Marshall, I feel compelled to question your conclusion on the presence of Bigfoot in your immediate neighborhood. Or, suggest another explanation of their behavior in your garden if they are.
That guy, Patterson, who filmed his encounter with Bigfoot back in the '60's - well, I never met him. But, I was up in the mountains near the Klamath River the summer he made that film. I was doing some work for a Forest Service contractor building a road.
He was a real nice guy but really hard to read, if you know what I mean. His name was Bud Ryerson and both Bud and his wife were Hoopa Indians. They had a little camp trailer on Onion Lake.
Bud's wife, Vera, was as talkative as Bud was quiet but they were both real nice people. The little lake where they were camping had wild onions all around it. They grew just like a grass lawn.
Anyway, that Patterson guy wasn't the only person up there looking for Bigfoot. He had his entire cavalry! I felt kind of like we were under siege! You'd come around a corner on one of those little mountain roads and here was a couple of power wagons and people out with flags and surveying equipment and these people weren't associated with Bud. And, he was building the road!
At the end of the summer, Patterson came out with his film on Bigfoot. Mrs. Ryerson and I had talked a little about this Sasquatch creature and she didn't disbelieve its existence for a minute! She said that she only worried a bit because she was all alone at the camp while Bud was off with the crawler tractor and truck, miles away. She understood that the Bigfoots were interested in the onions at the lake.
Bud was an interesting guy. He wouldn't say anything while his wife talked about Bigfoot or when we ran across the film crew or whatever the heck those guys with Patterson were . . . He'd just look interested and kind of, play along. But, he really seemed dead serious about the subject.
Well, I came to associate Bigfoot with those wild onions and when I moved up here to the border, I'd go fishing on the Spokane. I mean, right on the border was a favorite fishing spot. It's all changed now but I'd walk into 1 state to cross the river so that I could walk back into the other state to fish. And, there were all these wild onions along the river there.
After I'd been here awhile, I learned Sasquatch were up here, too. Evidently they were so common that a local college had named their newspaper "The Spokane Sasquatch Times" and their sports teams: The Fighting Sasquatch! This only stood to reason because there were all these wild onions just a few miles up the river that would attract the Sasquatch.
Now, you tell me that you can't grow onions and you claim that it's a rodent that gets them. Yet, Bigfoots show up and leave things in your garden. Well, I can believe that one is true if the other is false. My thinking is that the Sasquatch are getting your onions or, they aren't around at all and there are other creatures leaving things in your garden.
Steve
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