I had a pretty terrifying thing happen to me when I was fly fishing out in a remote stream in the ozarks. Like you I'm still not sure exactly what I saw. All I know is that I will never be able to run faster through the woods with a fly rod and waiders on than I did that day.
Dude, you gotta tell us about it. There are a lot of things in this world people have seen that their eyes can't believe. Once someone has seen something like that is it ok to share what you have seen, even if you don't believe it.
Good on you, not only for talking about this, but for actually filing a sighting report! If more people filed strange sightings, we would have a much better understanding of all kinds of unexplained phenomena.
Thank you. You are such a credible witness and you would have been great in Finding Bigfoot. I live in southern Indiana and had some experiences. Bigfoot is kept a secret and I guess that’s the way it should be. That is why we have national parks, forests and areas across the US designated as wildlife refuges I guess the creatures do their best to stay away from humans and have the right to live and do their thing in peace.
I was camping in the ridge country of Indiana and I left a nice pot of kraut, potatoes, and sausage on the table near freezing that night. In the morning I found the clean kettle 50' into the woods, but the lid neatly left on the table as if placed by a dexterous hand. Proud to have cooked such a treat for him/them.
Makes you feel crazy man but I swear you ain't the only one. Whatever my buddy & I encountered scared the hell outta us. It was at night & it stayed in the dark, thick stuff, acting like a gorilla throwing a tantrum. It chased us all the way out of the woods & back to the trailhead where we parked my truck. Was in the Sumter National Forest, here in SC. We seriously thought we were going to die, no joke. I know the area better these days & feel like I know where to stay away from but I still worry about it. Always armed now & heavily armed when staying out overnight. Cool story, thanks for sharing it. Be safe out there 👍
Thanks. I do believe you. They're here in Ga. also. Had an encounter with what had to be a Squach 31 years ago several miles into the woods while walking back up a creek. I'll never forget the smell( cross between a rutting buck & rotten meat)or the tracks in the sand that were literally on top of my tracks & my friends.
He said He doesn't know what it was Thought it was bear Ran on two legs Faster than any person could.... I've watched a bear walk around our trash barrels up the mountain. They don't run "fast" on two legs.
What part of Georgia? I have a friend who had a close and long visual encounter in georgia near the Etowah river In north georgia not too far from i75 . it hid behind a tree, peaked around the tree to look at him and after another few seconds of looking and staring, it ran off. Same guy enountered another one throwing rocks and sticks, 10 miles away another friend has them on their minnisota property and his brother has had 5 encounters. They are really living and breathing creatures.
Good on you sir for having the guts to tell that story. Sad that good, honest, hardworking people get called crazy for seeing something they didn't want to see. I subscribed because I'm addicted to bass fishing.
Came across this quote from a lady who has a channel that recounts stories of Sasquatch encounters, ‘Absence of proof is not proof of absence.’ Lots of people in the scientific world mock these accounts from hundreds, possibly thousands of people who have had these experiences. Apparently, both the US and Canadian governments have sufficient proof that they exist but think it’s best to not acknowledge it for obvious reasons. Lots of Sasquatch researchers have come to this conclusion.
Aloha Matt, My name is Chris Miranda. Thank you for sharing your encounter. I’ve had multiple Sasquatch encounters that changed my life as well. I totally get that uneasy feeling you get in the woods after you’ve encountered these creatures/beings. You can’t do anything outdoors anymore without being on guard. It got so bad for me that I stopped a lot of my outdoor activities after my encounters. Mostly the overnight activities. Here’s why: I seen a 9 foot tall Sasquatch while I was hitting rocks with an aluminum bat. My best friends little brother was tossing the rocks. Every time I hit the rocks they made a loud “ping” noise from impacting the bat and as they flew through the air they made a “whizzing” noise. Very cool sounding and I suspect that’s what brought the Sasquatch in to see what was going on. I was 15 and I believe he was around 12-13. Both of us seen it. After it left where we were it went to my friends neighbors house. It destroyed their chicken coupe then killed and took all of their chickens. We heard the commotion. When I was 16 I seen a Sasquatch family. The large male of the group was screaming/yelling at me while trying to rip out a large Juniper Tree. A large female was escorting a smaller Sasquatch away from where I was. The smaller Sasquatch was injured and the large male was doing a damn good job of distracting me while the other two were trying to get away. The only reason I seen the other two was due to the fact that the male was making these fast glances towards them and I picked up on that then looked where he was looking. I agree that you should check out Steve Isdahl here on TH-cam @ The Facts By Howtohunt.com Steve is a well known professional hunting/fishing guide who lives in Canada. He’s had multiple encounters himself and is a standup no bullshit kind of guy. His site is a safe place to email your Sasquatch siting(s) without the risk of ridicule. You can email your encounter(s) to tellmystory@howtohunt.com
Yes sir Scary, as, Hell ! When they looked through our windows at night was the freakiest. We lived in a double-wide trailer over 3 feet off the ground because of the skirting my dad installed around the trailer. To the top of our bedroom windows had the be about 9 feet. This thing had to lean over to look in. Not a lot, but I still have nightmares to this day that this thing is gonna get me and I’m 51 years old.
@340dustersrule would you be willing to share your encounter with bigfoot Odyssey? The gentleman's name is Kerry and the channel is legit..your story is one of the best I've heard and I'd love to hear more about it as I'm positive bigfoot Odyssey would too. The details like the head turning.. Shaking the tree, all legitimate. Please share more of it with us.
I would love to hear you tell your story man. Idk want to drudge up something that's traumatic for you but if you're okay enough to speak on it by now, there are thousands of us who'd love to hear it. Steve at howtohunt is a good channel too but I'd love to hear you on Bigfoot Odyssey's channel.
@@RResidentAlienNN already sent my stories to Steve. He’s read one but this Sasquatch siting thing goes deeper than just seeing them. There are spacecraft that have flown directly over me that I believe are involved in this whole thing. I sent Steve my craft sighting too but with him trying to keep them separate, and I’m okay with that, I doubt he’d be able to read them as he’d be swamped with UFO/UAP sighting stories that might overwhelm the Sabe/Sasquatch truths he reads.
Hey Matt, Searcher here, Thanks for sharing your experience, your not alone, but not everyone has the guts to share their story for fear of Ridicule, I'm 74 years old and been out in the bush all my life . 6 years ago I saw one while I was out at my hunting camp, it was 50 yards from me and there was no doubt in my mind , I knew what I was looking at. I don't know how you feel but it kinda changed my way of thinking, and the way I feel when I'm out in the bush. I'm not as comfortable as before knowing that these things are out there. but I never talked about it to anyone except places like this to get it off my chest. I get my satisfaction when I hear people discussing bigfoot, The big question, are they Real, is it BS , I like you Matt know the answer to that queston.
Matt, there are tens of thousands of sightings across just this country alone. Then there are thousands more in Canada. You are far from being alone in your experience. I would simply say embrace it and when the time is right to go ahead and share it with others.
Thanks for telling your story. I think it will help others to tell their stories. There has to be a lot more people that haven't reported their sightings than have. We need them to have the courage to explain what they saw to the rest of us so we can try and figure out what's really going on. Burying our heads in the sand seems like a really bad idea.
Hey Matt, I live in NH now but had a sighting of my own in Iowa... Little Turkey Creek area. My dad was there with me and a week later, he handed me a news paper, where 30+ people all witnessed the same thing... A huge/massive hair covered bi-pedal creature, moved towards the Greyhound bus where everyone was. The driver and the passengers moved away from the bus as fast as they could. There was damage to the bus afterwards but nothing of value was taken.
My father and a coworker saw one in the woods in New Brunswick years ago. It was long before the term Bigfoot ever made it to our area. He described it as a Bear with a face like a man that walked on its hind legs. They surprised it on a woods road and as far as they could see it going through the woods it never went down on all fours. Dad had always been a woodsman, but after that he was very cautious of going into the woods after supper time.
@@ERLong-ww7yn I'm in North Carolina and Every state in South East USA has a Brunswick County on the Coast. Your New Brunswick is just farther North. Is it Nova Scotia, Oak Island area?
It is a life changing event for sure. There are a few podcasts that are dedicated to sharing these types of encounters. Bigfoot Odyssey is very professional, Sawdustt Beast is a nice mixture of professional yet fun and Mogollon Monster is laid back but both are places for people to come share their encounters with others. I would encourage anyone who has had an encounter to share their experiences, it helps others who are trying to make sense of what they witnessed.
Iron Dogger, did Kerry over at Bigfoot Odyssey ever go on that Florida BF hunting trip? I remember they were raising money for it. Life got hectic and I forgot all about it. When I went back to his channel, there were all these looonnng live streams. I didn't see any titles that seemed related to the planned trip. I really enjoyed the earlier one-on-one interviews he and Lynda did, usually onsite with the witnesses.
@@marilyncausey9348 Yes, he did it’s called 168 and he is still editing the second half of it. It was postponed due to Covid but they managed to pull it together.
Saw one in 94 squatting at the edge of a stream on my way out to my stand. Thought was a bear until it stood up and darted across the water in two huge bounds. When back the next day with my buddy, stream is 30ft across and 4ft deep where it crossed and it made it look like a knee deep creek. Positioned my 6ft tall buddy in the sane position, what I saw was twice his width and one and a half times his height.
i'm from north central maine, back in the 80's a friend of mine and myself were walking back to my house, he was a high school friend spending the weekend at my house, it was close to midnite, it was fogging, the road was alongside a river, as we were walking, we heard something walking towards us, the road was paved, it sounding like really big bare feet slapping down on the road, just ahead of us was a street light on the corner of an intersection , we both said out loud,, what the hell is that, whatever was walking heard us and stopped, we had stopped, the fog had created a halo effect around the street light, just on the edge of the lights perimeter we both saw the outline of something really tall and wide just standing there, we freaked and ran down the intersecting road and walked the 5 mile long way around to my home, the next day, he called his mom and demanded her to come pick him up, he never came to my house again, we never talked about it after either, after he went back home, i walked back to the spot from the night before, as i walked along the riverbank, i saw giant foot prints along the edge heading straight into the water, this section of the river has several islands in the middle, i'm betting that it swam to 1 of them, i've never forgotten that night, i know for a fact that bigfoot is real
It sucks when people laugh at you and don't believe you. Please share this to how to Hunt on TH-cam. Steve is an awesome individual with a no BS attitude who has also had experiences. That goes for everyone else who sees this as well, you are not alone!
Welcome to the club buddy. Thanks for sharing your encounter. I had mine in North Missouri while bow hunting. Mid October 2006. I stumbled upon in the dark. I came around a blind corner. I think it was focused on a deer and didn’t see me until i was right up on it. I could see the deers tail jump to the right and heard the Bigfoot jumped backwards into some woods. When it did it stepped on some downed limbs. I could tell it was a padded foot and it was heavy. All that registered but i was replaying my hunt and didn’t think much of it until a few seconds later when it started following me step for step. That’s when all the info started processing. Anyway it’s a lot to type. I’ll leave it at that. Again welcome aboard.
@@MattStefanFishing Yes sir. It was the most scared I’d ever been. But after about an hour of calming down and processing it all I found comfort in knowing at any point it could have snatched the life out of me but didn’t. My bow was left in the tree. I had nothing on me but a video camera. Not knowing it was a Bigfoot following me, I charged at it twice with my arms up acting crazy trying to scare it off. My thought was i was being stalked by a mountain lion. Because of the weight and padded foot I heard when it jumped into the woods. I had no idea what it was until I got on my 4wheeler and turned it around. That’s when I saw it standing next to cedar tree looking at me. It had eye shine like animals do. I wasn’t a believer prior to that night. In fact I was ok with the idea of them not being real because of how much time I spend in the woods.
@@elijahgavin6706 I can only tell ya the portions that I saw. I only saw it’s head shoulder and arm. The rest of it was behind a cedar bush. He was standing behind. He was looking over it. My guess would be at least 8-9ft tall. It seemed slender in comparison to some others I’ve seen pictures of.
Found your channel a while back love all your helpful content! Outside of fishing also find the subject of Bigfoot very interesting. I’m glad you shared this! Thanks!
To this day I believe I saw something not sure it was big foot but dad and I both saw it it was huge tall and broad I will never forget how big it was. We were feeding hay to cattle. It walked up a five foot embankment in one step and disappeared on the other side. No one believes us but I know what we saw ..
Great story and experience Matt, thanks for sharing. One never knows, new species are discovered all the time in the oceans and jungles around the world.
I highly doubt these things are just some undiscovered ape. Once you hear thousands of encounter stories, one huge similarity is that these creatures are way more humanlike than beastly. A lot of Native American cultures describe them as another tribe. They are very humanlike, almost like a hybrid or something. We simply don't know.
1988 Working for the USDA Soil Conservation Service. Newlywed. Got transferred from NW MO to SE MO Ste. Genevieve County (we did not want to go) NW MO Counties platted on a grid Section Township Range. SE MO were based on Spanish Surveys. No rhyme or reason to them. Lots of heavy timber & hills. Lots of private lanes & locked gates. One beautiful September afternoon, no wind, quiet, not a cloud in the sky. About 62 degrees outside. Went out to check a 12-acre CRP seeding. One little field 1/2 - 3/4 mile off main road. Locked gate. Parked Gov PU on the shoulder. Started walking down a narrow-wooded lane (descending) Got to field. Surrounded by timber. Walked across to opposite side. Just me, my clip board, CRP seeding form. Seeding looked good. Brome, Timmothy, Red Clover mix. I'm knelt down inspecting it. I hear this alarming Deep Guttural Growell. From the side of field I'd entered on. Got my immediate undivided attention. OH SHIT! This is real, and you're in the moment. Something just inside the tree line was moving. Sounded like a truck going through the brush. Huge racket. You could track it. Twenty-five-foot tall treetops were shaking. It was moving away from the lane I'd entered the field from. (Thank God) I started walking back across the field. Watching the trees, hearing the underbrush. When it stopped, I took off (ascending) up the lane as fast as I could. In the end, I didn't see anything. Didn't want to see anything. Didn't feel comfortable till I got to the truck. They say SE MO has black bears. I never saw any bears. Can a bear shake 25 ft. tall treetops? I don't know. But something damn sure was. Something big. 27.5 year career. I've encountered two 80-100 lb. Cougars. (yes Missouri has them) I was rattled at 3 times (you know exactly what it is) But I never encountered anything remotely close to whatever was inside the tree line in Ste. Genevieve County that September afternoon. Yes, there has been multiple bigfoot sightings in and around Ste Genevieve, MO (I didn't know that at the time) Got promoted and transferred back home (NW MO) within 6 months of that incident.
Me and my buddy had a similar experience when we were 14. It was at night and we'd just left the woods onto a country neighborhood road. This was in rural Texas. There was a huge commotion and a large tree was shaking just like you described. Whatever it was, we never saw it. It still haunts me after nearly 40 years.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, it sticks with you. Certainly longer than my wife (10 years). Just responding showed more interest in my story than she ever did. Bitch! By-the-way, I was a surveyor for the USDA. Pond, terrace, waterway, drainage ditch, diversion, flood control structure construction. Projects designed to manage, store, divert, convey, speed up, slow down, take underground excess storm water made with earthen soil. I swear to God, the earth is flat. Guaranteed! 100% certainty. Bet the ranch.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, the memory sticks with you. Longer than my wife (10 years) Just responding to my comment showed more interest in my story than she ever did. Bitch! By-the-way, I was a surveyor w/USDA. Construction of ponds, diversions, terraces, waterways, flood control structures, drainage ditches. Practices designed to store, manage, convey, speed up, slow down, take underground, excess storm water runoff. Projects made from earthen soil. I swear, the e_rth is fl_t. Guaranteed! 100% certainty. Bet the ranch.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, it sticks with you. Longer than my wife did (10 years). Just replying showed more interest in my story than she ever had. btw This is my 3rd attempt to comment. As a land surveyor for the USDA, I mention something about earth I know to be true. Both comments were removed.
That’s a really cool story. Ive heard of a bunch of incidents like this in my state but never actually heard of anybody reporting a sighting and anything coming out of it.
I never paid much attention to the subject until I stumbled upon Sasquatch Chronicles. These guys are the real deal and they have hundreds of interviews with legitimate eye witnesses.
Hey Matt. I had a somewhat similar encounter a long time ago while camping in Tennessee. Reported it on BFRO but wasn't contacted by anyone. Out of the blue I got an email from Diva N. a producer at Animal Planet for their show. I ended up declining also as I didn't want to risk losing my security clearance with the government job I had at the time.
@@MattStefanFishing my I make a recommendation, if you have further interest in this subject check out howtohunt youtube channel, it's run by a fellow pro sportsman like yourself
1974 my family encountered a bigfoot at Shasta Lake while sleeping in the RV. 11pm, I heard it walk by, like in 2 steps. I heard the footfalls. I was too late to see it walk by. My dad was a LA Reserve Sherriff. He said it as it passed the front of the RV. 4 or 5 ft wide shoulders. Walked under the security light on the RV path. It barely made it without hitting it's head on the bulb. Strolled by with no worries.
@@MattStefanFishing I have hunting land between mole lake and Crandon. Last October my son and I were up bow hunting. We sit in elevated box blinds that at window height are about 8-9 feet. Just before light my son watched something very large on walking upright walk toward and along side his blind. He said if it would have turned it's head it could have looked right in the window. Never made a sound walking through all the fallen leaves.
Night fishing for Walleye in the Reno Bottoms between Genoa WI and Houston County MN I had an encounter with something huge I started to hear trees snapping and falling into the water I am very skeptical and didn’t believe in Sasquatch at the time but 10 minutes later I heard this very deep guttural growling from less then 100ft away you could feel it in your chest it made every hair on my body stand on end I instantly knew it was time to go the worse part was driving out the road was was flooded with deep ruts and holes in some spots I couldn’t just floor it and fly out or I would risk getting stuck or fucking up my truck so I had to carefully work my way out at 5-10mph knowing that whatever was growling at me could easily pull me from my truck and rip my limbs off I have no explanation for what it was but went back the next day and I found the snapped trees they were about 300 ft from where I was fishing in a shallow heavily wooded slough area that’s full of poison Ivy I know that no human could cover that much distance that fast in such a treacherous swampy area by foot especially at night and the trees what person has strength to snap large trees like twigs I don’t ever go fishing without a firearm anymore and I believe there is something big and terrifying roaming the swampy backwaters and bluffs along the Mississippi River
Mack, your account is 100% proof to me these beings (whatever the heck they are) are real. Why? Because that whole tree snapping deal is reported CONSTANTLY. There's no way all these stories have all these similarities by coincidence. The tree snapping/guttural growl that you can also feel are staples of sasquatch encounters. These things are seen in Asia, S America, Australia, and pretty much all over the world.
Grew up in genoa. Lots of wilderness between the bluffs. I never heard or seen anything odd tromping around the bluffs, later after I moved away I heard one
I use to live up in Wausau, and I've been all over the mountains up there, and my roommates and I have seen 'something weird' more than once when we were out hunting, fishing remote spots, hiking and cycling. One of my roommates weighed 440 lbs and every one of the things we saw outweighed him twice easily. I already believed in Bigfoot so it didn't change my life, just maybe verified what I already knew.
Firstly Matt, I need a pro-angler subscription, now I have you and you have another subscriber. Secondly, you and your fishing partner handled this circumstance like bosses. It's O.K. to NOT know what you guys saw and you're correct that neither of you owe anyone, anything. I heard a LOW growl and tree branch breaking for about 3.5 to 4 minutes at 2:00 a.m. about 65-75 ft from me on a logging road in S. Alabama in the late summer of 1985, I was 18 y/o at the time. It wasn't until 1995 that I learned tree branch breaking is a common reported experience. That was my only experience and there's been no others. It was great to hear yours and I look forward to some wonderful fishing content on your channel, be well.
Thank you for coming forward. I too have never seen one, but I had an experience once that can only be explained as something on 2 feet was walking me out of the woods and to me it seemed like a person who could see in the pitch black was walking behind me but Everytime I'd stop something would throw acorns in my direction to keep me moving all the way to my truck and when I got to my truck I herd like a huff noise and I could hear it running off on 2 feet. Scared the living hell outta me. Now if someone can explain a different animal that can do this I'm all ear, but so far the big guy is the only piece that fits
I grew up spending my winters in Northeast Iowa and my summers in West Central Alabama...both locations extremely rural. I can truthfully attest to the existence of those beings in the woods. I've only seen one up close once, but I've had too many non visual encounters to list. The close encounter was stalk hunting deer with my cousin. I had a rifle, he had a shotgun. When this 10ft tall reddish black bipedal thing came striding down a treeline less than 30 yards from us. The first thing that hit us was the stench of rotten meat mixed with skunk and sewage. Then a wave of paralyzing fear hit both of us that made us forget we even had guns in our hands. We ran for nearly 2 miles jumping creeks, barb wire fences, and thick scrub to get out of that pine forrest. The BFRO is a joke for the most part. Best to avoid them.
Have you ever been to a Zoo and seen a Gorilla run?Well they run like a guy that’s drunk 3 gallons of whisky,flopping around from side to side,unless they have their knuckles on the ground.You saw a BF mate.
In 1990, i was 16 and we lived on the edge of a state park in NC. These things made themselves known and would pace us in the woods. Run across the roof of the house and beat on the walls. We lived there for over a year. We never felt threatened but they were not shy. Once they knew we knew they were there they would come around once every week or two. Always at night tho. They are very real. They never tried to hurt us but if they were outside we stayed inside. Lol.
@@johnthornton4266 Burke County. Flat Gap and Mineral Springs mtns outside of Valdese. South Mountain State Park was behind us. Used to hunt and ride dirt bikes in there. Never felt at ease in those woods.
Late one October when I was in my twenties, I decided to spend a weekend alone in the Northeast Georgia Mountains fishing and hiking. Early one Saturday morning I dove up to a beautiful area I know in White county. It is a really remote, rugged, and beautiful area. Miles away from anything, I turned off of a little county road onto a dirt road and traveled a number of miles more. Then, I took an old road that is not maintained several miles further up into a remote wilderness area. It is a rough ride and very inaccessible. Its isolation makes it one of the best places for me to experience solitude and enjoy God’s wonderful creation. I spent most of the day trout fishing along a peaceful stream that meanders through a heavily forested area. I didn't have much luck catching fish, but I loved just being in the mountains. Few people ever come into this area -- even during the peak of the summer season. I hadn’t seen a soul for many miles before turning off of the county road and that was just fine with me. It was a very crisp day with a beautiful deep azure blue sky marked by a few billowy clouds. There was a gentle breeze that wafted the smells of the forest through the air. I could smell the aroma of the pine straw on the banks of the creek warming in the sunlight melded with an earthy scent of moss flanking nearby of trees. This blended with the gentle sounds of the gurgling creek and the birds cheerful singing made for a perfect day. Late in the afternoon I returned to my jeep and drove to a nearby grassy meadow and parked on the far side. I stowed my fishing gear and gathered my pack and supplies. I bushwhacked my way about two-thirds of the way up the mountain and found a level spot with a good view and pitched my tent there. I built a nice fire and enjoyed a simple meal. With the setting of the sun the chill in the air grew and I stoked the fire. I watched the twinkling of the stars emerge as they illuminated the night sky. I could clearly see the Milky Way and was mesmerized. I heard the mournful call of a screech owl in the distance. My mind began to wander to my childhood and I remembered hearing my grandfather talk about owls being an omen of death. I could almost hear his voice recanting the time years earlier when he sat up all night with the daughter of a neighbor who was gravely ill. He said that there was a screech owl in the yard calling all night, almost as if it was beckoning to the girl. He was startled when at one point it actually flew into the window and seemed to wrestle with the screen trying to enter the room. He had to yell and swat the screen with a paper to get it to leave. The poor little girl did not live until the morning. I was roused from this remembrance, when suddenly I felt something drop to my face. I instinctively swatted and large granddaddy long legs landed near the fire and scampered away. This was repeated several more times until I realized that there were many of these spiders in a large nearby tree and apparently the warmth of my campfire had spurred them to move. I repositioned myself away from the spiders and watched the hypnotic flames dancing above the embers as their intensity ebbed and flowed until the sometime later the fire slowly dwindled away. I climbed into the tent and eased into my sleeping bag. It felt good to relax and I was tired from the events of the day. The sounds of the night were still and I quickly drifted to sleep. A few hours later, I was suddenly jarred awake. I struggled to clear my mind and get my bearings. I wasn’t sure why I was awakened, but my muscles were tense and my breathing was quick and shallow. Then I heard it. It was a distant, but surreal sound. At first I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming, but quickly realized I was awake. I struggled to make sense of what I had heard. It seemed to come from up the mountain above where I was camped. I wasn’t sure of how far away it was, but it clearly was not close by. Then I heard it again and it sounded a little bit closer. The hair stood up on my neck and my arms were peppered with goose bumps. It was very a very strange sound. I can’t describe it adequately in words. I have never heard anything like of before or since. It was like a combination of something akin to a loud guttural growl rising in pitch until it was mixed with a scream. It lasted 4 or 5 seconds each time. But that doesn’t even begin to describe it. I reached over and upholstered my .357 magnum revolver that was beside me. I remembered thinking that it wasn't enough gun to match whatever was making those sounds. I heard it again clearly closer to camp and by my reckoning it was moving toward my camp fast. My mind raced. I quickly evaluated options. Should I exit the tent with a flashlight? Should I stay put? Then I heard it again and it was close. I had a flashback to another time as a kid listening some men at my uncle’s farm in rural South Georgia talking about seeing a panther and hearing it make a sound like a woman screaming. For a split second, I wondered if that was what I was hearing. But I as able to quickly rule it out. It was probably within 50 yards of camp and the sound I heard was not human, but it didn’t seem to be of this earth, either. I sat up and gripped my gun with both hands bracing for some creature to come slicing through the walls of my tent. Time seemed to move slowly and every sound and movement was amplified and intensified. After what seemed like an eternity I heard it again; but, moving away from camp and further down the mountain. I heard it another time or two as it faded away into the distance. It took me over an hour to get back to sleep. In the morning, I woke early and had my standard backpacking breakfast of coffee accompanied by trail mix. Before breaking camp I spent an hour or so hiking where I thought that I had heard the sounds. I never found any animal tracks or evidence of any sort. I spent the remainder of that day fishing and returned home late in the evening. I have thought about that many times since. I have also been back to that area a number of times and never heard that same eerie sound again. I basically grew up in the woods and have been in many remote areas in the Southeast U.S., Western U.S. and in Alaska. I have heard and seen just about every animal that lives in the woods and nothing sounds like this did. Some folks have speculated that it was a bobcat, but I’ve heard them many times and this sound was very different. It was a deep guttural growl combined with a roar that crescendoed into a high octave howl and scream. My skin still crawls when I replay that sound in my mind. I have also scoured the Internet listening to every conceivable animal and I have not found anything that sounds even remotely like it. I don’t guess I won’t ever know what it was.
This is some of the best comments I've ever read. Way to go! The comments is as interesting as the vid I live in WA. State, from WI. originally. I'm not a knower, but a believer. I know too many knowers out here.
My buddy and I was deer hunting in an area that has a R/R track and we used it to get from one area to another. The thing is if you ever walked tracks before you know the RR ties are spaced a little too close to walk on comfortably and if you step on every other one the step is a little long and is uncomfortable too and you would kick rocks sometimes and thats not good for deer hunting. We would walk the rail in sneakers and was super quiet and got so good at it we could walk it in the pitch black darkness. One night we was walking back together and my buddy was on one side and I was on the other going home and we hit a stretch where both sides had a 25ft tall cliff....we were being absolutely quiet and both of us heard 2 very loud breaths come out of some kind of animal on top of this cliff. We could not see what it was but you could feel its presence. To this day I always have an uneasy feeling when I'm in that area walking in the dark to deer hunt. Needless to say but we picked the pace up.
Was 8 years old and living in an area of Germantown, Wisconsin that was under new development back in 1978. I think there were only about a dozen or so homes that had been built in the sub-division so it was still very much cattle pasture and wooded areas around our new home. We would see all kinds of wildlife on a regular basis around there. But I'll never forget this day ever. It was late afternoon roughly 4:15pm or so and still had a good bit of daylight for early October in Wisconsin. A close friend and myself decided that we were going to go exploring the creek bed that ran across the street and into a small wooded area just past a cattle pasture which was located just west of our homes to look for crayfish for fish bait. We didn't get too far into the wooded area maybe 60 yards or so when my friend and I both heard a deep loud growl/grunt come from behind a tree about 30 yards ahead of us on the creek bed. It was a huge old oak tree that had been knocked down across the creek bed - roots and all! At first we both thought bear but then it stood up and peered out from behind that tree. At that moment we knew exactly what it was (definitely not a bear!!!) I dropped that crayfish bucket and we ran so fast back home that it took us several minutes of what seemed to be a lifetime before we could both catch our breath and even begin to try and talk about it. Both of us immediately told our parents what we had seen but none of them believed us at all. My friend told me his dad gave him a whooping for telling lies which made me feel bad for him because we both know what we saw. I just got a stern talking to. Either way Ray and I never went anywhere close to that wooded area again while living there that I can recall... not even to retrieve the bait bucket that I dropped. Thank God my family and I moved about two years later to Florida. I hated living there and felt very uneasy being outside by myself after that incident.
I am not interested in fishing but I have watched a few bigfoot videos recently and this came up in my feed. I have never seen you before but I can tell that you are obviously a genuine person who is telling the truth. It was definitely a bigfoot from the description you gave. Tall, very long arms, similar to a gorilla and running away from humans very quickly. They are mostly nocturnal, too, so the timing also makes sense. Thank you for sharing your experience. Just remember, where there are deer, there are bigfoot, so please be careful.
Thank you for sharing your story! My first sighting was in Canyon City Oregon in 1976 , late summer and evening. Reddish brown hair, maybe 6 feet tall, standing on the hill across the street from my house. I thought it was a woman at first but then noticed that the entire silhouette was covered in hair, back lit by the setting sun. I've seen another one on the same hill on the other side of it in 2017. Seen one camping with my ex wife at Boiling Springs Campground in Idaho. It was on all 4's then walked back and forth a couple of times. Thought it was a bear. I could see it near the edge of the parking area and where the pay station and toilets were. Through the trees was a trail and an almost full moon. It appeared to be a black bear. Then it walked by on two legs. Then around the third time it stopped and was swaying back and forth. Disappearing in the darkness on each side of the trail. The firelight helped. That lasted 15-20 minutes. 10/31/2009 The following year 11/01/2010 We were sitting around the campfire at the same location. I had started to feel uneasy, the fear, dread, and anxiety. I felt something was wrong and lied to my wife at the time, that I was cold from hunting most of the morning and it was wet snow and raining. I couldn't tell her that I was freaking out. We were loading up the supplies after she agreed to go home. 10:30pm or so and we are at the car. When from the next campsite over 30 feet away from us was this sound of a boulder being slammed to the ground and hard enough to feel the impact. She got the cooler and I balled up the tent and stuffed it in the trunk. Scared shitless, we drove around and saw nothing or no one else. Both times we were the only campers out there. Another time in August of 2016 about 6 miles south we camped off a trail. I heard a buck snort and a rock hit 2 trees and landed in the river below about 100 yards. Yeah, deer don't throw rocks. Willow Creek Campground in Idaho, we heard wood knocks from 3 different directions from the mountain sides at 2:30 am approximately. The following August camping there again, at 11pm I was walking to my campsite in the dark from the restroom. A rock hit a tree 10 feet to my right. About 5 1/2 feet up about my head height. I turned on my headlamp but no one was around and it was silent. I get back to our campsite and asked if anyone was pranking me? Just to check. They said they had been sitting next to the fire the whole time. Heard wood knocks 6 miles from Bogus Basin Ski Area near Boise Idaho. Tree knock in Garden Valley area Idaho. Tracks here in John Day Oregon where I live. Also back in 1976 seen some coming back from Eugene Oregon. Paralleled and followed at 2:30am in Winterport Maine, February 1989. Partial full moon. Taking a short cut down the railroad tracks. It walked and stopped the same time I did. Bi-pedal sounding. Didn't see it in the trees. I've been paralleled once hunting in the Alton Bog Maine. Those Sasquatch's have hundreds of names and live world wide. Thank you again for sharing your experience and you're not crazy and it sounds to me like you saw a Bigfoot. My favorite place in the world to fish is Alaska! So many diverse freshwater species to catch and eat. Then the awesome saltwater fishing is also phenomenal! Just my opinion. Take care and Have a wonderful, exciting, adventurous, happy, and healthy New Year!
You should start "Bigfoot Lures" Jigs with foot sizes like, 11- baby big foot. 13-mama bigfoot. 15 papa bigfoot etc, etc. Colors to match bigfoot sightings!
I just started watching your channel a couple weeks ago as I love to fish for smallmouths. I grew up in Southern Oregon and Northern California and have talked to several people that swore they have seen them. I now live in Idaho and there are many reports here also.
I saw my footprints in southern Oregon. Applegate to be specific. They are real. The prints were in the middle of nowhere. But they were huge and perfect. No ambiguity at all of being anything but human prints. If someone was trying to hoax the prints I saw, then they would have put them somewhere that would be easy to find. I tracked them for a couple of hundred feet until they disappeared into a rock field. I didn't see anything other than the prints that time. But I did get a glimpse of a creature later on that year as I was riding on my school bus home. It was huge and a little darker than an orangutan. But it was just a glimpse. Just saw it from the back.
One time at a family reunion my wife’s cousin happened to attend. He is a big man who has done a lot of bow hunting and actually competed and won many competitions. He was sorta socially awkward, but a nice guy and not a jokester type. I took a chance and asked him if he had ever seen a Bigfoot. I was shocked when he calmly told me that he did once while approaching a secluded fishing spot under a bridge in Texas. He said it was on the other side of the river on the bank with it’s hands in the water. They both spotted each other at the same time. It stood up and casually strolled up a steep incline. He ran away leaving all of his equipment behind. This man doesn’t joke around, and had a serious look on his face. That’s all he said.
I saw one with my friend when I was about 12 years old. It was walking across an empty corn field after the corn was cut down, broad daylight. I didn't even see it at first. My friend had to tell me to look at it twice before I knew I was looking at something out of the ordinary. When I saw the proportion of head to body ratio with no neck then the VERY long arms hanging past the knees my stomach sank to my knees. It was extremely threatening looking and it ruined me going into the woods for the rest of my life. I will not go in without another male and without being heavily armed. I know for a fact our government knows about them. The amount of people and children that have been taken by these things is very anger some to me. They should be warning people about them but of course they are ignorant and are more concerned with keeping their secrets than protecting people. The thing that really gets my goat is I would have been oblivious to it had it not been for my friend. Seriously...
@@permaguard3166- One reason is so that people aren't afraid to keep visiting state and national forests and parks, etc. I would think the parks tourist trade would suffer dramatically, no?
@@permaguard3166 - True, and that brings up another possible reason that I've heard informed people say is likely -- that hunters will then be out in large numbers trying to kill them. And that, among other concerns, wouldn't be hospitable for the many families with kids who want to be out there, too. Hard to say for sure, though.
You know what you saw. I’ve seen them too. I’m in WA st. First encounter I was 8. One saved me from a cougar attack. I grew up in the mountains so was used to seeing all sorts of animals including big predators, minus wolves at that time (mid 80’s). This Sasquatch was an older juvenile male. He’s since been around me my whole life. He’s saved me a few other times too. Also scared the crap out of me many times. They are HUGE! And fast and strong and even though I KNOW they exist….I still can’t believe they exist….it’s mind blowing. It’s more mind blowing people have been trying to keep it under wraps for so long. That needs to stop. Thanks for sharing your sighting. I’m not laughing at you. They are real beings.
@@MattStefanFishing You might want to watch the TH-cam channel, called HowToHunt (I think) because he talks about people who have bigfoot sightings. Those sightings have changed their lives. Here is a clip, that I have on my Recommended so you don't have to watch this one. No, better -- let me just grab the Clip list for you, Matt ... th-cam.com/users/proguide66videos
If you haven't seen any How to Hunt videos, I recommend you check them out. They are made by Steve Isdal, a hunting guide, and he is trying to make it acceptable for people to report their Bigfoot sightings without ridicule. He has had several sightings himself, and like many witnesses, he doesn't want to see them again, but he still spends a lot of the time in the woods, mostly hunting and fishing for himself. BFRO wants people to believe Bigfoot are apes, but there is a lot of evidence that they are an unknown hominid, and they carry human DNA in them. Keep researching, there is a lot to learn about them, if you're that interested.
He's a professional hunting guy that spends 200-250 days a year in the woods. I listen to a lot of Steve stuff. The other day he posted one in the railroad workers in Canada contractors. Show the Bigfoot tracks in the snow on the road. The railroad worker put his foot in the snow with the boot on beside it it looked like a child's foot beside this thing. Or how about the expedition do Mount Everest in the 1950s by scientists or explorers whatever you call them. And lo and behold they sent back pictures of humanoid footprints at 15,000 ft base camp. They put their ice pick there for comparison. And the service said it is a abominable snowman excuse me yeti. People believe them then because they were explored. The video is on TH-cam. Most of us live in our cities and our small towns or whatever. I don't think very many of us realize how big the forests in Canada and Russia are. I live in Mississippi I believe there's parts of this state that haven't been explored. It looks like a giant pine Forest. Also I have a buddy who lives in Oklahoma he's an Indian lives on a reservation drove semi for 30 years. Jimmy said there's a place in southeast Oklahoma that is very rugged rocks lots and lots of snakes Rattlers. Jimmy has stated to me more than once he believes there's valleys no person's been in. Right in the middle of the USA. Steve from howtohunt.com says he has more than 15,000 emails from all walks of life all over the world. Yeah I believe the world's like the ocean a lot of it hasn't been explored.
I am glad you don't care if people believe you. That tells me you are being honest. I have seen footprints in the middle of nowhere that were huge. To be a hoax, it wouldn't of been there. Hold firm in your beliefs. Don't let anyone tell you what you saw. You know what you saw. And you are honest and brave enough to tell us what you saw. Thanks for your story.
From TX. These creatures are all over the Sam Houston National Forest & Big Thicket. My husband & I had a terrifying experience near Angelina National Forest in Tx one night. Close friend had a day sighting in the Big Thicket. Just like you he thought it was a huge gorilla until it stood up and walked away like a man on 2 legs. Scared the hell out of him. People are starting to wake up and realize there's something out there. Lotta people go missing every year in our national forests.
You know what u saw and it was BIgfoot, crazy that u could care less when you saw something that’s not recognized by science. I’ve had a couple very very strange experiences that I know 100% was BIgfoot but didn’t physically see it. Those experiences literally changed my life and now I’m currently planning a BIgfoot expedition in Michigan, already been on 2. This will be a lifelong search for me until I have a physical sighting bc it’s out there and that adventure just charges my soul.
I wish I had never seen what I saw. I view everything differently now when im alone. Its not a feeling I enjoy. But I also respect the people that want to pursue the investigation...which is why I reported it in the first place. Good luck in your searching
@@MattStefanFishing thanks so much for sharing bc your story needs to be told. Unfortunately there’s lots of people who tell fake stories for whatever reason, so people think it’s a joke. When I tell my stories people laugh or say I’m crazy and it really makes me mad bc I know it sounds absolutely crazy but I know what I heard and the eyes that I seen belong on no living creature on this planet. When I heard I tell your story I could easily tell u were speaking the truth and can’t imagine what a physical sighting would do to u, my experience literally made me want to cry and for no reason at all, I wasn’t scared nor sad just the weirdest feeling ever. I love hearing stories like yours bc it makes me feel better about my experience. Ive literally went back in my head a thousand times trying to debunk my own experience bc I just can’t believe what happen to me…Makes me question everything. God Bless and hope your better able to cope with what happen to u.
What you saw Matt was a Bigfoot. There are different characteristics of them. They have their own “tribe” group. It’s NEVER 1 just wandering they have up to 5 the most keeping a watch from a distance because the juveniles tend to explore and play until they unexpectedly encounter humans like us. The woods are their domain and we should respect that. Thank god that creature didn’t tempt to approach you as some do if your close to their nests. Thank you for sharing because people must know especially going camping and hiking leading to missing persons or children, people must be aware and know their surroundings. Never’ wander alone.
Right on man, appreciate the share. It’s definitely a real thing. With the 10’s of thousands of reports all over the world we will eventually come to realize the truth behind the claims. We as humans are a very new species when it comes to this earth. We think we know what’s really out there but haven’t the slightest. And this will become clear as the years go by. Thanks for sharing man. I go out gold prospecting once a week in some pretty remote places, it’s only a matter of time before I have my own experience.
I stood just about twenty feet or less from one just before dawn in 2005 while feeding my dog, yes it didn't take too long to learn you got to watch who and where you talk about it to. My mind was trying to say it was a big ass bear but there was no way, the thing was every bit of eight feet tall and four foot wide at the shoulders and looked more human. Our eyes was locked the whole while it slowly walked away on two legs, crossed a deep creek and disappeared in a overgrown field. I couldn't move a muscle the whole time.
They are absolutely real. I've heard a handful of genuine stories like this one. People with no interest in bigfoot, that just saw something they can't explain. Appreciate the story.
I had an encounter in 93. I was deer hunting in the Savage River State Forest in Western Maryland. The ground was covered with snow and the moon was nearly full. Visibility was great. It was dark and I was camping when in the middle of things. I had a fire going and was drinking hot tea and reading a book. I heard something moving around me and casually looked around but saw nothing. The noise persisted and a horrible smell blew threw. It smelled like a dead deer that was in the summer sun for a couple weeks. I also felt like I was being watched. I got up and flashlight in one hand and rifle in the other I scanned the woods around me. I heard a whoop. This zeroed me into where the sound of walking was coming from. My hearing is really bad due to extreme exposure to gun fire while in the army. So the sound of walking blended with the wind. The whoop though that I could track. I shined my light in that direction and saw something at least 8 feet tall. Hairy, longish arms, very muscular. Scared the crap out of me. I brought my rifle to shoulder and looked at it through the scope. I could see it from the moonlight and snow covered ground. It threw a rock at me. It nearly hit my head. It was a grapefruit sized rock. I shot my 300 Winchester Magnum into the tree it was standing by and this caused it to run away. It ran very fast through the woods. I went back to camp and sat and listened for a good hour. I eventually started reading again until 2 or 3 in the morning. I hadn't heard anything after it ran away. I built the fire up and went into my tent got in my sleeping bag and slept lightly for a few hours. Everytime I woke up I'd listen for a bit before going back to sleep. When morning came I packed up and left the area. I've never hunted there again.
And there are many YT channels devoted to just that, those like Bigfoot Case Files; Facts By HowToHunt; Sasquatch Chronicles; Bigfoot Odyssey; Buckeye Bigfoot; Bigfoot Experience; Dixie Cyptid, etc. I'm guessing you are familiar with these.
Such a legend. Stay awesome. From Melbourne Australia! We have a black panther running around my area and is treated exactly the same as big foot. It's either a panther or cat on steroids. This thing tales down livestock like it's a fox in a chicken coup. I'm talking alpacas, cows, sheep, goats the lot.
I'm from Oklahoma. I used to live in West Tulsa right next to the levee for the Arkansas River and 50th Street west. Those familiar with this area will remember the oil pump that would release excess fuel with a flame. Anyway, I lived right next to it (the pump), and it was on a dead end road near this grocery store on 49th st. West. The levee was on the other side of the pump. My wife and I were sitting on our back porch one night having a smoke. There was an abandoned center block structure in the property behind the pump, it was next to our back yard. We saw a creature crouched down to our left about 100 to 150 feet. It was about 10:30 p.m. It looked like a bear. About the time we noticed it, it started moving towards us. It was kind of grumbling or growling...almost a very primal low pitched roar. As it was moving towards us, it was growing or getting bigger. Like it was going from a squat to a standing and lunging motion. We got the message LOUD and very clear! (This is my domain, get the Fudge out of my sight right now)!! My wife did a literal back flip through our screen door into the house! I had to stand up, turn and run back into the house. I slammed the doors and asked her how the hell did she get into the house without opening the door?. We were both scared and hoping that it wouldn't smash through our back door. I thought it could have been either a bear, a guy in a guilley suit, or a big pissed off dirty hairy bum in a guilly suit, or BIGFOOT. I believe,as my wife also, believe this was a bigfoot. I believe it walks the rivers and creeks. I think we caught him eating something in my backyard that he caught in the river/levee system near my house.
I can't say I saw anything, but on our first trip down the Manistee river, my son, brother-in-law, and his son had an interesting experience. On the way to the drop off, I had asked our driver what we could expect for size on fish above the Tippy Dam. I was told that the bigger fish were limited to the dam to lake Michigan, periodically nice size Northerns and walleyes, but other than that, rainbows, browns and brookies. I was feeling off that first night, and decided to rack out early. I'm normally a 4ish hour sleeper, so shortly after everyone else was asleep (or so I thought), something wakes me up, a big splash in the water, which my first thought is a big fish jumping. Then almost immediately I hear 3 more large splashes, guessing 15-20yd intervals, probably 3seconds apart, now I'm awake. Still trying to shake sleep off, I remember no big fish in this section, so I'm really confused. The same thing happened 3 more times, 4 big splashes, but I'm awake now, and it almost sounds like boat anchors being thrown in the water, best description. When the 4th set of 4 splashes happened, I inadvertently spoke out in frustration, "come on.... really!" My son heard me speak, and he says, "so you heard, that too?". I replied yeah, it's the 4th time it's happened tonight. He asked me if I knew what it was, and all I could reply with I really couldn't say. At this point, in my head, I didn't want to admit that my only explanation I could come up with was something I had never overly considered possible. By this time, I'm pissed off (which my son had NEVER seen before), and in fight mode. I reignite our camp fire, grab my axe, and continue patrolling our camp until daybreak, periodically hearing movement beyond the firelight, but never eyeshine, but the splashes also stopped. The following morning, I found out my Brother-in-law also heard it, but his son hadn't. We've done variations of the same trip probably 8 times since then, but it's never happened again. That being said, I'm not certain if I do or don't want to EVER have that experience again. Most of my life, I have been an adrenaline junkie, rock climbing, spelunking, killed a bear at 15, not to mention, 10yrs U.S. Army Infantry, including 3 deserts and a jungle. Again, not certain about ever wanting that Experience again. I'm certain plenty will call BS, that being said, have at it, my give a D broke a long time ago
Thanks for sharing your story. that would freak me out as well! I will say that when beavers are mad they slap their tails and it sounds like bowling balls hitting the water...not sure why they would be doing that if you were asleep in a tent but it would at least give you something to think about to feel more comfortable in the outdoors.
@@MattStefanFishing Every beaver slap I've ever heard has always sounded like a slap, I actually did consider the possibility, and if it was, I've not heard the concussive sucking sound I heard that night before or since, granted, outside of videos, I've only been near maybe 5-6 beaver slaps, and it startles you to know end if it's because you didn't see it before the slap. That being said, I never recalling any sort of patterns or sets of slaps. Anyways, thanx for the reply, you have a blessed day!
In my opinion. Searching for then w large groups of BFRO or whatever is pointless. Too many feet crunching and people talking. Going alone or two people max is best
I had an incident when I was moose hunting on the Ontario Quebec border. And at the time I didn’t have a camera or a phone. But this was not a bear. This was during daylight hours.All i I can tell you was that it moved so quickly through the woods everything went silent. He was at least 100 yards from me across the clearing. And ihe was at least 7 feet or more and for it to walk through this bush and disappear as easily as it did. It was unreal. This was back in 1999.
there are quite a few sightings in that area. I had an incident on the base on Petawawa in 1983. I heard the " samurai " talk around 3am. We were on top of a hill about 20 miles from any inhabited place. This was on the base close to Algonquin park. It was in february and the temp was about -30 with the windchill factor.
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I had a pretty terrifying thing happen to me when I was fly fishing out in a remote stream in the ozarks. Like you I'm still not sure exactly what I saw. All I know is that I will never be able to run faster through the woods with a fly rod and waiders on than I did that day.
does not sound like a fun run
Dude, you gotta tell us about it. There are a lot of things in this world people have seen that their eyes can't believe. Once someone has seen something like that is it ok to share what you have seen, even if you don't believe it.
@Caleb please share with us. Message Kerry at Bigfoot Odyssey. We'd love to hear more bud. You're in safe company.
thx for sharing. meet professional Steve, a hunting and fishing guide. th-cam.com/video/ThnhsgAKbQw/w-d-xo.html
Always good to run fast from a possible preditor.
Good on you, not only for talking about this, but for actually filing a sighting report! If more people filed strange sightings, we would have a much better understanding of all kinds of unexplained phenomena.
thanks!
The BFRO is not the organization to report anything to.
Thanks for being strong enough to talk about this. There's more out there than we realize.
thanks!
There are so many Bigfoot out there that they should have their own TV show.
@@ktcarl Thick as flies, road hazards really
@@ktcarl They need to since no one can seem to get a clear photo with their camera.
@@Glad2BGolden Haven't you heard? They're just naturally blurry.
Thank you. You are such a credible witness and you would have been great in Finding Bigfoot. I live in southern Indiana and had some experiences. Bigfoot is kept a secret and I guess that’s the way it should be. That is why we have national parks, forests and areas across the US designated as wildlife refuges
I guess the creatures do their best to stay away from humans and have the right to live and do their thing in peace.
thanks for watching
I was camping in the ridge country of Indiana and I left a nice pot of kraut, potatoes, and sausage on the table near freezing that night. In the morning I found the clean kettle 50' into the woods, but the lid neatly left on the table as if placed by a dexterous hand.
Proud to have cooked such a treat for him/them.
Hi I agree, they are protected in wildlife refuges like national parks.
Way too many people have seen them for them to not be real. Glad you posted this!
thanks
Makes you feel crazy man but I swear you ain't the only one. Whatever my buddy & I encountered scared the hell outta us. It was at night & it stayed in the dark, thick stuff, acting like a gorilla throwing a tantrum. It chased us all the way out of the woods & back to the trailhead where we parked my truck. Was in the Sumter National Forest, here in SC. We seriously thought we were going to die, no joke. I know the area better these days & feel like I know where to stay away from but I still worry about it. Always armed now & heavily armed when staying out overnight. Cool story, thanks for sharing it. Be safe out there 👍
that's freaky!
I'm from Westminster. 80,000 acres of National Forest here in Oconee County
I saw one about two weeks ago cross a divided 4 lane highway in 5 running strides in Sweetwater TN
Thanks. I do believe you. They're here in Ga. also. Had an encounter with what had to be a Squach 31 years ago several miles into the woods while walking back up a creek. I'll never forget the smell( cross between a rutting buck & rotten meat)or the tracks in the sand that were literally on top of my tracks & my friends.
freaky!
Skunk Ape
He said
He doesn't know what it was
Thought it was bear
Ran on two legs
Faster than any person could....
I've watched a bear walk around our trash barrels up the mountain. They don't run "fast" on two legs.
What part of Georgia? I have a friend who had a close and long visual encounter in georgia near the Etowah river In north georgia not too far from i75 . it hid behind a tree, peaked around the tree to look at him and after another few seconds of looking and staring, it ran off. Same guy enountered another one throwing rocks and sticks, 10 miles away another friend has them on their minnisota property and his brother has had 5 encounters. They are really living and breathing creatures.
@@thornyturtleranch6152 Lizella
Good on you sir for having the guts to tell that story. Sad that good, honest, hardworking people get called crazy for seeing something they didn't want to see. I subscribed because I'm addicted to bass fishing.
thanks for watching!
Steve is that you?
Came across this quote from a lady who has a channel that recounts stories of Sasquatch encounters, ‘Absence of proof is not proof of absence.’
Lots of people in the scientific world mock these accounts from hundreds, possibly thousands of people
who have had these experiences. Apparently, both the US and Canadian governments have sufficient proof that they exist but think it’s best to not acknowledge it for obvious reasons. Lots of Sasquatch researchers have come to this conclusion.
This is one of the best Bigfoot sightings stories I’ve ever heard. Thanks for sharing!
Aloha Matt,
My name is Chris Miranda.
Thank you for sharing your encounter. I’ve had multiple Sasquatch encounters that changed my life as well.
I totally get that uneasy feeling you get in the woods after you’ve encountered these creatures/beings. You can’t do anything outdoors anymore without being on guard. It got so bad for me that I stopped a lot of my outdoor activities after my encounters. Mostly the overnight activities.
Here’s why:
I seen a 9 foot tall Sasquatch while I was hitting rocks with an aluminum bat. My best friends little brother was tossing the rocks. Every time I hit the rocks they made a loud “ping” noise from impacting the bat and as they flew through the air they made a “whizzing” noise. Very cool sounding and I suspect that’s what brought the Sasquatch in to see what was going on.
I was 15 and I believe he was around 12-13. Both of us seen it.
After it left where we were it went to my friends neighbors house. It destroyed their chicken coupe then killed and took all of their chickens.
We heard the commotion.
When I was 16 I seen a Sasquatch family. The large male of the group was screaming/yelling at me while trying to rip out a large Juniper Tree. A large female was escorting a smaller Sasquatch away from where I was.
The smaller Sasquatch was injured and the large male was doing a damn good job of distracting me while the other two were trying to get away.
The only reason I seen the other two was due to the fact that the male was making these fast glances towards them and I picked up on that then looked where he was looking.
I agree that you should check out Steve Isdahl here on TH-cam @ The Facts By Howtohunt.com
Steve is a well known professional hunting/fishing guide who lives in Canada. He’s had multiple encounters himself and is a standup no bullshit kind of guy.
His site is a safe place to email your Sasquatch siting(s) without the risk of ridicule.
You can email your encounter(s) to tellmystory@howtohunt.com
holy smokes thats some crazy stuff
Yes sir
Scary, as, Hell !
When they looked through our windows at night was the freakiest. We lived in a double-wide trailer over 3 feet off the ground because of the skirting my dad installed around the trailer.
To the top of our bedroom windows had the be about 9 feet. This thing had to lean over to look in. Not a lot, but I still have nightmares to this day that this thing is gonna get me and I’m 51 years old.
@340dustersrule would you be willing to share your encounter with bigfoot Odyssey? The gentleman's name is Kerry and the channel is legit..your story is one of the best I've heard and I'd love to hear more about it as I'm positive bigfoot Odyssey would too. The details like the head turning.. Shaking the tree, all legitimate. Please share more of it with us.
I would love to hear you tell your story man. Idk want to drudge up something that's traumatic for you but if you're okay enough to speak on it by now, there are thousands of us who'd love to hear it. Steve at howtohunt is a good channel too but I'd love to hear you on Bigfoot Odyssey's channel.
@@RResidentAlienNN already sent my stories to Steve. He’s read one but this Sasquatch siting thing goes deeper than just seeing them.
There are spacecraft that have flown directly over me that I believe are involved in this whole thing.
I sent Steve my craft sighting too but with him trying to keep them separate, and I’m okay with that, I doubt he’d be able to read them as he’d be swamped with UFO/UAP sighting stories that might overwhelm the Sabe/Sasquatch truths he reads.
Hey Matt, Searcher here, Thanks for sharing your experience, your not alone, but not everyone has the guts to share their story for fear of Ridicule, I'm 74 years old and been out in the bush all my life . 6 years ago I saw one while I was out at my hunting camp, it was 50 yards from me and there was no doubt in my mind , I knew what I was looking at. I don't know how you feel but it kinda changed my way of thinking, and the way I feel when I'm out in the bush. I'm not as comfortable as before knowing that these things are out there. but I never talked about it to anyone except places like this to get it off my chest. I get my satisfaction when I hear people discussing bigfoot, The big question, are they Real, is it BS , I like you Matt know the answer to that queston.
thanks for sharing!
Matt, there are tens of thousands of sightings across just this country alone. Then there are thousands more in Canada. You are far from being alone in your experience. I would simply say embrace it and when the time is right to go ahead and share it with others.
Thanks for telling your story. I think it will help others to tell their stories. There has to be a lot more people that haven't reported their sightings than have. We need them to have the courage to explain what they saw to the rest of us so we can try and figure out what's really going on. Burying our heads in the sand seems like a really bad idea.
I think you know instinctively your not alone.
Your story will help the puzzle. Thank you.
thanks for watching
Hey Matt,
I live in NH now but had a sighting of my own in Iowa... Little Turkey Creek area. My dad was there with me and a week later, he handed me a news paper, where 30+ people all witnessed the same thing... A huge/massive hair covered bi-pedal creature, moved towards the Greyhound bus where everyone was. The driver and the passengers moved away from the bus as fast as they could. There was damage to the bus afterwards but nothing of value was taken.
My father and a coworker saw one in the woods in New Brunswick years ago. It was long before the term Bigfoot ever made it to our area. He described it as a Bear with a face like a man that walked on its hind legs. They surprised it on a woods road and as far as they could see it going through the woods it never went down on all fours. Dad had always been a woodsman, but after that he was very cautious of going into the woods after supper time.
thats creepy
Not sure where New Brunswick is but in the South Booger or Woodbooger was the name
@@johnthornton4266 New Brunswick is an eastern province in Canada
@@ERLong-ww7yn I'm in North Carolina and Every state in South East USA has a Brunswick County on the Coast. Your New Brunswick is just farther North. Is it Nova Scotia, Oak Island area?
@@johnthornton4266 we border NS to the north
It is a life changing event for sure. There are a few podcasts that are dedicated to sharing these types of encounters. Bigfoot Odyssey is very professional, Sawdustt Beast is a nice mixture of professional yet fun and Mogollon Monster is laid back but both are places for people to come share their encounters with others. I would encourage anyone who has had an encounter to share their experiences, it helps others who are trying to make sense of what they witnessed.
Iron Dogger, did Kerry over at Bigfoot Odyssey ever go on that Florida BF hunting trip? I remember they were raising money for it. Life got hectic and I forgot all about it. When I went back to his channel, there were all these looonnng live streams. I didn't see any titles that seemed related to the planned trip. I really enjoyed the earlier one-on-one interviews he and Lynda did, usually onsite with the witnesses.
@@marilyncausey9348 Yes, he did it’s called 168 and he is still editing the second half of it. It was postponed due to Covid but they managed to pull it together.
@@IronDogger Thanks! I'll watch The first half and look forward to the second half. I appreciate the response!
I 💕 My Bigfoot Sighting 😅
Saw one in 94 squatting at the edge of a stream on my way out to my stand. Thought was a bear until it stood up and darted across the water in two huge bounds.
When back the next day with my buddy, stream is 30ft across and 4ft deep where it crossed and it made it look like a knee deep creek.
Positioned my 6ft tall buddy in the sane position, what I saw was twice his width and one and a half times his height.
wow!
i'm from north central maine, back in the 80's a friend of mine and myself were walking back to my house, he was a high school friend spending the weekend at my house, it was close to midnite, it was fogging, the road was alongside a river, as we were walking, we heard something walking towards us, the road was paved, it sounding like really big bare feet slapping down on the road, just ahead of us was a street light on the corner of an intersection , we both said out loud,, what the hell is that, whatever was walking heard us and stopped, we had stopped, the fog had created a halo effect around the street light, just on the edge of the lights perimeter we both saw the outline of something really tall and wide just standing there, we freaked and ran down the intersecting road and walked the 5 mile long way around to my home, the next day, he called his mom and demanded her to come pick him up, he never came to my house again, we never talked about it after either, after he went back home, i walked back to the spot from the night before, as i walked along the riverbank, i saw giant foot prints along the edge heading straight into the water, this section of the river has several islands in the middle, i'm betting that it swam to 1 of them, i've never forgotten that night, i know for a fact that bigfoot is real
thats wield!
@@MattStefanFishing you mean ,, wild,,
It sucks when people laugh at you and don't believe you. Please share this to how to Hunt on TH-cam. Steve is an awesome individual with a no BS attitude who has also had experiences. That goes for everyone else who sees this as well, you are not alone!
thanks for watching!
Welcome to the club buddy. Thanks for sharing your encounter. I had mine in North Missouri while bow hunting. Mid October 2006. I stumbled upon in the dark. I came around a blind corner. I think it was focused on a deer and didn’t see me until i was right up on it. I could see the deers tail jump to the right and heard the Bigfoot jumped backwards into some woods. When it did it stepped on some downed limbs. I could tell it was a padded foot and it was heavy. All that registered but i was replaying my hunt and didn’t think much of it until a few seconds later when it started following me step for step. That’s when all the info started processing. Anyway it’s a lot to type. I’ll leave it at that. Again welcome aboard.
holy smokes that sounds creepy
@@MattStefanFishing Yes sir. It was the most scared I’d ever been. But after about an hour of calming down and processing it all I found comfort in knowing at any point it could have snatched the life out of me but didn’t. My bow was left in the tree. I had nothing on me but a video camera. Not knowing it was a Bigfoot following me, I charged at it twice with my arms up acting crazy trying to scare it off. My thought was i was being stalked by a mountain lion. Because of the weight and padded foot I heard when it jumped into the woods. I had no idea what it was until I got on my 4wheeler and turned it around. That’s when I saw it standing next to cedar tree looking at me. It had eye shine like animals do. I wasn’t a believer prior to that night. In fact I was ok with the idea of them not being real because of how much time I spend in the woods.
@@oneg1970 can you describe its proportions
@@elijahgavin6706 I can only tell ya the portions that I saw. I only saw it’s head shoulder and arm. The rest of it was behind a cedar bush. He was standing behind. He was looking over it. My guess would be at least 8-9ft tall. It seemed slender in comparison to some others I’ve seen pictures of.
Found your channel a while back love all your helpful content! Outside of fishing also find the subject of Bigfoot very interesting. I’m glad you shared this! Thanks!
Awesome, thank you!
To this day I believe I saw something not sure it was big foot but dad and I both saw it it was huge tall and broad I will never forget how big it was. We were feeding hay to cattle. It walked up a five foot embankment in one step and disappeared on the other side. No one believes us but I know what we saw ..
Creepy
Great story Matt, I had this same type of sighting on a dirt road in Arkansas except it ran into an open field.
thanks for watching!
Great story and experience Matt, thanks for sharing. One never knows, new species are discovered all the time in the oceans and jungles around the world.
Very true!
I highly doubt these things are just some undiscovered ape. Once you hear thousands of encounter stories, one huge similarity is that these creatures are way more humanlike than beastly. A lot of Native American cultures describe them as another tribe. They are very humanlike, almost like a hybrid or something. We simply don't know.
This is the single most credible Bigfoot sighting story that I have ever come across...
thanks
Thanks for sharing...I had an experience with my dad on our property upstate NY...while deer hunting...I believe you..be safe
Thanks, you too!
Seems when people go looking for bigfoot they rarely see one , which makes Your sighting even more interesting. thanks for telling it.
No problem.
HOW TO HUNT here on youtube. Safe place . great group of people
I like the channel!
1988 Working for the USDA Soil Conservation Service. Newlywed. Got transferred from NW MO to SE MO Ste. Genevieve County (we did not want to go) NW MO Counties platted on a grid Section Township Range. SE MO were based on Spanish Surveys. No rhyme or reason to them. Lots of heavy timber & hills. Lots of private lanes & locked gates. One beautiful September afternoon, no wind, quiet, not a cloud in the sky. About 62 degrees outside. Went out to check a 12-acre CRP seeding. One little field 1/2 - 3/4 mile off main road. Locked gate. Parked Gov PU on the shoulder. Started walking down a narrow-wooded lane (descending) Got to field. Surrounded by timber. Walked across to opposite side. Just me, my clip board, CRP seeding form. Seeding looked good. Brome, Timmothy, Red Clover mix. I'm knelt down inspecting it. I hear this alarming Deep Guttural Growell. From the side of field I'd entered on. Got my immediate undivided attention. OH SHIT! This is real, and you're in the moment. Something just inside the tree line was moving. Sounded like a truck going through the brush. Huge racket. You could track it. Twenty-five-foot tall treetops were shaking. It was moving away from the lane I'd entered the field from. (Thank God) I started walking back across the field. Watching the trees, hearing the underbrush. When it stopped, I took off (ascending) up the lane as fast as I could. In the end, I didn't see anything. Didn't want to see anything. Didn't feel comfortable till I got to the truck. They say SE MO has black bears. I never saw any bears. Can a bear shake 25 ft. tall treetops? I don't know. But something damn sure was. Something big. 27.5 year career. I've encountered two 80-100 lb. Cougars. (yes Missouri has them) I was rattled at 3 times (you know exactly what it is) But I never encountered anything remotely close to whatever was inside the tree line in Ste. Genevieve County that September afternoon. Yes, there has been multiple bigfoot sightings in and around Ste Genevieve, MO (I didn't know that at the time)
Got promoted and transferred back home (NW MO) within 6 months of that incident.
freaky!
Me and my buddy had a similar experience when we were 14. It was at night and we'd just left the woods onto a country neighborhood road. This was in rural Texas. There was a huge commotion and a large tree was shaking just like you described. Whatever it was, we never saw it. It still haunts me after nearly 40 years.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, it sticks with you. Certainly longer than my wife (10 years). Just responding showed more interest in my story than she ever did. Bitch!
By-the-way, I was a surveyor for the USDA. Pond, terrace, waterway, drainage ditch, diversion, flood control structure construction. Projects designed to manage, store, divert, convey, speed up, slow down, take underground excess storm water made with earthen soil. I swear to God, the earth is flat. Guaranteed! 100% certainty. Bet the ranch.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, the memory sticks with you. Longer than my wife (10 years) Just responding to my comment showed more interest in my story than she ever did. Bitch! By-the-way, I was a surveyor w/USDA. Construction of ponds, diversions, terraces, waterways, flood control structures, drainage ditches. Practices designed to store, manage, convey, speed up, slow down, take underground, excess storm water runoff. Projects made from earthen soil. I swear, the e_rth is fl_t. Guaranteed! 100% certainty. Bet the ranch.
@@stefanbertasz4690 Thanks for sharing. At least I know I'm not the only one. You're right, it sticks with you. Longer than my wife did (10 years). Just replying showed more interest in my story than she ever had. btw This is my 3rd attempt to comment. As a land surveyor for the USDA, I mention something about earth I know to be true. Both comments were removed.
That’s a really cool story. Ive heard of a bunch of incidents like this in my state but never actually heard of anybody reporting a sighting and anything coming out of it.
thanks for watching
I never paid much attention to the subject until I stumbled upon Sasquatch Chronicles. These guys are the real deal and they have hundreds of interviews with legitimate eye witnesses.
lots of stories out there
Hey Matt. I had a somewhat similar encounter a long time ago while camping in Tennessee. Reported it on BFRO but wasn't contacted by anyone. Out of the blue I got an email from Diva N. a producer at Animal Planet for their show. I ended up declining also as I didn't want to risk losing my security clearance with the government job I had at the time.
Thanks you for telling your story, and not carring what other's think is the only way to be
thanks!
@@MattStefanFishing my I make a recommendation, if you have further interest in this subject check out howtohunt youtube channel, it's run by a fellow pro sportsman like yourself
1974 my family encountered a bigfoot at Shasta Lake while sleeping in the RV. 11pm, I heard it walk by, like in 2 steps. I heard the footfalls. I was too late to see it walk by. My dad was a LA Reserve Sherriff.
He said it as it passed the front of the RV. 4 or 5 ft wide shoulders. Walked under the security light on the RV path.
It barely made it without hitting it's head on the bulb. Strolled by with no worries.
Its crazy how many people have seen something!
@@MattStefanFishing I have hunting land between mole lake and Crandon. Last October my son and I were up bow hunting. We sit in elevated box blinds that at window height are about 8-9 feet. Just before light my son watched something very large on walking upright walk toward and along side his blind. He said if it would have turned it's head it could have looked right in the window. Never made a sound walking through all the fallen leaves.
Night fishing for Walleye in the Reno Bottoms between Genoa WI and Houston County MN I had an encounter with something huge I started to hear trees snapping and falling into the water I am very skeptical and didn’t believe in Sasquatch at the time but 10 minutes later I heard this very deep guttural growling from less then 100ft away you could feel it in your chest it made every hair on my body stand on end I instantly knew it was time to go the worse part was driving out the road was was flooded with deep ruts and holes in some spots I couldn’t just floor it and fly out or I would risk getting stuck or fucking up my truck so I had to carefully work my way out at 5-10mph knowing that whatever was growling at me could easily pull me from my truck and rip my limbs off I have no explanation for what it was but went back the next day and I found the snapped trees they were about 300 ft from where I was fishing in a shallow heavily wooded slough area that’s full of poison Ivy I know that no human could cover that much distance that fast in such a treacherous swampy area by foot especially at night and the trees what person has strength to snap large trees like twigs I don’t ever go fishing without a firearm anymore and I believe there is something big and terrifying roaming the swampy backwaters and bluffs along the Mississippi River
Freaky
Mack, your account is 100% proof to me these beings (whatever the heck they are) are real. Why? Because that whole tree snapping deal is reported CONSTANTLY. There's no way all these stories have all these similarities by coincidence. The tree snapping/guttural growl that you can also feel are staples of sasquatch encounters. These things are seen in Asia, S America, Australia, and pretty much all over the world.
Grew up in genoa. Lots of wilderness between the bluffs. I never heard or seen anything odd tromping around the bluffs, later after I moved away I heard one
seen one swimming the Mississippi in st francisville louisiana in 84 .
I applaud you for coming forward with your encounter.
thanks!
I use to live up in Wausau, and I've been all over the mountains up there, and my roommates and I have seen 'something weird' more than once when we were out hunting, fishing remote spots, hiking and cycling. One of my roommates weighed 440 lbs and every one of the things we saw outweighed him twice easily. I already believed in Bigfoot so it didn't change my life, just maybe verified what I already knew.
wow!
Several years ago I was working overnight security next to a wildlife sanctuary and heard the exact woop sound that Les Strout heard in Oregon.
crazy
Firstly Matt, I need a pro-angler subscription, now I have you and you have another subscriber.
Secondly, you and your fishing partner handled this circumstance like bosses. It's O.K. to NOT know what you guys saw and you're correct that neither of you owe anyone, anything. I heard a LOW growl and tree branch breaking for about 3.5 to 4 minutes at 2:00 a.m. about 65-75 ft from me on a logging road in S. Alabama in the late summer of 1985, I was 18 y/o at the time. It wasn't until 1995 that I learned tree branch breaking is a common reported experience. That was my only experience and there's been no others. It was great to hear yours and I look forward to some wonderful fishing content on your channel, be well.
thanks for the support!
Thank you for having the guts to tell your story. I hope I someday get a chance to see one at a safe distance!
Im not sure I want to encounter one
I've got a completely rational friend who swears he saw one in the deep east Texas woods one time. He said he never believed until he saw it.
sounds like me
Thank you for coming forward. I too have never seen one, but I had an experience once that can only be explained as something on 2 feet was walking me out of the woods and to me it seemed like a person who could see in the pitch black was walking behind me but Everytime I'd stop something would throw acorns in my direction to keep me moving all the way to my truck and when I got to my truck I herd like a huff noise and I could hear it running off on 2 feet. Scared the living hell outta me. Now if someone can explain a different animal that can do this I'm all ear, but so far the big guy is the only piece that fits
thanks for watching
Thank you sir for coming forth. Appreciate your honesty & courage
thanks for watching
I grew up spending my winters in Northeast Iowa and my summers in West Central Alabama...both locations extremely rural. I can truthfully attest to the existence of those beings in the woods. I've only seen one up close once, but I've had too many non visual encounters to list.
The close encounter was stalk hunting deer with my cousin. I had a rifle, he had a shotgun. When this 10ft tall reddish black bipedal thing came striding down a treeline less than 30 yards from us. The first thing that hit us was the stench of rotten meat mixed with skunk and sewage. Then a wave of paralyzing fear hit both of us that made us forget we even had guns in our hands. We ran for nearly 2 miles jumping creeks, barb wire fences, and thick scrub to get out of that pine forrest.
The BFRO is a joke for the most part. Best to avoid them.
thanks
Totally believe you,thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
You know what you both saw.
Game changer day.
Thanks for the share.
Some of us still don't have the balls to talk yet.
thanks for watching!
I had a fellow tell me his bigfoot story. I believe him and you . Thanks for sharing .
Thanks for watching
Have you ever been to a Zoo and seen a Gorilla run?Well they run like a guy that’s drunk 3 gallons of whisky,flopping around from side to side,unless they have their knuckles on the ground.You saw a BF mate.
thanks
The fact that you state several times you could not care less actually makes you more believable.
thanks for watching...i wish i hadnt seen what i saw
In 1990, i was 16 and we lived on the edge of a state park in NC. These things made themselves known and would pace us in the woods. Run across the roof of the house and beat on the walls. We lived there for over a year. We never felt threatened but they were not shy. Once they knew we knew they were there they would come around once every week or two. Always at night tho. They are very real. They never tried to hurt us but if they were outside we stayed inside. Lol.
thats scary stuff!
What County man. I'm in Forsyth County Winston-Salem
@@johnthornton4266 Burke County. Flat Gap and Mineral Springs mtns outside of Valdese. South Mountain State Park was behind us. Used to hunt and ride dirt bikes in there. Never felt at ease in those woods.
Thanks for sharing that experience.
You bet!
Late one October when I was in my twenties, I decided to spend a weekend alone in the Northeast Georgia Mountains fishing and hiking. Early one Saturday morning I dove up to a beautiful area I know in White county. It is a really remote, rugged, and beautiful area. Miles away from anything, I turned off of a little county road onto a dirt road and traveled a number of miles more. Then, I took an old road that is not maintained several miles further up into a remote wilderness area. It is a rough ride and very inaccessible.
Its isolation makes it one of the best places for me to experience solitude and enjoy God’s wonderful creation. I spent most of the day trout fishing along a peaceful stream that meanders through a heavily forested area. I didn't have much luck catching fish, but I loved just being in the mountains. Few people ever come into this area -- even during the peak of the summer season. I hadn’t seen a soul for many miles before turning off of the county road and that was just fine with me.
It was a very crisp day with a beautiful deep azure blue sky marked by a few billowy clouds. There was a gentle breeze that wafted the smells of the forest through the air. I could smell the aroma of the pine straw on the banks of the creek warming in the sunlight melded with an earthy scent of moss flanking nearby of trees. This blended with the gentle sounds of the gurgling creek and the birds cheerful singing made for a perfect day.
Late in the afternoon I returned to my jeep and drove to a nearby grassy meadow and parked on the far side. I stowed my fishing gear and gathered my pack and supplies. I bushwhacked my way about two-thirds of the way up the mountain and found a level spot with a good view and pitched my tent there. I built a nice fire and enjoyed a simple meal. With the setting of the sun the chill in the air grew and I stoked the fire.
I watched the twinkling of the stars emerge as they illuminated the night sky. I could clearly see the Milky Way and was mesmerized. I heard the mournful call of a screech owl in the distance. My mind began to wander to my childhood and I remembered hearing my grandfather talk about owls being an omen of death. I could almost hear his voice recanting the time years earlier when he sat up all night with the daughter of a neighbor who was gravely ill. He said that there was a screech owl in the yard calling all night, almost as if it was beckoning to the girl. He was startled when at one point it actually flew into the window and seemed to wrestle with the screen trying to enter the room. He had to yell and swat the screen with a paper to get it to leave. The poor little girl did not live until the morning.
I was roused from this remembrance, when suddenly I felt something drop to my face. I instinctively swatted and large granddaddy long legs landed near the fire and scampered away. This was repeated several more times until I realized that there were many of these spiders in a large nearby tree and apparently the warmth of my campfire had spurred them to move. I repositioned myself away from the spiders and watched the hypnotic flames dancing above the embers as their intensity ebbed and flowed until the sometime later the fire slowly dwindled away.
I climbed into the tent and eased into my sleeping bag. It felt good to relax and I was tired from the events of the day. The sounds of the night were still and I quickly drifted to sleep. A few hours later, I was suddenly jarred awake. I struggled to clear my mind and get my bearings. I wasn’t sure why I was awakened, but my muscles were tense and my breathing was quick and shallow. Then I heard it. It was a distant, but surreal sound. At first I wasn’t sure if I was dreaming, but quickly realized I was awake. I struggled to make sense of what I had heard.
It seemed to come from up the mountain above where I was camped. I wasn’t sure of how far away it was, but it clearly was not close by. Then I heard it again and it sounded a little bit closer. The hair stood up on my neck and my arms were peppered with goose bumps. It was very a very strange sound. I can’t describe it adequately in words. I have never heard anything like of before or since. It was like a combination of something akin to a loud guttural growl rising in pitch until it was mixed with a scream. It lasted 4 or 5 seconds each time. But that doesn’t even begin to describe it. I reached over and upholstered my .357 magnum revolver that was beside me. I remembered thinking that it wasn't enough gun to match whatever was making those sounds.
I heard it again clearly closer to camp and by my reckoning it was moving toward my camp fast. My mind raced. I quickly evaluated options. Should I exit the tent with a flashlight? Should I stay put? Then I heard it again and it was close. I had a flashback to another time as a kid listening some men at my uncle’s farm in rural South Georgia talking about seeing a panther and hearing it make a sound like a woman screaming. For a split second, I wondered if that was what I was hearing. But I as able to quickly rule it out.
It was probably within 50 yards of camp and the sound I heard was not human, but it didn’t seem to be of this earth, either. I sat up and gripped my gun with both hands bracing for some creature to come slicing through the walls of my tent. Time seemed to move slowly and every sound and movement was amplified and intensified. After what seemed like an eternity I heard it again; but, moving away from camp and further down the mountain. I heard it another time or two as it faded away into the distance. It took me over an hour to get back to sleep.
In the morning, I woke early and had my standard backpacking breakfast of coffee accompanied by trail mix. Before breaking camp I spent an hour or so hiking where I thought that I had heard the sounds. I never found any animal tracks or evidence of any sort. I spent the remainder of that day fishing and returned home late in the evening.
I have thought about that many times since. I have also been back to that area a number of times and never heard that same eerie sound again. I basically grew up in the woods and have been in many remote areas in the Southeast U.S., Western U.S. and in Alaska. I have heard and seen just about every animal that lives in the woods and nothing sounds like this did. Some folks have speculated that it was a bobcat, but I’ve heard them many times and this sound was very different. It was a deep guttural growl combined with a roar that crescendoed into a high octave howl and scream. My skin still crawls when I replay that sound in my mind. I have also scoured the Internet listening to every conceivable animal and I have not found anything that sounds even remotely like it. I don’t guess I won’t ever know what it was.
Wow!
This is some of the best comments I've ever read.
Way to go! The comments is as interesting as the vid
I live in WA. State, from WI. originally. I'm not a knower, but a believer. I know too many knowers out here.
thanks for watching!
My buddy and I was deer hunting in an area that has a R/R track and we used it to get from one area to another. The thing is if you ever walked tracks before you know the RR ties are spaced a little too close to walk on comfortably and if you step on every other one the step is a little long and is uncomfortable too and you would kick rocks sometimes and thats not good for deer hunting. We would walk the rail in sneakers and was super quiet and got so good at it we could walk it in the pitch black darkness. One night we was walking back together and my buddy was on one side and I was on the other going home and we hit a stretch where both sides had a 25ft tall cliff....we were being absolutely quiet and both of us heard 2 very loud breaths come out of some kind of animal on top of this cliff. We could not see what it was but you could feel its presence.
To this day I always have an uneasy feeling when I'm in that area walking in the dark to deer hunt. Needless to say but we picked the pace up.
Freaky!
Was 8 years old and living in an area of Germantown, Wisconsin that was under new development back in 1978. I think there were only about a dozen or so homes that had been built in the sub-division so it was still very much cattle pasture and wooded areas around our new home. We would see all kinds of wildlife on a regular basis around there. But I'll never forget this day ever. It was late afternoon roughly 4:15pm or so and still had a good bit of daylight for early October in Wisconsin. A close friend and myself decided that we were going to go exploring the creek bed that ran across the street and into a small wooded area just past a cattle pasture which was located just west of our homes to look for crayfish for fish bait. We didn't get too far into the wooded area maybe 60 yards or so when my friend and I both heard a deep loud growl/grunt come from behind a tree about 30 yards ahead of us on the creek bed. It was a huge old oak tree that had been knocked down across the creek bed - roots and all! At first we both thought bear but then it stood up and peered out from behind that tree. At that moment we knew exactly what it was (definitely not a bear!!!) I dropped that crayfish bucket and we ran so fast back home that it took us several minutes of what seemed to be a lifetime before we could both catch our breath and even begin to try and talk about it. Both of us immediately told our parents what we had seen but none of them believed us at all. My friend told me his dad gave him a whooping for telling lies which made me feel bad for him because we both know what we saw. I just got a stern talking to. Either way Ray and I never went anywhere close to that wooded area again while living there that I can recall... not even to retrieve the bait bucket that I dropped. Thank God my family and I moved about two years later to Florida. I hated living there and felt very uneasy being outside by myself after that incident.
holy smokes
@@MattStefanFishing no offense but that's not the words we were using
I am not interested in fishing but I have watched a few bigfoot videos recently and this came up in my feed. I have never seen you before but I can tell that you are obviously a genuine person who is telling the truth.
It was definitely a bigfoot from the description you gave. Tall, very long arms, similar to a gorilla and running away from humans very quickly. They are mostly nocturnal, too, so the timing also makes sense.
Thank you for sharing your experience.
Just remember, where there are deer, there are bigfoot, so please be careful.
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Smart decision👍 I believe you
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Fascinating! Too many reputable people have similar experiences. Gotta be something out there.
i tend to agree with you
Their out there and so much more !
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Thank you for sharing your story! My first sighting was in Canyon City Oregon in 1976 , late summer and evening. Reddish brown hair, maybe 6 feet tall, standing on the hill across the street from my house. I thought it was a woman at first but then noticed that the entire silhouette was covered in hair, back lit by the setting sun. I've seen another one on the same hill on the other side of it in 2017. Seen one camping with my ex wife at Boiling Springs Campground in Idaho. It was on all 4's then walked back and forth a couple of times. Thought it was a bear. I could see it near the edge of the parking area and where the pay station and toilets were. Through the trees was a trail and an almost full moon. It appeared to be a black bear. Then it walked by on two legs. Then around the third time it stopped and was swaying back and forth. Disappearing in the darkness on each side of the trail. The firelight helped. That lasted 15-20 minutes. 10/31/2009 The following year 11/01/2010 We were sitting around the campfire at the same location. I had started to feel uneasy, the fear, dread, and anxiety. I felt something was wrong and lied to my wife at the time, that I was cold from hunting most of the morning and it was wet snow and raining. I couldn't tell her that I was freaking out. We were loading up the supplies after she agreed to go home. 10:30pm or so and we are at the car. When from the next campsite over 30 feet away from us was this sound of a boulder being slammed to the ground and hard enough to feel the impact. She got the cooler and I balled up the tent and stuffed it in the trunk. Scared shitless, we drove around and saw nothing or no one else. Both times we were the only campers out there. Another time in August of 2016 about 6 miles south we camped off a trail. I heard a buck snort and a rock hit 2 trees and landed in the river below about 100 yards. Yeah, deer don't throw rocks. Willow Creek Campground in Idaho, we heard wood knocks from 3 different directions from the mountain sides at 2:30 am approximately. The following August camping there again, at 11pm I was walking to my campsite in the dark from the restroom. A rock hit a tree 10 feet to my right. About 5 1/2 feet up about my head height. I turned on my headlamp but no one was around and it was silent. I get back to our campsite and asked if anyone was pranking me? Just to check. They said they had been sitting next to the fire the whole time. Heard wood knocks 6 miles from Bogus Basin Ski Area near Boise Idaho. Tree knock in Garden Valley area Idaho. Tracks here in John Day Oregon where I live. Also back in 1976 seen some coming back from Eugene Oregon. Paralleled and followed at 2:30am in Winterport Maine, February 1989. Partial full moon. Taking a short cut down the railroad tracks. It walked and stopped the same time I did. Bi-pedal sounding. Didn't see it in the trees. I've been paralleled once hunting in the Alton Bog Maine. Those Sasquatch's have hundreds of names and live world wide. Thank you again for sharing your experience and you're not crazy and it sounds to me like you saw a Bigfoot. My favorite place in the world to fish is Alaska! So many diverse freshwater species to catch and eat. Then the awesome saltwater fishing is also phenomenal! Just my opinion. Take care and Have a wonderful, exciting, adventurous, happy, and healthy New Year!
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@@MattStefanFishing your welcome, and have a wonderful day 👍🏻👍🏻😁
Considering all those instances, I'd say you have a wild imagination.
@@DavidSmith-ps5nd what he described is exactly how bigfoot behaves some people get to see them a lot but most people don't.
@@hopeislandful WAY too many "encounters" for me to believe. It's as if they followed him all over the country. BS.
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You're welcome
This happen to me. I was hunting, it followed me out of the woods. I live in WVA.
You should start "Bigfoot Lures" Jigs with foot sizes like, 11- baby big foot. 13-mama bigfoot. 15 papa bigfoot etc, etc. Colors to match bigfoot sightings!
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I just started watching your channel a couple weeks ago as I love to fish for smallmouths. I grew up in Southern Oregon and Northern California and have talked to several people that swore they have seen them. I now live in Idaho and there are many reports here also.
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I saw my footprints in southern Oregon. Applegate to be specific. They are real. The prints were in the middle of nowhere. But they were huge and perfect. No ambiguity at all of being anything but human prints. If someone was trying to hoax the prints I saw, then they would have put them somewhere that would be easy to find. I tracked them for a couple of hundred feet until they disappeared into a rock field. I didn't see anything other than the prints that time. But I did get a glimpse of a creature later on that year as I was riding on my school bus home. It was huge and a little darker than an orangutan. But it was just a glimpse. Just saw it from the back.
One of the best Sasquatch saga'a ever told comes out of Idaho. I hope it is on TH-cam yet. can't remember the title though, 8 episodes.
Really cool story. We're definitely adding that town to our list of hot spots to visit in Wisconsin!
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One time at a family reunion my wife’s cousin happened to attend. He is a big man who has done a lot of bow hunting and actually competed and won many competitions. He was sorta socially awkward, but a nice guy and not a jokester type. I took a chance and asked him if he had ever seen a Bigfoot. I was shocked when he calmly told me that he did once while approaching a secluded fishing spot under a bridge in Texas. He said it was on the other side of the river on the bank with it’s hands in the water. They both spotted each other at the same time. It stood up and casually strolled up a steep incline. He ran away leaving all of his equipment behind. This man doesn’t joke around, and had a serious look on his face. That’s all he said.
crazy! Thanks for sharing
Cool story, thanks for sharing!
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I saw one with my friend when I was about 12 years old. It was walking across an empty corn field after the corn was cut down, broad daylight. I didn't even see it at first. My friend had to tell me to look at it twice before I knew I was looking at something out of the ordinary. When I saw the proportion of head to body ratio with no neck then the VERY long arms hanging past the knees my stomach sank to my knees. It was extremely threatening looking and it ruined me going into the woods for the rest of my life. I will not go in without another male and without being heavily armed. I know for a fact our government knows about them. The amount of people and children that have been taken by these things is very anger some to me. They should be warning people about them but of course they are ignorant and are more concerned with keeping their secrets than protecting people. The thing that really gets my goat is I would have been oblivious to it had it not been for my friend. Seriously...
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Why would the govt care of we know about bigfoot?
@@permaguard3166- One reason is so that people aren't afraid to keep visiting state and national forests and parks, etc. I would think the parks tourist trade would suffer dramatically, no?
Maybe but some people would be attracted to that kind of excitement.
@@permaguard3166 - True, and that brings up another possible reason that I've heard informed people say is likely -- that hunters will then be out in large numbers trying to kill them. And that, among other concerns, wouldn't be hospitable for the many families with kids who want to be out there, too. Hard to say for sure, though.
Thanks for sharing your encounter
you bet
You know what you saw. I’ve seen them too. I’m in WA st. First encounter I was 8. One saved me from a cougar attack. I grew up in the mountains so was used to seeing all sorts of animals including big predators, minus wolves at that time (mid 80’s). This Sasquatch was an older juvenile male. He’s since been around me my whole life. He’s saved me a few other times too. Also scared the crap out of me many times. They are HUGE! And fast and strong and even though I KNOW they exist….I still can’t believe they exist….it’s mind blowing. It’s more mind blowing people have been trying to keep it under wraps for so long. That needs to stop. Thanks for sharing your sighting. I’m not laughing at you. They are real beings.
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So he is your guardian angel? yeah right.
awe, puppy love.
Seriously he was taken with you, and like any respectable emerging male, will protect those we love.
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Bigfoot LIVES.
Thanks for sharing
Dude... that’s unreal! Awesome story/ vid. I would have freaked out.
Thanks Sam! Still spooks me out. I can’t go in the woods anymore without thinking about it.
@@MattStefanFishing You might want to watch the TH-cam channel, called HowToHunt (I think) because he talks about people who have bigfoot sightings. Those sightings have changed their lives. Here is a clip, that I have on my Recommended so you don't have to watch this one. No, better -- let me just grab the Clip list for you, Matt ...
th-cam.com/users/proguide66videos
@@PoeLemic thanks I’ll check it out
More people need to come forward and share
yep
If you haven't seen any How to Hunt videos, I recommend you check them out. They are made by Steve Isdal, a hunting guide, and he is trying to make it acceptable for people to report their Bigfoot sightings without ridicule. He has had several sightings himself, and like many witnesses, he doesn't want to see them again, but he still spends a lot of the time in the woods, mostly hunting and fishing for himself. BFRO wants people to believe Bigfoot are apes, but there is a lot of evidence that they are an unknown hominid, and they carry human DNA in them. Keep researching, there is a lot to learn about them, if you're that interested.
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@@MattStefanFishing You're welcome!
He's a professional hunting guy that spends 200-250 days a year in the woods. I listen to a lot of Steve stuff. The other day he posted one in the railroad workers in Canada contractors. Show the Bigfoot tracks in the snow on the road. The railroad worker put his foot in the snow with the boot on beside it it looked like a child's foot beside this thing. Or how about the expedition do Mount Everest in the 1950s by scientists or explorers whatever you call them. And lo and behold they sent back pictures of humanoid footprints at 15,000 ft base camp. They put their ice pick there for comparison. And the service said it is a abominable snowman excuse me yeti. People believe them then because they were explored. The video is on TH-cam. Most of us live in our cities and our small towns or whatever. I don't think very many of us realize how big the forests in Canada and Russia are. I live in Mississippi I believe there's parts of this state that haven't been explored. It looks like a giant pine Forest. Also I have a buddy who lives in Oklahoma he's an Indian lives on a reservation drove semi for 30 years. Jimmy said there's a place in southeast Oklahoma that is very rugged rocks lots and lots of snakes Rattlers. Jimmy has stated to me more than once he believes there's valleys no person's been in. Right in the middle of the USA. Steve from howtohunt.com says he has more than 15,000 emails from all walks of life all over the world. Yeah I believe the world's like the ocean a lot of it hasn't been explored.
Check out bigfoot oddessy and Monster 911 if you want to hear the witnesses telling their encounters.
I am glad you don't care if people believe you. That tells me you are being honest. I have seen footprints in the middle of nowhere that were huge. To be a hoax, it wouldn't of been there. Hold firm in your beliefs. Don't let anyone tell you what you saw. You know what you saw. And you are honest and brave enough to tell us what you saw. Thanks for your story.
thanks for your kind words
From TX. These creatures are all over the Sam Houston National Forest & Big Thicket. My husband & I had a terrifying experience near Angelina National Forest in Tx one night. Close friend had a day sighting in the Big Thicket. Just like you he thought it was a huge gorilla until it stood up and walked away like a man on 2 legs. Scared the hell out of him. People are starting to wake up and realize there's something out there. Lotta people go missing every year in our national forests.
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That was a GREAT story! Thanks!
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You know what u saw and it was BIgfoot, crazy that u could care less when you saw something that’s not recognized by science. I’ve had a couple very very strange experiences that I know 100% was BIgfoot but didn’t physically see it. Those experiences literally changed my life and now I’m currently planning a BIgfoot expedition in Michigan, already been on 2. This will be a lifelong search for me until I have a physical sighting bc it’s out there and that adventure just charges my soul.
I wish I had never seen what I saw. I view everything differently now when im alone. Its not a feeling I enjoy. But I also respect the people that want to pursue the investigation...which is why I reported it in the first place. Good luck in your searching
@@MattStefanFishing thanks so much for sharing bc your story needs to be told. Unfortunately there’s lots of people who tell fake stories for whatever reason, so people think it’s a joke. When I tell my stories people laugh or say I’m crazy and it really makes me mad bc I know it sounds absolutely crazy but I know what I heard and the eyes that I seen belong on no living creature on this planet. When I heard I tell your story I could easily tell u were speaking the truth and can’t imagine what a physical sighting would do to u, my experience literally made me want to cry and for no reason at all, I wasn’t scared nor sad just the weirdest feeling ever. I love hearing stories like yours bc it makes me feel better about my experience. Ive literally went back in my head a thousand times trying to debunk my own experience bc I just can’t believe what happen to me…Makes me question everything. God Bless and hope your better able to cope with what happen to u.
What you saw Matt was a Bigfoot. There are different characteristics of them. They have their own “tribe” group. It’s NEVER 1 just wandering they have up to 5 the most keeping a watch from a distance because the juveniles tend to explore and play until they unexpectedly encounter humans like us. The woods are their domain and we should respect that. Thank god that creature didn’t tempt to approach you as some do if your close to their nests. Thank you for sharing because people must know especially going camping and hiking leading to missing persons or children, people must be aware and know their surroundings. Never’ wander alone.
Right on man, appreciate the share. It’s definitely a real thing. With the 10’s of thousands of reports all over the world we will eventually come to realize the truth behind the claims. We as humans are a very new species when it comes to this earth. We think we know what’s really out there but haven’t the slightest. And this will become clear as the years go by. Thanks for sharing man. I go out gold prospecting once a week in some pretty remote places, it’s only a matter of time before I have my own experience.
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Thousands of people have seen them including myself, so I believe you saw a Sasquatch, they really aren't that unusual...
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Thanks for sharing , they are real , I've been hunting and fishing in the woods my whole life and have seen one , and heard many weird things .
lots of people have had similar reports
I stood just about twenty feet or less from one just before dawn in 2005 while feeding my dog, yes it didn't take too long to learn you got to watch who and where you talk about it to.
My mind was trying to say it was a big ass bear but there was no way, the thing was every bit of eight feet tall and four foot wide at the shoulders and looked more human. Our eyes was locked the whole while it slowly walked away on two legs, crossed a deep creek and disappeared in a overgrown field. I couldn't move a muscle the whole time.
That’s crazy! I would have pooped myself
See Steve’s channel on “How to hunt”.
They are absolutely real. I've heard a handful of genuine stories like this one. People with no interest in bigfoot, that just saw something they can't explain. Appreciate the story.
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Thank you for telling your story. I've seen him too no one believes me either.
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I had an encounter in 93. I was deer hunting in the Savage River State Forest in Western Maryland. The ground was covered with snow and the moon was nearly full. Visibility was great. It was dark and I was camping when in the middle of things. I had a fire going and was drinking hot tea and reading a book. I heard something moving around me and casually looked around but saw nothing. The noise persisted and a horrible smell blew threw. It smelled like a dead deer that was in the summer sun for a couple weeks. I also felt like I was being watched. I got up and flashlight in one hand and rifle in the other I scanned the woods around me. I heard a whoop. This zeroed me into where the sound of walking was coming from. My hearing is really bad due to extreme exposure to gun fire while in the army. So the sound of walking blended with the wind. The whoop though that I could track. I shined my light in that direction and saw something at least 8 feet tall. Hairy, longish arms, very muscular. Scared the crap out of me. I brought my rifle to shoulder and looked at it through the scope. I could see it from the moonlight and snow covered ground. It threw a rock at me. It nearly hit my head. It was a grapefruit sized rock. I shot my 300 Winchester Magnum into the tree it was standing by and this caused it to run away. It ran very fast through the woods. I went back to camp and sat and listened for a good hour. I eventually started reading again until 2 or 3 in the morning. I hadn't heard anything after it ran away. I built the fire up and went into my tent got in my sleeping bag and slept lightly for a few hours. Everytime I woke up I'd listen for a bit before going back to sleep. When morning came I packed up and left the area. I've never hunted there again.
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Great story!!! i could watch hours of this kind of video, just a dude telling his story!!! love it
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And there are many YT channels devoted to just that, those like Bigfoot Case Files; Facts By HowToHunt; Sasquatch Chronicles; Bigfoot Odyssey; Buckeye Bigfoot; Bigfoot Experience; Dixie Cyptid, etc. I'm guessing you are familiar with these.
100% TRUTH!! God bless you
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Such a legend. Stay awesome. From Melbourne Australia! We have a black panther running around my area and is treated exactly the same as big foot.
It's either a panther or cat on steroids. This thing tales down livestock like it's a fox in a chicken coup. I'm talking alpacas, cows, sheep, goats the lot.
holy cow!
I'm from Oklahoma. I used to live in West Tulsa right next to the levee for the Arkansas River and 50th Street west. Those familiar with this area will remember the oil pump that would release excess fuel with a flame. Anyway, I lived right next to it (the pump), and it was on a dead end road near this grocery store on 49th st. West. The levee was on the other side of the pump. My wife and I were sitting on our back porch one night having a smoke. There was an abandoned center block structure in the property behind the pump, it was next to our back yard. We saw a creature crouched down to our left about 100 to 150 feet. It was about 10:30 p.m. It looked like a bear. About the time we noticed it, it started moving towards us. It was kind of grumbling or growling...almost a very primal low pitched roar. As it was moving towards us, it was growing or getting bigger. Like it was going from a squat to a standing and lunging motion. We got the message LOUD and very clear! (This is my domain, get the Fudge out of my sight right now)!! My wife did a literal back flip through our screen door into the house! I had to stand up, turn and run back into the house. I slammed the doors and asked her how the hell did she get into the house without opening the door?. We were both scared and hoping that it wouldn't smash through our back door. I thought it could have been either a bear, a guy in a guilley suit, or a big pissed off dirty hairy bum in a guilly suit, or BIGFOOT. I believe,as my wife also, believe this was a bigfoot. I believe it walks the rivers and creeks. I think we caught him eating something in my backyard that he caught in the river/levee system near my house.
wild!
Good for you for sharing your story. They are definitely out there. I have gone looking and I have found them.
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I can't say I saw anything, but on our first trip down the Manistee river, my son, brother-in-law, and his son had an interesting experience. On the way to the drop off, I had asked our driver what we could expect for size on fish above the Tippy Dam. I was told that the bigger fish were limited to the dam to lake Michigan, periodically nice size Northerns and walleyes, but other than that, rainbows, browns and brookies. I was feeling off that first night, and decided to rack out early. I'm normally a 4ish hour sleeper, so shortly after everyone else was asleep (or so I thought), something wakes me up, a big splash in the water, which my first thought is a big fish jumping. Then almost immediately I hear 3 more large splashes, guessing 15-20yd intervals, probably 3seconds apart, now I'm awake. Still trying to shake sleep off, I remember no big fish in this section, so I'm really confused. The same thing happened 3 more times, 4 big splashes, but I'm awake now, and it almost sounds like boat anchors being thrown in the water, best description. When the 4th set of 4 splashes happened, I inadvertently spoke out in frustration, "come on.... really!" My son heard me speak, and he says, "so you heard, that too?". I replied yeah, it's the 4th time it's happened tonight. He asked me if I knew what it was, and all I could reply with I really couldn't say. At this point, in my head, I didn't want to admit that my only explanation I could come up with was something I had never overly considered possible. By this time, I'm pissed off (which my son had NEVER seen before), and in fight mode. I reignite our camp fire, grab my axe, and continue patrolling our camp until daybreak, periodically hearing movement beyond the firelight, but never eyeshine, but the splashes also stopped. The following morning, I found out my Brother-in-law also heard it, but his son hadn't. We've done variations of the same trip probably 8 times since then, but it's never happened again. That being said, I'm not certain if I do or don't want to EVER have that experience again. Most of my life, I have been an adrenaline junkie, rock climbing, spelunking, killed a bear at 15, not to mention, 10yrs U.S. Army Infantry, including 3 deserts and a jungle. Again, not certain about ever wanting that Experience again. I'm certain plenty will call BS, that being said, have at it, my give a D broke a long time ago
Thanks for sharing your story. that would freak me out as well! I will say that when beavers are mad they slap their tails and it sounds like bowling balls hitting the water...not sure why they would be doing that if you were asleep in a tent but it would at least give you something to think about to feel more comfortable in the outdoors.
@@MattStefanFishing Every beaver slap I've ever heard has always sounded like a slap, I actually did consider the possibility, and if it was, I've not heard the concussive sucking sound I heard that night before or since, granted, outside of videos, I've only been near maybe 5-6 beaver slaps, and it startles you to know end if it's because you didn't see it before the slap. That being said, I never recalling any sort of patterns or sets of slaps. Anyways, thanx for the reply, you have a blessed day!
@@shannonstone5021 happy holidays!
The best bigfoot reports are from people like you. Mad respect.
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Nope.
Just the truth, we deserve the truth, thank you, people need to know about these encounters
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Bro and finding bigfoot are jokes. There are real researchers out there.
In my opinion. Searching for then w large groups of BFRO or whatever is pointless. Too many feet crunching and people talking. Going alone or two people max is best
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!! Hopefully you inspire others to share theirs!
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@@MattStefanFishing of course!
I had an incident when I was moose hunting on the Ontario Quebec border. And at the time I didn’t have a camera or a phone. But this was not a bear. This was during daylight hours.All i I can tell you was that it moved so quickly through the woods everything went silent. He was at least 100 yards from me across the clearing. And ihe was at least 7 feet or more and for it to walk through this bush and disappear as easily as it did. It was unreal. This was back in 1999.
crazy!
there are quite a few sightings in that area. I had an incident on the base on Petawawa in 1983. I heard the " samurai " talk around 3am. We were on top of a hill about 20 miles from any inhabited place. This was on the base close to Algonquin park. It was in february and the temp was about -30 with the windchill factor.
Cool story, thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for sharing. Our family has had many things happen at our farm over the years that can not be logically explained away as a bear etc.
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I believe you completely
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