Enemy Unknown: Sasquatch & Giant Humanoids | 448

This episode is brought to you by my newest supporters Nora, Joanne, and an anonymous contributor on Buy Me a Coffee. Thank you so much for making the show possible. In tonight's edition of Enemy Unknown, I'll be talking about more unexplained phenomena that military personnel have come in contact with, and I'll be focusing on several bizarre encounters with what many of them believe was Bigfoot. Thank you for joining me and welcome back. I'm your host, Nick Ryan. There are many undocumented reports of military personnel that have witnessed unexplainable phenomena while on duty, many of which involve sightings or close encounters with what the witnesses describe as massive bipedal creatures. Many of these reports never see the light of day, but in recent decades, more and more soldiers seem to be coming forward with their experiences, despite the possible repercussions. Tonight, I'll be referencing an article that I came across on Mysterious Universe by author Brent Swansor, and it's entitled Amazing Mysterious Military Encounters with Bigfoot. The experiences that are outlined in the article are compelling and Brent does an excellent job of pulling information from multiple sources. Although I won't be covering the article in its entirety, I do recommend reading the entire article for yourself, which you can find a link to in the show notes. The first report that swansor mentions was brought forward by author and researcher Albert S. Rosales in September of two thousand eight two. The story involves a bizarre case that came from an unnamed Army tank commander who was on a training mission in Salisbury, Plain Wiltshire, England, who, while scanning the landscape through the turret of his tank, saw something he just couldn't explain. Standing amidst the chaos and clanking noises of other tanks rolling and rumbling about, was a large, hairy, ape like creature described as looking similar to an orangutan both in appearance and color, with a black or darkish face. The tank's gunner saw it too, and they watched on in awe as the creature ran in quick, long strides across the field and eventually into the brush beyond. The tank commander would report the incident to his superior officers, only to be ridiculed and laughed out of the room. In another report, a poster on Reddit came forward with a story concerning his brother who was stationed into Homa, Washington, back in the nineteen nineties. At the time of this incident, his unit was out in eastern Washington around Yakima and they were on a training mission where they were dropped off by themselves. They then had to navigate their way through the unforgiving rough wilderness to different points, and the poster would go on to explain what his brother experienced. As he was working his way through the forest, he got the feeling that something was watching him. He didn't see anything, but he kept feeling like something was watching him and following him. Then he started hearing something moving in the brush. He picked up his pace and he started to get creeped out, and as he picked up his pace, whatever was following him picked up its pace as well. He had his weapon, but no rounds, and at this point he said that he was so freaked out that if he had ammunition he would have started spraying the woods. He did have a knife, but he said that he could sense that whatever was watching him was really big, and at this point he had probably convinced himself that Bigfoot is real and is looking for dinner. When he retells the story and gets to this point even to this day, he gets shaky and his hair stands up on end. He can tell that whatever is out there is tracking closer and closer to him, and he knows from his map that he's only a couple hundred yards to his next checkpoint. Totally freaked out, he breaks into a sprint and as he does, he hears the creature pick up its pace. He says that it was behind him and off to the side a bit. He makes it to the clearing and there's a port a potty and he jumped inside it, locked the door and grabbed his knife. The creature stalked around in the clearing and he could hear it grunting. He said it was out there for about five minutes and then he heard it walk off. Now Bear is the obvious culprit, but he insists that whatever was out there was by peedle and huge. He sat inside the crap box for fifteen to twenty minutes and realized that he had to open the door at some point. Long story short, he opened the door and it was gone, and he didn't encounter it the rest of his hike. Again, he is extremely skeptical, even with his experience, and he is not one that's prone to hyperbole. Whatever it was freaked him out, and it still does today. The next case that Swansor references is from the Bigfoot Field Research Organization also known as the BFRO, and it's concerning a witness who claims this happened to him while stationed in the Marine Corps in North Carolina. The witness early describes how Bigfoot would often stock and track them during their training exercises, and the experiencer goes on to say this, it didn't matter how many of us were out there. We were armed with rifles and no AMMO and or blanks. During field ops. They would pick up whatever trash or snacks we would drop. We sometimes could see their eyes in the tree line and see random glimmers of shadows through our nods. Military nods are pretty crappy, but you can see outlines or someone's figure, I mean stuff like that was used probably during the early two thousands, and they were monocular. We would hear knocks and rustling throughout our nights around Verona Loop training grounds or on Camp La June. Many of us who spend time in the infantry spend about forty five to sixty percent of the year in the woods. You could hear them at night. One night, I was doing patrol ops in the woods and hills and we decided to take a pause. It was around three am and we were taking a nap break. It was during a war game and I was on watch with one of my buddies holding security. We were seeing an outline in the woods, and meanwhile we were sleep deprived, not thinking that we were actually seeing real things in the tree line. That was until we talked to each other to confirm what we were seeing through our nods. Pebbles were also being thrown at us, and we were confused, and we were thinking that we were about to be run up on by Op four or Opposition fours. So we wake our guys up slowly, thinking that we were about to be ambushed. Turns out though we were being stalked. We decided to get in defensive positions and the rocks kept coming. We thought that we were about to be messed with by the advisors running around over watching the war game. We then checked on the radio to see if there were any of them nearby. None none at all, so we thought that it was Op four. We opened up with blanks, but as we opened up, we saw a massive creature and another one about twenty five to thirty meters away. The creatures knocked over a semi thin tree and gave a deep growl. This was something that would even shake guys who were desensitized and not really scared by anything. When daylight eventually came, we circled back to look and we found huge footprints. We were so confused and shaken after that situation, we didn't know how to explain what we saw or experienced that night. I became an actual believer, even though I was always skeptical about Bigfoot or some creature being in the woods. It was about three and a half years ago, and to this day I struggle to go back into the woods. There are many encounters with bigfoot like beasts reported from the war in Afghanistan, a place not traditionally associated with this sort of giant Harry Wildman. In one account from a Ready user, the witness claims that he had been stationed at a command center and that typical knights would be filled with boredom and being lost in their thoughts. One way they would entertain themselves was by looking at the feeds from the drones that crisscrossed and patrolled the area. And although they did not control the drones and were not allowed to record anything, it was still an interesting diversion in the grinding boredom of their shifts. However, one night things would get a bit more exciting. The witness is one night, this drone was watching someone that was hanging out at the base of a mountain. It was near a village, about fifty meters or so away from the nearest building, most likely a home. We notice that the drone operator keeps cycling through the different camera modes infrared, thermal, low light, regular cam, et cetera, trying to get the best picture in such Then this quote unquote guy starts walking around and is moving very weird. At first, we think it's a guy with no legs that is walking around on his stumps and using his arms to do most of the movements. It's not unheard of for someone with such a disability to have to resort to such a thing in that area. Then, though the drone gets a view from a better angle and we see it from the side. It totally looks like a gorilla that's walking with his arms and just swinging his legs as he walks and isn't really using the legs in a walking fashion. We all immediately start doing Google searches to find out if gorillas are native to the area, which they are not. We even took note of the grid coordinates, plotted it on a map, and then searched if there were any nearby zoos in the area because we thought that maybe an animal had escaped, but nope, no zoos around. It was really weird. After about thirty minutes of this drone watching this thing, the drone repeatedly toggles on off his targeting systems. We were like, they're gonna blow this thing up, and they did. Then, after the drone confirmed nothing was still moving, it started to fly back to base. We were all confused as hell. There was three of us on that night shift. The highest ranking guy was an officer, and during the daily morning commander's brief, we showed on a map where the drone blew up Bigfoot and we explained the situation to him. His response, though, was simply huh, interesting and that was the end of it. Another type of location that seems to attracted a large amount of bigfoot and hairy giant activity is military bases. Several encounters with large hairy humanoids roaming about military installations come to us from the nineteen seventies, with one notable and very dramatic one occurring at the Fort Louis U. S. Army military installation, which is in the state of Washington, and this particular base backs up to a wilderness area. In nineteen seventy eight, a very strange sighting was made on the base by a soldier named Edwin Goodoy, who at the time was on his way back from training exercises. One evening along with some platoon mates. The truck allegedly and suddenly without warning, sputtered to a halt at around eight pm, and it could not be restarted. This prompted the others to venture back to the base on foot. Since Goodoy had been the one to sign out the truck that day, he alone stayed behind to keep an eye on the vehicle until it could be towed away. The next morning, As he sat there by himself from the dark, surrounded by spooky sounds of the nighttime forest. A little after midnight, Goodoy's attention was drawn to a massive figure skulking about and looming near a stand of trees around three hundred meters away. As he stared, he could make out that whatever it was was very tall and broad, and covered with what looked like hair all over its body, and rather eerily possessing eyes that seemed to glint or even glow. The figure was described as swinging his body sideways, and it was staring directly at the lone frightened witness. Things got rather harrowing when this bulky brute purportedly began to break out into a run directly at Godoy, who would eventually describe the following events. That thing started running toward me, so I shouted a halt three times, asking that thing to stop and identify itself, as it wouldn't reply. I made a first shot into the air, and then I shot at him or it, I don't know what to call it. The hair everything grabbed its chest and emitted a loud moan. It then stopped and then ran to its right, disappearing into the forest. Goodoy was left shaking and terrified, yet out there alone in the night surrounded by darkened trees, and with no way out of there except on foot, he decided to lock himself in his truck, although he was also well aware that this would be little protection from the enormous hairy beast, which was probably none too happy about having been shot. There would be no sleep for him that night, and when the tow truck arrived at six a m. He was still there, wide eyed and clutching his weapon close. When Goodoy told the tow truck mechanics what had transpired the previous evening, they skeptically went out to where the thing had been standing, and much to their surprise, they found very large footprints that were pressed into the ground by something massive and heavy. Even more surprising was blood that was found on the ground, which they all assumed had been left by the wounded monster. And this is where the whole story gets even more bizarre. According to Godoy, the mechanics made a secretive radio call, and not long after a group of men in what appeared to be lab coats and thick rubber gloves descended upon the area, taking samples of the blood and making casts of the footprints. The whole time. Goodoy claims that he was not allowed to speak to anyone at all, and that he was kept away from what was going on. Goodoy was then whisked away to the base hospital, but rather than being looked at by the usual medical staff, he was examined by a doctor who was from the Air Force. This also was odd considering that it was an army installation. This doctor was apparently ranked as a full colonel, and rather than disbelieving Godoy, he seemed very interested in every last detail of his encounter. The mysterious doctor was particularly concerned with any anomalous physical symptoms that Goadoy may have been experiencing, such as headaches, dizziness, or a tingling sense, of which the witness had none. Goodoy was then thoroughly examined and he had blood, skin and urine samples carefully collected, after which he was told to return to his barracks and told in no uncertain terms to never mention a word of what happened to him. Later, Goodoy claims that he was approached by a hospital worker by the name of l. Roebuls, who seemed to come to him secretly and allegedly said this, myself, together with two other guys, had to analyze the blood samples taken from the ground. And we know you are the soldier that was involved because it was stated as such in the report, and you know it's crazy, But what the hell was it that you shot out there? When we examined the blood samples, we found three weird things in it. The blood contained human blood cells, animal blood cells, and chlorophyll. Man, that's incredible, What the hell was it? However, Goodoy stayed true to his orders, not telling anyone, and decline tind to explain any of the details to Roebuls. The whole thing would have likely been forgotten and swept under the carpet forever if it were not for a chance meeting with Goodoy that was made by a paranormal researcher from Puerto Rico named George Martin many years later. It was here that Goodoy would relate the whole outlandish tale to Martin and the story would finally come out before I continue. Please consider showing your support by subscribing, sharing, and given the podcast a positive review. You can also visit me on Patreon, buy me a coffee or PayPal and make a donation or become a member starting at just a dollar a month. You can even join my Patreon membership for free and get access to all of my future updates. And of course just listening to the show is the best support of all and I'm grateful to have you here now. Please stay tuned and I'll be right back after these brief messages. Also in the nineteen seventies, there was a strange account related by bigfoot researcher Doug Trapp on the Sasquatch Chronicles blog. Through interviews with various military personnel at California's Edwards Air Force Base who spoke under condition of anonymity, Trap has been able to piece together a very bizarre story of desert bigfoot haunting the locale for years. One of the men interviewed was a lieutenant in charge of security in the sector of Edward's Air Force Base who was at the base from nineteen seventy two to nineteen seventy five. This unnamed lieutenant informed Trap that the basis security force spent a lot of time using armed sentries, motion sensing equipment, and starlight scopes on the lookout for trespassers who were wandering into the area, especially curiosity seekers who were interested in all of the UFO conspiracies that have orbited Edward's Air Force Base for years. One evening, the witness claimed that there was a perimeter breach, and the guard who had detected it cryptically described the intruder as being a very tall man, but not really a man. When the lieutenant went out to talk to the guard, he too saw the thing, whatever it was, and Trap would later write this. Through the starlight scope, he could clearly see that this was not a man. It was a very tall, hair covered ape like man walking through the desert. He said. The animal appeared to be looking at the desert floor in search of something. The animal was about five hundred yards distant, but the scope was very powerful and tripod mounted, so it could be observed clearly. Both men continued to observe the animal as it wandered around, almost aimlessly. He then reported to his superiors of the activity and was told to keep the animal in sight. This was no problem, as the animal remained in the area. About five minutes later, a helica was heard approaching the area. Then it was seen coming in fast from the east. They continued to observe the animal, which continued its activity. The helicopter came in over a rocky pile. Then the animal spooked. It looked at the helicopter, then turned and ran like a deer around a rock pile and out of sight. A full search of the area offered up not a trace of where the strange trespasser had gone, and the whole thing was reported to superiors the following day. It was then that the lieutenant was apparently told that these creatures were sporadically spotted around the bayse and he was told to continue to keep an eye on the situation. Over the next few years, he would reportedly spot these creatures several more times, and even claimed that they had been captured on surveillance video footage, although this evidence was unfortunately classified. Then he was moved away from the base, and that was that. A second officer interviewed by Trapp was a maid serving at the base from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy eight, and he too had his own odd stories to tell. The witness not only confirmed the previous reports, but also claimed that these things were known to prowl about in the various subterranean tunnels that were said to fan out in the depths under the bays. This witness also confirmed that the sasquatch had been filmed on surveillance cameras numerous times, but that these were also top secret. A third soldier that was interviewed, who was described as a security grunt, claimed to have witnessed these bigfoots several times through night vision starlight scopes. Trapp would say this regarding the man's testimony, He told me that he had seen a couple of sasquatches that stood over ten feet tall. He had seen obvious females, one with a young one walking with her, and he once saw a group of five sasquatches walking together, all of which were over six feet tall and the tallest being about eight feet. They were fully hair covered except the palms of their hands and the base of their feet and their face. He said their face resembled an ape, with very small eyes, a flat nose, and ape like lips. The arms were long and slung down to the knees. He said their feet were like ours, but without an arch as. They had tracked them through the desert several times. When I asked him about the surveillance videos, he told me that he knew of them, but was not involved in them. He said that only officers were allowed to videotape these creatures or the UFOs. Interestingly, all of the base personnel had been given strict orders not to harm the creatures in any way, and this third witness said that he believed this was one reason why they gravitated to the area, because they knew they were safe there. In the winter of nineteen seventy nine, there was another intriguing report published on the Biafaro website. This report was from the U. S. Army Signal School Fort Gordon Small armsig Impact Area in Richmond County, Georgia. The witness, known only as j R. H, claimed that he had been near a ravine at South Prong Creek at around two pm when he was allegedly approached through the brush by a broad and muscular, large man ape creature that was ten to ten and a half feet tall. The face was described as being rather like a gorilla, dark skin and dark, deep set eyes. The head was sloped back and was Neanderthal shaped. It had no eyebrows, prominent lips but not protruding, a jutting square chin. No ears or teeth were seen. It had prominent nostrils, and a slight nose, but not flat like a gorilla, and it had an aged look to its face. Contrary to many bigfoot reports of an obnoxious stench, this particular individual was reported as having no discernible odor. The witness reportedly backed away slowly toward his truck and got out of there. A later examination of the area would turn up footprints measuring a wopping twenty two inches in length, as well as twenty to thirty rock piles and what appeared to be vomit containing deer skin with hair attached, acorns that were not well chewed, and droppings that were laced with deerskin, acorns, and tree bark. Other assorted sightings during the nineteen sixties and seventies occurred around the AMMO storage area of Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Over the decades, there were supposedly numerous sightings of hairy giants measuring eight to nine feet tall lurking about the site, which sits up against secluded wilderness and swampland. There were so many sightings that the creature even earned the nickname the Manchester Monster. Moving into the nineteen eighties, we come to an account from the spring of that year, which occurred at Fort Leonard Wood Army Base in the state of Missouri in the spring of nineteen eighty two. At the time time, the soldiers on the base were engaged in an intensive eight week training exercise, and for one Eric young Dahl, it would prove to be particularly memorable. During the Internet Virtual Bigfoot Conference in nineteen ninety six, Young Doll would tell Bigfoot researcher Christopher Murphy that the soldiers had been driving along in the back of a military truck. They were heading towards an engineer bridge crossing training site deep in the woods when he observed a giant, seven foot tall, hairy creature from the back of the vehicle. He would explain that he knew right away what he was seeing, and he described his experience. It's funny how the realization dawned on me, because the immediate moment that I viewed him, there was not a doubt in my mind that the creature I observed was Bigfoot. I wasn't looking for it, nor did I think that there had ever been sightings in that region of the country. It was automatic boom, no doubt. What really surprised me was its coloration, which was a light brown c It was almost like the color of cork on a bulletin board. That definitely is not a person or someone in a suit, no way. It occurred to me to alert the other trainees in the truck, but I immediately thought that by the time I did, they would awaken crane their next to look out the back, and by that time not see anything. This all occurred to me in milliseconds. Also in May of nineteen eighty two, there was a late night encounter at the Marine Corps base of Camp Pendleton in California. This too was reported by the BFRO. The unidentified witness was involved at that time with the youth program consisting of a rigorous series of two week long mini boot camps for teenage boys overseen by the Marines. The witness and around three hundred boys on the camp settled down for the night, and the marine ended up being one of the last ones awake on watch duty. As he patrolled the camp, he said that something very weird happy, which he would later explain. As I turned facing west and looked toward the closest edge of the perimeter, I noticed a tall, dark, bulky figure standing about fifteen meters beyond the last tent, or about twenty meters from where I stood. We seemed to be staring at each other. But it's hard to say because I could not make out any of its facial definition. But I had a strong gut feeling that it was checking me out really good. Since I was the only thing moving around. I could feel my heart begin to pound, and my entire body felt like it wanted to anchor to the ground. There was no doubt that someone or something very odd and dangerous was standing there and looking at me. I mean, this thing was tall, and it was wide at the shoulders. I used my peripheral vision to make sure I wasn't seeing things, but it only confirmed what I already knew. It gently and slightly moved its upper body left and right, ever so slightly, as though looking around to its front and surveying the area. It was an easy eight feet tall. Like I mentioned previously, all I could make out was its massive silhouette in no real detail features. It had very broad shoulders, little or no neck. It was dark, and it looked very powerful. The witness then allegedly grabbed a flashlight and went to investigate, but he would lose sight of whatever the creature was. It was all very disconcerting because he was in charge of several hundred untrained civilian teenagers and he was unsure of just what he was dealing with. Luckily, though, nothing strange happened for the rest of the evening, But when the area was investigated in the morning, there was found to be no sign of what it could have been, and it still remains a mystery. In another report, a man named Robert, a former U. S Army specialist, recounts his terrifying experience during his service at Fort Campbell, a military base spanning the Kentucky Tennessee border. The base is surrounded by a vast stretch of empty land, and it was here that Robert and his partner found themselves on patrol one evening. As Robert and his partner patrolled a large, darkened fenced lot which was filled with old, decrepit, rusted cars and equipment, they noticed a figure moving swiftly among the husks of equipment and vehicles. Immediately after this, the night was pierced by loud, blood curdling screams that echoed through the area, and they both knew this was not just any normal trespasser. They then saw the hulking figure stand near a car, and they realized that it stood at least eight feet high and seemed to be covered with hair, and it had eyes that seemed to glint with the light of their flashlights. The creature then apparently turned and looked at them before loping off into the night. These reports account for only a fraction of what military personnel are encountering, and in future chapters, I'll be sure to revisit this topic, and if you have an experience regarding tonight's subject matter, I'd love to hear about it, and you can contact me at Paranormal Mysteries podcast dot com. Until next time, thank you again for being here and I hope you'll join me for my next episode as we continue our journey into the unexplained right here on Paranormal Mysteries