Two residents of Boulder County, Colorado, claim to have seen Sasquatch in separate incidents, and a county volunteer — who also happens to be a seasoned Bigfoot hunter — wants to get to the bottom of the sightings.
“With recent Sasquatch sightings near Longmont, Boulder County Parks & Open Space has brought in seasoned Bigfoot trackers to look for answers,” the county announced.
Alan Megargle is a volunteer naturalist with Boulder County Parks & Open Space who also has been hunting Bigfoot since 2009.
He and the county invited the public out for a Bigfoot hunt late Friday. Unfortunately, no Sasquatches were spotted or captured but that's not stopping him.
He hopes to conduct at least one other public Bigfoot-seeking excursion this summer.
He told Cowboy State Daily that he’s taken people out seeking Sasquatches many times and loves teaching people about the creatures – which he is convinced exist.
He’s never seen one, but said he’s seen and heard signs of them on numerous occasions in Colorado, Ohio and upstate New York.
Bigfoot On The Loose Near Longmont?
Boulder County has been buzzing with Sasquatch fever after two reported sightings — one in December and another in March — both in the vicinity of Longmont.
Megargle said he met with each of the people who claimed the sightings, who he didn’t name.
The December encounter was early in the morning. A man claimed he saw a Sasquatch run across the road in front of his vehicle.
“It was still very dark out, and he said this figure ran across the road in front of him,” Megargle said.
The man has had a longstanding interest in Bigfoot and is convinced that’s what he saw, he added.
The second sighting was by an older woman one night in March roughly 3 miles from where the first alleged sighting was reported, Megargle said.
“The woman looked out her door at about 10 p.m., and there was one (Sasquatch), just trotting down the road,” he said.
He said that when he met with the woman later, “she was still really shaken up.”
Sasquatch sightings tend to have that effect on people, he added.
Whoops And Wood Knocks
Sasquatches are said to make a variety of vocalizations, from whoops and howls, to whistles, and even chattering that some believers swear sounds like some form of language.
Megargle said when he takes people out on Bigfoot hunts they’ll sometimes “call” for Bigfoot by imitating the alleged whooping sounds the creatures make.
That’s mostly just for fun, he said. But any noisy human behavior, particularly from large groups, can pique the creatures’ natural curiosity and help draw them out, Megargle said.
He said he developed a passion for Bigfoot hunting after he and a friend were hiking in the New York state’s Adirondack Mountains and came across two broken trees blocking the trail.
The thing was, the trees didn’t appear to have been snapped off by wind or any other such natural force.
Instead, they’d been broken by what looked like “twisted” about 10 feet up, he said.
That jibes with what Bigfoot believers have said, that instead of snapping tree trunks or limbs, Sasquatches use their immense strength to twist the wood in a manner that no human could ever hope to achieve.
Since then, said he’s been in situations where rocks were tossed in the direction of him and people he was with.
It’s also said that Sasquatches will toss things at people.
Apparently not really trying to clobber people, but rather to get the humans’ attention, and probably encourage them to leave a particular area.
Megargle said he’s also heard “wood knocks,” as if a Bigfoot in the vicinity was rhythmically hitting a tree trunk with a stick. Or maybe smacking two pieces of wood together.
Similarly, he said he’s heard Sasquatches making their presence known with rhythmic “rock clacks,” he said, using stone instead of wood.
Does Colorado Have Bigfoot?
Megargle said he started off his Bigfoot quest thinking the creatures were an as-of-yet unidentified species of large primate.
However, he’s increasingly intrigued by the alleged “paranormal aspect” of Bigfoot hunting.
Some claim that Sasquatches can move between dimensions, or that they have “some sort of connection with aliens,” he said.
Whether Sasquatches were dropped off in Boulder County by spacecraft, or just naturally migrated in like any other wildlife, Megargle said he’s reasonably convinced they’re there.
Colorado’s Front Range country seems to have everything that a troop of Bigfoot would need to be happy, he said, including lots of habitat, water and food sources.
Plus, plenty of people to check out and satisfy their curiosity from a safe distance, without getting tangled up in human affairs.
“There are, all along the Front Range, places for them (Sasquatches) to come down where people are, and then get back up out of the way, where they can’t be found,” Megargle said.
Mark Heinz can be reached at mark@cowboystatedaily.com.
