Bigfoot Society

Russell Wiitala went looking for Bigfoot nearly 20 years ago. Eventually, something started answering back.

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Russell takes us deep into his experiences across Washington and the Pacific Northwest, beginning with strange tracks, powerful odors, unexplained knocks, and vocalizations in the Willapa Hills.

Then the encounters get closer.

Russell describes a January 2025 trip to Ocean Shores, Washington, where he spotted a figure standing beside the road before daylight. When he and his friend returned to investigate, his friend saw a gray-haired figure attempting to hide among the trees in a swamp.

Russell also shares years of experiences throughout the Olympic Peninsula and Wynoochee area: long screams echoing across valleys, rocks striking tents, strange voices in the forest, possible juvenile Sasquatch activity, trees coming down, unexplained gifts, and something descending a ridge and entering his campsite while he listened from inside his tent.

Some of Russell’s later experiences move into even stranger territory. He describes possible cloaking, mind-speak, unusual dreams, unexplained physical sensations, and his belief that certain locations may play a role in Sasquatch activity.

After nearly two decades of searching across four states and more than 30 areas, Russell has developed a very different understanding of what may be living in these forests.

This is one of those Bigfoot Society conversations that keeps getting stranger the deeper it goes.

Listen through the end and decide for yourself what Russell encountered in the woods.

Locations discussed include Raymond, the Willapa Hills, Ocean Shores, Wynoochee, the Olympic Peninsula, Lake Cushman, Staircase, and other areas of the Pacific Northwest.

Resources:

Russell’s book: https://www.amazon.com/Sasquatch-Shaman-Woods-Russell-Wiitala-ebook/dp/B09LTH43L9

 https://www.youtube.com/@SasquatchShamanoftheWoods

Ronnie Roseman returns to Bigfoot Society with new details from one of Oregon’s most intense Sasquatch research areas near Oakridge.

Ronnie shares reports of strange structures hidden along remote trails, unsettling vocalizations from the bottoms, a meadow covered in Bigfoot tracks measuring up to 23 inches, and encounters where multiple unseen creatures appeared to position themselves around researchers.

He also reveals one of the strangest experiences he has ever kept private: a possible Bigfoot standing on a distant dirt road that Ronnie and Duane watched for roughly 15 minutes. When they returned weeks later, the road itself appeared to be gone.

This episode goes deep into decades of field experience, aggressive nighttime encounters, Sasquatch behavior, and the questions Ronnie still cannot answer.

Resources:

Original Ronnie Roseman episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qr8FTbA0p0
 
Bigfoot and Two Steps Beyond, Volume One: https://www.amazon.com/Bigfoot-Steps-Beyond-Ronnie-Roseman-ebook/dp/B0HCM75L4T/

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In 1977, Hal drove six hours north to the Standing Rock Reservation after reports of Bigfoot activity around Little Eagle, South Dakota began appearing on television and in newspapers.

Late one night, alone at his campsite near the river, Hal heard something approximately 600 feet away.

Three shorter sounds. Then an incredibly loud, prolonged wail.

Within moments, dogs in the nearby village erupted. Coyotes on a ridge joined them. Nearly 50 years later, Hal still remembers exactly what that sound did to him.

His story continues on his rural Mississippi property, where years of unexplained activity have included enormous partial tracks, strange nighttime snorting, an unusual skunk-like odor, possible animal mimicry, recurring wood knocks, mysterious objects, and fleeting black movement through the brush.

Hal also shares an extraordinary childhood memory from the Mid-South Fair in Memphis: seeing what he believes was the original Minnesota Iceman—and returning later to find a very different figure inside the ice.

From Little Eagle and the Standing Rock Reservation to Mississippi, Memphis, Mount Hood, and Alaska, this is one man's decades-long journey through the Bigfoot phenomenon.

Listen to the full episode of Bigfoot Society and hear Hal tell it in his own words.

Resources:

Mississippi Skunk Ape video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb9YcIlkl_c

Bigfoot without Spam FB group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/626955989764470

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A hunter near Lake Crescent, Washington thought he was looking at an old cedar stump—until it stood up, doubled in height, and walked into the trees.

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, multiple witnesses share extraordinary encounters from the Olympic Peninsula and beyond.

Near Mount Snyder and Mount Bigler, an experienced hunter watches a massive reddish figure through his scope and later uses nearby stumps to estimate its size at more than 10 feet tall. Elsewhere in Olympic National Park, a family finds themselves being followed out of the forest after rocks begin flying, branches break, wildlife flees, and an approximately eight-foot black figure appears behind them.

Pam shares her sighting near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, where a huge, hair-covered figure walked out of a gully, noticed her approaching vehicle, reacted with visible surprise, and hurried behind a tree.

The episode also takes us to Winter Haven, Florida, for a disturbing early-morning vocalization; the Atherton Tablelands of Australia for Aboriginal accounts of the mysterious "hairy men"; and deeper into Washington for enormous tracks found near the Dosewallips River system and footprints that smashed through thick creek ice in the Cascades.

Lake Crescent. Mount Snyder. Mount Bigler. Olympic National Park. Port Townsend. Discovery Bay. Port Renfrew. Winter Haven. The Australian rainforest.

These are the accounts people carried with them for years.

Hear their stories in Bigfoot Society Episode 1190.

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At six years old, Lynn Gaspaire says he came face-to-face with a Sasquatch while picking blackberries at Ocean Shores, Washington—and even held its hand.

That 1959 encounter began a lifetime of extraordinary experiences.

Lynn shares his memories of a pregnant female near Mt. Adams, a massive 9-foot male throwing rocks near Killen Creek, and an incredible 1972 encounter at Lake Cushman where he found himself just feet away from a family of Sasquatches.

He describes their faces, hands, teeth, vocalizations, movements, feeding behavior, family dynamics, and the moments of apparent communication that stayed with him for decades.

These are some of the closest and most detailed Sasquatch encounters ever shared on Bigfoot Society.

Originally aired as Bigfoot Society Episode 550 on October 7, 2024, this conversation with Lynn Gaspaire is one you need to hear from beginning to end.

🎧 Listen now and decide for yourself what Lynn encountered in the forests of Washington.

Resources:

Sasquatch: Face to Face by Thom Cantrall (https://amzn.to/3ZKdkhF) Amazon affiliate link

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