flashlight (or even with one for that matter). But this was no gator. Whatever it was was walking on two legs.

 

As it passed the “lanai”, we were both afraid to even look to see what it was. Not that we could have anyway. But we didn’t even want to get close to the screen. It passed right by us. I would say no more than 30 feet away, max. It never broke stride. We were both too afraid to even speak. And when we did, we whispered and didn’t pronounce our “s’s” because we didn’t want to be heard by whatever it was.We sat there a long while after this thing was gone, trying to figure out what it was. I joked “skunk ape” with her, but the truth was that I was pretty certain that’s what we heard. I have seen deer out there and tons of birds. But this was no deer. No wild pig. Not a bear. Not a panther. It was bigger than those for certain. I still don’t KNOW what it was But if I had to put money down on something, I would have to go with a skunk ape because nothing else fits.

 

That was the first experience. The second and third ones are tied together. Let me set the stage a little.

 

I had an old dog. He was awesome. Always quiet and mild mannered. Unless there was danger. Then he became 120 pounds of growling snarling canine badassery. Mix of black lab, German shepherd, chow, akita, and coyote. I had to walk him when I got home from school. Usually that was after midnight or so.

 

Outside the gate of the community though, there was swamp land, and general native Florida wilderness. When I say “gate”, I mean there was a drop-down arm to block vehicles, but people could just walk around it. Boy, I miss the sounds of the gators and frogs at night! I would take Tucker out there to do his business next to the road. I always carried my pistol because it was scary out there with just a flashlight. This particular night, I was walking Tucker towards the gate to get out to the road to his happy pooping grounds, when he started walking slower. His head was lowered, and he was growling softly. Now we were still in the golf course community, mind you. But right next to a small pond that was completely blocked off with trees. You couldn’t even see this pond. Not even the landscapers went in there. I know, because I was curious and went in there one day. Very thick native Florida bush. Then swampy pond. Almost perfectly circular. Maybe fifty feet across is all. It’s own little nature preserve in miniature. It was right next to a man-made retaining pond that had gators and fish and frogs and snakes and the like in it.

 

As we were passing this pond which you cannot see, Tucker’s hackles went up and he started growling loud, and baring his teeth. His eyes were fixed on the small trees next to us. These trees were maybe 20 feet tall. Almost like tall bushes, really. Just as I was really realizing that something was in there, that something growled from the cover of those trees. Loud as hell. I could feel it in my chest, even. I could feel my hair stand up. That had never happened to me before, and it was a really strange sensation. That growl was so low in pitch and loud! It was not a gator, as I have heard those sounds before many times. Then the trees began shaking VIOLENTLY. I thought whatever it was was either going to rip them down or come charging out, so I had my 1911 drawn. We backed away from those trees without turning around. I did not want to turn my back to them. My heart was pounding. I was scared crapless.

 

We finally came home from a different route (we actually walked all the way around the community because I didn’t want to pass those bushes again. My wife asked where I had been and I explained everything. She thought it was funny. Well I was not amused.

 

A few weeks went by, and my mother in law came to visit from Texas. We had an extra room, so it was no big deal. She always loved to go outside and see the nature there. She loved to walk the dog, too. I told her to stay away from the “growly bushes” as they had become to be known as.  She teased me and I tried to explain I was NOT kidding and I was deadly serious.  It piqued her curiousity.

 

Well late one night maybe here or four weeks after the first “growly-bush” experience, we had been tipping a few drinks out on the lanai. It was late, and the dog needed to go out one last time. She volunteered, and asked me to go with her because she wanted to see the “growly-bushes”.  I decided to show here where it happened. So foolishly, we headed down there.

 

Tucker again started growling slow and low, with his head down as we approached the bushes. My mother in law started getting freaked out. Then as we got near them, the thing growled loud at us and shook the trees again, exactly as it had done before. My mother in law was terrified, and so was I. When we got back up to the safety of the condo, she swore that she would never doubt me again.

 

Neither of us know for certain what growled at us. But whatever it was, had to be huge to shake the trees like that. I tried shaking them in the day time some time later, and could get them to move, but nothing like what we experienced. The good thing is that I had a witness this time. And she was able to relay what happened to my wife. Now my wife knows I was not joking about it.

 

Folks there are strange things out there. And now that I am in Oregon and my kids are grown, I want to find out. That’s why I go out to the woods when I can and search for these beings. While I have never laid eyes on one that I know of, I know they are out there. And I hope to be able to find enough proof to make a difference. If not, maybe just enough to satisfy my own curiosity, which I think will never be satisfied.

[NatFoot]

Thanks for sharing that @NorthWind!

 

Good luck and stay safe out there. Do you carry on OR as well?

[georgerm]

2 hours ago, wiiawiwb said:

What did you do....just watch it, wake your friend up, get up and walk over,  turn over and go back to sleep, other?

 

My intuition was just to lay still, don't move, try to decipher what was looking at me. I froze but not in fear. There was no growling, or intimidation but just staring. When I tried to wake up Bill, he just kept sleeping................. we were dead tired. When I looked back, it was gone, and it never came back. I went back to sleep and wrote it off since bigfoot was never on my mind . 

[wiiawiwb]

@georgerm ...back then who knew was a sasquatch/bigfoot was?  It was something that didn't belong but we glossed over it.  Now, with benefit of BFF, we'd know exactly what was going on and take a different approach.

 

@NorthWind... great story and thank you for sharing. Your observation that there are strange and seemingly inexplicable things out there is spot on.

Edited January 24, 2020 by wiiawiwb

[NorthWind]

33 minutes ago, NatFoot said:

Thanks for sharing that @NorthWind!

 

Good luck and stay safe out there. Do you carry on OR as well?

Thank you. And heck yes I carry. Always.