Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sasquatch Theory. In this episode, I sit
down with Roger from Iron County, Missouri to discuss an
encounter that has stayed with him for many years now.
During the summer of nineteen seventy five, Roger and several
friends were searching for a missing horse near Big Creek
near Annapolis when they came face to face with a
towering creature standing in the darkness. Their horses immediately panicked,
refusing to go any closer. Roger states the creature was
around nine feet tall and he knows this was no
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With all that being said, let's dive straight into Roger's
bigfoot encounter from the state of Missouri. Roger, Welcome to
Sasquatch Theory. How are you doing today.
Speaker 2: I'm doing fine good.
Speaker 1: It's an absolute pleasure to have you on the show. Roger.
If you would tell me a little bit about yourself
and your bigfoot encounters from the very beginning, please.
Speaker 2: Okay, you said, the name is Roger.
Speaker 3: I grew up in a little town called Balkan d
Ulc a n there in Missouri, south end of Iron County,
pretty remote area, and.
Speaker 2: This encounter took place in nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 3: And the kind of give you a background how it
let up to it was it was I lived about
a mile I guess.
Speaker 2: From a creek there called Big Creek. And there was.
Speaker 3: Probably five or six boys my age or close to
my age, maybe a little older some of them. And
we had over on Big Creek.
Speaker 2: We had a.
Speaker 3: Directed a eight man tent saw them all over there,
and we had gotten slabs. This was in nineteen seventy four,
and we built this tables and I think there was
three of us had horses. We built a corral for them,
and so we spent i'll say the summers of seventy four,
seventy five, and seventy six we spent.
Speaker 2: Our camped out over there.
Speaker 3: A lot stayed there, nice swimming hole over there and everything,
and we.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think here there could be.
Speaker 3: I'll say sometimes we'd stay there two weeks in a
row and then some nights or maybe just be two
of us there, or maybe nobody or whatever. Just depends
on what you know. Kids are working and everything back
then or whatever, so or whatever we had to do.
But a lot of nights there would be six of
us over there, like I said, then there may be
two or whatever. But so anyway, that was seventy four
and we stayed over there. Next summer we went back
and there was three of us over there. I think
it was the last week of July or maybe the
first week of August in seventy five. So there was
four of us camping out, and three of us had horses.
We had them in a corral.
Speaker 2: That we built.
Speaker 3: And I'll say probably between twelve and two o'clock in
the morning, my cousin Ronnie, who was staying with us,
he had the horse and he got up to use
the restroom. He come back in and say, hey, my
horse is gone. And so, like I said, there was
four of us. So three of us got up, the
three had the horses. Another boy he got on his horse.
I sadd on mine up. So we rode out probably
a quarter a mile away there was two big fields.
We thought the horse may have gotten loose and went
to to eat or whatever. And one the one boy
is with us, he stayed in the tent, so we
my cousin whose horse was missing, he got on with me.
We doubled up, and another friend saddled his horse up.
And the county road split two big long fields. They're
probably three quarters of a mile one run. They run
north and south. So the one boy went on his horse.
He went to the southern field, and my cousin and
I who was doubled up with me, we turned and
went to the north will and on these fields we
I mean we'd walked them. We rode our horses in them,
rode our bikes just we're very familiar with them. So
we started up and we made it about uh, i'll say,
half a mile. And like I said, it was a
full moon. It was close to daylight as you could
get you could you could see for a long distance.
And we had rode up and uh, we rode through
a little dip. The field had been bushogged, so it
was you know, grass and everything was rolled over or whatever.
And there was a little wet weather creek that ran
through there that was dry, but we went down in
it and come up and that that part of the
field where we were coming up had not been bushogged,
but grass was maybe a foot high or whatever. And
when we come up out of the dip. Uh, this
all happened within a I looked and I seen this
look like it was wow. It was like maybe nine
or ten foot tall, huge silhouette.
Speaker 2: I mean, the moon was kind.
Speaker 3: Of behind it, so I could not see any facial
features or anything, but it was just a silhouette that
it looked like a large gorilla, you know. And so
I see it, and I'm thinking in my head, what
is that? My cousin who's doubled up with me on
the horse, he's leaning over my shoulder. He's like, what
the hell is that? And before he could get that out,
my horse puts on the brakes and starts backing up
real quick, and we, uh, it's trying to turn around
and run my horses or whatever, and I could keep
throwing its head back, and I'm not going to turn
my back on this thing, right, and.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying. He's back up.
Speaker 3: The horse is pretty fast and trying to throw his
head around. We can turn around and get away from
whatever this is or whatever. And as he throws his
head around, his eyes are just I mean, the biggest
you know, saucers or whatever.
Speaker 2: He's the horse is scared.
Speaker 3: And uh, he finally backs around and I can't hold
him anymore, and he turns around and takes off running.
Speaker 2: And I got him.
Speaker 3: It was pretty quick. I got him under control or whatever.
I'd had this horse since I was ten years old,
so you know, fourteen or fifteen at the time, and
he wasn't He could be startled like any horse if
something jumped out or whatever, but he wasn't like spooky
where he couldn't get him under control or he would
just run away with him. You couldn't do anything. He
was on the verge or running away. I got him
under control or whatever. So we get back down and
the kid it went the other way on the horse.
He come back and uh, we've seen.
Speaker 2: Something out there. It's huge or whatever or whatever.
Speaker 3: And of course we're we weren't terrified, but we were scared,
you know, seeing it or whatever. So we had rode
back over to the where the camp was or whatever.
Of course, we stayed up the rest of the night
or whatever and talk about what we've seen or whatever
what we thought we saw. And uh so when it
got daylight, we all get on horses. Now there's four
of us, we go back up there, and uh, of
course it was real dry. It was August or whatever.
You really couldn't tell if you know, footprints or something
had been through there or whatever, because we'd been riding
horses and everything through there or whatever. But we didn't
find any any tracks or anything like that. There was
nothing leading up to that event. Like I said, We've
been over there about a week, staying at the ten
or whatever, and the only thing was a boy came
over ever once in a while and.
Speaker 2: Stayed with us. He had a dog.
Speaker 3: Was supposedly his grandpa was from California, so he brought
this German shepherd back from California and supposedly it was
a police dog that he had got or whatever. And
the thing was vicious as dog was. I don't know
if the story is true about being a police dog
or whatever, but the story is true about it being vicious.
Speaker 2: I mean, he was so.
Speaker 3: Vicious as dog was that some of the local adults
there had put a bounty out on this dog ten
dollars for anybody who would kill it or whatever, and
somebody eventually did take him up on it.
Speaker 2: I know that sounds a little cruel this day and
age or whatever, but.
Speaker 3: He did run a try to buy the girl on
a bike and the county road run by their house
or whatever, and they wouldn't.
Speaker 2: Change it up or put it on a leash or
anything or pin it up. But he uh.
Speaker 3: Uh, so the dog run loose, and the dog when
he come over, and he'd come over two or three
nights a week with the dog, and uh, the dog
stayed outside the tent and he was always barking, you know, raccoon, possum,
kyo or whatever, and uh, but uh, I never seen
the dog scared of anything.
Speaker 2: But I'll say three to four nights before this happened.
Speaker 3: Uh, of course he stayed outside the tent.
Speaker 2: We never let him in.
Speaker 3: He uh, the dog was whining, he was scared to death.
And of course he opened the tent up and the
dog came in with us and stayed there for the
rest of the nights. So that probably actually scared me
more than than what we saw that night or whatever.
So that's the only thing I can think of that,
you know, I mean there was like getting here a
howl or anything, throwing.
Speaker 2: Rocks at us or wolves or anything like that. And I.
Speaker 3: When we sing the thing, you know, I couldn't I
couldn't tell you. You know, people see their eyes and mouth
and you know description like that. I could see none
of that. It was just a silhouette because of the
way the moon was. And uh, but I mean it
was huge. I know, sitting on my horse, yuh had
a basketball go there, I could, I could dunk a
basketball off my horse. So I'm probably you know, eight
foot tall sitting up on the horse or whatever.
Speaker 2: And I had to look up. It was. The thing
was just massive, and it was it was cannona a
little bit too.
Speaker 3: Its left I guess, like it turned to look at
us or something like that. But uh, I never seen it.
Uh never seen its arms moved, head were just like
they said, standing there looking at us or whatever. And
of course I'm trying to control the horse or whatever
and keep eyes on it. So just a kind of
a brief encounter or whatever. But uh, that's basically it.
Like I said, We went back the next day, and
of course we went down by the creek where we're
staying We walked all up and down that looking for tracks.
It's gravel, you know, there wasn't a lot of soft
ground or whatever. We didn't find anything. It was soft ground.
And uh that's I mean, that's basically it. But uh,
I mean I have no I have no doubt. I
mean I've been in the woods my whole life with
my dad. Everybody, you know, coon hunted around there. We
want fishing and gigging, always out at night, playing around
or whatever. And I know a lot of people, you know,
they they're trying to they see something. They want to
make it a big foot. My cousin and I were
like trying to make it not a big foot.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We'd rode back up there and there was a little
locus street there or whatever, and he goes, man, maybe
that's what we saw or whatever, Like you know, man,
it was taller than us or whatever. He goes, yeah,
I know. But you know, everybody's gonna, uh, I think
we're crazy. We told me we saw a big foot
or whatever, and we had lived here that uh. You know,
you had a lot of UFO activity in the Piedmont
and Claire Water Lake area back for seventy two to
seventy four. So we My cousin, he was a little
he's pretty mature for his age at the time. He
was like he was fifteen. Maybe he goes, you know,
everybody's gonna think we're crazy if we you know, we
just need to keep this to ourselves or whatever. And
you remember all those people that seen on the UFOs,
everybody thinks they're nuts or whatever, which you know, Clare
Lake was just twenty miles down the road or whatever.
Speaker 2: So I mean we told a few people.
Speaker 3: Or whatever, and sure enough, you know, oh yeah, the
big the big foot hunters and everything and kind of
made fun of us.
Speaker 2: And I mean it really wasn't no big deal.
Speaker 3: But I mean we just kind of sat down at
the rest of our lives or whatever it's to cease now.
But I uh, never I never seen anything before that.
Nothing after uh set around. Like I said, a lot
of campfires. Listen, guys that live there are their whole lives,
older men or whatever. As a kid, never heard any
of them, you know, talk about seeing something out in
the woods or anything. You know, it was a little
bigfoot or story about a big foot or anything like that.
So I said, we were trying to talk ourselves out
of seeing and not talking ourselves into seeing.
Speaker 2: It or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like I said, I can I can remember
it like it was happened thirty minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Man, just there was no doubt. I don't know what
it was. It had the silhouette of you know, what we.
Speaker 3: Call a bigfoot or whatever we think wouldn't look like
or whatever, but it was. It was wide, it was tall,
it was dead calm that night, the wind or whatever.
Speaker 2: I got no smell from it. They didn't growl at us.
It did.
Speaker 3: It didn't do anything to terrify me.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I know for stories of people that I'm not going
back in the woods ever again or whatever, but I
never had any of that.
Speaker 2: Like I said, it did scare me.
Speaker 3: But uh, I never had any of that where it
was terrified or refused to go back or whatever. But
you know, every time I drive by her anymore, I
do think about it.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, I can see that. Had anyone in
your group ever talked about strange things happening around Big
Creek before this encounter?
Speaker 3: Now, No, that's like I said, we were over there
all the time. I mean, uh, my whole life, I
was over there eve before we started camping out and
stuff over there. And the only thing, like I said,
I probably lived a mile and a half where my
house was from the camp there and my mother and
dad's house there. It was it set up. If you
went south from there you could probably go through the
woods behind her house you would go to your rent
into Gadshill, Missouri, down there, or if you went west
of there, it's probably four or five miles over to
the Black River or whatever, all woods, nobody back there
or whatever. My mother had said. I vaguely remember this.
I was probably four or five. My uncle had let
us out at the house that night. Didn't have a car,
and when we got in the house, she thought like
rocks were hitting the roof or whatever, so she thought
it was somebody out there doing it or whatever. And
I don't I don't remember the rocks at the house
or anything.
Speaker 2: I just remember.
Speaker 3: Her telling my dad he wasn't there when he when
he got h he was working in Saint Louis. But
when he come back down that, uh she thought somebody
was after throwing rocks on the.
Speaker 2: Roof for whatever. And uh.
Speaker 3: And I can't remember, if you know, if he got
up there and found rocks on the roof or anything
like that. I really never asked him about it or
whether that's the only thing that I can think of that.
You know, you know, you hear stories of them throwing
rocks and stuff that I can kind of tie into that.
Speaker 1: But oh yeah, rock throwing is a common report. Now,
do you believe the sasquatch were orbiting around your guys's
camp and that's possibly why the horse went missing? Like
it it took off out of fear.
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. Uh, because, uh, his horse
is a pretty good horse. Mine was a real good horse.
Now the other boy he had one, it was real
high spirited. It gets spooked pretty easy. I think it
would have it would have ran through the hour, done something.
And like I said, the actually the horse.
Speaker 2: Uh of course.
Speaker 3: We rode up there the next day before he went
home to look trying to find out what we saw
or whatever. But he was probably he left two miles
from there, and the horse had just had a lead
rope on and he went home and it was standing
in the front yard eat grass. So I think it
just got loose and he got home.
Speaker 2: He went home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he knew he knew the road home and uh so.
Speaker 2: And how I mean it was that? Go ahead?
Speaker 1: How far away was the Sasquatch from the camp site?
Speaker 3: Well, the way crow flies if you went through there,
it probably wasn't maybe two hundred and fifty yards.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's pretty close. And wasn't that area still
by the creek? Big creek?
Speaker 2: It was it?
Speaker 3: I mean it was I don't know, it's probably twenty
five yards where we camped to the creek itself, the
real thick woods if you want, you know, straight from
the camp noal thick woods and then it come out
in those fields. But we had to ride around probably
half a mile to get to that area.
Speaker 2: The way the road went.
Speaker 3: So but that we just went straight through the woods
is maybe maybe two and fifty yards that's where we
we saw it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And would you say the like was it a
full moon or like like partially like a new moon
or waxing crescent? Like how would you describe the moon?
Can you remember it?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: It was full. I don't know it was completely full
or not, But like I said, it was it was
as close to the daylight as you could get out there.
You know, it's you know, you've been out there in
those nights where you could just see forever or whatever, or.
Speaker 2: You know, see a long ways.
Speaker 3: And uh, like I said, there was there was several
trees up and through up through there and everything that
we rode by and everything that I mean, you could
you could you can make it out make out it was.
Speaker 2: A tree just you know, our yards away or whatever
it was.
Speaker 3: It was that it was that light, and like I said,
when we were riding through, it just recently been bush
hogged off, so very very clear of the fields and everything.
Speaker 2: But I mean I remember the you know the you
know they say they.
Speaker 3: Walked through and you know, crickets and the frogs and
everything stops turpling and whatever that that that wasn't the case.
You know, everything was just alive that night, you know,
out in the woods or whatever.
Speaker 2: Uh. But like I said, nothing to give me any
indication that there there you.
Speaker 3: Know, something was going on up there that just like
we we had rode up on it and it was
coming through the field or whatever, and it's almost like
we startled each other or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe the Sasquatch thought you guys were a herd
of deer because it heard four legs instead of two.
Speaker 3: That could have been, but uh, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't. I don't remember us.
Speaker 3: I mean we were probably talking a little bit down
to the end of the field and we're gonna do this,
that we'll meet back here or whatever with the other
kid or whatever. I mean the first he wasn't hollering
for the horse or anything. We were just you know,
as she was out there, we could have saw he
or whatever. We knew that, so yeah, I could have
been though, I mean walking we weren't really talking that
much or whatever.
Speaker 2: There's no wind for smell or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And before the sighting, where the horses calm before the
encounter or did they give you any sign that something
was off?
Speaker 3: Uh no, I mean when you're in the crowd over there,
Like I said, I the one just she got on
tired or whatever and just walked home or whatever. And
the other horses they were they weren't spooky or anything.
There was nothing going on with them. They were still there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: And when we were riding up through the field, I
mean I saw it, my cousin saw it, and the
horse all saw it at the same time. I mean,
just like I said, within a second, and uh, like
I said, I had the horse since I was ten
years old. She's like any other horse or something would
jump out, it might startle her or startle him, but
he never never got spooked and ran away. You know,
if a dog come out barking or whatever, shoot, he
tried to kick it or stop it or whatever. He did,
you know, But I mean I rode over black snakes
with him, and he just I mean, I mean, I
never rode over poison a snake with him anything that
I know of. But snakes across the road didn't bother him.
Dogs to come out at him, like I said, he'd
defend himself or whatever.
Speaker 2: He wasn't spooky or anything. And uh, he's just like.
Speaker 3: He was little spooked that night.
Speaker 1: So how close were you to the sasquatch creature?
Speaker 2: I'm thinking ten fifteen yards.
Speaker 1: Maybe, Okay, so it was super close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there was.
Speaker 3: It looked like a silhouette of you know, you see
these people come out these wooden't I hadn't seen one
at that time or whatever, but you see them now,
you know how people put them in their yards, cut
out or whatever. A silhouette of a bigfoot. It was,
like I said, it was I was you know, nine
or ten foot tall at least, and I don't know,
man three or four foot it was. I remember being
more impressed with how white it was than how tall
it was, you know, just the I couldn't I couldn't
make out any hair on it or anything like that.
Just a silhouette. But it was. It was just a
perfect silhouette against the moon there of you know, you
had to cut one out what you think it would
look like?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And did you notice any eye shine from the creature?
Speaker 3: I did not, because we were riding the moon would
have been kind of behind it, uh so that you know,
it was casting a shadow towards us, So I did.
Speaker 2: I didn't.
Speaker 3: I couldn't make out a facial feature, eyes, or you know,
how muscular it was or anything like that. It just
like it just there was obviously it had arms and
you know, long legs and was white and tall, but
anything else I could not make out on it.
Speaker 1: Okay, And what's the closest town to the creek you
were camping in.
Speaker 3: Oh, the closest town you would have had it had Annapolis,
which would have been about you know, maybe four or
five miles north of there. And then the Town Desert,
which is about three miles south of there.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been more water reports south of Annapolis.
Speaker 2: Oh really mm hmm, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've had several on my channel.
Speaker 3: But uh, like I said, never never seen nothing leading
nothing to that, And I've never you know, I uh,
twenty some years I elk hunted the Rockies in the
pretty remote area out there, never seen anything, encounters with bears.
Speaker 2: And stuff out there.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like I said, I know how you can
see something and try to make it something, but uh yeah,
like I've seen a lot of bears and stuff out
there and never thought there were anything but a bear.
And just so I guess that the thing has struck
me as like my cousin and I were just we
tried to talk ourselves out of it, not into it,
you know, just just any any way we went that
we could No, yeah I couldn't.
Speaker 2: It was something you know.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for sure. And that area is it core
of engineer Land? Do you know?
Speaker 3: No, No, it's all it's all private land there.
Speaker 2: Private Uh yeah. If you went.
Speaker 3: Five miles west of the already running the Black River,
where's core land? So this was not.
Speaker 1: And what's your theory about what these beings. Are these creatures?
Do you think there's a connection to the clear Water
Lake UFO encounters. Do you think it's some sort of
unknown primate. What are your thoughts about that?
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I really don't, uh, I uh. I've talked to enough.
I mean, I think they're out there.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 3: I've actually work with a guy right now who is
raised in Montana and moved to Oregon. A little organ
and him and his dad rode a motorcycle up on
a family of them you now, and a male female
and a little one within fifteen yards of him and
terrified his dad so bad that he's never went back
in the woods. He was ten years old when he
saw it, And like I said, he's a straight shooting guy.
I have no doubt, you know, I know what I
saw a couple other people. But as far as me
having a theory on it, I don't know if I've
got a theory. I'm just I believe her out there
or whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And were you guys prepared to defend yourself in case
this creature charged you?
Speaker 2: No, he had no.
Speaker 3: I mean that was the last thing on my mind,
is seeing something like that. I mean, I think we
had a probably a couple of twenty two rifles over
there in the tent or whatever. I mean, we didn't
take them with us or anything. No thought of you know,
encountering something like that or or anything, you know that
being out there. Just we did it all the time,
never had no issues, you know, rode around at night
over there all the time. So I just, yeah, I
don't you know, I did the charges or whatever. I
don't know what I had done. I guess I would
to let the horse go. I hope we could out
run it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you were trying to keep the horse steady
facing forward so you can get a better look at
this creature. But the horse was trying to turn you around, correct.
Speaker 2: That is correct. I.
Speaker 3: So we just came up out of a dip, and
of course the horse he was starting to back up
real quick, and he's trying to throw his head around
to get around and run. And I don't think I
was holding him trying to get a better look. I
was just kind of scared to turn my you know,
back on this thing. So when he started backing up
real quick, we went back down in the dip, and
you know, he almost fell down with us, and uh,
and he kept on his set around and I finally
just you know, let him go.
Speaker 2: And he turned around and.
Speaker 3: I don't know, probably ran fifty yards or whatever, and uh,
hading my cousin on the back. I didn't want to
throw him off or whatever, but got him, got him
under control real quick. Like I said, it was a
real good horse or whatever. But he never was really
out of control. He would just want to get away
from whatever it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like a good horse. He didn't try
to buck you guys off, and he was just trying
to steer you guys away from the danger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess he was. Whatever it was, he didn't
he didn't want nothing to do with it. So and yeah,
I said, if he had, if he hadn't backed up,
I don't stood there or whatever. I don't know what
we would have done. So yeah, I kind of wish
you wouldn't have seen seen him move or or or whatever.
Got a better look maybe, I don't know. I don't
know if we could have got a better look. We
didn't have a light with us or anything.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah, and horses have really good eyesight, correct.
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so it's probably better in human eyes
or whatever, but.
Speaker 3: No doubt he saw it.
Speaker 1: So oh yeah for sure. And looking back, is there
anything you wish you would have done differently?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean obviously, you know, I'm never Doug.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, if we should have taken a flashlight
with us or whatever looking for his horse or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't think of anything that you always wish, you know,
I've got a better look at it, whatever, you know,
But I don't. I don't think there's anything we could
have done any different under the circumstances.
Speaker 2: Or whatever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and you didn't notice any activity back at
the camp after the encounter. They didn't come and like
follow you back to camp, throw rocks at you anything
like that. Nothing strange, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Nothing strange. Like I said, we were we were up
the rest of the night after that, till till morning
or whatever. And there was I mean, the horse, We
got the two horses back in the We had a
little crowd built or whatever. And yeah, they never you know,
they weren't spooky or nothing going on with them. It
was like a normal night for him or whatever. And
like I said, the boy that had had the dog
or whatever.
Speaker 2: He was not over there that night, so I kind
of wish that he might have been over there or
whatever see what happened.
Speaker 3: But uh.
Speaker 2: So I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's I don't know what we'd have done different, could
have done different or whatever. With's what we knew was
going on and everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and how did the creature acknowledge your presence? Did
it just stand there? And did it take off?
Speaker 2: Well, it just it just stood there. And like I said,
it was it was canned a little bit, so it's
left almost like it was. It turned to look at us,
but I did not see it turned.
Speaker 3: Now, it was like he had seen us before we
had seen him the way it looked to me or whatever.
And but I mean, no, I didn't see it move.
I didn't see its head moves, its feet, its arms
or anything. It was just like it was frozen there
or whatever. And of course, you know, I probably didn't
get a maybe two to three seconds where I had
eyes locked on up for the horse got around on
me or whatever, so I didn't have a lot of
time to observe it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And did you guys end up telling other family
members or friends after that?
Speaker 3: We told a couple of friends or whatever. And you know,
like I said, there, I think I did tell my
dad and.
Speaker 2: Or whatever.
Speaker 3: And I don't think I have used the word we
thought we saw bigfoot, we saw something big over there
at the creek or whatever. And I mean he grew
up there too, so he didn't think nothing about it.
And uh, of course Clarke said a couple of friends like, oh,
the big foot hunters and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: My cousin, That's what he said.
Speaker 3: Man, It's just that's just tell him we've seen a
trade or whatever, and uh, keep them, keep them off
of us or whatever. So and I talked about it
a few times over years or whatever. Course, like I said,
he's de ceased.
Speaker 2: Now, and uh never never, never was no big deal
around there, a big story or anything.
Speaker 1: So and what made you decide to open up about
this encounter and share it publicly.
Speaker 3: Well, i'd seen your h your YouTube channel there or whatever,
and and uh, yeah, a lot of people in southeastern
Missouri there and you know, over on the Current River
and some of the counties there. I'm like, oh, yeah,
I know where that's and this and that, and and
I just told my wife, I said, you know, I'm
gonna said that boy an email and if he wants
to hear this story or whatever. So I said it,
I don't think it's exciting as some of those I've
seen or whatever. And uh, like I said, I don't
have a lot of detail on it or whatever, but uh,
and I have no doubt you know that, you know,
looking back, that's what it was or whatever, And I
mean it was. I just I just even at that time,
at fourteen, I'd been out in the woods enough hunting
and fishing out there in the dark and everything that
you know, I know, your eyes can play tricks on
you or whatever. And I knew my horse, you know,
like I said, my cousin whatever, we all seen it,
you know, or whatever. But I just, like I said, basically,
seeing your channel, they're kind of interested way you do
your stories there in Missouri or whatever. So that's that's
what made me.
Speaker 2: Decide to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad you found the channel and you also
found reports in the area, and yeah, it's not every
day that somebody from Missouri contacts me, so I'm definitely
grateful that you found the channel and you were willing
to talk about it. I know, there's a lot more
people out there, but a lot of them they don't
want to talk about it. Like your friend said, let's
just say it was a tree.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, but yeah I said, Like I said,
I wish I had some more.
Speaker 3: Detail about it and some other stuff would happened, but
that's just the way it happened.
Speaker 1: That's about it, all right, Roger, Well, you did an
excellent job at documenting the report, and it was truly
a fascinating one. Horses or intelligent creatures, they'll definitely try
to protect their their owners or the people that are
riding them. And I definitely feel like that's what you
encountered that night. You were fifteen yards away. The creature
was nine foot tall, and like you said, the moon
was out and you could see outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah I did. Like I said, I have no doubt
that's what it.
Speaker 3: Was or whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, they don't make people that big.
Speaker 2: Nope, they don't. Yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna let you go for now.
If you encounter anything else in the future, feel free
to reach.
Speaker 2: Out, okay, man, Well, I appreciate the call.
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate you all.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you later.
Speaker 1: Sailor. I want to thank Roger for taking the time
to come on the channel and share an experience that
has stayed with him for decades. Whether you believe these
encounters are evidence of an undiscovered species or something else entirely,
stories like this continue to raise interesting questions about what
may exist in the remote forest of Missouri. I think
Roger and the horses were extremely curious as to what
they were observing, but I feel like the sasquatch was
just as curious and this show's intelligence because the sasquatch
creature could have easily attacked them and it didn't. It
chose to just stand there and observe. If you've had
a similar experience and we'd like to share your story,
you can reach me at Sasquatch Theory at outlook dot com.
As always, thank you for watching Stay Safe in the Woods,
and I'll see you in the next episode.