Year: 2004
Month: October
Day of Month (number only – e.g. 16): The first week in October 2004
Time of Day: Dusk
County: Utah Summit
Terrain Description: A deep canyon named ” Dark Canyon “. This is on a ranch known
as Thousand Peaks in Chalk Creek. The canyon is at about 10,000 ft. It is full of Beaver Ponds, Pines, and Quaken Aspen. The canyon sides are stepped. So as you hike up you go up a steep incline unto a flat meadow. Then climb another hill unto a flat meadow.
Lighting Conditions: It was dusk, but still considered shooting light.
Nearest Town or Landmark: Coalville, and Upton Utah
Description of Encounter Area: This is a private Cattle Ranch that is at the head of Chalk Creek. It is near the High Uintahs which is a primitive area of thousands of acres. This canyon is a long canyon with Pines, and Quaken Aspen in it. Also it is very dence, and holds alot of Elk, Bear, and Mule Deer.
Are There Food and/or Water Sources in the Area? (if so, describe): The canyon has some
Beaver Ponds in it, and also some springs.
Occupation/Background: Heavy Equipment opperator, and Landscaping. Also a licenced Hunting
Guide, and Wildlife Artist.
Number of Witnesses: Two, Myself and my Brother in Law
Length of Observation: About 15-20 seconds
Animal Description: We saw a leg, part of an arm, and it’s buttocks up to it’s shoulders. App. Hight,
about 8ft. It looked like jet Black hair to me and my Brother in Law.
Aprox. Height: 8ft.
Aprox. Weight: Don’t know
Head/Facial Description: We did not see the head at all
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: We had the wind in our face, and could not smell anything.
Vocalizations Heard?: A huge ” Whooop “, and also a very deep low gutteral growl with teeth
chattering.
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
My Brother in Law and myself were Hunting Elk on the Thousand Peaks Ranch in the head of Chalk Creek. This is just East of Coalville Utah. We had been down in Dark Canyon for some time, and it was starting to get late. We decided to head up the side of the canyon to the road. This canyon has a series of steps. So as you climb the hill you come onto a flat meadow usually with a Beaver Pond or spring in it. This canyon is full of Pines, and Quaken Aspen. And dence enough that you can seldom see the other side. As we were climbing up about half way up the canyon. We were climbing a small hill that lead into a meadow. As our heads came up over the hill. We both say something jet Black at about 20-30ft to our front Left. This thing was about 5ft-8ft. Or from it’s hips on up. It let out a huge ” Whooof ” sort of sound as it went into the Pines. As it went into the Pines, it moved a Pine bough out of it’s way. I saw part of an arm, and the knee, and calf of it as well. Then about 5 seconds later, it let out a low gutteral growl at us. Both of us talked on the way home how we had an evil feeling come over us. This stand of Pines was in an area of a Beaver Pond, and all of the Quaken Aspen had been chewed down around the Pine Stand.
When this thing growled at us, we backed up and went around the pond to our Right. This happened in 2004, and I can still see this in my head. On our way out we both felt really un-easy. And my Brother in Law asked me what I thought it was. When I heard the growl I honestly thought that it was a Sasquatch.
Because it was to tall to be a Bear or a Moose. And this thing moved very,very fast. I know for a fact that it was on two legs. When I got home I looked on the net to try and read if these things growl. I have found several reports of growling. I have even listened to a recording that sounds like what I heard. I used to work at Lagoon that is an amusement park here in Farmington. I used to feed the animals down there. They had a Leapord that would growl at you when you walked by it’s cage. That sound was almost just what I heard on the Mountain.
I just found out today from an investigator here in Utah. That a Doctor was in the same canyon a week later and said he saw a Sasquatch. But he did not want his report published. Also. That same year I was in an Archery Shop talking to a friend of mine. I started to tell him this story, and before I told him that I had seen a Sasquatch. He interupted me and said that I was the second person he had heard of to have seen one in the same area. But that sighting was to the North in a Ranch known as Anzhutse ( pernounced,,Anshoots )
This was the first incounter that I had of three. The second was when I worked on the Deseret Cattle And Cirtus Ranch in Deer Park Florida. This ranch is over 360,000 acres and has it’s own security force. I was with another Cowboy out in one of the pastures that was about 2000 acres. We were about 2-3 miles away from the nearest road. The other Cowboy was riding along a stream, and I was out riding in the grass. He stopped and got of his Horse and told me to come over. There in the mud was four human, barefoot prints in the mud. They were about 10 inches long, and had long toe nails. I have a photo of one of them. Most of the folks that I worked with on the ranch that had grown up in Florida, had an expeirence with what they called the ” Skunk Ape “. Some would tell their stories while others didn’t want to think about it.
The third one was just last September down on Lagoons trail here in Farmington. Back in 2002 there were several folks that live along the trail that were hearing screams at night coming from the trail area. Three of them went down one night after hearing these screams for several nights. They said that the Buffalo, and the Elk that are in pens in the back of Lagoon. Were all in the corner of there pens storting and looking into the brush ahead of the peaple on the trail. The peaple said that they seen a Huge Black object run into the brush ahead of them on the trail. They said that it scared them enouth that they left. I went down last September at about 1:00A.M. I went down and heard a monkey sound that came from the trees. Also the trees were shaking about.