A Winooski man believes he saw a bigfoot-type creature at dusk while driving north on Route 7 Wednesday. At about 7:10 p.m., Ray Dufresne, 45, was heading back up North after visiting his daughter at Southern Vermont College, when he spotted a 6-foot-plus tall, 270-pound, "big, black thing" walking upright from near the highest point of elevation on Route 7. "It was hairy from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet," said Dufresne. "It was not walking like a normal person." Although Dufresne couldn't see the animal's face, he said from his vantage point of about 140 feet away he could see that the creature had very long arms and was covered in long, black hair. He said it walked east into the woods toward Glastenbury Mountain. "The first thing I thought was this is a gorilla costume. I thought it was a joke," he said. "Then, I put two and two together." There were no houses or abandoned cars nearby, so Dufresne surmised that the dark figure could not have been a person. Furthermore, Dufresne has been an avid hunter since the age of 15, and he says he knows his animals.

It was not a moose or a bear, he said. Although he had heard of the bigfoot phenomena before, Dufresne said he had never heard of it happening in Vermont. Dufresne also attested that he had not been drinking or doing drugs on Wednesday, and that he had no history of mental illness.

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