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[Moose Magnet]

I am posting this for another individual who had this encounter. This encounter happened last year. I would like to thank this person for letting me put his story up here. I have taken some details out about the specific location.



Ok, most of you will laugh at me.. go right ahead.. but I am going to explain my story tonight and I have no reason to lie.. I even have a witness so if you think I'm crazy your more than welcome to call her.

I decided to go fishing along the Weber river tonight.. a friend of mine wanted to come with me.. nothing abnormal, just a fun night of fishing. Well, it gets dark and we night fished for about twenty more minutes and it got so dark I couldn't see my hook so we decided to head out. As we are walking down the path we got about one hundred yards from my truck... NO one is around us... no cars, no people...

So, we start walking towards my truck and I hear something in the bushes next to us. No big deal, we are in the trees and stuff by the river. Could be tons of animals there, rabbits, deer, chipmunks, etc.. so we keep walking. Then I hear branches cracking like crazy. Then I hear a moaning and growling / ughh noise like I have never heard in my life. My friend C****l looks right at me with eyes as big as golf balls. I can not see five feet in front of me. My heart dropped. It is behind us about fifty feet and we hear it coming towards us. Same high pitched screaming, grunting, noise that sounds like nothing I have heard in my entire life. It sounded like a mix between a sea otter, a bear, a lion and a dog. It sounded absolutely scary as h**l.

We hear it coming behind us. It is grunting and making all sorts of noises. S**t is crashing behind us and branches breaking like crazy. We look at each other and start running. We are fifty yards away and I am going for my keys to unlock the door, as we start sprinting we hear the cracking and s**t behind us, growling, grunting, twenty feet behind us... ten feet behind us... as if it was catching us. She leaped in my truck and I turned around and felt like it was ten feet behind me and ready to jump on me. I pull out my ACP .45 cal from my pocket and kept the gun straight in front of me, finger on the trigger. I can't see a d**n thing and I can hear s**t in the bushes like you cannot believe. I jump in the truck and I am breathing like a race horse at this time. Sweating like h**l and she is freaking the h**l out. I put up my windows up and we turned on the lights and we can just see s**t moving, branches falling, grass moving and it was screaming at us but the lights just wouldn't go far enough or high enough. Noises so incredibly loud you would s**t your pants. growling, grunting, pacing back and forth as if it was angry as h**l.

I'm sorry guys but I came across something tonight that has me scared s**tless. It is 3am, I have every light on in my house. I am scared to death right now. I wish you could of been there and heard what I Heard. I have never been scared of stuff like this before but tonight changed me. There was something there and it was really big. This was no dog sized thing. This was LARGE and made sounds I cannot explain. It was not scared by us and it was following us in the trees. My friend is a veterinary technician, been doing it since high school. She works at a full fledged Vet clinic that does big animals. She said she has studied animals and sounds for years and she has never heard anything like this in her life. She was almost in tears. She was panting and freaking the h**l out. i backed up and got out of there as we see the branches and trees and shrubs in there moving around while hearing this horrible screaming and howling noise coming out.

You can all call me crazy but I would put my hand on the Bible and bet my Camaro that this story is 100% true. I felt so threatened and chased and inferior to whatever was out there. I pulled my gun and I was ready to shoot if I seen anything come out. It wasn't a deer, I have encounters with deer all the time. Most animals are scared of you... not this... it was following us and chasing us and it was moving through the black trees like nothing. There is no way it was a prank or people because you can not run that quick through those trees and make that kind of noise without falling over. There was not a car in sight as we left.

" Others in the Basin area, two weeks ago, said they heard "strange" growling and howling in the area. They said the sounds were like nothing they had heard before and they were frightening. They also heard heavy crashing in the brush and timber at the same time. "

I know what I heard... I couldn't see s**t but I know what i heard.. it is something that was intimidating, big, and fast and very powerful and it was coming for us. Tonight was by far the scariest night of my entire life. I have never been that scared, EVER. I almost froze up as I heard it running behind us... all I could do is jump in the truck and pull my gun and wait... it knew I was in the truck and with the lights on it was about 20 feet back in the brush moving around. It would not come out. There is no way in H**L I am getting any sleep tonight. I am going back tomorrow with my camera and I am going to take pictures of exactly what I am talking about. I am taking a friend with me and I am going to find massively broken branches and all sorts of things, I guarantee it.

I would bet my reputation, my car and everything on what I heard tonight. This is not a lie and I am so glad someone was with me. This is her message she wrote me tonight after she went home.

"Still no idea what it was, but whatever it was it had to have been big. That was so scary!!! I hope I never hear anything like that again! I am at a loss of what it could of been. No animal I know of sounds like that. "

I was more scared tonight than my worst nightmare. I just wish I had these sounds on camera. I was so d***n scared when I got in my truck I took off as the sounds and howlings were still going on from in front of me. Even with my 45 in my hand I felt helpless... that's how powerful this sound was that was chasing us. I am not saying it was Bigfoot, but I'm saying it was something I have never heard before and it was something very powerful. Just a constant ugh ugh ugh grunt noise as it was running behind us and crashing through branches. It is something I cannot explain in words. I have no idea what it was. I will never go night fishing again. End of story. You could not pay me fifty grand right now to walk 1/4 mile down the path of where I did tonight. You could have cash sitting in front of me and I wouldn't do it. That's how freaked out I am of what I heard tonight.

[Rodster]

  IMHO, they jumped a Moose.

[Rodster]

  Please not trying to jump this thread, my previous comment was my first thought having had the same experience.  I would very much like to hear what the investigators have to say as well as others who may be willing to chime in.  When we first moved to our new location a moose came busting through the brush in our direction, it was on us real fast and then it just stopped and walked across the river.  The neighbors tried to get rid of it for days.

[Moose Magnet]

It is an interesting business when it comes to investigating someones stories. I try to stay very objective and sometimes that is not easy. Now you jump into a realm (Bigfoot) that even has more unknown to it and so many opinions. One important thing I have learned when it comes to nature is that I am always surprised especially when I think I have it figured out.

Now I can only speak from my experiences. I have actually had an extreme amount of contact with moose, hence the nickname. I seam to attract them in the wild. I have taken numerous photo graphs of them in Yellowstone and getting dangerously close to them in the process. I have also had them stalk me, run me off of trails, run me into a lake, I have been caught between two bulls who had a disagreement with each other, I have had to jump in the way of a moose going after my son and many more accounts. What I have found with moose is I have never known one to try and hide from me especially if I have ticked it off and it is making a point to come after me or it is letting me know I have encroached on it. I am not saying this story is not a moose but what I find compelling and why I lean that it is not a moose is that it was extremely noisy and never exposed itself. Whatever it was appeared to be unhappy with the fact that they were there, but why stay hidden? Why would a bear stay hidden if it was behaving this way? Why would a moose stay hidden? Now you add in the noises. I have had moose make some very strange noises at me, even growl. I have never had one howl.

Now you throw in intimidation stories from known primates. They scream, break branches and act in a very aggressive nature. Now the story becomes even more interesting.

It boils down to the known and unknown obviously. What makes sense, what doesn't make sense. Tough one to call sometimes. Now what would be compelling is seeing the area and looking for how the branches were broken.

Until we have solid physical evidence we all have to decide for ourselves. I am not trying to get out of answering the question of what I think it was. I think it is better if we ask the questions and try to answer what we think it wasn't. Rule out the known and compile the unknown. Then we may start to see a pattern emerge. Thanks for asking the question Rodster.

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