A listener writes “In the 1990’s I lived in a caretaker’s cabin on a ranch in the Sierra mtns. One night an animal in distress started screaming near the cabin. I grabbed a light and went out to investigate. The noise had come from an area about 100 yds. away on a steep but clear hillside.
I traversed the hill on a dirt road until I reached an area, I believed to be about 25 yds. below where the sound had come from. I shone my light up the hill, but a fog was forming, and the beam diffused badly.
Not seeing anything, I began walking back home while scanning the hill above me with the light. After a few steps my light caught eyeshine in the fog above me on the hill. A pair of eyes glowing a greenish color were staring at me. Thinking this might be a buck, I held the light in its eyes and began slowly ascending the steep hill to get a look. It remained in place not blinking. When I was about one step away from being able to see what it was in the fog, I froze. My adrenalin shot up. I realized that this thing had to be near 10ft. tall and its eyes were on the front of its head, unlike a deer.
Until that moment, bigfoot had been the furthest thing from my mind. Now I was sure that one was 15 ft. away staring at me. My curiosity urged me to step forward to see but self-preservation was telling me to leave now. I decided to slowly back off. Unsure of my footing, I quickly lowered the light to the ground then quickly back up to the eyes. They were gone! That was one long slow walk in the fog back to the cabin.
The next morning, I returned to the spot of the encounter. A fresh deer carcass lay on the ground nearby. It had been heavily fed on but there was no blood on the ground. One leg and hindquarter had been torn off and was hanging by its hoof from the top wire of a nearby fence. It had not been fed upon.
Wes I am pretty sure that I interrupted a bigfoot on a kill. It had probably seen me before and knew I lived here. I may be crazy, but I think it gifted me the hindquarter for having invaded my territory to hunt.
I have worked around the U.S. as a Park Ranger and Archeologist which has led to other encounters. Please contact me if you would like to hear more.”
Joyce E
Sounds like a very interesting possible interview for a future show.
Ron S
Reminds me of those cattle mutilations where the blood is drained and the animal looks like it fell from the sky already dead with no indications of struggle.
Meanwhile other countries are being allowed to buy up U.S. farmland and businesses and drain our country’s life blood dry without any struggle as well. They want us to look up, but things looking up they are not.
But hey, if you buy the new Apple vision virtual reality headset maybe it’ll not be part of that reality and it’ll all just go away. Wake up!
Charles M
Sounds like it’s time to kick your heels together 3 times and just go home. Scary times.
Chad W
I would love to hear this encounter, Wes…
Charles R
Interesting take on the hind quarter listener. Maybe it was a gift as it felt bad for scaring you. Possibly it had taken an interest in you for sometime, unbeknownst to you.
Dan A
Sounds good!
Linda B
Leaving a gift behind for the host. That’s not an animal thing, that’s a human reasoning kind of action. I have a friend in Colo who takes people out for night sasquatch “hunts”. He says they have had plenty of times when the Sasquatch in the area could have done something but they never have shown any signs of aggression and he thinks they are a people group. Feeding on a deer in the wild is what a predator would do. They’re a wild, stealthy, intelligent human-like animal with supernatural tendencies; that is, until I change my mind about what they are again, lol.
Linda B
I wonder if leaving gifts behind is indicative of any type of old native American Indian or First Nation’s practice.
Linda B
Gift-giving Practices from a Minnesota website, I think it’s Ma mnhs.org/furtrade. Minnesota historical online article.
In Ojibwe country, the fur trade was based on indigenous ideas of reciprocity and kinship. Gift-giving lay at the heart of it all. Ojibwe people had a strong belief in the principle of reciprocity that applied to different kinds of beings. When they hunted, fished, or gathered plants, Ojibwe people reciprocated with the natural world by giving something back. For smaller items, people often left a gift of tobacco. In other cases, such as the killing of a bear, they held an elaborate ceremony of thanks and gave presents. This created a culture of generosity among the Ojibwe. For example, rather than store up food for personal use, Ojibwe families would give it to others. Gift-giving created bonds between families and helped turn strangers or enemies into kin or allies.