Mt. Thielsen Bigfoot Sighting Aug. 2009

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Guest Editor-Blogger: Matthew Davis

I'm Matthew Davis. I just had to tell about this thing I ran across this last summer, August 26, 2009, while working for Mt. Thielsen Trail Expeditions. My party of six hikers left Lemolo Lake on a four day hike to Mt. Thielsen. We hiked the first day and made our camp at Crystal Meadows. That evening was uneventful.

Early the next morning, we set out and hiked till dusk, and camped at Old Trapper Springs. In the night several in the party said that there was a sound of someone walking around in the forest right inside the treeline. It made a weird loud whistle sound on three occasions.

At daybreak we started out and right away felt that somebody was following us. We could hear something cracking limbs and a sound of rocks beating together just off the trail. Several in the party became quite alarmed at the sound. Then around ten AM we stopped for a break, almost right away this hairy manlike thing crossed the trail only thirty feet from us.

It was something between a gorilla and a man. It was very large built and eight foot tall or taller and covered in a short reddish brown coat of hair. Several of the group freaked out and started screaming and crying, while others tried to calm them down. After taking a vote we decided to go back to the meadow to camp the night as it was more in the open.

Next day we made it back to base camp and reported what we saw. A forest service lady named Wanda came and took the report and told everybody that it was a Sasquatch we saw. Several blurted out, "That's an old Indian legend isn't it?" The Lady said , "No it's not! We get alot of these sightings every year. No one in the party believed in Sasquatch. Now they're 6 of us that do. Thanks for letting me tell our sighting.

An Email From Reader on Bigfoot

This from Perry's newspaper column "A Matter of Time" (2008)

An Email From Reader

Read your article and thought I'd pass on some information about sightings in Del Norte County (Crescent City, Klamath, Gasquet, etc.). While working for the power company, I lived in that area off and on for about 10 years. Each year there were articles in the local paper about Bigfoot sightings by fishermen, travelers, and local people especially in the Klamath, CA area. A friend of mine became involved in researching the nearly 100 sighting per year.

It seems that the majority of sightings took place near a stretch of Hwy 101 near False Klamath Cove, where in the fall the Bigfoot would be sighted just before dark as they went down to the beach. Biologists from the US Forest Service also investigated the sightings and thought that the creatures migrated to the area in the fall to feed on shellfish.

My friend provided me with plaster casts of footprints and I watched a video they shot which showed a large animal of some kind moving quickly through the dense redwood forest. Rich described visiting a bedding area where several Bigfoot slept on piles of brush. He showed me hair gathered from that site. The hair was sent to the University of California and was determined to be from no known species of animal, but was cataloged with hundreds of other samples sent in each year. Rich is a very normal fellow that became involved when he befriended Native Americans whose family had seen several animals on their property over the years and were being ridiculed by ignorant locals.

He actually helped move a bedding site that was close to being discovered by some Bigfoot hunters that wanted to kill one. Rich was on the National Geographic Explorer series about Bigfoot. He once asked if I would like to see a bedding site and I refused because I would rater "believe" they exist rather than know for sure.

One of the questions always asked by skeptics is, Why has a carcass never been found in the woods? Rich always counters with the question, Why aren't carcasses of bear or large cats ever found in the woods? In fact, Rich is sure that carcasses have been found, but by folks that respect the secrecy and mystery that has surrounded these creatures. Remember that Bigfoot has been part of the Native American culture for hundreds of years.

Thank you MV for taking the time to write. If you have a sighting please email me at linda.perry@charter.net.