What time of year was it?

Not that I doubt you saw something, as I know that part of the country, but if it were me seeing that around this time of year or a little later I’d be inclined to think “late night marijuana harvesting” (or stealing someone else’s crop).

That said the same characteristics that make that area good for growing Kentucky’s number 1 cash crop (remote, not easily accessible, highly forested) would also make it good habitat for BF to hide.

With that parkway there aren’t really too many on and off ramps outside of towns, so it isn’t likely it would be a person out there unless they were up to something illicit.

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing.

I saw something, late one night along the Mountain Parkway in eastern Kentucky. I was driving east from Lexington to Pikeville, about 2am, and near the Red River Gorge area at Slade, SOMETHING came out of the underbrush on the other side of the highway, across the median. I only caught a glimpse because I was driving at highway speed. It was very dark, and when I first glimpsed the movement I thought it was a deer, but it was not a deer. Whatever the animal was, it was a dark color. I got the distinct impression of something on two legs, running. I was past it in an instant, but it was very odd. It wasn’t a person, and I thought it would be very unlikely that it was a bear but I suppose it is possible, but bears don’t usually run on two legs. Whatever it was, its eyes gleamed, and it seemed to be about as tall as a person or maybe a little taller. My mind was shouting “Werewolf” but that was just because it gave that impression. I turned to my son who was riding with me, but he had fallen asleep & did not see it. I don’t know what it was. Maybe it WAS a bear. I just don’t know.

That was about three years ago. Every time I drive that road now, especially at night, I watch for it, but I haven’t seen anything since then except deer and a coyote.

One early morning in the spring of 1999 I was passing through Skamania County, WA, adjacent to the Columbia River. I was enroute to Klickitat County to go turkey hunting. I observed a dark colored animal by the side of the road on my left side. I slowed my vehicle and observed something I did not expect to see. I had expected to see either a bear or dog but as I passed by I clearly saw an ape-like animal no longer crouching by the side of the road but standing on two feet. It was not a bear. It was about 4 and 1/2 feet tall now walking away on two legs. I came to a stop and turned around but the animal had disappeared into the underbrush. I watched from my vehicle for about 15 minutes but the animal never reappeared. I choose not to thrash around in the brush looking for it because about ten years prior I had a 30 minute stand off between myself and an Alaskan brown bear sow and her cubs that ended peacefully but was not alot of fun.

I never reported it because I had no proof and wished to avoid the wacko label. I know what I saw that morning was some type of ape-like creature. I believe it to be an immature bigfoot. Everytime I pass the spot I reiterate my sighting to my passengers and the response is always the same. Unbelievers! I am willing to bet that only about one in ten sightings are ever reported. That’s a lot of sightings and believers that are out there.

I doubt there will be much agreement amongst the ivory tower folks…til an over the road trucker named…Bubba drags a roadkilled carcass in…JMHO

A question for Jim Mioncynzski…When the Big Man was just beyond your campfire’s light…tossing pine cones….did you toss any of them back?

Dr. Jeff Meldrum…appears to be an articulate spokesman for scientific inquiry and research of the Big Folks…I wish him all the best.

seeing is believing…

ole bub and the dawgs

For example,

1) Hackwork is a professor in the physics department. He knows nothing about Bigfoot.

2) His actions caused the university to withdraw materials on the Skookum cast from their website.

3) He used ridicule and stupid remarks to dismiss the meeting, to wit, saying:

“If one wishes to believe in the highly unlikely existence of a tall, hairy, anthrophobic hominid that dines on luminiferous ether, produces no confirmed scat or sign, poses only for grainy 8 mm films (in which it sometimes is seen sporting a belt buckle) and buries itself after it dies, I say knock yourself out. I think it’s fine that Brandon Tennant has the energy and zeal to organize an event which I think will be a economic boon for the community. No one is forcing anyone to attend, and it’s way better than a casino as a mechanism for extracting money from willing volunteers. Bigfoot, Yeti, Sasquatch, et. al. are interesting from a mythological point of view and downright funny as a sociological phenomenon, but what little in the line of science that has been offered up by the Bigfoot community in support of this creature is so poorly done as to be inadvertently humorous. The balanced ’scientific’ view of Bigfoot is that this creature simply does not exist. ”

One only needs to examine Hackworth’s comments about ether, no scat, and belt buckles to see he just doesn’t know what he’s talking about.

If I had the chance, from one ex-professor to another whom I hope retires soon, I would tell him: “Frankly, Professor Hackworth, you should be ashamed of yourself and what you said.”