A Monster Tormented Them for Years

What if it's True Podcast

Cameron Buckner

Drama, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A Monster Tormented Them For Years

From 1977 to 1979, a family living in a remote house near the San Bernardino County mountains in Yucaipa, California, experienced repeated encounters with a mysterious creature they believed to be Bigfoot. The disturbances began one winter night with loud thuds on the roof, followed by sightings of a massive, hairy, bipedal figure that crossed roads, leapt fences, and lingered near their chimney. The creature’s presence escalated over time, marked by foul odors wafting through open windows, blocked views of distant lights, and even direct confrontations, including a terrifying moment when it stared at the narrator’s father through a window. Despite attempts to scare it off with shotguns and group pursuits, the creature persisted, harassing the family nightly—hitting the house, testing doors, and leaping off the roof—leaving them in constant fear until they moved out in 1979, an event the narrator, then a child, recalls as the happiest day of their life.

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0:00.0	All right, all right, this person rode in with two experiences.
0:13.1	One is with a Bigfoot, and I think another is with an alien, but let's see what they write.
0:18.3	In the late 1980s, my stepfather Rick had a habit of smoking pot. At that time,
0:24.5	it was still illegal and people had to find places to smoke where they wouldn't get caught.
0:30.1	One time Rick went with his friend up into the mountains, parked on an old logging road,
0:35.9	and turned the lights and engine off in his truck.
0:39.2	When everything seemed clear, they pulled out their stashed and sparked it up.
0:43.5	Woo!
0:44.7	They were sitting there when out of nowhere a large man appeared in the middle of the road.
0:50.5	There were no vehicles or buildings in the area.
0:53.9	The entire reason they chose a back road on the mountain was because they knew no one
0:58.3	would be there.
0:59.3	Well, seeing this man come out of nowhere, startled Rick and his friend, who immediately
1:05.1	got paranoid, thinking they were about to get busted with pot.
1:09.4	Paranoid?
1:10.4	No! How would they be paranoid? Then just as quickly
1:15.8	as this man appeared, he vanished. He reappeared a moment later with three more of his kind behind him.
1:24.2	That's when Rick and his friend realized they weren't regular people.
1:28.2	They were far too tall, and it was a family of Bigfoot.
1:32.3	They walked across the road right in front of the truck, from the tallest to the shortest,
1:37.3	and then they disappeared into the trees on the other side.
1:41.2	Rick and his friend got out of there as quickly as they could, desperate to get off the
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