A listener writes “I have been listening to your show for a few years now and I have to just say, thank you for allowing people to come on your show and tell their stories. I have debated for a while to reach out and tell you mine.
I have had a few strange experiences while working in the mountains. I am a forester by trade and I spend 4-5 days a week without cell service in the Intermountain West all year long. I also fight wildfire in the summer. On October 5th of this year I had a very strange experience just south of Glacier National Park. I had a mushroom the size of my hand thrown over to me while marking out a timber sale. It was myself and two coworkers on the far southeast corner of the forest that I currently manage. I had taken a water break and was checking my maps for where to go next and watched a mushroom arc over to the right of me and land within 30 feet. I found more mushrooms placed in the notches of tree branches after checking out the area.
As a crew we had experienced weird noises and something breaking limbs around us for a few days. This experience is why I have contacted you. Nothing before has shook me like that before in the mountains. For three seasons I have worked for the US Forest Service as a field technician either in timber or rangeland programs across the West.
I started out working in Idaho in 2019 on the Sawtooth National Forest as a rangeland tech check on high-alpine sheep and cattle herds. That was the first time I have ever had anything weird happen in the woods. My supervisor and I were hiking into the backcountry to go check tree regeneration after a wildfire. We had driven up to an empty trailhead to a valley with one trail in and one trail out. Along our hike we heard what sounded like someone taking a 2X4 to the trunk of a tree multiple times.
The next season in 2020 on the Eldorado National Forest in California a coworker and myself heard a scream at the boundary of a wilderness area. These experiences initially were brushed off and I thought strange. After this most recent experience, I have begun to question more of the strange things I have run into out there. I wanted to reach out to hear your opinion and to see if it was Sasquatch at all. Also I would like to know if you have ever gotten any reports in my current area and what I could do be safe.”