A listener writes “My boyfriend introduced me to your podcasts more recently. I maybe had a sighting, but it was so fast I cant swear to it.
Three of us were on vacation in Newfoundland about 15 years ago. My one girlfriend was driving that night, I was in the passenger seat, my son was in the back. We drove up to see the massive iceberg that became national news off the west coast.
Driving back south late that night, north of Gros Morne Park, something ran across the road in front of us. I wasn’t driving, so I think I got a better look. I told my friend to stop, I wanted a better look. Whatever it was, it was gone. In fairness, I had a crappy flashlight. Have you ever gotten any other reports from that province?
I’d have sworn I saw a gorilla, with longer hair. It was definitely on two legs, but not giant. It was maybe my height, I am 5’4″.
While still up there, next chance we got to an internet connection, I looked at every source but I could find anything. Considering when this was, the internet was not quite so robust. More recently I have seen mentions of sasquatch, but more so legends rather than sightings.
A little background on me, I just retired after 25 years as a federal police officer out of DC. I was with a department you will likely have never heard of. If you Google us, we are not the typical federal agency as we are actually police officers, policing. Before that, I spent 4 years in the Army. No shocker, as an MP.
I grew up having spent most of my life in the woods; camping, hiking and such. I have traveled extensively across all of the US and Alaska, camping everywhere along the way. Internationally, I’ve traveled the same way. We are now currently in south western PA renovating my family’s farmhouse. I’ve never had my feet planted in one spot for this long.
I became interested in your podcasts after a few odd thing having happened here. Its a remote location surrounded by farms and forested mountains. While we sat by the fire one night, we heard a fantastic set of screams from across the valley moving unbelievably fast. They sounded like the Ohio Howl, which I’m only now familiar with as of two months ago following what we heard. My boyfriend played that for me and wow it sounded the same. Obviously that is unrelated to my Newfoundland trip. With the screams, plus some odd tree things on the back of the property, I’m keeping my eyes open and trying to not rationalize everything.”