Is it true that President Teddy Roosevelt once claimed to have seen a Bigfoot-type creature?
It doesn’t appear that Teddy Roosevelt ever saw a Bigfoot, but he wrote about another hunter having an encounter with one in his book, The Wilderness Hunter, which was published in 1893. Roosevelt related a story told to him by a “grizzled, weather-beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman” that occurred near the Salmon River between Montana and Idaho. According to the story, Bauman and another man were hunting and trapping beaver when they learned they were being stalked by a creature they thought to be a bear. Roosevelt writes the creature ransacked their camp while they were gone, and the next day, while Bauman was away, it broke his companion’s neck. “Bauman, utterly unnerved and believing that the creature with which he had to deal was something either half human or half devil, some great goblin-beast, abandoned everything but his rifle and struck off at speed down the pass . . . until beyond reach of pursuit,” Roosevelt wrote. How to help with oil cleanup I would like to volunteer
