From
Ray Crowe's Track
Record #11:
Date: September
1974
Location: Valsetz
A BF researcher
passed this tale along. In September of 1974 he was only
16 years old and hunting near Valsetz (close to Dallas), Oregon. It
was
clear and warm, and there had been no snow. It was before noon, about
11 AM,
and the five hunters had split up that day to hunt their separate ways.
He
went fifty feet down a trail and heard branches breaking on the bank
above
It was like a human walking, and he could see the bushes moving. Thinking
it
was one of his buddies pulling his leg he yelled...there was no answer.
It
kept walking with me up the trail when a small log came down the hill
at
him. It was 8 foot long and 6 inches thick. He didn' know if the log
had
been thrown intentionally or not. 'Show yourself or I'll empty my clip!"
he
yelled at the bushes. There was a high pitched noise...like a squeal.
It
kept following and kept up with him making a horse noise, a snort like
squeal. He started running, and as the cliff-bank kept getting shorter
up
the trail, he thought they were going to meet. It stopped though, and
he
never did get to see what it was. He also never started shooting his
gun...it was a bluff. He said there was no smell. He came back later
with
his friends but they never found anything in the thick brush. They did
comment though, that they had hunted the area before, and had always
seen
animals, but no animals of any kind were seen this day. They called
the
Valsetz Ranger Station and were told that there had been Bigfeet recently
sighted in the area.
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