It was a dark and kinda stormy Saturday night in downtown Spokane.
We were feeling all festive and jolly and walking to our car after visiting the Davenport Hotel spectacular Christmas display.
Suddenly, my daughter-in-law Debbie broke into a full-fledged fit of wide-eyed heeby jeebies. These heeby jeebies taking over Debbie's persona were so intense that it would be hard for me to describe her actions with words.
So, I caught her in the very moment with my camera.
You see, we were walking through a tunnel, or maybe it was under an underpass, where strange creatures were lurking nearby and staring at us.
I'm not really sure about the exact surroundings because, remember folks, it was dark and somewhat stormy when Debbie started losing it in front of my very eyes.
So, I must admit that during that instant, I also lost my usual precise powers of observation.
Instead, knowing a good story or picture when I see one, I flipped on my camera power button and just started shooting at the scene around me.
While all this commotion was happening, our brave, protective hubbies had gone off down the sidewalk and around the corner, leaving us womenfolk to fend for ourselves.
I was getting mighty scared, especially as Debbie started taking on a unfamiliar statuesque stance near a dimlit light pole and began pointing at things in the darkness.
Meanwhile, those weird entities just kept quietly watching us, scaring the very dickens (remember, we had just heard some Christmas carols) out of us, especially Debbie, who has been known to believe in weird entities wandering the woods, more specifically SASQUATCH aka Bigfoot.
She's a "believer."
She has studied up on the huge hairy creature and its various sightings around the Northwest.
Heck, she has even gone hunting for BIGFOOT in the woods north of Sandpoint.
Well, we weren't exactly hunting for anything but our husbands and the car Saturday night.
Nonetheless, Debbie has been kinda uneasy and on edge of late cuz she read a documented account where some woman and her hubby up Hell Roaring Creek in Upper Pack River had spotted a Sasquatch just a few months ago.
We happen to have another family member among the believers, and he found the documented evidence of this sighting and presented the information to the rest of us over Thanksgiving weekend.
This family member aka Jim has has actually been filmed in attending Sasquatch town hall gatherings where people get up and tell the rest of the audience and the Sasquatch experts about their personal encounters with the creature.
Having learned about this sighting just a few miles from where she lives, Debbie has been maintaining a "Bigfoot Alert" status, and I can report that it went into full mode Saturday night.
Eventually, when Bigfoot and its accompanying rabbit failed to move from where they had been depicted on the cement wall, Debbie summoned me to move on down the sidewalk.
After all, those two Love husbands who were supposed to protect us were nowhere to be seen.
Eventually, when we reached the corner, we saw them waiting at the car, most likely talking about dry flies or basketball----anything but Sasquatch.
Rather than bore them with the details of our close and frightening encounter with the fabled creatures, we simply got in the back seat of the car, grabbed some Wheat Thins and pondered quietly what we had just experienced.
Later, at Costco, over a fine meal of Polish foot longs, pizza slices and chocolate yogurt swirls, we did a little reflecting.
It had certainly been a dark and scary interlude for us women, but, happily, we survived to tell our personal tale and to add to the Sasquatch mystique.
And, for all nonbelievers, don't just take my word about the possibilities of this hairy creature haunting our surroundings.
Read the following actual account from Hell Roaring Crick, up Pack River.
When you finish this story, I'm sure you'll agree that, indeed, "they're out there!" causing human heeby jeebies more often than not.
http://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=58251
Report # 58251 (Class A)
Submitted by witness on
Saturday, September 23, 2017.
Wife and husband find
tracks, have afternoon sighting near Hellroaring Ridge
YEAR: 2017
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: September
DATE: 9/22/2017
STATE: Idaho
COUNTY: Bonner County
NEAREST TOWN: Samuels
NEAREST ROAD: Pack
River Road
OBSERVED: My
husband has been working "logging" in the Hellroaring Canyon on Pack
river for the last two weeks. One day he texted me saying "this is the
first day I don't feel alone up here. My husband and I are avid hunters and
enjoy our mountain time. The next day I ended up going to work with him, later
on we decide to go for a walk down an old dirt road that isn't accessed with a
key to the gate. We came across what appears to be a large foot print my
husband wears a size 12 and this print was a few inches bigger."i have a
photo". We never seen or heard anything else that day. On September 22nd
we decided to go bear hunting on the other side of the mountain, we also had a
key for that gate we drove in 11 miles and to the left of me there's and old
clear cut but saplings growing and must be at least 10/15 feet tall I see
something black and standing tall and moving through these trees. I yell at my
husband to stop and this black figure is gone. I cant find it anywhere.we
continue driving no luck at all don't even see a deer we decide to turn around
and go back in this same exact spot which is now on my husband's side he slams
on the brakes and says what the hell is that give me the gun, I hand the gun
and lean over him to see what he's looking at its a tall black figure with a
head no ears very wide shoulders and couldn't see the bottom part there was a
tree in the way he stares back and takes a step to the left behind a tree all this
happened within 40 seconds or so he vanishes again. At this point I have tears
in my eyes and scared to death my husband was sick to his stomach almost to the
point of being sick we were both so confused on what just happened we started
driving and about 400 yards up the road on his side again he seen something
move at the corner of his eye he looked quickly and these branches on these
trees about 7 feet high were moving right in a row like something very tall had
just ran through pushing them out of its way. We are positive 100% positive
this wasn't a bear or person we're convinced what we seen last night was, had
to of been bigfoot.
ALSO NOTICED: We
both thought it was odd we didn't see anything out and the wildlife tracks we
did see were running it could have been from us or they could have been running
from something else that we'll never know.
OTHER WITNESSES: Just
myself and husband
OTHER STORIES: We
have two tracks one from this year and one from a year ago in this area. Also
there was a logger that said he couldn't wait to leave that area he never felt
like he was alone.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: I
first seen it right around 5:45 my husband seen it, I'm thinking close to 6:20
it got dark at 6:43 and it wasn't quite dark yet things were still visible.
ENVIRONMENT: This
figure was in an old clear cut with freshly planted saplings about five years
back or so they were getting pretty tall.the rest of the area is super thick
with timber and old big cedar stumps about a mile away is Caribou lake.
Follow-up investigation
report by BFRO Investigator Kevin Llewellyn:
I talked to the wife and husband by phone.
The tracks and sighting were behind locked gates.
In October or November 2016 they found a track about sixteen inches long and six to seven inches wide but was somewhat washed out. In September 2017 they found a similar track with five toes, no claws, that was two plus inches deep in drying mud, see photo:
These tracks were one quarter to one half mile apart. They were about one mile from the sighting.
On September 22, 2017 while bear hunting, the wife saw for just one second, less than 100 yards away, a black upright figure move through the saplings. She estimates the figure was eight feet tall. She did not see arms swing.
On the way back, in the same location, the husband saw a black upright figure of similar height and shoulders three or more feet wide. It was seventy five to 100 yards away and he was amazed at the mass of it. It had a rounded head with no ears and no snout. He did not see arms. He said, "there was no brown nose like a bear." He looked at it for fifteen to twenty seconds when it stepped to its left behind a tamarack tree as if trying to hide. Tamarack (western larch) have short needles that turn yellow in the fall and the husband could still see the black figure standing motionless through the yellow boughs. He tried to look through his rifle scope but in those couple seconds of getting the rifle out the window, the figure was gone. Just ten seconds down the road he saw branches moving seven feet high. The side window was down the entire time and he did not detect any odor.
The husband grew up in northern Idaho. He has been a long time avid hunter, including bear. As a logger, he is in the forest daily. He was confused at what he saw and was nauseated all the way back to the gate. He also becomes upset recalling the sighting. I find him credible.
The tracks and sighting were behind locked gates.
In October or November 2016 they found a track about sixteen inches long and six to seven inches wide but was somewhat washed out. In September 2017 they found a similar track with five toes, no claws, that was two plus inches deep in drying mud, see photo:
These tracks were one quarter to one half mile apart. They were about one mile from the sighting.
On September 22, 2017 while bear hunting, the wife saw for just one second, less than 100 yards away, a black upright figure move through the saplings. She estimates the figure was eight feet tall. She did not see arms swing.
On the way back, in the same location, the husband saw a black upright figure of similar height and shoulders three or more feet wide. It was seventy five to 100 yards away and he was amazed at the mass of it. It had a rounded head with no ears and no snout. He did not see arms. He said, "there was no brown nose like a bear." He looked at it for fifteen to twenty seconds when it stepped to its left behind a tamarack tree as if trying to hide. Tamarack (western larch) have short needles that turn yellow in the fall and the husband could still see the black figure standing motionless through the yellow boughs. He tried to look through his rifle scope but in those couple seconds of getting the rifle out the window, the figure was gone. Just ten seconds down the road he saw branches moving seven feet high. The side window was down the entire time and he did not detect any odor.
The husband grew up in northern Idaho. He has been a long time avid hunter, including bear. As a logger, he is in the forest daily. He was confused at what he saw and was nauseated all the way back to the gate. He also becomes upset recalling the sighting. I find him credible.
About BFRO Investigator
Kevin Llewellyn:
Kevin has camped, fished and hunted in Eastern
Washington all his life. His interest in Sasquatch began when he was 10 years
old and saw Roger Patterson present "the" film. He lives and works in
Eastern Washington. He has been a veterinarian since 1984, after graduating
from Washington State University. He attended Washington BFRO expeditions in
2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 and Oregon in 2015, Montana 2017.
2 comments:
r u a believer, Marianne?..... or anyone else in your family besides Jim? I thought Big Foot lived in Washington or Oregon.
Internet finally back!
I prefer to remain as an observer of the "believers." Chris and I used to suspect that Bigfoot lived up the Lightning Creek Road, and that was way back in the early 1970s.
So glad your Internet returned!
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