The Silent Watcher: A Hunter's First Encounter

In this chilling episode, a listner experiences his first encounter with an eerie figure in the deep woods of the Sumter National Forest. As he sits alone in the dark, bundled up for a deer hunt, he comes face-to-face with an 8-foot tall, shadowy figure that leaves him both terrified and intrigued. 


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Episode Transcript

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this listener submitted encounter.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Back in October nineteen eighty three, when I was eleven
years old, I had my first of several encounters. I
can't remember the exact date, but I know it was
a Saturday and we were deer hunting. It was my
second year doing so. This happened in the Sumpter National
Forest and in Ora, East South Carolina. I can't recall

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the exact county. It was either Laurens or Union County.
I haven't been back since the mid eighties, and my
dad and uncles who knew the exact spot are all
gone now except for two uncles. Here's what happened. My
dad and I went to one of his favorite areas
in the Sumter National Forest, a place we called the

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Horse Trail for obvious reasons. It was named that they
had done some logging there, and there was a logging
road where my dad had me sit for the morning hunt.
It was cold and I was bundled up in a
heavy coat carrying an H and R single shot twenty
gage with slugs. It was about an hour before daylight,

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and it was so dark that I couldn't see my
hand in front of my face. I was facing toward
Highway seven two. I think that's the highway, basically in
the direction where we had parked About twenty minutes after
my dad left me. I could hear him assembling his
old climbing stand and starting to climb. Once he settled in,

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I noticed how all the birds and crickets suddenly went quiet.
I know a lot of birds are active at that time.
I'd say it was around five thirty am when my
eyes finally acclimated to the dark and I could start
to make out shapes. I happened to look to my
right across the logging road, just behind some small pines,

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and I saw a weird looking figure about eight feet tall,
standing just over thirty feet away. I turned my head
to the left, thinking my eyes might be playing tricks
on me, then slowly turned back around and it was
still there. Yes, there was a slight stench in the air.

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I had a flashlight in my hand, but I was
too scared to lift it and shine it over there,
afraid of what I might see. It never moved, it
just stood there watching me. It felt like a lifetime
passed before it finally started getting light. I heard a
noise to my left and turned to look, hoping it

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wasn't another one or a deer, But when I turned
back around, it was gone. I didn't hear it leave,
but as the morning went on, I kept my eyes
wide open, listening, hoping it wouldn't come back. I never
told my dad because he would have laughed at me.
He was a non believer. I did tell my brother, though,

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as he had a couple of encounters himself when he
was younger. My brother is eleven years older than me.
By the way, we hunted that area several more times
before we left it for private land in another air,
but I never saw it again. I grew up reading
multiple books on Bigfoot and watched shows like In Search

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of and The Legend of Boggy Creek, but I didn't
let my mind play tricks on me that morning. The
figure was around eight feet tall, with broad shoulders and
a massive head. Yes, I could hear it breathing, it
was that close. I did have another small encounter in

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an area several miles from there, a place where my
brother had a strange encounter. I heard a tree being
pushed over. It wasn't windy that evening, and it happened
right at dark. Knowing about my brother's encounter, I got
out of the tree as it got dark and quickly
made my way to the trail to wait for my
dad to pick me up. That was another thirty minutes

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or so before I saw his flashlight. I never went
back to that spot again.

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