Bigfoot Encounters 

The "Bugs" Affair
"Bugs" Texas Bigfoot Carcasses
 
This is the "Bugs Story," it allegedly took place in January of 1976; it is about the shooting of two bigfoot and their burial on the Elm Creek in Collingsworth County, the Texas Panhandle area
by a man identified only as "Bugs" and two of his hunting friends.


A whopper Texas-size story, is it true or the most preposterous story ever told?

Listen to Art Bell & Robert W. Morgan & Bugs relate the killing & burial of a
Texas bigfoot:

Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niLvytleTA8&mode=related&search=

Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOBggD7iiFY&mode=related&search=

Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HGNbYiPWo&mode=related&search=

Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avbaY_MfWio&mode=related&search=

Part five: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmLPJXVVSJU&mode=related&search=

Part Six: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c6QB7oIe9k&mode=related&search=

Part seven: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmkbjsa1rwQ&mode=related&search=

Part eight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB0QWdR1Ccs&mode=related&search=

Part Nine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE82Z9U3RNo&mode=related&search=

Part Ten: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOiP53V8rqE&mode=related&search=

On a recent Art Bell broadcast a former marine and Texas farmer identified as 'Bugs' claims that he and two other Viet Nam veteran friends shot and killed two 6 toed bigfoot on the Elm Creek while hunting for pelts to sell for profit at night with spotlights and rifles, subsequently burying the two bigfoot for fear of murder charges because the creatures looked so humanlike. They swore each other to secrecy. Bugs recently provided Bell with a map to the location where the burial occurred. Bugs went into great detail of the creatures descriptions, describing the male as nearly 8 foot tall, and 350 pounds and the female less in height and 30 pounds or so lighter. Longtime bigfoot researcher Robert Morgan helped Art Bell interview Bugs. Bugs thought Morgan would know that the bigfoot have "six toes", evidently thinking all bigfoot have six toes. Bugs seemed to have little knowledge of other bigfoot evidence in North America.

Living, hunting and farming in western Kansas myself at that time period and also having relatives in the Texas Panhandle, I am familiar with pelt prices at that time period in the area, the said location and also the soils present. All these items and Bugs stories regarding these items are perfect. Bugs himself in the entire interview process seemed and sounded completely sincere, going into fine detail. Bugs claims that now at age 56 he feels guilty and wants to get this incident off his chest. Bugs also claims fear that these local bigfoot still remember his deed and have it in for him. Bigfoot researcher Robert Morgan was in on the interview of Bugs with Art Bell, and he cultured Bugs fears that the bigfoot remember his deed and that "Bugs now needs to make friends with them with Morgan's help."

My conclusion is that Bugs probably does farm and live in the said area of the Texas Panhandle and that the way he related the story is seemingly in complete sincerity. I also conclude from past experience that some people can spin wild detailed and completely detailed yarns with a straight face and seemingly completely sincere. I also conclude that the Texas Panhandle is part of the Bible Belt and giants with 6 toes are included in Bible accounts.
I further conclude that an 8 foot bigfoot male, would likely weigh much more than 350 pounds if well muscled as described by bugs. I have also never seen any physical evidence in the form of footprints come from that area in spite of nice soft farm soils for making tracks in for all these many years that farmers have been tilling the soil there. I for one am not going to go to the Elm Creek area of Texas to dig 4 to 5 foot deep for 25 year old bones of a hairy six toed goliath and his female counterpart, but perhaps someone might.

I urge everyone to listen themselves to Bugs' story in the archive section, links above.... If Bugs is making the whole thing up, he did a really good job of it, except for the few oddities in his descriptions. The story will likely stay with us for awhile, so researchers should probably be informed on it. I still have never seen anything of concrete evidence east of the Rockies for all these years of only sightings from there, while from the western states I have seen hundreds of pieces of very consistent physical evidence.

Article contributed by Keith Foster

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