Bigfoot Society - When Bigfoot Gets Too Close: Landon’s Shocking Skamania County Story!

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

What happens when a young man encounters a force of nature he never believed existed? In this chilling episode of Bigfoot Society, we talk to Landon, who recounts his terrifying Bigfoot experiences in the heart of Skamania County, Washington. From rock-throwing encounters to the overwhelming presence of an unseen creature, Landon shares his journey from skeptical hunter to believer.Landon describes his eerie experience in the woods near Eagle Creek, where massive boulders came flying toward him without warning. This was followed by the unforgettable smell of something not quite animal, and a deep, sickening feeling that left him questioning everything. Along with other close calls and sightings in the region, Landon sheds light on the many dangers lurking in the wilderness—and how his perspective on Bigfoot forever changed.Join us for a deep dive into the unknown, and hear firsthand accounts from someone who lived through one of the most intense Bigfoot encounters we’ve ever featured.🗣️ 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 Patreon – 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 LMNT🎙️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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But what Landon didn't expect was that something in the woods would start targeting him. Boulders, big ones thrown at him from an unseen force, a sickening, pungent smell in the air, and the feeling that something powerful, something ancient was watching his every move. And this isn't a legend or a myth. It's a firsthand account from someone who never believed until he had no choice but to face the truth. And this is the story of Landon who came face to face with a force he could never forget. So stay with us. All right, Pickfoot Society.

You've got the privilege of talking to Landon tonight. Landon's an individual that was forwarded an episode of the podcast and then reached out about some interesting things that have happened over the years in Schomania County, Washington. And so really excited to have Landon on the show. That's an area of Washington where a lot of interesting things have happened over the years regarding Bigfoot. But welcome to the show, Landon. How are you doing tonight? I'm doing pretty well. Fantastic. I'm excited to see where this interview is going to go. So I'm going to go ahead and pass things over to you so that you have the time to share what you've experienced and what other people, you know, have experienced as well. And we'll be chatting about it along the way. But feel free to take it from here, Landon, and take us back as far as we need to go for this.

all righty um the first encounter that i believed i've had um it was 2018 it was right after the eagle creek fire happened because eagle creek fire was 2017 i do believe and um it was i think my first or second year of hunting and um i was usually with my dad through all the that stuff. So he always take me out and you'd go explore and see if we can find anything and whatnot. But there was a spot that we, you know, predetermined to go the morning before. And this was, you know, autumn deer season, that fall area. And I, me and my dad, we went out to one of these spots. It's this huge cliff face that drops down. And you can see these kind of like waterline from it just falling. It's just these dugout marks and there's

little tiny holes and we don't really know what lives in there. It's just kind of like it could be coyotes. It could be bobcats. It could be foxes. But there's just these little tiny holes all over this cliff face. And it's about 120 feet up, you know, from top to bottom. And at the bottom, where I was, there's these 30 feet by 40 feet boulders and below and up, like just in size, like these triple ton, 10-ton boulders. And they're just kind of scattered everywhere because as it erodes, things tend to fall. And I remember we woke up about six. We got out there. It was seven, 7.30, and we started hiking, and it was just you couldn't see in front of you. Like, you couldn't see your hand, you couldn't see anything. And then eventually, as you could see the

daylight coming through the trees, there was some elk in this clear cut off a ways. And they didn't really want anything to do with us at that point in time, but it wasn't elk season. So it just kind of sat there and watched them for a while. And about 8.30s, 39, you know, that they wandered off and we went our direction. We continued up the road towards the cliff face. And I remember getting up to the cliff face, and I had a boulder against my back and a pile of small rocks and down trees in front of me, kind of like a brush pile to hide. And around this time, it was that 10, you know, 930, 10 o'clock area. And my dad went a different way.

He went towards a tree stand, which was a little bit further down. the road. And as soon as he lost, like as soon as I lost eyesight of him, and, you know, I couldn't hear him walking no more or anything like that, I sat there and it was just dead silence, like quiet, eerie, like not a bird, not nothing. And I was like, you know, like, they're kind of off-putting. And then all of a sudden, I don't know where the forest erupts, just, you know, birds everywhere, you know, like something moved. Like they forgot that we were there or whatever. And then the part that really stood out to me was that it happens a lot when you're hunting.

But there is this chipmunk, chipmunk squirrel probably 20 feet away from me up this tree, about another 10 feet. And it was just staring at me and chirping, barking. and about 10 minutes of that I was like, that's really annoying. So I started grabbing rocks, little tiny pebbles and stuff, and I was throwing him at the tree, trying to make me be quiet, like don't blow my cover type thing.

And, you know, eventually he quiet down and wandered away, but as soon as he went quiet and I didn't see him no more, the forest was so eerily silent. Like there was no breeze. there was no noise. You could hear your heart. You could hear the blood pumping through your ears type quiet. And then I heard this loud, like thud, like wood on wood,

or like if you were to kick a tree real hard or hit it real hard, this make three really loud thuds behind me. And there's that boulder and then a cliff face behind me. And I'm like, there's nothing behind me. So I kind of leave my little area and I kind of wander up towards the clip face, trying to figure out like what happened, like did the rock fall or something, making sure like, you know, there wasn't a slide going to happen and it would be in the middle of it. So I didn't find anything unusual.

And then I go back to my spot around this time. It's noon, you know. Sorry. It's around noon, and then you just got this pungent odor scent. Like it was just this awful scent, like something died. I was here before. I didn't smell that. Now I'm here now, and now I smell it.

Like, did the wind change? And I brought out like a little container of chalk, like, pressing it, shoots up in the air so you can tell what wind is going. and it just sat still. Like it slowly moved and faded away, but it just didn't move a certain direction. It was just still. And I was like, interesting.

So I'm sitting there, there's this awful smell. There's this, this eerily quiet. And I'm sitting there and I'm waiting for something to pop out or a deer or bobcat or cougar or something, you know, just something to, you know, gaze upon. And as I'm sitting there, I just felt awful out of nowhere, like this headache. Like it felt like I didn't eat for like two days, like that awful stomach feeling, a headache. And then that happens for about 10, 20 minutes.

And it was like, to me, it felt like as fast as it came on, it went off. But it was about 10 minutes. and I was sitting there and I'm like, did I eat something wrong? Like, am I getting sick or something? And then behind me again, I hear these three loud wood thumps. And I'm like, what was going on? And so I'm sitting there from where I was. I'm trying to look over this boulder towards the cliff.

And all of a sudden, this just probably, probably 300-pound rock just comes flying off the cliff and lands right beside me, scares the daylights out of me. And I'm like, what's going on here? Like, that doesn't happen. Like, yeah, it will fall off the cliff, but it doesn't land that far away. It will land closer and then roll towards you. And I'm still like, that startled me and I'm like, where'd that come from?

What is going on here? So I'm looking again, and I'm like trying to figure out where it came from. And a smaller one, probably like 10 pounds, just twice as fast, twice as far as as as soon as I saw it, it was past me. And it was like dangerously close. And I'm like, okay, I need. I need to move. I need to do something. Whatever, whatever it is or whoever, it knows where I am.

And it's trying to tell me to either go away or get gone or go away. And I'm like, I slowly, I don't turn my back. I'm looking the direction those rocks came from. And I'm just slowly walking down the trail I came. and then I heard this like low grumble grunt like something that you would imagine like an angry bear making like a really low grumble grunt and the same direction those rocks came from

here comes this you know probably ton boulder just comes off the hill slams down into the ground and goes rolling right past me. and at that point I turn around and I hauled back to the main road and I called my dad and I'm like I don't know

what's going on but something's throwing these huge rocks at me and I either I'll meet you at the end of your trail or you can come through there and meet me at the truck

and so he goes through coming back the way because why wouldn't he you know like crazy guy and so he's coming back through that trail going the opposite direction so he's coming back the way he came

which is from where I was sitting he was heading northwest-ish so he's coming back that direction and heading how I'm trying to think here but either way He's coming back from the way he came.

You know, we're going directions, going the direction we came from. And he smelled that awful smell. And instead of it being like a death pungent, like awful, like rotting smell, to him, he explained it more of a, like, skunk weed, like those skunk weed plants so it wasn't as bad

but it was that pungent not that dead smell just a pungent awful like skunk smell and he was saying that as he walked along he felt ill too and he was feeling awful like sick to his stomach

and he walked on his way out he didn't have anything thrown at him he just had a smell and an awful stomach like awful feeling, like a bad feeling or something. And that was the end of that encounter. That is pretty intense. And you're saying this is in Skamania County? Yeah, this was upper Skamania County.

Scamina County is pretty big. From the gorge side, if you're at the gorge, if you kind of go right in the middle of the Schemania County, it's right around there. Gotcha, because, I mean, Schemania County goes... Forever. Man, all the way up past Mount St. Helens, right?

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Hmm. Did you ever look to see if anything else had been reported in that area for Bigfoot activity?

I did it mainly because I didn't know where to look. Like I didn't know if I just go on Google or Safari or if I go like on an app or like a certain web page or a forum. I didn't know where to go. And for the longest time I just kind of blocked it out of my mind after it happened. It was just like one of those scary encounters where I kind of blocked it for a little bit and I didn't really think about it that often until I started listening to your podcast and I was like, that makes a lot of sense. Because at this time you would have been around 12 right? No, yeah, 19 now and 2012-13.

Yeah, barely had a phone just starting high school, you know, just ending middle school, starting high school. You know, because my high school is kind of weird, you know, you middle school goes to the high school at seventh grade, and then your seventh and eighth grade is in the high school, and then you go to freshman. It was kind of weird. So during this This interaction where the rocks are thrown at you, you're like, let's get out of here. Were you thinking Bigfoot at that time, or is that something where you had that realization later? This is Matt Rogers from Los Culture Eastas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang.

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Other conditions apply, including enrollment and receipt requirements. See penshoil.com slash warranty for full details and terms. At the time, I was just kind of just scared out of my mind. It crossed my mind in the beginning when I smelt it. When I had that awful smell, I'm like, oh, that's a skunk. And then it just got worse. And I was like, that's not a skunk. And, you know, considering that I was there beforehand,

and then I was there afterhand, and it wasn't there before, but it was thereafter. I was like, something changed. There's something new, and there's no noise, there's no silence. Like, it's a predator. Like, there's something big that other things are scared of, and they don't want to talk, you know?

And it crossed my mind a couple months after the fact, and then I was like, I wonder, I wonder, but I never knew. And then I listened to your podcast, and it kind of opened my mind to newer terms or, like, being zapped. I didn't ever heard of that until I listened to your podcast. And I was like, I heard a dude explaining to me, like explaining on your podcast what that felt like, what it was. And I was like, that's crazy. Like, that felt kind of like how I felt, you know.

And it was just kind of mind-boggling. And then that's when I emailed you and I was like, hey, you know. Wow, that, that is wild. When you're growing up in this area, Pacific Northwest, was Bigfoot ever talked about? Or did you hear stories about like, okay, so-and-so just saw something weird? Or was that part of your childhood? Oh, yeah. I mean, my grandma loves Bigfoot.

Like, she said she don't believe in it, but she has, like, wooden statues. She has sweatshirt. She has metal portraits. It's like, like, if you took like a laser cutter on a CNC machine and cut out a picture, Bigfoot, like she has a, like, a hand-scupted wooden statue that's like up to your, like, knee high. It's like three feet tall of one. She has shirts. Like, she loves the idea that, but she don't believe in it. Okay.

She's chasing a rabbit. To her, it's more just part of the culture living out there. It sounds like. Yeah, very much so. Yeah. Gotcha, gotcha. Escamania County, is it, when you're going out hunting in this area or you're going out hiking, are you ever apprehensive of things that could happen?

Is it pretty dangerous to go out in this area or do you feel like you guys have a pretty good handle on things? For me and my family, it really depends on where we're going. Landon, so you have this situation happen to you where you experience the quiet, something getting, multiple huge boulders getting thrown at you. And then how does this affect you after this? Sometimes when this happens to people, they go down this road of like, okay, what's Bigfoot? I have to figure this out? Or did it not really affect you a lot? Considering the young age I was, I didn't really look too deep into it.

I just never, like, from 2018 to now, I've probably been back to that spot two or three times, and it was never by myself. I never had someone leave me, if that makes sense. And I never go out in the woods without someone with me. I never go by myself, even if I'm hiking, like, if I'm going off a paved road, like, even if I know the road, like, the back of my hand, like, it could be gravel, it could be a trail. I don't go by myself. A lot of hikers around here do get lost. They do get themselves in trouble. There's a very popular hiking spot out here.

It's called Beacon Rock. And a lot of people climb to the top and they roll their ankle. And then fire department has to go up there. Search and Rescue has to go up there and bring them back down because they rolled their ankle. They can't walk or they dislocated their knee. A lot of awful things happen very quickly when you don't expect it. about 2020 area, you know, 2020 to, you know, 2019 to 2020. My mom, sister, and my dad's friend's wife, they all went out road hunting.

And I can imagine, you know, you just go out on a vehicle, you go along gravel roads and see if you can find anything. if you find something that you're able to hunt, you get it. And they were out there, and they were just on a random road in the middle of nowhere in Schemani County, or out by Carson. And they were rolling slow. They were going, and got all the windows down. They were looking, they're glassing, trying to see if they could find anything. within the trees.

And then all of a sudden out of nowhere, they had this awful, pungent smell. And, you know, when you're driving and you smell an awful smell like that, it's, oh, it's a dead animal. It's a skunk, you know, it's something. But when you smell that smell for the next five miles, like when it follows you for the next five miles,

you know, and then after that, at nothing. That's one of the, that's one of the less severe incidences that I have in my little pocket here. So it's just that they have this awful pungent smell and it followed them for five miles. And they were swearing up and down that they saw Bigfoot and it was Bigfoot that was following them trying to see what they were doing, you know, just observing being curious and stuff. So they're saying the actual had a visual sighting during that time? One person, the driver says that they saw it, but no one else did. So it's just kind of like one of those things where it's like here and there.

Like I cannot be for sure that it was, I wasn't there. And there's one person saying that they saw it, one person, and there's two other people saying, I didn't see it. So it's kind of hard. But they all had the same story of they smelled this awful pungent smell. and it followed them for five miles and then it just disappeared. That is cool that they all

experienced, though, the smell. So the driver that said they had the sighting, did they say any details about like it was by the side of the road or crossing the road or anything like that? It was, if I were to put myself into her position and kind of like, think of it in my way because she didn't really give it,

death in it, like, you know, it was this many yards away or this and that. But from the driver's seat, from her driver's side car, she probably could see about, you know, five yards from her door to the edge of the road is about five yards. And from the edge of the road to the tree, she could probably see another 10 to 15 yards. Not very far. And all of it's like, it's new growth. So it's just trees and low-hanging bushes. You know, very low growth.

Like, it's not old growth. It's all new growth. It's small. It's brand new. It's very green. And so the way she described it is that she looked over and she just could see this. She described it as a bear. It looks like a bear that went from a,

up standing position to as if it was going to fall over on all fours. Kind of like, if you could imagine you standing up and then you go to lean forward to run is kind of how she reenacted it and also explained it. And then she could see it past a couple trees and after a couple trees, it just disappeared. It was just this black furry blur of something kind of in an forward leaning position along the road with them and it disappeared. So just enough for her to think about that for the rest of her life, definitely. That is, that's wild.

She still talks about it. Like when she gets drunk enough, she'll talk about it. Yeah, right. Oh, my goodness. Man, that would, I would just be thinking about that all the time. Oh, wow. Okay, so that's 2020 or 2019 in Carson area. Okay.

And then the most, there's another one, but we'll get there when we get there. But the most recent one would be, this one kind of ties into two different things. But me and my buddy, we're very close. We're very outdoors. And I took him hunting for his first time. and he kind of fell in love with being outside and the whole entire hunting experience and the, you know,

he wanted to get his hunting license, he wanted to get his own rifle, he wanted to go do it all. And then he got the, he got bit by the Sasquatch bug, or he got obsessed with it. He just wanted to go find one. He wanted to go, you know, camp out and have,

that type of experience and stuff like that. So apparently, he watched a whole bunch of podcasts and a whole bunch of YouTube videos and he triangulated high points of sightings of Bigfoot out by Damascus and Sandy, Oregon.

Somewhere around there, kind of by Onalaska is where he says. He says he camps out somewhere in the outskirts of Onondon. Alaska, Oregon, and him and his buddies, they go out there, and they go try to hunt for Bigfoot. And I'm sitting there, and I'm like, you're, you're crazy. Like, you're going to stumble upon something you don't want to find.

So I'm sitting there, and me and him are talking about it, and he's trying to cohorse me to go with him, and I'm like, dude, I'm good. I've had my fair share. I don't need any more yet. And so I would ask him about it because he would go every weekend. And he would come back and talk to me and try to convince me.

I'm like, I'm still good. And then there was a couple times, a couple stories that he had that I was like, yeah, yeah. I'm for sure staying home. but he had a couple encounters where it was him and his friends out somewhere in the middle of Alaska and they had a campground set up next by a little river and then there's a bigger river further out and he was telling me that they had something he didn't really go into too much detail, but he said that there was this

kind of like eerie feeling like they were being watched the whole entire time they were setting up. And after they got set up, sunsetted, it got dark, they started a fire, and they went to bed for the next morning. And as soon as the fire went out, he said that he could hear something heavy come up, and poke at his tent. Like, if you could imagine, like, a five-foot tent, it was just reaching over,

like, as if something were to reach over, and just kind of put its paw or hand on top of the tent and just kind of see how much it would flex, you know, just trying to see how much it would bend. And he's inside of it in his sleeping bag, and he's sitting there, and it wakes him up. and he goes, who's there? It stopped, and you could hear it take a step back,

and then it almost backhanded the back of the tent. It backhanded, either backhanded or swatted at the tent, and just kind of brushed up against the tent. And that's when he pulled out his pistol and put three rounds through the side of the tent. and you could hear something run and breaking and just barreling through the trees. So he gets out, he wakes all of his friends up, and he's like rambling about this experience he just had. And I was like, I'm staying up all night.

I'm going to figure out if it ever comes back. So he stayed up all the night. He chopped all the wood he could find, kept the fire going, and stayed up. He slept through the day. and he was saying that when he got out of the tent to go wake everyone up he could hear it crashing through the trees

and then you could hear it hit this big body of water and it sounded like someone ordered to do a cannonball and so the next morning when he woke, you know, the afternoon he woke up him and his buddies went out that direction

and you can kind of see where this trail's been created it's a very new trail they didn't know if it was whatever it was but they followed it, and it led to the stream, and you could see this, it looked like beaver slide marks into the water, like two beaver slide marks, as if you were running real fast on mud,

and you went to go stop, and you just kind of slipped. That's what it kind of looked like. And he was like, whatever it was, it went into the water. Like, he swears up and down that. This is Matt Rogers, from Los Culture Eastas with Matt Rogers and Bowen-Yang.

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and they're walking up this road looking for grouse or you know a grouse or pheasant just something I don't really agree with it because it's not the season for it but they're going for it

they're just looking for something to you know get down and eat it for dinner or lunch or whatever and he said that they were out there for so long that the sun went down and they got dark. And he had the flashlight, and the other two didn't. And they're walking down this gravel road.

And he can hear something in the bushes on the side, and he shined it over, and it looked like something just kind of dipped out of the light. And then there's this awful smell, and he just was like, okay, I want to go back to camp. Let's turn around. So he turns around and headstir back down to camp. and he's walking down and you know you could hear the

two other guys behind him but he's talking and he's not getting a response but he can hear the people behind him and so he's going down this road he's talking they're not talking back and so he like turns around to go like

you guys okay and all he sees are these two figures just dart to either side of the flashlight. And his friends are 200 yards up the road at the very top just sitting there wondering where he went. He turns around and his friends are 200 yards away. And they're wondering where he's at.

He's the only one with the flashlight. And they're down there, you know, they're under the bottle a little. They're all hanging out, messing around. it's dark out and he turns around and they're not behind him and he sees these two figures jump off the side of the road like either side of the road and it scares him so bad that he lays like a whole entire mag down the hill

the way that they ran like whatever it went down the hill wherever it went and he said he could hear as if it like got hit like a little like a grunt, like as if it either got hit or something hit it, whatever it was, but it was just this low rumbling grunt. And he runs back to the other two,

tells them what happens, and drags them all the way back down to camp, and he just stayed up all night and watched the fire, made sure it was lit. And that night, he swear he could hear, like, things around him moving,

but it wasn't just like something walking. It was just kind of like sitting there like swaying back and forth. It was like, if you were sitting there in a bush and kind of like sit there and try to sway with the bush or something, like you could just hear a bush rattle. And that's all heard all night. And he didn't want to go near it.

He didn't want to mess with it because he was the only one up. If he couldn't see it, he was okay. and that's the end of that one. That's extremely interesting. Is he still pretty gung-ho into the whole Sasquatch thing after that? Oh, yeah. It just fueled the fire for him. Yeah, absolutely.

And you said this was around Sandy? On Alaska. Is that in Washington or Oregon? I think it's an Oregon, on Alaska, Oregon. Okay, I was just, like, I usually try to follow along with when the individual is talking, and only on, it's O-N, and then Alaska is how it spells, right? Yeah. Yeah, the only one I can find is up in, like, by Shahelis.

But I guess, yeah, maybe there's some unincorporated thing. in Oregon, I'll have to take a look closer. Very, very interesting. He, I was like, what's the location? Like, send me, like, you know, the coordinates or whatever. You know, like, maybe I'll want to go one day. And he just, I can't remember.

So he said it was out by Sandy because him and his family, he has some family out by Sandy in Damascus, Oregon. And he made it sound. like, you know, because I was like, I've never heard of on Alaska Oregon. Nonetheless, on Alaska, Washington. So he was just like, yeah, it's over by on Alaska. But the two places I do know of is Damascus and Sandy, and he said that it's also near that area.

And I was like, all right, man. But yeah, somewhere over by Damascus and Sandy for sure. I don't know about the on Alaska part. Gotcha, which, you know, just south of Sandy you get into some crazy stuff if you go south south of Andy south of Sandy

you're getting into like Esticata and there's wild stuff down there I mean that whole area listeners will know Eskata is the name sorry Esticata is the name on Alaska it's Esticata sorry I've got to mix up

Okay that makes that makes way way more sense yeah Esticata is crazy for Bigfoot Dude it's bonkers Okay, so that puts that account in a whole different light. Wow. Okay.

Very cool. Very cool. And he fired through the tent three times. Yeah. Oh, that's so weird. I think that's the first account where someone is actually fired through the tent. Because, I mean, it's interesting because he wasn't able to see what was out there. He's still fired through the tent.

That's wild. Well, I mean, I don't really blame him. You know, like personally, I wouldn't have shot through the tent because you don't know what's on your side. Right. You know, it could have just been a friend fucking with you. But when you all get, you know, just under the bottle and everyone passes out in their tents and it's dead quiet and you're going to bed and all you could hear the fire cracker. You know, the crackling of fire and then out of nowhere, just something comes up and you could hear it walking outside of your tent and you just starts playing. with your tent

kind of freaks you out you're a little underneath the influence at that point in time and you know you just you just do the first thing that comes to your mind and he put three rounds

through the tent yeah no it definitely definitely makes sense when you think of the whole context so yeah wild wild area esticatia's got a ton going on

and did you say was that pretty recent then yeah that was within the past two months okay wow that is very recent. My goodness.

It sounded like there was, you had one other account to share as well. Yes. This one I can say from personal as from, like the first one, but chronological order from what I can definitely say what it was to what I can't definitely say what it was. this last one is what I don't really know about. Gotcha. Yeah. It's, it's, oh, that scared the crap out of me.

That's a weird whistle out of nowhere, dude. Right? I'm sitting outside. Okay. I'm sitting outside of my driveway because it's the only place that's quiet. And that weird whistle appears out of nowhere, and I turn around and I almost poop myself, but it was just some dude right in the segue on the road.

Oh, nice. just a random segue guy. That's cool. All right. Oh, that's good the crab out of me. All right. But the other,

the last encounter, this one's going to be more of a longer one. And it, I was a little, I was, I know I want to do in chronological order,

but you got to save the best for last. This was, around middle school, you know, beginning of middle school, middle, you know, like the beginning in the middle of middle school, that time frame. And me and my good buddy and his dad, we all went out camping. I don't remember where, I don't remember the campsite, but it was just, you know, it was mainly like a tent site, you know, no campers, no pop-up campers, nothing like that, just tents, tents grills,

you know, that sort along the river. And me, my friend, and his dad, his dad's ex-military, my friend,

he's about the same age I am around that time, maybe a little bit younger, like by a couple, you know, nothing major, maybe by a year or so. And I remember us setting up,

us getting ready, and this can't, Campgrounds, like super popular. It's the middle of summer. You know, like nice water, middle of summer. It's hot. It's sunny. It's nice out. Clear weather. You know, you just want to go outside. You want to go. You want to go do something. You want to go camp. It's that weather. And it's by this river. I wish I remember the locations, but I don't unfortunately. And I remember. We went out. We had a great time. When we set up camp, we went out, we had a great time. We come back and this campgrounds, you know, full of them when we arrived. And we, you know, we relax. We get some mores going.

And we go to, we start, you know, getting our way to bed and, you know, the campgrounds slowly, you know, the lights start going out and you get ready for bed. You know, it gets quieter and everything. And so I remember us going to bed. We were in two different tents. One for his dad and one for me and my buddy. And we're going to bed. We're quiet. You see the water running.

A couple people are still up, you know, talking around the can't fire. And I remember going to sleep. And then me and my buddy, we wake up to a car peeling out. And we're like, oh, someone got. drunk and decided to go for a drive or whatever. And so we wake up and I'm like, okay, I'm going to go to the bathroom since I'm up. I get up and I go outside the tent. I look across the campground and everyone's gone. It's about probably 1 a.m. around this point in time, I get up to go to the bathroom and everyone is gone. I couldn't tell if it was just the people close to us left or everyone

was gone. It was dark, but it looked like everyone left. And so I was like, that's strange. And so I wake my buddy up, and I'm like, hey, the campground's empty. And he kind of was like taken aback at first.

You know, he just woke up. And he's like, huh? Like, what, what's going on? And I'm like, the campground's empty. Isn't that strange? And he was like, yeah, that's weird, but it's probably, you know, nothing big, nothing serious. And I, I just, was like a little confused, a little like what's going on, like what happened.

And then I do my business and I go back to bed. And then maybe it didn't even feel like my eyes closed, but I dosed off. It was super quiet when I woke up, but I was woken up by something hitting the tent. and it just sounded like something like if you were to like you know when you splash water with the back of your hand and you're like trying to splash water to someone

it was almost like that but against a tent instead of water you're just kind of flicking your fingers at it and trying to push it and I'll pick my buddy up and I'm like dude what is going on like like is you dead with us

is like what's happening it. And he wakes up and he's taken aback again. It rattles him awake pretty quick after he sees it happening. Something's pushing up against the tent. And then just like the other one with the camp, it almost seemed like if it reached over the tent, grabbed it from the middle and just kind of lifted it up and put it back down. lifted it up, put it back down while we're in it.

No lights, no nothing. And we're sitting and trying to whisper, we don't want to piss whatever's off. If it's outside, we don't want to piss it off. It obviously can lift up the tent while we're in it. And it's lifting it and us up, but not enough to get off the ground, but just enough as if you were to feel weight and you put it back down.

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you would hit his tent so we screamed and you could kind of hear it you know how you can like if something's really close to you and it fades away you can hear more sound as if something left it was kind of like that It sounded like something kind of backed away, and we could hear the river again.

And then his dad wakes up, and he's gung-ho out of the tent, and he has his flashlight and his gun, you know, rest over wrist. And he turns his flashlight on and just starts laying into whatever it was. He was right there next to his tent. By the time he got out of his tent, it was down by the river. and just flash his lights on and just starts screaming like bloody murder like get out of here go go go go go get out of here go and he starts just laying down rounds towards it as whatever it was was running away and it just ran and it never seemed to stop like it never seemed like he ran out of ammo it never looked like it never seemed like he couldn't see it and that was kind of more of a scary part you know when you're younger

and then all of a sudden, you know, just whatever it is, just one of you scream and then all of a sudden, within like it felt like two seconds, a grown man is yelling with a flashlight and a gun and just yelling while shooting at whatever is outside. And it was quite a awakening, per se, to exactly how big foot, you know, because his dad was like,

that was a big foot. We packed up that night, and we, I didn't sleep in the car. I don't remember. But I know I didn't sleep on the whole ride home, but we left right after that. All we did was the tent, the sleeping bags, and put everything in. Whatever was left, it wasn't important. And we get in the car and we leave. I've never been back there, and me and my friends still talk about it every now and then.

his dad does every now and then too it's nothing like we're we're trying to be like well what you know like don't talk about that that's that's something we don't talk about it's like that was crazy like we still wonder what it was but his dad swears up and down my friend swears up and down that it was a big foot and it was toying with the tent and it was messing with the light like you know everything that was outside of the tent you know you leave stuff out of the when you're a kid, like the lights or, you know, like a little lantern light or, you know, smores or chocolates or whatever. So, you know, our first thought was like, oh, it's an animal, you know, just eating the s'mores that were left out. But his dad said that that thing was on two

legs and it was moving like 10, 15 miles an hour. Like, it was bolting. And it, he was saying that The height of it was about six to seven feet tall, broad shoulders and really hairy. It had a head. It had arms. It had legs. You know, the knees bent like a human. The arms swayed like a human. But the arms are down.

If it was standing straight up, it was kind of more of a slouched. The knees were bent and the hands were by the knees. And it was just sitting there. messing with our tent. And when it took a step back, when we screamed, whatever it was, because I still don't know, but, you know, these other two are like, oh, it's Bigfoot, I wouldn't doubt it. Like, I don't doubt that it was Bigfoot, but I didn't see it.

I had no idea. But if anything, it was. And whenever it stepped back, it stepped on the corner of the tent and broke the fiberglass little rods that held the tent up, and that's what woke his dad up. His dad has, you know, CPAP. He snores. He, you know, he didn't have a CPAP.

We were in the middle of nowhere, but he uses a CPAP and all that good stuff because, you know, get bad breathing. So, you know, he's a heavy, deep sleeper, sleeper. And he probably, I know it was his 45 millimeter, and probably 15-run mag and dumped the whole entire mag at whatever it was

threw in another mag and he watched the woods and around us as me and my buddy tried to pack everything up. It wasn't neat, it wasn't pretty, but we just packed everything up into the back of the car

SUV and we never went back and we didn't talk about it until the next morning. And in the next morning it was just kind of like everyone just was a little off

it was one of those experiences that you go through and you wake up and you just have this weird feeling like something's different, something's new, something changed, and you're just like, you're going through your day-to-day life, but you're just a little scared

because something changed and you don't know what changed. And it was like that for probably a week to two weeks, and then that kind of feeling of something changed or something new happened kind of went away. That's that's extremely, extremely intense, Landon. Man, and it sounds like you, it's hard to remember the specifics of where it was.

We definitely know it's somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Do we know maybe if it's more Oregon or Washington? I know that we're, it was about. An hour to two hour car ride from Woodland, Woodland, Washington. I don't know what direction, but he was staying in Woodland at the point in time, and it was an hour to two hour car ride away from Woodland. Gotcha, yeah, that's a pretty big area. Yeah, there could be a lot of different directions that you went.

That's extremely interesting. I mean, that must have affected you in, was it a long time after that that you started going back into the woods or how did that affect you? I mean, yeah, I mean, after that, I don't really, after that, I just, after that happened, honestly, it just kind of shocked and rattled you. And when you were outside by yourself, as a kid, you're already scared of the dark, you know, and that didn't help. So I was, if I was in my room and the light was off, I was saying, I was.

scared shitless. I was thinking that whatever it was is going to come knock on my window and, you know, pull me out of my window. And it was definitely an experience that I won't forget and I know the other two won't forget. And it's something that you'll always keep in the back of your mind. Like when I'm out in the woods, even when I'm with someone, I still have that, like, you know, head on a swivel, like, if you smell something, like, I lost my sense of smell to COVID, so I can't really smell. I can smell it if it's awful, awful, and I can smell it if it's, like, super, super sweet. Those are, like, the two ranges of scent I have. And that's the main reason why I go out with someone, and I'm like, hey, if you smell something and it stinks, if it

smells awful, if it doesn't stop, like, let me know, we'll go. Like, I'm not going to sit around and wait for whatever it is to reveal itself or, you know, try to do something. Alandon, you guys have been through some pretty wild stuff up there. You and the people that you know, I just want to say, you know, thank you for coming on the show to share what you've experienced. Is it a thing where you want to keep having experiences when you go out or you could live without any from here on out? I definitely could live without more experiences, but at the same time, it interests me. Like, it scares me, but it intrigues me. Like, it's intriguing, like, hey, like, this happened.

You've had an experience. Like, you, I'm not craving for another experience. I'm not going to go looking for it. But if it comes finding me, I'm going to be there, you know? that's how I feel about it. Like if it's going to happen, it's going to happen. I'm not going to stop it, but I'm not going to make it happen. Absolutely.

Do you have any advice to people that might be listening where they're like, they really want something to happen, but they haven't had something happen like what happened to you yet? I mean, out here, when you have an experience, you're going to lose your sense of direction. You're going to lose your sense of reason. You're going to go into fight or flight mode, unless if you're genuinely prepared or if you're ex-military, you're going to be ready for those types of situations.

You're going to be ready to confront whatever it is. But if you're new to the experience, if you never had an experience and you really want one, personally, if you're that determined to find an experience, or go looking for it, don't do it alone. Bring someone with you. Because if something goes wrong, it's much better to have someone with you that can help you,

that can call someone. Like, if you, like, on Bigfoot related, like if you were to fall and twist your ankle and you dislocate your ankle, there's someone there that can hold you and walk you back to camp. Without that person, you're going to sit there and there won't be much that you can do, especially if you don't have a phone, or if you lost your phone when you fell,

or your phone cracked when you fell. It's better to have, the way I like to look at it is less hands make more, or more hands make less work, four feet are better than two, and four eyes are better than two. It's when you have that extra person, it's more security.

The more people that you have with you, the more confident you will feel about doing whatever you're going to do. And however you're going to approach it, just don't do it by yourself. I think that's great advice for going out in the woods in general and doing anything in the outdoors. But, you know, Landon, thank you so much for coming on the show. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you had been wanting to share today.

Yeah, I mean, and for people who are thinking about coming on and talking, when I first emailed and I was kind of like, are I really doing this right now? Like, am I genuinely going to do this? And it took me a couple days to genuinely set up the date just because I thought about it. I was like genuinely debating, like, what, like, what is this going to change? Like, what if this does change something? What if this does, does something? Like, what's going to happen?

Like, all these what ifs. Just, if it's something that you feel like you want to share, share it. If it's something that you want to talk about, talk about it. It's, if you're listening to this just to hear other people's experiences, you can listen. but when you're trying to gain that courage and that momentum to go through that email and genuinely reach out and try to get in contact with the Bigfoot Society and everything like that just there's nothing that can happen like the worst that can that can happen is you lose cell service like your Wi-Fi goes out you the phone call hangs up you know I think that's a great way to put it

I appreciate you sharing the thoughts you have about that. I think that's, yeah, that's a perfect way to put it. But, you know, Landon, thank you for coming on the show. If anything else does happen in the future, you're always welcome to, you know, reach out if you need someone to share it with. And, yeah, I just appreciate you coming on tonight. Yeah, of course. Thanks for having me. Just want to take a minute to say thank you for listening.

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