Trapper's Chilling Encounter: The Two-Legged Bear Kills, Bigfoot Connection?

A spine-tingling tale of the unknown has recently emerged on YouTube, and it's one that any Bigfoot enthusiast will find intriguing. The story comes from the book "The Wilderness Hunter" by Theodore Roosevelt and tells of a trapper named Bauman who had an encounter with something mysterious in the Bitterroot mountains between Idaho and Montana. According to Bauman, the frontiersmen of his time were not superstitious people, but he had heard a goblin story that had left a lasting impression on him. Bauman, who was of German ancestry, had been exposed to all kinds of ghost and goblin lore as a child, and the story he heard from the Indian medicine men in their winter camps of the snow Walkers and the specters had left a deep impact on him. The event occurred when Bauman was still a young man, trapping with a partner in the mountains that divided the forks of the salmon from the head of wisdom River. They had not had much luck and decided to venture into a particularly wild and lonely pass through which ran a small stream said to contain many beavers. The past had an evil reputation because the year before a solitary Hunter who had wandered into it was slain seemingly by a wild beast. The memory of this event, however, weighed lightly with the two trappers, who were as brave and hardy as others of their kind. They left their horses in an open Beaver Meadow and struck out on foot through the vast gloomy forest. In about four hours, they reached a little open Glade where they concluded to Camp. They were surprised to find that something had visited their camp and had rummaged about among their things. At first, they paid no particular heed to the footprints of the beast, but when Bauman's partner examined them more closely, he realized that the bear had been walking on two legs. Bauman laughed at this, but his partner insisted that he was right, and upon examining the tracks again, they certainly did seem to be made by but two paws or feet. After discussing whether the footprints could possibly be those of a human being and coming to the conclusion that they could not be, the two men rolled up in their blankets and went to sleep under the lean-to. At midnight, Bauman was awakened by some noise and sat up in his blankets. He caught the loom of a great body in the Darkness at the mouth of the lean-too and caught the strong wild beast odor. Grasping his rifle, he fired at the vague threatening Shadow but must have missed. In the morning, they started out to look at the few traps they had set the previous evening and put out new ones. They kept together all day and returned to Camp towards evening. On nearing it, they saw to their astonishment that the lean-to had once again been torn down. The visitor of the preceding day had returned and in wanton malice had tossed about their Camp kit and bedding and destroyed the shanty. The ground was marked up by its tracks, and on leaving the camp, it had gone along the soft Earth by the Brook. After a careful scrutiny of the trail, it certainly did seem as if whatever the thing was, it had walked off on but two legs. The two trappers were thoroughly uneasy and gathered a great heap of deadlogs and kept up a roaring fire throughout the night, one or the other sitting on guard most of the time. About midnight, the thing came down through the forest opposite across the brook and stayed there on the hillside for nearly an hour. They could hear the branches crackle as it moved about and several times it uttered a harsh grating long-drawn moan, a peculiarly sinister sound. In the morning, the two trappers decided that they would shoulder their packs and leave the valley that afternoon. They were the more ready to do this because in spite of seeing a good deal of game sign, they had caught very little fur. The story is a fascinating account of a mysterious encounter in the wilderness, and it's easy to see why it has caught the attention of Bigfoot enthusiasts. While the account is many years old, it still has the power to intrigue and captivate those who hear it. If you're interested in learning more about this story, be sure to check out the video on YouTube. It's a captivating tale that is sure to leave you with a sense of wonder and curiosity about the mysteries of the wilderness.