I am in the process of contacting this witness. A listener writes “My wife and I have been contemplating contacting you as we began listening to your show a few months ago. Your podcast last night kinda got us thinking that we should again, coupled with the fact that we recently had an experience that has us concerned.
Like the couple you had on tonight, we too recently moved into a new home in January. This is the home that we have searched for, for a long time and couldn’t believe we found it in our price range. We bought it and moved in. The winter up here in Alaska has been a really mild one and in March, we decided to head out to a large lake about 45 minutes from our home to see if the ice was already out on it so we could plan a trip out in the boat.
When we arrived it was late afternoon and the ice had indeed gone out. We decided to take a walk along the shore line that still had patches of snow to see what we could find. Now I need to preface here with the fact that at this point, my wife and I have pretty open minds to the idea that Sasquatch exists and that they may live somewhere in Alaska, but we have no desire to research or look for these things. Actually, I kinda thought that while they may exist, I would be perfectly fine to never have anything to do with one. So, back to the lake shore.
My wife and our three children are walking down the shore and we make it about a half mile from the area where we parked. There were still large patches of snow and ice on the shore line that we were crossing. My wife out ahead of me a little ways stops and is looking at something. She studies it for about a minute and then calls me over and asks what this looked like to me. I walked over and took one look and without any hesitation I said,” that’s a Bigfoot track.” She looked at me and I looked at her and she had this ‘ are you being serious or messing with me?’ look on her face and I said,” that’s a Bigfoot track!” I said,” I have never seen a Bigfoot track in my life and I am telling you, that’s a Bigfoot track!” We looked around the area a bit and the tracks came from the grassy shoreline out on to this snow patch and you could follow them up to the lake which was really low this time of year exposing about thirty yards of rocky shoreline. We walked up to the grassy shore line but refrained from heading into the brush as we weren’t too sure what exactly we were dealing with here.
My wife and I were armed as we always are walking around Alaska but we didn’t know, if what ever made those tracks was in the brush so we didn’t go in. We also had a strong sensation of being watched. We did, however, observe a short ways away a strange area right on the brush line of the shore where a tree about twenty five feet tall had been bent over at about the ten foot elevation and was laying horizontal. We approached the area and there appeared to be boughs laid on the ground almost like a bed in a small clearing right behind this tree. I also noticed strange marks on the horizontal tree that I couldn’t make any sense out of. There were other strange things about this situation but I’m only sharing this so you understand what got us interested in all of this Sasquatch stuff. We were definitely intrigued and so we began doing a lot of research online and that’s when we came across your podcast. Great Podcast by the way!
After doing a significant amount of research we had learned enough to make sense out of a lot of the things that we saw and heard out at that lake. We are not people that really believe in chance and both my wife and I believe that there is a reason for everything. And so, like most things we believe there was a reason that we crossed paths with this thing at that lake.
As I said, we moved into our home in January and we were now into our second month there, that’s about the time things started to change for us. We have three children ages 14, 11, and 7. They are all really outdoorsy kids as we always are looking for outdoor adventures to take them on. Our daughter who is also our oldest loves to build forts out in the woods and she loves to learn about survival in the wilds. The home that we moved into sits on about three acres of partially wooded ground and is surrounded by thousands of wooded acres. She was so excited when the snow had melted and she could go down into the woods behind the house and start building her makeshift survival forts. She was always within fifty yards are so o the house and could be seen as these were the rules seeing how bears could frequent the area. She would take her younger brother down there and they would be breaking branches off and banging on trees and dragging branches everywhere. One day, late in March, our daughter and son came running to the house and yelled for their mom as I was at work.
They were completely out of breath and had just booked it from somewhere. Once they caught their breath enough to speak my daughter said,” something screamed at us!” My wife said,” calm down and tell me what happened?” They said,” we were working on our fort and we had gone a little further back in the woods to collect some branches we spotted back there. We were breaking some branches off and all of a sudden something really close to us let out a really loud scream!” My wife asked why they thought it was and they both said they hadn’t heard anything like it before. My wife got on the internet and started googling animal sounds and went through a slew of them to no avail. She said that she sat there thinking for a while and, even though she didn’t really want to, she thought that she should try and look up some Sasquatch recordings to see if anything matched there. When she found some that sounded like they might be legit, she called the kids into the room and without letting them know what they were listening to she played the Sasquatch scream and they both immediately said,” That’s it! That’s the sound we heard!” My wife almost couldn’t believe what she had just heard. And that was the beginning. We also have multiple pictures of tracks, partial pictures of the creatures and many nights spent listening to vocalization and chatter.
Since then, we have been chronicling a lot of the things that we have experienced around our home. Our thought process through this whole thing has gone from curiosity, excitement, caution, concern, and now flat pissed off. This is an amazing home and we don’t want to leave it. To be honest, I’ve never ran from a fight or a challenge, but I’m questioning whether or not we’ve met our match. Once we accepted that these were definitely real and that we would need to decide how to approach this, we decided that, since they hadn’t disturbed anything and hadn’t destroyed anything that maybe we could just coexist and if they left us alone, we would not try to destroy them.
About two weeks ago we had one on the roof of the house and I ran outside with a 12 gauge and scared it off. My wife heard it run and jump off of our house (two story house mind you) when I circled around the front with a spotlight on the roof. Amazingly enough I never caught sight of that one but could see another one running toward the woods about fifteen yards away on my way back to the back of the house. At the same time my wife also saw another one standing behind our metal shed from the upstairs window. After that I went and installed an alarm system in our house as this was pretty disturbing and really drove home how real this was. I put a game camera on the roof as we know they stay away from these and we haven’t noticed anymore sounds like they are on the roof.
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The most disturbing event took place about four days ago though and is why I am finally emailing you. We don’t feel like we have anywhere else to go and are hoping that you may have some advise. I, again was at work, (I work a two week on, two week off rotation), and it was about 9:30 in the evening. It is pretty light a that time right now and my youngest son (7) was downstairs watching a movie and playing with legos on the living room floor. My oldest son was upstairs in a different room playing and my wife was upstairs folding laundry in her bedroom watching a tv show. Suddenly, she heard my youngest son make a strange noise (she has this super mommy hearing on all the time) and then got out the words,” It’s, it’s, Sasquatch!” and then heard him running up the stairs.
At this point, she already had a 12 gauge in one hand and a .45 under the other arm headed to meet him. Just as she started that way the home alarm was set off meaning that a door or window had been opened. Our daughter was spending the night with my wife’s parents and so my wife grabbed our youngest and brought him into our room where our oldest boy had already made it to. She stood at the top of the stairs and waited a minute or two while the alarm screamed waiting to see what was going to try and come up the stairs. Nothing came.
She cleared the alarm from upstairs and began slowly clearing the house with her and my oldest son armed. When she initially asked my youngest son what happened, he said that he saw it standing at the front door which is a half light window meaning that it has a window for the top half. There is a curtain there and it just obscures it a little so that you can’t see clearly. After that night we have asked him what he saw and he says nothing. When asked if he remembers yelling Sasquatch, he says he doesn’t remember yelling anything. My wife is certain about what he said and what he yelled and we believe at this time that it traumatic enough that he is very likely repressing the memory. Can’t say I blame him. I actually flew home from work the next day as I felt I needed to be there for my family. When we experimented a little with the front door, we found that with the door locked, (which all of the doors and windows were locked that evening) with a significant amount of force put on the top of the door, it would flex enough to break the contacts for the alarm.
To put it mildly, both my wife and I are pissed, heavily armed, and capable. We can no longer stand by while these things potentially target our son. We really just want these damn things to go away or, be destroyed at this point. I have no plans to charge out into the woods and intentionally try to get myself killed, but when we see them on our property, we have every intention of playing tag with the .338. We just don’t know what else to do.
We really aren’t wanting to publicize our story. We just don’t know what else to do or who to call. Been a quiet few nights since and we hope that the alarm scared the shit out of it but we aren’t anticipating the quiet nights to continue.
Any help would be appreciated!”