Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I live in southern Utah . I have lived here for about two years now. Previously I lived in the central part of the state. Let me start with my encounters as they took place in order. Well First a bit about myself. I am a father of 6 children & 3 grandchildren. 3 of my children are paternal. & the others are step.

In total I have 5 boys & 1 girl ages from 32-21. I am married & I have been a coal miner for most of my career. My very first encounter happened when I was a small boy. I was traveling to Logan Utah with my parents. My eldest half sister was getting married there. I guess I was about 7 or 8 at the time. So it would have been about the summer of 1978 or 1979.

It happened very fast. I was peering out of my window in an old yellow 1972 Chevy blazer. My father had recently gone through open heart surgery. So he was sitting shotgun & my mother was driving. As we were ascending up Logan canyon in northern Utah, my mother slams on the brakes . As I hear my dad saying’ what the hell is it ?? My mother throws the blazer in park & nervously exclaims, ” it’s a god damn Bigfoot Lester! What the hell do you think it is !! As I’m grabbing ahold of the two seats in the front, lifting myself to see what they we’re talking about. I rose up looking through the windshield, there is a gigantic creature crossing the road to the north. It seemed to turn its head towards us slightly. With a somewhat evil look. I noticed an oncoming car skid to a stop & the creature kicked it into high gear.

I would guess it took two to three steps while crossing the road. Then, as it moves up the other side of the hill. It was going faster than a deer could. It traversed once. & then it was gone. It stood upright the whole time. Never dropping down on all fours. I remember my mother giving my father some nitro glycerin before we drove off. Later in life I learned that the nitroglycerin was for his heart. He passed away when I was 15.. my uncle bob & aunt Marsha were behind us in their suburban, with my siblings, & I remember them talking about the encounter when we arrived at the wedding. I was very small at the time so forgive me for the short story. But, that is what I remember..

The next two encounters, I will put together because they happened only a couple miles from each other. I am an avid hunter & outdoorsman. On a general season rifle elk hunt in gooseberry Utah . Near fish lake Utah.” Keep this in mind ” ! In 2013 I was riding my atv off of the nioche trail . Near the bottom where I had my truck parked, I heard a howl. It seemed just 10s of yards off of the trail . My cat just rubbed my legs & scared the shit out of me lol. ! Sorry ‘ back to the story. Anyway you have to cross a little creek just before you arrive at the trail head. I stopped at the creek & listened for a second to see if I could hear anything. All along I’m thinking to myself, there are wolfs in Utah after all. I lit a cigarette & about the time I’m putting them back into my pocket , I hear the loudest howl I’ve ever heard. Long & low pitched. I said to myself that’s no wolf & started grabbing gears towards my truck. When arriving at my truck, I heard several more howls as I was loading my atv. Bewildered from the noise I heard, I told my wife about it when I had gotten home & she said, I’ve always felt creeped out going through that part of the trail. The other part of this story happened at browns hole in gooseberry Utah. Literally a mile & a half or two miles from where I heard this god foresaken howl. My daughter, me her boyfriend, & my two sons. We’re elk hunting in the same area. But, we were camping this time. We just got back from the morning hunt .

With no success for the day. We were tired & needed a shower.

We all decided to run down to town & take a shower. After showering, we road hunted back up to our camp. When arriving at our camp we seen that something was out of place, while driving up to our trailer. We noticed our awning had literally been torn half way off of our trailer & was laying on top of it ! It’s a 21′ trailer so the awning is 20′ long & takes two people to carry. When it’s rolled up. I chalked it up to wind. But I knew that the wind could not have done that. &, we were down in a bowl. Later that night as we were sitting inside the trailer playing cards we heard the most god awful scream just up on the ridge from our trailer. It was about midnight & sure there were other elk hunters around but this sounded like a woman being attacked. I shined my spotlight up there because it really sounded like a woman in extreme distress. But we couldn’t see anything. It sounded Like she was being beaten or something. The next morning around 5 am we arose to go hunting & the surrounding was as still as could be.

The previous mornings I would step out of the trailer with my flashlight & flash it around. There would be a couple of jack rabbits & an occasional doe near our trailer running about. This morning it was absolutely dead silent. That is the end of this encounter. Just last week, my family & I took a little vacation to fish lake Utah. It is the largest natural lake in Utah. The lake spans a distance of 6 miles southwest to northeast. & it is 1 mile across at its widest point. It is an ancient volcano, so it is relatively deep. The cabin that we stayed in was a small two room cabin with two full size beds. It did have running water & lights shower etc. on Thursday night my daughter, & her boy friend went fishing down on the bank of the lake. & while they were fishing, they encountered a light flying over them at a pretty fast rate of speed. They said that the weird thing was, it was zig zagging back & forth while traveling in a straight line. It kinda creeped them out they said.

The next morning we were going to check out & head back home. after one last ditch effort of fishing on the boat. The fishing hadn’t been that great. Over the entire week we had stayed there. So we got up about 4:30 am & had some coffee. We got ready to go down to the boat & head out on the lake. It seemed to be a very normal morning at first. While arriving at the lake, as my headlights scanned across it, it had some foggy patches on the water . We walked down to our boat, from where we had parked the truck. I wiped down the dew that had collected onto the boat & fired it up. I turned on my fish finder & loaded my daughter & her boyfriend into the boat. Then continued to untie the ropes holding the boat to the dock. It was still, & very dark. I was lighting my way with a head band style flashlight. After untying the boat, I realized that my navigation light wasn’t working on the front of the boat so I started to tap on it.

My daughter said it was working last night because I watched you & mom coming in. Anyway, I pushed us off & jumped in. While pulling out of the marina. I noticed a bright light, what looked like just above the mountain to our northwest. It seemed to be moving towards us. I told the others, you guys check out that light up on the mountain. We all agreed it couldn’t be a plane, or a satellite. Because it was way to close to the mountain top & way to bright. We anticipated it coming over head because of its trajectory. So we started out of the marina & I noticed that my depth finder wasn’t working. My daughter was like what’s wrong dad? I told her that I couldn’t understand why my depth finder wasn’t working. it had been, all week until now.

It’s pretty important to know your depth while trolling for lake trout. So, I kind of sped up a little. Hoping that it would reset because I knew that we had to be in 50-70 feet of water, because I had been trolling this area for 4 days. It was reading like 17 feet maximum. I slowed down, & put my back light on which plugs into the back of the boat. it seemed to be working fine . It’s important to note , that my depth finder was working fine now too. so we began trolling at 2.0 mph. Then I told the kids to start letting line out. At that time, I realized that the light, that we were looking at was gone ! We were all like, that’s weird. While the kids were letting out line, I was looking forward to the southwest keeping us in a straight line to put us onto the Mack run. All of the sudden I see a camper’s light straight in front of us go out. & the light we had seen up on the mountain. appeared right in front of us, coming at an extreme rate of speed. Now I’m the only one who can see it because I’m driving the boat & the kids are turned backwards fishing. I say to the kids look at that light you guys.

It was traveling extremely fast & it dipped down onto the water almost as if it had a heading or its coordinates were automatically set. As it passed us the kids saw it & the light got very bright while going by us. My daughter said she could see a small beam of light facing forward so it must have spotted us while going past us. To me it seemed to have kind of a translucent body following behind it. Egg or tic tac shaped. My best guess is that we were within 1/2 mile from it. As it passed us & it didn’t make a sound. You could kind of hear a bit of a whisp of water while it was going by & that’s it ! It continued in a straight trajectory what looked like just inches from the water. Over the full length of the lake. Then it just went out of sight. I assume it kept going up the canyon, because we never seen it go up into the air. It was quite eerie! We were all dumb found. Now, we are all saying “what the hell was that “… I feel like it was definitely extra-terrestrial, because it was way to fast. & it didn’t make a sound. At other times we could hear boats going across the water. From our cabin, 3 times the distance away. As we got up the lake a little way further, there was a sail boat anchored off of the lodge about 100’ from shore. But, whoever was on that boat was definitely asleep.

There were no lights on it & no movement. My best guess is that the craft was fueling on the water. Like maybe it runs off of hydrogen or something. To give you an idea of how fast this happened. The lake is 6 miles long & 1 mile across ! It took approximately 6 seconds to cover the entire length of the lake. By my calculations, that adds up to 3600 feet per second. That is faster than a 22-250 bullet !!”

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