Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “November 18^th was the opening day for gun deer season here in Wisconsin. For the past few years, I’ve been hunting gun season on a large piece of private land owned by some good friends of my father-in-law. This piece of property is in Douglas County in the Northwest corner of the state. The true Northwoods.

It’s 80 acres of land on the south side of Cty Hwy T and backs up to just over 17,000 acres of county forest land. It has been in their family for over a century, there are pictures of the family when there were no trees left due to poor logging practices.

Now the wild is returning to our beautiful state. The elk herd is doing well in Sawyer County, mountain lions, wolves, and several other species are present. I was actually growled at and stalked by a mountain lion in Barron County during a spring turkey hunt in 2018. I call this an experience instead of an encounter because I never laid eyes on anything. My father-in-law and I got into our stands around 6:30 a.m. and sat all day without seeing any deer. I saw a few does pass by that got spooked by an atv driving back for lunch.

Sometime around 3-3:30 p.m. I heard smashing sounds off to my right. smash pause smash pause smash pause smash smash pause smash pause smash. At the time, I figured it was two bucks butting heads since the rut was still ongoing.

(confirmed by me harvesting a doe in estrus the next day)

But when I got home I couldn’t shake the feeling that, that wasn’t what I heard. So I watched a few videos of buck fights to refresh my memory and I knew that wasn’t what I heard. As a hunter, I’m sure you know that buck fights sound like chaos.

They really only have that initial impact then you hear brush breaking, leaves getting kicked around, and their tines clacking together.

What I heard was also not a gunshot here’s how I know:

• I’ve been in the woods for gun deer season for 4 years which isn’t that long but it doesn’t take long to know the sound a gun makes in the woods.

• This sound didn’t echo across the woods like a gunshot, it sounded like a hard object was striking a softer one. (perhaps a rotted tree)

• The sound seemed deliberately spaced, especially the double hit followed by the final 2 hits

• I’ve heard suppressed weapons being fired and they still have that supersonic * crack * (unless they’re using subsonic ammo but who the hell is wasting that kind of money on whitetail)

• No one from our group was hunting in the area where these sounds came from

I was listening to the episode of Sasquatch Chronicles with Carter Buschardt yesterday where he mentions he thinks Sasquatches can count. If we take that theory and relate it to the sounds I heard we get this:

The initial 3 (we’ll call them wood knocks) I heard were informing others in the area “there is a human in tree stands 1, 2 and 3” and “there are 2 humans in stand 4 then 1 human in stands 5 and 6”. What a more dangerous time for a creature like this to be in the woods?

Stray bullets, incompetent hunters and trigger-happy hillbillies who shoot at sound. They would have to be able to communicate with their group to avoid lines of fire and human traffic. They would need a specific sound that wouldn’t sound like our rifles and be mistaken as a gunshot. That could get one of their members killed.

That’s the meat of my theories but if you’d like to see pictures of the area or pick my brain for more information let me know.

I would also like to note that I heard a really strange whooshing sound that day too. I didn’t take of the time of day or anything I just remember thinking “well that was weird”

That night right at the end of legal shooting time the wolves in the area sounded off… well at least I think it was wolves. (this was my first time hearing them) Playing with the idea that I heard Sasquatch howls it could indicate that they were saying “I’m here, I’m still alive”.

Thanks for taking the time to read and keep up the good work!”