I’ve been pretty reluctant to share my experience with anyone up until now. I’ve been listening to your show for a few years and have just been trying to make sense of it all, yet no of it does. The deeper I go the less sense it makes it seems. Anyways here’s my experience:
It was in the fall of 2008 and myself and a friend were out spotlighting coyotes in the red desert in Wyoming. The red desert is a pretty vast place filled with fossils and artifacts from native Americans. We had a few spots that we would hit and one of my favorites was a fossilized oyster bed with huge petrified oyster shells half jetting out of the prairie. We pulled up off the main road and onto a two track and started lighting up the petrified oyster bed.
About 3/4’s of the way up the hill I caught eyes. John focused the spotlight on them and it almost looked like a bear at first, but the longer I looked at it the more bizarre it got. I threw my rifle up to get a better look at it through the scope. My brain couldn’t really comprehend what I was seeing. It was a large humanoid figure crouched over, almost like it was digging or looking for something. As soon as I told my friend John what I was seeing, the most god awful scream rang out. It sounded like a woman screaming really loud. Shortly after the scream we heard what sounded like a car door slam and a deeper voice say “hey”. At this point we are both pretty freaked out because we are in the middle of nowhere where no one would be. It’s very remote. John kept the spot light on it and I chambered a round. The creature in the spotlight stood up on two feet and was big…really big. Probably around 8 or 9 feet. It took off on two legs and John held the spotlight on it as it ran. It hit ran on two legs for awhile and was fast. Super fast. It then went down and started running on all fours. At this point we are both pretty freaked out and I took a shot at it with my 22-250 and heard the bullet hit.
It kept going on all fours and then that’s when things really got weird. It glided into an orb about the size of a soccer ball and disappeared in the spotlight. We crept down the two track in the truck and dropped into this draw of pretty tall sagebrush. About up to the window of the truck. I park in the draw so we could regroup a bit. We get out of the truck and are standing there like what the f–k was that and trying to decipher all of it. As we are standing there grouse start to move towards us and the truck they were literally walking through our legs and that’s when the fear set in. It was like nothing I’ve ever felt and every hair on my body was on end.
We could hear something walking on two feet heading towards us and apparently the grouse could too. We jumped back in the truck and I fired a shot into the ground to try and scare whatever it was that had basically flanked us and was moving towards us. Still heard it coming and I still had the overwhelming fear and dread. We took off and got out of there. The next day we went back out and looked for blood and some clues as to what it was that we had seen. Found a bit of blood and some massive tracks but in the dry prairie it was hard to tell what exactly it was. To this day it still haunts me how it all unfolded. There’s a bit more to it but that’s basically it.”