Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “My encounter happened in 2006 in the black hills of South Dakota. I was 13 and on a family road trip with my parents and my sister. My dad had a pickup with a slide in camper.

I don’t recall the exact location, but one night we stopped to camp on a small hill top. It was not a camp site or a camp ground, but you could tell other people had stopped there in the past. It was a clear night, no clouds whatsoever and warm. I decided I wanted to sleep out in the tent by myself for the night while my parents and sister slept in the camper. To expand on the camp site, it was on a small hill top, kind of open plains but there were some smaller trees spread sparsely around us, reaching a max night of maybe 6’. It was a clear night, no clouds and a FULL moon. I was laying in the tent on my stomach watching a movie on my moms portable DVD player, and I remember seeing the moonlight in front of me through the tent. I remember vividly what happened next. I was watching the movie Along Came Polly, and I even remember the part of the movie I was at. It was the scene that Philip Seymour Hoffman is playing basketball with Ben stiller and is yelling “Make it rain!” I saw… a shadow move directly in front of the moon….. an outline of a large head, and shoulders. But not a defined head and shoulders like if it was a person. It was kind of a long and drawn out shadow as if it was covered with hair or something and there were no definitive aspects to it or sharp distinct attributes like a persons head going into a small neck and then back out to shoulders. If that makes sense. At this point I take my headphones off and am waiting to hear something…. I hear nothing. I am waiting to see if it happens to be a cloud moving in front of the moon…. it is perfectly still. I yell out “very funny Chelsea (my sister)… go back to bed”.

I had the thought she was trying to scare me. But then thought it couldn’t be because she is deeply afraid of being out in the dark by herself. I keep watching this shadow standing outside my tent… waiting for any movement thinking as a 13 year old, “if it’s a dear, it should have run and I yelled… if it is a bear, it would be moving and grunting and sniffing and maybe checking me out, especially since I made noise.” I at this point in my life did not know a lot about Bigfoot. I watched for what was probably around 3-5 minutes still seeing the outline of a large head and shoulders. I was so scared that I closed the DVD player, put on the headphones, and closed my eyes and fell asleep so as to not have to deal with whatever was outside. Then I awoke in the morning telling no one of what happened. I don’t know what was there to this day.