O.K. Mikey; and all you doubters out there;
Year: 1963, summer time, the month of June, the state of Idaho, County Latah County.
The incident took place during the summer of 1963, the gentlman was 8 years old at the time. The incident took place on Moscow Mountain, a small mountain near Troy Idaho. Moscow Idaho. The gentleman says that from time to time He would ride with his father to his work site. He would buy, what is was referred to as a stumpage site. This site would be a small area that the forest service would award to someone through a bidding process, the person to which the contract was awarded to, would then be responsible to clean the area of brush. His father really did this to obtain the old growth cedar trees, on the site. He would then reduce the trees into posts and rails and sometimes into shakes which is roofing shingles. On one particular morning, approximatel 10am to 11 am his father and him were on the site, and his father began to notch out a cedar that was approximately five feet across. He had a real difficullty falling this tree, because it had a lot of papery material inside of it. About half way through the falling process of pulling the saw out of the tree and shut it off In the meantime I kept getting a feeling that something was staring at me. I had not yet talked to my father yet about my odd feeling, because he always had me stand behind another tree, hopefully at the opposite side of the direction that the tree was supposed to fall. He was an excellent tree faller. After he shut his chainsaw off, he looked over to me and said, I fell like something is staring at me , I said I think it is and elk. He said no, I think that there is a cub bear up in this cedar snag. He gave me directions to walk around the tree and look up and watch for the cub bear. He did the same, only he walked in the opposite direction. Neither one of us saw a cub bear up in the tree. He then said th me, you must be right, it probably is an elk. Sometimes I could find elk that thought they were hidden when I would get this feeling, My father proceeded to fall this cedar snag. It fell on a slope, which was thickly covered with brush that was almost as tall as I was. As soon as the tree quit moving, I ran up its trunk. I had gotten about half way up the trees length at that moment something jumped up on the tree with me. It was about the same height as I stood. It stopped in fromt of me, looked me right in the face. Its face was about 8 inches, from mine. I let out a blood curdling scream. It took off on its hind legs similar the way a person would run and disappeared. I on the other hand could not get back to my father fast enough. My father approached me and said I think you saw a cub bear. I responded with no dad, I saw a big monkey, we did not talk another word about it. I believe my father thought my mother would blow a gasket if she found out what had happened. This episode took place during a mostly clear, warm summer morning. The following Monday I told my story to my third grade teacher. She later contacted someone at the Moscow Idaho state university, so as to find out if any circus animals had escaped or been lost from a circus. What prompted her to take thes actions, was the fact that I had told her that I thought it looked just like a chimpanzee, only bigger I was small for my age, until I hit my teens. but it was about my size, only heaver built, much more muscular its face looked just like a chimpanzees. Its fur was clean short, and shiny.It had a clean and neat look about it. This is my story and I swear on my fathers grave that everything that I have told you is true. My father started to take his 30-06 rifle with him to his job site after that time. He usuallly worked alone.
This story is not mine but another persons and thought you would like it.
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