BIGFOOT SIGHTING
Branson, Mo. circa 1964
There was this young boy about 9 yrs old who was told by a friends mom that he could stay at there house while his parents went to the drive-in movie. Well the neighbor's dad was in a bad mood later and said that the boy had to leave so it was about 10pm and very dark on a hot summer night. The friends house was quite a distance from his.
Well the boy has no place to go so he walks to his home and tries all the doors but the house is all locked up. The boy is a little anxious about being alone but then hears the music and laughter from a house a block away and remembers that one of his big sisters is at a party there, so the boy leans back in a lawn chair on the porch with his feet up on the wrought iron rail and stares up at the stars and bides his time. He knows that his parents should be home in about a half hour.
Low, muffled sound, aarghgrr, again, but not loud, just grunting from the side of the house, huh? The porch is recessed, the boy looks around the corner to the left but sees or hears nothing and nervously sits back down. The boy would like to go up to the house where his sister is at the party but knows how sisters are about little brothers when they are with their peers. So, the boy sits nervously. Grunt, grunt, the boy goes out in the front yard to look around the side of his house when suddenly they see each other at the same time at the corner of the house. There it is, a large est. 7ft hairy thing. The boy screams bloody murder, well, so does the creature, twice.
The boy takes off running toward the house where his sister is at the party. He glances back and sees Bigfoot running full tilt in the opposite direction, it seemed just as scared of him. The boy is still screaming bloody murder at the top of his lungs and wants to go knock on the door but knows his sister will never believe him and will be mad at him for interrupting the party so he jumps down in a ditch behind a bush and freezes quiet.
Well the kids at the party heard the boy screaming as the player was in between records at this time, and came outside with flashlights and looked around. "Hey anybody there? I think I heard it over this way." " I don't see anything, let's go back inside." said the party goers. The boy sat petrified, not making a stir. In a few minutes a police car drives by, but the boy stays still knowing nobody would believe him and he would just look like an idiot and would probably get in trouble. Not long after this, the boy sees his parents car coming down the street by the street light and he meets them at their home and the parents question the boy as to why he didn't stay at the neighbors like they had agreed upon and he told his dad who didn't seem very happy about him being abandoned like that.
The young boys father was a member of a local civic club and had lunch with the chief of police of Branson the next day. When the boys dad came home from work he asked the boy if he heard or saw any disturbances the night before as there was a report. The boy simply said "no, I didn't hear anything' and that was that. lol.