A woman is lost in the northern Idaho wilderness. A search & rescue team leader describes the strange circumstances that occurred during the search and how it involved a Bigfoot.
"I live in eastern Washington, and I'm a 27-year firefighter/paramedic veteran. I volunteer with several search and rescue teams from Washington to Idaho. In the late spring of 2014, I was on vacation at my son and daughter-in-law's home in northern Idaho when over the local news they announced a need for trained rescue members to help search for a family of five lost for two days. I travel with my seasonal rescue equipment so I'm prepared at all times.
I drove an hour and 45 minutes with my son to a northern Idaho town out of Bonners Ferry where the command center was. We divided into teams of seven. Everyone from all over the north came out to help. I took the lead of my team and searched the high country at the border of Montana and Idaho. When we arrived we met a Montana conservation officer. He told us that the father and children had made it out but he had to leave his wife because her hip seemed to be broken and she couldn't walk. He had left a .357 pistol with her for protection and signal for rescuers. She also had a whistle.
As we headed up the mountain, after 1 hour we ran into three search volunteers that were gassed from the off-trail search. As they followed the sound of a whistle they said that they followed the whistle sound into the big timber but couldn't catch up to it. Confused by this report we marked their last GPS area on our map and proceeded to that area. It was 4:00 in the afternoon, weather was sunny and dry. We heard a faint whistle sound come from a ridge roughly a half mile ahead. We thought, 'Awesome. We found her.' This is when things went weird.
We hiked maybe 1000 feet when we heard the whistle again. This time it was closer. We yelled out to her but with no reply. We walked another 500 feet when this time the whistle was now blowing constantly, always ahead of us. Our trail was coming to an end. It turned into a narrow game trail. I pulled up the map and GPS to check where we were. We were in the correct area but it did not match the husband's description. We all talked it over. This time, out of the seven of us, four voted to continue to follow this now loud-blowing and constant whistle.
Through the timber, across the creek's upper rock wall to a meadow, we found her. I radioed to command, 'We have her. Send the helicopter. She is unconscious." As I set an IV and the other medic stabilized her pelvis, the others cleared out the brush and branches so the prop wash from the airlift wouldn't hurt anyone. One of the members walked over and handed me a bright orange whistle on a lanyard that she said she found hanging on a tree limb 35 yards away. That freaked us out! How the hell did she blow that whistle? She was unconscious. There were no other hikers on the mountain that we saw and the area where the whistle was hanging was above a cliff just yards away.
After she was recovered by Life Flight helicopter we headed out to the command center. The sheriff greeted us. He took us aside and asked all of us if we saw anything strange. Apparently, when the helicopter was approaching, they both saw a large creature walking away from where we were. We told them about the traveling whistle and how it kept moving as we followed and that's how we found the victim. Now I've heard stories of people being helped by these creatures or Bigfoot, as you call them. There are nine of us, a sheriff, two firefighters, myself, and others who experienced this wonder."
Transcribed source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwXU9ieUck
NOTE: That's a wild account, but I've heard and read similar experiences reported by search & rescue team members. Lon
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