US Marine HUNTED by unidentified creature | The Jeff Boiler story

every year dozens of people hikers hunters backpackers will go off into the wilds of north america and then come out again claiming to have seen bigfoot the 8 to 10 feet tall intelligent bipedal hairy creature that kind of is a cross between man and beast and there's literally been thousands of sightings of that particular creature all over north america and despite the thousands of sightings there's never been a substantiated claim so bigfoot has become an urban legend but no matter how you feel about bigfoot whether it exists or it doesn't if you read through some of the first-hand accounts of these people who claim to have seen bigfoot in north america some of them are horrifying and one account that stands out to me as being the most terrifying comes out of oregon there's a couple hot spots all over north america where some of the most sightings of bigfoot occur and one of them is in oregon in particular it's the northwestern section of oregon and that's where today's story is going to come out of and it is jeff boyler's story jeff was a marine he was then a police officer then he became a deputy sheriff and then he ultimately became a lawyer what really stands out to me about jeff's story is that he strikes me as a credible skeptical guy who when interviewed because he's been on a tv show called paranormal witness on the sci-fi channel uh he did a follow-on interview he's you can google him jeff boiler's bigfoot sighting the way he tells the story it's like he's not trying to dress it up he's not trying to make it more dramatic than it really was it's like he's just telling you what happened to him and he's not trying to create a theory as to what it was but rather just here it is here's what happened as i remember it and it's it allows you to listen to the story and really relate to it and it makes it that much more eerie as you listen to what happened to him and so today i'm going to be telling jeff's story but before i get into that if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format with lots of distracting hand gestures then you have come to the right place because that is all i do and i upload three to four times a week so if that's something you'd be into i would ask you to please gently disembowel the like button and then subscribe to my channel and turn on all post notifications so you don't miss any of my weekly uploads all right let's get into the story back in 1997 jeff boiler was a fit single guy that had been in the marine corps for a little while and then he'd been a police officer and now he was looking to to do something new with his life and he'd always been a huge fan of nature he loved hiking and hunting and so he just kind of up and decided to move to oregon to just be back in nature and so he goes out to oregon he doesn't really know what he's going to do for a job one of jeff's friends who is the elected sheriff of a very rural county in northwestern oregon reached out to jeff and said hey you know with your background you know you were in the marine corps you were a police officer would you want to be one of our deputy sheriffs out here in northwestern oregon and jeff's like wow great and took the job so after being on the job for a couple of months jeff is really happy he loves his job and he gets off one day from work pretty early and he steps outside and he would recall that it was like one of the most beautiful days he had seen in recent memory it was just this gorgeous day and even though initially he was planning to just go home he was like you know what i'm gonna go on a hike he wanted to go to this fairly hard to access section of the woods uh there was a little ways up the mountain where 20 years earlier he had actually buried one of his very close friends and so he thought you know what today i'm going to make that trip up to his grave i'm going to pay my respects that's a good way to spend such a beautiful day so he hopped in his jeep and he started driving over to the woods that would take him up to this grave site it was an unmarked trail but he had a map he knew where it was so he headed over now jeff was highly competent in the wilderness but it needs to be said that he was basically going to be hiking into a section of the cascade mountains that was unmarked this is a very isolated unmarked area and in fact jeff would even say that sometimes when you would walk around this section of the cascade mountains you would wonder to yourself has anyone ever been here before like this is such a wild and open expanse have other am i the first person to ever step foot here it's a section of oregon that is totally just wild so jeff arrives at the dirt lot that's right on the edge of this this forest that goes up the side of this mountain and before he steps in and starts making his way up he gets his map out and he kind of roughly charts of course because again there's no trail in here he puts his map away and he begins walking up this mountain he's been walking for about two hours and the terrain's really bad and he decides you know what why don't i deviate from the course that i was on and try to get to a more open area that might be able to kind of bank around to get up to the grave site he looked on the map and he could see that parallel to where he was going up this mountain there seemed to be a strip of of clearing where it might be easier going it would require a bit of work to get over to it but once he was there he believed he could get up to the grave site so before he makes that movement over to the clearing there was a stream uh running right next to him freshwater stream and so he just bends down he splashes some water on his face he gets a drink and before he actually starts moving towards this clearing because now he's deviating from the path that he intended to take and this is an unmarked trail so he knew that he would need to be really certain where he was going he didn't have a gps you know this is 1997. he just had his map in compass so he pulls out his map one more time he looks at where he needs to go he closes it up and so he pulls out his compass and he takes what's called an azimuth which basically is a way to make sure you're going in the right direction and so he pulls the compass up to his eye and as he's looking he sees just to the right of his viewpoint about 20 feet above him there is a tree in a boulder and behind that tree someone is watching him and so he lowers his compass and he just kind of glances over and he can tell that it's clearly a figure it's got two eyes in its head and it's looking at him and he's not immediately scared he thinks that this is this is a person who's kind of poking their head around a tree at him and it's it's daylight he knows he's out in the middle of nowhere but he's looking up at it and he involuntarily his head like huh and this thing its head it's mimicking me it steps out from behind the tree and it's this huge human looking figure that looks very hairy it's like eight foot tall and jeff's looking up at it like that's not a human and so not really sure what it is he instinctively reaches for a sidearm but he can't get it out of its holster and he's like fumbling with it and he's keeping his eyes on this thing that's you know maybe 50 feet away from him 20 feet up on this rocky outcropping he can't get it out and the figure's just looking down at him and it's still got its head cocked at the side he finally looks down to free his pistol he draws the pistol but the creature's gone and he's like i gotta get a better look there was a tree that was pretty high that had a bunch of low low branches that he could climb up that would if he climbed up maybe 15 or 20 feet he could probably look over into this rocky outcropping so he starts climbing up this tree and he looks and he's now level with that rocky outcropping and he's looking out and it stretches off quite a ways there's a whole stretch of forest right there and he's looking and he can't see or hear anything and he's starting to wonder to himself like did i really just see that is my mind playing tricks on me am i hallucinating and so he decides you know what i'm going to climb back down and i'm going to go up onto that rocky outcropping wasn't planning to but now i'm going to and i want to see if i can see some tracks or just see where this thing went you know he's a marine uh you know he was a police officer he was very comfortable in the wild he just didn't really scare that easily and so he's just kind of curious and he's armed you know and so he climbs down the tree and he starts climbing up this like little rocky outcrop and he gets up to where this creature was hiding there's nothing there there's no scent there's no anything and he just decides you know what i'm just gonna walk in the general direction that i think this thing went because where he was which was his rocky outcropping it kind of dead ended because it's a cliff so he could pretty much only go inland and up this mountain and so he just starts walking and as he's walking he's looking for you know signs that he could potentially attribute to this creature he's listening really intently but there's nothing after about an hour he's looking at the map and he's looking around at the terrain and he's like i'm i think i'm lost like i i need to turn around now and then it dawns on him but he's also lost track of time it's starting to get pretty dark out and he does not have a flashlight so he starts to panic a little bit because he realizes that his curiosity has now put him in a very dangerous situation he doesn't have supplies to stay the night he doesn't have a flashlight it's getting late and he's potentially lost so he tries to compose himself and he just says okay i'm just going to turn around and walk back because he hasn't seen any indication of this creature or this person or whatever it is so he turns around and he starts backtracking as best as he can and as soon as he starts moving back from behind him he hears what sounds like a very large tree break and smash into the ground and he he described it as being louder than most guns like it's an extremely loud sound and he turns around and he looks and there's nothing there but he just figured that's crazy like i'm lucky that no tree landed on me he's not thinking that could be you know bigfoot he's thinking that a tree just fell and i'm lucky he didn't land on me and so now even though he is not connecting the falling tree with this creature or person he saw he's in a bit of a panicked state and so he's he can't help but associate the experiences and so he finds himself as he's walking now a little bit faster and faster away from where he just was looking over his shoulder in the direction of where that tree fell and where he believed this creature or person was and as he's walking you know looking ahead where he needs to go but then peering over his head over his shoulder over and over again he hears another loud snap and fall and it stops him dead in his tracks it was ahead of him off to the right basically in the exact opposite side of where he had come from and he's thinking to himself you know in all the time that i've spent in the woods i it's so rare to be around a tree suddenly falling unless it's being caused by another tree falling or some other event it's rare that you would hear two large trees break and fall independent from one another in the same small area but not connected that's pretty rare and he's thinking to himself if that creature or person had anything to do with it how did it go from over there to all the way over there without me hearing it it's moving around without me being able to spot it and so the hair on the back of his neck stands up and he's starting to feel very uncomfortable he's being hunted and so he keeps on walking the path but begins to veer off away from the second snap that he heard he figures i'm just going to split the difference and kind of go a little bit to the left and avoid that falling tree still give still keep my distance from this falling tree and just get down the mountain as quickly as i can and so as he starts moving in this kind of slightly new direction he hears a third falling tree and now it's back on his left side closer to that first one he heard except it's closer to him now he turned around and he couldn't see the result of a large tree falling he certainly heard it but he's looking and he can't he can't see anything and he's thinking to himself like three falling trees that is not innocent something is knocking over these trees and i think it's that creature i saw and even worse is he's thinking to himself is this creature using these trees to signal to other creatures where he is is he being tracked it's getting closer to him without giving away its own position he really believed he was being hunted and so he starts sprinting down the mountain and as he's running he's hearing snap fall snap fall these massive trees are being knocked down on his left and his right side like you have two hunters basically following him or it's the same one that apparently can move around in the wilderness without being spotted and he is absolutely terrified he's running down the mountain he's falling he's getting smashed up every time he falls and he finally after about 30 minutes of just running straight downhill with these crashes getting closer and closer and closer to him he reaches this clearing and he stops abruptly because there's an animal in the middle of the clearing and it's a deer and the deer doesn't seem phased by jeff the deer sees jeff looks behind jeff just off to his side and it tilts its head back and then turns and sprints away it wasn't running from jeff it was running from whatever was right behind jeff and jeff stops and he starts turning his head in the direction of where the deer was looking and he can't see anything and as he's looking another tree slams smashing down right behind where he was he takes off sprinting he knows he's maybe a half mile from his car at this point and now as he's sprinting through this field all he hears is just a cascade of these crashing trees as he sprints the final stretch to his car pulls out his key and he starts clicking the automatic locks and he can't tell if it's working and he's panicking that it's not going to work in time and he's going to get to his car and it's going to be locked he's fumbling with his keys to open the door and now that the crashing has all stopped and he's just waiting for this thing to jump out and grab him he manages to open his car jumps inside slams it starts it up and peels out of there and then he went back to his office where sheriff was and he told him what happened and he felt ridiculous telling him and the sheriff was like i get reports like this all the time this side of the cascade mountains in that very remote section that you were in we get reports like that all the time i believe you if you want to file a report go for it but chances are good it's never going to be followed up with this is just a phenomenon of being out here in the wilderness some people believe it some people don't decades would go by and he would finally share a story which is why we're hearing about it now but when he tells that story if you watch it on paranormal witness you're listening to it like it happened yesterday this has stuck with this man and it's clear it had a profound impact on his life so while there's never been any substantiated claims of bigfoot actually existing some of these reports are eerily similar to one another and some of the people detailing these sightings are people like jeff who really has no reason to lie or embellish he doesn't really stand to gain much in fact he stands to lose because he could be labeled as kind of like a kook for believing that bigfoot chased him so the way i like to look at stuff like this is just to keep an open mind we don't know half the stuff that's in our ocean you know we barely know anything in the universe what's to say that there isn't some creature like bigfoot that's managed to evade you know legitimate proof that it exists i think it's certainly possible it doesn't mean that i fundamentally believe it's true it just means that i retain an open mind but i want to know what you think chased jeff through the woods was it bigfoot was it something else or was this just some hoax and if it was a hoax are all the other sightings hoaxes too and if you haven't already if you enjoyed this story if you would please gently disembowel the like button and then subscribe to my channel and turn on all post notifications so you don't miss my three to four weekly uploads of stories that are like this strange dark and mysterious so thank you all very much for tuning in i look forward to reading your comments if you want to get in touch with me you can message me on instagram my handle 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Published: Mon Jul 06 2020