[PAblackbear]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

Older than 20 years. Supposedly a stagecoach in the late 1800's was attacked and knocked over by it during a storm that washed the road out and stranded them. The early White settlers went out in hunting parties after it and sometimes got shots at it but never got it, whatever it was they were seeing (an ancestor of mine was in one of the groups). The Natives had seen it before that.

I'm not the kind that believes in Bigfoot and I don't want to hijack this thread. However I was tent camping last October in Danville VT during a moose hunt. I was awakened by sounds in the middle of the night not far from my tent. They were the most bizarre howls I've ever heard and they startled me. I was too afraid to even come out of the tent until morning and I'm very familiar and comfortable in the woods. When I got home I searched out Bigfoot vocalizations on the internet and I found the exact sounds I heard that night. While searching I found several Bigfoot stories from the Bennington area as well.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by PAblackbear

I'm not the kind that believes in Bigfoot and I don't want to hijack this thread. However I was tent camping last October in Danville VT during a moose hunt. I was awakened by sounds in the middle of the night not far from my tent. They were the most bizarre howls I've ever heard and they startled me. I was too afraid to even come out of the tent until morning and I'm very familiar and comfortable in the woods. When I got home I searched out Bigfoot vocalizations on the internet and I found the exact sounds I heard that night. While searching I found several Bigfoot stories from the Bennington area as well.

I'm quite familiar with all the sounds one should expect to hear in the woods here, and others that may also be heard in some places at times (wolves, catamounts, etc.). There's a sound that doesn't belong to any known inhabitant of the woods, that more than one person has heard here...

[amyvermont]

I have lived in North Bennington (for about 6 years) and I have grown to really LOVE this area. The community is strong, there is a great arts presence and beautiful natural surroundings.
Please feel free to ask me any specifics about the area.

[lodra]

I totally agree with the Wingfoot message on Bennington VT. His remarks are an honest assessment of this community. I made the mistake of moving to this incredibly unfriendly community a few years ago. Albeit located in an extremely scenic area, it is a town comprised of cliques--- thus the newcomer forever considered an interloper. There is no 'welcome wagon' in Bennington. I have lived all over the world, and I've never seen such an unfriendly place. It's also extremely snobbish, while at the same time, there is a lot of poverty and a huge drug and alcohol problem. Most decent jobs, albeit there there are very few of them, are obtained through 'connections' or status. This bucolic community is sort of like one you'd see portrayed in a Stephen King or Shirley Jackson novel.... Oh..and Shirley Jackson had a less than positive experience living amongst the natives, thus prompting her to write "The Lottery." As you can well imagine, the 'natives' don't think kindly of this woman. Bucolic as it may appear, it truly gives new meaning to the phrase "beauty is only skin deep."
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"As someone who lived there, I'd say its too close to NYS Capitol area to really have ever developed much personalty of its own, some posh areas as some rich folks will pay thru the nose for a VT address.

But much of it is rather scruffy with nevertheless high real estate prices. A high cost, low wage area ,the most unfriendly, snobbish, place I've ever lived, and I've lived from coast to coast."