Just as a slight verification of the truthfulness of the story told about a train hitting a Bigfoot in the 1880s; the principle source of the sighting report, train engineer George Kuhn, was in fact, a Civil War veteran just as the story states.  He served as a Private in the 198th Pennsylvania Infantry 1864-65.  His unit was part of a brigade commanded by General Joshua Chamberlain, a Union hero had had defended Little Round Top at Gettysburg.  The 198th PA was raised in 1864 and fought in the Siege of Petersburg and during the Appomattox Campaign.

 

One of my wife's ancestors, a cousin named Joseph Ewalt, was among several people who saw what back in 1884 was called a "man-beast" at Deep Creek, Kentucky.  In the Deep Creek incident the residents of a central Kentucky community discovered that a Bigfoot type of creature was raiding their chicken coups.  A group of men with tracking hounds went after it and wounded it before it disappeared into a cave.  The hounds refused to enter the cave and after a while the chase was called off.  From time to time there are still sightings of Sasquatches in Kentucky even today.  In the Deep Creek incident the creature, which was said to be between 7 to 8 feet tall, had also taken a shirt off a clothes line and was wearing it even though the garment was way too small.

 

I have met several people who have claimed to have seen Sasquatch.  One was a deputy sheriff and the other is a Native American from the northern Rocky Mountains.  I believe!

R. E. L.