Another interesting encounter sent to me by a listener:
“I was out with my brother and friend Joe. We camped off an old logging road or first night in the sequoias nobody around. It got to be about 8 pm. The moon was not out yet so it got dark fast. We decide to take a quick walk each having a little cheap flashlight from Walmart. We get about a couple min down the road before we decided to head back. On our way back I was a few feet in front when I hear my brother yell that he sees eyes watching us.
I run back shine my light over him and at first I see these eyes then the outline of his body came into focus and this thing was a monster standing about 7 feet tall peeking around a tree. The first thing I notice is that the eyes are far apart and the way he looked at us was not normal. It was almost like an owl the way his neck moved. It had no motion. leaned it to the right then the left. Looking at us like he was just as interested. I had about a good 4 sec on him. Then my friend ran up and shined his light then I can tell it was over us looking at him and used its left hand to push away from the tree and took 4 steps out of view.
But this thing was a beast I could see the out line perfect. And it walked on 2 feet sounded like he broke a 2 by 4 on every step. So we are now just standing there frozen can’t believe what we just saw and we know it’s still just right there watching us. We stood there for about 30 sec thinking on what to do. We decide to head back to the car we had a couple go pros and a camera to grab but it was so dark they would have been pointless.
As we are walking back to the car we hear him again and we realize that he’s following us along the road in the trees and getting a little closer. then he takes this step that stopped us in our tracks. This thing was about 5 feet off the road. And he didn’t care if we heard. So now we are all just standing there frozen. I remember feeling like my heart was up in my neck I didn’t know what was going to happen next.
I was waiting for him to make a move until my brother yelled out f**k it and took a step off the road and started running full speed at this thing. My friend Joe and I don’t hesitate one sec and we follow him. I don’t even know what we were going to do when we got to this creature. We didn’t even think we were just so interested. So we get about ten feet in and I yelled out stop!
So we just stood there in silence listening for anything. We knew it was just right next to us. Then this thing just started walking again and he was only feet away. We all start running at its steps again with out saying a word to each other. We did that about 4 times every time we stopped it was the same thing. He was watching us from 5 to ten feet away then start walking. The last time we stopped we realized that we just ran full speed into the forest and now we don’t know we’re we are. I did not want to get lost.
I knew he was still just right there. We walk about a min to where we think the road is and we popped up behind the jeep. And that was it we didn’t leave the area the rest of the night. That thing was so good at not showing him self. Shadowing us the whole time. He was a professional. Nothing could have avoided us like that. Going back to the same spot as soon as winter is over.”