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South Weber Man Upset After Observing
Bigfoot-Like Creature near His Home
Nearby Resident Reports Ape-men
Foraging in Davis County Dump at Night
In 1968 M Saunders told Highschool class mates about some
ape-men-like creatures that came down off the mountain and foraged in the Davis
County Dump at night. He lived in South Weber just below the landfill that was
located on the Layton side of the border. He had a good view of the location
from the back side of his parents house. He had no idea what a Bigfoot was back
then and one of the classmates believed he had observed Bigfoot that night.
Source: Scott Shaw
One year earlier Doug Wilson reports a Bigfoot at Powder Mountain Road in 1967
The experience I had we never did really decide what we saw.
There were three of us in a pickup going up Powder Mountain Road one night. We
were getting excited about the deer hunt. We had a spotlight up on the mountain
and we were just looking for deer and seeing what we could see.
Part way up the mountain, about 125 yards up the hill from
the road, what we could see, what caught our attention was some eyes glowing up
on the hillside. We stopped the truck and had the spotlight up there.
It looked like a person sitting on the side of the hill with
their arms over their knees just staring down at us. There was no light-colored
clothing or anything, it was all dark. We could just see those eyes looking at
us.
We just kind of got out of there. We still never talk about
that very much to this day. It's just a little experience that you see
something that you don't know what to think about it. A little bit out of the
ordinary.
Source: Dave's Bigfoot Show
A string of Bigfoot encounters spiked in and around South Weber between 1980 & 1981
May, 1980
An Ogden couple picking asparagus along the Weber River near 12th Street and
I-15, reported an 8-foot-tall black figure with glowing red eyes about 40 yards
away. They ran to their car and later returned to the area and found hundreds
of tracks... Several footprints were also discovered in a residential area of
North Ogden.
Source: Deseret News
Creature Darts in Front of Car At 3:30am, Riverdale Road,
Ogden
'Bigfoot' Sighted Now in RiverdaleBy Bert Strand,
Standard-Examiner Staff Ogden Standard-Examiner_ February 27, 1980
RIVERDALE - "I didn't believe in them, but I sure do
now," exclaims a Clearfield man who says "bigfoot" ran through
the headlights of his vehicle early Monday morning. Lee Padilla of 143 W. 650
N. said he was driving east on Riverdale Road about one mile west of Weber
River about 3:30 a.m. when the 10 to 11-foot tall creature loped across the
highway about 25 feet away.
"It had long legs, a head like a gorilla with long,
dark brown, furry hair that was in layers. The thing was very graceful. I would
say it would weigh about 600 pounds. It crossed the road from north to south
and I would estimate it was running about 35 miles an hour. I saw it for maybe
four or five seconds," said Padilla.
The creature kept his face faced in the direction he was
running, Padilla said. When asked if the incident frightened him, Padilla
answered with a slow "No." and then added, "I was more curious
than anything else. It didn't pay the least bit of attention to me or my
car." A check of the area Tuesday by Padilla, Jay W. Barker of North Ogden
and photographer John Shupe failed to uncover any tracks. The highway sides,
however, were solid grass and weeds and fields in the area were hard or planted
in alfalfa and even the footprints of the men did not show, said Barker.
"There was one plowed field on the north side, but we
didn't find any tracks in it," said Barker who also reported seeing the
creature together with three other men and several boys three years ago in the
Uinta Mountains. Padilla said after the creature crossed out of the headlight
beams, he turned down a small, dirt side road and directed the beam of his
headlights across the field hoping he could follow and spot the creature again.
The headlight beams didn't spot the creature, Padilla said, but they did attract
the attention of a state highway trooper who drove up and asked him what was
going on. When the trooper was told what had taken place, "he took off in
a hurry and I got the impression he was going to also look for it," said
Padilla.
The witness said the creature had long arms and was very
erect as it ran across the highway. Padilla said the creature "moved
gracefully" and not in the manner usually attributed to the slouch and
swinging gait of a gorilla or member of the ape family. Padilla said the area
where the creature crossed is farmland with open fields and little cover.
The location is only a few miles from where sightings were
reported and tracks of "bigfoot" found early in February in South
Weber outside the mouth of Weber Canyon and near the Weber River.
Monte Cristo at Cache & Weber County Border
This encounter happened in August of 1980 on the road over Monte Cristo coming
back from Bear Lake at 1-2:00 am in the morning.
I was driving ahead of my husband who was pulling our boat
from spending the day at Bear Lake, Utah. It was really late at night and the
car headlights cast shadows from the aspen trees on the side of
the road. As I was driving I would get a little ahead of my husband
and so I would pull over and wait then start going again.
As I was driving near the summit, out of the corner of my
eye there was a shadow that didn't fit the rest of the shadows that I could
see. I turned and looked and the dark figure backed into the forest
and disappeared. I knew exactly what it was and as I think about it
now it is as clear as if it happened yesterday.
The experience hasn't been dimmed by time at all. I can't say how big it was
but it was much bigger than a man and much bulkier. We drove on home
without incident. I know what I saw and I'll stand by it.
Source: Witness interviewed by Dave Carver
South Weber, Paulene Markham's Backyard, Utah
Paulene
Markham said she saw whatever it was walking along the ridge of a hill behind
her house a week ago Sunday.
Miss Markham said she was about a half mile from it. She was standing at her
kitchen sink, getting a drink of water about 4 p.m., when she looked up and saw
it on the hill.
"I looked at it and I thought, 'Well, I'm going crazy,'" she said.
"Then, I walked away from the window and came back, and it was still
there." Miss Markham said she was frightened and curious, but she didn't
go outside to get a closer look. She said she was home alone, it would have
taken a snowmobile to get up the hill, and she was late for church anyway. So
she left the house and went to church, telling only one friend about it.
"I really don't know what it was, I just don't have the slightest idea,
because I don't know if I believe in Bigfoot," Miss Markham said.
Source: Valerie Schulthies, Deseret News, February 12, 1980
Ronald Smith's Property, South Weber, Utah
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
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.
