Cop relates how he was chased by a rock and log hurling, aggressive sasquatch as a child.
That was superb, Lordmongrove, I really enjoyed it and thought it was very interesting. There was so much stress in his voice, and I am familiar (from listening to very stressed people) with the way he sounded so relieved at the end of the programme, for basically getting it off his chest and into the air.
I had (have?) reservations at the start of his tale, because of the fact it took place such a long time ago, and he was only 11 years old. Because we all know that memory is quite fallible, and what he was describing was really quite detailed and specific, and he spoke about the time that had passed during it. Which for me would be very hard to put my finger on with things that happened last week, let alone when I was 11. But having said that I haven't been chased by a sasquatch! So I imagine that any really stressful situation would fix itself in your mind in a different way, to something quite mundane. (I did feel slightly sceptical that he could have been gone for so long without his parents going completely spare.. he mentioned hours. But perhaps that is slightly a misremembering due to the terror he felt? )
His tone of voice made it very convincing to me that he is telling the truth of what he experienced - I had no impression that he was 'making it up'. And besides, he has kept the story basically to himself for all this time. So he may have retold it to himself, but he hasn't been retelling it out loud to other people (I don't know what impact that has on memory and 'the story' but I imagine it has some). Besides, he is in law enforcement and such unorthodox views probably wouldn't be very well received now, so that sort of added to my impression that he was very relieved to have found this chap to talk to about his experience, someone who would understand and not take the mickey or try to explain his experience away.
I was also impressed by his adamance that it was a real creature and his dismissal of any idea that such things could be (as he put it) an 'interdimensional being'. And the real urgency and concern in his voice when he spoke of how people keen to go out and look for such things, should take the danger seriously and arm themselves.
I will be listening to more from that channel! And I will be intrigued to hear the presenter's own story, as it was mentioned that he himself had an encounter. Thank you!!
[p.s. - I have spent the afternoon listening to the two 'Best of Sasquatch Chronicles' episodes and can highly recommend them too - similarly earnest tales, and again you can hear the stress and fear in their voices as they recall their terrifying and bemusing experiences, and try to make any sense of them. I know one might say 'well you still can't judge the Reality behind whatever they're saying' even if they are telling their own truth. That is to say, you don't know what stuff was going on in their lives, or whether they'd been drinking, or have unusual things going on in their brain, or whatever, that might cause them to see and believe things that weren't 'real'. But I do know that if you assume they are straightforward people, and as sobre and compos mentis as you might be on a good day, then you can only really infer that they are telling the truth. Which is a bit of a mad prospect to have to get to grips with?!!]