Rob Lowe thought he was going to die during Bigfoot encounter

While taping his new docuseries “The Lowe Files” in the Ozark Mountains, actor Rob Lowe of “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “Parks and Recreation” and “West Wing” fame claims to have had an encounter with a legendary Bigfoot – and he thought he was going to die, according to a June 27 interview he had with Entertainment Weekly.

His new docuseries follows Lowe and his two sons, Matthew and John Owen, “as they travel through the country to explore infamous unsolved mysteries, a curiosity that Rob has had since his early childhood days and has now been passed down to his boys,” according to the show’s producers, A&E.  While Lowe and his sons were camping in the Ozarks in search of a creature know to the locals as a “wood ape,” Lowe told EW that something began approaching their camp around 1:00 am.

Lowe said he was lying on the ground at the time and he had armed personnel guarding the camp that were yelling at the approaching creature to stop, orders that the creature ignored. According to Lowe’s interview with EW:

We’re 100 miles from the nearest town. We spent 45 minutes on the most rugged, brutal mountain trails. It’s 1 in the morning. There are a lot of serious former military men with loaded weapons, then something starts approaching our camps that is defying their orders to stop and their warnings that [they were] armed.

Lowe said that wood apes are what the local Ozarkians call the bigfoot-like creatures, adding that the locals never refer to the creatures as Bigfoot.  Lowe also told EW that he knows he probably sounds like “a crazy, Hollywood kook” after sharing his alleged wood ape encounter.

Because the Bigfoot episode is scheduled to be “The Lowe Files’” series finale, Lowe didn’t go into any further detail with his wood ape incident except to tell EW “I was lying on the ground thinking I was going to be killed.”

“The Lowe Files” is scheduled to premiere August 2 on A&E.  In addition to Bigfoot, we can also expect to watch the Lowe boys hunting down aliens and ghosts.

By: Ace Staff