Speaker 1: You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In
this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring
you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen
something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to
quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,
and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.
These are the voices of the people who've lived it.
To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that
just might change the way you see the woods forever.
So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers
as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates
about his medical journey, please go to the carring Bridge
link in the show notes. Thank you, Hi, Peter, Yes Hi,
How are you doing, Sirrey?
Speaker 2: Good? Good good.
Speaker 1: Now feel free to share what's on your mind.
Speaker 2: This was back in Let's say so well. Let me
let me start over. So I was living in Minnesota
of my life. When I was younger, in my twenties,
I decided I wanted to move out to Washington State.
I had a friend that lived out there, and he
got me to come out and and live with him
out there, and he was telling me about the Olympic
Peninsula and how great all the hiking and diverse the
forest was. And and so we did a number of
hikes to different locations around the Olympic Forest in the
Olympic Peninsula, and one particular hike we had another friend
come out h and to visit and and we, uh,
I don't because because I I tried to recall where
exactly we were, and I I I had asked my buddies.
Now this was probably about a year ago, you know,
where exactly we were, and and they thought it was Staircase.
But I've gone back and looked at at at Staircase
and and see what happened was was it was early
spring and and the snow was still still there. As
you as you gain elevation, the snow got more and more.
So we were using back then of course, there were
just no you know, phones or anything like that, so
so we used topographical maps and we were able to
kind of like kind of parallel the trail, but we
were definitely off the trail. And so, you know, going
going back to to why they thought it was staircase
was and then now I use those topographical maps and
I look up there and and what we were kind
of going for was this ranger station up on top
of this on top of this mountain. And we're like, yeah,
let's let's let's work our way up. Let's see if
we can get up to that range station. Now, we
were in our early twenties. We were in great shape.
You know, we could do anything. So we now going
back to looking at the maps. I looked at Staircase
and there's no ranger station up. We had spent one
night prior, got there like mid afternoon, spent the night,
got up the next day hiking down the trail, So
I mean we weren't I would say, you know, maybe
four to five miles in when we lost the trail
and yeah, there was there was no ranger station up
on Staircase. So I'm not convinced that that's where we were.
But anyway, we started to ascend the mountain, got off
the trail, ran into the snow. We ended up kind
of looking at the map and going, you know, if
we just traverse this mountain side, we can get up
to the top of this mountain and just you know,
take the ridge and meet up to that ranger station,
and so as we're ascending, we kept hearing it was
like a it was like a grunting. It was like
a the best thing that I'm gonna I'm gonna do
it right now. But this is what it sounded like.
It was a huh huh huh. And it was in
a sequence of four every time.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Okay. And now I've I've since I've talked to bigfoot
researcher in the area, Shane Corson. I don't know if
you're familiar with great guy. Yeah, And and I was
on the phone with him for about two hours, and
he was convinced that that we hadn't experienced because I'm
announce to me. You know, back then I wasn't as
h h I I'd say I didn't know all the
animal sounds like I do now. Now I'm an avid
at doorsman, hunter, fisher, you know, And and I definitely
don't know what that animal sound would be besides maybe
a bear. But now I've gone and done my research
researching on on sounds that bears make, and I've even
came pretty close to bear a few times, and they
don't make that sound. They've never made that sound when
I'm around anyway, and Shane kind of had the same perspective. Anyway,
as we're sending the mountain side whatever was making that sound,
we were getting closer to it because it was sound
off every oh twenty minutes or so, I would say,
and we're just we're taking our time, We're going up outside.
We kind of all looked at each other. We're like,
what is that? Is that an elk? You know, well
I elk hunt, so I know now, but that's not
an elk. But back then we're like, yeah, probably, you
know whatever, no big deal, let's just keep going. So
we ended up climbing up. We actually got to where
we had packs on and stuff. We got to where
it was so steep that we we were digging our
hands in the dirt to get up to the side
of the mountain. I mean it was it was steep,
and so we ended up getting up there. This is
this is an area that I imagine no one has ever
been because of the terrain. We end up getting up
so high that that we kind of ran into it
got really rocky and bouldery, and and now that that
sound we heard it sounded off oh five times or
so since the first time we heard it. And as
we're ascending and getting towards the top of this ridge,
it is getting louder, but we're not seeing anything. We're
expecting to see whatever this sound is pretty soon, because
it must be an animal warning us that it doesn't
want us too close, and so we're going to see it,
you know, and make a visual and decide what to
do from there, but we never see it anyway. We
end up getting up there. It's real rocky. We kind
of spidered our way across as boulder and there was
a there was a creek coming down. We we got
across the creek and and we just kind of got
up there and and and we're like trying to just
figure out a path to get to the top of
this ridge. And we kind of got to a spot
where there is no way we're getting up any further,
Like it's just huge boulders, and I mean, it would
be stupid to try to go any further from here.
And we're kind of we got out our maps, we're
kind of trying to figure out what to do, and
all of a sudden, and no joke, it was so
loud that I swear it was right on top of
us or right behind the boulder, but I could actually
hear the the almost the breath from the every time
it grunted and did the I mean it was and
we all looked at each other when it did it,
like let's get out of here, Like we were all
just freaked out, Like it was like like, dude, it's
right there, Like whatever it is is right on top
of us. And so we we just turned around and
went back the way we came, and we kind of
got to a point where we couldn't like night night
was falling and we didn't want to go down that
that's steep embankment again. But it was kind of like
we tried going down further and trying to find a
way up, and there was just nothing. And we actually
ended up camping out against a pine tree. And we
were in a two and a half man kelty tent
with three guys, So we were tight in this two
and a half man tent with our feet against a
pine tree on a you know, a steep slope. So
that was it, that was all we had. So we
ended up we end up in the morning, we were
all piled down on the bottom of the tent. Hey guys,
get up. Oh my god, doing twister on the bottom
of the tent. Anyway, Yeah, we end up leaving. We
got out of there. We end up leaving, and we
really didn't really talk about it after that. It wasn't
like it it was. It wasn't like the hoighlight of
the the trip. It wasn't like something that and and
and Bigfoot didn't even we It wasn't even brought up.
It wasn't you know, I knew nothing really about it
back then. I really didn't. It just didn't register. And
with my two bodies it didn't either. Now now that
I've kind of you know've been listening to shows like
Yours and and stuff and and and now now with
that being said, I've only heard one encounter where somebody
has heard that, and it was almost to the tea
exactly what they heard. I heard that. Okay, That's what
makes it kind of interesting for me, Like and and
you know, it'd be nice to have a I wish
there were more people that had that same kind of
vocalization encounter, But I just I haven't heard it yet,
I guess, But but to me, it was like what
else could it have been? I mean, honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if so you mentioned staircase. Is this so
you're talking about staircase behind Lake Cushman? Yes, yeah, Oh
my goodness. If you were up there, dude, that place
is so wild with big stuff. Oh, I mean, you know,
because you've looked into it. And so what year was that?
Speaker 2: Approximately approximately two thousand?
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: I'm fifty one now. I was like, I was like,
I think I moved out there when I was like
twenty two, and I was there until I was like
twenty five.
Speaker 1: So oh that's wild.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Uh you know, it's just one of those one
of those crazy uh in coners. And I definitely like,
I'm not wanting to just jump to the conclusion or
anything like that, like I really I mean, but but
when it clicked for me that hey, guys, I you know,
and I called my buddies and I was like, hey,
what do you guys think you know? And they were like, hey,
that's possibility, like and they what they know? What they
know now? And my my one buddy especially, he's he's
he's actually a he does excursions in the wilderness. He
knows what animals sound like, and and that was definitely
not on on the list, so they didn't disagree with me,
but but yeah, they you know, I definitely I know,
I know now there there's there. Yeah, there's a lot
of activity and in on the on the Olympic Peninsula
and and it definitely could have been we were off
the beaten path. Good ways.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've been talking to people the last
few days about Olympic Peninsula stuff like crazy and like yeah,
Lake Cushman, that area is really really intense and I
mean just yeah staircase. If you went up there, I
mean I would not be surprised you were running into
weird stuff. Dude. What a what a cool what a
cool wilderness story. Thank you for coming up and sharing it.
I do appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do have more if you have time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 2: So basically, when I was a kid, I I lived
in a neighborhood, just a regular neighborhood in the middle
of the city in Saint Club, Minnesota, and I would
I grew up with two sisters, one older, one younger,
and and my younger sister once son and be like,
you know, I'm I'm scared tonight we sleep with me?
And I was like, sure, I'll sleep with you. And
so I was in her bedroom and and and I
woke up in the middle of the night with the
and I heard the sound like like I kind of
opened my eyes. I kind of heard like a creaking sound.
I opened my eyes, and I I look at the
bedroom window and and I see, Uh, it was definitely
a full body apparition of a Native American young girl.
And I say Native American because I could I could
see the garb she was wearing. She had braids, she
had braids, and she had a doll in her arm.
And it was kind of weird because I know, I mean,
he was on a rocking chair and that's what was
making the creaking. And I'm not sure that rocking chairs
and Native American people if there's any correlation. You never know,
I guess, but maybe they could have traded a rocking
chair for who knows. Anyway, that's what I saw, and
I just kind of chocked it up to it, and
I did pinch myself. I was like, I'm not dreaming,
I'm seeing what I'm seeing here. And I kind of
just put it in the back of my mind. And
a few years later, I was talking to my neighbor
that lives across the street, and behind his house is
a big set of woods and it never got developed
for whatever reason. To this day, it never got developed.
And he said to me, because we always went back
in those woods and played, and he told me, apparently
this is a there's Native American barrel growings back here,
and it just clicked in my mind. I was like,
oh my gosh, yeah, okay, yeah, that just confirmed what
I saw was probably who knows what what that neighborhood
was built on, you know, and.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely now probably in the nineties.
Speaker 2: You're saying that neighborhood was probably built probably in the seventies,
and I was. I was there in would have been
eighty eighty two. Eighty two to eighty seven is when
I lived there. So yeah, anyway, going forward from there,
my parents end up buying a house out in out
in the country and uh, we lived out there. Almost
immediately started having activity, paranormal activity. And I know, you're
not a paranormal show. There's it brings me to what
I'm going to be talking about, Okay, but this is
where my belief in the paranormal and and everything else
come into play. But so I had I had a
few different experiences.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The first one was I had a I had a
I woke up to like someone turned on the light.
I had a bright or floating around in my room
and it was so bright that that I thought someone
turned on the light. And I watched it as it
floated around by the ceiling and then it sunk into
the light bulb and just dissipated. It was weird. And
then and then we had the heat would be turned
up up in the we had. It was kind of
a It was an old farmhouse built in nineteen oh three,
and the it had it had an upstairs, had an
old basement that was not livable. It was like the
the rock wall type basement. And then had had upstairs.
And then and then out of my sister's room, you
could open the door and go up the steps to
the peak of the attic, and there was a room
up there, and they obviously used it for storage or whatever,
but it was head carpet and stuff and just a
panel ceiling. And the heat would get turned up all
the way up there, and my dad was thinking it
was one of the kids, who's turning the heat up
up there all the way up None of us you know,
why would we do that, you know, So it was
none of us. It was just get turned up all
the way. And it happened like three or four times. Anyway,
I was up there, I had a drum set. I
was jamming on my drum set, and all of a sudden,
I got I got like my spidy senses went off,
and like the hair on the back of my neck
stood up, like someone's right behind me. And I turned
around and we had a we We we'd gone to
Mexico a couple of times when we were when we
were kids, and we brought back those Mariachi puppets. And
I had one of those nailed up to the uh.
On the strings, there's a little wooden cross, and I
had that nailed up to the ceiling. So the puppet
was just hanging, I don't know, kind of creepy, but
whatever I was whatever uh. Anyway, I had that nailed
up to the ceiling. I turned around, and that Mariachi
puppet was like swaying back and forth like someone just
brushed by its. Yeah. I pretty much dropped my drumsticks
and ran downstairs. And I didn't go back up there
for a really long time. A few other things happened,
but I'm going to try to get to the point
of my story. The biggest thing that happened was my
dog was missing. My sister and I were home alone.
We couldn't find her anywhere. We heard her barking. I
went into my older sister's room and I heard her
bark inside the armoire that was last shut. I opened
it up. She was on the Now I was a
little like a lost apsle if you know what kind
of dog that is. Yeah, And she was on the
top shelf like the height of my chin. No way
she'd be able to get up there.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: I looked at my sister said, are you playing with me?
And she started crying, So I know she didn't do it.
And we were the only ones home. So that was
the freakiest stuff anyway, you know. So I kind of
had that as different things happened, I had kind of
that spidey sense, you know, like a sixth sense or
whatever you want to call it, that something was near
or something was gonna happen, or you know what I mean.
Like I could always feel like when there was a
spear present, And so when that happened on the mountain,
I got that feeling like, that feeling came over me.
And I don't know, you know, I just you know
that feeling when it happens to you. And I'm sure
anybody who's listening he knows that feeling, knows what I'm
talking about. But that feeling came over me, and it
was it was it was kind of a kind of
a I don't want to use the word overwhelming. It
wasn't overwhelming, but it was familiar. I knew exactly that feeling.
I knew exactly what I was feeling like. So I
don't know what that had to do with it, with that,
with that encounter, but that's the feeling I got. So yeah,
one more thing. So and and I kind of I've
kind of heard this take before but not exactly, but
people kind of always, you know, say what, you know,
what do they think the correlation between extraterrestrial and and
and Bigfoot is? Because as they see the orbs around
Bigfoot some sometimes sometimes not, but sometimes there's the lights
in the woods, the orbs, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah,
my take on it is is that I totally, one
hundred percent believe that we are not the only life
on this planet. And there is life beyond us, way
more advanced than us. And I do believe we are
being visited. With that being said, uh, the orbs that
people see in correlation to the Bigfoot, are those beings
studying Bigfoot with I'd say something like our drones. They
have their own drones and they're highly they're highly advanced.
Why not if you if you came from another planet,
you came to this and he said, Wow, humans are
really cool, but there's these other things that live in
the woods. They're crazy, Like, we gotta study these things.
We gotta, we gotta exactly, we gotta put we gotta,
we got to really study these things. How do we
do it? Well, let's put our drones out and and
have and just follow them around in the woods. I
mean that sperience. That makes sense to me. If you
if you can go along with extraterrestrials, uh being being
you know, if you believe that they we're visited or
they're already here or whatever. You know.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot a lot going on that
we can't see. Uh, it's super evident, and as science
progresses we kind of figure out more of what's going on. Perhaps, Yeah,
it's just it's so weird as all get out. But Peter,
thank you so much for coming up and absolutely the
weirdness you've experienced in your stories out in Washington State.
I do appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you very much for having me on. I
appreciate it.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 3: Hi, good morning. Let's see. I have a story from
back in nineteen eighty nine. I was very I was young.
I was I think I was maybe seventeen years old,
and I was with a friend. I live on the
I grew up on the East Coast, but I met
a gal on a backpacking trip who lived on the
West coast in California, and together when we were seventeen,
we drove up from California up into Oregon to just
to go on a road trip and you know, see
the country. And so this one night we had gone
to Crater Lake during the day to visit Crater Lake,
and then we left. I can't remember what time of
day we left Crater Lake, but it would have been
toward the end of the day before dark, and we
were driving. We drove north of there, and we were
somewhere in Oregon, north of Crater Lake, and I know
at one point, we're going to east because we'd been
driving for a while and I could see the full
moon was rising up between two big kind of like
pine trees in the road dead ahead of us. Shortly
after that, we stopped at a campground because we wanted to,
you know, camp out for the night, and there was
nobody in that campground. And as I recall, it was
like a state camp type of campground, you know where
you leave your money in the little box in the front.
There was nobody in that campground, and that kind of
creeped us out a little bit, so we decided to
continue on. We drove for maybe another fifteen to twenty minutes,
maybe less, not sure, got to another campground and we
were heading east and we were taking lefts into these campgrounds.
I do remember that anyway. We got into this campground,
we drove way down into the back. There was one
person there at the beginning. It might have been like
the camp host. I'm not sure, but there was one
car in the very beginning. We drove way down into
the back, and I remember we were like there were
there was like where we decided to camp. It was
like little camping spots that you picked and I remember
there was. It was wooded and like kind of like
it went up a hill in front of us. Anyway,
we threw down our tarp. We didn't have a tent
or anything. We just threw our sleeping bags down on
a tarp, and we were awake, like writing in our
journals and chatting for a little bit, and then we
decided to go sleep, turned off the flashlight, and it
was not long after that when suddenly something just came
stomping through the campground. Came from the left, like it
was walking along the tree line, and like when a
when I say stomping, it was so obviously on two feet,
heavy footed, you know, caden like rhythmic stomp, stomp, stomp,
you know, it was so obvious that it was on
two feet, so loud and heavy footed. Came along and stopped.
I think maybe no more than twenty feet away.
Speaker 2: If that.
Speaker 3: It was must have been pretty heavily wooded in there.
Because I could not see what this was, and I
wanted so badly to turn on my flash and see
what it was, but I was no way was I
going to do that. I was just kind of terrified
and just frozen. I didn't want to move, so previous
to that, I was whenever I tell friends or family
the story, I forget the part before we turned off
the flashlight and went to sleep, we had heard what
I described at the time as howling coming from that
wooded area. And two, I don't know what that sound
sounded like, unfortunately, because but I do know that specifically
used the word howling. And we just thought it was like,
I don't know, maybe some coyotes in there. It did
not scare us. So but then after this thing came up,
it came up, it stopped, like I said, like maybe
twenty feet away. I'm frozen, not wanting to move. I
was like laying, they're kind of like frozen, terrified. It
did not stomp away. It stood there. It was stood there.
It walked up, It stood there about twenty feet away.
I don't know, maybe for twenty seconds, that's kind of
a guess. But it stood there for a few moments,
and then I could hear that thing creeping away up
through those trees as if it was tiptoeing. So all
I could hear was little twigs breaking as it was retreating,
and it blew my mind. I'm like, this thing just
stomped up, and now it is just making the quietest
little sound as it retreats, as if it knew that
I was aware of it and wanted to wanted to
leave very very quietly. So at that point I whispered
to my friend when I felt like I had like
retreated a bit, I whispered to my friend. I said,
did you hear that? And she's like, huh. She had
been sleeping through it, and she woke up and she said, no,
I didn't hear anything. And I told her what I happened,
And I said, something just stopped through our campground. And
suddenly we hear the howling again, and this time it's closer,
much closer, and there were multiple howls, like one and
then another and then another. And at that point we
both said, okay, let's get out of here, and we
counted to three and we high tailed it out of there,
in like pure terror at every moment, any moment, thinking
this thing was going to jump out. I mean we
were grabbing, like just grabbed everything and one fell swoop
and just stuffing it into the jeep and like I'm climbing,
like we're literally leaving the campground with me, like in
the passenger seat on top of all of our stuff
because there was no time. We were so scared to
like properly, you know, get our stuff packed in there.
So it was pretty hilarious and scary, really scary at
the same time. So we left there and it was just,
I will say, the night just felt like otherworldly. She
was driving. We just kept heading west toward Idaho, I'm sorry,
east toward Idaho, and it was just just the night
just felt so magical. And we weren't even speaking. We
didn't even really talk about it. I was just in
shock at what had just happened. And I did think
of Bigfoot. Now I'm looking up at the sky. There's
like this this moon and these the clouds were just
forming all these shapes, and I'm up, I'm looking at
the clouds. They're forming the shape of a Native American
chief's head. They're forming one was literally a Bigfoot in
the sky was formed in the cloud. I know that
all sounds really weird, but this happened and all my
girlfriends said, my friend, she would like, we're dead silent,
not even talking, and she just kind of like leaned
forward and looked up toward the sky and said, whoa,
there are some really you know, like crazy things up
in the sky right now, and I don't And that
was it. We didn't even speak. We were just both
kind of just kind of I don't know, like just
in shock and in this weird, kind of otherworldly place
and I don't know how else to describe it. That's it.
And yeah, that's it. So thanks for letting me share,
Take care, and thanks for your podcast, because it's it's
really awesome.
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