A listener writes “Last year, in spring I had an experience that has significantly and profoundly affected my life in such a way that I am no longer able to enjoy the past times that I have been so deeply in love with since a child. In place of the lengthy carefree and joyful, stress free experience that our mountains have been my visits are now anxious and brief. I am frightened almost to the point of giving into a need to flee. Never do I go exploring outside of eyesight and its so bad that I feel no joy or peace there anymore. It just feels like I don’t want to go there, to stay away.
I believe I was stalked and followed by a creature. This has left me pretty much paralyzed with fear. I am an outdoors woman delux…reduced to being afraid to venture out beyond the confines of my own yard. I know it was a sasuqatch. All the way down to my soul I know what it was.”
Spoke to the eyewitness and her husband is a miner. She said they were in the foothills of Arizona and she went off on her own. As she was hiking this trail she smelled something. She says “It was a terrible smell and woods went silent. As I started to make my way back I heard it pacing me in the woods. I stopped at the top of the trail and it poked its head out of these bushes. I have never been so terrified. I told my husband and later we both saw one as we headed into town. It was crossing or trying to cross the road as we passed it.”
Jon B
Can I have a clue where this was.
Denise F
Foothills of Arizona I believe it said
Augustine L
It says Arizona foothills.
Asheim
Another one to get on the show! So sorry for what this person has been through.
Bonnie I
Arizona is a wonderful place to go hiking and exploring because of the vast wilderness area’s but I will no longer venture out into the wilds by myself. I really have sympathy for this woman who wrote in because I think I understand how she feels. Last winter when I spent a few months in the western part of the state I thought people were becoming aware of something Sasquatch-like out in the high desert. My sister almost hit something when driving her truck one night that really scared her. She was on hwy 60 between Salome and Hope, Az. and said it looked extremely big and hairy. Some people have heard uncanny screams at night time too and have seen what appeared to be unusually large and almost bony looking handprints left on the windows of outbuildings. It would be interesting to know what part of the state this woman and her husband had their encounter.
Denise F
Here’s the thing, people that don’t go in the deep woods assume it could be random people roaming the woods that people are hearing, not Sasquatch. I’ll tell you, rarely do I ever see anyone in the woods and never are they off a trail.
You can tell when something large and bipedal is following you and my heart goes out to her. I have been crippled by this fear before and in time, hopefully she recovers too.
Denise F
Wes, is that a popular pic that I haven’t seen or is that one from the witness? It’s very interesting, especially the way the head is down and arms looked tucked around it.
Penny S
That is one unsettling pic. I hope she can conquer her fears and be able to get back to what she enjoys doing.
Augustine L
They call it the Mogollon Monster, out in western Arizona, on the rim. They are everywhere, just about. Maybe instead of being surprised when we see one, we should be surprised when we don’t see one.
Bonnie I
yes, I agree but I think the Mogollon Rim is on the East or N.E. side of Arizona.
Lisa B
That’s an interesting photo! Not the typical
Trent M
Denise, as usual I 100% agree with you, hikers do not usually go off trail, and if they happened to do so, they would not flank/pace you and stop and start when you do. I hate hearing about people not being able to enjoy the outdoors anymore but I certainly understand their concerns and feelings.
Denise F
We think the same way, Trent ?