Bigfoot: How Willow Creek Became Tormented By Bigfoot Sightings | Boogeymen | Real History

Whether he's known as Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti or the Abominable Snowman, the ape-like monster covered in fur has captivated imaginations the world over. Willow Creek, the Northern California's Bigfoot Scenic Byway, is the epicenter of Bigfoot sightings.

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[kenj]

A friend of mine and I went to Willow Creek several years ago. We met most of the people in this video. One of the greatest experiences of my life.

[SpinningSpur]

I lived in Oregon and earned a degree in Geography there. During my time at the University of Oregon I heard that the head of the Zoology Department was a firm believer in Bigfoot and that he had evidence. I was instantly captivated and sought him out. I spoke to the old guy for about 45 minutes and saw casts and samples that he had collected. He had hair samples in which the DNA matched no known primate and other evidence (25 years ago). I have kept an open mind about Bigfoot ever since.

[PoeLemic]

Never seen this video. I am so glad that these are on Youtube, because they're not on TV anymore.

[fredsieber]

Most scientist will not even research Sasquatch. I love what Carl Sagan said: “Absence of Evidence does not mean Evidence of Absence.”

[jaybirdful]

Came for Bigfoot 🦶 Fell in love with the Willow Creek Community!!!

[debstevens-tqiv]

I was born on the edge of the largest wilderness area in the continental U.S. My four brothers and I have spent 80 years living and working in the forest. One of my brothers saw a bigfoot. I have not. My other brothers have not, but we have seen grizzlies, wolverines, wolves which millions of people have never seen. I am on the fence but it is true that thousands of people believe they have seen them. I can no more argue with them than they can with me about what I have seen. If they don’t exist then why do hundreds of thousands of people claim they have. I hear people say why can’t we find these giant primates? How do they know they are primates. Since we don’t know what they are we also don’t how smart they are. Believe me, it isn’t hard to be smarter than people.

[nickscarter]

Me and a friend seen a Bigfoot, or a giant, on Carlton Ridge Montana in 1970. I had never heard of a SASQUATCH. It was very graceful, long arms and reddish hair, a face like a man, and moved like a man. It was over twelve ft. tall peaking through a pine tree at us.. We cut our camping trip short..Others had seen him also..

[MrKsan]

I was born and raised in Louisiana, I've hunted and fished this state my whole life and 36 years ago when I was 16 I walked up on a Bigfoot while deer hunting on a freezing, high windy day, four miles in deep woods. After my encounter I searched for this creature for 36 years wanting to find it again and in that time I've never seen so much as a track, the creature just can't be found. I've spent my whole life wondering why this is but have no answers.

[thelittlegreenball]

I enjoyed this very much. Thank you. I was actually flanked down a trail at night with a male friend. Above us on an incline and when we walked it walked. Wevstopped, it stopped. I picked up the pace and found an area to slide down on our rear ends which put more distance between us and whatever that was. We got in the car and I turned my brights but it stayed in the trees and was well hidden. I had been there previous times and always had a weird feeling. So a year later I was back up there on that trail and started talking to a female Ranger that stays in one of the cabins there. I told her what happened and she had the weirdest look on her face. Almost scared. Then told me not to be up there at night due to mountain lions. Now I 'm a city girl but I know that the footsteps were bipedal. Another person I told is very into nature and animals and said if it were a mountain lion I would have never heard it at all. I never saw what was flanking us but I just know it was bipedal, didn't use a flashlight so not human, and was intelligent.

[missshroom]

Every time we walk in the woods animals are looking at us🌎☀️💙

[Chris-qojx]

If you look closely at 42:06 you can catch a glimpse of gas for $4.05 in California. It been 2 years since anyones seen that.

[dsbmitchell]

At about 2:40, it is stated that bigfoot was known to Native Americans as "sasquatch." This is actually a common misunderstanding. The term "sasquatch" was developed by Canadian J.W. Burns and was derived from the word sésquac (or sesquac) of the Halkomelem language of the Coast Salish Nation. "Sésquac" means "wild man of the woods." One source with more information about this is Dr. Jeff Meldrum's book "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science."

[Koakoa]

Back when I saw one I had never even heard of Bigfoot before. It was about 50 yards from me and I took a million candlewatt spotlight on it. My dogs went wild, we had 5 acres against a national forest. I went out with my spotlight and smelled the horrible odor and heard the noise to my right. I shown my spotlight on what appeared at first to be a bear trying to pry the lid off my septic tank, it did break off the rebar handle. It shocked the animal and it stood up, and this was NOT a bear! It was an 8 foot tall great ape with long hair all over it with leaves in it. This was in the fall. I know its height as it moved under a branch that was exactly 8 feet tall, we measured it the day before to put up a swing on it. It startled me and I ran in at 1 am and woke the house up yelling "there's an 8 foot tall man in a hair suit in our yard." yeah. It had a domed head, hands that went backwards like a gorilla, no hair on its chest but long hair did go down and cover it. it had hair not fur. To me we have a North American Great Ape. Not some human hybrid crazy stuff. I saw this close and very clearly. This was in Southern Mississippi not far from the National Guard base here. I then spent week looking online trying to find what this thing was, this was in 2006 one year after Katrina.

[devashisnanda]

I have heard stories of Yeti in the Himalayas and locals say exactly where they saw and how it looked. They call it guardian of the mountain and they treat it like any other creature and there is no question of doubt about it's existence.

[CryptidWalks]

Sometime around 1978 or 79 I saw legend of boggy Creek on TV at my grandmas house with my cousin. My grandma told us that when she was a little girl in the Ozarks of Missouri, there was something like that that lived in the woods behind their house that they called the wood booger. I said wait a minute, these things are real? So then I started checking books out at the library and my obsession began. I’ve never seen one, but I have been to Willow Creek, Bluff Creek, all up and down the 101 Corridor and I’ve have several geocaches with a Bigfoot theme. Including one on Bluff Creek rd.

[bmminc]

Just because you've never seen something.. doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.. and just because you may not believe something.. doesn't mean that it isn't true..

[lovesafrica]

As a former Humboldt resident & park ranger, the deniers are truly lost & in total denial - or gov't people used to create doubt....whatever their reason, I've had numerous BF experiences, have seen perfect photos of BF in the 1980's & know for 100% they are as real as you & me. The Native Americans have known this for hundreds of years.

[doc]

We have them on the property here in Eastern KY. They're fascinating critters, Very curious, Very cautious, Non violent, They whistle and owl mimic often here.... If you're a non believer, Put an ape suit on that weighs 400-600 lbs, That's 7'3" - 7'6", Walk that fluent over that rough terrain and distance, flawlessly.... It's psychically impossible....

[johngates]

I was fishing East of Goldbar Wa in the late 80s early 90s .. Across from me was the widened area of the Skykomish River .I fished one gravel bar for Steelhead for 20 min ..Moved say 15 feet to the left of me after no bites etc. The rocks came about 10 feet in front of me . Across from me the river was at least 1/4 mile across...There was no way a person could throw rocks w such accuracy...I got spooked and moved back yo the gravel bar behind me..The rocks stopped.. i mentioned this to my best friend and i knew he would believe me ..Waited a year or so mentioned this to my wife ...She told me the area always creeped her out but didnt tell me cause she knew i wanted to fish there....Turns out Sasquatch at that time frame were seen from Sultan Wash up to Stevens Pass...

[Bobay]

This is a very good documentary. Bravo to everyone involved.