Posted by Steve Busti
Almost a year ago we had a report that came out of N.C. from resident mountain-man Timothy Peeler who had an encounter with “Knobby,” a bigfoot like creature he described as being 10 feet tall, having six fingers on each hand and “beautiful hair”. You can watch the news report here.
Maybe this expedition will uncover actual evidence of Knobby. I wonder if the searchers will think to bring along a coyote caller like the one Tim Peeler used — it couldn’t hurt, right?
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Rick Lunsford, a Wilkes County resident who says he saw Bigfoot more than 30 years ago, is planning an expedition to look for proof of the elusive creature.
"I’m really looking for evidence, and looking for people to go with me," Lunsford said Thursday.
Bigfoot is said to be a large, fur-covered creature that lives in forests and avoids human contact. Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every U.S. state except Hawaii, according to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, a national group that investigates such reports. The evidence to date has consisted largely of witness reports, plaster casts of footprints, and fuzzy images.
Lunsford plans a March 5 expedition to search for evidence in the Roten Creek Road area in Wilbar. That is where he says he saw the creature back in late August or September 1978, when he was 20 years old.
Lunsford, now 52, came forward with his story last year.
He described Bigfoot as being somewhere between 6 and 8 feet tall and as broad as a refrigerator. Its arms were bowed out. It had dark hair, 3 or 4 inches long, on its arms. It gave off a terrible odor, he said.
But what he remembers most vividly, he said, were the creature’s dark, round eyes and oval head.
Read more: http://www2.journalnow.com/news/2011/feb/25/wsmain02-bigfoot-search-planned-in-nc-ar-811886/