Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener from MA writes “I am currently 24 and have been hunting for almost 14 years now, almost exclusively with a bow for deer, and I hunt on the Eastern side of MA, right above Cape Cod. However, we do have friends in Western MA that we go out to hunt bear with in the Fall. We have had a couple strange things happen in one section of woods in Plymouth where I live, but the strangest stuff has happened out West.

Now when we go for bear, we do so over corn fields, because the bears will get in there and clear huge swaths of corn, so some of the farmers out there let us hunt the fields.

One time I was hunting a beech tree flat about 100yrds up the hill from the field. It was a steep hill up, levelled off where I was sitting, and then went up more and I was sitting on the flat section. I was just sitting on a small stool with a bow (which looking back was ridiculously stupid when bear hunting.) I had a few porcupines come past me but that was all I saw. Maybe around 10 or 11 though, I was just sitting there and all I heard was a legit roar from the other side of this hill. I didn’t hear anything come in/leave, didn’t smell or see anything, all it was was a roar from maybe under 100yrds away. The best way I could describe it is one of those stereotypical bear roars from a movie or video game, so I always thought it was a bear roaring at me for some reason. However after hearing what else has happened I started to rethink.

Another minor thing that happened was I was waiting for my friend to come back after an afternoon sit. We walk out after dark so I was back on the main trail waiting for him. To my 7-8 o’clock I kept hearing what sounded like a step, followed by a two second “drag” sound. It would step, drag, step, drag slowly and the noise got to within maybe 40-50 yards. When i would turn on my headlight and look that way I would hear scurrying away, not very big or loud, and then when I would shut the light off it would start slowly making its way back again. This happened maybe 2 or 3 times over about 20 minutes until my friend met up with me and we walked out.

My friend and his dad are completely against any idea or bigfoot or anything weird in the woods, but the dad did see what he described as a “black mountain lion” in a cornfield.

For the past few years I didn’t go out there for bear, but my brother and dad did. One morning, my dad was walking in before sunrise, and as he got to the cornfield he says he just heard a single, clear “WHOOOP” from the tree line. When he stopped, he heard a second one from the same place. He shined his light and saw and heard nothing. He stood at the corn facing the woods until the sun came up and never heard anything else. My friends dad even heard it from where he was and didn’t know what it was, but he said it must’ve been a bear hooting, which I do not know if they actually do.

Then last year, my brother was hunting a hillside. At the end of the day he heard what he describes as a “WAH-HOO” come from above him on the hill. That was then followed by the exact same call downhill from him in the middle of a laurel thicket. He also did not see anything or hear anything else, however when he got to the trail uphill he did hear movement from something on the opposite side of the trail.

Kind of weird stuff but I know you talk to a lot of people and I didn’t know what your opinion was on all this or if you have heard anything similar from MA. I really appreciated your one story a few months ago of that hiker in Western MA who saw a couple, that is actually about a half hour or so West of where all of this happened.”