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Hi'ya Doug,greetings from the snowed in island,John
Anybody ever see a Bigfoot?
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Last month while quadding on some old abandoned logging roads near Hope, I met 2 gents from the US checking out Sasquatch sightings.They produced a show for Discovery channel. Interesting people to talk with.IMHO with all the trail cams etc. sooner or later something will show up. I have spent a lot of time in the woods, both working and hunting.There have been times when I have felt a presence, raising my sense of awareness, of being" looked upon."Can't explain it, but sure as hell felt it !
Hey, no need to apologize to me. I don't believe in samsquantch...
All I believe is that humans don't know everything, and one day I saw something weird.
My family owned property in Coombs BC back in the 80's. My brother and I used to shoot our pellet rifles and go for hikes there. It was a large section of land, around 35 acres of mostly forrest. We still think we saw something like "Bigfoot" out there. We can both remember hearing a noise, looking towards it and then bolting back to the house. It was dark brown, upright and fairly thin in size ( not a bear )....... who knows what it was.
Did you hear something???
Right. So...
Let's just for a minute suspend disbelief and take a practical look at what an unplanned encounter with Bigfoot might entail, should Mr BF take umbrage at our intrusions and charge (or whatever they usually do when the background music gets scary).
Would the .30-30 be enough gun to stop him in his big tracks?
Right. So...
Let's just for a minute suspend disbelief and take a practical look at what an unplanned encounter with Bigfoot might entail, should Mr BF take umbrage at our intrusions and charge (or whatever they usually do when the background music gets scary).
Would the .30-30 be enough gun to stop him in his big tracks?
Maybe it's just the smart-*$$ in me, but whenever I think about someone shooting BF (to prove he's real), I can't help but think that it would be tragically funny if it turned out to be some hairy, refugee from the 60s, hippie.
I can just picture the hunter doing his "I got him! I got him! I shot Bigfoot!...Look! Er, um.........Ed? that you?"
I can just picture the hunter doing his "I got him! I got him! I shot Bigfoot!...Look! Er, um.........Ed? that you?"
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+1. That is what I mean by not being a know it all.
This post has run so long and covered so much, that I guess I could safely add a little to the last posts. Mainly, the statement, "man doesn't know everything."
Animals are capable of so much more than humans. A few years ago a lady lost her cat in the West Kootenays. Five months later the cat mewed at her house door in Vernon! The crow fly distance would be near 200 miles miles, but in between was the huge Columbia River waterway, plus no end of mountains. The cat either had to cross the river on the bridge at Revelstoke, or wait until the water behind a dam froze, then cross on the ice. The Revelstoke route would be much longer, but was probably the way it went, because after its trip it was scared stiff when a truck went by on the road.
In the early days on the prairies, a great hazard was being caught out in a winter blizzard and perishing, unable to find the way home. Many, many people, including kids coming from school, had their lives saved because the horses never got lost. One story I read had the man miles from home, and no direct trails to follow, when he got caught in a major blizzrd. He tied the lines, took refuge in the sleigh box, and let the horses go. Hours later they stopped, with the blizzrd still raging. he looked out and the horses were at his barn door!
Every animal in the bush can forcast when a storm is coming, especially a winter storm. The average time they show signs of knowing is maybe two days, but some animals, such as a mountain goat, knows three or four days ahead of time, that a storm is coming. People who lived a backwoods life, before modern conveniences, studied the animal (and bird) behaviors to know what the weather would be like.
Animals are so good at forecasting earth quakes, that authorities in California watch the papers for signs of lost dogs. If there is a spate of lost dogs, they know an earth quake is coming.
A devastating earth quake occurred in China last year. I just see where people are furious that authorities took no notice of all the warnings by various animals, and didn't warn the public!
We could go on and on about the inner knowledge various animals have, but this is some of it.
Does man know everything? Really, just think about it next time you feel so smug!
Animals are capable of so much more than humans. A few years ago a lady lost her cat in the West Kootenays. Five months later the cat mewed at her house door in Vernon! The crow fly distance would be near 200 miles miles, but in between was the huge Columbia River waterway, plus no end of mountains. The cat either had to cross the river on the bridge at Revelstoke, or wait until the water behind a dam froze, then cross on the ice. The Revelstoke route would be much longer, but was probably the way it went, because after its trip it was scared stiff when a truck went by on the road.
In the early days on the prairies, a great hazard was being caught out in a winter blizzard and perishing, unable to find the way home. Many, many people, including kids coming from school, had their lives saved because the horses never got lost. One story I read had the man miles from home, and no direct trails to follow, when he got caught in a major blizzrd. He tied the lines, took refuge in the sleigh box, and let the horses go. Hours later they stopped, with the blizzrd still raging. he looked out and the horses were at his barn door!
Every animal in the bush can forcast when a storm is coming, especially a winter storm. The average time they show signs of knowing is maybe two days, but some animals, such as a mountain goat, knows three or four days ahead of time, that a storm is coming. People who lived a backwoods life, before modern conveniences, studied the animal (and bird) behaviors to know what the weather would be like.
Animals are so good at forecasting earth quakes, that authorities in California watch the papers for signs of lost dogs. If there is a spate of lost dogs, they know an earth quake is coming.
A devastating earth quake occurred in China last year. I just see where people are furious that authorities took no notice of all the warnings by various animals, and didn't warn the public!
We could go on and on about the inner knowledge various animals have, but this is some of it.
Does man know everything? Really, just think about it next time you feel so smug!
I sure agree wiht this...
And you know what the Samsquantch proponents woudl say ?
"If these "regular" animals are so smart, isn't it conceivable that an animal, much more intelligent than any other, wiht a much smaller population, could evade human detection?"
Something for all you bigfooters out there
Maybe the technology from the movies Predator were base upon found bigfoot tech! Think about it, the reason why no one has really seen them is the fact that they have stealth tech!
Personally I believe that this world has many secrets that we don't know about and might never know about. I don't like to believe 100% into something without some form of proof.
My cousin's husband has a story that although isn't bigfoot (someone might know the name as it escapes me) but is interesting none the less. It took me years of prodding before him or his friend would explain the story.
*real names omitted, this is exactly the story told, Im not adding anything. When telling the story both of these grown men start shaking and are really scared*
Lay and his friend were out dirtbiking somewhere around Kelowna where they were living at the time and were about 3 hours down a very narrow trail and decided to stop. They parked their bikes about 20 feet apart, took off their helmets, and hung them on the handlebars. They then said they smelled the WORST smell they had ever smelled, worse than sewage, rotting meat, etc. Like idiots they decided to investigate and ended up walking about 10 minutes into the brush, the smell worsening with every step and finally came upon a swampy area.
They then found a pair of women's panties, covered in mud, lying on a rock. Remember this is a good solid 3 hour ride out into the middle of nowhere on dirtbikes. Then Lay's friend pointed out a really weird track in the mud. Now Lay is a hunting, a good one, and knows animal tracks. What he found was a track he described as sort of a "Y" shaped track with a middle toe with claws bigger than his boot print.
So by this time they decided to leave but when they got back to the dirtbikes, they found Lay's lying flat on the ground with the other bike lying on top of it. When they tried pulling the bike off the top, the handlebar was "locked" to the bottom bike and took them a good bit to untangle things. It also took both of them to lift the one bike off the other.
Then they found that their helmets were about 20 feet off into the brush. By this time the hair on the back of their necks was standing up and they took off and didn't stop until they were back home.
So they told their story to my cousin after much prodding by her to find out what was wrong with them. Years later the friend was traveling just outside of Quesnel and there used to be an old glassblowing shop which also had an exhibit about Bigfoot and creatures of that sort. No sooner was the friend in the shop for about 4 minutes than he called Lay up and told him to get his ass over the shop pronto. When Lay got there there was an exhibit about this weird creature. The exhibit explained the creature always had a really bad smell about it and there in the display case was a plaster cast of this creature's footprint, the SAME footprint they had seen! This of course got them more scared and they stopped telling their story because people were always laughing at them for it and thought they were making it up.
I know differently though as Lay has literally NEVER lied a day in his life for any reason!
UPDATE: After calling him up and bugging him about it he finally retold his story to me. The creature is called the "Honey Island Swamp Monster". Here is a picture of supposed tracks from the monster (same tracks Lay said he seen):
The creature is described as about 7 feet tall, semi hairy, walks on two legs, carnivorous, smells extremely bad, and leaves tracks with three toes.
The picture above was of casts (copies of those casts are what was in the display outside Quesnel) of supposed foot prints of the creature found between 1963-1974.
Personally I believe that this world has many secrets that we don't know about and might never know about. I don't like to believe 100% into something without some form of proof.
My cousin's husband has a story that although isn't bigfoot (someone might know the name as it escapes me) but is interesting none the less. It took me years of prodding before him or his friend would explain the story.
*real names omitted, this is exactly the story told, Im not adding anything. When telling the story both of these grown men start shaking and are really scared*
Lay and his friend were out dirtbiking somewhere around Kelowna where they were living at the time and were about 3 hours down a very narrow trail and decided to stop. They parked their bikes about 20 feet apart, took off their helmets, and hung them on the handlebars. They then said they smelled the WORST smell they had ever smelled, worse than sewage, rotting meat, etc. Like idiots they decided to investigate and ended up walking about 10 minutes into the brush, the smell worsening with every step and finally came upon a swampy area.
They then found a pair of women's panties, covered in mud, lying on a rock. Remember this is a good solid 3 hour ride out into the middle of nowhere on dirtbikes. Then Lay's friend pointed out a really weird track in the mud. Now Lay is a hunting, a good one, and knows animal tracks. What he found was a track he described as sort of a "Y" shaped track with a middle toe with claws bigger than his boot print.
So by this time they decided to leave but when they got back to the dirtbikes, they found Lay's lying flat on the ground with the other bike lying on top of it. When they tried pulling the bike off the top, the handlebar was "locked" to the bottom bike and took them a good bit to untangle things. It also took both of them to lift the one bike off the other.
Then they found that their helmets were about 20 feet off into the brush. By this time the hair on the back of their necks was standing up and they took off and didn't stop until they were back home.
So they told their story to my cousin after much prodding by her to find out what was wrong with them. Years later the friend was traveling just outside of Quesnel and there used to be an old glassblowing shop which also had an exhibit about Bigfoot and creatures of that sort. No sooner was the friend in the shop for about 4 minutes than he called Lay up and told him to get his ass over the shop pronto. When Lay got there there was an exhibit about this weird creature. The exhibit explained the creature always had a really bad smell about it and there in the display case was a plaster cast of this creature's footprint, the SAME footprint they had seen! This of course got them more scared and they stopped telling their story because people were always laughing at them for it and thought they were making it up.
I know differently though as Lay has literally NEVER lied a day in his life for any reason!
UPDATE: After calling him up and bugging him about it he finally retold his story to me. The creature is called the "Honey Island Swamp Monster". Here is a picture of supposed tracks from the monster (same tracks Lay said he seen):
The creature is described as about 7 feet tall, semi hairy, walks on two legs, carnivorous, smells extremely bad, and leaves tracks with three toes.
The picture above was of casts (copies of those casts are what was in the display outside Quesnel) of supposed foot prints of the creature found between 1963-1974.
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Hey fella's there is a guy in Nebraska has been hogging bigfoots. He has 16 dozen of them and has decided to sell the entire collection, he calls himself Husker. Here is a pic of one of them..
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I saw one last year in the Cariboo...
it was very scary!
Popcan, you better put some slugs in that golden clays I sold you!!! Sounds like you are going to need them.....
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Okay I had to go back and read the opener to this thread after reading all 20 pages.A sasquatch in the "MOUNTAINS" on the Montreal River. Now unless I miss my guess we are talking the "HILLS" of the north shore of Lake Superior or are you talking the Montreal River 20 mins north of Temagami. Your location says St.Joes Island, Ont. so I am going with Lake Superior. First of all I have driven log truck up and down those hills from the Sault to Terrace Bay and north to Hearst for 9 seasons and have yet to see a mountain!First indication something is amiss with this story....2nd traditionally Bigfoot "sightings" have typically come from the Canadian Rockies down into the West coast Mountains of the U.S , land of the leftover draft dodgin "baked"60's hippy( a reliable source for West coast sightings!) so unless I am off my mark your buddies' sasquatch has decided to relocate to Ontario, must be the milder winters we are experiencing the past few years. I will take my best guess and say your buddy was sniffing the gas from his chainsaw at work and had a terrible nightmare and awoke to find a native from the Agawa canyon area trying to shake him awake and your friend mistook him for a Yeti.Interesting approach to starting a controversial thread though, I guess the boring old "what kind of gun are you shooting?" just doesn't cut it anymore on a gun forum. But then your signature says you are looking for a savage lever action, that would put most to sleep and illicit no response to the thread for sure.
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Brutus
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Perhaps it is human settlement in the east that 'has moved on' secret forest dwellers.
There is a book called, "Cape Breton Book of the Night" a collection of mostly ghost stories. In it there is one story of a large & hairy, human-like creature, spotted by a local hunter, in and around 1939 or so. The area of the alleged sighting is supposed to be Meat Cove. This is the eastern most point of NS/Cape Breton, well known for it's steep cliffs and windy forested trails. Certainly this was a while ago, but it is the only eastern story, such as this in print, that I know of.
There is a book called, "Cape Breton Book of the Night" a collection of mostly ghost stories. In it there is one story of a large & hairy, human-like creature, spotted by a local hunter, in and around 1939 or so. The area of the alleged sighting is supposed to be Meat Cove. This is the eastern most point of NS/Cape Breton, well known for it's steep cliffs and windy forested trails. Certainly this was a while ago, but it is the only eastern story, such as this in print, that I know of.
