Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “I am a college student studying geology and with my program we go on field trips because you can’t study geology very well purely from books. I am a bigfoot fan and have been since I thought I saw one in Canada when I was 8.

I am reaching out because I heard the Michigan Scream that you played in Episode 985 “Creature Follows Farmer Home” on one of these field trips. It was last year in October on the Utah Nevada border where we were studying orogenies (mountain building). It was a three day field trip with two nights.

It was in the desert with a few hills surrounding our campsite. It was mostly dense brush with a few trees here and there. When we got there, immediately the other women and I started setting up camp and finding a place to use the bathroom where no one would stumble upon us. The established “bathroom” was far enough from camp that if you shined a flashlight from the edge of camp you wouldn’t see anyone.

The first night we all bundle down in our tents because the deserts get really cold. No one mentioned if there were any coyotes or any predators in the wilderness so we all felt pretty safe if we had to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. In the morning, my friend had come up to me and asked if I had heard anything weird last night. I told her no. She said she had heard something really strange but couldn’t describe it.

It was quickly put out of my mind because we were off to go study more geology for the day and I was really excited.

The next night, I have to go use the bathroom and it is about 2am or so because I sleep with my watch on and I tend to check it when I get up so I know how much longer I have to sleep. So I get up, grab my flashlight and make my little trek to the bathroom. It was down the hill and in dense shrubs. As I’m walking, I feel like something is watching me. It was so uncomfortable that I shined my light all around me and I didn’t see anything. I stop and I can’t hear anything but I can’t shake the feeling I’m being watched. At first I thought it was one of the male students but we were all really close and they weren’t stupid enough to prank us especially in the dark wilderness.

So I kinda abandon my trek to the bathroom and I find the nearest shrub and do my business and I basically race back to camp. I didn’t have anything to protect myself with. I was really freaked out. As I got back to my tent that’s when I heard that scream. It was so alarming that I kinda froze. It was so loud and coming from one of those big hills. I got back into my tent and zipped it shut and basically hid in my sleeping bag the rest of the night. I didn’t sleep very well and I was awake right before daybreak and a few other girls were and we were packing up a few things from camp so that we can get home sooner and we all heard that scream again including the girl from the first night. She was really excited and said that is what she heard the first night and what was it? I said bird almost as a knee jerk response and the other girls agreed but we all stuck really close together the rest of the morning until the sun was completely up.

Anyway I know this isn’t the most exciting encounter in the world. I don’t even know if it was bigfoot but I do know when I heard that episode where you played that scream I was like “i heard that in Utah!”