Grizzled Hunter's 1890 Bigfoot Encounter: A Chilling Tale of the Wilderness

Have you heard about the chilling campfire story told by Theodore Roosevelt about his encounter with a mysterious creature in the wilderness? The story comes from Roosevelt's book "The Wilderness Hunter" and was shared by a grizzled mountain hunter named Bauman. In the video titled "Bigfoot Sasquatch - Theodore Roosevelt - Sleepy Bedtime Story - Audiobook Read Along Dark Screen" from the YouTube channel Truth Love Light, Bauman recounts his experience trapping with a partner in the mountains dividing the forks of the Salmon from the head of Wisdom River. According to Bauman, they decided to go up into a particularly wild and lonely pass through which ran a small stream said to contain many beavers. They left their horses in an open beaver meadow and hiked through the vast, gloomy forest. When 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. Bauman's companion began to examine the tracks more closely and soon took a brand from the fire to follow them up where the intruder had walked along a game trail after leaving the camp. When the brand flickered out, he returned and took another, repeating his inspection of the footprints very closely. Upon examining the tracks, Bauman's companion insisted that the bear had been walking on two legs. Bauman laughed at this, but his partner insisted that he was right. And upon again examining the tracks with a torch, they certainly did seem to be made by the two paws or feet. At midnight, Bauman was awakened by some noise and sat up in his blankets. His nostrils were struck by a strong wild beast odor, and he caught the loom of a great body in the darkness at the mouth of the lean-to. 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. By an unspoken agreement, they kept together all day and returned to camp towards evening. As they neared the camp, they saw to their astonishment that the lean-to had again been torn down. The visitor of the preceding day had returned and in one 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. The footprints were as plain as if on snow and 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 dead logs 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 of the branches crackle as it moved about and several times it uttered a harsh, grating, long-drawn moan, a peculiarly sinister sound. Yet it did not venture near the fire. In the morning, the two trappers decided to 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. This story has been circulating among Bigfoot enthusiasts and researchers for years, and it's always interesting to hear new interpretations of it. If you're interested in learning more about this chilling tale, be sure to check out the video on YouTube. It's a great addition to the wealth of information out there about the mysterious and elusive Sasquatch.