Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “Hey Wes recently discovered your podcast. I love it! It’s nice to hear that some of the stuff I had encountered in the past wasn’t so far fetched and or made me feel like I was losing my mind or something. Fair warning I’m a terribly bad writer so I’m sorry for no paragraph structure or possible run on sentences.

Ok so right into it. Back in like 2010 I was super into vw’s had a couple show cars that I owned and or built and sold that were magazine featured etc. There was a car show down in Helen GA called southern worthersee or sowo as we all called it. Ironically it was right about the time the finding Bigfoot episode came out that I was down there (I did not see said episode until I was back home for some time). Long story short I was with a girl who didn’t quite mesh with me lol, we had a fight one night in the hotel room and I just needed to get out and clear my head it was middle of the night like 2-3am ish.

I was out for the walk to clear my head down by like this old abandoned water park right on the chatahoochee river. The road I was walking on was like almost a ravine if that makes sense there was like cliffs above me on both sides but it was thick with woods minus the road cut into it. So there’s no way a person could have gotten up there like if there was some person trying to be funny and scare somebody, just didn’t seem rational in my mind cause of location and time and stuff. As I’m about midway through this road I start to hear cracking and breaking above me. My fight or flight kicked in a little bit but I remained calm figured ok it’s a deer I’ll just stick to the road and I’ll be ok. Couple more steps I begin to hear a very quick sharp tone whistle. Again thinking to myself ok weird bird I’ve never heard before it’s a new state im in maybe it’s something similar to a morning dove that I’ve never heard before. I stop now to look at a Luna moth (distinctly remember this cause I love animals and nature and outdoors) as I’m staring at this beautiful big green moth that’s just sitting on a rock hanging out I decide to sit with it and have a smoke to clear my head further. Worst mistake of my life. I begin to hear the breaking and cracking again but it’s louder like right above me louder.

Next thing I know I hear this howl or roar idk how to even describe it emanate directly above me across the road from where I’m sitting with this moth. My brain couldn’t process it it was easily one of the most frightening moments of my life the sound and the power that was behind this was insane. And for some reason I was like literally just paralyzed I wanted to run far and fast but I couldn’t I was like literally stuck. Right after the howl or roar or whatever you wanna call it ended I began to hear like this low guttural growl or groan or something from the same area but nowhere near as loud (I can like equate it to a tigers growl almost defiantly big cat type sounding not a dog or a wolf I’ve heard them plenty of times (I say wolf too cause there’s a wolf preserve in my home state that I’ve been too countless times and I donate too so I’ve heard a wolf growl before). Now racked with fear I’m literally panicking idk where to go or how to exit idk if there’s one or multiple of whatever is making this noise. I’m now fixated looking above me trying to make out a shape or something in the darkness above me with just moonlight. I make out what I think is a man but couldn’t have been a man cause the size was just way way off even with it being above me. Whatever this thing was was massive easily two or two and a half of me across (I was no little guy back then I was heavily in the gym and even though on the shorter side I was a bit of a brick shit house per say) all I recall was brown hair across a massive frame. But at the same time I could almost like pick out shoulder and tricep muscle structure. It just stood there looking at me like I swear we locked eyes and we were both trying to almost like get a read on each other idk how exactly to describe it. That feeling of threatened and scared for my life bubbled back up as much as my curiosity was wanting me to stay I couldn’t. I out loud in my best Steve Irwin moment said “wow your a big guy, you’re alright I’m sorry I’m sorry I intruded I’m sorry” and began to back away not removing my eyes from this thing. At some point it either went back about it’s business or like deemed me non issue and just stood and watched idk but I took my eye off it for a second and then couldn’t find it again.

Once that happened I turned and ran like I’ve never run before. I ran all the way back to the hotel not stopping didn’t care how winded I was I just wanted safety. When I got back to the hotel I just sat in the chairs on the balcony and tried to process this all. Never spoke about it to anybody I was with or anybody I saw during the show weekend, but I could no longer bring myself to go outside at night for the remainder of the trip and kept saying I didn’t feel well to anybody who asked why. This moment has stuck with me since then and at one point I heard this thing again but in another state around a camp fire in another gf’s families backyard out in Vermont/Massachusetts border. Upon hearing it with no explanation I turned white as a ghost and needed to go inside. When I did I had to sadly explain myself to which I was actually surprised and shown the finding Bigfoot episode and some other Bigfoot related stuff and it’s kind of just like peaked my interest ever since.

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my story even if it doesn’t peek your interest it was a bit therapeutic to talk about it.”