SC EP:1281 A bipedal figure walking through the woods

August 9, 2026

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The forest floor in Kentucky went dead silent. Nathaniel, a college student and wildlife biology major, was sitting twenty feet up in a tree stand in late November 2024, bowhunting a buck he had been tracking. He had walked an hour into public land, down into a steep hollow, and settled in. Five minutes later, the insects stopped. The birds stopped. The squirrels stopped. He had never seen that happen before. Then came two loud wood knocks. Thirty seconds after that, he looked to his left and saw a bipedal figure walking through the timber about a hundred yards out. He assumed it was another hunter. Then it dropped to all fours.

What Nathaniel Saw

What Nathaniel initially thought was a giant wolf was, on closer inspection, something that did not match any animal he had studied. He was in school for wildlife biology and had just spent a month and a half learning wolf anatomy. This creature was jet black—"black as car tires," darker than any melanistic wolf he had seen. It was on all fours in a low, stalking crouch, moving diagonally toward a cedar thicket about fifty yards from his tree. Its ears were what first alarmed him: "super sharp, like a bobcat," with no bend. The hind legs were massive, built like a bodybuilder's, which struck him as unusual for a canine. He noted that dogs carry most of their weight on their front legs and lack the rear muscle to stand upright fo

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What you'll learn

1 (03:05) **Nathaniel's First Encounter: A Bipedal Figure** - Nathaniel, a college student and bow hunter, describes his 2024 encounter while hunting public land in Kentucky.
2 (09:19) **A Canine Creature on All Fours** - Nathaniel's attention shifts to a second creature moving on all fours, which he initially mistakes for a wolf.
3 (11:24) **Detailed Description of the Wolf-Like Creature** - Nathaniel provides a close-range description of the creature's anatomy and behavior.
4 (14:26) **The Creature Stands Up and Nathaniel Flees** - As the creature entered the thicket, it raised its shoulders and stood up, revealing its true size.
5 (18:48) **Corroborating Witness and Aftermath** - Nathaniel's roommate, hunting 1.5 miles away, experienced the same eerie silence and a feeling of dread at the exact same time.
6 (24:56) **Scientific Confusion: A Canine Walking Bipedally** - Nathaniel, a wildlife biology student, discusses the impossibility of a canine walking on two legs for extended periods.
7 (27:27) **The Creature's Intent and the "Sasquatch" Hypothesis** - West and Nathaniel discuss the creature's ability to lock onto him and its possible intentions.

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Show Notes

Nathaniel writes "I've been listening to your podcast for about five years now, and over that time I've had multiple encounters that I've never really known what to make of. Recently I listened to Episode 769 with the wildlife biologist, and the way he described some of his experiences was almost exactly what I've seen. I'm also currently in school to become a wildlife biologist myself, so hearing that episode finally convinced me to reach out and share a couple of my experiences. I have several others, but there are two that stand out above the rest. If you're interested, I'd be happy to share the others another time.

I've spent my entire life hunting and fishing, and I'm currently going into my junior year of college here in Kentucky. During deer season I'm usually in the woods four or five days a week after classes, hunting a large Wildlife Management Area (WMA) surrounding a nearby lake. I'm primarily a bowhunter, and at the time I never carried a firearm because, realistically, this is Kentucky we don't have many large predators that would make me feel like I needed one.

My first encounter happened in late November of 2024, around the end of Kentucky's gun season. I got to the woods around 2:00 p.m., and it took me roughly an hour to hike into my spot. It was about a mile back through some extremely thick, nasty terrain, which is exactly why I hunt there it keeps me away from other hunters.

After pushing through about 12 acres of dense cedar thicket, I reached the entrance to a deep holler. I climbed about 20 feet up into my climber stand and had only been sitting for around 10 minutes when I realized everything had gone completely silent. There were no birds, no squirrels, no movement nothing. The woods just seemed dead.

A few moments later I heard two distinct wood knocks off to my front left. I thought it was strange, but I brushed it off. Then, two or three minutes later, I noticed what looked like a bipedal figure walking through the woods roughly 100 yards away. My first thought was that it was another hunter or maybe a hiker, since I was on public land.

I looked away for just a second to scan the rest of the woods, and when I looked back, the figure was gone. In its place was what I can only describe as an enormous, jet-black wolf or something that looked like one.

I've seen plenty of coyotes over the years, and through school and visits to zoos I've seen wolves as well. This wasn't either of those. It was significantly larger than any coyote I've ever seen, and something about its proportions just looked wrong. The shape of its head, the size of it, and the way it carried itself immediately stood out to me.

It was only about 50 yards away, so I could see it clearly. The eyes were unusually large and locked directly onto me the entire time. It never looked away. It was crouched low, almost like a canine stalking prey, and it slowly moved from my left to my right, heading toward the c