A listener writes “I was out fishing what I call “ponds in the woods.” Really just over flows from floods in the woods from rivers and what not.
Anyway I was exploring a little pond in the woods in the Atchafalaya swamp near Henderson Louisiana. I started smelling something really bad like rotting meat or like a dead animal but much stronger, WAY stronger than that. I was sitting down with my bait casting rod and reel being quite and getting my fishing line and bait ready to start fishing. The pond was approximately three to five acres big.
This very big “thing” came out of the wood line adjacent from me and kneeled down one one knee and drank water like a deer would drink. I was so shocked I was just stuck, frozen, scared shitless! It raised up after about ten or so seconds from drinking water and just stood there looking at me. It simply turned away and walked back into the wood line.
Ive hunted and fished my entire life as a Cajun in Louisiana, but in all the years I’ve been in the woods camping and hunting I have NEVER experienced anything like that.
I don’t know what it as but I know FOR SURE it was NOT a bear.
It stood a good eight feet tall when it stood upright, it’s hair was brownish red, long, no hair on the checks of the face, a slight crest on the head, looked like it had hardly any neck, like it’s head sat square on its shoulders. It’s chest was more massive than a full grown man’s chest. It look like it had mange or spots of hair missing on the abdomen area. This thing was big, chest area was almost as wide as my tailgate on my Silverado truck.
This occurred last month, on June 11th 2022.
I have never paid much attention to stories of things like that, but I can tell you this, I will NEVER go into the woods alone again. I don’t care what anyone tells me, I know what I saw and I saw a real living, breathing, eight to nine hundred pound upright walking ape like animal. This thing was real.
It has changed my life for the worst jut because I can’t get that image out o my head of it looking at me so intensely.
Thanks for letting me get this off my chest a little.
If anyone says these animals are not real, I say go into the woods and have what happened to me and you will know they are real.”
Linda B
My reaction to these type episodes is always the same. I mean it sincerely:
Wow!!
I just cannot imagine how scarey that would be. Also, I’m sorry this has had such a strong impact on the listener who wrote you this. My heart goes out to him. How unsuspecting, and bam!, life changing event. Then there are so few people you can talk to about it sometimes which makes it worse, and it would get “stuck” in your head. I would totally obsess about this. Thank you, Wes.
Sharon H
That’s definitely a scary encounter! I can not even imagine…
Thanks Wes for posting this.
Linda G
Again, another experience where this Sasquatch was just taking care of itself, not threatening in any way. It’s such a puzzle (the experiences are so different).
david b
Hope you can convince him to tell his encounter! WOW!