Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Tomorrow night I will be speaking to Al. Al sent me this video his girlfriend took from their backyard. At the time she took the video she did not see the objects in the backyard. Later her and Al were looking at the video and his girlfriend said “those are wolves.” Take a close look, I am not sure what he captured but it appears there are three things in the frame.

Link to the video

I live near Brainerd, Minnesota. When my kids were young we spent a lot of time camping in Itasca State Park in MN, where the Mississippi begins. There is a road in the park called Wilderness drive that is a basically a 15 mile loop, most of it through dense forest with just a few trail heads.

We would drive that after dark to see what forest animals we might see. One time we had the idea to wood knock at a trail head hoping for a response. It was a Tuesday night around 11PM in mid July 2008, very dark, completely calm and there wasn’t a single car at any trailhead. Our SOP was to turn off the headlights before we got to the trailhead and then be very quiet for 5 to 10 minutes to let the forest forget we were there. Anyway, we stopped at the Bohall trailhead where I proceeded to wood knock with a good piece of firewood. In the silence it was extremely loud and the sound carried a very long way. After the 3rd time, very much to our suprise we got a distinct response. You could very clearly hear someone knocking very loudly in reply. It came from due East, I would guess around a quarter mile away. It would knock 3 to 5 times and pause for maybe 10 or 15 seconds and then repeat. After a couple minutes I knocked again. It continued to knock without changing the pattern or changing locations. But then we heard a 2nd knocking from much farther away, from the S/SE. It knocked in the exact pattern as the first one, which continued to knock. We listened for quite a while and they didn’t stop, at which point we got a little creeped out and left. When we got to our campsite (which was maybe 1 to 1.5 miles East but a 10 minute drive) we could still hear the 2nd one knocking, which was insane.

I can’t say for certain that it wasn’t people doing the knocking, but here is why that is extremely improbable. It was a Tuesday night with not many people in park and no cars on the trailhead, the knocks were coming from places where there were no people, and finally who would sit deep in the woods in two locations on a Tuesday night waiting to hear knocks to reply to and then bang on trees with much power for 20 minutes or more? There would be no reason to continue knocking like that, in fact it’d be exhausting.

A week later we returned, this time my sister was with. We went to the same spot at the same time, again it was pitch black and dead calm. I knocked 3 or 4 times, this time with no response. I did it once more and immediately after we heard one very loud single knock in response. It was very near, I’d guess 20 to 30 yards. We stayed still and listened, not hearing anything else. I knocked again. A few seconds after that things went from silence to basically a wall of sound. Right next to us (I’d say 10 feet or less) branches started breaking and the trees or large bushes started shaking, along with an incredibly loud grunting. The only way to describe it is that it sounded like a very pissed off gorilla. I can’t exaggerate how loud it was, obviously it was terrifying. I heard both my daughter and sister say “shit, shit!”. Like a dummy I stayed there planted and actually leaned torward it hoping for what I don’t know. I turned to them to tell them to shut up but saw that they were running back to the car, at which point I did the same. As we pulled out I shined the high beams on the spot where it was but didn’t see anything. My sister said “That was too close!! I didn’t believe any of it but now I’m 99% sure they are real”. At no time did we see or smell anything.

Here is what it certain, the single knock was done by a person or a bigfoot, something with thumbs to hold and swing a piece of lumber. The thing shaking trees, breaking branches and grunting was absolutely not a person. It was an animal with a set of lungs much more powerful than any human. My impression was that it was immensely powerful and very pissed off.

The forest floor was covered in leaves and sticks, there is no possible way something that big could have moved from the spot of the first knock to right next to us without us hearing it. I was in an Army Reserve light infantry unit for 6 years in MN, I know how impossible it is to be silent when moving at night in that environment. I puzzled over this for a while but then came to the conclusion that there must have been two of them.

Through the years I’ve also seen a ball of light, my son was present, and I’ve been paced three different times in three different environments, including the badlands of North Dakota where there were no trees, only bushes. Very, very strange.

And finally, in the summer of 2022 during a daytime thunderstorm my GF was videoing the back yard and caught 6 little white lights in the treeline aligned like 3 sets of eyes. Zooming in they clearly look like wolf heads, you can clearly see the snouts, noses and ears. All the eyes are perfectly shaped and in place. The truly weird thing is that they are glowing white. We tried hard to recreate it as some sort of reflection but it is not. Also, at first you see all three heads and then the camera pans across the yard. When it pans back you only see one set of eyes, but then the other two sets slowly reappear as if they’d moved back but were now leaning forward again. This was very bizarre and creepy.”