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The Woodard Hollow Waterspout
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2004
Photo: Is there a Bigfoot in Delaware County?
Have You Seen Bigfoot?
Remember all the talk years ago about Bigfoot? What happened to him? We used to hear about Bigfoot sightings, footprints and stories but it seems that the phenomenon is no more popular than the stories we used to hear about Roswell and UFOs. I suppose it’s because everyone has a digital camcorder these days that we don’t hear too much about humanoid apes and aliens.
The fact is that Bigfoot is still around and not just in the snow covered mountains of Alaska, Canada and the Himalayas. New reports are now coming in from all over the country. Eleven of these reports are as current as the beginning of this year.
Reports of Bigfoot in Oklahoma are also becoming more and more common every year as well. All in all, there have been 34 reports of the big guy in our state and 19 of those are reported as sightings. Most of the sightings are coming from the southeast area of the state but others are coming in from Rogers, Nowata, Muskogee, Cherokee and Delaware Counties.
Since many of us live in Delaware County this is important news that we need to be aware of. Is there really a Bigfoot creature in Delaware County? According to the report I recently read, he was last seen 3.5 miles from Jay back in the summer of 1986. The report was filed three years ago by a 31 year old man as to what happened when he was 16 years old in 1986.
Steve Ames made the report to investigators Alton Higgins and Roger Roberts (a former member of Special Operations with the U.S. Army and over 25 years of experience as a private investigator) in 2001 as they were investigating the reports of bigfoot sightings near the Roaring River State Park in Missouri. During the course of the Missouri investigation, Ames related his 1986 bigfoot encounter near Jay.
Ames and his friends used to swim and fish at night in Brush Creek near Jay. As they approached the creek one evening they could hear dogs barking at the nearby houses. They also noticed a very bad smell in the air. As they got closer to the creek they heard something splashing in the creek so they moved closer to investigate.
At first they thought it was a bear but soon realized that it was a sasquatch bathing in the creek. He would bend down, get water in his hands and splash it on his face. He would bend down again and get the water to splash on top of his head.
Ames reported that the animal had a huge head and was about nine foot tall. His arms were about five feet long and he had gigantic hands. Ames said he had a good look at the creature as there was a full moon and the animal was facing the moonlight.
After a couple of minutes of watching the sasquatch a breeze came along and the creature got wind of the boys. He stood up, threw his hands up and let out a yell. He then looked in the direction of the three boys and started wading towards them swinging his arms as if he wanted to catch them.
As he wading to the side of the creek about ten feet from the group of boys, they started screaming and running from the creek. The animal then turned and started moving in another direction but continued to look back at the boys until he was out of sight.
The boys grabbed their bicycles and started down the road back to Jay. Ames reported that they never went back to the creek again. They did tell their story to an old Indian man and he told them that a “skeely” lived down there and they had better stay out of there at night.
Oklahoma is not the only state with bigfoot sightings. Since January 1, 2004 there has been reports filed in Idaho, Oregon, Canada and Colorado. Seven reports in the last few weeks have been filed from Ohio.
For over 400 years people have reported seeing large, hair covered, manlike animals in the wilderness areas of North America. These reports continue to the present and are often made by people of unimpeachable character.
The existence of Bigfoot is taken for granted throughout Native North America. Most Native American Indians believe he has powerful psychic abilities. The Indian people say that Bigfoot knows when humans are searching for him and that he chooses when and to whom to make an appearance.
Also, his psychic powers account for his ability to elude the white man’s efforts to capture him or hunt him down. In Indian culture, the entire natural world, the animals, plants, rivers, and the stars are seen as a family. Bigfoot is seen as one of our close relatives, the “great elder brother.”
As a special kind of being, Bigfoot has a special close relationship with humans. He is regarded as standing on the border between animal-style consciousness and human-style consciousness, which gives him a special kind of power.
To Native Americans, animals are not regarded as inferior to humans but rather as elder brothers and teachers of humans. Tribal cultures are based on relationship and kinship. The closer the kinship, the closer the bond.
To make all of this more realistic, the noted ape specialist, Dr. Jane Goodall is convinced that bigfoot/sasquatches do exist. Her opinion can be found on the website for the Bigfoot Field Reseachers Organization, the only scientific organization that probes the bigfoot\sasquatch mystery.
So, is there any Bigfoots around Grand Lake? If you ask any of the Native American Indian elders in our area they will say “Yes,” the “skeely” does exist. As for me, I haven’t seen one but I’m not discounting what I’ve heard and read.
A couple of years ago I almost had a close encounter and thought I saw four Bigfoots on Monkey Island.. It was late at night and I had been hopping from bar to bar. At the parking lot of the Monkey Island Pub I witnessed four large, hariy human forms from behind some parked cars. It appeared to be a quartet of sasquatchs.
I was really scared but my curiosity got the best of me, bouyed by Budweiser, and I had to make sure of what I thought I was seeing. Upon further investigation, the big hairy apes turned out to be Larry Duke, Vince Freeman, Rusty Fleming and Jon Wilson. Oh well, that’s probably as close as I’ll ever get to Bigfoot.
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