Fish and Wildlife reports creature glimpsed in forest considered for endangered species list

“Residents from Pine Mountain are pretty worried about the streaker up there. Some believe he could pose a threat to people,” a note from a reporter to the editor began on June 4, 2012 after several residents came into the newspaper to report what they had seen. Humorist and columnist Maggie Van Ostrand first reported seeing something loping through the forest near Mil Potrero Highway. She said it appeared to be…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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This is a reported sighting of the Upland Sasquatch. Now DFW studies indicate that its hairless cousin, the Lowland Sasquatch, may have migrated into our local forests due to climate change and warming temperatures. Glimpsed locally over the last four years, the creature resembles a naked human male. See the surveillance video frame used by scientists in the print version of The Mountain Enterprise on page 17.

In 2012, a creature was recorded by surveillance cameras running through Pine Mountain Village, wearing only shoulder-length hair. Witnesses thought it was a streaker. Now members of the IBC ask: Could this really be the first time the elusive hairless Lowland Sasquatch has been caught on camera?

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This is part of the April 1, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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