Melinda Greer Shares Three Bigfoot Encounters in Southeast Oklahoma

There's something about a witness who comes back for a second and third encounter that always makes me sit up and pay attention. Most people who stumble across something unexplained tend to avoid that area for the rest of their lives. Not Melinda Greer. She kept going back to the Ouachita Mountains, and the Ouachita Mountains kept delivering. A recent interview popped up on the Linda Eastburn YouTube channel, and it's one of those conversations that sticks with you. Melinda shares three separate encounters she had in southeast Oklahoma, and the details she provides are the kind that researchers dream about. She wasn't a believer going in. In fact, she says Bigfoot wasn't even part of her worldview until the encounters forced her to reconsider everything she thought she knew. Her first sighting happened in late August 2001, sometime between 2 and 3 in the afternoon, on the Indian Nation Turnpike south of McAlester. It was over 100 degrees, full sunshine, and she was essentially the only car on the road. She came over a low rise and spotted two tall figures just inside a cattle fence in a field that was starting to grow back into scrub oak. Her first thought, she says, was that someone was wearing Chewbacca costumes. But in that heat, in the middle of nowhere, that explanation fell apart almost immediately. What she describes next is what makes this encounter so compelling. Two beings, bipedal, one a full head taller than the other, walking with a rapid, ground-covering stride toward a band of forest. They were covered head to toe in hair that she describes as a pretty golden reddish-blonde color, not the dark, matted look most people picture. The hair on their backs was longer, almost cape-like, and she could see the muscles underneath rippling as they moved. That's a detail you can't fake with a costume. She never saw their faces full on, only in profile, and she notes there was no snout, just a flat face that sloped directly into the shoulders with no visible neck. The way they walked was different too. The knees came up in a way that wasn't quite human, and the stride was long and powerful. She compares the overall look to a well-groomed Irish Setter, which is an unusual but vivid way to describe a Sasquatch. The Ouachita Mountains have long been considered a hotspot for sightings, and her description of the terrain matches what researchers have reported for decades, remote ridges, regenerating fields, dense forest bands, and plenty of water sources tucked into the folds of the uplift mountains. The second encounter is where things get intense, though the interview cuts off right as she's setting the stage. Early September 2002, another brutally hot day over 100 degrees. She was driving a Toyota Camry along back roads mapped out from an Oklahoma back roads guidebook, and her car had already suffered one flat tire earlier in the day. Then she hit a ditch with water in it, knocked the bead off a second tire, and had no spare. She was stranded with no water, no food, high up on the Kiamichi Ridge, one of the major ridges of the Ouachitas. Linda mentions this encounter was more traumatizing than the first, and based on the setup, it's easy to understand why. The Kiamichi Ridge is serious wilderness. The Ouachitas are actually uplift mountains, which means the slab forming the top of the range extends roughly 25 miles underground, a remnant of some ancient geological upheaval. These aren't gentle hills. They're rugged, remote, and full of the kind of terrain where a person on foot in the heat could get into real trouble fast. What makes Melinda's story stand out is the consistency of her descriptions across encounters and the way she talks about what she saw. She isn't reaching for dramatic language. She's trying to make sense of something that didn't fit into her understanding of the world, and she did the work afterward, reading books, educating herself, and eventually coming forward to share what she witnessed. If you're interested in Oklahoma Sasquatch encounters, or you just love a good firsthand account from someone who never expected to be telling one, this interview is worth the watch. Linda Eastburn has a way of letting her guests talk, and Melinda Greer has a lot to say.