Picnicing with The Big Guys.

[Ruthie]

I have read several reports tales of cookouts to lure the creatures in. That in fact they have came near. Do you think they would actually break cover and join in or wait for the scraps?

[#59]

The March 2003 (cookout) thread (sightings & encounters section) outlines such an event and the happenings thereof.

[Ray Ford]

At least one of the episodes reported at Bulletmaker's place/Spencer Creek occured during a cookout.  It was reported that a large Deer stand, one not far from where the cooking/eating was going on, was toppled over that night.  I wasn't there, but I have seen the stand.  I doubt that one man could have toppled it.  And I doubt that several men were there that night.  Baring use of some kind of mechanical device, it would have taken something very strong to do the toppling.  That might have been one of the reports that you read.

In a subsequent effort to attract one of the big hairy guys/gals, another cookout was staged at the same location.  The location was the north end of Bulletmaker's "hidden bean field."  I was there for the second cookout, but it failed to draw in any Bigfeet.

The only thing I could report from that evening is an odor that drifted across the fire site.  T's.G. and I were there, and, for a few moments, the odor wafted over the site.  The smell was like that of a wet horse--which smell I'm familar with.  I subsequently stated that either T's.G. let an especially pungent one or a wet horse tippy toed past the fire.  Surely wouldn't have been a Bigfoot.

[Teufelwald]

Yeah..I think they maybe attracted by the smell of food cooking....same as bears.....a guy from Washington state told me that a friend and himself were camping by a ridge and just got thru cooking supper...and something out in the darkness went berserk...shaking small tree's and snapping off limbs....growling and making ape like sounds..they shined a spotlight on it and it just moved back further into the woods....he said they were so scared they slept in their vehicles that night instead of the tent...and left at first light!

[Ruthie]

I recall one time as a kid we were in Colorado and had found a place to camp for the night. Near a creek.
Mom was cooking on a little camp stove. We had a small dog and cat with us. I remember the dog and cat getting in the camper and burrowing under the bed shaking. Then this aweful smell and what sounded like a pig grunting. The folks decided it was a bear a very large bear. We broke camp in a few minutes and were back on the road..... I can still recall how wonderful it felt to be driving away from that place.