Oregonbigfoot.com file# 00699

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Date: august , 1965
Lincoln county, MT
Nearest town: Troy
Nearest road: State Route 56
Conditions: Calm, Clear, Warm
Time: evening
Location: We were camped on the east shore of Bull Lake, just off State route 56, it was not so much a campground but more of a pull off with enough room to park a car and small trailer about 25 feet from the shore-line. Thick dense forest. Very primitive wilderness at that time. I haven't been up there since 1965 but I here a lot of homes have been built around the lake since then, too bad, as I'm sure it does not look much like it did when we were there, as it was quite remote at that time, all wilderness except for the road. The Cabinet Mountain Wilderness area lies just east of the lake.

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Description of event: We were camped on the east shore of Bull Lake and sitting around the campfire roasting marshmellows and it must have been about 9 PM as the sun had been down a good 45 minutes or so. All at once we heard the most ungodly in-describable scream, roar, cry, which seemed to come not more than 15 yards from us just beyond the line of trees, and it sounded as if it was tearing up the forest an stomping the ground, not like a bear slapping the earth with it's pause, but like it was on two feet like when a child has a temper tantrum when he does not get his way. I am a 5th generation Montanan and my family is very familiar with the sounds and behavior of that of bears and mountain lions and this was surely a sound that none of us had ever heard before. Our dog, had it been a bear or mountain lion, would have started barking or attempt to be brave about it, but instead made not a whimper and high-tailed it to the trailer with us hot on it's tail. The "scream" seems to start in a low tone and increase in loudness as it reached a high pitch, not like a mountain lion and not like a bear but like the combination of both with a touch of human thrown in. The next morning, being more brave in the daylight, we ventured over to the spot from where we heard to sound. We did not know exactly what we were looking for, as we had never heard of Bigfoot before, but as I recall we did see large impress- ions in the forest floor but due to the large amount of dead fall and deep pine needles we were unable to ascertain what made them. I was six years old at that time and remember it as if it happened yesterday and the thought of it still sends chills up and down my back. My whole family was present when this happened and we all agree it was no bear or mountain lion. About two years later Roger Patterson comes out with this film of a Bigfoot walking along a creek in north California and he toured around lecturing and showing the film. He came to Billings and gave a talk at the Shrine Auditorium in 1968 and during his presentation he turned out the lights and played a recording of an alleged Bigfoot cry. We were in attendance and when we heard the tape the hairs on our necks and arms stood on end as it was practically identical to that which we had heard at Bull Lake in 1965. We believe beyond a doubt that what we heard on the shore of Bull Lake was a 100% bona-fide Bigfoot. It still gives me chills just to think about it. I believe they are real though I've yet to see one in person, which I hope I get the remote chance to do before I die. I was just telling my wife about it with one of my brothers and my brother's recollection of the event was the same as mine.

Source: oregonbigfoot.com
record updated:2004-12-13 00:00:00