SC EP:1230 Chased out of our campsite
2/15/20261 hr 2 min
Red writes "On August 17th, 2023, I was camping with a close friend In Stephen's state forest in south central Iowa, not far from the Missouri border. It is very remote for the Midwest in that area. There are no electrical lines in this particular forest, so no lights.
My friend and I got into the forest at dusk and set up camp. We saw no vehicles as we drove through the forest and the campsite we stayed at was completely empty.
Twenty minutes or so after setting up camp, we heard an incredibly loud sound...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Soundbite0:03
It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind and it either heard me or smelled me and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up and that, that shocked me. They don't make people that, that big.
Speaker 1· Soundbite0:26
The way it moved, almost as if it was gliding across the beach. I've never seen anything move like that in my life. They were screaming at each other in gibberish. It sounded like a language and they were chuntering away back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards. I know what a bear looks like and there is no way on this planet that what I saw were bears.
Red· Guest1:01
911, what are you reporting?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:15
Jesus Christ, you better- Sir? See him.
Red· Guest1:19
Hello?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:20
Get somebody out here.
Red· Guest1:21
What's going on now, sir?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:23
That son of a bitch is about six foot nine, I don't know.
Red· Guest1:26
Do you see him now, sir?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:27
Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh.