Invasion on Chestnut Ridge Page #4

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in the Pacific Northwest

seemed to be corroborated

by a shaky full-color film

obtained by Roger

Paterson and Bob Gimlin.

But to the shock

of all involved,

a similar figure,

massive, hairy,

sometimes leaving large thee-toed

footprints in its wake,

was appearing on farms, along

wood lines, and crossing roads

throughout Westmoreland

and Fayette Counties.

Most distressing was the

creature's fearlessness

in approaching civilization,

and the damage it

sometimes caused.

But as these events of 1973

are coming to our attention,

we begin to see some

unusual patterns.

For example, we would have a

UFO sighting in a certain area,

within minutes to

hours to days later,

we would have a Bigfoot

sighting or vice versa.

And then the reports

got even stranger.

That's when we began to have

reports with UFOs and Bigfoot

seen together at the

same time and place.

As reports were unfolding

during that time,

some of the stranger reports

begin to come to our attention.

One case was September 27, 1973.

This was out in an area

where two women were waiting

for a friend to pick them up.

Suddenly they see this

huge seven, eight-foot-tall

huge man-like creature

with white hair,

running across the

road towards the woods.

Strangely enough,

in one of its hands,

it had a glowing ball of light.

It runs off into the woods

and a short time later,

this object comes across the

sky, projects a beam of light

down into the woods where

the creature ran into.

So these reports were

getting very odd,

and then we had the case that

occurred up in Fayette County.

It was the case that convinced

me and my team that there was

a lot more to Bigfoot than

any of us had any idea about.

There were several young men

at a farm in Fayette County,

not far from here, that,

in October of 1973 saw

a very large light in the sky

come down in a farmer's field.

What we found out was that

about nine o'clock that night,

about 15 people in

that rural community,

observed this object in the sky,

it was only about 100

feet off the ground.

It was as big as a barn,

it was bright red

and like a big ball.

And it was only

about 100 feet up

and it was slowly moving

down towards the ground.

After he was done

shooting at them,

they ran back to their truck,

went back to the farmhouse,

told the family what happened,

took them to a neighbor's

and called the state police.

And then a state police officer

was called in, and he was

called in after the fact,

after the craft disappeared.

He even mentioned how large

the area was illuminated.

There was a very large area

illuminated by this craft

or whatever it was that you

could literally sit down

and read a newspaper in

it, how bright it was.

Unfortunately there was some

ramifications that happened

to one of the witnesses

where he was walking through

the field and there were

investigators with him

and all of a sudden for no

reason, he dropped to his knees,

and apparently having visions.

Visions of end times, visions

of the end of the world,

destruction, chaos,

and that sort of thing,

and it psychologically

messed the guy up.

[Narrator] Some of the

most bizarre cases on record

erupted from the Chestnut

Ridge in 1973 and 74.

One family was chased from

the woods by an aggressive

ape-like creature

with prominent fangs.

A motorist reported

hitting a bipedal monster,

which vanished at

the moment of impact.

Another person claimed to

shoot a Bigfoot that had been

stealing apples from a

bushel basket on his porch.

In many cases, the unknown

figures announced their presence

with an unsettling wail

that witnesses compared

to a crying baby, as well

as a distinctive smell

like ammonia or sulfur.

These things happened

with such frequency,

especially during

the summer months,

that Gordon's investigative

team sometimes responded

to multiple calls on the same

night, with local newspapers

providing coverage

of each disturbance.

One location where repeated

oddities were reported

was the Superior

mobile home court.

In August of 1973, the police

were called to investigate

a close-range Bigfoot sighting,

and they even located and

preserved some unusual tracks

for Gordon's team to analyze.

For reasons still unknown,

this incident attracted

some unwanted attention

from a peculiar source.

The incident at the

trailer court happened on a

Friday night, we come home

from Westmoreland County Fair,

and the whole

neighborhood was abuzz.

I was trying to figure out what

was going on and they said,

the woman who lived across

from me heard a noise

at the back of her trailer

and she opened the door

and Bigfoot was standing there.

The people who lived in

that trailer heard like

scratching on the

end of their trailer,

they heard like a baby

crying sound from close by.

They opened up the back door

and only a few feet away

here's this large,

very broad-shouldered,

hairy Bigfoot creature

standing there.

One other witness saw it

running between the trailers

out of the area.

Everybody scattered

and people were tripping

and falling over each other.

They were all, the whole

neighborhood was shook up.

Four days later after

the incident happened,

I get an emergency

call from an operator.

Well, it happened to be the

woman who lived in that trailer

who, four days before,

had seen the Bigfoot.

What she called was,

she was very upset.

She said, "I think maybe

I did something wrong."

And I said, "well, what's that?"

She said, "well, this odd-appearing

man came to our trailer.

"He was asking all

kinds of questions

"about what we saw that night."

[Jack] I come from home

work and there's this car

sitting there and it had

Ohio Government plates on it.

He had some kind of an ID

on him about Ohio and UFO,

but she didn't pay a

lot of attention to it.

He had an Ohio license

plate on the vehicle,

and he wanted to know all

about what had happened here.

And there's a

footprint in the sand,

and he's about to take

pictures of the footprint,

and the boy who lived

there, the older boy,

he went and got his camera.

As time went on that evening,

he was going over and looking

at the footprints, and I guess

there were several local people

looking at the tracks there.

There was a young boy,

he had one of those

Polaroid Instamatic cameras.

And he started doing the

same, taking a picture,

and the government guy

said, "no pictures."

Started taking pictures anyway

and he ripped the camera

out of his hand, I don't know

if he ripped the film out,

I don't remember that

part, he took the camera.

He had just developed

a picture and he said,

"I just made a picture."

And this mystery

man, whoever he was,

grabs that picture from

that little boy's hand,

wrinkles it up and puts

it in his pocket and said,

"you just made a

picture for us."

And then he went over to the

tracks and with his foot,

he destroyed the footprints.

And the people were very

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