Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “Where I grew up you just…..you don’t talk about stuff like this. For one, its a very religious area and these things just can not exist. It has to be something normal that normal people can see as Gods creature.

The Bigfoot stigma just cant be. Not in the Bible therefor can not be real. The other things you don’t say are that you were scared, you missed an animal you were shooting at, or that anyone ever whipped your ass in a fair fight. Not if you are a man anyway. Its a long story to type and I hate typing so Ill try to get the story across as short as I can. If you would like to hear the whole ordeal I will tell you. If not, no issue. I’m still going to listen to your show. Found it a month or so ago and I love it. Kind of helped me in a lot of ways as well. Anyway, here goes nothin.

So me and my friends used to hunt ranches in high school for varmints. This was probably….2003 or 4. Late summer 2003 I think bc I left for the Army in early 2005. My friends dad told us that they’d been losing goats on a large property they owned about an hour from our home town. These goats were pretty wild but they were finding multiple dead ones when they went out there from time to time and they were torn up. His prized (to him) apple orchard was getting torn up too. That’s what probably mattered honestly. Anyway, he said it was either a mountain lion or big bobcat and he wanted us to kill it. Challenge accepted. We set off.

We get there the next day or so. Immediately find a goat absolutely torn to shreds. We had nokia brick phones and no camera. 2003 or so and we didn’t own cameras. This thing was like mush when I went to move it. Buzzards got it good but skin was dry yet intact. The bones though….they were broken all to hell. It was super odd but it was what it is. Carry on.

We make camp in the old travel trailer. No electric but it was pretty nice. We immediately notice these circular ruts. Like 100m circumference I guess but all around the camp. Full circle. He leased the property to someone so that he could run cows on it during resting years for his land. We figured it was that initially.

We went to go case the property and see where we wanted to trap and call vs where we wanted to shine that weekend. We went too the orchard first and its torn up. Most trees had the bottom, thicker branches, torn or broken. No apples. Smashed apples everywhere but none on the tree. Had that gross rotted fruit smell everywhere.

Moved on to the canyon (small) that looked over a great hunting pasture. Found a dead goat. Fresh dead. Female and had the udders and guts gone. Hind leg was missing and looked like it was twisted off. Had leg hide still attached but the leg gone. Kind of like twisting off the turkey leg at Thanksgiving if that makes sense. Very odd.

We decided to make camp and chill. Have a couple beers and ate and hit it that night. While unpacking my friend noticed this little skylight in the camper was half blocked. There’s a tree that over hangs it. We looked and found the goat leg. Whole. Not eaten but like it was placed there. I remember mud being up there. Got us a little shaken but we would never admit it.

We went hunting that night. We were going to shine the canyon then call the orchard. Went to the canyon first. I always had the long range rifle. Buddies had short ranged rifles without optics so one would shine. We immediately started catching flashes of eye shine. High up of the ground like something moving but moving too fast to get a look. More than 1 for sure but….intelligent. never the same direction twice and always just in the wood line. We were hearing this….not chattering. More like yips? Like a coyote yip almost but more guttural. The eyes were too high up for yotes. We kind of thought like…a ringtail group jumping from tree to tree. We moved on. It was frustrating.

The orchard. This is hard to explain. We immediately caught shine. I’m colorblind but this wasn’t green. It wasn’t red. It was in between. Id guess 6 or so feet off the ground in the trees. 2 eyes. If we put light on it they’d close. Move the light away and they’d open 1 at a time. The eye furthest from the light would open then as we moved the light away further the second would. But it was stone still. That’s odd and had us guessing. Nothing in this great country of Texas stares into the light and closes one eye at a time. Nothing stays that still for that long when being hit with white light without moving its head or covering its eyes. Nothing. My friend fires a shot in the air (most impatient “hunter” ever) and this thing takes off like bolt while shrieking (sp?). Ear splitting man but it wasn’t high pitched but wasn’t low pitched. Most ridiculous thing Id never heard before or since. We kept the light on it and shined…it ran for 80 to 100 feet and the eye shine stayed at the same exact height. Never wavered. Never even bounced like something running would. A varmints eyes would have gone up the tree or down the tree. This ran through the orchard like an Olympic sprinter and stayed at the same height. We then heard this shrieking and grunting from multiple points for a few seconds then it went dead silent.

We were nervous. Jumped in the truck to head back to camp. Me in the back with 2 hay bales ready to shoot if we spotted something, driver….driving, and shotgun was shining with the spotlight. I had reached in through the back window to grab a beer when my friend with the light yelled. At that time we heard a branch kind of creak? If that makes sense. Not break just creak. Next thing I feel is this huuuuge thud. Right behind me in the bed of the truck. Bed lurched down like you dropped a boulder in it then sprung back up and hard. I barely turned around in time to see a glimpse of this…this thing. It was a large…thing. its hard to explain. I saw a leg. Bottoms of feet and this dark dark grey blurr of something moving out of the light. Buddy said he just saw eyes going under the tree then turned around as we passed by to get the light again and just saw eyes heading down towards the bed of the truck.

We were freaked obviously but made camp. We all stayed in the camper after making a huge fire. Played cards and having a few. Couple hours before dawn the cows run up to the fire. Not normal but they were freaking out. Loud. We look through the window and they are ass to ass. Like 8 or so. Maybe a little less. Moving in a circle freaking out. They stepped in the fire at one point and the circle moved forward but the individual bessy didnt break the chorus. Never budged from the circle. We shut the light out and got down. No one talked. Then heard this huge THUD. It was easily noticeable. Something hit the truck. My buddy screamed (new truck) and got up too look and the cows were gone. Truck passenger door on the drivers side dented to crap but no cows anywhere. Then heard this THUD THUd THud Thud from right to left in the woodline. Then this overlapping THUD THUd THud Thud going the other way. Obviously bipedal and very heavy. We cowered, cried, and prayed man.

Around dawn we got some nerve. Got a little light and decided fuck this. So we grabbed all our rifles and went out all at once and scanned. Caught something go up this tree. A big something. I watched it jump and climb. Got it in the scope. It was half hidden on the other side of this descent sized oak. Saw maybe 3/4 of its head and half or less of its body bc it was on the other side of this tree. It had one arm around the tree but I could see light through the shoulder area and where the tree trunk was. 200m or so out Id guess. There was a lot of chatter between us as too what should be done. We were all terrified tbh. I finally just fired. Center mass to its body but that was behind the tree so I assume I hit the tree. This thing spun around and fell out of the tree. Hit branches on the way down but fell top end first right into a huge branch. This up ended it. Flipped around and landed in the Johnson grass which was like 2 feet or so tall. We waited for a while. Thought we were good but then this scream. Loud. This thing got to its feet clutching its shoulder or arm. I don’t know. Ran off into the woods. We were paralyzed for a minute but eventually bolted for the truck. Right before we were turning around to peel off another one, looked bigger girth wise, stepped out of the wood line facing us. No sound. No reprisal. Just stared us down. I mean you could feel its eyes man. Deepest fear I’ve ever felt in my life. I wanted to throw up but couldn’t. I was crying. Couldn’t breath. I’ve never felt that level of….terror Id call it ever again. We left. Had a fight over who was unlocking the gate. Peeled out of there and never went back.

I dont know what they were man. I dont. I want to say bigfoot but then again dont. They were big for sure. Huge to us. But they were probably like 6 and half feet tall though. Maybe seven. Built like a brick shit house but not like Patty or anything. Like an armored up athlete. Really….kinda looked like Francis Ngannou if you follow MMA. Maybe just a few inches taller wearing body armor. Muscled. Strooooong. Weight I dunno. 500? Ripped. Athletic. Not that 8 foot tall 900 pound giant people talk about though. More athletically built I guess. Eyes I had…still do here and there..nightmares about. Black void. Emotionless. Like the eye of a large mouth bass if you know what Im talking about. Never know where its looking but they are big big big. And dark grey hair. Colorblind so I know grey when I see it. Lol.

We didn’t really know shit about bigfoot then. We told his dad who called us stupid. Game warden said hed look into it. He went out there then called us back a few days later and told us that its a crime to file false reports and that we need to quit drinking and smoking bc its illegal (none of us use drugs, to include marijuana, and were not drunk). We tried telling people close but they made fun of us. We would talk about it together after awhile and occasionally people would ask us what happened. We assumed to mock us. Made it into some funny story about pasture baboons. Figured its better to make it a joke I guess since everyone thought it was anyway. After a bit we just shut it out and never brought it up again.

There’s a ton of details in there I didn’t give. I’m surprised I said that much really. Never have before. Anyway man. I’m done typing on my phone. Said short and wrote a novel. Do what ya want with it. Felt good to write it. Never really even said as much as that in the last 20 years about it. Listened to an episode the other night that got me really giving the whole ordeal attention again and figured why not. Ill unload a bit.”