Dec 5

Its hands were as big as my head

A listener writes “My name is Tom, I’m from New Zealand and I just wanted to share you my Bigfoot encounter.

So me and my cousin were both 18 at the time, we just finished our last year in high school and we were on our end of the year holidays and we both had no idea on what we were gonna do on our break. My cousin suggested that we go spend a week up in the coast with one of grandfather’s. Now before I move on, we live in a small in town called Gisborne, 40,000 Population. And ‘The Coast’ is pretty much the rural area near my town. All Bush and Forest pretty much. And our family has a homestead in a small settlement called ‘Waipiro Bay’. Our grandfather was happy we were there to spend sometime with him. I was happy to be there to, just something about being in the bush just relaxes and clears my mind.

Anyway after a long day of hearing sheep and cutting up wood, our grandfather told us that we should go Spotlighting for Eels for our dinner. We waited till around 20:00 and off we went. Now my grandfathers house is on this hill and right below it, at the back of his house is this trail that leads to a creek trail, the creek trail is about a 1hour walk and the sides is fully covered in thick brush. Unfortunately the eels were to small to catch, we get to the end of trail and turned back the way we came, as we were walking back we started heard these weird squeals coming from the left side of the bushes, so we stopped, turned out head torches off and just listened. In my mind I thought it was just a wild boar running around and my cousin said the same thing aswell. We turned out torches back and carried on through the creek. About 5mins later we can hear the squeals again, but this time they were louder and closer and something was rubbishing through the bushes. We stopped, turned our torches off and listened. We both face where the noise was coming from and we could see this black silhouette staring at us, my cousin reached to turn his head lamp on and there he was.. staring right at us

‘THE MOEHAU MAN’

His face covered in thick black/greyish hair, Orange/Yellow bright eyes. Teeth like a canine, hands as big as my head. He looked at us and let he out this big huff and stepped back into the bushes and off he went..Me and my cousin both just looked at each other, let’s this sigh of relief out and carried on back to the house. We never said word on our way back, just silent.

We get back to the house and grandfather says ‘No luck on the eels? And my cousin replies ‘I think we just saw the Moehau Man’ my grandfather looks at us and says ‘ Yeah I’ve seen him around hear a few times as well, I just leave him be. I was shocked when said that, I was like ‘Wait you’ve seen him to? My grandfather said ‘Yup, I’ve seen him when I’m out hunting, he’s come to. The house a few times to but he doesn’t come to close though. So I just let him be and he also told us he didn’t want us to go out and look for him either (LIKE WE WERE GONNA DO THAT) lol but my grandfather believes that ‘The Moehau Man’ is some ancient guardian that watches over the local Forrest near him. I’m 28 now and I still think night at times, they only other person I’ve told this story to is my partner, she believed me, she’s also had some pretty weird encounters/experiences before we met.”

7 Responses to “Its hands were as big as my head”

  1. Kane R

    Kia Ora, Tom! Im down in Napier and have heard a few stories about up the coast and the name Moehau Man is a name Ive heard. Also theres stories about a creature round Coromandel as-well, but some say that was to ward off Gold claim jumpers. You are the first eye witness encounter I have heard from our country. Great to see another kiwi here. I know theres many listeners here in NZ to this awesome show too.

  2. Charles R

    My question is how did Bigfoot ever make it way to New Zealand? Surely there was no land bridge like occured between Asia and Alaska during the last ice age or one that occurred between Indonisa and the many ilands and Australia during 400 foot lower ocean levels at this same time. Could this be a UFO connection?

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