A Soldier Finds Bigfoot Instead Of Peace

A Soldier Finds Bigfoot Instead Of Peace

From Sasquatch Odyssey by Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters

April 26, 2026 · 59 min

About this episode

A soldier shares his haunting encounter with Bigfoot during a solo elk hunt in the Washington Cascades.

Jeremy spent two tours in Iraq and came home carrying things he couldn't name. In October 2006, he went alone into the deep backcountry of the Washington Cascades for a week-long solo elk hunt, hoping the wilderness would do what it had always done for him. It didn't. Something else was in that drainage, and it had been aware of him long before he was aware of it.This is one of the most carefully told accounts we've received at Backwoods Bigfoot Stories. Jeremy is a veteran, a lifelong hunter, and a man who spent nearly twenty years deciding whether to say any of this out loud. He describes strange resonant knocking that didn't always sound like it came from a surface. Depressions in soft ground that stopped him cold. A food hang disturbed in a way that didn't match any bear behavior he'd ever seen. And then, on the fifth night, three of them surrounding his camp in the dark, with eyes that weren't reflecting light so much as generating it. One of them stepped out into the clearing and let him see it. That was enough. He broke camp before first light and walked ten miles out in the dark.He's never told his wife. He's never told anyone. The experience lives in the same interior…

People in this episode

Guest: Jeremy

Topics covered

  • Bigfoot encounters
  • veteran experiences
  • hunting stories
  • paranormal phenomena
  • mental health
  • nature exploration

Keywords

  • Bigfoot
  • veteran
  • hunting
  • paranormal
  • Iraq
  • Washington Cascades
  • nature
  • mental health

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, Paranormal World Productions

Places: Washington Cascades

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