Sasquatch Sightings

Account

Bob Lea said he was looking out his bedroom window before 5 a.m. when he saw a large creature walking across the pasture towards the house from the Southeast. About 200 yards from the house it was joined by another, a head shorter. The large one picked up a dark object about the size of a bale of hay, but with loose ends that flapped in the breeze. It handed this to the smaller creature, which carried it. The big one then walked straight toward the house, coming within about 100 feet before Bob, who was becoming concerned, went to wake his father. When they returned both were gone. The sheriff's office was notified at 6.30 a.m., and in a 50-minute search Deputy M. H. McFerrin and Lea could find nothing. Later that day, however, Bob's sister Debbie found three tracks in the pasture, and the day after that Bob made a cast of one of them, 17.5 inches long, 7 inches wide, width almost uniform throughout length, and with only three large toes, the centre one the longest. In his written statement Bob described the larger creature as 10 to 11 feet tall, head large in proportion, all muscles big and bulky, shoulders round. He told Wolverton that it took long strides with arms swinging, appeared to have no neck, was covered with dark brown to black short hair except on the face, which he could not describe. Forehead protruded outward to a rounded head, nose was pushed in, didn't notice ears. Walk was very smooth, no stooping, legs did not bend much at the knees, back came straight down below buttocks, no inward curve at the waist. Wolverton found Bob's story convincing. However he told Wolverton the thing was 8 feet tall and he didn't like being misquoted about the height (10 feet) in the Helena paper. In his own written roport he put 10 to 11 feet both in the document and on a drawing. No reference to the amount of light or to where the creatures appeared from