Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I live in North GA and formerly worked at a lookout tower located on the southern end of the Chattahoochee National forest. This happened about 2 and a half years ago.

I was up in the tower one night like normal, I had my phone plugged into my portable charger playing music on low but all the lights were off as that’s the best way to spot light, fire, and the stars. I was there in the tower and I had sat down to eat some of my lunch my fiancé packed for me and as I’m eating a loud thud hit the side of the tower, obviously it startled me and my mind raced a little bit but came to the conclusion that it could possibly be a bird or what not, unusual for lost birds to be in flight at night.

I still decided to go down and check just in case as I love animals so I didn’t want this thing in lain down there, I radioed that I was going down for a possible injured animal. I head down and it’s dark I mean you guys are from Washington so I don’t need to explain but it’s dark, I’m down there with a light looking around and I don’t see anything and I didn’t see any blood so I assumed it maybe got dazed and flew away, so I head back up and no later than 5 mins pass I hear it again but not as loud as the last one.

When I hear that my blood went ice cold, I’m thinking there’s no one out here and shouldn’t be, so I grab my sidearm which I usually don’t keep on me bc it’s uncomfortable when I sit but I got it and kinda looked out under me to observe but it’s dark. So I head back down to investigate just to see if it’s a stray person or, something I’m not too sure what it could have been but it’s my job so I go down and I didn’t even notice this pattern until I wrote this, I suppose I didn’t notice it the first time because in my mind I was looking for a bird, but where the sound was there was a rock smaller than my fist laying there, and about 10 feet farther a smaller one, I had enough so I drew my pistol and called out naturally who’s there show yourself I’m armed that type, I wasn’t trying to sound scared. And a couple seconds later I smell this stench, I’ve smelt dead animals and this was atleast 10x worse than a wet rotting raccoon it was bad so in my head I’m thinking, “oh my lord there’s a skinwalker out here” I’m into those podcast and I believe it.

Up until I found your show that’s exactly what I thought it was, but I slowly back up tiaras the tower and I hear steps mimicking mine and I just knew I didn’t have long I knew It, so I stop and wait to see if something emerges maybe it’s just a regular animal. About that time I hear what sounds like a vaccum sucking air in, just alot if air moving at once and this roar, this roar turned my legs to water because I fell over out of pure terror and from then on it never looked anywhere except straight and I got up ran back up with no control over my body, i wanted to live. I get up and I’m looking and I’m scared something is looking back and when I’m not looking I’m scared somethings coming so I’m on a loop going back and forth. 20-30 minutes pass and I’m somewhat collected but not much and I start shining the light out just looking and nothing is to be seen so I stop and turn the light off, approaching the base of the tower was a humanoid figure and it seemed to be darker than the night it was about a half crescent moon but it was darker and I watched in terror I still thought this thing was a skinwalker so I was silently praying for this thing to not attempt to come up but it had a stick, maybe 4-5 ft long not very thick and it hit the base, hard once to the point where it could’ve sounded like a gunshot and it sortve, shook my back to life and I wasn’t going to shoot at it because there’s always an off chance it’s a person bc I haven’t seen it clearly but after the hit I raised my pistol and fired two shots and it ran, that was the last of the activity for the night.

I reported what happened to my supervisor the next morning and I quit right there, I refuse to be alone in a place where something like that resides. I’m not sure if they ever investigated I never went back and when he tried reaching out I only explained once after the initial time and never again, but after listening to your podcast it made me realize it’s not what I thought it was.”