Brad Gibson
Brad Gibson is an ivy league educated college instructor of a variety of wildlife ecology and environmental topics. Brad has studied Bigfoot existence for decades. This webpage contains his thoughts and observations about Bigfoot using ecological and anthropological principles.
My Encounter
In October 2024 I hiked Hurricane Mountain in the Adirondacks. I got a late start and by the end of the hike it was getting dark. I parked in the three car gravel lot on Hurricane Mountain lane, a gravel road 2.5+ miles off route 9N.
Approximately three quarters to half mile from the car something large took three loud steps through the brush, about 30 feet off the trail. It was loud and whatever made it was very big. My immediate thought was bear, so I clapped loudly twice to scare it off. Silence. No more steps, so whatever it was stood there and presumably watched us. My hiking partner was very startled and I didn't have my headlamp, so I didn't stay to look, and we kept walking. I could hear something walking parallel to us as we got closer to the car, but further away than the initial 30 feet distance, I would estimate 50 feet. It was faintly heard, the leaves we were walking through on the trail were noisy, and she wanted to get out of there, so I didn't stop to look.
On the drive home I was trying to deduce what it was. I have worked as a wildlife ecologist. I have done research projects on black bear and coyote; I am very familiar with what animals sound like when walking through leafy undergrowth. The subject in question was large, so the only options are human, bear, deer, or bigfoot. Human seems highly unlikely because there would have been no way for someone to see in the dark through the brush (we could barely see the trail, and I had to use my cell phone light), no one was in the parking lot, and it's a desolate area with no nearby areas of population. Deer likely would have continued crashing through the brush, but this thing clearly took two bipedal steps. It's bear habitat, but again, it likely would have continued crashing through the brush and bear are not bipedal. I've clapped/yelled at bear multiple times when out hiking and they always run and they are never within 30 feet. It's not moose habitat. I kept trying to convince myself it was a deer or bear, but when I got home I read BFRO report #11956 from very nearby and #3 on that report is also what happened to me.
I still think about it regularly and it's a very uneasy feeling.