Donnie Johnston writes in fredericksburg.com that was walking through a forest with two friends when he came face to face Bigfoot. He now spends one weekend every month trying to track him down again. Between expeditions, he designs surveillance cameras and listening devices that will help him track his quarry.

On the fateful day he saw Bigfoot, Dranginis saw a large black head peek at him from behind the tree before it took off in a "full-blown run…At that point I knew this was something different from a man," Dranginis says. "It was about 7 feet tall, covered with hair and had broad, muscular shoulders, arms and legs. It ran about 75 feet left to right in full view, then took a hard left and ran down a hill. I could see its muscular shoulders moving back and forth, and its hair, maybe 4 to 6 inches long, flowing as it moved. It disappeared over a hill. My other friend and I just looked at each other. We knew what it was."

When they returned the next day, Dranginis and his friend found a small pine tree with its bark stripped on one side to a height of about 18 inches. He says, "Then we saw a footprint—about 131/2 inches long. Then I heard it," Dranginis says. "Low whistles, two of them signalling to each other. Then I heard something moving."… ...