DATE:  June 1, 2000

TIME: 3:30 P.M.

LOCATION:  Suquamish,Washington,Kitsap County

TERRAIN: Old Growth Forest
 

OBSERVED:   I WAS IN A 10 ACRE CLEARCUT LOOKING AT LAST YEARS TREE SEEDLING PLANTS, I WAS ABOUT 500 FT.FROM THE TREE LINE,I KEPT HEARING BRANCHES BREAKING AND WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A ROCK HITTING OR POUNDING ON A LARGE TREE AND SCREECHING NOISES IN THE NEARBY WOODS ID TURN AND LOOK BUT DID NOT SEE ANYTHING.

I WALKED A BIT FUTHER CHECKING THE GROWTH RATE ON THE NEW PLANTS, WHEN THE HAIR ON THE BACK OF MY HEAD STOOD UP AND I GOT THIS FEELING SOMEONE OR SOMETHING WAS WATCHING ME,I TURN AROUND REAL QUIK AND SAW A TALL HAIRY CREATURE WALKING ON TWO LEGS ABOUT 500 TO 600 FT AWAY FROM ME, IT WAS ABOUT 30 FT INSIDE THE FOREST WALKING WEST UP HILL IT LOOKED IN MY DIRECTION AND SAW THAT I WAS WATCHING HIM HE THEN TOOK SEVERAL LARGE STEPS AND HID BEHIND A LARGE TREE.

I WAS NOT SURE WHAT I HAD SEEN SO I RAN UP TO THE TREES TO GET ABETTER LOOK I WENT INTO THE FOREST ABOUT 80 FT FOUND A TRAIL THAT LED UP THE HILL I KEPT LOW AND TRIED TO BE AS QUIET AS I COULD, THE CREATURE KEPT SCREECHING AND POUNDING ON WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A ROCK HITTING THE TREE, I LISTEN TO THIS FOR ABOUT 3 TO 4 MINUTS I KEPT THINKING TO MY SELF WHAT ON EARTH CAN MAKE THOSE KINDS OF SOUNDS, THEN TO MY LEFT ABOUT 70 FT AWAY AND ABOUT 50 FT FROM WHERE THE SCREECHING WAS COMING FROM I HEARD THE FAMILAR WOOF.WOOF AND THE SNAPPING OF TEETH COMING TOGETHER AND I KNEW THAT WAS A BEAR,

I DECIDED TO GET CLOSER TO WHAT WAS MAKING THE SCREECHING SOUNDS.  I CHARGED THROUGH THE BRUSH AND CAME WITHIN 20 FT OF TWO BABY BLACK BEAR CUBS AT WHICH POINT I DECIDED TO GET OUT OF THERE QUIK AND AS I WAS TURNING TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT THE MOTHER BEAR TO MY LEFT CAME OUT OF THE BRUSH ON HER HIND LEGS SNAPPING HER JAWS,AND MAKING WOOF BARKS BUT TO ME HER THREATS WERE NOT DIRECTED AT ME BUT WERE IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SCREECHING NOISES AND THE CONSTANT POUNDING ON THE BACK OF THE TREE.
AT THAT POINT I DECIDED TO RUN BACK TO THE SAFTEY OF MY TRUCK. I LEFT THE TREE PLANTATION LOCKED THE GATE AND DROVE BACKED TO THE OFFICE.
 

Description of Creature:  Tall, hairy creature walking upright
 

Activities of Witness:   Checking last years tree seedling plants

Other Notes:  none

Other Reports From This Area?:    YES, TWO DAYS LATER,SOMEONE REPORTED SEEING THE CREATURE 1.5 MILES WEST OF WHERE I HAD SEEN IT.