Beekeeper's Decades-Long Bond with Injured Black Mountain Sasquatch

A beekeeper in Western North Carolina shares his decades-long encounter with a starving, injured Sasquatch that came down from the Black Mountains each winter. Virgil Owens describes how the creature methodically opened his beehives to eat only the honey, turned the button latch on his root cellar to steal sweet potatoes, and left 16-inch barefoot tracks and a single right handprint in the snow, revealing it had a broken left arm that had healed crooked. After the creature began stealing from his stores, Owens began leaving jars of dark fall honey on his springhouse shelf each evening, which were always returned licked clean and set upright. On a cold January night in 1986, Owens watched from 60 feet away as the tall, grizzled, emaciated creature descended from the laurel to collect its jar, giving him a clear view of its starving frame, sable hair grayed around the face, and