Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I have never had the nerve to write-in about my experiences on a platform as big as yours, but I did tell an indy author friend about some of this, and he put it on his blog several years ago. What has me writing to you is having listened to Episode 1018. The guest talked about the lights forming and had an observation about ground water and quartz where the lights formed, and I had a similar observation with my grandparents’ property.

For setup: My grandparent’s property is in the Ozarks in Missouri. You can see Truman Dam in the far distance from the property, to give a general location. The property has a long, narrow, L-shaped house that was 3 prefab cabin kits grandpa and his friends just cobbled together into one structure. There’s some outbuildings, like a pump house, work house, and tool shed that make a small courtyard you can park a few cars in. off the back of this by about 150 feet is an open barn and a “pond”. I use quotations on pond because grandpa dug it to stock with fish, but it never retained water due to the geology so it ended up just being a giant rock crater. Behind the barn and pond is a large copse of trees, and past that is the only close neighbor’s cattle ranch. The only way to see the barn, pond, trees from the house is from my cousin’s room at the end of the short arm of the L. There was stuff fitting sasquatch activity there, 1 direct sighting on the property (not mine), will-o-wisps, a UFO sighting (Grandparents), and and a few really woo things. Off-property, I ran into the black puma, and my great-uncle ran into the “Beaman Monster” in the 1940’s (local pre-Bigfoot name for Bigfoot).

When we were growing up, we’d go target shooting and use the “pond” as a range, shooting down into it to have an earth backstop. If it was just my cousin and I, after about 45-60 minutes of shooting, we’d hear something moving in those trees/brambles and start smelling something that smells like the chimp enclosure at the zoo. We never got eyes on it, but could hear it and smell it. If we didn’t clear out within about 10 minutes of it arriving, we’d start getting small rocks landing at our feet. One time we decided we were sick of it, figuring it was a hobo, we shouted they were trespassing and warned them to leave. After another rock landed at our feet, we put a .22 round about 15 foot up into a large tree a few degrees off from where we figured the rocks were coming from (dumb kids…). Almost immediately the brush started shaking, my cousin got beaned in the forehead with a larger rock, and we heard it take off through the brush. We retreated to the house. We haven’t run into anything out there like this in 15-20 years at this point, though this activity continued into our 20’s. We never shot at it again; just pulled out when we’d hear it coming.

One cousin says he saw 2 Sasquatch out there at about 1 am one time. He got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and looked out that one window as he was coming back to bed. He said he saw what he thought were bears rooting around where we’d shoot from, then one stood up and he saw it was a pair of bigfoot picking something up off the ground, looking at it, throwing it away. He said it looked like they were talking to each other. He described them as “2 Andre the Giants in ghillie suits” but wasn’t much more descriptive than that over the years. He came to wake us up and get the guns. By the time he got us and we got in a position to look, nothing was there. The ground there is exposed bedrock, so we couldn’t find anything like prints. Based on his description, I wonder if they were poking around our expended brass.

What was relevant to the episode was the gentleman’s description of the terrain and the lights. When we were teens, we’d stay up late playing video games, and would often look outside and see ‘will-o-wisps’. They were already formed in our case. They’d go from left to right looking out the window. They were always in the color spectrum between purple and blue.

A few times we were stupid and went out to take a closer look. These things weren’t like the light orbs you and UFO people talk about. This was the size of a medicine ball and looked a bit like the wisps in that Disney movie Brave, or like Fireball spell in video games in shape. When I was in college, I saw videos of plasma experiments that looked identical. It’d move at a walking pace, not interact with anything, and always move in the same path at more or less the same pace. They’d always appear between 1 and 3 AM, only in the later half of summer. The ground there is red sandstone with large veins of quartz with shocked quartz centers. Years later, after my grandparents died, we found a geological survey grandpa had done to try to figure out why the pond wouldn’t retain water. Turns out there is an underground river there, and it runs exactly along the ‘will-o-wisp’ path.

These things were moving from upriver to downriver based on the survey. I think the river is charging the quartz (friction?) and we were seeing some sort of electrical/plasma discharge. I think it only appears later in summer because that is when it is humid. My dad is a pilot and says that a lot of atmospheric things like temperature inversions happen around the time of night my cousin and I were seeing the will-o-wisp, so I think there’s a combination of humidity, temperature change, and that charge cooking off that cause it.

I can go into more details about the other referenced stuff if you want, but this email is already getting long.”