Bigfoot On Maneuvers

About this episode

The episode features a man's recounting of a mysterious encounter with Bigfoot during a military exercise in the 1980s.

Tonight we're pulling off the highway for this one. Somewhere between mile markers on the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip, an email came in that I couldn't drive past, so we're parking in the gravel for a while to hear it. A man who's listened to just about everything I've put out finally wrote down something he'd carried alone for forty years, and he sent it to me because he trusts how I handle a story. He was nineteen, deep in the military in the mid-1980s, out on an extended field problem in mountain country so remote that help was a full day away if anything went wrong. His commanding officer briefed them on bears and big cats and told them to keep their heads on a swivel, that this wasn't the kind of country that announces itself. By the third day, his element of six men had found crude shelters built from bent saplings woven together with living vines, and the birds had gone silent across the whole drainage. What happened that night is the reason he's telling it now. White points of light with no source to reflect them, hanging six feet off the ground in the dark. Vocalizations from opposite slopes that climbed past anything an animal should be able to make, answering each…

People in this episode

Host: Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

Guest: a man

Topics covered

• Bigfoot
• military encounters
• cryptids
• personal stories
• mystery

Keywords

• Bigfoot
• military
• cryptid
• encounter
• mystery
• vocalizations
• shelters
• personal story

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