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Jun 1

SC EP:1159 Sasquatch Picking Berries

Lindsey from northern MN writes “I was raspberry field picking and encountered what I at first thought was a mother bear and 2 cubs but they had hair not fur and it was auburn/brown less black like the bears in the area. The mother (large one) was distinctly “picking“ raspberries which has never sat well with me. A bear would have eaten berries off the bush and not as quiet.

The two young ones always had their back towards me and I think they were trying to be in little balls. I never saw their faces. They were trying not to appear large. The big one held its head down so I didn’t see eyes or face. I didn’t even know they were there until I was too damn close to do anything about it. My child mind was in the space of it could have killed me if it wanted to. I picked right around it ended the row and very quietly and slowly retreating back to my grandfather and grandma who were back at the house.

I told them there were bears in the field my grandfather shot off a rifle several times to scare them away. I knew damn well it wasn’t a bear but I also was under 12 and I didn’t know what it was I didn’t have words to describe exactly what I had seen nor had I heard of big foot or Sasquatch. I was however completely terrified by this experience.

Having seen a grizzly bear as an adult and a very large black bear I can say it was not that. I think it was kneeling and crouching. I was directly on the other side of the bush from it the raspberries were set up in rows. This was a large field surrounded by forest on three sides. Lots of deer lived in the area my family hunted and I grew up spending all my summers with them helping pick.

It happened very early in the morning I was the first one out there and the dew was still wet on the leaves and it was cool still. The sun was just starting to come up but it was still filtering through the trees. We didn’t start picking this early but I wanted to get a jump on it because the summers were so hot and humid. I used to pick what was equivalent to 24 pints 2 flat carriers before it would get too hot to mess with. Everyone in the area knew my grandma. She was very popular and she raised my mom in Detroit lakes with 5 other siblings.

So I didn’t want people bothering her as she had dementia and failing heath as she was in her late 90’s. I had stumbled on your show by accident but having the experience I had obviously I listened to all the episodes. I never heard anything like the Ohio sounds they make on property nor the gibberish that was recorded in CA. I have heard what I can only describe to you as broken owls. They weren’t quite right but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly how I knew but I just felt like it was mimicking owl maybe. Grandpa lit the property like it was Fort Knox.

I maybe understand that more now after listening to your show. They were one of the first people to move into that area. Across the road from them which is like 1/4 mile away from their house was the nearest neighbor and Skip had a cabin and he would fish on weekends. My grandparents lived there full time. None of their immediate neighbors did. And again very spread out. You were truly on your own out there if anything happened.

That was the last time I ever picked berries alone. I wouldn’t go that far into that field either. I would never have my back turned to those trees either after that experience.”

Lorenzo writes “I have gone back and forth wanting to email you. I’m just going to start from a weird encounter then into the sighting I had. In 2014, My wife and I were visiting her parents in Brookings Oregon, Brookings is a pretty rural area on the southern coast of Oregon on the border of California near the redwoods and being from Southern California it was simply beautiful.

My father in law wanted to take us up the Winchuck River to a place called the lundlum house. its an open cabin you can camp at. This cabin is 11 miles up river from the 101. While we were driving up you veer left on wheeler creek rd from Winchuck river road. This road turns into dirt and gravel, while we were driving up a red SUV came flying down the road back towards Winchuck River rd they almost hit us and at the time we thought they were just jerks. We kept going and on the right you see this two story cabin and there is open grass area there’s a trail down to the river its beautiful. No one was in the cabin so I went in and explored the cabin and layout. Then I noticed the trail to the river and this is where it got weird.

I walk down the trail and I am taking in the scenery I look to my right and see a chair, a fishing pole with the line still in the water and an open beer can almost still full. I found it odd and no one was around… It took me a couple minutes to put it together did those people we past leave this stuff? I showed my wife and we found it odd. November 2016 we were back visiting my in laws with my son who was born in June of 2016. we also had a friend come along and one day we decided to show her the cabin. Right before we do the slight left up the road to the Ludlum house I had an anxious feeling come over me.

We were driving slow because we were in a Prius and my son in the car. The river is to our right and around a bend I look down at the river and what I see is something standing upright in the middle of the river and look over its shoulder as we drive past and I say to my wife did you see that and she said yep that was sasquatch. We park in an area where there are camp sights and my wife and our friend get out and I said I am going to stay with the car and the whole time it felt like we were being watch and I basically ushered my friend and her friend back in the car because I didn’t like the feeling. Driving back to the main road we were talking about it and we convinced ourselves what we saw we really didn’t see it.

I was very observant about where I saw the creature and I thought maybe it was a tree or something but I thought I recognized the spot but that spot had nothing in the middle of the river. To me inside I thought oh we did see what we saw and it moved on. Wes ever since that I get a weird feeling going up the Winchuck River after 6 miles, Its beautiful up there but I just don’t like going up that way.

 

 

 


 

 

 

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44 Responses to “SC EP:1159 Sasquatch Picking Berries”

  13. James G

    I’ve heard numerous encounters where these beings actively try to hide their face. Sometimes they hide it with hair hanging. Many First Nations say don’t look them in the eye. I think there more to this behavior than meets the eye, no pun intended. The ball behavior is extremely interesting because that shows a different level of intelligence. Most players animals with their young would have mauled her. Many of their behaviors, I feel, blows the “North American Ape” theory away. I’m not sure of much when it comes to them, but I am sure that whatever they are, if it’s fully disclosed or understood will change human history. That I am sure of

    • Greg O

      If Sasquatch are real they would be classified as apes like us humans are unless they turn out to be a new Family because a new Genus and/or Species wouldn’t take them out of the Ape family.

  15. Lisa B

    Perhaps not a Bigfoot howl but what about a Dogman howl or howls?😳 Great Show Wes!🥳 Thanks for turning the lights on for us!♥️ Happy June 1st everyone! 🥰

  18. Karla G

    I spent a summer working with wolves and I would have to agree that those are wolves. when they get going, they can make some unbelievably spooky sounds, especially when they get going all together. and it sounds very much like this I can easily see how someone who isn’t familiar with Wolves would think this is something else. for sure. but this is why we all need to familiarize ourselves with the sounds of nature. I regularly hear people playing barred owl recordings and thinking it’s Sasquatch. barred owls have a certain call that they make that sounds just like an angry chimpanzee. also cow bellows are a big one. people who are not familiar with cows probably don’t realize how horrifying a bull bellow can be at times. they can sound exactly like what you would think a huge angry Sasquatch sounds like. I hear so many Sasquatch vocals that are instantly recognizable as natural wildlife sounds, but people jump to it being Sasquatch because they aren’t familiar with it. people just don’t realize some of the crazy and downright terrifying sounds that nocturnal animals can make.

  19. Linda B

    Karla G, I agree. I contacted a rancher once whose field was just on the other side of my back yard, to tell him I had cow patties in my yard. I think the cow was out there in the middle of the night, and I had heard the weirdest roar kind of sound. I thought it might be a sasquatch. The rancher said that no, this particular cow had a very weird moo. It’s kind of funny now. Years later, though, I heard an Ohio howl out there, male tenor, very loud, very far away, at sundown in the springtime, followed by a bunch of female sounding cries that a lot of people would think was coyotes.

  20. Mark R

    I also agree with the animal sounds being mistaken for bigfoot. Another one is when people say they hear baby sounds in the woods. Search youtube for crying frogs. We don’t know as much about animals as we think we do because most of us spend most of our lives not in nature. It’s funny to me that people think all owls must sound exactly the same. Owls make dozens of different sounds and calls.

    I suggest downloading the Merlin app not only because it’s a great app for bird watching but to listen to the various calls of owls, especially the barred owl.

  26. Craig F

    Mom went walking down the road out in front of our house one day a couple years ago and had an interaction with a bear sow and her cub. The black bear walked out from the woods and sat down in the middle of the road, keeping the cub behind it. Mom saw the bears and froze, just stood there. The mother bear gave her a look for a second, that scared Mom. After a minute or two the bears got up and ambled off again into the brush on the other side. I believe the bears see us frequently enough to know us. Just creatures being creatures.

  27. Erin P

    does anyone remember the episode number that Wes mentioned? with the guy and his kids that stumbled upon the Sasquatch group that balled up?

  28. Karen F

    Great show and thank you. I enjoyed listening to the vocalizations, it could be a lot of things. As a side note, my dog always responds to recorded wolf howls, he did not respond to your recording. As for the Merlin app, great app and I use it all of the time.

  34. Carey A

    Great O, not everyone agrees with you an believes we all come from aped. Sasquatch are very real. I was a non believer once until we’ve been experiencing them for over 9 yrs now. an they aren’t just apes because I’ve seen them cloak have pics of that my family has seem them an seen them do that also. Also I have experienced mind speak so have many other very credible ppl. Apes can’t do any of that. They also have supernatural speed

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