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Welcome back to The Bigfoot 
Project. 

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Tonight's collection of 
eyewitness encounters takes us 

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across some of the wildest parts
of North America, from the 

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swamps of Georgia and Florida to
the forests of Washington, 

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Michigan, Connecticut and North 
Carolina, the mountains of 

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Wyoming and West Virginia, and 
the Backcountry of Missouri, the

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towering redwoods of Northern 
California. 

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You'll hear first hand accounts 
from campers, hunters, hikers, 

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homeowners and travelers who all
describe have unexpected 

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encounters with massive, 
mysterious creatures. 

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So get comfortable, dim the 
lights, and let's get into 

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tonight's stories. 
This encounter occurred in 

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Charlton County, Georgia October
2025. 

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Myself and another adult friend 
and two teenagers were invited 

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to an event in Waycross, GA on 
Saturday, October 18th, 2025. 

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We made reservations to stay in 
Folkston, Georgia starting on 

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Thursday through Sunday to get 
some rail fanning train spawning

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in while we were up there. 
We got there around 2:00 PM and 

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unloaded our vehicle and got the
tripods out to film the trains 

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going by. 
There were 4 tripods in total. 

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Two of the tripods had LED light
panels for videos at night. 

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The other two tripods had cell 
phone holders on them so we 

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could click a cell phone into 
the holder and get steady videos

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of the trains. 
At around 8:00 PM we started the

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charcoal grill up and grilled 
some filet mignon steaks and hot

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dogs. 
The gentleman that lives next 

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door has four to five cats that 
run around and play there. 

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At around 9:00 PM my friend and 
I started hearing something in 

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the brush on the North East side
of the cabin across the four 

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railroad tracks from us. 
We went down by the tracks on 

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our side to see if we could see 
anything. 

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The other gentleman had his 
flashlight and shined it right 

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into the bushes where the noise 
was coming from and we noticed 

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green eyes reflecting back and 
what looked like to be a massive

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silhouette of something 
squatting down. 

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I was going to start a video 
when I realized I didn't have my

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cell phone on me. 
I would later find it on the 

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fold up chair next to the 
campfire we had. 

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The silhouette was moving left 
and right in a swaying motion 

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which caused the noise in the 
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Then we noticed that crickets 
were no longer chirping anymore.

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An eerie quietness started as we
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One of the worst smells I've 
ever smelled came across the 

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tracks to our area. 
All of us smelled it. 

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I then noticed the cats that 
were playing took off not to be 

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seen any more for that night. 
Within a minute a rock was 

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thrown across the tracks toward 
us and landed next to us. 

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It came from the general 
direction of the silhouette 

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swaying in the bushes. 
We all looked at each other and 

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turned the flashlight back on 
and could still see the 

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silhouette swaying behind the 
trees next to the tree limb. 

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Then another rock was thrown 
hard enough to spark when it hit

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the tracks by US1 Teenager got 
so scared he said he wanted to 

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go home now. 
He went back to the cabin and 

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went inside. 
His dad then went up to the 

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cabin to talk to him. 
Then myself and the other 

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teenager heard a weird chatter 
coming from where the silhouette

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was swaying in the bushes. 
And all of a sudden, a branch 

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snapped 40 to 50 feet South of 
where that silhouette was at. 

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That's when I realized that we 
were dealing with two of these 

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things. 
I yelled out, hey. 

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And right after I did that, 
another rock came across and hit

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the tracks again, really 
sparking thrown from the bushes.

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The other young man asked me if 
I did that and I said no, these 

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rocks were probably being thrown
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to where they landed with force.
I then grabbed one of the LED 

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lights I have on the tripod to 
help light up the trains and I 

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aimed it at the bushes. 
When I did that, that's when I 

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saw the huge silhouette stand up
with the reflecting eye shine 

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being 7 feet off the ground in 
an amber greenish colour. 

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It had been around 7 1/2 feet 
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The shoulder width was about 10 
to 12 inches wider than me. 

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If I had to guess, it was 
bipedal on 2 legs. 

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It then disappeared behind the 
brush and I could not see it 

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after that. 
There was no further activity 

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that night. 
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had no more activity. 
This sighting occurred in Mason 

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County, Washington, August 2001.
August 15th, 2001 I was living 

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on a boat moored at Jarrell's 
Cove Marina on Horstein Island, 

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Washington. 
At about 4:00 in the morning my 

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puppy woke me up needing to go 
potty. 

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I took her to the back deck of 
her 77 foot 1940s Coast Guard 

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cutter where we had a potty area
set up for her. 

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She kept barking and didn't pee.
Finally, I looked where she was 

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looking across the small body of
water to Gerald's Cove State 

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Park. 
There, under the lights that lit

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up the marine park floating dock
and stairway, was a large black 

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Sasquatch walking up the stairs.
He was about 8 feet tall and was

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methodically, kind of slowly 
walking up the stairs. 

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His back was to me. 
I'm sure he heard the puppy 

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barking, but he did not turn 
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it. 
I couldn't distinguish a neck. 

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Maybe hair was preventing me 
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too long proportionately not the
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arms to body height. 
I could clearly see glistening 

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muscles on his right thigh in 
the light over the stairs. 

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The hair was a bit sparse there.
I got the impression he had 

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probably shed some and had this 
light summer coat on. 

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The skin was black on his thigh 
as well as on his hands, and his

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hair was black. 
I watched him walk up the stairs

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and along the walkway until he 
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Then he took three casual 
strides and disappeared into the

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forest. 
I watched him for about 15 

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seconds. 
I didn't say anything about what

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I saw. 
I knew my husband would laugh at

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me. 
Three days later, my 10 year old

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son told me that his friend told
him that since his family was 

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going to be leaving Sunday 
morning, the day I saw the 

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Sasquatch, he got up really 
early to do some fishing before 

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he had to go. 
He told my son he saw something 

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black swimming in the water. 
He thought it was a seal, but 

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then it went to the other side 
of the water and walked out of 

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the water and then proceeded to 
walk up the stairs, down the 

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long walkway and disappear into 
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My son's friend saw the same 
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I just came out at the part when
the Sasquatch was walking up the

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stairs. 
This encounter occurred in Park 

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County, Wyoming in July 2000. 
I'm an outdoor enthusiast who 

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was visiting the Cody, WY area 
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During the second week of July, 
while travelling the highway to 

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Yellowstone National Park, about
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encountered heavy tourist 
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I decided, rather than fight it,
to pull off the highway for a 

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while and go for a walk. 
I hiked up an unmarked path 

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north of the highway through 
intermittent timber. 

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I was travelling at a leisurely 
pace, exploring rocky outcrops 

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and looking for Native American 
artifacts. 

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About a half a mile down the 
road, I could still hear the 

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traffic. 
I heard some rocks rolling 

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downhill ahead and above me. 
It was maybe 50 to 100 yards 

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away. 
Mule deer and other game animals

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are plentiful in the area and I 
didn't think much of it. 

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I had bear spray with me as it 
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Maybe another half an hour went 
past and I was taking a break, 

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sitting on a rock ledge with a 
good view of the valley to the 

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South. 
I heard underbrush breaking not 

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far away on a steep tree covered
slope that led down to a dry 

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stream bed. 
I was able to distinguish the 

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pattern of an animal walking 
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Again, I didn't think much of 
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I'm used to hearing game in the 
woods and I don't spook at stuff

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like that. 
I guess that it was probably a 

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deer feeding along the slope, a 
little awed considering the time

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of day. 
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inconsistent with bears, which 
don't hang around when people 

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show up. 
I started hiking again and 

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almost immediately heard 
something move through the brush

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just below me in the same spot. 
This was a little strange I 

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thought, like it was staying 
with me or something. 

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I tried to see down the hill, 
but when I stopped I couldn't 

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hear it. 
It seemed to stop moving when I 

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did, and I couldn't get a fix on
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I began to get a somewhat uneasy
feeling about things at this 

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point. 
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it other than something seemed 
to be intentionally staying with

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me. 
I started walking again, and 

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shortly after, not having heard 
anything for a little while, I 

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heard something run across the 
rocks not far up in front of me.

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It was up out of the drainage at
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I was getting a little 
apprehensive by this time and 

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decided to start back toward the
road, which was maybe a mile 

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away. 
I walked pretty quickly and for 

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most of the day I heard nothing,
but about 1/4 mile or so from 

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the highway and maybe 15 minutes
since I turned back, I heard 

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rocks and debris falling down 
slope again. 

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It seemed awfully close and I 
instinctively whirled around 

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thinking I might see something, 
which I did. 

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I will do my best to describe 
it, but as I got only a short 

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glimpse, I can't be too sure of 
what it was. 

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It was about 60 or 70 yards away
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adjacent to the same heavily 
timbered slope I had been hiking

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along. 
As soon as I turned and looked 

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at it, it jumped right away into
the cover and completely out of 

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sight. 
There's one thing I'm absolutely

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certain of. 
Whatever it was, it was upright.

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I could clearly see two limbs 
off the ground that appeared 

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more like arms than legs. 
They were definitely hanging 

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down the side and not to the 
front as one would expect of A4 

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legged animal standing on 2 
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That doesn't mean it wasn't a 
bear, but I've never heard of a 

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bear acting like this thing was.
That is, if I'm right and it was

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the same animal that I feel was 
following me all along. 

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At any rate, the animal was 
brown with very long hair. 

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I noticed that when it leapt 
into the woods, the hair swayed 

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to one side. 
From the sudden motion, it 

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seemed longer than bear hair, 
and to notice this swaying 

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effect at this distance, I would
guess that maybe the hair was a 

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foot long or more. 
Also, for just that initial 

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instant before its flight, I got
a pretty good look at its face, 

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which was long and somewhat 
flat. 

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It was too far away to clearly 
make out individual features, 

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but I've seen several bears at 
greater distances and it doesn't

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strike me that that's what it 
was. 

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You don't just think right off. 
Hey, there's Bigfoot. 

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I was probably almost at my 
vehicle before I even let that 

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thought enter my mind. 
I can't say for sure that what I

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saw is what I had been hearing 
in the woods throughout the 

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hike. 
One tends to make these 

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connections afterward, but I 
really have no way of knowing. 

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I will say, however, that I 
think it might have been. 

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This is based on more than a 
feeling than anything else. 

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I realise that breaking branches
and rock slides don't exactly 

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constitute scientific certainty.
It really was like something was

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checking me out, though. 
These events occurred in 

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Montcalm County, Michigan, in 
October 2017. 

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The Witness lives in a wooded 
and hilly area surrounded by 

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mixed farmland about 30 miles 
east of the Huron Manistee 

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National Forest. 
There's a small Creek going 

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through the backyard with swamps
and a small lake nearby. 

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About 2:00 AM, the witness heard
whoops on a wooded hill across 

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the road from the house. 
He went out on the porch and 

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heard something large moving on 
the hill going to his left, 

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which is West. 
It stayed in the wood line until

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it reached a driveway 140 yards 
from the witness. 

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It crossed the road and came 
back toward the witness to the 

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tree line at the edge of the 
witness's property, where it 

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crouched behind a tree with a 
stump next to it. 

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When the creature was moving 
away from the witness, he got 

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off the porch and crouched next 
to the tree about 14 yards from 

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the tree line. 
When the creature was crouching 

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behind the stump, the witness 
stood up and turned his 

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flashlight on. 
The animal stood up and started 

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walking to the witnesses left S 
away from the road toward the 

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Creek in their backyard, staying
in the trees. 

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When the creature stood up, the 
witness started backing up 

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toward his porch. 
The witness only saw the 

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creature in silhouette when it 
crossed the road. 

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When he saw it with the 
flashlight at 15 yards, he got a

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good look at its body and face 
from the waist up. 

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He said it was about 7 feet tall
and muscular with wide 

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shoulders. 
It was dark brown or black, and 

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the hair was about four or five 
inches long, with the hair being

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longer toward the neck. 
The eyes were set wide and it 

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had a flat nose with the face 
being covered with short hair. 

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The arms reached past the waist.
The witness lives with his 

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grandparents. 
They all had stories about 

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hearing whoops, yells and 
knocks. 

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Once something hit the house and
they all described it sounding 

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like a truck had hit the house. 
The witness said there is year 

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round activity with August 
through November being much more

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active than the rest of the 
year. 

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This sighting occurred in 
Pendleton County, West Virginia 

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in July 2007. 
I didn't actually see the 

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creature, but I was riding in 
the car with my boyfriend when 

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this all occurred. 
We were coming back from a trip 

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to Ohio with a detour to see 
some friends in West Virginia. 

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Instead of taking interstates 
home to Virginia, we took US 33,

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a very twisty mountain Rd. 
heading east. 

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I was dozing in the passenger 
seat when I was startled by my 

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boyfriend yelling. 
What the hell was that? 

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I sat straight up and noticed 
that whoever was in the car 

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behind us suddenly hit the 
brakes and flashed up the high 

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beams. 
We're all going about 30 anyway 

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because we were rounding a 
curve, so he got a pretty good 

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view of whatever it was. 
His first description was some 

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guy was walking on the road in a
tree costume. 

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After he told me a few more 
details, I yelled Sasquatch, 

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that's what you saw. 
I immediately took some notes. 

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This is what he says he saw a 
human like figure, at least 6 

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feet tall and very bulky with 
very long hair. 

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The hairiest thing I've ever 
seen. 

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It was mossy greyish green 
colour. 

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It was walking along the side of
the road, upright like a man but

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slightly hunched over with knees
bent and elbow sticking out. 

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An ape like walk, Definitely not
human. 

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It had no distinguishable facial
features because it was so 

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hairy, he says. 
The arms were 6 to 8 inches wide

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and the legs were wider, at 
least 8 inches. 

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The creature also didn't react 
to the sound and light from our 

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car or the one behind us, he 
says. 

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It was absolutely not a bear, 
deer or large dog. 

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Without our headlights, it was 
completely dark with just a 

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little moonlight. 
The creature had no light 

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source, and if it was a man in a
pretty elaborate costume, it was

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on a heck of a walk because 
there was not anything within 

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reasonable walking distance, 
especially with no light. 

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It was around 11:30 PM on a 
Sunday night and as I said 

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before, not very much moonlight,
but a clear night and very warm.

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This occurred in Burlington 
County, New Jersey in June 2019.

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On June 20th at approximately 
640 PMI was travelling on Route 

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563 S of Chatsworth near the 
Franklin Parker Preserve 

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Speedwell entrance. 
I was looking to see what the 

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parking situation was for a 
future hike so my eyes were on 

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the right side of the road when 
out of the periphery I saw what 

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I thought was a Groundhog on the
left. 

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It was very large and I realized
that it would have to be a huge 

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Groundhog. 
So I looked fully to the left 

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and saw an approximate 3 to 3 
1/2 foot tall creature stand up 

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on 2 legs as I pass by. 
I did not get a good look at the

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face and I almost continued but 
I decided to turn around about 

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150 yards up a dirt Rd. that's 
on the left. 

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I pulled in and turned around 
and headed back to the location.

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There's a bend in the road 
there. 

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It bends around to the right on 
the way back and as I made it 

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past the bend, approximately 30 
yards in front of me, the 

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creature was still there. 
It was now truly turned toward 

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me and I could see that it 
looked like a cross between 

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Curious George and the character
Chaka from the Land of the Lost.

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Its face and hands, as well as 
the tops of its feet were 

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hairless and a light tan colour.
The fur it was covered with was 

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a little darker than a golden 
retriever, very much like the 

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colour of a Groundhog. 
I could not see the nose when I 

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locked eyes with it. 
I could not see whites, just big

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dark brown eyes. 
It stood there for a second or 

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two when I rounded the bend and 
then took off running back into 

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the swampy area. 
It ducked behind a short Bush 

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and when I drove past it I could
no longer see it. 

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I turned the car around again 
and when I went by again, it was

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gone. 
I waited there a bit to see if I

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could see anything moving in the
field. 

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I couldn't, so I took off. 
It was a couple of days before I

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shared the experience with my 
family and friends, and in that 

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period of time I thought for 
sure someone was going to report

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a missing kid in a Halloween 
costume. 

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When the thing took off running,
it was fast. 

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We had really bad storms that 
night and my commute was a 

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disaster. 
It poured all through that area 

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and I thought it was odd that 
this thing I saw appeared to be 

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dry. 
These encounters occurred in 

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Liberty County, Texas, November 
1978 or 1979. 

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As a teenager from the early 70s
up until 1980, I haunted this 

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area numerous times. 
I had mentioned a smell to a 

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friend, which I described as 
somewhere between a skunk and a 

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wet dog. 
My friend acknowledged that he 

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had smelled it several times 
himself. 

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We blew it off as being some 
type of plant or weed, but as I 

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began smelling it more often, I 
could tell it was some type of 

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animal. 
I began thinking that it was 

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probably feral hogs. 
As I continued to get older and 

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continue to squirrel hunt these 
same areas, I began to notice 

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that every time I smelled this 
odor, there were no squirrels 

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moving or any other wildlife for
that matter. 

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I don't know the exact dates or 
even the year in which these 

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incidents occurred, but it was 
in the mid to late 70s. 

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I've been reluctant to tell 
anyone about these incidents. 

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The first visual experience that
I had came deep in the woods 

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from the road. 
I'd walked about a mile down 

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into the woods where I came upon
a pin oak flat. 

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I could see all the way through 
the flat to the other side, 

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which was about 150 to 175 
yards. 

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On the other side of the flat 
was a stand of reset pine, all 

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about 15 feet tall with high 
dead grass underneath. 

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Immediately I noticed something 
laying under the pine tree 

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across the flat. 
At first it looked like the area

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below the tree and the tree 
trunk had been burned out. 

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As I eased closer it began to 
look like a gorilla lying under 

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the tree. 
I'm a pretty stealthy person in 

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the woods and I told myself I'm 
seeing things, but I'm going to 

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try and get closer to this thing
just to prove to myself I'm not 

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seeing things. 
As I moved within 100 yards or 

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so, I could see that I was not 
crazy. 

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Its head was moving and at this 
time I could tell its collar was

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grey with a black gorilla face. 
The adrenaline kicked in. 

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I checked my gun and put some 
trees between myself and this 

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thing and proceeded to try and 
get closer, peering around the 

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trees every few feet to see if 
it was still there. 

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I got to within 50 to 75 yards 
and peered around the tree and 

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it was gone. 
The floor of the pin oak flat 

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was dry with a lot of crunchy 
leaves and twigs. 

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I knew I was going to scare it 
off before I could get a close 

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look at it. 
After I noticed that it was 

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gone, I sat down in the flat for
about an hour and did not see 

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any wildlife at all. 
I got up and went over to the 

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area where I had seen it and was
hit with that smell and the 

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grass was mashed down under the 
pine. 

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At first I didn't think it knew 
that I was there because it was 

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moving its head and acting 
unconcerned. 

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As I tried to sneak up on it, 
though, it definitely sensed my 

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presence or heard me crunch a 
twig. 

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I know it never visually made me
out because I kept trees between

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myself and it the whole time. 
The following year was my next 

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sighting. 
It had rained sometime between 

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3:00 AM and when I set out to go
squirrel hunting. 

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It was very foggy and misty on 
this morning and the woods were 

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damp and very quiet. 
I came upon a large thicket and 

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sat down against a tree at the 
edge of the thicket. 

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I instantly started to smell 
something as it got lighter, 

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light enough to shoot. 
I could hear something in the 

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thicket. 
Also I noticed there were no 

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squirrels moving. 
I thought that there were some 

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hogs in the thicket. 
I sat in the spot longer than I 

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normally would sit anywhere 
without seeing anything because 

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of the sounds I heard coming 
from the thicket. 

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About mid morning I was hearing 
something sniffing the air and 

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making low deep grunting sounds.
That was no hog. 

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I decided to play a trick that 
I've used before on game and 

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thickets and threw a 2 foot long
dead limb over and beyond the 

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sounds hoping to flush it out to
my side. 

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When I did this it made a deeper
and louder primate type grunt at

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me. 
The sniffing of the air also 

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became more pronounced and no 
hog breathes like this. 

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I then threw another stick into 
the thicket and received the 

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same grunts and sniffing, only 
louder. 20 minutes later I heard

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it moving through the thicket 
and then heard a huge 2 legged 

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splash into a body of water on 
the other side of the thicket 

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followed by grunts and heavy 
breathing. 

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There's no doubt in my mind what
I had encountered was a Bigfoot 

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in the thicket, although I never
saw him. 

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This was something I've never 
experienced in the woods before.

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After the splash and the exit, I
made my own hasty exit back to 

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the road. 
The witness described the animal

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that he encountered in 1978 as 
having black weathered skin. 

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From what he could see, the face
and head appeared to him to be 

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very similar to a gorilla. 
In fact, during the encounter, 

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for much of the time, he 
actually thought he was watching

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a gorilla that had been let 
loose or escaped into the East 

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Texas woods. 
He said the prospect of 

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encountering a gorilla in the 
wild actually frightened him 

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quite a bit. 
It wasn't until several minutes 

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of somewhat distant observation 
had occurred did it occur to him

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that it wasn't a gorilla. 
The witness said the animal was 

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lying under the tree and 
propping itself up on its arm. 

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It was moving its head around a 
little and appeared to be 

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looking around at its 
surroundings. 

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He could not see the eyes or 
mouth or nose, but he said that 

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from what he could tell, the 
face appeared to be similar to a

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gorilla. 
The animal's colour was grey or 

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charcoal, but the skin was 
decidedly black. 

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Another. 
Possible visual had occurred in 

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1979, again while squirrel 
hunting. 

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That witness saw what it first 
appeared to be Spanish Moss 

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blowing in the breeze at about 
8:00 or 9 feet up a tree trunk. 

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He saw the movement in his 
peripheral vision before turning

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to look directly. 
At that time, the witness 

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believed that he was looking at 
a head peering from around the 

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tree at a distance of perhaps 50
to 60 yards. 

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The witness thought that Spanish
Moss was the hare. 

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After a few seconds, the head 
and hair or Spanish Moss was 

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gone. 
This sighting. 

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Occurred in Litchfield County, 
Connecticut in May 2014. 

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It was early. 
Evening and our golden retriever

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was barking loudly. 
This was not unusual as there 

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are many deer behind her home. 
Our backyard consists of a large

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20 acre field leading into a 
wooded area. 

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When I went outside to call the 
dog in and I saw 6 or 7 deer 

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running like heck like they were
being chased. 

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I looked behind them and in the 
tall grass a large hairy animal 

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was chasing after them running 
on 2 legs towering above the 

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grass which was about four feet 
tall at the time. 

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We see occasional black bears 
but this was no bear I had seen 

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before. 
I am convinced it was a 

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Sasquatch. 
Then later in the season I was 

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outside around 9:00 with a 
friend. 

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We had a small fire going. 
The coyotes were yipping in the 

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far corner and in the opposite 
back corner there were three 

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screech like sounds and the 
coyotes went dead silent. 

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About a month. 
After that sighting, as me and 

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my friend were hitting golf 
balls into the field, I saw some

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activity lower in the field. 
After about two minutes we 

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realized it was a Sasquatch. 
It stood up and towered over the

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00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,200
grass which was about 5 feet 
tall at that time. 

452
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,680
We stood there watching it for 
about 5 minutes until it 

453
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,280
retreated to the woods. 
The hairy creature was clearly 

454
00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:20,560
walking on 2 feet. 
I have no doubt in my mind we 

455
00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,560
saw a Sasquatch after talking to
my dad who has lived on our 

456
00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,720
property for years. 
He too had seen a Sasquatch 

457
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:33,360
years ago as a boy. 
This terrifying incident 

458
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:37,320
occurred in Orange County, 
Florida in the spring of 1980. 

459
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,320
A few years back I lived in 
Plymouth, Florida. 

460
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,160
We lived in a wooded area. 
In front of the house there was 

461
00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:46,880
an orange Grove. 
Beside us was a swamp. 

462
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,560
Around that was a wooded area. 
I used to walk through the woods

463
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,040
with my rifle just to feel safe.
There was an old couple there 

464
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,880
that had a farm across from the 
woods. 

465
00:26:56,480 --> 00:27:00,120
I got to know them pretty well. 
I would go there for coffee and 

466
00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:02,560
the old man and his wife would 
tell me stories about this 

467
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,120
Bigfoot. 
The farmer said that the Bigfoot

468
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:07,440
comes into his garden and takes 
his crops. 

469
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,400
I said oh really? 
I didn't believe em. 

470
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,840
And that was that. 
Until one night I was home alone

471
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,720
with my puppy dog. 
We were sitting on the porch and

472
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:18,480
you couldn't see 3 feet in front
of you. 

473
00:27:19,120 --> 00:27:21,400
Then I heard this noise breaking
through the brush. 

474
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:25,320
I got so scared I ran into the 
house, grabbed my rifle and 

475
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:28,080
stood behind the front door. 
I could barely move. 

476
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,760
Then I heard whatever it was go 
round the back of the house. 

477
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,200
It tried to get into the door. 
I ran out the front door into 

478
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:38,360
the orange Grove and I kept 
running. 

479
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:41,560
My foot got caught on a root of 
a tree and I fell. 

480
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,240
I rolled into the swamp and I 
lost my rifle. 

481
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,080
I looked back and I saw a 
Bigfoot. 

482
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,680
I got up and I ran to the road. 
There was a truck that stopped 

483
00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:52,960
to help. 
I called my friends and they 

484
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,560
came over and the whole back 
door was ripped off, the farmer 

485
00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:58,600
said to me. 
I told you so. 

486
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,640
This occurred in. 
Seminole County, Florida in July

487
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,920
of 1972. 
This happened in the. 

488
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:12,280
Late summer of 1972. 
The exact date is not known but 

489
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:14,080
believed to have happened in 
July. 

490
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,080
The area at that time was 
countryside. 

491
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,760
It was mostly Cypress trees, 
orange Groves, sparsely 

492
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,760
populated and undeveloped. 
The friends spent a lot of time 

493
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:26,640
fishing and swimming in Lake 
Mills. 

494
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,880
The boys were 16 that summer and
decided to camp near the lake on

495
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,360
that summer night. 
One of the boy's father drove 

496
00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:37,000
the camping gear to the site 
along with his friend and 

497
00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:39,160
dropped them off while he rode 
his dirt bike. 

498
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,520
The boys set up their camp. 
They noticed that someone had 

499
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,440
cut down 6 Cypress trees and had
placed a board over the stumps. 

500
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,200
It had been used as a table, but
the boys decided to put their 

501
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,320
sleeping bags under it as it 
gave them a feeling of being in 

502
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,360
a Fort. 
They spent the entire day riding

503
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,520
the bike through the dirt trails
around the lake. 

504
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,560
When it got dark, they set up a 
camp fire, cooked hot dogs, and 

505
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,560
went to sleep. 
Around 2, the fire was between 

506
00:29:05,560 --> 00:29:07,440
the sleeping bags and the 
motorcycle. 

507
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,840
They built it up before they 
turned in. 

508
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,840
Around 3 or 4, one of the boys 
was awakened by a loud snapping 

509
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:18,560
and cracking of something heavy.
Walking toward the camp, he 

510
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,680
noticed the flames of the fire 
were still a foot or more high. 

511
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,000
He looked toward the sound, 
waiting to see what animal could

512
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,800
possibly be making that noise. 
From the E 30 feet away in 

513
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,560
Palmetto scrub, he watched a 
tall, hairy biped effortlessly 

514
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,000
part the branches and walk into 
camp. 

515
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,480
It was on the other side of the 
fire near the motorcycle. 

516
00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:44,120
It never looked his way and 
walked right up to the bike. 

517
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,920
He propped himself. 
Up to see better, he remembers 

518
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,040
the creature's chest was 2 feet 
taller than the seat of the 

519
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:54,240
motorcycle. 
It stood stooped over, examining

520
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,960
the bike, and began to smoothly 
touch the handlebars, the tank, 

521
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,520
and the seat with both hands, as
if trying to figure out what 

522
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:05,160
that bike was. 
The witness then. 

523
00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,160
Quietly woke up his friend and 
whispered for him to look. 

524
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:10,760
The Bigfoot continued to ignore 
them. 

525
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,400
It seemed to be about 8 feet 
tall, mostly brown in colour 

526
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,800
with red highlights. 
It had a heavy build and was 

527
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,880
broad shouldered. 
After a few minutes of gently 

528
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,560
touching the bike all over, the 
Sasquatch walked away, parting 

529
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:28,520
the Palm Meadows just as it had 
earlier, this time heading West.

530
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,400
It made just as much noise 
walking away as it had coming 

531
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,520
into camp. 
The boys think they waited a few

532
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,840
minutes and bolted for the bike 
and left, leaving all the 

533
00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,680
camping gear in place. 
When they got home in the 

534
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,880
morning and explained why they 
had left, one of the boy's 

535
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,120
father was livid. 
He made them go back in his car 

536
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,080
and get their things. 
They drove back with the high 

537
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:53,560
beams on. 
One of the boys made the other 

538
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,680
boy go pack up while he stayed 
in the car with the engine 

539
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,880
running and made a lot of noise.
More description. 

540
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,160
Of the creature, it was overall 
very furry. 

541
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,360
The hair covered its entire 
body. 

542
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,840
When asked to describe more 
facial details, the witness 

543
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,400
claimed don't laugh, but it 
looked like Chewbacca more than 

544
00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,560
anything else. 
The head was not conical. 

545
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:20,480
For most of the encounter, the 
Sasquatch was facing sideways. 

546
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,720
The encounter has left both of 
them pretty scared. 

547
00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:28,080
One of them has only camped once
since that night, one of the 

548
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,880
witnesses confirms. 
The hairy biped they both saw, 

549
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,960
however, refuses to say it was a
Bigfoot. 

550
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:38,040
He doesn't know what he saw. 
It just wasn't human or any 

551
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,800
known animal. 
The place they had. 

552
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,720
Camped is now a park. 
They believe the area they 

553
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:48,280
camped is now the parking lot. 
This encounter. 

554
00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:53,000
Occurred in Del Norte County, 
California in September of 2003.

555
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,160
The witness pulled. 
Over at a wide spot off of A2 

556
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,760
lane section of Highway One O 1.
Of note, this was not a regular 

557
00:32:01,760 --> 00:32:05,160
pull off area of that highway 
and his right side wheels were 

558
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,720
off the roadway next to some 
brush and grass. 

559
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,480
He did this to allow faster 
moving vehicles to pass him. 

560
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:16,560
As his vehicle came to a stop, a
creature stood up between 5:00 

561
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:20,040
and 10 feet from his open 
passenger window and screamed. 

562
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:23,040
It was loud enough to be heard 
over a mile away. 

563
00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,800
He said the first thing he did 
was lie down across the front 

564
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,120
seat and he also started to 
scream. 

565
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,040
He then sat back up to observe 
the creature. 

566
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,920
At that moment, he said that he 
was scared out of his mind and 

567
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,600
thought he was going to have a 
heart attack. 

568
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,240
According to the witness, the 
sound emanating from the 

569
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,200
creature was like nothing that 
he'd ever heard before. 

570
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,560
The volume was the loudest thing
that he had ever heard. 

571
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,600
He described the warbling 
screaming sound as a woman being

572
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,840
stabbed with a knife combined 
with a whistling parrot sound 

573
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,120
with a high and low frequency 
that vibrated his body and soul.

574
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,960
The noises were all integrated 
and seemed to be taking place at

575
00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:06,320
the same time. 
The vocalization lasted the 

576
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,000
entirety of the five to six 
second encounter. 

577
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,400
The creature took two large 
steps toward the large Redwood 

578
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:16,400
trees located approximately 15 
to 20 feet away from the road, 

579
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,520
made a semicircle around the 
nearest tree, and then 

580
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:22,680
disappeared. 
The witness only saw the upper 

581
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:26,000
body because of the high brush 
and the vehicle door blocking 

582
00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:29,360
his view. 
It was facing away from him so 

583
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,640
he could only see the right back
area of it. 

584
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,760
He did not see any facial 
features or its hands. 

585
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:38,400
The witness described the 
creature as having very dirty or

586
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,400
matted dark brown dull hair. 
He described the head as having 

587
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,320
a definite wedge on top and 
having no neck. 

588
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,640
He further stated that the back 
of it had well defined muscles 

589
00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,560
like Mike Tyson. 
He thinks that the creature 

590
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:57,080
stood about 6 1/2 to 7 feet tall
and weighed over £300. 

591
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,760
He could not ascertain its 
gender and he'd never made eye 

592
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,840
contact with it. 
The witness never checked for 

593
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:07,400
footprints and stated he never 
wants to use that highway again.

594
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,199
He stated his only thoughts 
after the incident was how he 

595
00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:13,920
was going to call 911 for his 
heart attack. 

596
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,880
He. 
Said the sight of it. 

597
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,960
Didn't bother him as much as the
screaming vocalisation. 

598
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,679
The witness has never ventured 
into the Wilds and now never 

599
00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,040
wants to. 
He stated that the creature 

600
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:29,480
reminded him of a gorilla and if
he saw one in a zoo, he would 

601
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,120
just pass by it for something 
more interesting. 

602
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,480
The witness is still shaken up 
over this encounter, especially 

603
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,639
over the screaming sounds, and 
is having difficulty trying to 

604
00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:42,560
sleep at night. 
The one good thing that has come

605
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,400
out of this incident is that 
he's gone to church for the 

606
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:50,719
first time in 37 years. 
This incident. 

607
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:55,480
Occurred in Swain County, North 
Carolina in January 2020. 

608
00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,000
As my husband and. 
I often do. 

609
00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,560
We were taking a shortcut across
the mountain here in western 

610
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,280
North Carolina, heading home. 
As I was driving along the 

611
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,600
river, there was a very strange 
looking, what I thought was an 

612
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,840
odd looking man. 
As we passed it, I said to my 

613
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:16,240
husband, that's a strange 
looking person and as I looked 

614
00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:19,240
into the rearview mirror, it 
stood up on the road and was 

615
00:35:19,240 --> 00:35:22,560
watching us driving away and 
that's when I realized what it 

616
00:35:22,560 --> 00:35:25,480
really was. 
I told my husband that it was a 

617
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,800
Bigfoot. 
In a panic, I drove away and my 

618
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:31,320
husband insisted that we turn 
around and go back. 

619
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,760
I was in tears from fear, but we
found an area to turn around and

620
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,760
I did. 
As we approached that area, I 

621
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,840
saw it on the side of the road 
watching us. 

622
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,320
It was huge. 
My husband got out of the car to

623
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,800
get a better look and he 
couldn't believe what we were 

624
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,120
looking at. 
It had to be at least 8 to 9 

625
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,680
feet tall, covered in long black
hair all over its body. 

626
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,360
It was massive. 
We were over 100 yards away and 

627
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,120
nothing was obstructing our 
view. 

628
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,920
I yelled at my husband to get 
back into the car and I managed 

629
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:04,960
to turn it around and get the 
heck out of there. 

630
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,440
My name is Eric. 
I live in Chautauqua County in 

631
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:14,920
Western New York. 
Before my encounters, I spent a 

632
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,880
lot of time in the woods by 
myself, metal detecting, 

633
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,320
hunting, fishing and just 
exploring. 

634
00:36:20,720 --> 00:36:24,680
That was normal life for me. 
After what I saw, I do not go 

635
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:28,400
into the woods alone anymore. 
If I'm not with someone, I stay 

636
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,840
out. 
Those two sightings change that 

637
00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,680
part of my life completely. 
Over time, I. 

638
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:37,760
Started looking into what I had 
seen and drifted into research. 

639
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,320
I don't really care what label 
people put on me. 

640
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,080
Some want to say researcher. 
I usually say I'm a knower. 

641
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:47,600
I know they are real because 
I've seen them with my own eyes.

642
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:51,160
From there I tried to figure out
how to do things the right way, 

643
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,920
how to prove they exist through 
proper evidence. 

644
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,840
I contacted. 
The Department of Environmental 

645
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:01,400
Conservation main office in 
Albany to ask about collecting 

646
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,680
samples from wildlife. 
I wanted to know what was legal,

647
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,160
if I got hair, scat, saliva, 
anything like that. 

648
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:11,840
They sent a letter back telling 
me that in New York State, if 

649
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,000
you want to collect any kind of 
sample from any wild animal for 

650
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,840
testing or scientific use, you 
have to have a specific license.

651
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,720
You fill out paperwork, pay a 
fee, and they either approve or 

652
00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,680
deny you. 
Technically, if you pick up a 

653
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:28,920
tuft of deer hair in the woods 
and plan to use it for research 

654
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,640
or testing, you're supposed to 
have that license. 

655
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,360
I have never heard of that being
required in other states, but 

656
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:38,720
that's how it works here. 
It surprised me, but it's 

657
00:37:38,720 --> 00:37:41,800
something anyone in this field 
has to deal with if they want to

658
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:45,040
involve science. 
My first sighting. 

659
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:50,200
Happened in May of 2013. 
One of my main hobbies was metal

660
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,360
detecting. 
I used old maps from the 1800s 

661
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,280
and tried to locate old home 
sites back in the woods. 

662
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,000
I would hike out to those cellar
holes and wells and search 

663
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,160
around them for relics. 
I loved it. 

664
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:06,960
On that day in. 
May I had done my usual routine.

665
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,960
I found a home site on the map, 
packed my gear, drove out and 

666
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,360
hiked in. 
I brought my dog with me. 

667
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:17,040
When I got set up. 
I tied my dog maybe 100 yards 

668
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,720
behind me if he stayed down by 
my feet. 

669
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,080
He got tangled in the coil all 
the time so I always tied him 

670
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:27,360
off to the side but still close.
I had been detecting. 

671
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,400
For a while I started up a small
embankment where there were 

672
00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,160
signs of old structures. 
I could see a big cellar hole in

673
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,240
an old well. 
I worked around that area and 

674
00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:38,760
then moved toward a small 
clearing. 

675
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,480
To reach it, I had to duck under
a low branch. 

676
00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,280
I bent down, stepped under the 
branch, and then straightened 

677
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,280
up. 
The ground sloped slightly 

678
00:38:47,280 --> 00:38:51,080
uphill in front of me. 
As I came up, I caught something

679
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,720
in the corner of my left eye. 
I looked down again, almost on 

680
00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,920
reflex. 
For a second, my mind did not 

681
00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:02,160
register what I had just seen. 
I took another step and it hit 

682
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:02,520
me. 
What? 

683
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,080
I'd been there. 
I snapped my head back to look 

684
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,520
again, and that's when I saw it 
clearly. 

685
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,040
Something was standing there, 
halfway behind a tree up the 

686
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,400
hill. 
I could see about half of its 

687
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:16,280
body. 
At that exact moment, it turned 

688
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:18,720
away from me and dropped down 
onto all fours. 

689
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,320
Then it took off. 
It moved away at a speed that 

690
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:26,480
did not make sense, covering 
roughly 200 yards in what felt 

691
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,920
like 4 seconds. 
When it turned I got. 

692
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,560
A clear look at one of its 
hands. 

693
00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:34,600
I saw the fingers. 
The hand was very long. 

694
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,880
The skin was jet black. 
The arms were long too. 

695
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,960
The overall build was what I 
would call lanky. 

696
00:39:41,720 --> 00:39:43,400
That's the best word I have for 
it. 

697
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:46,800
Long limbs, lean frame, very 
agile. 

698
00:39:47,840 --> 00:39:50,040
I am a hunter. 
I know what a black bear looks 

699
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:52,800
like when it moves. 
Bears waddle when they run off 

700
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,760
and their gait is very 
different. 

701
00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,480
This was nothing like that. 
This moved in a way that 

702
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:02,880
reminded me more of a human than
any bear, but the face did not 

703
00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:06,400
look human. 
From the quick look. 

704
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,240
I had the face looked more like 
a young chimp. 

705
00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:12,920
It looked younger overall, which
is why I now believe it was a 

706
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:16,040
juvenile. 
The head shape was round, not 

707
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,640
the tall cone shape that people 
often talk about. 

708
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,480
The lower half of the face was a
lighter colour, but the rest of 

709
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,560
the body and head were jet 
black. 

710
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,360
It had a huge mouth. 
A lighter colour on the lower 

711
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,560
face stood out against the dark 
hair. 

712
00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:34,280
When it spun and. 
Dropped the hand, swung out. 

713
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,240
The thumb looked shorter 
compared to the long fingers. 

714
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:41,240
I couldn't really tell the exact
placement of the thumb because 

715
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:44,920
everything happened so fast, but
the digits looked long and the 

716
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:46,880
thumb didn't seem to match them 
in length. 

717
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,400
I also believed it was a male 
because there seemed to be 

718
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,320
something obvious in the groin 
area when it turned. 

719
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:56,880
The whole encounter. 
Was extremely brief. 

720
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,520
The distance between us was 
about 30 feet. 

721
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,320
One second I was ducking under a
branch. 

722
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,280
The next second I was watching 
this lanky, jet black juvenile 

723
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,040
tear away from me like nothing 
I'd ever seen. 

724
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,720
I went straight into shock. 
I didn't turn off the metal 

725
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:16,000
detector or gather myself. 
I just took off running. 

726
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,600
I ran back to my dog, united 
him, got back to the truck, 

727
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,040
started it, and left. 
When I got home, I booked the 

728
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,400
dog away, sat down on the couch 
and tried to process what had 

729
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:30,360
just happened. 
I told one family member that 

730
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,200
reaction was flat and 
dismissive. 

731
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,480
No one in my family really 
believes in this kind of thing. 

732
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,800
After that, I decided to keep it
to myself. 

733
00:41:39,240 --> 00:41:42,280
I didn't want to be laughed at 
or treated like I was crazy. 

734
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,480
Without a second witness or a 
photo, it's hard to talk about 

735
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,120
something like that. 
And that's when the self doubt 

736
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,840
started. 
Over time, I. 

737
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,080
Caught myself questioning my own
memory. 

738
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,680
Sitting there alone with it. 
I thought things like, did I 

739
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,000
imagine that? 
Did that really happen? 

740
00:42:00,440 --> 00:42:04,080
Did I misunderstand what I saw? 
I tried to push it out of my 

741
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,600
mind. 
That was my first encounter. 

742
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,440
My second sighting. 
Happened in May of 2014, the 

743
00:42:12,440 --> 00:42:14,720
same month of the year, but a 
different day. 

744
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,720
By then we had come out of 
another long winter up there. 

745
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:20,800
We could get four or five feet 
of snow. 

746
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,560
Roads in some of those areas are
not plowed. 

747
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,160
You can't even reach them by 
truck for a good part of the 

748
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:28,840
year. 
Once the snow melts, you finally

749
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:32,240
get access again, and that's 
when we start metal detecting. 

750
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,400
The second encounter was two or 
three miles to the spot of the 

751
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,560
first sighting. 
It is all part of a larger tract

752
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,760
of land around 4000 acres, with 
more state land tied in behind 

753
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,520
that. 
A friend was with me that day. 

754
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:50,440
We drove up to a dead end road 
to a parking area at the edge of

755
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,760
the state forest. 
We're not thinking about 

756
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:56,040
Sasquatch at all. 
We're just happy to be out after

757
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,760
winter, ready to hunt old home 
sites again. 

758
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:02,160
We hiked into some old 
foundations and cellar holes. 

759
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,280
It was about 2:30 in the 
afternoon. 

760
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,440
We had driven around a bit 
before that and then settled on 

761
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:11,280
that location. 
After a while, we. 

762
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,840
Took a break somewhere between 
4:00 and 4:30. 

763
00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,640
We stood there, smoked a 
cigarette and talked. 

764
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,520
During that break I told my 
buddy I had a weird feeling, 

765
00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:23,640
like I was being watched. 
He said he knew the feeling I 

766
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:26,120
was talking about but said he 
felt fine. 

767
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:30,680
Right then two hikers came by on
the trail, a man and a woman. 

768
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:33,400
He had a yellow jacket and she 
had a pink one. 

769
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,920
They waved and kept going up the
trail. 

770
00:43:36,600 --> 00:43:40,440
That trail runs a long distance 
a few miles across that tract. 

771
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:44,480
It used to be a horse and buggy 
Rd. in the 1800s and is kept 

772
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,400
open as a trail now. 
It looks almost like a power 

773
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,800
line cut because it's a wide 
open strip between two blocks of

774
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,000
forest, but there's no power 
line there. 

775
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,720
Maybe 50 yards of open ground 
separates the woods on each 

776
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:59,760
side. 
After the hikers passed, my 

777
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,520
buddy went back toward that open
trail and then cut into the 

778
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,720
woods on the other side to work 
around some foundations over 

779
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:08,680
there. 
We each worked our. 

780
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,760
Section for what felt like a 
long time. 

781
00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,200
It was probably 2 to 2 1/2 
hours. 

782
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,680
Around 6:30 I decided the day 
was about done and I would start

783
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:21,400
working my way out. 
I came out of the trees into a 

784
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,600
small field patch that connects 
to that old horse and buggy 

785
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,920
trail. 
From there I could see the open 

786
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:28,800
strip and the woods on the other
side. 

787
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,880
Out of the corner of my eye, 
down to my left, I saw my buddy 

788
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,040
coming out of his section of 
woods on the trail. 

789
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,720
I kept swinging the detector as 
I walked. 

790
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,880
He made it to the trail. 
Before I did and as I was coming

791
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,360
out, I heard him say something. 
He raised his voice and said 

792
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,120
look. 
I pulled my headphones down and 

793
00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,400
looked over at him. 
He was looking up the trail 

794
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,720
ahead of us and said there was a
person or something up there. 

795
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,200
By then, he had walked. 
To where I was standing and we 

796
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,960
ended up shoulder to shoulder at
the edge of the little field, 

797
00:45:01,240 --> 00:45:05,120
both facing up the open trail. 
At first we couldn't make out 

798
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,160
exactly what we were seeing. 
There was something big up 

799
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,200
there, low to the ground. 
It looked like it was crouched 

800
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:13,800
in a stalking position, creeping
forward. 

801
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,360
I call it a creeping posture. 
It was low, almost like it was 

802
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,440
in a cautious, steady position, 
moving slowly along the trail. 

803
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,840
We just stared at it, trying to 
figure out what we were looking 

804
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,120
at. 
Then it realized we were 

805
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:32,720
watching it and it stood up. 
It went from roughly 5 feet in 

806
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:36,160
that crouched position to around
10 feet tall when it 

807
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,200
straightened up. 
We later went back and measured 

808
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:43,200
a branch it bumped its head on. 
That branch was about 10 feet, 6

809
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:46,240
inches. 
When I say 10 feet tall, that's 

810
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:49,640
where that number comes from. 
There is some margin of error, 

811
00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:53,040
but it was in that range. 
The distance from. 

812
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,840
Us to the creature was maybe 2 
to 300 feet. 

813
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:59,480
It was not far and there was 
nothing between US and it but 

814
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,920
open ground, no brush or trees 
blocking the view. 

815
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:07,440
We saw it perfectly clear. 
It was jet black. 

816
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:10,440
And massive. 
The shoulders were around 4 feet

817
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,080
wide. 
The body was very muscular, but 

818
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:16,880
not like a cartoon bodybuilder, 
just heavy solid muscle. 

819
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,520
You could see muscle shape in 
the arms even through the hair. 

820
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,760
The arms were extremely long, 
they hung down to the knee area.

821
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,520
There was hair on the face, but 
it stopped around the cheek 

822
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:31,120
area. 
The skin of the face itself was 

823
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,840
dark. 
The brow Ridge was very heavy 

824
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,960
and the head sloped back from 
that Ridge. 

825
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,320
Standing there, it looked huge 
in every way. 

826
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:42,960
The eyes were large, but at that
distance I couldn't judge the 

827
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:46,320
exact size. 
We stared at each other. 

828
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,040
For somewhere between 40 and 45 
seconds. 

829
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,080
It felt longer, but that's my 
best estimate. 

830
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:56,400
My buddy and I were locked in. 
I went into what I call a 

831
00:46:56,400 --> 00:46:58,600
stupor. 
My body was shaking. 

832
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:01,720
I had never seen anything that 
big that was not supposed to 

833
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:04,920
exist. 
We muttered to each other under 

834
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,440
our breath. 
I said that it's a Bigfoot. 

835
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,160
My friend said no way and 
reacted with pure shock. 

836
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,680
As soon as I said that, the 
creature turned to go. 

837
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,760
When it turned. 
I could see how thick its legs 

838
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,560
really were. 
It took two steps and was gone 

839
00:47:21,560 --> 00:47:24,880
into the woods. 
Each stride was around 6 feet, 

840
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:29,400
and that was from a walk, not a 
run from a dead standstill. 

841
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:32,680
It just turned and walked off, 
but each step ate up distance 

842
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,720
like nothing. 
The sun was setting. 

843
00:47:35,720 --> 00:47:37,400
Behind it and the light was 
orange. 

844
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:39,720
As it stepped. 
I could see that orange light 

845
00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:42,600
shining between its legs in the 
gap with each stride. 

846
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,800
That's how clean the view was. 
No brush, no tricks of light, 

847
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:49,840
just that creature moving in 
front of the setting sun. 

848
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:54,240
On its. 
Way into the trees, its head hit

849
00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:57,120
a pine branch. 
When it struck that branch, the 

850
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:00,520
branch shook violently. 
Later, we walked up there and 

851
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:03,200
used that same branch as a 
reference to measure its height.

852
00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,120
That's how we came up with that 
10 foot 6 point. 

853
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:09,640
The whole interaction is burned 
into my mind. 

854
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:13,240
The size of it, the width of the
shoulders, the length of the 

855
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:16,680
arms, that heavy brow, I cannot 
forget it. 

856
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,600
People always ask. 
Why we didn't get a photo. 

857
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:23,920
My phone was in my detecting 
pouch at my waist. 

858
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,960
I never even thought about it. 
I was out metal detecting, 

859
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,720
enjoying a hobby, not a 
photographer out trying to 

860
00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:33,600
document wildlife. 
When this thing stood up, 

861
00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,720
everything else dropped out of 
my mind. 

862
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:39,320
I had tunnel vision and was 
focused only on examining what I

863
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:42,080
was seeing. 
Pulling out a phone didn't even 

864
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,000
occur to me. 
After going through. 

865
00:48:45,000 --> 00:48:48,360
That I understand why so many 
witnesses don't get pictures 

866
00:48:48,800 --> 00:48:52,000
unless someone is out there 
specifically with a camera in 

867
00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,400
hand and ready to use it at any 
second. 

868
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,840
Shock takes over. 
You get a type of trauma after 

869
00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:00,560
seeing something that big that 
you've been told your whole life

870
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,280
does not exist. 
At the same time. 

871
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,960
In my head I was going back to 
the first sighting and realizing

872
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:10,240
it had been real. 
Now I had a friend standing next

873
00:49:10,240 --> 00:49:13,480
to me seeing the same thing. 
Both of those thoughts were 

874
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,200
crashing together with the 
shock. 

875
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:19,720
Over time. 
As I paid closer attention, I 

876
00:49:19,720 --> 00:49:22,360
also noticed some odd things 
about that place. 

877
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,520
There are long stretches where 
the woods go dead quiet. 

878
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:28,840
No birds, no squirrels, no 
crickets. 

879
00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,160
I'm a hunter. 
I sit in tree stands for hours 

880
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,640
and I'm used to normal forest 
sounds in that area. 

881
00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:38,040
There are times where it's just 
silent. 

882
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:42,240
In four years, I've never seen a
deer with my own eyes there, 

883
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:46,080
even though we have a strong 
deer population in this county. 

884
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,800
You see a few tracks, but not 
the animal numbers you would 

885
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,560
expect for 12,000 acres of 
combined state land and 

886
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,400
surrounding property. 
Later on, after I started going 

887
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,160
back with research in mind, I 
began to hear odd sounds on some

888
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,240
trips. 
Knocks, strange noises, things 

889
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:06,880
like that. 
Not during those two main 

890
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:11,240
encounters, but in later seasons
a pattern also started to show 

891
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,520
up. 
Most of my activity in that area

892
00:50:13,520 --> 00:50:17,360
comes in April, May, June and 
sometimes into July. 

893
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,040
After that it goes very quiet. 
Because of that, I. 

894
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,240
Believe they migrate not for 
food because there's food 

895
00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:28,320
everywhere. 
We have berries, apples, plenty 

896
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,160
of deer and other animals that 
make it through harsh winters. 

897
00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,360
I do not think they need to move
for food in this region. 

898
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,840
I think they move for mating the
same way some animals travel 

899
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:40,920
long distances to breeding 
areas. 

900
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,520
I suspect they head down toward 
the Allegheny region later in 

901
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,720
the year. 
There are many sightings 

902
00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:49,760
reported out of Allegheny in 
August and September. 

903
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,880
That lines up with how my area 
goes quiet after early summer. 

904
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:58,160
Another thing I think about is 
whether I stumbled onto them or 

905
00:50:58,160 --> 00:50:59,920
they were already focusing on 
us. 

906
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,800
Both of my sightings happened 
while metal detecting, the first

907
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:05,720
alone and the second with my 
friend. 

908
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:10,360
A metal detector makes distinct 
sounds, especially in pinpoint 

909
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,840
mode when you're narrowing down 
on a target. 

910
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:15,440
I think that sound gets their 
attention. 

911
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,640
In the first sighting, the 
juvenile seemed curious. 

912
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:22,360
In the second, the big male 
looked more aggravated, like we 

913
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,200
were in his way or in the 
direction he intended to go. 

914
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,760
The juvenile stood. 
Upright behind a tree where he 

915
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,320
could stay mostly hidden until 
he decided to leave, his 

916
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,840
expression was curious. 
When he turned, the big male 

917
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,600
crouched in the open strip 
looked like he was trying to 

918
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,360
stay low and unseen, then 
realized we were looking at him 

919
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,200
when he stood up. 
He didn't seem pleased. 

920
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,880
That's just the feeling I got 
from his body language, not just

921
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:52,360
a guess out of nowhere. 
Since those encounters, I've 

922
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,040
tried to approach this as 
seriously as I can. 

923
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:58,400
I want science involved. 
That's why I looked into the 

924
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:02,240
license issue with the state. 
If we ever want conclusive proof

925
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:05,560
that will satisfy the scientific
world, people are going to have 

926
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:08,360
to collect proper samples and do
things the right way. 

927
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,240
That's hard when the species 
itself is still unrecognized. 

928
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:14,600
But those are the steps I'm 
trying to take. 

929
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,760
The second sighting with. 
My friend stopped the self doubt

930
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:20,480
that haunted me after the first 
one. 

931
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,240
Having someone else next to me 
and see that 10 foot animal, 

932
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,080
seeing the shock on his face too
validated everything. 

933
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,360
From that point on, I knew what 
I had seen and I knew I needed 

934
00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,120
to dig deeper. 
My great. 

935
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,640
Grandparents in Mississippi used
an old name for the creatures in

936
00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:42,040
the woods. 
They called them catamounts, 

937
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:45,480
long before the words Sasquatch 
or Bigfoot were common. 

938
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,080
I grew up hearing stories about 
them but didn't understand what 

939
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,400
they were talking about until 
much later after my first 

940
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,640
encounter. 
When I was 6 or. 

941
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:58,480
Seven, I used to ride with my 
great grandfather while he 

942
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,240
worked around different gravel 
pits. 

943
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,600
These places were surrounded by 
deep forest, and he was 

944
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:05,400
strangely protective of me 
there. 

945
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,440
He would tell me not to get out 
of the truck, not to wander, not

946
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,920
to go near the woods. 
As a kid, I thought he was just 

947
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,720
being paranoid. 
I even told my grandmother about

948
00:53:15,720 --> 00:53:18,600
it, and that's when she began 
explaining the creatures they 

949
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:21,760
called catamounts. 
She said they would come to the 

950
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,920
edge of the fields in the late 
afternoon and scream at people. 

951
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,080
She told me you could hear them 
crying like women or like 

952
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,160
children, and anyone who went 
into the woods searching for the

953
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,280
source of those sounds sometimes
never came back. 

954
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,160
She said people would disappear 
without a trace, and in their 

955
00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:41,720
region they quietly blamed those
vanishings on these creatures. 

956
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:46,360
She also said the Catamounts dug
holes and screamed into them so 

957
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:49,680
their voices would echo far 
away, making people think they 

958
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,600
were much farther than they 
really were. 

959
00:53:52,720 --> 00:53:55,400
Those stories didn't. 
Make sense to me then, but later

960
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:58,600
in life I realized she was 
describing the same beings 

961
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:03,120
people now call Bigfoot. 
I've learned since that. 

962
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,320
These creatures don't all look 
the same. 

963
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,480
Some resemble the classic 
Patterson creature. 

964
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,120
Some have faces that look almost
primate like, others look more 

965
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,120
Neanderthal. 
Some have beards or longer hair 

966
00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:18,920
on their heads. 
Their appearances vary just as 

967
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,760
much as their behaviour. 
People like to say the. 

968
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:25,560
Ones in the South are more 
aggressive, but I don't believe 

969
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,320
that aggression depends on the 
individual creature and how much

970
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,640
exposure it's had to people. 
There are stories of them 

971
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:36,280
mutilating livestock and even 
throwing body parts on roofs. 

972
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:40,040
That has happened in the South 
and in the Pacific Northwest. 

973
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,680
I don't think they're all 
dangerous, but I think some are 

974
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,080
just like people, they are 
diverse. 

975
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:51,400
My own encounters began 
intensifying of November 2011. 

976
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,320
A friend had just moved into a 
new brick house near a forested 

977
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,160
area outside town. 
Encounters had been happening in

978
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:03,120
that region for years, always in
the same general strip of woods.

979
00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:06,680
One night, my friend stepped 
outside onto the second story 

980
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:10,160
balcony to smoke. 
Something extremely heavy was 

981
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:13,440
walking nearby. 
Clearly bipedal, the weight of 

982
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:15,640
its steps was too much for a 
human. 

983
00:55:16,240 --> 00:55:19,240
They couldn't see it, but they 
felt a strange tension in the 

984
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:23,000
air and went back inside. 
They called me the next. 

985
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,320
Day and asked me to come check 
around the property. 

986
00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:28,440
When I arrived I walked around 
the back of the house. 

987
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:32,880
As soon as I rounded the corner 
a strong skunk like odor hit me.

988
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,760
It wasn't an actual skunk, I 
knew that scent too well. 

989
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,720
That smell, along with a wet dog
scent, meant at least two 

990
00:55:40,720 --> 00:55:44,480
Sasquatches had been nearby. 
I went up onto the. 

991
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:46,240
Balcony and looked toward the 
woods. 

992
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,520
The trees were thin enough to 
see through. 

993
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,640
A large Bush sat about 10 or 15 
feet from the lower patio. 

994
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:56,880
As I leaned over the balcony 
railing to scan the area, two 

995
00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,120
young Sasquatch suddenly popped 
up from behind the Bush. 

996
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:02,360
They had been lying on their 
stomachs. 

997
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:06,880
Both were under 7 feet tall. 
One was a younger female, the 

998
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:10,560
other a young male. 
They had jet black hair, human 

999
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:14,000
like faces, wide mouths and 
almond shaped eyes. 

1000
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:17,400
The skin on their faces was dark
rather than grey. 

1001
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:20,240
Their noses were almost 
Caucasian looking. 

1002
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,920
They were lean and the female 
had early breast development. 

1003
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,840
Their faces looked similar 
enough that they could have been

1004
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:30,280
siblings. 
They gasped when they saw me, 

1005
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:34,360
just like surprised people do. 
I panicked and ran back inside. 

1006
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,400
My friends locked themselves in 
the bathroom and left me 

1007
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:38,960
standing alone in the living 
room. 

1008
00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:42,560
For the rest of that night, I 
stayed away from that balcony. 

1009
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:46,480
The next day I. 
Returned to look for sign. 

1010
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:49,520
There was a Creek behind the 
house with no clear footprints, 

1011
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:53,400
but along a game trail I found 
impressions in the grass. 2 

1012
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,680
smaller sets and one larger set 
where at least three individuals

1013
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:00,400
had moved through tracks in 
grass. 

1014
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,280
Expand and lose definition, but 
the size difference was obvious.

1015
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,000
Around that same time. 
Period. 

1016
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:10,480
Another witness in the area had 
an encounter with the same young

1017
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:14,600
female he had been camping with,
his tent flap partially unzipped

1018
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,600
when a small hand reached inside
and touched him gently, as if 

1019
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:22,240
out of curiosity. 
There was also incidents of 

1020
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,600
missing dogs. 
One home owner found their dog's

1021
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:28,960
collar ripped apart and a pool 
of blood beside the patio. 

1022
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:33,080
The deer population in the 
nearby open field attracted the 

1023
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,640
creatures and the dogs were 
simply taken. 

1024
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:40,120
Years earlier in. 
The late 90s A 14 year old 

1025
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,800
friend of mine had seen a 
creature near a wood line while 

1026
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,440
walking between two homes. 
She said it looked like a huge 

1027
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,960
monkey watching her from the 
corner of its eye. 

1028
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:53,800
Another of the same type stood 
on a gravel Rd. growling at her.

1029
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,640
These were reddish brown 
sasquatches with grizzled grey 

1030
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,680
hair. 
My own encounters. 

1031
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,560
On family Property began in 
2003. 

1032
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,160
One day something screamed at my
younger cousin through her 

1033
00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,480
bedroom window and circled the 
house repeatedly for half an 

1034
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:13,120
hour. 
That set off a long series of 

1035
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,400
events that lasted years. 
One night, after dropping her 

1036
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:20,760
off, I was driving down the hill
near the house when a massive 

1037
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:22,920
black Bigfoot ran across the 
road. 

1038
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:27,040
I knew exactly what it was. 
After that, I became more 

1039
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,600
curious and began trying to 
understand these creatures, what

1040
00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,800
they were, how they behaved, and
what they responded to. 

1041
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:37,360
I had multiple. 
Roadside sightings and 

1042
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:39,680
occasional glimpses of faces in 
the brush. 

1043
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:43,240
One night I passed a creature 
crouched beside a barbed wire 

1044
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,520
fence. 
When I opened my car door to 

1045
00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,760
stand up for a better look, the 
creature, a female around 8 1/2 

1046
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,120
feet tall, stood up and growled 
at me. 

1047
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:56,800
She was lean and powerful with 
runner like legs with two toned 

1048
00:58:56,800 --> 00:59:00,040
brown hair. 
Her face had light grey skin and

1049
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:03,240
her nose looked almost 
Southwestern Native American in 

1050
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,160
shape. 
I got back in the car and drove 

1051
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,480
off. 
The skunk smell lingered in my 

1052
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:12,520
vehicle for two days. 
On my family's. 

1053
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,520
Land. 
There were three regulars, a 

1054
00:59:14,520 --> 00:59:18,560
huge male over 10 feet tall, the
aggressive female I had seen, 

1055
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,760
and a small juvenile over 4 1/2 
feet tall with ginger coloured 

1056
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:25,760
hair. 
I only saw the juvenile twice. 

1057
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:29,480
Once it was crouched beside a 
neighboring property pretending 

1058
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:32,920
to be a Bush. 
Its colour gave it away the 

1059
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:35,760
second time it was perched high 
in a tall tree. 

1060
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:38,880
When my mother moved. 
On to that property. 

1061
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:41,440
The female became extremely 
intrusive. 

1062
00:59:41,880 --> 00:59:45,080
She would scream from far away 
and then slowly come closer. 

1063
00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:49,000
After night, she circled the 
house, peered in windows and 

1064
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,880
walked with her body, brushing 
the side of the trailer so my 

1065
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:53,960
mother could hear her moving 
along the wall. 

1066
00:59:54,680 --> 00:59:57,160
Sometimes she tapped the siding 
with her knuckles. 

1067
00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:59,760
It was enough to terrify my 
mother. 

1068
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:03,520
She lived alone and the 
harassment continued regularly. 

1069
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,920
I was scared for her. 
Constantly. 

1070
01:00:07,120 --> 01:00:09,840
There were times I wondered if I
would need to protect her with a

1071
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,680
firearm. 
The male never got aggressive. 

1072
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,840
All the trouble came from the 
female. 

1073
01:00:15,240 --> 01:00:17,680
But fear was a constant feeling 
in that period. 

1074
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:20,160
Fear of not knowing what would 
happen next. 

1075
01:00:21,640 --> 01:00:24,080
Over the years, I. 
Realized that these creatures 

1076
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:27,640
operate on their own rules. 
If they live near your property,

1077
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:30,440
you adapt to them, not the other
way around. 

1078
01:00:31,200 --> 01:00:33,760
People often ask why I didn't 
take photos. 

1079
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:37,120
The truth is simple. 
When something screams at your 

1080
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:41,520
house, peeks in your windows and
stands 8 to 10 feet tall, the 

1081
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,640
last thing you do is run 
outside, pointing a camera at 

1082
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,640
it. 
Most people who judge. 

1083
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,800
That have never been in that 
situation. 

1084
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:53,680
I've come to believe. 
You should never track them. 

1085
01:00:53,960 --> 01:00:56,680
You don't know which individual 
you might come up on. 

1086
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:00,720
Some are calm, some are not, and
there's a danger in making them 

1087
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:04,120
too comfortable with people. 
If they lose their natural fear 

1088
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:07,560
of humans, they may approach the
wrong person and get killed. 

1089
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,280
I have never supported harming 
them in the name of science or 

1090
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:14,320
evidence. 
People ask why I've. 

1091
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:17,600
Had so many encounters when most
spend their lives hoping for 

1092
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,360
one. 
I think it's partly the ecology 

1093
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:24,480
of the areas I spend time in, 
partly timing, and partly that 

1094
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,960
I've never approached them with 
weapons in my state. 

1095
01:01:28,040 --> 01:01:31,000
Once you understand the terrain 
they prefer and when they tend 

1096
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,600
to be active, encounters become 
more likely. 

1097
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,480
They aren't as impossible to 
find as people think if they are

1098
01:01:37,480 --> 01:01:41,960
already living in the vicinity. 
I've seen adults. 

1099
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,920
Age in the face, just like 
humans with wrinkles and 

1100
01:01:44,920 --> 01:01:47,840
expression lines. 
I've seen juveniles testing 

1101
01:01:47,840 --> 01:01:50,440
boundaries. 
I've seen large dominant males 

1102
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:54,040
that remain silent for months. 
I've seen aggressive females 

1103
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:58,240
protecting territory. 
Their senses especially smell or

1104
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,080
extraordinary. 
They can detect a person from 

1105
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,920
far away and they used wind 
direction deliberately. 

1106
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,920
Their daytime eyesight seems 
weaker, but their night vision 

1107
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:11,240
is exceptional. 
After everything I've. 

1108
01:02:11,240 --> 01:02:13,600
Experienced. 
I don't think they're monsters. 

1109
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,680
I think they're highly 
intelligent forest beings with 

1110
01:02:16,680 --> 01:02:19,520
their own society habits and 
personalities. 

1111
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,560
Some are calm, some are bold, 
some are dangerous. 

1112
01:02:24,200 --> 01:02:26,480
But the more you spend time 
around them, the more you 

1113
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,160
realize they've been here a long
time, and people have been 

1114
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:33,520
encountering them far longer 
than anyone wants to admit. 

1115
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,640
I bought this. 
Place in the country In 1995. 

1116
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,000
It sat at the end of a private 
dirt Rd. in Michigan. 

1117
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:46,760
Across from my driveway was a 
big working farm, 300 acres of 

1118
01:02:46,760 --> 01:02:50,160
corn and soybeans. 
To the east was a county park. 

1119
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:54,400
Behind my house to the north was
about 1000 acres of University 

1120
01:02:54,400 --> 01:02:58,480
of Michigan game land. 
My 10 acres were mostly woods 

1121
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:00,720
with a bit of swamp from the 
road. 

1122
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:03,880
My driveway ran 1000 feet back 
into the trees. 

1123
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:07,240
I cleared about an acre in the 
middle of that woods and built 

1124
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:11,240
my house there by hand. 
I went out there for quiet. 

1125
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:14,640
I played in a band and built a 
studio in the house so we could 

1126
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:16,360
rehearse without bothering 
anyone. 

1127
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:18,840
I haunted. 
I fished the creeks. 

1128
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:22,360
It was the kind of place where 
you'd expect deer, turkeys, 

1129
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,440
raccoons, maybe coyotes. 
Not what I ended up running 

1130
01:03:26,440 --> 01:03:29,080
into. 
The first odd thing? 

1131
01:03:29,080 --> 01:03:30,960
Happened before there was even a
house. 

1132
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,680
In the summer of 95. 
I had set up a small camp next 

1133
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:36,720
to the acre I had cleared for 
the build. 

1134
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:41,440
I had a tent, a fire ring lined 
with rocks, a cooler, a cheap 

1135
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:45,200
radio, my guitar, and a bottle 
of water hung up in a tree to 

1136
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:49,160
warm in the sun for a shower. 
I was out there alone, cutting 

1137
01:03:49,160 --> 01:03:51,840
trees all day and then sitting 
by the fire at night. 

1138
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:55,720
Around 11 one warm night I 
started hearing what sounded 

1139
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:58,920
like large people walking around
the perimeter of my camp. 

1140
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,280
The ground actually trembled 
under some of the steps. 

1141
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:06,240
Branches snapped, limbs cracked.
It circled me. 

1142
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:09,280
There were no bears in that part
of the state, and the biggest 

1143
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:11,560
normal animals on that land were
deer. 

1144
01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:14,560
These footsteps were too heavy 
for that. 

1145
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,720
Then a smell rolled in. 
It hit like a wall. 

1146
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:23,360
It reminded me of a dead skunk 
mixed with a soaking wet dog and

1147
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:26,920
human waste all at once. 
It hung in the air over the 

1148
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,560
camp. 
I assumed at first maybe some 

1149
01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:32,240
old mossy firewood in the ring 
was burning weird. 

1150
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:36,600
I still tried to rationalize it.
I thought maybe it was a friend 

1151
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,960
trying to mess with me. 
I picked up my flashlight, swept

1152
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:43,000
it through the trees and called 
out, offering them a beer, 

1153
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:44,840
telling them they weren't 
scaring me. 

1154
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:48,080
Nobody answered. 
The Walking didn't stop. 

1155
01:04:48,960 --> 01:04:51,880
I put the light down and acorn 
hit me in the back. 

1156
01:04:52,360 --> 01:04:54,800
I brushed it off as just falling
out of a tree. 

1157
01:04:55,120 --> 01:04:57,040
Then a small Pebble hit me in 
the neck. 

1158
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:59,480
Then more things started coming 
in. 

1159
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,520
Bits of bark, nut shells, small 
rocks, little twigs. 

1160
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:07,360
It followed me as I moved. 
If I walked to one side of the 

1161
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:10,040
campsite, the pelting came from 
that direction. 

1162
01:05:10,400 --> 01:05:13,920
If I crossed to the other side, 
it shifted and kept coming. 

1163
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:17,120
Out of frustration, I finally 
yelled. 

1164
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:20,760
What is this? 
From the darkness all around the

1165
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:24,920
camp, I heard voices answering 
back in this high speed, squeaky

1166
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,360
chattering way. 
It wasn't English, it sounded 

1167
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,760
like someone playing a recorder 
at double speed, almost like 

1168
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,800
cartoon chipmunk voices, and 
there repeated my words back at 

1169
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,880
me, mocking the tone. 
It came from multiple directions

1170
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:44,400
at once, not just one spot. 
Nothing normal in those woods 

1171
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:47,080
does that. 
At that point. 

1172
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:50,280
I decided to scare off whoever 
or whatever it was. 

1173
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,960
I went to the tent, grabbed my 
shotgun and yelled that they 

1174
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:57,080
needed to leave. 
I fired around straight up into 

1175
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,480
the night. 
The response is something I will

1176
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:04,120
never forget. 
Several enormous screams erupted

1177
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:08,120
from the tree line, overlapping 
deep roaring bellows that were 

1178
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,880
so loud the hair stood up on my 
arms and neck. 

1179
01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,360
I'm used to loud music, but this
was beyond any amp or concert. 

1180
01:06:15,760 --> 01:06:17,560
It felt like it hit me in the 
chest. 

1181
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:21,560
Right after the screams I heard 
heavy bipedal running in 

1182
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:25,280
multiple directions, like 
several very large things taking

1183
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,920
off through the forest at once. 
Branches and Bush crashing as 

1184
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:33,320
they put distance between us. 
Then everything. 

1185
01:06:33,320 --> 01:06:37,240
Went completely quiet. 
No crickets, no wind, no 

1186
01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,040
nothing. 
I sat on a stump with my heart 

1187
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,000
pounding so hard I thought it 
might break my ribs. 

1188
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:47,120
I couldn't make any sense of it.
I drank what was left of the 

1189
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,280
beer, crawled into the tent and 
somehow fell asleep. 

1190
01:06:51,960 --> 01:06:54,520
At about 6:30. 
The next morning I woke up to 

1191
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,920
the sound of cans clanking 
together and that same rapid 

1192
01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:01,040
chatter outside. 
I stayed where I was in my 

1193
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:04,480
sleeping bag and listened. 
Something heavy walked toward 

1194
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,440
the tent. 
I could hear and feel each step 

1195
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:10,800
in the ground. 
Then the zipper on the tent door

1196
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:14,040
started to jiggle like a hand 
was feeling for it. 

1197
01:07:14,720 --> 01:07:17,960
Something stood right there, 
breathing slow and heavy. 

1198
01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:22,560
It sounded like a very big chest
pulling air, wet and rough, 

1199
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:25,360
almost like a sick person 
breathing through their mouth. 

1200
01:07:26,480 --> 01:07:28,240
The zipper started to. 
Move down. 

1201
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,920
I grabbed the shotgun and 
exploded, yelling at the top of 

1202
01:07:31,920 --> 01:07:34,800
my lungs. 
The thing outside took off. 

1203
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:38,520
I heard it run, heavy thudding 
steps, pounding the earth, 

1204
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:42,360
trailing with that same 
chattering and mumbling through 

1205
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,040
the mesh roof window of the 
tent. 

1206
01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:47,240
I caught a quick glimpse. 
A dark, massive creature 

1207
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:50,000
dropping behind an oak tree. 
That was all. 

1208
01:07:52,040 --> 01:07:54,200
When I stepped out. 
The camp was wrecked. 

1209
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:57,600
The cooler was dumped, beer cans
torn and scattered. 

1210
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:00,520
The rocks around the fire ring 
were kicked aside. 

1211
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,400
One of the big stones, easily 
100 lbs, had been driven deep 

1212
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,120
into the ground like something 
huge had jumped on it. 

1213
01:08:07,720 --> 01:08:09,800
The radio was smashed against a 
tree. 

1214
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:14,160
My campfire guitar was gone. 
Whatever had come in had 

1215
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,279
strength far beyond anything 
normal. 

1216
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:19,800
And it had fingers. 
I didn't find clear footprints 

1217
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,279
that day. 
I just knew something very large

1218
01:08:22,439 --> 01:08:25,120
and very intelligent had passed 
through my camp. 

1219
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,760
I left for a trip. 
Up north and didn't tell a soul.

1220
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,960
That first experience got pushed
into the back of my mind. 

1221
01:08:33,439 --> 01:08:36,439
I told myself I was stressed, 
maybe overtired. 

1222
01:08:36,760 --> 01:08:39,120
I wanted it just to be my 
imagination. 

1223
01:08:40,840 --> 01:08:43,080
Shortly after. 
While the house was still under 

1224
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,520
construction, I had my first 
clear daytime sighting. 

1225
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:48,680
By then the frame and roof were 
up. 

1226
01:08:48,920 --> 01:08:52,279
I was inside, running electrical
wire, walking through the future

1227
01:08:52,279 --> 01:08:54,560
living room at the back of the 
house. 

1228
01:08:54,560 --> 01:08:58,080
I had a big picture window and a
sliding door facing the woods. 

1229
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:02,640
As I walked past that opening, 
something huge and dark moved 

1230
01:09:02,640 --> 01:09:06,680
through the yard, big black 
shape in my peripheral vision. 

1231
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,640
I stopped, backed up, and looked
out again. 

1232
01:09:10,279 --> 01:09:13,240
The yard was empty. 
I chopped it up to maybe crows 

1233
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:14,960
lifting off together or 
something. 

1234
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:18,560
I stepped outside. 
For a smoke onto the small front

1235
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,800
deck. 
As I was standing there staring 

1236
01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,800
into the trees, a deep growl 
came from my right. 

1237
01:09:24,359 --> 01:09:28,760
When I turned, I saw it, A 
towering upright creature about 

1238
01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:33,200
9 feet tall, walking away into 
the woods diagonally but keeping

1239
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:36,640
its eyes on me. 
It was built like an oversized 

1240
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,040
human linebacker crossed with an
ape. 

1241
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:43,760
It had thick dark grey to black 
hair all over its entire body, 

1242
01:09:43,840 --> 01:09:47,720
except around the eyes and parts
of the face where bare dark skin

1243
01:09:47,720 --> 01:09:50,439
showed. 
Its forehead sloped back from 

1244
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,800
heavy brow ridges. 
The back of the skull rose into 

1245
01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:57,640
a subtle peak like a cone. 
The nose wasn't like a gorilla's

1246
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:01,400
exposed nostril holes. 
It had a broad hooded human like

1247
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:03,760
nose. 
The mouth was wide, the lips 

1248
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,840
thin. 
Its teeth, which I could see 

1249
01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:09,280
clearly because it was bearing 
them at me, were big and square,

1250
01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:13,120
white with the eye teeth longer 
than the others, but not full 

1251
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,120
fangs. 
The eyes were what really stuck 

1252
01:10:16,120 --> 01:10:18,160
with me. 
They were almond shaped and 

1253
01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:21,560
black. 
I couldn't see white sclera in 

1254
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,400
the daytime. 
They seemed to hold the light 

1255
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:25,840
almost like something reflective
inside them. 

1256
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,800
The best I can say is they 
looked like they amplified light

1257
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:33,160
the way a gemstone can seem to 
glow when sunlight hits it. 

1258
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:37,560
The body was a. 
Perfect V shape, massive 

1259
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:41,320
shoulders tapering down to a 
narrow waist, every muscle 

1260
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:43,160
visible under the hair when it 
moved. 

1261
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:46,760
The hair was long enough that I 
could see its way, but not so 

1262
01:10:46,760 --> 01:10:48,960
thick that it hid the muscle 
definition. 

1263
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:53,040
The hands were large, with long 
fingers and a thumb set lower 

1264
01:10:53,040 --> 01:10:55,480
than ours. 
More like a chimp's hand than a 

1265
01:10:55,480 --> 01:10:58,320
human's. 
It was clearly male, there was 

1266
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,920
no doubt. 
While it walked. 

1267
01:11:01,000 --> 01:11:04,560
It kept its mouth open in a kind
of snarl, teeth bared, and it 

1268
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:07,920
never took its eyes off me. 
It looked angry that I was 

1269
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:11,200
there. 
I watched it cover 3 or 4 long 

1270
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:14,360
strides and slip into the game 
preserve behind my property. 

1271
01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,800
I could see it in glimpses 
between the trees as it moved, 

1272
01:11:17,960 --> 01:11:20,120
until the trees finally hit it 
completely. 

1273
01:11:21,040 --> 01:11:24,720
Later I measured the branch it 
passed under about 9 1/2 feet 

1274
01:11:24,720 --> 01:11:27,560
off the ground. 
That put the creature at just 

1275
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:31,720
under that height. 
As I stood there. 

1276
01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:35,120
My mind finally clicked. 
That was what had been around my

1277
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,440
campsite months earlier. 
That was what had been howling, 

1278
01:11:38,560 --> 01:11:41,400
throwing things and leaving sign
on my property. 

1279
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,760
This wasn't a dream or stress. 
It was real and it was on my 

1280
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:49,120
land. 
That realisation changed 

1281
01:11:49,120 --> 01:11:52,200
everything. 
I went back inside, loaded every

1282
01:11:52,200 --> 01:11:54,920
gun I owned, and placed one near
each exit. 

1283
01:11:55,480 --> 01:11:58,520
I had no intention of leaving 
the property, I had worked too 

1284
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,080
hard on it. 
But from that day I knew I 

1285
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:04,680
wasn't alone out there. 
The land itself showed more 

1286
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:06,600
signs once I knew what to look 
for. 

1287
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,800
The main Deer Trail circling the
swamp had strange archways over 

1288
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:16,040
it every 50 to 150 feet. 
A young tree, maybe 30 feet tall

1289
01:12:16,120 --> 01:12:19,200
and a couple of inches thick at 
the trunk, had been bent down 

1290
01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:23,080
over the trail and pinned in an 
arch using a green branch torn 

1291
01:12:23,080 --> 01:12:26,280
off another tree and driven into
the soil like a stake. 

1292
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,000
I found at least one spot where 
I could see exactly where that 

1293
01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:33,240
stake branch had been twisted 
and snapped off a living tree. 

1294
01:12:34,040 --> 01:12:37,000
That takes a lot of strength. 
I didn't make those. 

1295
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:41,120
No storm did either. 
On one early. 

1296
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:43,080
Visit. 
Before I ever connected all of 

1297
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,160
this, I had seen what I thought 
was a man in the woods. 

1298
01:12:46,600 --> 01:12:50,800
Midday, full sun overhead, I 
noticed a tall dark figure 

1299
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:53,640
moving through the trees, 
hunched slightly, studying the 

1300
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:56,760
ground, occasionally bending 
down to pick something up. 

1301
01:12:57,520 --> 01:13:01,200
I waved, shouted that I was a 
potential buyer, thinking it was

1302
01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:05,240
the owner hunting mushrooms. 
The figure turned toward me and 

1303
01:13:05,240 --> 01:13:08,160
just rocked from 1 foot to 
another, shifting its weight 

1304
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:11,520
side to side, staring. 
It didn't respond. 

1305
01:13:11,920 --> 01:13:14,720
When I called out again, it spun
and ran off. 

1306
01:13:15,440 --> 01:13:19,280
At that time I filed it away as 
weird guy, but there was 

1307
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:23,000
something wrong. 
Even then, in full overhead sun,

1308
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:27,120
it still read as a solid dark 
mass, not just a person in the 

1309
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:29,720
shade. 
Later after the. 

1310
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:32,200
Encounters. 
I understood that had been one 

1311
01:13:32,200 --> 01:13:35,640
of them. 
Another time in the late 90s, I 

1312
01:13:35,640 --> 01:13:38,720
was building a wooden tree stand
in an Oak Grove near the swamp. 

1313
01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,200
I was up in the tree hammering 
boards. 

1314
01:13:41,480 --> 01:13:44,640
Every time I struck a nail, I 
heard the same number of loud 

1315
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,840
knocks answer from deeper in the
woods. 

1316
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:50,480
I thought it was an echo at 
first, but it was too delayed 

1317
01:13:50,480 --> 01:13:53,200
and too distinct. 
I tested it. 

1318
01:13:53,440 --> 01:13:56,120
I hit once and listened one 
knock back. 

1319
01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:00,160
I hit twice, then stopped. 2 
knocks echoed from the same 

1320
01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:03,080
direction. 
I finally turned on the platform

1321
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:06,760
and scanned the woods. 
About 35 feet away, between 2 

1322
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:10,800
trees, I saw two small black 
upright shapes peeking out. 

1323
01:14:11,280 --> 01:14:14,880
They were about 5 feet tall, 
built like stocky children, but 

1324
01:14:14,880 --> 01:14:17,760
fully covered in dark hair with 
long arms. 

1325
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:21,320
One held the stick. 
When I turned back to my work 

1326
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:24,200
and swung the hammer again, I 
caught the one with the stick 

1327
01:14:24,200 --> 01:14:27,480
striking a nearby tree with it, 
mimicking my swing. 

1328
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:32,040
Behind them, deeper. 
In a tangler brush a much larger

1329
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,600
figure sat crouched with its 
knees pulled up. 

1330
01:14:35,160 --> 01:14:38,320
I could see the head, shoulders 
and the tops of the knees. 

1331
01:14:38,920 --> 01:14:42,160
It chattered at the two smaller 
ones in that same non human 

1332
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:46,320
speech I had heard before. 
The juveniles turned, chattered 

1333
01:14:46,320 --> 01:14:49,800
back and one started jumping up 
and down like it was throwing a 

1334
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:52,720
tantrum. 
Then both dropped flat and 

1335
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:56,000
disappeared into the grass and 
brush as if they've been ordered

1336
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:59,040
to hide. 
I decided to run. 

1337
01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:02,080
Back to the house for a camera. 
I hung the hammer on a branch, 

1338
01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,760
left a can of beer on the stand,
and hiked out. 

1339
01:15:05,280 --> 01:15:09,040
I was gone maybe 15 minutes. 
When I came back, the clearing 

1340
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:10,920
was empty. 
The hammer was gone. 

1341
01:15:11,000 --> 01:15:14,040
The beer was gone. 
Leaning against the tree was a 

1342
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:17,400
strip stick the same size as the
one I had seen the juvenile 

1343
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,400
holding. 
It was about 18 inches long, an 

1344
01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,480
inch thick. 
All the bark chewed off the wood

1345
01:15:23,480 --> 01:15:26,680
was covered in teeth marks. 
It looked like they had traded 

1346
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:29,240
my hammer and beer for their 
favorite toy. 

1347
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:33,720
Over the years, I. 
Found other gifts after we had 

1348
01:15:33,720 --> 01:15:36,720
dumped deer guts at the edge of 
the yard following successful 

1349
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:39,040
hunts. 
Neatly stacked piles of odd 

1350
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:42,280
coloured rocks, wild Turkey 
feathers stuck upright in the 

1351
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:46,680
ground, an empty beer can that 
wasn't one of ours in the snow. 

1352
01:15:46,680 --> 01:15:49,880
I would find impressions where 
something Big and Harry had sat 

1353
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,840
while eating, along with large 
flat footprints. 

1354
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:58,240
Walking back into the preserve 
one morning in November 1998, I 

1355
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,400
shot a huge buck from inside the
house with my crossbow. 

1356
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:05,120
It was feeding at a bait pile in
the yard during the rut, with 

1357
01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:07,400
smaller bucks and Dose hovering 
behind it. 

1358
01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:09,920
I took the shot through an open 
window. 

1359
01:16:10,480 --> 01:16:14,280
The buck bolted into the woods. 
I let it go overnight the way I 

1360
01:16:14,280 --> 01:16:17,280
usually did in cold weather, 
planning to track it at first 

1361
01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:20,800
light at sunrise. 
I followed the blood trail. 

1362
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:25,280
I went about 75 yards and ended 
in a large soaked patch where 

1363
01:16:25,280 --> 01:16:28,880
the deer had clearly gone down 
and died, but the carcass was 

1364
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:31,160
gone. 
In the middle of that blood 

1365
01:16:31,160 --> 01:16:35,520
pool, my crossbow bolt stood 
upright in the dirt as if 

1366
01:16:35,520 --> 01:16:37,320
someone had pulled it out and 
planted it. 

1367
01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:40,320
There. 
Dead centre around the area in 

1368
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:44,360
the snow were huge bare 
footprints about 17 to 18 inches

1369
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:47,440
long, clearly from something 
walking on 2 feet. 

1370
01:16:48,200 --> 01:16:51,600
The tracks LED off through the 
woods for 3/4 of a mile until 

1371
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,760
they hit a paved Rd. 
At that point they turned and 

1372
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:57,520
ran along the road for a 
distance before disappearing 

1373
01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:01,640
into the woods on the far side. 
To me, it looked like whoever 

1374
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:05,040
took my dear walked the road on 
purpose to break the track 

1375
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,880
before going back into cover. 
I never got that. 

1376
01:17:08,880 --> 01:17:11,240
Buck back. 
They stole the whole thing, and 

1377
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,320
they made sure I knew who took 
it by sticking that bolt in the 

1378
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,200
middle of the blood like a 
message. 

1379
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:19,560
The closest? 
Most. 

1380
01:17:19,560 --> 01:17:21,720
Personal encounter was with a 
female. 

1381
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,800
It was a quiet morning in late 
summer of 99. 

1382
01:17:25,320 --> 01:17:28,400
Normally at Daybreak, the birds 
in those woods were deafening. 

1383
01:17:28,840 --> 01:17:32,720
That day there was nothing. 
No birdsong, no insects. 

1384
01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:37,040
Just stillness and a familiar 
foul smell hanging in the air. 

1385
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:41,480
I stepped out onto the deck and 
instantly thought, they're here.

1386
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:45,920
Off to my right. 
Something shouted, a loud call 

1387
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:50,280
in no language I recognized. 
I saw movement down the hill, a 

1388
01:17:50,280 --> 01:17:53,240
large dark shape crashing 
through brush, heading toward 

1389
01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:55,840
the swamp. 
I walked a little that way to 

1390
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,680
try to see more, but then the 
hair on the back of my neck 

1391
01:17:58,680 --> 01:18:01,760
stood up. 
I felt eyes on me from behind. 

1392
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:05,160
When I turned back toward the 
house, I saw her. 

1393
01:18:05,680 --> 01:18:09,560
An 8 foot tall female Sasquatch 
stood partially behind an oak 

1394
01:18:09,560 --> 01:18:13,280
tree next to my deck, only a 
short distance from where I had 

1395
01:18:13,280 --> 01:18:16,480
just been standing. 
She had one shoulder and half 

1396
01:18:16,480 --> 01:18:19,600
her body behind the tree, but 
most of her was exposed. 

1397
01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:23,320
She didn't run, she just looked 
at me with a kind of amused 

1398
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:27,440
expression, almost like a smirk,
as if I was interesting but 

1399
01:18:27,440 --> 01:18:30,520
harmless. 
Her build was different. 

1400
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:33,960
From the male I'd seen earlier, 
she was thick from shoulders to 

1401
01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:38,440
feet with no real taper, More 
like a heavily built human woman

1402
01:18:38,480 --> 01:18:40,840
with all the curves buried under
sheer bulk. 

1403
01:18:41,520 --> 01:18:44,760
Her stomach had a bit of a 
paunch, but not an exaggerated 

1404
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:48,160
gut, more like someone who has 
had children and lives hard. 

1405
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:51,840
Her breasts were large and 
sagging, clearly visible through

1406
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,680
the hair. 
Her arms and legs were massive 

1407
01:18:54,720 --> 01:18:57,520
and solid. 
I would put her weight somewhere

1408
01:18:57,520 --> 01:19:02,240
between 7 and 900 lbs. 
Her face followed the same 

1409
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:05,320
pattern as the male. 
Sloping forehead, pronounced 

1410
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:10,040
brow Ridge, hooded wide nose, 
thin lips, black shining eyes 

1411
01:19:10,040 --> 01:19:13,440
that seemed to hold light. 
Her skin where I could see it 

1412
01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:16,400
was dark grey. 
Her hair was greyish black and 

1413
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:20,840
rough looking, not soft fur. 
On her face I could see scars 

1414
01:19:20,840 --> 01:19:23,640
and scratches, signs of a hard 
life in the woods. 

1415
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:27,520
I had always told. 
Myself, that if I ever stood 

1416
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:30,800
face to face with one, I would 
try to show I was peaceful, 

1417
01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:34,240
maybe raise my hands, wave or 
say something calm. 

1418
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:38,600
All of that went out the window.
All I managed was a shocked 

1419
01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:40,680
curse. 
Then I remembered where I was 

1420
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:43,800
standing and how close I was to 
something that could tear me 

1421
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:45,800
apart in seconds if it wanted 
to. 

1422
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,640
I forced myself. 
Not to run, I walked quickly 

1423
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:52,360
around the other side of the 
house toward my truck, keeping 

1424
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:56,160
her insight as long as I could. 
As I moved away, I heard that 

1425
01:19:56,160 --> 01:20:00,040
fast chatter from her direction 
and from down by the swamp, plus

1426
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,320
a breathy huffing sound that 
reminded me of a big dog 

1427
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,600
laughing when it's excited. 
It sounded like they were 

1428
01:20:06,600 --> 01:20:10,440
genuinely amused by me. 
I got in my truck and drove to 

1429
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:14,320
work, shaking the whole way, 
half convinced I would come home

1430
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:17,200
to a demolished home. 
But when I returned that 

1431
01:20:17,200 --> 01:20:19,160
evening, everything was 
untouched. 

1432
01:20:20,520 --> 01:20:22,440
Other people around. 
Me saw them too. 

1433
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:26,680
One Co worker from Ford, a very 
straight logical guy, came to 

1434
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:30,240
hunt at my place one evening. 
I pulled into the driveway after

1435
01:20:30,240 --> 01:20:33,040
work and saw him sprinting out 
of the woods with his rifle 

1436
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,000
pointed behind him. 
He blew past me and into the 

1437
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,960
house, white faced, shaking and 
out of breath. 

1438
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:42,440
When he could talk, he told me 
he'd been in one of my tree 

1439
01:20:42,440 --> 01:20:46,600
stands when several doze came in
under him, followed by three 

1440
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:51,000
enormous upright gorillas, each 
around 8 feet tall, moving from 

1441
01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:52,920
tree to tree, shadowing the 
deer. 

1442
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,880
One of them stopped directly 
under his stand. 

1443
01:20:56,480 --> 01:20:59,640
He was convinced it could have 
reached up, grabbed him and 

1444
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,680
broke him in half. 
He didn't believe in. 

1445
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,240
Sasquatch. 
So he tried to call them your 

1446
01:21:05,240 --> 01:21:07,880
neighbors. 
When I told them plainly that he

1447
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:12,000
had just seen Bigfoots, he 
rejected it immediately, said I 

1448
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:15,960
was crazy and left. 
Days later at work, he refused 

1449
01:21:15,960 --> 01:21:19,160
to talk about it again. 
His twin brother later told me 

1450
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:22,400
the sighting had deeply shaken 
his religious beliefs and that 

1451
01:21:22,400 --> 01:21:26,200
he had quit hunting for good. 
As more houses. 

1452
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:28,240
Went up around the old farm 
across the road. 

1453
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:31,160
I had a new neighbor pull up one
day while I was mowing. 

1454
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:33,920
He asked if I had seen anything 
odd in the woods. 

1455
01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:37,640
He danced around the details, 
clearly afraid I'd think he was 

1456
01:21:37,640 --> 01:21:40,640
insane. 
I finally said do you mean 

1457
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:43,040
Bigfoot? 
He grabbed me in a hug and 

1458
01:21:43,040 --> 01:21:46,720
thanked me over and over. 
His wife thought he needed a 

1459
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:49,480
psychiatrist. 
He just needed someone to tell 

1460
01:21:49,480 --> 01:21:51,560
him he hadn't imagined what he 
saw. 

1461
01:21:53,520 --> 01:21:56,000
Over the years. 
I saw these things roughly a 

1462
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:59,720
dozen times. 
I find prints, hair, massive 

1463
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:03,720
scat piles packed with bone and 
fur, structures on deer trails, 

1464
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:07,520
missing deer, strange 
vocalizations at night, and the 

1465
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:10,840
occasional gift. 
I never once managed to get a 

1466
01:22:10,840 --> 01:22:13,680
picture when they show up 
unexpectedly. 

1467
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:17,360
All I could do was stand there 
and watch, mouth open, brain 

1468
01:22:17,360 --> 01:22:19,680
trying to catch up with what my 
eyes were seeing. 

1469
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:24,240
Every time it happened, it was 
clear these weren't stories and 

1470
01:22:24,240 --> 01:22:27,480
these weren't costumes. 
They are real flesh and blood 

1471
01:22:27,480 --> 01:22:31,160
creatures living right alongside
me on that Michigan property. 

1472
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:36,400
Thanks for listening. 
Everyone, don't forget my books 

1473
01:22:36,400 --> 01:22:38,480
are all for sale, audio and 
written. 

1474
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:40,520
The links are in the description
below. 

1475
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:42,640
Thanks again. 
Take care.