Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I had an experience when I was a kid. As time has gone by, I’ve started to question whether it was what I thought. I would be very interested to hear your thoughts on this.

This was in the 70’s. I was probably seven or eight years old. My family and some of our relatives decided to go camping around the Mt. St. Helens area. My parents had bought this old school bus that had been converted in a motor home.
It had 4 bunk beds in the back for us four kids. I was the oldest.

So, my dad and his cousins had brought their horses with them to get up to some lakes to go fishing and we were all just hanging around the camp playing like kids do. It was about the time that they were supposed to be coming back, and they would have been coming through this staging/parking area before they go back to camp.

All of a sudden, we heard a woman scream and my mom, who was a nurse went running towards the parking area and told us to stay put. Apparently by dad had come off his horse and had hit his head on a rock and was unconscious. I don’t remember how long it took for an ambulance to arrive. We couldn’t see it because we were still in the camp. But it ended up with my other aunt staying in the bus with us that night because mom went with dad to a hospital. I remember it was in some smaller town. I heard one of his cousins make a comment that maybe Bigfoot spooked his horse. I had a vague idea of what Bigfoot was but hadn’t read anything on the subject yet.

We went to bed that night and I was in one of the bottom bunk beds. For some reason I turned to look at the window and there were two huge red glowing eyes there. I would say they were spaced about 5 or 6 inches apart. I was too scared to say anything to my aunt so I just pulled the covers over my head.

In the morning, I told l my aunt what I saw. Her response was that I probably just dreamed about the ambulance lights. I hadn’t seen the ambulance.

All my life I have believed that it was Bigfoot that I saw. Fast forward 45 years. I brought it up to my parents last year, and mom said, “His horse didn’t get spooked, he was drunk and fell off the horse!!

I still remember those eyes like it was yesterday…”