Violent Bigfoot

[Guest Particle Noun]

Wow, this is a fascinating thread. Some amazing stories in here. I really do wonder at the public reaction to any announcement that Bigfoot is real. I think there will be a lot of people who will want to attribute nothing but peaceful intentions and nature to them, but surely stories such as the ones in this thread will come out more prominently as well, and be taken more seriously. What would be the outcome?

On a small level, what happens for kids when the campfire stories of the boogieman in the forest turn out to not be camp fire stories after all. If I were eight years old, and camping with my family in the woods, and I KNEW there were 9 foot hairy men running around who could snap me in half, I'm sure I would never sleep again.

ON the other hand, kids have been camping forever with the threat of bear attacks, so....

Edited June 12, 2012 by Particle Noun

[Guest shoot1]

Hi everyone! I would like to share some thoughts, according to the reports and sightings I have read.

1. it seems the general strategy of Bigfoot is to avoid humans, or at least, remain undetected.

2. It is a predator, so it has the capability of knocking down big animals...but it seems humans are not their usual prey.

3. Nevertheless, there are a few stories of Bigfoot raiding farms, taking small pets and poultry, approaching houses at night just for curiosity...there have been some scary incidents (according to the reports), but few of them violent.

4. On the other hand, it seems that some very few human individuals have been violent with Bigfoot, trying to shoot him!!!)

Greetings.

K. Adam.

I'm prone to believing that "sasquatch attack reports" are called "missing person reports".

From my reading of sighting reports it could be that they have a particular dislike of those carrying guns.

"Dislike" as in prone to attack or "dislike" as in steer clear off? I am starting to think i wont do any research in Maryland because i don't want to go into the woods without being heavily armed anymore.

Edited June 12, 2012 by shoot1

[Guest BFSleuth]

"Dislike" as in prone to attack or "dislike" as in steer clear off? I am starting to think i wont do any research in Maryland because i don't want to go into the woods without being heavily armed anymore.

Some of the stories associated with violent BF attacks have been when hunters have been confronted with a gun in hand, or when shots are fired (like the Ape Canyon attack). Some sighting reports of hunters that are in a blind or sitting and waiting for game have had sightings where the BF will retreat, sometimes rapidly, if the gun is cocked or pointed at them.

[Guest tirademan]

Tirademan, have you heard of the headless vally in the N.W.T, Canada. You probably already have but if not give it a google.

I have and found this old story about it, although it doesn't mention hairy apes.

Also, here are some of the headless found dead stories that I found and one missing boys picking berries even though no apes are mentioned. I have found many stories of berry pickers being frightened by wild men though.

tirademan

Edited June 13, 2012 by tirademan

[Guest shoot1]

...The "missing hunter" stories that make me go "hmmmmmmm...." are the ones for example, where some trace evidence is found of something unusual. Such as the stories that have circulated about finding rifles bent into U shapes or flung way up in trees.

Care to post some examples?

[Guest tirademan]

Some interesting questions in this one...

tirademan

[bipedalist]

http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2011/10/fantastic-story-by-native-american.html

Posted this one over in Bf entering houses too... definitely a violent kidnapping and beating leading to death by account....

[Guest]

I am starting to think i wont do any research in Maryland because i don't want to go into the woods without being heavily armed anymore.

I can say with almost 100% conviction that the 2 legged animal you have to fear the most while in the woods are our fellow human beings. Regardless of the number of kills and "missing persons" commited by bigfoot in the woods, I would be willing to bet my bottom dollar that the number commited by our fellow man, is unfortunatly many times greater. If it would make you feel better though, bear spray has been proven to work better for self defence than a firearm, although I don't know the laws in Maryland regarding it.

[Guest shoot1]

No, regardless of what the studies say, Bear Spray definitely will not make me feel better than carrying a Guide Gun and a Super Redhawk Alaskan - both of which have been used to take down Grizzlies and other large game. Sasquatch have (supposedly) run from guns. If Sasquatch are intelligent then all it will take is for one "bad seed" to get sprayed, then realize the Bear Spray won't kill them, and then either they'll either come back to finish the job or the next person who uses Bear Spray on them won't be so lucky.

[bipedalist]

Not to mention that the residual spray residue/container then becomes an attractant to the bear as a spicy hot add-on condiment. Pass the hot sauce please.

[Guest Theskwerl]

. Early settlers of the 
South reported encounters with strange 
Sasquatch-like monsters long before the first 
recorded sightings in Washington and 
Oregon.

As they pushed their settlements deep into 
the woods and their hunts even deeper, the 
early frontier people of the South often ran up 
against mysteries that defied explanation. 
One of the most bizarre involved a series of 
events surrounding a creature called the 
"Wild Man" by newspapers of the 1840s.

The earliest known recorded sightings took 
place in February and March of 1846 in the 
Crowley's Ridge area of eastern Arkansas.

Stories about the creatures appearance were 
carried in newspapers across the nation, 
with the Baltimore Sun reporting on March 
13, 1846, that "his track measures 22 inches, 
his toes are as long as a common man's 
fingers, and in height and make, he is double 
the usual size."

Other reports followed, with a second surge 
of news coverage taking place in 1851. The 
New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette 
reported on May 29th of that year that an 
expedition was about to leave Memphis to 
hunt for "the wild man." The monster was 
said to be "of gigantic size and covered with 
hair."

The same newspaper followed with a page 
one account on June 5th, quoting the 
Memphis Enquirer as its source for a report 
that the Wild Man had been seen chasing a 
herd of cattle:

...He was of gigantic stature, the body being 
covered with hair, and the head with long 
locks that fairly enveloped his neck and 
shoulders. - The "wild man" after looking at 
them deliberately for a short time, turned and 
ran away with great speed, leaping from 12 to 
14 feet at a time.

The Enquirer account noted that the monster 
had been seen in St. Francis, Greene and 
Poinsett Counties for 17 years, a statement 
that indicates that now lost reports may have 
been made as early as 1834.

Col. David C. Cross and Dr. Sullivan of 
Memphis were said to be organizing an 
expedition to search for the creature. This 
may well have been the first Bigfoot hunt in 
American history. No written details of the 
results of their search have yet been found, 
but certainly could exist.

Another round of accounts appeared in the 
nation's newspapers in 1856. On January 
3rd of that year the Pittsfield Sun reported:

A wild man, seven feet high, is stated to be 
roaming through the great Mississippi bottom 
in Arkansas. Numerous travelers and hunters 
have asserted that they have seen him, but 
none have been able to get near enough to 
give particulars concerning the strange being

Not all accounts, however, were from the 
swamps of eastern Arkansas. A fairly bizarre 
report appeared in May of 1856 reporting a 
sighting in April on the upper Red River and 
noting that the creature had also been seen 
in Northern Louisiana.

According to this version, which appeared in 
the Wisconsin Patriot on May 10, 1856, the 
Wild Man was spotted breaking the ice of a 
frozen lake. He was "covered with hair of a 
brownish cast" and was described as being 
"well muscled."

A party of men from Louisiana had gone into 
the wilderness on horseback to find the 
creature and decided to try to capture it. One 
man from this group had gone ahead of his 
comrades and decided to try to take the 
monster on his own. This was a bad idea:

..So soon...as the wild man saw the horse and 
rider, he rushed frantically toward them, and 
in an instant dragged the hunter to the 
ground and tore him in a most dreadful 
manner, scratching out one of his eyes and 
injuring the other so much that his comrades 
despair of the recovery of his sight, and biting 
large pieces out of his shoulder and various 
parts of his body.

In perhaps the most bizarre part of the story, 
the Wild Man supposedly made off with the 
injured man's horse. The hunter's friends set 
off in pursuit, joined by a party of Choctaw 
Indians that happened to be in the area. The 
chase led up into the Ouachita Mountains, 
then covered in snow from a particularly 
brutal winter, where the pursuers failed to 
capture their elusive prey.

Stories of a gigantic, hair-covered, man-like 
creature are told in Arkansas to this day, 
notably in the Ouachita and Ozark mountains 
and in the swamps of the Mississippi and 
Red Rivers. The famed Boggy Creek Monster 
is just one modern manifestation

 

I found these this morning I thought they were interesting so I shared them.

http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/arwildman.html

I got this here so I'm not sure if real or a goof. 

The Skwerl