I really want to speak to this witness, this sounds like a rake.
A listener writes “September 14 2:50 am – I live in Canada Manitoba close to fisher branch…I went outside because I was going to move a no trespassing sign I believed to have misplaced…also for my bedtime cigarette I had a hammer in my left hand an a flashlight in my right so I walked down my driveway and as I lit my cigarette beside the gate I noticed my dog was following me then I walked to the road (gravel road in the middle of nowhere) then I shined the light east towards a field to see if any animals were around then I shined it south down the road and I noticed my dog was frozen solid looking north so I turned around and shined the light north and 30 or 40 feet in front of me there was something with gray skin it was this with eyes reflecting the light from my flashlight it was staring right at me!
I thought who the FUDGE IS THAT!? Then it started running east very fast going by a stop sign while still looking back at me! My mind said its a deer but deer have 4 legs! This had 2 then it crouched in a ditch in high grass beside a hydro pole continuing to watch me then I yelled F$@& NO!! F@&$ NO!!!!!! Then I lost Visibility of it and my dog ran to the house so I turned around and faced west then i felt a chill so i turned back east an kept the light on it and continued to walk backwards to my house!!!
I kept calm until I got in the house then I started shaking and it felt like my blood was evaporating from my body then I laid down in bed wondering what the F I just seen…it wasn’t bigfoot or a man or any animal I have seen before then my mother called across the house so I responded with whats wrong and she said she can hear something out her window it was now 3 am…then I told her what I seen and she said several hours later about 5 pm she could hear something making loud noises in the forest like sticks and trees being hit together….I have seen bears deer moose elk wolves coyotes wolves and animals and always heard strange almost human like noises in the forest but what i have seen was so shocking I wasn’t scared but shocked…and it keeps replaying in my mind the way I told you all….you don’t have to believe it but its my first strange sighting/encounter…..it was from 6’6 to 6’9 but thin naked with gray pale skin also hairless and very fast”
Tedd
I hope you get more details on this. The rake is really a freaky creature to think is truly out real and around us! Maybe it could be a sick and hairless cryptid but not if the head is completely “rakish” or other details put it outside of that possibility. Thanks and good luck getting this encounter for us!
Matthew A
I have an encounter that may be similar, happened to a friend, but I was there. I wrote it down when it happened so this is a copy/paste from that event.
“Date: 10.26.2015 Time: End of Dusk Grid: 38°50’59.22″N 104°59’23.15″W Elevation: 9,655 FT
I have a story for you that occurred last night. I did not witness it myself, but my friend that is a skeptic in many regards did. I have started building a cabin at a campsite I started, which is situated far into national forest. It’s about a 10-mile walk just to get to civilization. Though, part of the journey is on a regularly used trail – the trail is used to summit Pikes Peak in Colorado. We left late to travel back yesterday, at sunset. It was the end of dusk with a bright moon shining. We had already been walking for probably an hour. I’m a faster walker so I normally take lead and will eventually get about 20 to 30 meters before stopping to let my friend catch up. This is the first time we had ever left so late. As I was ahead a little bit of fog rolled in, we both commented on the large moon rising into the sky and continued walking. As usual I continued walking faster and was making robot noises to pass the time. I had walked at least 30 meters before stopping to see where my friend was. I turned around and he had his machete out with a daunting look on his face. I was surprised that he had it out but assumed he felt safer with it unholstered. I asked him why and at first he was reluctant to tell me, but eventually confessed his peculiar behavior.
I had never seen him so physically spooked before, the kind where your body goes into its own fight or flight whether you want it to or not. He told me that as the breach between us kept getting larger he noticed something about 30 ft up the hill off the trail; he had his light on and illuminated his beam in its direction. He describes what he best concludes as looking like a windigo. Being the size of a regular tall person, looking skinning, but still strong and having some sort of crown or horns on its head. What scared him more was that it clearly was flanking from above us and moving quick as in a manner of trying to be stealthy, he only saw if for a few seconds before it vanished behind some trees. He got the instinct impression that it was trying to cut him off as I continued walking further away in order to break the prey from the heard and isolate him so to speak. We were probably at about 9,000 FT around 7ish on a well-used trail during the day. I can vouch for his behavior which was a very defensive and one of fear, much of which was beyond his control. It took him a while to tell me because he thought he was crazy, but I immediately believed him because he was so shaken. We have come face to face with 3 bears at once in the middle of the night while being 40 miles off in an isolated part of the mountains in the past and he had sound resolve. I took out my Springfield XD – 40 out of my pack and strapped it on, he was thankful; we went lights illuminated the rest of the journey. He kept a quick pace all the way back, almost to the point I was working to keep up with him. He normally likes being a distance behind, but this time he made sure to stay close and kept looking back.
Obviously my first reaction was a Bigfoot, but his description does not match. He also said he got the feeling that the creature or being had malicious intent. He said it looked more shadowy and he was not sure whether it was because it was just to dark or that’s how it actually looked.”
Trent M
Dang Mathew keep that thing down at the Springs!! Skinny but strong looking with horns, no thanks!
Lisa H
wow thanks for sharing this story. I live in colorado but i never hear anyone mention sightings in my area which is in the Roaring Fork Vally.
Avis B
Would love to hear.. this encounter.. sounds like a Rake.. Also to Matthew.. what a great encounter.. would love to hear his encounter as well..
Matthew A
Im glad I did not see the thing my friend saw, I had hard enough time coping with the bigfoot encounters. I think it would be hard for my paradigm to handle something so strange as a rake or what my friend described.
The bigfoot like creatures occur so regularly in Colorado Springs along the foothills that if you ask most people that frequent them, especially at night they will most likely have some type of story to tell. I finally started asking my friends recently and have about 8 stories from different friends that have had an encounter, normally in the open spaces with tall brush that branch into the city. If I can find that many people out of the small sample of people I asked and if we use that as a test sample, then there has got to be many, many more encounters. I am now convinced that the North Cheyenne Canyon, reported for over a century to be haunted with screams, odd noises and figures at night, normally attributed to ghosts is actually Sasquatch.
Though, to the point, these bipedal creatures come right up and sometimes into the city, they are much closer than many would care to believe, which still unnerves me….
Wookie Booger
I would start carrying a big gun!
Forrest W
A Rake !!!
Barbara W
This convinces me even more that Sasquatch mimic swearing. In the Sierra Sounds audio, the deep-voiced, alpha male sounds like he says, “WTF?” even getting the inquiring tone of a question right. I wouldn’t be surprised if this one goes around yelling F*©# NO!! after this encounter.
I bet a whole lot of people swear when they see one.
I know when I moved to Puerto Rico, the first words I learned were the swear words. You just hear them most often, especially in traffic.