Watching Bigfoot

  We want to tell you an interesting, colorful story. The story comes from the Kamchataka Peninsula in Russia. It is told by a hunter who had already killed a 10 foot Alaskan Brown Bear there and did not go on this particular hunt with his buddies. The hunter is Bill Lee of Boise, Idaho. The hunting party guided by Indians followed a brown bear for four days. They found where the bear had an epic battle with another extremely powerful creature. The ground was torn up, and the hunters found a limb that the other creature had used against the bear (bears can't hold clubs). The limb had been torn from a nearby tree and measured about five feet long with the bigger end about five or six inches in diameter. The big end was covered with blood and fur. The hunters tracked down the bear the next morning. He was sleeping in some thick bushes so they waited patiently for him to get up. Hours later he emerged from the bushes and began walking very stiffly and slowly. The bear was humanely killed by two shots from a .416 Rigby, commonly known as an elephant gun. When he was skinned, he was found to have bites on him, but they weren't as deep as bear bites. They also were arranged in a horseshoe shape like a human's, not the long and narrow pattern that a bear leaves. The Indian guides had read the signs at the site of the epic battle a day before and said that the bear had attacked a female Bigfoot who had a youngster with her. Immediately, a male Bigfoot had jumped on the back of the bear and began biting his neck. During the battle, he had pulled thelimb off and used it as a club. The mother Bigfoot had run off with the cub, leaving the fight to the male.The area was full of wild strawberry bushes. This fight was probably over finite resources. Peter Nickerson, 352-359-0850.