A listener writes “Hi Wes, There is a gorilla-man in West TX. In 2013 we bought 5 acres, the creeks are large with a lot of food. My husband caught a 10 pound bass at the park. There’s also crappie, catfish, turtles, crawdads etc. It’s a secluded area with a large amount of deer, turkey & other wildlife. The area is thick with woods & vines & pecan trees. You can take a few steps in some areas & literally disappears. It was fall or winter. The leaves were off the trees. I was vacuuming in the early morning. Out the window something caught my attention, maybe movement. There was a silhouette of a man at the edge of the trees. I assumed it was my neighbor stacking firewood because they were standing by a firewood stack. This “person” was about 300 yards away.
This wasn’t a man. It was a gorilla. A gorilla standing on two legs. Like a man. The head was an animal’s head, a gorilla head with the body of a man. A mountain gorilla with a sloped-back forehead on an almond shaped skull. The shoulders were enormous. The body long, thick shoulders & a some-what narrow waist. The thighs were huge. They were ungodly huge thighs. Like 2 tree trunks. The shins were small. Funny looking small. I thought, “They looked like a regular man’s shins.” I would say it stood at 9 ft tall, 800 pounds. I was very confused. I could not rationalize what it was. I studied it. I did not think it was a human. I thought it was an animal, a gorilla. I thought it didn’t move because it knew I was looking at it. It could see a very long ways. It’s instinct was to hold still. It never moved not once during my sighting.
My mind would not accept what it looked like, like a Bigfoot. I assured myself it was, “a tree that was trimmed, or fell in a storm or was struck by lightening & it somehow looked exactly like a Bigfoot.” I made a mental note to check on it latter. I told myself, “If it is still here, then I was right, it is a tree. If it isn’t here when I come back, then it is what it looks like, a Bigfoot.” Around 20 mins later when I went back…it was gone. I’m an Oregon girl in W TX. I know woods. My parents live in the pacific most northern redwoods less than an hour away Sent from my iPhone. When my husband came home from work I told him, matter of fact,”I think I saw Bigfoot.” I related the story to him & we just left it at that.
A few weeks later Caleb, my husband, went to set lines in the creek. When he came back he was disheveled & scared, he asked, “Did you really see a Bigfoot?” That was a Friday evening, Caleb didn’t check his lines until Sunday evening, completely out of character for him. Fishing is serious business around here.
My husband is 6’4 he is a corn fed Texas boy, a big guy, barrel chested, huge shoulders, size 14 shoes he’s my actual Bigfoot, anyways, he’s not one to be scared or intimidated. I asked him immediately after he told me what happened, “Did the hair on the back of your neck stand up?” He said, “Yes.”
While Caleb was in his boat, he had something huge enter the water. We have a 135 pound lab & Caleb said whatever it was, was 10 times the size of Maynard (our dog). Caleb saw this thing swim from one side to the other. He said when it entered the water it made huge waves that sloshed up on the banks. I don’t know if he saw it exit the water. I believe he said a rock was thrown behind him at one point, as if to distract him. He said about 10 minutes after that, there was a “wood-knock” so loud that up-and-down both sides of the creek all the birds flew off into air. We’ve only talked about this a few times. My husbands an atheist, he doesn’t believe in things “like this.” He said he would believe in God before he believed in Bigfoot. He has openly admitted that something is out there. This is HUGE. He’s a skeptic to a point of annoyance, but he had an encounter with something that has made him believe Bigfoot exist. He thinks they migrated through & we happened to see them.
We lived in the country on that 5 acre orchard for almost 2 years but we are now in town. Looking back we had other experiences. My truck would always be messed with, we would have pebbles thrown at our windows, knocking on the walls, growls & so forth. I even have a recording of what I think is a Bigfoot call and just this past weekend I took pictures of a structure out at the lake in a secluded area not far from our old country house.
I believe they (Sasquatch) are still there. I have tried to contact other Bigfoot organizations about this but never heard anything. This experience has changed my life. When it first happened there were times I wish it hadn’t. I wish I didn’t know they existed. It’s not a “normal” thing to believe. Caleb doesn’t like to talk about it much but he has had conversations with old-timers living around here about Bigfoot’s & heard some interesting stories. Caleb also was very interested in the Less Stroud Bigfoot segments. I know he thinks there is validity to our experiences. It’s hard to talk to him it’s hard to talk to anyone. It’s not just something you tell people.
I recently found your show. The similarities with my sighting and experiences compared to other’s has cemented my belief even further. Yes I believe in Bigfoot. I like to call it a Wood Ape. I did not realize until your show, that there are many sightings in Texas. My experience was not frightening. Thank goodness! I would like to be able to go back out there and look for more proof of them with professionals. Maybe you could help me find people who would be willing to go out there? I’m sending some pictures of where we lived and a video with a recording. I was filming the beautiful Winter Equinox when I captured this call from a HUGE animal that was down at the creek. I’m also sending a picture of the structure and a picture of the creeks merging.
Thank you very much Wes for your time. I hope to hear back from you”