Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Jason writes “So, I had something unusual happen to me a few months ago and I don’t know if I’d necessarily call this Bigfoot related, but I’ll let you all be the judge.

As some of you may remember, I took some pictures of the local state park not too long ago. I even posted a video of a deer that was hiding in the brush not ten feet from me to show how camouflage worked with animals and how it could work for the big guy. I go there all the time to clear my head, relax, read and I know those woods very well. I’m often there by myself and don’t think anything about being alone in the woods. I’m a typical southern boy (well, maybe not typical) and being outside deep in the wilderness has never bothered me.

Alright, so I tell you all this first so that you understand where I’m coming from after I explain what happened. You see, it was a few months back–probably around March if I had to guess–and I decided to take my usual trek through the woods. It was late in the evening and I had just gotten off of work and I had been thinking about going further down one of the trails I had just discovered to see where it came out at. Not the safest thing I could have done by myself, admitted, but like I said, I grew up outside with the other kids of my neighborhood so I wasn’t at all worried.

So anyway, I started off down this trail that was on the backside of the lake leading deep in the woods, and it was starting to get a bit cloudy with a little thunder rolling here and there, but that didn’t really bother me. I kept walking for maybe five or ten more minutes, when all of a sudden I get this really peculiar feeling deep down in my stomach. I feel like something is watching me from the woods up the hill next to the trail I’m on.

It’s just a faint feeling at first and I try to dismiss it, chalking it up to the storm clouds gathering on the distance, so I just keep going on my way. The feeling eventually goes away after awhile I don’t think anything of it.

Well, I’ve gone about a mile or so into some pretty thick woods, right? The trail has gone up and down hills, and is very narrow in places overlooking sudden drop offs. I’m just about to cross this creek when I get the feeling that I’m being watched again only this time it’s a lot worse than it was at first. It’s like a very heavy oppressive feeling and I honestly thought my life was in danger for some reason. I didn’t understand where this feeling was coming from, but I usually trust my gut instincts on most things so I decided to turn around and go back.

So, I’m heading back down the trail, right? Well I haven’t gone maybe 100 yards when I hear this crashing coming from up the hill behind me. I turn to look and see what it is, but I don’t see anything. The trees were moving but the wind had started to pick up from the storm coming in and I wrote it off to that. I start back down the trail again, and no sooner than I had taken ten steps, the crashing started up again. Once again, I stopped and looked behind me but saw nothing. Panic started in on me and I had this wild desire to break out in a dead run, but something in the back of my head told me to just walk calmly back to my car and not show fear. I had read somewhere that running away triggers chase instincts in large animals, and I really didn’t want to do that if it was like a bear or something. So, I kept calm and just walked away at a brisk pace, figuring if something was following me, it would see that I was moving out of it’s turf.

So, I walk the mile back to the parking lot, with the woods crashing down behind me the whole way, and I keep thinking “I’m gonna be jumped on any second and they’re going to find my half-eaten corpse in some gully by the water.” But obviously I wasn’t. I just kept walking forward with my head up and trying to be mindful of my surroundings.

A few minutes later, I emerge from the woods and back to my car and I make fun of myself for acting like a total coward, when I see movement coming up the trail that I was just on. Blinking, I stared in that direction and saw a young couple emerge from the woods not five minutes after I had. There was a young blonde woman, and she was crying her eyes out and shivering uncontrollably. Her boyfriend/husband? was holding on to her and I couldn’t tell what she was saying to him, but he kept saying ‘Babe, it’s ok. We’re out of the woods now, it’s ok.”

I didn’t ask what had happened because she looked so frightened I thought she was going to break. So, I just got in my car and got out of there. What do you guys make of it?”