Dear Linda, thanks for your time and effort to put together your blog and the column for the paper. We enjoy the article in the paper immensely every Wednesday! If you mention me at all, I would prefer if you just call me "one of your readers," not by name. We have family members in the area who might be embarrassed by my telling this story. My husband heard Don's story, too, and he is okay with my sending it to you.
My friend--I will call him Don W., because I do not have (never thought to ask for it) his permission to tell this to other folks--was a young man working with a logging crew in No. Calif. in the late 1960's. It was winter, there was snow on the ground and the cook had just ordered a side of beef brought from town to the camp. It was too big to put it in the freezer, without cutting and wrapping it, so, since it was so cold outside, they decided to hang it outside overnight (planning to cut it and put it in the freezer the next morning.)
The men strung a steel cable between two very large trees which were far apart from each other, wrapping the cable around each trunk, at about 40' off the ground, and stretching the cable taut between the two tree trunks. On this, they hanged the beef, suspended 35' above the ground, in mid-air, between the two tree trunks. They figured even a bear couldn't get to the beef, because it would have to "shimmy" across the cable, far above the ground to get to it.
In the morning, the beef was gone! There were large human-like footprints on the ground around the camp and under the cable where the beef had been. Whatever had been there, for no apparent reason it had picked up a large, steel drum full of oil for the machinery, and it had carried the steel drum up and over one tractor, and set the drum down on the other side (they could tell this had happened by following the foot prints.) Whatever the creature was, it had taken down the side of beef and carried it away. They never found any sign of the meat, or any bones. All the men were saying "It must have been a big-foot."
Don said it made the "hair on the back of his neck stand up" with these discoveries in the morning! All the men were feeling tense because of the strange disappearance of the beef, the footprints, and the strength of whatever had carried the full steel drum of oil up and over the tractor. They spent a good deal of time looking back over their shoulders for the next few weeks.
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Thank you so much for this interesting comment. ... Linda Newton-Perry
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