Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Tonight I will be speaking to Lem and Kevin. Lem writes “Wes, I’ve been thinking about contacting you with the Sasquatch encounters that I had back in the early 1980’s, but have been putting it off because I wasn’t sure if it would be interesting enough.

However, after listening to the encounters by the couple from Georgia, Ken and Amber. A couple of things they mentioned were similar to a couple of things that I witnessed. The first part will be about the encounters that I had in Northwest Alabama, and the last part will be about what my daughter and I saw one night in Northeast Mississippi.

My first experiences began when I was feeling kind of bored, so I walked down to the woods where some of us local guys would often go and explore or just hang out to pass the time.

Usually there was three or so of us that would go, but this day it was just me. I walked into the woods, and just a short distance was a small clearing where we would go and sit around. I sat down and had been there maybe 5 minutes when I began to get the creepiest feeling that something was watching me, and it felt like something bad was just about to happen. I didn’t see or hear anything, but the feeling just kept getting more intense, so after a few more minutes I left!

Just before I got back to where I lived, I ran into a couple of my friends and told them about the weird feeling I had while in the woods, and so we decided that since there were now three of us, we’d go and check it out. I was 17, and the other two guys were 15 I believe.

Anyway, we get back to the woods, pick up a stick each for a weapon, and we went through the woods, down a trail that we often used. We were in there maybe an hour, and after not finding anything, we decided to leave. I still felt uneasy, but it wasn’t as bad with other people being there. Myself and one of the guys walked on out of the woods, while the other guy lagged behind a bit. I don’t recall why he lagged behind. Anyway, the first guy and I had walked maybe 50 yards when all of a sudden the other guy came running up to where we were, looking scared. We asked him what was wrong, and he said after he had walked out of the woods, he got about 30 feet or so and turned around to look back at the woods, and standing at the opening in the woods where we exited, there was a large creature, standing on two legs, just standing there watching him. He described it as having either black or possibly very dark brown.

It’s face had no hair on it, and was lighter in color than the rest of it, and it had round yellow eyes. We all then looked toward the woods, but didn’t see anything still there. So we took off out of there and headed back home.

A couple of days later, we decided to go back and take another look around. I know, it was a pretty dumb idea, going unarmed into the woods after he saw the creature. We went through the woods and didn’t see or hear anything, and after a couple or so hours of searching, we wound back up at the clearing where I had been when I had the spooky feeling.

We had been sitting around there for about maybe 5 minutes when we heard the loudest, scariest sounding yell that you could imagine! As other guests have described, you could literally feel this yell, as well as hear it. The sound clip you sometimes play called “The Ohio Howl” is that yell! Only imagine that Ohio Howl being blasted from a 1000 watt stereo and then you would be getting close. As you can imagine, we got the hell out of there quick, fast and in a hurry!

We didn’t go back for probably three weeks or so. By that time I had borrowed a 12 gauge shotgun from my brother in law. Also, as luck would have it, late one night on one of the cable channels, they ran the film “Sasquatch: Legend of Bigfoot”. I had seen that before, and remembered that it had the Sasquatch scream at the beginning of the movie, and since we didn’t have a VCR at that time, when the movie was on, I recorded that scream onto a cassette recorder. I wasn’t familiar with what’s known now as call blasting, but I had the idea that since it was so similar to what we’d heard, that I’d take a portable tape player and play that yell in the woods, and see if we could get a response. It wasn’t extremely loud, but turned all the way up, it echoed through out the woods pretty good. I tried it several times, but got no response. We kept going until we got to a point where a creek ran into the river that ran through the woods. I decided to try it again at the spot.

After I played it and rewound it and did it again, there was a reply from upstream! I rewound the tape, and tried it again, and once again there was a reply from upstream. While I was rewinding the tape to play it again, there was a yell from down stream! Then the one upstream replied to the one down stream, and they did that a couple more times. We could tell they were getting closer and were probably going to wind up meeting at the place where we were. I only had 3 shells for the shotgun, and since there were clearly at least two creatures, once again we, my two friends and I, decided to take off before they got there.

After we got back home, this time we told our parents about what was happening. Thankfully my dad, and one of the other boy’s dad believed us enough that they agreed to go down to the woods with us to check it out. So, we get back into the woods and we are walking close to the bank of the river, and we are going down this trail, and I am the last one in line as we are walking. I hear something break what sounds like a pretty large limb behind us, and I say something to my dad about it.

So we all turn around and start heading back down the trail. After about 100 yards or so, we come upon a sandy area of the river bank that we had walked across just a little bit earlier. There, along side all of our foot prints were two foot prints that were 17 1/2 inches long and 7 1/2 inches wide across the ball of the foot! There was a distance of about 48 inches from the heel of the first foot to the toes of the last foot. They had five toes, and were obviously made by something much heavier than any of us, because they were noticably deeper than our prints. One thing of note is that these prints weren’t just packed down like if someone with fake feet made them, but you could clearly see where the toes had kicked loose dirt back onto the packed down dirt and the creature’s toes flexed as it stepped forward. We didn’t see the creature that day, but did find some otherwise healthy pine trees, about 5 inches in diameter snapped over about 5 feet up from the ground. There was what appeared to be several strands of black hair about an inch long in the bark near the break. That was it for the day.

My actual sighting came after this. I don’t remember how long it was, but it was probably a couple of weeks later.

Me, my two friends, and my brother in law were once again in the woods, looking to see if we could see anything. For some reason, we had all split up and were looking on our own. Looking back on it now, you couldn’t pay me enough now days to go into those woods alone, even armed! Anyway, as I walked into the edge of a clearing, I stopped to just look around. That’s when I actually saw it. It stepped out from the trees on the other side of the clearing.

The clearing wasn’t overly large, and so it was maybe 25 yards between me and this creature. It was a clear day, the sun was shining and I had a perfect, unobstructed view of this thing! Judging by a tree branch that it was standing under, which was slightly over it’s head, this thing was almost 8 feet tall. It was covered in dark brown hair, with what appeared to be a bit of reddish tinge to it. There was no hair on its face, and its face was kind of a muddy color. The face was not really ape like, nor was it canine exactly, but it appeared to have more of a snout than a human or ape like nose. The eyes were a yellowish/amber color.

The arms were longer proportionally than a human’s arms. It just stopped and looked at me. It didn’t seem alarmed at my presence, and it didn’t seem agitated or anything like that. I just stood there and stared. I immediately froze, not knowing exactly what I should do. We basically just stared at each other for probably about 20 seconds or so. It was plenty of time to be sure it wasn’t imagination, a person in a suit, a bear or anything else. It turned and walked back into the woods and just as it disappeared back into the trees, it made that terrifying yell again. Although I didn’t see it making the sound, it had to be what was doing it, as it came from where it just went. So from that, I KNOW the sound of the Ohio Howl is at least one of the yells/screams/howls, whatever you want to call them, that a Sasquatch makes.

When I had my sighting I had a .22 caliber pistol with me, but instantly knew better than to try and shoot it with that small of a gun. It would have been suicide. I quickly turned around and left to go and find my friends. I found them and told them what happened. They wanted to go to the spot I had seen it, but honestly I’d had enough and just wanted to get the heck out of there.

There were a couple more incidents that happened, but this email is already getting ridiculously long, so I’ll spare you from those for now.

The last thing I wanted to mentioned happened about 4 years ago, and was in Northeast Mississippi. I don’t know that it has anything to do with Sasquatch, but it was extremely weird to say the least.

I had picked my daughter up from work, and we were driving home at about 10:30p.m. We lived out in the country, and were just about to turn onto the road we lived on. Suddenly, from our left some creature came flying across the road in front of us.

We both saw it, and we both have no idea what it was. It was HUGE! It appeared to be on all fours, as it was long like a horse, and the top of it was about to the top of my windshield. I was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer. It was black and big. That’s the only description I can give, because this thing was going so fast that it was literally a blur in the headlights. In less than 2 seconds it crossed in front of us and disappeared on the other side of the road. Thankfully my daughter saw it too, or I would have thought I’d imagined it, as it happened so fast. Seriously, I cannot stress enough the speed of this thing. I don’t know if it was a flesh and blood animal, a ghost or what. Never seen anything like it before, and hope to never see it again.

Anyway, that’s my experiences, and if you’re interested in talking further about it, let me know. I love listening to your show, and have been listening for a good while now.

Thanks for reading.”

I will also be speaking to Kevin and Kevin will be sharing his encounters. Kevin writes “Hi Wes, My name is Kevin, and I’ve been having ongoing interactions with a family group here in Arizona on the Mongollon Rim in central Az this past summer. I’ve spent 32 days up there throughout the summer. I’ve had a night sighting(under full moon) and have had a daytime sighting on the 1st of October 2017. Hand prints on my vehicle, found multiple footprints ranging from 3″ x 5″ up to 10″ x 21.5″. I even have a photo with 2 for sure and up to as many as 6.

This all has occurred less than 3 miles away from my very first encounter in the Boy Scouts in 1981. I’m keeping this all short here, but, if you decide to contact me I’ll fill you in on it all, and yes, I’m finally willing to go public on the air with it”