Welcome back, everyone. Grab a blanket, get comfortable,
settle into your favorite chair, and prepare yourself for a
collection of chilling Bigfoot encounters.
Me, my brother, and a couple of friends were out exploring some
old caves near the whole river, deep in the Olympic National
Forest, hoping to find some old Native American artifacts.
We'd packed our lunches and spent most of the day in this
damp, chilly cave. After about 6 or 7 hours, we
stumbled upon something strange. It was kind of a rough nest made
of broken branches and pine boughs tucked away in a side
passage and scattered around were animal bones.
Plus the air in that part of The Cave had this heavy musky smell.
It was really strong. We were getting ready to head
out when we started hearing these loud thumps above us.
Rocks were falling from the Ridge above The Cave entrance,
and these weren't little pebbles.
These were good sized rocks. We couldn't tell if they were
being thrown or just pushed, but it made us uneasy.
We started walking down the trail but then we stopped and
turned back to see what was going on and that's when we saw
it. A huge hairy figure was moving
up on the Ridge. The creature was very tall, we
estimated over 6 feet. It had really broad shoulders.
Long brownish hair covered its entire body and its head was
shaped kind of like a gorilla's. It was moving in the shadows and
it was running on 2 legs coming right down the hill towards us.
We panicked. Me and my brother ran to my
truck and he was so scared he almost ripped the door handle
off. Our friends ran to their truck
too. We all jumped in and speed off
down the logging Rd. As we were driving my brother
looked out the window and he saw it again.
The creature was keeping pace with the truck and we were going
about 30 to 35 mph. It was still running on 2 legs,
then it just turned and ran into the thick forest.
The area is really remote with dense forests and the whole
river nearby. Plenty of food and water and
it's a perfect place for something like that creature to
hide. A month later I went back to The
Cave and it was fenced off by the Olympic National Park
Rangers. No explanation was given.
Broward County, Florida, 1980 or 1981.
My brother and I and A friend were hiking in an old cow
pasture that was overgrown back around 1980.
Davy still had a lot of woods and overgrown orange Groves.
Sure, I had heard of the Skunk Ape, but was never concerned.
Being a boy, I was adventurous. And anyways, we were in the
pasture hiking when we found an old tractor trailer.
The trailer's doors were missing.
They were off and lying rotten on the ground with trees growing
in them. We noticed that the trailer
smelled really bad. We decided to climb in and look
around. All we found was stench, like an
animal lived in there. We were too far from the road
for a bum to wander in and there wasn't any sign that anyone kept
the place up. We lost interest in the trailer
and started to hike some more. We came upon a canal that forked
with another one. To make a long story shorter, I
saw something looking at us from across the canal.
We were still about 50 yards from the edge of the canal at
this point. Whatever it was, it didn't take
notice of us right away, but as we got closer, it looked up and
raised its arms above its head as if it was waving at us.
This area was very overgrown and on all my previous trips I had
never seen anyone out there. Whatever this was scared us all
so bad we ran all the way home, locked the doors and didn't
return to the area until a few years later.
My brother now says that we were imagining it.
I've thought that it was a snake bird.
You know the ones that sit on a post and spread their wings to
dry. However, I keep replaying the
incident in my mind and I don't see a snake bird.
There was a humanoid head and the colours were all wrong.
Snake birds are usually blackish.
What I saw was more brown. About 10 years later, an old
timer told me about a creature he saw that crossed in front of
his car on Old Griffin Rd. near US 27.
He described the creature as a Bigfoot and said it scared the
hell out of him. The witness and two others were
down at the pond in the woods about one mile from the
witness's house. The young men were camping and
enjoying the great outdoors that Tennessee has to offer.
It was a clear night and the young men were preparing hot
dogs. One of the witnesses had driven
his truck to the campsite and had parked it on the Ridge.
The witness stated that a very loud moaning yell resonated
through the woods and the young men were immediately overcome
with fear. Shortly thereafter, a few
seconds, perhaps the same yell was heard again.
This time, however, the yell was followed by the sounds of fast
approaching bipedal footsteps. The witnesses were shocked and
quickly ran to the truck. They turned on the vehicle's
headlights and illuminated the hollow below.
There, to the witness's amazement, about 20 yards away,
was a hairy thing, standing approximately 6 feet in height.
The only other detail the witness was able to provide
indicated long arms and dark hair.
The witness said that he was so frightened that he recalls no
facial details whatsoever. He said he is absolutely certain
that no human in a costume was there that night, and that it
was certainly no animal with which he or his companions were
remotely familiar with. The young men hurriedly left the
campsite and the creature behind.
The witness's mother said that the witnesses rushed into the
house in a near panic stricken state and said that their faces
were white as snow. The mother believed the men and
soon she experienced the same sound coming from the woods.
She said that whatever the witnesses saw that night scared
the wits out of them. Further, she added that now she
and the boys, who are big boys over 6 feet tall, are afraid to
go into the woods. Period.
On March 3rd, 2012, in Anderson County, Tennessee, something
happened to me and a buddy that we can't explain.
I hadn't really thought about whether or not I believed in
Bigfoot as a biology student, but whatever this was made me a
believer. Basically, it scared the hell
out of us. Me and Clay had grown up in the
North Lake area. We're hunters, fishermen,
backpackers, and general outdoorsmen and we've never
encountered anything like this. Earlier that day we had decided
to take my four Wheeler up the lake approximately 5 miles from
my house to a clearing and build a fire.
We got to the clearing around 9:30.
We kept hearing 2 owls hoot at each other from across the lake,
and we both kept hearing something moving in the tree
line 60. Yards from our fire.
We quickly dismissed the footsteps as being a deer and as
the night progressed the wind started to blow really hard.
At 11:00 PM the wind started to die down a little bit and I
noticed that the woods were totally silent.
The owls had stopped hooting and the water wasn't white capped
anymore. Around midnight we decided to
leave and as we stood up we heard these sounds in the woods
like sticks breaking. We knew that if it was a deer we
would have spooked it a long time ago.
I felt eyes on me and for some reason I had this random notion
to make a wood knock. I had seen the Finding Bigfoot
show and thought maybe I could get a response out of whatever
was in the woods. I picked up a piece of cedar
from the woodpile and knocked it against a Cypress tree.
We waited for the echoes to clear and while I didn't hear
anything, Clay stood straight up and started breathing heavy,
saying he heard a knock back. I thought he was joking, but
soon after I became a believer. I knocked again and this time I
heard three distinctive knocks back.
There's no way it could have been an echo, because the reply
came long after the echoes cleared.
I suddenly got scared. Like shaking.
I knocked again and let out a whooping call.
We got one distinctive knock back, and then we heard this
growl. This horrible growl.
It was guttural and yet somehow primate like.
It was like a monkey whooping and a deep snarl at the same
time, almost like whatever made it was using two sets of vocal
cords. We started getting freaked out,
but we really wanted to figure out what it was, so we jumped on
my four Wheeler and rode toward the sound.
We stopped periodically but never heard anything.
What was strange was that we both felt strongly like
something was watching us. I mean, that feeling alone was
terrifying because it just felt like pure hatred.
We ended up riding back to my house without actually seeing
the creature, but whatever it was, it was angry that we were
there and it absolutely hated us.
True story, no joke whatsoever. This happened on February 25th,
2024, just outside Boone, NC, deep in the Appalachian
Mountains. I was checking my hunting
cameras near a remote stretch of Pisgah National Forest when I
saw something I still cannot fully explain.
Above 50 yards ahead, moving away from me was a massive man
like creature covered in thick reddish brown hair.
It stood at least 8 feet tall, its long arm swinging as it
walked. The hair on its body was tangled
with sticks and leaves as if it had been pushing through dense
brush for a long time. The wind was blowing toward me,
carrying a strong, musky odour, like a mix of wet dog sweat and
old earth. It was a scent I never smelled
before, and it made my stomach turn.
I stood frozen, my heart pounding.
Then, without warning, the creature stopped.
It turned slightly, looked over its shoulder in my direction.
I don't know if it saw me or just sent something nearby, but
in that moment I felt true fear. I had my rifle with me, but I
would never shoot at anything that wasn't game.
My hands tightened around the stalk, not out of aggression,
but out of instinct. I didn't know what it was, and I
didn't want to find out the hard way.
After a few seconds, though, it felt like much longer.
The creature turned back and kept walking, disappearing into
the trees like a ghost. I stood there for a long time,
listening, barely breathing. This wasn't my first encounter.
I had seen something similar back in 1985, in almost the same
area for years. I told myself.
Maybe it was a trick of my eyes, maybe just my imagination, but
after seeing it again, I know what I saw was real.
This happened on January 10th, 2024 in a remote part of the
Washita National Forest, Arkansas.
I had gone out alone, searching for the site where my family had
lived in the 1890s. All I knew was that it was near
a spring, but I didn't have an exact location.
I figured winter was the best time to look with the leaves
gone so the ruins or old structures would be easier to
spot. After a couple of hours hiking
through the woods, I came across some rusted metal cans and other
bits of junk likely left behind decades ago.
I dropped to 1 knee picking through the debris looking for
anything interesting, and that's when I heard a sharp snap like a
twig breaking nearby. I froze and looked up, saw
nothing. After a few seconds I shrugged
it off, assuming it was a squirrel or maybe just a branch
settling. I went back to my search,
brushing dirt off the old can. Then about 5 minutes later, I
felt a deep, unsettling feeling. You know, the one where you just
know you're being watched? My skin prickled, my breathing
slowed, and I felt an urge to look up again.
This time I did it slowly. And then I saw about 30 yards
away, half hidden behind a clump of bushes, stood a massive
figure. It was huge, easily 7 1/2 to 8
feet tall with a broad, stocky build.
Its thick, reddish Gray hair blended with the winter
landscape, but its face was darker.
Almost black, the shape of its head was strange.
It was tapered almost like a gorilla with a slight cone shape
to the top. For a long moment we just stared
at each other. I was too shocked to move.
My mind raced, trying to make sense of what I was seeing.
It wasn't a bear. It wasn't a person.
Then, without a sound, it simply turned around and walked away,
heading up a small rise toward the Creek.
Its movements were smooth and effortless.
It didn't run, didn't act. Aggressive just left.
I stood there for another minute or two trying to process what
had just happened. Then without thinking, I turned
and walked straight back to my truck.
I never heard a sound as it moved and there was no smell.
Just silence. The day was completely still,
the air heavy, the woods quiet. It was like the world had paused
for those few moments. I spent my whole life outdoors
and I never seen anything like this before or since.
But I know what I saw, and I'll never forget it.
On December 23rd, 2023 in Aristuc County, Maine, a severe
windstorm moved through the East Coast knocking up power and
causing at least 4 deaths. Around 4:00 PM, power was lost
at Michelle's home. Michelle and her two daughters,
grandchildren, and a family friend were riding out the storm
at home and entertaining the kids with shadow puppets.
Shortly after the power was lost, an object struck the
window. Michelle grabbed a flashlight
and held it flush against the window so she could see if a
branch had hit the house in the strong wind.
Once she laid back down, she heard a long whooping sound
followed by a growl in conjunction with the strong
winds. She got up, pointed the
flashlight flush with the glass again so it would illuminate
outside and not reflect back at her.
Looking towards her chicken coop, Michelle observed a giant
black figure on 2 legs silhouetted against the coop.
She was not able to observe facial features, but the
creature was looking toward the house, then turned and quickly
walked into the wood line. While this was occurring,
Stephen was upstairs in his bedroom listening to the wind.
He described hearing a drawn out whoop above the wind.
It frightened him enough that he did not get out of bed and
rolled over instead. This happened simultaneously
with what Michelle had described.
Michelle's two daughters were downstairs with her and their
children earlier that night. Unable to charge her phone,
Colby walked out to her car, turned it on, and plugged in her
phone as she sat briefly. She had an uncomfortable feeling
and headed back inside. After some time, she walked back
outside to retrieve her phone from the car.
As she was walking back inside, she heard a howl and looked up
and saw a tall, black hulking figure standing in the doorway
to their chicken coop. Its head reached as high as the
gutters, making it approximately 8 to 8 1/2 feet tall.
It was 10 to 15 yards away from her.
She ran back inside, turned to her sister Amber and said
there's a giant outside, grabbed her baby and went upstairs.
Similarly to Stephen, Amber had only heard the noise.
She recollects A whooping sound, followed up by the dogs barking
considerably. Michelle is confident that it
was not a black bear. They had a sow in Cubs on their
property two years prior which they saw and heard frequently.
This was very unlike that on their farm.
They had started out with 30 chickens and seven turkeys.
Over several months, they're down to 10 chickens and 1
Turkey. They've never seen bodies or
blood, only feathers on their property.
They also have apple trees and Raspberry bushes by the pond
near their home. They often throw dinner scraps
out the door and onto the grass for the cats and crows.
Between an abundance of natural treat foods, fruit, the small
birds, and frequent food scraps were likely an easy food source
for a Sasquatch to capitalize on.
With the lack of activity on the property due to the storm, the
Sasquatch probably thought this would have been a safe time to
get a meal. It was likely surprised when it
encountered amber outside the house and retreated to the
forest to hide. Hancock County, Maine My sister
and I were driving to school 1 morning a few years ago and
straight up ahead of us we both saw something standing there in
the road, on 2 feet for sure staring at us approaching.
As we approached we could tell that the creature was about the
size of a human, was covered in very dark shaggy hair, and it
was sort of hunched over with its arms hanging down quite far
as it just stood there about a foot or two into the road
watching us. And then almost as quickly as it
happened, it vanished into the trees when we drove by.
I looked into the forest to see if I could see anything, but I
couldn't. We went to school and told a few
friends and then told our parents later that night.
We didn't think to call the police or anything at the time,
although I wish we had also. I was driving with my dad in
Orrington, ME and as we passed the road I saw something
crossing it. I couldn't tell what it was
because we went by pretty quick but what I saw was very tall and
dark. I made my dad turn around and we
went up the road driving slowly, looking into the woods along the
sides of the road. We didn't see anything, so
whatever it was had vanished. But now, as I think back,
comparing that incident with the other that I had in Bucksport,
what I saw in Orrington, although only for a second,
seemed very similar to each other.
I'm not saying that I know or even think it was a Bigfoot in
Orrington that day, but I do think that it certainly looked
like the one I did see. I didn't think much about the
incident and almost forgotten about it because I never had an
explanation for it and because I was the only one who saw it, so
I had nobody else to discuss it with.
It was Halloween night in 1996 in Murray County, Oklahoma.
I was taking my brother to the lake so he and his friends could
sit and see if the stories of the lady of the lake were true.
I dropped him off and started back towards the house.
As I crossed a low water bridge, I looked to the West down the
Creek and on the north bank I saw it.
At first I wrote it off as a Halloween prank.
There's no way I just saw a Bigfoot, especially not in
Oklahoma. So I turned the car around and
came back to the bridge. I parked the car sideways across
the bridge, where my headlights were shining down the Creek.
The creature was squatted on the balls of its feet with its hands
in the water, possibly washing something, trying to catch a
fish, or simply trying to get a drink.
As I sat there amazed, the creature stood up to what was at
least 7 1/2 feet tall. It never even looked at me, it
simply walked across the Creek, up the South Bank and into the
trees. I kept this secret for many
years, telling only my wife. The animal was approximately 7
1/2 feet tall, very broad in the shoulders and narrow in the
hips. I would guess the weight to be
within the five to £600 range. It was dark coloured, probably
dark brown or black, I couldn't tell due to the lighting.
It was covered in hair, long on the head, and shorter as it went
down. Since I only saw it from a
profile angle, I couldn't tell much about its facial features.
The head had a large Crest on it, similar to that of a
gorilla. The creature walked upright on 2
legs the entire time. I didn't try to find any
evidence of the creature's presence at the time, just
seeing it was proof enough for me.
It was June 14th, 2024, just outside Lake Guntersville, AL.
The sun was low in the sky, but there was still.
Plenty of light. I was walking down a dirt road
near my grandparents house with my German Shepherd Ranger.
We took this walk all the time. Nothing out of the ordinary,
just a quiet evening in the woods.
We were about 1/2 mile down the road when Ranger suddenly
stopped. His ears shot up, his body
tensed, and then he started barking like crazy.
Deep aggressive barks. I've never heard from him
before. Then, just as suddenly, he
backed up and wedged himself between my legs, growling low
and steady. This wasn't like him at all.
Ranger wasn't scared of anything.
I reached down to calm him, running my hand along his back,
and that's when I heard grunting and movement in the woods to my
right. It sounded heavy, like something
big shifting around in the underbrush.
I figured it was just a deer, or maybe a wild hog, so I took a
few cautious steps forward, and then, from behind a fallen tree,
a massive figure rose to its full height.
My breath caught in my throat. It was huge, easily 8 feet tall,
maybe taller, and covered in thick reddish brown hair.
Its body was broad and muscular, like a linebacker, with long,
powerful arms that hung low at its sides.
But the face had me froze in place.
It wasn't a bear. It wasn't human.
It looked somewhere in between, almost like a monkey, but more
defined. Its eyes were dark and deep, set
and locked onto mind for just a second.
The expression wasn't anger or aggression, it was something
else. Maybe curiosity or surprise, I
don't know, but I know that look wasn't from any animal I'd ever
seen before. Then, in an instant, it turned
and ran. Ranger lunged forward, barking
like mad, and took off after it. My instincts kicked in and I did
the only thing that made sense. I turn and ran home as fast as I
could. I burst through the door,
panting, my hands shaking. I didn't stop to explain to my
grandparents what had just happened.
I just locked the door and waited.
About 30 to 45 minutes later, Ranger came back.
He was panting hard, but completely unhurt.
He trotted up to the porch, looked back towards the woods,
then sat down beside me like nothing had happened.
This wasn't the last time I heard it.
Out here at night, you hear all kinds of sounds.
Coyotes yipping, owls hooting. But sometimes something else.
A low whomping sound, deep and hollow, like the call of a
howler monkey. I'd heard it before, but now I
knew what was making it. The strangest part?
Whenever that sound echoes through the woods, everything
else stops. No coyotes, no insects, no night
birds. Just silence, like the whole
forest is holding its breath. It was late at night and I had
just gotten off work about 60 miles away.
The drive home was usually quiet and uneventful, just long
stretches of dark empty Rd. But that night was different.
As I neared the small bridge about 1/4 mile from my house, my
headlights caught something on the side of the road.
At first I thought it was a person bent over, maybe picking
something up off the pavement. But as I got closer, my stomach
dropped. This thing, whatever it was, was
huge. Even crouched down, it was
taller than any person I'd ever seen.
Its back was facing me, covered in long, straight brown hair
that hung down in clumps. The hair wasn't smooth like an
animal's fur. It was tangled and dirty, with
bits of sticks and leaves stuck in it, like it had been moving
through the woods. I gripped the steering wheel
tighter, my heart pounding. I'd always imagined Bigfoot, if
something like that even existed, to have thick black
hair. But this creature's hair was
brown, almost the colour of dried mud.
As I passed it, the smell hit me.
It was awful. I had the windows down and the
stench was so strong it felt like it coated the inside of my
nose and mouth. It was worse than roadkill,
worse than anything I could describe, like rotting meat
mixed with something, even Fowler.
My stomach turned and I nearly gagged.
I did not slow down to get a better look.
In fact, the moment I passed the bridge I hit the gas and speed
the rest of the way home. My hands were shaking as I
pulled into the driveway. I jumped out, ran inside and
slammed the door behind me. My husband looked at me like I
was crazy when I blurted out what I had seen.
It was huge. I kept telling him I don't know
what it was, but it was huge. That bridge is barely 1/4 mile
from our house and now I can't shake the feeling that whatever
I saw is still out there. But looking back, maybe this
wasn't the first sign that something strange was going on.
About a week and a half before the sighting, we started hearing
a weird noise late at night. It was a scream.
That's the only way I can describe it.
It wasn't the sound of a coyote or any of our animals.
It was different. It was deep, guttural, and had a
strange high pitched edge to it. It would come from the woods
behind our house, echoing through the night.
We heard it for three nights straight.
Then suddenly it stopped. The very next day, we found a
baby goat in those same woods. The thing was tiny, barely old
enough to stand with its umbilical cord still dragging on
the ground. There was no mother goat
anywhere. We searched calling out, but
there was no sign of her. The poor thing was terrified.
He didn't cry, didn't make a sound, just stood there frozen,
eyes wide with fear. It took us hours to catch him.
Now he finally bleats, but the sound he makes is nothing like
that awful scream we heard before we found him.
Lately, more strange things have been happening.
Over the past month, we've lost four baby kittens.
One day they were there, playful and healthy, and the next they
were just gone. I know we live way out in the
country and plenty of things could have carried them off like
coyotes, Hawks, even a fox, but something about it feels off.
I don't know what I saw on that bridge, and I don't know if any
of these things are connected, but ever since that night, I
haven't felt safe. And I don't like coming home
after dark anymore. And I can't shake the feeling
that something is watching. It was around 8:00 PM and my two
sons and I were sitting in the living room watching TV and
eating popcorn. My oldest, who's 16, was on the
love seat across the room while my youngest, who's 8, sat next
to me on the couch. We had a bowl of popcorn between
us. Suddenly, I smelled something
awful coming from the window behind us.
My family always jokes that I have a nose like a Bloodhound,
so my oldest just laughed and said Mum, you're always smelling
something. At first I thought maybe I was
imagining it. The smell faded and we went back
to watching TV. But a few minutes later the
horrible stench came back even stronger.
I jumped up, convinced something had crawled under the couch and
died. I told my oldest to help me move
the sofa so we could check. As he got closer, he wrinkled
his nose and said, uh, it's a snake.
My youngest backed away while we pulled the couch out and checked
everywhere, but we found nothing.
Then we noticed the curtain moving.
The breeze had been carrying the smell in from outside.
Whatever it was, we figured we'd check it in the morning.
About an hour later, my 16 year old went outside.
He came back in fast and grabbed the shotgun.
His dad had been taking him hunting since he was 6, so he
knew how to handle a gun. There's something out back, he
said, standing by the railroad tie post, just watching the
house. And it's a big guy.
He took the gun and walked toward the chicken pen.
I watched as he disappeared into the darkness, and then I heard
him yell from way back out near the pen.
Call the cops. My stomach did a flip.
I didn't know what was happening, but I was terrified
for my son. I called the sheriff
immediately. After about 10 minutes, my son
came back inside. He was shaken but said the man
had stepped right over a barbed wire fence and jumped over a
brush pile like it was nothing. He didn't have to use the gun,
but whatever he saw was fast and strong.
The two sheriff's deputies showed up and shined their
flashlights all over the yard and surrounding woods, but they
found nothing. My son decided to go to his
grandmother's house about 40 yards away to let her know we
had a prowler. About 20 minutes after he left,
I heard the metal latch on our outdoor storage building click.
That building was my laundry room where I kept the washer,
dryer and deep freeze. My youngest and I were in the
house alone. I knew my oldest wouldn't be
messing around, not after what had just happened and my husband
was out of town working on a gas rig.
That meant someone else had opened that latch.
I grabbed the phone and called my mother in law's house.
When my son answered, I asked. Have you been?
There the whole time he said yes.
My heart pounded. I told them someone had just
gone into the laundry room and as far as I knew they hadn't
left. He said he'd be home in 2
minutes. I stood frozen staring at the
window. When he got back, we were trying
to figure out what to do when he suddenly shouted.
What the F is that? My youngest screamed and ran
into the kitchen. I spun around just in time to
see something in the big picture window behind the sofa.
My son's face was pale, it was dirty and hairy.
He whispered. I grabbed the phone and called
the sheriff again while my son grabbed the shotgun.
My youngest and I sat on the floor with the lights off,
hiding behind my oldest. My hands were shaking.
I fully expected some crazy man to come crashing through the
window at any moment. Then the smell came back.
It was right outside the window. That's when it hit me.
The smell was coming from whoever or whatever this was.
A chill ran down my spine. The deputies arrived a second
time, searched again, and again found nothing.
For years I just assumed it was some deranged drifter or someone
high on drugs lurking in the woods.
My husband had found signs before that someone had been out
there. But the more I read about
Bigfoot sightings, the more it all made sense.
The smell, the size, the way it moved, none of it matched a
normal person. Not long after that, I was
walking back from the chicken pen one evening.
When the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
I knew something was watching me.
I forced myself to walk casually, went inside and locked
the door. Another time, I heard the
doorknob rattle. It would have opened if it
hadn't been locked. Our neighbors have heard strange
screams and howls coming from the woods at night.
My son and one of his friends have had their own weird
encounters. Even my grandson swears he saw a
Bigfoot about 13 miles east of us.
I don't know what exactly we saw that night, but I do know this.
Whatever it was, it wasn't normal.
It was a warm summer evening in 1982 and we were walking along a
quiet dirt Rd. in the countryside of northern Montana.
The sun was setting, we were just enjoying the fresh air and
talking about what we wanted to do the next day when one of us
suddenly stopped. Do you see?
That we all turned to look just beyond the fence line in the
open pasture to the north. Something was moving.
At first we thought it might be a cow or a deer.
But as it stepped into a clearing, we knew right away it
was neither. It stood nearly 7 feet tall,
covered in long white hair that hung down past its shoulders.
It walked on 2 legs, just like a person, and it had long arms
that swung as it took slow, steady steps.
It hadn't noticed us at first, but when it did, it stopped, and
for a few long seconds we just stood there, frozen in place.
None of us could move. Then the creature shifted,
almost like it was going to come toward us, and that was enough
to snap us out of it. And we ran.
After a short distance, we stopped to catch our breath and
looked back. The creature was still walking,
moving E. Then, right in front of our
eyes, it stepped over a barbed wire fence like it was nothing.
And that fence was at least 5 feet tall, but it barely slowed
down. It disappeared into the trees,
walking with long strides. A few days later, we went back
to the spot where we had seen it.
That's when we noticed long strands of white hair caught on
the top wire of the fence. We took a few pieces home as
proof. We told everyone what we saw,
but most people just laughed. Still, after that night, we were
more careful. We always made sure to be home
before dark. We had heard stories before, but
we never believed them. Not until that night.
Also, I was about 10 years old when I had my own encounter,
though I didn't know it at the time.
Our family lived near the base of a mountain surrounded by
thick woods with a Creek. It was my favorite place to
explore. One afternoon I decided to have
a picnic by a little pool of water surrounded by trees.
I packed a peanut butter and Jelly sandwich and some kool-aid
and headed out. The only sounds I heard were
birds and the rustling leaves, and it was peaceful.
I just sat down when I heard something.
Footsteps, slow and steady coming from the trees behind me.
At first I thought maybe it was a deer, but the longer I
listened the more I realized these weren't the sounds of an
animal walking on four legs. This was something on 2A.
Strange smell filled the air. It's hard to describe, but it
was strong and musky, like wet fur mixed with something rotten.
The hair on my arm stood up. I didn't want to see what it
was. I jumped up, leaving my lunch
behind, and ran as fast as I could back to the house.
As I ran, I could still hear the footsteps behind me, but I never
looked back. A few days later, I got brave
enough to go back with my friend.
My jar of kool-aid was shattered and my sandwich bag was ripped
apart like something I'd clawed through it.
After that, my dad told me stories of strange things he had
seen while ocoon hunting when he was younger.
He always said the woods held secrets.
Now I believe him. Whatever I heard that day, it
wasn't a bear and it wasn't a person, and I never went into
those woods alone again. This happened about 7 years ago
in a small town in northern Minnesota near the Rainy River.
I was about 12 years old, the same age as my cousin who was
with me that day. It was the middle of winter,
sometime in late January or early February.
The air was cold, but it wasn't too bad and fresh snow covered
the ground. We were at my cousin's house and
since it was a nice day, we decided to take a walk on the
trails behind her house. These trails LED through the
woods and down toward the river. We walked about halfway when we
reached a clearing. On one side there were thick
trees and on the other side a frozen swamp.
It was quiet except for the crunch of our boots on the snow.
Then, out of nowhere, we heard something crashing through the
trees. It was fast.
We stopped in our tracks and turned our heads just in time to
see something run across the path in front of us.
It was huge, at least 6 or 7 feet tall, covered in thick
greyish white hair, not the dark brown color we'd always imagined
Bigfoot to be. It moved quickly, almost like a
person, but bigger and stronger. The only sound it made was a
deep, low growl, not like a dog, but something deeper, almost
like it came from its chest. We didn't stick around to get a
better look. Terror took over and we ran as
fast as we could back to the house.
Of course, when we told our family, no one believed us.
They laughed and said it was probably a deer or a coyote, but
we knew what we saw. A couple of years later, I was
telling a friend about what happened.
He was curious, so we decided to go back to the same place.
We parked the car near the trailhead and started walking
toward the clearing. The air was still and everything
felt normal until we got closer. And that's when we heard it.
Something running through the frozen swamp.
Heavy footsteps, fast and strong.
But just as suddenly as they started, they stopped.
A terrible smell filled the air. It was overpowering, like rotten
meat mixed with wet dog and made our stomachs turn.
We decided to leave, but as we walked back toward the car, we
couldn't shake the feeling that we were being watched.
And every so often we would stop and listen, but there was
nothing, just the silence of the winter woods.
Still, the hairs on our necks stood up and we hurried back.
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and is greatly appreciated. Thank you. 831 Morning Pat
Lindquist, driver of a Pacific Stage Lines bus, stopped at a
crossroads to permit a young man to board.
Then he set his vehicle in motion and proceeded along the
low heat highway toward Mission, BC Driving conditions were
excellent. Early morning mist had
evaporated in the warming sunshine.
He had a long clearview of the road ahead.
Suddenly, no more than an eighth of a mile ahead, Lindquist was
startled to see a huge, hairy beast emerge from the forest.
It paused briefly at the edge of the highway and then, walking
upright on long, hairy legs, strode across.
Even as Lindquist slowed down, he realized the creature was
neither a deer nor a lumbering bear that were glimpsed
occasionally along the more lonely sections of his run.
This creature appeared to be about 7 feet tall and walked as
a man would with a swinging stride.
He shouted to his half dozen passengers to look at the
Sasquatch. Everyone on the bus was familiar
with the Sasquatch. For many years, tales about a
real or imagined wild man of the woods or timber giant had
appeared in British Columbia newspapers and magazines.
The word Sasquatch was instantly recognized by young and old.
Thus the passenger strained to see the creature.
Lindquist braked to a stop and bolted out the door in pursuit.
He ran down the rocky shoulder of the highway and across a
shallow, dry Creek bed. There, he claimed, he noticed an
overpowering stench. Next he found five large
footprints deeply embedded in the coarse sand and gravel.
Hurrying on, he plunged into the dense brush and timber lining
the far Creek bank. Moments later, in the shadowy
forest, he saw the creature. It was no more than 30 feet
ahead of him. He guessed it must weigh £300 or
more. It had flaring nostrils and red
squinting eyes and was breathing heavily.
The Sasquatch speed out of sight in One Direction and linquist in
the other. He raced back to the road and
described the beast to his passengers.
None were the least bit interested in pursuing it.
However, they did examine the large barefooted tracks in the
Creek bed. A search of the immediate area
revealed no others, but this was understandable.
The highway was paved and the shoulder formed, of course,
rock. Only in a small sandbar was
there evidence of the creature's passing.
As much as the driver wanted to stay, he knew he must continue
on his schedule. He.
Herded the passengers back onto the bus.
And drove on to the nearest roadside telephone booth.
After reporting the happening to the police, he proceeded on to
mission. There, police officers
questioned the passengers about the happening.
The young man who had boarded shortly before the sighting left
with friends. Since the driver was running
late, he departed immediately. Hi Lynne, About two years ago I
finally got the courage to tell a Bigfoot researcher in Ohio my
story from many, many years ago. I don't remember his name.
I lost contact with him when my computer got hit by a power
surge and all the info was wiped out.
Anyway, in 1976, I was almost 13 years old.
My family and I were camping at at Woodlake.
My favorite thing to do was get on my bike or walk in the woods
collecting butterflies and bugs. One day, I guess it was still
before noon, I wandered up a hill by the cabins that were for
rent at the edge of the lake. It was a little far even for me,
but I was sure I'd find new bugs there.
I left my bike at the bottom of the hill and walked the path,
swishing my net. About halfway up the path I
smelt something that was just like grass mould, like when you
cut the grass and leave it to rot.
Very musty. I don't remember exactly what
made me look up, but straight up the hill on the left hand side,
just off this path was this huge thing.
It stood upright like a man, but had longer dark hair and a face
sort of small looking from the hair and a slightly pointed head
towards the back. It looked in my direction and I
froze. I remember gasping and ran down
the hill thinking it was surely chasing me.
I don't know if it did, but if it had decided to come after me,
it could have easily come down the hill where I rode my bicycle
and caught me. I raced back to the campsite but
didn't tell my parents or cousins for fear they'd never
allow me to go off by myself again.
Oddly enough, I didn't go past the field's edge and stayed very
close to camp after that. I know what I saw so many years
ago. It's something you don't forget.
I know what I saw and smelled was real.
A few years later, when I was 17, a friend of mine decided to
camp out in the woods on his father's farm in Sugar Creek.
We sat around the fire talking, laughing until about 12:30 and
then we decided to crawl into our sleeping bags and go to
sleep. Once in my sleeping bag I curled
up and I could just see the campfire dying out when I heard
a howl that made me want to pack up and leave right then.
It wasn't a dog or a coyote. It was scary and awful.
My friend decided it was best to come into my pup tent.
I knew he heard it too but he denied it.
I laid there scared to death and wide awake watching the fire
still dying and heard footsteps like a man walking.
We both laid awake until sunlight and left the camp and
headed down the hill to the farm.
I looked around for signs that someone had been up there with
us, but the ground was covered in leaves.
I asked my friend about the howl and he said it could have been a
number of things I heard, but he never admitted to hearing it
too. It was toward the end of summer
in September 2011 that I had my sighting of a tall, hairy,
bipedal creature. I went to bed at around 9:30 on
September 5th. It was a warm summer night in
East Canton, Stark County, Ohio. I usually don't get much sleep
as I get older and it seems to get worse the older I get.
I was awakened at about 2:00 AM and had decided to go outside
and smoke a cigarette because I don't smoke in the house.
I proceeded to the living room where the French doors are
located to go to the rear deck that is positioned on the
southeast corner of my house. I walked out on the rear deck
and stood there just in front of the French doors where the
ashtray was sitting on the handrail and I noticed that the
moon was mostly full and that the temperature was rather warm.
I was facing my backyard and enjoying the moonlight and I
might have been there for approximately 2 or 3 minutes
when I heard a low guttural growl coming from my left from
the cornfield. I live on a dead end St. and the
property that's located beside me is a cornfield that belongs
to a gentleman that lives up the street.
There's a single line of large pine trees that divide my
property from the field. As I looked out to my left after
hearing the growl, I couldn't see anything.
Even though the moon was shining in my direction, I still
continued to stand there and about a minute later I heard the
low guttural growl once again. I proceeded to extinguish my
cigarette and walk back into the house, not telling anybody about
what had happened. The next night I went to bed
approximately 10:00 PM and again I couldn't sleep and had
awakened at about 1:00 AM and got up and headed out to the
rear deck, totally dismissing what had occurred the previous
night. I was standing in the same area
again enjoying the warm night and the moon was only showing
about 60% but was still bright and with very little clouds.
That night the same thing occurred.
It must have been a few minutes as I stood there and I heard the
low growl coming from the same area from my left.
This time it seemed to be a bit louder and I looked over between
the pine trees but I couldn't see anything but darkness.
I originally thought that it might have been a bear, but
after checking bear sightings, I dismissed it because none have
been reported in my area at this time.
I'm getting a little nervous because whatever this was, it
sounded extremely large and seemed to have a large set of
lungs. I proceeded back into the house
and just as I entered through the doorway, my wife had gotten
up and she'd headed to the door to go out on the rear deck.
I stopped her and told her about the growls that I've been
hearing tonight and the previous night.
She replies with I know I've heard them before and with a
look on my face I thanked her for not telling me and didn't go
outside for the rest of the week because I had no idea what was
lurking in the shadows and I didn't know if it was still
hanging around. The next day I contacted my
oldest son and told him what was going on around the house and he
said he would come over on Friday night after work and we
would check things out. Now it's Friday and I got home
from work about 5:30 that day and my oldest son was already at
my house waiting on me. We proceeded through to the tree
line that connects the southeast corner of my backyard and runs
along the edge of the cornfield. As we were walking through we
started to notice strange stick formations that didn't make
sense and it seemed to rule out something done by nature.
We finally got to the edge of the tree line and it meets a
large field with tall grass that gets 5 to 6 feet high and part
of it seemed to be swampy and some cattails were growing on
one side. The temperature that day was
warm and sunny with very little cloud cover and no rain, but the
ground of the field still seemed to be wet and muddy and
definitely a paradise for ticks. My son and I made it partially
through the field and we stopped to look across the field toward
the wooded area and we were facing the southeastern
direction over at some crabapple trees that were located on the
tree line on the other side of the field.
We were standing side by side and out of my peripheral vision
I noticed some movement at the edge of the tree line.
It was approximately 200 feet from where we were standing.
I asked my son if he had seen the movement as I pointed in the
direction of the wooded area and he replied no I didn't see it.
Then he said let's go investigate that and see what it
could have been. It was around 5:50 by this time
and I didn't know if it was deer or anything else because I just
saw the movement and I couldn't tell shape or colour of the
subject in question. We finally made it through the
field to the tree line and there was a Creek about 3 foot wide
with very little water flowing through it and we also noticed a
trail where the deer had been crossing that Creek in the same
area and it was heavily travelled because the tree roots
were showing. We both jumped across the narrow
Creek and started to walk the Deer Trail which followed the
edge of the narrow Creek and I told my son that I was going to
check the creek's edge for any type of Prince because I know I
had seen something move over in that area.
My son elected to wait up on the trail while I was searching the
creek's edge. I was looking on both sides of
the Creek when my son alerted me and wanted me to come look at
something that was odd to him so I proceeded up the small
embankment and walked over to where he was standing.
He said stand where I am and follow the Creek down to a large
tree on the creek's edge and tell me what that is.
I looked down to the tree which was a good 300 feet and I
noticed something dark that seemed to be squatting behind
that tree but I couldn't tell what it was but I know it wasn't
moving so I dismissed it as a log or a tree stump.
I went back to the creek's edge to continue looking for any type
of prints in the soft mud, but came up empty handed.
I told him we should go into the woods a little deeper just to
see what else we could find and I walked back up the Deer Trail
And just for curiosity I went to the spot where I previously
stood to look down at the large tree where we both saw that dark
object and this time the area looked different.
We walked the Deer Trail which followed the narrow Creek and
had noticed the narrow Creek ties to a larger Creek that was
about 15 feet wide but we didn't see any good spot to cross until
we followed it a little further and we had found a shallow spot
that we could cross. Once we crossed the larger Creek
we split up and I headed South. He headed north and I've been
looking around for about 5 minutes and I heard him Call My
Name and wanted me to go to his location.
I walked over to where he was and he was standing in a small
clearing that had the greenest grass I had ever seen and this
clearing was surrounded by a thick brush in the shape of AUI
had noticed an unbearable smell in that area and he asked me if
I could smell it and I replied yes.
But then I asked him what it was because we couldn't pinpoint
what type of smell it was because it had a combined odor
of rotten eggs and rotted flesh. We both started searching that
immediate area for a possible dead animal or anything that
could have made that nasty odor. We couldn't come up with
anything and it was starting to get about 6:30 that night, so I
told him that we should go, we can come back another time and
he agreed. We went back to the large Creek
and crossed over and walked along the Deer Trail until we
got about 20 feet from the area that we had originally crossed
the small Creek that took us to the field with the tall grass.
And as he was walking in front of me he stopped and he was
looking to his left. Then he asked what he was doing.
He said look and as I looked over to my left I couldn't see
what he was looking at. So I asked him again what he was
looking at and he pointed to his left and told me to look with a
more stern voice. But yet again I couldn't see
because I had a tree and limb covered with leaves obstructing
my view. I hunched down about 6 to 8
inches to look below the limb and about 100 feet from us I saw
a huge hairy creature standing in a bipedal fashion with a
forward gait staring in our direction.
There wasn't much between US and this creature but some brush and
small saplings and as we stood there in amazement it was moving
its upper body back and forth. At this time I really don't
think that it said in our minds what we were actually looking
at, but I can say that it seemed as though time had stopped
because I think we were in shock from the massive size.
This unexplained creature appeared to be at least 7 1/2
feet tall and had to weigh a minimum of £600.
The hair was a dark reddish brown and it had a matted and
dirty look to it and most of the face was covered with hair but
from what I could see it appeared to be of human trait.
The ears were covered with hair and it was standing at an angle
to us, but I could see the legs were extremely muscular and
large and the arm's length seemed to go just slightly past
the knees. I just couldn't help but to
stare at this creature because I couldn't believe the size, just
how big it was. I believed that it was swinging
its upper body back and forth because it knew that we were
there, but I don't think it knew what our exact location was and
it was trying to find us as we were kind of hidden behind some
brush. And as my son and myself broke
out of some type of hypnosis, I looked at my son and said we
need to go. He agreed and he was running but
I told him not to run and that we would walk out but keep an
eye out to see if we were being followed.
We finally made it to the small Creek, jumped across and headed
across the field with the tall grass as we kept looking behind
us to see if we were being followed, but didn't notice
anything at all. We made it across the field and
took a shortcut through the cornfield and as we both stepped
onto my backyard we turned around and looked in the
direction of where we had just come from and just slightly
north of us in the wooded area we heard two really loud tree
knocks. To this day, I will never forget
what I seen that day and I will remember it like it was
yesterday and nobody can convince me that it was anything
else other than what we call Bigfoot.
On September 28th, 2002, a man who lived with his family in a
remote location in Derry Township, PA, reported that two
separate family members on different occasions had seen a
creature he described. As a Bigfoot.
The man's son had the first encounter on September 11th,
2002. During the early evening when
riding a bicycle, he heard a crashing sound coming through
the woods. It sounded as though something
was hitting a log along with branches being broken.
About 300 feet ahead he saw a big brown human looking thing,
but very tall. The creature was moving along
the tree line, but at times in various clearings.
The youngster got a good look at the strange animal.
He described it as man like, covered with dark brown hair and
standing about 8 feet tall. The head of the beast was
somewhat cone shaped and the animal appeared to be broad
shouldered and had long arms. The creature appeared to move in
a stooped manner, but took very long strides as it walked.
The fellow ran home to tell his father what he had seen, and
they quickly searched the area but found no signs of their
uninvited visitor. An even more amazing daylight
encounter took place during the afternoon of September 27th when
the man's wife was driving away from their house.
She was talking to her husband on the cell phone as the event
unfolded. She heard something that sounded
like tree limbs breaking in the woods to her left and she
assumed that a deer was about to exit the forest.
She slowed down, expecting to see a deer, but instead saw a
tall man like creature emerge from a clearing in the woods.
She quickly told her husband what had happened.
The creature was covered with long brown hair that appeared to
be about 12 inches in length. It stood about 8 feet tall and
was quite broad shouldered. The arms were long, hanging down
to around its knees. She saw the creature in an open
field about 45 yards from her car.
The creature was slightly hunched over as it walked across
the open field. With its long strides, it
covered the 100 foot long field quickly.
Oddly, the creature did not swing its arms as it moved.
The witness looked on as the creature reached the edge of the
field. The woman watched in amazement
as the creature stepped over a barbed wire fence without
slowing down or breaking stride. The creature continued walking
deeper into the woods and was lost from sight.
The woman remained on the phone with her husband during the
sighting, becoming more frightened as each second
passed. That fence, by the way, was 44
inches high. On July 10th, 2009, a strange
occurrence took place on A2 Lane Rd. in Fayette County, outside
the city of Uniontown. The location is about 50 miles
southeast of Pittsburgh. It was about 6:00 PM on a warm
and clear day when the encounter occurred.
A woman was driving in her car at about 35 to 40 mph and
watching the road ahead. Then suddenly, out of the corner
of her eye, she saw to her left what she thought was a person
approaching her vehicle, as though someone was about to walk
in front of her car. She thought she was going to
crash right into him, so rather than hit the person, she swerved
quickly to the right side of the road, Thankfully that no other
cars or pedestrians were there at the time.
As she swerved, she looked at the figure again and realized
that she was not looking at a human being, but an odd hair
covered creature. As the woman sat there
momentarily, she looked in her rearview mirror and saw that the
creature was now behind her car. She watched in amazement as the
creature leapt across the trunk area, explaining that she looked
just in time to see it leap. Very shaken, she sat there for a
few moments trying to sort out in her mind what had just
occurred. When she looked up toward her
right, the hairy beast was running down a side Rd. about 75
yards away. Then it moved out of sight.
The episode lasted just several seconds, but the woman had a
chance to get a good look at the creature since this was a close
range sighting in daylight conditions.
The creature was described as a dark coloured and hair covered
man like creature. The witness felt that it was at
least 6 feet tall or slightly taller.
The head was described as large and elongated and covered in
hair that looked wild. Its neck was rather odd looking
as it was hair covered, but it seemed to be thin and long.
According to the woman who saw it, the neck looked strange
because the head was so big and the shoulders were wide.
The creature walked upright on 2 legs and had long arms that hung
down to the knees or past the knees.
The hair on its arms was described as being quite long,
similar to ape hair. The witness thought that the
hands were also covered with hair.
The creature had wide shoulders that were rounded and was stocky
and muscular in appearance. Its chest was also covered with
thick hair. The woman stated that while she
didn't see any muscles, the creature appeared to be in quite
good physical shape from the way it moved.
The woman recalled the detailed description of its facial
features. The face itself was hair
covered, however an exposed area looked white and a major
contrast could be seen in colour from the hair.
The nose was flat and dark and the ears were covered and could
not be seen. The mouth area was not clearly
seen. Hair protruded from all over the
face, similar to that of a canine or wolf.
These features gave the woman the impression that it was older
in age. The witness stated that it was
the eyes that really caught her attention and scared her.
They were somewhat circular in shape and at least twice as
large as that of a human. In describing them, she talked
about the fierceness, the wild look.
It looked like it was crazy. The eyes were dark, possibly
black, and were wide set. She said the eyes had no whites.
She believes that is why the eyes look so strange.
No unusual orders or sounds were detected during the occurrence.
The driver did have her windows up and the air conditioner
running at the time. After the incident, the woman
drove to a safe area to park and sat there trying to find an
explanation for what she had seen.
She tried to rationalize that this was just a human, maybe a
person in a costume, but after reviewing what had happened, she
ruled out that possibility. The creature was running very
fast directly in the path of her car, and it didn't seem to care
that it was going to be hit by the car.
Also, the speed and agility of the creature, as evidenced when
it leaped over the trunk of her car, seemed beyond the ability
of a human being. When the back of the car was
examined, a large scratched area on the left side was observed.
The family had never noticed this scratched area on the car
before. The scratches were measured at
six inches from the left tail light.
The affected area was about 8 1/2 inches long and two inches
wide. Numerous vertical and horizontal
thin scratch lines penetrated the paint surface.
While it's uncertain, the possibility exists that this
damage had been caused by contact from the creature as it
leapt across the trunk of the car.
The creature was last seen walking in a direction that
would have taken it through a heavily wooded area toward
Jumanville. Cub Scout spots Bigfoot The
young scout and his family lived on the Ligonier side of Chestnut
Ridge during the week of February 14th, 1988.
He was playing in a wooded area near his home when he noticed
ahead of him a tall human like figure, but it was covered with
dark brown hair. The creature was about 150 feet
away and was just standing there when it apparently realised that
it was being observed. It turned and looked at the boy
for about a minute, then walked deeper into the woods.
The youth said its arms hung down below its knees and he
noticed a strong smell in the air, like a wet dog, but much
stronger. The boy waited a while but the
creature did not return. He was curious as to what it
was, since he could only describe it as a big ape walking
like a man. He walked over to the spot where
it had been standing and it was there he found a number of
footprints in the muddy area, all of which were about 15
inches long and had distinct toes, possibly 4IN number.
When he told his parents about his experience, they told him
that it was just his imagination, but the boy was
insistent that he had seen the creature.
He went to the library to locate some books on wildlife of the
world to try to find the animal he had seen.
Except for a gorilla, nothing in the books was even close to its
appearance. This event involves a man who
was walking behind a train station in Somerset County,
Pennsylvania. It was about dusk as the man
walked on the pathway that led out of the woods near the
railroad tracks, when suddenly a large tree branch was thrown at
his feet. He looked up to see a creature
further down the path, standing motionless and just staring at
him. He described the creature as
standing about 8 to 9 feet tall, with a large head, broad
shoulders, its arms hanging down below its knees and covered with
hair. The eyes of the creature were
widely separated, and the fingers appeared unusually long.
The fellow said he could hear the animal making a heavy
breathing noise. For five long minutes they had a
visual stand off. Then the creature suddenly
turned and took a large step over a bank, moving out of the
man's line of sight. As the creature ran off, it did
so in a stooped fashion. The ground was frozen at the
time and the man said he could hear heavy footsteps as the
creature moved off. 2 couples decided to take a moonlit walk
to a scenic lookout between Youngwood and New Stanton, PA.
It was about 11:00 PM when they decided to walk down a local Rd.
As they started moving to the top of the hill, they began to
hear a rattling and hissing noise coming from above them.
When they reached the top, they noticed something odd in the
distance. In the area where the sounds
were coming from sat a capped gas well, which was moving back
and forth as though someone was shaking it.
The activity soon stopped. The group of people continued to
walk toward the opposite side of the hill that overlooks the
area. The couple sat there for a while
enjoying the evening, when one of the men heard a low moaning
and whining noise in the distance and mentioned it to the
others. The others heard nothing and
kept on talking. A short time later, the same man
and one of the women both heard the sounds at the same time.
The noise began to increase in volume and soon all four people
heard it. Initially, the sounds were
somewhat frightening, but after a period of time, the group of
people began to relax, laughed and even loudly mocked the
sounds. As the people continued their
vocalizations, the strange sounds got even louder and the
source seemed to be coming closer to their location.
One fellow was concerned that the moaning sound might be
coming from someone who was hurt and much to his wife's distress,
stated that he was going to have a look.
She pleaded with him not to go. It was about then that the
moaning sounds began to fade again and the couple began to
relax and joked about what had happened.
Then, out of the silence, they heard a rustling sound coming
from their left near a baseball field.
One man noticed that about 25 yards away, something large and
dark in colour appeared to be moving close to the ground.
The group got up and looked in that direction.
One of the men noticed that their friend's eyes were very
large and he stared intently at something.
That's when he saw it. Something huge, about 7 to 9
feet tall was standing upright beside the baseball backstop. 1
fellow yelled for everyone to get out of there.
His friend, though, stood for a couple of minutes observing the
strange creature that appeared to be motionless at this point,
while the rest of the group slowly backed away.
But when it began to move quickly toward the group with
long strides and long arms swinging, fear overtook them and
they ran toward the road that led down the hillside.
One woman began screaming and had to be pulled along by her
husband to leave the area. After quickly reaching the
bottom of the hill, they looked back and saw the lofty creature
moving toward the hillside as though it was going to come down
the hill after them. They continued home and called
the police. The police did go to the
location but nothing was found. The description of what they saw
was that of a huge hair covered man like creature that stood
between 7 to 9 feet tall and was estimated to weigh between 350
to 450 lbs. Dark fur covered its large
muscular upper body and legs. Its arms were long and its hands
hung down below the knees. The creature at times appeared
stooped and stood with its legs slightly bent.
When it walked, it moved in a forward arm swinging motion with
an unusual gait. With each step, the right arm
and right leg move forward and then the left arm and left leg
move forward. The witnesses had no doubt that
they saw a creature that was quite strange and unknown to
them, and they knew it was not a bear.
While taking a walk on October 30th, 1986, the witness came
across a number of large strange footprints.
The family had purchased some horses and had erected a fence
line around a few acres that past summer.
The electric fence on the property had been broken on five
occasions. The top of the three wire fence
was about four foot high. At times the top strand was
broken, yet other times it would be broken around the bottom.
The man thought there was a possibility that somehow a horse
was doing this, but after his findings on that day he felt
that something else was involved.
In this instance. At the top of the hill, the four
foot high top wire on the fence was found broken alongside A
crushed electric insulator. Alongside of this were three
quite strange footprints on the ground.
The footprints were 13 inches long and 8 inches wide.
About two months earlier, a neighbor had been taking a walk
up this particular hill when he heard an unusual sound like that
of an animal wheezing. Additionally, they also heard
the sound of something heavy moving off through the woods.
During the same time period, a rabbit was found with its neck
broken. Also, 2 cats were found in an
unusual manner, one with its intestines hanging out and the
other with a broken neck. A woman who lived just down the
road reportedly called the state police when she heard a loud
strange noise similar to a woman screaming in pain.
This area is located in the general region that has had a
lot of Bigfoot activity reported over the years.
Three young men worked during the night and were driving down
a rural Rd. when a hubcap came off their vehicle and rolled
across the road into a field in the vicinity of some old cars.
A short time later they returned to the area to try to recover
the missing hubcap. The vehicle was parked about 250
feet from the field. 1 fellow remained inside the car.
The other two began to search for the wheel cover.
After a short time the silence was suddenly broken by an odd
sound described as being like metal on metal and then by what
seemed to be a growl from a dog. They moved slowly away from the
spot. The one fellow yelled to his
companion to stop as he saw something moving ahead.
Fear engulfed the two men when one of them shined a flashlight
on the source of the noise. What they saw was not a dog, but
a huge white hair covered ape like creature rising up from the
ground. A feeling of panic came over 1
fellow as the creature stared at the two men.
The man quickly ran off toward the parked vehicle and yelled to
the driver in the vehicle to start the motor.
The other man continued to stare at the creature for what seemed
like unending moments then quickly ran off as well.
As the trio pulled away, one of the fellows told his friends
that he had dropped his father's expensive knife and some keys as
well. As they passed near the location
where they had seen the creature, the lost items were
not seen, so they pulled off to see if they could spot them.
They were not located and they left the area.
Then another odd event occurred. As they left the scene and drove
just a short distance, an upscale red and silver Chevy
dual wheel truck passed them in the opposite direction at a fast
pace. The trio watched as this truck
pulled onto a side Rd., then turned around and began to
follow them down the road. The Chevy truck increased its
speed and came right up to the rear bumper of their vehicle,
keeping that position for about 1/2 mile.
Each man in the car had the feeling that whoever was in the
truck was obtaining their license number.
Finally, the truck stopped abruptly on the roadway, started
backing up, turned its lights off, and backed onto a side Rd.
The three witnesses continued on to one of their residences.
When discussing the events, 2 of them decided to go back to the
location where they saw the creature in order to find the
knife and keys as well to see if they could spot the creature
again and determine what it was. The third man had no interest in
returning to look around, so he stayed at the residence.
One of the men was very proud of his car, which he had put a lot
of work into and which was equipped with a modified high
speed engine. The two men drove the car back
to the field area. The men also took with them a
car headlight that they had converted to use as a
high-powered spotlight. When they arrived they shined
the spotlight around the field and the old vehicles and a short
time later the creature appeared again.
The beam of light was directed on the creature.
This time the two men got a good look at the mysterious beast.
The blinding light was concentrated on its head area
and the beast appeared to be getting agitated by the bright
beam. Walking upright on 2 legs, it
began to chase the car and go within about 3 feet from the
rear bumper. It continued to follow them for
a short distance as they pulled away from it and left the area.
The creature was observed in several different positions
during the various events, such as first stooped and then later
on all fours and also walking upright like a human.
The sound of something heavy was apparent when the creature moved
across the ground. The men described the creature
as standing at least nine feet tall, ape like in appearance and
covered with long white hair about 8 to 10 inches long.
Another outstanding physical feature was the length of its
arms which were so long that they hung down to the knees or
just below them. The creature was quite muscular
and broad shouldered. The observers did notice that
the eyes, which seemed pinkish in colour, appeared almost egg
shaped. The creature did not seem to
have any neck. The final encounter with the
creature that night was most dramatic.
The owner of the modified engine car decided to make one last
attempt on his own to find the knife and keys he had dropped in
the field. He returned alone and drove
slowly past the area, not seeing the strange creature.
He pulled into the field and soon spotted the knife.
He never got out of his car, but opened the door, reached out and
grabbed the knife. He kept driving around the area
quite slowly, trying to locate the keys.
Then suddenly he felt a heavy thump toward the rear of his
car. The driver looked into his rear
mirror and was shocked to see the huge hairy creature leaning
on the back of the car, peering at him through the rear window.
His eyes seemed to have a reddish glow.
The driver pushed down hard on the gas, trying to quickly exit
the area, but the car wouldn't move.
As the man continued to hit the gas, the sound from his
tailpipes was getting louder by the moment.
Suddenly, the creature was no longer on the car and he was
able to make a quick getaway. The man felt certain that it was
the car's high pitched noise that finally made the creature
leave the vehicle alone. The man later found a
convenience store open and went inside to get something to eat
and destress. He parked his car nearby so that
he could keep an eye on it. When he returned to his car, he
saw several teenagers checking out his car.
He became more alarmed after they asked him if he had been
attacked by some kind of animal as there appeared to be claw
marks on the back of the vehicle.
The man looked and there in the paint and metal on the rear of
the vehicle were two long scratches.
The day after the incident, the driver went back to the location
of the strange encounter. During the daylight, the ground
was hard from the cold weather and no footprints could be seen
where the creature had been. After.
A researcher spoke with the initial caller about the events
that happened. He made contact with the others
involved and made arrangements to meet later that day for an
interview and to examine and photograph the damaged car.
The second party he talked with by phone was the man who
accompanied the driver of the car with the modified engine,
who had shined the spotlight on the creature.
They discussed the events and set up a time to meet.
The researcher later learned that other intriguing events had
taken place with two of the witnesses shortly after their
phone calls. Apparently, about 10 minutes
after he had spoken with the second party on the phone, the
witness received a disturbing phone call.
At best, he could remember, the caller said.
This is field agent name protected from the Federal
Bureau of Investigation about the incidents last night.
Forget about what you saw, and I strongly suggest that you don't
talk any further with anyone about it.
Then the caller hung up. The other man received a phone
message that reportedly said stay away, leave it alone,
forget about it. He was also informed by his
relatives that some men drove up to the house in a Chevy Caprice
car often used by law enforcement at the time, and two
men were in each vehicle and they wanted to talk with the
fellow who was driving the car during the previous night's
incident. After these occurrences, the men
were not contacted again. Whether or not it was actually
the FBI that was involved with the incident is unconfirmed.
The researcher did write a letter to the Pittsburgh FBI
office, but never received a reply.
Regardless of who these mysterious people were, how did
they learn of this incident and how do they know that the
witnesses had contacted the researcher?
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