A listener writes “My daughter and I moved to Kentucky from Chicago in 2021. We are not the hunter or outdoorsy types and so being in such a rural area was a bit of a culture shock. One day we were driving along a big interstate coming back from a shopping trip.
It was dusk in the early summer, so it was starting to get dark. To my left something caught my eye which is strange because the speed limit is like 70 there and I can’t say I’ve ever noticed anything before using my peripheral vision while driving that fast. I turned my head and in the distance in a clearing backed up by a tree line was the black outline of some sort of animal running on all four legs as if it was trying to take cover and knew it was visible out in the open.
It had no tail, a humpback and was very large. Initially I though it was in the shape of like a beaver or a weasel or something I was familiar with but nothing in my head fit what I was seeing. I said out loud to my daughter “what is that”? She looked and it was in our sight long enough for us to keep looking and trying to place it in our heads of what we were seeing. Nothing fit. It wasn’t a large cat, it wasn’t a bear shape or a horse or anything like that. We could not figure it out. She decided it was some sort of forest critter and we left it at that and didn’t talk about it anymore. I remember thinking that I still hadn’t figured out what the heck I saw. It was like a large unknown to me and it bugged me that I couldn’t’ figure it out.
Fast forward two years and I was listening to your podcast. The reason why I joined your podcast is because my dad used to scare my older sister and I with bigfoot stories constantly when we were young. He forced us to see some movie about bigfoot which gave me nightmares for years. I’ve always been afraid of bigfoot and figured it was time to make some sense of it all. People in the family would always make fun of my dad and say he was ridiculous for believing in bigfoot.
I didn’t like that he scared us and made us think about it when we were young. He wasn’t a hunter or anything he just insisted bigfoot was real and very ferocious. I think that’s why I found your podcast fascinating because of the curiosity I’ve always had concerning bigfoot. So recently you had a guy on who saw a female with a little one walking on all fours going towards a bait pile. This guy described the creature as on all fours with a humped back appearance. A bell went off for me and I thought of that creature my daughter and I saw that one day a couple of years ago.
I couldn’t believe it! I truly think I saw what he described running like crazy trying to get from point A to point B but knowing it was out in the open and able to be seen. I asked my daughter if she remembered, and she said kind of and that she put it out of her mind because it didn’t make any sense to her. I’ve played a couple of episodes of your podcast for her, and she believes the stories.
All I know is that what I saw did not fit any criteria for any animal I know of. Even though we were unfamiliar with the area I know that what was running was not something I’ve ever seen anywhere whether on TV or otherwise before. Obviously, I can’t be 100% sure but after listening to his story, it was like a confirmation for me that I did see what I saw.
On another note, I saw a UFO when I was 12 years old while with my oldest sister driving along a familiar street in our neighborhood in IL. I’ve told two people of this-my dad who believed me and my ex-husband who did not and said I was lying.
Basically, my older sister was driving me back to her apartment to babysit my niece and nephew while she went out. We lived about 15 minutes from each other so it was a well traveled and short trip. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, with absolutely NO noise or warning, she stopped the car, and we looked up and saw this huge triangle shaped thing right above us-I mean very close. It had lights but not too many and was a perfect triangle-like a Dorito.
It was hovering in front of us but not over us. She got out of the car and stood there in the road looking at it. Neither of us said a word. Neither of us spoke or said “did you see that”. We did not talk about it at all. In fact, we never discussed it. It’s like it went into the ether and we never brought it up after that. I don’t know why.
It was silent, huge, hovering, and it seemed to me it was more interested in her than me. I don’t know why but that’s what I sensed. Sounds crazy I know but that is exactly what happened. I am unsure how long she was out of the car but at some point, obviously we must have kept going but I have no memory of seeing it leave or seeing it disappear.
I just don’t remember. It’s a big blank in my head for some reason. Unfortunately, my sister is no longer with us, and I know we never ever talked about it.”
Dan A
sounds good!
Charles R
Curios about what part of Illinois, in the Chicago area or a more rural area as you did not mention any traffic. With no memory of seeing it leave did you have any missing time? A few years back there was the famous UFO over O’hare Airport in broad daylight that was witnessed by a lot of people and made national news. At one point it shot up and made a hole in the cloud. As for the possible Kentucky Bigfoot, the stories pouring out of Kentucky in the past few years are many. Over a decade ago there was a sighting by a traveler going south on the I-75, south of the metro Cincinnati/Covington, KY area, and north of Lexington, KY area. Very early morning as it was just starting to get light and the Bigfoot was standing on the shoulder of the I-75 and the vehicle behind him saw it also.
m99
Okay, that was interesting. I was wondering why a creature wouldn’t just lay low in the field, and wait for traffic to move on, instead of running, so they could see him. Was something chasing him?
The UFO incident was compelling, too. I look forward to this one for sure. Thx Wes.
Lorraine W
It’s possible the BF was chasing prey and did not want to lose it by waiting on traffic.
Lorraine W
I am fascinated by the UFO encounter! Please elaborate on the year. I had a very similar encounter. I can’t remember the exact year of mine, but my best recollection would be in a time frame between 1978 and 1982. I am 62 now, and would’ve been either completing high school or in community college (age17-21) at the time of my sighting. I would’ve been living in Fulton County, Illinois which is roughly 35 minutes SW of Peoria. My parent’s home was on the northern edge of their community. The property was near a golf course, corn fields, and a railroad track that ran north/south. Our neighborhood was on the west side of the railroad tracks, and a blacktop road paralleled the tracks for a couple of miles. It was a summer evening and dark, probably around 10:00 in the evening. I was riding my bike on that blacktop road. I likely chose that time because it was probably too hot and humid to get out during the day, and I felt like enjoying a quiet ride in the cooler air. Anyway, exactly as this listener reports, as I was biking south, I saw and sensed this HUGE triangular craft hovering very close above and in front of me and slowly traveling north just over cornfields east of the tracks. I say “sensed” because I “felt” its presence before I saw it, but I didn’t hear anything! It was quiet in a way you’d never expect a craft this large to be. It blocked out all starlight as it passed slowly over, and I could see some thickness to it, but it gave off no lights of its own. I think it would’ve been roughly football field/stadium sized only shaped like a triangle. My best guess is that football field size, maybe traveling 1,000-3,000 feet above the ground at most, maybe 2-3 stories thick, and traveling silently north at around 30-60 mph. It was moving, but it didn’t seem to be going fast to me. I watched it until it moved beyond my sight in the dark. I was in shock. I told my parents who didn’t disbelieve me, but they said it was probably some military craft being tested. I was like “testing THAT over Fulton County, IL?!” We aren’t exactly a big hub for military tests there. I’ve often wondered if it WAS. a stealth plane prototype, but if it was, it looked more like the illustration above than any actual stealth aircraft I’ve ever seen.
I’ve never seen a BF even though I spent my fair share of childhood playing in the woods near our home. However, my father who worked as a farm appraiser and farm loan officer told us of at least two sightings of BF some farmers had told him. This would’ve been in the mid 1970’s. I only remember the one who claimed he saw one clear as day one autumn afternoon at dusk as the farmer was finishing up harvest in a cornfield. It was just inside the tree line watching the farmer. When the farmer moved to climb down, the BF stepped back into the tree line and disappeared from view. My father was fascinated by BF because he had a lifelong interest in evolution and anthropology, so he found the stories fascinating.
Looking forward to this one! Thank you Wes!
Charles R
Thanks for sharing that extraordinary experience so long ago Lorraine W. Yours matches up so well with what many others have observed, usally in rural settings, with the Phoenix lights of 1997 being the most famous and witnessed by thousands. Also in early 90s the Belgium Air Force was all steamed up by what was known as the Belgium wave of these large triangular silent slow moving craft and a real good picture was published of one underneath, and this went on for 3 months. Although yours is one of the earliest I have heard about. Here in Ohio there was a rash of Bigfoot sightings by farmers havesting the corn and soybeans in Logan County area and well documented by Daniel Perez in the late 1980s I believe. Possibly the Bigfoot take a keen interest in these machines taking down fields of corn. I wonder if the corn fields are a source of food for them.
Mark T
I’ve witnessed three triangular crafts.
The set of lights over Portland, Oregon in the video you shared.
A black silent triangular craft over the countryside east of Vancouver, Washington that stalled my motorcycle on my way home in the dark from my girlfriend’s home. Blinding white lights near each corner that looked like white flames, not lights, as it got closer.
And a shape-shifting transparent craft that became a semi-cloak almost transparent triangular craft, with a bright white light at each corner on the tip, what looked like steel girders along the outside edges, and a circle in the exact center of the bottom of the craft like a propulsion unit or something.
Charles R
Wow, another great witness to the large triangular craft. Thanks for sharing Mark T.