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Commissioner candidate says he's seen a ‘Bigfoot'
Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 09:56:56 am MDT
By CHRIS PETERSON
Hungry Horse News
A Democratic candidate for county commissioner has another interesting facet to his life experience: A run-in with what he believes might have been a Sasquatch.
He also believes he's seen a UFO.
Don Avery, who was also a former Flathead County administrator, details his experiences on the Web site donaves.blogspot.com/ in posts he made in January 2005.
Contacted Tuesday, Avery confirmed that he believed he saw a strange creature in the woods of Washington State in the early 2000's near a mining claim he owns.
He said the creature was large, but not huge, about 6-foot-6 or 6-foot-8 and “real stocky.”
He said while it had hair like a bear it didn't make noises like a bear.
“It may be some type of essentially screwed up bear. But it didn't have the face of a bear,” he said.
Avery said Sasquatch, or Bigfoot sightings are fairly common in that area, known as Liberty, in the Cascades. In fact, maps have even been made that chronicle various sightings by a host of other folks as well.
“So I'm not the only weirdo in the woods,” Avery said with a laugh.
Avery said his wife has also seen the creature as well.
He describes in this entry:
“It has paralleled me through the brush when I have walked in to the claim. It likes to beat on trees with rocks and has even spent about four to five minutes hollering at my wife and myself. It has a voice like a youngster prior to puberty. It is very high pitched. When it breaks down brush while walking, it is very noisy. They cannot walk quietly through the brush. They are just too heavy.”
Avery said he has also seen tracks of the creature and he believes it may sit on the hillside and watch the traffic on the highway down below.
Avery also claims to have seen a UFO in Gig Harbor, Washington, in 1979.
Avery said he's not into the supernatural.
A Catholic, he goes to church on a regular basis. But there are things he's seen he can't explain.
“I'm not dreaming,” he noted.
He said his son first helped him set up a Web site, strange-experiences.com, but it has since been taken down. He said he was unaware of the blogspot entries, noting the postings were originally on the other Web site, which is now defunct.
Commissioner candidate says he's seen a ‘Bigfoot'
Posted: Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 09:56:56 am MDT
By CHRIS PETERSON
Hungry Horse News
A Democratic candidate for county commissioner has another interesting facet to his life experience: A run-in with what he believes might have been a Sasquatch.
He also believes he's seen a UFO.
Don Avery, who was also a former Flathead County administrator, details his experiences on the Web site donaves.blogspot.com/ in posts he made in January 2005.
Contacted Tuesday, Avery confirmed that he believed he saw a strange creature in the woods of Washington State in the early 2000's near a mining claim he owns.
He said the creature was large, but not huge, about 6-foot-6 or 6-foot-8 and “real stocky.”
He said while it had hair like a bear it didn't make noises like a bear.
“It may be some type of essentially screwed up bear. But it didn't have the face of a bear,” he said.
Avery said Sasquatch, or Bigfoot sightings are fairly common in that area, known as Liberty, in the Cascades. In fact, maps have even been made that chronicle various sightings by a host of other folks as well.
“So I'm not the only weirdo in the woods,” Avery said with a laugh.
Avery said his wife has also seen the creature as well.
He describes in this entry:
“It has paralleled me through the brush when I have walked in to the claim. It likes to beat on trees with rocks and has even spent about four to five minutes hollering at my wife and myself. It has a voice like a youngster prior to puberty. It is very high pitched. When it breaks down brush while walking, it is very noisy. They cannot walk quietly through the brush. They are just too heavy.”
Avery said he has also seen tracks of the creature and he believes it may sit on the hillside and watch the traffic on the highway down below.
Avery also claims to have seen a UFO in Gig Harbor, Washington, in 1979.
Avery said he's not into the supernatural.
A Catholic, he goes to church on a regular basis. But there are things he's seen he can't explain.
“I'm not dreaming,” he noted.
He said his son first helped him set up a Web site, strange-experiences.com, but it has since been taken down. He said he was unaware of the blogspot entries, noting the postings were originally on the other Web site, which is now defunct.