N.A.B.S. Investigator Richard Hucklebridge
The following report was turned into our N.A.B.S. Organization recently in November of 2015; where I found it quite compelling and thought that most of you would find it that way also! For me after talking with the witness, Paul, I knew that his story had a very high probability of being true, and that is why you are seeing it posted here on our web site. This witness was on the skeptical side of what most us are calling Sasquatch until he went out on this Bigfoot expedition with a group of folks who go out on these expedition excursions, about 10 or 12 times a year, all across this country of ours. Usually not much happens, but on occasions things do happen; where this had to be one of those occasions! I personally have been on several of these expeditions with this same organization at different locations; where a possible few things kind of go bump in the night, but this one kind of takes the cake if you were to ask me.
My main thought here is why didn’t this investigative organization go ahead and post this Report of Paul’s on their web site? They had to know it was highly possible that it was the real deal! After hearing Paul’s story, and knowing his back ground; as in his past employment record, and in his sincerity of retelling his story, I just knew this story had to get out there to where folks could read about what took place during this one week end, one summer in Oregon!
I will let Paul’s Story stand on its own, and reiterate on a few of this witness’s accounts at the end of his report! By the way, Paul has sent us a signed Affidavit along, regarding the truthfulness of his Oregon Report. We have removed exact locations and people’s names for their protection.
Paul’s Oregon expedition in 2015
I first want to say that I have a degree in Biology from Humboldt State University, have worked as a Biological Technician for the US Forest Service doing bear, bird and plant community surveys both day and night, forest surveys and fire fighting. I also worked for the Park Service for 7 years at Redwood National Park doing forestry and fire effect surveys and fire fighting. All told I have about 13 years in the federal service and now work for my local school district.
The expedition investigators on site did take my story, but I have not seen it posted on any reports at the expedition people’s website. I believe my sightings and experiences are very significant and insightful. I was skeptical but open minded before this expedition but can say that the things I experienced cannot be attributed to any know animal or creature. Being that this expedition was a controlled expedition, no other visitors were there, and what I saw and heard could not have been faked by a person.
Previous experience;
I have always been curious about this creature and my only previous Bigfoot incident was on the evening of Thanksgiving, 1997. I was on a thanksgiving break from college and only had a short few days, not long enough to visit family in Texas so my girlfriend and I decided to go back packing at Mount Saint Helens, WA.
We were on the east side going up the Ape trail. There were three other groups of day hikers but we passed them on the way up the trail. We got to the top of a steep section to a point at which we could see on both sides of the ridge line we were hiking. We could clearly see both north and south. There was a tree that fell across the trail so we passed our packs over the tree. After I climbed over, I took a rest and listened to the quiet. From up ahead off the mountain I heard a long “AHHhhhhhhhh” howl. It probably lasted 20 seconds, I don’t know exactly but it made me freeze in place. It was quite far and only I heard it as I was still. My girlfriend was fiddling with her pack and when she stood up she looked at me and a really freaked out look came over her face. She said “Paul, what’s wrong? You’re white as a ghost.”
I said “Didn’t you hear that howl? It’s no howl I have never heard not a bear or cougar. I haven’t heard anything like it before and it sounded like the Bigfoot howls on TV shows.” She didn’t like hearing that and then said her friend warned her before we left that there are lots of encounters up here. It was getting very close to sunset we were tire and hungry and there was a flat forest area up ahead, so we camped there just off the trail. It was very eerie as the forest that night was cold, very still and very, very quiet. We heard nothing at all that night. We were both very relieved when morning came and we heard hikers.
This experience has always gnawed at me.
The expedition:
Weather:
It was clear the entire time with warm days in the 80’s and cool nights. There wasn’t much wind except very early Friday morning the first night I camped there, which ushered in a very warm morning. The east wind picked up quickly into the morning then dropped off. The rest of the time there was only a light breeze, upslope in the day and down slope at night. The phase of the moon was a new moon so there was no moon light, only twilight from the stars.
Visitors:
The expedition leaders and about half the others on the expedition showed up the previous day and set up base camp. They reported no visitors in the area or driving up the road. Thursday no visitors came up the road into the area and only one lone back packer was encountered at a distant lake about 6 miles away by trail. This person was hiking away from the expedition.
Friday afternoon two separate vehicles came up to the trail heads but within two hours both vehicles departed weren’t seen again.
Saturday a young couple came up and parked at the Xxxxxx Lake trailhead. Several expedition members were camped here alongside the river where the trailhead is. The couple spent the night at Xxxxxx Lake which was a 1 mile hike from the road. No expedition teams visited the lake that night and all were over a mile and a half away.
Bigfoot Incidents:
I was on this expedition with this group of investigators in their Oregon Cascades expedition; which took place on the third week end in July of 2015. The location was 13.1 miles up FS xxxx Rd., north from Xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx. I arrived Thursday just after noon time and met the expedition leaders as they were leaving to scout the area. I went to the base camp area which was in a quarry alongside this road. I decided that I would prefer a spot about 30 yards farther along the road. There was a high spot before the road went back downhill to the creek. There was a wide spot in the road and it was open above so there would be ample stars to view.
After setting up camp I walked towards the creek. About 25 yards from my personal camp there was a very wide game trail. I explored this game trail and it climbed the bank on the north side of the road (see picture). At the top there was a fork that went to the right (east) and that trail went down into a wide ditch alongside the road. Between the ditch and the road was a line of small Douglas-fir tree saplings which were quite thick. The trail went about 10 yards in the ditch then climbed back up and entered an extensive native blueberry field under the trees, and all the blueberries were ripe. I explored the roads during the day, had dinner and then went to the evening talk in the quarry. After the evening talk we gathered to form teams to do night expeditions. I went with 15 others on a night hike to Xxxxxx Lake. Several times we thought we heard wood knocks but they were barely audible. Nothing else happened that night and I slept well in the back of my PT cruiser. (I had left the back seats at home and threw a futon mattress in the back which fit just about perfect.)
Friday morning I woke, made coffee and then I went to pick blueberries. I drank a nice press of coffee before leaving so while going to the blueberry field the call of nature needed to be answered. I was by the snags on the game trail so I relieved myself her behind the snags. Then I went down the game trail and picked blueberries to add to my breakfast of yogurt and cereal. Later that morning we convened at base camp to talk over last night activities, and any other unexplained occurrences.
Bigfoot related incident 1. – Flipped log
Then I went out with a large group of people from the expedition to set up trail cameras for the afternoon. We first went to a meadow behind base camp. In order to get to this meadow we had to go to the Xxxxxx Lake trailhead next to the creek. About 50 yards up the trail splits off to the northwest and about a quarter mile farther is the edge of the meadow. We all walked over the blueberry bushes at the edge and into the meadow. I walked across the meadow and found a long, old log that seemed to have been flipped over and moved out of line. I called out that I found something very unusual and everyone came over. We discussed it for a while and some team members surmised that a large Bigfoot flip it over like that.
I could tell it was recently moved as the outline of the previous log position was still in the reeds and it was clearly flipped over with one end broken off and lying close by the end. The part of the plants that were underneath the log was still brown from lack of sunlight yet the parts of the reeds that had grown along the side of the log were green. This meadow had been long dry so it wasn’t water that moved it. Four of us big guys, myself included, tried to pick up one end of the log but it was so heavy, we could only move it about a couple inches up. It was immensely heavy yet the log was bone dry sitting in the sunshine. I should have taken a picture but some other team members did take picture of the scene.
I tried to find a reasonable explanation but could not think of any. It certainly wasn’t moved by a bear, from my experience in the woods. There was no claw marks or scratches in the logs nor was there any prints in the dirt around the log; where bears usually just paw at the sides of these logs to get at the termites. And since this log was so heavy even for four of us, a large 350 pound black bear would have had trouble moving it. It certainly would have left marks. From my experience seeing what bears do to logs and personally witnessing bears working logs in the forest, this was not done by a bear.
So my other thought was that maybe the water from the winter snow melt could have moved the log. But as I scanned the area more, I noticed that the log was near the highest edge of the pond, where the brush meets the reeds and grass. This means that the pond level wouldn’t be much higher, since the brush doesn’t like sitting in water for long, and the water level would have lowered long before the reeds greened up. Even the lowest points in the pond were quite dry. This was a recent move. So it couldn’t have been water that moved it.
So what about humans? I just don’t think this is human activity. Four of us could barely move the log. It is also located far out of the way across the meadow. I only stumbled upon it in the brush and couldn’t see it from the trail or anywhere in the meadow. My gut just tells me that people wouldn’t be going that far out into the woods just to move logs around. But I was the skeptical scientist and when we left, I was still quite puzzled by this log. But the next two nights changed my mind. Now I attribute this log movement to Sasquatch.
Bigfoot encounters 1. – Alone by the roadside
On Friday evening 17 July, at 7 pm, we had gathered again at base camp for the evening talk. After discussing team objectives a veterinarian gave a talk on what he thinks a Sasquatch eye is like from his expertise in animals and also from his experiences and encounters on previous expeditions.
At 9:15 pm the evening talks finished and everyone started getting into their groups for the night expedition. I decided to quickly go to my car and put my coffee mug in the car. I didn’t want to leave it lying around base camp and get broken in the dark. I also had another motive. After a big cup of tea and drinking water during the talk, I had to relieve myself and quick. So I hurried to my car in the hope that no one else would go down the road. There was plenty of twilight left so I didn’t need my head lamp and left it with my backpack back in the quarry.
When I got to near my car, I had this feeling that something wasn’t right. Sound thing seemed out of place and I felt “watched.” I looked around and saw the road was empty yet lit well from the twilight. So were the edges and the bleached snags on the embankment next to the game trail. Everything white or pale color seemed to have a night glow while just beyond the woods were black as black can be. The direction down the road to the creek was eastward so the twilight was coming from the west behind me. I looked again down the road but I couldn’t see anything wrong so I quickly put my mug in the car, walked across the road and quickly relieved myself. I looked into the darkness of the woods then down the road. I still felt unnerved and quickly finished.
I was still looking down the road and something just seemed out of place. On the bank was 3 dead tree snags. There were two tall ones both about 50 feet tall and one small one. The smaller ‘snag’ seemed wider than the tall snag behind it and also seemed wider than the small pine tree in front of it. The white areas stuck out from either side of the small pine tree, but it was oddly shaped with curves, not straight like a tree. As I started at those, what I perceiving as the small snag took a huge step out from behind that scraggly pine tree and into the opening between another group of small pine trees. I instantly knew this “thing” was walking on the game trail. My next thought was that his creature was going to walk right across the road.
As it stepped I could see long arms with hands down near the knees, long hair hanging and flowing off the forearm and also off the thigh of the leg. The hair was also very long on the head so I couldn’t see a neck. The hair fell flat off the head and down the sides just below the shoulders. All the hair moved much like a girl with long hair moving very quickly, the way a girls hair moves around together flowing in the air with the body movements. After the first step the creature stopped and quickly turned with its back to me. The width of the back was enormous; it seemed to fill the space between the trees. I estimate that the shoulders were about 5 to 6 feet wide. I could see the split in the legs as it was standing straight up and down. I quickly compared the height of the creature to the pine tree it stood next to. I didn’t know the height but made a quick estimate of it being 8 feet tall as I remembered the tree being taller than I was when walking past there earlier in the morning to pick blueberries. I stand 6’4″ tall with my boots on.
I saw the hair coming off the back head. It was long and hung down to about what would be the creatures mid shoulder blade area. I could also see the muscular structure on the back of the creature bulging under the hair and what I perceived as big muscular buttocks. I quickly scanned the creature for any other color differences but could not find any. This creature was all silvery gray from head to ground. The creature then moved very quickly away from me.
At this point, a second game trail goes along the road, dropping briefly into the roadside ditch for about 10 yards before going back up the forest side into the blueberry field.
The creature stepped forward with its right leg and I saw the hair flowing off the thighs. It put both of its hands out in front and it seemed to have made fists, then it leaned forward. As it went down the bank side into the roadside ditch, it seemed to bend all the way forward and get down on all fours. It looked just like what one sees in videos of gorillas in the wild when they move quickly on two legs then fall forward on to all fours. The creature then it got in the ditch and disappeared behind the trees.
I was paralyzed at first, just watching this thing move very quickly, faster than a bear. My first thought was maybe there was glare in my glasses, so I moved my head around and from side to side, trying to see if it was any glare in my glasses that I might have mistaken for this thing moving. I did it several times but there was absolutely no glare whatsoever. I instantly became terrified after that, since I now realized what I saw was real. I then took my pen light out of my pant pocket and shinned it down the road. The tiny light didn’t make too big a difference lighting up the scene and the spot was about 25 yards away from me.
I was unnerved and needed to get people to help me but I didn’t want to turn my back on this area the creature was in so I back stepped down the road to the quarry. I heard people at the first tent at the end of the quarry. It turned out it was a girl named Xxxx. She is an expedition researcher and she was also recently on the “A Bigfoot” episode about the Bigfoot in the photo collecting apples in Vermont. She and several others came out and I told her what I just saw. I took them all down there to the game trail and we looked around but the creature was gone.
Bigfoot related incident 2. – “AHHHHhhhhh howl
Back in the camp with everyone I was pretty shaken up and decided to just go on the night expedition with the expedition leader Xxxxx Xxxxxxx and 4 others. It was now getting close to 10:30 pm when we headed out and walked to the west down along the road. After we went 0.65 miles (according to the GPS carried by a person with us) we walked up an abandoned skid road that went to the north. We walked about 100 yards and we stopped to do some cow bell knocks. Xxxxx hit the cow bell three times and we listened. It was quiet until about 3 or 4 minutes later (approximately 11:24 pm) there was a very loud classic Sasquatch “AHHHHhhhhh” howl from the ridge above us.
Everyone in this team thought it was someone from base camp doing a howl but I knew it was too close; I’ve been in the woods long enough to know distance even in the dark. It just sounded like it was up at the top of the ridge which I could just make out in the twilight. Since I just saw a Sasquatch 2 hours before I knew it was a Sasquatch creature, possibly the same creature I saw. The ridge line runs back behind base camp, and to the area I was parked so it is possible this creature was following and keeping an eye on us or me.
We walked up that road and it ended at the top of the ridge at the edge of a clear cut. We had a remarkable view of the mountain peaks to the east, the milky walk and stars. The night stayed quiet after that with nothing more odd happening so we returned and got back to base camp at 1 am. I quickly inquired if anyone had done a howl and no one did, but those back at base camp said they heard a howl from our direction on the ridge and thought it was us. The times that both teams heard the howl coincided at the ‘ Same time.’ There were no other teams near us at all that night. [The next day we learned no other teams heard howls that night and oddly there was a team bedded down in the meadow to the north only about a quarter mile from base camp and they heard nothing.
Bigfoot related incident 3. – Heavy breathing
So I went back to my car and quickly got in. But I had to stay up as I had received a text from my ex-wife about a problem with our daughter. I told her to text me back in an hour so I was awake. I turned off the lights inside at about 1:25 pm and I just lay in the back of my car on my futon mattress and waited for her text. I had only one window cracked open and it was the rear window the one on the road side. About 20 or so minutes, I started hearing very heavy breathing. It sounded like someone breathing into the window space that had emphysema or a very wheezy chest. The breaths were very long in and out, much longer than a human. I didn’t hear any footsteps so I was puzzled. I lifted my head to make sure I wasn’t imagining it and the breathing moved away and it became quiet again. I didn’t want to panic so I put my head down and hoped for the text to come from my ex.
Bigfoot related incident 4. – Car slap by Sasquatch
A couple minutes later, “BAM!!” It sounded like a log had hit the front of my car!! The force vibrated thru the mattress to me and it was very loud. It was so loud I seemed certain someone in camp must have heard it. I found my glasses in the dark and peered outside but saw nothing. I could barely make out the road from the star light but otherwise it was just so black. I couldn’t even see my hands in front of my face.
The first thought I had was that Bigfoot was throwing logs at my car from the forest. I didn’t know what to do but didn’t want to get out. So after looking around out the windows I realized those were futile attempts looking for something in the darkness. So I laid my head back down, curled up under the blankets awake and waited. Then About 5 more minutes passed when I heard the last team come walking up the road from their night expedition. It was Sky, Xxxxx’s daughter and another researcher who are all expedition members. I fumbled for the door locks and handle, threw the door open and yelled at them, ” thank God your here!” I scared the heck out of them, and I apologized while they tried to apologize thinking they were being loud and had woken me.
I told them what happened. We looked around but saw nothing, no logs, sticks or big rocks anywhere around my car. I was certain there would be a log lying there in the road and was now very puzzled. So I asked them how their night went and they said they had never had such terrify experiences before and were totally scared like they have never been. They tried to describe all the activity but there was just too much weird stuff that happened. They said they started off sitting apart but soon after things started happening they were shoulder to shoulder. Sky then joked if I wanted to still sleep here alone. I said “Hell no, I’m moving into base camp and I threw all my stuff out of the front seat and drove into the middle of base camp as fast as I could making sure I was parked in the middle. I figured if Bigfoot wanted to get me now, he had to pass by everyone else. I was now about 2:10 am and I settled back down into the back of my car. At 2:44 am my ex sent me a text that my daughter was ok.
The next morning I needed to figure out the sound as a scientist would. The first thing I did was tell the expedition leader what happened. She asked if I was going to leave then. I said “No, I should be fine staying in base camp for now on.” Then I found a new spot at the edge of base camp took out my stove and made some coffee. I need to have coffee to get my day going. Then I pondered what made the sound. So I threw sticks and stones at my car, trying to get the sound I heard. Each panel makes a different sound yet all of those just made hollow sounds. The sound I heard was hard and solid! I was puzzled! Another person from the expedition watching me suggested ‘half-joking I think” that Sasquatch hand-slapped my car. So I began hand slapping my car. Again, all the panels sounded hollow until I hit the hood of my car. I drive a Chrysler PT cruiser and the hood is unique shaped. When the hood is slapped, it is hard and solid sounding. It was exactly the sound I heard!!
About this time, another investigator who is an expedition member from Medford came over and listened to my story. We then went to the trees where I first saw the creature and measured the tree it was standing behind. The height of that tree measured 9 feet 6 inches, much higher than my estimate. The snag behind the creature was 15 inches in diameter and I first saw the creature from a side profile. I would say the creature was at least twice that wide, between 30 and 40 inches. We failed to measure between the trees to get a good idea about the shoulder width of the creature when it turned with the back to me.
We then went back to my car and she examined it for hand prints. We didn’t see any. Then she asked if I had any dents on my car. I said “no.” She told me that there is a large dent depression in my hood on the driver’s side just below the washer squirting nozzle. Indeed there is a depression which is now permanent. I can see it every time while driving but it was not there before this trip.
We went back and looking at the placement of the car, we surmised that this is what happened. The creature was scoping out the camp while all the expedition members were in the quarry at the talk. It could do it safely from the dark forest on the hill looking down into the quarry. When we broke out for our groups, it tried to get down on the game trail and cross the road but I came to my car. The creature froze in place trying to blend in with the snags and hid behind the tree. Then it saw me relieve myself and thought I was marking its territory as I was so close to the game trail. (If you remember, I also did it earlier in the morning, not just there but all around.) It may have been the same creature that followed the night expedition group and did the Howl. It stalked me at the car and waited until it thought I was asleep and hand slapped the front of my car using the saplings next to my car as cover. It was telling me it was the boss here and I need to leave. We searched the trees for any hair but didn’t find anything.
Well, we had one more night and this last lady and her friend Xxxx (I am sorry I don’t have the names of these people) they wanted me to go with them on a night sit, just the three of us this last night to test some theories and for me to debunk forest sounds. I agreed and we scoped out a good place that afternoon. The spot was 0.5 miles further East on the road. After the road crosses the creek it does a sweeping ‘S’ turn and climbs a hill. At the top the roads level off and it splits into two forks. Both those road splits end at trails. The spot we chose is in the center of the split under a tall sugar pine tree. We would sit next to it at the base only about 15 feet off the road and see if any teams spot us. Our theory was that a person could walk or drive by a Sasquatch standing near a road and very likely miss them.
That evening we once again had our evening meeting which started at 7 pm. The two ladies and I left at 8 pm, over an hour before sunset. We walked to our spot under the sugar pine, spread out a blanket and positioned ourselves at the split in the roads. We watched and listened to a night hawk dive and make growls from its wing tips as it dove for insects. The ladies first though the growls were from a Bigfoot but I debunked that when I spotted the nighthawk. Night fell and we started hearing wood knocks, just one every once in a while but at regular intervals from the very same direction, towards the west.
Bigfoot related incident 5. – Wood knocks and low bass thump
Later, we heard what sounded like a very low audible bass-like thump to the northwest. It sounded like a grouse but also like a log being thrown over and hitting the ground with a very low but audible ‘thump.
Or for those city people, a single big bass ‘thump’ from some ‘homeboys’ car audio system.
The girls thought it was a log being thrown over by a Sasquatch and they told me the belief is that the big males do this to let others know its location and stake its territory. I didn’t know what to say. The sound was like that of a grouse but it was also nearly 10:30 pm, long past sunset and grouse shouldn’t be active. I did remember the log I saw in the meadow on Friday and surmised that it could be quite possible it was a Sasquatch flipping a log.
A little after 10:30 pm; the teams passed us by in our first experimental hypothesis; which turned out to be correct, and all of the teams walked right by and didn’t see us. Even those expedition members who were using night vision equipment didn’t detect us. Although to be honest, I don’t know whether they were using that equipment while passing us. Anyway, two teams went down the right fork and one team with 6 members went up the left fork.
The wood knocks began again after the teams were long gone. After a while there wasn’t much going on and the ladies decided it was too quiet and they wanted to try to do some things that might bring in a Sasquatch. So Xxxx decided to do so animal distress sounds. When she made these sounds it sounded more like really loud smooching but it was loud and effective. After she did the second set, there was a rat or some other small rodent which had a den under the sugar pine that we were sitting next to. It came out to investigate and when it saw us, it freaked out. And I mean it; it really went off, screeching and crying for a couple minutes. This was a true animal in distress. We all quietly laughed.
Bigfoot encounter 2. – Nightwalker
After that animal stopped its hollering, everything was very quiet and I focused back up the left spur of the road. It was just black and the old growth on this section didn’t let the star light onto the road. I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face when I waved it around. It was getting colder and the breeze was coming down this road off Mt. Xxxxxxxx, right into my face. Now I began to feel really ill with a headache and terrible nausea but the cold breeze blowing into my face felt good and kept me going.
Soon I started hearing heavy footsteps coming down the left spur road directly towards us. These were long strides and bipedal. I could hear the pebbles crunching under the feet every time it took a step. These long strides were at least twice the stride of a human. [I base that off the memory of the team members walking past us just over an hour before.] As it got closer, the creature took slower strides and softer steps until it just stopped in the road. It was very dark and I couldn’t see anything so my estimate on the distance is about 50 to 75 feet away. Once again it seemed like something was intensely staring at me. There were no bushes or trees between us. I took long breaths thru my nose as quiet as I could; trying to get a smell of this creature. The air still smelled the same. No doubt it was trying to smell us but we were down wind of the creature.
It stood there silently for several minutes then suddenly I heard rocks get kicked and voices farther up the road. The creature heard those too at the exact same time I had heard them. I instantly knew it was the team that had walked up that spur and was now returning. I heard the feet of the creature twist in the road and kick pebbles as it quickly started running to the side of the road we were on. I heard it burst thru the saplings that were lining the side of the road. It took about 3 strides and stopped either inside the trees or just on the other side of the trees. I just know it didn’t go any further as the old growth forest in this spot was covered with a tangle of Rhododendron bushes 4 to 5 feet high. Even I had difficulty climbing into them earlier in the day and I gave up. If this creature had run through those bushes I would have heard it. At this moment I was incredibly terrified once again. This creature was on our side of the road just 50 or so feet away and I knew it was none other than a Sasquatch. I intensely concentrated on where the creature was to see if it made any sound of trying to move or flee. It just stood silent and so did I as I seemed paralyze over what I had just witnessed.
The other team of 6 walked right by this creature, which was 10 or 15 feet away and the creature just stayed still. The team got to the road fork and stood there talking for 16 minutes. [We kept count of the time.] They didn’t notice us at all and this creature stayed silent too. It could not be a bear, a bear wouldn’t put up with that many people and wouldn’t stay still like that. Bears don’t care if they make noise when they run away. Once again our hypothesis was correct that a person or persons could walk right by a Sasquatch and not know it!
After the team left, we stayed there another 10 or so minutes but by now I was terrified, feeling really sick, and needed sleep. I had a long drive in the morning to get home and I was dreading that I wouldn’t be well in the morning for that drive home. I want to know what creature was out there but told the ladies I had to stop and go back to camp, even though the creature was still there behind the trees.
We got up, gathered our back packs and began leaving. I looked back and I shined my flashlight on the trees but saw nothing. The creature was hidden well indeed. While walking back to base camp, the girls wanted to see if the knocks that were coming from the hillside to our west, were more than coincidence. We found a good tree to hit. Xxxx had her club and did a soft knock against the tree trunk. We immediately heard a soft “knock” response back from the same area of the hillside that we had heard knocks from all night. We walked along again and stopped at another tree to do another knock. We took into account that we moved and figured out what the direction should be if we heard a return knock. Xxxx then did one soft knock and this time we got three knocks back!! Wow, three knocks and it came from the direction we all figure it would be. I was both astonished and excited. This was the first time I have ever heard this in the forest!
We all believe there were some Sasquatch creatures down there on the hillside doing the knocks. What reason they knocked back, I don’t know. Maybe they thought we were Sasquatches?
Back at base camp I crawled into my tent about 12:30. I was in a tent this last night. In base camp I had set up the tent at the southwest corner of the quarry. I moved my car back to the same spot on the road where it was the previous night and set up my trail camera overlooking my car. If the big silver guy came back then I hoped to get a video of him sneaking up on my car.
Bigfoot related incident 6. – Wood knocking/ teeth clacking
Around 3:30 am I woke to what I thought was a bang on metal and sat up looking around my area of base camp. My first thought was my car was hand slapped again but there was no way I was going to investigate alone at that hour. I had a splitting headache and nausea so took some pain killers with water then I ate some candied ginger for the nausea. I then just lay in the tent knowing that I will be having a hard time sleeping again. After a while I began hearing a strange noise.
The two previous nights, investigators on the expedition reported what sounded like wood knocks or teeth clacking. It would start at one side of camp in the southeast corner and circle north and then west around the camp over a period of an hour.
Well, that exact thing was happening. It was either a tapping, or knocking or teeth clacking sound in forest at the southeast corner of the quarry. It was very hard to say which one it could be. It sounded like two sticks being tapped at constant and continuous rate. The sound was sharp in nature. I have two short bamboo sticks and they produce a similar sound that I heard But it could easily have been teeth clacking producing the sound.
The creature [sounds] moved slowly in the forest from my 11 o’clock (as I was lying down) to my 2 o’clock. I think it took a little more than 1 hour to go all the way around the quarry. The sounds never stopped for any period of time nor were disjointed from the path around the quarry. I never heard any footsteps or branches breaking, just the tapping sound. When the creatures [sounds] were at the two o’clock position, the taps were loud enough to be heard across the quarry to where I was in my tent. My guess is that the distance from my tent to the sounds on the far side was about 150 yards, possibly a little more. I have never heard tapping like this in the forest at night. I find it very peculiar yet also very intriguing. I can’t attribute it to any animal I know, not even woodpeckers. The sound just didn’t sound even close to that of a woodpecker.
The sounds faded off quickly as twilight started and I finally faded off to sleep myself. The next morning the groups met to discuss the previous night’s expeditions. The two teams that took the right fork and went to the meadow had more strange sounds and occurrences. The team that took the left fork and walked right by us and the Nightwalker reported nothing unusual.
After that I packed up and left still feeling terrible with a headache and nausea which didn’t go away until I got home 8 hours later. In my reasonable opinion that during the Saturday night investigations there were at least 7 in that area as there were multiple Sasquatch around each team, but possibly more. It is a remote place; where there is fresh water, ponds, creeks and lots of wild blueberries. That is my story. I am no longer skeptical about the existence of these creatures.
NABS Investigator continued:
Well, after reading this Report of Paul’s, what are your thoughts regarding his story of his one week end during this summer in Oregon?? One would think that this groups expedition folks would have used Paul’s report on their web site to promote their expeditions? I am thinking that either Paul had way too many experiences, or the rest of the group had so many more encounters that they forgot about Paul’s experiences.
After hearing from Paul’s expedition account verbally and after reading his account I could come to only one conclusion as to why so many Sasquatch were possibly in this one area, at one time, especially at this time of the year, and my conclusion was that it had to be berry eating time in this area. Some areas out in our wild places have several different kinds of berries; where they become ripe at a little different time during the year.
When Paul had his vehicle hit, he found a dent in the hood of his little vehicle, and he took a photo of it; where it was real difficult to see, but if one looked real hard you could just barely make out something like a large flat hand possibly hit his hood area on his vehicle; which was caved in only about a 1/8 of an inch or so.
Also, I believe that Paul may have been hit with the Sasquatch infrasound, because of his reactions of his head ache and nausea that he made known to us! Paul seems to have excellent hearing; where in his mind’s eye he made excellent assessment as to what he was hearing. When Paul told us about that heavy breathing; where I have heard that account from many others in the past; where I believe that’s a condition that most of our large guys and gals have acquired while living out in those deep dark wet forest.
These Forest People do have three main modes of movement or travel; where they usually move on two feet like we do; where they have been clocked in the 50MPH range; when they are running; which is fairly fast as compared to us humans, and their second mode of travel is when they go down on all fours where some folks thought they were seeing horse’s or cattle, but they go down on all fours, so as to even move faster, and are a little more difficult to see in those dark areas of our forests. Their third mode of movement is down on their bellies; which just barley touches the ground, and the bottom of their foot seems to have a hinge, sometimes called a metatarsal break, and while in this third mode of travel just their toes and hand knuckles are evident by the prints that are sometimes found. Note while in this third mode of travel, they can move as fast as a human can run! Please read our NABS Report # 71 Idaho!
It seems to me that Paul was struck again with their, those big guys infrasound, when he and his crew were sitting in the dark place along that road, when that big guys was close by, when he had the feeling of being really sick and needing sleep. I would like to know if any of the other team members had similar feelings. What I do know is they seem to direct those infrasound’s towards the one they want to receive their punishment.
When Paul was telling me about what took place during his expedition with this group of possible Sasquatch; where in my mind, he had to have been in a close proximity with them. Please view his photos and his sketch; where they are also very interesting. I really like stories when one goes from a total skeptic to 100% positive that these big guys do exist out there in those wild places in a short period of time.