Report # 77818(Class A) Submitted by witness Lacey The Boy on Thursday, October 24, 2024.Tribal members on Rocky Boy Indian Reservation record a Bigfoot encounter(Show Printer-friendly Version)
LOCATION DETAILS: Was on the Rocky Boy Reservation on Sandy Creek Rd. These are the coordinates 48.18219° N, 109.81155° W
[Investigator (MM) Notes:
GPS coordinates (in decimal format) for the same location: 48.182183, -109.811605 ]
NEAREST TOWN: Box Elder
NEAREST ROAD: Sandy creek rd
OBSERVED: Sunday night my brother, his wife, my girlfriend and I had and encounter with a Bigfoot. We seen him with our own eyes and actually captured him on camera.
I honestly didn’t believe in Bigfoot. I always thought the videos on the internet were faked. I thought maybe he was a spirit, because I’m Native American. I’m also an army veteran. What I seen was like a huge black gorilla but he also looked like a man. He was about 8/9 foot in height. But that’s just my estimation. He also had black skin and hair all over his body, but the thing about it was it looked like it was combed. His hair was clean. It was like he took care of his self. So weird cause I’ve seen so many videos of people talking about he stinks bad. I never smelled anything.
He was so big compared to my brother and I. One thing I noticed about him was his physique. He was in shape. You could see his six pack, his huge chest and his arms.
I’ve never really been scared of anything in my life. I’ve been to war in 2004 in Afghanistan. I’ve been in the mountains for years and years of my life but never experienced anything at all until the other day. But what scared me the most was his size and body. I was like we’re not going to be able to do anything to him cause he’s just way too big. Plus we didn’t even have any weapons at all to defend ourselves with.
I was so close to him I could see his face clear and his body under his hair. He stepped out from behind a tree and looked at my brother and I, and put something in his mouth. I was thinking maybe food. Then after he looked at us for a few seconds he just turned around and started walking away, but not fast or anything.
My brothers wife started yelling in the truck. She was sitting in there with my girlfriend so we started running to the truck to make sure she was OK. When we got to the truck, we got inside it and my brother started recording again.
We were just sitting there staring at the direction where we seen the Bigfoot. And I was in the back passenger driver side my brother wife was in the drivers seat. We both had our windows down and my brother was recording from the passenger front seat but he was sitting on window rail recording over the top of the pickup. And both his wife and I seen something brown crawling towards us and she started screaming and I told her to Go, Go. And at the same time that she was pulling out I was rolling up my window, but I was also leaning on my girlfriend cause I didn’t want whatever that was crawling towards us to grab me.
We pulled out of there fast. We drove out of the mountain area and stopped and recollected ourselves and questioned our selves. Did we just really see what we seen? I didn’t even know my brother was recording till we seen the Bigfoot. I thought he was just using his phone as a flashlight cause I was the only one with a real flashlight.
I can’t stop thinking about what I seen since it happened. I keep questioning myself. But my brother actually captured him on camera. It is our only evidence. We need a professional to maybe brighten the video and make it a little clearer. We don’t want to do any editing to the video ourselves cause we don’t want ppl thinking we’re faking this.
We haven’t posted it on social media yet because we just don’t want anyone thinking we’re faking this. I seen what I seen and I still kinda can’t believe it. I can’t believe I seen a Bigfoot all I’ve been saying to myself past few days. My girlfriend can’t stop talking about it either. So mind blowing.
ALSO NOTICED: We seen eyes in the bushes about ten minutes before it happened so we started wood knocking. Which we didn’t get a response but it must’ve work.
OTHER WITNESSES: My brother. His wife, my girlfriend and myself.
OTHER STORIES: Yes, there was an incident that happened back in the 60s or 70s I believe where a Bigfoot picked up a bus and threw it down into a coulee. That was also in the new paper at the time it happened. My brothers grandfather was a kid on that bus.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was about 11 or 11:30 pm maybe, but it was around that time. I wasn’t paying any attention to my phone or the time. It was dark out but was a clear night. No clouds or rain.
ENVIRONMENT: Forest. Not too thick of vegetation tho. It was at a picnic area where u can go camping.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:
I spoke with the two guys you can hear in the video. Their names are Michael Eagleman (the cameraman) and Lacey The Boy. Very credible Chippewa-Cree tribal members. This is definitely a legit Class A encounter with three witnesses. Third was the driver, the ex-wife of Michael.
The man seen walking around is Lacey. His is a 39 year old Army vet. He served 11 months in Afghanistan as a combat engineer (sapper) attached to special forces. Michael is 34 years old and works online as a compliance manager for a financial institution.
That black figure in the video is hard to see but it is a real bigfoot. All three witnesses could see it much better than what you see on your screen.
The group of four drove out to a informal picnic area on the reservation (there is some trash and beer bottles around). When they arrived in the picnic area the two guys started to gather wood for a campfire. They had seen many episodes of "Finding Bigfoot" so they wanted to play some howl recordings of bigfoots on their phones to see what would happen. They did not have cell service though so they decided to try some wood knocks instead.
Michael tried hitting a few different trees with a branch, eventually he selected a tree on which he made some very loud knocks. Within a minute or so they noticed eyeshine up the hillside slope about 25 feet away -- two sets of blue-ish white eyes that appeared to glow.
Michael started filming with his camera. Lacey did not know he was recording. He thought he was just shining his phone light in the direction they saw the eyes. Lacey retrieved his very bright flashlight from the car and used it like a spotlight.
They walk over to where they saw the eyes but nothing is there. They keep looking around but don't see anything at first. Within a few minutes they hear footsteps and twig snaps further up the slope. The light beam eventually finds one of the bigfoots. Both Michael and Lacey see it and react. Several seconds later the ex-wife in the car sees the bigfoot lit up by the light. She yells for the guys to get in the car so they can leave.
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Rocky Boy Indian Reservation in Montana is so obscure and so remote that I had never heard of it. That amazes me because I have visited many indian reservations across the west, including in Montana.
Rocky Boy is not small. Some indian reservations out West are just small tracts of land at a river mouth. Rocky Boy is more than 170 square miles (444 square kilometers). It includes a big part of a mountain range. Most of it sees no human traffic or usage at all. The tribe is spread across a handful of villages. The largest village has a population of 800 people.
Michael says there are loads of berry fields in those mountains -- juneberries, raspberries, wild strawberries, chokecherries, blueberries. There are also bears, deer, elk and moose. There is an abundance on this reservation because it is not over-hunted.
About BFRO Investigator Matthew Moneymaker:
Matthew Moneymaker is originally from the Los Feliz District of Los Angeles, California.
- Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
- Juris Doctorate (Law degree) from University of Akron School of Law
- Founder of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization,1995.
- Writer and co-producer of the Discovery Channel documentary "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science", 2001.
- Co-producer of the TV Series "Mysterious Encounters" for the Outdoor Life Network (OLN Channel), 2002.
- Producer of the "2003 International Bigfoot Symposium" (Willow Creek Symposium) DVD set, 2004.
- Co-host of "Finding Bigfoot" on Animal Planet Channel, 2010 - 2017.
- Current Director of the BFRO
- Available for private bigfoot expeditions and conferences. To inquire please email ContactUS@BFRO.net
