“I am an engineer not some guy who goes looking for Sasquatch or anything of that nature. My encounter starts out by telling you why I was in that region to begin with.
Every year they put on a big bass tournament on Lake Thurmond SC or we like to call it Clarks Hill Lake. I started off like all others start off is by practicing on the lake the week before the tournament starts. I put my boat in miles from where my encounter happen that day. We road up the river for over an hour just so you know my boat was running around 70 miles an hour most of the time so we was way up the Savannah river before we came up to a cove on the right side of the lake. For miles and miles there is no house or roads up pass the 378 bridge on the right side of the lake witch is SC side of the lake.
We pulled in about 6:15am that morning the sun was just coming up. I put down the trolling motor and begin the start fishing (bass fishing never stays in one place to long) I trolled around about 35 yards from the bank we were there for about 10 mins before I heard a loud scream not a human type of scream it was deep and had to be someone with a set of lungs on them cause it keep on for so long. Then it started hitting the trees. Then all of the sudden a huge rock hit the water I thought there was someone throwing rocks so I hollered out “hey you about hit us down here” then another one this time but I can see where it was coming from this time and it look to be about 35 to 50 lbs. coming over the trees cause when it hit it cause a huge splash and wave. I crank up my boat and headed out of there as fast as I can. (And no I couldn’t see the thing that was throwing the rocks it was too thick to see that far in the tree line from the lake).
Another note I told only a few friends of what had happen to me and one of my friends said that happen to my uncle about 3 years ago. So I called his uncle and he said I haven’t told anyone but my family and ask them not to say anything about what I saw that that day. All he would tell me was “I will never fish that part of the Savannah River again” I ask what part? “Up pass 378 bridge about 3 miles on SC side of the river.” I then told him what happen to me and he said one more thing “it chase my boat running beside the bank and I was running as fast as the boat would go” . He wouldn’t tell me anything else he just said he would never go back. Now for as speed his boat had a 70 Johnston that should run his boat about 35 miles an hour and for something to be running on two legs at that speed could not be a man.”
If time allows I also have a second guest planned.
Carol Germer
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Duke S
This will be great to hear!
Anthony L
Can’t wait
m99
~We’re both looking forward to it!
Say Wes, we thought we spotted you and your brother in the North Cascades yesterday (Thursday, 8-25). There are many BF sightings in those parts. Wishful thinking, probably! 🙂
June P
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Robert D
Let’s go SC! Texas High School Football starts in 2 hours!
Erwin A
Great, looking forward to this one.
m99
What time does it start?
Tony W
I only live an hour from there, I even pass that lake for work sometimes
Rich A
Cold beer, chips and salsa. Now most importantly new episode. Happy Fri all thanks Mr wes.
m99
did it start?
m99
~well that was really a great show. For some reason it wasn’t showing up, that’s why I kept asking when it starts? I closed the browser & opened a new session & voila there it was.
Tony W
Yep I live an a little over an hour from that lake, I think I will drive there this sunday and go for a hike and see what I can find
Susan B
@ Tony – take a big gun with you. Wes, the show was great. I really enjoy listening to shows like this where they don’t have to see it, to be spooked out of the minds and never return to the spot. Gotta love those southern gents too, they really know how to give all the pertinent details. It’s like I was right there with him.
Susan B
^^^^I could even hear the boat’s engine in the older one and the lack thereof in the more recent encounter, not to mention see and almost feel the wake the boat made.
Rick S
Had almost identical thing happen to me and 2 friends as we were floating/small mouth bass fishing in a canoe on the Ouachita River in western Arkansas back in spring of 84 or 85. We were basically floating and fishing the deeper holes where the flow rate would almost come to a stop where we would need to paddle to advance the canoe.
We were casting in one of the deeper holes and all of a sudden, about 15 feet from the coanoe – it was like a bowling ball hit the water. Then another rock within a minute landed even closer. We thought maybe there were people like in the movie Deliverance that were trying to scare us….but we couldn’t see anyone because of the thick woods. On the side where the rocks had to have been tossed from…it was just like Ronnie described – heavily wooded with an incline that continued maybe 30 or 40 yards and then went abruptly up to the top of a ridge that was between a 100 and 150 feet above us. The other side of the narrow river was just river rock that was wash from when the river rose during flooding.
Since we couldn’t see very far up the ridge due to the trees and undergrowth, we had no Idea exactly where these boulders where being hurled from. I yelled out after the second rock that we had a pistol and we were going to start shooting up through the woods if another rock was thrown, I know more than got the words out, when another boulder hit right beside the canoe and got us wet.
Even though we never saw the rocks being thrown when they hit the water, it sounded and made a splash like they were at least bowling ball size being thrown from near the top of the ridge.
Since we couldn’t see anything it scared the crap out of us. If the rocks had hit us even in the leg sitting in the canoe – i truly believe it would have been fatal to anyone of us.
All we could do is start paddling down the river till we reached the next current to take us on down the river.
Sasquatch never entered our minds back in the mid 80s but just like the caller stated, a human being, i don’t believe, could have thrown such big rocks that far from the top of the ridge to reach the river..
That was my 2nd & last float trip on that river.
The other guys and I never talked about it again, and i am only in contact with 1 of the guys now on an infrequent basis.
Ronnie’s story caused me to relive that float expedition from the mid 80s all over again.
On another note…when I started listing to SC back in late 2013 when I registered for this website, the incident I just described is the very reason my user name is Ouachita Booger