Over the years I have been compiling stories about Bigfoot from eyewitnesses and writing articles about them. The most famous of these was co-written by my wife Terri entitled A Brief History of Bigfoot in Southern California. That piece was actually featured on the official Anza-Borrego Desert Park website at one time. In all the years of doing research on the Sasquatch mystery I never knew that I had grown up in the same house with someone who had a sighting of their own.
My very own father Joseph Hulsey had been keeping a secret. For nearly 35 years he remained tight-lipped about his own encounter with a mysterious creature while on a hunting trip. Over those decades my father and I had watched numerous Bigfoot documentaries and TV shows, including the time that he monster fought the Six-Million-Dollar Man, and he would tell of stories that were told to him by fellow hunters about the creature. He also kept an out of place copy of the November 1968 issue of Natural Wildlife Magazine that featured a story about the famous Roger Patterson film of Bigfoot in his collection of hunting magazines. Though I always had my suspicions, my father passed away in 1995 having never told me about his own personal sighting.
Apparently the only people that he ever shared his story with were my brother Jim and his wife Dava. I recently reposted my famous Bigfoot article and my sister-in-law asked me if I had remembered ever hearing of dad's sighting. After I had expressed my surprised ignorance she was kind enough to share it with me.
As the story goes my dad and a group of fellow hunters were camping off Highway 395 near Walker, California sometime in the early 1960s. The group had enjoyed a steak lunch and tossed their bones and leftovers beneath a nearby tree. The group then embarked on a late afternoon hunt. When the group returned to their camp around dusk they discovered that there was an animal rummaging around near the tree were they had tossed the steak meat. The group approached the animal assuming that it was bear. When the animal noticed the men approaching it stood upright and began to knock on the tree with it's fist. My dad immediately realized that what they were faced with was no bear at all but a very large humanoid creature covered in hair. The creature quickly realized that it was outnumbered and instead of attacking the group simply walked off into the nearby forest. None of the hunters, including my father, raised their guns in any attempt to kill the creature believing that what they saw could have been some sort of primitive human being.
It makes one wonder how many other stories like this have never been told in fear of disbelief and or ridicule.
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A Brief History Of Bigfoot In Southern California
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