Comments on: Chance Encounter

By: John A. Lutz

John A. Lutz — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:53:05 +0000

I personally have known Bob Chance for over 35 years. At one time, he served as Mayor of Belair and was a well-known & respected high school teacher, who regularly took students on nature outings along Deer Creek in central Harford County, MD, to show them that “truth is stranger than fiction”.

Bob was a confirmed believer in the presence of Bigfoot Creatures across Harford County, Maryland where he led hundreds of Bigfoot expeditions from late 1960s thru late 1990s. He and I both worked several Bigfoot Creature cases in the mid-1970s. The most outstanding one was when a motorist driving near Rocks in Harford County late on a foggy night, struck ‘large creature’ standing on the 2 lane road. During the field investigation, the news media jumped at the idea, the motorist had hit a ’sasquatch-type” creature.

However after careful field evaluation, we found the wooden fence surrounding the farm pasture had been breached, allowing for several black angus cows to wander onto the Rocks Road. In the fog, the driver mistook a 1,200 pound black angus cow for a “bigfoot type creature” & struck it. Hair from the cow was found stuck under the car’s bumper. After analysis at the Pikesville MD State Police Headquarters Lab, the hair was determined to be from the bovine species, meaning a cow was involved, thus solving this strange case.

However, as a 30 year volunteer investigator of strange phenomena for the MD State Police & dozens of other law enforcement agencies across the east, we conducted hundreds of field investigations which led to conclusions of Sasquatch creatures & one specific incident of a UFO exploding over a north-central Maryland field.

Hundreds of cases involving strange phenomena were investigated across Maryland & nearby mid-Atlantic States by our group known as Odyssey Scientific Research, whose Field Researchers included News Director Louis E. Corbin, Bob Chance, Courtney Jordan, Tex Byers & this writer (John A. Lutz) along with assistance by Zoologist Dr. Ted Roth, Chief U.S. Air Force Investigator, who was Northwestern University Prof. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, University of Arizona Phyicist Dr. James McDonald & world-renown Naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson from late 1960s to late 1990s.

Our true life adventures across Maryland’s roads & countryside will never be forgotten.

By: cliffhanger042002

cliffhanger042002 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:17:08 +0000

I’m glad to hear that Chance doesn’t have to serve jail time. He sounds like a very good man that anyone, with any good sense, would be a better person for knowing. He also sounds like he has done many good things for his community and elsewhere (kids TV show), it would have been a shame for a person like that to spend time in jail.

By: kittenz

kittenz — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:35:27 +0000

If marijuana had been legalized (and taxed) 40 years ago, the world today would be a better place.

It’s ridiculous to jail people for growing marijuana while subsidizing other people to grow tobacco. But that is exactly what our country did for decades. Now we’re paying people not to grow tobacco. But we’re not fining and jailing them if they do grow it.

Most people who use marijuana are otherwise law-abiding citizens. It’s time to lighten up and allow them to have their weed,

By: TheBibliophile

TheBibliophile — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:51:10 +0000

Damn shame that the case was ever even brought to trial, if the only evidence of ‘criminal activity’ was the marijuana and mushrooms found at his home. Now the court has been tied up for months determining a sentence and this eminently harmless man is out $35,000 that I suspect he can hardly spare and branded a criminal for the rest of his life.

RANGER BOB from ROMPER ROOM, folks.