Millers Flat, Utah Encounter - Fall 1974

Millers Flat - Emery County, Utah

      Jim is a successful business owner from Carbon County, Utah and in the fall of 1974, he had an encounter with a large bigfoot type animal while camping at Millers Flat, in the fall of 1974. Millers Flat is located approximately halfway between Electric Lake and Joes Valley reservoir, in the Manti LaSal National Forest, Emery County, Utah. The Emery and Sanpete county line actually runs through the area, where Jim had his sighting. This is his story as he related it to me :

     In the fall of 1974, Jim parked his camp trailer at Millers Flat, right after the summer camping season, knowing that he would most likely be more to himself, not having the area full of campers. He was staying the weekend and had his dog with him on this trip. Late in the evening, his dog started to whine and became very nervous. Letting his dog out, he immediately hid under the trailer and wouldn't come out. Not knowing why he was acting this way, he decided to go for a little walk and leave his dog at the trailer. Approximately 100 feet away, Jim notices large human shaped, barefoot tracks on the ground. He thought this was very odd, why somebody with such big feet would walk around in this area barefoot. He didn't have anything with him to measure the length of the tracks and speculated they were approximately 16 inches in length, with a span somewhere between 3 and 4 feet. After looking at the tracks for a moment, Jim becomes very nervous, raising the hair on the back of his neck, feeling as if someone was watching him. Approximately another 50 or so feet in front of him, he see's something moving in the trees and it stops to look at him. Jim described it as, looking something like a big ape or gorilla. He turned around and quickly made it back to his trailer; the dog still underneath, not wanting to come out. At this point in time, he quickly loaded everything up in his truck and while hooking his trailer to the truck, the dog finally come out from underneath and jumped inside the truck, still whining. He told me that this is the only time, he ever seen anything like this and still thinks about it whenever he goes camping. I still see Jim from time to time and always ask him about it. He has never changed his story and firmly believes he had seen a Bigfoot.

Ron Johnson - Utah Bigfoot Hunter
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