Originally posted by randyvs
You don't sound like you're mentally unstable.
You should have a talk with the voices in my head, they may disagree!
(should've; but couldn't resist)
Okay, the "bear" thing.
I've seen many, many bears. I find them fascinating. They walk with their whole foot rolling across the ground, like a human, and their knees bend
forward like a human. Elephants do that too. I don't think any other animals do.
www.youtube.com...
www.youtube.com...
*Here's an interesting story about that from 'Native American Lore':
"There Grizzly Bear found her. He carried the little girl home with him wondering who she was. Mother Grizzly Bear took care of her and brought her
up with her cubs. The little girl and the cubs grew up together.
When she bacame a young woman, she and the eldest son of Gizzly Bear were married. In the years that followed they had many children. The children
didn't look like their father or their mother.
All the grizzly bears throughout the forest were proud of these new creatures. They were so pleased, they made a new lodge for the red-haired mother
and her strange looking children. They called the Lodge - Little Mount Shasta.
After many years had passed, Mother Grizzly Bear knew that she would soon die. Fearing that she had done wrong in keeping the little girl, she felt
she should send word to the Chief of the Sky Spirits and ask his forgiveness. So she gathered all the grizzlies at Little Mount Shasta and sent her
oldest grandson to the top of Mount Shasta, in a cloud, to tell the Spirit Chief where he could find his daughter.
The father was very glad. He came down the mountain in great strides. He hurried so fast the snow melted. His tracks can be seen to this day.
As he neared the lodge, he called out for his daughter.
He expected to see a little girl exactly as he saw her last. When he saw the strange creatures his daughter was taking care of, he was surprised to
learn that they were his grandchildren and he was very angry. He looked so sternly at the old grandmother that she died at once. Then he cursed all
the grizzlies.
"Get down on your hands and knees. From this moment on all grizzlies shall walk on four feet. And you shall never talk again. You have wronged
me."
He drove his grandchildren out of the lodge, threw his daughter over his shoulder and climbed back up the mountain. Never again did he come to the
forest. Some say he put out the fire in the center of his lodge and returned to the sky with his daughter.
Those strange grandchildren scattered and wandered over the earth."
*Selectively edited, the story ends with the children becoming the Native American Tribes. Link to story:
www.ilhawaii.net...
Many bears; continued: Once, I had stopped on the side of a road at a spring to fill up a few water bottles. I had my dog with me so I let her out to
get a quick drink. I was at the bottom of the spring, filling the bottles, and looked up to see a mother bear (standing erect) and two cubs about
fifteen feet away and uphill from me. The dog hadn't noticed them, so I got her back into the car, rolled the windows up and let the bears have the
spring.
I actually have a few unbelievable bear stories, U2U if you care.
I'm not actively turning a sighting into a bigger story, bear or otherwise. I understand the skepticism, it's one of the reasons I held on to it for
so long. I really don't like to be in the position of having to defend my veracity, or feeling that I do, so that was considered and expected when I
posted this.
Originally posted by randyvs
What the hell this thing is, that people have been seeing for so long, I don't know.
I have always held firm to the belief they are something more than
just a flesh and bone creature.
Seems odd, but over the years, I have noticed striking simalarities between all aspects of paranomal activity.
Now you see me now you don't. Bigfoot, ufo's and poltergiests.
Ever notice how they all seem to play this mind game.
The Indians around Mt. Shasta use to believe it was inhabited with
"giant hairy devils". That these devils had magic and could become
invisible.
Try to catch them on film it's as if they know there is a trail cam.
It's as though all these things are motivated by one persona.
A persona that loves to make a fool of men and is capable of great mischief played out on mere mortals.
As if exploiting a lack of understanding to the max and getting a big
laugh out of it.
This all points to something these simalarities.
I think you're absolutely right. Someday I'll (get up the nerve to) post more, and won't have any more 'evidence' than I do for this sighting.
It may well be a big joke, maybe just reminders that:
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
Here's my post at Seagull's thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...&flagit=337275
It's very interesting to me, to read this thread (probably the third time now) and see the development of your feelings toward this occurrence.
I went through the same progression of feelings during and after my encounter, and had kept his secret for over 30 years. I don't have any deep need
to 'prove' his existence or hunt him down, for that matter. It's a very personal experience. You can see my feelings are still ambiguous after all
these years: www.abovetopsecret.com...
I wouldn't discard the theory that he may be inter-dimensional, or that he may know you. The encounter has that other-worldly effect on your mind and
body. As for him knowing you, in my case, my family pioneered the area. We have been in those woods alone for almost two hundred years. I've
considered that I'm not the first in my line to interact with his. All this time, and I haven't even figured out my own feelings about this. It is a
profound slice of life.
I'm glad you pointed out this thread to me, Seagull, as it shows that my own wavering feelings regarding the true nature of Bigfoot are at least,
"normal".
[edit on 1-1-2010 by Dogdish]
There was a young man in the panhandle of Florida that had a late night sighting on a lonely road. He also commented on the
economy of motion the animal displayed. Maybe BFRO is slow because the report is old. They look for places that are current hoping to find the
creature is still in the area.
