Bigfoot Society - Bigfoot Family Stuns Fishermen at Johnson Shut-Ins, Missouri

Episode Date: July 22, 2026

Three separate eyewitnesses bring unforgettable encounters to this episode of Bigfoot Society.A camper describes mysterious nighttime activity at Opal Creek in Oregon after deep growls and repeated impacts struck a tent in one of the Pacific Northwest's most active Sasquatch regions. A father and son recall watching what appeared to be an entire Bigfoot family—including a juvenile carrying a fish—along the spillway at Johnson Shut-Ins State Park in Missouri. A returning witness from Washington State shares years of encounters involving both a white Bigfoot and a rare golden-colored individual, along with unexplained screams, property destruction, and questions about unusual Sasquatch coloration.Jeremiah also shares the closest he's ever come to a Bigfoot encounter while filming with legendary Oregon researcher Frank Knester near Estacada.Locations featured include Opal Creek, Jawbone Flats, Detroit, Estacada, Johnson Shut-Ins State Park, the Black River, rural Washington State, and the Fort Lewis area.If you've experienced something you can't explain, email your encounter to [e-mail]. Your story could help others who have witnessed the impossible.📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it, so settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the Caring Bridge link in the show notes. Thank you.

Hey, how are you? I'm doing good. How are you? Hey, you doing? Great. And this is Opel Creek just north of Detroit. Is that right? I don't know if there's a Detroit in Oregon, but it's kind of closer to Portland, I'd say.

Okay. Yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. All right. Awesome. Well, yeah, feel free to share what your experience was. Yeah, it's nothing too crazy, but I didn't see anything. I'll start with that. But so we were at Opel Creek and there was a little offshoot of a campsite that's right next to like a waterway. And it is like a river. It was more like a creek where we were because it was really shallow. You could easily like walk across.

So anyway, we were out there camping. We haven't seen anything. We went to all the tourist sites. We went to the actual Opel Creek where the natural water slides are. And we went hiking all around. We did not see a soul. We went up to, what was that? It's Jawbone Flats, which is an old mining town. We like walked all the way up there.

We hiked all the way up through all these old abandoned mine shafts. And we got up to the town Jabon Flats. There's nobody there. Okay, and so anyway, later that night, we're at our campsite. And I fall asleep. Well, actually, before we went to sleep, we're out at the camp. fire and these we haven't seen anybody all day and then right as it's getting dark like it's already pitched black it's like nine eight or nine at night and these two people pull up to the campsite

next to us and they're like unloading and we're getting kind of freaked out we're like who the heck does that in the middle of the night it just was so strange and so we like called we're like okay well we're just going to go in our tent and let it be and so we went in our tent and we had had like some jiffy pop so we had like some popcorn out like by our campsite that had like gone astray. But here in Oregon we don't really have to worry out about bears, maybe a cougar here and there, but it's not really a worry to leave food out in Oregon. It's not like Montana where you can, we have to put your food under the ground or whatever. And so I go to sleep and then I wake up and it sounds like there's like little pebbles hitting our tent.

And there is like a like we didn't obviously weren't thinking it was like bigfoot or anything. It was not what we thought it was at all at the moment. I thought it was squirrels jumping on our tent like trying to eat the popcorn or something. And it just kept going and it wouldn't stop. And it was like it kept hitting our tent. And I wasn't really too worried about it except I was asleep and I had woken up to these sounds. And my husband was holding an axe. And I was like, what's going on?

he said, I don't know what it was, but I heard a growl and some like low-pitched growls. I don't know. I'm terrified. And so we basically stayed up the whole night and there. And we were like, we don't know. Like, what's hitting our tent? What is this? And then he was hearing low-pitched growls.

I didn't hear any growls. But yeah. And so I asked him later because I didn't think it was Bigfoot until I started listening to Sasquatch Chronicles. And I was like, dang, those people who pulled up to our tent, like it was crazy. There was two of them. Just like you hear. And I don't know, it was just really strange after the fact.

And I asked my husband a little while after that thinking like, how did we actually have like a big foot encounter? And I was like, what did you hear? Like what was that? And he said, honestly, I don't know. I was like in fire or flight. I was just holding on my ax ready to go. And that's my encounter. And that's really it.

Wow. So I know exactly, pretty much exactly where you are once you said job owned flats because my goodness, you were in the one of the one of the one of the one of the one of. of the most active areas in Oregon when it comes to Bigfoot. I mean, you're right under the Oregon Bigfoot Highway, Detroit, Oregon, just south of it, super active. I mean, you were right in the middle of it. And so I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what happened. But my goodness, thank you so much for coming up. Yeah, absolutely. I've told the story before and everyone's like, oh, you know, probably is nothing. But like the area we were in right by the water, the two people who came up, I don't, I don't know. It was weird. But yeah, thanks for listening.

Hi there, how are you? Hey, I'm doing well. How are you? Hey, doing great. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I try to do this every so often. Perfect. Well, just real quick. It's a place, it's called Johnson Shudden State Park. It's around 100-ish miles so south, I think southwest of St. Louis, Missouri.

Sorry, that was, oh, Johnson Shudans. Johnson Shudans, Missouri. Okay. Yeah, and this is generally around the Black River area. It's just Black River runs through every place down around there. And I've seen other sightings as when I was young. But this one was the most prominent. My father and I was fishing on a spillway.

And I was about 14 years old, 15. It smelled just really pungent. Like, you know, the wind was blowing. I'm like, well, there must be rotten the fish laying, you know, like it was on the spillway. We were on the bank. And, but we didn't see any fish. It's like, you know, something smells really bad. You know, we'd kind of look over.

it might have been dead fish I'm not sure but it's just something was just not right you know the scenery so I looked over and I'm like this is a really big beaver across the spillway eating a fish and you know I'm 14 15 years oh like looking across it's about maybe 40 yards maybe you know in the split what's coming through and there's mist in the air we get to really look and the things stood up on behind legs wasn't very very very very and it wasn't a bear. I would say it's about foot tall. It's a fish.

And from everything, we just kind of froze, from everything we could gather. It was a young big foot because when we looked up, we've seen two other ones, like a darker colored one and a lighter color one, almost like a blondeish color, like brown.

And they were probably eight, nine foot tall standing next to each other on the tree line. And I'm assuming that was of a child because I think it got startled in it, run up to... I guess it's parents, the other ones up there.

It's my father and I stood like maybe 40, 50 yards from these things. Just, you know, it's just like a blatant obvious, you know, and it's before we had cell phones, you know, take pictures, didn't expect anything. So it's just super obvious. And, you know, they're out in the open like that. But it's just, you know, and it's just me and my father. Nobody really believes us.

But, you know, my dad never lied. But it's like that would have been the perfect opportunity, if given a decent, never to take, you know, it was a family. wife. Oh, absolutely. And we hear things that we've seen foot we, you know, next to the river

too. So it's just, they're out there. It's just, you know, they know how to hide. So that's all. Yeah, absolutely. So I missed how tall you think the one that, that you saw was the first one. I missed the height on that. I think, probably

around five foot tall, I would say. Because I thought it was just like, it, it It looked like a man in a suit. It looked like a man in like a little monkey suit or something. Because the spillway was coming through and there was a mist, but then they stood up, you could tell it was just, it wasn't a man in a suit. So I'd say five-ish foot tall, something like that maybe. Oh, wow.

Okay. Interesting. How I gauge it. Worth day. And they were huge. So. It's such a wild area too because it is like right outside Mark Twain and it's Yes.

Kind of close to Tomstock Mountain, which I've gotten stuff from there too. Yeah, it's just right on the other side of believe. So, yeah, there's all sorts of activity. Not just me, like, I know other people who have seen and heard things too all around there. It's just kind of like we out there around. And nobody really thinks anything about it. So it's how it is. Was it, did you smell anything or was it making any noises or anything like that?

Yeah, it smelled sour. That's what we were thought. We're like, because we went there before, like, a month before, and we've seen like dead carp. It's like, well, they're, you know, the spillway on the other side, because it's kind of, it looks like a creek kind of like in the spillway. It's blown water out, you know, from the dam up above. It's kind of like a creek. So there were, like, washed up fish. They were smelling.

There weren't any of this time. We assumed there was. It's what it's kind of like sour smell almost, like really bad body odor. I mean, kind of like, like, after we, like, it smelled like a, like a big armpit, I should say, just like trash. so I don't know if it was it or not but it was I've never smelled anything like it since so that is wild it's probably it so yeah I'm trying to think uh was it is it is a St. Francois County Missouri is that how you say that that would be that would be I think bordering maybe on St. Francis County or Reynolds County okay because I've gotten a ton of

stuff just east of there too that st. Francois County and Madison County Missouri yes just that whole area is totally bonkers I don't know what it is I grew up in Reynolds County it's just down there black river runs all right through your back around there in the mountains and there's just all sorts of state of things that go on down there so yeah and and remind me did you did you then watch them walk away or yes yes we stood there next to each other like like like oh well, I want to say I'm parked here. Maybe 40, 50 yards away, or hunters, we can have a good estimate.

And maybe, I mean, just the younger one, I've assumed it's younger, kind of just had a fish in its hand and held it like, you would, a puppy. You just kind of hugged it, you know, and walked straight up the hill. And I'm assuming it's parents were just, they walked straight out from the tree line, probably three or four foot apart from each other, looking over at us. It didn't make a sound, didn't do anything. and the younger one I soon just walked up to it and the other one kind of like put its hand on its back

and dropped its hand and they both and the child or the younger one walked ahead of them and they just like turned like we weren't even there anymore just followed it up the in the hill and tree line have you know hey how's it going right have you looked into that specific area to see if there's been other sightings too that Johnson's shutting

yes just throughout the years and just other people like yeah we've seen we thought we'd seen different things like them and some of my I guess there was a friend or a friend and they'd seen something similar to that like one of them was swimming down there and another part of it or or next to like a creek they see it was like walking out of a creek so that was a couple years two three years after I had witnessed that so it's just people people shrug that off I mean but

anybody's going to want to hunt them or anything great hopefully not Hopefully not. What year was that again? It's just part of it. I mean, it's like 14 or 15, so let me see about 90-inch or so. 93, I want to say. More of a math out of my head, but yeah, right around there. That's awesome.

Do you follow Sasquatch theory as well? No, I just, I don't really. I just been kind of a bit. I get my feel like I'll I'll jump to one thing from another but it's also very interesting it's like oh yeah there's so much evidence out there the points towards there's something then there's not you know and I think they just I think if there is we all should be you know allowed to know you know all that consists of but I just you know things are hidden for a reason I assume either for us or for something else I mean but you know people get crazy and they go hunt things like that

that would be horrible. So it's just, I think it's just something in our nature that's always been there. It just needs to be left alone. It does kind of unlock some primal thing when you hear, you know, when you hear that even the sounds. So it's very strange, but thank you so much for coming up and sharing about Southern Missouri. I appreciate it. It's crazy stuff. Yeah, no problem.

Thank you. Thank you. All right. I seen him, that's a great question. So here's the closest I've gotten to that. I was in Esticata, Oregon last July of 25 with a researcher whose name was Frank Kniester. He's passed away now and we were, I was recording his stories and we're out in the woods about 30 miles and I'm facing him and he's looking over my shoulder telling his story and all of a sudden his face goes. totally pale, totally pale, drops. I've never seen a face go pale and drop before. He's crazy. And I was like, Frank, Frank, are you okay? Because I thought he was having like a freak out or something. And he's like, dude, I just saw something walk 20 yards over your shoulder, tree to tree, tall, dark. It's like, oh my goodness. That's the closest to, it was right there.

That was the closest. It was crazy. So that's the closest I've gotten is probably 20 yards behind me. There you go. But you can watch that documentary I made about Frank on the Bigfoot Society YouTube channel. Hi there, how are you? Yeah, here, let me turn my volume up. Take a second. Okay, yeah, yeah. Okay, there we go.

Yeah. Awesome. Thanks for coming up. I told my story once before, about a year back. It was kind of a lengthy story. With myself or? Yeah, it was you. Okay.

But I also have my main reason for coming up is asking a question about the Bigfoot. Sure. I've had two years of a Bigfoot that did live with me. I told that story. It lived on my 10 acres of property, and then I had undeveloped property all around me. But it liked to be near me for some reason. But that was the story that I had told you once before. Can you remind me of the area this was in?

I'm trying to make sure I have the right one in my mind. Yeah, I'm in Washington State. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, maybe you could recall when I told you I had a rock fight with it. We were throwing rocks back and forth at each other.

Do you remember that? Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I'm that lady. All right. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And he was not a friendly Bigfoot. He never did any harm to me or my children or my husband, but he did just rid of all the wildlife in the whole area, I'm telling you, including all my chickens, you know, and my neighbor's dog. And, you know, he attacked the animals and would scream constantly every night, you know, our neighbors were knocking on my door wanting to know if I was okay. But anyway, my question is, okay, that big foot in particular, I found out he was not black, he was not brown in color.

He was pure white. Yes. Okay. And since then, I had moved from that point. I had to, they sold the house and we had to move. And we moved about, oh, I don't know, maybe 15 miles up the road. And when we first moved in, it was a few weeks later that I detected what I used to off of the first big foot. And this one in particular, this is a different one now, that showed up here where we moved.

And I used to get actual fear, not even seeing it, not smelling it, just its presence, to the point that I wouldn't go outdoors. I was afraid. I wasn't that way with the other one at all. But this one had given me this horrible fear. And I feared nothing, as you well know, you know, when I'm having a rock fight with a big foot. I feared nothing. I confront everything. This thing kept me in the house.

And I would hear this thing, just like the other one, holler and scream at night. Okay. It decided to move over across the main highway over into Fort Lewis. And it would holler and scream at night over there. And, well, all of a sudden, the screaming and hollering stop. Now I know of a couple guys who live over there in Fort Lewis there in the military and They told they both told me all that there is no way they would have allowed that to continue They either got him one way or the other and that's why there was no more screaming from there

But I did get a glimpse of it before it took off I got a glimpse of it where my fencing is one part of my fencing is always always wood and the boards were falling out and I got a glimpse of its coloring in between the vacant boards the gaps and now remember the first big foot I had was solid white this one was not brown again not black either again or white it was a golden color a yellowish golden color have you ever heard of that Um, yes, yes. There is, well, I just looked it up real quick.

The closest I've, so, okay, one way to look at this is, there is a creature that's seen in Ontario, Canada, where it had like yellow, blondeish hair on its head. And they actually called it old yellow top. That was between like the early 1900s to 1970 and that was in Ontario, Canada. I do get a lot of like people that say it has a rust color to it. The white, white Bigfoot I hear quite a bit actually, but yellow. I don't know if I've ever heard that one from things I actually take it.

Yeah. And it was daylight that it was right. right outside, right out in the open. I have trees along there. It was amongst the trees, not a lot of trees, but I have trees along that fence. And it was on the other side of the fence. And the sun was shining, and its fur, its hair, whatever they call it, was shiny. And it was not dull and dirty.

It was shiny. And it was a golden color, golden yellow, more golden than yellow, but gold. It was a very beautiful color, very beautiful color. And how long ago was that? And this was about 12 years ago. Okay. But it stuck around just across the street after, you know, when I first seen it 12 years ago, it stuck around for about a year between me and Fort Lewis before they captured it or

done away with it. So that's a great question from, from Umbri in the chat. So do you remember anything specific about how it would move or how fast it was? No, because like I told you, this thing I had genuine fear and I feared nothing. So I stayed in the house. I wouldn't go out only during the daylight and that's when I did get a glimpse of it. Okay, gotcha. Was it leaving things around your property ever, like weird, weird objects or animals that were no longer living?

anything I thought? And, well, it would, like, break a lot of, like, bushes and trees and all of that along my property line along the fencing. And it used to, yeah, and

to the point there wasn't much left. So that was intentional. It was no accident. I don't know why it was doing that, but it was destroying everything along there along my fence. And whether, you know, because I wouldn't let it in or or it knew I wouldn't have anything to do with it.

I don't know what, what, why it would be doing that. But that was destruction. That was, you know, definitely destruction that it was. Oh, sure. Were your neighbors having issues as well? No, because like I said, I first moved in and didn't know the neighbors quite yet. Ah, okay. Got it, got it.

Thank you. Thank you. So, but it's, so that was 12 years ago and you're still in the same area, right? Yes, same house. So you're saying the Fort Lewis guys took care of the situation. That's what these two guys in the military told me, that there was no way they were going to tolerate it because it was screened from over there in their property, in their land. And now it stuck around about the same amount of time that the one at the other house, the white one was at. Because that one, the first one, stayed with me for about two years, constantly, regularly, for two years.

And this one, just about the same amount of time. And I noticed that with this one, it brought my attention to it, that it was a month of February, that it started its screaming. This is the golden one. and then it screamed for about a week or two and then stopped. The following year, now I used to sit by the window, even in the wintertime, with the window open, my computer was right there by the window, that's why, for fresh air. And the following year, same thing, the month of February, it was silent the whole year until then,

the month of February, and it would start that screaming again. and that's what I believe I could be wrong, but I believe that's mating season. Right. I've heard that too. Yeah. Very interesting. Uh-huh.

There's so many stories I've heard about encounters around the Fort Lewis area and even things where they have dispatched them. I have to be careful how I say that. or, you know, things like that. And I've almost had people come on record about it, but they're very scared to talk about their encounters. And usually these are military-related encounters, too. It was when they're in the military in Fort Lewis.

So I've not had the chance to talk to anyone yet, but it would not surprise me that that happened if you're in that area. You know what I mean? Yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. So now it sounds like there's nothing going on, which, how do you feel about that? Do you wish there were things going on? Well, you know, the last year and a half, I have not lived in this house, even though I own the house. But I became ill and needed to be under care. I came back home six months ago. So I really don't know what's going on around here, if anything yet. I don't know.

Okay. I hope that you are able to get the care that you need and that is taken care of. Well, I'm back. So that's an improvement. Yeah, that's an improvement. Yeah. I'm back home. So that's a good, that's good news. What an adventure. The closest white Bigfoot I've ever heard to your area is Esticated, Oregon. The same gentleman that I went out in the woods with a researcher. He said that, and his, his area there was an albino so it was white but it also had pink eyes and um this wild wild stuff he would talk to it through sign language absolutely incredible stuff but yeah thank you for sharing your experience please keep us uh informed if i just want to warn people warn people you know if they have no fear with them and they want to you know uh be okay with them hanging around because careful with them around your children.

Because that's when the white one became violent. And, yeah, when he seen my two daughters outside playing, they were just little grade school kids. And he became violent. And I had to go out and stop him. And he started breaking large trees. He wasn't just shaking them. At first he was.

Then he started throwing rocks at me. And his grunting and growling and all that, the hoot and hollering that he was doing down there. And he was down in a little gully on my property right off the edge of my yard. And he would be shaking. And then next thing I know, he started throwing rocks. So I picked him up and I threw him right back at him. And that continued for a while.

Some of the rocks were quite large where it took two hands for me to pick up and try to throw it down the gully. I think I might have hit him with one of them. because then he started actually, these are fairly large trees, he actually was breaking them in half. Down would, my trees would go down. Oh, yeah. And that really made me angry. And it all started because my kids were out in the yard playing.

And he was shaking the trees and screaming and yelling at them also. And that's what created, you know, me going out there in the rock fight and all of that to make him leave. Yeah. So, you know, I ask people, if they go. off camping and that keep an eye on their kids please keep an eye on the kids because i actually witnessed it his his uh anger over my children absolutely that that is that is a good good warning for people to hear thank you so much for for coming up ma'am i appreciate your conversation today thank you yeah i just had to know about the colorings that i'm seeing the white

and absolutely i've been so curious that i figured i've been watching you when you come on you know And I've kept silent for a long time, but I'm just tired of wondering what specialty are they at all. I don't know. Are they a certain breed? You know, do they come from somewhere else? You know, I don't know. And I just needed an answer. That's all.

So I appreciate your help. Good. I hope I was able to maybe get you some information. But hopefully you can continue to listen and hang out with us today. Thank you. Yeah, I do, I do. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.

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