Sasquatch Sighting In Montana
by Johm Cramer
An endangered gray wolf was found dead on a roadway and a reported sighting of Sasquatch occured near Alberton, Montana.
A bigfoot was reported near a river
One is endangered, the other may not even exist. But the sasquatch and the gray wolf, two creatures with a long history in human mythology, were reported to have turned up on the side of the road in western Montana last week.
The Montana Department of Transportation found a dead wolf July 21 along Interstate 90 near Lookout Pass on the Idaho border. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials said the wolf had injuries consistent with a vehicle collision.
The wolf, a gray adult female, may have belonged to the Silver Lake pack, which is thought to inhabit the Montana-Idaho border around Lookout Pass. Wolves have rebounded from the brink of extinction in the Northern Rockies, where they are under federal protection.
Bigfoot, on the other hand, may never have existed. Nonetheless, a motorist reported seeing one of the purported giant primates along I-90 near Alberton about a week ago.
The motorist said he saw the Bigfoot approaching a middle-age couple who were fly-fishing, said Matt Moneymaker, who heads the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in California. The motorist, who called 9-1-1, described the sasquatch as more than 7 1/2 feet tall with long arms, a skinny frame and brown hair.
A Bigfoot was sighted near where people were fly-fishing
Montana has had many reported sightings of sasquatches over the years, but Moneymaker said he was skeptical of the latest report because it supposedly happened in front of dozens of motorists in broad daylight, but only one person called 9-1-1. “I know when you’re driving in a wooded area that things can create an illusion of something big,” he said. “We get tons of reports, but this one just doesn’t add up. We need some corroboration.”
Moneymaker said the motorist made a secondhand verbal report to his organization but has yet to make a written report, which is required before the group will conduct a formal investigation. “The only way we’ll take it seriously is if it’s written down, so we can follow up,” he said.
Moneymaker said one of his group’s members reports the Montana-Idaho border to be a hotbed of Bigfoot sightings.
He said the two states have good sasquatch habitat, remote forests and plenty of elk, deer and other food sources for omnivores, but may have a limited number of sightings because of the small human population. “They’re out there, but there just aren’t that many people to see them,” he said.
Three sasquatch sightings in Montana have been reported to the Bigfoot group since 2005, including one in Missoula County and one in Ravalli County.
Sasquatch, an American Indian term meaning wild man, is a species of giant primate reported for centuries in North America. Their current estimated population is 2,000 to 6,000, according to the Bigfoot group.
Bigfoot advocates say there is plenty of evidence of their existence, including sightings, footprints, photos, film, hair, scat and tree damage, although no body of a sasquatch has ever been found for scientific examination.
Moneymaker said remains of a Bigfoot, whether killed by a motor vehicle, a hunter or natural causes, aren’t needed to verify their existence. Like other wild creatures, their remains are picked over by scavengers and their bones disintegrate, he said.
“Why would there be a body for something so rare and nocturnal?” he said. “You can walk in the woods in Montana your whole life and never come across the remains of a mountain lion and they outnumber the Bigfoot 1,000 to one.”
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