I can hardly remember
the date,but I do remember the events leading up to the sighting. It was a
very warm fall day when my cousins and myself decided to some hunting on horseback.
The area that we hunted was the foothills of the Rockies on the Blackfeet
Reservation in Big Sky Country. We had decided half way into the trip to just
take a ride a wait for lady luck to bring us something during the ride. All
day was pretty good as far as the ride went but I know that everybody still
had the idea of getting a deer on their mind. We had decided to ride him
through a brushy trail hoping to run into some game before we made it home.
Most of the day was gone and the evening sun was warming our backs as we made
our way home, as we approached the trail head my cousins horse was reluctant
and fought the bridle bit for awhile. We thought it was just because of it
being green broke. Once inside the brush a good ways into it our horses started
stepping very softly and snorting once in awhile as if something didn't agree
with sense of smell. I could see the opening of the trail and it would also
be the end of the trail. One of my cousins was just about to say something
when our horses began jumping in different directions like they were scared
of something, the first thing on all our minds was, A BEAR! We began looking
in different directions trying to get find the location of the bear.
I don't remember who was the first to sight what it was we saw, I just heard
him swear and ask the rest of us to look. We looked in the direction he was
pointing and saw this very tall thing running on two legs beside us and then
turned in front of us. The thing crossed the trail in front of us about 40
feet and stopped at the edge of the brush, it just stared at us as if in the
same amount of amazement as we were, and then just disappeared into the trees
just as fast. The best way I can describe it as probably the hairiest man
I have ever saw well past 6 feet tall. It was hard to determine the size but
the branches the we found broke the next day were from 6 feet to about 8 feet
in some places some foot print were found in places where the ground was soft
and along the trail we followed towards the mountains. This was the only sight
we had since then and this was when I was 14 years old I am now 30 and probably
the first one to tell anyone what we saw that day.
Charles
K. Wolftail
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