Bigfoot Society - The Hunter becomes the Hunted | Illinois

Episode Date: February 6, 2025

Join Bigfoot Society as we dive into an intense and eerie account from a hunter named John, who had unsettling experiences over several trips to a hunting property along the Iroquois River in Illinois. From silent eeriness and strange tree formations to unexplained screams and mysterious languages, John recounts his chilling encounters and how these events led him to believe he might have encountered Sasquatch. His story continues with bizarre occurrences even back at his home, leaving him questioning if he was followed and if these phenomena were interdimensional. Tune in for a detailed recounting of John's eerie experiences and the emotional impact they had on his life.If you've had similar encounters or experiences, please reach out to [e-mail]. Your story could be the next one we feature!🔴 Subscribe to our Youtube channel and leave a comment here: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Want to call in and leave a voicemail of your encounters for the podcast - Check this out here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety(Use multiple voice mails if needed!)Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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I have a Bigfoot Society. I have the privilege of talking to John today. John is an individual that reached out to me. He is a hunter. He's that some interesting things happen over the years. So, John, welcome to the show today. How's it going, man? It's going great.

Thanks. Awesome. You know, I'd say, let's go ahead and get right into it. I'm going to pass things over to you. And feel free to take us back to when you first started to experience things out there. Okay. This was back in 2018. I started hunting.

It was some family property over in Illinois along the Iroquois River. Not too far west of the Indiana, Illinois line. And I hadn't hunted there. I'd been to this property before, but I had never hunted there. So my wife says, well, why don't you go hunt this property? Because you've always wanted to.

So I said, okay, I'll go do that. So I went there, I set up a stand, set up a trail cam. This is a river bottom. So usually there's quite a bit of activity along the river. About a month later, I went for the opening weekend.

It was in October for Beau, for deer. Went down there. Went on a Saturday afternoon. First thing I did was grab my trail. cam, went back and looked at it, had 70 pictures on it, but there were no pictures on it. So I thought that was rather odd, and the camera had been turned to the opposite side of the tree. And found that real strange. So got ready, started to go hunting, went to the stand, and I had a real uneasy feeling.

It was actually silent. There was no birds, there was no squirrels, there was no bugs or anything going on. I thought, boy, this is really strange. Got to my stand, and in front of my stand, there was about a 10-inch round maple tree that was bent over and cracked. I thought it was something from the wind you got to realize. I have no idea what's going on at this point. But then I'm thinking, get up in the stand. I'm like, boy, that is really strange looking at this.

It's probably two foot off the ground, and the tree looked like it was cracked. And there really hadn't been any storms or anything that came through there. So I hunted that evening, and I just had the strangest feeling. I've hunted all my life. I have never felt like this when I'm hunting. I mean, I heard nothing. There was, like I said, no birds, no squirrels, no bugs. Didn't see anything that evening.

It's kind of shaking my head going back, thinking, well, just a bad night. So there's some cabins on there that I can stay in. So go in, go to sleep. That night at 3.45 in the morning, a bunch of coyotes that had surreuthies. that had surrounded this cabin is the best way I can put it. One right on the front porch. And they were screaming like I've never heard coyotes before. I jumped up out of bed trying to figure out what is going on here.

And I thought, this is strange. There's one on the front. There's one on the side. And there's one off the back. And they're all yapping. So I was startled. They jumped up. went to the door, looked out, it stopped.

I didn't see anything. I'm like, so now I'm up, and they started again, which I've hunted all my life. I funded coyotes. Usually that doesn't happen. So now they've moved off a little bit, but they're still out there, and then they stopped. I waited a little bit.

I thought, well, I'm probably not going to see any deer today, but these coyotes going crazy. Go out to the stand, just a real airy feeling again. Got up in the stand, silence once again. There were no birds, no squirrels running around, no nothing. Hunted for a few hours. And I did see one deer, about a hundred years. hundred yards away running for its life. I never saw what was chasing it, but that was it.

So I called it a day left, called the landowner and said, hey, you have a serious coyote problem here. I've never heard anything like this in my life. He's like, well, I've never heard a coyote there at all. I'm like, well, okay, well, I'm just telling you, there's something going on here. So I left Still not realizing what was going on

But just shaking my head Like something's not right there Went home Told my wife that I said well I'll go back again Next the next week Come back the next week Same scenario

And weather's been nice all week This time I come back I pull up Now there is a huge tree broken backwards leaning up

against the cabin and I'm like you know what's going on here so I called the landowner and I said hey you've got a tree down here he's like

what do you mean there's a tree down you haven't had any bad weather I said I'm telling you there's a tree down and it's leaning up against the cabin it's perfect the top is just touching the side of the cabin So once again, I go out hunting.

Same scenario. Silence. And now I'm getting a little edgy. Didn't have any issues that night. Got up the next morning. Same thing. Nothing around there. Now I'm really stunned.

I don't know what to think about what's going on here. So I left, still not really thinking anything about what else would happen. So went home, came back again the next weekend. Now this weekend I did see a few deer. There was birds, there were squirrels, there was bugs. Everything, it was noisy. Saw a couple of deer, didn't really have any problems. So I thought, okay, well, starting to come around here.

Now we're getting into the end of October. came back one more weekend and the feeling was there again. It was just uneasy and it was silent. Saturday afternoon, saw nothing, heard nothing. I had moved to it. He had another cabin there, so I had moved to a different cabin. Went back, well, it gets kind of, it gets dark down in the river bottom. So when I came out, it was still a little bit light.

And I'm walking back to the cabin. Got about 15 yards from the door. I heard a huge stick crack and a big thud. But nothing ran away. So I'm just standing there kind of looking into this thicket. Whatever's there, I know is still there looking at me. And it's only maybe 15 yards away. I thought, well, it's got to be a deer.

But it didn't run away, nothing. Maybe a minute goes by. Still nothing. I'm looking in the thicket. And then across this meadow and another thicket along the river, I hear a scream. It sounded like a young woman screaming. So now I don't know what to do. So whatever's still in that ticket is still there.

I heard that scream. So I decided, well, I'm going to walk out in this meadow. because now I'm thinking somebody might be hurt, but I'm also thinking, why is there some woman in this thicket down along this river? And now it's getting dark. So I walk out into this meadow and look around. I don't see anything. So I start walking down towards the river. And whoever or whatever it was started talking.

and to this day I can't get this out of my head. The best way to describe this was it sounded like a language I had never heard, almost like a, I have to say like a samurai, Japanese, Chinese thing. It would start out low and get real high. And now I don't know what to do because whatever is behind, me is still there and now I've got something so I'm kind of in a pinch point here so I stopped walking I'm like yeah I don't know I better not go down there because and this is

still talking still going on if you want to call a talk I don't know what it was so I decide I better go back I go back to the cabin I I'm kind of sitting there trying to figure out what just happened. And all of a sudden, there's a wall right in front of me. There's two big knocks on the wall. So now I'm flipping out. I'm a fairly large guy. I'm 6'6, 270 pounds.

I'm starting to get mad now because I'm thinking somebody's messing with me. So I did have a pistol. So I grabbed the pistol and I start walking to the door and something, I don't know what it was that don't open the door in my mind. Me tell them, you know, don't go out there because now it's just pitch black out there. So now I'm a little scared and you don't get good phone reception out there. So I'm trying to rationalize in my head, well, you know, somebody's messing with me here. just relax and you know don't do anything turn off all the lights i'm sitting there uh somewhere in there i fell asleep and about three o'clock in the morning i start hearing something hitting the the roof

of the cabin it sounded like rocks and it was just there was like five of them that hit and they were in a rhythm and then they just stopped. So now I'm kind of, now I'm actually scared. I'm thinking if somebody's here, they've been here all night long, out here in the pitch black, you know, what are they going to do to me here? So I sit there in the dark. I wait. tell myself I'm waiting until it's going to get light, and then I'm getting out of here.

I fully expect to go to my Jeep, which was parked about 100 yards away, and my tires were going to be flat or something. The sun comes up, and I kind of hurried up, gathered my stuff, went out. There was nothing. there was nothing wrong. All my tires were intact. I'm trying to figure out what's going on here. So I went back, I had to grab the rest of my stuff.

I decided I'm going to go look in the sticket where I first heard the stick crack. And it was about 20 yards away. So I go in there, and there is a area. Probably 10-foot-round, completely flattened. And it's not like where a deer had been laying or anything like that. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. I like things my way, my coffee, my schedule, and my treatment. So I talked to my doctor about self-injecting with the Vivgard-Hytrullo-pre-filled syringe,

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This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. I mean, like, crop circle flattened. And I have no idea. I'm like, what could have done this? so I got my stuff when I got out of there and I never went back and they didn't tell anybody because I didn't want to get ridiculed

but I knew something was not right so I actually didn't tell anybody for probably a year decided I kind of at this point kind of had a feeling what was going on because I had done some research and some things popped up about Sasquatch.

And I was kind of beside myself, had been listening to a few things, and other people had the exact same thing happened to them. It happened to me. And I just, I didn't want to tell anybody just because I thought nobody's going to believe me anyway what went on here so I decided I did go back a few months and then I did put out another trail cam and I'm like I got to know for myself and I put that one out and that one was fine I had deer all over the place on it all kinds of wildlife but so whatever was there didn't go back there or wasn't there when I was there in the summer again. So I finally decided,

oh, there was another thing that happened. And I hadn't, like I said, I hadn't told anybody this yet. So at my house, now it's an hour and ten minutes away, my daughter had told me about a couple of months after this happened. She said the next day she's like, dad there was a baby crying outside my window last night and I'm like well it's probably a rabbit or something going on you know she goes no it was a baby crying outside my window and now we do have a big woods behind her house so I like in my mind here knowing all this other stuff I'm like this

can't be about two weeks later I have this I'm going to call it a dream. I popped up out of bed in a cold sweat. And I had, all I can think of is, I had something behind my house talking to me in that language again. Now I'm thinking I'm really crazy, except the fact that I have a dog that is standing at the doorway, growling like I've never heard

or grow before at something exactly where I pictured this happening in the backyard. So now I'm kind of like did this thing follow me home? I don't know. I don't know. Don't know what happened there.

So then another strange occurrence, a couple it was probably two months later, I started hearing owls in the backyard. Every time I would go out the back door and the owl would hoot for seven days straight, found this to be just bizarre. So I don't know.

The one thing I can say is I never saw what this was, but I had a lot of things happen to really, I don't know what else it could be. So then I decide, now it's a couple years later. This is back, so now we're into 20, 23, my wife, who's putting up with me, listening to all this stuff that I'm telling her. She said, well, let's take the dogs and go back there.

And you can show me, you know, where all this happened. I'm like, all right. Now, this was in September, late September. It was a beautiful day. Got down there, opened the gate, still had the key, drove back down to by the river. And I had my two dogs with me and my daughter and my wife. As soon as I stepped out of the Jeep, I knew something wasn't right again.

same feeling just silence my one dog wouldn't even get out of the jeep so I was a little on edge I told my wife I'm like yeah I'm not I'm not feeling feeling it right now so let's go kind of walk the dogs around a little bit you can show me where all this happened so we start walking the dogs and I'm I'm uneasy She's kind of looking at me like, yeah, okay, whatever. The dogs are silent, which is one's a beagle. And you know beagles, they're never silent. They're walking, just not really doing much. Take her, show her where everything's at. And it's kind of funny. She starts to whistle.

She goes, I heard you should never whistle in the woods. I said, yeah, you probably shouldn't. So she's whistling and like, you know, stop. So I take her where, show her where all this is. There was no flattened circle or anything at this time. So my daughter decides. She goes, well, I'm going to go back. I said, okay, we're going to walk the dogs and look around a little bit more. Well, I kind of got that uneasy feeling. I said, now we're going to go back with my daughter. My wife starts whistling again, which I'm kind of laughing now. I said, all right, I'll start whistling. So I started whistling, and we turned this bend right around this road here.

And at the same time, my wife and daughter say, there's a beagle right there, and there's somebody with it. Now I'm 15 yards away from this. So I said, get the dog, and the dogs are silent. They're just sitting there looking. So I run. They couldn't have taken me five seconds, 10 seconds, to get to where this is at. There's nothing there. So I'm looking at it.

And it's like, you sure you saw something? Like, yeah. And my daughter's like, yeah, I saw like black boots running. Now this is an open field. I would have seen something in that amount of time. So I said, well, get the dogs in the car. I said, we're getting out of here. I looked around, nothing.

So as we're driving out, now there's no wind or anything that day. There is a log across the road blocking me from getting out the gate. So I had to stop. And I mean, if it would have fallen, I would have heard something. So now my wife and daughter are scared. I get out. I move the log. I'm looking around.

I don't see anything. I get out of there. And I have never been back. Now, I did talk to the landowner about it. I finally got the courage to tell him. And he said, well, I've never had anything like that happen. He said, but I was out here one night building this cabin. and across the creek we see this light dancing through the trees like he goes it looks like a lantern that's

just going up and down through the trees and he went over and soon as he got there it just disappeared so I don't know if it's something at this place if it's paranormal but there is something definitely going there. Like I said, I have not been back there. I don't know that I want to go back there again. Don't know if I want to see what actually is there, but pretty sure it's still there. So that's my story. I don't know if anybody else has had any issues in that area, but this is along the Urquois River in central. Illinois. John, that's absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing what you experienced. When you're saying central Illinois, you know, myself, I'm from Iowa, so when I think Central Illinois,

I'm thinking like Springfield Peoria. Is that what you mean by Central Illinois? No, it's more towards Watsika. Okay. Gotcha. You're a Coy River. Yeah, it's just, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, actually quit hunting for a couple seasons there after that. And to this day, I can still hear that talking. That's the thing that whatever that was, was not anything that I have ever heard or know of. And I've never felt that way anywhere else I've hunted. And I've hunted for 40 years.

now it still gives me goosebumps talking about it I can tell you're incredibly emotionally affected by by what happened even today and thank you for for being able to talk through what you experienced you've you have you've never heard anything

like what you heard that day anywhere else never never Yeah, it was a, you know, the scream at first, I thought it was a woman. It was a high-pitched scream, and it was down in this thicket, this real dark thicket, which, you know, kind of, when you hear that, like, what's going on there? but then the talking actually as i'm walking down to look they started talking and it was a it started out low and then it got real high and it was just gibberish and i can hear it in my head

right now have you ever heard stuff that happened at home yeah you know i don't i don't know you know, there's times I thought, hey, I'm going crazy here, but I don't think so. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. I like things my way, my coffee, my schedule, and my treatment. So I talked to my doctor about self-injecting with the Vivgard-Hitrilo-pre-filled syringe, which contains FGartegamotaphate Alpha and high loronidase QVC. It's injected under your skin subcutaneously. It means I can inject in my space on my time.

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I mean, just the fact that your dog was also affected by something at the same time. Have you ever listened to what's called the Sierra sounds at all? Do you ever look at that? have. Okay. Yes. Similar on some of it. But not the whoops or the, it was more, it was like, it was a conversation that was going on.

But it was the same between the two or possibly three. But I mean, I ran this scenario through my head so many times. I think now there's some fruit trees and things on this property. I think maybe they're coming in to feed there. That's all I can guess. The landowner did tell me, he goes, yeah, my peaches keep disappearing. And he doesn't know where they go at that time, you know, in the fall. But I think I startled the one.

that was right by the door of the cabin and somehow the other ones were trying to distract me but you know all this stuff runs through your head and you never really I really I'll never probably ever know what happened there's the trick about it is you know you just there's no way to know that the actual

answers and then your your mind just keeps working and work And do you know, is this location usually empty? There's not people out in this location, or is it pretty busy? In the fall. In the summer, they use it more. But in the fall, no, it's empty.

Okay. And then that log across the road, I'm never going out that last time. That's pretty much sealed it for me. I'm not, I really have no desire to go back there. Yeah, I don't blame me. And it kind of makes me, one of the things I always think about, you know, when it comes to a situation when you have a hunter in a area where there's some of these Bigfoot, you have food sources involved, and you said peaches, but then you also mentioned how there was

the deer that was running for its life from something. And you almost have to wonder if the way that they are viewing you is something that's taking away their, or potentially taking where their food source. And that's why they wanted you out of there, no matter what, you know. Yeah, they definitely wanted me out of there. Yeah, good. I mean, just, I mean, think about that first night I was there with those coyotes. I mean, right on the porch. out of a dead sleep waking up with that screaming.

And these were the loudest coyotes I've ever heard in my life. But at that point, I don't think of anything else, you know, possibly mimicking a coyote. Right. But there was just too many strange things that happened over that time. And then when you put them all together, yeah, whatever it is, did not want me there. There's something that I want to clarify is back at your house. So whenever you left the house, you would hear owls throughout the day. It was in the evening.

Seven nights in a row, I would go out on my back deck, and it would start. It was only me. When somebody else went out, it didn't happen. and I thought that was really strange, especially after about the third night. I'm like, yeah, here we go again. So I don't know. And then when my daughter swears it was a baby crying right outside her window,

brings back, you know, that scream that I heard too. So I don't know. I didn't see anything. And I'm kind of glad I didn't see anything. But it sure has affected me. Oh, absolutely. I do have another question about the owls. You know, sometimes I get people that report something similar to that.

But then were there any other details you remember about how they sounded or anything that was off about it? or did it sound like pretty much a normal owl? It sounded the, it was kind of a louder owl who, but they were the same every night. And I couldn't see the owl, but it wasn't too far away from me. But I thought that rather out every time I came out for that week, it would happen. And then I just quit and it never happened since.

I was going to ask you that too. So after that last interaction where it was you and your family at the property and then you were able to get out of there, did anything else out of the ordinary happened since then or it's been pretty much cleared out? It's been pretty calm. I have not had any more instances. And your daughter as well, too? Yes. Okay.

Interesting. Have you ever done any research to see if there's been other encounters reported near that area? I did look up. I saw one that was actually along the Iroquois River there, but it was further west and south. had somebody had seen had actually seen them a couple nights in a row along the road but then that was that

but no I've seen I have heard other instances more in southern Illinois where people have seen them oh absolutely I mean you get down to southern Illinois and it does get extremely wild

down there it's it's come up a few times on the show recently. There's some that aren't even out yet. But yeah, Southern Illinois is interesting. That's why it's special to hear about this area of the state. You don't hear a lot of it. You usually hear around Peoria or down near Shawnee.

So it's very cool to hear about this area. Although, I mean, there are some big woods there. Yeah. And like you, I mean, there's a river. And, yeah, I don't know. You know, John, it sounds like you've thought about this a whole lot over the years. And I don't blame you. I would as well.

When you think about Bigfoot, and I know you didn't have the chance to see anything, but you've really experienced some intense things. So when you're thinking about that in your mind, do you have any thoughts about what Bigfoot might be that's out there? Well, I do believe it is a entity that may be interdimensional. I mean, there's so many people have seen them and experienced things. There's got to be something there. I've got to be a lot smarter than me

it definitely knew where you were on the property and where you were headed which is pretty wild how it had the trees against certain areas yeah two trees down

one right in front of my stand I mean it was a green tree just broken half and then the one the big tree and it was perfect and it came back it was backwards and it was perfectly lined up to the cabin the tip of the top of the tree was touching the cabin at that point I thought boy this is how how lucky can you get that it didn't destroy the cabin. Right, exactly. But then I was looking at it, there's no lightning strikes, and it was just broken. At any time, did you see anything that looked like it could be like tracks or, you know,

disturbances in the ground? Anything I thought? I did along the river. It looked like something had been walking and it sunk deep down. I thought, you know, maybe it's a deer because you can't tell. But it was rather large. But I couldn't. At that point, I'm not really, when I saw this, I wasn't, I wasn't really thinking of that. Right. But, you know, it could have been somebody walking through the mud down there.

But I didn't really see anybody fishing or anything along the river either. Yeah. Yeah, and that's a good point to bring up because, you know, you're just, you're just a hunter out there trying to figure out what's going on and trying to get what you're out there for. You're not in the mindset where, okay, how long are the tracks? How long between the tracks are the tracks in a straight line or are they by themselves? You're not thinking like that. You're just like, what is going on? Yeah, I get it.

Yeah, it was something I don't ever want to experience again. I'll tell you that. Would you ever want to see what one looks like if you had the chance? I guess I would, just out of curiosity, but I don't know that I, you know, I don't know what I would have done if I would have saw one, you know, that one. you know that that one night uh yeah i don't know i guess it would be interesting to see one uh but but the stuff that's happened to me that's right actually i don't know if i do sure yeah that's that's a tricky one for sure i mean yeah definitely you can say that that you do but then there's the old saying where it's it's be careful for what you wish for uh and i

And I get that too. Do you have any thoughts as to, do you feel that it's helpful for an individual that's had an experience like this to share to someone rather than to keep it all in? Was that something that you had to work through or was there a difference in how you felt after you finally shared it? Well, at first I was, I didn't think anyone would believe me if I told them. So I, you know, I just kept quiet. But then it kept eating away at me. And then once they finally did say something, it did feel better. And it does feel better to talk about it.

Because I know there's other people out there that have probably had some type of similar occurrences that might be like I was and they're not saying anything about it. So I would tell them, it is good to tell somebody about it and talk about it. It kind of helps with understanding what happened. Absolutely. I agree 100%. It is, I've never found it where it is not helpful to the person And that sharing, it always seems to be helpful in some way. Yeah. And, you know, our government has to know someone about this and why they're quiet. I don't know.

But I guess they don't want to panic people. But well, you know, John, I don't know because it's like, you know, we're recording this on the day of the inauguration, correct? Yes. And, I mean, not to get overly too political, but there's a chance that some things, well, some things are definitely going to be released if the current president has his way. And I don't think it's too far out of the pitcher that potentially, I mean, if there's ever going to be a time, it is going to be, you know, President Trump that he's going to see the folder that says Bigfoot and he's going to. they just put it out there. I don't care. Like, it's all about getting the right person that can be like, hey, why don't you throw that out too, you know?

And I don't know, man, it could happen. It could very well happen. Yeah, we'll see. We will see. But, man, John, it has been a privilege having you on the show tonight. Thank you for reaching out. I'm glad that you're able to respond to me after I, I put a comment on your comment.

I'm still at the point where I'm able to read through all the comments. A lot of the interviews come from those comments on YouTube. And I just appreciate you coming on the show and sharing something that I can tell is still very fresh in your mind. Yes, it definitely is. And thank you for having me on here and let me express myself. It does help. I just want to take a few minutes to say thank you to you, all my listeners, for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend.

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