A listener writes “I’ve enjoyed watching your videos on Sasquatch reported to you and your own attempts to find these creatures.
My unidentified “sighting” of a very large set of Red glowing eyes, which tracked my vehicle while I was drive home from Ottawa to Bracebridge Ontario, Canada, on Highway 60 West. It was approximately 1:30am, early August, 2017. I had just passed the West Gate of Algonquin Park, and was say about halfway between the Park and Huntsville Ontario.
My story ,or sighting, occurred in the night so I wasn’t able to get a view of the body of this creature, however, upon my noticing of these large Red Eyes off in the distance , down along the road I was to pass along a few seconds from the point I noticed them, I experienced a feeling of inquisitive wonder, which quickly changed as I drove closer and closer to these eyes, as the headlights of my car no longer passed across the path of where this creature stood by the road and where upon I first saw the Eyes.
Where I was driving was heavily wooded with rock outcroppings, as is almost all of Muskoka, Ontario, my car was entering a slow left curve downward to the bottom of this shallow dip in he Highway, which on the other side rose again with a slow curve now to the right and up again. Basically the road went around a large rock outcropping through a small valley, then continued along. The moment my lights passed over the spot where the creature stood it’s eyes started tracking my vehicle. My headlights no longer faced the creature directly but the Red glowing eyes froze on ‘me’ and that’s when I truly started to feel, what I can only describe as fear. Seconds are passing and I’m getting closer to the spot where the creature stood along the road. The Eyes were bearing down on me, my eyes fixated on those other eyes as well, and as I got closer noticed there was a Black centre to these eyes. My Lord, I’m getting the same “hair-standing” sensation I felt that night, as I do every time I relive in my mind that encounter with those Glowing Red Eyes.
As I was about to pass the spot where the creature stood I noticed that they were 8 feet above my car, yet the side of the road, where these eyes were staring at me, was a ditch which was probably 4 feet deep along the Highway. I was now completely afraid of what I was seeing. My headlights were in no way shinning light directly, or indirectly, near this creature yet I vividly witnessed these eyes staring at me, black centre, glowing Red. As I was about to pass ‘it’ the height of the eyes which tracked me rose higher and higher above the roofline of my car. I was truly afraid now and immediately accelerated my car to get as far and fast away from”it” as possible.
What struck me as odd was that at no time could I make out a body shape, I figured that this creature was covered in black, as no colour was given off. Now I’ve lived up here in Muskoka for much of my life and have seem bears at night, with yellow eyes which were only viewable when your light shawn directly at them. Moose, to have no red eyes at night, as I’ve seen moose e number of times at night on roads right in front of my car. Whatever this thing was, to this day gives me chills. I have viewed quite a few Youtube videos and listened to a few Podcasts of radio interviews of people that have experienced what they said to be Sasquatch with large glowing Red eyes!
My similar experience with a creature at night with the same hair-standing Red Eyes make me believe that maybe I had a close encounter with something similar to what these other people saw. I just recently have been telling people about what I saw, and have experienced only jokes and scoffing when I suggest that maybe I saw a Sasquatch with the same Red Eyes as described by others. Also, I’ve checked out possible sightings of “Bigfoot” sightings in Algonquin Park, and sure enough back in 2010 a man driving out of the Park tapped what appears to be a Sasquatch or Bigfoot off the roadway. Spooky thought to me about the Park is that I’ve camped in the park’s interior on a few occasions when younger, but never heard of, or even thought of, Bigfoot being in the Park.
I’m now 56 years old and 35 years ago the discussion of Sasquatch or Bigfoot’s weren’t a part of my life. Today I feel they are hear nearby, as I only live about 30 miles from the point I saw this creature’s Red Eyes staring down at me as I drove past it. I will no longer be driving on Highway 60, East or West-bound, at night.
Oh, one last thing, shortly after hitting the throttle of my car to get as far and fast away from it, I ran directly over a skunk as I wasn’t going to swerve from it for fear had me driving straight and hard down the road towards Huntsville and people as where I had this encounter was far from people. As almost a relief, I was stopped by the OPP, Ontario Provincial Police, for speeding just on the edge of Huntsville. The officer was sympathetic to both my hitting a skunk, and to the fear I had experienced…he didn’t give me a ticket, nor knew of what creature had large Red glowing eyes either.
Bare in mind these folks drive for a living, and whether they are allowed to speak of what they may encounter on the roads of Ontario I can’t say, but he was good enough to let me continue on with a ‘ drive carefully home’ message for which I’m thankful for, but a ticket would have given me the exact date of my encounter. Lol
I hope to someday come to see a Sasquatch in person, but only if it’s of the mind Not to kill me, or worse, eat me, as this seems to be what happens to some people that are taken by these creatures.
I hope my story gives more people the will to come forward should they have experienced what I saw or something like it.”
Steven B
I’m very familiar with Muskoka – the creep factor of things at night would definitely be there – lots water , bog, swamps, forest.
Tom K
Saw something big and dark on 2.legs, but didn’t get eyeshine. it was 60 -80 yrs away along the edge if a woodline while bearhuting in Ontario near Algonquin at a lodge called Koa Outfitters back in 1996 if we told the guide what we saw they would probably ridicule us .Thanks for sharing .Tom
Karen C
I think you came onto a Giant sounds like to me, no wonder you speeded up. To bad since you were there you couldn’t see a body shape but then again you might of froze and things could of went real bad, glad you made it out of there, Thanks…
Michelle L
That area can be very dark and spooky. Interesting tale!
Rick H
Hey Tom
Sounds like a rough night. I live in Peterborough Ontario and have traveled those and similar roads at night. Just traveling on some of them alone at night can be spooky enough lol. IF you are interested in doing some summer hikes or camping let me know. I would be glad to join you as I have had my own experience and have wide knowledge on the subject. Beleive it or not it does help to get back out there and enjoy the outdoors.
Rick Heffernan
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