Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Kirk writes “I have 3 experiences to share and they each took place 10 years apart. I’m going to share the experience I had in October of 2012 in this first email. It took place in Otter Falls which is a little lake resort in the White Shell area in south eastern Manitoba Canada.

My girlfriend at the time had recently gone through something traumatic and I had been working hard all summer long so we both felt like we just needed some calm and some nature. We rented a nice little log cabin right on the lake which is Margaret Lake. You can actually kayak from Margaret Lake all the way to Sylvia Lake and around this huge landmass which is Carter Island and then through Eleanor Lake to get back to Otter Falls. The round trip around Carter Island is about 12 kms. The cabin had a hot tub inside it and a nice big screen. It had nice granite slabs of rock by the lake which made it easy to get a canoe in and out of the lake. We rented the cabin for a couple of nights and when we were paying for our cabin the host told us that we were the only ones at the resort as it was October which I enjoyed hearing at the time bc we were really looking forward to some silence. Our first day and night were really enjoyable as we took our time enjoying the outdoors. We had rented a canoe and had a very relaxing time on the lake and we had a nice quiet first night. On the second day we once again canoed during the day and we got a nice fire going during the evening. A nice layer of fog was moving in so we went into the cabin and warmed up in the hot tub and then watched a movie we had rented earlier in the day from the same host, some Russel Brand vacation comedy.

We snuggled into bed and she crashed hard right away and stayed up for about an hour doing stuff on my phone and trying to shield the light from my phone from her field of view. All of a sudden, while I was laying there quiet in my bed next to my out cold girlfriend…all of the hair on my whole body stood up and I got the craziest goosebumps I’ve ever experienced and it went quiet like sooooooo quiet that all I could hear was my own heartbeat and I remember sliding a bit lower under my covers because it made me feel less seen and safer. I also remember thinking to myself ‘am I having a stroke or something?’and then my girlfriend wakes up out of a cold hard sleep and she looks at me and says ‘whats up with the energy in here?’…I could not believe that she could feel it too but I didn’t want to alarm her so I told her that I thought that a storm might be coming in and that everything was going to be fine and she should go back to sleep which she did.

She wears earplugs and an eye piece to bed and when she puts on both its lights out for her.so she goes back to bed but I could feel that something was still off so I got out of bed super quietly to try not waking her but honestly more to not have whatever was outside hear where I was in the cabin. There was a nice long ramp/deck that has to be walked across to get to the cabin door so I felt safeish that nothing was on the deck yet because I would’ve heard it.

It was so pitch black that I couldn’t even see my hand right in front on my face and as I looked out the cabin front window I realized just how dark and alone we were as there were no other lights on for miles. As I finally exited the bedroom, trying my best to not make even a squeak on the floor I took my first step out of the bedroom…to my left(the direction of the ramp/deck which had a railing on the left side of it which actually surrounded the whole deck)I heard the creak of something big step onto the deck and slowly take another step with a long creak again and then again. At first I thought maybe it was the host messing w us but the sound of the creak on the deck was too substantial. And then I thought maybe it’s a moose but there wasn’t any hoof sounds on the deck. And then the creaking stopped and I realized that whatever it was was standing just outside the cabin door and had stopped moving. I stood there in my underwear in the pitch black 5 feet from the door with a hatchet in my hand ready to cut off or hack whatever came in.

I stayed in one ready to hack position for approximately 25 to 30 mins Wes..and then I realized that I hadn’t taken a breath in a very long time so I finally let out a big sigh /exhale and as soon as I did I could hear something on the other side of the wall outside the cabin do the same thing only deeper and louder and then I heard something take 2 quick steps on the deck and make a grunt sound like it jumped over the deck railing and took off into the woods. I didn’t sleep the rest of the night and stayed close to the door but nothing else happened the rest of the night and in the morning we took off back for Winnipeg. I grew up in the bush Wes..I was an eagle Scout and spent every weekend building cool forts and making trails with my friends out in St Malo, St Pierre and Grunthal areas of southern Manitoba. We would always be out catching frogs and turtles in swamps and gravel pits and I’ve had a lot of bear experiences and some moose experiences too. I even came almost nose to nose with a black bear before as in our noses almost touched before I scared it off by moving lol. I’m not a hunter so I never have a gun on me personally but I’m definitely not against hunting l.I was more like a nature ninja and especially loved when I could watch animals when they didn’t know I was watching them. Ive been chased by moose and bear before and I’ve felt that flight fear before but this was something very different. The way it went quiet like that was so terrifying that I honestly didn’t even want to see whatever was on the deck. Like what has the ability to alter it’s surrounding environment like that???Anyways, that’s what happened to us and although I never saw anything with my own eyes I felt something that I’ve never felt before or head before. Thanks for your show and your approach with your guests Wes. You do such a great job at giving your guests the floor to tell their story. I’ll send you my next experience that happened in August of 2022(also at Otter Falls) in my next email.”