Grandmother Called in a Bigfoot

What if it's True Podcast

Cameron Buckner

Drama, Fiction, Science Fiction

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Grandmother Called in a Bigfoot
Many moons ago, on the Glover River in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, my grandparents were at a fishing spot they called the Big Hole. They were busy catfishing when they heard a yell from up the river. For the fun of it, my grandma decided to mimic the sound and yelled right back.
Not long after, they heard a huge splashing from up the river coming toward them, as if a large animal was quickly approaching. As the splashing sound got closer, they started feeling uneasy and decided to pack up and leave.
My grandma went ahead to the truck to start it up so they could get out faster, and heard some leaves rustling in the woods next to her. She rejoined my grandpa to help with the packing, and once they got everything loaded up, they saw a huge shadow in the trees. They didn’t wait around to find out what it was and got out of dodge.
She's told me this story many times throughout my life, and I've always figured it was Bigfoot. But I never paid any mind to what the yell could have been until this weekend, when I visited them, and played the Ohio howl recording.
I had gotten her attention, and she called my grandpa over so he could hear it, too. My grandparents both said it was just like the sound they heard that day they were fishing at the Big Hole.
Little did they know at the time, they had a near encounter with Bigfoot.

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0:00.0	The first time I heard about Bigfoot was when I took my younger brother and a friend of his to see the legend of Boggy Creek.
0:17.0	He was playing at the drive-in where we lived. My interest in the subject was renewed years later
0:24.0	when my son and I started watching the Finding Bigfoot series together. It made me think back to my
0:30.6	childhood living in the country. My family moved to a small town in southern Indiana when I was little.
0:38.2	I was a bit of a tomboy and I loved going to the woods by myself just to enjoy nature.
0:44.4	We had a couple of horses in the pasture way back in the woods and I would sometimes go to pet and hand-feed them.
0:51.4	And on occasion I would suddenly feel afraid, as if someone or something menacing was
0:57.0	watching me. When I gave into the urge to run home as fast as I could, I could hear the sounds of
1:03.5	twig snapping behind me. I thought a bear was coming after me. And at that age, I didn't realize
1:10.2	there were no bears in Indiana.
1:13.4	I live in Ohio now, and one evening I was taking my granddaughter on a ride in the country.
1:19.9	She loves it as much as I do, and we would point to houses that we like and enjoy each other's company.
1:26.7	She's also a horse lover and loves seeing them in the fields as we drove.
1:32.4	I was driving around, not even sure where we were at the time, when I started to turn
1:36.7	onto a gravel road with trees lining both sides of it.
1:41.2	It was right at dark, and the road was dark, and right before I turned we saw a dark shape
1:47.1	in the middle of the road.
1:48.1	It looked like it was an animal hunched down, and it was eating something it had caught.
1:55.3	Even at a distance, we could tell it was huge, but it was too dark to tell what it was.
2:05.9	My granddaughter got scared and rolled up her window, and she closed the sunroof, and she begged me not to get any closer to it. I drove on, not knowing what it was, and not
2:12.5	wanting to make her more upset than she had already become. And then to my surprise out of nowhere, I got scared too.
2:21.2	It was like a light switch it turned on, and I felt the familiar feeling of fear that I had
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