10 Years of Bigfoot Encounters in Southern New York with Gene (Members Only)

0:00 Welcome to Big for Society. Members will be hearing a special episode today about an individual Gene, who has been researching Bigfoot doc Man in a special undisclosed place in New York State for the last ten years plus. If you're on the public feed, you'll be here in a ten minute teaser and if you'd like to hear the whole thing, you can become a member over at patreon dot com forward slash the Bigfoot Society, or become a YouTube channel member by joining the Bigfoot Passe Tier. The best place to join though, is over on Patreon, as there's some stuff I can put over there that I can't put up on YouTube because they just don't play nice with it. So enjoy and let's get on with the show real quick. Before we get started, a few people have supported Big for Society one time by buying me a coffee.

0:43 I really appreciate that we've got Carol b botta coffees. She said, good show today, thanks, and Nick G. Bought a coffee. Love the show, keep up the great work. Appreciate that in both of you. Buy me a coffee is an easy way to support the podcast one time if you don't want to get into community like the Patreon, but you can just send a coffee over and it helps during the travel season or any season of the year with Big for Society. So again, thank you to Nick and Carol. I appreciate you both, and now let's really get on with the show. All right, Big for Society. I've got the privilege of talking to Gene tonight. Gene is an observer of some things from New York State, is how he puts it. I've been looking forward to talking to Jane tonight. So Gene, how are you doing, sir. I'm doing fine, Jeremiah, So how are things out there in New York State for you? Oh? The very hot these last couple of days, dangerously hot from what I've seen. I mean, you're up in the hundreds, right close to it, close to it, like ninety seven. I think, oh my goodness. Well, we're a little bit less than that out here in Iowa. But you know, Gene, we're gonna have more of a converse and this one we talked about in the pre interview, and so I'm really curious. You've observed some things over the years, and you've really put down a lot of interesting stuff in our show notes for this, But what

2:14 kind of started leading you down this road when you started noticing things that are out of the ordinary. My oldest son had a friend over for the weekend and my wife was driving him home, and on the way, since the kid doesn't really talk too much, my wife said, oh, you see that street there, there was something that happened there, the citing of something years ago, and he looked at her and he said, you know, they're real. So I piqued their interest. So she told me about that, and I know the kid's father, so I investigated what they told me, and that started me interested. I always thought though before that, I believe in you know, all the whatever they say is existing out in the Northwest. That's why I thought this stuff happened. I didn't think it happened in New York. So I put trail cams out in this area and I think six months or so, and I really got nothing at all, and it's kind of frustrating. But I went on a map and I expanded the area and I said, you know what, this would be a good place to look too, which was about only a mile away as the crow flies.

3:42 So I went there on a January eighth, I think it was back in twenty fourteen maybe, and I just hiked and something was telling me. People may laugh at this, but people just not people. But something in my head was telling me to take certain trails because there was trails all over the place. So I just followed what they said, whoever was talking to me, and I walked down this one trail and had an Indian name, just to mention that. I walked probably three quarters of a mile and I came to a little knoll where the sun came through the trees and saw I could see where it melted the snow and then it refroze. And right at that place there there was a seventeen inch footprint and I stopped short and I couldn't believe what I saw. And I found another one next to it, not in a different footprint, and I had a professional tracker checked the pictures out, and they said, you got some creature walking around up there in January, or Shaquille O'Neals up there. So that started me going up to this place, you know, for ten years now and since then I found I found many footprints, foot trails, footprint trails, UH sightings, UH,

5:19 trail cam uh, compelling stuff on the trail cam. Not not a visible figure because they would get really close to the trail camp and would wipe the whole picture out. But I could see the shape of whatever it was, and it, whatever it was, it was a human. So that's that's what I've been doing for the least ten years. And I've been keeping it quiet and slowly building and building and building, and once I had sightings, as I said, maybe I get this out there that people know because whatever it is, it needs to be protected. Now I'm not saying what it is, but there's something there and it's awfully odd looking. Gene, I got some questions for you. This is incredible. Sure it sounds like we're talking about a creature that could be thought of as Bigfoot? Is that correct? It could be? Yes? Okay. Now, New York State is a big state. There's many different regions, some of which are really known for Bigfoot. Are you able to help give us a picture of maybe what type of region we're looking at when we talk about New York City.

6:43 I can tell you it's in southern New York. Okay. I know most of them are reported in like Whitehall area, but this is far from there. Most people when I talked to we're talking about maybe the Adirondacks, we're talking about Whitehall. We also could be talking about western New York. To some people, you're saying Southern New York, southern interesting. Okay, I got to tell you too. Besides what you would some people call it bigfoot. I'm not going to say what it is because I get too much ridicule when I say that there is something else there and there is more of the other type there than there are. If it's bigfoot, I don't know, but there's more of the other type, the other type. Some people came dog man. I don't know what they are, but I've show them some pictures to people and they can see it. Other people never going to see it. I showed them clear pictures of stuff. They're never going to see it. They're going to say, oh, somebody in the costume or so.

7:50 I gave up on that. But other people have called it, Oh, that's just paradolia. You know. That's the easy answer. And my my answer to that is when you have fifty pictures and literally fifty pictures of the same shape, it can't be paradolia. I can see one or two, but not fifty. That is that. So you're seeing a shape that looks like I'm going to guess some kind of dog head. Yeah, they're juvenile. Whatever they are. I see the adults are. You don't see them very often. I have seen them, but not very often. I see the juveniles all the time. They think they're good hiders. But I got there, I got the number. Now you've got them, you've got them dialed in. Now. There's multiple spots around the United States. One of which I can talk about by name is LBL in Kentucky, where you've got bigfoot in one area, you've got dog man in the other. Sometimes are mixed. There's some other areas I can't talk about by name. But you think that you've got this type of area going on where there might be a group of bigfoot and a group of dog man perhaps, Well, my theory is they're either whatever they are, they're either related or they've learned to

9:20 coexist, because I've seen them, both of them, both types in the same picture. Have you seen anything outside of a picture at all? Oh? Yeah, yeah, four in person sightings I've had. I've had maybe fifty or one hundred of sightings in photographs that I didn't see on the day, but when I examine my pictures later on, I could see them. They're so well camoufaged. But four sightings in per and when I was thirty feet away from it, Oh wow, And I think you know, I would say, I'm speaking about the group where I go. I think they're benign. I've been up there day and night by myself. Never bothered me.

10:16 They even left the food for you one time. So they left food for you? They did they leave food for them? What did they leave for you? They left me a freshly killed mole in a torrential downpour, and oddly enough, it had a green leaf underneath it, like like a garnish like Japanese restaurant. This this might be a weird question, But how was it killed? I have no idea. Sometimes you could tell me that the neck was broken or the body was kind of twisted. Just curious if that was no this thing was intact. It was intact. I'm assuming that it was squeeze the death. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube. With a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that you're subscribed. Share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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13:35 Maybe there's somebody else out there listening it's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And I feel so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks. I know what I saw, I know what's out there. That's all I can. Please let people know, Please let them know. If you ever see one of these things, you need to tell because if you don't, then shame on you, you know, shame on you,