A listener writes “Wes, I love the show and your style of interviewing. You seem to get your guests comfortable enough to spill their guts on what they have seen without interrogating them.
After hearing the hunter on 230 I wanted to tell you about my encounter. Several years ago I was hunting in Washington, when I came up on what I thought was a bear. I clicked my safety off and started to back away. I had no plans on shooting the bear but wanted to be ready just in case. As I started backing up, I looked up and this thing I thought was a bear but wasn’t was on two legs like a man and it was looking right me. It must have heard me backing up or clicking my safety off.
It’s hard to put into words, I just never saw anything like this before. I am 6’2 and this thing had to be every bit of 8 feet tall. Its arms were really long…way….way longer than a human. I knew it was male, you could see its male parts.
The hair on the creature seemed long on the arms but short on the rest of the body. The color of the creature was black. The face was more man-like than animal…..,..its hard to describe. The face was worn like worn out leather in appearance. I could tell its eyes were shifting from left to right as it looked at me almost like it was in shock or scared. I am sure I was doing the same thing. This is hard to write…..I feel like I did the day I saw it…anyway..,..I backed up and it started backing up.
I kept looking at it and it kept looking at me until it backed into the brush and I could not see it anymore. It never made a sound. I turned and ran for my truck once it was out of sight. I remember sitting in my truck in shock on what I just witnessed. The bigfoot wasn’t aggressive towards me it seemed to want to leave as much as I did but I’m not going to lie it scared the HELL out of me! I still cannot believe what I saw that day, I have bottled this up…it still bothers me..I am sure the whole encounter was less than a minute or two but it was the longest minute of my life. I gave up the outdoors that day and havent been back since”
SHANNON D
Cool encounter, thanks for sharing!
Tedd
Wow, thanks for sharing. I’m sorry it ruined the outdoors for you and maybe by getting of your chest will help. It sucks that we aren’t told these things exist so that its so shocking to see one, on top of that people ridicule you. Hope all else is well for you.
Jeffrey H
Very good encounter! It saddens me when I hear someone no longer enjoying the woods anymore after they have an encounter. I guess there is something to getting back on the horse after it throws you! It would have been great if this gentleman could have gotten back into the woods as soon as possible but it’s his experience thus only he knows when he will be ready to enjoy himself in a nice hike in some different woods. I wish him all the best & thanks for sharing his great encounter. (No one got hurt or screamed at)!
Barbara S
Thanks for. sharing your story. It must be very hard to have your world turned upside down and to feel afraid of,returning to the woods that you loved. I have,never encountered a bf but believe that they exist and tramatise many brave people.
Barbara
Brad C
I also enjoy and like Wes’s interviewing style, if they had award for Internet host Wes hands down
Black-YETI
Get back out there and find it again. Maybe they are creatures of habit like other animals? So if you see them once they must be doing one of 3 things. Traveling between areas, hunting for food or maybe roaming looking to breed. Maybe if we knew what their primary diet consisted of we could shrink the search area.
I sat in on a very interesting seminar some years ago about deer habits. The qdma tagged deer and monitored there movements over time with radio collars.
What was really suprising was that once a food source is removed within 3 days moved to where ever amother top food source was. Take away the food and they move. I bet a squatch has to eat a lot of calories in a day to maintain that body mass.
Frankie P
I think it’s stories like this person that make me angry because they (whomever they are) won’t tell people about this animal; just like mountain lions, if you know they are possible and what to do/not do, it could sure help everyone who goes into our great outdoors for any activity, work or play. I’m so glad it backed away.
Duke S
I can never go into the woods without being hyper aware of my surroundings and looking for hiding spots/ambush points near the trail, whatever I am doing Bigfoot is always on my mind. I didn’t want to go in the woods AT ALL for a few years after my first sighting!
Steven P
Great story and probably exactly how I would react if ever seeing one while out in the woods. Most people go out in the outdoors ,woods whatever term you want to use, to relax get away enjoy the serenity, even when hunting you can feel a calmness that’s hard to find anywhere else. Now all of the sudden that mindset or attitude is slapped upside the face with the reality that you might not be the meanest MFer in the valley. Have gone hunting before and just enjoyed being there not concerned with bagging a deer many times, LOL have fell asleep with my back to a tree a few times doubt I could do that knowing something like that was sharing acreage with me. I do agree get back out there but I’d be armed to the teeth and wouldn’t go alone.
Christopher c
Come on the show bro! Email Wes!
Karen C
We want DETAILS! Right Christopher?
Doreen Dee S
Just think…someday our elementary schools will have bigfoot creatures in their curriculum. Or not
Erwin A
Wow that was interesting.