Kidnapped by Bigfoot

Kidnapped by Bigfoot

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Speaker 1: Hello friends, Steve Stockton here with you. 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 and community or not, it's more

than likely you have heard at one point or another

about Sasquatch or Bigfoot, it's known by other 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 they had 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 Teresa Ann Beer decided to

go on a camping trip in a very remote area

of the Sierra Nevada Mountains called Shuteye Peak, located approximately

25 miles northeast of Bass Lake. A 43-year-old man named

Russell Welch accompanied Teresa 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 Teresa 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 Nevadas are 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 Teresa could find them. Many people questioned

Teresa'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, Teresa 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 Teresa 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 Teresa 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 Teresa 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 Teresa Beer was found, and the police

turned their sights 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

Teresa'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 date was upon them, prosecutors decided to

drop all charges against Russell for 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 for 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 was 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. No body has ever

been found in this case, and despite all the promise

the 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 of 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 by the sinister, hairy ape man 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, many people

think he could be telling the truth based solely on

how sensational and unbelievable his story is. Despite knowing how

much suspicion would fall on him 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 of that fateful 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 while asleep 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 at Toba Inland, British Columbia, Canada,

encamping 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 the

so-called Indian guide was describing, a hairy and gigantic sort

of man-beast, roaming and stalking the woods, kidnapping gold miners

and treasure hunters, and causing an overall and 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 headed off by himself to search for the

elusive and possibly 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 had caused the tensions.

and he was also planning on doing some prospecting of

his own. The men camped for a few days, but

they were far from uneventful, 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 and 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 through 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

backpack still hanging right where he had left it 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 what or who had so 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 our 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 a 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 thought was perhaps he was possibly just

slipping 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, were in

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 had gotten a hold of

him was walking uphill 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

the high strangeness and terror he was about to endure.

His captor 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 unhurried

pace through the wilderness. Somehow, he knew that when they

finally stopped, approximately three hours had passed, and he was

haphazardly and without much fanfare simply dumped down onto the ground.

Still in his 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

in some sort of unintelligible language not recognized by Albert Ostman.

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 to have 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, let alone try and 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

of height to the father creature. He said in his

own words about how they looked, the young fellow might

have been between eleven and eighteen years old and about

seven feet tall and might have weighed about three hundred pounds.

His chest would be 50 to 55 inches, his waist

about 36 to 38 inches. He had wide jaws, a

narrow forehead, and an overall shape of a head that

slanted upward round at the back, about 4 or 5

inches higher than the forehead. The hair on their heads

was about 6 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. They 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 six hundred pounds. She had

very wide hips and a goose-like walk. She was not

built for beauty or speed. Some of those lovable brassieres

and uplifts would have been a great improvement on her

looks and her figure. The man's eye teeth were 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 in proportion 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 did see their ears.

They were covered with hair hanging over them. While these

creatures weren't ever aggressive towards him, he stated that the

smaller ones seemed a bit frightened of him 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 our victim could see, thereby letting him know,

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

there any time soon, if at all. He mentioned, too,

that the creatures that slept inside of some sort of

shelter made a bark and dried out moss, and that

as the days wore 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 the younger male go and get.

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 victims. 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 for 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, with not only

its arms outstretched in 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, or at least the

large one that 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 anger 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 all the creatures, and not

just the younger ones, were interested in the snuff boxes.

He said he hatched a 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 an 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 creature pursued

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 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 of being ridiculed and losing credibility as far

as his professional reputation went. However, in the 1950s, more

people were coming forward with Bigfoot encounters than ever before,

and he finally felt safe to publicly tell of 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, this 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 evidentiary proof, one way or another, On either case,

we have brought here to discuss with you today. What

happened to Teresa Ann Beer? And did Russell Welch have

anything to do with her 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 blame it 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 his 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 indistinct 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. Until 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.

Tell your animals I said hi.