A former lodge resort worker has recalled the “sheer terror” she felt when she saw a creature that looked like Bigfoot approaching her cabin.
Terra Filmer-Larson was working at Lake Crescent Lodge in Olympic National Park in Washington state in 2006 when she claims to have seen a huge bipedal beast approaching from nearby woodland while she was chatting on the phone to her mother.
After being haunted by the sighting for 20 years, Terra – who was 21 years old at the time – has now decided to come forward and report what happened to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), explaining: “I never thought to submit my sighting of bigfoot until now, 20 years later. I believe it was the year 2006, I was an employee at Lake Crescent Lodge in Olympic National Park, WA.
“I was at employee housing talking to my mom on the phone. It was late in the day, around sunset, no one else was around.
“I was sitting on the back doorsteps looking out into the old growth forest. She said I was talking then all of a sudden said: ‘Hmmm, what is thaaa … ” then she heard me hyperventilating.
“She asked what was going on but I only whispered: ‘I can’t move’.”
Terra revealed she was in a state of panic and her mother begged her to go indoors to escape the creature. She added: “She begged me to go inside. She said I was really hyperventilating and almost crying. I then ran and started to cry.
“I remember feeling sheer terror. The bigfoot wasn’t very far away. It was walking very fast diagonally but not toward me. I didn’t smell anything nor was there any sound. It was massive and the way it moved was very heavy as it swung its arms.
“The light was dim so I couldn’t make out any other details. It never looked at me in the couple of seconds I was looking at it.
“I ran the opposite direction then I stopped, turned back around and was suddenly curious, but it was already gone. My heart was beating so fast. And that’s it.”
She added of the sighting: “[It was] only a couple seconds of seeing the bigfoot walking very fast. I will never know why I saw what I did but the memory will forever be with me and I feel pretty lucky. I don’t like to share my encounter. I did a few times and people look at me like I’m crazy.
“I am not the kind of person to make up something like this.
“Some people asked me if it could have been a bear walking upright. Absolutely no way, I have been around a lot of bears and they can’t walk like that. Anyways, my family believes me, and my mom. She absolutely loves it.”
BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker added of Terra’s sighting: “She is very credible. She is also very certain that it was a bigfoot and not a bear, moose, etc. It was very tall, muscular, dark-furred figure with long swinging arms. She watched it at 40 yards for several seconds before she ran away crying …
“This report jumped out at us right away because the BFRO had conducted a few group expeditions on the north side of Lake Crescent in this time frame (2006-2009).
“We heard bigfoot sounds and found tracks on the slopes near the lake on that side. We also heard from employees on the north side of the lake that workers on the opposite side had seen bigfoots as well – specifically workers at Lake Crescent Lodge …
“This incident happened at dusk. It was starting to get dark. At that time the restaurant kitchen would be putting out the most scent into the air through the exhaust vents. Other employees would be most occupied in the restaurant.
“The smell from the restaurant may have been a factor for why the bigfoot came around at that time, although there are many reports of people seeing bigfoots moving across terrain swiftly around dusk and dawn … “
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