Here is the account as I remember it and
you are free to use my first name in publication and to give my contact
info out to researchers if you wish. I was about 15 years of age in 1977
and my friend Fred was the same age. His younger brother Steve was about
2 years younger. We lived in Phelan California, in the Mojave Desert (the
High Desert, it would routinely snow in the winter). All the kids in the
area had either dirt bikes or horses for transportation around the area
and for recreation. One day we were riding in the area between Phelan and
Hesperia with Fred and I in the lead and Steve always falling behind as
he had a less powerful bike. It was midday and as Fred and I came upon a
set of high tension power lines in the area we stopped and waited for Steve.
After a few moments he did not appear as usual so we returned for him and
met him as he was approaching about half way in between.
Steve was VERY upset and crying and going on about a huge white/grey
creature that appeared from behind a Juniper bush and screamed at him
as he had stopped to take a pee break... (heh, no other way to describe
it) ...he said he quickly got back on the bike and rode as fast as he
could to get away. He was scared to death. Fred and I talked later and
we thought that perhaps he was just pissed off and crying about falling
behind, but we dismissed that as it happened a lot as he had a little
Honda 70 and it just could not keep up.
We returned to the area, armed with our 22 rifles (yeah, right...) and
looked around and saw Steves' tracks and some scrambling type marks on
the ground like someone was very motivated in getting out of there...
along with some large barefoot tracks that I remember to be about 12 inches
long.
In hindsight I find it very interesting that if he were to make up a
bigfoot story that he would say that it was white/grey as we all knew
that they are black. As kids we were all interested in bigfoot and had
seen a movie at the drive-in about Mysterious Monsters or something like
that. This is an interesting difference in the color that I did not know
about until the other night reading some posts in the bigfoot list. Then
I read some bigfoot encounters on your page about the desert area where
I lived and it really freaked me out. I kind of dismissed this story until
now as there were not very many tracks and I thought that there were no
white/grey bigfoots.
Regards,
Forrest
Report logged Fri, 08 May 1998 by Bobbie Short
