Mary writes “I was a divorced 26 year old (71now)mother of 2 children ages 5 and 8 years old.
My mother purchased approx 180 acres of wooded land 5 miles from Camdenton, Mo (Lake of the Ozarks ) All dirt roads and only 1 house other than us at the end of our lake road. I had worked hard and used my 5 acres as collateral to build a home for my family.
It was summer and 2 young boy cousins from Illinois were staying with me and my children for a week. While our little home was being framed in me and 4 children were staying in a small 1 bedroom trailer. Nothing but woods close to the home site. This of course was before cell phones and I had no phone. It had just turned dark and all the kids had pjs on. Out of nowhere something started hitting ramming the trailer so hard. Some sounded like boulders. It rocked.
The children were crying. I was in shock. We all huddled together in the bed. Nothing absolutely nothing I could do. This lasted over an hour or more. Now morning. Oh boy. The front door had been bent in Concave. There were large prints around the trailer. I told NO ONE other than my mother. This was mine and the children’s secret until about 45 years later. At a family wedding I was talking to one of the then little boy cousins who is in his 50s now. He said Auntie do you remember??? My daughter who is 50 now also remembers vividly.
The rest of what happen…
We are now living in our home which was being built at the time for two years now when the Bigfoot encounter occurred again. It was winter about 9:00 at night. My 2 children were asleep in their bedrooms. I had fallen asleep on the couch by the wood stove. The front door was about 7 feet from me. The top half of the door was glass with no curtain. I suddenly woke up and saw the creature looking in at me. Let me describe him. He was all bent down looking in the window at me I guess because he had to be at least 9 feet tall and I would say shoulders 41/2 feet wide. The expression on his face was terrifying. Eyes all squinted and a snarled mouth as if he was vocalizing he was lightly haired on his face, and thickly haired on the rest of his body that I could see.
All of this happened in seconds because at my first realization upon waking up and seeing him I immediately took the cover and pulled it over my head and passed out. I don’t know what happened. All I remember is waking up the next morning and realizing immediately the horrifying experience and jumping up and running to my children’s bedrooms each one and yes they were OK. They did not know anything had happened and no I did not tell them what happened to me.
Years later my daughter told me her brother would come in her bedroom to sleep on the floor because he saw what appeared to be red eyes in the big tree outside his bedroom window. At the time he only told me he was scared to sleep in his bedroom with a thin curtain on the window and asked me to put a real heavy curtain over the window. As the years past and more people populated our area I have not had any more encounters.”
We will wrap up with Shelly and Shelly writes “I had a very strange encounter in the mid/late 90’s in California.
My husband (at that time) and I purchased an old C class motor home and we decided to take it on a trip with another couple to Lake Havasu. We were traveling from Lake Forrest CA and we’re on I-10 just outside of Palm Springs. We all worked so we didn’t leave until that Friday evening. By the time we got to this area it was pretty late, I think it was around 11:00-12:00 and very dark out. There weren’t any cars on the road at that time.
My ex was driving and I was in the front passenger seat. There were two seats that swiveled just behind the front seats and the other couple were sitting in them and they were facing forward. We were all just talking and laughing and having a good time.
Then, out of the darkness this thing ran in front of the motor home coming from the passenger side towards the driver side. We hit it going about 75 mph right smack in the middle of the front of the RV. There was a loud sickening thud sound. The RV lurched and we heard it as it bounced around under the RV and then the back of the RV lurched up as it went under the back tire(s).
We were all momentarily stunned and we just kept saying “What the F was that”.
We debated if we should stop and see what it was but we all decided there was NO WAY we wanted to be out in the middle of nowhere with that thing even if it was dead and it a bunch of little pieces. We decided to stop at the next gas station to assess the damage to the RV and clean off the blood guts and fur (or hair) off the RV.
We were trying to lighten the mood on the way to the next exit by joking… what if there’s a sheriff… how will we explain all the gore on the front of the RV… what will we say we hit, etc.
We finally got to an exit with a gas station and when we parked we all jumped out to see the damage and mess.
We were all STUNNED to find NOTHING on the RV. Not one bit of blood, no hair, no fur… NOTHING. If we hadn’t all seen it, experienced it, I would have wondered if I imagined the whole thing.
As far as the “thing” goes, it was running on all fours but it was big and didn’t look like it belonged on all fours. It was white and furry or hairy but there was no hair on its face. The face was more human than animal looking. I got the best look at it because if appeared on my side of the RV and it’s face was illuminated by the headlight. It had an expression on its face like… shit, I miscalculated. It looked surprised as if it suddenly realized it was going to get hit.
The closest thing I have seen to this thing is a picture on the internet of the supposed Rake. But unlike this picture it had fur/hair.”
