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Hello friends.

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Welcome to our latest video.

Today, once again,

we bring you something just a little bit different.

In this episode kidnapped by Bigfoot, join me.

Let's take a walk and see.

Whether you're new to this channel in community or not,

it's more than likely you have heard at one point or another

about Sasquatch or Bigfoot.

It's no mother names as well.

The average story pertaining to this massive, hairy,

ape-like creature who has become somewhat of a king of cryptids,

if you will, has someone peeking a quick glimpse

of it before it runs back into the woods

and leaves a potential witness wondering exactly what it was

that just all too briefly laid their eyes upon.

But what happens when it's alleged that Bigfoot

is responsible for a missing child in the wilderness?

Now, it's no secret that many of us in this community

feel as though Bigfoot may be responsible

for at least a part of the missing person phenomena

and related disappearances.

But could it be that someone has actually been a witness to it

who made it out alive and able to tell the tale?

That's exactly what's been alleged in the case

we're discussing here in this episode.

On June 1st, 1987, a 16-year-old young lady

from Fresno, California, named Theresa Ann Beer

decided to go on a camping trip in a very remote area

of the Sierra Nevada Mountains called Shuddie Peak,

located approximately 25 miles northeast of Bass Lake.

A 43-year-old man named Russell Welch

accompanied Theresa on this trip.

Russell was a self-proclaimed expert on the subject of Bigfoot

but also an avid Bigfoot enthusiast

and someone who was known to have gone on several adventures

into the wilderness to try and get evidence

of the existence of the legendary creature.

In fact, that's what he and Theresa had set off

into the mountains and surrounding dense

wooded areas to do themselves.

It's unknown how they knew each other

or what their relationship was at the time.

It's somewhat commonly known that the Sierra Nevada

is a real hotbed of activity for the infamous cryptid

so the fact that the two embarked on this adventure

wasn't anything strange in and of itself

but the fact that Russell Welch claimed he had not only

come across several of the creatures himself

and on numerous occasions,

but he also alleged that he was in a sort of constant

telepathic contact with several of them

and knew where he and Theresa could find them.

Many people questioned Theresa's parents' judgment

by letting her go off on what so many people back in that time

where Bigfoot sightings and extraterrestrial abductions

were taboo considered to be sort of crackpot pursuit.

He was much older than her and not related by blood

that we know of and admittedly,

he thought he could telepathically communicate

with what at that time was considered a mythical creature

and the whole thing seemed strange from the get-go.

Either way and whatever her parents' reasons were

for letting her go,

Theresa Beer did go on this quest with this much older man

and only one of them would ever return.

A few days after the pair headed out,

Russell Welch returned to Fresno alone

and Theresa hadn't tried to contact any of her family

or friends long enough that they became incredibly worried

and started almost immediately asking questions.

Her family contacted the local authorities

and for obvious reasons her camping companion

was their number one person of interest

from the very first day.

Upon questioning him about the disappearance,

things would get much stranger

than anyone would have ever thought

and this is where the story gets a bit unbelievable,

depending of course on what it is that you believe.

Russell Welch explained that he and Theresa had gone on a hike

in order to hunt for Bigfoot

and that the creatures were being more elusive than normal that day

and that he and she had become separated

in the thick and dense forest.

He said that what happened next was shocking and terrifying

and that he was still trying to come to terms with it himself.

According to Russell,

one of the Bigfoot creatures had come barreling into the woods

snatching Theresa up and dragging her away.

Obviously this didn't sit well with the investigators

and they were somewhat convinced immediately upon hearing

this story that they had a possible murder on their hands

and immediately descended upon the area

where Russell said the Sasquatch abduction had taken place.

Despite an in-depth and well-coordinated search,

no sign of Theresa Beer was found

and the police turned their sides back to Russell.

No matter what tactics they tried though to use to trip him up,

he stuck to his story that she had been abducted by Bigfoot

and dragged off into the woods

and authorities concluded that regardless of anything else,

Russell Welch truly believed what he was saying.

Basically he really believed that she had been dragged off

by a Sasquatch.

The police charged Russell with child stealing

and they went to trial.

While in jail and awaiting that trial,

investigators offered Russell a plea deal.

If he signed a waiver that allowed the prosecutors

to pursue a murder charge later on,

only in the event Theresa's body was ever found,

then he would get off right then

with just a light one-year prison sentence.

He refused the deal almost immediately

as he was completely sure and adamant

that she was taken by Bigfoot

and that he had no responsibility regarding the matter.

Just three days before the trial day was upon them,

prosecutors decided to drop all charges against Russell

and fear of coming up with more evidence later

and running into issues like not being able to charge him again

because of America's double jeopardy laws,

which say you cannot ever, under any circumstances,

be charged twice with the same crime.

If they pursued murder charges or kidnapping charges

and lost, then if new evidence ever did come to light

or was presented to the authorities,

they would have to let him off scot-free.

So the trial was canceled and Russell was released from jail,

allowing prosecutors and the authorities

the option to charge him with a more serious crime of murder

once they had gathered enough evidence to build a case.

They were all but convinced Russell's guilty.

They thought even the child stealing

and kidnapping charges wouldn't stick at that point though

and they knew they could add those to the murder charges later on.

Though those crimes only carried at that time

a maximum sentence of four years.

Nobody has ever been found in this case

and despite all the promised investigators felt

about being able to charge him later on

after they had collected more sufficient evidence

to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt,

Russell Welch remained a free man.

So what really happened here?

Was this just a case of an older man who was

for whatever reason allowed to take a teenage girl

who's of no relation to him out into the wilderness

and that he did something sinister to her

and then killed her and disposed to the body?

Or could it possibly be that Teresa Beer

really was snatched up and abducted

by one of these legendary beasts?

Dragged into who knows where and for who knows what reason?

Are the sinister harry eight men

most of us have come to know and love called Bigfoot?

There is no evidence against Russell and never has been.

But Teresa has never been seen or heard from again.

So let's discuss some of the possibilities.

Many people who initially were of the idea

that Russell had done something sinister

and got rid of the evidence

have come to reconsider that sentiment

as more time passed without any evidence

to back up those suspicions.

If he had committed a crime, surely he could have come up

with a more believable excuse had he been lying, right?

Would he have really been so dense as to blame it on Bigfoot

when he was more than likely acutely aware

of how anything involving the cryptids

was viewed back in those days?

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They solely on house sensational

and unbelievable history is.

Despite knowing how much suspicion would fall on

to begin with, with being the last one

to have had contact with the missing girl,

and also all the strange and mostly unanswered questions

about the nature of their relationship.

Russell never wavered or changed his account

or any of the details of the events

that Faithful Day way back in 1981

or in all the years that followed.

Another fact to take into consideration

is how many reports of people being abducted

by Bigfoot, we've come across in the years

we've been bringing things like this to you on this channel.

And even more so, just in researching for this video alone.

For example, there's a man named Albert Ostman

who claims that in 1924, he was out camping

and was abducted by a Bigfoot by a sleep in his sleeping bag.

Albert claimed the creature grabbed him sleeping bag

and all and carried him off as he slept.

According to his version of events,

he was on vacation in Tobin,

British Columbia, Canada

and camping in some very rugged and dense wilderness.

He too was on a sort of quest

as he had gone to this particular area

in order to try and find an alleged long lost gold mine.

He was convinced was located in the general vicinity

of where he set up his camp.

He had what he described as an Indian guide with him.

And this guide allegedly informed him

that the last person to have found this mysterious gold mine

had in fact been abducted and killed by a Sasquatch

and that he needed to be extra careful and keep his guard up.

According to Albert,

this was the first time he had ever even heard of such a creature

and he didn't believe in the legend at all.

He basically chalked it up to crazy old native folklore.

Being an avid outdoorsman,

he believed if there was such a creature

as a so-called Indian guide was describing

a heron gigantic sort of man-beast,

roaming and stalking the woods,

kidnapping gold miners and treasure hunters

and causing an overall general ruckus

just with the sightings of it.

He would have already come across it

or at least have heard of it by then.

After the two men set up camp,

our alleged victim had it off by himself

to search for the elusive impossibly non-existent gold mine.

He brought some supplies with him,

a rifle and a knife too.

He wanted to investigate a specific mountain pass

that it caused attention

and he was also planning on doing some prospecting of his own.

The men camped for a few days

but they were far from univentful.

And Albert started to notice

some very strange things happening by the third or fourth day.

One morning, he woke up to find that though nothing had been taken,

a bunch of things around their camp had been moved.

He normally slept with his rifle within arm's reach

in case he needed it in the middle of the night

but found it had been moved

to where he couldn't reach it anymore.

Should he need it in a hurry?

He chalked it up the first time to an animal

perhaps a porcupine having come through the camp

and rummaged two things,

knocking some of it down in its wake while looking for food.

The next day though,

things would be a lot harder to ignore.

Despite his backpacks still hanging right where he had left

at the night before,

it had been completely emptied

and some things had been taken this time as well.

The only thing that went completely untouched

was a bag of salt.

His pancake flour and a one pound bag of prunes

were missing completely.

Since nothing had been ransacked or torn up,

the two men knew right away

that this couldn't be the work of an animal.

There were no footprints or tracks of any kind left behind

to give the men a clue as to why they were who

had sold boldly invaded their camp

and stole their food while they slept.

For three nights in a row,

an intruder visited the camp

and went through the men's belongings.

Despite every victim claiming he took measures

to catch the thief in the act,

on what would be the fourth night

after three nights of these brazen intrusions.

Albert went to bed fully clothed

and with his knife and rifle in the sleeping bag with him,

determined to stay up all night

and finally catch the trespasser.

However, he soon fell into a deep sleep

and when he woke up, all hell broke loose.

He claims he woke up still in the sleeping bag

and fully dressed,

but while being carried in his sleeping bag

and all away from the camp,

he must have been deeply sleeping

because he said his first knock was perhaps

he was possibly just sleeping around due to a snow slide.

This explanation was quickly ruled out.

Even by such a groggy and partially still asleep mind,

due to the fact that there wasn't any snow in the area

at the time that could be the explanation

for why he was moving so quickly,

while still wrapped up in his sleeping bag.

He knew that whatever was carrying him was walking,

although he stated he felt a bit like he'd been put

on a horseback as far as the stride and movement

of whatever it was that had a hold of him.

Because the rifle and knife,

along with various other survival tools,

when the sleeping bag with him

and he was now bundled up and completely unable

to move at all,

he wasn't able to make use of any of the weapons

and instead said they were sticking into his body

and hurting him along the way.

He also couldn't get a good look at who or what was carrying him.

It seemed to him that all he could do was wait and see

where he was being taken

and try to glean more information that way.

Whatever got in the hold of him was walking up hill somewhere,

that was about the extent of what he could decipher

was happening in the moment.

He was scared, groggy and confused

and had no idea of the high strangeness and terror

he was about to endure.

His capture was huffing and puffing the entire way up the hill

and even let out some small coughs and low chattering sounds

as it moved at a decidedly unerried pace to the wilderness.

Somehow he knew that when they finally stopped,

approximately three hours had passed

and he was half-hazardly and without much fanfare

simply dumped down onto the ground.

Stillness sleeping bag,

he decided to try and peek outside

to see where he ended up

and what in the world was going on,

being that it was still pitch black outside

and even if he did have a flashlight handy

he would have been reluctant to use it.

He could only make out some shapes and sounds.

None of which were in the least bit familiar to him.

He saw the outlined but distinct shapes

of several large humanoid creatures

and could hear them chattering to each other

and some sort of unintelligible language

not recognized by Albert Osman.

He did immediately make the connection

from what he was seeing, hearing and overall experiencing

that he was now in the company of a semi-large family

of the hairy hominid creatures.

He was warned about at the beginning of his trip by his guide.

He called out to the creatures

and asked them what it was they wanted with him

but the only response he ever received

was more the unintelligible chattering

though he distinctly knew somehow

that the chattering was coming in direct response

to his questions which meant that the creatures

had at least some level of intelligence to them.

He claimed that from being so smushed

and curled up in the sleeping bag for all that time,

those three hours he was allegedly carried that way,

he couldn't move his legs well,

not alone trying to get out of the bag and run.

As the sun began to rise

and he could get a better glimpse of what was around him,

he saw four very large hairy bipedal creatures there with him

though he still had no idea where it was he had been taken.

He claims he somehow knew

or at the very least had a strong feeling

that the massive eight foot tall specimen

was the father of the clan.

The somewhat smaller one was the mother

and the two that were smaller still were children.

He had been kidnapped by what appeared

to be a family of Sasquatch.

He made sure to explain that

when speaking of the children, when he said taller,

he meant they were about six feet tall

instead of the seven like the mother

and the aforementioned full eight feet or more

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He said in his own words about how they looked.

Quote, the young fellow might have been between 11

and 18 years old and about seven feet tall

and might have weighed about 300 pounds.

His chest would be 50 to 55 inches.

His waist about 36 to 38 inches.

He had wide jaws and air a forehead

and an overall shape of a head that slanted upward round

at the back about four or five inches higher than the forehead.

The hair on their heads was about six inches long.

The hair on the rest of their bodies

was short and thick in places.

The woman's hair on the forehead had an upward turn

like some women have to call it bangs among women's hairdos.

Nowadays, the old lady could have been

anything between 40 and 70 years old.

She was over seven feet tall.

She would be about five to 600 pounds.

She had very wide hips and a goose-like walk.

She was not built for beauty or speed.

Some of those lovable viziers and uplifts

would have been a great improvement on her looks in her figure.

The man's IT through longer than the rest of the teeth

but not long enough to be called tusks.

The old man must have been near eight feet tall.

Big barrel chest and big hump on his back, powerful shoulders.

His biceps and upper arms were enormous

and tapered down to his elbows.

His forearms were longer than common people have

but well proportioned.

His hands were wide, the palm was long and broad,

and hollow like a scoop.

His fingers were short and proportioned

to the rest of his hand.

His fingernails were like chisels.

The only place they had no hair was inside their hands

and the soles of their feet and upper part of the nose and eyelids.

I never didn't see their ears.

They were covered with hair hanging over them.

End quote.

While these creatures weren't ever aggressive towards them,

he stated that the smaller ones seemed a bit frightened of

and more than anything else.

He said they seemed as though they weren't going to allow him to leave, either.

He claims that he was forcefully kept there against his will

for the next six days.

The largest one sat right by the only escape route

where victim can see, thereby letting him know,

without any words, that he wouldn't be getting out of there

anytime soon, if at all.

He mentioned too that the creatures that was left inside

of some sort of shelter made a bark and dried out moss,

and that as the days were on,

they seemed to become more comfortable with

and less afraid of him,

as even the children dared go near and investigate him.

The Sasquatch family offered him food

in the form of some sweet grass and nuts

which he saw in the younger male going yet.

He was seemingly the most adept at climbing

atop the large hill where the grass and nuts were located.

The boy was the food gatherer,

or so it seemed to our victim.

In return for the food,

Albert would allow the boy creature to play with his snuff box,

which it seemed very much to enjoy.

It would open and close the box,

it took a lot of practice,

and it would even taste the snuff inside,

though it didn't seem to like the taste very much.

Eventually, the young boy thing demanded another snuff box

of his sister, Albert obliged and gave her one as well.

He said the adults mainly laid around sleeping

and resting during the day

while the children climbed and played.

Albert reported having grabbed his rifle

and simply tried to walk right out of there

on several occasions,

but each and every time the large male would stand in the way,

but not only its arms outstretched,

a kind of double-stopping motion,

but that he was also very vocal

with the irritability that this seemed to have caused him.

When asked later why he didn't just shoot the creatures,

where at least the large one,

it was obviously in charge of keeping him there,

he claimed that it was because they just seemed so very human

that he couldn't bring himself to do it.

He also said that he wasn't sure

if the rifle would even have an effect on such a massive beast

and that it was too much of a risk

it would do nothing more than angered them all,

and so far he hadn't been harmed in any way,

so why take a chance?

Our victim got the idea, though,

due to how much it seemed to all the creatures,

and not just the younger ones,

were interested in the snuff boxes.

He said he had to plan to get the father to eat all the snuff

in the boxes he had,

and hopefully that would either kill him

or at least incapacitate him,

so Albert could facilitate and escape.

One day Albert opened a new snuff box,

and as he tried to give himself some,

the adult male snatched it out of his hand,

and emptied the entire contents

of what was left into its mouth.

He would lick the container when he was done,

seemingly not having the same aversion to the taste

as his young son.

Just as Albert had predicted,

the adult male fell desperately ill,

and he was able to make his escape.

The mother creates a pursuit of him at first,

but he turned and fired his rifle over her head,

which scared her off,

allowing for him to finally get away,

leaving all of his belongings behind as he went.

Albert was aware of the whole while he tried to make

his way back to civilization,

that this family was most likely hunting for him,

but he finally came across some loggers

who helped him make his way back home.

Albert Osman never spoke of what happened

to him during that trip,

or at least not until decades later,

for fear being ridiculed and losing credibility

as far as his professional reputation went.

However, in the 1950s,

more people were coming forward

with big foot encounters than ever before,

and he finally felt safe

to publicly tell his own ordeal with them decades earlier.

It wasn't until 1957 though,

that he would finally tell the world

of his extraordinary and somewhat fantastical story.

Ever since, the story has been debated, ridiculed,

championed, broken down, and ripped apart

by believers and skeptics alike,

and at the end of the day,

we really have no evidence here to proof one way or another

on either case we have brought here

to discuss with you today.

What happened to the tree sand beer?

And did Russell Welch have anything to do

with their disappearance?

Would he have not come up with something

at least more believable than a Sasquatch abduction

if he were trying to cover up for some sinister thing

he had done to cause her disappearance?

Others say his extraordinary

and mostly unbelievable story

is exactly why he should have been looked at closer.

Some thought it was a great way

to be able to avoid talking about what happened

as in just blaming on something crazy

and no one will be able to prove it one way or another.

And what happened to Albert Osman?

Could it be that he really was kidnapped

and held by a family of four bigfoot?

If this or any of the other innumerable reports

just like this could be proven,

then what does that mean for the missing phenomenon

all the people who have never been found or seen again

after taking what is usually an instinct

and otherwise ordinary trip

for whatever reason into the woods?

Unfortunately, we don't have any more answers

than what we have here.

Well friends, there you have it.

Let me know what you think

about these incredible stories in the comments below.

Till we meet again, be good to yourselves and each other.

Stay safe out there.

Don't get captured by bigfoot.

As for me, I'll see you a little further

on down the trail.

I'm Steve Stockton, and I'll talk to you next time.

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