Two Bigfoot Encounters: Utah Mountain Whoops and West Virginia Window Sighting

# Two Witnesses, Two Wild Encounters: A Utah Cabin Whoop and a West Virginia Window Sighting There's something about a good firsthand account that just hits different, and a recent episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast delivers two of them in a single sitting. Host Jeremiah Byron sits down with two separate witnesses who share their stories, and both encounters have that classic spine-tingling quality that makes you glance out the window before bed. ## The Uinta Mountains Whoops The first account comes from a woman named Kathleen, who was camping with her sister back in 2007 in the Uinta Mountains of Utah. They were staying at an old forest ranger cabin that gets rented out for camping, pitching a tent outside for some sister bonding time while her sister's husband and one of the kids slept inside the cabin. The setting is about as remote as it gets, roughly five miles off the main road down a forest road, surrounded by hills and mountains with cattle grazing on the hillsides. The first night, the cows were loud and made it hard to sleep, but eventually things quieted down. Coyotes could be heard in the distance, and then everything went completely silent. That's when Kathleen heard something massive crashing through the brush. She initially thought bear, but the sound was so loud it felt like it was shaking the ground, and both sisters were wide awake and certain it was moving on two feet. Whatever it was eventually moved off, and they tried to get some sleep. The real shocker came the next morning around 7:30. Kathleen was awake reading a book in the tent while her sister was still sleeping. That's when she heard two loud whoops, followed by a pause, then another whoop. Her sister woke up at the last part, and Kathleen, who had always been a believer but didn't know Sasquatch made those sounds, asked her what kind of bird could make that noise. Her sister had no idea either. It wasn't until Kathleen got home and started researching online that she came across the famous Sierra Sounds recording from California and realized what she had heard matched almost exactly. For those unfamiliar, the Sierra Sounds were recorded by Ron Morehead back in 1977 near the Sierra Nevada mountains, and they remain one of the most compelling pieces of audio evidence in Sasquatch research. The whoops, the wood knocks, and the strange vocalizations captured on that recording have been analyzed by experts for decades. Kathleen did report her encounter on the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) website, and she noted that there are at least two other reports in similar areas north of Vernal, Utah. One interesting detail she mentioned was the absolute silence when she heard the whoops that morning. No birds chirping, no normal summer morning sounds, just dead silence. That's a detail that comes up again and again in credible encounter reports, the sudden unnatural quiet that often precedes or follows a Sasquatch sighting. ## The West Virginia Window Encounter The second story takes us back to 1987 in West Virginia, and it's told by a man named Brian who was just a kid at the time. Now 49, he shared an encounter that has stuck with him for decades. It was summer, the family didn't have air conditioning, so the windows were open. Brian's bed sat right underneath a window, and he had the curtains closed but could feel the cool breeze coming through. He was asleep when something woke him up, a sound like heavy breathing or sniffing, the kind of sound you'd hear if a large dog was sniffing at a doorway. He pulled back the curtain and saw a silhouette outside, lit by the outside light that shone onto the driveway. Still half asleep, it took a moment for his eyes to focus, and then he found himself staring face to face with whatever was out there, within three feet of the window. It grunted, and Brian panicked, slamming the window shut and pulling the curtain back. He dove under his covers, terrified. But the encounter wasn't over. He could hear heavy footsteps walking across the wooden porch, every board creaking under the weight. When it reached the second step, the wood actually broke under whatever was walking across it. Brian watched from another window at his headboard as the figure walked the entire length of the porch and stepped off the other side. The porch was only about four feet off the ground, and it stepped off with ease, no jumping, just a casual step down before disappearing from view. The whole thing lasted maybe five minutes. Brian ran through the house to wake his parents, who told him he was just having a bad dream and to go back to bed. Classic response from a family that probably didn't want to entertain the idea of something like that roaming around their property. Brian mentioned he later looked into sightings in the area after moving about 30 miles away from where he grew up, and there have been other reports in that region of West Virginia. ## Why These Stories Matter What makes both of these accounts stand out is the consistency with other reported encounters. The bipedal crashing through brush, the distinctive whoops matching the Sierra Sounds recording, the unnatural silence, and in Brian's case, the heavy breathing/sniffing sound and the sheer size implied by breaking a porch step. These details line up with hundreds of other witness reports collected over the years by researchers and organizations like BFRO. The Uinta Mountains region of Utah has become a known hotspot for activity, and West Virginia has its own long history of sightings, with locals sometimes referring to the creatures by regional names. Both of these witnesses come across as sincere and grounded, not looking for attention, just sharing what happened to them. That's what makes these kinds of accounts so compelling. There's no hype, no dramatic reenactments, just people telling their stories years or even decades after the fact. Definitely worth checking out the full episode to hear both encounters in their entirety. The way Kathleen describes the silence before the whoops and Brian's raw fear as a child staring out that window really comes through in the audio.