Tent-Side Siege in Oklahoma!

You're listening to Big Foot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's account comes from a mom who thought a midweek camp out at Lake ten Killer in Oklahoma would be the perfect escape, but she was about to find out that that was not the case, that the forest would be coming alive in ways that she neither expected or wanted. This is a story, Presley, a mother who had to dial nine one one, and this episode will go over

Hey good?

How are you doing great? Doing great? I'm excited to have you on the show today. You get some really interesting connections over there on TikTok, and this takes place down in Oklahoma, which definitely has some great stories come out of there. But you know, you're welcome to take us back to what was going on when you had this encounter where you were, feel free to take us back to that point in time.

Okay, So we were.

It was my daughters and I and we were camping at Lake Timillar State Park, which is near the dam area of the lake. And we weren't strangers to this lake. I actually grew up on this lake, but it is about like two hours where we lived. So we go out there, we go camping from time to time, but we've never stayed like in this part of the lake, the state park part, So that was new to us, and it was recommended from a friend that we know

But when we came back.

From walking the trails, we went down and we went fishing for probably like an hour or so, and then we went back up to camp after and we started a fire. And that would have been around like probably like five PM. But we started the fire and that's when I started hearing things. But I also want to say I never believed in bigfoot until this happened, and I wasn't even a bigfoot believer like during this event.

It kept happening.

It was catching our attention, but I didn't really think nothing of it, like it's the woods over there, you know, it could be anything really, So but as the sun like started going down, it started the whistles sounded like they were getting closer and the sticks breaking were like getting really closer.

So anyways, we still weren't paying it much. Mind. I do want to mention that.

Earlier that day, we had ordered Uber out to the lake, out to our campsite, and the Uber driver like had a hard time finding our campsite and stuff, and he was kind of like angry. I guess that he couldn't find the campsite and he was like, don't. He was kind of really intimidating, and it was just really mad about the whole dropping the food off situation, and so

Okay, So.

We put the fire out and then we got into the tent, and two my daughters are pretty young, so the two youngest ones, they were already in the tent asleep about seven, seven thirty pm. And my oldest daughter and I were cleaning up the camp, putting out the fire, you know, getting everything situated so we.

Could get inside.

And as soon as we got inside the tent and turned the lights off, that's when we started hearing stuff. Now earlier when I had mentioned we were painting rocks, we were painting the rocks and then we hid them along the trail. So when we got in the camp, we, like I said, we were the only ones in the campsite. And this part of Oklahoma is straight river rocks, so like if someone were walking around your campsite, you would hear everything. Those river rocks, they make a lot of

What is that?

And so we kind of like just try to let it go. Didn't really pay it any mind. And uh, after I did hear those rocks, I got up and I kind of cracked the tent windows a little bit so I could like peek out and see if I could see anything out there. And it was pitch black, but the moonlight, the moonlight had it pretty lit up so.

You could see. Well.

I had the tent windows cracked and I was peeking out there, and I didn't see anything. There was a stray cat out there, like eating off the ground and stuff my girls had thrown like some leftover hot dog out there, and so the stray cat was out there eating. But I knew that, you know, that wasn't the throwing rock noise. I didn't know what the throwing rock noise was, but anyways, I just kind of like zipped up the

And so immediately my heart dropped. I'm like, there's something outside this tent, Like I do not know what is outside this tent.

Like I'm freaking out, but maybe it's a raccoon, you know, That's like where my head is at. But also at the same time, I'm like, what if that uber driver, like me being a paranoid single mom out there, I'm like, what if that uber driver came back and it's him, Like I was freaking out, I didn't know what was going on. So I'm sitting there and I'm just kind of listening to these noises. Well then so I heard that rock fall over and that was like towards the

Like I don't know what that is out there.

But at this point, I'm like trying not to freak out in front of my daughter, but internally I'm like freaking out. I don't know what's going on. So I sat there for a few more minutes. And after that, after I heard the brushing, I got like, I got so scared. I got up and I looked out of the tent windows again. And I'm probably looking out of the tent windows for like ten or fifteen minutes, and I hear nothing, I see nothing. I'm like so confused.

I don't know what that is. I'm freaking myself out.

So I'm sitting there and like I said, I work from home, so I'm checking some emails before I go to bed, and I'm leaned up against the tent. So like if you were to be on the outside of the tent looking like you could see, probably it bulged out me leaning on it, you know. So I'm like leaning on the side of this tent, checking emails before I go to bed, and all of a sudden, the loudest like there's no explanation for like what this could

I know that sounds so dramatic, but that's.

That's the best I can explain it, like the loudest bank. And it was followed by like an impact of rocks being thrown up at the tent well. The rocks hit my back, and also where my young was sleeping along the tent wall, it woke her up out of her sleep because the rocks hit her in the head and it was like these rocks hurt. It was whatever that impact was was so powerful, and immediately like now I'm freaking out, like my heart's racing.

I don't know what to do.

Immediately, I grabbed the phone and I called nine one one because I know this is dramatic, but I'm like, oh my god, what if that uber guy came back and he's like shooting at us?

Like is it a gunshot?

Like if you were to shoot a pistol off next to your ear, like that's probably how loud it was.

But I grew up around guns and I knew.

I'm like, that wasn't like that couldn't have been a gun shot unless like its just nothing made sense. I'm like, what was that? And I've told people about it and they were like, well, maybe it was a tree branch that fell or and I'm like no, Like, for one, there wasn't even a tree. There was a tree at the camp, but not by her tent right there, Like there's no explanation for what this loud of impact was. And also the force behind those rocks being thrown like

I'm like, Hi, I think.

Someone shooting at my tent, Like I'm not sure what's going on. Can you send it officer out here. I just want to pack up and leave, like I just I need it lit a like I want to officer out here while I pack up and leave, please, And so they're like yeah, and you know, asking me questions. I was on the phone with the lady and she was like, do you want me to stay on the phone with you until.

The deputies get there?

And I was like yes, please, And so I had it on the phone the whole time, and I'm like, I'm going to look out of the windows, like while we're waiting on him. And so I'm looking out of the windows after that, like freaked out, and I'm still not seeing anything. And at this point, I'm like, I'm mad, I'm scared. I'm confused, Like I have no clue what that was, what's going on. It's just us out here.

I was like, oh my god.

So like We're literally the only ones in the state park right now, like and so that really just totally scared me. And it's a really rural area, you know, so like probably fifteen or twenty minutes later the deputies show up. And by this time, probably about five minutes before the deputies show up, I got out of the tent.

I've thought about it every day since.

You know, Wow, that is such an intense encounter. I mean, I'm you handled yourself really well. I mean, to be in that type of situation, and on top of it all, try you have to deal with a guy not treating yet good that's delivering your food like that, it's just not cool.

That was, yeah, And I mean I was being dramatic about that, you know, I'm like, oh my god, he's coming back to shoot our tent. But still at the same time, you got to think about stuff like that.

Yeah, totally, and also too, like there was no like, there was no explanation. I know, it wasn't a gunshot, but it was like as loud as one, if not louder, and then the rock impact.

I just don't know.

So did you end up leaving before the deputies got there?

Then?

No?

Uh, they actually like stayed there while we got all packed up and stuff. I was already a little bit packed up when they rolled up. When I got out of the tent and like lit everything up, I had to immediately started throwing stuff in the trunk. So when they pulled up, we were pretty much almost packed and they stayed there while I took the tent down and stuff, and they were asking me, you know, they were like did you see anything?

Did you hear anything? And I'm like, I'm trying not to sound.

Crazy because i know we're the only ones in this park, but I'm like no, Like that's the thing that's killing me. It's like I did not see anything, Like, yes, we heard things, but I did not see anything, and I have no explanation, and that drives me nuts, you know, like what was it?

Excuse me? The way they were reacting was it was it like there were how are they reacting the whole time? Were they kind of like making like oh this again, or like oh another bigfoot thing?

Or no.

So that's the crazy thing too, is after I kind of started thinking maybe this could have been a big foot, it took me back to one of the officer's faces, because so there was an older officer and there was a younger officer, and they were actually highway patrols. I guess that's who patrols that area. I don't know they were highway patrols. But the younger one, like he kind of went off with his flashlight and was looking around.

Thought it was a big foot too.

But he was definitely interested in, you know, trying to figure the situation out.

He's I would guess, you know, being an individual that's done that for a few years, he's probably heard other stories as well.

Yeah, can you.

Is not to be weird, but can you describe what the weird smells were? Like they like anything else that you smelled before.

Yeah, my kids were like, ew, who's farting? Who keeps farting? Like it was just a it was just like a foul you know smell, Like yeah that we kept smelling and yeah, we didn't know who it was or what it was. We were blaming each other, so gotcha it was. I will say when the rock that I had like leaned up on the stake, when that was kicked over and like during the brushing of the tent part, like you could smell it then you could smell it pretty

This would have been probably when you were packing up. But were you able to see the rocks that were thrown at the tent? Were they the same rocks that you had been painting or totally different ones?

So I didn't see.

We had looked around camp now it was nighttime when we were packing up and stuff. But I had ran a flashlight like around the campsite looking for anything, and I did not. I didn't see any paintings or anything like that, like any of the painted rocks or anything like that. But that always like really got me in the story because we did paint rocks and we hit them along those trails, you know, and it was just so weird that at first the rocks were being thrown

But I also was out of there as quick as I cared could be.

Absolutely, at any point when you guys were in that park, did things get extremely quiet or was it kind of normal sounds the whole day?

I mean, I don't really remember anything getting like extremely quiet. I do know that this day in particular, it was so windy, like the wind was being a nuisance, I know, just like we had the wind going all day, but not that I remember, Like, no, I don't remember it like getting quiet. None of these stick breakings and the whistlings though, none of that started until after we went

Would it be possible to try to mimic the type of whistling that you had heard.

Let's see, like a it would I mean, I can try to do. It's gonna soud funny, but I guess maybe like two long whistles back to back, like a like a not like a cat call whistle, but kind of like that, but drop drug out, you know, like woooo. I guess maybe not even like that. I don't know how to recreate it, but it was. I remember there was one point specifically where roasted marshmallows and I looked over at my daughter and I'm like, dang, that whistle

Did you hear any other birds, like owls or any animals at any time?

No?

I mean maybe like normal birds you know that you hear in the woods and stuff like, there was little troopings and stuff, but nothing that like stuck out.

Okay, so nothing like you hear a bird and you're like, that was weird because it sounded a little off.

Nothing like that, Yeah, okay, no, just the whistle.

The whistle was off and we were like, what kind of bird could that be? But other than that, no, nothing gotcha.

When you were on your hike, did you notice anything out of the ordinary.

In the woods? Okay, so we did, And I don't know how out in the ordinary this is, but we brought it home because we thought it was really neat. So, like I said, Tim Killer, where we're at, Like, I've been around there my whole life. I grew up down there.

We would find turtle shells all the time. Everywhere.

This turtle shell, though, I have never seen a turtle shell like this before, and I actually have a picture of it. I have it here at my house and I could send you a picture of it if you want. But so when we were walking through this trail, when you leave our tent, like where I have the trail circled in the photo, you go through the trail and it's kind of dense woods for a little bit and

That's crazy.

Well it looks like a wash area, like where you know, when it rains or whatever, things just washed down this area off into the lake is what it looked like. Well, there was nothing except right in the center, the dead center of this area, there's this white turtle shell. And we were like, you know, still not thinking anything, but we were like, oh, that's cool. How random is that just sitting there, you know, like why didn't that get washed down with the rest of the stuff.

That's crazy.

And so we pick it up and we're checking it out and it's just this white turtleshell. But still the area that it was at, like it just didn't make sense, like that would have already been washed down if it was just like like I feel like it was placed there, And even before knowing anything of Bidfoot, when we walked up on it, I'm like, that's really weird that this is here, you know, how cool. Girls like we're really lucky to find this white turtleshell.

How cool? And so we took it home and.

We still have it. But that always struck me as weird. And I don't know if that has.

Anything to do with anything that is definitely the ordinary. I would say, did you notice any trees that were I I don't know, let's say, trees that were you know, broken or bent in weird angles or anything like that when you're walking around?

Uh No, I wouldn't say that I noticed anything like that. Now we now like it was an afural force. So you know, there was like a tree that was on the ground and stuff, but not anything that I noticed like weird.

I guess gotcha.

After you had you know, you got home, you brought the turtleshell home, all that good stuff. Did anything at the ordinary start happening at home or just kind of a one time occurrence at lake Time Killer?

Yeah, nothing weird has happened at my house or anything. It was just just that experience, just those few, those few short hours we spent out there.

Yeah, it was the craziest thing.

And like, I don't I've know I ever had a fear come over me to where I'm like, I felt like I was frozen, like when I called that cop or nine to one one, Like I've.

Never felt fear like that in my life.

So that's just something I want to put out there, Like that was so terrifying, and I feel better about it now, But that whole experience just really shook me, and it still shakes me, Like it's scary.

So but no, nothing at my house.

Oh absolutely, I mean it does really affect you. It makes your heartbeat, yeah, uncontrollably, sometimes raise your blood pressure, all this crazy crazy stuff. But was there also a time where you were not able to move at all or just there is so much fear that you're like I'm gonna I just have to power through this.

When the rocks hit me, like that impact, like the amount of emotions that came over me, Like I can't even explain it. I was frozen for a second, and like I was confused, Like I said, I hadn't I literally had no clue what that could have been. I was angry because the rocks heart and it woke up my daughter, like it irritated me. I'm like, what the heck is out there doing this? And then just yeah, I was frozen for a second and like my heart sank, like I just sat there and I'm.

Like like shaking.

I'm like what do I do? And my daughter like looked up from her tablet. She's looking at me like she's terrified, and I'm like, immediately, I just picked up my phone and called nine one one, like I yeah, but it froze me for a good few seconds.

Was everyone okay after being hit by the rocks?

So yeah, it just woke my daughter up for a minute and she like grabbed her head and she's like oh, and I'm like it's okay, go back to sleep, and.

She went back to sleep, and yeah, that's good.

How is that that is good? How has this affected you regarding Bigfoot after or living through this experience?

Like I said, at first, I was so terrified.

I remember telling the cop I was like, I'm never coming camping again, which is crazy because, like I said, I was raised at the lake. I'm a camping girl where fishing people like we are all always out in nature. So it really shook me up to where I was like, I was like, I'm well, for sure, I'm never going camping with just me and my girls again. We'll have like, you know, my father or a mel with us or

But if anything.

Now I'm intrigued, Like I'm like, okay, that's kind of cool, you know, Like it was Gary, and I don't know that I ever want to be face to face with him again, But I believe people's stories now and it's intriguing. It's actually interesting to me. And no, we are not alone on this planet. Like that's something I am very certain about now.

Oh absolutely. So where did you end up finding more information about this area and bigfoot encounters?

There was? It was on YouTube, I guess.

I just started googling and youtubing bigfoot encounters like tink Killer Oklahoma, and just anything I found on Google I

Hearing stories like that, I'm like, oh my god, Bigfoot is real.

So after hearing something like that where you know that's kind of a very intense encounter as well, how does that then make you feel like you have no fear regarding the situation.

I mean, I just don't think. I think it's more of like knowing or reading all these other encounters, Like that's really what helped me, because I'm not fearful. Now there it is. You know, it has been brought to light.

And now I'm not saying that I'm.

Gonna go out there and camp again like solo, but I'm not scared, you know, anymore. And if anything were to happen in the future, I feel like like I feel like we had warnings. I feel like that Bigfoot now looking back, I feel like he was trying to warn us with all the sticks breaking and like the whistling and everything that we had been hearing. I feel like, maybe,

I don't know, but.

Yeah, it's an interesting thing to think about. And also you have the the point that you had, uh, you know, you playing some kind of games on electronics, So that must that might have been a thing where it's like maybe the sound, you know, was there's some curiosity there, or maybe it was a thing where like they heard the sound and they're like time to go.

To bed.

Through theacks that yet, But it's just it's it's very very interesting. Do you think you would ever be interested in getting to the point where you actually go out and try to have another big foot encounter yourself or you're more prepared.

So both. I'm not gonna lie.

Hanobia, Oklahoma is known for the most big foot encounters, I guess, or one of them, and we are big Airbnb stairs. We love that part of Oklahoma, So between Broke and bo Hanobia Tinkiler, we're always getting airbnbs and or chant camping in that area. And so there's actually been two times since this event that I've been out in that area at an Airbnb and different airbnbs.

One was in Berkenbo and then.

We were out at like Tinkiller last week for the beast Master Classic that they had going on. So both of those times I did go outside during nighttime and I sat around the fire and I had my kids and their dad was with us, and so.

We had some people out there.

But I tried to wander off by myself and just sit around the fire and kind of see if anything.

You know, was gonna happen.

But nothing happened, and so I'm like, okay, so I just went inside. But it was spooky. But I also read that like most people who have encounters have encounters again, so that's kind of what I was trying to do with that situation. And since I do go out there frequently, like I probably will try that again, but nothing like has happened or anything.

But keep it. I mean, yeah, you're correct, but the first encounter only happened in April, right, yes, of this year, so it's still still very real. Yeah, it'd be very interesting to hear what might happen in the future. Sometimes things like this tend to follow a certain path. It'd be interesting, you know, to hear from you if things

So that's good tonight.

Okay, nothing to be freaked out about, but just you know, you never know, right, so but here to help. So thank you for hanging out today, Presley. Was there anything else that you needed that you would like to share about the experience or do you think we were able to cover all of it today?

Yeah? No, I think we covered it all. Thank you for listening.

I'm finally glad to like talk to someone about it, because you know, when people don't believe in Bigfoot, it's really hard to like, you know, talk about it. So just having someone to talk about and share this story with has been nice.

So I appreciate it, yes, ma'am, And you have a great rest of your day. And have you checked out the the Bigfoot Festival in Henobi at all?

You know?

I actually heard that they stopped doing that and I researched it after this whole thing happened and I got into big fit. Yeah, and I really wanted to go, but I heard they don't do it anymore.

They do, Yeah, they're still doing it, they do, just different owners.

Now.

Yeah, it's this October, so check it out this October.

Okay, cool, I'll check it out definitely.

Thank you awesome. Well you have a great rest of your day and maybe we will chat again in the future. Have a good one, all.

Right, you too, Thank you. Bye.

Hi. My name is Nadine and I wanted to share a story from the late nineties. I was a Girl Scout leader and I took my troop two troops to Carnation to camp, and in the middle of the night, I was awoken. I had this really weird, uneasy feeling, and I heard this sound that was not anything I've ever known before, just howling, and it was so loud. And I heard what sounded like rustling and you know,

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