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I had a similar-enough experience back in '88 at Babyfoot Lake in SW Oregon. My now ex and I left our 18 month old daughter with my ex's dad and step mom so we could celebrate our anniversary in the woods. We arrived mid afternoon after a 1.5 mile hike, set up camp, ate, then I took a few minutes to fish a little. The lake sits in a small glacial cirque. We were back near the headwall on a slightly brushy, timbered flat a couple acres in size. We heard rocks rolling far above us to the right. It was intermittent like something picking its way diagonally down and left across the headwall which was out of sight behind trees from us. We started to get weirded out, just felt .. "off", and after a big of discussion we thought we had enough time to get back to the truck before it was dark so we broke camp and hauled butt. The trail out crossed the ridge to our left from the perspective of facing the headwall, in other words, it crossed the ridge "it" seemed to be moving towards. Bit of concern whatever nameless "it" that it was would cut us off crossing the ridge. Now, I was packing a single action .44 and had a double action .357 my then wife was packing, but those didn't create any false confidence. We got to the ridge and it was already dusk-ish and dimming quickly. "It" wasn't waiting, though, so we headed up the trail toward the truck. A short ways up the trail there's a ledge the trail crosses which is a little snotty thing to get up especially in the dark. It's only waist high or so, just .. awkward. Once we were both up, took a couple steps, then the noises began. In those days, before the Silver Fire, the trail was a narrow slice through a sea of rhododendron and saddler's oak 10-15 feet high with douglas fir overhead. Pretty darn dark in there and a lot of cover within arm's reach of the trail so it was ... tense. Whatever it was, it stayed just above and behind us herding us like I've herded cows .. all about angles. At times we could see the rhodys and saddlers oaks being pushed aside and pushed down as something very large plowed through them. The cadence was of two feet. It was going through them like you or I would go through shoulder-tall grass .. seemingly little resistance to "it" though I do not think I could wade through it. Sometimes "it" seemed to stop making sounds. The first time or two, we thought maybe it left, but as soon as we would pass a small, more open spot, it would start up again, so it was leap-frogging ahead of us, then waiting 'til we passed it to begin "pushing" us again. It never got closer than 25-30 feet and was sometimes as much as 50 yards away. Once we got within a few hundred yards of the parking lot and truck, the cover thinned and it apparently stopped following. My ex wife does not "believe in" bigfoot but now and then when that comes up in conversation her eyes get real big. She remembers that night .. well .. and has no explanation for what we experienced. A year or so ago I talked to a local researcher just swapping stories and told him 'bout that hike. All he said was "Oh, you ran into HIM, yeah, he's a GRUMPY bastard." Wish I had it to do over again but with someone else to share camp with, wouldn't wish that on my ex wife. I'd stay and see what happened. Nothin' ventured, nothin' gained. 30-odd years will change your perspective on things. MIB

Oops, sorry about the repeat, lol, I don't know what happened! Ah, geez. Well, it is true! 😂 Sorry for the repeat, I don't know what happened!

Of course none of this will matter to science. What it only matters is to the witness . That what they encountered was not some thing they imagine . That there was proof of what they heard and had encountered and that they do not have to go through time thinking if it was all real. Now they can clear their thoughts and know that what they experience did happen. Is this not what happens to most of us who have encountered these creatures .We want to go look for answers to the things that we experience. We need that proof for our selves. It does not matter to anyone else. It only matters to the person who witnessed the experience. This is why there are people who go out to investigate these sightings. These are the people who vet these sightings out. It is up to science whether they want to investigate these creatures further. If science refuses to investigate these creatures with the evidence at hand . Then science is not science by the mere definition.

Great story Trapper. Being shadowed by anyone, or anything, is very disconcerting. If you walk down a dark street and have someone follow you, it creates a sense of uneasiness. Having something follow you in the woods, away from any humanity and help, ratchets up the feeling substantially. As mentioned earlier, if you've followed reports, you would at least know what is happening. Having said that, it's altogether different when it's happening to you and doubts begin to swirl as to what might actually transpire (and hopefully not expire!).

Yeah, I know, I was startled by the tree knock and started the video just hoping to get something recorded. If you look at our channel ive filmed everything else in landscape in the past. Knowing that it would have made a sloppy vidoe to edit it all together later if i switched up the perspective I kept it verticle for continuity. Hind sight right? *** also** i had no intent to vidoe the area just to take stills. But I kept the camera going hoping to agitate whatever made that knock into doing it again. I even walked out of the area hoping to provoke some kind of action but it didnt occure again.

Hey trapper, I've had a (presumed) bigfoot shake bushes and trees and chuff at us menacingly. You can check out my YouTube channel, too, Lane County Bigfooters. Yep, they exist, and you are in good company here. Welcome!