This Boy Was Missing for 3 Months. A Bigfoot Kept Him Alive. What Happened Next Will Shock You!
This Boy Was Missing for 3 Months. A Bigfoot Kept Him Alive. What Happened Next Shocked Everyone
My name is Larry Chapman. I’m 57 years old now, a history teacher living a quiet life in Portland, Oregon.
But for 93 days in the summer of 1980, I vanished into the forests near Mount Hood—and survived only because something the world insists does not exist decided to protect me.
I was twelve years old when I learned that monsters aren’t always the things you should fear most.
That summer began perfectly.
My father had just bought a tan 1978 Ford Bronco with wood paneling, and he was impossibly proud of it. My mother packed food as if we were leaving for a month instead of four days. My older sister Jennifer ignored us with her Walkman, and I rode in the back with our yellow lab, Rusty, drooling happily on my arm.
We drove to a remote campground near Timothy Lake—no cell phones, no GPS, just a paper map and optimism. The forest felt endless and untouched, tall Douglas firs swallowing the sky.
That first night was magic. Hot dogs over the fire. Sticky s’mores. Stories under a sky so full of stars it felt unreal.
The next day ruined everything.
On July 18th, my dad led us on a hike to a ridge he’d marked on his map. The trail was steeper and more overgrown than expected. Around early afternoon, we stopped at a clearing to eat.
That’s when I saw the rocks.
They were stacked strangely, too smooth, too deliberate. About fifty yards off the trail. I wanted a closer look—just a quick glance, a souvenir.
“Stay where I can see you,” my mom called.
“I will,” I said.
Those were the last words she heard from me for three months.
The forest closed behind me like a door.
When I turned back, the trail was gone. The voices were gone. Every direction looked the same—green, dense, endless.
I called for my parents until my throat burned. I walked. I ran. I panicked.
By nightfall, I was alone, shivering beside a fallen log, wearing only a T-shirt and jeans, staring at my Casio watch as darkness swallowed everything.
I didn’t sleep.
By the third day, thirst nearly broke me. I found a creek and drank until my stomach hurt. That’s when I felt it—the unmistakable sensation of being watched.
Then I heard the sound.
Low. Resonant. Not quite a growl. Not quite a hum.
I turned.
And I saw it.
Seven feet tall at least. Broad shoulders. Long arms. Dark fur that swallowed the shadows. Standing silently between the trees, watching me with eyes that were unmistakably intelligent.
It took one step toward me.
I ran.
I collapsed hours later behind a massive stump, certain I was about to die.
But it never chased me.
That night, terrified and exhausted, I cried myself to sleep.
When I woke the next morning, there was food beside me.
Huckleberries arranged carefully on a leaf. Thick roots dug from the earth. And beside them—footprints. Massive, human-shaped footprints nearly eighteen inches long.
A Bigfoot was keeping me alive.
I was twelve years old, lost in the Oregon wilderness, and the impossible had decided not to let me die.
Days turned into weeks.
Every morning, food appeared. Berries. Roots. Once, a cleaned fish laid gently on a rock. I never saw the creature clearly at first—just glimpses at dusk, shapes moving silently through trees, the feeling of eyes on me.
Helicopters flew overhead twice. I tried to run toward them.
Each time, the creature blocked my path—not violently, but firmly, issuing a warning sound I instinctively obeyed.
It wasn’t protecting me.
It was protecting itself.
By the third week, it let me see it.
It stood across a stream, no more than twenty feet away. Old. Scarred. Fur streaked with gray. And then it sat down—cross-legged, like a person.
I sat too.
We stayed that way for nearly twenty minutes. No words. No fear. Just presence.
It was not a monster.
It was not my friend.
It was something far more unsettling—something that understood me.
I survived like that for nearly three months.
I grew thin. Wild. My clothes rotted. My hair tangled. I stopped counting days.
Then one morning, the food didn’t come.
Neither did the next.
Weak, dizzy, starving, I collapsed against a tree—too tired to care anymore.
That’s when I heard voices.
Human voices.
And from deep in the forest, I saw it one last time—watching, waiting.
Then it turned and disappeared.
It had led them to me.
The world called my survival a miracle.
Doctors praised my “instincts.” Reporters swarmed. Police questioned me.
I lied to all of them.
I said berries. Streams. Luck.
When I finally told the truth, they said it was trauma. Hallucination. A coping mechanism.
Even my family doubted me.
Until a professor showed up with photographs.
Footprints.
Recordings.
Evidence.
And months later, standing in the same forest, my father saw the tracks with his own eyes. Heard the sound.
Felt the truth settle into his bones.
“I’m sorry,” he told me.
That mattered more than anyone else believing.
I never saw the creature again.
But sometimes, when I walk alone beneath tall trees, I feel that same quiet presence. Watching. Remembering.
And I know this:
For 93 days, when humanity failed to find me, something ancient chose compassion over fear.
And that truth—that something so powerful could also be so gentle—is the most shocking thing of all.
