He Thought It Was a Cedar Stump. Then It Stood Up Near Lake Crescent
September 3, 2026
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5 min read“It looked like a giant redwood cedar stump … and it stood up and doubled in height and walked into the tree line.” That is how one lifelong hunter and forager describes his encounter near Lake Crescent in Washington’s Olympic rainforest — a sighting that changed how he navigates those mountains. On this episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron, who is himself fighting cancer, collects firsthand accounts from people who say they have seen something the official record denies. The episode moves from a retired woman’s roadside sighting on Vancouver Island to a Florida man’s pre-dawn vocalization, an Australian Indigenous perspective on the Yowie, a family’s terrifying rock-throwing encounter in Olympic National Park, and a detailed description of a creature that perfectly mimicked a rotting cedar stump. The common thread: these are not sensationalists but ordinary people — a retiree, a former Marine, a mother, a hunter — who describe confusion, humility, and a lasting sense that the woods are not empty.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:57) **Introduction & Guest Welcome** - Host Jeremiah Byron welcomes Pam Hall, a Washington retiree who reached out after a recent Port Townsend episode.
- 2 (08:55) **The Main Sighting: Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island** - Pam describes her dramatic, first-ever Bigfoot encounter while driving on a dirt road in Canada.
- 3 (19:52) **Emotional Aftermath & Existential Questions** - Pam describes the shock and life-altering questions that followed the encounter.
- 4 (26:48) **Life After the Sighting & Otherworldly Experiences** - Pam discusses how the encounter led her to Bigfoot conferences and a sense of respect, not fear, and shares a miraculous childhood event.
- 5 (37:29) **Why Share Now & Closing Reflections** - Pam explains her motivation for coming forward and reflects on fear, death, and living without regret.
- 6 (45:18) **Australian Yowie Perspective** - A live caller from Australia shares cultural knowledge about the Yowie, the local version of Bigfoot.
- 7 (54:38) **Florida Skunk Ape Encounter** - A caller from Winter Haven, Florida, shares an auditory encounter and suspicious government activity.
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Show Notes
In this episode of Bigfoot Society, multiple witnesses share extraordinary encounters from the Olympic Peninsula and beyond.
Near Mount Snyder and Mount Bigler, an experienced hunter watches a massive reddish figure through his scope and later uses nearby stumps to estimate its size at more than 10 feet tall. Elsewhere in Olympic National Park, a family finds themselves being followed out of the forest after rocks begin flying, branches break, wildlife flees, and an approximately eight-foot black figure appears behind them.
Pam shares her sighting near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island, where a huge, hair-covered figure walked out of a gully, noticed her approaching vehicle, reacted with visible surprise, and hurried behind a tree.
The episode also takes us to Winter Haven, Florida, for a disturbing early-morning vocalization; the Atherton Tablelands of Australia for Aboriginal accounts of the mysterious "hairy men"; and deeper into Washington for enormous tracks found near the Dosewallips River system and footprints that smashed through thick creek ice in the Cascades.
Lake Crescent. Mount Snyder. Mount Bigler. Olympic National Park. Port Townsend. Discovery Bay. Port Renfrew. Winter Haven. The Australian rainforest.
These are the accounts people carried with them for years.
Hear their stories in Bigfoot Society Episode 1190.
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