Episode 1429 · Sep 9, 2015 · 2h 16m
September 9, 2015: Bigfoot in the Back Yard - Elaine
Key Moments
Open transcriptThe face-to-face encounterLeaning against her pickup at night, the four-foot-eleven Elaine watches an over-eight-foot creature with a huge head, no neck, and long pale hair slowly rise from a crouch ten feet away, stare at her for fifteen seconds, then sprint into the darkness.
Offering food, leaving handprintsAfter the encounter Elaine sets out three foods on a washing machine; the creature takes the pie. Since then it has marked her property with handprints on cars, broken light bulbs, and scat placed deliberately where she will see it.
Surveillance camera unpluggedElaine's son rigs a camera on the front gate with an extension cord running from the porch. The cord keeps getting unplugged at night, and the creature never appears on film no matter how Elaine baits the yard.
Yellow eyes behind the hay baleTipped off by her aggressive puppy, Elaine and her son shine the million-candlepower light from the porch and catch the creature peeking over a round hay bale, its yellow eyes glowing, then slowly sinking down out of sight.
Death of the friend in the woodsElaine recounts a friend who confided in her about an earlier rape, then was found naked, cut, and scratched by a forest near her home. A week later the friend killed herself with a shotgun. Elaine believes a Bigfoot assaulted her.
Elaine describes the creature as intelligent and aware, capable of unplugging surveillance cameras, avoiding detection, and distinguishing between familiar and unfamiliar vehicles. Her son Sierra corroborates the sightings, recalling glowing yellow eyes behind a hay bale illuminated by a million-candle-power flashlight. The family has collected audio recordings of screams and vocalizations but has been unable to photograph the elusive being.
Callers share their own Bigfoot encounters from across the country, while Elaine reveals unsettling details including a possible assault by a creature years earlier and her decision to leave food offerings as a gesture of coexistence. She expresses a protective instinct toward the creature despite the constant unease it brings to her daily life.