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- Granton - James Hughes was minding his own business,
delivering the Black River Shopper last week when he says he saw something
he'll never forget - an 8-foot-tall, two-legged, shaggy creature carrying
a goat.
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- Sasquatch? Bigfoot? Yeti? Abominable Snowman? Or just
a really tall hairy guy carrying breakfast?
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- Hughes isn't sure, and authorities are scratching their
heads over the reported sighting.
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- "He was all covered with hair, a real dark gray
color, with some spots that looked a honey color. It was walking on two
legs, and it was mighty, mighty, big," Hughes said in a phone interview
Tuesday.
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- "You better believe I was scared. That creature
could have tipped that car upside down and thrown it in the ditch. It was
that big."
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- Hughes filed a report with the Clark County Sheriff's
Department, and a deputy was dispatched to the scene but couldn't find
any big footprints, said Capt. Mark Cattanach.
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- "We have no goats reported missing, or any other
types of small animals that may meet that description," Cattanach
said Tuesday.
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- "I'm not sure what we could do. I don't know that
there's ever been any indication, at least that I've been told, that there's
any danger to the public."
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- Hughes, 57, was on his newspaper delivery route around
5:15 a.m. March 28 when he said he saw the creature at the side of the
road, on County Highway H about 1 1/2 miles from his rural Granton home.
At first, he thought it was a man, but as he got closer he said he realized
it didn't look human - about 8 feet tall, 500 pounds and hairy with an
ape-like face.
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- After getting a closer look at the creature, which he
said appeared to be carrying a goat or small sheep in its hand, Hughes
said he floored his gas pedal and quickly drove away.
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- "I didn't call it in (to the Sheriff's Department)
until the next day, because people would think I'm crazy. And I don't drink,
I don't use dope, and I was wide awake," Hughes said.
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- Cattanach said Hughes gave a very detailed description,
but without tracks or other evidence suggesting a creature was in the area,
there's not much the Sheriff's Department can do. He also said the reported
Bigfoot sighting is the talk of the community.
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- "There's been a fair amount of joking around with
this," said Cattanach.
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- Journal Sentinel reporter Meg Jones contributed to this
report. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on April 5, 2000.
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