Particularly that last line. You might want to toss off the veil long enough to get your name in Bartlett’s!

Here’s to apes. May we always be them.

Seriously, some people have all the luck. It never fails to amaze me that people like, well, most of us here on Cryptomundo read and hope and dream of strange things happening to them, and never see a bloody thing, while some goober from backwoods Virginia is seeing UFO’s and slamming his truck into Bigfoot.

You know, some ultra skeptic once calculated that your average person witnesses something like 60 miraculous, unexplainable things in their lifetime. An interesting statistic, even if he then failed to fully incorporate exactly what that might mean. I guess for some, the odds have them rolling snake eyes more often than normal, so they get Bigfoot and UFO’s, while others are rolling nothing but 6’s, so we get things we can rationally explain away, even if maybe we shouldn’t.

As for his assumption that his 2 sightings are connected, well DWA, the human brain excels at making connections when none are visible, so you sort of have to expect this a little. Sometimes that ability separates us from the apes, and at other times, it makes us look like them.

He waits until the end…and then sticks the UFO thing in there!

WHY DO THEY DO THAT!!??!!?!?!?

Another of the more interesting reports that we have received at the TBRC is the following report that took place in 1976 in Virginia.

My wife was with me in January, 1976, in Chesterfield County, Virginia when she screamed and caused me to slam on the brakes of my Ford truck. Because it was dark and a wooded area, I thought at first that I had missed what she had seen. With the truck sitting in the middle of the road (Woods Edge Road), I was sweating and wondering what was going on and why my wife had screamed. After about a half-minute, I looked over at my wife and yelled, “What!?”. She did not turn her head but continued to look towards the road over the hood of the truck. I was about to yell again when something moved off the side of the road and came within an inch of the right headlight. In fact, I saw some of its hair rub up against the hood. About that time, I became as mesmerized as my wife appeared to be. I know my jaw dropped open because I remember shutting my mouth just before I asked, “What is That!!!?”.

Standing before us was a tall, hairy, muscular creature. For a split second, I actually entertained the thought of reaching for my shotgun and taking a shot at it. However, a second later I began to think this creature was more human than animal. It’s hair was very dark brown, almost black. I am six foot, two inches tall and I know this thing was at least 3 or 4 inches taller and it was not standing upright. It was probably seven feet tall if it had stood upright, and it weighed at least 500 pounds. What amazed me the most was the size of it’s arms; during that time I was doing a hundred pushups a day and my arms were not half the size in diameter as the arms were on this beast. Finally, my wife said, “It’s a gorilla”!

I remember saying something like - they get that big? A few seconds later, it took ONE large step and stood in the middle of the front of the truck. At this time, the creature looked as though it wanted to look at me eye to eye but it would quickly jerk its head back like it was afraid or embarrassed. It did this 4 or 5 times. To me, it looked as though it were afraid. After a few minutes, it took a couple of more steps and went up the side of a hill. It slipped as it went up and reached down with its right arm and fist to prop itself up. It arm was at least a foot longer than mine. It disappeared in the trees and my wife and I just sat and looked at each other. At first, she wanted to call the Chesterfield police and then the Virginia State Police. I argued that we didn’t need the publicity, and at the time I felt that this event was related to my sightings of UFOs. My feelings have not changed.

One of his comments made me chuckle:

By the way, I am about to give that old Ford truck to the Kidney Foundation. I hate to give it up because I know that in January of 1976 when it was new - it was touched by a Bigfoot.

You can read the report in its entirety at the TBRC website here.

Nothing was found and I have never heard any more about this incident. Can anyone clarify what I wrote? Off the top of my head, this is the only incident I heard about involving a vehicle and a sasquatch.

Back when the Boggy Creek incidents were happening in the early 70’s, one of the Crabtree boys alledgedly shot and hit a creature. Blood and hair was supposed to have been found, but amongst all the excitement, no one thought to collect any evidence at the time. I don’t know how much of this is true.

One more thing, what about the skeleton that is supposedly hidden somewhere around Fouke, AR (again Boggy Creek incidents), as told by longtime researcher and writer, Smokey Crabtree?

Oh, well, thought I’d throw in some things to talk about.

The WMD evidence on which we built the case for invading Iraq was– clearly, we now know in retrospect — far, far skimpier than the evidence so far collected for the sasquatch.

But I could have told you that back in fall 2002.

Not to discuss politics here, sorry.

But it was skimpy, and we acted on it. There might be sufficient evidence to act in the case of the sas, as well. (Not to draw too close a parallel. I don’t take “target species” literally. )

If people are seeing my ma in OK, I don’t care what else is on the table. I want to know what people are seeing.