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So some town in New York state has had a rash of Bigfoot sightings recently – and of multiple creatures at a time too. To quote one witness referring to a sighting she had on her property:
“It had a juvenile with it about my height.”
To quote another witness:
“I kind of wanted to shave it, put it in a silk shirt and bring it to a German discotheque.”
OK – we made up quote #2 – but the first one is authentic! Read on!
The following story is actually quite interesting. It’s of the non-horror variety – not always common when talking about the sasquatch – and it seems quite detailed. It’s about a woman named Patty Williams who lives on a farm-ish type property in New York state. She allegedly encounters the creatures pretty frequently.
It eats the food for her pigs, and as payment leaves her pine cones and rocks. She encounters the creature pretty frequently. She’s thrown rocks to where she thinks it is, and the rocks get tossed back. The same is true of a football.
In skipping to a quote from The Daily Freeman, a local paper:
In her most recent sighting, Williams said, she had gone to get coffee with a friend one evening and saw a bigfoot standing along her driveway. She said the creature’s eyes were glowing and that she knew it wasn’t a bear because it was at least 7 feet tall. “It’s pretty exciting,” Williams said. “Very interesting.”
And Patty’s not the only one to have seen the creatures – her mother and daughter have seen them too. Apparently the sightings have been going on for about four months – and it’s attracted hunters. Not the type with lethal ammunition, mind you, but the type with dart guns. They want to collect skin samples from the thing.
They’ve brought along other equipment too – like something called an electronic ear. This device has allowed them to hear footsteps from a great distance that they say don’t match the footfalls of any known woodland creatures. This sounds pretty weak to us, but if you’re hard up for evidence you gotta take what you can get.
The hunting team also found ‘a pod,’ which we think means an area of matted grass where the creatures might have slept for the night. Again, it’s evidence, but weak evidence.
What we’d like to see is this Williams woman walk around with a camcorder at the ready. She seems to see the thing enough. Get some decent footage and she’d be well on her way to a Patterson-like eternal glory.
Until that day comes though, it’s just another crummy sighting.
