May 8

The animal let out a blood curdling growl

I want to thank Donna for sending this to me. “In 1990, I was 14, I had gotten up early one Saturday morning to go squirrel hunting on a small piece of property by my parents house.

This stretch of woods is located in Greenup County Kentucky in Northeastern KY. The property is bordered by a small creek “Raccoon Creek”, and a river, the “Little Sandy”. I hunted this area on a daily basis when I was younger and had never seen anything unusual. On this particular day in early September, there was a heavy dew on the trees so it was easy to hear anything moving as the dew would fall and make a very distinct noise.

I was walking down the ridge top overlooking Raccoon creek and had not made any noise since arriving way before daylight. As often happened, my neighbors dog followed me that day and I thought I had ran him off a couple of hours earlier. Everything was completely still with almost no wind that morning. I started to hear the dog, “Gruffy, start barking and growling in a way that I had never heard before. At first I tried to ignore the noise but after a few minutes I decided to go run him off again as he was destroying my hunt. As I quietly eased down the ridge about 50 yards, I saw what I thought to be a young bear through the trees.

The animal was standing on it’s back legs and was only around 6′ tall. I noticed that as Gruffy would lunge at the animal, it would knock him back with its hands. He would let out a yelp and then go back after the animal. I eased closer being as quiet as possible planning to shoot near the animal to keep it from killing the dog. As I got directly above the animal it noticed me and turned to look directly at me. This is when I noticed that it was not a bear.

I did not immediately distinguish the animal as a Sasquatch but was very confused as to what I was looking at. The animal growled viciously which scared me more than I have ever been scared. When Gruffy noticed me he ran to me and kept barking at the animal. I thought about shooting the animal but decided that with a 20 gauge shotgun at this distance with #6 shot that I would just tick it off. I started to walk backward slowly. After 3-4 steps the animal let out a blood curdling growl. I literally threw my shotgun down and ran home. When I got home, I told my father about what had happened.

After he got over the fact that my gun was still in the woods, he decided to grab his rifle and take me back to get the gun. He would not accept that this was anything other than a bear. I have never spoken of this encounter because if my father would not believe me then who would? Although black bears are in the area, I have only seen one in the wild in the area. I have been an avid hunter my entire life and hunt everything from Ginseng and Yellow Root to big game. I still am not entirely sure of what I saw that day but I know it was not a bear and it was not a human. A human couldn’t possibly make the sounds that this animal made at the volume it made them.
We found one footprint about 10 years later on the edge of a freshly plowed field. I did not mention this encounter to the people with me at the time for fear of ridicule. It stopped me from hunting the area and I have not been back since.”

 

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12 Responses to “The animal let out a blood curdling growl”

  1. David D

    Good job, Donna! Keep being a fighting Kentuckian! Heading there soon; I have a sister and brother-in-law, who live there. Wish there was some way we could communicate, because it would be great to talk with you. My Granny, who lived her entire life in a little area called Gimlet, believed in these dang things! She warned me once when I was 10 years old, not to go out of the house after dark, cause the “booger man”, might get me. She was the most honest person I ever knew. Really miss the old folks’! Maybe Wes can get us in touch. I live in Wisconsin, now, but have missed Kentucky for fifty years!!

  2. Diana A

    It becomes more and more clear, sasquatch dosent want you, or anyone, hunting in their area. Especialy when we live in a society that provides food for us. Hunters, who just bag an animal, or hunt to just kill porqupines, coyotes, squrril–just to kill for fun, are probably what they are alert to.
    Sasquatch really caretake the envio. Whether u think I m saying,” friendly forest dwellers”, get the perspective clear. As westerners inhabit, pillage, plunder, develope areas for homes, ckearcut and pollute, WESTERNERS are destroying the health of all who live on this planet. Westerners are the enemy of the envio. Like we have oblitherated so called”unwanted animals” i.e. grizzly bears, wolves, bison, the sasquatch probably see “humans” as such.

    • Perry M

      Diana A, while I believe that your anger is probably deriving from compassion, pain at actually seeing or imagining innocent creatures being harmed, you evidence ignorance (I am not saying you are stupid, just unaware). You might have encountered a hunter who “kill[s] for fun,” but those people are few and far between. Regarding your assertion that “society provides food for us,” remember that the cost of that food is factory farming, which many would be angry at you for promoting. Or, if you want to assert that folks should then be vegetarians, remember that commercially produced veggies are grown with lots of pesticides on land that is reserved for human food at the expense of creatures that would live on such land, that it is harvested by poor people who are exploited, according to some, and it is transported to you using lots of fossil fuel. Everything affects everything else. Not sure who you mean by “westerners,” but the easterners (Chinese) are among the biggest polluters and destroyers of wildlife in the world and the entire “eastern bloc” poisoned the earth to show that socialism works. Again, your heart is in the right place but, before you speak judgmentally you might learn more about the world, today and across time. All creatures are, ultimately, in competition with all other creatures, even if they sometimes cooperate. Put good energy out there. All the best to you.

      • Jacqueline O

        I can’t speak for Diana, but I would guess that she already knows much of what you said. I completely agreed with her comment based on my knowledge of the planet … factory farming, fertilizers, pesticides, CO2 emissions, etc. etc. I think she was actually referring to these concepts without elaborating on them, and as a result, miscommunication and presumptions occurred? IDK?

        Both the Eastern and Western worlds (bassically the entire planet), are responsible for the irreparable damage to our environment. Perhaps, when she made the remark about Westerners, she was alluding to the ignorant views from the early European immigrants, and, the history of the U.S., when both the population and technology brought forth from the industrial revolution, increased exponentially, changing the North American continent and thereby the world, forever.

        For example, the majority believed, “The only good Indian, Is a dead Indian!” ~ Philip Sheridan
        What a terrible attitude toward humanity… and yet when Sheridan died in the 1800s, he was praised as a hero!

        Sadly, humans have learned nothing from our past mistakes…we continue to use and abuse, exploit, neglect, and destroy out of our own selfishness with little thought to the consequences! We are a plague, yet our children do show promise. It is imperative that we reinforce this global awareness on each other as well as future generations.

        BTW, this is not coming from a place of hatred, but passion…often times, the two can be connfused…

    • Daniel S

      what happened to the Mayan’s, Inca, Easter islanders, ancient Cambodian’s, if Westerner’s are people, homo sapiens too this is mankind all of us have a hand in it what powers this conversion, coal, yellow cake we all take we’re all takers direct or indirectly?
      pc x fuel = lost habit=animal loss
      this is not stab just other way of thought, PEice*

  3. David D

    Easy there, Diana A. Not sure what you mean by “Westerners”, but some of those critters, you probably don’t want playing in your backyard, if you have a backyard that is. Fluffy, ain’t gonna get along very well when a Grizzly strolls through. Just saying. Man has done a ton of bad things to the planet, but whether you’re an Easterner, Westerner, or anybody else in between, try to remember who and what it was dropping all the nuclear garbage. For about thirty five years, psychopath’s with their fingers on the buttons all over the globe, used the excuse of one enemy or another, to do nothing more than burn up the oxygen supply, and scatter their poison all over the planet. Then they have the absolute gall, to say that my wood burning stove may destroy the world! Morons! Happily though, it won’t always be like this; with Governments’ killing and slaughtering their own people. One DAY, that will all come to a close; when earths final chapter is played out on the Ultimate stage! And, always remember this, that the Almighty, loves critters of all types. After all, He created them before He created us!

  4. Jan W

    Great encounter. Very scary. People certainly seem to know instinctively when they don’t have enough fire power. Very smart of Donna to get outta there with Gruffy. What a brave dog! Thanks for sharing.

  5. Greg T

    The concept that sasquatches don’t want people hunting because people have a society that provides food for them is just north of retarded. This encounter should be about helping this guy out that bottled his story up for the last 25 years because he didn’t think folks would believe him… Or because he didn’t want to get a sermon from a synthetic clothes wearing hippie typing on their phone on the way to whole foods to buy some granola. And how about Gruffy gettin’ him some squatch. That’s straight out of a Lassie episode. This kid should have adopted that dog.

    • Jacqueline O

      Yes, it is important to comment about the encounters, so we can learn and support each other in a positive way, and make this site a safe place for those who have been criticized. Also (IMO), I believe it is equally important for members to discuss other topics, whether directly or indirectly related, to educate each other, exchange perspectives, and bounce ideas off each other. This is the best way to gain knowledge.

      I, and others, believe in order to solve the problem, unfortunately, one must become part of the problem. For example, while my family and I attended a very large Earth Day celebration 2 weeks ago, I thought to myself, “It’s unfortunate that in order to create this festival, we also contributed to the problem. Ironically, millions of people all over the world contributed…CO2 emissions from cars, buses, and airplanes from all that attended; and money used to purchase paper, brochures, plastics, etc.” There is no way to maneuver around the problem without immersing yourself into to it.

      The solution and problem are one in the same. One can’t exist without the other. This paradox can be represented on a linear graph. Theoretically, as time passes, the efforts used to solve the problem will overcome the original problem itsself; however, in order for this to work successfully the solution must gain momentum, and at one point will become equal to the problem, and finally the solution will overcome the problem. Many so-called “hippies” are actually aware of this… I consider myself a “Realist”.

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