A listener writes “Hello Wes, I live in the sangabriel valley, specifically pico rivera. Anyways I do a lot of fly fishing for bass at local lakes, but this day I rode my road bike up the San Gabriel bike path about 20 Miles into fish canyon had my bivy tent and I planned to spend the night up there.
So I stashed my bike in the brush at the foot of the hill. There’s a native trout stream that runs maybe 5 Miles at the bottom of the canyon and Is collected into a quarry Vulcan minerals Corp. This particular trail is only open about 4 or five weekends during summer, it was fall at the time I went.
So I snucked in passed the security shed and hopped the fence at the head of the trail. Nothing out of the ordinary making my way up the river catching trout. About half way I took a lunch brake while I’m eating my sandwich a rock about the size of my fist dunks into a hole about 20 feet away from me, didn’t really think much of it.
I finally arrived at of the trail which ends in a two tier water fall. So it was getting dark and I had some trout I had bagged. So set up my tent to call it a night. I set camp up next to the water fall as that’s the only area where I could pitch a tent. So I’m in my tent trying to fall asleep fast as the temperature was dropping quick. When I hear the distinct sound of stone clunking in to the water a few feet way.
I immediately rise out of my tent it zips from the top as it was a bivy tent. I illuminate the area around and up in the hill above me to the north of me there are two set of eyes shining behind a boulder I choose up to maybe a mountain goat or maybe a deer. So pick up a rock near by and launch it at the general direction and when it hits somewhere near the eyes when all of a sudden the eyes rise up I estimate three to four feet. I immediately jump into my tent and grab my bowie knife (as if that would of done anything). I managed to force myself to sleep eventually.
Not sure how much time had passed when I literally woke up in a state of terror and panic. I had no idea why I felt this way it literally felt like animalistic reaction that my body was going through. I have never felt this way ever I had no control over my fear.
As I lay in my tent I hear what sound like a person walking around my tent….you can distictly tell the sounds of a bipedal creature from A quadpedal one. I stayed awake till I was able to see through the mesh of my tent enough to see around me to pack my $hi# up and get the hell out of there. In retrospect I should have looked for foot marking but this was no where near my mind.
So there it is at the time I wasn’t really aware of bigfoot I’ve heard of it but never gave it much thought until maybe 3 years or so.I’ve been listening to your show for about 2 years and only recently have been going through my head with this. Who knows but I thought it was worth a mention.