Ronald Smith of South Weber encountered the
creature outside his home. Smith said he came home from work after a
late swing shift and saw and heard the thing in the moonlight as he
tried to feed his horses shortly after midnight. The next morning,
Smith tracked the footprints in the snow and by calculating from the
trees, assumed the creature was nine feet high.
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
Source: Ogden Standard Examiner
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Ronald Smith is an interesting fellow. I spoke with him on the telephone last fall and he didn't want anything to do with talking about bigfoot. In fact, he almost disavowed the entire incident. It is interesting to me because he lost a horse in the entire ordeal. One of his horses was found dead the next morning with no discernible injuries.
Initially the accounts I have read attribute the horses death to being run around the field and being scared to death. When I spoke with Mr. Smith he blamed nearby construction the day before causing his horses to be scared and run around. I asked if I could photograph on Mr. Smith's property and he declined. I drove around to the backside of this property and shot across his horse field back toward a line of trees where his home was located.
This incident is one of several - perhaps a dozen - that happened in South Weber during February of 1980.
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