The Complete Guide To Mysterious Beings - Galaksija

Five years later, on August 30, 1965, the Union-Banner at Clanton carried this illuminating story:
”Some six years ago several people out on Walnut Creek a mile or so from Clanton reported seeing
some animal like a bear. It made some curious sounds at night kindly [sic] like a woman in distress.
It ranged up and down the creek for a distance of some ten miles.
”Then some four years ago something made tracks in peach orchards some three miles south of
Clanton, near large swamps. It was supposed to vanish into the swamps at night. A cement cast was
made of the track, about the size of a person's foot but looking more like a hand. The cast is still
somewhere in Clanton.”
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2. The following account was published in 1896 in a booklet titled The Hermit of Siskiyou by L. W.
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Note 1. A Del Norte Record correspondent writing from Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, Jan.
2, 1886, discourses as follows: ”I do not remember to have seen any reference to the 'Wild
Man' which haunts this part of the country, so I shall allude to him briefly. Not a great while
since, Mr. Jack Dover, one of our most trustworthy citizens, while hunting saw an object
standing one hundred and fifty yards from him picking berries and tender shoots from the
bushes. The thing was of gigantic size – about seven feet high – with a bull dog head, short
ears and long hair; it was also furnished with a beard, and was free from hair on such parts
of its body as is common among men. Its voice was shrill, or soprano, and very human, like
that of a woman in great fear. Mr. Dover could not see its footprints as it walked on hard
soil. He aimed his gun at the animal, or whatever it was, several times, but because it was so
human would not shoot. The range of the curiosity is between Marble Mountain and the
vicinity of Happy Camp. A number of people have seen it and all agree in their descriptions
except some make it taller than others. It is apparently herbiverous and makes winter
quarters in some caves of Marble Mountain.”
3. ”It ran upright like a man, swingin' long, hairy arms,” said Ray Kerr of McKinleyville,
California, as he described his sighting of ”Big Foot” on Sunday, October 12, 1958. He was near
Bluff Creek when he saw it. ”It happened so fast, it's kinda hard to give a really close description.
But it was covered with hair. It had no clothes. It looked eight to ten feet tall to me.”
Roy Wallace, said he had seen a similar creature a short time earlier. It was hairy, walked stooped
over, had long dangling arms, and was ”four feet across the shoulders.”
The mutilated bodies of four dogs were found in the area by Curtis Mitchell, an Indian, on the
evening of Kerr's sighting. ”They looked as if they had been ripped apart,” he said. ”One of them
had apparently been slammed against a tree. The bodies were still warm when they were discovered
off the Elk River road about five miles south of Eureka, California.”
4. Charles Wetzel was driving home in Riverside, California, on Saturday night, November 8, 1958,
and as he neared the point where North Main Street crosses the Santa Ana River something leaped
in front of his car.
”It has a round, scarecrowish head,” he said, ”like something out of Halloween.
”It wasn't human. It had a longer arm than anything I'd ever seen. When it saw me in the car it
reached all the way back to the windshield and began clawing at me.
”It didn't have any ears. The face was all round. The eyes were shining like something fluorescent,
and it had a protuberant mouth. It was scaly, like leaves.”
Wetzel reached for the .22 pistol he carried in the car and ”stomped on the gas.”
”The thing fell back from the car and it gurgled. The noise it made didn't sound human. I think I hit
it. I heard something hit the pan under the car.”
There were long sweeping scratches on his windshield but nothing was found at the site. The next
night a six-foot-tall black thing leaped out of the bushes near the Wetzel site and frightened another