Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I saw two, what I believe were Bigfoot, the weekend of October 4th, 2024, on the Meanders in McCall, Idaho. The Meanders connect Payette Lake to Upper Payette Lake. It’s roughly a three mile stretch of slack water that is crystal clear, slow moving and makes for just an enjoyable time on the water in the outdoors.

During the summer it is very popular with Paddle boarders, Kayakers and campers. People line the Meanders sandbars and “beaches,” but during the autumn months the campgrounds close and the Meanders are relatively empty.

My wife and I had reservations for a cabin on the shores of Payette Lake in Ponderosa State Park. We had arrived early before check in and we were unable to check into the cabin but they let us drop off our Mountain bikes. So, we decided to go to our drop in spot on the river, unloaded our Paddle boards and we would tool around until we could check in. We were out on the river for about three hours and only saw four other Kayakers before my sighting.

It was overcast, about 72 degrees, a little chilly but occasionally the sun would peek through and warm us up. We had paddled upriver for a good distance and were just fooling around.

I had recently purchased a cheap Go Pro knock off and was having fun filming underwater and into the forest around us. I had stopped on a sandbar and my wife had stopped about 20 yards upriver from me. I had the Go Pro out and had just completed filming 360 degrees around me. I stopped, set the Go Pro down and looked up into the woods across from me and saw 2 figures standing in a group of trees, roughly 70 yards, across the river. I know it was at least 70 yards because I was just at a shooting range participating in pistols quals for the place I work. Quals were evaluated at every 25 yards, and I had that distance still ingrained in my head. I think the 70 yards is really accurate. The figures were enormous, but I don’t have a reference to judge their size but at 70 yards they were huge, just two hulking figures standing, solemnly in the woods. Two dark figures, standing side by side just staring at me. I hadn’t caught them mid stride or anything, they were standing side by side just watching me.

The figure on the left was a head shorter than the right one. Their arms hung down to their sides, almost what to I guess what might have been down to their knees. The details are sketchy, it was dark in the trees but just enough sun poked through the clouds that it highlighted the prominent features of their faces, the bridge of their noses and brow ridges.

I struggle to put the description of their faces into words. They both looked like they were wearing cheap ugly gorilla masks crossed with what I would describe as features of a Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon man. Gorillas crossed with a really old man. They had conical heads, no shoulders. Where their eyes would have been were lost in shadow. Very broad shoulders. I can’t say if they were covered in hair or fur. I want to say hair because if memory serves me it was long hair, like a Ghillie suit. We just stared at each other. I don’t feel like I surprised them. I feel like they let me see them. They just stood there like, ‘What is this guy doing or maybe how judgmental parents would look at you.’ Seconds felt like a lifetime. I know it was just seconds but seriously felt like a lifetime.

I realized I had the Go Pro next to me and quickly picked it up and tried to film them. Honestly my excitement ruined my sighting and I regret this decision every day. I thought I could catch them on film. This knock off Go Pro has the power button on the front of it, not on the top. I think I pressed the top button, which is the record button. I don’t leave the power on because the battery power is really short. I panned the camera back to the woods in front of me. When I looked back at them, they were gone. Just empty space in the trees. No video of this was recorded.

I called out to my wife, who had gotten back on her Paddle board and was paddling back up to my position. “I saw them. I saw them!” “What, what?”, she said. “What did you see?” “I saw two bigfoot,” I responded. “They were just standing out there watching me. Right there.” At his point I was just about to cry. The emotion I was feeling was unexplainable. I’m a 54 year old man who has believed in Bigfoot since I was eight years old. I had just had the most perfect sighting. The sighting I had always hoped for, and I blew it trying to record them. My wife panicked. “What where? What? I can feel them watching me!” She took off. She just paddled off and left me there standing on the sand bar.

I was determined to see them. I mean I was on the verge of tears, so emotional. I was so excited. I had just seen not one but two bigfoot looking at me like I was something they were surprised to see. I shocked them that I was there. The experience was overwhelming.