A listener writes “Hi Wes – Thank you for your recent interview with the police officer from Western Washington. It was very, very interesting. I am from Eastern WA and a true believer that Bigfoot does exist.
Although he passed away over 20 years ago, my grandfather, when only 10 years old, had a very close encounter somewhere near the old town of Govan, WA with Bigfoot. He was on horseback and on his way to school (about two miles from his home). As my grandfather told the story, he began to smell something very rancid and turned to see a large hairy man following him. ( I kept referring to it as a creature but he corrected me each time) He said he could see it’s muscles move under the hair (reddish color) and it was a man not a creature. Also, he said it was staying about four feet behind him but was keeping pace with the horse.
My grandfather said this went on for about 30 seconds or so then the horse began to act up. When he looked again towards the large hairy man, he had literally walked over a barbwire fence and into the treeline. My grandfather told me this story when I was a senior in high school (about 1968) and until then I had never heard of a Sasquatch or Bigfoot. However, he made me a believer mainly because I had never once (throughout my entire childhood) heard him tell a joke of any kind. I knew he was serious. My wonderful grandfather’s up close encounter when just a kid happened sometime in 1910.”