Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “Hi Wes, the more I listen to your show, the more I come to the realization that I had an actual encounter in Eastern Washington near the Idaho border when I was in my early twenties. Whether you want my story on your show or not, I’d like to share it with you because you seem pretty knowledgeable and understanding on the subject. I like what you’re doing on your show. It’s really the only bigfoot podcast I listen to.

So, I had a friend a while back (who is no longer with us) who’s parents owned property in Washington. I actually live on acreage now, about 20 minutes away from there.

If you’ve ever heard of Skookum Lake in WA, it’s just a couple miles of there. The property, at the time, was only accessible by boat. I don’t know if the rules have changed since then, but there was no trails or roads to reach the properties around the lake and you were basically forced to rent a boat from the campground owners, or bring our own. Well, we hitchhiked and got there at midnight, so there was no renting a boat. Instead, we tromped though the thick brush along the shore line with no flashlights.

We got past the peninsula into a confined mountain valley. It’s a really cool little area. We smelled skunk the first night as we set up the tent. After that, we just crashed for the night. The next night, we spent most of the day trying to make a fire with the one lighter we brought and the small amount of dry material I could gather from underneath trees.

(I should mention, we came up there completely unprepared. We had some snacks, a tent, sleeping bags and our swords. We were D&D nerds who were into real sword play.)

Jared had told me about hearing elves talking in the trees when he would camp with his family and on the second night, I heard them too.
Off in the distance, at about 11pm, we heard the sounds of children whispering in the trees around us. At first, I thought it was the echos of kids from the campground around the peninsula bouncing off the mountains behind us, but it was so late that it made me question that theory.

We stayed up really late. Probably into the next morning just listening to the voices. Jared kept insisting that it was the elves. Honestly, listening to the chatter, I believed him.

We stayed up until our fire had died down to coals. There was basically nothing left. Even though it was so wet out, we still wanted to make sure the fire was completely out with no chance of flare up.

I was dozing off when the elf chatter suddenly got really loud and there was a “woosh” from the fire pit right outside the tent. In an instant, the light from an enormous fire enveloped the side of the tent. We were both paralyzed with fear.

If you’ve ever seen the blairewitch project, the scene where the ghost children ran around their tent with creepy giggles echoing around them. That’s basically what was happening. The flames died down after about 30 seconds and we got ready for a fight.
We came charging out of the tent, swords drawn and screaming our best battle cries but there was nothing there. No elf chatter, no flames, no noise whatsoever.

We stayed up until it started getting light out and then finally went to sleep. The rest of our stay, we didn’t have anymore encounters. No more chatter. We stayed a couple more nights and hitched a ride back home. I was convinced for years that it was either elves or ghosts, but after hearing so many encounters on your show, I am convinced that it was a sasquatch encounter.

I was telling my friend Bob about this the other day and he told me about his own encounter at Skookum Lake just a couple miles north of Marshall. He said that a massive, dark figure had run past him in the forest when he was 13. He was just walking around the lake at night without a flashlight. He said it didn’t make a sound but crossed his path a few feet in front of him.

Thanks for reading. Love the show.”