Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “Hey Wes I recently came across your podcast on spotify and have been listening to it almost every day for a week now. I know in every episode you mention to shoot you an email if we’ve had an encounter and I never really thought about emailing you about my encounters until recently I heard a couple stories on your episodes that were very similar to mine and resonated with me.

I grew up in Spokane, WA and have done a ton of camping and fishing in washington, idaho, and montana over the years.
One was 6 years ago I was backpacking up to some mountain lakes in the woods somewhere on the border of Idaho and montana with my scout/church group (i cant remember exactly what lakes they were) and the first night I was sleeping in a hammock, I heard something slowly approach me from deep into the woods and it sounded very heavy like stomping and definitely bipedal. I was so terrified and frozen that I wouldn’t even peak out of my tent to see what it was. After it got way too close my buddy in a hammock close to me who heard this as well yelled at it and it took off back into the woods extremely fast and sounded so heavy and bipedal I was terrified.

My second encounter was interesting and didn’t necessarily involve bigfoot or a sasquatch (at least not that im aware of). It was in 2020 I was 19 and with another church group this time as a leader and not one of the boys. We backpacked to navigation campground up on upper priest lake in northern idaho. First night was sleeping in a tent with my father and my younger brother. Around 2:00 am I was awoken to a strange sound in the woods almost sounded like a large group of birds chattering or something it was weird, I remember just sitting there very confused like why would there be birds going nuts like this at 2:00am. This noise awoke my father as well and while he was awake with those noises he decided to get out of the tent and check it out and go pee. While he was out there the noises stopped and after a little bit he poked his head in the tent and told me very sternly and seriously “get out here right now to see what Im seeing to make sure that Im not going crazy” at this point my heart dropped and I refused to fully get out of the tent but I peaked my head out and looked where my father was pointing. I didn’t see anything so after like a minute my dad tells me he saw a bright light ball where those noises were coming from earlier and as he was watching it it shot off into the woods faster than anything hes ever seen. I started freaking out at that point and couldnt sleep and was shaking with fear because I trust my dad a lot and I know he wasn’t just making something up for no reason.

These are the experiences that Ive had and im sure my dad could explain the second encounter in greater detail than I can because he actually saw the thing. He has had another encounter that I am aware of where he heard stuff in the woods with his brothers and had things thrown at him.”