Back in the late 90's a large group of us were camped at gaspard lake, central gang ranch area. Our group was bare up of family and friends, all rather serious hunters and bushmen. I was in my late teens at the time.
On our first night camp was visited by at least one bear. That was an interesting experience...some of us were in tents, some in campers and one sleeping on a mat under the stars. I awoke to the bear sniffing and disturbing my tent. I nervously warned the camp and being young I was told it was my imagination, untill someone opens their door to see what the commotion was about, I remember hearing "holey ####". In the morning we saw the bear sunbathing by the shore maybe 200yards from camp.
Later that night the ranch ran a heard through the valley. Around 2am we all woke up to thrashing in the woods, we were listening to the grizzly taken a cow down about 300 yards north west from camp, we studied her and her 2-3 year old cub feeding for a couple days.
Anyways with all this going on our sleeping arrangements stayed the same until late one evening not long after dark we heard the most blood curdling scream from across the lake. The best I could describe it would be to imagine a man being gutted alive. The dogs that layed no attention to the bears or any other wildlife throughout he years went nuts and I mean bat #### crazy.
No one slept in tents that night or the remaining trip and I'm not kidding. We took to the seats of the trucks.
My old man and I took the boat over in the morning to scout the area, we were actually concerned we may have heard one of the cowboys being killed or something, somehow. Couldn't find anything interesting.
That got the talk going, what did we hear, none of us had heard or heard of any animals making sounds like that.
I'm not insinuating we may have had contact, merely the one and only time we/I actually wondered, is it possible.
So anyways, anyone have any idea what we heard?[/QUOTE]
I'd hafta say Big Foot!
