A listener writes “Hi Wes, my name is —— and I just listened to you on Talk is Jericho and your story reminded me of something I experienced when I was a kid.
I live in Australia in New South Wales and at the time was in a small old town called Greta, this happened sometime between 1995-1997 based on the school I was in at the time and the friend I was with. My friend lived on the edge of town about a 10 minute walk to (at the time) quite a large bush area. We were on our way to a creek we would frequent on the weekends where we would swim.
Anyway on this particular day we were walking up to the bush line where all the trees start, the bush area there is quite dense and it’s easy to get lost if you didn’t know how to get to the creek and back. It was about early afternoon and as we approached the line of bush land we heard the trees rustle to our left. We immediately looked and froze. This large thing stood up and kind of stared at us, it appeared to be overweight and a similar structure to an overweight male who has short legs. It was covered in short hair and I don’t remember it’s face too much but from memory the color of the hair on it was just all a dark brown and it’s face seemed to have blended into the leaves of the tree.
It then slightly bent forward and let out a loud bellowing “aaarrrggghhh” type yell and we both turned around and took off back to the house. We never went back to the bush land there and no one believed us when we told them what we’d seen. My friends father did admit to hearing the yell but thought our imaginations had got the better of us. The only thing we could think of was a gorilla but I don’t even think gorillas are native to this country and if they are I have no idea where they would be.
Anyways, thanks for reading. Just thought I’d share that with you since I enjoyed listening to you on the podcast and will now be a frequent listener to yours. Take care”