Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “In 2014 I had my first encounter it was in between Montrose GA aka “haunted montrose” and Cochran GA on a stretch of highway called highway 26.

I lived a house with my mom who worked night shift at Lauren’s county 911 center and my ex stepdad worked for arrow and he always left at 6am leaving me to wait on the bus till 7:30. We lived at out the middle of nowhere I mean extremely rural it’s a 45 min drive to the nearest Walmart. Now it was maybe 6:30 in the morning when I stepped outside to wait it was a dark fall morning and we only had 1 street light to light up the whole yard it was an acre of land surround by a fence and with woods and farmland property for miles.

I remember everything being earlier quiet when when I heard a growl I thought maybe it was the dog inside I didn’t exactly hear what direction it came from. I looked inside and my dog was still asleep he was a chocolate lab named Jake. I brushed it off and thought nothing of it till I heard another growl except this time I heard where it had come from. About 20 yards was how far it was from the door to the fence line and what I saw was a figure/silhouette standing behind a tree swaying back and forth. It almost looked like it was trying to conceal itself behind it but was failing miserably just because of how big it was. At the time I was in the 5th grade so seeing this freaked me out. It stood about 7-8ft tall and had a brownish blackish hair, it was hard to see with so little light that came from the street light just enough to make out a figure and a few features.

It had a rounded head and had its hands wrapped around the tree the shoulders were maybe 3, 3 1/2 in width. It was an extremely weird build like big and stocky at the top and narrowed down almost like a guy missing leg day at the gym. I watched it for maybe 5 minutes frozen and it just kept growling the growling was so deep and guttural I could feel it in my chest like a vibration. I couldn’t figure it if it was a man or what so out of fear and curiosity I got the key for the door and unlocked it and called my dog to come out. He came out and it wasn’t even 3 seconds he stopped in his tracks faced the fence and bolted towards it in the most aggressive manner I’ve ever seen.

That thing stopped swaying and yelled it’s hard to describe just a deep pissed off yell it then turned around and freight trained through brush and briers that were so thick even as a kid I had trouble just walking through. I ran inside with my dog and called my mom hysterical she kept asking what’s wrong and I told her what happened and she sent 2 Lauren’s county deputy’s to the house. While I was waiting on them I went to get up off the couch and my dog wouldn’t let me he kept pushing me back down and would face the door snarling. Eventually the officers came and that’s when my dog let me up they asked my what happened and I told them and they asked the people that owned the property if they had been over and they said no. They asked on older woman if she had seen anything, she lived across the road maybe 200 yards away and she said no. I showed them where I saw it and you could see imprints in the pine straw that were about 15-18 inches long behind the tree. This property was mainly an overgrown pine forest so leaving imprints in soft pine straw takes a lot of weight. They were dumbfounded and just said it was a bear. Bears don’t run on 2 legs. The only bears we have down there is black bears and the mainly stay close to the oconee river and rarely stray from it. My mom blamed it on a bear but I know what I saw.

That was my first encounter, also on that same property my mother and stepdad saw orbs 1 green and 1 blue come down and hover 5 ft above the highway she didn’t go into much detail other than they came down hovered for a second and then shot straight up and we’re the size of softballs.

My second encounter happened with my mom in a different house 30-40 minutes below where we lived near Alamo GA on snowhill rd this was maybe a year later but during late spring this another small property but more open and we had 2 ponds behind the house that backed up to a pine tree farm. My mother and I had gone to Dublin to get some zaxbys and on are way back we thought about shining deer not like spotlighting but just to see what was in our field beside the house when we pulled in the driveway. There’s was always some does or a small buck grazing so we’d sit and watch them every time we’d come home late. We’ll when we pulled in we saw 3 does and a fawn as we’re watching them I caught the glimpse of eye shine from the closest pond which was right behind the field they were the size of silver dollars from about 70 or so yards away and glowed a amber orange color and had maybe 6 inch spread between them when we noticed the eyes the deer did to and booked it in the opposite direction and jumping across the road. The eyes then looked at us back at the deer than us again. As we’re watching it the thing stood up standing 6-7 feet tall and all black you could see the arms and legs and torso, just all black like a shadow in the pines.

It stared at us for a little bit and slowly retreated back in the trees. At that point me and mom both unfroze and she said let’s get inside as we continued to pull in we got more eye shine across the dam and on the other side of the second pond. But this was maybe 150 200 yards away I’m not great with remembering the distance, but they had and even further spread between them and they were a dark blue not like deer which have a more teal color. Whatever they were attached to was squatted down and was big god it was big. When it stood up you could only see the figure but it had to have been 9ft tall or more at that point my mom was close to freaking out and we parked the car and rushed inside and that was it. We stayed there another and year and within that year multiple weird things happened if you want me to I’ll write another email explaining them but those were the encounters where I knew I saw something that was real. I’ve tried asking my mom about that second encounter but she just brushes it off or doesn’t want to talk about it.

I’ve never had a sighting since, we’ve moved back up near Athens GA now and I still hunt deer, turkey, waterfowl etc. if it has a season I’ll go after it. Since moving up here I’ve only had a few instances in the woods where I felt/heard something weird that would remind of those encounters just by the way the creatures I saw acted and what I’ve heard on your show. I always have a buddy that lives in Gwinnett county GA that had an experience he sent me a video of him taking his dog out and in the same video you hear a howl and then say some explicit words. I listened to it and I’ll be dammed if it doesn’t sound exactly and I mean exactly like the Ohio howl. Next time we saw each other I showed him the Ohio howl and he turned as white and ghost.”