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Oregonbigfoot.com Photo Research Journal
August, 2002
Cultus
Lake Video Hoax
On the 20th of August, we received the
following report:
Witness:
C.M.
approximate date: August 16, 2002
Time: 5:00 am, dawn
State: OR
County: klamath
Nearest Town: Bend
Exact location: Cultus Lake at a first cove
I
Was taping the lake on our last day of camping and i smelled
a musty pee smell and this loud cracking noise and saw
a huge animal-like person about 8-10 feet tall run into
the water and stand there in about 6 feet of water with
its hands touching the top of the water. I guess it might
of been fishing or something because it just sprinted
at an in-human speed up the side of a hill about 50 feet
and steep with dead trees everywhere. Later that morning
my brother and i (craig) tried to hike that hill but it
was neer impossible. I have it on video.
The witness (age 19) left a phone number within the report,
and a subsequent phone call was answered by a person of
the same name. He was relucant to talk at first and claimed
his younger brother (15) must have filed the report. He
gave details which sounded promising; however, I received
the runaround for approximately a week, was asked to call
back numerous times, and the promised copy of the tape was
never made. Since our group was coincidentally taking a
trip to that part of the state the following weekend, I
offered to drive up to the Portland area, to the claimant's
home, and copy the tape off myself. I told him I would bring
the necessary equipment. He agreed, and gave me directions
to his apartment (which were slightly inaccurate but I found
the place nonetheless). The night before we were supposed
to leave, I received the following email from the claimant's
father:
Hi, my teenage kids have been in contact
with you about a cultis lake
sighting. I have only seen the tape on a small view finder
on my sons
camera, not on a large tv screen. I believe it may only
be a fisherman.
Please do not waste time or resources on this until I can
get a look
first. Chris has been putting off letting me see it for
weeks. Please
wait. I will e-mail you if it is real.
Since
my husband had already scheduled time off work to accompany
me and the weekend was fast approaching, we decided to risk
it and travelled the hour and a half up the freeway to the
claimant's house.
We were there 10 minutes early. After knocking on the door
three times and hearing "You answer it!" and "No,
YOU answer it!", finally two very stoned teenagers
answered the door. Amidst a billowing cloud reeking of marijuana
smoke, the first said our witness had just left two mniutes
ago. The second then said he'd been gone about two hours.
Neither was willing to make eye contact. Subsequent calls
to the witness' cellular phone went unanswered and Bob and
I gave up. We were disgusted (this young man obviously didn't
realize or care that we had spent valuable time and money
on his wild goose chase), but we had taken the steps to
rule out the likehood of potential genuine footage.
Unless an astoundingly clear tape of something anomalous
miraculously appears, the witness' behavior and lack of
credibility have damaged any hope of making a case for any
claims or evidence brought forth by him. This report is
considered a hoax and will not be included in the OregonBigfoot.com
database.
Autumn
Williams
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