Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I was probably 8 or 9 years old, we lived in an old house in a rural area north of Wichita KS near a town called Maize where I grew up. It was near the Arkansas river maybe just a 1/4 mile away from the river as the road we lived on came to a dead end to the levee of the river.

There was a thick area of trees between the river and our house though the house was right in the middle of a field. So close to trees but some distance. The house itself however had a row of trees surrounding it, it had a long drive way off the road and those trees were always great times to play.

One night probably around 1981 or 82 just as twilight was nearing I walked over to the tree line of our house that would have faced the wooded area and towards the river. I had a crazy sensation overcome me that I was being watched. I looked around just as a feeling what finding the reason I felt that way. I panned to my right and eventually saw what looked like a dark gray face looking at me.

It was the kind of very soul-piercing sensation that an obvious symmetrical non-human face was looking directly at me. It had very large black eyes and grey skin. I couldn’t tell if there was hair put the head overall was cone-like shaped. I’d didn’t get a primate feel at first but after so many years it feels more primate than human. The nose was wide and flat though the light being so dim I couldn’t tell if there were nostrils. the mouth however was very wide and and closed. Like two very equal thickness but thin lips both top and bottom, almost a frowning expression of just a stoic/stiff expression.

It felt like it was looking at me but looking up over a fallen down tree. So imagine a tree trunk (many of the trees in this tree line were knocked over either but age or someone had done them) and this creature was hiding but managed to look up over the trunk at me. I grabbed my glasses to hopefully tilt the lenses to get a sharper look which I distinctly remember doing but the low light was not helping with trying to find details. A fearful feeling came over me but also curiosity, I ran back inside the house to get my binoculars which I just loved using so much for my everyday adventures. I felt it was better to get a closer look without actually getting closer.

I quickly return to the exact spot I was standing and looked and looked but couldn’t find it. That’s when a feeling of terror came over me. I ran back in the house and told my brother who was 11 years older than me and a very restless late teenager with a rebellious attitude in life. He completely scoffed at me and laughed. But then onward this fear of the dark issue I had and I was not able to sleep alone in a bedroom for at least a few more years. I don’t know what it was, for years I thought grey alien but now it feels more of bigfoot/sasquatch vibe.”