A listener writes “Ive been a fan of the show for about a year but have been busy with my first year of College.
Anyways im contacting you with an encounter that took place in late spring or early summer of 2012. My family owns a Cabin out in Wyoming county New York which is about 45 minutes to an hour from the city of Buffalo in Western NY. We use it to get away from the city and enjoy nature and its a hunting camp too its on a trail that goes back to a ravine and creek and the trail goes from gravel to like dirt thats been traveled but isn’t like a dirt road more of a cleared roadway with dark soil.
So let me start by setting up the encounter with a bit of backstory. These about 10 boys all with 5 years of each other out here with myself being the oldest kid who was present and the time. So us boys had broken into teams of 5 to play airsoft in a 2 day game because we had a huge area the land all up the trail adjacent to it and across the main road well on team was way starting by my tree stand over a mile and a half away while my team started on the last cabin on that trail so my team knew the other team would be across the main road and at least a 2 hour walk from us if they were moving in a formation and stuff so we headed down the trail to this area by the creek and kinda built up a bunker and lean too out of logs and sticks.
It was clearly hours before our camp was built up there in the woods our hunting blind tent and walls built up there as we were to stay the night there that whole first day we only saw the other team a few times and it was away from our camp after it was finished well were headed back to camp for the night at about dusk roughly 8:30 pm id say as that’s when dusk is in that time of the year around here. So me and my buddys were gonna go get fire wood and me and this other guy were going to get some so we walked back to that ravine and creek area to get wood as a few trees fell there not long before from a storm we assumed. Well we were up on the edge of the ravine we had our airsoft guns not knowing if the other group was around so we came up and looked down into this creek and ravine and on the bank of the creek this creature was squatted its hands in the water and we watched it for about a minute before it noticed us when my friend said “Are you seeing this?”
Well it looked up and stood up and now I could tell he was big probably 7 and a half feet to 8 tall with reddish brown matted hair his eyes went wide and he kinda watched us back and he bared his teeth then we ducked down because he looked big and mad but we heard him move off with big foot falls and fast we looked back over and saw him flying back the other way deeper into the woods. Needless to say we stayed up at the cabins that night and had our parents call the other team back and the game resumed the next day we had other things happen but to my knowledge no other sightings and everything else could kinda be explained except for the howls we hear occasionally from far off some summers since I know what it is but ive been afraid to tell my parents because they don’t believe it.
Id be more than happy to explain more by phone and thanks again for everything you do the show helped me have the confidence to tell my brother so thanks again”