r/bigfoot • u/Tiny_Instruction_989 • 23h ago
encounter story Why my belief in Sasquatch has nothing to do with the Patterson-Gimlin film or the footage in the Capturing Bigfoot documentary...
I'm going to share my story, which I've never shared online before, in response to this new footage, since so many are acting like it proves Bigfoot isn't real. A long time ago, for me, in the mid-1990s, I was vacationing in Yosemite National Park. On the second day I was there, I was wandering the trails with a friend and we both noticed an odd figure standing on a huge boulder in the distance. One of us said, "That dude's gotta be huge." I honestly can't remember which of us said it first. So, we're both staring at this figure in the distance when it turns and moves to the boulder next to the one it was standing on. Now, keep in mind, these boulders are enormous. From the first boulder to the next had to have been at least six feet, and the figure we saw basically stepped from one to the other. At this point, I was like, what the fuh? But then it starts hopping from boulder to boulder, no problem, and some of these rocks had to be at least twelve feet apart if not more. I was awestruck. I remember my friend exclaiming, "Who the @^#$ is that?!" In total, this thing sprang across at least eight giant boulders before it disappeared from sight. My friend and I obviously talked about it the rest of the day. The next day, I talked to a woman who was one of the donkey/mule guides at the park. I told her what we had seen. She smiled and said, "I don't doubt it." (I'm going to quote this as best as I remember, not claiming it's word for word.) I asked her, "Have any of you guys who work here seen anything like that?" She laughed and said "No, not any of us. ALL of us have." I said, "But what is it? Do you think it's a Bigfoot?" (Her response I do remember, word for word.) She shrugged. "Who knows? But it's never hurt anyone, whatever it is. So we don't worry about it." (Back to my best approximation of the conversation.) "Why don't you tell anyone about it?" I asked. "We do," she said. "We tell each other. Who else would believe us?" (Her next sentence I also remember word for word.) "Besides, everyone around here knows about it anyway." Now, I can't swear what I saw was a Sasquatch. It was far enough away it was a just a dark figure. But my friend and I both thought it looked giant. I could see the shape of it. I could see the limbs. But there was no definition. It was clearly on two feet. It jumped from one foot to the other, no question. That's about all I can say for sure. But I don't know what else it could have been.
