| Deliveryman says he
saw huge, hairy beast carrying a goat in Clark County.
5 April, 2000 — Granton, Wisconsin— James Hughes was minding his
own business, delivering the Black River Shopper last week when he says
he saw something he'll never forget — an 8-foot-tall, two-legged,
shaggy creature carrying a goat. Sasquatch? Bigfoot? Yeti? Abominable
Snowman? Or just a really tall hairy guy carrying breakfast?
Hughes isn't
sure, and authorities are scratching their heads over the reported sighting.
"He was all covered with hair, a real dark gray color, with some
spots that looked a honey color.
It was walking on two legs, and it was
mighty, mighty, big," Hughes said in a phone interview Tuesday. "You
better believe I was scared.
That creature could have tipped that car
upside down and thrown it in the ditch. It was that big."
Hughes filed a report with the Clark County Sheriff's Department, and
a deputy was dispatched to the scene but couldn't find any big footprints,
said Capt. Mark Cattanach.
"We have no goats reported missing, or
any other types of small animals that may meet that description,"
Cattanach said Tuesday. "I'm not sure what we could do.
I don't know
that there's ever been any indication, at least that I've been told, that
there's any danger to the public."
Hughes, 57, was on his newspaper
delivery route around 5:15 a.m. March 28 when he said he saw the creature
at the side of the road, on County Highway H about 1½ miles from
his rural Granton home.
At first, he thought it was a man, but as he got
closer he said he realized it didn't look human — about 8 feet tall,
500 pounds and hairy with an ape-like face.
After getting a closer look
at the creature, which he said appeared to be carrying a goat or small
sheep in its hand, Hughes said he floored his gas pedal and quickly drove
away.
"I didn't call it in (to the Sheriff's Department) until the
next day, because people would think I'm crazy. And I don't drink, I don't
use dope, and I was wide awake," Hughes said.
Cattanach said Hughes
gave a very detailed description, but without tracks or other evidence
suggesting a creature was in the area, there isn't much the Sheriff's
Department can do. He also said the reported Bigfoot sighting is the talk
of the community. "There's been a fair amount of joking around with
this," said Cattanach.
© Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Sent in by Madge Smith, Milwaukee,
collector of Sasquatch articles, 15 June 2001.
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