A listener writes “I have had 3 encounters, but they are all audio, so nothing probably that is tremendously helpful to mostly eye-witness reports.
My friend in HS saw one and we went hiking back deep into the Indiana woods to see if we could find it. Something began circling our campsite and there were tree knocks. We felt fear like I cannot explain and left.
#2 was in the same area. I was in a sports car while in college and with my fiancée at the time making out near an old abandoned graveyard. A multi-toned scream began to rise up maybe about 25 yards in the dark..it sounded like a lion at a zoo…how the air shakes and you feel it and then the roar/scream went into a sound that sounded like an insane woman screaming. Needless to say, we left the area FAST.
#3 A fishing trip with my dad in the Quetico area in Northern Canada. We were a good 100 miles from any civilization, we had motorized canoes and it took 2 days of travel into the most northern area you can imagine. We camped on an island about 40 yards across. There were 4 of us..my Dad friend and his son, and us. A tiny island next to us, maybe about 25 yards away was very small, about 30 feet across with a massive bald eagle nest in the top of the trees there that was so cool. We were here for a week..a large tent on our island and we were there to fish for a week…and would never see another human being. Our island was about 1/2 mile from any shoreline, deep and cold water, it was early summer.
On the second night…something massive..with bipedal steps was walking around the tent. It was a heavy footfall…I thought it was my dad playing a joke. Then, something begins to slap the side of the tent with a flat hand sound, in a very very rapid secession like someone trying to slap the tent to scare us to come out. I remember seeing a shadow from the moonlight and seeing a large person’s shape.
Moonlight distorts things and makes things look huge, so the size was not the issue since I thought it was my dad trying to scare me. I took my flashlight and showed it inside the tent expecting to see my dad’s sleeping bag empty but all 3 people were sound asleep. I was terrified. I listened to this for another 15 minutes or slower, something walking around the tent the steps were heavy and I could feel the ground vibrate a little. I never thought about Sasquatch for some reason..but now I have a better idea based on all your podcasts.”