Witnesses of Sasquatch aren't some type of modern-day hoax that only began in the 20th and 21st centuries, but go back to newspaper accounts as early as the 1800s.
In this classic article printed in the Sacramento, two hunters barely escaped with their lives after shooting a Big Foot, making it angry and chasing them off the mountain.
The Daily Union newspaper, based in California, printed an article on November 1, 1879. It was titled, "A STRANGE CREATURE: Two Hunters Chased by a Wild Man in the Antelope Mountains", and states:
Quote:Quote:“William Shegan, who came in from Antelope Valley last evening with a load of produce, tells a Leader reporter a very strange and startling story of the experience of two men who were hunting in Antelope Valley last week. He says that Peter Simons and John Gore had been out all day hunting ducks and such other game as they came in their way, and as evening came on they took a short cut across the mountains on their way back to the ranch. The mountain over which the trail led them was a very rugged one – in fact, the wildest place in the Antelope range of mountains – and a few years ago used to be infested with the larger species of wild animals.”
The story continued that as the pair made their careful way around what was described as a “large chasm,” they heard a strange, animal-like noise coming from the vicinity of a nearby cliff-face. As they looked to see the source of the chatter, both men were shocked by the sight of a large, hairy, manlike animal that sprung from behind the cliff-face, and headed towards the mountains with “the speed of the wind.”
Realizing that the beast was something distinctly out of the ordinary, and being hunters, Simons and Gore did what hunters to best of all: they opened fire on the animal. Gore managed to clip the creature on one of its arms, which was more than evident when the beast came to a sudden, screaming halt and grabbed its arm, clearly in severe pain. The wild-eyed creature wasn’t just in agony, however; it was also enraged to the max: in seconds it charged both men in violent fashion.
Hardly surprising, Simons and Gore didn’t try and get a better shot; instead, they dropped their rifles and fled for their lives. It was only due to their ability to outrun the animal that they didn’t finish up as the hunted, rather than as the hunters.”
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Here is a website that is dedicated to reports of Big Foot with some stories going back to the early 1900s: Source
Here is a video with some compelling evidence that Big Foot is REAL!
Why has this not been discussed more openly in the public?
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