Speaking Out About Bigfoot Sightings
by Renee Fite
Residents of several towns in Oklahoma speak out about their Bigfoot experiences.
They’ve been here for ages
The movie The Legend of Boggy Creek inspired D.W. Lee to drive to Fouke, Ark., in search of Bigfoot. Since the 1990s, he has become an avid researcher and expert on the legend and the creature.
And a believer.
“Once you see one, you want to see another one,” Lee said. “Hearing their vocalizations and movement around you is incredible. “It gives you pause to think about what goes on in a woods at night.”
Lee and his Stilwell-based Mid-America Bigfoot Research organization are part of an international long-term Bigfoot investigation using cameras and video equipment. Their website, http://www.mid-americabigfoot.com has a message board where researchers discuss their findings, Lee said.
Once, when researching north of Claremore, he saw a dozen of the creatures move on all fours through an open field, then stand up and walk when they got to the tree line.
“We have a white Bigfoot in this area,” Lee said. “We’ve been tracking it in this area since 1994. It travels in between Adair and Cherokee counties.”
Bigfoot is definitely a primate, he said.
“There are three kinds: those with human type features and a nose more human in shape; those with a gorilla look; and some with a monster look that are terrifying to look at.”
They’re found throughout the U.S. and active in Oklahoma, according to Lee.
“They’ve been here for ages,” Lee said. “We shouldn’t be afraid. They’re just as curious about us.”
“Some people feed them, and they have found plenty of dead chickens outside chicken houses,” he said. “They’re really good at catching deer. They hunt in packs. Part of them will run deer in the general direction of the others, and they can grab them when they run by.”
Two women in the Lost City area – Peggy and Margaret Hance – have grown up watching Bigfoot for 25 years. Margaret moved to the area with her parents when she was 12.
Over the years, they’ve had things thrown at their house, including rocks, lumber, sticks, and a cat that died at the hands of the creature. They’ve seen Rose of Sharon bush torn up and claim they hear, see and smell Bigfoot regularly.
“I’ve heard them holler and scream,” Margaret said. “Mom’s seen them and I’ve seen them in the backyard 20 feet away.”
She describes them as tall, with long, brown-reddish hair, no hair on their face, and standing upright with long arms, reaching almost to their knees.
“We see them every day,” she said. “We’ve seen small, medium and large footprints.”
Peggy said she was only scared the one time she thought a little Bigfoot was trying to come in the house. “A sheriff’s deputy spotlighted one once,” she said.
Another time, her husband was in the tool shed and a Bigfoot was standing outside the door watching him. “My granddaughter yelled at it to, ‘Get away from my grandpa,’” she said, “and it moved on.”
She thinks the Bigfoot like red-haired children most of all. “They used to watch my grandchildren,” Peggy said. “They’d even watch them go out and get on the school bus. I’d see them hiding behind a tree or bushes.”
She’s seen two females. “They have breasts, usually with no hair, and on their face and palms of their hands,” Peggy said.
Margaret said they come in all different colors.
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Elizabeth on Sunday, July 13, 2008So, where are all the pictures?
bclear62 on Sunday, July 13, 2008When I was growing up in Indiana we lived near a river and their were sightings of bigfoot quite often along this river. One even visited my Uncles house and peeked in the bathroom window. That in itself was strange because the window was more than seven feet off the ground. He watched strole across his yard and just step over a fence that was at least six feet high without missing a step. Barb Clear
