BIGFOOT CHASED Witness Through Rainier, Oregon | NEW KANDAHAR INFORMATION
August 21, 2026
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5 min readWhen the Woods Push Back
Ellie grew up on a remote property near Camp Wilkerson in Columbia County, Oregon—six to nine acres with no neighbors and a long private driveway that kept the outside world at a distance. In 2014, when she was about twelve, she and her sister were sleeping outside on their trampoline, roughly forty feet from the house, at the edge of the treeline. Past midnight, they were woken by cracks in the bushes. Something dark moved in the undergrowth. Then it started throwing sticks and rocks at them.
The next morning, Ellie found the evidence: palm-sized river rocks and sticks as long as her arm and thicker than a quarter in diameter. "What big animal out here," she says, "cougars aren't gonna throw sticks and rocks at you and taunt you like that." The episode lasted maybe thirty minutes, bookended by a dead silence so complete that even the crickets stopped. Her parents dismissed it. But an adult friend of her mother's asked, half-joking, "Was it Bigfoot?" The question stuck.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:29) **Episode Introduction** - Host Jeremiah Byron welcomes listeners and introduces Ellie, a Columbia County, Oregon native who grew up in the Rainier area.
- 2 (03:52) **First Encounter: The Trampoline Taunting (2014)** - Ellie describes being awoken on her trampoline by something throwing sticks and rocks at her and her sister near Camp Wilkerson.
- 3 (07:08) **Details of the Trampoline Incident** - Ellie clarifies the timeframe, the size of the objects thrown, and the sounds heard during the 2014 encounter.
- 4 (10:10) **Parental Dismissal and School Culture** - Ellie recounts her parents' skeptical reaction and how Bigfoot was a common topic in Rainier schools and local culture.
- 5 (14:07) **The Culture of Secrecy in Rainier** - Ellie explains that while classmates and hunters shared stories, locals are generally "hush hush" about Bigfoot experiences.
- 6 (17:19) **The "Playing with Us" Dynamic** - Ellie describes the taunting behavior as a deliberate act of intimidation, not a predatory attack.
- 7 (21:22) **Second Encounter: The Dusk Chase** - Ellie details a terrifying experience while returning from a chanterelle mushroom hunt, when something large chased her through the woods at dusk.
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Show Notes
In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Ellie shares two unforgettable experiences from her childhood near Camp Wilkerson, and the Nehalem River. One night, an unseen presence surrounded a family trampoline, throwing rocks and heavy sticks from the darkness. Another evening, while returning from a chanterelle mushroom hunt, she found herself running through the woods with enormous footsteps keeping pace just behind her.
Later in the episode, Monte recounts a remarkable series of encounters spanning the Florida Everglades, Kandahar, Afghanistan, and Central Texas. His stories include a creature lifting his truck, military sightings involving multiple large figures, repeated rock-throwing incidents, and years of encounters around Marble Falls and Kerrville.
This episode explores firsthand eyewitness testimony from forests, wetlands, mountains, and remote backroads where unexplained encounters continue to be reported. Whether you're fascinated by Bigfoot research, regional hotspots, or personal witness accounts, this is an episode you won't want to miss.
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