Bigfoot three feet from us – The Ice Chest Bigfoot Caper
This was my story about what happened to me and my girlfriend in September of 2017. I submitted this story to Lynn at BigFootCaseFiles. She runs a great BigFoot story channel and I encourage you to visit her channel.
This is a true story and, to this day, I still wonder at the audacity of this creature in approaching us to try to scare us out of our camp site that evening.
This one is the last of my collection of family stories, including my own from everything we’ve experienced as a family over three generations. Realize that we were in the woods a LOT over our lives and the times between these events averaged years between any odd happenings save for these last two which occurred less than a year apart and not too far apart in physical distance from each other.
In ALL of these encounters we were either hunting or fishing and never actively looking for something out of the ordinary, The only thing that does increase the odds of seeing something unusual is being out there A LOT and just living life with no expectations of seeing this creature. We’re just ordinary mountain people who occasionally ran into something very special.
We were aware there were things like this were out there, but the odds are against the average person encountering these creatures in their outings in the wild. I’ve told these stories out of my own and family memories and while some dates and times are a bit hazy or told third hand because the original family members have passed on, others are remembered in detail and are sharp.
What stands out in our family stories is the impact each encounter made on us and how it became part of our long term knowledge of what lives out in the bush that we do not know much about. I’ve chased the unknown in the form of paranormal phenomena and held an interest in UFO activity throughout my professional life as a (now retired) aerospace webmaster and these phenomena are much more common and accessible to the average person who is dedicated to studying them. More so than chasing after a humanoid creature that values it’s privacy and is the very definition of the word “Elusive”.
To those men and women who are actively researching this creature, my hat is off to you. Your task is herculean and I wish anyone chasing after proof of these beings the best of luck. Just be safe… This creature is far more powerful than any human. I feel lucky to have had the encounters I personally have had and that the one’s my family emerged safely from were because this creature allowed us the option of leaving as soon as we became aware it was there.
I think six or so encounters across three generations and 50-plus years of family outings where we spent every moment we could in the Sierra Nevadas is a pretty fair representation of just how special these encounters with the unknown really are. So I hope you enjoyed this story and would love to hear yours. Keep your eyes off the cell phone and on the treeline and just enjoy life and perhaps you’ll have your own encounters with the unknown and unseen…
To view the other earlier encounters, visit HERE to see more of our stories.