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Oct 4

SC EP:696 Fishing Trip From Hell

The witness is a veteran and has agreed to come on the show. Chris writes “Wes, I recently discovered your podcast and have been listening and enjoying it.

For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in Bigfoot/Sasquatch and believe enough evidence has been found to prove their existence. On to my possible encounter.

In June of 2006, my fishing buddy and I were on Lake Ouachita (pronounced wosh-i-taw) in Arkansas. We hit the water around 1900 that evening, launching from the Joplin recreation area boat ramp. The breeze was calm and the moon was bright, a perfect night for fishing. Around 2200, we had been fishing the perimeter on one of the many islands on the lake. This particular island has a nice long inlet on one side that has a finger protruding just off center and we always catch some nice fish there. This evening was no exception. After landing my second bass, there was a loud splash from a decent sized rock being tossed in the water.

I looked back to my buddy giving him the WTF look only to notice he was giving me the same look. As we were about to say something to each other, there was another splash in front of the boat. Now we knew that neither one of us had done this as a joke on the other as we were facing each other when the second and third splash occurred. We exchanged a few words while scanning the bank looking for who was throwing these rocks when the fourth splash was made to our left and very close to the boat. I remember my buddy saying “oh shit” and pointing to the crest of the island shortly after that splash.

My eyes followed to where he was pointing, and standing next to a large pine tree was a hulking figure. While neither of us could make out any details, we knew it was massive. As stated earlier, the moon was bright and almost full that night, and what we were looking at was standing in the shadows of the tree it was beside. There was low, deep growl unlike anything I have ever heard before. This thing grabbed the branch it was standing behind, tore it from the tree, and began walking to our right, down the ridge towards the front of the boat carrying this limb.

I hollered at my buddy to “fire the big motor” as I hit the 24volt button and high speed on the trolling motor to back us out of there. Thankfully he had the same thought as me and as soon as I heard the motor hit, I pulled the trolling motor up as he was dropping us in reverse. The thing we seen was standing at the shoreline now still holding the branch, and we could hear the heaving of its breath, even over the boats engine. As we cleared the inlet, my buddy dropped the motor in forward, pinned the throttle, and we rocketed out of there.

We shut down in the main channel and sat there for several minutes in silence, looking back towards the island which was now over a mile away. I kept replaying what just happened in my mind wondering what we just witnessed. I finally asked my friend “Did THAT just happen? WTF was THAT? You seen that too right?” Well, maybe not in that particular order. We were both very shaken from what had just transpired. We spent the next few hours discussing the event and whether we should report it or not. Ultimately, we agreed not to report it, headed a few miles down the lake and began fishing again.

We talked about our thoughts on Bigfoot and other such creatures the remainder of the night, occasionally casting a line, all while keeping a keen eye on the shore we were too far away from to actually fish effectively. As the sun was coming up, we decided to go back to the island in the daylight and check it out. After all, these islands are small and we would be able to observe if it was still on the island from a safe distance.

We circled the island several times before pulling up to it, beached at soft spot, and grabbed the fish ruler before disembarking. The tree limb was laying partially in the water where the thing had stood last night. Unfortunately, the majority of these islands are hard packed red clay and shale rock, so we were disappointed that we couldn not see any defined tracks. The branch however, was very telling. The branch was 10 11/16″ across the base and had a chunk of the tree peeled away with it! We were dumbstruck at the strength this thing had displayed!

We walked the 80 or so feet to the tree it was standing by and had removed the branch from. I am 6′ 1″ and could walk under where the branch had been. Based on the height of branch, we estimated that this beast was 8 – 8 1/2 feet in height, and had to be at least 4′ wide across the shoulders. Again, the ground was too hard to ascertain any foot prints. We walked around the island to search for more clues. We found a couple of 6 – 8″ diameter saplings that had been twisted almost in two.

Needless to say we didn’t fish Lake Ouachita for a while after this. I did purchase an extended tube tactical shotgun to carry in the boat the next week for the other places we went fishing. After all, if they were on Ouachita, they had to be elsewhere as well right? It took a few years before I went night fishing again. Neither of us could see enough detail to say for certain what we saw, however, the clues only point to one possibility.

To add a little background about us, I was raised in a small town that to this day does not have a stop light. I grew up running the Ouachita and Saline rivers bottoms hunting, fishing, four wheeling, and general small-town hell raising. I joined the Marine Corps after high school, spending 17 years in the infantry before being medically retired in 2009.

My friend was born and raised in West Virginia with a similar background, minus the Marine Corps. He was big in to black bear hunting. We met through a mutual friend while I was home on leave and became friends, often hunting and obviously fishing when I was home. Unfortunately, his job transfered him away not long after I retired.

I still spend quite a bit of time in the outdoors with my sons and grandsons, just NEVER without a gun or two and a few spare reloads. I’ve had a couple of possible encounters over the past few years, nothing concrete. I’ll save them for another email. For the record, I am NOT a Bigfoot/Sasquatch hunter, researcher, or anything along those lines, and I absolutely do not actively look or search for them as do not care to have a similar experience ever again.

I’m sure you guys are inundated with emails and I appreciate what you guys do. Thank you.”

 

 

We will also be speaking to Josh from Canada who writes “There is a window at the side of our suite to the left almost aiming at our neighbours but also viewing the forest out back.

Like I said, it was a typical day.. little just after 2pm.. I was in the kitchen area watching my daughter as she watched he favourite TV series ( paw patrol lol ), I was standing in the direction so I could see her but also could see out our back porch glass doors and that side window in our suite.

I remember standing there just kinda thinking about whatever when all of a sudden, something caught my attention, it was moving around in the bush outside that side window and about 70 feet down, (so I’m looking out my side window and down at the bush) and that’s when I saw it, this red softball sized orb that was moving around in the bush below, rises up out of the bush and into the back yard , turn to its left so my right.. kind floated for maybe a few feet and Wes .. it was like it noticed that I noticed it because when I was looking at it .. it was like it freaked out or something, immediately looked directly into my eyes and like a laser beam flashed at me 5 times ultra fast and than disappeared like it was never there.

I’ll describe what I saw with my bare eyes, it was a softball sized red orb that was floating about 6 feet off the ground, it was a light but it wasn’t like .. you know light sends out a beam .. at first it wasn’t like that, it was almost like a red softball sized glow stick or something.. it only shined light when it hit me in my eyes. It disappeared after that.

It was very weird..”

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

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49 Responses to “SC EP:696 Fishing Trip From Hell”

  20. Lisa B

    Great show Wes! Thank you for your service Chris! It’s great you’ve found a way to heal and help with your ptsd. My husband came home different after spending a year in Baghdad in 2006. Some never get real help or healing. I enjoyed hearing Josh talk about the red orb. Creepy! They sound like they have an intelligence, not a nice one either. Put the lights on…

  26. Matthew J

    Great show Wes. As a USMC Veteran 1982-1986 I really appreciate itr when people say, “Thank you for your service”. You folks are so very welcome, I mean it. In fact if they activate people that are 60 and disabled, I’d serve another year or two. Whenever someone provides a soapbox to veterans, I feel connected to everyone and proud of what they did to give a Veteran a chance to speak.
    Fun episodes.

  28. Debbie S

    Really enjoyed the show…..thanks Wes, Chris and Josh. Loved listening to Chris and really appreciate him. My son(a Marine) felt the same way….the day he received his EGA and was finally called a Marine will always stand out in his mind and memory too. 🙂 Thank you for your service and thank you for all you do for our vets. Really enjoyed hearing your encounter. Thank you Josh for being willing to share about the orb/light whatever those things are. They really freak me out.

  29. niel r

    lol too funny I LOVE THE 225 HP YAMAHA IT FIRED UP AND WE WERE GONE … I CANT BLAME YOU BROTHER HAMMER DOWN , THROTTLE UP FULL THROTTLE , WIDE F%$#^&@ OPEN “” WE WERE GONE “” GOD BLESS MY 225 HP YAMAHA

  30. Jody L

    God bless this man God Bless America thank you Chris for your service and for being the outstanding man you are wish there were more people like you today thank you all veterans awesome show

  32. Dave W.

    Semper Fi, Chris. I was active 1992-1996. Thank you for your service
    Brother. I also had an encounter. I was Stationed at Pendleton, and we did some cold weather training up at Bridgeport. Wes was gracious enough to interview me about my own encounter. (Episode 476) I understand what you went through. The fear, and later on the questions. I had my own doubts and fears after my own sighting.
    You were lucky to have a friend with you that had your back. My fire watch buddy left me solo when I had my encounter. Anyway, God Bless, Brother. I am glad you were safe, and thanks for sharing your story. Semper Fi.

  34. Michael S

    Enjoyed your report. Reminded me of trip to Cowlitz River trip I took with a buddy many years ago. We wanted to get a spot at Blue Creek that was a popular spot at the time. Walking to our destination from the parking lot was about 1/2-3/4 of a mile. At 2:30AM the 8-10ft wide path was dark as could be due mostly to the density of vegetation growth. A five cell flashlight cut a hole in the blackness and the further in we got, it was apparent it was very dark. Both of us had prior exposure to PG film and native to PNW. By the midpoint of the walk to Blue Creek we were walking back to back like we were in SE Asia ready for ambush by VC. We were worn out by time we got to fishing spot and swore never to torture ourselves like that again!

  36. Ric M

    Wes, where is the link for the veterans? It’s something I’m interested in doing with my family. Even though I’ve been medically retired since 2007, I still fight the war and it does hurt knowing that my kids are affected.

  37. Dana J

    So a cow escapes a rail car it’s still a cow. So of 50 rail wrecks (1 a year over 50 years).you think maybe 5 cars with animals crashed mostly cows, maybe a train car of horses, chickens—ie not statistically common- and they don’t change into another animal just because they are loose. Not sure their thought process to get to that. Only recently we have DNA so 30 years ago we weren’t creating creatures- and we still can’t, we have trouble cloning (besides it is illegal worldwide) so whatever they are it’s been around forever. Don’t know about weird creatures in Arkansas but no doubt they have blood, breathe air, eat, and sleep. That makes it not from a UFO either. Makes it just weird. They seem other worldly but I’m positive are not. The lights, well jury’s out on the lights.My take it’s chemical or electrical. Need some physics people to give their input. Must explore the logical first; otherwise we could say the moon god smiled down then cried when he saw us and the lights are the moon’s tears. Seriously- could go anywhere gotta stay grounded.
    Iceland is not a continent but an interesting place.
    Re second account. We really need to stop thinking it’s nefarious. It is simply what we see: Sasquash hiding while looking toward a person/people/house or something in between (could be watching the grass grow, really). We project what a human would be doing which can be creepy- but we know Sasquash watch people- we are like t.v. To them. So it’s like “hey mom Sasquash I’m going over to watch the people- the kids play” Kids move more than adults which makes them way more interesting. That is it- can’t read more into it because their behavior after watching does not point to aggressive behavior. All that line of thought does is create a slanted picture of the creature it may not deserve and have humans being aggressive toward it- and we all knows what happens then- so giving thought and restraint is best, it seems.
    I think the ball of light shine back what we are, how we feel, etc; like a soul mirror. Why do we do that with things we don’t understand we label them as “bad” why????
    Thank you, each episode brings hope to listeners.

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