i want to thank the listener for sending this to me. I have not gotten permission to use the listeners name so out of respect the name has been removed.
“I would first like to thank you for your amazing podcast. Your podcast is seriously therapy for those who have had encounters but could never talk about it until discovering your work. I had my encounter about ten years ago. My family and I have always camped in the mountains of Alberta as long as I can remember. On this trip we took our old motor home and decided to camp in a remote area by David Thompson. The area we were camped in was so remote that my family were the only individuals there at the time.
Just outside the camp site there were many bike trails as well as hills and forest area. I would refer to these hills as mini mountains as they were difficult to climb and were fairly large. My brother was at the age were he did not care to play or go hiking as he was more interested in staying at the campsite and relaxing. This lead to me biking and hiking on my own. At one point, I decided to grab my Walkman and bike to the “mini mountains”. Now at one point, I was about 20 minutes away from my families camp site. I was in the zone listening to music. Now this next moment I recall so clear I still have nightmares.
I recall listening to “Iron man” by black Sabbath when I suddenly had a feeling, a feeling of being watched. I stopped my bike and looked my right. what I first saw was a large tree stump. All of the sudden, I saw a head peek out from behind this stump. what felt like hours I was staring at this head that kept looking at me from side to side. Finally, it stood up. from what I can recall, the stump was as tall as I was. This stump came to this things knees when it stood up. As soon as it stood up, something inside of me told me to run and get out. I was so terrified that I even fell off my bike, and still have the scar on my knee to this day.
I literally could hear my heart in my ears I was so scared. When I finally got back to my camp site, all I could do was cry for the entire night to my parents. My dad asked me to take him back to where this happened but I just couldn’t. To this day, I will not camp in that general area.
Thanks for listening.”