Bigfoot Enthusiasts Share Sierra Encounter and Discuss Hominid Evidence

# Rock Thrown Over Shoulder During Predator Call: A Sierra Bigfoot Encounter You Have to Hear A recent video posted over on the Haunted History YouTube channel caught my attention, and if you're into firsthand Sasquatch encounters, this one is worth carving out some time for. It features a handful of folks sharing their personal connections to the subject, but the centerpiece is a genuinely chilling story about a coyote hunting trip in the Sierra Nevada that took a wild turn. The storyteller describes heading out with his brother-in-law to do some predator calling on a fire road on his father-in-law's property. They had set up under a big oak tree on a hillside overlooking a clearing, with their rifles, full camo, and one of those electronic predator calls that blasts out wounded rabbit and dying calf sounds through the canyon. You know the type. The kind that echoes through the trees and is supposed to bring in coyotes. Instead, something else answered. As the light started fading, the storyteller heard something moving through the leaf litter behind him. Faint at first, almost like a squirrel taking steps. Then, whoosh, a rock came sailing right over his shoulder and crunched into the dirt nearby. He and his brother-in-law looked at each other, and the decision was made quickly. They packed up and got out of there. But here's where it gets even more interesting. On the way back down the fire road, they could hear footsteps trailing behind them. Two or three steps, then silence. They'd take a few steps, and the pattern would repeat. They turned around with flashlights, called out, and couldn't see anything. Every once in a while, a tree would snap somewhere behind them. Whatever was out there was following them out. The storyteller admits that encounter was the moment the subject stopped being just a TV curiosity for him. There's something about a rock physically being thrown at you that tends to do that. He mentions that the area has a long history of sightings, which tracks with what researchers have documented in the Sierra Nevada over the years. The region has long been considered one of the more active zones in the country, with consistent reports going back decades. What makes this video stand out from your typical encounter retelling is the broader conversation woven around it. The folks featured talk about how they got into the subject, with one mentioning a childhood obsession sparked by Leonard Nimoy's *In Search Of...* Yeti episode, and another talking about growing up with a mom who studied anthropology and was a true believer. That kind of background gives the stories a bit more weight than your average campfire tale. There's also a really interesting segment diving into the anthropology side of things. One of the speakers, whose mom has a background in the field, breaks down why the biological plausibility of a large, undiscovered bipedal hominid isn't as far-fetched as skeptics like to claim. He talks about the work of researchers like Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Cliff Barackman, who have studied track morphology, locomotion, and how the foot structure of these creatures suggests a body build very different from simply scaling up a human. If you took a human and scaled them up to 800 pounds, the proportions wouldn't work. But if you adjust certain leg bones, thicken things up, widen the structure, you could theoretically have a bipedal creature that large that could still move quickly. It's the kind of anatomical reasoning that gives the subject serious scientific legs. The conversation also touches on Gigantopithecus, the largest ape known to have existed, which went extinct around 300,000 years ago. While all we have of them are teeth and a bit of jawbone, the discussion points out how much the fossil record has changed in just the last decade. The discovery of Homo floresiensis, the so-called "hobbit" humans in Southeast Asia, and the Denisovans in Europe showed that our evolutionary family tree is way more complicated than the old textbook version suggested. Robust, hairy, muscular early hominids that had to fight for a living? That's not fantasy, that's the fossil record. The video does a nice job of blending personal experience with genuine curiosity and respect for the subject. Nobody is out there making outrageous claims or trying to be the next big reality TV star. It's just people talking about something they've been fascinated with for most of their lives, and sharing an experience that clearly left a mark on them. If you're a researcher, a witness, or just someone who loves a good Sasquatch story, this one is absolutely worth the watch. The rock-throwing moment alone is enough to give you that familiar feeling on the back of your neck. Head over to the Haunted History channel and check it out.