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Lewiston Idaho - Two big horn sheep hunters had a run-in with a very different sort of animal as they walked in the woods on August of this year.

"Cowboy" Bob Trawkens and his friend Mark Landerson were walking just north of Interstate-84 in Nez Perce county when they heard something ahead of them.

"At first I thought it was a sheep coming down the trail," Trawkens told me. " But when it got closer I knew it wasn't no sheep. It was bigfoot"

The men froze as the brown furred creature got closer to them and then stopped to pick some berries off a tree.

"It was maybe 10 or 20 feet away from us," added Landerson. "I was just amazed cause you always hear about Bigfoot but think it's just some kind of joke. That thing out in the woods we saw wasn't no joke."

Both men describe the creature as being approx. 7 1/2 feet tall, with red to reddish brown fur. It had a "monkey-ish" face according to Landerson. The entire encounter lasted approx. 30 seconds and ended when Landerson fired his rifle at the creature.

"It wasn't the smartest thing to do. looking back," said Landerson about firing the gun. "But all I thought was that if we could kill it and come back to Lewiston with proof we'd be rich men. I missed cause my hand was shaking so bad and that thing just ran off faster than you could follow with your own eyes."

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Both men went back to their vehicle and used a pay phone at a rest area to call local TV news. within an hour a reporter and cameraman had showed up at the seen and the men were interviewed for the evening newscast.

That newscast was seen by sasquatch researcher Jeffrey Hale. Hale, who has been hunting for evidence of the creature for over 15 years, contacted the men and asked to be taken to where they saw the Sasquatch. They agreed and lead Hale to a spot in the woods approx. 2 miles from the interstate.

"I didn't see anything in that area to indicate that a Sasquatch had been in the area," said Hale. "No dung, no hair caught on thorns or even footprints. It was very disappointing."

The men say they were spurred on by the attempt of Hale to obtain evidence and went back into the woods the next week. It was at this time that they found tracks of bigfoot on the clay banks of a nearby creek. The men went back to town, bought plaster and then returned to the woods where they cast the feet. They then contacted the same news reporter who had covered the original story and told him of the new evidence.

"I guess Hale just wasn't trying hard enough," says Trawkens. "we were up there for about 3 hours and ran across the tracks. Huge footprints that were 18 inches long and 7 inches wide. It was a big sucker."

Cowboy Bob proudly shows off his huge foot

Hale now believes that both incidences were hoaxes. "The reason I didn't find any footprints is because Cowboy Bob and his partner hadn't made them yet. It wasn't until I went up in the woods with them carrying my plaster kit that they even got the idea about making plaster casts. Don't believe a word they say."

Trawkens disagrees. "They wasn't no way we could have made this up. Where does Hale think we got bigfoot feet from, the local Wal-mart?"

All three men were present at the 17th annual Sasquatch Convention in Seattle this year. Hale walked out of the hall as Trawkens and Landerson told their story and showed the plaster casts.

sources

interview with Bob Trawkens and Mark Landerson, September 16th, 17th, 1999

interview with Jeffrey Hale, September 17th, 1999

quicktime movie courtesy of KCDF, Lewiston Idaho

photos courtesy of Bob Trawkens and Mark Landerson



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