A listener writes “I was 11-years old and had never even heard of “bigfoot”…On the morning of this encounter I was on a deer stand; sitting, my back against a small oak, my legs stretched out in front of me.
I was armed with a single shot .410 shotgun and I was facing north, waiting, as my father made a drive in my direction in hopes of flushing a deer (he’d left me on the stand perhaps 45 minutes prior).
Where: Westville, TX (just west of Groveton, TX, Trinity County) Nearest Roadways: Hwys 287 and 94 When: November, 1971, shortly after sunrise Conditions: Cool, clear, around 50F Terrain: Heavily wooded, pine, oak; rolling hills interlaced with numerous creeks
Just as the sun began to rise, I heard a large hunter, or so I thought, approaching from the southeast at a distance (my 4 o’clock). I immediately grew concerned because we’d never encountered anyone on this property and the thought of another hunter walking up on me was needless to say very worrisome.
Since it was a clear dry morning I could hear the leaves crunching under the feet of this “man” every step he took. That said, I grew fearful because I could tell this individual was quite large judging from the sound of his footfalls and that was compounded by the fact that if he was a hunter, why wasn’t he trying to be quiet?
When he was almost on top of me, he stopped abruptly, perhaps 15′ away to my back-right. I didn’t move a muscle but using my peripheral vision, I could see a tall – 6′-plus – dark hair covered form standing there. Due to the fact I was sitting against the tree, looking back without turning my head, I could really only see the right third or so of his body.
In the early morning light he looked to be chocolate-reddish brown and was very muscular. From the angle I was looking at him, it didn’t seem he had a neck to speak of and his head almost appeared too small for his body. Further, because he was somewhat backlit, his face was in shadow so I couldn’t see any facial features.
It goes without saying, I couldn’t grasp what I was seeing because nothing I’d experienced or had ever even heard of could have prepared me for this. I felt numb with fear and almost fainted.
Somehow I gathered my wits and that’s when his breathing caught my attention; he was breathing very heavily – or so I thought at first. I then realized he was attempting to pick up my scent as best he could.
Again, I was so numb with fear I didn’t or better yet couldn’t move so I sat as motionless as I could for what seemed an eternity – but it was probably only 15 seconds – waiting to see what he’d do next.
An aside: Despite the fact I had a gun it never crossed my mind to use it.
He finally let out a grunt-snort as if disgusted by my presence, turned and walked off to the southwest (my 8 o’clock) at the same purposeful clip as before. When his footfalls finally became sodistant I couldn’t hear them, I felt some sense of relief but couldn’t shake the numbness pervading my body.
When I finally heard my father softly whistle from the woods in front of me – that’s how he let me know he was close – I recall feeling a tremendous sense of relief but for some reason I didn’t tell him what I’d experienced…”
Daren c
Thanks for sharing! Intense !
CJ M
I hope you told him later or someone at some time. Feelings are energy that needs to be released. i’m glad you’re okay.
Chad W
What an intense encounter. And such a young man, having to come to terms with the experience on your own.
Laurel B
Wow
Ron S
On one hand I would take a wild guess that this encounter could be a physical manifestation of the shadow-self that the witness was suppressing internally. Did he not tell his father because he was scared or intimidated by him, possibly fearing the sound of his dad’s approaching footsteps and possible grunts of disapproval? Maybe this was the knowledge he was supposed to be self aware of and it manifested physically through the subconscious in the form of this beastly creature.
Another way to look at this in a spiritual way through the trickery of a dark entity is this… First of all, this creature obviously struck fear into the witness. It related to him to associate loud footsteps with a monster. This could have been a setup by a dark entity to possibly be in such a state of fear that he may potentially shoot at his own father upon hearing him also approaching,(I don’t know the visibility he had at the time so it’s hard to say). If he had lower visibility in thicker woods this could make sense.
If you believe in something more physical you could say this creature was being purposely loud to drive deer to his Sasquatch buddies, which would make sense also as the sun was at the creatures back for better visibility.
In any case, (through my own experiences) I don’t believe these beings are 100% physical or visible in this realm like you and I are… I really don’t have all the answers what exactly they are, just personal evidence as to what they aren’t.
They definitely are not hallucinations when people ONLY LATER find out they are experiencing the same general things that fit specific criteria.
Sometimes the frustrating part of life is having so many different levels in society about the credibility to unexplainable things.
Some people raise an eyebrow and dismiss or discredit anything even remotely strange or emotional to someone else.
Some people only know of or choose to believe in what they experience through general news media or the beliefs within their potentially non-supernatural, narrow minded spiritual thinking or their in-the-box social groups.
For people like this, they may actually encounter something like a ghost or spirit at some point in their lifetime for instance, and not knowing where to look for credible or relatable evidence, the first thing they may find in looking for answers is hoaxed ghost shows or other silly forms of entertainment and thusly disregard the whole subject matter as being fake. They generally laugh at others with experiences for the sake of their own security blanket.
Then you have people that do believe in select phenomena, but only in ways they can comprehend it, with toy blocks of structure known within the concrete confines of modern science. There is no fault to these people as they simply have personalities that function better with structure in their lives… but it doesn’t make them correct either.
Another layer is the half truths or disinformation found in some forms of media that get you to actually believe something unexplained, but only in a certain way because it’s containing a hidden agenda. These are usually found in groups or larger organizations that only see their own personal gains by taking advantage of people by capitalizing on the real experiences of others.
Then you have witnesses that sort of settle into a certain way of thinking based on their own limited experiences and remain content not knowing any more than they already do because, basically maybe they can’t handle the thought of it being something more without it affecting their daily life or becoming an inconvenience to them.
And then you have a layer of totally free thinking individuals, that leave the doors of possibility wide open, free to change their opinion on something at any given moment as they gain more information or additional experiences that surpass all the thinking beyond all the levels described above.
For those with this mindset that are also shameless enough to go publicly with their ideas, this is where you’ll likely find answers closer to the truth… or at least where like-minded thinkers can gather and put better or likely fitting pieces together.
I think the hard truth is that we may never know. For everything there is a right time and place, and it’s simply just not right now… might not even happen within the lifetime of anyone reading this, or even within the realm of what we consider life.
Sometimes the purpose of life gets so confusing with all the unexplained, the only thing that makes sense is to just keep pushing forward with faith, do the best you can and make continuous efforts of positivity.
I believe (and have personal evidence) there is something much better waiting for us in the hereafter, if we play our cards right. We are all holding a potentially winning hand… You just gotta have patience and do not fold, keep upping the ante at the turn, and wait for the river. 🌞🙏🏼