Cascades Terror: Bigfoot at Arm’s Length | Washington

0:00 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's account is from a man who grew up in the wild foothills of the Washington Cascades, where the woods were both his playground and would become the fuel for his nightmares. Just a few steps away, he saw something that changed his life forever, and over the years, the strange events have not stopped. This is Keith's account and it spans decades states in more than one kind of terror. So stay with us, all I Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Keith today. Keith is an individual listens over on the YouTube platform I believe, so we got connected there. He is a master botanist that grew up in the Cascade foothills of Washington State. And I know a little bit about what we're about to get into.

0:50 It's about to get pretty intense, so I'm looking forward to it. Keith, Welcome to the show. How are you doing today, sir. Good afternoon, doing great. Awesome, Keith. I love hearing about the Cascades. I actually got to go up into them in Oregon. They are not to be messed with. You do not underestimate them. I underestimated them. That's a different story for a different day. But you know, Keith, take us back as far as you need to to when all these things started happening to you. Okay. Well, I spent a lot of time growing up on the foothills of the Cascades there in Newcastle, Issaquah, Cougar Mountain, Tiger Mountain, and about nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty, I was playing with a group of friends at a dead end street down the street from my parents' house and just skateboard and you know, do all the things that kids did back and then and the dead end street led back the woods where we have a little BikeE tracks and stuff like that. And then, uh, there was two hills next to that, and for some reason, uh, I think we were planning to go to one of our tree forts or something. So my friends had taken off to go home and meet me. They're going to meet me back in the woods on top of this this uh, this hill. It was kind of a lookout.

2:21 It could you kind of look out across the Seattle and uh Lake Washington. And I was supposed to meet them up there, and I said Okay, well, I'm not even gonna go home. I'm just gonna I went back in the woods and started climbing the first hill, and uh, this is probably June or July, I remember. I remember it being warm and very sunny that day, and I decided to climb this first hill and I finally got to the top of it, and I was cresting the top of the hill and I heard branches breaking, and I caught something out of the corner of my eye and I looked over my shoulder and I see this big creature like standing mid standing up. I catch it right when it's standing up, and it's just it's a bizarre dark gray color covered in hair, and all I could see is like it's buttocks, it's back and shoulders and part of its head. And it took like three steps and it was gone. And I was close to this thing. I got a really good look at it, and it didn't make any noise, it didn't look at me.

3:34 It just busted through the bushes and was gone. And my mind was going a mile a minute trying to figure out what I'm looking at. And the color was really bizarre, and I was just in awe. I was frightened, and I was kind of hurrying myself away looking at this thing, but it was it was going away from me, so I was glad about that, and I was quite frightened, and I said, you know, I'm gonna get out of here. So instead of climbing the next mountain to meet my friends, I cut down this ravine between my neighbor's houses and went home. And when I was walking away from this thing, I smelt this odor I've smelt many times before out in the woods, and it smelled It smelt like horse poop, body odor and urine all the same time. It was a very sickly sweet smell. And I got out of there went home. I tried talking to my dad about what I'd seen, and he was kind of like, oh, don't worry about it. You know, it was probably this or that. You know, you got a couple hours of before dinner when you go out and play with your friends some more. And so I never really brought it up again. I never talked to my friends about it, and after that I was pretty paranoid about going into the woods by myself. After that, it really frightened me.

5:02 I didn't know what I was looking at and as a child, our only experience with like Bigfoot and stuff like that was like, you know, the six million Dollar Man and uh Leonard Nimoy at the time, and us as kids, we thought that was all you know, fiction. It wasn't real, you know, stuff like that that it was never on our mind is when we were when we were hanging out in the woods. So that was my my my first experience with uh really bizarre encounters in the woods behind my parents' house and trying to remember what the next thing it kind of happened. Then again, uh, me and one of my friends, Steve, we decided to hike up to uh Cougar Mountain and stay at this place called uh Dlio Wall And it's like a rock out cropping on top of the on top of the mountain that uh kind of looks over h the backside of the Rent and Highlands May Creek, you know, horse pastures and stuff like that. And we're going to camp the night up there. And I remember we were setting up camp there and we had a whole bunch of like rocks and stuff tumble down the side of the cliff next to us twenty thirty feet away, and you know, We're like, that could be anything, dear, whatever. There's a lot of critters out there. So we make our camp.

6:26 Everything's cool. We start getting kind of a rain rainstorm coming through, so we're like, well, we better get in a tent and just you know, hunker down and let the storm pass or whatever. So we're sitting in there, we're trying to sleep, and it's raining and not raining, and it's raining again, and we keep hearing this like stomping around thirty forty yards away in the woods and it sounds like something heavy is pacing back and forth. And my friend and Steve's like, what is that? So I don't know, maybe somebody's out there messing with or or something as well. You know, we got a gun and everything, so we had a rifle. And this went on and went on, and my friend Steve started getting paranoid, and I was like getting paranoid. I said, hey, I'll just I'll shout out and say, hey, you know, who's out there, who's messing with us? We got a gun, leave us alone. And we kept on hearing noise again.

7:25 So Steve's like, why don't you shoot around through the shoot around through the top of the tent and see if we can scare whatever it is away. So I'm like reluctantly, I'm like okay, and I fire one shot through the top of the tent, which was a really bad idea. It ended up striking the aluminum crossbar on top of the tent, and the tent basically falls down on top of the soaking wet and then we're like in panic mode and we got to fix the tent, or we've got to you know, We've got to fix something here. So we end up taking a tarp and making kind of a tentile the tarp with a fire in front of it, and we ended up sleeping under that the rest of the night. And then it became very quiet and we didn't hear any more noise again, and it stopped raining, and that was a very unusual a coincidence. And we'd walk around in the forest a lot of the time. We'd hear entire trees falling over from time to time, and we didn't think much of that either, because there was a lot of dead trees and we had a lot of windstorms there up there in Seattle, and we used to push trees over all the time. But this must have happened five or six time over a couple of year period, and as I got older, you know, thinking back on this stuff, I just said, this is really weird that we were witnessing these kind of things. So that was about nineteen. This was about nineteen eighty three, eighty two eighty three when

8:55 that happened. And then I remember the summer of eighty three, we were up at a tree fort up which is now Newcastle Ridge. It's a big luxury home view neighborhood now that we used to tramp all over the woods back there and it's all homes now, but we had a tree forward up there with a nice rope swing and kids from all of the neighborhood which would hike up there and go, you know, goes, go on the rope swing and hang out and stuff like that. And me and my neighbor Doug, we're up there one evening, probably around five point thirty. Just started kind of getting dark, I believe, and we were sitting up in the tree fort.

9:43 I don't know what we were doing, but we all of a sudden we start hearing this very loud, very intense screaming, and it was loud. It sounded like a woman being torn apart, screaming for her life, and my friend Doug's looking at him, goes, what was that? Never heard anything like that before out here. It was Sny getting hurt, and we were kind of we were very frightened. That to me was being something's happened to somebody. And I had a double barreled shotgun that I used to carry up in the woods with me, so we were like, you know, we were protected and everything. And this went on for three or four minutes, and then it just it got dark, and then we didn't hear it anymore.

10:27 And a few months after that, we were up there again and this this screaming started, and this time we went home and grabbed a deer rifle and a moss Bird five hundred and twelve gage and we went back there looking in this area to see what was going on back there, and there was nothing around. It was dead quiet, couldn't see anything, didn't hear anything, and we went home, and you know, just crazy crazy stuff we'd hear out there. Another another incidents, we had a place where we would have campfires up on the hill behind the house, and me and groups of people would come up there and you know, cookcot dogs and you know, talk and stuff like that. And we would constantly hear somebody walking around in the bushes or in the tree line constantly, and me seeing hearing this kind of stuff back in the woods, I was pretty paranoid and I was always kind of an alert, you know. And I noticed it right away and I just kind of ignored it.

11:39 And then another friend that was there was like, man, it sounds like somebody's over in the bushes. There is there. You know, got weird. I was out here something watching people as I don't know. I hear a lot of things out here, and so that was weird. And then where I where I had seen that that creature at there was a family that lived about one hundred yards down the hillside where I'd seen this thing. Where I cut through the I cut through the neighbor's yard there. They lived there, and my friend's mom would always question me, she's seen me. She's like, uh, She's like, Keitha, you guys been hanging behind the house at night. You guys have been out there. I know you guys go out there all the time. I said, I said, no, I'm never out behind your house at night. And She brought this up three or four times over like a five six year periods as I was growing up. And now it dawn's on me today that maybe they were witnessing some stuff too and didn't know what was going on.

12:42 So that was strange. And then let's see if there's a line here, see here, and what's the other thing that happened here. So anyways, some of us relatively uneventful. And there was a time that this is around nineteen eighty four, and me and a group of friends we went to another tree. We had three or four tree for us back in the woods, and we went to this one that was quite large. It was like a big giant deck built up in a tree, and we'd go up there all the time, and we had a lot of strange experiences there as well. We would hear sound like people were talking, like gibberish, like women talking, but you could never you can never make out what they were saying. And other friends said they would hear it as well, and that was strange. But this one night that we were up there, we're up there listening to music and there's about four four of us up there, and I was looking off, I was hoping that tree fort, and I was looking off to the with the northeast, which would be kind of the direction where our houses were on the other side of the woods, and off in the distance, maybe three four hundred yards, I could

14:14 see it look like a porch light in the distance, and I was like, well, that's odd. There's no houses over there. There's no porch lights in that area. It was just a kind of like an abandoned field that was kind of overgrown. And we we had walked by that area getting to the tree fort, so I thought that was odd. And we're you know, listening to music and doing you know, kids doing stuff. And twenty minutes go by, and I look over again and this this light looks like it's closer now. So now I'm kind of paying attention, like, who, you know, semi four four wheeling out there some kind of flashlight. But the light didn't look like it was panning around like somebody carrying a light or or you know, being a truck light a four wheel drive or something. It didn't look like anything.

15:04 It looked like a forty or sixty watt porch light bulb. And so I kind of started watching it, you know, another fifteen minutes goes by, and now it's about one hundred and fifty yards away or so, and I can see it a lot better, and I look at my friends and I go, hey, guys, there's a weird light over here in the woods. I've been watching. It's getting closer. And they're like, ah, you're crazy, there's nothing over there. They can see the light, they don't think nothing of it. So this is kind of transpired over about a forty minute time frame here, So we carry on with everything again.

15:49 I finally I look over again and this thing is getting closer and closer now, and I started getting worried. I don't say nothing to my friends. I'm kind of watching it, and it's like hovering and moving through the tree, through the trees, similar to like maybe a drone, like a drone would be kind of like, but it wasn't panning around or moving. It was like directly coming at us and not deviating from that at all, which was really weird, which was frightened me. And it started getting closer and it looked like a pyramid shape with six lights in it. And I look at my friends again.

16:33 I said, hey, guys, hate to bother you. Again, but you might want to look at this light. And all I said, three or four of my friends were up there. They all go up to the edge of the tree floor and they're looking at it and they're going, that's that. And I said, well, that's what I've been trying to tell you. I don't know what it is. And it was moving to maybe one or two miles an hour. It's probably about twelve feet off the ground, and it's just it's slowly coming towards the tree for it and it got within maybe sixty yards of us, and my friends flipped, They're like, let's get out of here, and we split down this tree. For we practically fell out of the tree for getting out of there, and we ran the opposite way. There was a trail that went to the south that we could that we ran through and completely went around the entire woods back to our homes.

17:27 And we never talked about that incident ever again. None of us never brought it up. And that was extremely frightening. And I have I don't know what I saw. I don't know what it was, but it really frightened us. And you know, after seeing some of these things, I started becoming I didn't like to go out in the woods by myself, and I usually carried a shotgun with me or something like that if I did go out there and gosh, so that had happened, and what else had happened. I had another experience there where we we had a small little party up there one night and I came back here and meet some people, and I had I had a twenty two rifle with me, and some of the girls from high school were there and they wanted they wanted to shoot my my my twenty two into this tree, and I said, no, that's not a good idea, you know, I don't want to, you know, alert because there was neighbors not too far away, one hundred two hundred yards away, There's some houses and stuff like that, and I definitely didn't want the cops to come or anything like that. So we're standing there and the next thing I know, I start hearing I hear like a dog collar, and I see a light coming up the hillside underneath the tree for it, and I

18:59 grabbed my twenty two away from one of my one of my girlfriends, and I haul out of there. I don't know if it was a cop, but I started seeing a light and I saw a dog and I say, god ohe might be a sheriff or something like that. So I split out of there. I run. I get about thirty forty yards away from his tree fort I heaved my twenty two into the bushes and I take off. I run home because I didn't want to get caught with the rifle, obvious reasons, you know, being a young kid. So the next day, I go out there really early in the morning. I go out there like six in the morning. I said, got to go find my rifle, and I knew exactly where I'd thrown it. So I went there looking and looking and looking. I couldn't find it.

19:41 I couldn't find it, and I'm like, somebody took it, maybe the cop. Maybe it was a cop that took it or something. I'm going to get in trouble. So I'm really freaking out. I'm really worried about that. So I walk, I get back on the trail, I start walking home. I get halfway down the trail, I look down and there's my rifle sitting parent sitting on the side of the trail, just sitting there, exactly where I didn't put it. So how my gun got there. Why my gun was there, I have no idea. So I picked my gun up, cleaned it off, I took it home. Never had any cops come around or anything like that. But that was another really bizarre incident that I have no explanation for. That's pretty much the most relevant things that I witnessed, you know, growing up there in the cascades the foothills, and you know, we'd walk around and hear miscellaneous wood knocks, voices, stuff like that. But like I said, you know, we weren't out there looking for any any kind of stuff like that. So a lot of this stuff I just blew off. It's just being critters or just you know, hearing things. And that's the most pretty much the most relevant things that I experienced out there over maybe from nineteen eighty till about nineteen

21:12 eighty six, and then shortly after that, me and most of my friends we had to get jobs and you know, grow up, and we didn't spend a lot of time out in those woods like we used to. We would we would once in a while, we would go and we would go to the dead end street hang out, have beers and stuff like that. You know, Later in our high school years and college years, and then we kind of a lot of us just kind of drifted apart because we've just grown up. And I still remember going up there and hearing noises, people walked, stuff, walking around stuff like that. Well another thing is we would get very paranoid and very frightened for no reason, which was which was really weird. We just you just be walking all of a sudden, we'd all of a sudden become frightened. Like SEMy was watching it, watching you. And like I said, I smelt that strange odor quite a few times, and to this day, if I smell I know exactly what it is. So pretty much, in a nutshell, that's the most relevant things that I witnessed growing up there.

22:30 And like I said, this, this was like from like seventy nine up to maybe eighty six, uh is when most of this stuff happened. And then, uh yeah, that's kind of pretty much the story of I wish I had more for you, but that's pretty much, in a nutshell kind of what I witnessed out there. Keith, thank you for sharing all that. I mean, really intense stuff I've never you know, so like do come up on the show. Quite a bit, but I've never heard anyone describe something exactly like that where you know, triangle or pyramid shape with six lights in it. Very very strange. And there were no drones or you know things like that back then, not.

23:21 At that time. And like I said, when I was watching it, it wasn't like panning around like somebody was, you know, falling a trail with a flashlight. It was like it was controlled and it didn't deviate it like it like went like from when I first saw it. It just went directly through the through the trees where there was no trails, And yeah, it was really frightening. And like I said, my friends thought I was pulling their leg at first until they saw it. And we never ever brought it up again. And I don't know if that was that was probably one of the last times that we ever up in that tree for it. Yeah, just and and not only that, I've never never seen lights out in the woods like that before, and if we did, it'd be like some me on a motorcycle or you know, kids screwing around or something like that.

24:16 And that was an experience I have I have no answers for, and I'm glad we got out of there, because I don't know what it was. It almost looked you've ever seen one of those boxes that they put like it put like a veteran's flag in sure, it was about that size, with like six lights in it. And I said, it got close enough where we could really take a look at it, and we were out of there. Man, we were practically falling out of that tree for it to get b out of there, and we just ran, ran, ran, and then, uh, we never brought it up again. I was, like I said, I was telling my brother about it, and he got really quiet because he he hung out in those woods back in the sixties, and so my brother is a lot older than I am. I'm the youngest in the family.

25:03 And I was going to tell him about, you know, me seeing the big hairy creature. And I didn't get a chance to talk to him about that yet. And I actually brought that up with one of my friends by the name of Steve, that I still talk to this day, and he got real quiet and kind of changed the subject about halfway through I was talking to about it, and I just said, okay, I'll just leave it alone. And I like, like, I said, this has bothered me for many, many years. And I had like when I, like I said, when I was up in Mariposa, I was sleeping late at night up there at this farm. And this farm was like thirty five hundred feet and was way out there. And I remember talking to the guy's wife they lived in she lived in town. They lived in town, an apartment there and in Mariposa, and she was like, yeah, don't quit your day job, you know, like, yeah, I don't, don't hang out there a lot or something.

26:03 And then she wanted to talk to me about how she never she never went up there ever. She wouldn't go up there for nothing. She doesn't want anything to do with that property up there. And it was so warm up there, was about one hundred and five degrees by like twelve or one o'clock, and I would sleep. I actually went and slept up on the roof on top of his house because it was like a very slight incline and I was up about everything, and it was really hot. So I just slept on the roof for a couple of days up there, and uh, I woke up about two thirty two thirty three in the morning to hear almost the exact identical kind of screaming like somebody being torn apart, extremely loud. And I brought it up with the guy that owned the property, and he didn't really say much about it. And then later on he's like, he goes, yeah, you're the You're the only one that's ever stayed up here that long because I left there for like a week. I was fixing some stuff up in his property up there, and he was like, yeah, you're the only one that hadn't called me a nine to one one and want me to get get him out of there. And I thought that was odd, And yeah, it's just kind of hard for me to remember all the stuff that happened over the years because a lot of it I just blew off as just not just being nonsense, you know, not thinking anything paranormal or oh sure, bigfoot definitely.

27:29 What was the year roughly again on the Mariposa incident? Oh and that was the summer of nineteen. Oh wow, okay, so a lot more recent okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So for for people for listeners for context, Mariposa's in California. So this is not in Washington. This is down south of Yosemite National Park. Right, yeah, exactly. Okay, okay, so I that area is intense. Well, this would be probably twenty let's see how old is.

28:12 Going on out there. Twenty fifteen ish twenty somethingwhere around there. I used to work for a big tech company. We got sent out for training and one of the guys was like, let's go out to Yosemite for a weekend, and we ended up staying in this fun resort called the Yosemite Bug Resort. And it was way out in the six you know it. Hold on for a second, what you know, you know, I was going to bring that up. Don't even say, don't even say, dude. Where the bug is? Yeah, if you look directly across the street from the Bug, Oh no, that would be.

28:54 That would be south the hill, directly across south of that of that place on top of that mountain right there was where I was at. No way, yeah, way, And the Bug's big food there, and it's a nice place. The Bug is great. The Bug is great if you're looking. I mean it was. It was a cool place to hang out and you know kind of you know, get a place to stay, but it's just a cool, cool vibe. But dude, you're out there and you're like, I am out here and there. I wasn't into Bigfoot at the time. I can't imagine if I was in the big Foot back then, I would have been in heaven, you know.

29:35 Yeah. And you know, you know another thing too, is like I don't go out looking for this kind of stuff, and I don't research this kind of stuff. It just when I started hearing some of these programs, and a lot of them got started getting close to home, like the experience with what was the the marine and his brother were Rattlesnake Lake and they encountered that twelve foot big foot up on a creek up there. Do you remember do you remember hearing anything about that? Was this on my show? I don't think, uh no, this, I don't think I've heard of this one.

30:17 Yeah, we used to we used to hide that area quite a bit. And that's really really there's a lot of forest out there. That's that's in Seattle, and that's in Washington again, and it's close to snow Qualmie Falls, and there was this what what what kind of uh interested me? Is when I heard this story and this story is on the you know, it's on the net. You can look it up. And it's a story of a a marine and his younger brother were rock hounding at Rattlesnake Lake and they decided to climb that. It's there's a big mountain there, looks at a matter horn.

30:57 It's beautiful and you can hype to the top of it, and it's got to look out. It's it's really intense. And apparently they went off the They went off the main trail and started falling a creek up and uh, the marine, the brother and the marine all of a sudden sees this thing in the in the creek. He thinks it's a huge bear, and then his brother sees it, and the marine's armed by the way. This thing stands up, it turns around. It's like twelve feet tall. And a guy was describing as having like biceps the size of watermelons. And he said, he he he, he had a gun, but he was he said, there's no way I would have shot the thing. He says it was it was huge.

31:41 He says, like twelve feet tall. And that's what kind of kind of you know, when I started to remember back to my childhood of seeing this thing, and that's what kind of sparked my interest in the subject again, and I'm surprised you haven't heard about that one. Yeah, no I haven't. I'm looking real quick. Kind of sounds like a BFRO report I just found. Did you say this was in the early two thousands? What was the year on this again? Yeah, it had it been the Yeah, the early two thousands. Okay, I think I found it. But if anyone has has an actual link or more specific info, go ahead put in the comments on YouTube. But oh man, that's intense, dude, really really intense. Thank you, Thank you for sharing that, because uh there's so many stories out there, you know.

32:30 Yeah, and uh, you know, like I said, I wouldn't even have called you unless I actually saw saw this creature. And like I said, I got a good look at it. But the color of it was just bizarre. It was it was dark, but it had this weird gray color to it at the same time, and I was just trying to in my mind trying to figure out what animal I knew that would be a color like that, and then being that big, I mean, it's it's rear end was probably just up to my eyeballs, and uh, that's what kind of that's always been bothered me over the years seeing that thing, and to this day, I'm paranoid about going into the deep woods. I'll be honest with you, I'm I'm a bit paranoid and concerned. And I just went and looked at this acre property get this in Willow Creek. Oh dude, Okay, So my business associates want me to run this this farm and ranch up there on acres. And I was talking to one of my business guys. He doesn't know anything about the wilderness.

33:35 He doesn't go camping or anything like that. He's he's a banker. And I was like, oh, yeah, this is a big hotspot for bigfoot out here. He was, oh, yeah really, and I'm like yeah. So a guy that owns this property. He takes us in this uh four wheel drive, four wheel drive Toyota with is Ball tires and we're slinking up these these crazy roads. There's like drop boss with like five hundred feet and this guy basically owns like a whole mountain range almost, so he's taking us up and showing us all these greenhouses and stuff, and this place is blown up. It's huge. And we got about halfway through the property and we're like, yeah, we've seen enough. You know, we've seen enough. And we get out to look at some stuff and uh, you know, there's the hill was there's still plenty of hill going up to the top of this mountain and we're standing there.

34:27 It's quiet, and all these rocks come tumbling tumbling down on the side of this hillside. I don't say nothing. My business guy doesn't saying nothing, and like, uh think, like a week later, he's like, he goes, yeah, it wasn't that weird that all those rocks come tumbling down the side of the hill when we're standing out there, And I'm like, I go, yeah, that was yeah kind of and you know, kind of interesting. So uh yeah, I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna be living out here by myself right acres out here, and and I'm like, wow, this is going to be interesting to be out here. And I thinking, God, where can I buy a shotgun and stuff like that before I go out there? And I'd be honest with I probably wouldn't have. I probably wouldn't shoot in any of these things. I would leave them alone unless they tried to harm me or something like that. And it when I'm getting it sounds like the most of these creatures up here in Washington State are relatively I don't know if they're friendly, but they kind of avoid you and don't try them as much as some from other parts of the United States and stuff like that. That's what I'm kind of getting from it.

35:39 But yeah, I definitely definitely was a little rattled when that happened in here. Again, it's kind of hearsay, you know, it could have been anything, but my business partner did bring it up, and I thought that was kind of strange that you would bring it up because when I told them it was a big foot hotspot. I guess it kind of may may have bothered them a. Little bit, dude. And so, man, you gotta you gotta keep me in the loop if you actually do end up going to this property and in being the caretaker and what happens, because man, I got a feeling it's probably gonna get interesting. Who my goodness, it's right between it's right between Willow Creek and about halfway there, and I actually looked at it on a satellite and the place is huge, and uh, we didn't even go to the top. We didn't even go through the entire property. And he even has kind of been out there for almost three hours, going up and down these uh these roads out there that this guy built, and uh, well we'll see if I take the job. I mean, I got to get paid pretty well to do this, So I ain't gonna go out there unless the price is right because I live a pretty pretty good life as it is right now. And uh, you know, taking on something like that, it's got to make sense. So you see what happens with that.

36:59 It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I do have a few more a few questions for you about the sighting that you had, if that's all right. So you'd mentioned it was it was very close to you. How close would you estimate that it was? Probably within eight to ten feet? This thing could have grabbed me. This thing could have grabbed me and been gone. And I walked. I walked about five or six feet past it, and that's when I heard it move, and it was probably within six six feet off the trail, kind of punched down in the bushes and it was facing away from me. And as I looked back, I caught it standing up and it just leaned forward and took two three steps and it was gone. Didn't make a peep. I heard it crunch into the the bushes for a few for a few seconds, and then it was gone. And you know, the neighbor lady that lived really close to her this happened, Like I said, she approached me three or four times over the years and asked if I'd been playing behind the house. I'm like, nope, I don't play behind there at night.

38:11 Gotcha. Wow, So that is so so very close. And you saw the shoulders, the back of the head, the buttocks area. Correct, it looked like it looked like for Mike Tysons in a gorilla suit is what it looked like. The back of a like a silver back gorilla is what it looked like. It was heavily muscular. It's probably maybe six hundred pounds or more. But like I said, the color was it was really bizarre. I've never seen a color like that on the animal before, at least in the animals I've seen in the north in the Northwest. It was a really weird color. Did you notice anything about the neck of it at all?

38:54 No, it didn't really have the neck. It just it was just all massive shoulders. And then I could see just the kind of a little bit of a conical shape of its head, you know, sticking up, and uh, I didn't see its feet, its hands, or its face. I'm glad I didn't see its face because I'm really frightened enough. And I was on my mind, was going a mile a minute. Man, I was like, what is this? What am I looking at? Why is it gray? What is it? And it? It completely caught me off guard and it scared me. And Uh, like I said, I I didn't I didn't go meet my friends in the woods that afternoon. I cut down through the ravine through my neighbor's backyard and got out on my street by my house, and I went I went home and I tried talking to my dad about it, and uh, I think I ended up taking a nap and uh after that, I was very very careful about going out in the woods by myself. And uh, yeah, wow, what.

39:55 What incredible encounter. Keith. Thank you for coming on on the show show and for sharing what you've experienced. And it sounds like your story may may continue with with some weird things. We'll see what happens in the future for you. Hopefully you'll be able to keep us in the loop. With what happens. But man, it has been a pleasure chatting with you today. Thank you. Yeah, you bet. And one more thing now that I live down here in San Francisco right now, and I have run across a lot of people that have seen things in the wilderness here by the way. A lot in San Francisco. Oh yeah, really, it's a lot of people. A lot of people here at Hike, A lot of people do they do trout fishing remote areas, and quite a few have approached me without even knowing what I What I've never even said anything to them about is yet I've seen him before, my friends have seen him before.

40:51 So yeah, well that's that's that's intense, dude. I mean, you never know. It's it's a thing where you know, you can be anywhere and you can have an interaction potentially, but you're on the West coast and even more so. But man, what a great conversation. Thank you, Keith. Yeah, Like I said, I've been wanting to get this off my chest for many years and actually try to talk to some of my friends. And I'm a little too, I'm a little hesitant to talk to I've talked to a few people about it, but it's bothered me for many years, and I just kind of wanted to get off my chest and let people know that I guess these creatures do exist. I saw one, So where we're.

41:38 At, I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Keith's account is one of those rare encounters that stays with you, not just because of how close he came to the creature, but because of how the fear followed him for decades across states and through every quiet forest trail. Huge thanks to Keith for trusting us with his memories from Newcastle to Willow Creek. If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to the podcast on YouTube, hit the bell icon so you don't miss any new episodes, and share this one with a friend who's in a Bigfoot the Pacific Northwest, or just a good old mystery. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and make sure you're following the show there If you'd be willing to leave a review, it really helps more listeners find us now. If you or someone you know has it a big foot encounter, especially in Washington, California, or anywhere near the Cascade Range or the world for that matter.

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