Big Foot (Casper, Casper Mountain: living, car, trees)

[ElkHunter]

Through the years, I've heard a lot of reports on big foot or unexplained critters. But I've never heard a bad report. I mean that I've never heard of them attacking humans. Always docile. Scare the begeezes out of you, but nobody has ever been attacked that I know of.

[Clay Lady]

That is right Elkhunter, I have heard some funny stories about things people have done to themselves when they saw a large different looking creature, but never being hurt by the creature.

[shadowwalker]

Since we started this thread. A buddy reminded me of one time in 1979 we were backpacking south of Gros Venture River. To check out the elk and deer. We one afternoon heard a "tree nocking" for over an hour. It was on a cloudy afternoon. We would knock on a dead tree. And something would knock on a tree across the canyon. Finally towards the end. It would knock on trees coming at us. It stopped doing this just back from the ridgeline in the trees on one of our last knocks. We were on a bald knob out in the open.As it was a five hour hike one way we were camping for the night. We wonderded why the other people didn't come out and wave or something. Now just a few years ago I read where that is another trait of them.

[crazyme4878]

My husband saw something strange in the UP of Michigan while working for the Forest Service last summer. His job was high-tech counting trees for the research station. This meant that he went into the middle of huge tracks of land where no one else went (or had a reason to go). Often his plots were marked with pins. Well this one, there was a trail right to it (even though no one had checked the plot in a couple years), but the pins were all pulled up. All the young trees were snapped off at a certain height, creating a circle around where the center pin should be. There were some other things too. Anyhow, it didn't look like anything a hunter would do. After being there a little while, he heard an loud call unlike he has ever heard before, only a little ways away. He didn't stay around. In fact, I believe he scrapped the plot... He's a ranger and has spent most of his work days hiking, canoeing and camping in the middle of wildernesses, yet had never seen anything like that or heard anything like that. He ran the noise by his co-workers who have been life-long hunters, and they couldn't suggest an animal that could make it either.

Sorry about not being more detailed, but it happened about a year ago and he doesn't like to talk about it.

[Kristynwy]

wow everyone's stories are very interesting. I haven't personally had an experience. But my dad told me something he encountered in Dallas, Or that scared him and his uncle and he recalls what happened very vividly... I can't remember all the details of the story or I would share it... But I remember growing up him telling me the story...

[Cloudfish]

I have a friend who is very into this. In fact he's heading up an "expedition" this next month. He is a part of the group, "Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization." The website is www.bfro.net. If any of you have a real interest in telling your stories I could put you in contact with him.

Now me? I'm not sure--but I'm certainly open minded about it. I actually went on a little mini-expedition with my friend after there were some reported sightings last year (it was also a good excuse to go camping . )

I do have a story, though. Hopefully it'll make you laugh--it does me---now....

When I was a youngster, growing up on a ranch in the middle of nowhere in southern WY, I'd seen a couple of the bigfoot movies. I was also an avid reader and so had read up on it, too. My imagination was vivid so I have to admit I was a bit scared of Mr. Sasquatch. So, growing up on a ranch I was driving by myself by the age of 10, and I would drive the truck every day to where I met the bus (yes, the short bus...) and park it. Being winter time, it was always dark when I returned from school, and I would jump in the truck and immediately turn on the interior lights--making sure there wasn't something there to attack me. I had visions of bigfoot crouching on the right side of the truck where you put your feet, ready to pounce on me. Yes, I was a bit of a scaredy-cat....

One evening, I jumped off the bus and went through the ritual of running to the truck and turning on the lights, chiding myself that there wasn't anything there---there never was. With the truck all warmed up and ready to go, I started driving back to the house, yearning for a nice, warm supper. For some reason, I felt the need to look in the rearview mirror, and so I took a quick glance....

In the back of my pickup truck there was this thing, a monster so ugly I literally screamed like a little girl. I hit the brakes hard, realized that if I stopped it could get me easier, hit the gas, realized it could come through the window anyways, and hit the brakes again---ready to fight because I knew this monster was just going to get me.

Frantically I looked in the mirror again, because I knew if I turned around it would be ready to eat my face....

The only thing I saw in that mirror was me. It was my reflection I'd seen. The lights from the instrument panel lit up my face, which reflected to the mirror which reflected off of the rear window back to the mirror.

After that I made a concerted effort to be braver---and I made myself stop turning on those interior lights when I got in the truck....

That's my bigfoot story.

[WyattE]

Well, when I was growing up, I too read all the bigfoot books I could get my hands on plus I watch a bunch of bigfoot movies back in the 80's that scared me big time. I was one of five kids and had two younger siblings, so my older brother and I would play tricks on them. My Mom had a black fur coat, which we used to to scare the little one's since we had some acreage on my parent's property. We had our younger siblings crying good as my brother pretended to be bigfoot with the fur coat. We did it again a year or so later and my sister peed her pants she was so frightened. Yes, we were not nice to each other at times, but we all remember those times and laugh about it these days.
I do wish I could see those bigfoot movies again, they were definitely 70's and 80ish type movies but they sure had a lasting affect on me. I was always scared to go into the woods. I love those beef jerky commercials with bigfoot in them. They are hilarious!

[RogueWolf]

I am curious as to whether anyone has been to the site where the Patterson Film was shot in 1967? I know that this is a Wyoming forum, but maybe there's a chance someone knows of this area along Hwy. 96. I also am a Bigfoot fan and recently traveled to Happy Camp, CA, a couple hours from my home in Oregon, to bask in "Bigfoot Country" near the town of Bluff Creek where the film was shot. You used to be able to sit down at a local deli with the owner and hear story upon story of Bigfoot and his relevance to the area. That deli is now gone, and gone with it is much of the legend of Sasquatch along the Klamath River. It is interesting that each state has their own story to share about this cultural icon.

[crazyme4878]

Cloudfish--that story is hilarious!! I was a scaredy cat growing up too (well, sort of still), so I can definately relate. Did your friend's group go up to the UP last summer? There was an article in the newspaper about it. One of my husband's old professors went with them.

[warptman]

Up here in Alaska Bigfoot/Hairy Man is believed to exist. There are things on this earth that have no explanations and things we don't know about. Here are a few stories of it around south west Alaska.

the Hairy Man October 2004

Bigfoot: Tracks found on the Kiseralik River, Alaska 1999

AK: Wolves | APRN

Alaska Hairy Man