My neighbor told me of an incident he experienced last year of hearing brush breaking, having stones thrown close to him, smelling a terrible smell similar to wet dogs and dung mixture, the feeling that he should leave and hearing a sound that made his skin itch [literally]. Needless to say, he left the area. I have spoken to other surfers and they have confirmed what myOur other correspondent from California mentioned that the BFRO had a sighting listed from that same area from 1972. Something has been going on in that area for quite some time.
neighbor had told me. They will surf all day there but when night time comes they will immediately pack up and leave the area. The area is in a little bowl like hollow with the Pacific Ocean across Highway One.
[Then a bit later, Don wrote:]
I just spoke to my neighbor who was with some of his surfing
buds. He knew that I was contacting you and he wanted to add that when
he heard that keening sound his arms and chest started to itch. I asked
him if he could imitate the sound and he didn't want to as the memory
still bothers him. One of his friends mentioned that when they go
surfing there and it gets to be dusk there is something in the air that
makes them want to constantly look over their shoulders. I asked if
they felt that they were being watched and he said yeah. He said it
felt like you could almost physically feel the stares. He also said
that his dog acts really scared when he returns to his truck. His
dog is a rottweiller. The others said the same thing about their dogs.
One said he found his dog under his pickup and someone else said his dog
was jammed into the footwell with his head under the front seat.
I don't recall ever hearing of itching being associated with a bigfoot encounter, especially being provoked by sound. Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
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Interesting information on historical Native American culture at Big Sur found on Wikipedia, wonder how this behaviour relates to our big friend:
Three tribes of Native Americans—the Ohlone, Esselen, and Salinan—were apparently the first people to inhabit the area now known as Big Sur. Archaeological evidence shows that they lived in Big Sur for thousands of years, leading a nomadic, hunter-gatherer existence.[2]
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They followed local food sources seasonally, living near the coast in winter to harvest rich stocks of mussels, abalone and other sea life, and moving inland at other times to harvest oak acorns.
This is off the top of my head, and may have been dealt with earlier in another post.
Physiologically, 'fear' and 'excitement' are the same thing: increased heart rate and respiration, elevated blood pressure, etc. It is our cognitive interpretation of these physiological events which determines the emotion.
Could it be that there is something related to the tides or waves at that location which is producing infrasound? Maybe it occurs whenever the waves are hitting just right, but it doesn't get cognitively assigned as 'creepy' until dusk/dark.
It's mentioned that animals use a 'scare' noise to make use of the infrasound, could the encroaching dark serve the same purpose?
It wouldn't explain brush breaking, rocks being thrown, etc., but might be part of why that particular location gives off that vibe.
Anonymous, I have wondered much the same thing because of the location. It has been shown that some places with natural infrasound sources have been experienced as "haunted." It could be that this area creates the right kind of infrasound to creep people out. I think we have to keep that possibility in mind.
Very interesting.
I just had a reseach/good friend send me this link.
I'm Bart Cutino with the BFRO,AIBR & SRI. I've lived in Monterey my whole life and have collected several first & second hand, sporadic reports from locals throughout that whole region-west to Carmel Valley & Hunter Liggett and have hit the area pretty regularly the last few years (although all of my personal first-hand worhwhile experiences in the field have taken place in both NorCal & WA state). I also have recently received some new info on a possible experience from a lifelong friend from Monterey who also surfs this area.
The area contains an abundance of potential food sources, diverse vegetative cover & water and am still surprised that we don't pull more reports from here. The recent fire last year got very close to hitting Big Sur and a huge portion of the Ventana Wilderness (took out a lot of this area, as a result, there's a current issue with mudslides).
There is also a history in Big Sur going back to the 1950's with a ore-miner woman from the Los Burros Mining District who claimed she was physically picked up out of her cot. Furthermore, the "Dark Watchers" Steinbeck wrote about and have been reported seen in the Lucia's may have a correlation with these animals because of misperception from a distance (a squatch could very well look like a full black-clothed figure from a far enough distance to the casual observer).
I will be hitting this area hard with a thermal imaging unit the next few months, so if anybody has any info or the correspondant mentioned would like to contact me directly at bartcutino@yahoo.com, it would be much appreciated.
Thank You!
It's been some time since the last comment was posted, but darn if it didn't hit a bulls-eye.
A colleague at work out of nowhere started telling me of a UFO sighting he had with two dozen other persons one night in the Hunter-Liggett area many years ago. I'm not familiar with the area except by researching its location from Google Maps after he had told me his story
The day before the night-time sighting, his crew and him were in essence gassed out of an area by what he described as the most musky smell he ever encountered. His boss needed them to do work in the area, and told them to go back. Instead, they suggested he go there first and smell for himself, which the boss did. The boss returned, eyes watering at the stench, and agreed that they'd have to find another location to perform their studies.
Others with him, he claimed, were backwoods hillbillies from the South, and had never smelled anything like that in all their years of traipsing around the woods and swamps. So, they thought the smell was that from the critter they had heard of from their upbringing back home -- the Swamp Ape, or Bigfoot, or whatever name they had for the booger.
Now, you can believe the tale or not. But, I believe him simply because throughout my life, for some reason, people have always opened up some of their "hidden" experiences to me. why that is, I don't know. But, because his account holds up so well in terms of location details that are spot on with what I Googled of maps of that general area of California, I take him at his word. Now, he and I talk about the stuff every opportunity we can.
I've never been to California, and we are in a town in the Midwest. He's got to be at least 20 years older than me. No proof, no evidence, just coincidence that just last Friday, he more specifically mentioned Hunter-Liggett as the area whereas he had been citing the William Randolph Hearst estate as the general area of the encounters. He says he's not told anyone else other than me and other than his crew at that time of the experiences.
Thought you might be interested in case the information might be of some use.
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