Child Hunter Recalls Close Encounter With Bigfoot on Family Property

There's something about a witness who was just a kid when it happened that makes their story hit differently. No embellishment, no desire for fame, just a raw memory that's stuck with them for decades. That's exactly what makes the latest episode from REDROOM Films so worth your time. The episode centers on a biologist who's spent 40 years teaching at a community college and worked all four seasons on MonsterQuest for the History Channel. When people in his area have strange encounters, they come to him. Two stories in particular stuck with him, and one of them is the kind of encounter that makes you lean in. The witness, Kyle, was probably nine or ten years old when it happened. He'd been hunting alone for the first time, with his black and tan coon dog and a four-wheeler. He parked the four-wheeler on a hill, let the dog run, and heard the dog tree something. Halfway down the hill, the dog suddenly quit barking, which was unusual. That's when Kyle got that feeling, the one every seasoned woods person knows, that something is off. He was carrying a six-volt motorcycle battery pack with a wheat light strapped to his head. When he turned around after hearing a noise, his light caught something about 20 to 25 feet away. It had stepped out onto a mowed path. His light hit it at waist level, and he describes the build as an upside-down triangle, narrow at the waist and widening dramatically toward the shoulders. He made eye contact, and it made eye contact with him. What stands out about Kyle's account is the emotional tone. He doesn't describe terror in that initial moment. He describes shock. He says it never seemed aggressive, never made him feel fear. It looked at him the way you might look at a kid, and then it turned and walked silently back into the cane. For something that big to move without making a sound, that's the detail that stays with you. About a week later, on the other side of the family farm, Kyle caught the same smell. Not the typical sulfur smell people talk about, but something he compares to a dead bloated deer left on the roadside in summer, foul and pungent. It hung in the air for five or ten minutes and then vanished. No wind shift, no carcass. Just there, and then not. The property sits less than a mile from roughly 40,000 to 50,000 acres of state-preserved land that sees almost no human activity. Creeks run through the bottom, waterways everywhere, and wildlife corridors that make this kind of remote habitat exactly the type of place where something could pass through without ever being noticed. Kyle also mentions howls he's heard over the years that don't match coyotes. He's grown up listening to those woods, knows every sound, and something about those vocalizations has never sat right with him. He's still convinced something passes through that area from time to time. The biologist himself admits that as a scientist, the idea of a seven-foot primate we've overlooked for 300 years is hard to swallow. But he also points out that we've discovered new primate species in recent decades, and the possibility of something baboon-like existing in these forests isn't outside the realm of possibility. This is the kind of encounter report that researchers love because there's no agenda behind it. A kid alone in the woods, a dog that wanted to leave, a creature that didn't want to be seen but didn't act hostile. The witness isn't chasing fame, isn't building a story, just sharing something that happened to him decades ago and never really left his mind. If you're into credible witness testimony, especially from someone with no reason to make anything up, this episode is absolutely worth checking out. The way Kyle walks through the exact location where it happened, pointing out where he was standing and where the figure stepped out, adds another layer to an already compelling account.