I have listened to your show and feel like I can tell you what
happened to me one evening while hunting coyote on my father in laws
land.
It was about 6 or 7 pm and right at dusk. I was in a hunting blind on
the edge of a ravine overlooking a creek about 30 feet down and just
beyond that a cornfield. I was trying to call a few in because not a
week passed one of the neighbor’s cows was mutilated and we all assumed
it to be from a coyote. Well, it was getting very dark and I was about to
leave when I heard steps walking up behind me. I called out in a low
voice to my father in law thinking it was him letting him know I
acknowledged his presence and lowered my crossbow. When I looked out
the mesh window I did not see him and was perplexed that he did not
call back. That is when I heard sniffing right behind the blind, not 3
feet away.
I was taken aback and excited thinking that this must have been a
coyote come to see what was in distress. I turned slowly in my chair
raising my crossbow and that is when I heard the growl. It was very
deep and guttural and I felt a deep dread fall over me. I knew that
whatever growled that deep was much larger than a coyote. I laid my
crossbow down and grabbed my .45 ACP sidearm I always carry while
hunting and started to pray. I felt like I was in serious danger and I
might have a fight on my hands. I have been attacked by a wild dog
before and still have the scars to this day.
What I then saw walking away from the tent changed the course of my
life and popped a safety bubble I did not even realize I have been
living in my whole life while out hunting or spending time in the
woods. I watched a wolf on his hind legs walk away from my blind along
the edge of the ravine and then jump down and disappeared out of my
sight. I exhaled and realized I was holding my breath, shaking and
hold the .45 up and ready. This creature was at least as tall as me
and I am 5′ 10″ and he was hunched down while walking away so he
had to be at least 7 feet standing upright. His fur was dark gray and
his back was heavily muscled, very defined. His arms were long and
looked like he had hands and I could see the tops of his ears over his
hunched back. I never did see his face but he had legs like a canine.
I felt frozen and in disbelief. I want to both run as fast as I could
out of there and also be still and ready in case this thing came back.
After about a minute of deep breathing, I readied my things and slowly
eased out of the blind keeping my firearm up and sweeping the area as
I moved toward my truck about 300 yds away. It was the hardest thing
not to run full sprint but darkness was coming on quick and I did NOT
want to be out there late with this thing. I made it to my truck and
sped out of there as fast as I could
Since that night I have been struggling with what I saw and went
through. It is hard to talk to others, my family is very proper and
practical and would reduce what I saw to mere shadow making a coyote
seem bigger or some such. It is comforting to know after researching
that there are others that have seen things like this. I feel better
just writing this to you.
One other thing happened that I would like to share. I moved to an
old house about 10 miles away from the land where I was hunting and
for about a week my 2-year-old daughter would tell me about the bad
wolf outside. This was about 2 years after my hunting incident so I
did not think much of it at first. She kept on about the bad wolf
outside and so I started getting concerned. I told her to come to get me
if she saw it again. One night at about 8 pm she comes to me saying
“bad wolf outside” and she leads me to her room on the second story
and tells me to look out of the window. We have a flood light out
back, a huge chicken coop and run area about 50 yards back and then
about 10 more yards past that is the wood line. I scan outside in the yard and see nothing, look around the coop, thinking it to be my neighbor’s dogs
trying to get to my chickens and see nothing, then, I look at the wood
line and see it. Just like before I see a large wolf creature standing
in the wood line straight up and staring right at us. It was standing
right behind a large wooden cross I had put up just at the wood line.
The cross is about 9 feet tall and this creature was shorter but not
by much. Again I was frozen but this time I was angry because it was
at my home, it was watching my daughter and probably my whole family
for knows how long. I picked up my daughter and stared right back at
this thing. It had yellowish glowing eyes from the floodlight
reflexion. I carry her and call my son into my room while trying to
stay calm. I put them both on the bed and go into my gun safe and grab
my 45-70 lever rifle and head to the window and see that it is gone. I
did not sleep much that night and had the kids sleep with my wife and
me that night. I was staring outside for a long while.
I have not seen it or any others since then and pray I never do. I
live near Circleville, Ohio. Like I said it feels good sharing with you,
thank you for taking the time if you made it this far into my story.
Feel free to share with anyone my experience.
Anonymous
6:45 PM
11/2015