Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “At a very young age, my father would take the family on a yearly camping / steal head fishing trip to Southern Washington. Mt. Saint Helen’s Eagle Cliff. Not far from Apes Cave and Ape canyon.

It was the late 1960’s, the Sasquatch would throw boulders from the cliff at us while we were fishing on the river. That is my first memory of this subject. I’ve only shared these encounters with family and a few select people.

I will share a few of them starting from the late 1970’s. My parents had divorced and my sister and
I eventually ended up living with our Dad in Issaquah Washington. I was 17,my sister 15 years old. Dad was a long haul truck driver and was home maybe for a week once a month.

So we’re basically on our own most of the time. The property consisted of a small cabin with a kitchen, bathroom, living room no bedroom. and garage. The garage had a small room on the back side of it. The small room had a wood stove inside of it. This room I eventually converted into my bedroom. All of this will make more sense later. (Hang in there) I loved it there, my favorite pastime was hiking on the mountain. I knew that mountain like the back of my hand. Absolutely loved it. One day All of that will come to a terrifying end.

One night a buddy of mine and I had a stupid idea to take my Dad’s truck a (Dodge power wagon) out for for a little joyride.

Figured he’d never know. He’s not due to be home for couple of days. Longer story short, we rolled that truck! Driving on a logging road on the next mountain over. We end up walking all the way down the mountain in the middle of the night. As we walked my buddy heard something walking in the woods right next to him. He suddenly stopped And says what the F is that? We would Start walking again and he stops again. There it is again! At first it was on the left side matching our steps..step by step. Then is was on the right side! This thing was so fast it was doing circles around us! We couldn’t figure it out, once in a while we could just barely see it cross the road a little ways in front of us. It was creepy as hell! Then after a while another one showed up! Now they are on both sides of us.

Paralleling us for hours all the way down the mountain road the in the dark! That was so freaky!! Just scared the hell out of us all night long! It was daylight by the time we arrived to a town where we could get some help. As you could imagine, My Dad was not very happy to hear about his truck. Unfortunately it was a total loss. A few weeks later, Dad comes home from being on the road. One day he asks me to take him to show him were I go hiking. I am excited that he wanted to spend time with me, thinking he’s still pissed at me about the whole truck incident. The way that I would always go up on the mountain was on the backside of the house, next to the garage about 20 feet away from my bedroom door. There was 4 strand barbed wire fence. I would prop a stick between the middle strands and crawl through it. It was too tall to step over.

On the other side was a hedge row of black barriers. The berries ran all the way along that side of the house and surrounded my bedroom. Straight down the middle was a grassy pathway about 10’ wide that made it very convenient for me to access the mountain. Beyond that was nothing but wilderness. I made a comment to my Dad about how the grass in this area was always laid down flat and there is never any black berries to pick. As soon as they were ripe they’d all be completely gone. It was puzzling to me. asked him, “what do you think is happening here?” He replied, “I don’t know”. We just shrugged it off. I’d later find out all the answers to the questions that I had. We went ahead on our hike. I really enjoyed spending the day with my Dad. We were gone for hours.

He showed me how to track deer. We were having a great father son time, hiking a game trail, We eventually came to a creek drainage where we Had to jump over to the other side. He went first. When he got to the other side he stopped. With a hand signals he stopped me and motioning to me to land my jump a little bit to one side of the trail. As so not to mess up any tracks that might be on the trail.
It was a little sandy area that went around some trees. Without saying a word he pointed down at the deer tracks. Pressing his finger to his lips, as to say be quiet. With a wild look in his eyes, he then pointed at another set of tracks that were next to the deer tracks. In the sand was a perfect human footprint! I was totally confused! My brain was trying to process exactly what I was looking at.
Not able to rationalize, who or why would someone be walking around in the forest with no shoes on? This footprint was a little bit bigger then my size 10 hiking boot at the time. I asked him, is there a hermit or someone that lives up on the mountain? He replied, ”No!”

It’s a Sasquatch track! It’s tracking the same deer! I asked him what are you saying? He said it again! Then said Bigfoot! At that moment, I realized what he was talking about. I turned to him and said, “you mean like the Skookum that were throwing boulders off the cliff?” (Eagle Cliff) He was Surprised that I even remembered that! Then said we can either keep going or we can just go back to the cabin. That crazy SOB wanted to keep goin!

He could tell I was freaked out! Reality was hitting me all at once! He looked at me and asked what do you want to do?

I said to him, if this is the same thing that was trying to kill us at the cliff. then I want nothing to do with it! I’ll race your ass back to the cabin! When he caught up, he stopped me and said, “Don’t say a word to anybody about what we had seen today”. You don’t want to scare your sister and besides that, you don’t want people to think you’re nuts do ya! I did exactly what he asked never said a word.
A couple more weeks ago by, He’s back on the road. Let me set this up for you. In the cabin, the TV is on the wall in front of the couch and a window behind the couch. If you were looking out the window you could see the 4 strand barbed wire fence, the grassy pathway and blackberries. as mentioned previously. There is a fireplace on the left side, with a sliding glass door. On the right side is the front door. In order to go out to my room I would go out the sliding glass door, turn the corner left and walk past the window. Then about 20 feet is the door to my bedroom.

It was a chilly night, we had a fire going in the fireplace. We’re kicking back on the couch getting ready to watch a movie. I said, “Hey, before we start the movie, give me a few minutes so I can go out to my room and start a fire in the wood stove. This way it’s not too cold when I eventually go to bed. I gathered up some fire wood and kindling then headed out to my bedroom. I have my firewood and kindling tucked up under My arm like a football. I go out the sliding glass door, go charging around the corner of the house. Just like I have done many times before. Not really paying much attention to anything. Suddenly, blam! I run right into something, like hitting a brick wall!! I bounced off of something and fell directly on my ass. Firewood and kindling goes everywhere! Wow! I just ran into a Bear! I thought that because I felt something furry. Immediately I jump up to my feet thinking “SHIT” is this bear is going to kill me!

I looked at it again and thought, wait a minute! Okay it’s standing on its hind legs. Then it turns away dropping on all fours. The lightning was pretty good on this side of the house because of the window therefore I could get a pretty good look at this thing. It’s legs are furry. The back and body had longer hair. The hair color was reddish brown. I could see the skin through were the hair parted down the middle of its back. The skin was kind of lighter on its back. Flakey like it had dandruff. At this point I am about 3 feet away. It smelled like a wet horse. Then it makes a noise that sounds like
“Awuf “ kinda loud in disguised. Still not sure exactly what I am looking at, I am only a few feet away from this thing because it can’t go anywhere. It’s basically trapped between me and my bedroom. The blackberries made a impenetrable wall. Now it stands up on its two feet and looks directly at me. I am looking straight up at the largest man I have ever seen. I am a carpenter, I have a pretty good idea of what 8 to 10 feet looks like.

This dude’s every bit of 9’ tall. And probably a little more than 4’ wide at the shoulders.
Each leg was as big around as tree. Even though It’s butt was big and hairy it was proportional to its large frame. It’s looking straight at me! I couldn’t believe my eye, shook my head in disbelief, rubbed my eyes thinking I was seeing something that was not real! Absolutely shocking! The only thing that could come out of my mouth was “Whoa What the F••••!! “He had a very surprised look on his face! First of all his head was bigger than the steering wheel of a truck. His eyes were wide open looking like they going to pop out of his head. The eyeballs were like large white saucers with dark irises. Couldn’t make out the brow line at this point because he’s eyes were opened so big. The noise was very large with nostrils downward. Not at all like an Ape kind of flat and spread across his face. His mouth was extremely big. At this point it was wide open.

Thin lips, Big square teeth kinda like a horse’s teeth. Beard that was kinda thin (like a fu man choo). Thin mustache, The hair on his head was not really long but went down and blended in with the hair of its back and shoulders. No neck or maybe is seamed that way because his shoulders were so muscular. He was built like a bodybuilder. Not much hair on his chest. The color of its face, hands and chest were like a charcoal gray and a little blotchy like it had freckles. Very evident a male. Everything about him was human. With the exception that he was covered in hair. Everything much longer. Just a extra large human. There was something about his arms and legs. They were not as exact proportional to his body. Seems like his arms were extremely long. Hands went down past his knees and his legs were kinda shorter at the knees just like with any other discrimination.

People have made. He walked a little funny. With every step I could feel the ground shake and rumble. So I know he must have waited at least 800 or 900 pounds. He had the craziest look on his face. Then he made a perfect oh shape with his mouth. Thinking about it now, his face looked just like the native masks you see with the wide open eyes and the mouth shape like it’s whistling. That vision is just burned in my mind. I’ll never forget it. I kept backing off the whole time. Hoping he would just move on. I wish that was the end of it all but it would not Be. With just a couple of steps He was over that fence like it wasn’t even there. Made his way over to the grassy pathway. In a calming voice I said,
“ it’s okay take it easy big guy”. He made a kinda gurgling sound. sort of like a big cat purring, it’s hard to explain.

I was shocked, amazed, curious and terrified. All these feelings and emotions happening all at once. Then screams just like a man! Now I started getting really scared. When that happened , it triggered me to screamed too!

It matched my scream exactly. So it made my scream sound a 100 times louder. when I stopped screaming, he kept on Screaming. The lungs capacity on this thing was so large. Terrified I just stood there and couldn’t move.

Without a breath it switched from my scream, straight into a ear piercing screech so loud that I had to put my fingers deep into my ears to keep My eardrums from exploding. I could actually feel them popping. This seemed to go on for ever an extended period of time.

Still not taking a single breath screaming transitioned right into a howl not just any howl
It’s like a 900 pound wolf!! Wrapping up with A ROAR!!!This whole time I was standing about 10 feet away from him. He could have reached out and ripped my head off at any moment. This thing scream, screech, howl and roared. Straight through my sole. It shook me to my core I could feel every organ in my body tremble. Echoing through the hole valley. Kinda like when Tarzan did his yell..Holy shit !! It was so difficult to stand my ground and not fall over shitting myself. It pounded its chest like a gorilla and mumbles something like bla bla bla!! And stomped off running up the mountain, knocking trees over just plowing through trees Like a bulldozer. This entire encounter lasted maybe a little more than a minute. I’m very sure that he was not alone. I could see something moving out of peripheral on the right side. A little further away, but couldn’t to take my eyes off of him. Honestly I was completely terrified. My ears are still ringing 40 plus years later.”