DATE:   August 2000

TIME:    9:30 P.M.

LOCATION:   Montana, Lincoln County

TERRAIN:    Wooded with heavy brush/ next to a creek
 

OBSERVED:   There were 3 of us flyfishing on a small creek.  We had floated by tube for about an hour when one of my friends stepped onto land to relieve himself.  There was a very loud crack heard.  We thought it was a moose because it kept following us through the underbrush.  The only problem was that it continued to break very large sticks when it walked.  At about 9:30 p.m. we decided that we would have to hike back to the highway due to the limited lighting.  K had already gotten out of his tube and Q and myself were still fishing a deep hole.  All of a sudden we heard something that is hard to describe.  It sounded like a howl, growl, and a snort finished off with a high pitched scream.  The entire sound only lasted for about 1.5 seconds.  It was very loud, and almost earpiercing.

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESSES:   Tube floating down a creek while flyfishing

DESCRIPTION OF CREATURE:   I saw movement headed up the hill but could not describe it as anything else as dark in color.

OTHER NOTES:   I told my nephew about it and he wanted to see the area.  I took him around the area that we had heard something.  We both smelled something that resembled a cross between something rotting and very bad urine.  It was like a wall of stench.  When we moved forward we could smell it, and when we backed away we could not smell it.  We also noticed alot of bear scat in the area, except that it was not in piles but distributed in rows.  As if it were moving away from the area of stench.

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