Train Hopping Bigfoot

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor Vicki W.

Think you've heard everything when it comes to Bigfoot? Researcher Stan Courtney was contacted by a fellow researcher who insists that bigfoots are actually hopping trains. 'Mike', from southern Illinois, says he has had many sightings along railroad tracks. There is speculation about bigfoots following train tracks as well as power lines as some sort of travel route, but researcher and witness Mike suggests they may actually be hopping aboard.

Courtney admits being skeptical about the idea, but agrees to meet up with him and check out some tracks nearby.

From stancourtney.com:

We arrived around 09:30 and walked several hundred yards south along the tracks. Mike showed and explained to me the details of his sighting.

While there Mike was adamant that the sasquatch were hopping rides on the trains. I was somewhat taken aback by the idea. I had never read of a report or knew of anyone who actually had seen a sasquatch riding on a rail-car. The whole idea seemed a little bit unbelievable to me. I asked Mike why he believed that, had he witnessed that happening? He said no, but the way he had seen the sasquatch kind of standing around on this one section of track just gave him the idea, it was just “a theory he had.”

As we were walking back to the car a northbound train started approaching.

One of my first loves (perhaps next to birds) has always been trains. And yes I am fortunately old enough to remember the last of the steam engines of the ’50′s. In fact the movie Heartbreak Pass was filmed in the small town in Idaho where I grew up. But I digress.
As the train was approaching I positioned myself so that I could get as close as possible but still be out of danger. I wanted to take in all the sounds and feel of this wonderful machine as it passed by. As it passed, Mike yelled for me to look north at each coupling area and he would look south so if anything or anyone was riding there we could see them from two different angles.

It was one of those trains carrying large cargo carriers, double-decker style. It was travelling at perhaps 30 mph. In between each car is a good size area. About half way through the train I saw a very large hair covered animal sitting down with its back towards the container. I only could see it for a couple of seconds and then it was gone.

I was in shock and awe. It was almost surreal. It did not look at all like Patty from the Patterson-Gimlin Film. This had five inch long dark brown hair covering it down to where I could see, it’s waist. I couldn’t make out any facial details and it was looking down and not directly towards me.

As I always audio record when I am in the woods I did record our conversation as the train passed and my reactions.

Download audio: http://stancourtney.com/sounds/2012.03.27_train_01.mp3

I will be traveling back to the location this next week to take a few measurements and to film another passing train. Hopefully I can do a reenactment and at least give readers an idea of what the train looked like as it passed. I won’t hold my breath on catching on film any extra riders.

This sighting has left me with more questions than answers. In my mind sasquatch (or at least one) do ride on trains. Why? Is this just some daredevil stunt by a teenage sasquatch or is this a pattern of something much larger? Is this just a local 1/2 mile hitch or are they traveling greater distances? It does show one thing for sure. Their intelligence and abilities are far higher than many having been willing to admit.

Though it might be a notion that many would quickly dismiss, the jury is still out on the level of intelligence and problem solving a sasquatch could be capable of. Remember, we know that a gorilla has been successfully taught to communicate with humans via sign language, as well as operating some simple tasks on a computer. Perhaps such ideas shouldn't be rejected out of hand until we identify and begin studying the species and their habits, if or when that day ever comes.