Sasquatch Chronicles - SC EP:211 Running right into a creature...literally

Episode Date: April 17, 2016

Its a double hitter weekend! Have a great weekend! A listener writes "I've been listening to your show. Not really sure I wanted to put this out there but back starting in 1998 my family and I had 2 years of problems on our property in Northern Florida culminating with me actually running right into a Skunk Ape. Message me if you'd like to hear my story." The witness describes different problems they had on the property, everything from the house being slapped to something screaming at the house on almost a nightly basis. Everything changed the night he ran into the creature…literally.

I had a storm claim and USA was awesome with that. I mean, it was flawless from the moment I called them to getting the adjust out there to getting it approved. See how much you could save with USAA. Never pay for their participation. 5.5443.321. When I had come down this hill, I had seen this creature cross the road. They would have ripped my locked door from my truck, extracted me from my vehicle, and there wouldn't have a damn thing I could have done about it. This thing I got to notice in its eyes.

His eyes was real, real evil, real sinister looking. You know, the look it was given. See ya! Hello? Get somebody out here. What's going on now, sir? That's son of a bitch is about six foot nine, I don't know. Do you see him now, sir?

Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh. Watch Chronicle. A place where people share their... encounters. Let's start the show. Welcome back to the show, everyone. Thanks for being here tonight on this doubleheader weekend. If you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot me an email. My email address is Wes at Sasquatch Chronicles.com. And if you get a chance to check out the website, Sasquatch Chronicles.com. Become a subscriber, get additional shows,

help support the show, keep the show going. I really do appreciate you guys being here tonight. got a very interesting encounter tonight. Can it be speaking to Randy? And Randy had a lot of interesting things going on and around his property. He's down there in Florida. He had a couple times he had these creatures come up, bang on the house. Just strange things going on and around the property. And he could never really put his finger on what was going on.

And it wasn't until one night he ran into one of these creatures, literally. So look for that here in a moment. If you're a subscriber of the show, I know on Thursday night I spoke to Bob and very, very interesting encounter. Bob is, his mother actually was a veterinarian and his father, they both worked, his mother and his father both worked for the state. Fishing game. They worked for the Native Americans on the tribe. Anytime an animal got hit or an animal was injured, they would call his mother out, his mom and dad out to take care of the animal. either put it down or knock it out so that they could help the injured animal.

And one night they were called out to this large animal that got hit on the side of the road. And his mother describes it as being a half human, half gorilla. And she tried to knock the animal out. She estimated it weighed between six and 900 pounds. But they go into full description on what they saw and what they experienced. I hope you get a chance to you check it out. Thanks again for being here tonight. Let's jump right into it.

Randy, thanks for coming on the show, man. I appreciate you being here. Thanks for having me. And if you would kind of start from the beginning, what part of the country did this take place? And if you would, for the audience, just kind of walk them right into the experiences you guys had on this property. Well, what had happened was it was,

I think I believe around October of 97 where my wife's father got sick. We lived down in West Palm Beach, Florida at the time.

They had bought property up in it's a very small city called Interlockham which is 30 minutes from Gainesville and about 45 minutes from O'Cath.

So it's kind of right in the middle there. We had gone up there many times to visit. We liked the place. I mean, it was nice. So when we didn't hesitate, especially with him being sick, we knew. So my two kids were, well, they must have been nine and eight at the time. So the four of us packed up and went up there. We stayed with them probably maybe four or five months.

We went looking around for properties to rent because it's a very rural place. A lot of dirt roads have like a McDonald's and I think a little 7-Eleven and that's about it. So we came upon a property. We just happened to be driving back. My kids were already going to school at this time. There's an elementary school. and there's the main highway that runs, I'm going to say north and south is 315. So their elementary school was right off of 315.

And we just decided to look back that way because it would be closest for us to get them to school. And we just ran into this property. They had signs out. It was six slots, all fenced in, double-wide mobile home. which was perfect for us. The owner actually lived down here in West Palm, where I'm at right now, and we contacted him and off, you know, we had the property. We were moving in, like, within a couple of days.

So the first incident happened about maybe a little close to a week after we had first moved in. And I was working at night. I was cleaning restaurants. I had my own business doing that. So I was usually out of the house. I was usually I had to wait until the restaurant's closed. So I usually leave my house around 9, get home probably. Could be anywhere from 1 a.m. to 4 a.m.

depending on how busy I was. So one night I was coming home. And as I pulled up my dirt road where my house was, I saw two police carts outside of my house. and I freaked out because I didn't know what was going on. Back then, there were no cell phones. So I had no way anybody could call me. So I jumped out of the car.

There were two police officers that were in my yard towards the back of my house with flashlights. And what had happened was something hit the side of my house. my wife described it as sounded like a truck ran into it so she flipped called the police there was nothing that they could see and what they thought was that it was a deer had run maybe got confused

and hit the side of the house they said it happens up there a lot which you know I never had anything like that in my life I saw plenty of deer when I went up there, lived up there, but I never had any experiences with any deers before. So the next morning, I went out to look because it was, we didn't have motion detector lights or anything because we had just moved in. There was one window on that side of the house, which was where my kid's room was. And there were two big indentations above the top of the window.

estimating it now, I would have to say the window, to the top of the window, had to be at least maybe seven feet because you've got the foundation of the mobile home, which is cement, which has got to be at least, I would think, three feet. And then the mobile home is above that. So I'm guessing somewhere around the top of the window would be at least seven feet. and these two indentations were parallel to the top of the window. I didn't think, I didn't know anything other, because I honestly had never gone out and looked at outside of the house. For all I knew, they were already there. I was just looking to see if there was anything else that I could see,

because I was expecting to see holes. Because it's aluminum siding on the mobile homes. I was expecting to see holes from antlers or something that would tell me that that's what happened. But there was nothing. What you mean? When you say indentations, do you mean like something had actually hit it with a fist or what did it look like? It looked to me like if you took, they were about the size of a softball, not a baseball, but a softball. And one was in deeper than the other. The one on the right hand side pushed the aluminum side in, almost perfectly round.

And the other one on the left-hand side was not as pronounced as the one on the right. But you could still make it up that they were, that's where whatever hit the house, that's where, well, that's where it happened. It had to be. The window never broke. It woke my kids up because they went screaming. But my wife, my bedroom, my wife and my bedroom was on the opposite side of the house. And she said it shook the entire house because she was in bed. So imagine what the kids were asleep and it hit their window.

So we went, my wife's son, my stepson came up there and we went and got motion detector lights and put them on all four corners of the house. Just for safety, you know, just because it was so, you're so alone. there. We had one neighbor across the street down the ways who was probably at the time he had to be in the 70s. So, you know, if anything, and the police there, it's like, forget it. You call the police by the time they can even find your property. It's probably different now. But back then, you know, there's so many different dirt roads. It's like you could get lost in there very easily. Anyway, my property, as I said, it was six slots, which is probably an acre and a quarter, I believe. But it was all fenced in.

Back of the property, there was a dirt road that went completely around my property. The back end of my property was a swamp that ran kind of catty corner to my property and that around behind my neighbor's house. not a huge like I was just looking on Google Maps and I think I found it finally so I'm not going to tell say I'll tell you what the address was and then you can look at it later because I really don't want to release that right now yeah you don't have to say it on there okay um so we had there were no incidents for nothing had happened everything but we had three dogs one of them was a huge mass

had to be 140 pounds. And they stayed outside. They slept on the front porch. They patrolled the property. Anybody came near our property. And those dogs were right out there. And, you know, it was very rarely. You had the mailman that came once a day.

And then, you know, that was really it unless somebody was lost or, you know, the neighbor went to the store and came back. You'd hardly ever saw any foot traffic or any cars going by our house. Except for who lived. If we saw a car, we didn't recognize, then we knew, you know, they're either lost or there shouldn't be where they're over here right now. So I think I would like, I'd say it was probably about maybe a month and a half after the house getting hit that we were out. We were barbecuing, and it was late, not real late, but like 9, 10 o'clock. and we heard

I can't describe the scream except that it was so loud and went on for so long it was almost like as it was happening you were just waiting for it to end and it just kept going and as it reached its crescendo

at the end you could practically feel it in your stomach because it went from like a scream a woman scream to almost like a bellow that was very, very deep. That's how, and it was like, if you ever been in a car that somebody has,

you know, a huge, like a stereo, a really good base to it where you can feel it beating in your chest, that's what, that's what this reminded me of. And we called the, and I'm not sure it was the sheriff's department or if it was like a county police, whatever, they didn't come out,

but they had wildlife. came out. And the guy came out like three days after this happened. And we explained everything to him what happened, what it sounded like. And he said that it's possible it was a Florida a panther. And the minute I heard that, I'm like, oh, my God, because my kids were always playing outside, going around the property. But they hadn't had any reports of any Panthers for like 12 years, he told us. He said, and I'm like, well, what else could it have been? And he's like, that's really the only thing that's going to make a noise you're describing.

It could have been a bobcat. There's no coyotes or anything like that up there. And it definitely wasn't a dog. There's just no way. So he more or less gave us his card and said if it happens again, Tom. me. Well, it happened again and again and again. It was like clockwork for almost two weeks straight between nine and ten o'clock every night. It got to the point. I called him and called him and called him and he never even came back out to investigate him. So my kids were forbidden to go

outside unless I was out there with them. They couldn't leave our house to go to their friends unless we drove them there in the car because I was, we were both petrified. We were both petrified. that it was a Florida panther or something that could kill somebody. So the noises stopped just to all of a sudden one night, nothing. And then nothing at all. Nothing happened at all for probably. Now we're in 98. So the next thing that happened was probably three or four months later where my dog started getting out.

they were digging under the fence and I would patch up the fence and they'd go to a new spot and dig up another way and get out they never really did anything they just went around the neighborhood they always came back well they were gone one day

and I went out to see which way they went under the fence so I could go fix it again and the whole it was a chain link fence probably four foot high that went around the whole house the top bar of one section of the fence

was bent down almost in the shape of a V when it came to a point it was probably almost touching the ground and those bars I had them on a fence where I live right now you can't bend those things by hand it's impossible so I figure maybe something felt

there were no trees There was nothing. We had no storms. And I know the dogs couldn't have done it. Even if they had jumped or tried to jump over the fence and landed on the top, there was just no way that bar was going to bend. So the only thing I thought of was maybe somebody's trying to case the house and to rob it. And this is like if they could pull their car around the back of the house, no one would know they're there, push the fence down, go in, steal the stuff, and go. I never thought anything other than that.

The police came out again by this time they knew us very well. And they had no explanation for it either. There was just nothing that could have done that. I remember the one cop said something. I don't remember what he called it, but there's another city over, away from us going towards Jacksonville that had some kind of sightings or a mythical creature

throughout the years that they talked about. I don't know. It wasn't called a woolly booger, but it has some weird name that they associated with. I'm trying to think of the city. If I can remember it, I'll say it. And then maybe whoever,

if anybody lives around that, that's listening, they may know what I'm talking about. But the cop made a comment like that, but I didn't know what he was talking about. In other words, it's a boogeman or whatever. So the fence gets fixed. The dogs are still digging under the fence and getting out.

We had an incident one night. We had all gone out to Walmart. The dogs would always stay up on the porch, right up on my front porch when we left. Unless somebody happened to go by, then they'd go charge the gate, and then they'd go right back. That's where they slept, everything.

So we come home with our groceries, get out of the car. The dogs are not on the porch. So I'm thinking, oh, God, they got out again. And at this time, it's night. So there's no way I was going to go walk around looking for them. But I did. After we put the groceries away, I went out, and I walked around the outside of the property with the flashlight. and they were all in the corner of the property, not sleeping, but they were like all shaking, especially when the big one.

I mean, I thought maybe they had gotten poisoned or something had happened to them. Somebody had done something. I told you when I first talked to that one of them had gotten shot by a neighbor, which was when we first moved in there. So that was kind of weird. They finally came around and came back up to the front. of the house, but it took quite a while. I remember we gave them Benadryl. We gave each one of them a Benadryl tab because we thought maybe they ate something up there. We had tons of water moccasins and Diamondback rattlers up there. So we didn't know if there was a snake bite

or what the heck they got into. But by the next day, they were fine. There was no signs of them being sick or anything. As we went on, the scream started again. But they were sporadic. You might hear once a week and then you wouldn't hear anything for a month. But whatever it was, it was letting us know that it was there. So anyway, fast forward to, it must have been the summer, or getting close to summer of 99, we had apple and orange trees on our property. I think we had four apple and three oranges or might be the other way around

and we would go out when when they all were ripe we'd make it not a day of it but the kids were young and they enjoyed it we'd go out there with the ladder and we'd go picking fruit

bring it in and so we had planned to go out and do it they were out just about ripe and especially the apple tree the apple tree was pretty tall too it was probably had to be at least 23 tall and they were full.

I went out there, just checked to see if they were okay. They all looked like they were just about ready to be picked. So a couple of days later, we got our baskets and went out, and there was not one fruit on any tree. Not even, and they were not on the ground. They just vanished. And they were there because I saw them. And I'm thinking, well, how could this happen?

I know that I don't think the neighbor would have come over. There's never any kids around our place except for my two. And, you know, it just was like, what the heck? So I went over to my neighbor. I wasn't great friends with him, but I was pretty good friends. He helped me fix my car a couple of times. And I went over and asked him if he had seen anybody around the property because all my fruit is gone. And he took me to the back of his house and pointed to where he had trees, fruit trees.

And he said, that's why I don't have any fruit trees anymore. And he left it at that and I didn't know what the hell he was talking about. He had, but the fruit trees he did have, he must have taken a chainsaw to them and cut them down because they were at the, they were, there was still the base, the tiny stump sticking in the ground. but he just went out there and cut them down completely. But I just blew it off as well. He's in his 70s. Maybe he's a little senile, and he doesn't know, you know, maybe he just doesn't know what he's talking about.

But that's where that ended. There was really nothing I could do. I wasn't going to call the police to tell them they aren't, you know, my fruit is gone. I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't have rushed out to my house. They had been to my house so many times to begin, but they probably were thinking we were all crazy, which we weren't. It was just we were in a situation.

We didn't know how to go about getting anything done. I never knew back then about any kind of skunk apes. I had seen the original Patterson video in the movies when I was a kid, but I thought that that was generally a northwest, you know, Oregon, Washington, upstate California type of thing. Never heard of anything down here. at all. So that never even entered my mind. I was more or less worried about, like I said,

that it was a Panther. So as we entered fall of 99, everything was very, very quiet. There was no problems at all. The only problems that we did have, which I just thought was minor, but thinking back on it now,

it may not have been, was our motion detector lights came on all the time. and I mean if you're familiar with that we had on the four corners of the house so two are at the front of the property two are at the back of property the dogs are in the front how do the back ones go off so I'm thinking well maybe it's just the lights are malfunctioning maybe the if the trees blow in the wind it might set them up there's a million different things that could cause it but they did a lot and one of them was where my bedroom was and it would wake me up because it was right there and they were really really bright. I'd get up, look out the window, there's never anything there. So we just, I just blew that off as just malfunctioning motion detectors. But anyway, the combination of the whole thing happened in February of, I believe it was either January of February of 2000. I was a Friday evening.

It was very cold up there. When it goes down, it can get down there. It was probably in the low 30s that night. It gets cold up there during the winter, not down here where I'm living now. That never happens, but up there it does. And it was a Friday night. I was off. My kids had two of their friends spent in the night.

So they all decided they were going to go out and walk around the outside of the property on the dirt road with flashlights and just play around. Nothing had been happening. And, you know, my wife and I said, all right, we had our windows. A couple of the windows were open because we loved it when it was cold. So we'd be able to hear them and see them. But I decided that I was going to go out and scare them. So as they were getting ready to go, I ducked out the back door. I didn't have a flashlight with me or anything because I knew exactly what I was going to do.

I ran through the back of my property, got to the fence, jumped over the fence, and I could hear them leaving the house coming out my front gate. So I ran across the dirt road and I there's trees there across the dirt road all down that road. There's trees everywhere. But as I'm running full speed to hide by a tree, I ran full speed into something that knocked me back. It wasn't like hitting a wall, but it was just like very hard to describe. I knew I didn't hit a tree because I didn't, I wasn't running in that direction. I was actually looking as I was running. And it just all of a sudden happened.

And just, I flew back and landed on my ass. And I was stunned. I've had concussions in my life from sports. And this was kind of on that where your head is just like, you're not, you can't get your bearings right away. but as I started to get my bearings and was able to look up, there's this thing standing there. And the feeling that I got, besides utter fear, that I'm about to die, was my kids are coming. But I could not move the size of this thing and being that close to me.

I mean, it couldn't have been more than two feet away from me at this point. It had one arm holding on to the top, not the top, but pretty high up on tree. And it just glared at me. Its mouth never moved. It never showed its teeth. It had kind of human characteristics facial-wise. But, I mean, this whole thing probably lasted too many. minutes if somebody had timed it.

It felt like it was three hours. But in that time, I could see almost every detail because it was a full moon. I mean, it looked to me like it had mange. Like it was missing a lot of hair it should have had. And there were scabs. the longest part of its hair hung from its shoulders, which were so wide, they had to be at least five feet. Had to be five feet wide. The shoulders came down to a very slim waist, but the legs were huge.

The thighs, the only thing I didn't look at was its feet. its thighs and caps were just like double the size of mine i mean i'm not a huge guy but i'm around 200 pounds 5.9 and my legs are actually pretty good pretty big but this thing was twice in mine and its biceps and the length of its arms was what you know that was i think most thing I was scared was that it was going to want to reach over and grab me, which a normal human wouldn't be able to do at that distance, but he could have grabbed me very easily and just broke my neck. I'm saying he, I'm not even 100% sure.

Was he he? Because I didn't look at that part. The way it was turned, I couldn't actually tell. I didn't see breasts. But the head, it had no neck. The back of its head had a little bit of hair, but it was almost like it was balding,

where it was almost a grayish color to the skin, all the way down into the face, and the bottoms of the hands were grayish. The hair that was on its body was like a reddish brown, but like I said, it was very sporadic. It had to have had some kind of mace, Because we had found puppies that somebody had abandoned a few months before this happened. And they all had mange.

And they looked, that's the first thing it reminded me of because it looks, it's like a bunch of scabs. And it almost looks like the skin is like been scratched raw and where it becomes a big scabbit. This was the majority of its body. its chest there wasn't his chest was was big but it also had that grayish tone to it how tall do you think the creature was well those trees there

I'm not a tree expert I mean I have some mango trees right here I was talking the other day I was outside and I was looking at the trying to compare the mango trees to the trees that were up there those were those were bigger around. I mean, I have a huge mango tree in my front yard, but these were more, they had to be maybe 12, 12 inches around, but they were all spaced out all over the place up

there. But it looked to me with his hand grabbing the tree, that it had to be like his hand was reaching up possibly 10 feet. So you would have to put this thing in between, somewhere around 7 foot I know it was definitely bigger than I was. There was just no question about that. And as I said, it went, the whole thing probably was over, and it might even been less than two minutes. I'm just guessing on that part. But it felt like it was just going on forever.

And I was waiting for it to just decide what it was going to do, looking straight into its eyes and trying to determine what it was thinking or, you know, so if it was going to make a lunch for me, I could try to move, even though I was just, I pissed my pants when I saw this thing, and I'm not lying. That's the truth. This thing scared me. I've never had a scare like this or that in my life, and I hope to God I never do. But I could hear the kids coming, and that's the only thing that kept my mind clear, because

if I was just there and I didn't have something else to try to figure a way out of this, this. I mean, who knows what would have happened, but I may have flinched or moved as I heard the kids getting closer and then it just gracefully, as it was already holding one of the trees, it reached over and grabbed another and it's almost like it paralleled by grabbing the trees right back back off into the swamp. I even heard it go into the water. So, but it was just out, it was just so graceful. I mean, it was like if you'd see a gymnast in the Olympics, the way it just, like it knew,

or that's how it got through those trees, like it was used to it. When I heard it go in the water, it was when I could finally move. And the first thing I had to do was get kids, and I got up, went out on the dirt road, and they were coming, I could see the flashlights, and they were right down by the swamp. And I started yelling, get in the house, get in the house.

And they all got scared. They thought I was joking at first. And I said, I'm not kidding. Get in the house. Well, they ran back up on the porch. I was right behind them. And as I was closing the gate, they were already on the front porch. They could smell me.

Had to be 30 feet away from it. And the first thing they said was, what is that smell? I didn't even notice it until they said that. And when I did, I said, oh, there's a skunk over there and they could have rabies. I don't want you guys out. But my wife came out at this point. And the smell, I didn't go up on the front porch because it was starting to really, it was making my eyes water. My wife, when she opened the door, she immediately smelled it.

I didn't want to tell her what happened. I just said, I think I got sprayed by a skunk. I told her I was going to scare the kids. Anyway, she made me take my clothes off outside. I went around the back. Took my clothes off. Rinsed myself off of the hose, even though it was freezing outside. Couldn't get it off of me.

I went in the house and was in the shower for about an hour trying to get this smell off of me. I couldn't get it out of me. It lasted probably for three days. My wife was ready to make me sleep in the car. That's how bad it was. I had to bag up my clothes and I didn't want to put them in our garbage because they only picked up our garbage once a week. And I didn't want it to be because it was like a,

I don't know if you're familiar with septic systems. We had ours go bad out when we lived at that house. and this was like the smell of a dump if you've ever driven by one or been near one where it has like a sweet kind of it's it's a horrible smell but it's something about it it kind of smells kind of sweet and also mixed with bad body odor like somebody hadn't or probably never had used deodorant or and is out sweating for days on end. And I've smelled some people like that in my life. But combine the two and then that it just didn't come off of me. It was, and the worst part about it is I guess when I hit it, I was running head on. So it covered, it was like from my eyebrows all down to my legs.

And so I was constantly smelling it. I never got used to the smell. But as you can, a lot of times with smells, you can, because I mean, I have dogs in my house now, and I have people come over and they'll say, I can smell your dogs. I don't smell them because I'm used to it. I could never get used to this smell. There's no way. Never smelled anything like it. And I've never smelled anything like it since that's happened.

We never smelled that when we lived up there because I would have noticed it or somebody would have noticed it because it's just horrible. Anyway, after this happened, I'd say maybe 10 days to maybe possibly two weeks we were out of there. I wouldn't stay there. Not after that. We moved back down here. And I quit my job up there. And my wife, I never told her what happened. My kids don't know what happened to this day.

But I just said, that's it. We're done. I can't work up here anymore. can be able to live here. We can come up and visit your dad, but we're leaving. So we did. We packed up

and I could not wait to drive away from that property. I never looked back. I've never been back since then. And I probably, even though now that I know more about what it was and I'm intrigued by it, I'd

like to go and do like research, I mean, there's, but not up there. I would go down here because there's a lot of places that there's sightings up down here too. But I mean, every picture I've ever seen or video, and I've watched hundreds of them and seen hundreds of pictures, there's not one of them that comes close to what this thing looked like, not one of them. Now, whether this thing was just something nobody knew about except for like my neighbor and maybe there was only one

I don't know but I do know that I've read another report which is on BFRO if you look under Florida sightings there's one that happened to another family which was not very far from where we lived and it was like a bunch of occurrences over a certain amount of years.

And I'm pretty sure I even know where the property is because it was only like not even 10, 15 minutes from our house. It's a very, very not a well-known, but they have a certain type of tree in their yard, a huge tree that looks like a hand. And that's what they described in the report that I read. That's why I'm thinking that. That house was not even 10 minutes from our house.

And plus, we were 30 minutes from the Ocala National Forest. But I think whatever, that this thing was exclusive to where we lived. I think that we moved in, because nobody had lived in our house for several years. So I guess it had its free reign. It could take all the fruit it wanted to. I mean, not that there was anything else there could do, but and nobody bothered it because there was nobody there. If the neighbor must have known about it, he cut his trees down and maybe solved the problem right there.

When you were looking at the face of this creature, how would you describe it? Would you describe it more of a non-human primate or would you describe it more of a human looking more human? How would you place it? I mean, you got a up close personal encounter with this thing. It looked like a cross, a crossbreed, if there's such a thing, of a human and an ape. It had the ape characterist, it had the no neck, the head wasn't, you know, it didn't come up into a cone like I've seen some of them. This, it almost looked like a bald man, an older man. but I've worked at hospitals before and I've been in morgues and the color of its skin,

which I could see plenty of because it was missing so much hair, was a dead gray color. There was no mistaking. The moon was not making it look any different. Its eyes were black. There was no shine. Well, because the moon was behind it. There was no, I mean, they might have been color, but they looked black.

to me or dark dark brown. The nose was flat, almost like it was like somebody had broken a nose where it was pushed in. And the mouth, it never opened its mouth, it never even moved its mouth the entire time. But it had a very long mouth line, but thin lips.

The lips were very, very thin, but the mouth was, let's say, mine, maybe four or five inches long this thing was you know had to be almost reminded me of the Joker on Batman as far as how how wide the mouth was

but I never saw its teeth the ears had there was there was some hair that was around the ears so I couldn't really make out of what they looked like but you know The thing that got, I think if it had ever snarled at me or the day, I don't even want to tell you what I would have done because I already, you know, I already pissed my pants as only one other thing I could have done at that point. But the thing that really got me was the shoulder length and the arms and the legs.

I mean, you just don't, you don't see something that big. the only thing I can equate it to is when I went to my first NBA game actually seeing them courtside and how big they really are compared to you but I also was in the bathroom once I used to live up in Boston I was in the bathroom at a restaurant and one of the Boston Celtics came in as I was going to the bathroom and stood right next to me and it's you know you don't it's not something you see every day a human being that's seven for tall. You know, you just don't.

But it pipewise and the shoulder width and the arm length and the tree trunk legs, this thing was definitely healthy. I can say that much. But it had that grayish tone to its skin,

which was almost like a person that's dead. That's the color that it was. And then it had the brown brownish arbor and hair sporadically or on its body. From the pictures you've seen and the videos you've seen, what is it that they don't have right from what you saw?

Well, if you know, which I'm sure you do, you know the famous skunk-gate pictures that the lady supposedly took on her property, very, I mean, they've been like on, I've seen them show them on TV and everything. I used to think that that was real because I was like, How could somebody think that it just looked real to me? This looked nothing like that. There's just, that's why I thought, you know what, that thing really almost looked like an orangutan to me,

whereas this thing was like a human and some type of ape combined to look this way. You know, I just, I've never seen anything online, no videos, nothing. that comes close to what I saw. It's just, and I, you know, I kind of consider myself privileged that I was able to see as I, you know, as the weeks and the months went by,

I kind of, I think of it as almost like a religious experience. You know, as scared as I was, I just, to be in that position and to have something like that happen to you, It's almost like a miracle where I look at it now that I believe in these things. There's so many people out there that I see it every day. I belong to a bunch of Bigfoot groups on Facebook.

And there's so much turmoil. There's so much drama. You know, this person hates that person. This one's a hoaxer. This one's, you know, I don't even get involved in it. I like to keep up with it. There's new videos and new sightings. I started listening to your show a couple weeks ago, and I really enjoy it.

But I don't want to get involved in the drama part of it. I mean, I think that's crazy. These things are out there. I swear to God this happened to me. And like I said, I consider myself privileged that I had this happen. I kind of wish I had a sighting where it was. further away from me and I could see it and justify what I saw and that would be the end of it. I just, I don't like the way mine happened because it scared the crap out of me.

I don't, I, I don't know how I would have reacted if I saw this thing 20 feet away from me. But running into it at full speed and then it being that close to me, there's just, that, there's nothing like that that will ever happen to me again in my life. Yeah, no, I hear you. A lot of people find Jesus. A lot of atheists find Jesus and find prayer in moments like this when they're face to face with these things. You know, it's... Well, you're... I think I said this to you the other day.

I guess basically all humans are the same. You know, when we're faced with a crisis situation, they always say it's fight or flight, whatever. That didn't apply to this. Because, like I said, if it had flight, I don't think I still could have got away or even attempted to because I was frozen with fear. Maybe it would be different if it happened to somebody else. If I had a weapon, which I never kept guns on my property because of the kids, I don't even think I would have been able to use it as scared as I was.

There's just no way. Plus, if I did have a weapon and shot it, I probably wouldn't. I would have felt horrible because it would have been like shooting a person. That's the way that I look at it. It's not, they're not far off from us, you know. They're just, maybe there's different types around the world, but I think they're all basically the same, except, you know, some might look different than others a little bit.

I know that their hair color varies from region to region, from what I've seen. it's not the first time that I had heard about the hair color, the one that I saw down here. I've read reports where they've almost said the same color. I never saw a read a report where they said they had gray skin tone. Yeah, no, I've talked to many witnesses that have described that gray skin tone. You know what's... Have you ever seen it?

I've never... Yeah. I've always heard of it. I mean, if you're, like, when you watch the Patterson video, as a day... it's walking away after it does its turn, if you look at the bottom of its feet, now this is in the colorized version. I'm sure you've probably seen that too. Yeah.

But the color of the soles of its feet were the same color as the skin on this one, which was a gray, like the only thing I can describe it as a dead gray color. Yeah, and I'll send you some links of some shows I've done recently. A lot of the witnesses I've had on recently. describe that gray color skin. And, you know, it's an interesting encounter. You ran full speed into this saying, and it didn't really flinch one bit.

It never moved. It never moved. As soon as when I finally, I immediately thought I hit a tree. That was all that I could have done. But then, you know, my mind was like, I'll scramble it. I'm thinking I would have seen the tree

because I was looking straight ahead. So it's almost like it must have walked out. in front of me as I was running because I mean I don't think I was knocked out I more or less had no bearings my head was spinning because of the the force of me hitting it but when I finally was able to look up

it had its hand already on the tree it was already holding the tree and was just looking at me never moved until a minute or however long it was maybe it heard the kids because all of a sudden

it just parallel to the trees right back into the swamp I started thinking maybe they live or in the water because we had gone over there by the swamp

a couple of times to go fishing but there's so many water moccasins I would say forget it this is not worth it I'm not getting bit by a poison of snake there's hundreds of them So I don't know how these things get around it with the snakes, but I think it did not, it looked, it was in tip-top shape.

And so this was 1999 or 2000. I'm sorry, February of 2000. So you're talking a little over 16 years ago. I mean, it may still be there. If that's where its home is, And I've contacted a couple of people that do research here in Florida and never heard anything back. Yeah, it's interesting, too, the other thing you said about its face. You know, there's something about their face and the way they look.

I've talked to many hunters who've had them in the scope of their rifle, where they could have pulled the trigger and had a perfect headshot. Actually, I take that back. I'm probably talking to about three hunters, maybe four. and what's interesting is every one of those hunters I spoke to, I asked them, why didn't you pull the trigger? And there's a couple different reasons. One is they really wasn't threatening them.

But the other thing I thought was fascinating when I spoke to them is they said there was something about the face. It almost, it wasn't human, but it had human terroristics. So when they were looking at it, they almost felt like, I can't pull the trigger. I just, this wouldn't be the right thing to do. And despite what people think, most hunters are actually, actually very ethical people. But they've all said the same thing. I felt like it would have felt like it was like killing a person. Even though deep down as you talk to them, you interview them, you realize, and even they realize it's not a person. But there's human characteristic traits about what they're seeing to where it's difficult for them to pull the trigger.

I wish that I had a better view of its eyes. But as I said, the moon. was behind it. So the only thing that I had, the night sky was still lit up from being a full moon, but the eyes just looked black to me. And I know if I had a better view of them, then you can tell from me reading other reports

and you can just see intelligence when they look at you. And I wish that that happened, but it didn't. They just looked black to me. And the face was emotional. not one wrinkle moved the nose didn't sniff the eyes didn't blink the eyes looked like they were wide open though i never noticed them blink at all but they looked just black to me and um the mouth never moved the whole body was almost like it looked like a statue just standing there perfectly still

and the only thing, as I said, was I think it may have heard or must have heard my kids coming. And they had flashlights, unless it caught one of the beams of the flashlight out of the corner of the side. I couldn't tell if it was looking at all. It wasn't moving. But then all of a sudden, it just left. It just went off like it about its own business. you know, it could have killed me. There's, I have no question that thing could have killed me if it wanted to.

And it could have killed my kids. It could have killed everybody that lived in the whole area if it really wanted to. And, you know, unless somebody shot it and killed it. But I think it was just, this is what it, that's where it lived. We moved in and maybe it bothered it because it had free rain, you know, with our fruit trees in our yard. nobody was living there except for the neighbor across from us. He probably knew about it cut his trees down, so it probably never

even bothered him. So we were encroaching on its home when we moved in and I guess maybe it was telling us hey, I was here before you were. Yeah, I think it's interesting too the Sasquatch's behavior. You know, most wild animals,

while you rarely ever run into something like that, you know, most grizzly bears, bears, deer, they're gone. They hear you coming and they're gone. but running into it and then having it just stand there and look at you, you know, like you're nothing. I mean, you didn't startle it, you didn't scare it, you don't terrify this thing one bit.

And then to hear the kids coming up, and then it turns and just kind of walks off. It doesn't run off. It wasn't like a flash, you know? It didn't just rock off. No, that's not worth it did. It was grabbing the trees and gliding through, through the trees.

Its feet were off the ground. It was using the trees to get to where it was going. That's how it did it. It didn't walk. I know that for a fact. I never really paid much attention to the feet, but I could tell they weren't touching the ground. It just, it was so graceful.

I've seen videos of other, you know, monkeys, chimpanzees, whatever. And when they go from tree to tree, it's very graceful. There's no, you know, they don't usually miss grab. They just, they just go along with the way it was. That's what this did. They never touched the ground until,

and maybe it did when it got further away from me, I couldn't see anymore. But that's how it got out of where it was. That's really interesting. So it was actually hanging on the trees, as it from one tree to a next? Yeah. It already had its hand on the one

and never moved from that, that stayed there and as it turned let me see that it had its right hand up on the tree in front of me that's the one that never moved when it decided to just go it reached with the left arm and grabbed

a tree adjacent to that one and then just glided right through and then I did hear it splash into the water and then that was it but I've never read anything about them doing that before either so It may have just done it because it maybe was a spur of the moment thing. I mean, there's no telling that.

Well, I definitely do get reports of them in trees. Did you ever tell your wife what really happened that night? No. She has her suspicions that something happened there because my demeanor and everything changed after that night. I wasn't the same person I was before it happened. I was just a mess as far as like anxiety. And I probably should have gone to the doctor because I just was almost to the point where I just, I wanted to get in the car and just leave all the stuff there and go.

I wasn't even concerned with any of my belongings. I just didn't want to be there because I didn't know what this thing really was capable of. And I didn't want anything to happen to my kids or my wife. And, you know, there's no telling.

I mean, I've said it a hundred times. It could have killed me. You know, like nothing. Could have snapped my neck. No one would have ever known what happened to me, except that something happened and I died in the woods behind. my house. Nobody would have ever said, well, maybe it was a skunk game or whatever you want to call it.

That would be the last thing anybody would think of. They probably just think I ran into a tree and broke my neck. That was it. So this must have haunted you for the last 16 years. It has. It's, but as I said, it's almost gotten to the point where it's like, I consider myself honored to have had that happen to me because it doesn't happen to everybody. There's people that are out in the field for years and years and years and, you know, maybe they might hear wood knocks or maybe they may find some hair. Maybe they may hear audio of them, you know, yelling, whatever. But seeing one, that's the true privilege. I wouldn't want to.

I would love to see another one, but not like I saw mine. I'd love to be able to go out in the field and see them and video it. And that would be just great, but far away from me because I don't, I wouldn't want to be that close to. That's the only bad part about the whole experience. I wish I had seen it before that and had known that something was there that I couldn't explain. And I'd never have done what I did. I would never have taken that chance if I knew something like that was out there. But they have black bears up there.

that never even crossed my mind maybe there's a bear over here because our garbage never got you know knocked over but the wildlife that we did have when we like when we first moved in

I remember like the first or second night we had to go out and as we were coming up coming home on the dirt roads it was pitch black you had to have your high beams on God forbid anybody ever walked out because you'd handle there's no way you wouldn't.

But here, as I'm taking the corner, there's six or seven deer just standing on the dirt road. They didn't move. They didn't even jump or anything. I stopped, and they just went on their way. But I never saw another deer there the whole time over there. We used to have raccoons. Never saw any raccoons.

They would go up in our trees. Raccoons just disappeared, and especially at night when we, We would hear the screams because a lot of crickets and noise out there at night. Everything would stop right before the scream. You wouldn't hear nothing. You could, couldn't even hear a pin drop. Just dead silence and then the scream would come.

And now I know where it came from it had to be. Because I wish if the technology that they have now was available to me back then and I could have recorded the screen. Who knows what? I wish, I never saw footprints. And we had, I mean, it was a very sandy dirt roads. And my whole front yard was trees and sand. Hardly any grass.

That's just the way the terrain is up there. The backyard had spots of grass, but it was still very sandy. But I never noticed any footprints. I was never really looking for. for any footprints. So even when I found the fence the way I found it, there was nothing around it. There were no footprints. There was like nothing had disturbed the whole area where the fence was first down. Yeah, I've talked to guys who have looked into this for years, never had an encounter, always believed that this thing was real. And then they have an encounter. And the moment

they see it, it's kind of like, holy crap, this is real. You know, even though they spent the last 20 years, is realizing that this is real it's because there's so many people out there that don't believe in it and it's almost like when you say I believe in it

nine out of the nine out of ten people are going to ridicule you and say oh you're crazy there's no such thing this is made up you know they're not the general public and with the shows that they're putting on that they put on TV

finding Bigfoot mountain monsters I mean as much as I love to see Bigfoot or Sasquatch out in the public eye I would much rather watch a documentary than those shows

because they get to the point where they're just common and it makes you know all these people that dedicate their lives and there's many you know there's your weekend warriors and then you got guys that stay out in the field a long time

looking for this. And it makes them look like they're crazy and they're not. I know what I saw. I know what I ran into and there's nothing out there like it.

There has to be more. You've got all these people that do see these things. The only thing is, as they say, well, they never find a body. Well, who knows? knows. Maybe they bury their bodies. They're intelligent. There's, there's no telling what they could do. I'm honored that you'd come on and share the encounter with me, Randy. So thank you so much for... Oh, I appreciate being able to tell it, but really do. It makes me feel a lot better that I can get it out there.

Yeah, and it's terrifying. You definitely had things leading up to your encounter. And I'm sure it was one of those moments of, oh, that's what all this has been. It's been this thing. you know, instead of a panther, instead of a, you know, homeless guy on the back of your property, instead of a bear. I'm sure there was that moment where you were kind of like, oh, that's what this thing is. Oh, yeah, you'd be surprised how your mind goes when you finally figure out what's been going on for, you know, like a year and a half. You know, if it had been a bear, well, things might have turned out differently. I don't know.

People get mauled by black bears a lot. so I don't think I would have wanted to run into one of them either but I never saw any bears up there I'm sure there are but never you know this this thing I would be willing to bet is still there and you know you could go up there anybody that's listening to this now that knows the general area

and uh and and scope it out and I guarantee you you're going to find something there. I mean, I don't think it would have moved on. I think that's its home. It's like two, it's a swamp, but when you look at it on Google Maps, it looks like two separate swamps,

but it's actually one. The only bad thing about it, like I said, is the snakes. I mean, you've got to be really, really careful getting around those things because they are extremely aggressive the water moccasins up there. Never ran into any diamondbacks,

but the water moccasins are horrible. Really bad. Yeah, I've heard that. Well, Randy, I appreciate you coming on. Thanks for being here tonight. Thank you, Wes. We are now friends, and I will continue to listen to you guys.

Thanks, man. You're welcome. And that's it for tonight, everyone. Remember, if you've had an encounter and you'd like to be on the show, shoot me an email. My email address is Wes at saskwatchchronicles.com. If you get a chance to check out the website, become a subscriber.

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