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Welcome. 
The stories I'm about to tell 

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you are of real Bigfoot 
encounters and sightings. 

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They are true and happened to 
people like me and you. 

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They come from my collection of 
stories I call The Bigfoot 

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Project. 
In late October of 2003, I went 

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out bow hunting in the evening 
just outside of Castor, 

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Louisiana. 
A friend of mine owned some 

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wooded property along a narrow 
Creek that cut between soybean 

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fields and pine timber. 
I had haunted that stretch a few

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times before. 
And I've always liked the 

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quietness of it. 
There was a low dirt levee that 

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curved around the edge of the 
bottom. 

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Land field and I was standing on
the flat ground just in front of

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it, staying low and still in the
shadows. 

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The sun was starting to sink low
and the woods had taken on that 

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late day hush. 
You could still see, but it was 

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getting dim. 
I was ready to head back for the

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evening and had just taken a few
slow steps when I heard 

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something walking behind me, 
coming up from the other side of

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the dike. 
I paused my first thought that 

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it might be a deer. 
The Creek bottom is full of 

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them. 
The Walking wasn't fast, but it 

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was steady and heavy enough to 
hear through the leaves and. 

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Brush. 
I stared slightly. 

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And watched the Ridge of the 
dike where the sound was coming 

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from. 
The top was only about 5 feet 

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above the flat ground I stood 
on, and it was covered in thick 

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grass and low brush. 
I stood frozen, bowing my hand, 

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and waited. 
The sound got closer, then I saw

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something dark begin to rise 
over the Crest of the levee. 

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First a head, then shoulders, 
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What came over that dike wasn't 
a deer. 

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It wasn't like anything I'd ever
seen in the woods before. 

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The creature rose fully to its 
feet as it came over the top. 

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Standing tall, it had thick 
blackish brown hair covering its

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entire body. 
The hair wasn't really long, but

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it looked thick and matted. 
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The arms were longer than a 
person's and hung down past the 

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waist to the knees. 
The chest looked massive and 

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barrel shaped. 
The body was solid and heavily 

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built and the creature had no 
neck that I could see, just 

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thick muscle from the shoulders 
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The top of the head had a slight
rise to it, like a Dome or 

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Ridge. 
I could make out parts of the 

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face, but not clearly, just 
enough to know it wasn't a 

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person. 
The creature reached the bottom 

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of the dike and stopped. 
I could see it better now. 

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It was maybe 45 or 50 yards 
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It didn't look my way at first. 
It just stood there, looking 

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slowly around like it was 
listening or waiting for 

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something. 
It took a few steps, then 

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stopped again and turned its 
head slightly, like it had heard

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me or felt something was nearby.
That was the worst moment. 

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I remember the way its arms 
swayed when it walked. 

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The stride was smooth but heavy,
each step pressing into the 

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ground like it weighed several 
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I thought I was going to faint. 
My heart felt like it was 

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thudding inside my ears. 
I don't even remember breathing 

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for most of it. 
The creature didn't come down 

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toward me. 
After standing there for what 

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felt like a long time, it turned
and walked down the tree line 

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toward the Creek as it moved. 
Away that awful smell faded with

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it. 
When it was finally out of sight

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and the sounds of the woods 
slowly came back, I stood up, 

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ran to the dirt road, and didn't
stop until I was home. 

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Once I got inside, I locked the 
doors and turned on every light.

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I couldn't sit still. 
I changed clothes, trying to get

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the smell of fear off me, though
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After a few minutes, I got in my
truck and drove straight into 

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town. 
I've haunted a long time. 

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I've been around all sorts of 
animals, but this thing wasn't 

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an animal I knew. 
I had never seen anything like 

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it, not before or since. 
I believe it was a Sasquatch. 

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There's no other name I can give
it. 

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It was easily over 7 feet tall, 
probably closer to 8 thick all 

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over. 
The skin on its hands look dark.

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I never saw the eyes clearly, 
but I could tell it was aware, 

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like it wasn't just wandering. 
It knew where. 

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It was going and it had a 
purpose. 

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It didn't make any sound besides
walking. 

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No growling, no barking, nothing
but the sound of steps and that 

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foul odor that clung to the air.
I didn't go back to that Creek 

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bottom for a long time. 
I couldn't. 

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I used to love being alone in 
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started thinking different. 
You grow up thinking you know 

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what's out there. 
Then something shows you that 

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you don't. 
In early spring of 2014, I was 

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Coon hunting in the dense woods 
near the Kisachi National Forest

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in Louisiana. 
I had been hunting in these 

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woods for years and knew them 
like the back of my hand. 

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My hound, A seasoned and 
reliable dog, had never failed 

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me before. 
We had a routine. 

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He would pick up a scent, track 
it, and tree the Coon, allowing 

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me to catch up and observe. 1 
evening, as the sun dipped below

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the horizon, casting long 
shadows through the trees, my 

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hound picked up on ascent and 
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His barks echoed through the 
forest, a familiar and 

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comforting sound. 
I followed his trail, keeping a 

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steady pace, listening to his 
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Suddenly his barking stopped. 
The abrupt silence was 

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unsettling. 
I stood still, trying to listen 

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for any sound, anything that 
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Minutes passed and the silence 
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Then I heard rustling in the 
underbrush. 

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My hound emerged, tail between 
his legs, eyes wide with fear. 

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He has never acted like this 
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He approached me cautiously, 
glancing back over his shoulder 

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as if something was following 
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I decided to call in a night and
headed back to my truck, my 

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hound staying close to my side. 
The next evening, curiosity got 

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the better of me and I returned 
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As I drove down the dirt Rd. 
leading to the woods, I shined 

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my headlights along the tree 
line, scanning for any signs of 

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wildlife. 
About 75 yards ahead of me, I 

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saw a large, dark figure walking
upright across the field toward 

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the Creek. 
It was massive, covered in dark 

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brown hair, maybe black. 
It paused for a moment, then 

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turned its head to look directly
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Even from that distance I could.
Feel its gaze. 

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Then it continued into the 
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My hound, sitting in the back 
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whimper, clearly distressed. 
This was unusual behaviour for 

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him. 
I knew then that we had seen 

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something extraordinary. 
Determined to understand what we

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had encountered, I returned to 
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I parked my truck in the same 
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The temperature had dropped to 
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As I sat in the darkness, I 
heard a series of wood knocks 

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coming from across the highway 
in the direction the creature 

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had gone. 
The knocks were deliberate and 

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rhythmic, unlike any natural 
forest sounds. 

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I scanned the area with my 
flashlight but saw nothing. 

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The woods remained silent. 
I decided to investigate further

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and found a set of large wet 
footprints crossing the road 

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from north to South. 
The prints were spaced evenly, 

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one in front of the other, and 
were much larger than any human 

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footprint. 
I took pictures, but they were 

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difficult to make out. 
I'm an experienced hunter and 

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have spent countless hours in 
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I know the sounds and sights of 
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What I saw and heard those 
nights was unlike anything I 

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have ever experienced. 
I believe I encountered a 

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Bigfoot, a creature that many 
have spoke of but few have seen.

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I plan to continue monitoring 
this area, setting up some game 

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cameras and spending more time 
observing. 

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I hope to gather more evidence 
of this elusive creature and 

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learn more about his behaviour 
and habitat. 

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I've been hunting and fishing 
since I was a kid. 

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It's something that always came 
naturally to me. 

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I've spent a lot of time alone 
in the woods. 

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I've never had a problem with 
it. 

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I'm used to the silence, the 
noises at night, the tracks, the

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signs, but the last few years 
something has changed. 

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I work at a place in Jackson 
Parish where they allow us to 

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hunt and fish on the land. 
The West side of the property is

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thick with timber and dips into 
low gullies and overgrown 

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hardwood bottoms. 
It's quiet there. 

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Not many people bother with it. 
That's where I usually go every 

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year around early fall. 
I get the same feeling, like 

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something's watching me. 
At first I brushed it off, could

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have been anything. 
But after what I experienced 

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over the past few years, I don't
think that anymore. 

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The first time something strange
happened out there was about 3 

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years ago. 
I was slipping through a narrow 

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trail before sunrise, heading 
for a spot I'd scouted earlier 

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that summer. 
I got about 100 yards from the 

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spot when I heard a sharp crack.
It was close. 

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Then something violently shook a
tree just up the Ridge. 

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The tree rocked back and forth 
so hard I could hear the limbs 

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whipping and snapping. 
I couldn't see what was doing 

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it, but it was. 
Just out of sight, then whatever

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it was ran off. 
Into the thick brush. 

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It didn't crash like a deer 
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It was fast and heavy and on 2 
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I stood there holding my breath 
and waited. 

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Nothing else moved. 
Last year I went back to that 

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same area because I thought 
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thing. 
I sat in a makeshift blind as 

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the sun started going down. 
It was quiet, no wind, no birds.

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About 1/2 hour before dark, I 
heard a sound that didn't match 

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anything I'd ever heard in the 
woods before. 

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It wasn't a scream and it wasn't
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It was somewhere in between 
long, powerful, and so loud that

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I felt it in my chest. 
It came from somewhere behind me

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and slightly uphill. 
I stayed put for a little while,

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unsure of whatever made that 
noise knew I was there or not. 

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I didn't want to move too quick,
but I couldn't sit still either.

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I finally gathered my things and
left the way I came in. 

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I kept my head on a swivel the 
whole way back to my truck. 

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That sound stayed with me for 
the rest of the season. 

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A month ago, I decided to do 
some scouting before deer season

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opened. 
I went back to that same stretch

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of woods. 
The spot sits West of an old 

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pipeline trail that cuts through
the property. 

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I had barely stepped off the 
trail when I heard a set of 

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whoops come from the woods to 
the north. 3 long whoops spaced 

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out like something was 
announcing itself. 

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I stopped and listened. 
After that, it went quiet. 

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Then, on October 9th, I had what
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sign that something's really out
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I was about 200 yards in, 
following the faint game trail 

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that circles around a swampy 
area near the edge of the 

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property. 
The woods were still, and I 

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couldn't hear anything moving. 
Then, out of nowhere, the ground

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shook. 
Beneath my boots I felt three 

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strong thuds, one after the 
other, like someone had picked 

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up a giant rock and slammed it 
into the ground, or like 

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something stomped with its full 
weight. 

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Each one sent a jolt up through 
the dirt. 

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The sound came from just out of 
view behind a thick wall of 

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youpin in Palmetto. 
I couldn't see what made the 

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sound. 
Nothing ran. 

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No leaves rustled, no sticks 
broke. 

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After that, whatever it was 
didn't move. 

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I stood there listening, not 
sure if I should move forward or

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turn back. 
I said something out loud, just 

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to break the silence, but there 
was no reply. 

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I didn't hear anything leave. 
It didn't run. 

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It didn't charge. 
It didn't even shift its weight.

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I stood still for another 
minute, heart pounding, then 

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backed out the way I came. 
It felt like a warning. 

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I don't know what else it could 
have been. 

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Whatever is in those woods near 
the Creek line on the West side 

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of that property, it comes back 
year after year, always in the 

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early fall. 
I never seen it but it's there. 

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I don't even bother going near 
that area after mid-september 

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now. 
I stick to the open parts of the

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land where I can see farther. 
I used to feel at home in the 

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woods but now I feel like I'm 
always being watched. 

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I haven't told many people about
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it, but I've seen enough and 
heard enough to know that I'm 

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not imagining things. 
I believe there are Bigfoot out 

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there and it doesn't want 
company. 

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It was late on a cold November 
morning in 2007, a little before

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2. 
AMI had just dropped my father 

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off at his home in Homer and was
heading back N toward my place 

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near Haynesville. 
The road I was on was narrow and

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dark. 
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Slow, about 30 mph because I 
didn't want to hit a deer. 

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I've lived in this part of the 
state my whole life, and I've 

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gotten good at spotting 
wildlife, even from the corners 

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of my headlights. 
About 5 miles before reaching 

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the Claiborne Parish line, I saw
a rabbit shoot across the road 

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right in front of me. 
I hit the brakes hard and rolled

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to a near stop, letting the 
rabbit pass safely. 

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That's when I looked to the side
of the road where the rabbit had

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come from. 
That's when everything changed. 

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Out from the edge of the trees 
came something I can only 

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describe as a massive upright 
giant. 

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Something ape like, but taller 
and broader than any person I've

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ever seen. 
It looked like it was between 7 

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and 8 feet tall and it was 
moving fast, charging straight 

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at my vehicle. 
The headlights didn't show me 

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much detail, I couldn't see the 
face or the eyes clearly, just 

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the shape of it and the speed it
was moving. 

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It was on 2 legs the entire 
time, its long arm swinging as 

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it ran. 
Its build was wide and powerful,

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and I could see the shoulders 
were extremely thick. 

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The hair on its body was dark, 
maybe black or dark brown. 

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The way it moved upright and 
fast was what really hit me. 

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It was running like a person, 
not dropping to all fours. 

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It wasn't a person in the woods 
though. 

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This was something else. 
It was coming at me fast enough 

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that I panicked. 
My foot slammed the gas and the 

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tire spun a little before I got 
traction. 

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I shot off the road without 
looking back. 

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My chest was pounding and my 
mind was trying to make sense of

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what I've just seen. 
A bear doesn't run like that. 

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Not on 2 legs, not full speed, 
not straight at a truck. 

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With the kind of confidence this
thing had, and even if it did, 

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why would a bear charge at a 
vehicle parked in the road, 

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doing nothing but waiting for a 
rabbit to pass? 

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There was no noise for me, no 
reason to provoke something. 

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This felt more like a 
territorial warning, like I'd 

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entered somewhere I wasn't 
supposed to be. 

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I kept driving until I made it 
home. 

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I didn't stop, didn't pull over,
didn't even slow down. 

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I kept trying to remember 
anything more about the 

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creature. 
Its arms hung low as it ran 

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longer than a person's would be,
and its back was straight with a

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slight hunch at the shoulders. 
Its legs didn't have that bear 

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like shuffle. 
The more I thought about it, the

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more I remembered stories I had 
heard as a kid. 

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I remembered something folks 
around northern Louisiana used 

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to whisper about the woolly 
booger. 

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I always figured those stories 
were just old hunting camp 

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jokes, but after that night I 
don't know anymore. 

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Some people call it Bigfoot. 
I've even heard the name Skunk 

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egg passed around by people 
living closer to the swamps. 

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I don't know what to call what I
saw, but I know it wasn't a 

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person and it wasn't any animal 
from around here. 

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Since then I've been a lot more 
cautious when driving those back

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roads at night. 
I also avoid pulling off near 

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wooded areas. 
Even if I think I saw an animal.

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I still hunt. 
I still fish, but I don't go 

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into the woods alone as much as 
I used to. 

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That moment changed something in
me. 

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It made me realise there are 
things out there that most 

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people won't ever see and even 
if they do, they won't talk 

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about it. 
I didn't report it to anyone 

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official because I didn't want 
to deal with being laughed at, 

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but I know what I saw. 
I believe it was a Bigfoot, a 

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real one, living somewhere out 
in the pine woods near Claiborne

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Parish. 
It happened in the winter of 

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2004 near Hornbeck. 
I was 13 at the time and living 

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with my family on a stretch of 
land just off a narrow gravel 

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Rd. surrounded by pine forests. 
The snow doesn't usually stick 

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around for long in that part of 
the state, but that year a cold 

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front had moved through and left
a few inches covering the 

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ground. 
Everything was quiet. 

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The woods had that frozen 
stillness and all you could hear

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was the hum of the wind moving 
through the pine needles. 

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My younger brother and I were 
riding our four Wheeler through 

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the trails behind our house. 
We used the paths often, 

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especially during winter break. 
That day we were just out 

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exploring, driving slow in the 
snow and looking for animal 

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tracks. 
I had a couple of years of deer 

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hunting under my belt, even at 
that age, and I'd seen black 

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bear before while visiting 
relatives in Arkansas. 

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I knew the usual animals that 
moved through our woods, and 

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what we saw that day wasn't one 
of them. 

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We came around to bend in the 
trail where it straightened out 

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through a patch of younger pine 
trees. 

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At the end of the trail, maybe 
100 feet away, I saw something 

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moving behind the trees. 
It was tall, it was dark, and it

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was walking upright. 
My first thought that it was a 

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man, but it was way too big and 
it didn't walk like a man. 

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It had a steady stride, but the 
way the shoulders moved with 

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each step and how it shifted its
weight was off. 

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The height alone made it hard to
explain. 

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It had to be at least 7 feet 
tall and it was thick across the

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shoulders. 
I couldn't make out its face or 

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any real details because it was 
moving behind the trees, but I 

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could see it clearly enough to 
know it wasn't anything I'd ever

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seen before. 
The snow on the ground made it 

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easier to see the contrast of 
its dark colour against the 

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white. 
The creature wasn't running. 

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It wasn't trying to hide, it 
just moved across the end of the

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trail with a calm but heavy 
pace, like it didn't care who 

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saw it. 
Both of us froze. 

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My brother saw it too. 
Neither of us said anything. 

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We didn't have to. 
I turned the four Wheeler around

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fast and we took off the way we 
came. 

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I pushed the throttle hard and 
headed straight for the Creek at

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the bottom of the hill. 
The trail cut across it and then

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climbed a steep rise back up to 
the yard behind our house. 

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That crossing had always been 
tricky, especially in winter, 

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and that hill was steep enough 
that the wheel spun in the snow.

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But the machine pulled through 
and we got back to the house. 

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I didn't even turn the four 
Wheeler off. 

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I jumped off and left it running
in the yard. 

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My brother was right behind me, 
both of us out of breath and 

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trying to process what had just 
happened. 

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We didn't go back down that 
trail for a long time after 

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that. 
I wouldn't even walk back there.

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I can still see it clearly in my
mind, the shape, the movement, 

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the size. 
It wasn't a bear, it wasn't a 

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person. 
It walked upright like a man, 

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but was too big and too broad. 
Its arms hung low and moved with

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wide swings. 
There was no mistake in the way 

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it stood on 2 legs that it 
wasn't an animal that I 

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recognized. 
I never forgot how quiet the 

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woods were before we saw it. 
Either the birds were gone, the 

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usual sounds of squirrels or 
wind pushing branches had 

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stopped. 
Everything was still. 

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Then it came through the trees. 
Later that week I went back with

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my dad to look around the trail 
where we saw it. 

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The snow had started to melt and
we didn't find any tracks, but I

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didn't expect to. 
The creature had crossed the 

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trail and disappeared into 
thicker woods beyond a place we 

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didn't go into much. 
That part of the land drops down

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into low pine bottoms and old 
Creek beds, Thick, hard to reach

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spots. 
We didn't feel right going in 

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there. 
Over time, I told a few people 

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about what we saw. 
Most laughed it off or gave that

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look like they were just being 
polite. 

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But they weren't there. 
They didn't feel the panic in 

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their chest when that thing 
stepped through the trees. 

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They didn't see how big it was 
and they didn't have to ride a 

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four Wheeler uphill through 
snow, hoping it didn't stall out

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with that thing behind them. 
In August of 2006, a couple from

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northern Louisiana drove down to
Kisatchi National Forest for a 

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weekend of camping. 
They picked a remote spot off an

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old service Rd. deep in the 
woods. 

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The woman, Carla, had grown up 
in the area. 

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Her partner, Tony, was from out 
of state but had camped before. 

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The spot they chose was at the 
edge of a clearing where a dry 

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Creek bed curved through tall 
pine and Hickory trees. 

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They parked the truck off the 
trail and hiked in about 200 

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yards with their gear. 
The first night was quiet. 

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They made a small fire, cooked a
simple meal, and set up their 

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tent just a little ways from the
tree line. 

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They stayed up watching the sky 
until it got dark enough that 

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they couldn't see the edges of 
the trees anymore. 

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There was no cell service, no 
traffic noise, no people. 

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Just crickets, owls, and frogs. 
When they went to bed, the night

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was still and uneventful. 
The second night is when things 

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changed. 
It started with small noises in 

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the woods, what sounded like 
slow steps moving just past the 

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tree line. 
The steps came and went. 

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Sometimes it sounded like they 
circled the clearing. 

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Sometimes it sounded like 
breathing was just beyond the 

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reach of the firelight. 
Tony thought it might be a hog 

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or even a deer. 
Carla had heard coyotes before 

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and said it wasn't that either. 
The sounds weren't right. 

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They were heavy and slow, and 
whatever it was stayed just out 

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of sight. 
Around midnight, something large

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crashed through the brush behind
their tent. 

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They jumped up and grabbed the 
flashlight, but couldn't see 

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anything. 
Then came another crash. 

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Then a low moan, deep and 
stretched out like it was coming

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from something big. 
They turned on the light and 

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crouched in the tent, listening.
For a while. 

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There was nothing. 
Then the breathing started 

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again, louder now, slow and 
raspy, like it was sniffing the 

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air. 
Tony unzipped the tent slowly 

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and shined the light through a 
gap in the mesh. 

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Just past the edge of the 
clearing, he saw movement. 

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Something shifted behind a tree 
and then he saw it step out. 

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It was massive, easily 8 feet 
tall and brought across the 

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shoulders. 
It was covered in dark hair that

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hung uneven in patches. 
Its arms were long, hanging 

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nearly to its knees, and its 
body moved with weight and 

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power. 
It didn't move like any animal 

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they knew. 
The creature stood still and 

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stared at the tent. 
Then it walked forward, never 

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taking its eyes off them. 
Tony dropped the light. 

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Carla was frozen in place. 
They could hear the footsteps 

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now, slow, pounding steps on dry
ground. 

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When it reached the edge of 
their campfire ring, it stopped.

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Then it let out a sound so loud 
and low that they could feel it 

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in their chest. 
It wasn't a roar, it wasn't a 

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scream, but something in 
between, a long, drawn out call 

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that shook through the trees. 
Then it bent down and picked up 

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something off the ground, a 
piece of firewood. 

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It threw it straight at the 
tent. 

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It didn't hit them, but it tore 
through one side and landed hard

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in the dirt beside them. 
They didn't yell, they didn't 

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speak. 
Carla whispered for Tony to grab

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the keys, but the truck was back
near the trail, out of sight 

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through the trees. 
The creature paced around the 

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camp, grunting and huffing. 
It kicked over their cooler, 

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ripped at the side of the tent 
again, and knocked over a 

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folding chair. 
They could hear it breathing 

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hard, like it was worked up or 
angry. 

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It stopped right in front of the
tent. 

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For a long moment they heard it 
sniff the air again. 

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Then silence. 
No movement, no breathing, just 

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cold perfect silence. 
Then it let out 2 short sounds, 

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deep vocal bursts like a 
warning. 

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Then three loud stomps. 
The dirt under them shook. 

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Carlo was shaking and holding on
to Tony. 

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He kept gripping the keys on his
hand, trying to figure out how 

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to get to the truck. 
After what felt like forever, 

455
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,120
they heard it moving again. 
This time it was walking away 

456
00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,600
from the tent. 
They waited until the sounds 

457
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,600
were further off in the trees, 
then Tony grabbed the flashlight

458
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,960
and made a run for the truck 
with Carla behind. 

459
00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:37,000
Branches slapped them in the 
face and they could barely see 

460
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,280
the trail. 
Once they reached the truck, 

461
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:41,680
Tony started it and floored it 
down the road. 

462
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,120
They didn't speak until they 
were miles away. 

463
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,040
They drove through the night 
until they reached a gas 

464
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,200
station. 
They sat there for a long time, 

465
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,160
still shaking. 
They didn't go back for their 

466
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,040
Tantra gear, they didn't tell 
the Park Rangers, and they only 

467
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,800
told a few people about what 
happened. 

468
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:58,960
There was no doubt about what 
they saw. 

469
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:01,360
That was a creature that didn't 
want them there. 

470
00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:06,080
That was a Sasquatch. 
The next morning, a friend went 

471
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,280
back with Tony to help recover 
some of the gear. 

472
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,160
The fire ring had been 
scattered, the tent was torn 

473
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,120
down and trampled, and large 
footprints were stamped deep 

474
00:24:14,120 --> 00:24:17,000
into the soft ground between the
fire pit and the tree line. 

475
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,320
They didn't measure them, but 
each was nearly twice the size 

476
00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,800
of Tony's boot. 
They didn't stay long. 

477
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,440
They grabbed what they could and
left. 

478
00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:28,760
Tony and Carla never camped in 
that forest again. 

479
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:36,920
It happened 1 humid summer 
evening in July of 2006 outside 

480
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:39,440
of Colfax. 
The land east of the property 

481
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,800
was low and marshy, with an old 
fence line separating a cluster 

482
00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,960
of trees from the pasture and 
barnyard. 

483
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,120
A deep drainage ditch cut 
through the area and there were 

484
00:24:48,120 --> 00:24:50,120
standing pools of water from 
recent rains. 

485
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,880
The whole area stayed soft and 
muddy most of the year and frogs

486
00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,880
were everywhere once the sun 
went down to Girls who lived on 

487
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,080
the property had gone out that 
night to gig frogs, which they 

488
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:02,680
did often during the warmer 
months. 

489
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,720
They had grown up on the land 
and were used to the dark, the 

490
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,160
noises and the muddy places. 
They had their gigging poles and

491
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:11,960
headlamps and were working their
way through the wet spots east 

492
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,920
of the corral. 
Not far behind them, one of the 

493
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,520
barn cats had followed and was 
watching from a tree stump. 

494
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,280
The cat liked to come along when
the girls went out at night, 

495
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,160
especially around the barn or 
when they moved slow through the

496
00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,120
low fields. 
The girl had seen some frogs and

497
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:29,800
were about to head into deeper 
part of the marsh when one of 

498
00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:32,680
them suddenly stopped. 
There was a loud splash in the 

499
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,160
water, heavier than anything 
they were used to. 

500
00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,400
It didn't sound like a frog 
jumping or a raccoon moving 

501
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,120
through the shallows. 
It sounded like something big 

502
00:25:41,120 --> 00:25:43,440
stepping into the water with 
weight behind it. 

503
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,720
They both looked up. 
That's when one of the girls saw

504
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:49,000
it. 
Just across the fence, standing 

505
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:51,200
in the clearing beyond the 
barbed wire, was something 

506
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,480
looking right at them. 
It was standing still, but it 

507
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,440
had clearly been the one to make
the noise. 

508
00:25:56,760 --> 00:25:59,520
It had stepped into the water 
before stopping to face them. 

509
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,200
There was nothing between them 
but the old rusted fence and 

510
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,320
about 15 feet of open space. 
The creature stood at least 8 

511
00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:09,800
feet tall. 
Its build was massive and its 

512
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,520
head was set low, sitting 
forward on its shoulders. 

513
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,960
As it turned sideways to move 
off, they saw how the head 

514
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,920
didn't sit upright like a man's,
it was almost like it was 

515
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:24,080
resting right on the chest. 
It was broad, at least twice as 

516
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,560
wide as a grown man. 
The girls didn't speak, they 

517
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,640
just stood there frozen. 
The cat on the stump had seen it

518
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,840
too and was arched up with its 
back raised and fur standing. 

519
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,960
It was hissing and screeching in
full panic. 

520
00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:40,480
Just after that, a couple of the
neighbors dogs who had come over

521
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,600
from the West side of the 
pasture started barking, but the

522
00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,440
moment they saw it, they tucked 
their tails and ran back the way

523
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:50,240
they came. 
The creature didn't run. 

524
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,920
It didn't look surprised. 
It just watched the girls for a 

525
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:56,440
second more than took a few long
steps toward the eastern trees. 

526
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,080
It moved fast for something so 
big, and it disappeared behind a

527
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,160
line of old Cypress trees that 
stood between the marsh and a 

528
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,200
gravel Rd. 
The girls stood there still, not

529
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,800
sure what to do next. 
Then it growled low and deep, 

530
00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:13,040
and it sounded strange. 
At first it didn't even sound 

531
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,600
like a growl, more like a rough,
wet kind of bark. 

532
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,000
Then it growled again, louder, 
but the sound wasn't coming from

533
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,920
where it disappeared this time, 
it was coming from the opposite 

534
00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,280
direction, northwest of where 
they were. 

535
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,240
Then came a loud sound that 
mimicked a dog bark, only it 

536
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,080
wasn't right. 
It was too deep, too broken up, 

537
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:34,400
and had an odd rhythm to it. 
It sounded like something trying

538
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,800
to copy a dog, but not quite 
knowing how. 

539
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:40,720
They both turned that direction,
trying to see what was making 

540
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,080
the sound. 
It was dark enough now that 

541
00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,800
their headlamps only lit up 
short patches of trees and 

542
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,080
brush. 
Then there was a new sound. 

543
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,240
It came from the same direction,
but it wasn't a dog bark this 

544
00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,840
time. 
It was a long moaning call, like

545
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,720
a drawn out cow ball. 
But again, it was off. 

546
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,160
There was no cattle in that part
of the property, nothing over 

547
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,000
there at all except pine trees 
and a few washed out gullies. 

548
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,800
They realized the sounds were 
coming from one area to another.

549
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,520
Something was mimicking the dogs
and then the cows, almost like 

550
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,320
it was trying to cause a 
distraction. 

551
00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,280
The girls didn't run, but they 
were scared. 

552
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,080
They had heard of things like 
this happening in other parts of

553
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,920
the state, but nothing had ever 
happened like this around their 

554
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,120
own farm. 
The creature they had seen 

555
00:28:25,120 --> 00:28:28,400
earlier had moved off silently, 
but now it felt like more than 

556
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,280
one was out there. 
Then, faint and far off, they 

557
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,200
heard two knocks. 
One knock came from the north 

558
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,360
and one from the east. 
The area had gone completely 

559
00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:39,640
still except for those two faint
responses. 

560
00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:43,760
At that point, their mother came
out from the house. 

561
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,960
She had heard all of the barking
and the cat screeching and 

562
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,080
thought something was going on. 
She had also heard the moaning 

563
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,160
sound and thought one of the 
girls was yelling. 

564
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,160
She came running with a 
flashlight and the girls told 

565
00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,280
her what they had seen. 
She looked out into the trees 

566
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,520
and said that something had felt
off all night. 

567
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,400
They all went back inside. 
That night no one slept well. 

568
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,400
The next day they went back and 
tried to look for tracks, but 

569
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,040
with all the rain the day 
before, the ground was soft and 

570
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,920
full of horse tracks, boot 
prints and standing water. 

571
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,080
They couldn't make out anything 
clear. 

572
00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:19,040
The creature either stepped 
carefully or its tracks were 

573
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:22,080
washed out. 
The area stayed quiet for a few 

574
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,200
days. 
Then about a week later, there 

575
00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:27,360
were new sounds in the night, 
this time from the other side of

576
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:29,560
the pasture in the trees near 
the pond. 

577
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,320
Whoops, strange thuds and more 
of the bad mimic sounds. 

578
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,800
The mother even heard what 
sounded like someone knocking on

579
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,840
the metal part of the well house
around 2:00 in the morning, but 

580
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,400
when she went out with a 
flashlight, nothing was there. 

581
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,120
The girls didn't go back into 
that marsh for the rest of the 

582
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,360
season. 
They knew what they saw and the 

583
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,240
way the creature watched them. 
It was more like it was waiting 

584
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:52,520
to see what they were going to 
do. 

585
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,040
One of the girls said it was not
an animal she had ever seen 

586
00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:58,200
before. 
The way it moved, the way it 

587
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,080
stood, and the way it turned and
walked into the woods didn't 

588
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,920
match anything she could name. 
She said she had seen 

589
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:07,240
documentaries and drawings of 
Sasquatch before and after that 

590
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,040
night. 
She knew that's what they had 

591
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,480
seen. 
She believed there was more than

592
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,320
one of them. 
The noises in different 

593
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,640
directions, the answers to the 
knocks and the strange barking 

594
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,520
imitation sounded like some kind
of communication between two or 

595
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:22,960
more creatures. 
She didn't want to go back to 

596
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,880
that area at night ever again. 
They still live on the same 

597
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,960
property, and once in a while 
someone hears something, but 

598
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,720
they don't talk about it much 
with people outside the family 

599
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:36,280
around there, things like this 
are just part of the land. 

600
00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,160
The woods are deep, the marshes 
are quiet, and some places you 

601
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,160
just learn not to go into after 
dark. 

602
00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,960
It was the first weekend of 
October 2015. 

603
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,840
My husband and I were spending 
the evening at his cousin's 

604
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:56,200
property in Repeats Parish, 
Louisiana, not far from the 

605
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,520
banks of the Cotea Lake. 
We had an old barn set up for 

606
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,600
movie nights with a small screen
and projector hanging from the 

607
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:04,600
loft. 
We like to go out there 

608
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:07,280
sometimes, especially in the 
fall when the nights were cool 

609
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,640
and quiet. 
That evening we had brought 

610
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,680
along a couple of folding 
chairs, snacks, and a laptop 

611
00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:16,640
hooked up to the projector. 
It was during the second movie, 

612
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:19,520
not long before it ended, that 
we started hearing noises 

613
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,240
outside. 
The barn door was wide open to 

614
00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,800
let in the night air, and just 
beyond it you could see the 

615
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,520
grass and part of the slope 
leading down to the lake. 

616
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,080
The sound started off like 
splashing, like something moving

617
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,400
in the shallow part of the 
water. 

618
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:36,000
I figured it was fish or maybe a
raccoon hunting at the edge of 

619
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,560
the lake. 
I wasn't concerned at first. 

620
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,040
The sound kept coming and going,
loud and steady, like something 

621
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,760
heavy was walking in the 
shallows. 

622
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:47,160
After another minute of 
listening, it got harder to 

623
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,480
ignore. 
It didn't sound like any animal 

624
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,400
I was used to. 
It wasn't short splashes or 

625
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,560
fluttering like birds. 
It was deep and spaced out, like

626
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,520
big steps being taken in the 
water. 

627
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,320
I said nothing and kept watching
the movie, thinking maybe it was

628
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:05,400
a deer or even a hog. 
The movie ended not long after 

629
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:08,600
and my husband went up into the 
loft to unplug the projector and

630
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,560
pack things up. 
I stood near the barn entrance, 

631
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,280
looking out toward the lake. 
It was quiet now except for a 

632
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,000
few crickets and some frogs. 
There was no wind. 

633
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,920
But as I stood there, I suddenly
got a strange feeling that 

634
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,480
something was watching me. 
My neck got cold, and I felt the

635
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,960
hairs on my arms stand up. 
I couldn't see anything, but I 

636
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,720
couldn't shake the feeling. 
I called up to my husband to 

637
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,280
hurry. 
When he came down, I handed him 

638
00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:35,920
a flashlight and told him to 
shine it toward the water. 

639
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:39,720
He walked down slowly toward the
edge of the lake, and just as he

640
00:32:39,720 --> 00:32:43,120
stepped forward, the splashing 
noises started up again, this 

641
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,200
time further down the bank, 
maybe 30 yards to his right. 

642
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,480
When he pointed the light that 
way, the sound stopped again. 

643
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:53,720
He stood still, waiting. 
Then we heard more movement, 

644
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,920
this time on the other side of 
the lake's edge, farther to the 

645
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,480
left. 
The sound seemed to be circling,

646
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,640
shifting direction every time we
moved or pointed the light. 

647
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:05,160
It wasn't fast, like a deer 
running. 

648
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,880
It was slow, steady and heavy. 
We didn't see anything in the 

649
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,360
beam of the flashlight, but we 
could hear it clearly. 

650
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:14,920
He walked back to the barn and 
said something didn't feel 

651
00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:16,640
right. 
We both agreed to leave. 

652
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,480
The next morning I came back to 
feed the horses and check things

653
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,440
out. 
I was still thinking about the 

654
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,200
noises, and I wanted to see if 
anything had come through the 

655
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,000
lake edge. 
I walked down toward the water 

656
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,360
and looked closely at the damp, 
muddy shoreline. 

657
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,360
It had rained earlier in the 
week and the ground was still 

658
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,520
soft. 
There were some prints here and 

659
00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,560
there, mostly hoof marks, and a 
few boot tracks from us the 

660
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,560
night before. 
Then I saw footprints in the mud

661
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:45,720
that stopped me in my tracks. 
It was deep, set into the earth,

662
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,720
clear and wide. 
It was shaped like a person's 

663
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,120
foot, but too big. 
The toes were clear and the heel

664
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,400
made a deep groove. 
It was positioned in a way that 

665
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,240
looked like something heavy had 
stepped right down into the mud 

666
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,560
with a lot of weight. 
Around it were partial imprints,

667
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,480
what looked like a heel here, 
maybe the ball of a foot there, 

668
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:08,159
but this one was perfect. 
The stride between it and the 

669
00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:11,600
other marks was long, far longer
than any normal walking step. 

670
00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,360
I stood there looking at it. 
I didn't touch it or try to make

671
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,480
casts. 
The ground was too soft in some 

672
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,280
places and I didn't want to ruin
it, but I kept staring, thinking

673
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,880
about the night before and how 
it had moved in the dark. 

674
00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:26,159
It had waited until the lights 
were out. 

675
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,679
It had shifted position each 
time we moved. 

676
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:32,040
It was smart enough to stay just
out of sight, but close enough 

677
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,120
to be heard. 
And now it left something 

678
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,199
behind. 
I didn't think it was a prank. 

679
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,280
The lake area was quiet, 
private, and no one else was out

680
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,000
there. 
It was well past midnight when 

681
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,400
it happened. 
The barn is well off the main 

682
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,360
road and tucked back behind 
trees. 

683
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:50,920
The area behind the barn was 
full of woods, some thick brush,

684
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,120
and the lake itself stretched 
out into more marsh and forest 

685
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:57,640
along the western bank. 
After seeing the footprint, I 

686
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:01,080
remembered the way it sounded. 
The steps were strong and slow. 

687
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:04,920
They weren't clumsy or erratic. 
It felt like it was watching and

688
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,480
waiting. 
The movement wasn't random 

689
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:09,600
either. 
It had circled, moved, and tried

690
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,560
to stay in the dark. 
It was large, careful, and 

691
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,840
curious. 
My husband said the way the 

692
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,120
sounds moved reminded him of 
something trying not to be seen 

693
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:22,160
but making sure it was heard. 
Since then, we haven't had 

694
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:25,040
another movie night out there. 
We still keep the horses at the 

695
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,080
barn and come by regularly, but 
I don't go outside at night 

696
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,880
alone anymore. 
We still don't know exactly what

697
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,240
it was, but I'm certain it was a
Sasquatch. 

698
00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:36,600
And after finding that print, I 
have no doubt that what we heard

699
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,800
that night near the water was a 
Sasquatch. 

700
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,560
In the summer of 2023, around 
3:00 in the morning, I was 

701
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,000
leaving my girlfriend's house in
Sicily Island. 

702
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,280
She lived alone in a small house
near the wooded edge of a large 

703
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,680
property not far from Matensis 
River. 

704
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:58,800
I'm a police officer, so I'm 
used to staying alert, 

705
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,160
especially late at night. 
I was off duty that evening and 

706
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,720
had driven my personal car. 
The property was remote, 

707
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:09,040
bordered by dense woods and low 
Bluffs, with only one other 

708
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,040
house within a mile. 
One side of the land had fruit 

709
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:15,440
trees and an old fence line that
ran down toward a dry Creek bed.

710
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,840
I had taken this route many 
times and knew the road well, 

711
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:20,880
but that night something felt 
different. 

712
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,720
As I headed South on the gravel 
Rd. approaching a sharp S curve,

713
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,560
I noticed something large and 
dark in the middle of the road. 

714
00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:30,400
I immediately slowed down the 
car. 

715
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,280
At first it was low to the 
ground, like it had been 

716
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:36,720
crouching or crawling. 
I saw a strange yellow glow in 

717
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:39,000
its eyes. 
I thought it might be a bear, 

718
00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:41,320
which would be unusual in this 
part of the state. 

719
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,800
The animal moved quickly to the 
side of the road, staying in all

720
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,720
fours. 
As I got closer, it suddenly 

721
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,400
stood upright. 
The creature was massive. 

722
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:53,240
It turned broadside and froze 
under the headlights. 

723
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,320
I could see its full outline as 
I approached slowly, still 

724
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,240
rolling forward. 
Its entire body was covered in 

725
00:37:00,240 --> 00:37:03,440
long, thick hair that looked 
black with patches of grey. 

726
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,400
The hair on its arms and legs 
hung in thick strands, at least 

727
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,720
8 to 10 inches long. 
Its shoulders were extremely 

728
00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:13,320
wide and muscular. 
I could see the shape of its 

729
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,000
chest clearly where the hair was
thinner, revealing pale skin and

730
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,960
defined muscle. 
The arms were longer than any 

731
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:22,160
humans, reaching well past its 
knees. 

732
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,080
From where I sat in the driver's
seat, it towered over my car. 

733
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:29,600
I'd estimate it was at least 8 
feet tall and probably over 

734
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,720
£500. 
It didn't move or react 

735
00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,840
aggressively, it just stood 
there watching as I rolled by. 

736
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,520
I couldn't see its face clearly 
because of the thick hair, but I

737
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,920
could see the bulk of its 
shoulders and arms plainly. 

738
00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,720
It was standing no more than 15 
feet from me. 

739
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,400
As I passed it. 
I fumble with the clutch trying 

740
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,360
to downshift and almost stalled 
the car. 

741
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:53,480
I kept going, heart racing, 
trying to understand what I had 

742
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,040
just seen. 
I'm trained to observe and 

743
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,120
assess situations quickly, and 
this was something I'd never 

744
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,480
encountered in my career or 
personal life. 

745
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,000
I knew it wasn't a man. 
I knew it wasn't any normal 

746
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,080
animal. 
I've patrolled remote areas in 

747
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,320
all kinds of conditions and I've
seen plenty of wildlife, but 

748
00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:14,600
nothing like this. 
Whatever that was, it was real 

749
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,920
and it wasn't something science 
has given a name to. 

750
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:21,320
I know I saw a male Bigfoot. 
That stretch of Rd. still gives 

751
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:24,480
me chills when I drive it now. 
I haven't seen it again, but 

752
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,440
every time I go there I find 
myself looking into that tree 

753
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,000
line wondering if it's still out
there watching. 

754
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:38,640
In the summer of 2023, I was 
driving alone through a part of 

755
00:38:38,640 --> 00:38:41,920
northern Louisiana, heading east
on A2 lane highway between the 

756
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,560
small towns of Arcadia and 
Gibsland. 

757
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,080
There were few cars out but not 
a lot of traffic, and the sun 

758
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,040
was just starting to dip toward 
the horizon. 

759
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,160
The woods on both sides of the 
road were thick and dense, 

760
00:38:53,240 --> 00:38:56,040
stretching back away from the 
highway with deep pine and 

761
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,760
hardwood growth. 
I had made this drive plenty of 

762
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,200
times before without seeing 
anything unusual. 

763
00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:04,880
About halfway between the towns,
something caught my attention on

764
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,000
the left side of the road. 
It was just a flash of movement 

765
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,800
at the tree line, but it looked 
strange enough that I turned my 

766
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,640
head. 
I saw something dark, large and 

767
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:16,280
fast moving against the bark of 
a tall pine. 

768
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,400
It wasn't running along the 
ground, it was either climbing 

769
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,680
up or climbing down the tree. 
I couldn't get a good look, 

770
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,760
maybe two or three seconds, but 
it was enough to confuse me. 

771
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,120
I slowed down and pulled off the
road as soon as I could. 

772
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,240
Once I turned around, I drove 
back to the area where I'd seen 

773
00:39:32,240 --> 00:39:34,440
the movement. 
At first there was nothing 

774
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:37,680
there, no sound, no animal. 
But then I spotted something 

775
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,840
just off the tree line, about 20
yards in. 

776
00:39:40,240 --> 00:39:41,720
It was standing there watching 
me. 

777
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,800
It looked like a young Bigfoot, 
maybe 5 feet tall, but stocky. 

778
00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,120
The hair was a dark reddish 
brown and patchy in places. 

779
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,680
It had a big head and long arms 
that hung close to its knees. 

780
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,040
We looked at each other for a 
few moments. 

781
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,240
It didn't seem afraid, just 
curious. 

782
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,720
Then I started to hear something
else coming from deeper in the 

783
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:05,760
woods off to the left. 
Low growls, not loud at first, 

784
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,880
but deep and angry. 
They grew more intense and I 

785
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,280
could feel them in my chest. 
The young 1 turned and bolted, 

786
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,760
running back into the trees. 
That's when I saw the larger 

787
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,000
one. 
It stepped out just enough that 

788
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:19,760
I caught sight of it through the
underbrush. 

789
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,160
It was enormous, much taller and
wider than the younger 1, and it

790
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,040
wasn't calm. 
It looked agitated, like it was 

791
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:29,040
guarding the young one and 
warning me off. 

792
00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:33,200
I was frozen for a second, 
staring at this thing that stood

793
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:35,680
there, half hidden, but it was 
clear what it was. 

794
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,520
Its body was massive, covered in
thick hair. 

795
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,480
It didn't need to move much to 
show it was serious. 

796
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:44,760
I didn't wait around. 
I went back to the car, put it 

797
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,080
in gear and got out of there as 
fast as I could, my heart 

798
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,440
pounding the whole way. 
When I got back to my house, I 

799
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,280
started looking into sightings 
online. 

800
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:56,480
I didn't want to believe it at 
first, but the more I read and 

801
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:58,880
watched, the more I became sure 
of what I saw. 

802
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,320
I came across reports that 
described exactly what I had 

803
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,880
seen that day. 
Creatures with sloped heads, 

804
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,400
long arms and huge bodies. 
The sound, the behaviour, the 

805
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,040
way they moved, it all matched. 
Now I am positive that it was a 

806
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,520
young Bigfoot and an adult one 
that I saw. 

807
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,680
The area has plenty of creeks 
and dense woods nearby with 

808
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:20,280
little development in that 
stretch. 

809
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,320
It's the kind of place that's 
something that size could live 

810
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,400
or pass through without being 
noticed. 

811
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,280
I haven't forgotten it and I 
never will, and I never thought 

812
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:30,880
I'd ever see something like 
that. 

813
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:39,320
In the summer of 2017 I was 
fishing alone in northern 

814
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:43,040
Louisiana, not far from a quiet 
Rd. that ran along the water. 

815
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,560
It was mid-july, the weather was
hot and the river was running 

816
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:48,960
low and slow. 
I started out near a small 

817
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,680
bridge where the highway crosses
the river, but the fish weren't 

818
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:55,440
biting much so I decided to walk
a ways downstream to try another

819
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,400
spot. 
This area was peaceful and thick

820
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:00,920
with old oak trees along both 
sides of the river. 

821
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,360
As I made my way around a wide 
stand of trees, I noticed 

822
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,120
something ahead of me on the 
opposite bank, just coming up 

823
00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:10,160
from the water. 
As I got a clearer look at it, I

824
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,800
knew it wasn't a man. 
The thing walking out of the 

825
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,720
water was huge, easily taller 
than me and I'm 6 foot three. 

826
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:20,160
It looked to be at least 7 or 8 
feet tall, maybe more. 

827
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,920
It was built heavy, wide at the 
shoulders and had long reddish 

828
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,360
brown hair hanging off its body.
The hair wasn't neat, it looked 

829
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,360
a little tangled or curly in 
places. 

830
00:42:29,720 --> 00:42:32,280
It had that wet look to it like 
it had been in the river. 

831
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:36,080
I was standing about 100 yards 
away, maybe a little more, but I

832
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:38,600
could see it well enough to know
that it was a Bigfoot. 

833
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:42,640
It didn't appear to be in any 
hurry and move steadily, walking

834
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,160
upright toward the woods without
making much noise. 

835
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,560
It didn't look my way, or if it 
did I couldn't tell. 

836
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,480
It just continued walking like 
it didn't have a care in the 

837
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,760
world. 
I stood there and watched it for

838
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,640
at least 5 minutes until it 
disappeared into the trees. 

839
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,040
The whole time I kept thinking 
maybe I should try to follow it,

840
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,520
but I was alone and that thing 
was huge. 

841
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,480
Real huge. 
I wasn't about to walk into the 

842
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,840
woods after something without 
someone else with me. 

843
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:11,600
I came back the next day in the 
afternoon hoping to maybe find 

844
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:13,600
some kind of track or sign of 
where it went. 

845
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,120
The ground near the river was 
soft in spots, but I didn't find

846
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,960
anything I could point to and 
say for sure that it came from 

847
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:22,480
what I had seen. 
There were lots of animal 

848
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:24,400
tracks, but nothing stood out 
clearly. 

849
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,960
Still, I know what I had seen, 
even if there wasn't a print to 

850
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,440
prove it. 
I had heard stories for years 

851
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:33,080
about sightings in this part of 
the state and over in nearby 

852
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:36,280
parts of northeast Texas. 
A few friends of mine have 

853
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,000
talked about strange things in 
the woods, especially near 

854
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,800
creeks or rivers. 
I never gave it much thought 

855
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,520
until that day. 
After that, I started reading 

856
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:46,880
about sightings in other parts 
of the South, and the 

857
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,960
descriptions were almost always 
the same. 

858
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,160
Large, upright creatures covered
in reddish or dark hair moving 

859
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,360
quietly through the wooded areas
near water. 

860
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,000
Since that day, I've kept my 
eyes open every time I go near 

861
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,720
that stretch of water. 
I'd never seen anything like it 

862
00:44:01,720 --> 00:44:04,120
again, but I'll never forget the
moment I did. 

863
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,200
I had decided to spend a weekend
alone camping deep in the 

864
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:17,000
Kisachi National Forest in 2017.
I picked a spot off a remote 

865
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:18,640
trail where I wouldn't be 
disturbed. 

866
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,560
I had my dog with me, a lab mix 
named Duke, and we had camped 

867
00:44:22,560 --> 00:44:26,240
together plenty of times before.
The first night was quiet. 

868
00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:29,360
The air was cool, the sky was 
clear, and the fire burned 

869
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,880
strong. 
I cooked some food, let Duke 

870
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:33,640
explore the area, and settled 
in. 

871
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,680
Nothing unusual happened. 
But the next night everything 

872
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,240
changed. 
I had just finished eating and 

873
00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:42,880
was sitting by the fire when 
Duke crawled into the tent and 

874
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,080
wouldn't come out. 
That wasn't like him. 

875
00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,120
He usually stayed close to me, 
even slept by the fire, keeping 

876
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,400
me company. 
But that night he was scared. 

877
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:53,200
I tried calling him, but he 
stayed curled up in the corner 

878
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,840
of the tent, ears pinned back, 
eyes wide. 

879
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,840
That was the first sign. 
About 10 minutes later, I heard 

880
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,840
movement in the woods behind me.
Not small movement like a 

881
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,880
raccoon or deer. 
This was heavy. 

882
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,160
It came from One Direction, then
another, then from the opposite 

883
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:10,320
side. 
Something was moving through the

884
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:12,400
trees in a circle around my 
camp. 

885
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:15,840
The fire was still going, 
crackling and popping, but it 

886
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,560
wasn't enough to light more than
a few yards into the woods. 

887
00:45:19,240 --> 00:45:21,760
I stood up, flashlight in hand, 
and called out. 

888
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,800
I thought someone was messing 
with me. 

889
00:45:24,720 --> 00:45:26,960
That's when the first one 
stepped into view. 

890
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:31,080
On the edge of the firelight, I 
saw a shape, massive and still. 

891
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,240
It was covered in dark, coarse 
hair, and its arms were long 

892
00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:36,520
enough that the hands nearly 
touched its knees. 

893
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,920
It had broad shoulders, a thick 
chest and legs like tree trunks.

894
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,920
Its face was visible, and it 
wasn't human. 

895
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:47,360
The eyes reflected the firelight
in a way that didn't seem right.

896
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:49,880
They were too far apart and too 
deep set. 

897
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:52,280
It didn't blink, it just stared 
at me. 

898
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,200
I heard heavy breathing from 
behind me, and when I turned, 

899
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:58,440
another one was standing across 
the camp. 

900
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,960
This one was taller and even 
bulkier. 

901
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,920
Its jaw jutted forward and its 
mouth was slightly open, showing

902
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:07,480
yellow teeth. 
The skin on its face was 

903
00:46:07,480 --> 00:46:10,560
leathery, almost grey in the 
firelight, and its nose was 

904
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,000
flat. 
It growled low and deep. 

905
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,840
Then the third appeared, moving 
fast through the trees and 

906
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:20,360
stopping just short of the fire.
This one was more agitated. 

907
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:24,040
It paced quickly, huffing and 
puffing, swaying side to side 

908
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,800
like it was working itself up. 
Its hair was a lighter brown and

909
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:29,840
more matted, sticking out in 
clumps. 

910
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,160
It slapped a tree with an open 
hand. 

911
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:34,680
The sound echoed like a shotgun 
blast. 

912
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:38,800
They had me surrounded. 
I was frozen, heart pounding, 

913
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:40,840
every part of me telling me not 
to move. 

914
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:44,240
Duke whimpered from inside the 
tent, but didn't come out. 

915
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,760
I had no weapon, only my 
flashlight and a fire that 

916
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:51,840
suddenly seemed way too small. 
The one closest to me stepped a 

917
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:53,800
little closer. 
I could hear its breathing 

918
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,400
clearly now, deep, steady and 
angry. 

919
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,200
Its eyes didn't leave mine. 
I took one step back and it 

920
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,680
growled again, louder this time.
The third one let out a sharp 

921
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,280
bark, like a mix between a shout
in a howl, and all three of them

922
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:11,200
shifted. 
They started circling again, for

923
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,880
what felt like an hour, but was 
probably just a few minutes. 

924
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:16,000
They kept moving around me, 
watching. 

925
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,880
I didn't sit down, I didn't run,
I didn't speak. 

926
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:21,920
Then, as suddenly as they came, 
they disappeared. 

927
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:24,720
One by one, they slipped back 
into the woods. 

928
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:30,440
No rush, no sound, just gone. 
I sat by the fire until sunrise.

929
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,080
Duke curled up in the tent, 
shaking at first light. 

930
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:36,880
I packed up and left. 
I have never been back to that 

931
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,960
part of the forest since. 
I don't know what I did to 

932
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:43,040
attract them, or if they were 
just passing through, but I know

933
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:44,440
they were real. 
They were. 

934
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,640
Massive, intelligent, and they 
did not want me there. 

935
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:52,040
I've been hunting since I was a 
kid, my dad raised me in the 

936
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,880
Bush and I've tracked moose, elk
and bear across half of Alberta.

937
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,440
I've always felt safe in the 
wild, but something happened in 

938
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,400
September of 2007 outside of 
Swan Hills that still makes my 

939
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,600
skin crawl every time I think 
about it. 

940
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,160
I went alone that year. 
I had some time off from work 

941
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,640
and plan to spend 5 days at my 
old hunting spot about 20 

942
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,480
kilometres northeast of the 
little gas station at Goose 

943
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,000
Mountain. 
If you know the area around Swan

944
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,960
Hills, you know it's thick 
forest and deep valleys that 

945
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:23,360
hardly see people. 
It's quiet up there. 

946
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,360
Or it used to be. 
I hiked in about 8 kilometres 

947
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:31,320
with my old canvas pack, my 30 
out six, and enough food to last

948
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:33,800
a week. 
I set up camp on a flat Ridge 

949
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:36,440
above a Creek. 
I camped there before and I had 

950
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,480
no worries at all. 
The first two days were good 

951
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,920
hunting. 
I saw a cow, moose and a nice 

952
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,640
bull but didn't get a clean 
shot. 

953
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:46,680
I cut a trail through the 
willows down to the Creek, set 

954
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:49,640
up a ground blind and was sure 
I'd bag something before heading

955
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:52,200
home. 
The second night I was sitting 

956
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:55,160
by my fire around 9. 
I had Stew warming and I was 

957
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:57,800
sipping coffee. 
The sun was down and the wind 

958
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,280
was dead still. 
That's when I heard something 

959
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,120
big break a branch down the 
slope. 

960
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,880
Now, I've heard elk bark and 
moose crash through the Bush 

961
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,080
plenty of times, but this was 
different. 

962
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,600
This thing didn't run or 
stumble, it just snapped a thick

963
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:14,160
branch like it was nothing and 
then stood there. 

964
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,000
I grabbed my rifle and walked to
the edge of camp, shining my 

965
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,080
headlamp down the hill. 
I didn't see anything, but I 

966
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,200
heard deep breathing, slow and 
steady. 

967
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,920
I called out, hoping it was just
a bear and the noise would scare

968
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:30,320
it off, but it didn't. 
After a minute it turned and 

969
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,320
walked away, just moving through
the Bush like a man would. 

970
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:36,960
I could hear each step, heavy 
crunching through the deadfall 

971
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,200
and dry Moss. 
I stayed up late that night, 

972
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,520
rifle across my lap, fire piled 
high. 

973
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:48,120
I didn't sleep more than an hour
before dawn broke that day. 

974
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:50,480
I haunted the Creek bottom but 
couldn't shake the feeling 

975
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,840
something was following me. 
Every time I stopped, the Bush 

976
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,320
went dead quiet. 
Then I would hear twigs snap 

977
00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:00,080
behind me once I turned fast and
caught a whiff of the worst 

978
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,400
stink I've ever smelled, like 
rotten meat and wet dog. 

979
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:07,200
Then nothing. 
That evening I decided enough 

980
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,880
was enough. 
I packed my meat bag, rifle, and

981
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,320
a bit of food and moved my camp 
closer to the Creek. 

982
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:14,960
Thinking maybe I was just 
spooking myself up on that 

983
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,640
Ridge. 
I made a small fire, ate some 

984
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,680
jerky and beans, and crawled 
into my tent just after dark. 

985
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:24,360
I must have dozed off because 
next thing I knew I was wide 

986
00:50:24,360 --> 00:50:26,680
awake listening, and it was 
around midnight. 

987
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:29,000
Something big was circling my 
camp. 

988
00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:32,320
I could hear it breathing heavy,
grunting low, and once I heard 

989
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:36,040
it slap its chest or something 
like that, it moved like a man, 

990
00:50:36,040 --> 00:50:38,920
slow pacing. 
Then it slammed its hand or 

991
00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:41,200
something against the Poplar 
tree so hard. 

992
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:44,240
I could hear the bark crack. 
I grabbed my rifle. 

993
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,520
And unzipped my tent. 
The fire was just cold, but the 

994
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:49,840
moon was bright enough to see 
shadows moving between the 

995
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,720
trees. 
That smell hit me again, thick 

996
00:50:52,720 --> 00:50:56,000
and choking. 
Suddenly I heard fast stomps, 

997
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:59,000
and before I could even shoulder
my gun, something hit the side 

998
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,320
of my tent. 
It felt like a truck ramming 

999
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:02,760
into me. 
I fell back. 

1000
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,760
The whole tent nearly collapsed,
and I heard a deep roar. 

1001
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,920
Not like any animal I knew. 
I scrambled out bare feet on the

1002
00:51:09,920 --> 00:51:11,720
Moss and fired a shot straight 
up. 

1003
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,320
The roar turned into loud whoops
and a bark, then the thing 

1004
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,160
crashed off into the trees. 
I stood there shaking, listening

1005
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,040
to it break branches and knock 
over dead logs as it moved 

1006
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:23,720
uphill. 
Then silence. 

1007
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,640
I didn't even pack my gear. 
I shoved my rifle sling over my 

1008
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,760
shoulder, grabbed my boots and 
stumbled barefoot through the 

1009
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,040
Bush to the Creek, half naked, 
soaking. 

1010
00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:35,880
My feet in the icy water just to
get away from camp. 

1011
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,200
I hiked all night. 
Under the moon, never looking 

1012
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,640
back. 
Every noise in the trees made my

1013
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:43,880
heart pound so hard I thought 
I'd pass out. 

1014
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:46,200
I made it to my truck around 
dawn. 

1015
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:49,040
I sat in that truck shaking, 
trying to calm down before 

1016
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:51,320
driving. 
I could still smell that awful 

1017
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:55,040
stink on my clothes and hair. 
I never went back for my tent or

1018
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:57,400
the rest of my gear. 
It's probably still there, 

1019
00:51:57,440 --> 00:52:01,440
shredded and rotting back home. 
I didn't tell anyone for weeks. 

1020
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,720
When I finally told my dad, he 
said it was a big old bear 

1021
00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:07,320
trying to run me off. 
But I know bears. 

1022
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:09,840
They don't stand on 2 feet or 
slam tents. 

1023
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,320
They don't pace circles, grunt 
like a man, or break trees for 

1024
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,520
fun. 
I've haunted plenty since, but 

1025
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,320
never alone and never again 
outside Swan Hills. 

1026
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,880
Whatever is up there, it isn't 
scared of a man with the rifle 

1027
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:25,760
and I don't want to meet it in 
the dark ever again. 

1028
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,920
I grew up near Grand Prairie but
never camped much on my own 

1029
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:37,440
until I was in my 20s. 
In October 2014, my buddy Darren

1030
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:40,360
and I wanted to get in one last 
fishing weekend before the lakes

1031
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,680
froze. 
We picked 2 Lakes Provincial 

1032
00:52:42,680 --> 00:52:44,600
Park. 
It's quiet in the fall. 

1033
00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,320
No tourists, just locals who 
knew where to go. 

1034
00:52:48,240 --> 00:52:50,640
We drove my old truck up the 
Forestry Rd. on a Friday 

1035
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,360
afternoon, bouncing over 
potholes for what felt like 

1036
00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:56,240
forever. 
By sunset we were the only ones 

1037
00:52:56,240 --> 00:52:58,840
there, not another car, camper 
or tent. 

1038
00:52:59,440 --> 00:53:02,000
We set up our little Dome tent 
in a clearing just above the 

1039
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,640
small lake. 
The plan was to fish, cook up 

1040
00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:07,960
whatever we caught, drink beer, 
and maybe shoot a few grouse. 

1041
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,800
That first night we got a small 
campfire going and sat on an old

1042
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:14,880
log laughing about work and 
life, just enjoying the silence 

1043
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,760
you get deep in the Bush. 
Around 10 we started hearing 

1044
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:20,360
splashes in the lake. 
Not. 

1045
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,880
Little fish jumping big deep 
splashes like someone tossing 

1046
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,320
boulders. 
We joked it was a Beaver 

1047
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,880
slapping its tail, but it 
sounded way too big. 

1048
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:32,320
Darren wanted to check it out, 
so we took our flashlights and 

1049
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,400
walked to the shore. 
The splashes stopped as soon as 

1050
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,960
we got close. 
We shined our lights across the 

1051
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,040
water. 
Nothing. 

1052
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:42,520
Dead calm again. 
It was weird, but we shrugged it

1053
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:46,680
off and went back to the fire. 
We barely sat down when we heard

1054
00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,120
tree knocks behind us, clear as 
day. 

1055
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,640
Three loud cracks, then silence.
Darren said it was probably a 

1056
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:56,400
branch breaking. 
In the wind, I didn't argue, but

1057
00:53:56,400 --> 00:54:00,760
something felt wrong. 
The forest was too still an hour

1058
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,920
later. 
We crawled into the tent, zipped

1059
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,680
up in our sleeping bags but 
still half joking about our 

1060
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,440
ghost Beaver. 
But deep down I was uneasy. 

1061
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,760
I don't know what time it was 
maybe. 2:00 in the morning. 

1062
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,040
But I woke up to heavy footsteps
outside. 

1063
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:17,000
Not just one or two. 
They were circling the tent, 

1064
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,800
Slow, heavy. 
Steps crunching the frost on the

1065
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,440
pine needles, I held my breath 
and listened. 

1066
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,840
Darren was awake too, whispering
curses under his breath. 

1067
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:27,960
Then it brushed against the 
tent. 

1068
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:31,640
The whole side of the nylon wall
flexed in and out like something

1069
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,920
big leaned on it. 
Darren yelled, and it slapped 

1070
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,680
aside hard, knocking our 
backpacks over inside. 

1071
00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:41,240
I grabbed my hunting knife. 
Not that a knife would have done

1072
00:54:41,240 --> 00:54:43,720
much. 
We heard deep, raspy breathing, 

1073
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,040
then a low grunt that turned 
into a rumble. 

1074
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:49,920
Suddenly the whole tent shifted.
It pushed the top with its hand 

1075
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:52,240
or arm. 
I swear I could see the outline.

1076
00:54:52,880 --> 00:54:54,600
I yelled, and Darren kicked the 
wall. 

1077
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:58,120
It backed off for a second, then
we heard it moving fast toward 

1078
00:54:58,120 --> 00:54:59,520
the lake. 
We lay there. 

1079
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,280
Shaking, too scared to move. 
A few minutes later, a tree 

1080
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,560
snapped. 
Not a branch, but a full crack, 

1081
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,040
like a trunk splitting. 
Then a roar. 

1082
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:09,840
I've never heard anything like 
it. 

1083
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:14,200
It was like Thunder, but alive. 
We bolted out of the tent. 

1084
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,200
Daring grabbed the axe by the 
fire pit. 

1085
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:19,040
I took the flashlight. 
We scanned the edge of the 

1086
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:20,520
clearing and caught a glimpse of
it. 

1087
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,640
Huge and dark, half hidden 
behind a spruce tree. 

1088
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,320
It stepped out. 
It had to be at least 8 feet 

1089
00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:29,960
tall. 
Wide shoulders, arms dangling 

1090
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,040
almost to its knees, long hair 
hanging in clumps. 

1091
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,400
Its eyes caught the flashlight 
beam and glowed red for 1/2 a 

1092
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,320
second. 
It showed his teeth. 

1093
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:42,120
Huge yellow teeth. 
Then it roared again and stomped

1094
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:45,640
forward. 
We both stumbled backward. 

1095
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:47,920
It swiped out a young tree and 
toward the top. 

1096
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,160
Clean off We ran. 
We didn't think about the gear 

1097
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:53,560
or the fishing rods or the beer 
still by the fire. 

1098
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:56,600
We just ran for the truck. 
The thing crashed through the 

1099
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,840
Bush behind us but didn't come 
into the open. 

1100
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,960
It just smashed branches and 
barked as it paralleled us. 

1101
00:56:02,720 --> 00:56:05,600
We reached the truck, fumble 
with the keys and jumped inside.

1102
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,120
Darren locked the door like that
would help. 

1103
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,360
I turned the key, praying it 
would start. 

1104
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:14,680
It fired up on the first try. 
I slammed it into reverse and we

1105
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,280
tore out of there so fast 
everything flipped over in the 

1106
00:56:17,280 --> 00:56:20,360
back seat. 
We didn't stop driving until we 

1107
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:22,080
hit the gravel road near 
Grovedale. 

1108
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:25,000
We sat there with the engine 
running, hands shaking, trying 

1109
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,760
to figure out what we had seen. 
The next morning, against our 

1110
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:31,680
better judgement, we drove back 
in daylight to get our stuff. 

1111
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:33,840
The tent was shredded down one 
side. 

1112
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:36,720
Our cooler was smashed open, lid
cracked in half. 

1113
00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,480
Weirdest of all, we found big 
footprints. 

1114
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,360
Long, Wide. 
With clear toe shapes leading 

1115
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,280
back toward the thicker trees by
the lake. 

1116
00:56:45,240 --> 00:56:47,280
No sign of bear claws or drag 
marks. 

1117
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:50,800
Just deep human like prints. 
Some of them were spaced so far 

1118
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,120
apart no man could stride that 
distance. 

1119
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,600
We cleaned up in silence, didn't
bother fishing. 

1120
00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:59,680
We never told anyone except my 
brother who laughed at us and 

1121
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:02,360
said we were drunk. 
But I know what I saw, and 

1122
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:10,640
Darren knows it too. 
In June 2017, I went to the 

1123
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:13,360
Porcupine Hills. 
I like camping alone when I need

1124
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:16,240
to clear my head. 
That summer I packed my small 

1125
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:20,560
tent, my old 3030 rifle, some 
food, and my dog Max, a big 

1126
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,760
German Shepherd mix. 
I drove up a logging Rd. 

1127
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:26,400
I knew from hunting trips. 
It was rough and narrow, but 

1128
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,360
pretty, and I found a clearing 
where people used to cut wood 

1129
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,200
years ago. 
The first day was normal. 

1130
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,280
I hiked down to the Creek, saw 
deer tracks, and even saw a cow 

1131
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:37,840
moose. 
Max barked at squirrels but 

1132
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,280
stayed close to camp. 
At sunset, I cooked beans over 

1133
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,600
the fire and watched the sun dip
behind the hills. 

1134
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:46,680
Everything was quiet except for 
the wind through the trees. 

1135
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:50,800
After dark, I crawled into my 
tent with Max curled up by the 

1136
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:53,200
door. 
I woke up a few hours later to 

1137
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:57,720
Max growling deep in his throat.
He's a brave dog, but his growl 

1138
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,480
sounded scared. 
I heard something heavy moving 

1139
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,320
in the trees just beyond the 
fire pit. 

1140
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:05,720
I left, burning low. 
The footsteps were slow, but 

1141
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,920
they crunched the dry branches. 
I stayed still and held my 

1142
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:11,640
rifle. 
Max barked but didn't charge 

1143
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,760
out. 
Then I heard a sound that made 

1144
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:16,960
my heart drop. 
A long, low growl, too deep for 

1145
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,200
anything I knew. 
It rumbled and echoed suddenly. 

1146
00:58:21,240 --> 00:58:22,960
Max. 
Lunged at the tent door. 

1147
00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:25,840
I grabbed his collar so he 
wouldn't get out and get killed.

1148
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,600
I peeked through a crack in the 
flap and saw a huge dark shape 

1149
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:32,960
just at the tree line. 
It stepped closer, the fire 

1150
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:36,320
light showing it from waist up. 
Its shoulders were as wide as my

1151
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,520
truck cab. 
The head looked deep in the 

1152
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:41,720
shoulders, no neck at all. 
Its hair looked dark grey and 

1153
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,400
tangled. 
It sniffed the air loud enough I

1154
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:48,520
heard it over Max barking, then 
it roared so loud it rattled my 

1155
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:51,440
chest. 
It charged halfway to the tent, 

1156
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:53,440
then stopped, huffing like a 
bull. 

1157
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,560
Max nearly tore off his collar. 
I pointed my rifle, but I knew 

1158
00:58:57,560 --> 00:58:59,560
one bullet would not stop that 
thing. 

1159
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:03,200
It stomped toward the tent 
again, picking up a dead log and

1160
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:05,120
snapping it in half like a 
toothpick. 

1161
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:07,440
It threw a chunk of it at my 
tent. 

1162
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,520
The log hit the side hard enough
to dent the pole, but didn't 

1163
00:59:10,520 --> 00:59:13,720
breakthrough. 
Max barked so hard he started 

1164
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:15,520
choking. 
I thought I was going to have to

1165
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:19,040
shoot just to scare it. 
Then it made a loud whoop sound 

1166
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:22,920
and stomped away into the Bush. 
I listened as branches snapped 

1167
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:24,880
for a long time before the sound
faded. 

1168
00:59:26,600 --> 00:59:29,080
For the rest of the night, I 
just sat there terrified. 

1169
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,480
Max paced and growled at every 
sound. 

1170
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:34,840
When dawn came, I stepped 
outside, shaking all over. 

1171
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:37,240
The log was on the ground near 
the fire pit. 

1172
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:39,600
It was too big for a man to 
throw far. 

1173
00:59:40,080 --> 00:59:42,240
I found huge footprints in the 
soft dirt. 

1174
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:45,920
They were longer than my boot, 
about 17 inches and wide. 

1175
00:59:46,640 --> 00:59:49,800
I packed up camp in minutes. 
I put out the fire, stuffed my 

1176
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:52,160
gear into the truck and got Max 
inside. 

1177
00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:56,440
A week later I drove back with 
my cousin just to see if the 

1178
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,440
prints were still there. 
We found two smashed spruce 

1179
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,800
saplings near my old fire pit. 
No tracks left because it 

1180
01:00:02,800 --> 01:00:05,520
rained. 
I've camped in the Porcupine 

1181
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:09,120
Hills all my life. 
I know bear, moose, wolves and 

1182
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:11,240
Cougars. 
This was not any of them. 

1183
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,560
That was a Sasquatch and it did 
not want us there. 

1184
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,960
I still camp, but I never go 
alone now and I keep my rifle 

1185
01:00:18,960 --> 01:00:21,520
ready. 
I never let Max out of my sight.

1186
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:25,000
If I hear knocks or roars, I 
leave the Bush immediately. 

1187
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:28,160
Some people laugh when I tell 
them, but I know what's out 

1188
01:00:28,160 --> 01:00:30,560
there. 
It's real, it's huge, and it 

1189
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:34,240
doesn't want us around. 
I will never forget that roar or

1190
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:37,920
the way it broke that log, and I
hope to never see it or hear it 

1191
01:00:37,920 --> 01:00:45,950
again. 
In October 2020, I went elk 

1192
01:00:45,950 --> 01:00:48,270
hunting with my uncle near 
Kadaman, Alberta. 

1193
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:52,240
Cadaman is a little place by the
Rockies not far from Jasper 

1194
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:54,720
Park. 
My uncle has haunted there for 

1195
01:00:54,720 --> 01:00:56,920
20 years. 
I had just bought my own hunting

1196
01:00:56,920 --> 01:00:59,400
tag, so he took me up there for 
my first elk. 

1197
01:01:00,360 --> 01:01:03,360
We stayed in his old camper in a
gravel pit on Crown land. 

1198
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,240
It was cold and windy but sunny 
during the day. 

1199
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,440
We saw a lot of elk sign but 
never got a shot. 

1200
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,520
By the third evening we were 
both tired but hopeful for 

1201
01:01:12,520 --> 01:01:15,040
morning. 
That night I couldn't sleep 

1202
01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:17,320
well. 
I lay on the top bunk listening 

1203
01:01:17,320 --> 01:01:20,840
to my uncle snoring below me. 
Around 2:00 in the morning, I 

1204
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,120
heard rocks clock together 
somewhere outside. 

1205
01:01:24,200 --> 01:01:26,520
It sounded too clean for 
branches or wind. 

1206
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:29,880
Then I heard it again. 
Two rocks knocked together. 

1207
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:34,000
I told myself it must be coyotes
messing around or maybe a bear. 

1208
01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:36,720
But I kept listening and heard 
deep breathing. 

1209
01:01:37,160 --> 01:01:39,680
It sounded like someone standing
near the camper window. 

1210
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,920
I could hear slow inhales and 
rough exhales. 

1211
01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:46,480
I felt my skin crawl. 
I sat up and looked out the 

1212
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:49,280
small window by my bunk. 
The moon was bright enough to 

1213
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,080
see the clearing. 
I almost fell backwards because 

1214
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,120
standing near our meat pole was 
something huge and dark. 

1215
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,840
I thought it was a big man at 
first, but then it bent down and

1216
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:01,680
sniffed the ground. 
Its back and shoulders looked 

1217
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:03,720
wider than the old shed by the 
fire pit. 

1218
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,280
It was covered in dark fur with 
some grey on its back. 

1219
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,720
I grabbed my uncle's old 270 
from the gun rack. 

1220
01:02:11,000 --> 01:02:13,400
I shook his shoulder to wake 
him, but he just mumbled. 

1221
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:15,640
The breathing outside got 
louder. 

1222
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,520
Then I heard a huff. 
A deep angry huff. 

1223
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,720
It grabbed the meat pole and 
shook it so hard the rope 

1224
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:25,000
snapped. 
It didn't have any meat hanging 

1225
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,000
yet, but the pole slammed to the
ground. 

1226
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,360
That noise woke my uncle. 
He asked what I was doing with 

1227
01:02:30,360 --> 01:02:33,360
the gun, but before he could 
finish talking, we both heard 

1228
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,440
something hit the camper. 
The whole camper rocked side to 

1229
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:38,640
side. 
My uncle grabbed his boots and 

1230
01:02:38,640 --> 01:02:40,600
coat. 
I stayed kneeling on the bunk, 

1231
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:44,240
pointing the rifle at the door. 
We heard heavy steps circling 

1232
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,880
the camper, then something 
slammed the back window. 

1233
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:49,640
I thought it would breakthrough 
the glass, but it just cracked. 

1234
01:02:51,240 --> 01:02:53,200
We heard a growl that shook my 
chest. 

1235
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:56,280
Then silence. 
For a minute there was nothing. 

1236
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:59,200
Then we heard rocks again, but 
this time crashing through the 

1237
01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:03,120
Bush as it moved off. 
We sat there until first light. 

1238
01:03:03,360 --> 01:03:04,920
My uncle opened the door at 
dawn. 

1239
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,080
We found big tracks in the 
gravel. 

1240
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,440
They were longer than his boot 
and wide like snowshoes. 

1241
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:14,000
We also found where it ripped a 
branch off a spruce tree and 

1242
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:16,240
jammed it into the meat pole 
like a warning. 

1243
01:03:17,200 --> 01:03:20,000
My uncle said he had heard 
stories from old trappers, but 

1244
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:21,800
he never believed them until 
that night. 

1245
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,240
We packed up before breakfast. 
We left the broken pole and 

1246
01:03:25,240 --> 01:03:27,040
drove straight into Hinton for 
coffee. 

1247
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,640
I wish I'd never looked out that
bunk window. 

1248
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:34,000
I still see that huge dark shape
by the meat pole when I try to 

1249
01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:36,320
sleep. 
I know in my bones it was a 

1250
01:03:36,320 --> 01:03:45,200
Sasquatch. 
In July 2015, I worked on a 

1251
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,360
seismic crew near Peace River 
AB. 

1252
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,960
I was only 21 then, doing line 
cutting with two other young 

1253
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:53,400
guys. 
We were working long shifts in 

1254
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,240
heavy Bush, clearing survey 
lines for the drill rigs. 

1255
01:03:56,680 --> 01:03:58,360
It was good money, but hard 
work. 

1256
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,480
One day we got sent to a block 
about 40 kilometers north of 

1257
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,720
town. 
The foreman told us the cut 

1258
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,160
lines were grown in and we had 
to brush them out again. 

1259
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:09,760
It was hot and the mosquitoes 
were bad. 

1260
01:04:10,640 --> 01:04:13,840
The first two hours were normal.
We chainsawed brush and dragged 

1261
01:04:13,840 --> 01:04:16,160
logs. 
At about 9:00 we smelled rotten 

1262
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:18,320
meat. 
At first I thought it was a dead

1263
01:04:18,320 --> 01:04:21,760
moose because bears kill moose 
all the time, but the stink got 

1264
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:25,840
stronger until my eyes watered. 
Then we heard snapping trees. 

1265
01:04:26,240 --> 01:04:28,280
I called to the other two to 
shut their saws. 

1266
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:31,520
We stood listening. 
The brush was dead quiet except 

1267
01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:34,480
for cracking wood and a low 
grumble that made my hair stand 

1268
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:36,560
up. 
My buddy said maybe it was a 

1269
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:39,080
bear bluffing. 
I've seen bears run off or 

1270
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,680
circle but never stand and break
trees for no reason. 

1271
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:46,000
We heard a deep breath, then a 
tree about 8 inches thick fell 

1272
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:47,720
over and hit the ground with a 
boom. 

1273
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,000
I was shaking. 
I turned and saw branches 

1274
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,400
swaying. 
Then out came something huge and

1275
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:57,040
black on 2 legs. 
It stood on the line looking at 

1276
01:04:57,040 --> 01:04:59,400
us. 
Its chest was wide as a barrel 

1277
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,320
and its arms hung past its 
knees. 

1278
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:03,960
It had patches of lighter hair 
on its shoulders. 

1279
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,800
I could see its teeth when it 
pulled its lips back. 

1280
01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:09,880
It stepped closer and slammed 
its hand on a tree. 

1281
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,480
The tree cracked loud and bent 
sideways. 

1282
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:14,760
My buddy swore and dropped his 
saw. 

1283
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:18,440
The creature let out a deep roar
that made my guts feel cold. 

1284
01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,880
I dropped my saw too. 
The third guy scream and bolted 

1285
01:05:21,880 --> 01:05:24,680
down the cut line. 
I turned to run but slipped on a

1286
01:05:24,680 --> 01:05:26,840
wet log. 
I heard that thing crashed 

1287
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,600
through the willows and felt it 
so close behind me I thought it 

1288
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,920
was going to grab my neck. 
I got up and ran like I never 

1289
01:05:32,920 --> 01:05:36,040
ran before. 
We didn't stop until we hit a 

1290
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,080
gravel Rd. maybe half a 
kilometre out. 

1291
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:42,280
We found the third guy kneeling 
by a culvert crying at the 

1292
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,080
truck. 
We called the foreman and lied. 

1293
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:47,240
We said we saw a big grizzly and
refused to work that block. 

1294
01:05:47,640 --> 01:05:51,080
He laughed and said OK, but to 
this day we know it was not a 

1295
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:54,040
bear. 
A month later a new crew had to 

1296
01:05:54,040 --> 01:05:56,680
finish that same block. 
They told us they found big 

1297
01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,320
footprints in the mud and lots 
of ripped up trees. 

1298
01:05:59,840 --> 01:06:02,240
They finished fast and never 
talked about it again. 

1299
01:06:03,280 --> 01:06:06,360
I stayed in seismic 2 more years
but I never went back north of 

1300
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,360
Peace River. 
I still dream about that big 

1301
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:12,280
black Sasquatch showing its 
teeth like it hated us. 

1302
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,880
I wish I'd never seen it, but 
sometimes I feel lucky too. 

1303
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,960
Now when I hear tree knocks or 
loud crashes in the Bush, I 

1304
01:06:19,960 --> 01:06:22,600
leave right away. 
Some things do not want you 

1305
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:24,600
there. 
We were too young to know that 

1306
01:06:24,600 --> 01:06:34,800
then, but I know now. 
In September 2017, I was working

1307
01:06:34,800 --> 01:06:38,320
for an outfitter north of 
Hinton, AB, guiding hunters for 

1308
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,960
elk and mule deer. 
The area we used was remote 

1309
01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:45,680
foothills country full of old 
cut blocks, thick spruce stands 

1310
01:06:45,800 --> 01:06:48,440
and deep Creek valleys where 
animals like to hide during the 

1311
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,920
day. 
I've been guiding for five years

1312
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:53,760
by then and felt at home out 
there, even when I spent nights 

1313
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:55,920
alone in a spike camp far from 
Rhodes. 

1314
01:06:57,000 --> 01:07:01,120
That year I had a hunter from 
Texas who wanted a big elk, so 

1315
01:07:01,120 --> 01:07:04,280
we set up a wall tent camp about
20 kilometres from the nearest 

1316
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:06,640
gravel Rd. 
We use quads to haul in our 

1317
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,720
gear, then hiked from camp each 
day. 

1318
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,400
On the third evening, the wind 
died down after sunset and the 

1319
01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:15,400
forest turned so still that 
every step we made through the 

1320
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:18,880
underbrush seemed to echo. 
We had cow called for half an 

1321
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:22,280
hour near a swampy Meadow and 
we're just about to give up when

1322
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:24,520
I heard sticks breaking up the 
slope behind us. 

1323
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:28,360
Thinking it might be a bull elk 
coming in silent, I motioned for

1324
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,640
the hunter to kneel down beside 
a spruce tree. 

1325
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:33,440
While I kept scanning the edge 
of the trees for any movement. 

1326
01:07:34,280 --> 01:07:37,240
I could feel a prickly feeling 
on my neck even before I saw 

1327
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:40,240
anything, like the forest itself
was holding its breath. 

1328
01:07:40,840 --> 01:07:43,840
Then, between two thick spruce 
trunks, I caught sight of 

1329
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:47,160
something dark and upright, 
swaying a bit from side to side,

1330
01:07:47,320 --> 01:07:49,520
like it was trying to get a 
better look at us without 

1331
01:07:49,520 --> 01:07:53,560
stepping into the open. 
At first I thought maybe it was 

1332
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:56,920
a big black bear standing up on 
its hind legs, but this shape 

1333
01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:00,080
was taller than any bear I'd 
ever seen in this area, and the 

1334
01:08:00,080 --> 01:08:04,240
way it moved didn't look right. 
It made no sound other than an 

1335
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:07,400
occasional snap of a branch 
under foot, but each time it 

1336
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:10,880
shifted its weight I could see a
huge shoulder and an arm hanging

1337
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:13,440
low, swinging slightly like a 
person's would. 

1338
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:17,040
I felt my heart beating so hard 
I was afraid the hunter would 

1339
01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:19,319
hear it. 
He whispered something to me, 

1340
01:08:19,319 --> 01:08:21,960
but I didn't answer. 
I just kept staring at the dark 

1341
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,080
shape until it stepped fully 
into a patch of fading light 

1342
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:28,800
about 50 yards away. 
What I saw made my chest feel 

1343
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:31,920
tight and my throat dry. 
It was not a bear. 

1344
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:36,279
It stood tall, well over 7 feet,
with wide shoulders and thick 

1345
01:08:36,279 --> 01:08:39,560
legs planted apart like it was 
ready to move fast if it needed 

1346
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:41,680
to. 
Its head looked slightly 

1347
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:45,319
conical, and the hair covering 
its body was dark but not pitch 

1348
01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:48,240
black, more like a deep brown 
with lighter streaks on the 

1349
01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:52,520
sides where the sun caught it. 
It didn't snarl or growl, but it

1350
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,560
did something worse. 
It let on a deep grunt, almost 

1351
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:59,399
like a muffled roar, held inside
its chest, and then it slowly 

1352
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:03,200
bent forward, placing its long 
arms on its knees as if studying

1353
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,240
us. 
I could see the outline of its 

1354
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:08,880
eyes beneath a heavy brow, dark 
pits locked right on us. 

1355
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:11,960
The hunter beside me was frozen 
stiff. 

1356
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:14,800
I could hear him breathing in 
short gasp through his nose, 

1357
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:16,680
afraid to move or make any 
sound. 

1358
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,439
For what felt like forever but 
must have been only 20 seconds, 

1359
01:09:20,680 --> 01:09:23,640
the thing just crouched like 
that, looking at us without any 

1360
01:09:23,640 --> 01:09:25,840
fear. 
Then it stood up full height 

1361
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,800
again and stepped sideways 
behind a screen of spruce. 

1362
01:09:29,279 --> 01:09:31,479
We could hear it moving off 
through the timber, each 

1363
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,359
footfall heavy enough to crack 
sticks like gunshots. 

1364
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:38,200
We stayed there on our knees 
until the sound faded away 

1365
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:41,319
downhill toward the Creek. 
When I finally got the courage 

1366
01:09:41,319 --> 01:09:44,319
to stand up, my knees were so 
weak they almost gave out. 

1367
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:48,080
The hunter kept asking me what 
that was, but I told him to keep

1368
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:49,800
quiet until we were back at 
camp. 

1369
01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:53,920
That night in the wall tent, 
neither of us slept much. 

1370
01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:56,400
Around 3:00 in the morning, I 
heard what sounded like 

1371
01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:58,640
something brushing against the 
canvas outside. 

1372
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,280
At first I stepped out with my 
rifle ready and checked around 

1373
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:04,200
the camp. 
I didn't see anything out of 

1374
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,080
place except for a set of faint 
impressions in the Moss by the 

1375
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,280
Creek. 
Each print was bigger than my 

1376
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:12,400
boot by at least half again, and
I wear a size 12. 

1377
01:10:13,040 --> 01:10:16,280
The stride between the prints 
was nearly 6 feet from heel to 

1378
01:10:16,280 --> 01:10:18,720
heel. 
I didn't show the hunter, but I 

1379
01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:22,360
knew what had left them. 
We cut our hunt short and packed

1380
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:25,800
up camp by noon. 
The hunter didn't argue on the 

1381
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,760
right out. 
He stared straight ahead, not 

1382
01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:30,440
saying much. 
Back at the lodge, he tried to 

1383
01:10:30,440 --> 01:10:33,000
tell other guys what we had 
seen, but nobody took him 

1384
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,280
seriously. 
They laughed and said he must 

1385
01:10:35,280 --> 01:10:36,840
have seen a big moose in the 
trees. 

1386
01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:39,960
I didn't argue with them, I just
kept my mouth shut. 

1387
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:44,080
Since that night I still guide 
if I have to hunt there. 

1388
01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:46,600
I stick to daylight hours and 
keep my rifle close. 

1389
01:10:47,040 --> 01:10:49,840
I know now there's something big
and smart living in those hills 

1390
01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,320
that watches from the shadows 
and if it wants you gone you 

1391
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,920
will feel it in your bones. 
I've heard stories from old 

1392
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:59,760
trappers about Harry men in 
these woods, but I never paid 

1393
01:10:59,760 --> 01:11:01,960
much mind until I looked one in 
the eye. 

1394
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:06,320
Now when the forest goes dead 
quiet and I smell something like

1395
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:10,520
wet fur and sour Musk, I back 
away slow and never look back. 

1396
01:11:16,850 --> 01:11:19,650
I've lived near Caroline, 
Alberta for most of my life. 

1397
01:11:20,090 --> 01:11:23,130
My wife and I bought a small 
place about 5 kilometres West of

1398
01:11:23,130 --> 01:11:27,250
town back in 2011. 
It's not much, just a double 

1399
01:11:27,250 --> 01:11:30,410
wide on a piece of land that 
backs onto crown land thick with

1400
01:11:30,410 --> 01:11:33,930
spruce and Poplar trees. 
We like the quiet and the space,

1401
01:11:34,200 --> 01:11:37,240
and at first the only trouble we
ever had was the occasional bear

1402
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:39,920
getting into the garbage or a 
moose trampling the garden 

1403
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:42,440
fence. 
That changed in the fall of 

1404
01:11:42,440 --> 01:11:45,520
2018. 
I can remember it clear as day 

1405
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:47,800
because it started the week 
before Thanksgiving. 

1406
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:53,520
We have an old male malamute 
named Rocco, Big dog, over £100.

1407
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,880
He's the kind of dog who never 
flinches at coyotes or even a 

1408
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,640
bear nosing around. 
He would growl and bark until 

1409
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:01,480
whatever it was. 
Gave up and left. 

1410
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,920
It started one night when my 
wife and I were watching TV in 

1411
01:12:04,920 --> 01:12:07,200
the living room. 
Rocco was lying by the front 

1412
01:12:07,200 --> 01:12:10,280
door, which has a half window, 
around 10 at night. 

1413
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,120
He sat up and looked toward the 
kitchen, ears up, nose 

1414
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,600
twitching. 
I thought maybe a raccoon was on

1415
01:12:15,600 --> 01:12:18,360
the deck, so I stood up and 
turned on the porch light, but 

1416
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:22,040
saw nothing through the glass. 
Rocco wouldn't stop growling low

1417
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:25,280
in his chest, so I stepped out 
and shone my flashlight around 

1418
01:12:25,280 --> 01:12:27,120
the yard. 
But there was nothing there 

1419
01:12:27,120 --> 01:12:29,080
except a few deer tracks in the 
gravel. 

1420
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:32,640
I shrugged it off, and we went 
to bed later without another 

1421
01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:35,000
thought. 
But around 3:00 in the morning, 

1422
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:38,600
both my wife and I woke up to a 
dull bang on the far side of the

1423
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:40,840
house, right where the spare 
bedroom is. 

1424
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,000
It wasn't loud, like a door 
slamming, but it was heavy 

1425
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,200
enough to make the dresser 
inside rattle a bit. 

1426
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,800
Rocco started barking from the 
hallway, but when I got up to 

1427
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:52,200
check, he wouldn't go down that 
end of the trailer. 

1428
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:55,680
He just stood behind me, whining
and pushing his nose against my 

1429
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:57,880
leg like he wanted me to go back
to bed. 

1430
01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:02,040
I didn't see anything that 
night, but the next day I walked

1431
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,880
all around the trailer. 
There in the soft dirt near the 

1432
01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,520
spare room window, were too 
dense in the soil, like 

1433
01:13:07,520 --> 01:13:11,000
footprints but bigger than my 
boots and spaced wide apart. 

1434
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:14,680
I couldn't see toes because the 
dirt was loose, but the shape 

1435
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:18,520
was long and round at the front.
I told myself maybe a bear had 

1436
01:13:18,520 --> 01:13:21,640
stood up against the siding, but
I knew in my gut that wasn't 

1437
01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,880
right. 
The next night it got worse. 

1438
01:13:25,280 --> 01:13:28,320
Just after midnight, we heard 
what sounded like heavy steps on

1439
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:31,280
the porch. 
Rocco slunk behind the couch, 

1440
01:13:31,440 --> 01:13:33,720
tail between his legs, whining 
like a puppy. 

1441
01:13:34,480 --> 01:13:37,120
I grabbed my hunting rifle from 
the rack by the back door, 

1442
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,720
flipped on the porch light, and 
yanked open the door. 

1443
01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:42,840
Nothing. 
No wind, no animal. 

1444
01:13:42,840 --> 01:13:45,800
I could see just the woods 
beyond the yard, all black and 

1445
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,320
still. 
But I swear I caught a sour 

1446
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,840
smell drifting on the cold air, 
like wet dog and rotting leaves.

1447
01:13:52,800 --> 01:13:55,040
Every night for that whole week,
it came back. 

1448
01:13:55,560 --> 01:13:58,320
Sometimes it would wrap on the 
walls just under the windows. 

1449
01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:01,360
Other times we heard a tapping 
or sliding something along the 

1450
01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:04,240
siding. 
Twice we found fresh scrapes in 

1451
01:14:04,240 --> 01:14:07,520
the paint in the morning, high 
up where no raccoon or any other

1452
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:11,200
animal could reach. 
The scariest was Thursday night.

1453
01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:15,080
We were lying in bed, both awake
because we expected it by now. 

1454
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,640
Around 2:00 in the morning, we 
heard a slow dragging sound by 

1455
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:21,880
the bedroom window, like 
something big brushing its side 

1456
01:14:21,880 --> 01:14:25,280
or hand along the wall. 
Then we heard the boards on the 

1457
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:28,400
porch creak again, but this time
the steps were heavier. 

1458
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,680
And then there was a pause and a
loud whack against the wall near

1459
01:14:31,680 --> 01:14:34,320
the front door. 
It rattled the pitcher frame off

1460
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:36,840
its nail. 
Rocco was under the kitchen 

1461
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,040
table by then, too afraid to 
even bark. 

1462
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:43,240
My wife whispered to me not to 
go outside, but I couldn't just 

1463
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:46,040
lie there anymore. 
I pulled on my boots and coat, 

1464
01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:49,320
put a round into the rifle, and 
stepped out onto the porch. 

1465
01:14:50,040 --> 01:14:52,600
The yard light barely reached 
the tree line, but I could feel 

1466
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:54,480
something standing there, just 
out of view. 

1467
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:58,120
It was so quiet except for my 
own breathing and Rocco whining 

1468
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:01,160
behind the door. 
I yelled out for whatever it was

1469
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:04,760
to leave before I fired, though 
my hands were shaking bad enough

1470
01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:06,480
that I doubt I could have aimed 
straight. 

1471
01:15:07,320 --> 01:15:10,000
Something moved behind the old 
woodshed, big enough to block 

1472
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,440
out the stars. 
For a moment I didn't see eyes 

1473
01:15:12,440 --> 01:15:15,400
or fur, but I heard the Bush 
rustle and what sounded like 

1474
01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:18,560
deep chest breathing. 
I didn't fire because I didn't 

1475
01:15:18,560 --> 01:15:21,480
know where it was exactly and I 
didn't want to hit my own shed 

1476
01:15:21,480 --> 01:15:25,920
or the propane tank. 
After that, we left every light 

1477
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:28,520
on all night. 
We called the RCMP to ask if 

1478
01:15:28,520 --> 01:15:31,560
anyone had seen prowlers or a 
bear, but they just said to call

1479
01:15:31,560 --> 01:15:34,120
back if we saw something clear 
enough for them to check. 

1480
01:15:34,800 --> 01:15:36,760
I didn't tell them I thought it 
was a Sasquatch. 

1481
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:38,480
They would have laughed me off 
the phone. 

1482
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,560
The next day I talked to an old 
neighbor down the road. 

1483
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:46,000
He said he had heard stories for
years about big footprints up 

1484
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,280
along the river West of town, 
but nobody talked about it much 

1485
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:51,600
because they didn't want people 
thinking they were drunk or 

1486
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:54,000
crazy. 
We did our. 

1487
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,640
Best to ignore it, but Friday 
night was the worst. 

1488
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,840
Around 1:00 in the morning, my 
wife shook me awake because she 

1489
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:02,640
heard breathing right by the 
window next to her side of the 

1490
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,000
bed. 
I held my breath and listened, 

1491
01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:08,320
and sure enough, I could hear a 
faint, steady huffing sound, 

1492
01:16:08,640 --> 01:16:11,200
like a big animal sniffing 
around just outside. 

1493
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:15,400
Then came a single slow thump 
against the wall, as if it 

1494
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:17,560
pressed its hand flat and pushed
gently. 

1495
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:22,320
Rocco was cowering under the 
blankets at our feet, trembling 

1496
01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:25,840
so hard the bed shook. 
I felt cold sweat running down 

1497
01:16:25,840 --> 01:16:28,960
my back, and for 10 minutes we 
lay there, frozen, until the 

1498
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,760
breathing stopped and we heard 
heavy steps crunching away 

1499
01:16:31,760 --> 01:16:33,920
across the gravel, back toward 
the woods. 

1500
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,240
In the morning, I found fresh 
marks on the siding. 

1501
01:16:37,360 --> 01:16:40,320
Long smears like muddy fingers 
had been dragged across. 

1502
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:43,520
There were more of those wide 
dents in the soft ground, too, 

1503
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:46,360
leading around the side of the 
trailer and off toward the Bush 

1504
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:50,280
behind our barn. 
I spent the next day stringing 

1505
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:52,880
motion lights and hammering up 
some plywood over the lower 

1506
01:16:52,880 --> 01:16:55,160
windows. 
We even let Rocco sleep on the 

1507
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,680
bed that night, hoping he would 
bark if it came back. 

1508
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:01,400
But it never did. 
Just as suddenly as it started, 

1509
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:04,760
it was gone the next week. 
No more banging, no more 

1510
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:07,000
footsteps, no more breathing at 
the windows. 

1511
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,160
Rocco slowly went back to 
sleeping by the front door 

1512
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:13,680
instead of hiding under tables. 
But my wife still keeps heavy 

1513
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:17,240
curtains pulled tight at every 
window, even on hot summer days.

1514
01:17:18,120 --> 01:17:20,880
We never told the town folks 
exactly what we thought it was. 

1515
01:17:21,120 --> 01:17:24,200
Some people would say cougar or 
bear or just kids messing 

1516
01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,120
around. 
But I've tracked bears. 

1517
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,720
I've shot coyotes. 
I know what moose look like in 

1518
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,840
the yard. 
Nothing moves like that. 

1519
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:34,640
Nothing stands that tall, and 
nothing makes a dog like Rocco 

1520
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:44,380
shiver or crawl under the table.
I grew up in northern Alberta 

1521
01:17:44,420 --> 01:17:47,740
near a tiny spot called Little 
River, halfway between Valley 

1522
01:17:47,740 --> 01:17:51,360
View and Fox Creek. 
It's mostly oil field traffic on

1523
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:54,880
the highway, farmers on the side
roads, and endless Bush as far 

1524
01:17:54,880 --> 01:17:57,840
as you can see. 
I always loved that about home, 

1525
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:00,760
how you could be alone in the 
spruce and Poplar and not see 

1526
01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:02,560
another soul for days if you 
wanted. 

1527
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:06,360
But now I don't camp back there 
alone anymore, not since the 

1528
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:11,560
summer of 2014. 
I was 24 at the time, single, 

1529
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,960
working at a service rig out of 
Fox Creek, saving up to buy a 

1530
01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:18,560
quad and maybe a truck camper. 
My crew was on break for two 

1531
01:18:18,560 --> 01:18:22,160
weeks in August, so I packed up 
my old tent, a cooler and my dog

1532
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:25,360
Buck, and headed to a spot I 
liked by the Little Smoky River.

1533
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:29,720
It was about 15 kilometres off 
the gravel, no signs, no cell 

1534
01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:33,200
service, just an old oil lease 
Rd. that turned into a pair of 

1535
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:35,000
ruts. 
I liked it that way. 

1536
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,680
I set up camp at a bend in the 
river where the banks are low 

1537
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,520
and there's a nice gravel bar 
for fishing. 

1538
01:18:40,520 --> 01:18:44,160
Grayling Buck ran up and down 
the bank, barking at nothing and

1539
01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:47,560
chasing dragonflies. 
The first two days were perfect.

1540
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:50,880
I fished, read my book, cooked 
fish over the fire. 

1541
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:54,440
At night I would hear coyotes in
the distance and Buck would lift

1542
01:18:54,440 --> 01:18:56,280
his head and listen, but never 
bark. 

1543
01:18:57,280 --> 01:19:00,160
On the third night, just after 
sundown, I was cleaning a fish 

1544
01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:02,800
by the water while Buck sniffed 
around behind the tent. 

1545
01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:06,040
I heard him whine, which was 
strange because he's never been 

1546
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:08,680
a coward. 
I looked up and saw him crouched

1547
01:19:08,680 --> 01:19:11,520
under the truck, staring into 
the trees behind the camp. 

1548
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:15,400
I stood up, wiping my hands, and
followed his line of sight. 

1549
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,320
At first I thought a grizzly was
near, but then I smelled it. 

1550
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:23,000
It was a wet, rotten smell, like
meat spoiling in the sun. 

1551
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,560
The air was still and thick, and
suddenly all the forest sounds 

1552
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:29,360
went quiet. 
Buck started growling low under 

1553
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,400
the truck. 
I called him, but he wouldn't 

1554
01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:34,080
come out. 
I felt the hair on my arms stand

1555
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:35,960
up. 
I grabbed my flashlight and 

1556
01:19:35,960 --> 01:19:38,040
shone it toward the trees. 
Sweeping slow. 

1557
01:19:38,440 --> 01:19:40,720
I saw nothing but shadows and 
spruce trees. 

1558
01:19:41,280 --> 01:19:44,200
I tried to laugh it off, saying 
to myself that it had to be a 

1559
01:19:44,200 --> 01:19:47,600
bear wandering close, but that 
smell stayed on the wind all 

1560
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,280
night. 
Buck refused to leave the truck,

1561
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:52,480
so I ended up sleeping in the 
front seat with him. 

1562
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:57,360
The next morning was bright and 
normal again, birds singing, sun

1563
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,840
shining. 
I told myself I was being silly 

1564
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:02,720
and maybe there was a carcass 
rotting nearby that I hadn't 

1565
01:20:02,720 --> 01:20:05,480
found. 
Buck seemed fine now, so we 

1566
01:20:05,480 --> 01:20:07,720
spent the day fishing and hiking
up river a bit. 

1567
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:11,800
That night I moved the truck 
closer to the tent, just in 

1568
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:14,680
case. 
Around midnight, I woke up to 

1569
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:16,960
Buck whining and scratching at 
the tent door. 

1570
01:20:17,480 --> 01:20:20,440
At first, half asleep, I thought
he needed out to go pee. 

1571
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:23,960
Then I heard footsteps circling 
the tent, crunching in the 

1572
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:27,640
gravel, slow and heavy. 
It wasn't a deer and it wasn't a

1573
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:30,040
bear. 
I know the sound of four legs, 

1574
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:33,720
and this was 2 legs. 
Buck pressed himself against my 

1575
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:36,920
sleeping bag, shaking so bad I 
can feel it through my back. 

1576
01:20:37,360 --> 01:20:40,520
I lay there, holding my breath, 
listening to those steps stop 

1577
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:44,560
just outside the nylon wall. 
Then came a low grunt, deep and 

1578
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:47,160
rough, so close I felt it in my 
chest. 

1579
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:50,960
I didn't dare move. 
I didn't know how long we stayed

1580
01:20:50,960 --> 01:20:53,480
frozen like that. 
The footsteps started again, 

1581
01:20:53,480 --> 01:20:56,800
slow circles, then a sudden loud
sniff, like something was 

1582
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:59,600
sucking the scent off me, right 
through the thin fabric. 

1583
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:03,080
Buck let out a tiny whine and 
the steps stopped. 

1584
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:06,200
Then it walked away, crashed 
through the brush behind the 

1585
01:21:06,200 --> 01:21:08,320
tent. 
I could hear branches snapping 

1586
01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,720
and a weird rumble that sounded 
like speech, but too low and too

1587
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:16,000
garbled to make sense of. 
I didn't sleep at all at first 

1588
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:17,600
light. 
I packed up the whole camp in 

1589
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,200
record time. 
I found huge tracks in the mud 

1590
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:22,800
by the river, wide as my boot 
and twice as long. 

1591
01:21:23,440 --> 01:21:25,320
I didn't measure them, didn't 
take a photo. 

1592
01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,680
I just got out of there. 
Two nights later, back home at 

1593
01:21:28,680 --> 01:21:31,640
the parents acreage outside 
Valley View, I was lying on my 

1594
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,920
old bed trying to convince 
myself it was over. 

1595
01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:37,600
Around 3:00 in the morning, Buck
started barking like mad at my 

1596
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:40,720
bedroom window. 
I jumped up, flicked on the yard

1597
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,520
light, and there, behind the 
wire fence near the tree line, 

1598
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:46,840
stood a shape so big it made the
spruce look skinny. 

1599
01:21:47,440 --> 01:21:50,120
I couldn't see its face, but the
yard light caught a glimpse of 

1600
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:51,760
its shoulder and the slope of a 
head. 

1601
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:55,320
Buck barked himself hoarse, but 
the thing didn't flinch. 

1602
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:59,000
It stood there maybe 10 seconds,
then turned and melted back into

1603
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,560
the trees. 
The next day, I found the fence 

1604
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:04,240
bent down where it must have 
crossed. 

1605
01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,280
For a week, Buck wouldn't go 
outside alone. 

1606
01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:09,480
I wouldn't either. 
At night. 

1607
01:22:09,480 --> 01:22:12,120
Sometimes I'd hear a tapping 
sound at the back corner of the 

1608
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:15,880
house, just past my window, like
fingers drumming on the siding. 

1609
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:19,200
I never saw it again at home, 
but I know it watched. 

1610
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,240
I still live there, still hunt, 
still fish. 

1611
01:22:22,400 --> 01:22:25,960
But I don't camp alone. 
Buck died two years ago and now 

1612
01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:28,680
when I head out to the Bush, I 
take friends and I keep watch 

1613
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:31,600
when the fire burns down. 
I know there's something out 

1614
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:35,040
there and I can't help but 
wonder if it was the same one 

1615
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:37,800
that came to the river camp and 
then followed me back home. 

1616
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:41,520
It makes my skin crawl to think 
it might have tracked my scent 

1617
01:22:41,560 --> 01:22:45,240
all those miles across creeks 
and farmland just to stand 

1618
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:48,520
outside my window. 
I still can't decide if I'm 

1619
01:22:48,520 --> 01:22:51,240
lucky or cursed to have crossed 
paths with it twice. 

1620
01:22:51,680 --> 01:22:54,720
All I know is not many people 
around here can say they've had 

1621
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:58,960
a Sasquatch come that close not 
once, but twice and live to tell

1622
01:22:58,960 --> 01:23:06,440
it. 
I still feel my skin crawl when 

1623
01:23:06,440 --> 01:23:09,200
I think back to what happened to
me and my brother Mark at Ram 

1624
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:12,520
River Campground. 
It was August 2015. 

1625
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:15,600
We'd taken a weekend off work to
go camping and hiking. 

1626
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,960
I'd been to that spot a few 
times before, usually just for a

1627
01:23:18,960 --> 01:23:22,240
night or two, because it's quiet
and set in the forest where it 

1628
01:23:22,240 --> 01:23:25,280
feels deep and wild. 
We got there on a Friday 

1629
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:28,040
afternoon and picked a site near
the edge of the loop, away from 

1630
01:23:28,040 --> 01:23:30,280
the other campers. 
There were maybe four other 

1631
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:33,080
sights taken, but you couldn't 
hear much but the wind through 

1632
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,680
the spruce and the odd Raven. 
We set up our tent, got a fire 

1633
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:39,960
going, and sat up late cooking 
sausages and telling stories. 

1634
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:43,960
That first night felt fine. 
It got really chilly after 

1635
01:23:43,960 --> 01:23:45,960
sunset, but the fire kept us 
warm. 

1636
01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:49,360
We turned in around midnight, 
tired from the drive and the 

1637
01:23:49,360 --> 01:23:51,800
short hike we did on the Ridge 
Trail before supper. 

1638
01:23:52,400 --> 01:23:54,840
I slept like a log till maybe 
3:00 in the morning. 

1639
01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:58,600
I woke up first because I 
thought I heard footsteps, heavy

1640
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,080
ones, on the gravel drive just 
behind our tent. 

1641
01:24:01,640 --> 01:24:03,640
I lay still at first, listening 
hard. 

1642
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,680
This was steady and heavy, like 
a grown man pacing back and 

1643
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,880
forth. 
Then it stopped, right behind 

1644
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,360
the tent, and I heard what 
sounded like breathing. 

1645
01:24:12,840 --> 01:24:16,040
Deep, steady breaths that almost
seemed to rattle like chest 

1646
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:19,200
congestion. 
I poked Mark awake and mouthed 

1647
01:24:19,200 --> 01:24:21,440
for him to listen. 
He froze too. 

1648
01:24:21,800 --> 01:24:23,640
Neither of us dared unzip the 
tent. 

1649
01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:27,360
It walked around the back again,
real close, then leaned on the 

1650
01:24:27,360 --> 01:24:30,280
side of the tent. 
I could smell something rank and

1651
01:24:30,280 --> 01:24:33,440
damp, like wet fur and earth 
mixed with old rot. 

1652
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:37,320
After what felt like forever, it
moved off into the trees behind 

1653
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,560
the site. 
We heard branches snap for a 

1654
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:43,240
minute, then silence. 
Mark and I didn't sleep after 

1655
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:44,920
that. 
We just laid there waiting for 

1656
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:49,320
any sound until the sun came up.
The next morning we checked 

1657
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,480
behind the tent. 
There was a clear line where the

1658
01:24:51,480 --> 01:24:54,600
Moss was mashed down and a few 
spruce saplings bent at odd 

1659
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:56,960
angles. 
I could see something big had 

1660
01:24:56,960 --> 01:24:59,720
circled the tent more than once,
flattening the grass. 

1661
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:03,280
Mark said maybe a black bear, 
but I knew by the way it pressed

1662
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:06,280
the tent and the breathing that 
it was standing on 2 legs. 

1663
01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:10,000
We stayed another day because we
didn't want to seem scared. 

1664
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:13,480
We did a short hike to a lookout
point, but both of us felt on 

1665
01:25:13,480 --> 01:25:16,320
edge the whole time. 
By dusk we were back at the 

1666
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:19,720
fire, talking quietly, jumping 
at every sound in the Bush. 

1667
01:25:20,440 --> 01:25:23,920
That second night was worse. 
Just before 3, we heard it come 

1668
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:26,400
back. 
Same heavy steps on the gravel. 

1669
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:29,880
It pushed against the side of 
the tent, this time hard, and 

1670
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,000
thumped the back wall like it 
was testing it. 

1671
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,800
Then it moved around to the 
front and we could hear it 

1672
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:37,320
breathing again. 
Maybe two or three feet from our

1673
01:25:37,320 --> 01:25:39,720
heads. 
Mark whispered that he could see

1674
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:42,720
a shadow move past the moonlight
coming through the tent fabric. 

1675
01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,840
Suddenly it slapped the tent 
wall twice, hard enough that it 

1676
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:50,120
shook the whole tent. 
Our small propane Lantern fell 

1677
01:25:50,120 --> 01:25:52,600
over inside. 
Mark grabbed the hatchet we 

1678
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:55,320
always kept beside a sleeping 
bag, but neither of us had the 

1679
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:58,600
nerve to open the flap. 
We heard it grunt low, then 

1680
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,440
stomp off into the Bush, 
crashing through the trees like 

1681
01:26:01,440 --> 01:26:05,040
a bulldozer. 
Neither of us spoke until dawn. 

1682
01:26:05,440 --> 01:26:08,840
We quickly packed up and I found
deep scuff marks in the gravel. 

1683
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:12,280
Some tree branches were snapped 
and my chest height and higher. 

1684
01:26:12,800 --> 01:26:15,600
Mark said maybe someone was 
playing a prank, but I don't 

1685
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:18,600
know anyone that big or anyone 
that smells that bad. 

1686
01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:22,480
Since then I've gone back for 
day hikes but never stayed the 

1687
01:26:22,480 --> 01:26:25,800
night at Ram River again. 
I love the area, the air is 

1688
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:29,080
clean, the views are beautiful, 
but I always feel like something

1689
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,880
is standing just inside the tree
line. 

1690
01:26:35,600 --> 01:26:39,360
It was September of 2017 when I 
had the one experience that 

1691
01:26:39,360 --> 01:26:41,240
changed how I see the woods 
forever. 

1692
01:26:41,880 --> 01:26:44,920
I grew up in Alberta near Red 
Deer and spent most of my free 

1693
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:47,440
time camping and hiking anywhere
I could get to. 

1694
01:26:47,440 --> 01:26:51,520
On a weekend that fall, I wanted
to explore some areas West of 

1695
01:26:51,520 --> 01:26:53,920
Rocky Mountain House. 
I've never hiked before. 

1696
01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:57,720
A friend told me about a rough 
trail past Prairie Creek. 

1697
01:26:58,040 --> 01:27:00,280
He said there was a small 
clearing up high where you could

1698
01:27:00,280 --> 01:27:02,320
pitch a tent and have a view for
miles. 

1699
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:06,280
I packed my gear on a Friday, 
loaded my old Ford and drove out

1700
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:08,920
alone. 
I planned to spend 2 nights hike

1701
01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:11,080
in camp and come out Sunday 
afternoon. 

1702
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:14,880
I didn't take my dog because he 
was recovering from a cut paw. 

1703
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:19,520
I almost wish I had him with me.
By late afternoon I found the 

1704
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:21,680
trailhead. 
It wasn't marked, but I had a 

1705
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:23,920
paper map and some GPS on my 
phone. 

1706
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:26,920
I hiked in with my pack for 
about an hour and a half, 

1707
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:29,800
climbing gently through spruce 
and some Poplar stands. 

1708
01:27:30,480 --> 01:27:33,600
It was cool but calm. 
I remember thinking how quiet it

1709
01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:36,160
was. 
Just before dusk I found the 

1710
01:27:36,160 --> 01:27:38,800
clearing my buddy described. 
It was perfect. 

1711
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:42,440
Flat ground, some boulders for a
windbreak, and a view over the 

1712
01:27:42,440 --> 01:27:44,840
tops of dark trees rolling on 
forever. 

1713
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:48,920
I set up my one man tent, built 
a small fire and cooked a can of

1714
01:27:48,920 --> 01:27:51,920
Stew in my old tin pot. 
I felt good. 

1715
01:27:52,200 --> 01:27:54,760
There was a bright Half Moon 
rising and the air smelled 

1716
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,920
clean. 
Around 10 I crawled into my 

1717
01:27:57,920 --> 01:28:00,320
sleeping bag and lay there 
listening to the fire pop 

1718
01:28:00,320 --> 01:28:02,800
outside. 
It burned down to coals while I 

1719
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,840
drifted in and out. 
Then, sometime around midnight, 

1720
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,600
I woke up to a noise that made 
my skin prickle. 

1721
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:12,120
I heard heavy crunching steps in
the brush behind my tent. 

1722
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,880
Not little steps, I mean solid, 
weighty footfalls. 

1723
01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:19,920
Step, step, pause. 
I lay frozen, staring at the 

1724
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:22,040
roof of my tent. 
My mind raced. 

1725
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:24,440
Moose, maybe, but they walked 
different. 

1726
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:27,920
It sounded too heavy, and it 
sounded 2 legged. 

1727
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:32,760
The steps moved closer, slow but
steady, till they were right at 

1728
01:28:32,760 --> 01:28:36,040
the back of my tent. 
I held my breath and I swear I 

1729
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,840
could hear something breathing 
through the fabric, a low 

1730
01:28:38,840 --> 01:28:42,560
dragging sound, in and out, like
big lungs working slowly. 

1731
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:45,880
Then I heard a grunt, deep and 
almost raspy. 

1732
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:48,360
I didn't move, I didn't even 
blink. 

1733
01:28:48,880 --> 01:28:52,000
It circled the tent, crunching 
over sticks and old pine cones, 

1734
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:54,080
moving to the front where my 
boots at. 

1735
01:28:54,480 --> 01:28:57,880
It stopped again. 
I heard it sniffing wet sucking 

1736
01:28:57,880 --> 01:28:59,760
sniffs that made my stomach 
turn. 

1737
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:04,120
Suddenly it thumped the tent. 
I almost whimpered, but I bit my

1738
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:06,320
lip. 
The thing stood there a few more

1739
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:09,800
seconds, then I heard slow steps
moving back into the trees. 

1740
01:29:10,400 --> 01:29:14,360
I lay in my bag until dawn, wide
awake, every noise outside 

1741
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,920
making me flinch. 
When the sun rose, I crawled out

1742
01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:20,480
and saw tracks where the pine 
needles were mashed flat and 

1743
01:29:20,480 --> 01:29:22,840
moved. 
They were big human shaped 

1744
01:29:22,840 --> 01:29:26,280
prints, way too big for my 
boots, which are a size 11. 

1745
01:29:26,840 --> 01:29:30,400
I counted 4 in a line before the
marks vanished into hard ground.

1746
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:34,560
I told myself it might not come 
back and I was safe in daylight.

1747
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:38,440
I stayed close to camp that day,
gathering wood and eating jerky.

1748
01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:42,920
I didn't dare leave my clearing.
The woods felt too heavy, like 

1749
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,920
the shadows we're watching. 
Every time I heard a branch 

1750
01:29:45,920 --> 01:29:50,360
crack, I spun around fast. 
Just before dark, I built the 

1751
01:29:50,360 --> 01:29:53,680
biggest fire I could manage. 
I dragged deadfall and broke up 

1752
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:56,480
logs until I had a blaze that 
lit up the whole clearing. 

1753
01:29:56,880 --> 01:29:59,160
I thought fire would keep 
anything shy away. 

1754
01:30:00,520 --> 01:30:02,720
Around midnight, the woodpile 
was burning low. 

1755
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:06,120
I sat by the flames, poking at 
the coals when I heard a loud 

1756
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:09,280
crack down the hill behind me, 
like a thick branch snapping 

1757
01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:12,440
into two. 
I stood up fast, heart banging 

1758
01:30:12,440 --> 01:30:14,720
so loud I swear I heard it in my
ears. 

1759
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:19,160
Then came another crack, closer,
then a deep grunt that sounded 

1760
01:30:19,160 --> 01:30:22,400
almost like a cough. 
I grabbed my hatchet and my 

1761
01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:24,480
flashlight. 
I flicked the beam toward the 

1762
01:30:24,480 --> 01:30:27,920
trees, but all I saw was black 
tree trunks and drifting mist. 

1763
01:30:28,600 --> 01:30:32,560
Then something moved, a shape 
too big to be a man, too upright

1764
01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:36,400
to be anything else I knew. 
It stepped half between a spruce

1765
01:30:36,440 --> 01:30:39,240
and I caught a glimpse of matted
fur and a broad shoulder. 

1766
01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,000
It grunted again, louder, and 
took two steps closer to the 

1767
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:45,920
edge of the clearing. 
I backed up until my calves hit 

1768
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,520
my tent. 
The fire popped and I swear 

1769
01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:51,920
whatever it was flinched back 
into the trees but didn't leave.

1770
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:56,080
I couldn't see eyes, but I felt 
it stare like heat crawling over

1771
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:59,040
my skin. 
Then it did something that made 

1772
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:03,320
me lose control of myself. 
It roared a horse chest deep 

1773
01:31:03,400 --> 01:31:07,920
roar, not loud like a lion, but 
raw, that vibrated my chest. 

1774
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:12,160
I made sure I had my hatchet, 
grabbed my pack and bolted 

1775
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:14,920
straight down the trail, 
flashlight bouncing off every 

1776
01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:17,200
tree. 
I didn't stop running until I 

1777
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:19,760
saw the glint of my truck in the
moonlight at the trailhead. 

1778
01:31:20,440 --> 01:31:22,520
I didn't look in my rearview 
mirror once. 

1779
01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:26,840
Since then, I've been back to 
the Rockies plenty of times, but

1780
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,040
never that same spot again. 
I don't care what people say 

1781
01:31:30,040 --> 01:31:32,600
about imagination or 
misidentifying a moose. 

1782
01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:35,840
I know what I heard and I know 
what I saw just standing inside 

1783
01:31:35,840 --> 01:31:38,080
the trees. 
There's no doubt that it was a 

1784
01:31:38,080 --> 01:31:46,620
Sasquatch. 
Back in the summer of 2018, I 

1785
01:31:46,620 --> 01:31:50,220
took my 2 teenage sons camping 
near Brazeau Reservoir, 

1786
01:31:50,300 --> 01:31:54,340
southwest of Drayton Valley. 
It was early July, warm days and

1787
01:31:54,340 --> 01:31:57,140
cool nights, and the forest 
there always gave me a sense of 

1788
01:31:57,140 --> 01:31:59,280
peace. 
I grew up around these woods, 

1789
01:31:59,400 --> 01:32:02,400
fishing the creeks and picking 
berries with my grandma, so I 

1790
01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:05,240
always felt at home. 
I figured it was the perfect 

1791
01:32:05,240 --> 01:32:08,480
place to show my boys how to 
rough it a bit away from phones 

1792
01:32:08,480 --> 01:32:10,800
and TV. 
We got there on a Friday 

1793
01:32:10,800 --> 01:32:13,160
afternoon. 
The small campground was quiet, 

1794
01:32:13,280 --> 01:32:15,440
only one other camper down near 
the boat launch. 

1795
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:19,120
We picked a spot at the far end,
tucked close to where the trees 

1796
01:32:19,120 --> 01:32:20,920
grew thick before the marsh 
started. 

1797
01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:25,000
We set up the tent, got a fire 
going and cooked hot dogs while 

1798
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:26,800
the sun dipped low behind the 
tree line. 

1799
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:30,240
The first night we sat by the 
fire for hours. 

1800
01:32:30,480 --> 01:32:34,080
My youngest, Ethan, got sleepy 
and went into the tent, but my 

1801
01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:37,000
oldest, Ben, stayed out poking 
the coals and talking about 

1802
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:38,680
fishing plans for the next 
morning. 

1803
01:32:39,720 --> 01:32:42,920
Around 11, the frogs in the 
marsh got loud, croaking like a 

1804
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:45,000
choir. 
Then all of a sudden they 

1805
01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,560
stopped dead. 
It got so quiet my ears buzzed. 

1806
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:51,240
I glanced at Ben, but he didn't 
seem to notice. 

1807
01:32:51,760 --> 01:32:54,360
I listened hard and thought I 
heard a slow rustle back in the 

1808
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:57,760
trees behind our camp. 
It sounded heavy, like a big 

1809
01:32:57,760 --> 01:32:59,840
animal moving slow through thick
brush. 

1810
01:33:00,440 --> 01:33:03,400
My first thought was maybe it 
was a moose, but moose make more

1811
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:05,960
noise pushing through 
undergrowth and they don't sneak

1812
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:08,840
around. 
The rustling stopped for a bit. 

1813
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:11,840
I threw a couple more logs on 
the fire, telling myself it was 

1814
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:14,800
nothing. 
We turned in not long after that

1815
01:33:15,040 --> 01:33:17,520
and I lay in my sleeping bag 
trying to push the sound out of 

1816
01:33:17,520 --> 01:33:21,000
my head. 
Sometime after midnight, I woke 

1817
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:24,280
up to a weird noise. 
It was a faint tapping sound, 

1818
01:33:24,440 --> 01:33:26,200
like sticks being knocked 
together. 

1819
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:30,240
Tap, tap, then silence, then 
tap, tap, tap. 

1820
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:32,920
It came from back in the trees 
near the marsh. 

1821
01:33:33,520 --> 01:33:36,360
My pulse jumped. 
I knew raccoons sometimes messed

1822
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:39,000
around at campsites, but this 
didn't sound like a small 

1823
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:41,280
critter. 
It sounded like wood on wood. 

1824
01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:45,240
I strained my ears, lying dead 
still while the boys slept 

1825
01:33:45,240 --> 01:33:47,800
beside me. 
The tapping came closer. 

1826
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:51,480
Then I heard a low grunt, maybe 
20 or 30 feet from the tent. 

1827
01:33:52,720 --> 01:33:55,080
Then something brushed against 
the back wall. 

1828
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,240
My stomach nodded so tight I 
couldn't breathe right. 

1829
01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:00,680
For maybe a minute. 
It was quiet. 

1830
01:34:01,480 --> 01:34:03,440
Then came a long, dragging 
sniff. 

1831
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:07,440
Like huge lungs smelling. 
I swear I felt that sniff move 

1832
01:34:07,440 --> 01:34:10,200
the canvas a bit. 
I thought about unzipping the 

1833
01:34:10,200 --> 01:34:13,360
door and shining my flashlight, 
but I was too scared to see what

1834
01:34:13,360 --> 01:34:16,760
was out there. 
Finally the sniffing moved away.

1835
01:34:17,200 --> 01:34:20,400
I listened hard until I couldn't
keep my eyes open and I drifted 

1836
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:23,080
off before dawn the next 
morning. 

1837
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:24,600
The boys didn't know a thing 
about it. 

1838
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,480
They were busy roasting bread 
over the fire and talking about 

1839
01:34:27,480 --> 01:34:29,920
fish again. 
I checked around the back of the

1840
01:34:29,920 --> 01:34:33,480
tent and saw big scuffed patches
in the leaf litter, like someone

1841
01:34:33,480 --> 01:34:36,560
had been standing there. 
I shrugged it off, half hoping 

1842
01:34:36,560 --> 01:34:39,880
it was a dream. 
We spent that day by the water 

1843
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:42,840
trying to catch walleye. 
By sundown, the boys were wiped 

1844
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:44,520
out. 
They crawled in their sleeping 

1845
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:47,160
bags and were out cold before 
the fire even died down. 

1846
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:51,200
I sat by the embers with my camp
mug, staring into the woods. 

1847
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:54,520
Not long after I heard the frog 
stop again. 

1848
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:58,400
Then came a single sharp crack, 
like a branch being snapped. 

1849
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:02,280
It echoed through the trees. 
My breath caught at my throat. 

1850
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:05,640
I strained to listen, and just 
past the edge of the firelight I

1851
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,800
saw a huge dark shape move 
between 2 trees. 

1852
01:35:09,280 --> 01:35:11,600
It was upright, thick from top 
to bottom. 

1853
01:35:12,560 --> 01:35:16,080
I stood up fast, hard, banging. 
The shape didn't come closer, 

1854
01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:17,840
but stayed right there in the 
shadows. 

1855
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:22,200
Then came that tapping again, 
louder this time, maybe 2 sticks

1856
01:35:22,200 --> 01:35:25,920
clacking in rhythm. 
It lasted maybe 10 seconds, then

1857
01:35:25,920 --> 01:35:29,040
silence. 
I backed toward the tent, eyes 

1858
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:31,920
locked on the trees. 
I could hear deep, raspy 

1859
01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:35,200
breathing again, and once a low 
grunt rolled out that made my 

1860
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:38,400
skin crawl. 
Then a rock, a decent sized one,

1861
01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:41,200
hit the dirt near the fire and 
rolled right to my foot. 

1862
01:35:42,040 --> 01:35:44,120
I ducked inside the tent and 
zipped it tight. 

1863
01:35:44,560 --> 01:35:47,440
I lay awake with my hunting 
knife in hand, listening to slow

1864
01:35:47,440 --> 01:35:49,200
footsteps crunching in the 
underbrush. 

1865
01:35:49,360 --> 01:35:53,120
For what felt like hours, they 
circled our camp more than once.

1866
01:35:54,040 --> 01:35:57,480
Every time I almost drifted off,
a stick crack or a grunt would 

1867
01:35:57,480 --> 01:36:01,600
jolt me awake again. 
By dawn, I made-up my mind. 

1868
01:36:01,760 --> 01:36:04,440
We packed up that morning. 
No arguments from the boys. 

1869
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:06,960
They thought I just wanted to 
beat the weekend traffic. 

1870
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:10,000
We tossed everything in the 
truck and drove back to Dayton 

1871
01:36:10,000 --> 01:36:17,120
Valley before breakfast. 
Back in late September 2020, I 

1872
01:36:17,120 --> 01:36:19,960
was working as a pipeline 
surveyor up near Rainbow Lake, 

1873
01:36:20,120 --> 01:36:23,280
Northwest Alberta. 
It's way up there, close to the 

1874
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,480
Northwest Territories. 
I've been on this contract for 

1875
01:36:26,480 --> 01:36:29,600
about 3 weeks already. 
My crew rotated out every two 

1876
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:32,280
weeks, but I stayed longer to 
finish some mapping work. 

1877
01:36:32,880 --> 01:36:36,080
So for a few nights it was just 
me and my quad, staying in an 

1878
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:38,920
old work trailer we kept near a 
cut line deep in the brush. 

1879
01:36:39,800 --> 01:36:43,160
I'd seen plenty of wildlife over
the years, wolves, black bears, 

1880
01:36:43,200 --> 01:36:46,200
even a Wolverine once. 
Nothing really rattled me too 

1881
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:48,200
bad. 
I knew how to handle myself out 

1882
01:36:48,200 --> 01:36:52,680
there alone, or so I thought. 
On this trip I was mapping an 

1883
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:55,880
old right of way, riding the 
quad as far as I could, then 

1884
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:57,760
walking in when the brush got 
too thick. 

1885
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:02,200
Each evening I'd radio my check 
in, cook up canned soup or Stew,

1886
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:05,400
and fall asleep with a propane 
heater keeping me toasty warm. 

1887
01:37:06,040 --> 01:37:08,760
It was quiet, just the wind 
through the trees and the odd 

1888
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:12,480
coyote yipping far off. 
But by the 4th night alone, 

1889
01:37:12,600 --> 01:37:14,080
things started to feel 
different. 

1890
01:37:14,560 --> 01:37:17,400
That evening I heard banging 
near the tool shed out behind 

1891
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:19,920
the trailer. 
It was dark, so I grabbed my 

1892
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:22,760
flashlight and stepped outside, 
thinking maybe a bear was 

1893
01:37:22,760 --> 01:37:26,840
sniffing the garbage drum. 
When I swung the beam around I 

1894
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:28,600
saw nothing but trees in my 
shed. 

1895
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:31,720
The banging stopped as soon as I
opened the trailer door. 

1896
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:35,760
I walked over, looked around, 
saw no tracks in the soft dirt. 

1897
01:37:36,200 --> 01:37:39,400
I chalked it up to wind and went
back inside, telling myself I 

1898
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:41,560
was getting jumpy after so many 
days alone. 

1899
01:37:42,520 --> 01:37:45,080
The next night, around 2:00 in 
the morning, I woke up to a 

1900
01:37:45,080 --> 01:37:47,000
feeling something was near the 
trailer. 

1901
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:49,680
I sat up and I heard what 
sounded like footsteps. 

1902
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:53,800
Slow crunching footfalls. 
I held my breath and listened. 

1903
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:57,600
They stopped at my window. 
Then I heard three soft taps on 

1904
01:37:57,600 --> 01:38:00,000
the wall. 
My mouth went dry. 

1905
01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:03,320
I wanted to peek out the blinds,
but my gut told me not to. 

1906
01:38:03,960 --> 01:38:06,880
I lay back down and stared at 
the ceiling, listening to that 

1907
01:38:06,880 --> 01:38:09,280
slow walking. 
Circled the trailer two or three

1908
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:11,960
more times before it drifted off
toward the trees. 

1909
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:16,600
At sunrise, I went out, more 
curious than scared Now I found 

1910
01:38:16,600 --> 01:38:20,000
Prince, big broad Prince, 
pressed deep into the soft earth

1911
01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:23,000
around the trailer. 
I counted 10, maybe 12 steps 

1912
01:38:23,000 --> 01:38:26,240
circling the whole unit. 
That morning I called my 

1913
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:29,240
supervisor and asked him to send
another guy up early. 

1914
01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:32,080
Said I didn't feel right staying
solo much longer. 

1915
01:38:32,480 --> 01:38:34,680
He said someone would come up 
after the weekend. 

1916
01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:39,240
That night, my last night alone,
was when it all blew wide open. 

1917
01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:43,320
I was dozing in my bunk when a 
loud crash slammed me awake. 

1918
01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:46,760
Something hit the side of the 
trailer so hard the whole unit 

1919
01:38:46,760 --> 01:38:50,040
rocked on its jacks. 
I bolted upright, heart 

1920
01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,400
hammering, listening to thuds 
outside like fists pounding 

1921
01:38:53,400 --> 01:38:55,760
metal. 
Then I heard deep, rough 

1922
01:38:55,800 --> 01:38:58,120
breathing. 
It was so close I could hear the

1923
01:38:58,120 --> 01:39:01,640
inhale and exhale, wet and 
Radley, like a bear's breath, 

1924
01:39:01,640 --> 01:39:04,800
but deeper. 
Next something scraped down the 

1925
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:08,360
side of the trailer, nails or 
claws from the roofline almost 

1926
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:11,240
to the ground. 
The sound made my hair stand on 

1927
01:39:11,240 --> 01:39:13,640
end. 
I held my breath, afraid to even

1928
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:16,640
move the blankets. 
Suddenly the whole trailer 

1929
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,160
shifted again. 
I realized this thing, whatever 

1930
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:22,520
it was, was pushing or rocking 
the whole unit, trying to tip 

1931
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:24,720
it. 
Maybe the jacks creaked. 

1932
01:39:24,880 --> 01:39:27,200
My water jug fell off the 
counter with a bang. 

1933
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:30,200
I grabbed my rifle out of the 
gear bag under my bed. 

1934
01:39:30,680 --> 01:39:33,600
I couldn't see anything from 
inside, but I knew if this thing

1935
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,560
tore the door off, I'd need 
something. 

1936
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:39,280
I cocked it and sat there on the
floor, waiting for the next hit.

1937
01:39:40,240 --> 01:39:42,680
After what felt like forever, 
the pushing stopped. 

1938
01:39:43,040 --> 01:39:45,560
I heard heavy footsteps 
crunching away toward the cut 

1939
01:39:45,560 --> 01:39:48,160
line. 
It paused, let out a grunt so 

1940
01:39:48,160 --> 01:39:52,720
low I felt it in my bones. 
Then silence at first light. 

1941
01:39:52,720 --> 01:39:55,600
I packed my clothes and gear. 
I left the trailer unlocked and 

1942
01:39:55,600 --> 01:39:58,640
rode the quad out fast, 20 
kilometres back to the gravel 

1943
01:39:58,640 --> 01:40:01,360
road and didn't stop until he 
reached the highway where the 

1944
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:04,680
crew trucks were staged. 
I waited there until my relief 

1945
01:40:04,680 --> 01:40:07,480
showed up at noon. 
He laughed when I told him, but 

1946
01:40:07,480 --> 01:40:09,800
when we drove back he went quiet
fast. 

1947
01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:12,920
One side was dented in where 
something huge had slammed it, 

1948
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:17,040
and there were muddy handprints.
Actual prints, 5 fingers bigger 

1949
01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:19,360
than a dinner plate smeared on 
the back window. 

1950
01:40:20,400 --> 01:40:22,400
We towed that old trailer out 
that same day. 

1951
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,560
Boss asked if I wanted to finish
the last days of the contract, 

1952
01:40:25,800 --> 01:40:28,600
but I said no thanks. 
I don't mind bears and wolves, 

1953
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:30,960
but I didn't want to spend 
another night out there with a 

1954
01:40:30,960 --> 01:40:34,880
Sasquatch running around. 
Since then I've gone back to 

1955
01:40:34,880 --> 01:40:38,240
Rainbow Lake for work, but I 
won't stay solo in a trailer out

1956
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,320
in those woods again. 
Not ever. 

1957
01:40:42,480 --> 01:40:46,400
Thanks for listening everyone. 
Before I go tonight, I just want

1958
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:48,960
to remind you my new book is out
on Amazon. 

1959
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:52,320
I would be deeply grateful if 
you could grab a copy to show 

1960
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:56,040
your support. 
Thank you so much and until next

1961
01:40:56,040 --> 01:40:57,200
time, take care.