Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “Hello, I recently came across your show after becoming deeply interested in the BF phenomenon ever since my experiences last May on a camping trip. I was letting my YouTube autoplay in the background while I worked on something else, and it played one of your older shows (187: Mountain Giants) and I was stunned to listen to the guest speaking about mountain giants- and sightings in Alaska.

I lived in Alaska with my family when I was about 9 years old. My dad was in the Air Force and stationed at Eielson AFB, and we lived on base housing. Our housing complex however was right at the very edge of the wilderness- I have no idea what the place looks like now, but this was true, thick Alaskan wilds at the time. My backyard was a massive field about 200 meters across and the woodline beyond extended as far as the eye could see.

One night in winter I took the dog outside like I typically did to let her do her business. Our house was at the very edge of this part of the development, so I would go down the sidewalk to where it abruptly stopped at the edge of the massive field and let her do her stuff there. This night as I was waiting on her, I heard the sound of a helicopter in the distance. I ignored it because after all I did live on an Air Force base, but then I started seeing a light in the forest past the big field. As it drew nearer the sound of the helicopter got louder, and gradually I realized that this was a blackhawk helicopter with a spotlight aimed down into the forest.

The chopper was moving erratically, giving me the very strong impression that it was keeping something in its light- or trying to. I watched it zig zag back and forth a bit, and then the chopper seemed to dart ahead as it neared the edge of the tree line. Suddenly, with the chopper ahead of the tree line and the spotlight aimed down into the trees, something massive burst out of the treeline and into the snowfield.

This was a long time ago and I am aware of the way time distorts memories, so I won’t even estimate a size range except to say that it was so massive that the moment it hit that field, which had about 3 feet of snow on it, it sent up plumes of snow all over the place. In fact, it put so much snow into the air that it actually partially obscured the creature for me. It looked like a small explosion had taken place- though I didn’t hear any gunfire so I know it was the creature’s impact with the deep snow that caused this.”