A Former Deputy Shares His Ongoing Encounters in Shelton, Washington With Sasquatch

March 18, 2026

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In February 2020, a former deputy sheriff and paramedic was driving home on a logging road near Shelton, Washington, when he glanced to his left and saw something that made him do a double take. About 50 yards off the highway, a figure was walking away from the road. He tried to rationalize it as a stump or a shadow, but stumps and shadows don't swing their arms. The next day, he and his wife drove back to the same spot to check. There were no stumps, no shadows, nothing that could have produced that shape. He now estimates the creature was nine to ten feet tall. This sighting was the culmination of years of escalating encounters that began when he moved to Washington State.

From Skeptic to Witness

Doug spent decades in law enforcement and emergency medical services, first in southern Illinois and then in East Tennessee. In those early years, he dismissed strange reports from locals as folklore or pranks. In Scott County, Tennessee—one of the most remote counties in the state—residents rarely called for help, but when they did, they sometimes told deputies about livestock killed by something large, or a face at a window. Doug heard these stories but had no framework to take them seriously.

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What you'll learn

1 (01:18) **Introduction & Guest Background** - Host Jeremiah Byron introduces Doug, a former paramedic and deputy sheriff from East Tennessee now living in Washington State.
2 (03:02) **Early Encounters in Tennessee** - Doug recalls stories from his time as a deputy in remote Scott County, Tennessee.
3 (07:08) **First Washington Activity: Key Peninsula** - A friend points out structural tree-weaving and a large footprint on Doug's rental property.
4 (09:51) **The Belch and Eye-Shine** - Doug recalls auditory and visual encounters on the Key Peninsula.
5 (11:52) **Friend's Terrifying Road Sighting** - Doug's friend, a lifelong local, saw a Bigfoot walking alongside the road two miles from Doug's house.
6 (14:36) **Yelm Activity: Stench, Rock Throwing, and Silence** - After moving to Yelm, Doug experienced a recurring foul stench and rock throwing from a locked, empty property.
7 (19:06) **The Silence as a Warning Sign** - Doug describes the sudden, total silence of all animal life as a precursor to activity.

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Show Notes

In this episode, we delve into the experiences of Doug, a former paramedic and deputy sheriff whose life has taken him from the rural backroads of southern Illinois to the mountains and timberlands of Washington State. Now living deep in the forests outside Shelton in Mason County, Doug shares a series of events that began quietly and have grown increasingly difficult to ignore.

Doug describes strange environmental changes around his remote property—wildlife suddenly falling silent, trees twisted and pushed over along logging roads, and large rocks appearing where they hadn’t been before. Long before his recent sighting, there were other moments that caught his attention: unusual sounds in the woods late at night, odd structures in the trees, and a powerful musky odor drifting in from nearby forests.

Everything shifted when Doug noticed something moving through the trees near the highway not far from his home. What he saw walking away into the forest forced him to reconsider years of strange occurrences across multiple states.

Doug carefully recounts the details of what he has witnessed, along with the patterns he has begun to notice in the wilderness surrounding his home. His story offers a rare glimpse into what it can feel like to live in the middle of an area where activity seems to be building.

Join us as we explore Doug’s experiences in the forests of western Washington and the growing mystery unfolding in the woods near Shelton.

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