Bigfoot on Mt. Rainier | Veteran Living on Mountain Encounters Sasquatch in Washington State

Join us at Rainbow Falls State park in Washington state with veteran Jack Bowers as he shares encounters from Mt. Rainier.

[archer]

I’m a retired Army combat veteran of multiple deployments. I served 30 years in the Army and retired in 2014. My wife and I now live in the North Cascades along the Skagit River in a family home that we purchased from my father in law. After a hunting trip with a veteran buddy of mine in the Illabot peaks area I no longer go out hunting in the woods here alone… and never as deep into the woods as I used to! I’ve had a few encounters prior to the one that day, even one that emptied an entire campground on Baker lake at 3:AM when the screaming and howling woke up everyone and all of the people camping there left except my wife and I along with three other campers!… was pretty F’n spooky!!!… but the day that did it for me was a hunting trip with another friend of mine that I had served with on multiple deployments. We were up in the Illabot Peaks area and were followed for about 5 miles! What ever “they” were managed to stay just in the shadows deep enough in the woods that we never got a look at them… but we could hear them and they would talk to each other. You could hear a very deep raspy voices just loud enough that it was like you could tell they were talking, but you couldn’t understand what they were saying! I’ve hunted men before and we were both pretty skilled at it… but we were never able to circle in or close on "who ever" it was that was "stalking" us! - I could go on and on about this day in much detail, but the point is, is that I just don’t go back deep in the woods here anymore! Nope, not gonna happen! people can think I'm as nutz as they want or pretend that there's no such thing as a Squatch🙄… but I've hunted plenty of 2 and 4 legged animals and have never crossed paths with anything like that day… and I ain't gonna tempt fate to play hide n seek with who ever they were? as far as I'm concerned, they own that place! 😕👍

[NartOfficial]

I grew up in Southern Thurston County, I’ve been in the woods practically since I could remember. While I’ve never personally had an encounter I’ve seen some pretty interesting stuff. One year elk shed hunting my friend and I climbed up to this ridge line that we had passed up climbing for years because we always found sheds on the lower ridges and never needed to climb that high. When we finally got up there after hiking in the backcountry for a whole day, having to camp overnight. We found so many chalked elk sheds and fresh ones. Lots of huge 8 point sheds, more than we could pack out. The most interesting thing that we found up there however, was what I could only describe as a shack, made out of elk sheds and tree branches. We were absolutely baffled and initially thought that someone must have made this, but there was no tracks whatsoever and this ridge was covered in pristine elk sheds that other hunters would have taken. The sheds on the “shack” in particular were very nice and we ended up taking them . I took pictures of it before but since then I lost that phone. I’ve also spoken with lots of old hunters like jack and the old vet he talked about who’ve had encounters. Sasquatch is definitely real and It’s humbling to know that I’ve walked the same ground that these creatures call home.

[noellerilleau]

This man is a great historian. Thank you for your service. He is a great person to interview.

[liaduran]

Thank you Salish Sasquatch for recognizing our Veterans. Good looking out. God Bless you all. Also God Bless our Country.🙏🏽👼🏽🇺🇲

[deerhaven]

As the fifth generation of my family to walk these Washington woods, and with two encounters with the big guy myself, I do appreciate these credible interviews. Thank you for taking this seriously.

[Drewtazy]

Such an enjoyable interview, your style of allowing him to speak uninterrupted is so refreshing. Well done.

[AstroVanTribe]

I was a few feet from a Squatch back in '92 - It was a bizarre incident where it was trying to hide it tall grass several feet from a bend in a trail.I walked right on up to it after seeing the reddish brown hair from a distance, thinking it was a bear. I got right behind it and it had human body features, I'm seeing it's back from the top of it's ass to the shoulders at about the height of the grass which was around 40" tall - It was built like a giant bodybuilder - from the top of its ass to the shoulders was at least 48" - It did nothing, I couldn't figure out what it was, "bigfoot" wasn't even in my head as an option.... I had been going to this area, the Delaware Water Gap, since I was a kid, hunting, fishing and camping in all seasons - I knew all the animals in that area, the biggest things there were deer and black bears. I was 25 and a Marine vet at the time - My brain was scrambled, I thought to myself that if I had a stick I could poke it and at that moment I had the thought that this thing was so powerfully built it could just get up and rip my head off so I backed away from it - I was with a woman, we had hiked up the mountain to camp and have a good time, this was at about 8:AM - I motioned for her to walk up to me and past me back into the tree line and I walked backwards keeping my eyes on the thing until I was into the treeline and out of sight of it. Then the thing got up and I heard it walking on two legs, when it's feet hit the ground I could feel it in my chest as I was running back to catch a glimpse of it - I remember hearing a swish-crunch before the feet hit the ground with every step. It had walked through the high grass back into the treeline leaving shafts where it had stepped - I remember thinking that if I or any other animal had walked through that grass we'd have left a "trail" through the grass you could see, a "line", if you will.... This thing was tall enough to be able to walk OVER 40' high grass, compressing it with it's "big feet" (the sound I heard) as it stepped over the grass - It had to have been ten feet tall and weight 500lbs for it to do what I saw, heard and felt in my body. Needless to say a "good time" was not had that night - The next morning we walked past the same spot on the way off the mountain and I inspected that area it had been "squatting" in which was obviously still there - It was a big area of mashed down grass 4'-5' in diameter - I didn't go back into the forest for 20 years but the strange thing is I blocked it out on my memory for that long - I never thought it was a sasquatch or anything, I couldn't make out what it was at the time, my brain just scrambled not understanding what I had experienced, I suppose my brain just tossed it out because it could make any sense of it - The memory was triggered decades later when I started watching the Bigfoot shows on the idiot box. It was a crazy thing, all-of-a-sudden it all flashed back into my skull and finally made sense. The details are burned into my brain like it happened yesterday. It had long reddish brown hair all over it's body, about 4"-6" long shinny and healthy, clean and matted down perfectly where I could see all the muscle definition. It even had that diamond pattern of muscle you see at the base of a bodybuilders spine - I remember seeing the striations in the muscle - These things are powerfully built

[jonathonholifield]

This has quickly become one of my favorite sasquatch channels. ESPECIALLY when Mr. Bowers is relating these encounters, man that guy is great. Thank you for your service sir

[AryehDenn]

Well done video ! ! Not dramatic, nor over hyped, simply a 55+ years young man conveying an anecdote of experiences past. Beautifully done, nice job. - I'm subscribing

[GeorgeDimich-ke]

Started elk hunting the Willapa hills around 1990. Then I eventually made my way to Boistfort and Mt St. Helens area. This, over the course of 25 years has me convinced that there is some thing out there.
I cant deny what I've seen and heard!
Youve mentioned a few of my hunting areas, I believe you know what your talking about!

[jaycryptidtrooper]

Thankyou to you for your respect to veterans! I'm a British army veteran so this is very dear to my heart! I'm a serious pupil of sasquatch and have been for over 20 years now. Sasquatch has crazily somehow become my therapy aiding me in my struggles with PTSD! Godbless you and all your listener's here who have expressed their thoughts for veterans also! Thankyou again. Jason in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 x 🇨🇦

[sherrydesantis]

I heard one scream by my house Silver Falls park & laying in my hammock heard this come from the canyon in which borders our home. Never in my life have ever heard a sound like this. Canyons can make a sound & reflect durections but it eas close behind our home & never forget this sound in my life. My hair stood up. I knew this was a call different than I've ever heard! I know cougar calls bear all the calls of elk also. Never in my life did I hear a scream like this. Also my husband & logging in the back country 10 m acre park for thinning & brought me a pic of a he thinks was a Sasquach hut. Never had a camera back then & told me branches like a dome & tall & definitely a place to sleep & hang out! Bif fur branches inside also seen alot of black hair no prints it was dry then branches inside for bedding & he told me the smell was really weird like a dead animal. He's gone now but but I knew this was so true in his voice & my cousin working with him that day was scared & told me we found a Bigfoot den deep into this park no one ever can go! We have a store here that had a map of sightings amazing how many they were but unfortunately our only store been here for over 70 yrs burnt down but those dots on the maps were more than I ever could of imagine. Sasquach burgers & people who believed Drew thousands of people that came to our park was amazing. Might want too look into Silver Falls park. It's the biggest state park in Oregon. Lots of people here to talk too. My story is old but this store still might have history still saved. Rebuilding we need our only store here. Love your channel.

[GloriaEsparsen-ql]

thank you soo much for your military service bob, we really appreciate you guy's for that, my uncle did two terms out there in vetnam himself etc

[klong]

I live in deep woods Southern Missouri. Twelve year Army Veteran. Bugged out 4 years ago on 10 acre homestead. I am interested in finding another veteran like minded 50ish or older gentleman to homestead with me.
I love the woods and not afraid at all to wonder off anywhere. I would much rather put up with critters than people. God bless y'all! Hope you have a great holiday season.
Kathy

[kranzonguam]

Rainbow Falls! You're in my childhood backyard! Thanks for the nostalgic look at one of my favorite places, and a reminder of stories from Western Washington!❤

[mikewanders]

Scott was great. Love these interviews you guys do. And I love the cuts back to the mossy forests of Washington—nice job with the editing Sara! You guys are killing it

[MarkEvanWhite]

I like the way this fella thinks, explains and tells stories. No wasted words or repetitiveness . Details all interesting

[stephanielloyd]

Loved how he said, "2 men who were together...on the farm" ❤😊 A great story collector for sure. What a treat. Love from the UK. ❤🇬🇧

[Howard-bjjq]

Jack is quite a story teller, he's very believable. He and I are about the same age, I was in school in 1966-67. I could easily been in Vietnam. My father was killed in WW II and that is part of the reason that I was in school an not in Vietnam. Thanks Sarah, for another very good video!

[LisaGillaspie]

ENJOYED LISTENING TO THE STORIES OF BIGFOOT! THEY ARE REAL, WISE, AND WONDERFUL!