Derek Randles on Monsters and Mysteries in America

Posted by: Craig Woolheater on April 6th, 2013

Derek Randles offered the following clarifications on his facebook page regarding his appearance on Destination America’s Monsters and Mysteries in America episode “Pacific Northwest” that premiered last Sunday night.

The episode re-airs:
Sunday, April 7, 9 PM ET/PT
Monday, April 8, 12 AM ET/PT
Monday, April 8, 4 AM ET/PT
Monday, April 8, 7 PM ET/PT
Tuesday, April 9, 2 AM ET/PT

For the record:

I do like to keep things straight and honest. I just wanted to clear up a couple inaccuracies with the Monsters and Mysteries in America that’s been showing this week on Discovery networks. I thought they did a good job with production, and the show as a whole was good, but when It comes to my initial encounter there’s a couple things that were a bit over the top.

There were three of us not two. We were just starting to set up camp..just taking off our backpacks when the rocks started coming. I was actually cutting limbs to put under my bed roll. They got the rock part right. They were not thrown at us but around us..never at us. The way they stated that I barely escaped with my life was a bit over the top.

When we decided to get the hell out of there we started charging down a very steep ridge. I stopped just for a second to get my gun and that’s when I saw it. It was not a great sighting, just a silhouette that was swaying back and forth. I know what it was but I internalized it for years. I didn’t want to tell anyone, but I did go head first into research the very next week. A short time later I returned to the area,(The trail below where it happened), and found my first set of 16″ tracks.

I do believe it followed us down the ridge and toward the camp where we spent that night. There were other rocks and sticks that were thrown later in the eve.

Since then I have had another sighting and been around them in close proximity on several other occasions. I’ve found many track lines and hundreds of tracks. In 28 years of research I’ve never gone back to that ridge where it happened. I’m not even sure why…respect maybe. We were’t wanted there. I think if we’d have pushed the envelope, someone would have gotten hurt.

I love this research, and I love the people I do it with. I am anal about details though, and I wanted this event to be shared accurately.

~ Derek Randles

About Craig Woolheater
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005. I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films: OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.


2 Responses to “Derek Randles on Monsters and Mysteries in America

  1. bassmanbob responds:

    I did watch the show. The part about the guys that shot the two bigfoot realy pissed me off. I came in contact with a bigfoot myself back in the 1970’s more that once. I posted it in “bigfootencounters.com” under the title (Texas, Harris County ‘The Big Thicket’) in the (Storys, Sightings, Encounters, Letters) page. That happened when I lived in Texas and was around 14-15yo. I live in Vancouver Washington now and when I moved here back in 92′ I had no idea I was jumping from the frying pan into the fire when it came to living in Bigfoot country. Lucky for me I have not ran into another one after moving to the “Great North West”. But I haven’t been looking for one either.

  2. Jim OR responds:

    I watched this show and found it very interesting and fresh compared to most of the shows like this. I really liked Derek Randles. I’ve never seen him on any of these TV shows before but I thought he was the most straightforward and articulate Bigfoot hunter I’ve seen – he struck me as a serious, down to earth guy who didn’t give a damn about being on the next dozen shows but really only wanted to conclusively document Bigfoot and really enjoys the search regardless of the outcome. I relate to that. As a Backpacker and a mountaineer I dig Bigfoot because he lives in all the places that I love and want to protect!

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