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The Three Knocks
I know this is going to sound insane, but after all these years, I can’t shake the feeling that I need to talk about it. My name is John, and I live up near Mullen, Idaho. It was September of 2012, the first real autumn after I lost Lily—my wife, my heart. Cancer took her fast, and suddenly it was just me and Emma, our twelve-year-old daughter, rattling around in a house that felt too big, too quiet.
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That evening, the world outside was still, the kind of silence that presses against your ears until you start hearing things that aren’t there. Emma was outside playing with Buck, our golden retriever, while I finished up some work in the kitchen. That’s when I heard it—three knocks, clear as day, coming from the woods behind the house. Not a branch falling, not the wind. Deliberate. Measured. I tried to brush it off, but when Emma came inside, she looked pale.
“Dad, there’s something out there.”
I told her it was nothing, just the wind, but then the smell hit—a thick, musky odor, like wet fur and something older, wilder. I’d grown up in these mountains. I knew the scent of bear, elk, skunk. This was different.
Grief and Shadows
Lily had loved our isolation, said it gave her space to paint and think. I’d loved it too, when she was alive. Now, the silence felt like a weight, pressing down on every room. Grief does that—shrinks the world until all you can hear is your own heart beating and the wind in the pines.
Emma spent her days with Buck, wandering the property, always within sight of the house. I’d watch her from the porch, making sure she was okay, but I could see the change in her. She was quieter, more watchful, her laughter less frequent. Every so often, I’d catch her looking at old photos of Lily when she thought I wasn’t watching.
It was early September when things started to feel wrong. The aspen leaves were just turning gold, and the nights dropped cold. One evening after dinner, Emma came to me holding Buck close, her voice small.
“I heard something outside. Three knocks. Like someone knocking on a tree.”
I told her it was probably just the wind, but even as I said it, I didn’t believe myself. There was something in her eyes—a fear I hadn’t seen since she was little and convinced there were monsters under her bed.
The Knocks Return
Two nights later, I was sorting through Lily’s things when I heard it again. Three loud, deliberate knocks from the woods behind the house. Buck lifted his head, tense, ears pointed toward the back door. Emma came downstairs, her face pale.
“You heard it too, didn’t you?”
I nodded, unable to lie. We stood together at the window, waiting for something else to happen. But the night was silent, except for the wind and the distant call of an owl.
I grabbed a flashlight and stepped outside, leaving Emma and Buck inside with the door locked. The air was sharp and cold. I swept the beam across the tree line, searching for eyes, for movement—anything. Nothing. Just darkness and the lingering, heavy smell of wet fur.
I stood there for minutes, listening, until the cold drove me back inside.
Signs and Stories
A few days passed. Emma went back to school, Buck returned to his spot by the fireplace, and I tried to lose myself in chores. But I couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched.
I ran into Jerry Hutchkins at the hardware store. He leaned in, voice low. “You hear the stories about North Fork Road? People disappearing. Three knocks at night. Tracks too big for deer, wrong for bear. Maybe Bigfoot.”
I laughed it off, but the word stuck in my mind. Bigfoot. I’d heard the stories, just like everyone else, but I’d never believed them. Now, I wasn’t so sure.
A week later, Emma found the tracks. Early morning, misty and cold, she came running back from the creek, breathless.
“Dad, come see this.”
Down by the muddy bank, I saw them—massive footprints, eighteen inches long, wide, with five clear toes. Human-shaped, but impossibly large. The stride between them was longer than mine. They came from deep in the woods and disappeared into the underbrush.
Buck refused to go near them. Emma waited for me to explain, but I had nothing. “Probably just a big animal,” I said, but I didn’t believe it, and neither did she.
The Presence Grows
That night, the smell came back—stronger than ever, seeping in through the window. Buck paced by the door, whining. I checked the locks, turned on the porch light, and stared into the darkness, feeling that same sense of being watched.
Emma noticed. She started doing her homework in the kitchen instead of her room, always keeping me in sight. Buck wouldn’t go outside after dark anymore. Animals know things we don’t.
I called Sarah Miller, our closest neighbor, to see if she’d heard anything. She hesitated, then admitted, “Yeah, there’s been talk. Knocking at night. People seeing things. Dad says it’s just stories, but he’s keeping the gun loaded.”
That night, the knocks came again—three, clear and deliberate. Emma came downstairs, her voice trembling. “Dad, it’s doing it again.”
I grabbed Buck’s leash. He refused to move. I told Emma to lock the door behind me and stepped outside, heart pounding. The woods were silent, the smell thick in the air. I stood at the edge of the yard, flashlight trembling in my hand, feeling like prey.
Nothing moved. I backed away, never turning my back on the darkness.
The Sighting
The next evening, just before sunset, Emma and I sat on the porch, trying to hold onto some sense of normalcy. Buck stayed inside. The light was fading, the air turning cold.
Emma froze, her mug halfway to her mouth. “Dad. Look. By the big pine.”
I followed her gaze. At first, I thought it was a bear standing upright. But it was too tall, too broad. It stood like a man, but bigger—seven or eight feet tall, dark fur, long arms, massive shoulders.
We watched it, and it watched us. It didn’t move, didn’t threaten. It just stood there, half-hidden by the trees, as real as the house behind us.
Emma squeezed my hand. I stood, legs shaking, and took a step toward the porch stairs. The creature shifted its weight, and I saw its eyes—dark, intelligent, reflecting the weak porch light. Not animal eyes. Eyes that understood.
“Bigfoot,” I whispered. The word hung between us, making everything real.
The creature tilted its head, as if it heard me, then took a step forward—fluid, deliberate. For a moment, I saw it fully, the muscles moving under its fur, the power in its frame. Then it turned and walked back into the woods, vanishing into darkness.
Aftermath
Emma and I didn’t talk about it much. What could we say? We both knew what we’d seen. We both knew it was real. I stopped sleeping well, lying awake listening for knocks, for footsteps, for that musky smell that sometimes drifted in at twilight.
Buck never went back to being the carefree dog he’d been. He stayed close to Emma, always watchful.
I found Lily’s video camera in the basement and thought about setting it up. But I didn’t. Some part of me knew that what we’d seen was private—a gift, not a spectacle. I never told anyone. Not the sheriff, not Sarah, not Jerry.
Emma grew up and moved away, but sometimes, when she visits, she’ll ask, “Do you ever hear them anymore? The three knocks?” I tell her sometimes I do, soft and distant, from deep in the woods.
Buck is gone now. The house is quieter than ever, but sometimes, when the wind is right and the light is fading, I catch a whiff of that musky scent. Sometimes, I hear three soft knocks, so faint I can’t be sure they’re real.
But I like to think they are. I like to think it’s still out there—watching, choosing to remain hidden, just as we chose to keep its secret.
Because some truths aren’t meant for the world. Some truths are gifts, reminders that the world is stranger, older, and more wonderful than we dare to admit.
And I am grateful, even now, for the night Bigfoot stood at the edge of our lives and let us see that wonder for ourselves.
