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file#
00699
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.
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
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