Alabama Woman Hears Powerful Pond Smacks During Nighttime Sasquatch Encounter
Posted Friday, August 07, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something about a good witness interview that just pulls you right in, and a recent upload from the Creek Devil channel delivers exactly that kind of experience. Host William Jevning, a two-time witness and field researcher with over four decades of looking into these phenomena, sits down with a woman named Tammy who shares a genuinely chilling account from southern Alabama, not far from Gulf Shores.
The story begins back in 2012 on a property just over seven acres, where Tammy and a friend decided to take a late-night walk down to the pond around 10:30 PM. The pond itself stretches about 300 feet long, and they were standing on the south end when something on the opposite side started smacking the water with incredible force. Not once, but four or five times, each one spaced just two to three seconds apart. Tammy describes the sound as so powerful she could literally feel it in her body from 300 feet away, like the shockwave was rolling through her. The water itself was audibly splashing back down after each impact.
What makes this account stand out is how visceral her reaction was. She froze completely, unable to think, scream, or run. Her friend had to physically grab her to keep her from bolting, telling her something along the lines of, "If it wants you, it will get you." Her friend had apparently had prior experiences on that property and understood what they were dealing with.
Here's where things get even more interesting. Tammy's friend had been using that pond area as a meditation and grounding spot for years, and during those sessions, he began experiencing what he described as communication that wasn't coming through his ears, more of a telepathic or "mind speak" type of contact. He had been dismissing these experiences as byproducts of deep meditation until that night at the pond, when he realized alongside Tammy that whatever was out there was flesh and blood, not a hallucination.
The encounter itself reads like a warning. Once the sounds stopped, they went back to the house, and the next morning returned to investigate. They found a tall dead tree near the edge of the pond that had apparently fallen into the water, though the discussion cuts off before we get the full details of what they discovered there.
For anyone familiar with Sasquatch behavior patterns, this kind of territorial display at a water source is well-documented in witness literature. Water sources, creek crossings, and pond areas are repeatedly mentioned in encounter reports across the country, and many researchers have noted that these beings seem to use auditory displays, including wood knocks and water smacks, as a form of communication or boundary-setting. The fact that Tammy's friend had been meditating in that exact spot and receiving what he interpreted as mental communication adds another fascinating layer to the story.
What really sells this interview is Tammy's honesty about where she stood on the subject before that night. She wasn't a believer. She didn't watch TV, had never really looked into the Sasquatch phenomenon, and only went along because she had no reason to fear the property. That raw, unfiltered reaction, the freezing, the shaking, the inability to even process what was happening, carries a lot of weight coming from someone with no prior framework for the experience.
The Creek Devil channel is worth checking out for anyone who enjoys long-form witness interviews. Jevning has a calm, grounded interviewing style that lets the witnesses tell their stories without leading them, and Tammy does a fantastic job painting the scene. Definitely worth a watch if you're into Alabama encounters or accounts involving water source interactions.