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watch1
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Posted: Sat Apr 14th, 2007 04:22 am |
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I recieved this in an email and after getting the persons permission to post it in the forums..here it is.
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Hi, My name is (withheld) and I recently gave this speech in a class I am taking at Northeast Alabama Community College. I thought you might find it interesting though the sighting did occur some time ago. It is completely true and for some time I only told close friends and family about this encounter; in part to protect this creature and its where abouts as I did not want it harmed in anyway .This area has changed somewhat today it is still rural but the road has been paved. Back then at times after a rain the Uchee creek would flow right over the road in this area. It eventually flows on into the Chattahoochee. Since I was seated in a car I obviously felt no fear or intimidation from it. It was right in front of us with the headlights illuminating it so as to reveal the details I stated in my speech.
** The Speech**
The event that I will be telling you about today is true although many of you will find it hard to believe.
In the fall of 1992 my step-sister Tracey and I were heading back to her home in rural Russell County, Alabama. It was at night and Tracey was driving and I was in the front passenger seat.
We turned onto a rode known as Hitchie Road. Hitchie road was a dirt road back then. It goes across the Uchee creek which backs up into a swamp nearby. Eventually, Hitchie road turns into the Hyram cemetery road.
We had only gone a short distance when all of the sudden from the left side of the road an animal ran into our path and was running in front of
us in the same direction we were going. When my eyes focused I was amazed at what I saw and exclaimed “What the …………
There in front of us in the headlights was the most incredible creature I had ever seen in my life!
It was covered with Reddish-brown hair 4 to 6 inches long, its arms which reached down almost to its knees were swinging back and forth as it ran down the road in the same direction we were going. I noticed the back of its hands and bottom of its feet looked like black leather and was hairless.
After what I would estimate to be about 30 yards The creature turned its head to the left and looked back giving Tracey and I a profile view of its face.
Almost simultaneously, the creature darted to the right and disappeared into the dark as quickly as it had appeared.
Once again I exclaimed to Tracey, “did you see That “Tracey said, “yes” ,I said , “what did you See?” And “she said some kind of monkey!” and I said “good, now I know I’m not crazy”
The creatures face also had the look of black leather; its nose was flat against its face. I estimate it to have been around 5’6” to 6’6” tall as it ran hunched over slightly.
What Tracey and I witness that night was truly remarkable and I can’t help but believe the creature revealed it self to us intentionally.
After all it could have waited till we went by to cross the road.
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Comments added about the creature:
Another thing that crossses my mind is the head of the creature seemed to sit right on the shoulders with very little neck if any. The closest artist picture I've found to what I saw is off a Florida Skunkape Sight that a guy named Dan Jackson operates.
I've gone back there at night since then and never seen this creature again. I now live in north alabama and dont get back to the ole hometown too often. Once you've seen one of these creatures you long to see it again and discover any and all facts about it you can , at least I do.
I wouldn't want to see it again though if it meant one of these creatures had to be harmed. And I say that like I believe more exist and I do . It only stands to reason that these animals are like other mammals with offspring and parents . It would be so great to know the details of how they interact together. to bad they are highly elusive.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14th, 2007 04:31 am |
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This was part of the reply that I sent him and I had to ask the question about how the class reacted to his speech.
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Thanks for sending the info.
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> How was your speech on this received by the class and the instructors? I
> had to ask..not many would have said they actually saw one of these
> creatures in public.
> I hope you opened a few minds to the possibility that these creatures
> are out there.
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Here is his reply:
Hello Mike,
When I first decided to use this topic as my speech I had wondered the
same thing ; "How it would be received"? . I mulled it over in my mind
and decided , some would believe , some would be skeptical , and some
would just think I made it up. I decided to do it, but , I would only
tell it like it actually happened and with the best detail to my memory,
without any elaboration.
After the speech many students had questions, and I answered their
questions honestly and openly to the best of my knowledge. The instructor
asked me if I thought the creature I saw was Bigfoot , and I thought
about it a moment and said "it had big feet but they were proportional to
the size of its body".
I haven't really been comfortable with that name as I personally believe
this another unique creature God has created and placed upon this Earth
for his glory and a significant purpose that He has in mind. I prefer
Sasquatch though if I were to lean toward a name. The area where I saw
this creature was once inhabited by the Yuchi (creek)indigenous
people.I'm not sure what name they had for it.
The next lady to get up and give a speech said this before she started
hers, "I believe you, when I was a little girl I saw something like
that near the edge of the woods and told my parents and other family
but they didnt seem to really believe me".
I find it very normal for people who havent seen one of these creatures
to be skeptical, or not believe at all, but to those who have really
seen one or more of the creatures it is not a possibility, its an
actuality. I don't talk about it as if it exist, I know it does. Is
this creature I saw like the one reported in the Northwest , Im not
sure, but they have similar characteristics, but was no giant, by no
means. A juvenile perhaps?
Its fine with me if you forward this info to Mr. Branco though Im not
interested in any type of new found publicity or noteriety! My
interest in this is to discuss and learn more about these creatures
with those whom are like minded. Thats those that seek knowledge of
this creature without capture or kill mentality and would only harm
such a creature if was found absolutely necessary in defense of ones
own safety. Its fine to post it in your forum also if you feel it will
benefit those members.
Right now Im in the middle of getting ready for Graduation and finals
for the end of this semester, and have a conference in Birmingham with
SkillsUSA this coming week . The next month will be fairly hectic.
When things settle down I would be glad to talk to Mr. Branco and if he
deems the info worthy he is welcome to post it. Im sure others that have
seen this creature and not openly discussed it to this point will find it
beneficial to read sightings of those that are ready to talk openly about
it.
I will send my phone number and join the forum when things settle a bit.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14th, 2007 04:33 am |
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| Interesting. I notice that the color of this one was described as being reddish brown. I have read on more than one occasion, that the reddish Sasquatch are thought to be more aggressive than the others. That would be a good thing for the original author of that story to know, if he ever did go back into that area to search more for that creature.
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Posted: Sat Apr 14th, 2007 04:37 pm |
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Smitty wrote: Interesting. I notice that the color of this one was described as being reddish brown. I have read on more than one occasion, that the reddish Sasquatch are thought to be more aggressive than the others. That would be a good thing for the original author of that story to know, if he ever did go back into that area to search more for that creature.
Smitty,
This is something I have never heard of before. Can you give us some more info on this. I have heard that it seems that encounters in different parts of the country seem to vary in the nature and action of these creatures but I have never put the hair color in the factor of aggressiveness. This many be something to really look into.
I wonder also if the color of the males in their prime tends to be this dark brown with a red tint and if that is the case..would a dominate male be more aggressive than others?
Just something to look into and be interesting if we had all the info on these creatures.
Mike (watch1)
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Posted: Sat Apr 14th, 2007 06:38 pm |
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Mike,
I'll see if I can find where I read that. It's been a while, and I remember reading a couple of different articles that said something about that. I really can't see what difference hair color would make in regards to their aggressiveness, unless it indicated maybe some type of sub-species or something along those lines.
I think I remember reading something along the lines of what you mentioned also, about the Sasquatch in certain areas seeming to be more aggressive than others.
No doubt we could fill volumes with what all we DON'T know about these creatures! 
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Posted: Mon Dec 10th, 2007 11:04 pm |
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I wonder if hair color could be tied to gender.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10th, 2007 11:54 pm |
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Interesting question. From what little I know this does not seem to be the case. It could be a combination of gender and age. Maybe the red color is something that happens when the males become of age. It also could be that there are more than one type of these creatures out there. I wish I knew all the answers.. but I don't.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11th, 2007 03:20 am |
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| The color could also be factored by the time of season. I know that deer tend to be brownish red early in spring, with their gray color coming later in the winter(colder) time. There are also other animals that do this. Also a dog that sheds it winter coat will be a lighter color because of the shedding hair. Last edited on Tue Dec 11th, 2007 03:20 am by
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Posted: Tue Dec 11th, 2007 05:19 pm |
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Regarding Hair Color: My Two Cents Worth
I often thought that it seems like the color most reported in the northwest is black or dark brown. And in the south it seems to be reported often that the color is more reddish brown. I wondered if the predominate color has to do more with the habitate where it is reported. The pacific northwest has a lot of old growth forest, and is dark and filled with shadows. A black colored sasquatch would more eisily blend in with its suroundings there as oposed to a reddish brown one. In the south, the predominate habitate is pine forest. The pine needles on the ground, and the bark on the trees is reddish brown. A reddish brown colored sasquatch would more eisily blend in with its suroundings there as oposed to a black one.
Just a random thought,,,,
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Posted: Tue Dec 11th, 2007 05:46 pm |
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I like these theories on hair color and the different behaviour patterns observed.
Now if Mike can just get some long term observations of a BF family unit documented here we'll find out if what we've been theorizing is right or wrong LOL.
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Posted: Tue Dec 11th, 2007 06:43 pm |
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I hope no-one is in a big hurry for that report. It might take awhile..LOL
But, with everyones help..we might get the answers to a lot of these questions.
One step at a time.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 09:11 pm |
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SkunkApe wrote: Regarding Hair Color: My Two Cents Worth
I often thought that it seems like the color most reported in the northwest is black or dark brown. And in the south it seems to be reported often that the color is more reddish brown. I wondered if the predominate color has to do more with the habitate where it is reported. The pacific northwest has a lot of old growth forest, and is dark and filled with shadows. A black colored sasquatch would more eisily blend in with its suroundings there as oposed to a reddish brown one. In the south, the predominate habitate is pine forest. The pine needles on the ground, and the bark on the trees is reddish brown. A reddish brown colored sasquatch would more eisily blend in with its suroundings there as oposed to a black one.
Just a random thought,,,,
In horses, there are some blacks that, when exposed to the sun for extended periods of time, will brown out--will turn a brownish color. This might explain why a southern bigfoot might have a lighter color than a northern bigfoot.
Again in horses, there is no known reason why color should affect, or be correlated with, disposition, but there is some evidence that it does, or is. I once read of a study which indicated that gray mules had better dispositions that those of other colors--and I'm not sure that that isn't true of horses also. I have heard it said that dun horses--palaminos, buckskins, grullas--are harder to break but make better or tougher horses when a person gets it done. I have speculated that dun, which is produced by a dun, or delution, gene working on a base color, is a more primative, camouflage color and, therefore, indicates a stronger genetic tie to primative, less domesticated horses. (The only truly wild horses, not feral, are those in northern Asia, and they are all some variety of dun.) This would explain why dun horses are dun, why they are hard to break, and why they are tough horses when broke.
BTW, a palomino is produced by the dun/delution gene acting on a sorrel horse; a buckskin horse is produced by the same gene acting on a buckskin horse; and a grulla is produced by the gene acting on a black horse.
I have to be frank and say that the description of what was seen on Hitchie Road sounds to me like an orangutan--which animal is a reddish color. One thing that must be considered in the search for bigfoot is the possibility that what is being seen and reported is known primates that, for some reason, are in the wild.
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Posted: Fri Mar 14th, 2008 10:14 pm |
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I think you always have to keep the thought in the back of your mind that there is a possible non-cryptid animal involved in some sightings. I know the animal photographed in Fla some years ago identified as the Myakka creature looks an awful lot like an orang to me.
However, I doubt there are enough 'wild' known primates scattered around Ala and Ga to account for all the reports that we see 
drofwar wrote: SkunkApe wrote: Regarding Hair Color: My Two Cents Worth
I have to be frank and say that the description of what was seen on Hitchie Road sounds to me like an orangutan--which animal is a reddish color. One thing that must be considered in the search for bigfoot is the possibility that what is being seen and reported is known primates that, for some reason, are in the wild.
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 01:58 am |
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geneaut wrote: I think you always have to keep the thought in the back of your mind that there is a possible non-cryptid animal involved in some sightings. I know the animal photographed in Fla some years ago identified as the Myakka creature looks an awful lot like an orang to me.
However, I doubt there are enough 'wild' known primates scattered around Ala and Ga to account for all the reports that we see
I agree. Free-roaming known primates would be unlikely to explain ALL the reports in Alabama and Georgia--or Oklahoma.Last edited on Sun Mar 16th, 2008 02:00 am by drofwar
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 07:57 pm |
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thanks for providing such a great report mike. I don't think color has anything to do with aggression myself and more to do with environment like pat stated. In northern WI. they seem to be more dark brown and the south reports of auburn color. Both areas have reported aggression on some occassions, so i think it is more to do with habitat than color. JMHO.
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Posted: Sat Aug 23rd, 2008 10:03 pm |
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My own 2 cents worth, and this is just my opinion - aggression has nothing to do with anything except this........some people are more aggressive than others - some BF are more aggresive than others. Simple. That's it.
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 04:38 am |
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I knew this area sounded familiar. I just knew it!! The names sounded too familiar. I live in Russell County by the way. So I mapquested it just to be sure. I learned to drive on these and surrounding roads. And took many drives just cause I was bored. It's only 6 miles from my house. 6 miles! Well since Russell County has the Rood Creek sitting and this one on two opposite ends of the county. Plus Lee County has it own sighting closer to our county lines. So seems like this area is alot busier than I thought.
Edit: I had an afterthought. this is the rood creek account as told by our local papers column writer. It was in the Ledger Enquirer, but it is not on their website. You can find it easily by searching for: rood creek bigfoot tim chitwood . There is also a 911 call that has been released.
AFter you read it, I found this sentance in the article is interesting:
"A while back we heard of a fellow out in Russell County who claimed he knew a place off Old Sandfort Road where you could go every evening and see a big hairy hominid go by."
well, Hitchitie Road comes out on Sandfort Road. And doing an aerial image to confirm what I thought, this area is surrounded by thousands of acres of land. mostly just trees with a cleared of patches of land every so often. And Hithitie road is paved until it comes to a fork, one way is Hyram the other Hitchitie Road. Both these ways are dirt roads.
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We got bored and did some driving around this weekend in this area. Found the two roads again. The roads in that area are one of those "wrong turn" kinda roads. I would not want to break down on a dark moonless night. The trees come right up to the road. We found uchee creek and the surrounding swampland. We road the backroads for an hour in nothing but woods. We saw maybe 20 houses the whole time. There are alot of old abandon houses and lots of no tresspassing signs though.
We only met 2 cars the whole time, thank goodness. The road is only wide enough for one car in most places, and in some spots it's dug out so that the banks were 8 foot high on the sides (made my little car and me feel inferior). Bubba made a suggestion that something could jump on top of our car from those banks. Don't you just love kids? Saying out loud what your thinking, lol.
We stopped on the road a few times and I tried my calling. I suck, let me tell ya that. Having a little kid type voice like mine and trying to sound like something....well big, was funny. I know this from the giggles from the boys in the backseat, lol. Didn't hear anything back from it either. But it was about 2pm. I told the kiddies they were probably sleeping. Also, I think I got Chris' interest peaked cause he wants to go back one evening about dusk and try again.
Anywho, Chris seeing the area remembered that his uncle leases some land on Hitchitie Road to run dogs on. He's going to see about getting permission for us to research on it. Except when its hunting season. (I told him, duh). I'm also going to ask him if they've ever ran accross anything strange or intersting. Without mentioning the "B" word.
It's not really that far from Tuskegee National Forest where a recent sighting has been. So it may be a hotspot but not sure since there hasn't been much come from the area. But riding around and looking there is definitely plenty of places and lots of acreage of hardwoods to hide in and a plentiful water source. So much so they could be there and just the sightings we did have were one in a millions.
But I just thought i'd update from my end. Here are a few pics. I couldn't take much more. I was driving and Chris didn't want to. He said he could spot something out of place easier than I could and I needed to pay attention to the road. Whatever, lol.
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