{"id":94,"date":"2018-04-09T17:36:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmhzone.org\/IDBv4\/?p=94"},"modified":"2018-04-09T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T17:36:48","slug":"kansas-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kmhzone.org\/IDBv4\/2018\/04\/09\/kansas-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Year: 1989
\nMonth: May
\nTime of Day: Near noon
\nCounty: Kansas Shawnee
\nLocation DetailsTerrain Description: Forested. To the north there is a quarry with 50-100 ft cliff… to
\nthe north of their they constructed a housing edition around a hilly treed area. Homes start around 600K
\nto 2-3 million. Private airport and top golf course built around a lake. This was all constructed post 1989.
\nLighting Conditions: Near noon
\nNearest Town or Landmark: Olathe, Kansas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As I mentioned the bridge and ledge to the quarry area to the north,
\nwhich was on private property where I had attended an outdoor party in high school one time. There are\u00a0also many hills. Not sure about caves in the area, but I would suspect there very well could be especially\u00a0with the quarry area. It is probably not in commercial use anymore .
\nAre There Food and\/or Water Sources in the Area? (if so, describe): Not given<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Witness Overview:<\/div>\n
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Wished to stay Anonymous<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Encounter::<\/div>\n
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Number of Witnesses: 4
\nLength of Observation: Brief
\nVocalizations Heard?: It began almost laughingly like a hyena or dog and let out a blood curling wail
\nthat I can best describe as similar to some of the Ohio recordings. The vocalization was so load that all\u00a0of us stopped. All of us were terrified and were in disbelief of what we heard. Nobody could tell what it\u00a0was. It sounded so completely foreign to anything we could even imagine. We argued over what we\u00a0heard for a second. My friend could only explain it as perhaps a large bird like a crain. Everyone else\u00a0had no idea. It was honestly like nothing we had ever heard.
\nIn high school I was with a group of four friends and we were looking for a place to party. We decided to\u00a0go to a site where we usually hung out on weekends. It was a 1\/8 -1\/4 mile stretch of gravel road that\u00a0had been closed for a number of years. There was an old wooden bridge that stretched across a creek.\u00a0Creek ran north about 5 miles into the Kansas River and south into Olathe Lake. We referred to the\u00a0place as it was commonly called Dead Man’s Bridge. Rumors circulated that a man had hung himself,\u00a0another rumor that someone had jumped off the bridge and committed suicide, and lastly that a group\u00a0of campers had been brutally murdered in their tents in the area. However, where the name originated\u00a0nobody really knew. I guess we just assumed typical high school lore. We just new it was a place were\u00a0we could park our cars and drink without being harassed by police. Often we lit camp fires and hung out\u00a0until late hours.
\nAnyway on the night in question a group of us (4) were planning to walk down the road from the closed\u00a0sign to the bridge as we had always done before.
\nMy friend at the time grabbed a pellet rifle out of the back of the car and I was carrying a four pack of
\nwine coolers in a brown bag. I believe someone else was carrying beer or more coolers.
\nAs we approached the bridge between 10 PM and 11 PM walking down the road to the South of a was a\u00a0tree line Behind the treeline was a pond and a little to the west the creek. As we approached the\u00a0treeline around 100 ft -150 ft in front of us in the woods we suddenly heard something that nobody had\u00a0ever heard before. It began almost laughingly like a hyena or dog and let out a blood curling wail that I\u00a0can best describe as similar to some of the Ohio recordings. The vocalization was so load that all of us\u00a0stopped. All of us were terrified and were in disbelief of what we heard. Nobody could tell what it was. It\u00a0sounded so completely foreign to anything we could even imagine. We argued over what we heard for a\u00a0second. My friend could only explain it as perhaps a large bird like a crain. Everyone else had no idea. It\u00a0was honestly like nothing we had ever heard. He fired his pellet rifle at the top of a fence post expecting\u00a0something to fly away, but nothing happened. No movement in the trees. There was just a several\u00a0seconds of silence and I have to tell you my heart was racing. I distributed wine coolers as fastly as\u00a0possible so everyone had something in their hands to defend themselves and we hastily walked\u00a0backwards not turning and running back to the car..and then sprinting the last stretch. It was the last\u00a0time we went out there. Last year I sent a link to one of the Ohio recordings to one of my friends who\u00a0was with us that night. I hadn’t spoken to him in years having to make contact through his brother. I\u00a0also sent him a link to a call sound made by an owl having a similar vocalization. Ironically I was doing\u00a0research on bigfoot as more or less a spectic when I noticed several reports in OK, KS, and MO all\u00a0referring to a similar description in the BFRO database, which brought back memories. One individual\u00a0described the vocalization similar to the Ohio Recordings and I explored the link and sure enough. I was\u00a0convinced that is what we heard that night. I also heard that a\u00a0certain\u00a0type of owl could make a call some people said could be similar to the description so copied a link over\u00a0to him of both sounds.. one the owl and the other the Ohio recordings to let him hear and compare what\u00a0he thought he heard. I wanted to know if his opinion would be similar to mine. I will copy text over at his\u00a0response:
\nOMG!!!!! the Ohio recording,,,,,, Chills,,, That’s it,,, the background stuff no,,,but the howl in the
\nbackground YES! The owl isn’t even close.\u00a0There was a group of guys that I knew from Highschool who claimed they saw a bigfoot in Ernie Miller\u00a0Park, which is about 1 mile East of where our sighting occurred. There incident was a year or two before\u00a0ours. Also along a similar creek basin about 15 miles due South in Spring Hill I know a group of my great\u00a0uncles where hunting at night years ago playing back animal noises from their truck and had rifles. They\u00a0are all deceased now, but the story goes they were blaring recordings when they heard something that\u00a0terrified them and left the area. I believe this happened on my grandparents farm, which sat back along\u00a0Hillsdale Lake in KS. My uncle reports that he heard screams at night coming back behind the farm\u00a0house that sounded like a woman screaming. Probably a cougar as there have been sightings in the\u00a0area. I have noticed certain things like rabbit hides hanging in trees and animal fur\/dead animals on top
\nof 6 ft bails of hay. Again something I have a general assumption of cougars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Assigned Investigator:<\/div>\n
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Mike Humphrey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Investigator Notes::<\/div>\n
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Witness wished to remain anonymous and provided no contact information, closed as inconclusive<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Priority Level::<\/div>\n
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Historical – Over 10 Years<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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