Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “This happened in 1990, I was 18 years old at the time I live in Long Beach California it didn’t happen in Long Beach, it happened on the way back from the Marine base in 29 nine palms. My friends and I were always up to no good. So we all had are run in with the law the except my friend (Named Removed). The 5 of us decided we were going to join the Marine corps to escape this city. But only my friend (Named Removed) was clear to join at the time.The rest of us had outstanding warrants, mostly for under age drinking and driving without a license. But we all vowed that if we couldn’t join, we were at least going to drive him once a month too and from the base home. Until he bought a car. It was about a 3 hour drive one way without traffic.

The first two trips went well but on the third trip back after dropping off my friend (Named Removed), my friend (Named Removed),who was his brother decided to race a mustang down the highway and wouldn’t you know it, we got pulled over for doing about 100 mph. It was 6:30 pm, I know because of the clock on the dashboard. The cop was cool. He didn’t take any of us to jail for outstanding warrants but he had to impound the car.

Now mine you, two lane highway,  sun going down and this is before cellphones and Uber. We flagged down a taxi/mechanic in Yucca valley  He said it would cost us $100 dollars for a ride to Palm springs which was about 15-20 miles away. Yeah right! We decided to call my brother instead. At about 7:30 pm we found a payphone. He said(my brother)  that it would take him about 4 hours to get to us due to traffic.  So we said , alright,  we’ll be walking down highway 62 to the 10 fwy.

Mind you, we were young and pretty stupid. So here we are, lol, 4 dummies walking down the highway with sun already gone. Oh boy. The first 3 1/2 hours were, I have to say great. Watching the stars and the moon. Just that every car that would pass by the people  would look at us strange. Except for two of them. They offered us a ride, but we said that my brother was on his wayand we just decided to walk to meet him.

About 15 to 30 minutes before we got picked up I was looking at the moon setting over the hills and how stunning it looked but also said out loud, well, so much for our light. At about 300 yards away opposite of the moon on top of a small hill I saw someone standing next to a Joshua tree. The only thing is, this person was as big as the tree.

Normally the tress grow about 15 to 20 feet long. I could be wrong or it could have been a small tree.Then it turned its head toward my right.  That’s when I saw its snout. Like a giant coyote standing up. I bump my friend (Named Removed) and said, look towards that hill over there.  What do you see?

He said, Looks like someone is watching us? Then he said, what the f—? I said I know huh? He said, there ain’t know bear’s in the high dessert that’s for sure. Then it crouched down and stood back up and starts walking down the hill towards us. We all seen that part. Before I could say anything else my friends were already running down the highway. I ran to the other side of the highway and caught up to them after about 1 minute of flat out running. I ran back across the highway meet up with them. That’s when I scared them enough to start running again. They didn’t know I had crossed over to the other side of the highway.

Anyways, we thought that this was it for us. We started picking up rocks and kept walking, hoping my brother was not too far away. As we were walking in fear I hear something about 30 feet away behind me in the brush and I was at the tail end of the group.

I yelled out, Alright you ffffnnn S.O.B! I ain’t running no more! So I started throwing rocks in the direction I hear the noise. Then all of my friends joined in and started yelling too. After all of the rock throwing had stopped, we hear growls coming from different directions. About 3 different directions.

We started hauling butt again.

After stopping for breath and then running again a couple of more times I saw one, standing up as high as 9 to 10 feet, walking along the brush about 20 feet away from us never getting too close to be notice. It seams that these creatures were stalking us and waiting for more to eventually strike. It had a head like a coyote but walking like a man. I kept wondering am I going crazy?

I just kept walking not alerting my friends.They were trying to figure out why would a bear or bear’s be all the way in the dessert. I could only catch a glimpse of the creature(s) as the cars would pass by. About 15-30 minutes of this on highway 62 between Yucca valley and Morongo velley. Seemed like forever.

At last my brother shows up and we all are yelling at him to open up the doors to his station wagon. As we left, We heard what seemed too be coyotes howling, but really loud. This felt like that movie the Texas chainsaw when that lady finally gets away. But without the blood or killing.

Anyways, I am 44 years old now and still can’t forget that night. Still to this day, can’t even tell anyone but my family. but hearing all these other people on your show that have encountered this thing(s) gives me, if I can say some sanity. Keep up the good work. There is a lot of us out there that are afraid to speak out, but I think its about time.”