Bigfoot Society - "I Was Prepared for Hunting, Not for This"

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

In this gripping episode, Randy, a retired SSGT from the 101st Airborne special forces black ops sniper/recon, unveils a haunting narrative he had promised to keep under wraps during his best friend's lifetime. With his friend's passing in April 2022, the time has come to break the silence. Set against the backdrop of Northern Maine's wilderness, Randy recounts their annual hunting preparations. One particular year, while on the trail of a large buck, Randy stumbles upon an unusually large and deep bare footprint by a creek, suggesting the presence of a massive creature. As he waits for his friend, mysterious events unfold around him, including rocks seemingly thrown by an invisible entity. The tension escalates when Randy realizes that his friend is still some distance away, leading to the chilling possibility that he might not be alone in the woods.WATCH THE IOWA EPISODE IN THE “SASQUATCH: A SEARCH FOR SABE” DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY TATE HIERONYMUS // FIND OUT ALL ABOUT MY FIRST BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8O4rvywzETo unlock more bonus content and much more, become a supporting member of Bigfoot Society by joining the Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsocietyBecome a Youtube Channel member here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinSupport Bigfoot Society one time by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsociety To pick up a Bigfoot Society shirt, stickers and more, check out our merch by heading on over to https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigfootSocietySend me a voice message to potentially be used for the show by calling 515-809-0165 Here’s a fun prompt - “Hey, my name’s [your name] and you’re listening to the Bigfoot Society podcast!”If you’d like to send me fan mail, Bigfoot related products to check out or written out Bigfoot encounters then you reach me at the following address: Bigfoot Society 125 E 1st St. #233 Earlham, IA 50072Join our private Facebook group "Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters" for a chance to connect with others who have had similar experiences. Follow the directions to ensure your entry is accepted.https://www.facebook.com/groups/5762233820540793/?ref=share_group_linkTune in to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q) for new episodes of Bigfoot Society, and visit our website (www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com) for all the links mentioned above and more.Don't miss out on the Bigfoot action! —— Affiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.—— MY GEAR —— My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYMy Podcast Mic: https://amzn.to/3AlYwb9My Computer: https://amzn.to/40CCjQyMy Headphones: https://amzn.to/40A8gcrMy Webcam: https://amzn.to/3NqfddhThe best Bigfoot book: https://amzn.to/41x8IcNLose the weight along with me on Noom. Get 20% off your subscription with link below. (Consult your doctor first) https://noom.com/r/GdkaWNddL?1251Join Whatnot and pick up some sweet video games and vintage shirts. Use my link below and we both get $10 credit after you place your first order. https://whatnot.com/invite/bigfootsocietyLearn more and up your creative game with Skillshare. Use my link and get a $50 gift card. https://share.skillshare.com/bigfootsocietyIf you want an amazing website like Bigfoot Society has that is extremely easy to set up and connects to your podcast in an incredible way then check out Podpage. https://www.podpage.com/?via=jeremiah (Use this affiliate link and you help out Bigfoot Society)

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If you'd like to hear Bigfoot Society episodes early and ad-free, you can do so by becoming a Patreon supporter or a YouTube channel member. Links to those are in the show notes. In Bigfoot Society, I've taken far too much of your time, so far so let's get on with the show over the last few weeks i've been receiving emails from a gentleman named randy and randy is all i'm going to share regarding his name i'll start reading the emails that i've been receiving this is an extremely long ongoing story that i have started to share twice now and have had to stop for one reason or another when i try to discuss it with pretty much anyone

except my wife and the members that were involved, some type of odd panic starts setting in, and that's a feeling I'm just not accustomed to, being an ex-retired SSGT from the 101st Airborne Special Forces Black Ops Sniper Recon. At any rate, I will give it a shot. However, I'm not going to spend two hours writing this story until I hear back from you personally and that you are interested in doing a program on this topic. I swore to my best friend that not a word of this would come out during his lifetime. Unfortunately, we lost him back in April of 2022, so it's time.

And it just keeps bothering me, the nightmares, etc. I sometimes feel like once you see these things, they can now see you whenever, wherever. It's very unlikely, but it's just odd sometimes. And every summer my friend and I and a few others camp on and off way up in Northern Maine. about an hour and a half north of Moosehead Lake. Come each fall, we are up there early camping and getting set up for the hunting season. And to be continued, if you reply. Next email.

Thank you, Jeremiah. I have not shared this full story anywhere. I did touch on it and send the first half to a site. It may have been called Learn to Hunt or perhaps how to hunt, something of that nature. He wrote back and wanted to hear more, but again, My friend was still alive, and therefore I was not at liberty to disclose much information. Okay, so I believe I told you the background of what we did. You see, the three of us always went up north an extra week before hunting season to set up base camp, which was no small feat.

Considering sometimes we'd have more than a dozen hunters come up to camp during the week of hunting, along with our many responsibilities of setting up base camp was scouting. Of course this was done all year long, but during the week prior to hunt week, we picked up our scouting routine every morning before dawn. We were somewhere deep in the North Maine woods preparing to enter at the crack of dawn. Same routine every dark, icy morning. My friend would be fumbling under his four-by-four jeep seat for his thermos of hot coffee while I'd be loading bullets repudously back into my 308 clips, and it would begin. He would say something like, I don't know why you bother bringing that right now. We're not hunting. We're scouting.

And I would then answer him with a blank stare and say something like, because I don't want to be friggin eaten. He was my best friend in the entire world. I worked with him too as his partner assistant installing flooring. So I spent way more time with him than I did my own wife. This story may be running on. Please stop me. If so, I can get directly to the point, and I apologize.

I'll wait to hear back from you again. And I apologize from Randy. A few days later, there is another email. So Jeremiah, on Wednesday morning, I was up off Silver Road, about a mile and a half down at the end of a logging road, just checking scrapes, tracks, etc. While my friend had gone across the road and hiked up three Bear Mountain, we had plans to meet down. down on Golden Road before going back to camp that evening. Now, where I was tracking a very large buck, it led me down into an old-growth forest. Pretty much the only one I'm aware of up in this area.

As Northern Maine is very much logged and harvested year-round. As a matter of fact, most all of Northern Maine is owned by logging companies. That's why we have to buy daily gate passes to enter the northernmost forests. Another interesting fact, there is little to know snowplains. plowing, law enforcement besides an occasional game warden, food, or in fact, fuel. So planning ahead is necessary. The nearest store is about a two and a half hour drive away. Any flats and you get a lot from rough roads.

We have to fix them ourselves. So as I'm following this monster bucks tracks, I see something baffling. A bare footprint. A large bare footprint. The way the weather cycles up here, there's no way that print could have been there. in deep. This person was heavy. Now, I've heard a Bigfoot many times, but growing up in the country, hunting my entire life,

serving in the U.S. Special Forces as a black op in many theaters, I did not allow for such foolishness. But what was this? I estimated this print at around 19 inches. It was located about four inches from the side of the creek. When I stought with all my might, I could not make a quarter of an inch indentation. yet this track was two and a half inches deep in this hard ground. So this guy weighs well over 700 pounds, I'm thinking.

Something is not right, and I had no camera or phone, nothing. So I took out my two-way radio and called my friend to see if he could come pick me up, even though I knew we had to be seven or five miles apart at the time. To my surprise, he immediately answered in his typical sarcastic way. What? I told him he needed to come back at these tracks I'd found and gave him approximate coordinates. He told me he'd seen me in 20 minutes. So I sat down to take a break and not even five minutes went by and it seemed like my friend was throwing small rocks at me. So I kept yelling out into the bush. That was pretty good time. You run up here? No response few minutes later. Another stone was heard, ricocheting off branches near me.

So I screamed, cut the crap, butthole or I shoot your butt. Yeah, I edited that. It's kind of a family show. I thought I heard a growl, so I got seriously concerned when I spotted my friend coming up over the embankment. That was another ridge away from me at about half a mile away. Randy writes, I'll continue later. I need to pick my wife up. I had to wait another few days.

and then I got the next email. Again, so I was sitting on half-rotted tree stump with my 308 rifle between my knees. After the second rock came winging by me and I heard it coming, hitting leaves, and whatever else it may have hit on its way past me. And after I threatened to shoot what I thought was my friend if you didn't knock it off, and immediately after I looked slightly to my right, and now spotted my friend cresting the hill about half a mile from me, I immediately felt a wave of heat.

I felt like my blood started boiling or something. I've since been told that it was probably the start of a panic attack, although even through dozens of major combat situations. I'd never had a reaction quite like how this felt. But I did upon spotting my friend just a bit after hearing this deep reverberating growl, realizing all at once that I'd probably just screamed at what I presumed was, a 700-pound Sasquatch.

I estimated that weight after viewing the footprint but before seeing the animal. I slowly stood up but felt like I was going to pass out. So I planted the stock of my rifle into the moss patch next to the stump and held the barrel.

Balanced myself, taking my first couple steps into my friend's direction. Using my rifle like it was a $500 dangerous cane, I heard a tree or at least a three-inch lint. snap just out of view, but within 30 to 40 yards of where I was standing, just out of view in a bunch of thickets, where the swamp started and the high bush blueberries would have been a few months ago.

I immediately came out of this temporary panic mode I had been in and swung around with my rifle coming up toward my shoulder when all at once my friend touched off his old savage rifle. All this all at once in the same five seconds. that's what is so confusing. It seemed to me that my friend could never be where he was that fast. It should have taken 20 to 30 minutes to get down off the ridge. I'd seen him come over and head down, then cross a small brook, then up the other ridge that I was on the lower side of,

down by the beginning of the swamp. The reason I started turning and raising my rifle was not the snapping tree. That was, and did fall, but misbe my 15 or 20 feet. No, it was the demonic screaming this thing started. started in the eruption of branches, bushes, and debris flying as a beast over nine and a half feet flew out towards me. I have no real idea if I could have got a shot off in time had my friend not been there. I had no real idea if the Sasquatch was just bluff charging to intimidate a hunter that was way too close to his home because my friend was there. And when he'd seen this thing, just a minute or two before myself, he immediately fired one shot into his forehead.

and as it stumbled, he buried one more shot into his chest. The ground noticeably shook when this beast hit the ground, only about eight feet from me. My friend came fast walking toward the two of us as it took a knee, as I took a knee beside this huge animal, and I nudged it several times with my rifle. No response. I tried rolling it over, but could not. As my friend got there, he told me to get back from it. He wanted to put one more into the back of its head just to make sure it was both not a friend,

threat, but also was not suffering. I told him I'd seen the hair in a chunk of flesh fly from its center mass just under the left pectoral muscle. I asked him to help me roll him over, and after much struggling and maneuvering his massive arms and legs, we managed to turn

him over to a horrible sight. I hadn't realized the first shot had hit him just above the right eye, and he had bled quite a lot before dying. His eyes were wide, open and huge, oddly wide apart. I noticed this immediately. There's an immense amount of tension we were both experiencing,

and the smell that was coming off of this dead beast was as if it had been dead for weeks before now. All of a sudden, we heard two loud, sharp, distinct knocks. I stopped breathing for a moment, gathered up my stuff on the ground fast, and rifle, turned to my friend, and yelled, run, as I had already started heading up the first ridge. Now you have to understand, my friend and I, we are not exactly athletic types, nor runners.

Yet at this point, we did a fair job at it, so we thought, by the time I was almost to the top of the second ridge, I didn't have much more run in me. My friend had passed me going up this ridge as he hit the top, and I yelled to him that I was done running. So I stopped, and as I slowly climbed the rest of the ridge, I was checking the clip in my rifle as well as my backup. My friend met me as I topped the ridge and we discussed if we should stay here and have the higher ground if more of them came for us or should we keep heading to the Jeep as fast as possible. I told him high ground won't mean anything if they came for us, especially more than one. He said something like, it's only about a mile if we cut through somewhere. I don't remember exactly what he said then because we heard a loud, long, mournful howl call from what could be nothing but another Sasquatch. and we started running again like track stars.

The scariest part of the entire event was the last quarter mile across this old cutting area in landing. This is full of small stumps, left over short pieces of logs and brush with about two and a half feet of crabgrass growing up covering all that junk. So if you're not extremely careful,

you could easily turn an ankle or worse. We made it to the Jeep covered with sweat and about as anxious as a man could be. As my friend fired up the Jeep and started throwing mud dirt and rocks. I heard another scream off to the right side

of the tote road about 50 yards away outbound two more Sasquatch one large what I believed to be a female the other another large male as we tore out of there

and headed back down Golden Road towards camp my friend asked if I thought these creatures could track us somehow and find us at camp or if we left camp could they track us

over 200 miles to down home I remember telling I'm no Bigfoot whisperer or nothing and don't really know all these things, but I sure would be a lot more comfortable packing up and heading out of camp like ASAP tonight. We did exactly that. Sadly, I never went hunting that season. As a matter of fact, I stopped hunting, I stopped camping, I stopped going up north. I soon got very sick with stage four cancer.

survived but I caught sepsis and some other nasty stuff that kept me down several years. My best buddy was the only friend that would drive out of states of the hospital they had me in. By the way, we swore that as long as we both were breathing, no one would hear about that last trip up into the North Maine Woods. Godspeed, my friend. And that's the email I got from Randy. It's very interesting. and I'm sure listeners have a lot of different thoughts or opinions about this.

You're welcome to leave them in the comments. If you have any questions for Randy, leave those in the comments as well. Or email me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. It's hard for Randy to talk right now because of what he's been through, stage four throat cancer, I believe. there is a chance he might be able to come on for a short period of time. So if you have any questions about what Randy and his friend experienced that time up in the northern Maine woods and their dealings with the Sasquatch and dispatching of it,

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