A listener writes “When I was about 8 I went on a hike with my family which is fairly uncommon for us, we were always outside just never on a hike. We were a family of 6 at the time.
And me(8) my two sister’s {(9)(6)} and my younger brother (7) and my mom. We went on the hike in Utah about 20 minutes from my home. The area we hiked was inside a basin between three peaks called Lowe peak, Flat Top Mountain, Bald Mountain East.
It is a very very green area in there are a lot of streams, and creeks. It very thick forest and hundreds of deer inside that small area and a lot of cattle rabbits small mammals etc. so plenty of things to sustain large mammals. Apparently there were over a thousand Grizzly bears in in the 1800’s that they all killed off according to my dad.
So we went on the hike and we saw a lot if wildlife like deer, praying mantis eggs, hummingbirds, woodpecker’s streams a long the way. About an hour into the hike a said let’s knock a tree for a Bigfoot I remember saying that vividly and I did the knock (No answer) and I knock again and I get an answer and I am freaking out because I got an answer and I thought was no big deal at the time because I watched Finding Bigfoot and they made it sound like it was common to get a response now that I have listened to your podcast I realize that it is super rare to get a reply.
Later on our way back in the same area we heard the most blood curdling scream that was one of the loudest things I ever heard it was I mix between a cow screaming and a dying rabbit and I am very familiar with both I live in a farm town and go Coyote hunting all the time so very familiar. The only difference was, it was scary and I can feel it in my chest. It was terrifying to the point where we are going to stop at a stream and play instead, we just left as soon as we heard that.”