Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I live in southeast Missouri. I’ve hunted and been in the woods all my life. My family has a farm that I grew up cutting firewood and working cattle on.

In the late fall or early winter of last year, I was bow hunting on some public land. This land is 1500 acres and has new growth thickets all over giant hills. Really good deer territory. I found a little pond next to a trail in the thicket. I decided to sit on a log and just see what might come up or if there might be fish(no fish).

I was on the west side of the pond. To the south there was a slope(I wasn’t sure how steep at the time) and to the mother was the trail. Just before the slope, there were two tree roots that had fallen in a storm we had a while back.

I saw something just past one of these root wads. I didn’t know what it was. I had heard a twig break and saw something headed away and down out of sight behind the root wad. I couldn’t place what it was.

I thought maybe a turkey, because it had ruffles like feathers, but it was the color of a light colored raccoon or a deer in summer. I didn’t see a tail so I didn’t think it was a raccoon or a deer or anything. The other thing was that as it went away it was going left to right. Like a man walks or a turkey runs when you see it’s back.

This Sunday afternoon I took a friend to this spot. We were looking for a spot to possibly hunt and I showed him this spot. Walking up there, he stopped me and asked if I heard somebody talking. I couldn’t. The direction he heard the voices from were downhill toward more woods and away from any of the nearest houses.

When we got to the spot, I made him stand by the roots and they were waist high on him and he had told me they drop off a lot. I walked over to the slope and it was about 6 foot below the top of the wad. After telling him this story, he didn’t want to hunt this property and I can’t blame him.

I don’t know what I saw, but now I get creeped out when I go to this part of that property. I don’t think I’ll be hunting there this season.”