Encounters USA The Podcast

FULL SHOW NOTES On this episode of Encounters USA, Matthew Heines shares an interview collected during Bigfoot patrol in the Southern Olympic Mountains. A local woman says her father was sighting in a rifle before a hunt when he accidentally shot a young Bigfoot about a hundred yards out. He didn't know anything was there until he heard the scream. He thought he had hit a human. The wound was through-and-through in the shoulder. The creature was small — about the height of a teenage girl. He ran for medical supplies. When he returned, a much larger individual stood at the edge of the yard and watched. Protective. Still. It allowed him to treat the young one. He drew the moon in the dirt with a stick and told them to come back in two days. She says the big one nodded. They did come back, for roughly a week and a half. Under the bandage he kept finding moss and chewed plant material — a home remedy that seemed to close the wound faster. When the visits stopped, fruit appeared on the front porch in little handmade baskets. He told his wife it was "just a friend." The kids rolled their eyes. She stopped rolling her eyes the night she got off a midnight shift in Hoquiam, slowed down for what she thought was a hitchhiker, and realized the figure had no clothes, was covered in fur, and stood taller than her lifted four-door dually. Her girlfriend later saw three of them — male, female, and child — on Ocean Beach Road near Aloha. Her granddaughter's family hit a whole group on a trail to the beach near Taholah and ran. Locations in this report: Humptulips Prairie (behind the state gravel pit), Hoquiam, Ocean Beach Road near Aloha, and Taholah on the Quinault Reservation. Southern Olympics. Watch your back. Subscribe wherever you listen. Video version on YouTube and Rumble: Encounters USA. https://www.youtube.com/@EncountersUSA https://www.encountersusa.com https://www.heinessight.com Keywords: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Washington, Humptulips, Hoquiam, Taholah, Olympic Peninsula, eyewitness interview, Encounters USA, Matthew Heines

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