I am about to tell a story that happened 29 years ago, I characterize the topic of this story as an acquaintance and to me it is, the incident I am about to describe happened to me and my family over a period of 6 years. At first we thought it was someone playing games, but as years went by and we grew accustomed to it, we realized this was something else.
I will get to the reason I am telling the story now in a while. I was 14 years old when my dad moved us to some land he had bought in northwest Arkansas, it was rugged and remote, but my dad was a hard worker and he loved a challenge. He was an outdoorsman and had been raised, as some people would term as a mountain man. We moved a trailer house in until construction could be completed on our house. To give you an idea of the area, power lines had not made it to that location just yet they would come 6 months later. Anyway we began clearing thickets with briar patches 20 foot tall and some an acre across, clearing the land for a house, nothing unusual about that.
The first time we heard (let us call him Artie) Artie, it was in the summer at night and it was hot! , my little brother and I had just went to bed when we heard the sound or call from below our house down the mountain, I‘ll never forget I looked at him he looked at me and we both hit the door to Mom and Dad’s room at once. The scream was getting closer coming up the mountain when Artie stopped, it had gotten so close I could hear it breathing outside, my dad grabbed his lantern and went outside, remember now we thought it was someone pulling a prank. I walked out on the steps behind my dad and tried to see as best I could hiding behind him.
The area right behind our trailer was thick with brush and timber, so the light didn’t penetrate very well, I couldn’t see anything, but like I said it was right there breathing and moving around slowly and it smelled of molded leaves and rotten wood, moldy thick animal smelled like a zoo maybe is how I remember it. The sound it made was nothing I had ever heard before or have not since, I will not try to describe the sound right now but I will explain later on.
Artie got to be a regular visitor every evening or sometimes in the middle of the day. He or she would scream either above our house or below it. I am talking everyday for almost a two years then he started to slack off on his or her visits. Oh yea I forgot to tell you something whenever we would start to make noise, most of the time, Artie would show up, hammering on the house, running a chainsaw etc. We talked to fish and game officials about what it might be, because my dad was puzzled of the sound, he had heard panthers scream, been around bears and was an avid hunter but he had never heard anything like this before. He has lived in the Pacific Northwest and just about everywhere in between, and my dad is not one to believe in Bigfoot (We hadn’t even heard of such things until years later) or things that might be of the bizarre nature or things along that line but we was confused. I described the smell and at night, being so close you could hear breathing, we had puny flashlights and a Coleman lantern for house lights at that time but we never saw anything. Ours Guns and a lot of our stuff had been stolen from our church parsonage we lived at right before our move, so we was kind of limited to equipment at first, but even when we got high power spot lights and things Artie was always one step ahead. After a couple of weeks Artie would not scream anymore close by he would always be a couple of hundred yards away and never in the same place. However, I know he was watching us all the time, I could feel it.
The one time Artie almost screwed up was when my older brother was sitting outside one day. Artie cut loose in a thicket behind our house, my brother took off to see what this was finally, well he caught a quick glance at something big and dark colored moving away through the woods, he never mentioned it again and that was the only time anyone ever saw anything. Artie was scary at first but as time went on and nothing was bothered or disturbed we started to accept Artie as part of our family, my dad once had an idea that he had built our house in his trail or path between two mountains and Artie was voicing his or her opinion.
At one time, I started to talk to people about what was going on and they would look at me as if I was crazy therefore, I ceased that. Well over the next few years Artie went from every day or evening and sometimes two times a day to maybe once a week then once a month, finally every 6 months or so Artie would let us know he was still there. After we had moved up to where we lived, after about 2 years (about the time Artie started to slack off his visits) people started to move into the area, when we first moved there our nearest neighbor was five miles away, when we left in 1986 it was a ¼ mile. We seem to think that was what squeezed Artie out of the area. Artie would show up occasionally and scare the neighbors and one time my cousins from Oregon (they never came back) but never hurt anything we ever knew of and we had livestock, chickens etc. Right before we moved from Arkansas, we heard Artie again. I know that whatever it was hung around us, watching us, I would like to say he was looking out for us. I know you may not believe what I just told you but that’s not the point, I have nothing to gain or prove.
I am fascinated by some of the stories of Bigfoot and others well lets just leave it at that, anyway I was on a web site one day and I heard Artie, believe it not, no mistaking it, right there on my computer speaker was the sound I hadn’t heard in years but one I never would forget. I never dreamed that after all those years that one day while goofing off that I would hear a voice from the past. I was looking at Bigfoot research websites and I came across this site called Learn about Sasquatch and one of the links was Listen to Sasquatch, then I Clicked Sasquatch Talker, and right there it was, a voice from the past, the only thing is I never heard any chirps that comes at the end like on the recording but the gargled choking sound ,I have heard that sound hundreds of time.
When I heard the scream it took me back and the hair stood up on my neck and arms again, this that happened to me and several people that I was acquainted with. Some even had physical experiences with Artie, but that is another story. I just thought somebody might want to hear this even though there was never a true visual from me, I know that Artie or one of his descendents is still out there, alive and well and maybe some day I will go back up there and see for if I can find an old friend.

Thanks for sharing with us.

Can you link the exact sounds that you recognized for us?

I would if I knew how, but all I know they are from the Sierra sounds and Called Bigfoot talker, sorry thats all I know about that.

I think this might be the link to the sounds and this the link to the original site you mentioned.

Thank You that is the one, the Bigfoot talker is what we hear all those years but like I said above we never hear the chirp or clicking sounds, just the loud scream.

Welcome to the BFF StangIT.

Nice account. Thanks for posting it. Interesting the way "Artie" came up the mountain announcing himself (herself? ...itself?) and that he was drawn to you by noise you would make.

It didn't dawn on us at first, but we are talking a lot of time to study what was going on, we had a hunt scheduled at one time and the dogs wouldn't track it, we set out an ambush one night and he didn't show. One thing I found out quick we where dealing with intelligence here. There are a lot more encounters we had with Artie but that is another time and place.

Yikes! I think I'd be sleeping in Mom and Dad's room everynight!

Did you leave your windows open at night? Did you sense that it came right up to your house or windows, or did it seems to stay under cover of the woods?

Sujen

Well I will put it this way, when it was around there was no other sounds and sometimes it was so close you could hear breathing, so it got pretty close.

StangIT,

Would you be able to contact me privately regarding your sighting? I live in NW Arkansas and have experienced some possible activity. I'm interested in learning more of the whereabouts of your experience, if you are interested in sharing.

Thanks!

Bryan

hey stang welcome to the bigfootforums. wow thats a very interesting sasquatch encounter you posted above there. do you have a photo of the sighting location or other sasquatch evidence that you found resently. can you draw a sketch of the sasquatch you encountered. please keep us posted here. good evening bill green

Bill- you never read- you just post- and that's why we like you

Cool read- thanks for sharing that-

As weird as this sounds- I'd love to be in your shoes so I could finally prove to myself that they do exist...

I'm at 99.9%, but there's still that .1%

Peace

Very interesting story, Stang. Thanks for posting it. We would like to hear more about your encounters.

hey Blade I tryed to Im you and it wouldn't let me in.

I don't know exactly where it was I kind of stumbled on to it but there was a sheriff deputy that got a call about a prowler and while he was on the radio this thing ran by him screaming that is the exact sound but the Seirra sound scream is real close.

Hi

Anything new on this


Peace
Tim

Yeah tell us about those physical encounters StangIt!