Your train story brought back some old memories from when I was a young boy growing up in Kentucky. I spent every waking minute I had out in the woods and waters.

Some friends and I bowhunted a rather large tract of land and many times going into my stand before daylight I would get the feeling something was tagging along beside me up the ridge.

Several times I even heard a chirping or whistling sound, unlike anything I'd ever heard before.

I wrote it off as "me hearing things".

One afternoon we were out scouting and had just topped a steep ridge. Way off in the bottoms I noticed a flash of black through the woods. It was just a mere second of a flash of movement and then it was gone from my sight.

My first thought was "there aren't any cattle this far back in the woods".

I asked my buddies if they'd seen it and none had.

Again I wrote this one off as "me seeing things"

We always camped in an old abandoned barn on the property and one evening after supper we were in the loft getting tucked in our sleeping bags and noticed that the local farm dogs were really making a fuss.

I decided to egg em on a little bit and took the cellophane wrapper off a pack of cigarettes and squeezed it between my fingers and let out 2 or 3 high pitched "varmint screams".

What we heard back made the 3 of us about wet our camo pjs !

It started out as a low sort of moan and ended up sounding like it was going to blow the roof off the barn it got so loud.

Needless to say none of us had ever heard anything remotely close to that in our lives.

Scared us so bad no one dared to head back into those woods the next morning

A few years back I was net browsing and found the BFRO website and the "Ohio Moan".

Chills ran down my spine the second I heard it !!!!

No doubt, 100% certain that this was the same sound we heard in the barn years ago.

AND ALL THIS HAPPENED NOT 100 YARDS FROM A SET OF RAIL ROAD TRACKS THAT RAN STRAIGHT THROUGH THIS PATCH OF WOODS !!!!!!

I've long since moved from Kentucky and now live in NC and our home backs right up to a huge swamp.

My wife and I like to spend the very early morning hours on the porch enjoying the sunrise.

Mid-summer last year as we were enjoying the morning, THAT SAME EXACT SOUND came roaring from up out of that swamp.

My wife turned to me and asked "what in the world was that".

I just smiled and said "I don't think you want to know"

Keep up the good work !

Rick

I want to say that people adapt to their surroundings all the time, creatures do too. Why not Sasquatches as well? It could be that the quatch got on when the train wasn't moving out of curiosity and then hunkered out of fright/cold. It could be that they are using what's available to mobilize themselves without much detection as it would indeed be a faster mode of movement especially if they migrate back and forth. Maybe the single teens and adults go somewhere outside of their clan to look for mates too. Inbreeding would not be good. They probably have little human contact so they don't pick up our diseases and germs. otherwise they might end up like some of our unfortunate native Americans did from getting around the settlers. Diseases and death.

Did you ever expect to have a sighting?

I bet you never expected it to occur this way! LOL

Congratulations Stan…I've had the pleasure of speaking with you on occasion. So happy for you man….what an exhilarating experience.

If you ever get down to Texas again, I've had some great audio opportunities lately. A lot more bg's down here this year.

Approached more often now. Still looking for quality l.t. recorder.

And then I decided to take my own advice, erring on the side of the teenager and now adult, that he did in fact see what he claims to have seen, a hunkered down Squatch on a 'consist' train.

(See, I'm showing you I know my train-spotting lexicon)

At first I was thinking that the Squatch would need to know the destination of the train before he'd get on, and then it dawned on me, the critter simply got onto that car out of curiosity, as we are told that Sasquatch are very curious critters.

Then having been caught on the car while the engine slowly got up to speed, he, the Squatch was too frightened to get off the moving object and simply hunkered down as a defense against the chill of the air, and the speed of the train.

I know if I had mistakenly gotten on a train, at either end and it suddenly began to move, I'd be a bit apprehensive, but that's just me.

I suppose what my hypothesis is that the Squatch got onto the train without knowing what it was and hunkered down not to stay hidden from detection, but from fright.