"I heard this loud, sustained 'WHOOOOOP' coming from right behind me. I don't think I've ever jumped up, spun around, and drawn a bow so fast."
I received the following account:
"Hi. I've always been interested in the idea of a North American ape. I'm not convinced that they exist, and I haven't ever seen one, but I have no doubts that something fitting the description could survive quite handily across the country. I have had one experience that's left me confused, so here goes.
I'm an avid outdoorsman. I've hunted and fished. I'm from Central Missouri, and I know what we have and what we don't have. We have a few mountain lions scattered around and even fewer black bears. The only common things that are big and wild are deer, coyotes, and turkeys. That being said, I really enjoy deer hunting. Our farm is situated on bluffs and ridges along the Missouri River in the center of the state. And while it's actually pretty populated, the terrain is incredibly rough and hard to get around on. That being said, our acreage isn't huge, but the surface area is. All kinds of ravines, gullies, hollows, etc.
It was a few years ago when I was halfway through undergrad and went home on a weekend during bow season. So it's a half-hour drive from the house to the farm and I show up well before daylight. And as luck would have it, I forgot my keys to my dad's box stand (we keep it locked so the neighbors don't vandalize it). That didn't bother me much though because like I said, rough terrain, it isn't hard to find a spot that sits over a game trail where I can have some elevation and cover. I grew up around this farm so I knew where trails were. All I had was a pack with some stuff like a knife, rope and tags, my bow, and a little LED flashlight. I took off down the side of a ridge and found a good spot where I could lean against a tree that overlooked a trail with some brush in front of me for cover. I figured I'd wait for the sun to come up and a doe would come by and I'd be home with a deer by lunchtime. I got to the spot, set down my pack, nocked an arrow, and of course, turned off my light. I got there probably too early and there was no sign of daylight yet, especially considering how thick the woods were.
I had been standing there for a half hour, maybe 45 minutes and then I heard a pack of coyotes. Like I said, not unusual, we have those. What I didn't like was that I was on the ground with only a bow, in the dark, and the yips and howls were getting closer. It would be a real pain to accidentally surprise a pack of coyotes like that. I've never heard of them bothering people, but you know how surprised animals freak out.
So I was getting ready to maybe arrow a coyote and was listening intently to where they were. As they came closer I noticed something bigger was with them. My initial thought was that they were chasing a deer. I could hear leaves rustling loudly and some limbs snapping. Once again, that all makes sense. I had decided that it was a big deer, maybe two of them together. They were really tearing up the leaves as they came, and the yipping and howling was right there with them. They must've passed me maybe 30 or 40 yards farther down the hillside and went right on by without noticing me at all. They were in a heck of a hurry too, before I could even think of estimating the time I had lost the sound of the coyotes in the ravines and woods.
I kind of eased up then. Probably wasn't going to have to shoot anything for a while yet, if anything came around at all. And right then when I was relaxed I heard this loud, sustained "WHOOOOOP" coming from right behind me. I don't think I've ever jumped up, spun around, and drawn a bow so fast. Of course, you can't handle a bow and light at the same time, so I was stuck there, in the dark, with something whooping right behind me, with only a bow. You can imagine I was a little tense. After about a minute I let off the draw, but I kept my release on the string. I didn't move for another hour, not till I could see a way without a light. After the sun came up enough I walked out very slowly and kept looking behind me. Got to the truck and went home. I was totally done hunting for the weekend.
So what was it? Like I said, I've been in those woods my entire life, and I have never heard anything like that. I thought about owls and looked up every owl call I could find and none of them were like that. The only thing that I've heard that sounds like it is supposed Bigfoot vocalizations. So then that makes me wonder, was a pack of coyotes chasing a Sasquatch? Not likely. So then I thought, well what if the Sasquatch was chasing the coyotes? Either to kill them out of spite or to kill them for food?
At any rate, the whole thing was weird. I would never even think it was remotely possible for something like that (if they exist at all) to be found in Missouri so close to civilization. Of course, after I did some Googling I found other cases of Missouri sightings, and a lot of them." W
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