Odd Encounter near the superstition mountains
 
Hello, I recently saw a youtube video that recommended contacting you of “bigfoot encounters”.
I don’t know if that’s exactly what we encountered but what ever it was it scared the hell out of us so much that I personally Haven’t returned to that area since and this happened nearly 20 years ago.
 
Myself and 3 friends spontaneously decided to go to the salt river recreation area to hang out. We where totally unprepared, We took very little water with us, our only food was a pack of hotdogs we planned on roasting on the fire. I’m not certain of the time of year, I do recall it was chilly so I’m guessing it was spring or fall. It was a very dark night and we didn’t have any flashlights we used our bic lighters to help find our way closer to the river probably 30-50 yards away from the parking lot. We built a small campfire and started roasting hotdogs and….well doing the things that people in their mid twenties do on double dates.
 
Shortly after we started cooking I heard something drop nearby, like someone had thrown a rather large stone in our direction. Not wanting to spoil the mood I ignored it and paid no attention to it. Then I heard it several more times. After about the third time I asked if anyone else heard that? The other couple said that they did but the girl I was seeing at the time was hearing impaired so of course she didn’t hear it. Another odd thing about this particular night was the parking lot was completely empty of other vehicles, so we where sure we where the only people in the area. As we where discussing what we thought it could be we started hearing something rustling through the brush in the same general area where the original sounds where coming from.
 
We all tried to ignore it but we all felt uneasy, Our rational brains where trying to figure out what it could be, what ever it was, it was very large from the sounds of it. I thought Could it be a mountain lion? Then I thought..how could a mountain lion throw stones? Maybe a bear? Once again I never heard of bears throwing stones, and it would be very uncommon for a bear to be this close to civilization. Never once did any of us think is it a bigfoot? We just didn’t know what it was, and figured it won’t get too close so long as we keep the fire burning.
 
As I mentioned before this was a very dark moonless night and the only light sources we had was the campfire and our bic lighters. We literally could only see about 5 feet away from the fire, But we could tell by the sounds whatever was out there was getting closer and had no fear of the fire at all. That in and of itself is unusual of any animal. Then we heard the grunting, and it sounded very close, so close that even the girl with the hearing impairment could hear it with her hearing aids turned on. I’m guessing 10-20 feet away. That was enough for us we all decided it was time to go. We very calmly stood up and started walking back to the parking lot leaving the fire going and our hotdogs and the blanket we brought with us. We didn’t talk about it then and we haven’t talked about it since. In fact I put it in the back of my mind until recently when I saw on youtube that other people have had similar encounters in the superstition mountains. I don’t know if what we encountered was a sasquatch or not but what ever it was it wasn’t human and it wasn’t any of the native animals I’m familiar with in this area and I have lived here for over 45 years now. I have never returned to that area and I don’t camp in the superstition mountains at all anymore.



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