Latest / Crime and Horror / US Marine HUNTED by unidentified creature The Jeff Boiler story
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Every year, dozens of people, hikers, hunters, backpackers will go
- 0:04Speaker 1: off into the wilds of North America and then come
- 0:07Speaker 1: out again claiming to have seen Bigfoot, the eight to
- 0:10Speaker 1: ten feet tall, intelligent, bipedal, hairy creature that kind of
- 0:16Speaker 1: is a cross between man and beast. And there's literally
- 0:20Speaker 1: been thousands of sightings of that particular creature all over
- 0:23Speaker 1: North America. And despite the thousands of sightings, there's never
- 0:29Speaker 1: been a substantiated claim, So Bigfoot has become an urban legend.
- 0:33Speaker 1: But no matter how you feel about Bigfoot, whether it
- 0:36Speaker 1: exists or it doesn't, if you read through some of
- 0:39Speaker 1: the first hand accounts of these people who claim to
- 0:43Speaker 1: have seen Bigfoot in North America, some of them are horrifying.
- 0:48Speaker 1: And one account that stands out to me as being
- 0:51Speaker 1: the most terrifying comes out of Oregon. There's a couple
- 0:55Speaker 1: hotspots all over North America where some of the most
- 0:58Speaker 1: sightings of Bigfoot are and one of them is an
- 1:01Speaker 1: organ in particular, it's the northwestern section of Oregon, and
- 1:05Speaker 1: that's where today's story is going to come out of,
- 1:07Speaker 1: and it is Jeff Boiler's story. Jeff was a marine,
- 1:12Speaker 1: he was then a police officer, then he became a
- 1:14Speaker 1: deputy sheriff, and then he ultimately became a lawyer. What
- 1:17Speaker 1: really stands out to me about Jeff's story is that
- 1:20Speaker 1: he strikes me as a credible skeptical guy who when interviewed,
- 1:26Speaker 1: because he's been on a TV show called Paranormal Witness
- 1:29Speaker 1: on the Sci Fi Channel, he did a follow on interview.
- 1:32Speaker 1: You can google him Jeff Boyler's Bigfoot Sighting. The way
- 1:35Speaker 1: he tells the story, it's like he's not trying to
- 1:39Speaker 1: dress it up. He's not trying to make it more
- 1:42Speaker 1: dramatic than it really was. It's like he's just telling
- 1:45Speaker 1: you what happened to him, and he's not trying to
- 1:49Speaker 1: create a theory as to what it was, but rather
- 1:52Speaker 1: just here it is. Here's what happened as I remember it.
- 1:57Speaker 1: And it allows you to listen to this story and
- 2:00Speaker 1: really relate to it, and it makes it that much
- 2:03Speaker 1: more eerie as you listen to what happened to him.
- 2:05Speaker 1: And so today I'm going to be telling Jeff's story.
- 2:08Speaker 1: But before I get into that, if you're a fan
- 2:11Speaker 1: of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format
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- 2:36Speaker 1: let's get into the story. Back in nineteen ninety seven,
- 2:38Speaker 1: Jeff Boyler was a fit, single guy that had been
- 2:42Speaker 1: in the Marine Corps for a little while, and then
- 2:44Speaker 1: he'd been a police officer, and now he was looking
- 2:47Speaker 1: to do something new with his life. And he'd always
- 2:49Speaker 1: been a huge fan of nature. He loved hiking and hunting,
- 2:54Speaker 1: and so he just kind of up and decided to
- 2:56Speaker 1: move to Oregon to just be back in nature. And
- 2:59Speaker 1: so he goes out to Oregon. He doesn't really know
- 3:01Speaker 1: what he's gonna do for a job. One of Jeff's friends,
- 3:03Speaker 1: who is the elected sheriff of a very rural county
- 3:07Speaker 1: in northwestern Oregon, reached out to Jeff and said, hey,
- 3:10Speaker 1: you know, with your background, you know you were in
- 3:12Speaker 1: the Marine Corps, you were a police officer, would you
- 3:15Speaker 1: want to be one of our deputy sheriffs out here
- 3:17Speaker 1: in northwestern Oregon, and Jeff's like, wow, great and took
- 3:22Speaker 1: the job. So after being on the job for a
- 3:24Speaker 1: couple of months, Jeff is really happy. He loves his job.
- 3:27Speaker 1: And he gets off one day from work pretty early
- 3:30Speaker 1: and he steps outside and he would recall that it
- 3:33Speaker 1: was like one of the most beautiful days he had
- 3:35Speaker 1: seen in recent memory. It was just this gorgeous day.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And even though initially he was planning to just go home,
- 3:41Speaker 1: he was like, you know what, I'm going to go
- 3:43Speaker 1: on a hike. He wanted to go to this fairly
- 3:45Speaker 1: hard to access section of the woods. There was a
- 3:48Speaker 1: little ways up the mountain where twenty years earlier he'd
- 3:51Speaker 1: actually buried one of his very close friends, and so
- 3:53Speaker 1: he thought, you know what, today, I'm going to make
- 3:55Speaker 1: that trip up to his grave. I'm going to pay
- 3:57Speaker 1: my respects. That's a good way to sep such a
- 4:00Speaker 1: beautiful day. So he hopped in his jeep and he
- 4:02Speaker 1: started driving over to the woods that would take him
- 4:06Speaker 1: up to this grave site. It was an unmarked trail,
- 4:08Speaker 1: but he had a map. He knew where it was,
- 4:10Speaker 1: so he headed over. Now, Jeff was highly competent in
- 4:14Speaker 1: the wilderness. But it needs to be said that he
- 4:17Speaker 1: was basically going to be hiking into a section of
- 4:19Speaker 1: the Cascade Mountains that was unmarked. This is a very isolated,
- 4:25Speaker 1: unmarked area, and in fact, Jeff would even say that
- 4:28Speaker 1: sometimes when you would walk around this section of the
- 4:31Speaker 1: Cascade Mountains, you would wonder to yourself, has anyone ever
- 4:35Speaker 1: been here before? Like this is such a wild and
- 4:37Speaker 1: open expanse. Other am I the first person to ever
- 4:40Speaker 1: step foot here. It's a section of Oregon that is
- 4:43Speaker 1: totally just wild. So Jeff arrives at the dirt lot
- 4:47Speaker 1: that's right on the edge of this forest that goes
- 4:50Speaker 1: up the side of this mountain, and before he steps
- 4:52Speaker 1: in and starts making his way up, he gets his
- 4:54Speaker 1: map out and he kind of roughly charts a course
- 4:57Speaker 1: because again there's no trail in here. He puts his
- 4:59Speaker 1: map away and he begins walking up this mountain. He's
- 5:02Speaker 1: been walking for about two hours and the terrain's really bad,
- 5:05Speaker 1: and he decides, you know what, why don't I deviate
- 5:07Speaker 1: from the course that I was on and try to
- 5:10Speaker 1: get to a more open area that might be able
- 5:12Speaker 1: to kind of bank around to get up to the
- 5:14Speaker 1: grave site. He looked on the map and he could
- 5:16Speaker 1: see that parallel to where he was going up this mountain,
- 5:19Speaker 1: there seemed to be a strip of clearing where it
- 5:22Speaker 1: might be easier going. It would require a bit of
- 5:24Speaker 1: work to get over to it, but once he was there,
- 5:27Speaker 1: he believed he could get up to the grave site.
- 5:29Speaker 1: So before he makes that movement over to the clearing,
- 5:32Speaker 1: there was a stream running right next to him, fresh
- 5:35Speaker 1: water stream, and so he just bends down, he splashes
- 5:37Speaker 1: some water in his face, he gets a drink, and
- 5:40Speaker 1: before he actually starts moving towards this clearing, because now
- 5:44Speaker 1: he's deviating from the path that he intended to take,
- 5:47Speaker 1: and this is an unmarked trail, so he knew that
- 5:51Speaker 1: he would need to be really certain where he was going.
- 5:53Speaker 1: He didn't have a GPS, you know, this is nineteen
- 5:55Speaker 1: ninety seven. He just had his map and compass. So
- 5:58Speaker 1: he pulls out his map one more time, he looks
- 6:00Speaker 1: at where he needs to go, he closes it up,
- 6:02Speaker 1: and so he pulls out his compass and he takes
- 6:04Speaker 1: what's called an asthmuth, which basically is a way to
- 6:07Speaker 1: make sure you're going in the right direction, and so
- 6:08Speaker 1: he pulls the compass up to his eye, and as
- 6:11Speaker 1: he's looking, he sees just to the right of his viewpoint,
- 6:15Speaker 1: about twenty feet above him, there is a tree in
- 6:18Speaker 1: a boulder, and behind that tree, someone is watching him,
- 6:22Speaker 1: and so he lowers his compass and he just kind
- 6:24Speaker 1: of glances over and he can tell that it's clearly
- 6:28Speaker 1: a figure. It's got two eyes in its head and
- 6:30Speaker 1: it's looking at him, and he's not immediately scared. He
- 6:33Speaker 1: thinks that this is a person who's kind of poking
- 6:35Speaker 1: their head around a tree at him, and it's daylight.
- 6:39Speaker 1: He knows he's out in the middle of nowhere, but
- 6:40Speaker 1: he's looking up at it, and he involuntarily cocks his
- 6:44Speaker 1: head like huh, and this thing cocks its head. It's
- 6:49Speaker 1: mimicking me. It steps out from behind the tree, and
- 6:53Speaker 1: it's this huge human looking figure that looks very hairy.
- 6:58Speaker 1: It's like eight foot tall, and Jeff's looking up at
- 7:01Speaker 1: it like that's not a human and so not really
- 7:04Speaker 1: sure what it is. He instinctively reaches for a sidearm,
- 7:07Speaker 1: but he can't get it out of its holster and
- 7:09Speaker 1: he's like fumbling with it, and he's keeping his eyes
- 7:11Speaker 1: on this thing that's, you know, maybe fifty feet away
- 7:14Speaker 1: from him, twenty feet up on this rocky outcropping. He
- 7:17Speaker 1: can't get it out, and the figure's just looking down
- 7:19Speaker 1: at him, and it's still got its headcock to the side.
- 7:21Speaker 1: He finally looks down to free his pistol. He draws
- 7:24Speaker 1: the pistol, but the creature's gone, and he's like, I
- 7:27Speaker 1: gotta get a better look. There was a tree that
- 7:29Speaker 1: was pretty high that had a bunch of low branches
- 7:32Speaker 1: that he could climb up, that would if he climbed
- 7:34Speaker 1: up maybe fifteen or twenty feet, he could probably look
- 7:36Speaker 1: over into this rocky outcropping. So he starts climbing up
- 7:40Speaker 1: this tree and he looks and he's now level with
- 7:43Speaker 1: that rocky outcropping and he's looking out and it stretches
- 7:46Speaker 1: off quite a way. It's just a whole stretch of
- 7:48Speaker 1: forest right there, and he's looking and he can't see
- 7:51Speaker 1: or hear anything, and he's starting to wonder to himself, like,
- 7:54Speaker 1: did I really just see that? Is my mind playing
- 7:56Speaker 1: tricks on me? Am I hallucinating? And so he decides,
- 8:00Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna climb back down and I'm
- 8:02Speaker 1: going to go up onto that rocky outcropping. Wasn't planning to,
- 8:05Speaker 1: but now I'm going to, and I want to see
- 8:06Speaker 1: if i can see some tracks or just see where
- 8:08Speaker 1: this thing went. You know, he's a marine, you know,
- 8:11Speaker 1: he's a police officer. He's very comfortable in the wild.
- 8:15Speaker 1: He just didn't really scare that easily, and so he's
- 8:18Speaker 1: just kind of curious and he's armed, you know, And
- 8:20Speaker 1: so he climbs down the tree and he starts climbing
- 8:23Speaker 1: up this like little rocky outcropping and he gets up
- 8:25Speaker 1: to where this creature was hiding. There's nothing there. There's
- 8:28Speaker 1: no set, there's no anything. And he just decides, you
- 8:30Speaker 1: know what, I'm just gonna walk in the general direction
- 8:33Speaker 1: that I think this thing went because where he was,
- 8:36Speaker 1: which was just rocky outcropping, it kind of dead ended
- 8:39Speaker 1: because it's like a cliff. So he could pretty much
- 8:41Speaker 1: only go inland and up this mountain. And so he
- 8:44Speaker 1: just starts walking. And as he's walking, he's looking for,
- 8:48Speaker 1: you know, signs that he could potentially attribute to this creature.
- 8:52Speaker 1: He's listening really intently, but there's nothing. After about an hour,
- 8:56Speaker 1: he's looking at the map and he's looking around at
- 8:57Speaker 1: the terrain, and he's like, I'm I think I'm lost.
- 9:01Speaker 1: I need to turn around now, And then it dawns
- 9:03Speaker 1: on him that he's also lost track of time. It's
- 9:05Speaker 1: starting to get pretty dark out and he does not
- 9:08Speaker 1: have a flashlight, so he starts to panic a little
- 9:11Speaker 1: bit because he realizes that his curiosity is now put
- 9:14Speaker 1: him in a very dangerous situation. He doesn't have supplies
- 9:17Speaker 1: to stay the night, he doesn't have a flashlight, it's
- 9:20Speaker 1: getting late, and he's potentially lost. So he tries to
- 9:23Speaker 1: compose himself and he just says, Okay, I'm just gonna
- 9:26Speaker 1: turn around and walk back because he hasn't seen any
- 9:28Speaker 1: indication of this preacher or this person or whatever it is.
- 9:32Speaker 1: So he turns around and he starts backtracking as best
- 9:35Speaker 1: as he can, and as soon as he starts moving
- 9:37Speaker 1: back from behind him, he hears what sounds like a
- 9:41Speaker 1: very large tree break and smash into the ground, and
- 9:46Speaker 1: he described it as being louder than most guns, like
- 9:49Speaker 1: it's an extremely loud sound. And he turns around and
- 9:52Speaker 1: he looks and there's nothing there. But he just figured
- 9:56Speaker 1: that's crazy, like I'm lucky that no tree landed on me,
- 10:00Speaker 1: thinking that could be you know, bigfoot. He's thinking that
- 10:03Speaker 1: a tree just fell, and I'm lucky he didn't land
- 10:05Speaker 1: on me. And so now, even though he is not
- 10:08Speaker 1: connecting the falling tree with this creature or a person
- 10:12Speaker 1: he saw, he's in a bit of a panicked state,
- 10:14Speaker 1: and so he's he can't help but associate the experiences.
- 10:19Speaker 1: And so he finds himself as he's walking now a
- 10:21Speaker 1: little bit faster and faster away from where he just was,
- 10:24Speaker 1: looking over his shoulder in the direction of where that
- 10:27Speaker 1: tree fell and where he believed this creature or a
- 10:30Speaker 1: person was. And as he's walking, you know, looking ahead
- 10:33Speaker 1: where he needs to go, but then peering over his
- 10:35Speaker 1: head over his shoulder over and over again, he hears
- 10:38Speaker 1: another loud snap and fall, and it stops him dead
- 10:41Speaker 1: in his tracks. It was ahead of him, off to
- 10:43Speaker 1: the right, basically on the exact opposite side of where
- 10:47Speaker 1: he had come from. And he's thinking to himself, you know,
- 10:50Speaker 1: and all the time that I've spent in the woods,
- 10:53Speaker 1: it's so rare to be around a tree suddenly falling,
- 10:56Speaker 1: unless it's being caused by another tree falling or some
- 10:59Speaker 1: other event. It's rare that you would hear two large
- 11:03Speaker 1: trees break and fall independent from one another in the
- 11:08Speaker 1: same small area, but not connected. That's pretty rare. And
- 11:12Speaker 1: he's thinking to himself, if that creature or person had
- 11:15Speaker 1: anything to do with it, how did it go from
- 11:17Speaker 1: over there all the way over there without me hearing it.
- 11:21Speaker 1: It's moving around without me being able to spot it,
- 11:24Speaker 1: And so the hair on the back of his neck
- 11:26Speaker 1: stands up, and he's starting to feel very uncomfortable. He's
- 11:29Speaker 1: being hunted, and so he keeps on walking the path,
- 11:32Speaker 1: but begins to veer off away from the second snap
- 11:35Speaker 1: that he heard. He figures, I'm just gonna split the
- 11:37Speaker 1: difference and kind of go a little bit to the
- 11:39Speaker 1: left and avoid that falling tree. Still keep my distance
- 11:43Speaker 1: from this falling tree, and just get down the mountain
- 11:46Speaker 1: as quickly as I can. And so as he starts
- 11:48Speaker 1: moving in this kind of slightly new direction, he hears
- 11:51Speaker 1: a third falling tree, and now it's back on his
- 11:55Speaker 1: left side, closer to that first one he heard, except
- 11:58Speaker 1: it's closer to him. Now. He turned around, and he
- 12:01Speaker 1: couldn't see the result of a large tree fall, and
- 12:03Speaker 1: he certainly heard it, but he's looking and he can't
- 12:05Speaker 1: he can't see anything, and he's thinking to himself, like
- 12:08Speaker 1: three falling trees. That is not innocent. Something is knocking
- 12:13Speaker 1: over these trees, and I think it's that creature I saw.
- 12:15Speaker 1: And even worse, as he's thinking to himself, is this
- 12:19Speaker 1: creature using these trees to signal to other creatures where
- 12:23Speaker 1: he is? Is he being tracked? It's getting closer to
- 12:26Speaker 1: him without giving away its own position. He really believed
- 12:30Speaker 1: he was being hunted, and so he starts sprinting down
- 12:34Speaker 1: the mountain and as he's running, he's hearing snap fall,
- 12:38Speaker 1: snap fall. These massive trees are being knocked down on
- 12:41Speaker 1: his left and his right side, like you have two
- 12:43Speaker 1: hunters basically following him, or it's the same one that
- 12:46Speaker 1: apparently can move around in the wilderness without being spotted.
- 12:50Speaker 1: And he is absolutely terrified. He's running down the mountain,
- 12:53Speaker 1: he's falling, he's getting smashed up every time he falls.
- 12:57Speaker 1: And he finally, after about thirty minutes of just running
- 12:59Speaker 1: straight downhill with these crashes getting closer and closer and
- 13:03Speaker 1: closer to him, he reaches this clearing and he stops
- 13:07Speaker 1: abruptly because there's an animal in the middle of the clearing,
- 13:09Speaker 1: and it's a deer and the deer doesn't seem phazed
- 13:13Speaker 1: by Jeff. The deer sees Jeff looks behind Jeff, just
- 13:17Speaker 1: off to his side, and it tilts its head back
- 13:20Speaker 1: and then turns and sprints away. It wasn't running from Jeff.
- 13:24Speaker 1: It was running from whatever was right behind Jeff. And
- 13:27Speaker 1: Jeff stops and he starts turning his head in the
- 13:30Speaker 1: direction of where the deer was looking, and he can't
- 13:33Speaker 1: see anything, and as he's looking, another tree slams, smashing
- 13:36Speaker 1: down right behind where he was. He takes off sprinting.
- 13:40Speaker 1: He knows he's maybe a half mile from his car
- 13:42Speaker 1: at this point, and now as he's sprinting through this field,
- 13:46Speaker 1: all he hears is just a cascade of these crashing trees.
- 13:49Speaker 1: As he sprints the final stretch to his car, pulls
- 13:52Speaker 1: out his key and he starts clicking the automatic locks,
- 13:54Speaker 1: and he can't tell if it's working, and he's panicking
- 13:57Speaker 1: that it's not going to work in time and he's
- 13:58Speaker 1: gonna get to his car and it's gonna be He's
- 14:00Speaker 1: fumbling with his keys to open the door, and now
- 14:02Speaker 1: that the crashing has all stopped, and he's just waiting
- 14:05Speaker 1: for this thing to jump out and grab him. He
- 14:08Speaker 1: manages to open his car, jumps inside, slams it, starts
- 14:10Speaker 1: it up, and peels out of there. And then he
- 14:13Speaker 1: went back to his office where sheriff was, and he
- 14:16Speaker 1: told him what happened, and he felt ridiculous telling him,
- 14:19Speaker 1: and the sheriff was like, I get reports like this
- 14:21Speaker 1: all the time. This side of the Cascade Mountains, in
- 14:24Speaker 1: that very remote section that you were in, we get
- 14:27Speaker 1: reports like that all the time. I believe you, if
- 14:30Speaker 1: you want to follow a report, go for it, but
- 14:32Speaker 1: chances are good it's never gonna be followed up with.
- 14:34Speaker 1: This is just a phenomenon of being out here in
- 14:37Speaker 1: the wilderness. Some people believe it, some people don't. Decades
- 14:41Speaker 1: would go by and he would finally share his story,
- 14:43Speaker 1: which is why we're hearing about it now. But when
- 14:45Speaker 1: he tells that story, if you watch it on Paranormal Witness,
- 14:49Speaker 1: you're listening to it like it happened yesterday. This is
- 14:51Speaker 1: stuck with this man, and it's clear and had a
- 14:54Speaker 1: profound impact on his life. So, while there's never been
- 14:57Speaker 1: any substantiated claims a Bigfoot act actually existing, some of
- 15:01Speaker 1: these reports are eerily similar to one another, and some
- 15:04Speaker 1: of the people detailing these sightings are people like Jeff,
- 15:08Speaker 1: who really has no reason to lie or embellish. He
- 15:12Speaker 1: doesn't really stand to gain much. In fact, he stands
- 15:14Speaker 1: to lose because he could be labeled as kind of
- 15:17Speaker 1: like a kook for believing that Bigfoot chased him. So
- 15:20Speaker 1: the way I like to look at stuff like this
- 15:22Speaker 1: is just to keep an open mind. If we don't
- 15:23Speaker 1: know half the stuff that's in our ocean, you know,
- 15:26Speaker 1: we barely know anything in the universe. What's to say
- 15:29Speaker 1: that there isn't some creature like Bigfoot that's managed to evade,
- 15:33Speaker 1: you know, legitimate proof that it exists. I think it's
- 15:35Speaker 1: certainly possible. It doesn't mean that I fundamentally believe it's true.
- 15:39Speaker 1: It just means that I retain an open mind. But
- 15:42Speaker 1: I want to know what you think chase Jeff through
- 15:45Speaker 1: the woods? Was it Bigfoot? Was it something else? Or
- 15:48Speaker 1: was this just some hoax? And if it was a hoax,
- 15:50Speaker 1: are all the other sightings hoaxes too? And if you
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