Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “This encounter happened to me when I was in my youth, I must have been between the ages of 10-12, so around 2010 or 2012. I believe it was in the summer as my cousin and I lived in the country and we used to hang out a lot.

There was some nearby property that was private and butted up against public hunting and fishing land. We used to trespass onto the local property as they had a cabin and nice pond in which they stocked trout in. Huge rainbow trout and brown trout some probably close to 20”. My dad and his brother/cousins and stuff used to go there when they were kids and stuff and my dad used to find like little piles of rocks stacked up on each other and this is in back in the day so they were not thinking about bigfoot or anything like that but a lot of weird experiences have happened around this area. If you’d like to do some digging yourself, it’s called the Richard a hemp fishery area.

It’s a pretty big chuck of public hunting and fishing land, with a river cutting through it and some swamp parts as well as big agricultural fields. With this knowledge I’m thinking that’s why they are sometimes in the area. I’ve put a picture of the place below as well as some odd things I’ve found in the woods here.

Now to finally get towards the encounter itself. It set up this way. Forgive me if some of the details are a little fuzzy as I was young and this is about 10-12 years ago. My cousin and I growing up knew this place very well. We were always fishing in the river with my other cousin and growing up we spent almost all of our time outside hunting squirrels, getting into trouble, all the things young kids do while growing up in the country.

My cousins dad had been baiting for bear I believe up north and had a surplus of bear bait left over, so my cousin had asked his dad or his dad told him I don’t remember if he could go dump the bait in like this swampy part of the woods. So we set off like we normally did and were walking through the woods, I remember it had just got done raining and we going in to dump the bait. We made it to the swamp, dumped the bait and everything was going good, we had seen a nice sized deer on the way in that we had jumped. On the way out we were just doing a little exploring as kids do and we stumbled upon a clearing. In the middle of the clearing in the woods, there was like some weird type of structure similar to the picture I took below, except this one was much smaller and had less branches and things on it.

I even noticed that at one point it looked like someone had made a fire there. I joking said to my cousin, look it’s a bigfoot structure. (My dad and I always watched paranormal shows so I knew about Bigfoot and such things). As I had said that to him we heard a large crash. Almost like someone through like a big log onto the ground and it crushed all the stuff below it. We both stop and looking at what we heard in front of us. We had not see anything and we were kind of just looking between us like what the hell was that. Keep in mind after this rain, it was call out, barely any wind. We then hear something completely behind us moving through the brush and we look that way, but we can’t see anything. Then it was either on the little hill to the right or left of us we hear something moving there and then in the complete different direction we hear movement too but we can’t see anything.

So we start slowly backing up and I don’t remember why, but we turned heel and started running out of there as fast as we could. As we are running out I can hear something behind us chasing after us just going through the woods like anything it hit it would just bull rush over. It honestly felt like if I turned around something was going to grab me. So we go blazing through the woods off of this like ridge that we are on and go straight down it and finally get back to the field that we came in on. We never saw what it was, but I can tell you after years of being in the woods, growing up in the country and hunting that whatever it was I have not experienced it in the woods again since that day. I remember I called my mom when I got home who was at work almost hyperventilating about what I had encountered. The crazy part is that my parents actually seen what they swear was a Bigfoot in the same area when they had first started dating.

Please note that on the road they were driving down, it is a dead end road with woods and few scattered house on both sides. I’d really love to talk with you over the phone so I can better explain the encounters me and my family have had.

I’ve asked my cousin what he thinks it was but he always just says I don’t know. For knowledge purposes I’m about a year older than my cousin. I’ve gone back to these woods a lot even though most people probably wouldn’t and I’ve had some weird experiences.

I can’t go there by myself though just because it always feels like you are being watched. I have went there at night with my friends and we have heard what I believe to be vocals after we had done tree knocks and whistles. I think after this night I might have been followed back to my parents house as well, as it’s only about 5 miles if that away.

My dad has had weird experiences out in those woods as well even recently.”