I would like to tell you something about where I grew up in Northern Oklahoma on a farm in the 1960s and ’70s. The location is somewhere west of Interstate I-35 in the northernmost part of Oklahoma. It was a very wooded area.
My uncle, who had lived in the area all his life, told a story about how when he was about eight or ten years old, he was going out to the outhouse one cold winter night (They didnt have indoor plumbing in the old house yet) and said that as he tried to open the outhouse door, there was something inside it, preventing it from opening. My uncle said he was sleepy and cold and just wanted to do his business and be done with it and get back into the warm house, so he pushed his way into the outhouse with a bit of force. He was suddenly confronted by running right into a huge, stinking, hairy creature.
He first told me this story before I was aware of Bigfoot, and I don’t think he was ever aware of such things. I don’t recall the Patterson footage being general knowledge around there at the time, and I was curious about all things weird and wonderful and read up on the paranormal as often as I could.
Anyway, what he described back then now today seems like a pretty average description of a Bigfoot creature. He said he just bumbled face-first right into this wall of stinking fur (said it “smelled like a dead pig”) in the mostly dark outhouse and not knowing what was going on (there aren’t any bears around there)he looked up and saw a huge wide-eyed “monster face” staring back at him. My uncle let out a terrified scream (as you naturally would, being a kid in such circumstances) and said that the “thing” screamed back at him at the same time, seemingly equally frightened, and then it shoved him out of the way onto the ground and stepped over him and started running away across a nearby pig pen toward the woods and the river beyond.
My uncle says he was sat there on his butt on the ground screaming in fear and watching this big ape-like thing running away. It was a sort of comedy story when you envision a little kid and a Bigfoot frightening the bejesus out of each other in an outhouse, and I always loved that story and sometimes asked my uncle to tell it again because he’d be so animated when he did.
He said he ran back into the house screaming about “monsters” and woke everybody up. My grandmother confirmed this with a grin when she was still alive, and the whole family remembered the incident well. My uncle absolutely swore this was a true story, and years later, after learning about Bigfoot, it gave the story more credence to me. My uncle died many years ago, but his wonderful comic/horror story is still fresh in my mind because of the way he told it with wide eyes and an excited voice, even when he was an adult, and his absolute insistence that it was true.
Some years later, I had two Bigfoot encounters myself near there, but I won’t go into that here, as this is getting a bit long, but I will tell you of them at another time.
Credit: http://paranormal.about.com/od/bigfootsasquatch/a/tales_09_11_14t.htm
kevin d
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve looked at a lot of outhouses even the modern day portolet and none of the doors open inward
Patricia R
Outhouses weren’t mass manufactured like the modern portable toilets are.
They were built by the farmer or rancher like other outbuildings around the place and so they varied in their construction.
Depending on the size of the outhouse—one or “two seater”–I have seen mostly outward opening doors, but also some that opened inward. Also a variety of hinges and latches were used to open and close the doors, it was up to the ingenuity of the builder.
kevin d
Yeah it just got me questioning the story,when constructing an outhouse you would think you wouldn’t waste a lot of lumber to have the door open inward just for someone to do their business giving room for the door to swing inward and if these creatures are as big and wide as described in most stories I couldn’t imagine one inside of a small outhouse but then again when you got to go you got to go
kevin d
Oh and I have seen the two-seaters what in the world is that all about holding hands during a special moment
Eddie M
I kinda wish the negative would go away. Most people have a lot more reason not to share than to share. Just enjoy the story and stop making the few that actually will share…regret sharing. I didn’t tell a soul for thirty years for that very reason.
lee D
Thank you !you are right on the money!
E Meredith L
Most doors in a home swing inward or away from the entrant, so building an outhouse door that did the same would be natural if the outhouse was big enough to accommodate it – pardon the pun.
r v
An inward-opening door would allow the occupant to control its movement. There’s an article on it over at the sister site, “Sas-Squat Chronicles”.
Rick F
Geez,………as with any story its going to be common to find certain details about the story that may not seem to add up. We’re all skeptics to some extent but use some common sense here. He was just a kid, how would he remember if the door opened to the inside or the outside? For Christ sakes, I cant remember where I laid my keys down half the time.
I don’t think the negativity will ever go away but could we at least tone it down a bit.
kevin d
The details are in the story that’s where you should use common sense when you hear a story,this is a second hand account being told by his uncle stating that he pushed in the outhouse door With a massive Bigfoot inside of it, commonsense says to me that this was a great story to tell a young boy
kevin d
And as far as being negative I don’t think I was being negative what if that’s the way you take it so be it I just don’t believe everything that’s written or told
Farrell Stormcrow
I think it was all made up, so the reporter can some day open a blog about Sasquatch, and then make a ton of money!! Its all a hoax, and money making scam devised years and years ago and coming to fruition
(and if you can’t tell I am totally tongue in cheek here.. then grow up lol !!!! )
PATRICK
Love that. Farrell Stormcrow thanks.
diana m
Guess booger didn’t know how to hang the ‘occupied’ sign…
Paris A
Ten years ago, I used a farmers outhouse. The door opened inward because of snow. Also, it smelled like a Sasquatch had been using it as well.
E Meredith L
It takes a big outhouse to make a village.
Bethany H
My great grandmother didn’t have an indoor bathroom at her home until I was in my late teens and I remember the door of her outhouse opening inward. It was also a two holer, mainly because she and my great grandfather had 5 kids. So that part of the story rings true to me.
michael g
Great story and somewhat comical,it also had a great ending……no one was hurt and a lasting childhood memory was provided.
larry h
well if I was going to get the shit scared out of me I cant think of a better place great story
David R
It was hungry looking for a worm meal after someone left. Kind of like getting a snack before night time. LOL
Charles R
Seems plausible to me. Several stories out there about Bigfoots and outhouses. Usually the story revolves around the forest giants coming around while the human is inside, or encountering them after exiting the outhouse or on the trail back.
Funny situation none the less.
Chuck