A listener writes “My husband and I had an encounter with something large in the woods of Southern Missouri on June 2nd of this year.
In the afternoon I heard a huge tree fall in the woods in the direction of the river about 5 minutes after my husband left me at the camp to walk down to the water. About 30 seconds to a minute after the crash I heard 3 tree knocks, a pause and then 3 more with the same pattern on the opposite side of the river. A couple of times we heard snorts that sounded like wild hogs but never saw anything.
I had gone to the tent around 10:30pm. My husband stayed around the campfire until around midnight. He went into the road after putting out the tiki torches and fire and heard a growling. He is not one to be freaked out by noises and such but he was a little unnerved by it. He got into the tent and told me about it. We talked for a couple minutes before saying good night. Less than 5 minutes after we stopped talking we both heard rustling in the leaves from a distance, we both lifted our heads and listened intently as the footsteps came closer. We both agree the footsteps were heavy.
I have hunted in the woods before and it was not a deer. I would describe the sound as walking in the woods with boots on. My initial thought was maybe this is The man we rented the camping site from messing with us and it’s part of the experience, but then realized he would be stupid to do that for fear of being shot. Bigfoot never crossed my mind. I was frozen in fear!
It walked directly behind our tent. Probably within 3 ft of our heads. It sounded like it walked around the campfire ring and then off into the woods toward the water. We were absolutely silent while it was in the camp. As soon as we realized it had walked away, I began shaking uncontrollably! I have never felt fear like that and have never reacted to fear that way. My husband was trying to reassure me when we heard it returning about 2 minutes later. I grabbed the key fab to our van and hit the lock button so the lights would light up and hopefully scare away whatever it was. I did that 4 times and it walked off into the woods on the other side of the road behind our tent. We heard what sounded like a fight going on between two animals in that direction and I hit the lights again a couple times and the noises stopped.
I knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep in the tent anymore so we moved into our van for the rest of the night. I didn’t look for Bigfoot signs becauseagain Bigfoot didn’t cross my mind until we got home that evening and we honestly thought it was probably a bobcat, but after looking at pictures of bobcats we both agree a bobcat wouldn’t be big enough to make the sounds we heard. My husband has never been a believer in Bigfoot. I have been a believer for years but have never had an experience like this.
I played several videos of animal sounds for him trying to identify the growl he heard. He said no to everything except supposed Bigfoot growl. He said that is very close to what he heard. In the same video of the growl you can hear footsteps of the creature and they sound almost identical to the steps we heard that night.”
Richard W
This is an interesting, and frightening report.
michael m
YES!
Gerald G
Remember about three years ago while bow hunting elk . We were all asleep, it was about 4/30 in the morning. When I had a scratching noise on my Montana canvas tent right exactly starting at my head. My tent is 10’x 12’ . The scratching went in a half moon angle going horizontally from my head to the other end of the tent. I looked at my watch seeing that it was 4:30am. I yelled out (thinking it was my buddy ryan) . It’s 4:30 Ryan go back to bed we’ll leave at 5;30 all the sudden a growl between my tent and my other hunting partner Robert ‘s tent I immediately grab my A.R. 15 racked in aload in jumped out of my tent and whatever was there and ran into the woods I have found footprints behind camp before it’s has been itched in my memories ever sense.
Rodney P
I’d still be in therapy if that had happened to me.
Charles R
Another classis tale of a bigfoot entering the camp to nose around, maybe find some food. Why they want to come close to tents and even run their fingers and hands on a tent, I do not understand. Maybe it is just a game to them for they know they can bug out of camp much faster than the little people can exit a tent. Maybe they get a kick out of scaring the little people and to them this is just a prank. A curious sort they are.
Lisa B
And my husband is going hunting in Missouri in November…noooo!
Troy B
That was an exciting story.
Renee S
SCARY