Bigfoot Society - The Last Confession: A Hunter's Encounter with Mysterious Creatures in Pocomoke Forest

Episode Date: February 22, 2023

Discover the shocking confessional of a father to his son during his last days about his true encounters as a hunter in the Pocomoke Forest of Maryland. This exclusive witness story will reveal what he saw that forced him to abandon his tree stand and give up hunting forever. Tune in to the Bigfoot Society podcast and hear firsthand the spine-chilling account that will leave you wondering about the mysterious creatures lurking in the forest. Don't miss out on this must-listen episode that will give you a glimpse into the world of hunters and their unexplained encounters.----------Hey all - I am making a private Facebook group “Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters”. Feel free to apply to join and share the link with those that have had encounters in other groups. Many will apply but not all will be let in. Follow the directions! 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/groups/5762233820540793/?ref=share_group_link_______Join us over on Patreon! Get access to extra audio content, exclusive merch like a membership card and stickers, watch me interview guests weekly live on video, a Patron-only Discord and more.https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsocietyPick up a Bigfoot Society shirt to rep the podcast!https://www.etsy.com/shop/BigfootSocietyTune in for new episodes of Bigfoot Society!https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7QFor full links go to:www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com

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He slams on the brakes and manages to stop. He's skidding because it's not quite, you know, grappling. And literally for about a second and a half, they just stood there because they don't know where to go. And you tell them, panic, you know, like, through nothing. Their face is like twitching. Welcome back to Bigfoot Society, a podcast where we found. focus on cryptids, the strange, and the unexplained of this world. If you've got a story or

something weird to share, send an email over to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. And if you'd like to support this show, head on over to patreon.com forward slash the Bigfoot Society. And now, on with the show. All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got a privilege of talking to Mr. Hernando from Florida today. And we had... talked back and forth a little bit on TikTok, I believe it was. And he's got some interesting stories to share about Bigfoot. So, Hernando, how are you doing today? I'm pretty good and beautiful Sunday here in Florida.

Very good. So let's get right down to it. So let's start with where would you like to start your story? We'll start at the beginning. Yeah. Well, I'd like to start from just before my father's passing just a couple of years ago. I was his caretaker in the last year or so of his life. He'd come down with pancreatic cancer.

And he was letting go of a lot of things that he'd experience in a lifetime. And at the time, he was aware of my interest and my activities here in myaca in Florida. and he wanted to make sure I didn't give up as easily as I was wanting to out here looking for the Stunkape in the Monica State Park and the adjacent area. And as the story goes, one day about two months before he passed away, I told him, you know, I was kind of at my wit's end. I've been out there for almost two years off and on looking around.

I hadn't really seen anything, hadn't heard anything. You know, I've seen some footage from some associates of mine that are pretty well-known footage on the Internet. And I told them, I said, you know, I just feel like I'm wasting my time out there. You know, it's a beautiful setting to be in, but it's just a lot of time to be spent out looking for something that you just not sure exists. and he told me he said

whatever you do don't give up these things are out there he said I have no intention on telling anybody about what actually happened to me in the Pokemon Forest

I said well what do you what do you referring to today he said well you were calling 96 you were at work that week you had the opportunity to come out hunting with me that week. It was a Wednesday in 96, the winter of 96.

And he was hunting in the same spot. Him and I had both hunted for well over 10 years. I was in my early teens when he first started taking me out there. And off and on, for many years, both he and I would have a conversation after coming out of the woods. Did you hear someone walking through the woods? I told him. I said, yeah, oftentimes I would hear someone walking.

It was clearly something on two feet, so we'd never see anything. Well, that Wednesday that I was unable to accompany hunting, he was hunting in the same spot. We had hunted for roughly 12 years. And he said, the day I came and saw you that afternoon, and I told you, I refused to. hunt there anymore and I wouldn't tell you why he said I even left my tree climber back there because of what happened I said well what do you mean by that dad he said son these things

exist and they're in a lot more places than people even think the Eastern shores kind of an isolated peninsula you know I'd I'd I never heard of anybody even mentioned the word Bigfoot on the eastern shore of Maryland. And he continued to tell me, he said, I was in my tree stand that morning. I'd been up there, well, you know, around 4.35 o'clock. And he said, around 7.30, I heard something coming from behind me. And he had his tree stand facing two west on a very large pine tree that was up. on a sandhill.

You could kind of see as far as the eye could see without obstruction some other things like you would on the ground. He was quite high. I'd say probably about 14 or 15 feet up the tree. And he said

I heard it again. He said, I heard footsteps. What sounded like a very large person. And he said, as the footsteps got closer, he said, to my very left, about 25 or 30 yards, it wasn't very far. He said, out of my left eye, I saw what I thought was another hunter, which aggravated

me quite a bit because, you know, we're pretty far removed into the forest. We rarely sawing hunters there at all, at least in that section of the forest. and he said I was watching out of the corner of my eye and I was about to say something because I thought it was another hunter he said I turned my head slightly to the left and he said

it looked like a man in a guillie too but very tall he said it was probably about seven foot tall and he said as I turned my head further to observe it. He said, my tree stand shifted, due to the wind, you know, these things can shift,

and the tree moves around. He said, it squeaked. He said, when it squeaked, it turned and looked them directly in the eye. And he said, whenever it looked in the eye, he realized that it was not a human. And he said,

the overwhelming fear of what I was looking, looking at completely locked me up. He said, son, I've been through two tours in Vietnam and I've never been so frightened. He said, when it looked him in the eye, he said, this thing had red eyes. And it was completely covered in hair. And this is when I said, Dad, you had a gun in your hand. He said, this thing, if I had shot it, would have definitely climbed the tree and beat me to death with it. me to death with it.

He said it was so massive and so scary looking. He said it was quite much like something out of a horror film. And he said whenever it gave him a gaze and it stared at him for a few moments.

And it just as quickly as it turned his head to look at him, it shifted back the way it was going and ran directly through a briar path. that was frankly impenetrable by a human being any else. And he said, whenever I heard no more, you know, no more tree snapping,

no debris being stepped on, I immediately climbed down my tree standing and headed the other direction. He said, after that, I didn't want anything to do with that property. It was, it was intensely frightening. You know, I think a lot of people have this impression, well, if I got a gun and I'm out there and I see one, I'm going to shoot it. And I think there's something primordial in a person's brain that stops you from reacting in a logical manner. And that's what he definitely experienced that day. And it's frightening him so much. He never returned to get his preclimber and refused to ever hunt there again.

an absolutely fascinating story. First, thank you so much for sharing his story. Did he say anything about if he heard it make any noise at all? Yes, yes he did. He said when it shifted his gaze and looked at him and when it shifted its head back away from it. And it started running, he said it sounded like a lion and an elephant at the same time as it was as it was running through that ticket he said and it screams probably as long as he could hear it breaking branches so you know i don't know how many yards that would be but you know

that it's it's quite a distance before you stop hearing something in the woods anyhow you know when you're in a forest things tend to amplify and sound and so i'm assuming he was probably a couple hundred yards away before my father even reacted to get out of the tree stand. And he said that sound was it was absolutely

frightening to the bone. Frightening enough that he never went back there again, correct? Correct, correct. Like I said, the tree stand he was in, he had just bought the previous season and tree climbers

at the time were quite expensive. and for him to have left it not to ever retrieve it, you know, it was surprising to me. He didn't tell me this story until just a couple months before he died. I recall the day because he told me, he said, we're never hunting there again. We will never hunt there again. And I asked him, I said, why not? And he said, son, we're just not hunting there anymore. And I left it at that.

And, you know, I really put no thought into it until he told me this story. He just fired his death. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot Society. We'll be right back after these messages. That's absolutely, absolutely fascinating. Were there any other stories that came out of the same area? Or is that the one story that you've heard come out of there? This is Matt Rogers from Las Culturae.

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that particular swamp was widely discussed as being haunted but no one ever said haunted by who or what and after hearing this story I have no doubt that is

that is what people probably hear or see in that area and that's what why it was quote unquote haunted. How far back did those accounts that you found through your research go back roughly? At least several decades. Wow. Several decades.

Now, you know, I didn't research any further than that. But when he told me this story, when I started doing research, I know there were other accounts pretty much starting from the northern part of Delaware, which is on the peninsula with, you know, it's Delaware, Maryland, and then Virginia. You know, a lot of people aren't going to even know what the eastern shore is or even where it's that. But it's a peninsula that hangs off the east coast there. When you think of D.C. or Baltimore, where you've got the bay, and then you have the eastern shore, which is Delaware, Maryland, and a portion of Virginia.

year. And the few sightings that I'd come across just a cursory search on the internet, there were sightings in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia the same year. That is absolutely wild. You said, so you're you're in Florida now, but this is almost influenced you down there. you say you are looking for the skunkie down in Mayaka State Park, correct? Correct. Correct. Correct. So much that I've actually, in the last six months, move adjacent to the state park.

Because where I was living here in Florida, which was Bradenton, Bradenton, Sarasota area, that's west of this Mayaca area. and it would take me about an hour to get where I needed to be just before I even got out of my car. Now it takes me five minutes. It gives me time to really focus on what I'm trying to do out there. Personally, I haven't experienced anything. I've come across some partial prints that are kind of questionable, but I have yet to come across any full prints that I could cast or say yes,

That's definitely not human, you know. But after my father told me that, and he was emphatic that I continued to search, because he knew I had local associates with video that made the rounds around the Internet and television, and they're quite convincing. And you hear stories from people that live here, and they have lived here, for many generations. And, you know, these stories, I believe to be, are 100% accurate and true. Are you able to share any of those stories that have been passed around for generations,

or is that a thing where we can't really talk about that? Well, most of what I've seen are, you know, glimpses at this thing. Not so much, you know, long periods of time to observe them, but There's been people tell me they've had one run across the road really late at night on some of these back roads. And so people are not familiar with how remote this area is as far as, you know, there's some of these roads back here. There's literally nothing but trees and swamp and more water as far as you can see. I mean, people think of Florida is pretty well built up, but the center of the state is still primordial.

It really is. It's a beautiful site. And I encourage everybody to come and check out our state parks because there are magnificent creatures out here to be seen by all. And the skunk ape is an extremely rare creature, and people do see it. I have no doubt of that. What do you feel that the skunk ape is, what is it that you're looking for when you go out exactly?

What? Personally, I feel, I feel a connection with all creatures. It's not just the skunkate aspect of it. When I'm out, I'm not just looking for skunking. I'm looking for other rare animals also. but I feel a connection like deep in my soul when I look through these things because to me it feels like maybe a cousin or some some kinship to it to humans and it's hard to put in words but I feel a spiritual connection there and you know I hope one day to be able to see one or at least get some really good evidence through, you know, footprints or other means. You know, the state is kind of restrictive about what you can and can't do in there.

As far as like putting cameras up and things like that, you have to get permission, and they have to be put on a map, and, you know, the rangers keep eye on things like that. So it makes it a little more difficult because of that. you know, you're out there. You're going to have to experience it yourself or witness something that is enough for you to say, wow, this is it. This is real.

And I think there's certain things that some people require and others are willing to take a feeling and a need to try and find these things. I agree. you know, once you've started to look for the creature, whatever that is, and wherever that is, it's a thing that it's pretty hard to give up once you start looking for it. You also mentioned that there were acquaintances you had that had gotten video of the skunk ape. Is that anything more you can go into?

Well, I'll say this. The guy, the guy I'm wondering, dude, he, his video has, It's made the rounds on various, you know, supernatural shows and things. The funny thing is, and this amazes me a little, they always show just his video, never any of his snapshots that he managed to take. He got really close to this thing. And for whatever reason, they never use those snap shot photos he had. But keep in mind the video he had, there was probably two dozen people standing there witnessing this.

And if you go back and look at the video, and anybody is familiar with big footing or skunkie, probably knows the video I'm referring to. I don't want to say his name because I haven't spoken to him about this. But if you go back and look at the video, as the video begins, just to his right. There's a young lady standing there with a massive camera. Now, what I'd like to know is what happened to her snapshots. You know, things like that, I don't know why go unnoticed or ignored. But I guarantee there are more photos or videos of this thing from that same event.

That's very interesting because I know I would, I'm 99% that I know what video you're talking about. But it's interesting to know that extra information where there are other people there. And you bring up a good point what happened to what they captured. If they're listening, contact me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. I'd love to hear that information or see what you had captured as well. that's very interesting videos and

get those videos and photographs into this guy because it's important that we document these things if they are as rare as I believe they are they should be put on it endangered or a rare species

list so people don't go out there and deliberately shoot these things something so rare and beautiful could be observed not hunted Hernando

we'll end with this what will it take for you to to feel like you've reached your goal of searching for this creature down in Florida what would be the thing that would have to happen in order for you to feel like you've reached your goal for me personally it would have to be a siding similar to my father's or the gentleman

that took the video I'm listening to his feelings I was you know what he was saying was 100% real it wasn't a bear it was on two feet it was human-like and it did not want to be harassed fantastic well I appreciate you reaching out and this has been a extremely enlightening conversation some great encounter stories if you I'm sure that in the future Once you're able to find what you're looking for, I would definitely say, don't be afraid to reach back out to me. I'd love to talk to you again. But are there any closing words before we wrap up this phone call? Yes. Never, never give up. Anybody out there that Bigfoot, don't give up.

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