Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “This happened when I was about 7-8 yrs old. My dad used to take me and my brothers fishing every weekend- it was his form of relaxation after a hard week’s work. We used to use rod & reels as well as trott lines from the boat.

So my dad would run the motor, I sat in the middle with my younger brother & my older brother was at the head of the boat. After they set out the lines we’d float along the current using rodnreels. This was an all day event of going up down river. After he’d caught his fill, we’d get ready to head home. One day after they got boat & chests up in the truck a friend of my dad’s stopped by & they stood at the truck talking & drinking beer. My brothers were still casting into the river. I was running around chasing butterflies with a little net I had. I remember chasing a butterfly and I smelled this awful odor that smelled like fish guts, urine, dirt, & must all together. I thought somebody had threw out their fish guts & garbage. As I was running chasing butterflies I saw something outta the corner of my eye move. When I turned to look, in my mind I was seeing a really big monkey squatted down in some over grown grass/bushes. I just looked at it and it just looked at me. It tilted its head as it looked at me.

I waved my hand at it and Said hey monkey man & ran up to my dad & as he was talking, I told him I saw a monkey. He didn’t hear me so I kept trying to tell him but then ran down to my brothers & told them I saw a monkey. They laughed at me and told me to go catch it in my net. So I ran back to my dad but he talked a long time & I just kept chasing butterflies. So finally on the way home I said to my dad: Daddy I saw a monkey when I was chasing butterflies.”My dad laughed and pinched my nose and told me, he only monkey around here is you.” It had a cone shaped head, black hair not fur, but it wasn’t huge which makes me think it was a juvenile. It’s more was flat & flared. It had thin lips and hands & fingers but it’s thumb was like further back. I wasn’t really scared but more curious as why there was a monkey out there.”