In honor of Furry Hermit we will go with a theme I have long wanted to use in a geocache.
Big foot sightings. You will be going to 3 locations of documented Big Foot sightings in this area.
Your first stop is at the posted coordinates where you will be looking for the coordinates to wp 2
The clue is exactly 250 feet east of where the actual sighting took place.
The events of that night are documented below.
Report # 69467 (Class A)
Submitted by witness Jackson Stortz on Sunday, July 18, 2021.
Motorist sighting of a sasquatch LAST NIGHT 25 miles northwest of Milwaukee
July 18,2021
LOCATION DETAILS: About 1.5 miles west of hwy 164 on Pleasant Hill Rd.
NEAREST TOWN: Richfield
NEAREST ROAD: This took place on Pleasant Hill Rd
OBSERVED: My son reported seeing a two legged large figure covered in fur at approximately 8:30pm on July 18 2021 while driving eastbound on Pleasant Hill road roughly 1.5 miles west of Hwy 164 in Richfield WI.
This figure was standing right next to a tree on the south side of the road close to the shoulder. The road is curvy in this area. He said he also caught eye shine and the eyes were large. We said he probably saw this for about 3 seconds while driving. His headlights caught this and he is 100% positive he saw something. He said his heart dropped and he immediately called me while still driving. I knew something unique happened based on his demeanor and tone.
About 45 minutes after he called me I met him at home and went back to the site with him. We brought our dog. Every time we stopped or approached this area where the sighting was he started to whimper and would not get any closer.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Approx 8:30pm
ENVIRONMENT: Winding road. Very wooded. Land dips into a valley.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:
I spoke with both the father and son. They are credible and willing to be interviewed by local reporters. This incident happened last night.
They tried to investigate the sighting themselves not long afterward.
The father is TIm Stortz, a local business owner in the area. His son is named Jackson. He is sixteen years old. He was returning home from a friends house when he saw the figure by the side of the road.
He said the fur was dark brown and the reflecting eyes were yellowish in color. He said the figure was not completely in view. Only half was visible, partially obscured by a tree. It was very close to the road
WP2
You can park and access the Ice Age Trail form Hwy 167. You will need to venture off the trail to locate this clue.
The terrain is pretty rough to get to this wp.
You will be about 1700 feet away from the incident reported below, so this is a possible hideout for bigfoot.
You will be looking for the coordinates to the final here.
Below is the documented sighting:
DATE: 11-09-06
NEAREST TOWN: Township of Erin
NEAREST ROAD: Troll Hill Rd.
OBSERVED: [Investigators's interview notes begin here. The witness did not write up the story himself.]
On November 9th, 2006, the local media in southeastern Wisconsin ran a story about a possible sighting near Holy Hill.
The story refered to the contracted worker whose job it is to pick up deer carcasses on the highway on a regular basis. Some versions of the news story said a deer carcass was stolen from his truck by an alleged bigfoot.
The story ran in many newspapers across the country and quickly got the attention of various bigfoot researchers. Local TV also started reporting on the story. Local TV also reported on the story and used it as a good humor story for their broadcasts.
Due to the topic awareness created by the local news story, other people in the area began talking about observations and experiences they had with a similar looking figure.
I first sought out the contracted worker. He was frustrated because the media seemed to put words in his mouth about the incident. He didn't know what the animal was, and he did not say that it was a bigfoot. He merely described what happened, and what he observed. He emphatically stated he did not call it a bigfoot.
The state trooper's report conveys what happened, and what Steve observed. It does not call it a bigfoot either, but some elements of the story seemed consistent with sasquatch behavior, especially the attraction to deer.
Because of the deer element, the BFRO wanted to get a detailed, first-hand account of what Steve K. observed and experienced. I met with him a week later (11/17). We spoke for 45 minutes. He came across as a patient, rational person.
Steve K. stands 6 feet tall and weighs about 230 lb. The lighting was sparse, but I could see his facial features. If it was an all black form like what Steve says, I can’t imagine being able to see a lot of detail.
Next we spoke about the sequence of events.
Steve K. was driving west-bound along Holy Hill Rd., on 11/9/06 at 1:30am, and 15 yards west of the intersection of Troll Hill Road he found a dead deer. The deer wasn’t on his list of dead deer to pick up. He had just happened upon it and he figured he’d pick it up because he knew he would have to pick it up later. Steve K. receives a list of dead deer locations faxed to him each morning. He lifted up the 80 – 100 lb dead doe himself, put it in the back of the pickup with the four other dead deer. He didn’t notice anything unusual about the dead deer and there weren’t any strange sounds around him.
He got into the pickup, closed the door, reached for his clip board. He didn’t have a chance to open the clipboard because that’s when he first felt the pickup shudder. He thought it was the wind. Almost instantaneously, it shuddered again. He instinctively looked up at the center mirror and saw a dark figure reaching into the bed of the pickup. He said it was all black, had a head that was a cross between a black bear and a wolf. Its ears were pointed straight up, not folded over. He knew it wasn’t a bear. He could see something like a muzzle, but he couldn’t see its eyes. He said it reached out with one “arm”. He could not see "whether it had claws or fingers or hands”. It had three-foot wide shoulders and described it as being “stocky”. He said it was about has tall as I am (5’10’’) when it was reaching into the bed.
I stood behind the pickup so he could gauge the height of what he had seen. He watched it at the most five seconds where the first couple of seconds he was trying to figure out what it was. The next few seconds fear was setting in.
“It scared the crap out of me”.
Steve K. quickly pulled away and didn’t bother to look in the mirror as he left. He heard the ramp hit the ground as he headed west. When he set the deer in the pickup ‘it must have gotten tangled with the ramp’. The deer that was taken was the one that he had just put in. He went back five (5) minutes later and there was no deer, and no ramp. The reason he went back was, because he needed the ramp along with the remaining ramp in the pickup to wench in heavy deer in to the bed of the pickup.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 0130 hrs, 55 degrees
Sightings occur periodically in North America, but they rarely become local news stories, much less national news stories. This one eventually became a national news story, albeit briefly.
The difference in this case seemed to be: 1) the willingness of the witness to report the incident directly to the authorities (highway patrol) immediately after it occurred, and 2) the willingness of the authorities to accept the story and take a statement.
Final.
Once you have the coordinates you can head to the parking coordinates and then hike out to the general area of the 3rd possible Big foot encounter. That encounter is documented below.
March 25,2018
LOCATION DETAILS: On the trail by the St Augustine parking area. Sounds came from the area of Loew Lake which is off limits to hunting. Check the WDNR map of Loew Lake to see where this area is.
NEAREST TOWN: Monches
NEAREST ROAD: St Augustine Rd/Drumlin Ln
OBSERVED: My father and I went to Loew Lake because I had heard there had been sasquatch activity in the area. We hiked the trails for about two hours without much luck finding anything. I did find tree structures near the area where hunting is prohibited, and I took a picture of each of the two potential tree structures we had found. So as we were heading back to our car after hiking for two hours, I decided to pick up a stick and try making some wood knocks. To our surprise, there was a response.
Mind you, we had been hearing gunshots in the area, local wildlife, and the sounds of trees scraping against each other. And what we heard was a knocking noise we couldn't explain. I knocked once, and we heard a knock in reply. Then I knocked in a series of three, and we got a three knocked response. Then, the knocks started going rapid one after another.
I then replied in the same fashion, knocking rapidly one after another. Then it stopped. I made several attempts later to try tree knocking again in hopes of getting a response again, but no luck. I had the idea that if it was a sasquatch, it figured out it wasn't communicating with another Sasquatch so it stopped replying. My dad and I both heard it and decided that it could have only been either another human being messing with us or it was in fact a sasquatch.
This makes me want to look into the area more. Because we never heard that noise until I started tree knocking the first time. And then never heard the noise again. We ruled out the idea that is was just a wood pecker, because wood peckers make noise whenever they want and not really in reply to something. To my knowledge, nothing in our area in terms of animals could make a knocking noise such as that.
ALSO NOTICED: There were many deer tracks in the area, so there's definitely food for any potential sasquatch or predator.
OTHER WITNESSES: My father was there. When we heard the wood knocking, we both just looked at each other surprised.
OTHER STORIES: We had heard that there was potential Bigfoot activity in the area. So that's what prompted us to go there.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Around 3pm in the afternoon. It was sunny with wind, and about 41 degrees.
ENVIRONMENT: Deciduous forest. Conditions were quiet for the most part. In the same area, we found potential tree structures.
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