Hunters Recall Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters on Art Bell Radio Show

# The Infamous Bigfoot Scream Returns: Linda Howe Shares Two Chilling Encounter Reports in Classic Coast to Coast AM Episode I stumbled across a real gem on YouTube the other night while scrolling through the archives, and I had to share it with you all. It's a segment from a 1995 episode of Coast to Coast AM with the legendary Art Bell, featuring one of the most respected researchers in the field, Linda Moulton Howe. If you've ever wanted to hear firsthand accounts of Bigfoot encounters told with the kind of detail that makes the hair on your arms stand up, this one delivers. Linda opens the segment by revisiting the infamous Bigfoot scream recording from near Snohomish, Washington, captured back in the 1970s. For those unfamiliar, this audio has become one of the most circulated pieces of evidence in Sasquatch research. The recording was reportedly made by a group of loggers who heard something moving through the brush and managed to capture that blood-curdling shriek on tape. Art Bell himself admits the sound curls what little hair he has left, and after hearing the accounts that follow, you'll understand why. ## The 1956 Deer Hunting Encounter The first story comes from Ted Freiley of Carson City, Nevada, who experienced something terrifying while deer hunting with a friend roughly 35 miles east of Reading, California, back in the fall of 1956. Ted says the memory is etched into his mind as if it happened yesterday. Around 10 p.m., the two men were sweeping their flashlights across a meadow when the beam landed on a pair of eyes about 60 yards away, just beyond the meadow's edge in the bushes. Ted describes them as incandescent, almost like they had lights behind them, a grayish-blue color he'd never seen before. Definitely not a deer, not a bear, and certainly not a mountain lion. His hunting partner Richard urged him to take the shot, so Ted leveled his .30-30 Winchester across the hood of the truck and fired between the eyes. What happened next is what stuck with him for nearly four decades. The woods came alive. The bushes started boiling, and a scream began at a low pitch, rising higher and higher until Ted swears the trees themselves were vibrating. The decibel range was something he says he couldn't have imagined. He looked over at Richard and saw the man's hair literally standing straight up on end, something he'd never witnessed before or since. Ted notes that the scream he heard that night in 1956 was remarkably similar to the Snohomish recording Linda played on the show. ## The 1989 Darrington Mining Claim Incident The second account is even more detailed and, frankly, harder to explain away. Skip Hach of Seattle was visiting a mining claim near Darrington, Washington, a logging town in the foothills of the North Cascades, in July 1989. He first heard sounds like someone pounding with a hammer, as if something was being built in the forest. Then something came down from the mountain. It fell off an 80-foot cliff, busting branches on the way down, hit a pile of granite boulders covered in about two inches of moss, bounced off those boulders, and rolled roughly 150 feet down the hillside, landing right at Skip's feet. Skip was armed with only a .22 caliber pistol, and he hit the creature, which lay there either dead or unconscious. While he was making peace with his maker, deciding whether to fire another shot or make a run for it, the thing started to move. When Skip fired a shot over its head hoping to scare it off, what happened next defied anything he'd ever seen. The creature rolled slightly onto its right side, extended a hand from its left, then rolled to its left side and put out the other hand, pushing itself up into a standing position just like a human would, almost like a helping push-up. It stood straight up, turned around, looked Skip dead in the eye, then turned back and walked down the trail as if he wasn't even there. Skip describes the creature in remarkable detail. The hair on the back of its head grew into a tapered cape down to the middle of its back, about 24 inches long, completely dark, shiny black, and looking almost synthetic. The rest of its body was covered in roughly 3-inch hair. Its face was completely hair-covered except around the eyes and on the bridge of the nose, where a ruddy brown, pine cone-colored skin showed through with deep wrinkles, much like the larger apes or orangutans. The eyes were very deep-set, like cold black marbles, dark and intense. Here's where it gets even stranger. Skip mentions that when the creature rolled onto its side, he could have sworn he heard a servo-type whine, the kind of sound an electric device makes when actuating, and saw what looked like a silver cone protruding from the side of its head. He admits he's not entirely sure whether this was real or part of the nightmares he suffered for three years afterward. The encounter wasn't over. About five minutes after the creature walked away, Skip was making his way down the trail when he turned and saw it break over the crest of the hill, charging toward him at roughly a 45-degree angle. Trees were pushed aside, rocks flew through the air, moss and twigs floated behind him as the creature tore down the hillside. Skip ran for his life, sliding down a sloped rock and ducking into a small cave-like opening in the underbrush. When he climbed back out, he could still see the trees moving as the creature ran back and forth in a zigzag pattern, searching for him. Skip eventually managed to escape and has returned to the site repeatedly. He reports finding huge footprints in the area and grass mats inside the mine tunnels, suggesting that whatever he encountered that day is still living somewhere in those mountains. ## Why This Episode Matters Linda Moulton Howe is no stranger to this field. A former Emmy-winning investigative journalist, she's spent decades documenting unexplained phenomena, from cattle mutilations to crop circles to Sasquatch encounters. Her willingness to share detailed firsthand accounts like these, paired with the actual audio of the Snohomish scream, makes this particular Coast to Coast AM segment a standout piece of Bigfoot history. The Snohomish recording itself has been analyzed by numerous researchers over the years, with some suggesting it could be a vocalization from an unknown primate species. Whether you believe these creatures are flesh and blood animals, interdimensional visitors, or something else entirely, accounts like Ted's and Skip's are difficult to dismiss outright. If you haven't heard this segment yet, do yourself a favor and track it down. The combination of the scream recording and these two detailed encounters makes for one of the more compelling listens in the Coast to Coast AM archive. Just maybe don't listen alone in the woods at night.