About 12:20 a.m. Feb. 4 1980, Ronald Smith was arriving home from work. He got out of his truck and walked back to his pasture on South Weber Road and heard something out in the field. What he heard and later saw, he now believes is Bigfoot. “I was going back to feed the horse and he wouldn't come to the fence. I started out there to feed him and I heard, crunch, crunch, it was something walking on two legs through the snow. Since only the horse is out there, I thought it might have been some kids getting into something”, Smith said. “I looked out there, it was moonlit, and I saw this dark figure walking across the pasture. I thought it was a high school kid trying to get away before I saw him. I didn't think of how big it was.”
Smith continued, “I saw it walk into some trees. The horse wasn't scared, but it was acting a little funny and looking over that way. Then I heard the screams. They were unlike anything I've ever heard. They sounded like a cougar, but only with a lot of volume. They were just different. I got out of there and into the house”, Smith said. “My wife was telling me to get a gun or a camera, but it only lasted seconds. It screamed four times when I was outside and three more times after I got inside. I told my wife, 'I think it's Bigfoot out there' and I was sort of kidding, but those screams were unbelievable.”
Smith said if the beast hadn't screamed, he would have passed off the figure in the moonlight as a “kid in the pasture.” Smith went into the field the next day to look for tracks and said he found marks about six feet apart that looked like it was something with toes, but that the horse had trampled the tracks throughout the night. He also said he thought his horse was “acting funny” for several days and he feels that could have been an indication that the Bigfoot was around [sic] for some time.
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
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Ronald
Smith is an interesting fellow. I spoke with him on the telephone last
fall and he didn't want anything to do with talking about Bigfoot. In
fact, he almost disavowed the entire incident. It is interesting to me
because he lost a horse in the entire ordeal. One of his horses was
found dead the next morning with no discernible injuries.
Initially
the accounts I have read attribute the horses death to being run around
the field and being scared to death. When I spoke with Mr. Smith he
blamed nearby construction the day before causing his horses to be
scared and run around. I asked if I could photograph on Mr. Smith's
property and he declined. I drove around to the backside of this
property and shot across his horse field back toward a line of trees
where his home was located.
This incident is one of several - perhaps a dozen - that happened in South Weber during February of 1980.
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