A listener writes “I had my eyes opened to realities in our world by the following experience. This is what led me to loving to listen to your podcasts. I find the Sasquatch stories to be fascinating because of the mystery of the whole thing.
My encounters went on for a year, to the day I believe. This is the first days experience:
In 1998 I lived in rural Iowa as a young man with a wife and young son. We lived about two miles from our nearest neighbor and much further to the next nearest, so we were very isolated.
One night my wife and son had fallen asleep in our bedroom and I was the only one still awake in the living room. I heard what sounded like a small single engine airplane fly right over the house. This was in the dark and what sounded like 50 feet or less over the house. My first thought was “what the heck!” “Why would someone buzz a house in the dark at ridiculously low altitude?”
I walked out to the front porch but didn’t see anything, I guessed it had flown out of sight already. Then I see a huge aircraft fly over in same direction. It was extremely low and had what looked like big red and white lights alternating colors on the underside of its wings. The thing I noticed first was how low it was, not much noise, and it had a hatch open underneath its tail. I would describe it like a C130 aircraft but bigger.
The interior of the craft was lit up and I could see into it through the open tail ramp. I didn’t see anything come out of the hatch and I was expecting something to, so I was observing it very closely. As it faded off, I heard what sounded like coyotes yipping in a line across the field in front of me, which was across the gravel road. Living where I did, I heard coyote packs running and jumping game from the fence lines every night, so I knew their sound well. This sounded like a mimic of those calls. Very well done, but to an educated ear, not authentic. The dead giveaway was the very real enthusiasm and excitement in voice of those calls all across the field. Not like the animals do. An untrained ear may never had realized the difference, but to me it was obviously not coyotes. I thought at that moment, this is a military drill happening in my front yard. I did live maybe 20 miles from Offut Air Force base and saw military craft in the skies often, but never low to the ground like this.
Soon I heard footsteps crunching the gravel road as they crossed it. The thing was, I couldn’t see anything where I could obviously hear lots of steps crossing the road and into the soybean field next to the house. It was a very bright moonlit night, I could not see them, but I could see the swath being left through the bean field as if a troop was marching through. My dogs were on either side of them barking in extreme alarm. This confirmed to my confused brain that what I couldn’t see was actually there. They went around the back of the property and my dogs sounded like they had halted and were just baying at them, out back a couple acres away. This kept up for awhile while I was trying to make sense of what had just happened.
Soon I saw a green glowing eye peeking from behind a pine tree in the front yard about 20 yards from me. My immediate first thought was it was a night vision goggle lens peeking at me. Then I saw it blink with an eyelid. Then it ducked back in. The next thing I see is a small figure, like about the size of a twelve year old boy, crawling on all fours across the side yard towards the house. I stared in shock, it stopped and turned its head to me. At that moment, I realized it had a large egg shaped head on that spindly body. As soon as it realized I was observing it, it scrambled away in a flurry of movement that is not humanly possible. It struck me that it moved like a spider. It’s arms were proportionally longer from elbow to wrist than a human. I was in informational overload at that point and scared. I went inside and locked the door.”
Spoke to the witness and even though this is not Sasquatch related I find the whole encounter fascinating. This is the beginning, the experience went on for about a year. The witness has agreed to come on the show.