Bigfoot Sightings

OBSERVED: About 9pm I was sitting on the rocky embankment of the bridge and fishing. I was born an raised mostly in Monroe county. I have fished this area probably a hundred times before. Other than an occasional car passing on the road above and carp thrashing in the water below there were very few sounds. Then as I sat there with my lantern behind me. I heard that call they make. Its unmistakable and unsettling even though it was across the water some two to three hundred yards away. I recognized the sound from my child hood as I grew up on elk fork of salt river about 20 miles west of there. and one lived there and frequented our camps as we night fished many times. Only to check us out. never did it ever try to harm us. But that sound and smell is undeniable. Oh that was back about 1966 until about 1970. there's a conservation area near there now called Cedar Bluff. My brother and I hunted and fished probably a five mile area or more along that river and the bottoms around it. in 1977 I returned to there after telling someone about it and they laughed at me. we went down the river in a canoe about two miles and camped on a sand bar where I knew the thing had been heard before. That night about 11 pm we had got in our sleeping bags and went to sleep and it let out its howl. by the time I got out of my bag to get a flash light my fried was in the river with the canoe over him pointing a 22 rifle out at the bank. I have found cedars snapped off about 6-8 feet off the ground and the needles chewed off many places along the river. This is deep thick woods and crop land area abundant with all sorts of wild life. I have never seen any proof where it had eaten anything but plants in that area how ever in the 60's there were a good population of grey timber wolves in that area.

Additional Info: When its near nothing else makes a sound and the stench of it is horrible. All of these early 60's sightings were before I had ever heard of a big foot. I knew its curious and does not mean to harm any one. I believe it to still be there on elk fork today but as for the incident over by the mark twain lake I had never seen or heard it over there before. However as the lake filled up in the 80's every one started to see animals that that never had seen before. from mountain lions, bears, and black panthers. So it does not surprise me to have heard it. Of course you ask the Mo. conservation about bears or mountain lions or panthers in missouri and you get "OH THEY DON'T EXIST" Trust me I was born and raised in those woods they are there!

Activities of Witness: To many instances to tell about. My brother and I pretty much lived with it as we ran the woods night and day hunting and fishing. For about Five years we lived on that farm we rented the house there. From night time hunting to night time fishing to the several times it come near the house and barn. We never feared it and it only followed and watched us. Some times it had been so close to us at night we could hear it breathing but only one time did it ever come into camp. and really scare us and that's because we had a bag of marshmallows open in an old boy scout canvas back pack. It came in as we were fishing grabbed the pack and ripped it open like paper when we heard the ripping noise we turned and shined the light at it its back was to us and as soon as it saw the light it ducked into the woods only thing it took was the marshmallows. the hot dogs and the crackers were left on the ground.

Description of Creature: We only saw it three times that I remember. Once it came into the yard for some reason. Our Hunting dogs that ran loose and hunted everything form rabbit to wolves were on the porch whining to get in the house that's what woke us up. When dad went out side with a big spot light he said the thing stepped over the fence (average woven wire fence about 4-5 foot tall and ran toward a small pond bank near the woods. he said it was walking upright and covered the football field distance in only a couple of minutes before the light could not reach him any more. our porch had that smell for several days. the time before it was going across a bean field at night away from the barn the beans were over waste high that year and they were only just past its knees. Its big heavy set and dark brown. I've never got a look at its face. But I can tell you for something that large it moves with as little sound as a deer would as it moves through the woods.

Other Notes: Only one I can think of was back in the 60's and some wolf hunters had some big mean dogs and one night they hunted in the bottom the other side of the river from the house and their dogs cornered something they said it scared them so bad they left the dogs there where they found them and ran to the nearest safe place which was our house. because what ever it was was between them and the way out of that field along the river surrounded by bluffs and only really on way in or out with out climbing. the next day we found their big mean dogs ( some kind of hound/pincher mix one was wadded up like a paper wad and the other was hanging over a limb in a near by tree. the ribs had been crushed like something squeezed it like a sponge.

Other (Informational or Encounter History in the General Area) Notes: I'm not sure. I do know of an instance in Mexico Mo. but in that area I'm not sure. Most people if they talked about any thing they would say they saw that bear again.

Additional Notes and or Follow up Comments: Upon Contact the Witness Added: One other thing I wanted to tell you in my original message I mentioned back in the 60's there were big grey wolves in the salt river elk fork area well monroe county in general. well when t was around even they stayed clear. Im talking about wolves that stand waist high on a man on all fours. these wolves weren't small but even in numbers they would haul ass when it came around. I also want to add I was about 8 years old when we moved there and I went in the woods all the time by by self and many many times this thing would come around and I saw it as a guardian rather than some thing to be feared. because I knew when It was there nothing else that might hurt me wouldn't. Like I said when he's near you know it because its totally quiet. Smelly if he's close but quiet. this think make a skunk smell like potpourri. A

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