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Speaker 1: Have a Bigfoot story and the rider wants to be anonymous.

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I grew up in the mountains of Pennsylvania. Our land

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bordered the game lands, which meant we never saw people.

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We had no neighbors within eyesight or earshot, and if

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one of those far away neighbors were out shooting, you

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could barely hear the shot. My parents' log cabin was

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at the bottom of the valley, down a long, winding

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mountain road, and about ten feet past the barn was

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bare hollow, a three and a half mile dirt track

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for riding horses, with fifty feet of meadow on both sides.

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The sunshine couldn't penetrate the woods, and the temperature dropped

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a good fifteen to twenty degrees as soon as you entered.

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I grew up in an abusive household. At one point,

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things got so bad that when I was a left

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years old, I decided to sleep in the barn at

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night with our two horses. It may not have been

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the fanciest of accommodations, but it was okay with me,

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and more importantly, I felt safe there. Two weeks into

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this routine, I had an especially bad day. I was

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in the barn and crying silently and telling my horses

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about what had happened. When from a shadow, it felt

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like a draft horse excelled loudly right on to me.

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It wasn't scary or alarming, but the enormity of that

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single random breath did get my attention. I sat still

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and I listened, but I heard nothing else. The next night,

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the same thing happened. Late into the night. I felt

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a huge breath exale. It sounded like when a horse settles,

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or when a dog finally gets to lie down and

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takes that last big breath to clear his mind, except

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that it didn't come from either of the horses, and

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there were no other animals in that barn. This continued

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every night for about a month until one night, along

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with the big breaths, I heard what it could only

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be described as the chicken sounds coming from a large creature.

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It sounded like two enormous creatures clucking and cooing and

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purring at the same time. It was the most unique sound,

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and when I heard it, I felt better, as if

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whatever was making the sounds was trying to soothe me.

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Being visited by these mysterious animals became the best part

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of my day. I would leave sweet grain and oats

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and apples and silly little girl things like a dream

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catcher for them. In return, I would spend the evening

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comforted by their presence. And my mother became upset that

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I was sleeping in the barn because she thought I

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was disturbing the horses. So I moved inside the house again.

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But as soon as it was light out, my dog

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automn and I would run to the woods on my

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property and didn't bear hollow. We would hear the usual

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knocks in the woods and the rough grouse startling from

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their hiding spots. One day we were on our walk

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and it was business as usual. I had a horse

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lead on Autumn, and because of our previous day's walk,

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she had darted away, and it took me forever to

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haunt her down. When I finally got her, she was

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acting odd and I wanted to keep her close, and

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I thought she may have found a bear. We were

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deep in the woods and I had the lead choked

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up so that she wouldn't split us into trees, and

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all of a sudden, Autumn yelped in fear, and she

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stopped dead right then a deer carcass was flung at us.

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I looked at the animal at our feet, looked up

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again and stared in awe at the creatures in front

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of me. There were two of them, and both of

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them were female. One was about my height and the

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other was well over eight feet tall. They were wide

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and solid, and their arms were longer and much more

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muscular than mine. And they had reddish brown hair all

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over them, with green highlights on their shoulders and heads

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and arms like moss was growing there. But it was

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the eyes of the taller one that stopped my heart.

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She was looking at me with what I can only

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describe as an apology. Now, don't ask me how, but

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it was clear to me that she was sorry. She

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almost hit me with the deer. Her eyes were so

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expressive that I felt it in my soul. She made

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a familiar cooing sound at me, and my heart melted immediately.

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Although sad, lonely nights in the barn came back to me,

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I was looking at the reason. I was still saying.

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She had watched over me and protected me for years.

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It was like she was conveying feelings of sameness and togetherness,

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like I was equal with her well my heart was full,

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and I expressed gratitude and love, and the larger one

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expressed the feeling of being a part of a pack

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and that I was her honorary pup. I'm not in

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embarrassed to say that my eyes teared up. She made

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a final huff and then turned around and glided gracefully

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away with the smaller one. My heart ached when I

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couldn't see them anymore. I left home a few months later,

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and I never went back. I'm thirty nine years old now,

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and I have not spoken to my parents in twenty years.

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I guess because of COVID. My mother felt the need

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to finally call me somehow, though I never told her

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about my encounters with the Sasquatch, and she knew about it.

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She told me they had been stalking her, and that

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while there seemed to be a lot of them around

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the house, one in particular went out of its way

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to scare her. For all the terrible things I went

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through under that roof, all I could think of was good.

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I know it was my friend of the forest from

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long ago, and that she has not forgotten or forgiven

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the things that my mother did to me. I can't

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speak for all of these beings, but the sisquatch family

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encounters with has an eye for an eye thinking I

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was kind and loyal and so were they. However, if

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you are unkind or cruel, they can show that kind

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as well. Their personalities are as varied as our own.

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They have lives that matter to them as much as

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ours matter to us, and somehow I feel like they

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were waiting for us to catch up and figure it out.

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Thank you for giving me an outlet to share my story.

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My two sons and I avidly watch and listen to

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your program, and if you choose to share this, I'm

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grateful as they will be tickled to death. We are

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huge supporters and we appreciate each and every encounter you share,

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and we are proud to be your people. God bless you,

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Oh my gosh. If you like these stories, you have

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found your people. And this was a wonderful story. You know,

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we all like the violent, shoot them up, sasquatch almost

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kill me kind of story. Worries man, I like these

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just as much. It's a redeeming It gives these creatures

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some kind of redeeming quality, and a lot of people

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who hear this will go yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I

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knew that all along, knew that all along. But you know,

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I can understand people running up on them in the

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woods and being terrified and wanting to shoot, or just

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for fear that you know, you've got this massive beast

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standing in front of you, and the first thing you

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think is this thing's gonna kill me. But through the years,

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as I've done this podcast, I find more and more

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that these creatures are, for the most part, a little

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more compassionate with children. And I've gotten a couple of

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stories where kids have grown up in hard households and

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the Sosquatches seem to pack their side and do little

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things to comfort them. And it's very cool. They're very

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cool stories, and these events are uncanny in the scope

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of these stories. It's not often I get these, but

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when I do, I like to read them. So thank

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you to the writer, and I hope the kids enjoyed

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hearing it. I see, i've got your email address. I

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don't normally email people when yeah, I've got her email address.

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I don't normally email people when I put there, I

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just don't have time. I don't have time to send

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out emails, you know, several times a week. But I'll

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send this person an email let her know it's going

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to be up tonight on the podcast. So thank you

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all for listening and we'll see you guys on the

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next one. Thanks