Sasquatch Chronicles

Large creature that seemed to be belly crawling

A listener writes “Wes, I wanted to pass along an encounter my brother had 2 months ago here in Idaho.

I’m a long time follower of your show and have rarely heard about the behavior that my brother witnessed so I thought I would email you. I have two younger brothers, we grew up in Idaho and have been hunting here for the past 20 plus years. The brother just younger than me was on your show about two years ago. He’s in law enforcement so he used a different name. Our youngest brother Ray had the encounter I’m about to tell. He has little, if any, interest in the subject so I don’t believe he has told anyone except his brothers.

Ray and I spent the end of August and the first part of September archery hunting for elk in Idaho. We have been hunting this particular spot for years and have always had good success. We hunt a lot from tree stands so I have several stands set up on this mountain. I was lucky enough to take a bull elk on opening day but I stayed around for another week or so to hunt with Ray. We actually took a chocolate phase black bear from the same stand a few days after I got the elk. We both had to go back to work in mid-September but Ray was able to go back often because he lives much closer to the hunting spot than I do. On one afternoon, Ray was hunting in one of these tree stands alone because I had gone back to work. This stand is in the middle of a pine forest and overlooks a small watering hole in the side of the mountain. The elk were frequenting the water hole because of the hot weather during September and he could here elk bugling up the mountain a few hundred yards away. He was in the stand for a few hours just scanning his surroundings waiting for the elk to come in.

He looked behind his stand and noticed something low to the ground not more than 40 yards away. He told me he immediately knew what he was looking at but his brain still went through every known animal trying to come up with an answer to what he was seeing. I asked him later to tell me exactly what he saw. He said this was a large creature that seemed to be belly crawling to a position behind his treestand. He could see the top of the head and back and part of a shoulder. He couldn’t make out a face or see the rest of the body. Ray said every time he turned around, the creature would stop moving and attempt to be in the same position as before. He said the color was chocolate brown, nearly the same color as the black bear he had shot a few hundred yards up the mountain. There were no ears on the top of the head, just a “huge round head”. Ray didn’t feel any fear of the creature so he remained in the stand, constantly checking on the creatures location.

The creature then started doing short yells every several minutes. Ray believes that it was communicating with the elk, as the elk seemed to respond by bugling back. A couple of times the elk would come in close but the creature would yell again and the elk would leave. This went on for at least an hour and the sun started to set making it harder and harder to see the creature as it laid close to the ground, mostly motionless. As it started to get dark, Ray told me he had to make a decision on whether to climb down the stand and walk out or stay on the mountain all night. He chose to take his chance and walk out. He then explained to me how he could hear the creature following him, 50 yards to his right in the trees. He said every few minutes the creature would bark at him. Similar to the sound an elk makes when it’s alarmed. I asked him to explain the sound and he said it was so loud that he could feel the sound waves in his chest. At this time, his only concern was that the creature would cut him off before he reached his vehicle at the base of he mountain.

The creature continued to follow him but stopped just as Ray walked out of the tree line, 200 yards from his truck. Ray said the creature continued with the barking sound clear until the point he reached his truck and drove off the mountain. Ray told me the whole story the day after this happened. He is not interested in sharing the encounter but I thought you might like to hear it. It was fascinating to hear about the belly crawling, especially because Ray had no idea that this behavior had been reported elsewhere.”

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