Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes ” I am from the rural community of Siler, Kentucky. It is located in Whitley County, Kentucky in the South East corner of the state. I have lived with these encounters since the Summer of 2015 after my first encounter with these creatures or “boogers” as they’re referred to in this part of the world. I have tried to tell a handful of other people who are close to me about these experiences but just like nearly everyone else who is cursed to be dragged into this topic, no one really believed me. I now feel compelled to share my experiences to at least get the nightmares off my chest and after listening to your podcast for the past several years, I trust you with this information.

I’ll start with my first experience since it is the most sane (if that is possible with this subject) which occurred around July of 2015. Up until this point in my life I was slightly interested in the existence of Bigfoot but was still very skeptical. I figured as much time as I spent in the woods I would have seen something if it existed. I watched anything on television that featured Bigfoot or other cryptids. On this summer night everything would change and I would no longer have an ounce of skepticism in my body. I had graduated high school the previous May and was living the summer up before I started college at Eastern Kentucky University to pursue a Criminal Justice degree.

I was driving home from my girlfriend’s house and was getting fairly close to home. It was approximately 10:00 P.M. and I was following a green Chevy Silverado up 92 East. We were traveling at around 60 MPH consistently when the road was straight enough. We went into an S curve and accelerated hard out of it into a straight away that climbed a hill. The entire straight away was around 100 yards long before it topped the hill. In the middle of the straight away is another road, Highway 11 which is a 90 degree turn off. This section of both roads is built up on a levee that runs through a creek bottom. I was keeping about a two car distance from the truck in front of me the entire time. When the Chevy had just cleared the turn off to Highway 11, I witnessed a large dark mass come over the guardrail on the left hand side of the road. Immediately out of instinct I let off the accelerator. In one big step the creature placed its left foot on the yellow line. The next thing I see is the sole of its right foot come up in the air before taking another leaping bound to the right hand shoulder of the road. In two steps this thing had cleared a state highway. My Chevy truck, a 2006 Silverado, caught up to the beast and was keeping pace with it. I looked out the passenger window and could make out the creature running beside my truck. It paced my truck for approximately 40 yards and then violently veered right when the guard rail ended halfway up the hill. I still had enough sense about me to look down at my speedometer where I realized I had just now coasted down to 45 MPH.

I was speechless and in shock when I came over the hill. There is an elementary school about a quarter of a mile from the top of the hill. I pulled over into the parking lot and stopped to try and gather myself and attempt to process what had just happened. The creature’s hair was a reddish brown color but the sole of its foot was tan. This could be from the mud in the creek bottom it had run out of if I had to guess. My headlights which were on low beam only illuminated from the top of the buttocks down. I would say the thighs of this sasquatch or whatever in the hell it was were about the same circumference as my waist or maybe chest currently. I’m a 6′ 1″ 250 pound diesel mechanic. I wouldn’t say I’m jacked or anything but I make a living lifting and fighting extremely heavy things. When the creature was running beside my truck I could confidently see the upper stomach area at the top of my passenger window and the left arm swaying to and fro as it powered up the hill. It was dark but a fairly moonlit night and my headlight glow bouncing off the guardrail gave me the ability to track its movement until it wheeled right off of the road.

The entire experience probably lasted 5 seconds but burned itself through my eyes and into my mind forever…..”