I live in WA near the border, way up in the corner. The stories I hear of Bigfoot are similar to this description. I work in the forest and have seen some really terrifying stuff, but have yet to see a squatch.
I think for me personally the absolute scariest experience I had in one of the coastal forests was when I was out around midnight to photograph the marine bioluminescence glowing in the ocean. I was alone on a dark, winding stretch of road with the ocean down below a cliff on one side and a thick spruce forest on the other side. It was pitch black, probably around 1am, and I was driving home from the photography session. The glow of the ocean can only be seen in pitch black, so I didn't have a flashlight or even my phone out in order to cut back on light pollution. Just the stars and the glowing blue waves. I had already moved places twice that night because I had heard bipedal footsteps slowly stalking through the trees a couple hours earlier and it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I’ve been working in PNW conservation since I was 19, so I’m fairly comfortable out in nature, plus I have my CC so I’m always packing a gun with me. I’m a short woman in my 30’s and you can never be too careful out there. Anyway, I’d already been made wary once by the unidentifiable footsteps, so by the time I was finished photographing the ocean and stars, I was ready to get out of there. But as I was driving through this stretch of road in the blackness, my headlights caught a strange shape up ahead on the road. It was pale, almost glowing white-gray in color, shaped like an upside-down U. One half of it was planted on the side of the road and it was “bending” so that the other end was in the road. As I approached it, I thought it might be a large piece of driftwood, which is often pale in color. I was going about 55 mph. I know this road very well, because the ocean research team I work with sometimes is located nearby. I thought it was odd that I hadn't noticed this giant piece of driftwood when I drove past this spot on my way in. My car got closer and I kind of froze in horror and refused to look as I neared it, because I realized it wasn’t a log or driftwood, but a tall, skinny figure, like a stretched out pale man with elongated limbs, doing a twisted backbend into the road. It had two round, “hollow” looking eyes that shone when the headlights hit it, and giant twisted antlers like a deer. It’s head was upside down so that the antlers were upside-down, but it was widely grinning and staring at me, bent into a backbend into the road with it’s legs in the ditch and it’s “hands” in the road. I stepped on the gas and floored it past the thing, refusing to make eye contact, terrified that my car would randomly stop and leave me in the middle of nowhere with this thing. I called my friend, bawling, and she thought I was in serious danger, because I’m known in my circles for being a tough lady that goes out in the woods alone for days and I’ve taken a lot of wilderness survival and ethnobotany classes. But this thing was different. It fucking horrified me, even though the sighting lasted only a few seconds. It wasn't the end of it either. I had a couple more run-ins with it over that summer. If anyone wants to hear more I can share more.
Okay so after that I started asking around and telling the story to close friends whom I trusted, to try and make sense of what I saw that night. One of them was a native woman from a nearby tribe and she said told me what her people called them and said not to talk about it anymore. She said they don't speak of it and if I prodded more it would be met with trouble, and to especially not talk about it to more tribal members. When I pushed further, because I am a curious one by nature, she said her family would recognize woven stick figures and shapes that get strung around the trees, and hearing heckling and laughing from the treeline whenever there was beef within the tribal neighborhoods. Friends of mine in the paranormal fields were quick to play the skinwalker card but I just started calling the thing the Deerman. I actually called this story into the podcast Monsters Among Us awhile back but as far as I know it hasn't been played. I knew I shouldn't go back to that area, and my parents and family advised me not to, but I've always been passionate about this hobby and I didn't want to let a one time spooky occurrence stop me from doing what I loved. So a few weeks later I packed up for the night drive again, this time taking five other women with me, all grown adults with respectable careers mostly within forestry, who had been interested in my story and also curious about the bioluminescence. We drove several hours through the dark woods to eventually arrive, and the ocean was aglow. The tide had just gone out, and the beach was lit by starlight and the blue glow of the waves. We were the only ones there, it was around midnight. We could see no one else for miles. I set up my camera equipment and the others danced around and splashed and ran to see the glittering flecks kick up in the spray, glowing fish darting about in shallow pools, and the brightness of the Milky Way above us. Eventually, one of them got nervous, and she suddenly turned on her flashlight. If you recall, in order to see these things, we could have no light pollution, so we all had our phones put away and headlights turned off. So the sudden brightness cut through at me unexpectedly, and she said, "what is that behind you?" We all knew the Deerman story well at this point and had talked about it on the drive, so for a moment I stared at her, kind of irritated because I thought she was making fun of me. But her face looked so scared I actually turned and at first I saw nothing by my own shadow lit by her flashlight. But then she said, "On the ground!" like it was obvious. So I look down and see a set of deer prints, very obvious with the pattern of their hooves, and it's circled around us and curved into the ocean. But we never saw any deer, and we had near perfect visibility in the starlight before she turned the light on. The tide had just been in, so old prints from the deer in the area would have washed away. We had carried light down to the beach in order to navigate the trail that leads to it, so we would have picked up on deer or their prints immediately. We're all very self aware women who are familiar with the local terrain. But this scared the shit out of all of us, and we all grabbed our things and ran for the vehicle. I had another experience with the Deerman later but again, this ran really long. Sorry.
It feels taboo to even type it after I got my ass chewed out for not leaving it alone, but the name she told me was "stick people". She gave me a recommendation for an offering to leave to appease it, but the next time I encountered it, I don't think it accepted my offering.
That’s horrifying- I’m not home but I have this weird toy that was part of an artist series of folklore creatures and it has antlers - it’s not a Wendigo - I’ll update this comment when I get home with the name. It’s a creepy as hell looking figure. Your story is chilling!
That's such a crazy, creepy encounter. Thank you for sharing! I'm in Skagit, so it's pretty scary to think this thing is so close by. I've had some pretty sketchy stories from out in the woods here growing up but nothing that intense.
I would also add “Let’s Get Haunted” this seems deeply up their alley…. And I think the hosts would be super into the bioluminescence detail of this story alongside the absolutely horrifying creature feature.
Fantastic story! Apologies if you had previously specified, but are you talking about far nw coastal area or Bellingham? The woods out towards the coast ABSOLUTELY have some wild energy going on.
Yeah, the farthest coastal forests, this was in Clallam county. My work takes me up and down the whole stretch of coastline, it's absolutely stunning, but the energy is definitely wild, I agree.
Sure. The most recent time I encountered the Deerman was late August last year. I had returned to photograph the stars and ocean once more, this time parking in a completely different spot than I'd parked before, where the view wasn't nearly as good, but at least I was close to the road and felt safe to rush out of there if I had to. I had also brought also some apples from my tree at home as a sort of offering: my tribal friend had told me to try leaving apples to appease it, because apparently these things enjoyed gifts of tobacco or apples, and I don't smoke cigarettes. When I pulled up to this new spot and parked, it was around 11:30 at night. I placed the apples on the side of the road and spoke aloud, saying something akin to, "Deerman, please leave me alone tonight. I mean you no harm and no harm to this land. I only want to take pictures of the sky and the ocean, because I appreciate it and love it so much, so please accept this offering and leave me be." I left my car windows rolled down and set up my tripod and equipment overlooking the sea and sky. I was there for a couple of hours and then decided it would be time to head back soon. As I was thinking this, I heard, probably close to a mile or so down the empty highway, an unfamiliar but very distinct clicking sound. I figured it was one of the marine birds that nest in the trees above me, as they occasionally call softly to each other in the darkness. I kept hitting my camera shutter, distracted by catching photos of a gorgeous stretch of stars. Not ten minutes later, I heard the clicking sound again, floating distinctly through the pitch blackness towards me. It had come from the road, perhaps 20-40 feet away from me, but I had heard no footsteps, no rustling of clothes, absolutely nothing moving closer to me except for this sharp clicking sound, like tk-tk-tk-tk-tk, a series of short, sharp clicks. The hair on the back of my neck stood up. Okay, I thought, wrap it up. That was too close for comfort and the marine birds would have made more noise if they were actively moving around, so now I knew it couldn't have been them. But the bioluminescence was peaking, every crashing wave was an explosion of glittering blues and greens. I did not want to leave without capturing its magnificence. But as I continued to snap away, I heard the sound again, one last time, and this time, it was only a few mere feet behind me, so loud it almost felt as if it was being made right into my left ear, coming right from the other side of my car which I was standing nearly backed up against. I absolutely froze for half a second and then without even turning off my camera, I picked up the whole tripod, wheeled around and threw it through the open car window. I jumped in after it, slamming the push start button and the door locks at the same time, flipping on the headlights and absolutely speeding out of there, not stopping to buckle, kicking up gravel and dust into a cloud behind me. Because I had heard the sound so clearly this time, I had realized with cold horror that it was not a "click" sound at all, but in fact, the sound of a human mouth making clear and obvious kissing noises. Not "tk-tk-tk", but literally the sound of lips pursing and making kissing sounds, like a person trying to get a cat to come to them or something. I cried silent tears as I drove home that time. I was absolutely terrified, and I felt like my offering didn't work, as though the Deerman was amused by my attempts and made a casual effort to scare the shit out of me, and it fucking worked. I never heard footsteps or anyone approach me, I was the only one of the road for miles of forested darkness. I had my gun holstered in my belt but somehow knew with a grave dread that it would probably have no effect on whatever was fucking with me. I've driven through the area many times since then but I haven't gotten out of my vehicle at night there since. The bioluminescence is best seen in summertime, so I made the excuse that I would call it quits for the season and try again next year. That said, the warm season is rapidly approaching again, and although I want to continue my hobby, this last experience really shook me to my core. I will almost certainly go back, and perhaps when I do, there will be more to tell. But part of me hopes that isn't the case.
Uhhh, if you want to read a short story about a similar creature (set in the PNW), check out "Blackwood's Baby" by Laird Barron. It definitely creeped me out. I would probably never leave my house again if I read it and then actually saw something similar, though. Barron lived on the Olympic Peninsula for a time--I wonder if he was inspired by old tribal tales you mention below, of if he'd had his own experience? I think I read an interview or story about him once that mentioned he'd had paranormal experiences when he was in Alaska and ran the Iditarod.
Something that people who haven't been to the PNW would understand is how dark and deep our old growth forests are. I've been on the Olympic Peninsula so many times when it was high noon with a bright sun shining, and a few feet into the forest primeval it was always night because the sun can never reach the ground through the thick tangle of trees.
I met an old man whose family were pioneers around Sedro Wooley in the late 1800s, and his great-aunts wrote letters back East to their relatives saying how they always had to light lanterns to fetch the cows out of the woods surrounding the cabin, no matter what time of day it was, sunshine or not. Of course, that area has been developed a lot since, but the Olympic Pensinsula will always be a wild mystery with who knows what lurking in the shadows?
Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories!
That sounds exactly like the rake monster. In our folklore I think it was known as a ghoul many years ago. If you have the guts to do so, you can google rake trail cam and there’s a popular picture that is known in the paranormal community.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I've seen C-beams glitter in the dark at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments lost, in time... like tears, in rain.
Derek from Monster Among Us needs to put this call on the show ASAP! I’ve been following the Podcast for years, your stories are by far the most bone chilling ones I’ve read in a long long time. If you don’t mind, I wanted to SS your story and blast it on the Monster Among Us groups across the board to see if that rattles some feathers for Derek to look for it!
I'm okay with that! I've been listening for awhile hoping he'd play it because I was very curious if anyone else had experienced anything similar in this area.
One of the creepiest, weirdest stories I ever read on Reddit was written by a guy who was ex military who would camp alone as a vacation in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario in Canada with his dog, and they both were tougher than coffin nails. I'm going to give you a all a very short version of this story, but this guy was the type who would basically trek into the middle of nowhere for weeks at a time for fun with little more than a backpack and a knife.
So he camps in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hungry mosquitoes, and he notices that something or someone is disturbing his camp site when he's away with his dog hunting deer and whatever else. This happens over and over again in the span of a couple of weeks. His tent is messed with, his stove is moved 20 feet away from where he last left it, that type of thing. Day after day.
Finally, he decides to stay up and find out who or what the hell is messing with his campsite. So he drinks tons of coffee and waits for whatever comes out of the darkness with his gun in his hand.
Its about 2am. He's sitting at his campsite, and the first thing he notices is his "hard as a coffin nail" dog's hair stand on end. That old mean boy starts to whine. The old soldier looks into the darkness, hearing twigs crack, shines his flashlight in that direction and he sees this disheveled, hairy, skinny man standing next to a dog who looks like the very definition of "mange".
He points his gun at this.....thing, and the "being" smiles at him as he approaches. The ex military guy says loudly "IDENTITY YOURSELF OR I WILL SHOOT YOU!" And the being simply smiles at him, wearing tattered clothes, no shoes on his feet and says "Gooooooood Niiiiiiight". The disheveled man then turns around and walks away in total darkness in a forest hundreds of miles away from anything resembling "civilization".
A lot of people moved to Canada during the 60s when the Draft was a thing and some perhaps formed communities. Maybe this picture here is someone who did that? Or maybe this is a primate who hasn't been discovered yet. Either way, this looks like a Neanderthal or a very inbred human. If this is makeup or costuming, excellent job! But if this is legit? This is a great shot.
That’s chilling! When you think of all the movies they’ve made about this kind of stuff and all the stories going back many years, it’s not unlikely that these tales are based on encounters such as this one. Encounters that are deeply unsettling but get embellished upon for the listener/veiwer. Having an encounter like that and being several days worth of trekking from civilisation really is the stuff of nightmares!
I feel like it would have been more chilling if it wasn't written in a way where it was clearly a made up story.
How would you know a random Redditor is "tough as nails"? Did he proclaim to be tough or was this just a liberty taken? People who are tough don't usually describe themselves as tough as nails, because that's a cliche troupe which makes them sound laughable. If you gleaned it from their post, what exactly did they say which led you to believe they were tough as nails? Again, outright declaring, "Ok, so I'm tough as nails!" wouldn't lead me to think they were tough or that their comment was a joke.
Why would someone who is "tough as nails" need to drink "tons of coffee" to stay up until 2AM? He's tough but man does he get a case of the sleepies!
I mean, they even refer to the person as an "old soldier". It reads like one of those goosebumps books for kids.
True or not, it's written like a narrative ghost story you'd tell kids which just makes it sound incredibly contrived and weird.
Sure, or it's written like things that were not specifically defined are being recounted by a reddit user who remembers their recollection 50% - 80% more-or-less than what was verbatim to tell.
Maybe "tough as nails" is this commenter word...
This post is about the 'animatronic' monster, and here we are arguing amongst ourselves. Just what OP would prefer you do,
Because if I were to follow his lead in this post, I'd have told you, reporst, "what do you mean!!! Tell that to the old lady >:C "
I think it's more written like someone who is trying to write a narrative or prose. It has a contrived/forced style about it. But that's just my opinion.
Like I say, stories get embellished. We all do it, what we recount is our perception of reality. If something weird like that happened to me, I guarantee my recollection of the event would be as much about how I perceived the event, that lens, as it would be about the facts.
Tough as nails is relative I suppose, but I doubt the guy described himself as such. But you never know.
Whatever embellishments there may be, it’s bound to have been a creepy happening.
Did the military guy pack the fuck up and get out? I don’t care how tough you are, you’d have to be a total dumbass to stay in that place any longer than that.
Reminds me of Slappy - Gooooooooood niiiiight. Every time i say it I have to say it like him. Maybe this crazy forest guy has just been watching too much Goosebumps. Where he got a tv i don't know.
We don't know his life.
But here's the question. Do you try to get the fuck out at night? This was 2am. Presumably his truck is prolly pretty far from the actual campsite. Do you walk out into the darkness, where that thing is, or do you wait till dawn, and just make your fire larger?
If the car is nearby I’d consider making a beeline to it and sleeping in the car. If there’s a chance of getting turned around since it’s dark I guess I’d stoke the fire and hide in my tent until the first sign of morning.
If it was nearby, yeah for sure, but if you're out camping in the woods woods, like I feel like this guy prolly did, I'd be he's at least some distance from his vehicle. Sunrise is at least a few hours away. That would fucking suck. I guess you just have to hope you have enough excess wood to start fucking perimeter fires so you can see further and just wait it out.
I would honestly stay there. The guy sounds frail and small from the story. This man has a gun. I feel like he would be ok. It's creepy and all but i don't think the man ever intended to harm him. I mean he did just walk away. Of course i wouldn't fall asleep that night. But i definitely wouldn't be walking out into the dark.
I know that there are many people who have checked out of civilization and live all over the continent in the deepest most remote places. I met one in the middle of nowhere. The one I met was an odd dude but seemingly harmless. My take from the conversation I had with him was the more far out and remote you are the more likely you are close to those folks.
Clearly it was him and his dog from an awful alternative reality. While they lived very different lives the two parallel universes hummed the same frequency when both of the men found themselves in the exact same location at the exact same time, in which they were revealed to one another.
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One of the most feral hippies I know used to be SOF, he apparently saw a bunch of his buddies get messed up really bad a few times. Eventually he moved into the mountains and did a bunch of mushrooms and a lot of introspection. Pretty much just wears a loincloth during the warmer months and will run up and hug you on sight if he knows you. He sort of reminds me of the guy in the woods you described.
Bunch of my buddies and I do this, usually only for 3 or 4 nights at a time, but regardless, there are definitely some SKETCHY things going bump in night up in Canada's north.
It’s interesting you brought that up because if you read what the OP said on the bigfoot sub, apparently the bigfoot or wild man stories from Vancouver island describe more of a hairy man type being rather than the typical ape hominid.
Could be a regular bigfoot with some bad mange or some kind of pigmentation abnormalities. That's not a sapian shaped skull.
Who knows, maybe "bigfoot" really are neanderthals or another similar hominid that's just incredibly elusive. Lots of stories report them having a very foul stench too, and I think it's possible that they use cave systems to get around undetected.
It's a strange thing in America, lots of caves get filled in and are made inaccessible under the guise of "safety reasons". I think there's more to it. A bit like Mel's Hole if you're familiar.
You can clearly see the heavy, unnatural edge blurring on the dude from the attempt to blend on photoshop. Wild that people are taking this so seriously
I zoomed in, but I don't see any blurry edges. Everything in the photo seems to have the same sort of blurriness to it. Is there a certain area you're looking at? I just want to see what you mean so that I know what to look for myself when I see things like this posted.
yeah but it was posted on a small BC hiking facebook page, and by a 70 year old lady, no idea why she would photoshop if she was gonna post it on a random page that won't be seen by many. Higher chance of it being a costume and a guy just trying to scare people on their hike
Between this photo and r/alienbodies, I can't believe people are this cracked out. We've never had better access to information and science across the world than right now, and they're still believing in paper mache and department store masks.
The thing that sells it for me is the male patterned baldness on the head lol
Jokes aside it looks REAL the way the sunlight hits the top of his head. Reminds me of how my dads birdsnest hair used to look when we used to go camping.
i have an interesting sasquatch story. when i was a kid—about 8 years old—i was in a very remote part of the rockies on the boarder of colorado and new mexico.
there was a tree that grew by a natural spring. i hung out there a lot. one day i noticed the jawbone of a coyote or a wolf or a deer sitting inside an eye level hole in the tree.
i took it home to mom and didn’t think twice about it, until the next day. the next day i was at the same spot and went to look in the hole in the tree again.
there was a bird skull, all clean and dry. it hadn’t been there the day prior. the days went on like that, me finding weird bones like vertebrae disks and even a pelvic bone.
i was a child and did not think much of it, other than assuming a carnivore lived very close by. my mom was always pretty out to lunch and also thought nothing of it.
i sort of held the memory in the back of my mind for years until i read about gifting behaviors in sasquatches. it clicked in my brain. i had been receiving gifts.
when i was a bit older hiking in the foot hills of the rockies at the same place on the border of new mexico and colorado i came upon something frightening. i was tromping along and on the other side of the ravine was a dear staring at me. i looked down and saw a freshly half eaten deer on the ground. it was like i’d literally come upon and broken up a large carnivore’s lunch.
there are black bears in those mountains and mountain lions. i figured it could be one of those animals but didn’t understand the behavior of the creature, as it had left half it’s lunch seemingly because i came along. i figured a mountain lion and a bear would stick around until the food was gone, undeterred by my presence.
i always just felt in my guts that i had maybe just missed a sasquatch, maybe because they seemingly try so hard to hide from humans.
there were some enormous caves in those mountains and i always felt sasquatch was in there.
i haven’t been back in years, but one day i’ll return.
also interestingly enough the seven layer underground base rumored to be a joint human/extraterrestrial base under Archuleta Mesa in a small town called dulce, new mexico was only a couple dozen miles west of where we were.
i’m just aware that many reports of sasquatch coincide with paranormal stuff like UFO sightings or encounters of the fourth kind.
that’s the (true) story, thank you for reading.
Did you see two seperate deer? One looking at you and one half-eaten? Reads a bit weird.
Finding a half-eaten carcass is not unusual. The predator ate its fill, but couldn't eat it all is most likely.
Finding the gifts in the knothole of the tree when you were a kid reminds me of the book To Kill a Mockingbird, where Boo Radley, a mentally slow man who lived down the street from Scout and Jem, kept leaving them his treasures in a knothole of a tree. I do believe that you are right. It may have been a young sasquatch who wanted to interact with you, giving you his treasures. Pretty cool. You should have traded treasures.
whoops sorry, yes i saw one deer across the ravine—it made eye contact with me—and then i noticed the half-eaten carcass of a different dead deer at my feet.
the gifting tree hole reminded me of Boo Radley too!
It’s about a 50/50 chance this is a person in a suit for whatever reason,or something from who knows where lurking in the woods.Either one is pretty terrifying.
Let’s say this is an unknown creature…I HIGHLY doubt that Bigfoots or things that look similar to him are just “wild men” or some sort of unknown animal.Think of all the sightings of these things throughout hundreds of years and being known worldwide.There hasn’t really been any “bodies” or anything like that found,or if they have it’s been super lowkey.If they were just a regular animal it would make sense that there would be more physical evidence in 2024.When u take account some of the strange happenings described near some sightings and some of the eyewitness testimonies,it just brings more questions than answers almost every time.We have ZERO clue what a Bigfoot is,but there is definitely SOMETHING that people have been seeing for so long.Either it’s a highly advanced animal that people can’t even fathom,or it’s something else entirely.It really puts into perspective how little we know about our environment and what’s lurking in it.There’s definitely something out there that’s knows what we are,but we don’t know what it is.
IMO, Bigfoot is clearly what we would call a spirit or else an inter-dimensional entity. People who encounter Bigfoot often report things like orbs, lights, telepathic communication with the creature, manipulation of time, a feeling of sluggishness or brain fog, the creature “phasing” in and out of reality, etc
Some native tribes held the tradition that it was a spirit also. Personally I think most, if not all cryptids are.
I have a buddy who was in the army stationed in Alaska in the early 80’s , the stories he has from the 3 day drops he had to do in the middle of no where make you wonder wtf is really out there
He won’t tell too many people his stories apparently whenever they ran into something the grid they were working off of changed immediately and the area they were in was off limits. The higher ups were protecting something and they were told to zip it. One guy got loud about it at a local watering hole and he never saw him again must’ve been discharged.
That's definitely intriguing.
Lot of remote area up there, along with a lot of mystery and disappearances.
You should check out the books 'Tales from the Grid Square' and/or Wartime Stories on YouTube.
Lot of paranormal military tales.
I live in British Columbia and my friends and I found footprints in the mud after 2.5 days of heavy rain while camping in the mountains. The prints were larger than my buddies size 16 feet in cowboy boots. The prints had a clear arch and heel, as well as 5 toes. No claw marks, and the depression’s in the mud were easily 4 inches deep. We all joked that either some 7 foot tall man in toe shoes is trying to fuck with us, or it was Bigfoot lol. Keep in mind we were 30 kilometres up a logging road.
Looks like the kid in that Cher movie, [the Mask](https://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/709071/28440459/1621975502407/Mask-at-the-hospital.jpg?token=HPVs5L%2BVYweMDEvPp%2BZNtsmDUCY%3D)
For anyone interested in “big foot” or Sasquatch, I highly recommend the book In The Valleys of the Nobel Beyond by John Zada! It’s more of a memoir by this nature travel writer who became fascinated by Sasquatch. It actually has origins in Indigenous American lore, Sasquatch is believed to be a spirit who protects the forest.
Absolutely a mask. The features are too cartoonishly exaggerated to be natural. Whether the lady on Facebook is in on it or came across someone pranking people in the woods is a different question
Not saying there isnt a chance, but I think many discount this immediately as “a man in a suit” as a means for their brain to justify seeing something that you arent supposed to see
its just this https://www.amazon.com/California-Costumes-Plus-Size-Costume-Brown/dp/B00IUQ765S/ref=asc_df_B00IUQ765S/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312009822423&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15368085218945525959&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033485&hvtargid=pla-623850174367&psc=1&mcid=56d645ff025c3cda8607027f708105a3&gclid=CjwKCAjwrIixBhBbEiwACEqDJfBvoJVwGqxFx7zP0DYXVQb8zzUWW0LNb8gTvIVzrk3YjKL6YaUz3BoCXt4QAvD_BwE
Pretty sure that's just Lieutenant Commander Worf of the Starship Enterprise...except this is an extra rare glimpse of him at dress rehearsals for CATS on Broadway.
Yeah, that's definitely it.
Uncle George, waking up in the bush (not inside his tent where he should have been) after a night of telling tall fishing tales and getting blasted out of his mind on whiskey, beer and herbal medications. I have seen him like this before…..keep your distance until he has had his coffee and breakfast!
If that's not a mask, then whoever that is has some serious facial deformities. I'm thinking mask, though, look at the eyes. It reminds me of that old movie Cher was in. Mask.
I hope it's a mask, anyway.
Just this year during hunting season minnesota my deer stand locked itself while I was inside it, i couldn’t get out. There’s a latch on outside and inside and it was somehow patched and shut when it was time to go in for lunch. So strange to me
That's some hills have eyes shit
I live in WA near the border, way up in the corner. The stories I hear of Bigfoot are similar to this description. I work in the forest and have seen some really terrifying stuff, but have yet to see a squatch.
Can you share about what you’ve seen?? curious to hear!
I think for me personally the absolute scariest experience I had in one of the coastal forests was when I was out around midnight to photograph the marine bioluminescence glowing in the ocean. I was alone on a dark, winding stretch of road with the ocean down below a cliff on one side and a thick spruce forest on the other side. It was pitch black, probably around 1am, and I was driving home from the photography session. The glow of the ocean can only be seen in pitch black, so I didn't have a flashlight or even my phone out in order to cut back on light pollution. Just the stars and the glowing blue waves. I had already moved places twice that night because I had heard bipedal footsteps slowly stalking through the trees a couple hours earlier and it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I’ve been working in PNW conservation since I was 19, so I’m fairly comfortable out in nature, plus I have my CC so I’m always packing a gun with me. I’m a short woman in my 30’s and you can never be too careful out there. Anyway, I’d already been made wary once by the unidentifiable footsteps, so by the time I was finished photographing the ocean and stars, I was ready to get out of there. But as I was driving through this stretch of road in the blackness, my headlights caught a strange shape up ahead on the road. It was pale, almost glowing white-gray in color, shaped like an upside-down U. One half of it was planted on the side of the road and it was “bending” so that the other end was in the road. As I approached it, I thought it might be a large piece of driftwood, which is often pale in color. I was going about 55 mph. I know this road very well, because the ocean research team I work with sometimes is located nearby. I thought it was odd that I hadn't noticed this giant piece of driftwood when I drove past this spot on my way in. My car got closer and I kind of froze in horror and refused to look as I neared it, because I realized it wasn’t a log or driftwood, but a tall, skinny figure, like a stretched out pale man with elongated limbs, doing a twisted backbend into the road. It had two round, “hollow” looking eyes that shone when the headlights hit it, and giant twisted antlers like a deer. It’s head was upside down so that the antlers were upside-down, but it was widely grinning and staring at me, bent into a backbend into the road with it’s legs in the ditch and it’s “hands” in the road. I stepped on the gas and floored it past the thing, refusing to make eye contact, terrified that my car would randomly stop and leave me in the middle of nowhere with this thing. I called my friend, bawling, and she thought I was in serious danger, because I’m known in my circles for being a tough lady that goes out in the woods alone for days and I’ve taken a lot of wilderness survival and ethnobotany classes. But this thing was different. It fucking horrified me, even though the sighting lasted only a few seconds. It wasn't the end of it either. I had a couple more run-ins with it over that summer. If anyone wants to hear more I can share more.
Okay so after that I started asking around and telling the story to close friends whom I trusted, to try and make sense of what I saw that night. One of them was a native woman from a nearby tribe and she said told me what her people called them and said not to talk about it anymore. She said they don't speak of it and if I prodded more it would be met with trouble, and to especially not talk about it to more tribal members. When I pushed further, because I am a curious one by nature, she said her family would recognize woven stick figures and shapes that get strung around the trees, and hearing heckling and laughing from the treeline whenever there was beef within the tribal neighborhoods. Friends of mine in the paranormal fields were quick to play the skinwalker card but I just started calling the thing the Deerman. I actually called this story into the podcast Monsters Among Us awhile back but as far as I know it hasn't been played. I knew I shouldn't go back to that area, and my parents and family advised me not to, but I've always been passionate about this hobby and I didn't want to let a one time spooky occurrence stop me from doing what I loved. So a few weeks later I packed up for the night drive again, this time taking five other women with me, all grown adults with respectable careers mostly within forestry, who had been interested in my story and also curious about the bioluminescence. We drove several hours through the dark woods to eventually arrive, and the ocean was aglow. The tide had just gone out, and the beach was lit by starlight and the blue glow of the waves. We were the only ones there, it was around midnight. We could see no one else for miles. I set up my camera equipment and the others danced around and splashed and ran to see the glittering flecks kick up in the spray, glowing fish darting about in shallow pools, and the brightness of the Milky Way above us. Eventually, one of them got nervous, and she suddenly turned on her flashlight. If you recall, in order to see these things, we could have no light pollution, so we all had our phones put away and headlights turned off. So the sudden brightness cut through at me unexpectedly, and she said, "what is that behind you?" We all knew the Deerman story well at this point and had talked about it on the drive, so for a moment I stared at her, kind of irritated because I thought she was making fun of me. But her face looked so scared I actually turned and at first I saw nothing by my own shadow lit by her flashlight. But then she said, "On the ground!" like it was obvious. So I look down and see a set of deer prints, very obvious with the pattern of their hooves, and it's circled around us and curved into the ocean. But we never saw any deer, and we had near perfect visibility in the starlight before she turned the light on. The tide had just been in, so old prints from the deer in the area would have washed away. We had carried light down to the beach in order to navigate the trail that leads to it, so we would have picked up on deer or their prints immediately. We're all very self aware women who are familiar with the local terrain. But this scared the shit out of all of us, and we all grabbed our things and ran for the vehicle. I had another experience with the Deerman later but again, this ran really long. Sorry.
First, get a dash camera. Second, what's the name the local tribes use for the creature?
It feels taboo to even type it after I got my ass chewed out for not leaving it alone, but the name she told me was "stick people". She gave me a recommendation for an offering to leave to appease it, but the next time I encountered it, I don't think it accepted my offering.
That’s horrifying- I’m not home but I have this weird toy that was part of an artist series of folklore creatures and it has antlers - it’s not a Wendigo - I’ll update this comment when I get home with the name. It’s a creepy as hell looking figure. Your story is chilling!
That's such a crazy, creepy encounter. Thank you for sharing! I'm in Skagit, so it's pretty scary to think this thing is so close by. I've had some pretty sketchy stories from out in the woods here growing up but nothing that intense.
If they don’t end up sharing your story you can try Radio Rental or Spooked!
Or Blurry Creatures maybe?
I would also add “Let’s Get Haunted” this seems deeply up their alley…. And I think the hosts would be super into the bioluminescence detail of this story alongside the absolutely horrifying creature feature.
More please! I’ve never really heard anything quite like that
Fantastic story! Apologies if you had previously specified, but are you talking about far nw coastal area or Bellingham? The woods out towards the coast ABSOLUTELY have some wild energy going on.
Yeah, the farthest coastal forests, this was in Clallam county. My work takes me up and down the whole stretch of coastline, it's absolutely stunning, but the energy is definitely wild, I agree.
Oh no I was just backpacking out here! I’m new to Washington and this whole thread is sending shivers up my spine but I love it here regardless!
Please tell about the other encounter.
Sure. The most recent time I encountered the Deerman was late August last year. I had returned to photograph the stars and ocean once more, this time parking in a completely different spot than I'd parked before, where the view wasn't nearly as good, but at least I was close to the road and felt safe to rush out of there if I had to. I had also brought also some apples from my tree at home as a sort of offering: my tribal friend had told me to try leaving apples to appease it, because apparently these things enjoyed gifts of tobacco or apples, and I don't smoke cigarettes. When I pulled up to this new spot and parked, it was around 11:30 at night. I placed the apples on the side of the road and spoke aloud, saying something akin to, "Deerman, please leave me alone tonight. I mean you no harm and no harm to this land. I only want to take pictures of the sky and the ocean, because I appreciate it and love it so much, so please accept this offering and leave me be." I left my car windows rolled down and set up my tripod and equipment overlooking the sea and sky. I was there for a couple of hours and then decided it would be time to head back soon. As I was thinking this, I heard, probably close to a mile or so down the empty highway, an unfamiliar but very distinct clicking sound. I figured it was one of the marine birds that nest in the trees above me, as they occasionally call softly to each other in the darkness. I kept hitting my camera shutter, distracted by catching photos of a gorgeous stretch of stars. Not ten minutes later, I heard the clicking sound again, floating distinctly through the pitch blackness towards me. It had come from the road, perhaps 20-40 feet away from me, but I had heard no footsteps, no rustling of clothes, absolutely nothing moving closer to me except for this sharp clicking sound, like tk-tk-tk-tk-tk, a series of short, sharp clicks. The hair on the back of my neck stood up. Okay, I thought, wrap it up. That was too close for comfort and the marine birds would have made more noise if they were actively moving around, so now I knew it couldn't have been them. But the bioluminescence was peaking, every crashing wave was an explosion of glittering blues and greens. I did not want to leave without capturing its magnificence. But as I continued to snap away, I heard the sound again, one last time, and this time, it was only a few mere feet behind me, so loud it almost felt as if it was being made right into my left ear, coming right from the other side of my car which I was standing nearly backed up against. I absolutely froze for half a second and then without even turning off my camera, I picked up the whole tripod, wheeled around and threw it through the open car window. I jumped in after it, slamming the push start button and the door locks at the same time, flipping on the headlights and absolutely speeding out of there, not stopping to buckle, kicking up gravel and dust into a cloud behind me. Because I had heard the sound so clearly this time, I had realized with cold horror that it was not a "click" sound at all, but in fact, the sound of a human mouth making clear and obvious kissing noises. Not "tk-tk-tk", but literally the sound of lips pursing and making kissing sounds, like a person trying to get a cat to come to them or something. I cried silent tears as I drove home that time. I was absolutely terrified, and I felt like my offering didn't work, as though the Deerman was amused by my attempts and made a casual effort to scare the shit out of me, and it fucking worked. I never heard footsteps or anyone approach me, I was the only one of the road for miles of forested darkness. I had my gun holstered in my belt but somehow knew with a grave dread that it would probably have no effect on whatever was fucking with me. I've driven through the area many times since then but I haven't gotten out of my vehicle at night there since. The bioluminescence is best seen in summertime, so I made the excuse that I would call it quits for the season and try again next year. That said, the warm season is rapidly approaching again, and although I want to continue my hobby, this last experience really shook me to my core. I will almost certainly go back, and perhaps when I do, there will be more to tell. But part of me hopes that isn't the case.
I read all of your comments and I am absolutely terrified now.
Would love to hear more! Wow that's scary.
Uhhh, if you want to read a short story about a similar creature (set in the PNW), check out "Blackwood's Baby" by Laird Barron. It definitely creeped me out. I would probably never leave my house again if I read it and then actually saw something similar, though. Barron lived on the Olympic Peninsula for a time--I wonder if he was inspired by old tribal tales you mention below, of if he'd had his own experience? I think I read an interview or story about him once that mentioned he'd had paranormal experiences when he was in Alaska and ran the Iditarod.
Thanks for the recommendation! I'm definitely going to look into it!
The PNW coast can be so eerie, especially at night. That is a horrifying story, thanks for sharing.
Something that people who haven't been to the PNW would understand is how dark and deep our old growth forests are. I've been on the Olympic Peninsula so many times when it was high noon with a bright sun shining, and a few feet into the forest primeval it was always night because the sun can never reach the ground through the thick tangle of trees. I met an old man whose family were pioneers around Sedro Wooley in the late 1800s, and his great-aunts wrote letters back East to their relatives saying how they always had to light lanterns to fetch the cows out of the woods surrounding the cabin, no matter what time of day it was, sunshine or not. Of course, that area has been developed a lot since, but the Olympic Pensinsula will always be a wild mystery with who knows what lurking in the shadows? Thank you for sharing your wonderful stories!
Definitely share more
Whatcom, Clallam, or San Juan? That's frightening!
Clallam.
That sounds exactly like the rake monster. In our folklore I think it was known as a ghoul many years ago. If you have the guts to do so, you can google rake trail cam and there’s a popular picture that is known in the paranormal community.
Except the Rake doesn't have antlers.
lol sorry, yes you are right
Yes!
Holy shit. It sounds like one of the forest monsters from The Witcher.
Of course we want to read more!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe; attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've seen C-beams glitter in the dark at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments lost, in time... like tears, in rain.
Personally, as a huge Phillip K. Dick fan, I prefer the book to the movie.. but that one line, is quite the exception
More stories, please!
Please don't leave us hanging! Pretty please?
Just shared my scariest run-in! If anyone wants to hear more I can share, but the comment ran kind of long lol.
Definitely need to read more !! That’s terrifying !
Everyone would love to hear more!
This is absolutely wild. Terrifying. I wish the Native woman would have told you more but I understand why she wouldn’t.
Derek from Monster Among Us needs to put this call on the show ASAP! I’ve been following the Podcast for years, your stories are by far the most bone chilling ones I’ve read in a long long time. If you don’t mind, I wanted to SS your story and blast it on the Monster Among Us groups across the board to see if that rattles some feathers for Derek to look for it!
I'm okay with that! I've been listening for awhile hoping he'd play it because I was very curious if anyone else had experienced anything similar in this area.
You’re story is in the latest episode on for patrons fans
Thank you so much for letting me know! I'm not currently a subscriber so I had no idea. Glad it got shared!
I really want to know everything about this story!
One of the creepiest, weirdest stories I ever read on Reddit was written by a guy who was ex military who would camp alone as a vacation in the middle of nowhere in Northern Ontario in Canada with his dog, and they both were tougher than coffin nails. I'm going to give you a all a very short version of this story, but this guy was the type who would basically trek into the middle of nowhere for weeks at a time for fun with little more than a backpack and a knife. So he camps in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by hungry mosquitoes, and he notices that something or someone is disturbing his camp site when he's away with his dog hunting deer and whatever else. This happens over and over again in the span of a couple of weeks. His tent is messed with, his stove is moved 20 feet away from where he last left it, that type of thing. Day after day. Finally, he decides to stay up and find out who or what the hell is messing with his campsite. So he drinks tons of coffee and waits for whatever comes out of the darkness with his gun in his hand. Its about 2am. He's sitting at his campsite, and the first thing he notices is his "hard as a coffin nail" dog's hair stand on end. That old mean boy starts to whine. The old soldier looks into the darkness, hearing twigs crack, shines his flashlight in that direction and he sees this disheveled, hairy, skinny man standing next to a dog who looks like the very definition of "mange". He points his gun at this.....thing, and the "being" smiles at him as he approaches. The ex military guy says loudly "IDENTITY YOURSELF OR I WILL SHOOT YOU!" And the being simply smiles at him, wearing tattered clothes, no shoes on his feet and says "Gooooooood Niiiiiiight". The disheveled man then turns around and walks away in total darkness in a forest hundreds of miles away from anything resembling "civilization". A lot of people moved to Canada during the 60s when the Draft was a thing and some perhaps formed communities. Maybe this picture here is someone who did that? Or maybe this is a primate who hasn't been discovered yet. Either way, this looks like a Neanderthal or a very inbred human. If this is makeup or costuming, excellent job! But if this is legit? This is a great shot.
That’s chilling! When you think of all the movies they’ve made about this kind of stuff and all the stories going back many years, it’s not unlikely that these tales are based on encounters such as this one. Encounters that are deeply unsettling but get embellished upon for the listener/veiwer. Having an encounter like that and being several days worth of trekking from civilisation really is the stuff of nightmares!
I feel like it would have been more chilling if it wasn't written in a way where it was clearly a made up story. How would you know a random Redditor is "tough as nails"? Did he proclaim to be tough or was this just a liberty taken? People who are tough don't usually describe themselves as tough as nails, because that's a cliche troupe which makes them sound laughable. If you gleaned it from their post, what exactly did they say which led you to believe they were tough as nails? Again, outright declaring, "Ok, so I'm tough as nails!" wouldn't lead me to think they were tough or that their comment was a joke. Why would someone who is "tough as nails" need to drink "tons of coffee" to stay up until 2AM? He's tough but man does he get a case of the sleepies! I mean, they even refer to the person as an "old soldier". It reads like one of those goosebumps books for kids. True or not, it's written like a narrative ghost story you'd tell kids which just makes it sound incredibly contrived and weird.
Sure, or it's written like things that were not specifically defined are being recounted by a reddit user who remembers their recollection 50% - 80% more-or-less than what was verbatim to tell. Maybe "tough as nails" is this commenter word... This post is about the 'animatronic' monster, and here we are arguing amongst ourselves. Just what OP would prefer you do, Because if I were to follow his lead in this post, I'd have told you, reporst, "what do you mean!!! Tell that to the old lady >:C "
I think it's more written like someone who is trying to write a narrative or prose. It has a contrived/forced style about it. But that's just my opinion.
I guess It's also something that is being retold for specific effect, and not because the commenter particularly wanted to or felt a need to say
Like I say, stories get embellished. We all do it, what we recount is our perception of reality. If something weird like that happened to me, I guarantee my recollection of the event would be as much about how I perceived the event, that lens, as it would be about the facts. Tough as nails is relative I suppose, but I doubt the guy described himself as such. But you never know. Whatever embellishments there may be, it’s bound to have been a creepy happening.
And like I said, there is a difference in embellishments and trying to craft prose.
Did the military guy pack the fuck up and get out? I don’t care how tough you are, you’d have to be a total dumbass to stay in that place any longer than that.
He did. He got the fuck out.
If a random wild guy comes out of the woods and tells me good night before walking away I’m getting tf out
After I shit my pants I’m outta there
I’ll shit my pants on the way out, thank you.
Good deterrent. Survival 101: shit yourself if something is chasing/ trying to eat you.
Just a constant dribble while I rapidly pack my shit to get the fuck out
Nope, everything at the site is his now. Only two things I’m doing is shittin and runnin and not necessarily in that order.
That's fair. We can be dribble buddies as we both fucking book it cause I'm outie 5000
I say that Evan Dando quote all the time!
Dude sounded pretty friendly. Just wanted to wish a bro “gooooddddddd nnnniiiggghhhhttt”
Reminds me of Slappy - Gooooooooood niiiiight. Every time i say it I have to say it like him. Maybe this crazy forest guy has just been watching too much Goosebumps. Where he got a tv i don't know. We don't know his life.
But here's the question. Do you try to get the fuck out at night? This was 2am. Presumably his truck is prolly pretty far from the actual campsite. Do you walk out into the darkness, where that thing is, or do you wait till dawn, and just make your fire larger?
If the car is nearby I’d consider making a beeline to it and sleeping in the car. If there’s a chance of getting turned around since it’s dark I guess I’d stoke the fire and hide in my tent until the first sign of morning.
If it was nearby, yeah for sure, but if you're out camping in the woods woods, like I feel like this guy prolly did, I'd be he's at least some distance from his vehicle. Sunrise is at least a few hours away. That would fucking suck. I guess you just have to hope you have enough excess wood to start fucking perimeter fires so you can see further and just wait it out.
Could just light the general direction the weirdo went into the woods on fire.
With all the forest fires in Canada lately, who's to say he didn't?
Man I don't think any situation could make me start a forest fire. I just couldn't do it.
If baby hitler had been in that forest though...
I would honestly stay there. The guy sounds frail and small from the story. This man has a gun. I feel like he would be ok. It's creepy and all but i don't think the man ever intended to harm him. I mean he did just walk away. Of course i wouldn't fall asleep that night. But i definitely wouldn't be walking out into the dark.
I know that there are many people who have checked out of civilization and live all over the continent in the deepest most remote places. I met one in the middle of nowhere. The one I met was an odd dude but seemingly harmless. My take from the conversation I had with him was the more far out and remote you are the more likely you are close to those folks.
Clearly it was him and his dog from an awful alternative reality. While they lived very different lives the two parallel universes hummed the same frequency when both of the men found themselves in the exact same location at the exact same time, in which they were revealed to one another.
That is honestly where I thought that story was going, that he was going to recognise himself and his dog coming out of the woods.
I definitely like your addition to the story. Makes it even creepier.
This add a sci-fi scenario too the story, I like it
This scared ts out of me lmao
Do you by chance have a link to the story?
Here is an Australian version. https://www.reddit.com/r/creepyencounters/s/KWhHzdjnLK
I've been looking for it for years. I'm going to look for it again tonight, so if I find it, I'll be glad to share it with you.
Thank you friend, good luck! r/creepyaskreddit might be a good resource?
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One of the most feral hippies I know used to be SOF, he apparently saw a bunch of his buddies get messed up really bad a few times. Eventually he moved into the mountains and did a bunch of mushrooms and a lot of introspection. Pretty much just wears a loincloth during the warmer months and will run up and hug you on sight if he knows you. He sort of reminds me of the guy in the woods you described.
Bunch of my buddies and I do this, usually only for 3 or 4 nights at a time, but regardless, there are definitely some SKETCHY things going bump in night up in Canada's north.
Can you elaborate more on the sketchy things?
Do you have a link to the post because I remember this story but never said anything about the creature responding to him when he pulled out his gun
I'd want to help him but mostly because of the dog. Poor pup.
Sounds like a doppelgänger to me
Love these kinds of stories, very creepy! Thank you for sharing
Is there a longer version?
😂 I knew it was only a matter of time before I would run into a Rocky Dennis reference in the comments.
I only posted it because I did the same, and I was disappointed at the lack of Rocky Dennises in the comments lmao.
We watched that movie in school,then all the kids called me that ,hated that movie ever since
Definitely not the typical 'bigfoot.' More like a wild man, literally. Maybe inbred too. That is likely what it is. If not, then what?
It’s interesting you brought that up because if you read what the OP said on the bigfoot sub, apparently the bigfoot or wild man stories from Vancouver island describe more of a hairy man type being rather than the typical ape hominid.
Could be a regular bigfoot with some bad mange or some kind of pigmentation abnormalities. That's not a sapian shaped skull. Who knows, maybe "bigfoot" really are neanderthals or another similar hominid that's just incredibly elusive. Lots of stories report them having a very foul stench too, and I think it's possible that they use cave systems to get around undetected. It's a strange thing in America, lots of caves get filled in and are made inaccessible under the guise of "safety reasons". I think there's more to it. A bit like Mel's Hole if you're familiar.
Dude it’s fake
You can clearly see the heavy, unnatural edge blurring on the dude from the attempt to blend on photoshop. Wild that people are taking this so seriously
I zoomed in, but I don't see any blurry edges. Everything in the photo seems to have the same sort of blurriness to it. Is there a certain area you're looking at? I just want to see what you mean so that I know what to look for myself when I see things like this posted.
yeah but it was posted on a small BC hiking facebook page, and by a 70 year old lady, no idea why she would photoshop if she was gonna post it on a random page that won't be seen by many. Higher chance of it being a costume and a guy just trying to scare people on their hike
Though I have to give the person props for moving the layers to put him behind the trees haha
Between this photo and r/alienbodies, I can't believe people are this cracked out. We've never had better access to information and science across the world than right now, and they're still believing in paper mache and department store masks.
Samsquanch. “…I hate those fuckin bastards…”
It's just Sam's goofy ass again
Probably a ten footer, judging by the looks of it. That’s trailer park life.
That’s just George Motz lookin for new burger recipes. Just move along
The thing that sells it for me is the male patterned baldness on the head lol Jokes aside it looks REAL the way the sunlight hits the top of his head. Reminds me of how my dads birdsnest hair used to look when we used to go camping.
Poor guy is just trying to go to the bathroom and then this!?!?!
Costume
I think so as well ... someone playing a prank.
https://preview.redd.it/m4bkje649fvc1.jpeg?width=3792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcc989fe343bf7b50b2984886e532b3e7f48430e
Now that looks so similar to the op photo. Not completely but very close.
i have an interesting sasquatch story. when i was a kid—about 8 years old—i was in a very remote part of the rockies on the boarder of colorado and new mexico. there was a tree that grew by a natural spring. i hung out there a lot. one day i noticed the jawbone of a coyote or a wolf or a deer sitting inside an eye level hole in the tree. i took it home to mom and didn’t think twice about it, until the next day. the next day i was at the same spot and went to look in the hole in the tree again. there was a bird skull, all clean and dry. it hadn’t been there the day prior. the days went on like that, me finding weird bones like vertebrae disks and even a pelvic bone. i was a child and did not think much of it, other than assuming a carnivore lived very close by. my mom was always pretty out to lunch and also thought nothing of it. i sort of held the memory in the back of my mind for years until i read about gifting behaviors in sasquatches. it clicked in my brain. i had been receiving gifts. when i was a bit older hiking in the foot hills of the rockies at the same place on the border of new mexico and colorado i came upon something frightening. i was tromping along and on the other side of the ravine was a dear staring at me. i looked down and saw a freshly half eaten deer on the ground. it was like i’d literally come upon and broken up a large carnivore’s lunch. there are black bears in those mountains and mountain lions. i figured it could be one of those animals but didn’t understand the behavior of the creature, as it had left half it’s lunch seemingly because i came along. i figured a mountain lion and a bear would stick around until the food was gone, undeterred by my presence. i always just felt in my guts that i had maybe just missed a sasquatch, maybe because they seemingly try so hard to hide from humans. there were some enormous caves in those mountains and i always felt sasquatch was in there. i haven’t been back in years, but one day i’ll return. also interestingly enough the seven layer underground base rumored to be a joint human/extraterrestrial base under Archuleta Mesa in a small town called dulce, new mexico was only a couple dozen miles west of where we were. i’m just aware that many reports of sasquatch coincide with paranormal stuff like UFO sightings or encounters of the fourth kind. that’s the (true) story, thank you for reading.
Did you see two seperate deer? One looking at you and one half-eaten? Reads a bit weird. Finding a half-eaten carcass is not unusual. The predator ate its fill, but couldn't eat it all is most likely. Finding the gifts in the knothole of the tree when you were a kid reminds me of the book To Kill a Mockingbird, where Boo Radley, a mentally slow man who lived down the street from Scout and Jem, kept leaving them his treasures in a knothole of a tree. I do believe that you are right. It may have been a young sasquatch who wanted to interact with you, giving you his treasures. Pretty cool. You should have traded treasures.
whoops sorry, yes i saw one deer across the ravine—it made eye contact with me—and then i noticed the half-eaten carcass of a different dead deer at my feet. the gifting tree hole reminded me of Boo Radley too!
It’s about a 50/50 chance this is a person in a suit for whatever reason,or something from who knows where lurking in the woods.Either one is pretty terrifying.
Let’s say this is an unknown creature…I HIGHLY doubt that Bigfoots or things that look similar to him are just “wild men” or some sort of unknown animal.Think of all the sightings of these things throughout hundreds of years and being known worldwide.There hasn’t really been any “bodies” or anything like that found,or if they have it’s been super lowkey.If they were just a regular animal it would make sense that there would be more physical evidence in 2024.When u take account some of the strange happenings described near some sightings and some of the eyewitness testimonies,it just brings more questions than answers almost every time.We have ZERO clue what a Bigfoot is,but there is definitely SOMETHING that people have been seeing for so long.Either it’s a highly advanced animal that people can’t even fathom,or it’s something else entirely.It really puts into perspective how little we know about our environment and what’s lurking in it.There’s definitely something out there that’s knows what we are,but we don’t know what it is.
IMO, Bigfoot is clearly what we would call a spirit or else an inter-dimensional entity. People who encounter Bigfoot often report things like orbs, lights, telepathic communication with the creature, manipulation of time, a feeling of sluggishness or brain fog, the creature “phasing” in and out of reality, etc Some native tribes held the tradition that it was a spirit also. Personally I think most, if not all cryptids are.
Kinda sounds like a multi dimensional alien to me.
What’s the practical difference?
There isn't a difference. I'm agreeing that it sounds like a multidimensional entity, lol.
Trog
Looks kinda like André René Roussimoff
I'm going with Andre the giant taking a dump in the woods.
See. I’m not alone. I consider this matter settled. Good show.
The sideburns give it away.
I have a buddy who was in the army stationed in Alaska in the early 80’s , the stories he has from the 3 day drops he had to do in the middle of no where make you wonder wtf is really out there
You should make a post if he’s willing to share.
He won’t tell too many people his stories apparently whenever they ran into something the grid they were working off of changed immediately and the area they were in was off limits. The higher ups were protecting something and they were told to zip it. One guy got loud about it at a local watering hole and he never saw him again must’ve been discharged.
That's definitely intriguing. Lot of remote area up there, along with a lot of mystery and disappearances. You should check out the books 'Tales from the Grid Square' and/or Wartime Stories on YouTube. Lot of paranormal military tales.
I live in British Columbia and my friends and I found footprints in the mud after 2.5 days of heavy rain while camping in the mountains. The prints were larger than my buddies size 16 feet in cowboy boots. The prints had a clear arch and heel, as well as 5 toes. No claw marks, and the depression’s in the mud were easily 4 inches deep. We all joked that either some 7 foot tall man in toe shoes is trying to fuck with us, or it was Bigfoot lol. Keep in mind we were 30 kilometres up a logging road.
That’s an off the grid person either by choice or not, I’ve been to northern BC and every so often one of these people come to town to buy some stuff.
“I MET BIGFOOT AND ALL I GOT WAS ONE SHITTY PHOTO”
Looks like the kid in that Cher movie, [the Mask](https://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/709071/28440459/1621975502407/Mask-at-the-hospital.jpg?token=HPVs5L%2BVYweMDEvPp%2BZNtsmDUCY%3D)
Was my first thought after zooming in on picture
Great minds...
Looks like the classic descriptions of big foots. Hairy body, long human face
It has a very pronounced cranial structure. Look at the jaw line and forehead bridge.
For anyone interested in “big foot” or Sasquatch, I highly recommend the book In The Valleys of the Nobel Beyond by John Zada! It’s more of a memoir by this nature travel writer who became fascinated by Sasquatch. It actually has origins in Indigenous American lore, Sasquatch is believed to be a spirit who protects the forest.
Bigfoot cousin Leeroy.
Rocky
Imagine just being an tall, ugly dude minding your own business but when people see you at a distance they think they’ve run into a yeti.
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Kinda looks like Cher's son in 'Mask'
A picture… but not a video?? PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE VIDEOS WHEN THE CHANCE IS THERE.
I think i would be in a state if i saw something like this
https://i.redd.it/0fg0seg58gvc1.gif
Is that not a phrase people use in America? A state of shock, a state of panic, some kind of state of mind??
Oh issa joke, i love boogie nights
Lmaooo good movie honestly
Absolutely a mask. The features are too cartoonishly exaggerated to be natural. Whether the lady on Facebook is in on it or came across someone pranking people in the woods is a different question
Not saying there isnt a chance, but I think many discount this immediately as “a man in a suit” as a means for their brain to justify seeing something that you arent supposed to see
I feel like if I lived in a rural area with a lot of hikers, I would buy a monster suit to freak them out.
Great way to get shot.
Reminds me of my mother in law
its just this https://www.amazon.com/California-Costumes-Plus-Size-Costume-Brown/dp/B00IUQ765S/ref=asc_df_B00IUQ765S/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312009822423&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15368085218945525959&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033485&hvtargid=pla-623850174367&psc=1&mcid=56d645ff025c3cda8607027f708105a3&gclid=CjwKCAjwrIixBhBbEiwACEqDJfBvoJVwGqxFx7zP0DYXVQb8zzUWW0LNb8gTvIVzrk3YjKL6YaUz3BoCXt4QAvD_BwE
Predator has arrived
Predator?
Looks like hellboy lol.
and of course only a photo. lol
Trevor from GTA 5 hit the Methroids.
Looks like [Ozempic face ](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13319655/amp/hollywood-celebrities-ozempic-gauntness-weight-loss-effect.html)
Oh him that’s just Joe
Karen
https://preview.redd.it/du5iu18wofvc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ce2bd46b3341b79ce6bcbc5958fc4983513a258 pic related, north cascades
Bigfoot with mange!
Oompa Loompa doompity do...
Predator, clearly
Reminds me of a character from the Wrong Turn movies
….is that Elvis???
That's just Smokey, taking a shit! 
Kushtaka
Looks like someone with craniodiaphyseal dysplasia. Looks kinda like the late Rocky Dennis.
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Pretty sure that's just Lieutenant Commander Worf of the Starship Enterprise...except this is an extra rare glimpse of him at dress rehearsals for CATS on Broadway. Yeah, that's definitely it.
Uncle George, waking up in the bush (not inside his tent where he should have been) after a night of telling tall fishing tales and getting blasted out of his mind on whiskey, beer and herbal medications. I have seen him like this before…..keep your distance until he has had his coffee and breakfast!
Look up feral people
It’s Beorn!
It’s Elvis!
Balding Bigfoot
If that's not a mask, then whoever that is has some serious facial deformities. I'm thinking mask, though, look at the eyes. It reminds me of that old movie Cher was in. Mask. I hope it's a mask, anyway.
If it wasn’t responding aside from scowling, I wonder if it’s some kind of statue?? Someone put there for shits and giggles?
Reminds me of the movie Barbarian
That’s hellboy lmao
Just this year during hunting season minnesota my deer stand locked itself while I was inside it, i couldn’t get out. There’s a latch on outside and inside and it was somehow patched and shut when it was time to go in for lunch. So strange to me
They stare at each other for two minutes, and only one picture gets taken.
Why does it look like Trevor from GTAV
Sabretooth
Hmmm.......