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Mar 25

SC EP:417 A Strange Night

I will be welcoming on three guests on tonight.

First, Mike writes “My encounter happened when I was about 12 years old in 1975. My parents had property in the Pocono mountains in Bushkill Falls, and my mother wanted to go check on the property and decide to go with her.

 

We went and looked at the land because they did not have a house on the land, they just owned it. It was a beautiful fall day around October, the leaves were starting to turn and the air was crisp. As we were heading back about 2:30 in the afternoon, I believe we were on Bushkill Falls Road heading towards route 209- There is very little traffic on this road and Bushkill Falls Road has twists and turns. At one point as we turning to the left to go down the curving road, I saw something out of the corner of my eye. It was sitting about 6-8 feet in from the edge of the road in the small saplings. And at first I thought someone tossed out a stuffed animal and it was just sitting on the side of the road. But as we pasted it, I saw this thing turn it’s head and watch the wheels go by as it leaned on one arm.

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Jared writes “I just recently started listening to your podcasts. They help me get through the work day.

Why I’m emailing you is because I would like to discuss my “encounters”, I say it like because I’ve never really saw a Bigfoot before. So let’s cut to the chase. Around July 2012, I was freshly out of high school. My cousin and I went canoeing, with the intentions of camping. The place we camped was only accessible by water that I know of. I do not know the exact location but we were in the Jackson canal fulton area. The section of the river had a strong current to it.

 

So strong when I got out of the canoe it carried me down stream a mile. Anyways when I got out of the canoe the water-was chest deep on me. When I finally got to back to the canoe. We carried it up hill I wanna say 45 yards. We set up all our stuff put the canoe behind the tent. Built a fire because I was soaked and the sun was going down and we still hadn’t ate, we sat around the fire talked and then went to bed. I don’t know why but 4:36 am flashed in my head and it still does to this day. What happened next I can’t really come to grips with on how it happened. It was like i was in a twilight zone, and I heard something cross the river in three steps, and it went silent for a minute.

It was a creepy silent, like when a predator is near by. This sense of fear came over me like I’ve never felt before. I saw this massive shadow outside my side of the tent in what moonlight we had. I was like okay someone is messing with us. Then it let out this gut wrenching scream. It rattled me good. I tried waking my cousin up but he was out cold. I thought for sure I was going to die, I made peace with god, and closed my eyes and started to pray, because I was like this is it. All of a sudden it went silent. I stayed up shaking the rest of the night when my cousin finally woke up, he asked what happened and I tried to tell him, but I couldn’t speak because I was still so rattled. He opened the tent up all of our camping gear was thrown everywhere and the canoe was in a tree. It still bothers me to this day.

December 30th 2017 my cousin and I went to salt fork to see hosacks cave. We got the cave and the same feeling of fear came over me. I didn’t see anything or hear anything but I felt as if we were being watched. My cousin turned to me and asked me do you smell that? I replied we gotta go now, and we ran down that hill like the devil himself was nipping at our heels. We got in the truck and tore out of there as fast as he could shift gears. No one believes us when we tell them that story. I’m afraid to go back but at the same time I want too.”

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Roman writes “I am from Vancouver, BC and I have been listening to your show for several months now and thought I would share my sighting. I have been a hunter for quite sometime and have spent lots of time in the bush in central BC and know most animals behaviors and what they look like from distances.

Last August 2 2018 my sister invited me out to a lake south of Merritt BC to camp, now this was in a range of mountains I haven’t really explored much just east of the infamous Coquihalla Highway.

My sister had given me terrible directions to this lake we were suppose to meet at now I decided to drag my little utility trailer to haul my quad so we could do some riding over the BC Day Long Weekend and as usual it had taken longer than expected to get up to the interior.

I arrived in Merritt about 11pm and still had to travel up the towards Kelowna to my first turnoff 5A south back down towards Princeton about 30KM to my second turnoff which is a Forestry Service rd. called Pike Mountain (which is a logging road ) this is where I realized my sisters directions were terrible now I have covered lots of ground on BC forestry roads and wasn’t too concerned I wouldn’t find it. I decided to park my truck and pull off the quad as I could cover a lot more ground quicker, by this time it was about 12:30 am.

I started to ride all over many different FSR roads and wasn’t getting to far because there is a lot of roads with no signage to this lake, I started too feel very strange about this trip at this point and began to feel very vulnerable without my shotgun.

I always travel the bush with shotgun and didn’t like this uneasy feeling I was experiencing, plainly things just seemed very strange. I was lost … I was way way up in elevation at one point and knew I was just from the temperature drop and bigger Spruce trees where I came upon a cow sleeping on the road, which I thought was strange. Anyways I decide to go down hill to some of the more main FSR roads and trudge on, when I got down in elevation I was traveling along and noticed a very very strong smell to put it bluntly it smelled like shit but incredibly strong, at this time I began to REALLY feel strange and was keeping the RPM’s on my quad up so as to make lots of noise as well as to have lots of power in case the need was there to really bolt.

It was the second time where I had smelled this smell again and when I turned a corner I had seen a mass about 10-11 possibly 12 feet tall greyish figure literally just calmly step aside behind a tree I need to say I have a very high powered LED light bar and know very well the way shadows from trees react from my light bar.

I know this was something I couldn’t explain. I didn’t slow down to look or turn around as this would have slowed me down so I just PUNCHED it, I was scared. I kept going and finally had found the lake where my sister and friends were. This was at about 2am now and so I settled down for a bit and decided I could not leave my truck out there so I left to go get it.

I had gotten lost AGAIN and I usually do very well in the bush with direction, I found this strange.I did finally find my truck and literally gotten lost again trying to find the lake. During this time of driving around the FSR roads I came upon a farm house in the mountains and the strange thing was there was a large light above the house which I have had a hard time explaining, it seemed to be illuminating this house I was thinking there was a movie being shot up there yet I did NOT see a single person walking around nor did anyone approach me at the gate when I pulled up to it (I have a loud diesel truck). This was incredibly strange.

I know that now it was about 3:30 am or 4am and was very tired and chalked it up as just overreacting, yet this light was inexplicably odd and was very high above and slightly behind the house kind of shining through the house but the house looked as though the light was in the walls like emitting from inside kind of like the house was glowing.

I then slowly turned around and kept trudging along to find camp. Eventually it started to get light out and found the main FSR road I needed to be on to find camp.

I know this story isn’t very compelling but for me it was powerfully odd especially the huge grey mass I had seen side step behind a tree. At the time I had never heard of a grey Bigfoot until my sister sent me an article from a local newspaper that had a link to another site where I had discovered there had been many sightings over the years of a grey Bigfoot in this region.

Since listening to your show and others I have been realizing things coming together with regard to things I have experienced in the bush from strange owls to sounds of like people chatting in the bush hunting in the middle of nowhere!!

I have always chalked it up as just other hunters or campers which could be true for some of the times I have heard these sounds, yet not all the time. Another time my cousin and I heard a god awful kind of scream or roar late one night at Red lake where he has some property we use for a base camp during hunting season. My cousins dog at the time Maggie would ALWAYS bark or investigate anything that moved in the bush (sadly she had to be put down because of this )but the night of this scream/howl Maggie just looked into the darkness and didn’t even flinch my cousin quietly pulled out his shotgun and we just sat there listening we didn’t hear it again and to this day I haven’t heard this sound again. (1972 there had been a sighting reported from Red Lake).

Like I said since hearing stories of Bigfoot it seems funny how you notice so many more things in the bush that I would normally not even notice.

I appreciate what you do with your show and giving people an opportunity to have an outlet where people feel heard. I think this is very important and is needed. Most people think Im crazy or actually they simply just dont have a reference point. My story isn’t as frightening as others although it is still an experience where I know the truth and I will never forget my shotgun again.”

 


 

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52 Responses to “SC EP:417 A Strange Night”

  16. Christian L

    Its interesting how some folks sleep right through the roars….i dont think those people are just sound sleepers…..maybe the infrasound has a zapping effect on some that basically keeps them in a deep sleep or stunned state while others are aware of the sounds. If something is as loud as a siren or train horn theres no way a normal person would sleep through it so there must be a stress element that keeps some people in a sleep state even when being roared at.

  18. John G

    Anybody else notice how much the first guest sounded like mr. Rogers? I’m sure in person he probably doesn’t sound so much like mr. Rogers, I think it was probably just his telephone voice. I so would have given Wes the internet as a gift if he had played “don’t you want to be my neighbor” between guests 1 and 2.

    • m99

      Cotton top Sasquatch Baby? Two of my brothers had white blonde hair until they were about two years old. One had dark brown hair, the other black. Made me wonder if BF kids are the same way.

  21. Dovie D

    I feel bad for Jared who saw that shadow. Seeing a shadow just as frightening as seeing it out in the open then having family and friends not believe you. Thank you for sharing what you know is real. Thankfully you are here to tell. I appreciate all of the guests who shared.

  23. Bal G

    Man, absolutely not a fan of Trump or his idiotic child like antics, but for 60 minutes to stoop so low is beyond amazing. Having an over the hill porn skank trying to hit another pay day is beyond reprehensible. Shame on you Anderson Cooper. Shame on you. Stuff like this is why you have to keep your options open when you vote. Heck this tabloid piece made me want to vote for Trump in 2020!

  24. Tamsin D

    Loved the drawing! I bet it was cute, if he thought it were a stuffed animal. Knowing me and not thinking Sasquatch, bet I would have stopped to help the critter. Bet that would have gone bad fast.,…
    Thank you Wes and guests.
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  32. Dennis W

    So I found you guys the same way many others have. I found it on YouTube and later realized it wasn’t Wes. After kicking myself for not coming here sooner (right, he gives the address every show) I became a member and started from the beginning. Life hasn’t allowed me to binge them, so it has taken my awhile to get current. So now what? I feel like Wes is like my brother or something. Do you guys have any other suggestions? Something to keep me busy while I wait each week? Not really sure how I will relax for bed each night now. Thanks in advance.

  33. Janetta V

    Wes, I am just crazy about your taste in music, love your show been with you since the beginning, back in the old Woody and Will days. You just keep getting better.

  34. Robert C

    Hey Wes! Jareds second encounter was at the same place as mine! Hosacks cave! Jared if you read this my episode was 183 You Are About To Be Taken. It was in the middle of winter as well but back in 2009. Great show and a big thanks to all the guests! Fasinating stories!

  36. Debbie C

    Mike, your painting-drwaing of a baby Sasquatch is wonderful!
    Your memory of what you witness as a kid never left your mind’s eye.
    Glad you had Wes post your drawing and tell your stoty:)
    Second guess, you did a great job telling your story as well!:)
    All around, great show Wes:)

  40. Tracy L

    The 2nd or 3rd guest, the canoer, sounded like he had cottonmouth or a mouthful of marbles. Wes, I don’t know if you can tell from talking to him, but for one, he has the phone way to close, and second, if you hear someone sounding like this, please ask the guest to ennunciate more, otherwise, it is just frustrating to have to try to decipher what the heck did he just say? I couldn’t concentrate on what he was saying. The next guest had bad sound quality too. I think that as a now professional podcaster you know that the number one reason why people stop listening is due to bad sound quality. Thanks. Love your mission and how you listen to your guests. You are there for them, not for showing off. You have a pure heart.

  41. Tracy L

    Oops, forgot to say that Wes! you are missing out on thousands and thousands of dollars of money from YouTube. Listeners to the Sasquatch Chronicles on YouTube probably rake in a ton of money for whoever it is that is uploading videos of the audio recordings of you show. I don’t know if at the time I write this you have taken ownership of or started to upload your own videos, but if not, please re-think your reasons for not uploading to YouTube. I’ve seen another listener write this, and I agree: If it wasn’t for YouTube, I never would have found you. It has a much better search and history info, and the video/audio doesn’t stop for no reason and then make it hard to find where you left off like on your site. You should be earning the money from your work, not someone else.

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