Kelly Shaw
I have been a Bigfoot enthusiast since I was 8 years old when my grandfather told me about his close-up encounter with a family of 3 sasquatch during the 1920's in Mount St. Helens Washington. After that I started reading all the material on Bigfoot I could get my hands on. After research I realized I was living in an active sighting area. The Rocky Mountains. Realizing this, I always carried a camera whenever our family would go camping, hoping to get a photo of a rare creature that possibly habitats near where I live.
As soon as I was old enough to go camping on my own, I started to camp a couple times a year in areas with sighting reports. Have done this all of my adult life.
Since 2007, Derek Wright "whom has had an up-close personal encounter" and I discussed getting serious about this hobby of getting a sighting of this elusive creature and if the opportunity presents itself a photo or a video. We discussed how we could do as well as anyone out there in the Bigfoot community and there is no reason why we would not have the same odds as anyone else at tracking down, studying and our ultimate goal proving or documenting a sighting with photo or video.
I present my research plans to Derek, “the Organizations web designer and valuable research advisor," before I go out, he always gives us great advise. Derek and I decided on Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization.
Jenny has been researching with me for the last 4 years. She has a great eye for finding tracks and for finding other Bigfoot signs of activity, such as territorial snap offs. She is the one that found the three 17-inch foot prints on April 6th 2013. Jenny and I have been in the field, scouting and locating documented sighting locations for 4 years now. We spend almost every weekend and most of our vacation time in the field. We spend most of our research time in Northern Utah and Southern Idaho. After 4 years of research we have narrowed down to 18 hot spots in this area that we study intensely. We also will check into areas within our range that have had recent sightings.
Brody Lewis began squatching with us. He brings to the table some valuable skills. He has spent over the last 20 years prospecting within our area of research. He is very good at navigation within the thick of the forest, he is also an expert tracker and is used to looking for subtle things out of place in the woods. We are happy to have him join the team.
Jenny Higley
My name is Jenny Higley and I've been fascinated with Bigfoot since I was a little girl. My friend and I used to huddle together in a sleeping bag to watch the Patterson/Gimlin film every time we could find it airing. My Grandpa told me war stories of soldiers spotting these creatures in the jungles during World War II. Between the video's, the verbal stories and the books I've read, it really made me question if this creature existed.
After Kelly and I started dating we found we both enjoyed the mountains. Kelly suggested we go camping in Bigfoot sighting areas. It sounded fun to me. After camping and exploring many of these areas, I've found it hard to question that Bigfoot exist.
Brody and I are brother and sister. We grew up together in the country before internet and video games became the norm. We spent a lot of time outdoors. Our Father, an avid outdoorsman, taught us to be very observant and aware of our location and surroundings in the forest. Because of this we have good skills at spotting animals, their tracks and anything else that may be out of the ordinary in the wilderness.
I enjoy all of our adventures together. The three of us have had some exciting experiences. Even though I get scared sometimes, it is exhilarating!
Brody Lewis
My name is Brody Lewis, I can say that I've always had an interest in Bigfoot. Over the 20+ years that I've spent prospecting, when I get into certain areas, I've always felt the presence that I was not alone.
In August of 2010, my girlfriend and I were prospecting in Yellowstone canyon. We left for our hike around 9am, hiked down a ravine across a river and ended up down in a marshy meadow. Once we walked out of the tree line and down into the meadow, we instantly felt we were not alone and that something was watching us. As we walked across the meadow, I began to hear the snapping of twigs and slow footsteps nearby pacing us. My girlfriend was just enjoying the sights and oblivious to what was going on. I had the sense it was time to leave so we began to make our way back when we heard this immense ape like "whoop" sound, echoing through the canyon which I could not link to any animal that I have ever heard.
Later that evening we returned to our camp several miles from where we had hiked. As the sun was going down, I started a fire to cook our dinner. There was no moon that night and it very quiet not even a breeze, all you could hear was the crackling of our camp fire. As we were sitting next to the fire talking, we heard a very loud noise behind us, it sounded as if a huge limb just snapped in half. I quickly got up and held my firearm and flashlight pointed in the direction of the noise, quietly listening for something to move. A couple minutes had passed and I had panned around the hillside with my flashlight and saw nothing. I sat back down and brushed it off as nothing, we ate dinner and went to bed.
As we were sleeping in a tent trailer, all night I could hear footsteps and what sounded like tapping on the top of the trailer. Several times I went out to investigate but saw nothing. The next morning, I packed up camp and when I lowered the tent trailer, I noticed there were dozens of rocks sitting on the top of the tent trailer. I have always been a skeptic of Bigfoot, but that experience I really have no other explanation than we were being messed with by a Sasquatch. I joined the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch Organization to prove or disprove the existence of Bigfoot. Each expedition we have been finding evidence that strongly suggests that not only do they exist, but they live in small family groups. I look forward to uncovering the truth on our future expeditions.
Derek Wright
My interest in the existence of Bigfoot, well for some it’s a hope or a dream to come across one of these elusive creatures but for me, I am not a believer I am a know-er! My experience may have come at a young age but sometimes those are the ones that have such a massive impact on your life.
When I was about 10 years old, myself and a couple of friends of mine, “brothers” were sleeping out in the backyard of their house. This is something that we used to do all of the time together. We would wait until it would get late at night and walk up to the local 7 Eleven and buy some candy.
Well this night Eric, one of the brothers had fallen asleep already so Chris and I headed off on our own. We used to walk behind a couple of houses and then through an orchard on our way to the store. When we got to the edge of the orchard we noticed that someone was coming down the road so we like normal kids would have, or at least what I think normal kids would have done, we ditched it in a small irrigation canal that was over grown with weeds and such to wait for whomever it was to pass by so we could be on our way. Well as the individual was getting closer you could make out more about them and what I was seeing was something that scared the hell out of me. It was dark but there was a street light that was shining behind this thing coming towards us and to this day I can still see the silhouette of it moving towards us. You could completely see the hair that covered the thing in the light.
At that point we were both completely froze in place; I don’t think we were even breathing anymore. This thing was walking literally straight at us or at least on a path that was going to take it within almost touching distance. We were only a few feet from the road where the orchard stopped when we ditched it in the weeds. As it came closer to us the more and more you knew that it really could only be a Sasquatch. I can’t tell you how tall he was but I can say it was massive. I guess I can give you somewhat of an Idea of how big it was. I remember going to a jazz game as a little boy and getting to meet Mark Eaton which is 7’4” and weighted around 300 lbs. and this things bulk dwarfed him. I couldn’t give you a height because I was literally flat on my belly at the edge of these weeds as this thing walked past us. I could have reached out and grabbed it.
Chris and I watched this thing walk pasted us and continue to head into a field and out of sight. Neither one of us moved until we couldn’t see it anymore. Once gone we both got up and ran our asses off back to our sleeping bags and didn’t move until the next morning.
I have been a know-er ever since and look forward to the day I get the honor of seeing one of the creatures again.