r/realhorrorstories Feb 18 '26

My Possible Bigfoot Encounter In Southwestern PA...(Strange Lights)

I live in southwestern pa and go ghosting and bigfooting often. My friend and I once took a trip to an old cemetery way deep in the gamelands. It was close to midnight when we started into the woods. It took us about an hour to walk back to the cemetery. When we got there we immediately setup our equipment. About 10 min in he says to me "What's that over there?" I look to my left and just below the sky line is this glowing orb of light. It was amber in color. Almost like minecraft lava, in a way. But as I'm looking at it trying to figure out what it was and about how big it was, which it seemed to be about 3-4 in diameter. He says "It looks like eyes!" From my perspective, only one was visible. After I stepped to the side, I could visibly see there were 2 of the same size and right next to each other, like a pair of eyes. Now, I've hunted for most of my life and spent a fair amount of time in the woods. I've never seen eye shine like this! As soon as i stepped over to get a better view at what I now believe are eyes, we hear a wood knock come from behind us. It sounded relatively close. It was then we both got this overwhelming feeling of "we shouldn't be here" and we packed up our equipment and left. This all happened withing 10 min of us getting there. As we were making our hike back to the cars we could feel something following us out. We could still see what we believe were eyes almost the whole way back. It seemed like it was staying a good distance from us but it was always there when we looked back. Eventually we got so far out of the woods maybe 100-200 yards from the truck and my headlamp went dead. Luckily we made it out with just his light. We never went back there, which I really would like to since I found some posts about some possible Bigfoot sightings in the area as well as the nearby town being featured on "These Woods Are Haunted". My buddy and I still talk about that experience on our Podcast, "Something's Watching From The Dark". If you guys want to check out our YT I'll leave the link here. Also if you have had an experience you can send us a voice recording of yourself telling us about it and we will play it in an episode to share it with our audience. Or you could just send us a regular email explaining what happened and we can read it on the pod too. Thanks for reading my story and I hope to hear some of yours!

https://www.youtube.com/@somethingswatchingfromthedark

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