Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

Danny writes “I’m a timber cruiser that works out of Florida and sometimes Georgia, and South Carolina. I have to start off by saying I was born and raised in New York City and after I moved to Florida when I was around 17.

I met my wife a few years later in college and ended up marrying her and moving in with her and her family on their 40 acre farm and her father owned the timber cruising company.

So stepping into a brand new world that I have really no idea about, I went from avoiding the woods to being in them everyday. We walk where no one else walks, we cross water that is sometimes chest deep, so the fear of alligators and bears really spooked me to another level being from the city and all.

Going into my first encounter, it was probably 4 or 5 months into me working and I remember having to cross this stretch of water that was pretty deep, and fight through tye tye and briars to get to this particular plot. We travel by GPS handhelds that give us the direction to walk in and how far. But after I fight through all that I get about 70 feet from the plot center and there’s this cleared out section in the midst of all this thicket and all I remember feeling was I just walked into somethings living room.

Whenever I work and walk in the woods I play music on my phone, as soon as I got to plot center I don’t hear but I feel this deep growl to the point my chest vibrates. For some reason I tried playing it off saying it was my music so I shut it off to kind of prove myself right, but a couple of seconds later I hear another growl and felt it the same way, but this time I was able to pinpoint where it was coming from it was just behind this thick set of trees and bushes I couldn’t see through it.

So I get scared and call my wife and she’s telling me its a bear not to run kind of stand your ground. So at the time I carried a handgun because I was already scared of the woods so I remember taking it out and as soon as I did that it went ballistic started making aggressive grunts and shaking a pine tree that was just out of sight but I could see that top. I remember my wife saying that doesn’t sound like a bear and as soon as I heard that I let off maybe 5 rounds and took off running, when running off I had to step over the tree beds because their was water between them and as I’m doing so i can hear it right on my left side splashing through the water and at the point I was terrified I shot 3 more times while running and once I got to the water I had to cross it went completely silent. It really messed me up for a while.”