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The little boy who could talk to BIGFOOT
Gigantopithecus Primates of Humboldt Country, California
By Dante P. Chelossi Jr. Trafford Publishing
Copyright © 2014 Dante P. Chelossi Jr.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4907-2919-0
CHAPTER 1
A glimmer of sunlight seeped through the center of the window where the light blue curtains were parted slightly a few inches.
It crept up towards the top of a small bed where a little boy slept.
It grazed the side of his face, and came to rest directly on top of his right eye.
His eyelashes detected a small portion of this sunlight and caused an eye to blink a few times.
The little boy stirred a bit, and moved over out of the path of this ray of sunshine.
This little boy was named Augustus.
Everyone called him "Augy."
His father, Samuel Goodson, was well known throughout the world as a person who was obsessed with hunting the mythical species of ape called by many names, the most notable being "Bigfoot."
Samuel Goodson traveled all around the world in search of evidence that this creature was still alive in modern times.
At the present time, he and his young son were in central Malaysia following a good tip that he had received a few months ago from another Bigfoot hunter.
Shortly, they would leave the hotel to travel to a wildlife refuge that was very large in size, and had barely ever been investigated by very many humans up to this point in time.
After breakfast, they would travel for half of an hour to meet their paid guides.
They were going to be guided by two locals from a village that was located a few miles from the boundary of this wildlife refuge.
Jubine and Destra were their names.
These two guides were very nervous about this paid assignment to lead this man called Samuel Goodson, and his son, through this very dense forest.
This was a place that people avoided because of the local legend about a monster that inhabited the area.
There had been many sightings going back many generations, of this monster.
The monster was supposed to stand over eight feet tall, and have hair over it's entire body.
Nobody could ever remember an instance where this creature had harmed anyone.
But the fear was still present with the people who lived near the area.
The only reason that these two guides agreed to take this man and his young son into this area was obviously the money.
They were being paid very well for this assignment.
The money was equivalent to what they might make in half of a years work.
One condition for them before they agreed to this assignment was that they be allowed to carry high powered rifles with them.
Samuel Goodson agreed to this because he had been having a very hard time in finding anyone, that would agree to this assignment as guides.
Breakfast ended, and Samuel Goodson, along with his son "Augy," loaded up their gear in the vehicle that would take them to where their guides were waiting for them.
Half an hour later, they were at the site where their guides ... "Jubine" and "Destra" stood waiting.
Both men had with them, high powered hunting rifles slug over their shoulders.
Within a few minutes, all four people departed in the direction of the dense forest that was only about a quarter of a mile away from the meeting spot.
Samuel Goodson and his son both carried with them, high powered binoculars.
Samuel Goodson's binoculars had a built in computer hard drive that had the capability to take a photograph if needed.
His son's binoculars did not have this same capability.
All four people carried backpacks with their essential items for this trip.
Both guides had machete's with them to use whenever they came across vegetation that was to thick to get through.
At first, there really was no need to use these machete's, because the jungle was not to dense in vegetation to travel through.
As they traveled through this forest, there was a wide variety of sounds coming from many different animals.
Most of these sounds were familiar.
Monkey's, and bird's made up the majority of these sounds.
As they looked around them while they walked, they could see some of these animals that were making these sounds.
Samuel Goodson was already taking some pictures with his photo-binoculars.
The terrain that they traveled on was constantly changing.
Sometimes they were walking on very flat ground, and sometimes they walked downwards and upwards through slightly rolling hills.
Within an hour, they had already traveled very deep into this beautiful, seemingly non-human occupied jungle.
As far as anyone knew, there was not, or ever had been any human occupation anywhere in this pristine jungle.
There had been attempts in the past by logging companies to try and get permission, to do some cutting of tree's in this forest, but these request's were always denied by the government agencies that had jurisdiction over this area of land.
The two men that were acting as guides for Samuel Goodson did not talk very much.
They were too busy with their eyes and ears, capturing, and analyzing all of the minute sounds and sights around them as they led the way forward.
Little "Augy" was very quiet as well because this was his normal demeanor.
Little "Augy" did not communicate very well with people.
He was severely autistic.
One would not be able to detect that he was autistic unless they tried to communicate with him.
Otherwise, he acted like any other normal little boy.
His father never sent him to a special needs school for various reasons.
He decided early on after he found out that his son had autism, that he would take it upon himself to take care of the boy, and teach him everything that he could to function as well as possible in society.
The boys mother had died during child birth due to complications that the doctors were not able to successfully take care of.
This was a devastating life event for Samuel Goodson.
His wife had also shared in his enjoyment of pursuing evidence of whether or not "Bigfoot" actually existed.
It took Samuel Goodson a little over two years to get over the pain of the loss of the love of his life ... his dear wife "Tara."
He finally was able to mentally pull himself back together enough to get back to his passion of finding evidence of the existence of a large creature called by many names ... where he came from ... "Bigfoot."
This was also about the same time frame that he was told by doctors that his son "Augy" was autistic.
This news hurt him slightly at the time, but he quickly made decisions in regards to how he would handle this condition with his son, and quickly moved on.
They would be a team ... father and son, searching for this evasive creature all throughout the world.
So now, this father and son team were in a thick jungle, somewhere in Malaysia, being led by two local guides, who quietly went about their business as guides, but harboring fear within them ... every step they took through this jungle.
"Augy" did not feel any fear.
He remained silent, but curious about all of the things that he was observing as he followed his father through the jungle.
Sometimes he would stop to use his binoculars to look at something that caught his attention.
Unknown to even his own father was the fact that "Augy" had hearing and sight that was beyond what a normal human had.
His sight was far superior than normal people.
His hearing was extraordinary, and also very superior to the average person.
Because of his autism, he was not able to communicate very well with his father, or others.
He made mostly garbled sounds, mixed in with a small amount of English when he spoke.
Only his father was able to translate these sounds mixed with the English well enough to where he was able to understand what his son was trying to say.
Other people, when they heard these garbled sounds mixed with a little English from his mouth?
Forget it, the boy was unintelligible to them.
They traveled for another hour and a half through the jungle before the guides finally had to start using their machete's at various locations to travel any farther.
For the past half of an hour, unknown to anyone accept "Augy," there was a presence in the distance that was aware of them as they traveled deeper into this jungle.
"Augy," with his superior eyesight had already seen brief glimpses of a large creature covered in dark hair.
Because of the many sounds emanating from the jungle around them as they walked, "Augy" was not able to hear this creature ... yet.
He did not attempt to communicate with his father about what he was seeing.
He just continued to walk behind his father and the two guides.
Finally, the two guides decided that it was time to take a break, and so they found a small clearing to set up a temporary camp to rest and eat.
They would not stay here for very long though, because they wanted to get to higher ground for an over night encampment.
This could be compared to a race car pit stop, they would be here only long enough to replenish themselves for enough energy to continue their hike to where they would finally set up camp.
Meanwhile, they were being monitored without their knowledge.
There was indeed a creature that knew that they were there in the jungle where he lived in privacy from the world of humans.
He stood seven inches over eight feet tall when he stood upright.
His feet measurements were huge, compared to that of a human.
His body was completely covered by very thick dark hair that was several inches long.
This creature was absolutely massive in size if he were to stand side by side with an average human man.
His girth and weight was huge as well.
This particular creature weighed almost 1100 lbs.
He had very sharp vision, and his hearing was phenomenal.
He was approximately a hundred yards away from where this temporary encampment was.
He was looking at the little human boy out of pure curiosity.
It seemed as if this small human could detect his presence.
Several times, he had noticed that the small human boy had been looking directly at him, even from the distance that separated them.
This creature had indeed seen other humans in the past, but had always kept a safe distance from them.
He did not fear them because of their size, as compared to himself.
There was a fear because he could sense a danger from them that no other animal that he had ever encountered ... projected towards him.
The dominant way that they carried themselves, not showing any apparent fear for any animal that they came in contact with.
This made him feel instinctively like he had to always keep a safe distance from them, and certainly never come into contact with one of them.
This was the only creature that he did not feel a dominance over as a species.
He stealthily walked through the dense forest to another spot, still at a safe distance from the people that he was tracking.
He turned his head, and looked at the little young human.
He was startled!!
This little human was looking directly at him ... eye too eye!!
Their eyes were locked in a gaze ... directly at one another, as if looking at each other in a mirror.
He tilted his head sideways to the right, and then in the opposite direction to the left, and then back to normal to see if there was a reaction from the little human.
To his surprise, the little human mimicked him exactly, tilting his small head back and forth.
Now he was absolutely sure that this small young human was in fact looking at him.
He thought of running, and hiding deeper into the jungle, but he knew that he was already at a safe distance from the humans, and he also knew that the other larger, and older humans could not see him as this young human was able to do at this very moment.
So he just stood there watching the small young human, to see if he would alert the older humans about his presence.
He did not in any way, alert the older humans about him.
This made him even more curious about this small young human.
Why did he not tell the older humans that they were being watched by him?
Maybe the small young human was harmless ... and friendly?
It did not matter if the small young human was friendly or not, he did not like to have these humans in the jungle where he lived.
He wanted them to leave the jungle.
He decided that he would try to make them leave through intimidation, without being seen by the older humans.
He would get closer to them, and then start throwing rocks at them ... try to scare them.
He would wait for the right time to start throwing rocks at them.
For now ... he would just follow them from a safe distance, and wait for the right time to start throwing rocks at them.
He watched the humans for another half of an hour, and the small young human watched him as swell.
Finally, the guides decided that they were ready to continue on with their hiking, and move to where they really wanted to set up camp for the night.
They quickly gathered their items, and started to move on through the jungle.
As they did this, he continued to follow them from a safe distance.
He could see that they were making their way to higher ground.
Once he figured this out, he decided that he would quicken his own pace, and travel ahead of them and get to the higher ground before they did.
He would find a place where he could set himself up with some rocks, and ambush them when the time was right.
It would have to be a safe place where he would be able to launch rocks at them, and still not be able to be seen by any of them ... except maybe the small young human.
He was able to get to the higher ground in plenty enough time before they arrived, and set himself up at the area where he felt safely out of sight, and close enough to throw the rocks that he had gathered, to reach them in flight through the air.
He did not have any intentions of harming these humans.
He did not want them to retaliate against him.
He had rocks that were very small in size.
They were not large enough to really do any harm on the humans if one happened to hit them.
They were just large enough to get their attention that rocks were being thrown at them from an unknown source ... him.
He hoped that this would scare them enough to where they decided to leave the jungle ... his home.
He settled down and waited.
After waiting for almost forty five minutes, they arrived near the area that he thought they might come too.
He was right.
They stopped in a small level ground area, and started to set up camp.
Almost right away, the little human spotted him, again locking eye to eye him.
Again, this startled him.
He waited until there camp was all set up, and they were all sitting down on the ground.
He picked up a small stone and threw it in the direction of their campsite.
The men in the camp did not notice the small stone glide through the tree's a few feet from where they sat.
But ... "Augy" noticed right away, and gave an obvious frown in his direction.
He ignored the gaze from the little human.
So, again he picked up a small stone, and threw it at the campsite.
This time, the stone fell directly into the camp area and skidded to a stop only a few inches from where all three men sat.
They noticed it this time.
Samuel Goodson jumped backwards a little, while still sitting on the ground.
"Augy" did move, not even slightly.
The two guides, reacted very similarly to how "Augy's" father had, but even more so.
Both men jumped to their feet and grabbed their high powered rifles, and put the guns to their shoulders.
They took aim in the direction where they thought the stone might have come from.
Both men used their sights on their rifles to get a better long distance view of what, or who, might have thrown the stone at them.
Both men were completely wrong in guessing what direction the stone came from.
The only one in the camp that knew for sure where the stone came from was little "Augy".
Little "Augy" did not say anything to any of the three men because he sensed that this creature was not trying to harm any of them.
He also sensed, by the reaction of the men, that if he did say anything to them, the creature that he had been watching, might be harmed in a bad way.
So he kept quiet, watching the creature as he relocated to another spot in the jungle, but still at a distance where he could be safe, and still throw rocks to the camp.
The creature waited for almost half of an hour before he threw another rock at the camp.
All of the men, by that time, had concluded that the rock thrown earlier was of no significance.
It was probably some "fluke."
(Continues...)
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