'Its Gait Was a Glide': A Colorado Woman Reports a Daylight Bigfoot Near the Top of Slumgullion Pass

? What’s claimed

Accounts, testimony and theories, as told by the people who tell them.

The figure. “I was looking out the window looking for deer, moose etc. when out stepped from the edge of the woods a BIGFOOT,” Lori wrote. She says it turned to its right and walked uphill along the tree line, about 200 feet below the road. “Its gait was a glide. The color was a dark blackish brown. The head was kind of molded into the shoulders. The arms were long and very hairy.” She estimated it at 7 to 9 feet tall, judging by the small spruce around it, and says she watched it take four or five “big gliding steps” before a curve in the road cut off her view.

Speechless. “I have never been stumped for words, but this was a numbing experience,” she wrote. “I want to tell everyone, but I think they will think I am nuts. I saw what I saw and now that’s all I think about. Kind of spooky and exciting all at once.”

The husband’s view. Bill Bowling writes that the couple are in their early sixties, have been married nearly 39 years and have lived in Lake City for about 12. His family has been coming to the area since the early 1950s, he says, and none of them had ever seen a bigfoot or any sign of one. “We have never even thought about bigfoot type creatures really existing and were skeptical about sightings,” he wrote.

He didn’t see the figure. He says Lori turned to him and tried to speak, but nothing came out. Then she said, “I just saw bigfoot, stop the truck.” He turned around at County Road 50 and drove back, and they scanned the slope with binoculars but saw nothing. “I have no doubt that Lori saw what she saw,” he wrote. “I have never seen her react like she did. Amazed, speechless, excited and yet in her eyes she seemed a bit frightened.”

The print. The couple took the trailer home, about 10 miles, and came back to search. Bill says they found deer and elk sign but no human tracks in an area with no trails, and one barefoot print, which he photographed next to his 4¼-inch knife. A couple of red stems, possibly raspberry, were pressed into it, he says. Plants usually rise back out of a track over time, especially after a good rain, he wrote, so the stems made him believe the print was “somewhat recent.” He also offered a caveat: “the print seemed small for the critter she described as about 7 or 9 feet tall.”

A second print. The next day they returned and found “one possible footprint not much larger than the print from the day before,” Bill wrote. “Are they really footprints? They seem to be.” A storm with lightning drove them off before they could finish searching. The couple’s GPS readings put the first print at 11,467 feet and the second at 11,282 feet.