Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I’ve been listening to your show for years. I’m in my late 20s and had my encounter in June/July of 2014 in Central California. Ive actually spoke to Ron morehead and Scott, as well as justin smeja and others. I agree that most Bigfoot “researchers” are little more than enthusiasts but I have some good info regarding my opinion and ill tell you more if we continue to talk, but here’s what I’ve got to say:

So, near Big Sur, CA in the summer of 2014, I went camping just keep and my dog near the coast of Monterey, CA. What occurred changed me forever, and I’m only going to give the basics right now.

I drove about 15 miles inland and found a camping spot. I’m a hunter / tracker / SAR in training at this time, and I found a remote camping spot that looked good. After making camp and eating food on a camp stove I went to sleep, or tried. After only minutes, I heart something like a freight train (commonly described) smashing through the forest in my direction. I heard it from about a 1/4 mile away, coming straight at me breaking everything in it’s way. Very close to me, maybe 40-80 feet, the huge, crazy noise stopped. At this point, my 12 gauge shotgun and pistol were loaded, and my pitpull puppy was shaking. I was preparing for a bear, as I had heard of Sasquatch but never even thought of it in the hours to come.

What was a huge animal smashing through the woods passing by me stopped past me, and within seconds turned into bipedal loud footfalls and changed direction simultaneously and was now walking towards me. At this point, I was so confused, assuming a bear was walking on two feet directly at me. However, I was in pot growing country and the place my mind went was either a large bear or a couple pot growers, at the time I was so confused and scared I couldn’t comprehend what was happening.

As these loud bipedal footsteps approached, when they were about 30 feet away I said, “hello?” And the footfalls stopped. Then they continued towards me. I yelled loud, “I have a gun and will shshoot if you keep walking!” And again, the footsteps stopped when I yelled then after a few seconds continued.

I must say, I’ve only heard a few of your guests talk about dread. Now, I won’t say thus on the show but I’m a private investigator, I’ve worked with police and hunters. Ive been in vad situations, but thus is the first and last time I have ever felt the sense of dread. I thought this must be a huge bear or hillbilly coming to kill, rape or Rob me. No joke.

The footsteps kept walking and now I’m silent. And these footfalls were louder than anything on two feet I’ve ever heard. I’m holding multiple weapons ready to kill. The footsteps walk right up and around my tent, then stand about 8 feet away. My dog was shaking so much and I was so scared it was hard to heard anything over the noise, but I calmed my dog down and tried to relax my breathing, and when we waited down, I could hear heavy breathing from tjus thing standing just feet outside the tent.

It sounds like a made up story but it’s not. I rarely tell people this. Again I said, “If your a park ranger announce yourself, I will shoot you.” And I heard nothing. I started to unzip the tent and when I did I heard it shuffle. Now, this is a very traumatic experience and it’s hard to remember but I had fight or flight reaction very strongly but the creature was now in between myself and my car, and at the same time I felt like if I ran I would be done. If I didn’t have a 9 month old puppy my decision might have been different, but I literally sat there for about 45 minutes (it seemed like) waiting for it to be gone but every 5 minutes or so I heard something shuffling outside.

So, im the type of person whose known to deal with problems, not run from them, and I’m not a big guy but I have these guys and to be honest I was getting pretty pissed off that I was cornered. It also seemed that while one creature smashed through the woods, another one or two of the family group had flanked me, because I could hear multiple creatures moving. Still at this time I thought, because any “sane” person would be thinking this is a bear or human, right?

I’ve had anger problems in the past, and as scared as I was because I’ve never experienced this level of dread and feeling cornered like I was, after a couple hours I starting getting angry. I announced one more time that I will shoot at it if it doesn’t respond, it didn’t, and then I waited about 15 minutes. In the beginning of your show when the guy says “I thought I was gonna die out here and nobody would know,” that’s exactly how I felt. I figured if I didn’t fight I was done. So, first, I unzipped the tent and literally stuck just my hand out with my Glock 9 and started firing at the ground. I heard the creature shuffle and hide, but not run. I waited at least 15-20 minutes and it was standing there still. I’m honestly leaving out details, it was actually walking closer to the tent then I would do things and it would give me space. Finally it had been creeping around my campsite too much and I had felt like my puppy was in danger, honestly I felt like a little bitch but I needed to protect the shaking puppy in my lap.

I kind of tried to bait it, meaning I loaded my shotgun with slugs and 00 buckshot quietly, waited for it to walk up in a spot close where I could hit it, and when I felt it was vulnerable, I unzipped the rent really fast, jumped out and literally unloaded 8 shots into the shadows / the trees where it was. I couldn’t see it tbh, but I did see a huge shadow as it ran.

A bunch of stuff happened that I’m not explaining here, but here’s what follows. After I shot at it, it was silent for a minute, then it came back. What ended up happening I can’t fully explain, but I sat there with my shotgun for hours scared, until it seemed like I fell asleep and when I woke up I didn’t really remember what happened the night before. It’s hard to explain.”