Posted on 01/22/2013 6:17:35 AM PST by JoeProBono
Baby foxes or Bigfoot?
The eerie late-night serenades began in November and emanate from a brushy swamp on the Umatilla Indian Reservation east of Pendleton. The cries range from high-pitched screams to basso profundo roars.
"It's causing an uproar around here," said Sylvia Minthorn, who lives in a tribal housing unit near the swamp, where she used to play as a child.
She's seen grown men's hair stand on end when the shrieks commence.
Colleen Chance, a tribal housing authority employee, keeps a recording of the howls on her iPhone.
"It's kind of spooky," she said. "Some say it's foxes, some say it's a female coyote and some say it's Sasquatch. I don't know what it is."
No samples of a living “Bigfoot”. No flesh. No bone. Nothing whatsoever in the fossil record. Oh, but he’s supposed to be out there, somewhere, thrashing around.
Very, very low probability.
What I could hear of the audio byte didn’t sound like what we heard. I would describe the sound starting like the HOO a howler monkey makes (if it were on steroids) then a guttural WAH or WAGH like a loud throat-clearing noise, then a YIYIYIYI like the sound Muslim women make at celebrations or funerals. Hu-wah-yiyiyiyi, and we heard it a few dozen times, coming from more throats than one. It sounded like they were three or four hundred yards off, but loud volume. After the several dozen calls they quit, and we got.
The weird thing is we were ridge hopping from one small valley to another, and as soon as we entered that particular valley we already had the hair standing up on our necks. No birds calling. Like something intuitive was telling both of us “you’re not welcome”, and not subtly, either.
Anyway, that’s the story. We had to go uphill to get out of that place, and we climbed out with the energy of Olympic gold medalists, and that’s the truth.
Google "Gigantopithecus." Bigfoot existed once - the only debate is whether or not it still does.
Sounds like a pissed Michelle Obama because someone interrupted her from chowing down her food.
Anthropologist friend told me that early man definitely disposed of corpses in a ritualistic manner - sometimes burying, sometimes burning, sometimes submerging them. If Bigfoot is doing this, bones might be hard to come by.
It was his idea that Bigfoot was a primitive hominid that saw people (us) as hostile. Like other primates, he would tend to move away from populated areas, but if someone intruded into his territory, he would likely make a display to chase them off, either howling or a visual display, like standing up, just like gorillas and chimps.
Every time I read about a Bigfoot encounter there is activity that generally follows the above pattern. You really can’t expect them to just walk into your camp, sit down by the fire, and join you in a chorus of Kum-by-ah.
Yeah, that's true. But my friend - again, this guy wasn't some suburban metrosexual who's scared of his own shadow - saw something that he called a Bigfoot, and it scared him enough to keep him out of the woods.
He's a little older than me. I'd guess 50, plus or minus a couple of years. He'd been hunting since he was a kid, so I'm guessing that he had to have seen something really out of the ordinary.
Case in point - when I was a teenager I was walking home at night from a local fishing hole. I had a bobcat scream at me from a tree, not too far over my head. I think that I only touched down on the high spots on the whole way home. :-) BUT....once I got home and took a second to think things over (and changed my shorts), I didn't (and still don't) have any problem with going back out in the woods.
My buddy has had plenty of time to chew on it and he still won't go, at least not by himself. Maybe it's the dog that didn't bark, but that says plenty to me.
Some kind of bird was my immediate thought as well.
Do we have any reports of Michelle taking another vacation in the area at the time?
What is that???? I’d rather meet up with bigfoot than whatever that is.
The jacket on the woman on the right is almost the same as the best shirt in the world.
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