1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,440 Somewhere in the forests of North America, people are still 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,480 reporting encounters with something massive moving through 3 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:09,320 the darkness. Tonight, we'll be hearing some 4 00:00:09,320 --> 00:00:12,400 of those stories. Get cozy and settle in. 5 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,280 This report takes place at a home in southern Alabama on 6 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,240 October 22nd, 2021. I've lived in the same home 7 00:00:51,240 --> 00:00:54,720 since 2004 and I've seen something very strange. 8 00:00:55,040 --> 00:01:00,360 A few things actually. It was October 22nd, 2021. 9 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,200 I was sitting in my living room when my dog, who was outside, 10 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,040 started scratching at the front door wanting to come in. 11 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:10,800 She's an older Beagle and small even for her breed. 12 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:14,400 The top of her head is still a hand short of my knee, so she's 13 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:17,960 not a big dog at all, but she has never been intimidated by 14 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:20,520 animals. I didn't let her in. 15 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,120 Instead, I went outside with her on to the porch and as soon as I 16 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,960 opened the door, a strange odor filled the air. 17 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,960 It was a foreign smell to me and I do not have much to compare it 18 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:33,600 to. It wasn't horrible, but it was 19 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:37,240 not pleasant either. If I had to describe it, I would 20 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,560 call it a smoky smell, like smouldering wet leaves smoky but 21 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,400 also musty and mouldy, and that only covers a small part of it. 22 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:47,960 It was pungent but not unbearable. 23 00:01:49,080 --> 00:01:52,000 I could hear the neighbour's dog barking, specifically the ones 24 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,040 to the South, and they are a little over half a mile away. 25 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,000 It was very out of character for my Beagle to want to come inside 26 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,600 instead of joining in. Being a Beagle, barking is her 27 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:05,400 main hobby. I stood there and looked around, 28 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,759 and that's when I saw the strangest thing I've ever seen. 29 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,480 Something in the back of my father's truck was moving side 30 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,720 to side. That was the first thing I 31 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,680 noticed. As my eyes adjusted to the dark, 32 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:20,440 I saw that a hand was holding that object. 33 00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,720 The hand was attached to an arm, the arm to a shoulder, and that 34 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,480 shoulder belonged to something that was staying mostly hidden 35 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:30,400 behind the truck. Maybe hiding is not the right 36 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,960 word, but it was matching the truck's outline. 37 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:37,080 Even though it was large, it stayed mostly behind the truck. 38 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:40,760 I could mainly see the right arm and shoulder and what I later 39 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:45,280 realized was part of its head. For some reason I could not 40 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:49,200 understand, it kept swiveling that object from side to side, 41 00:02:49,760 --> 00:02:52,320 and other than that movement, it was very still. 42 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,640 The object looked like a board of some kind. 43 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:57,720 I don't believe it came from the truck. 44 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,520 There was a decade of junk piled in the bed, but I don't think a 45 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:04,320 board or branch of that size and shape was in there. 46 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:07,680 The truck had no tailgate and was facing the rear of it. 47 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,240 The object moved in a way that looked like it was controlled by 48 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:13,440 the wrist, like a pivoting motion. 49 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,480 I never saw its face. The night gave it an overall 50 00:03:18,480 --> 00:03:21,080 black colour with no clear details other than the 51 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,400 silhouette. While I stood there watching, I 52 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:26,560 was also focused on my dog's behaviour. 53 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,640 She curled up next to the door. She wasn't whining or scratching 54 00:03:30,640 --> 00:03:32,960 like she would if she was desperate to get inside. 55 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:35,600 She seemed cautious, but not panicked. 56 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,760 Because of the darkness and her age, I doubt she could even see 57 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,560 it. I don't think it was a human. 58 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,680 I tried shining a worthless flashlight at it, but it did 59 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,240 almost nothing. It gave no more light than the 60 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,000 moon would have, and it did not react to it at all. 61 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:54,920 I don't know if it was aware of me, and if it was, it didn't 62 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,560 seem to care. I started making low, long Hoo 63 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,240 noises at it. It's a sound I had heard at 64 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:04,480 times, usually around sunset, and it always gave me the 65 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,960 creeps. I never officially assumed it 66 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:10,800 was anything other than an owl. Just like my flashlight, the 67 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,080 thing did not respond to my hue sounds. 68 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,440 It kept swiveling that object while staying pressed against 69 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:19,200 the side of the truck. Maybe it was trying to look 70 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:24,040 inside the truck, I don't know. After about a minute or two, no 71 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,200 more than two, it stood up. When it stood, it made no noise 72 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,600 at all. It immediately turned to the 73 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:33,880 right and followed the driveway toward the road and the woods. 74 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,440 It made no sound as it walked away. 75 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:40,000 None. I stayed outside for a while. 76 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,960 I didn't feel threatened by what happened. 77 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,360 My Beagle finally moved away from the door and laid down next 78 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:47,880 to me, the way she does when she wants to be petted. 79 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,520 The smell faded almost instantly, though it lingered a 80 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,080 little for a while. It was around 9:30 when I first 81 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,720 went outside. It was close to midnight by the 82 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,480 time I came back in. After that, I got curious and 83 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,160 started taking measurements, and what I came up with scared me. 84 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:09,920 From where I'd been standing, I marked the height of the truck. 85 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:13,040 The higher mark was where its face seemed to be when it was 86 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,080 hunched into the truck. That was also about where its 87 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,320 upper hip or lower abdomen would have been when it stood up. 88 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,120 The lower mark was where the hip ended and turned into thigh. 89 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,080 The bottom mark was 5 feet 4 inches high. 90 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:28,960 The top mark was 6 feet 8 inches high. 91 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:33,040 When it stood up to full height, the halfway point of its body 92 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:35,560 looked like it sat somewhere between those two marks. 93 00:05:36,120 --> 00:05:39,120 If you double those numbers, you get a rough idea of the full 94 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:42,040 height. That would put it at 10 feet 8 95 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:46,840 inches at the smallest or 13 feet 6 inches at the tallest. 96 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,040 At first I assumed its upper body and lower body were equal, 97 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,440 but I don't think they were. I think it had much more upper 98 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,440 body than lower body based on how it stood above the truck. 99 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:01,800 My best guess is that from its feet to the lowest point of its 100 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,200 butt was only about a third of its height. 101 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:07,440 Its legs look small compared to human proportions. 102 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,520 I truly believe it was close to 13 feet tall, if not taller. 103 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,480 That night I thought maybe it did not fear me because animals 104 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,840 can read your intent and I meant no harm. 105 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,520 Maybe my voice and posture showed that. 106 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:25,160 But after I measured things, I started thinking it was not 107 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,640 bothered because of its size. It's not until I got the tape 108 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,800 measure out and compared my own body to the lengths that I 109 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,640 became afraid of the dark. The fact that it was so silent 110 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:39,640 made me wonder if I had seen the devil himself. 111 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,800 For a while I was afraid to go out at night, but I got over it. 112 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,520 My Beagle helped with that. She had clearly been unsettled 113 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,240 because she wanted to come in, but she didn't do any of the 114 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,120 things I would expect. If she sensed a direct threat. 115 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:56,640 She didn't growl, snarl, bark, or pee. 116 00:06:57,320 --> 00:06:59,160 The hare on her back did not stand up. 117 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,760 With the darkness and her poor eyesight, I don't know if she 118 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,640 actually saw it. Also, if that thing wanted to 119 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:09,240 take me, in more than 20 years here it has had thousands of 120 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,080 chances and I'm still here. And if it tried, there would be 121 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,760 nothing I could do. Even with a large calibre 122 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,400 weapon, I would still put the odds in its favour. 123 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,280 Other than the size, what bothered me most was how quiet 124 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:24,720 it was. It made no noise when it walked. 125 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:26,480 None. Zero. 126 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,560 At 40 or 45 feet away, you would think I would at least hear 127 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:34,440 breathing or something, anything in the still night, but there 128 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,120 was nothing. I've seen it two more times, so 129 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,280 3 total. The second sighting was months 130 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,920 later, either late 2021 or early 22. 131 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:48,440 I don't even remember why I felt like going outside that night, 132 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,080 but I did. And I stopped cold with the door 133 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:54,600 open because in the full moon it was standing in the driveway. 134 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:57,840 It was in the same spot as the first time. 135 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:01,200 It was facing me when I opened the door, probably startled by 136 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:04,560 the noise, but by the time I realized what I was seeing, it 137 00:08:04,560 --> 00:08:07,800 was already turning. I shut the door fast and when I 138 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:11,200 came back with my phone, it was gone, continuing on its way. 139 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:15,280 I think it uses the driveway because it's quieter than the 140 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:17,120 woods. There's no leaf litter on the 141 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,480 driveway like there is on the forest floor. 142 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,320 Sometimes I think there's no way it can move through the forest 143 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,040 that quietly because the woods are thick, but I've also read 144 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:30,280 plenty of stories where people had aggressive encounters and 145 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:33,960 had no idea the animal was there until it was right on them. 146 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,120 And what I had seen three times is comparable in size to a 147 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,280 moose, at least in weight. The third sighting was on 148 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,960 October 3rd, 2023, almost exactly 2 years after the first. 149 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,480 It was around 3:00 in the afternoon. 150 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,360 Something moved on a wooded Ridge at a higher elevation than 151 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,360 where I was sitting and it caught my eye. 152 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,240 It was only a second, but I clearly saw an arm swing, a 153 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,440 giant hand and a shoulder the whole left side. 154 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,760 The sun reflected off its fur and it was the colour of 155 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:08,280 chestnut, either dark red or brown. 156 00:09:08,960 --> 00:09:12,200 It made noise in the dense woods and I think that's why I looked 157 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:14,440 up there. Its shoulders pushed through the 158 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,160 branches, but I don't remember hearing footsteps. 159 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,800 The sighting lasted only a second or two, but in some ways 160 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,560 it was clearer than the night sighting that lasted longer. 161 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,440 Two things stood out about that sighting. 162 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,360 Large wild rabbits live up there and you can see them through 163 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,760 gaps in the trees. That thing's hand, even closed 164 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:37,840 up, looked comparable to the size of a large rabbit. 165 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:42,120 The second thing is my work day ended early because of an 166 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:44,600 accident. On a normal day, I would not 167 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:46,800 have been home for another 6 or 7 hours. 168 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,000 I don't know if that matters, but it feels like it might. 169 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:54,280 In all three sightings, I never got a clear look at its face. 170 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,160 I believe all three sightings were the same creature. 171 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,560 Later, I got curious about the first sighting and tried timing 172 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,920 it. I grabbed a stopwatch and going 173 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:07,040 strictly from memory, I started the timer while picturing the 174 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:09,120 path it took to a particular tree. 175 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:13,840 That distance was about 60 feet. In my memory, it took about 9 176 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,600 seconds. I know that's not exact science, 177 00:10:16,600 --> 00:10:18,560 but I felt confident in that part. 178 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:21,480 I tried to do the math, could not. 179 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:25,400 So I looked up and figured out that 60 feet and 9 seconds is 180 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:29,480 about 4.7 mph. That's just fast enough that I 181 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:32,280 would not be strolling comfortably, but it's not fast 182 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:34,640 either. It had no reason to hurry. 183 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:38,160 It either prioritized being quiet over being fast, which 184 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:41,760 makes sense except that it had to know it had already been seen 185 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,160 because I was standing on the porch making those who noises at 186 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,320 it, so I am confident in that number. 187 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:53,360 It was somewhere between 10 and 13 feet tall and it walked 4.7 188 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:56,280 mph. It is strange to get a height 189 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,880 and speed of something people say does not exist. 190 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:04,880 Since that sighting in October 2021, I only had one encounter 191 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:08,040 that was not visible. It was between the 1st and 2nd 192 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,120 sighting. I had taken a bag of trash out 193 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,600 when I heard what people call samurai chatter. 194 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,240 Clear as day, loud. It was dusk, and I believe it 195 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:19,920 happened as a response to me opening the back door. 196 00:11:20,600 --> 00:11:23,320 I dropped the trash bag and backed straight inside. 197 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,280 I didn't even turn around. The trash was still there the 198 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,000 next day, untouched. It's unnerving to have the place 199 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,080 you have lived comfortably for years suddenly feel dark and 200 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:37,320 strange. As for feeling watched or 201 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:39,400 feeling a presence, it's hard to say. 202 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,360 I think it's just a natural reaction to what I saw. 203 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,360 I don't think I'm being toyed with. 204 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:47,520 I think I just happen to live near where these things are. 205 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,720 All things considered, they've been decent neighbors. 206 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:53,800 Being startled once or twice a year is not enough for me to 207 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:56,440 bother with them. That's how I was raised. 208 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:00,160 I'm glad I don't fear it anymore, but people going out 209 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,760 looking for them is insanity. I'm not going out after these 210 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:06,920 things and I would never invite anyone else to either. 211 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,440 This report takes place outside a tiny Hill Country town in 212 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:18,640 eastern Oklahoma from 2010 through 2013. 213 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,280 The first time anything happened to me, I was a kid living out on 214 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:26,080 a dirt Rd. that ran for miles off a main highway. 215 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,400 The town nearby was so small it was basically one block with one 216 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,200 gas station. Everything out there was hills 217 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,720 and tall grass and you didn't have many neighbors. 218 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:37,840 We were tucked back by the woods. 219 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:42,520 My dad worked for a rock truck company back then and he used 220 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:44,720 one of their trucks to pull a double wide out there. 221 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:47,760 He connected that new place to the older place with the 222 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,600 hallway. My sister got the back bedroom 223 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,920 in the added on part and right beside her room was a bathroom 224 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,880 and my brother and I slept on the other side of that bathroom. 225 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:01,800 One night I was in the bathroom taking a bath and I heard my 226 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,920 sister screaming. Not yelling like she was mad, 227 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,880 but screaming like she was terrified or hurt. 228 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:11,600 Everybody rushed in there. I threw a towel on and ran to 229 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:14,800 her room. She had a big double window that 230 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:17,040 faced the woods maybe 50 yards out. 231 00:13:17,520 --> 00:13:20,560 There was a tree out there with a branch that had AU shape to it 232 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:24,280 where a dip low. Standing by that tree was a big 233 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,160 black mass. You could see it clear as day. 234 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,840 It was as tall as that low part of the branch. 235 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:33,680 That branch was high. My dad used to hang a tire swing 236 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:35,840 from it, and he's about 6 foot tall. 237 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,440 He used a ladder high up to tie the rope, so whatever was 238 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:43,840 standing there was really tall. At first, because my sister was 239 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:46,840 a teenager, we might think it was some boyfriend trying to 240 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:50,800 peek, but this thing was huge. Everybody just stood there 241 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,680 quiet. My dad ran through the house and 242 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:56,680 jumped in my mum's pickup. The headlights swept across the 243 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,560 yard. While he was doing that, the 244 00:13:58,560 --> 00:14:00,520 thing turned and walked toward the woods. 245 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:03,040 It moved fast but it wasn't running. 246 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:07,280 It walked into the tall grass. That grass out there was about 5 247 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,760 feet tall. If you didn't mow it once it got 248 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,320 far enough out you couldn't really see it anymore. 249 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:16,040 My dad chased it with the truck through the tall grass and into 250 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,280 the woods. There was a hill or mound 251 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,320 through that area and he high centred the truck and got it 252 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,400 stuck. He had to walk back to the 253 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,040 house. He wouldn't talk about it in 254 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,200 front of us, but my brother and I stood outside the bedroom and 255 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,080 listened while he talked to my mum. 256 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:35,880 He sounded absolutely terrified. My dad was the type he'd never 257 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:39,440 see cry and never see scared, and he sounded scared. 258 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:43,840 He told my mum it was huge, the biggest thing he had ever seen. 259 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:47,400 He said it knew he was after it and it didn't act like it was 260 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,440 panicking, like it wasn't worried the way animals usually 261 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,720 seem. It didn't want to be caught, but 262 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,480 it didn't act scared of him either. 263 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:58,400 After that, I didn't feel safe in my own home. 264 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:01,440 We had a window and I didn't want my bed by that window 265 00:15:01,440 --> 00:15:04,200 anymore. I kept asking to move it because 266 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,080 I had that uneasy feeling that something could reach in and 267 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,400 grab me. My parents ended up building a 268 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:12,000 fence around our property so they could have some Peace of 269 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:16,560 Mind when we were outside behind our place at the bottom of a 270 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:18,880 huge hill. My brother and I used to play on 271 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:21,560 that hill. We had trails we walked and we 272 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:25,520 would pick berries up there. One day my sister and I walked 273 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,840 higher than we normally did and found a massive cave. 274 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,040 It was big enough for a grown man to walk into. 275 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,040 It wasn't some little hole, it was big and it stunk. 276 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,880 I froze up. I was terrified and my sister 277 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:41,680 thought it was funny to leave me there. 278 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:43,760 She ran down the hill and left me. 279 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,880 I stayed frozen for a minute, then I decided to go down, but I 280 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:51,160 walked backwards because I was too scared to turn my back on 281 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,000 that cave. It was hard to do, but I had 282 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,080 that same unsafe feeling and I didn't want to face away from 283 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,480 it. Later on, around the 4th of 284 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,840 July, we were doing fireworks in the driveway and on the road 285 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:06,800 with family. I lit an artillery shell on the 286 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:09,000 ground because I didn't realise what it was. 287 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,920 As soon as I lit it, my dad and sister's boyfriend yelled for 288 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:16,520 everybody to get down. We ducked and hid behind things 289 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,560 and it blew up right there on the ground. 290 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,880 Not even 10 seconds after it went off, we heard a scream in 291 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,640 the woods. It was a blood curdling scream. 292 00:16:26,320 --> 00:16:29,360 We had a sheltie named Wolfie, and that dog had been lying 293 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:32,280 there calm through all the fireworks that it didn't care. 294 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:36,400 When that scream happened, that dog went up on all fours, high 295 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:40,800 alert, like something was wrong. The sound seemed far away, but 296 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,760 also like it was right next to you because it was so loud. 297 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,480 It had weight to it, like it came from deep inside something 298 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:51,040 big. My dad ended the fireworks right 299 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:53,560 then and told everyone it was time to go inside. 300 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:58,280 Across the main highway from our dirt Rd. there was a tall game 301 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,520 fence, maybe 10 or 12 feet. A man owned a lot of land behind 302 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:06,480 it and had exotic animals like Buffalo and warthogs and even 303 00:17:06,480 --> 00:17:09,079 wolves. It wasn't unusual to drive that 304 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:11,760 main road and see one of those animals near the fence. 305 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,680 That man had even come around telling people he had a breakout 306 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,760 in the back of that fence. I'm adding that because I've 307 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,720 always tried to think of what else it could be. 308 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:25,800 My dad's brother lived out on the same dirt Rd. more toward 309 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,040 the hillside, kind of near a Cliff edge. 310 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,640 One night we were at that house. The adults were drinking beer 311 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:34,480 and hanging out, and the kids were playing tag in the dark. 312 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,360 Something set the adults off. They said they saw something in 313 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,280 the woods, making noise, moving trees around. 314 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:43,400 They grabbed guns and went to look. 315 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,600 I wanted to go with my dad. We walked along, not right at 316 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,280 the edge but close. It was thick woods and tall 317 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,760 grass. We didn't have bright modern 318 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:56,400 lights, just big mag lights. My dad swept his light across 319 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:58,520 the trees and grass and I saw it. 320 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,040 It was huge and tall up near tree branch height. 321 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:04,680 The first thing I noticed was its ears. 322 00:18:05,080 --> 00:18:09,000 They were massive, pointy, straight up, no fold at all. 323 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,640 The top had a sharp pitch. They looked about the size of a 324 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:15,000 man's hand, just tall and sticking up. 325 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:19,160 I remember thinking it looked like Anubis, like something out 326 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,200 of an old Egyptian picture. When the light hit it, it moved 327 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,960 lightning fast. It wasn't quiet either. 328 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,800 It broke through things as it moved, like it didn't care what 329 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,040 was in the way. My uncle fired a shotgun at it 330 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:34,760 and it screamed. It sounded identical to the 331 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,920 scream we heard after the artillery shell, but this time 332 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,000 we were closer. Even with my ears ringing from 333 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,840 the shotgun, I could still hear that thick heavy scream over the 334 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,960 ringing. I felt unsafe in a way I can't 335 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:50,440 explain. I grabbed my dad, started 336 00:18:50,440 --> 00:18:53,400 bawling and kept saying I didn't want to be there and I wanted to 337 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,560 go back. My dad picked me up and ran back 338 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:58,840 to the house with everyone after that. 339 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:02,360 My uncle was so scared he sold his place and moved his family 340 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:06,840 within about a month later. In the daytime, my mum sent me 341 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,560 down the dirt road to ask our closest neighbor if they had a 342 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,840 can of corn we could borrow. I walked almost to their 343 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:16,360 driveway and across the road there was a clump of trees and I 344 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,320 heard big branches snapping in there. 345 00:19:18,760 --> 00:19:22,920 It spooked me, but I kept going. Then I heard more heavy rustling 346 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,280 and decided to turn around and go back home. 347 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:29,440 As I walked back, I heard stomping behind me that sounded 348 00:19:29,440 --> 00:19:32,400 like an elephant running. It wasn't a gallop. 349 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:35,920 It sounded like a long stride, like something with long legs 350 00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:39,520 running hard. I heard it up close, like just a 351 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:43,040 few steps back and I got a lightning shock through my body. 352 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,560 My spine felt like it lit up. I started running and screaming, 353 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,200 making as much noise as I could because I was far from the house 354 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,200 and honestly thought I was going to die. 355 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,400 It ran with me in the trees and tall grass next to the road. 356 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:01,400 The loud steps were bad, but what I heard even more was this 357 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,640 nasty huffing. It sounded like heavy breathing 358 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,840 with a wheeze, like someone with asthma breathing hard. 359 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:12,640 I was bawling and having a panic attack, hyperventilating, but I 360 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:15,760 made it to the house and ran inside, crying so hard I 361 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:18,840 couldn't talk right away. My parents got me breathing 362 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,200 again. I told them something charged me 363 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,200 from the trees. My dad went out with his gun. 364 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:28,000 My mum grabbed a PVC pipe. They searched the area and found 365 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:30,360 nothing. But something did chase me 366 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:33,400 because the tall grass was pushed over on a trail where 367 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,480 something ran through it. It made its own path through the 368 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:39,840 grass. I hated living out there after 369 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:41,840 that. I didn't want to be outside. 370 00:20:42,120 --> 00:20:45,440 Everything scared me. Eventually, because of family 371 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,800 property issues and paperwork problems, we had to move off 372 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:52,520 that land and I was happy to leave because I did not want to 373 00:20:52,520 --> 00:20:56,360 live there anymore. We moved to a bigger town not 374 00:20:56,360 --> 00:20:59,480 far away, about a 30 to 40 minute drive from where I grew 375 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,000 up. It was more built up, not as 376 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,680 heavily wooded, but there were still woods around. 377 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,880 As a teenager I used to get off the bus at a friend's place, 378 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:11,480 play Xbox until dark, then walk home. 379 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,600 The walk was along a main road. On one side was a big fancy 380 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,400 house with lots of land and cows. 381 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:23,000 On the other side was woods. One night I was walking and the 382 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,280 worst smell hit me. It was like a dead skunk or dead 383 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:29,800 animal but stronger. Like make your eyes water bad. 384 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,920 I got to a spot that felt like an archway in the trees and the 385 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,520 road dipped into a small valley. I heard noises in the woods, 386 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,160 like something moving toward me at a slow pace. 387 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,480 I stopped and looked. I didn't see anything. 388 00:21:43,720 --> 00:21:46,680 I listened nothing for about 20 seconds. 389 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,680 I started walking again and almost immediately I heard the 390 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,720 footsteps again and twigs snapping. 391 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:55,360 I got scared and started jogging. 392 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,040 I looked back and right there at the tree archway there was a 393 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,200 giant black mass in that town. There was enough light from the 394 00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:06,680 area that it wasn't pitch black and the moon was bright and 395 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,920 there was a glow from town. I could see eyes, not red, but 396 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,840 the way animal eyes shine when there's light reflecting it was 397 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,760 huge. I flashed back to being a kid 398 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,760 and thought I was going to die. I used to skateboard and I had 399 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,320 expensive lime green Osiris shoes. 400 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:27,640 I never tied them and when I took off running they flew off 401 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,720 my feet. I ran home barefoot in my socks. 402 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:33,240 I got to my room struggling to breathe. 403 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,560 I called my girlfriend at the time crying because I was so 404 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,320 scared. She thought I was crazy and said 405 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,640 I didn't see anything. After that I stopped doing the 406 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:47,840 walk home routine. Not long after I got my license 407 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,680 I was in a band and I'd drive home after practice. 408 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,640 On that same Rd. by the woods there was an S band and a hill. 409 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,360 One night I had my brights on and I thought I saw headlights 410 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,040 so I turned my brights off. Halfway through the bend I 411 00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:05,120 realised there was no car so I turned my brights back on. 412 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,960 I always looked down at the dash to see the blue indicator and 413 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,880 when I looked back up right on the edge of the road by the 414 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:15,600 woods I saw it. No doubt in my mind I saw 415 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,640 Bigfoot. It was huge. 416 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,720 It looked coppery, like a burnt orange brown colour, almost like 417 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,440 it rolled in red clay. The hair looked coarse and wiry, 418 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,480 not soft. I didn't have time to study arms 419 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,800 or detail. I swerved to miss it, fishtailed 420 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,120 and slid into the ditch of that fancy house's driveway. 421 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:37,480 I wrecked the front end in fenders. 422 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,680 I had to get a tow truck and it sat in our driveway until I 423 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:44,960 could afford repairs. Hey everyone, I just want to 424 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,720 remind you that my written books and audio books are available 425 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,120 and the links are all in the description below. 426 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,320 If you enjoyed these stories and want to help support the show, 427 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,440 picking up a copy really helps and is greatly appreciated. 428 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:03,040 Thank you. Later in life I found out that 429 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,840 Fancy House Owner was related to someone I dated. 430 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,560 We talked and he remembered me as a kid who crashed into his 431 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:12,240 driveway. He asked what caused it and I 432 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,120 told him what I saw. He told me he didn't want to 433 00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,480 scare me, but he had cows and llamas going missing on his 434 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,080 land. But then he'd find them a day or 435 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,360 so later torn up badly, like put through a shredder. 436 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,080 He couldn't explain how something could do that to a 437 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,360 full size cow. That made me think that whatever 438 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:33,840 I saw was using that property as a food source because his land 439 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:37,560 backed right into the woods. Another thing that happened 440 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,280 later was near train tracks where my parents lived. 441 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:43,760 One day a friend and I were walking and right after we 442 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,280 crossed the tracks I looked to the right and I swear I saw a 443 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:50,000 barefoot and part of a leg step into the woods. 444 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,680 I nudged my friend and asked if he saw it. 445 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:56,160 He didn't. We kept walking down the tracks 446 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,680 and eventually got to a bridge below it was a Beaver Dam. 447 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,360 Being teenagers, we ran down there and messed with the dam, 448 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:06,120 poking it with sticks to see if we could spot Beavers. 449 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,760 The ground was muddy and I looked down and saw a huge 450 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:12,440 footprint. You could clearly see toes. 451 00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:15,240 It didn't have a deep arch or a dip in the middle. 452 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:17,840 It was solid and flat all the way through. 453 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,080 I wear a size 13 men's shoe and that print was about four inches 454 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,400 longer than my shoe and way wider. 455 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,280 It was a real footprint, clear as day. 456 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:31,760 Our first thought was to get a camera because back then phone 457 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:35,040 cameras were trash. My mum had a digital camera so 458 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,040 we ran home, grabbed it and came back with more people. 459 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,760 I took several pictures including some with my shoe next 460 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,680 to it and some close-ups. When we first found it, it 461 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,560 looked fresh and wet. By the time we got back with the 462 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,880 camera, the mud in the print looked more crusty and cracked. 463 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,720 Looking back now, it bothers me because it made me think 464 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:58,440 whatever made that print could have been close while we were 465 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:02,160 running around. Later that same friend and I 466 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:05,160 went back out at night on those tracks, but in the opposite 467 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,240 direction toward thicker woods, the refray cars stored on the 468 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,640 double tracks. We climbed up on top of a 469 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,480 freight car with piles of Black Rock, the kind that spark when 470 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:17,360 you throw them at metal or other rocks. 471 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,760 We were being stupid, throwing rocks and watching sparks. 472 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,960 I threw a decent sized rock into the woods and instead of hearing 473 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,360 it hit a tree, it hit something with depth. 474 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,840 It sounded like a fist to a chest. 475 00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,400 A deep thud. That change in sound grabbed our 476 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,120 attention. We stood up and from that height 477 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:38,960 you could see over the tree line some, and with the moon you 478 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,040 could see enough. Within 10 or 20 seconds, a black 479 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,960 dot came through the air. It was the rock. 480 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,280 It went straight between US and landed behind us on the rocks, 481 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,240 throwing sparks. Then more rocks started coming. 482 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:57,400 One after the other. They hit the metal sides of the 483 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,600 freight car and clanged. We panicked and ran along the 484 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,440 tops of the cars. A couple of minutes in we 485 00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,200 realized running on top of freight cars wasn't safe, but we 486 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,200 were scared to get on the ground near the woods. 487 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,560 We finally climbed down and stayed on the far side of the 488 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:17,200 cars away from the trees. We ran along the tracks, which 489 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,480 was hard because of all the loose black rocks. 490 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,240 After a while we slowed to a walk, thinking we were far 491 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,480 enough away. There was a road running 492 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,640 alongside the tracks, separated by a barbed wire fence. 493 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:32,880 We started talking again, trying to calm down. 494 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,160 Then out of nowhere, that dead animal smell hit us. 495 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,680 It didn't drift in slowly, it slammed into us. 496 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,400 It was so strong it felt like it filled the air instantly. 497 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:48,000 Right after that, we heard rocks pinging again behind us, hitting 498 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,680 the train. We freaked out and started 499 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,080 running. My friend yelled for us to jump 500 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,600 the fence and get on the road to get away from the woods. 501 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,040 I didn't want to because it was barbed wire and I thought we'd 502 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,240 get ripped up, but we did it anyway. 503 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:04,840 We tore our pants getting over it, but we got on the road and 504 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:08,560 took the longer way home. Every time something like this 505 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,480 happened I got that same feeling I had as a kid. 506 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,160 It felt like my body was warning me to leave now that it wasn't 507 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:19,120 safe. It's like a recognisable fear 508 00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:23,120 that takes over your whole body. I grew up around coyotes and 509 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:24,960 boars. We had problems with both. 510 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,160 Our dog fought coyotes a few times. 511 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,680 That was scary, but it wasn't the same. 512 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,280 This was different. This was like fear that fills 513 00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:38,320 you up and pushes you to move. My dad passed away from cancer a 514 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,120 couple years ago. When he was alive, he loved the 515 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:44,240 country and always talked about wanting to move back out there. 516 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,400 I always told him I hated it and I was scared of it. 517 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:50,240 He brushed it off like it was just Country Life. 518 00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,000 If I brought up him chasing that thing with the truck, he said he 519 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,840 thought it was one of my sister's boyfriends and he acted 520 00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:59,760 like he wasn't scared. But I heard him that night. 521 00:28:59,960 --> 00:29:03,840 I know he was scared. Even later when I told him about 522 00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,800 things happening in town, he would take me seriously in the 523 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:10,440 moment and calm me down, but after time passed he would joke 524 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,480 and act like it was nothing. I think he was trying not to 525 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,160 scare us more than we already were. 526 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,720 As for what Sasquatch is, my opinion has changed over the 527 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:21,880 years. I thought maybe it was some kind 528 00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:25,080 of entity or maybe a Wildman, but based on what I've 529 00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:27,560 experienced, I think it's its own creature. 530 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:31,080 I think it's an animal that's been around a long time and it 531 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:32,720 doesn't want to be found or bothered. 532 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:36,240 I don't think it's a movie monster out to RIP people apart, 533 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,960 I think it's just curious and it checks people out and it defends 534 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,880 itself if it feels threatened like any animal would. 535 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,680 This report takes place near a remote fishing camp outside Red 536 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:56,000 Lake ON in late October 2016. I was fresh out of high school 537 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,680 when this started. I took a job at a fishing camp 538 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,600 in far northern Ontario. It was deep Bush country with 539 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,840 great fishing and it's at roughly an hour West of the 540 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:09,880 Ontario Manitoba line. I worked one season, then went 541 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,080 back for a second season. It was a fun job for me. 542 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,680 I was outside all the time, fishing when I could and working 543 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,480 around the lodge the rest of the time. 544 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,400 There was a marked nature trail for guests. 545 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,040 On one of my days off, I decided to take a jog on that trail. 546 00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:29,080 You started out in thick forest, then you came into a burnt out 547 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,520 stretch. There had been a wildfire a few 548 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:35,200 years before I worked there and I got close to camp in that 549 00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,600 burned area. You could see a long way because 550 00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,360 there's no brush. The trees are dead and it opens 551 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,000 up. I ran through the burned area 552 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:45,680 and started coming up the edge where it turns back into solid 553 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,080 forest. You could see the wall of trees 554 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,760 ahead, like a line where everything thickens up again. 555 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:55,040 When I got close to that wall of trees, I heard a huge knock, 556 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,280 like a heavy branch snapping. I froze. 557 00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,320 There are bears up there, and my first thought was a bear 558 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,240 stepping on a burned log or a rotten piece of wood and 559 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,160 crushing it. I turned fast and looked, but I 560 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,920 didn't see anything moving after that crack. 561 00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,560 It went dead quiet. I decided I was done with the 562 00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:15,600 jog. I turned around and went back. 563 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:18,720 I'd figure I'd get out of there and do something else, maybe go 564 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:22,120 fishing. A couple days later, I was 565 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,200 working down at the dock when a returning camper showed up. 566 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,160 He had been there the year before. 567 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,400 He walked up, started talking, and then he said, by the way, I 568 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,800 was on the nature trail and I found footprints. 569 00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680 I joked with him a bit, like, sure, you found footprints on a 570 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,400 nature trail. Big deal. 571 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,280 Then he told me no. These were Sasquatch footprints 572 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,160 that caught my attention. I've always believed something 573 00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:50,520 could be out there, especially in Canada with so much empty 574 00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,320 space. It never seemed crazy to me that 575 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,800 there could be something people don't see very often. 576 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,720 I asked him to take me to the Prince. 577 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,760 I also said I would ask some local Indigenous elders if they 578 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:07,520 wanted to come with us. He agreed so we went out as a 579 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,080 group. There were six of us total, 4 580 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,160 elders, me and the camper. The camper brought his dog to a 581 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:18,600 really big dog, not the sharpest dog but very protective of him. 582 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,840 I assumed it made him feel better about bears. 583 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,600 He led us to the spot and pointed out the first print he 584 00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:28,040 found. I looked at it and at first I 585 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,800 wasn't sure. It was hard packed dirt and it 586 00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,400 honestly looked like a rock had been sitting there and somebody 587 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,760 moved it. But I leaned in and looked 588 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,360 closer. I could make out toe marks. 589 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,520 There was grass growing in the track that had been pressed 590 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,800 down. That mattered to me because 591 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,640 grass doesn't grow under a rock. When you lift a Rock You usually 592 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,160 see dirt and bugs, not crushed grass. 593 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,160 I also noticed a little kickback in the dirt, like toes pushing 594 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,720 off when someone walks. I said to myself, it could be 595 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,480 something or it could be nothing. 596 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,600 I didn't want to lie to myself about it. 597 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,240 One of the elders said it was a track, but that we didn't know 598 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,160 what made it. That suggested we look around 599 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:11,080 for more. We moved along the edges of the 600 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,960 nature trail. The path itself was about 7 or 8 601 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:17,560 feet wide, and the trees were cut back another 3 or 4 feet on 602 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:20,440 either side so branches didn't hang into the trail. 603 00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,400 The ground off the trail was covered in Moss. 604 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:26,480 It's like a sponge. You press it and it pops right 605 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,560 back up. But then we found another print 606 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:32,800 in that Moss, and it had crushed the Moss down and left a clear 607 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,040 impression. That shocked me because whatever 608 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:40,080 made it had to be extremely heavy, and the track was huge, 609 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:44,960 at least 16 or 17 inches long. I stood next to it on one foot 610 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,200 and jumped up and down about 10 times, trying to leave my own 611 00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:50,680 print. I stepped off and my mark 612 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,320 vanished. The Moss just rose back up like 613 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:56,800 nothing happened. At that time I was 6 foot two 614 00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,280 and a bit over £200. I couldn't even dent that Moss 615 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,320 enough for it to stay, but this thing had pressed a full 616 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,480 footprint into it and it held. That was hard to explain away. 617 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:11,080 One of the guys said we should sit there since it was getting 618 00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:13,040 dark and see if we noticed anything. 619 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:17,360 We all agreed there was a fallen log nearby so we sat on it. 620 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,960 We turned our flashlights off and it went completely black up 621 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,880 there. When night hits, it's pitch 622 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,960 black. There's no light anywhere. 623 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:30,080 We sat there in silence while the elders talked quietly among 624 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,000 themselves. I'd figured we'd sit maybe 25 or 625 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,920 30 minutes and then call it. But then I got a strong feeling 626 00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,840 something was off to my right, back down the trail the way we 627 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,440 came in. The dog beside me lifted its 628 00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,320 head and stared down the trail, too. 629 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,320 I decided to check it out. I didn't want it to be a bear 630 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,159 because dealing with a big black bear in the middle of the night 631 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:55,199 like that would be bad. I clicked my flashlight on and 632 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,280 as I swung the light down the trail I saw something step into 633 00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:00,840 the bushes. It was so dark I couldn't tell 634 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,720 the colour well, but it looked dark. 635 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,320 I started scanning the bushes and trees, then I saw 2 blue 636 00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:10,520 eyes in front of us about 8 feet off the ground from where we 637 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,640 were sitting. There was blue eyeshine and that 638 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,720 hit me like a punch because I didn't know what to make of it. 639 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:20,880 I say 8 feet because we were on level ground, but where that 640 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,000 thing was standing, the forest sloped down. 641 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:27,800 Whatever it was, it was huge. I estimated at least 9 to 9 1/2 642 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:31,200 feet tall. It stood there staring at us. 643 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:35,400 I jumped up without thinking and when I stood up I saw it move, 644 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,320 but not like a normal head turn. The shoulders moved with it. 645 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,160 It was scanning us. After that, it went still again. 646 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,000 I could see the eyes moving back and forth, and I got a decent 647 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:50,240 look at its face from around the middle of the nose up to above 648 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:52,920 the forehead. I could also see one arm and 649 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,600 part of the chest. It kept staring directly at me, 650 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,480 then scanning back across the group. 651 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:01,880 I couldn't tell if it thought it was hidden because it wasn't 652 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:05,120 moving, or it simply didn't care because it was big enough that 653 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:08,880 it felt untouchable. Then the dog saw it too, and the 654 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,680 dog started acting strange. Not like panicking, but it was 655 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:14,440 more timid than I've ever seen it. 656 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:16,920 The others still didn't notice it. 657 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,120 I quietly told them look straight ahead, something is 658 00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,440 standing right there. They looked up and reacted 659 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,560 loudly. They jumped up and started 660 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:27,960 yelling. The thing looked like it stepped 661 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,840 back, but it was more like it leaned back trying to push 662 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,080 deeper into the shadows. The camper with me started 663 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,200 swearing and losing it. I think the dog took off after 664 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,800 the Sasquatch. I think the dog had been trained 665 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,800 to protect him and his wife, and when he heard fear in his voice, 666 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:47,400 it decided to do its job. The Sasquatch spun and ran. 667 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,800 It wasn't like it made a bunch of slow movements. 668 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,520 It turned and took off fast. I could see the tops of the 669 00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:55,480 trees moving. One tree snapped. 670 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:59,120 The forest suddenly looked alive, branches shifting and 671 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,280 shaking as it moved through, but it stayed strangely quiet. 672 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:06,160 I could hear the dog barking, but I couldn't hear the 673 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,320 Sasquatch itself. Then everything went dead 674 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,000 silent. The camper started saying his 675 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,520 dog was dead. I told him we didn't know that 676 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,960 and we didn't even fully understand what we were dealing 677 00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:19,120 with, but we needed to keep our heads. 678 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,680 Then the screaming started. It sounded like a woman 679 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,040 screaming, but extremely loud with more bass under it. 680 00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:29,840 It sounded maybe 30 yards into the forest. 681 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:34,000 That scream hit me hard. I felt a dump of adrenaline, 682 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,840 like my body flipped a switch. My pulse was pounding, my heart 683 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:41,600 felt like it was going to burst. All of us started freaking out 684 00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,440 and we decided we had to get out of there immediately. 685 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:49,200 We started walking back along the trail and behind us it kept 686 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:52,960 screaming and it moved in an arc, almost like a semicircle, 687 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,360 keeping us on the trail. It was like it was pushing us, 688 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:59,760 making sure we didn't step off the trail, forcing us to stay on 689 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:02,600 the clear path. When we got near the end of the 690 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:05,200 trail, the dog came running back out of the forest. 691 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,920 My guess is once the thing started screaming, the dog 692 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:11,760 decided it wanted no part of that and ran hard. 693 00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,600 As we got closer to the end, it quieted down. 694 00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,680 We could still hear movement, but the screaming stopped. 695 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,840 One of the elders knelt down near the trail and pointed out a 696 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:25,720 fresh track in the sand that hadn't been there when we walked 697 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:28,480 in. Right after that we left. 698 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,720 That was one of the most terrifying nights of my life. 699 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:36,360 After that I kept working at the camp and nothing else happened 700 00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:39,320 directly with the Sasquatch, but I kept getting that weird 701 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:43,640 watched feeling. I lived in an old fifth wheel RV 702 00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,160 camper close to the woods. It was always dark back there. 703 00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,080 Walking to it at night always made me uneasy, especially after 704 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,840 what happened where my bed was. There were windows on three 705 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,480 sides. The camper was old with sheer 706 00:38:57,480 --> 00:38:59,040 curtains you could still see through. 707 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,600 I hated the idea that something could be out there looking in. 708 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:06,640 The day after the encounter, one of the guys who lived in a cabin 709 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:09,600 that was half in the woods told me he heard the screaming. 710 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:12,920 He asked if I heard it too. I told him I was there. 711 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,480 I told him I was the one getting screamed at. 712 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,240 He tried to brush it off and said it was probably a fox. 713 00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:23,160 I told him it was not a fox and I told him I saw it. 714 00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:26,960 I said he'd probably make fun of me, but it was a Sasquatch. 715 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,480 He stopped and looked at me differently, like he understood 716 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,680 more than he was saying. He made me think maybe he had 717 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,320 things happen out there, too. He had mentioned hearing strange 718 00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:41,120 noises in the forest and sometimes hearing little bangs 719 00:39:41,120 --> 00:39:43,560 on the cabin. He tried to write it off as 720 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,360 branches in the wind, but I didn't know what to make of it. 721 00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,840 I wasn't there when those noises happened. 722 00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:52,280 Not long after that, the season ended. 723 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,920 That encounter happened in late October, and October is when 724 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,720 everything shuts down there because snow starts coming in 725 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,760 and the lake freezes over. Fishing basically stops unless 726 00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:04,400 you wait for the ice fishing later. 727 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:09,400 About four days after the about four days after that Sasquatch 728 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,680 encounter I had something else happen. 729 00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,560 Some Co workers and I had planned to take out a boat and 730 00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:17,400 camp on an island out on the lake. 731 00:40:17,840 --> 00:40:20,920 I asked the elders which island was best, somewhere not too 732 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,720 rocky. They pointed out to an island. 733 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,360 But they warned me to be careful and I asked why. 734 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,600 They told me that a certain Bay was where the spirits lived. 735 00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:32,680 They said I would see them at night. 736 00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,680 You said you see them in the forest all the time and they 737 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,040 told me not to follow them. I told them I wasn't going to 738 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,920 follow lights into the woods. I was serious about that. 739 00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,600 We packed the boat, went to the island, set up our tents, got a 740 00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,600 fire going and started cooking. We got out a bit late so it got 741 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:53,760 dark fast. While we were there I looked 742 00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:56,920 across the water and saw lights bobbing along the shoreline on 743 00:40:56,920 --> 00:41:00,440 the far side of the lake. I got confused and pointed them 744 00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:02,680 out. A Co worker saw them too. 745 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,280 He said it could be people but it didn't make sense to me. 746 00:41:06,760 --> 00:41:10,480 Off to our right, about 1/2 hour by boat was where the lodges 747 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,840 were. Behind us. 748 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:14,160 Over an hour away was the reservation. 749 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,520 Straight across from us there was basically nothing. 750 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,800 There were two lights moving left to right along the 751 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,600 shoreline. They stopped roughly across from 752 00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:26,400 us and started moving back and forth like they were searching 753 00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:28,640 the shore. I didn't like them. 754 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,920 The feeling was creepy and unsettling. 755 00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,520 They did that for around 40 minutes. 756 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,640 We watched them the whole time. Then it looked like someone 757 00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,960 holding a Lantern stepping backward into the trees and the 758 00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,080 lights slowly faded out and disappeared into the forest. 759 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:46,560 After that we didn't see anything else. 760 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,800 The lights were a lighter yellow color and they had to be big. 761 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:53,720 The distance across the water wasn't that far. 762 00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:57,480 You could swim if you had to. I know what lightning bugs look 763 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,040 like and from that distance you barely see a flash and they 764 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,960 flash on and off. These lights were steady and 765 00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,840 obvious. From what I could tell they were 766 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,520 at least basketball sized, maybe bigger. 767 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,840 I can't tell you what exactly they were, I just know I didn't 768 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,840 like them. It felt like they were trying to 769 00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,600 figure out how to get to our side. 770 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:20,360 They were directly across from us. 771 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:22,560 Our only light was our fire behind us. 772 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,040 The light stayed over there and moved back and forth and it 773 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,280 almost felt like they couldn't cross the water. 774 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,920 I don't know why that would be, but that's how it came across to 775 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:33,920 me. It felt like they gave up and 776 00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,480 went back into the forest. I've been around dangerous 777 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:40,840 animals at that same job. One time I was tossing garbage 778 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,640 at the garbage dump and a big black bear, probably 600 lbs, 779 00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:46,760 climbed into the back of the truck with me. 780 00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,760 That didn't scare me like that Sasquatch did. 781 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:52,840 Seeing that thing and hearing that scream was worse. 782 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,680 I think there's something old in that fear, like it's tied into 783 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:59,560 our history. Would I want to see one again? 784 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:04,200 It sounds crazy, but yes, this part of the encounter was 785 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:07,160 shocking, intense, but it wasn't instantly violent. 786 00:43:07,680 --> 00:43:11,200 The second part the screaming and being pushed out that pushed 787 00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,520 me over the edge but I would still like to see another one, 788 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,000 mainly to get a better look at the face and confirm what I saw 789 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:24,560 wasn't some one time mistake. Thanks for listening everyone. 790 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,200 Don't forget my books are all for sale, audio and written. 791 00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:30,240 The links are in the description below. 792 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:32,400 Thanks again. Take care.