April 14, 2025

A Mother, Her Autistic Son… and the Creature in the Trees

What happens when a mother follows her autistic son's passion for Bigfoot into the forests of Colorado — and ends up having life-changing encounters of her own?

In this heartfelt and mysterious episode, we sit down with Dana Beasley, also known as...

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Season 1

What happens when a mother follows her autistic son's passion for Bigfoot into the forests of Colorado — and ends up having life-changing encounters of her own?

In this heartfelt and mysterious episode, we sit down with Dana Beasley, also known as Sasquatch Mom, a Bigfoot researcher from the Pikes Peak region. Dana shares her incredible journey from being a fearful skeptic to becoming a dedicated field investigator, alongside her son Sam, whose experiences with vocalizations, thrown pinecones, and strange forest structures have left even seasoned researchers curious.

You’ll hear stories from Rampart Range, Lost Creek Wilderness, and Skagway Reservoir — including mysterious whoops in the night, glowing eyes in the forest, and the moment they realized they might not be alone out there.

More than just a cryptid story, this episode explores how the search for Sasquatch became a powerful tool for connection, healing, and transformation for one unique family.Topics covered:

  • Autism and Bigfoot: Is there a connection?
  • Strange encounters in Colorado's forests
  • Parenting through shared adventure
  • How Bigfoot research brought a family closer
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You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's

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account is not from a hunter or a thrill seeker.

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It's from a mother and the autistic son who asked

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her to follow him into the woods. She said yes.

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What started as a bonding trip turned into something much more.

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Whoops in the distance, pine cone's thrown from nowhere, footprints, eyeshine,

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and the feeling that they were never really alone. From

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the forest of Pike's Peak, Colorado to the quiet ridges

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of Rampart Range. This is the story of a family

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changed by Bigfoot. It's real, it's raw, and it's not

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what you expect. This is a story of Dana Beasley,

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the woman they call Sasquatch Mom. Stay with us, all right,

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Bigfoot Society. We got the privilege of talking to Dana

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Beasley today. Dana is a Bigfoot researcher from the Pike's

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Peak region of Colorado, and she and her autistic son

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go out in that area and have really experienced some

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interesting things. She'll be sharing about that today. So welcome

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to the show. Dana. How's it going.

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Oh, it's going great. Thanks for having me on. Jeremiah.

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Absolutely before we get started. Is there anything else context

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wise the listeners would need to know about you guys

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before we get gone.

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Well, I am a child of the seventies, so I

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have always been fascinated by this subject. And one night,

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when my son was a teenager he's twenty four now,

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he asked me. He said, Mom, I want you to

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go bigfooting with me. And I thought to myself, Yeah,

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sounds intriguing, but too scary, not interested. And I changed

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my mind because I realized that reaching my son meant

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going after what he was interested in, and I was

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intrigued with it anyway. So that's kind of how I

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dived into it, from being a child of the seventies,

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with my son encouraging me that that.

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Is fantastic and that and how good, How that's amazing.

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You know. That's what being a good parent is is

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like realizing what your kid is into and like, I'm

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going to use that to connect with them, no matter what,

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no matter exactly how you know out there it is

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and good Anya for that. But you know, Dana, I'm

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going to make sure. I want to make sure that

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you have the time to share what you guys have experienced.

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So I'm going to go ahead and hand things over

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to you. Feel free to take us back to you know,

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when you first started experiencing some things out there.

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Sure, so, as I said, my son challenged me to

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go and search for Bigfoot. And the first time we

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did that was in twenty nineteen, and I had contacted

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Jim Myers. I'd heard about him, I'd heard about Sasquatch Outpost,

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and so we camped near there at Meridian and that

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was when I first had a quote unquote big fitting experience.

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I can't say that anything extraordinary happened, but it was

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a learning experience and I just fell in love with it.

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We went to the Sasquatch Outpost. We loved that. It

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was so fascinating, and so that was kind of how

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we launched our time. And we've done fascinating things like

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go to Lost Creek Colderness. I've seen things that I

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can't explain, like a huge double X in the forest

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down there at Lost Creek Wilderness. I just can't comprehend

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how this double X got there. And then, like I said,

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we do research mostly in pipes Peak region along raandpart

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Range Road, and I'll never forget the first time we

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went to a spot there that we actually called the

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spot where it was Halloween night and we went we

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got to this bridge and we were overlooking some valleys

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and some more ridges. That area is kind of like

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different fingers of hallers and ridges. And we heard a

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howl and Sam, that's my son's name, he got so

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excited and he starts mimicking Matt Moneymaker. I do believe

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there's a squatch in these woods or something. And it

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was just to see that join in his face when

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he heard that, and the thrill of it was so

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tremendously exciting. And so we had that experience, and then

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then we had an amazing experience at the ridge. The

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next ridge over. We went all the way down to

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the end of this hiking trail and it was there

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was a big hill overlooking a valley of deep deep woods,

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and we heard whoops and we heard some really interesting things.

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And then on our way back we rested. We were

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resting on some stumps and I was wearing some amplification headphones,

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and all of a sudden I heard this well and

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it sounded like it was right next to me because

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I was wearing the headphones. And my first thoughts thought

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was that's a bigfoot. And my second thought was, we've

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got to get out of here. And Sam, of course

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he heard it too, but he heard it where it

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actually was. He said it was just down the valley,

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just down from the ridge where we were at. So

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we started making our way back. But Sam was fascinating

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and he kept fascinated, and he kept looking and searching

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and calling, and then I made a call and we

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heard one back, and that was just such an interesting experience.

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And then we went back home and we lickd up

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the Sierra Sounds and we found a spot where it

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sounded exactly like Sierra Sounds, so we're pretty sure that

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we heard a big foot. That was a tremendous, tremendous experience.

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And then he started to go more north on Rampart

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Range Road, almost towards Douglas County, and we would camp

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over there. And one time we were camping late September

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and Sam and I were sitting by the fire. My

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husband was already in bed in the camper, and it

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was about eleven o'clock at night, it was cold, full

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moon just came out, and we all of a sudden

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heard like a bark behind us, a real sharp one,

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and then we heard this holler that was down the

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hill from us, and it moved across the valley. And

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at that time Sam was wearing the amplification headphones and

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he heard children laughing and giggling. And this again, this

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was eleven o'clock at night, and this wasn't near any

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of the dispersed campgrounds that we could tell, and it

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was eleven o'clock at night and it was cold, so

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it was so fascinating and I wasn't scared or anything.

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I just felt the sense of peace, like, wow, this

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is just surreal. But Sam heard all of that, and

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then the next day we went down to that valley

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where we thought that the sound originated from, and we

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found a bunch of boat trees, and then Sam went

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on this hill and he found some small footprints. So

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that was one of my most favorite times we've heard.

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We've been to that area several times. We've heard lots

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of howls there. In fact, one time Sam thought that

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he heard something in a gully at night. He described

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it as maybe as what he called a sentence that

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was guarding the rest of the family. That was his supposition.

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And then last fall we were at that same place

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and we were out there at night and he heard

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he saw some eyeshine and he saw a dark figure

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and it kind of turned around. Now we look back

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through my video because all this time, most of the time,

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I've been recording this in video, and I created my

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own YouTube channel called sasquash Mom, just mainly the document

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in our experiences. And there was a deer that went by,

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but Sam doesn't think it was the deer, so that

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was a real puzzler for us. So we've just it's

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just been an amazing journey of hearing mainly vocalizations, seeing

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some interesting structures and wondering where they come from and

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how they got there. Who did that? Was it man made?

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Was it Sasquash made. One time we were camping near

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Turner Gold Show for by terry All Reservoir, and we

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were just sitting around the fire and all of a sudden,

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some pine cones started to be thrown at us. And

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we lived up in the trees and there weren't any

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pine cones right where we were, so that was very

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odd and mysterious to us. So we haven't had any sightings,

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you know, class A sidings. Sam may have seen something

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but he's not sure. It's nothing nothing for sure, but

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just the adventure and the mystery just keeps us going

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out there, and mainly just we're able to spend time

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with each other. That's the main, really important thing that

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we get to do.

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I agree. I you know, I've taken Ey as well

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have a child and I've taken him out in the

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woods to do kind of like bigfoot camp out father something,

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and it is a really it's a really special time.

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I'd recommend, you know, parents, if you can take your

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kids camping, it is a great way to bond for sure.

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You know, you mentioned that you have the Sasquatch Mom

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YouTube channel. Have you ever seen anything upon second review

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of the footage that you're putting up there, or have

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people pointed out anything? After seeing people.

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Have pointed out things. Now I don't know that I

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can I see them myself, but definitely people have pointed

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out things. Are like there was this one time the

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same area in the northern part of Rampart Range where

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we go to that we hurt some yips and some

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strange howls and I happen to catch that on video

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and I played it and people were like, oh, that

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it's a bigfoot. And then I then last summer we

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went to the Bigfoot Conference hosted by Sasquatch Outposts and

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Sasquatch Clothing Company, and I there's a gentleman named Jason

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Frank who wrote a book and he is a well

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known research in this region, and he listened to it

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and he said it was a bigfoot. So I don't know,

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but but yes, but I have had people say in

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my videos, oh, yes, there's something there at three thirty eight,

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you know whatever.

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So yes, that's awesome. I love when the community starts

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to come together and you get people throwing stuff into

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your your comments and like, hey, look at that, and

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it's always a good time. I'll yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll

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be putting out of vlogs kind of like that starting

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in a few months, and it'll be fun to see

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if that that stuff kind of gets picked up people

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start and.

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Stuff from there. But what I love is that there

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kids that watch it too, and particularly a brother's named

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Jacob and Noah, and they just love to watch my show.

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So that's pretty helpling that. I just love that there

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are kids watching it and liking it.

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No, absolutely, I mean, you never know who's watching your content,

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and you know, I'll be at conferences and I'll have

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families come up and like really little kids saying how

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we love listening to your show, and I'm like, well,

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that's why I edit up to swears now, because you

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never know right when the little kids are listening.

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I know, my most popular video has a swear word

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in it because we were coming down a trail. We

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were hearing all these whoops all around, and then all

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of a sudden we hear gunshots and some idiots were

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shooting off guns off of the road very very short

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distance from the road, and it was illegal to shoot there,

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and I let off that'd swear word, and ardly I

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ever swear. So, yeah, that is there.

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That's funny. You got your PG thirteen for that one, probably, yeah,

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right right right. You mentioned that Sam found some some

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uh some smaller footprints the one time. Do you have

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any estimate of how of their their length at all?

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Or were you able to measure them?

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You know, I think sometimes we get so excited that

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we forget about things like that. Yep, I don't have that,

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but I do have that on video.

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Okay, gotcha, there you go. Well, we'll have the link

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to that definitely in the description show notes. So people

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can check that out then come back here and you

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can they can be like it was. It was this big.

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Have you guys ever experienced any weird physical effects when

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you've been out in the field looking for things?

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Sam? Yeah, Sam has. Before I even got involved in this,

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we had visited my brother in New Mexico in the

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Manzano Mountains and we had taken our camper there and

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Sam was going around tree knocking and all of a sudden,

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he felt like he had this headache and he was tired,

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and he had to go inside the camper and rest.

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Then he told me at the time, he said, I've

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been zapped. And I didn't really know what that meant

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because I hadn't gotten into it at the time, But yeah,

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that was definitely one time. And then another time we

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were out hiking in one of our favorite places and

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it happened to him again. He just got a really

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bad headache and very tired, and so we went back

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into the cars. Soon as we got into the car,

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he was fine. We started driving around Rampar range and

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he was perfectly fine. So those were definitely two times

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I noticed that he may have been what they call that.

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That's really interesting. It is also interesting how it affects

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different people in different ways, and especially when you take

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the individual out of the environment. It usually it's like,

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all right, we're good. Yeah, yeah, very very.

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He was perfectly fine. So I think there's something too

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infra sound. It's definitely a very interesting thing.

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Have you started to get to the point where people

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around your area are starting to become aware, Hey, this

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person is into bigfoot? You know, I'm going to share

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my account with these individuals. Has anything like that ever

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started to happen to you guys.

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No, unfortunately not. Most of our connection since have been

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through Jim Myers and more up in that area, so

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I haven't met too many people around Colorado Springs. I

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would love to. I'd actually like to start an organization

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mainly so that some other, maybe younger people can be

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with Sam going out into the mountains and he could

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do a little more radical things without his mother tagging along,

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who isn't in you know, the best of shape, and

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is a slight bit bit older than him, so you know,

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that would be so great. And also I'd love to

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camp out in the Rampire range. You know, you always

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hear the stories are of you're in a tent and

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Jim Myers tell stories like that he's in a tent

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and he sees his hand print on and but maybe

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there'd be more safety in numbers. I'm a little bit

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uh scared of that. I've come a long ways because

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when I first started, I would get so scared. It

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was a lot. I was be scared to go out

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at night, and now I love it. I love going

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out on night ikes and I love camping in wilderness

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areas in my safe camper. But yeah, I'm trying to

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get myself to go actual tent camping in a total

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where there's no campgrounds whatsoever. In these dispersed hiking places.

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I can tell you, but it's pretty wild.

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Yeah. Yeah, so that would be where safety and numbers

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would be nice. Besides just my son and I or

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my son husband and I. Yeah, that would be nice.

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So we'll see. But yeah, I would love to know

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more people around this region that actually do that, because

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I don't know of anybody.

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Well, well, hopefully through this people from that region can

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check out your channel, maybe start a few conversations on

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the U in your comments, all that good stuff that

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can lead to some fun, fun things.

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But yes, that'd be great.

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Are you okay if we discuss autism and bigfoot for

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a few minutes?

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Oh? Absolutely, okay one of my favorite. Yeah.

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Absolutely. Do you think that, I mean, this is going

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right into it, but do you think there could potentially

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be any connection between autism and bigfoot? That is something

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that's being thrown around the community in the last few years.

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Interesting in the sense of someone likes Sam having a

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special ability to sense things. I would definitely agree with that.

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If that, I'm not even exactly sure what you mean

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because that hasn't reached my ears, but I definitely see

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in him a ability to like First of all, he

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can focus on this subject. He focused so much on

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it that we were homeschooling when this all started. I

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turned this into a homeschooling science class cryptozoology and gave

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him a full credit for it. Because when he dives

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into something, he dives into it, and he did it

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full force and with he has a lot of knowledge

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about it. So I definitely think that there is some

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kind of connection with being able to have that kind

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of different sense, if you know what I mean.

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Now, I definitely get it. I've even been involved with

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certain groups where there has been an autistic child present,

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and sometimes there's more interactions which you know, and then

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and then you're maybe you're thinking, is it because that

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individual is here. I don't know if there's a way

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to prove that, but there's some people, especially if you

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know there's an individual his name is Chris Noel, and

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he even has a a book about the potential connections

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between Sasquatch and autism, and you know, it's just I

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think it's also maybe a thing on the mind of

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the community. I don't know if you've you've listened to

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the Telepathy Tapes podcast that has been it's very very interesting.

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It's it's I can tell you that this has helped

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my son so much because before we started this and

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some other things that I'm doing here locally, he was

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stuck in front of his computer. He already talked to anybody.

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And then we got involved in bigfooting. We went to

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like one time we went to a town hall that

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was hosted by Sasquad out posts up in Bailey or

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near Bailey, and there's like what thirty or forty people

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in the room and all talking about their experiences and

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all of a sudden, Sam had to talk about something

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he knew about, which was the Saint Louis vocalizations, and

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nobody knew what he was talking about. They were all

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very fascinated, and then they came up and asked him

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about it afterwards. This is my son who is extremely shy,

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and like I said, he will He at that point

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would hardly talk to anyone except for me. He had

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to speak up in front of a group. I was floored.

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And so he's just progressively gotten able to talk to

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more people. And now like last summer, as I said,

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we went to the expedition, the Bigfoot Expedition, and we

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were driving out to one of the sites on a

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night hike, and he and this older gentleman were in

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the back of a pickup truck and he talked to

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this guy Bill all the way there, all the way back,

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he talked to anybody. And I told the one of

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the directors of the weekend, I told him about Sam

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and what this had done for him, and I think

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maybe I was you know, I think that touched him deeply.

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So there is definitely something really healing about being out

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there in the woods and being out there with his community.

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It has helped Sam so much.

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That's great to hear that. It is so empowering for him.

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And it's such an interesting community because you get these

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events that happened and they are not they're not written

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about anywhere, and they're usually not in videos. So then

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it becomes a passing down of oral tradition in a

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way where you have one individual that really knows all

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this stuff about one certain location, and like the Sasquatch

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activity there, we're like the Saint Louis vocalizations, which I'm

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not really even familiar with myself. Now I'm super curious about, like, wow,

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is this in Colorado? Yes, Missouri? I don't know.

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I think it's Missouri. It's really interesting. Yeah, you have

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to go check that out.

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So it is a very cool thing and also empowering.

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How cool is it that you know, now he's just

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he's getting out there, he's talking to people and really

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making him, you know, come out of his shell. I

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guess in a way.

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Yes, yes, exactly, it's exactly what it's done. And now

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it's interesting. My husband, he's also autistic. He's not been

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officially diagnosed, but you know, we think it's hereditary and

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he has different manifestations of it, different kind of behaviors,

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and my husband is a bit oblivious. We have to

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constantly tell him, don't get too far from you know,

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because safety is so important. You don't want anyone to

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be separated and not see each other in the woods.

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So yeah, he's And then our joke is when he sneezes,

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he sneezes so loud that he scares all the squatches away. Yep,

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so he's there a foolproof safety. All he has to

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do is sneeze and we're fine.

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That's true. Yeah, stuff gets too crazy and bring out

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Dad and he.

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Can Yeah, well can do that on demand.

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That's funny. Oh man, has there been ever a time

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when you guys have been out there and things got

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a little bit too intense for you guys?

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Well, I may have thought so, but I was a chicken,

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you know, like hearing some thing russell or at night

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or whatever I was. And this is the other thing.

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It has changed me so much because I used to

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be so afraid of everything, and it has made me

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realize that there are worse things to face than the

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monster you think that is lurking in the woods. It's

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even it's so much harder to face the monster that's

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inside of you that tells you, you know, I'm talking

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about me. It tells me that I'm not good enough

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or anever amount to anything or all that. The more

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I face my fears out there in the woods, the

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more I am able to face my own internal and

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external fears, and the boulder I get and the more

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progress I make. So to me, it's just it's saved

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my life. My son saved my life in that way. Especially,

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I'm just being physical because because before this I was

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not exercising. I didn't I was losing mobility. And then

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we got into this and we had this idea. In fact,

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our one of our goals is to hike the road

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a trail for thirty miles. Oh, you got to get

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in shape. And now I have a reason to get

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in shape. And so I've changed in that way too,

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And I can thank my son for practically, well literally

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saving my life.

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Wow, what a journey for both of you. That is

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That is fantastic. Have you so it sounds like you're

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over over the time. You know, you went from being

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fearful to not as as much. Did you find that

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that affected the interactions at all?

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Well, I can. Unfortunately, I can't say that I've had

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any particular interactions. I've heard. I've heard some vocalizations. You

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probably have heard some responses, but so far it hasn't

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been that close. But it would be interesting to see

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what happens when it is it is closer. I have had,

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like I don't know if this means anything, but I've

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had some interesting dreams of dreamt about bigfoots. I even

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had a when we were out in Lost Creek. I

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heard and I don't know if what was my sleep

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in my sleep or if I really heard I heard

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a big foot howl. And then I was in this

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paralysis like where you didn't know if you're asleep or not.

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And then I did fall asleep for sure, And I

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had a dream about a yetti. But I told Daphney

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Meyers about that not long after, because I think we

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went back to Bailey and talked to her and she said, yeah,

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that campground there were some vocalizations like a year ago,

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and people were so scared they got out of there.

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So maybe I really heard a bigfoot vocalization. I don't know,

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but you know too. I think somehow it's interesting that

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I've had all these dreams about them, So I don't

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know what it means, but it's interest to me.

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Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. You know, when I

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came back from being out in Oregon had some of

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the most vivid, intense streams I've ever heard in my life,

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and it was a little I'm not really sure what

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to make of it. Still, it was almost like you

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were really in the dream. It's very weird, very weird stuff.

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Yes, yes, and these big foot well, they were both

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females that tutoring they had, and they weren't scary. They

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just had this huge sense of peace about it. I

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don't see them as scary monsters, although you know, they

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can be, and some can be more aggressive than others,

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especially if they're guarding their territory or their families. But

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I don't look at them as horrible, horrendous monsters that

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go around killing people of purpose. I think they're all

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there's different kinds, but you know, around here, I see

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them as peaceful beings. Not that you know, I'm going

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to be foolish about it, but but that's how I

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see them. I have a lot of respect for what

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people call the forest people or sabe or you know whatever,

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you want to.

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Call them, you know. Besides, you know we did talk

452
00:29:21.119 --> 00:29:24.319
about you have your YouTube channel, but you've also are

453
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:28.319
an author of fiction as well. Would you be able

454
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:33.119
to share a little bit about or about your Bigfoot

455
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:34.279
theme fiction as well?

456
00:29:35.039 --> 00:29:38.039
Yeah, yeah, of course. So so that first day that

457
00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:42.160
we the first time that we camped over Meridian Campground,

458
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:47.519
I had an idea to write a novel about a

459
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.880
teenager who is who has Asperger's or autism that meets

460
00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:56.599
a junior Sasquatch. And so I've been writing that novel

461
00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.640
since twenty nineteen, like just in bits and pieces. I'm

462
00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:07.079
probably halfway through the rev draft, and that has been

463
00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:09.839
so much fun, and I've used a lot of my

464
00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:14.359
experiences and also just I've since then, I've listened to

465
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:17.440
a lot of podcasts with people's experiences and kind of

466
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:21.680
weaved all these kinds of things together. So I don't

467
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:23.559
know if I'm going to get it done this summer,

468
00:30:23.599 --> 00:30:27.559
but hopefully by next summer. And then and then a

469
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:31.400
couple of halloweens ago, I got an idea to write

470
00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:35.839
a short story, and it's about a prank that these

471
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:39.400
this brother pulls on his brother, and that comes from

472
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:43.480
when I lived in Albuquerque when I was a child.

473
00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:49.079
My two brothers came home one day scared and white

474
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.160
as a ghost because they said they saw a bigfoot

475
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.400
and climbed down this rock and take this girl and

476
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:02.160
take it away. And this was the the question that

477
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:05.480
I had growing up. Was this real? Did they really

478
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:08.119
see it? One of my brothers says, Oh, it was

479
00:31:08.119 --> 00:31:12.160
probably somebody pranking us. And so it gave me an

480
00:31:12.200 --> 00:31:16.039
idea to write a story about these two competitive brothers

481
00:31:16.079 --> 00:31:20.359
and their little sister and how they encounter a bigfoot

482
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:24.200
in Washington State because I also used to live there.

483
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:26.480
I was at Military brad so I've moved around a lot.

484
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:32.319
So yeah, So I wrote this story all about this

485
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:35.839
family and they're encounter with bigfoot on Halloween. And then

486
00:31:35.880 --> 00:31:38.359
I decided to expand it and write these short stories

487
00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:42.039
that kind of go along for every month, like one

488
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.839
we'll be Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. And they'll move around. They'll

489
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:49.519
be in Washington State, then New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, And

490
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:53.359
I'm gonna put some of those different, like I'll take

491
00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:55.440
take some of those stories because it's is set in

492
00:31:55.440 --> 00:32:00.799
the seventies and so is my novel. And I'm going

493
00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:02.759
to take those old stories and kind of talk about

494
00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:06.160
them and you know, bring them out that way. So

495
00:32:06.200 --> 00:32:09.640
it's it's really fun. And then and then I'm also

496
00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:13.440
taking all of my videos one by one. I'm taking

497
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:18.079
the transcript of it and turning it into a story

498
00:32:18.160 --> 00:32:23.160
and then explaining it more in print of what happened.

499
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:27.400
And all of these will be an or are in

500
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.079
my sub stack account. I have a substack account, and

501
00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:32.680
that's where I'm publishing them right now.

502
00:32:34.680 --> 00:32:38.400
That's awesome, And how wild is it that this subject

503
00:32:38.440 --> 00:32:42.880
has kind of been following you through your life? You

504
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:47.880
have that history from the earlier that interesting.

505
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.319
Yes. Yes, In fact, when I was fourteen and I

506
00:32:51.400 --> 00:32:54.319
lived in Littleton, Colorado, I thought the Bigfoot was going

507
00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:57.079
to come over the hill, come up my room and

508
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.799
take me away. And I was so frightened. But I

509
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:04.839
was for this is so funny. That's how scared I

510
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.839
was a Bigfoot. But yet there was this huge fascination.

511
00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:10.559
My brother David and I used to we used to

512
00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:13.160
go around in the Heymess Mountains looking for Bigfoot. Of

513
00:33:13.200 --> 00:33:15.640
course we didn't know what we were doing, but you know,

514
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.480
so I had memories of actually doing that, not that

515
00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.359
it was, you know, on any grand scale, but that

516
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:25.920
actually was a part of my childhood and Sam just

517
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:29.200
touched this part of me, this nostalogia part of me.

518
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:33.000
So it was really neat.

519
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:38.400
That is is very cool. You know, you focus on

520
00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:42.240
the Pike's Peak area. Do you have any advice for

521
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:46.880
people that might want to check out that area? You know,

522
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:51.640
focused on bigfoot activity and different places.

523
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.799
Well, there was actually a lot of sightings in the

524
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:00.440
Pike's Peak area, and a lot of them are in Taylor,

525
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.039
you know, obviously Tayler County, but a long rampart range

526
00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:09.519
road the backside of Pike's Peak. I had a friend

527
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:13.400
who saw a bigfoot come through Bar Camp Bark Bark

528
00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:17.159
Trail camp or bar Camp Trail or something. This is

529
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:20.360
a campground that is on the trail that goes up

530
00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:23.360
to Pike's Peak on the east side, and she saw

531
00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:30.159
a bigfoot. So there's Skagway Reservoir, There's been sidings there,

532
00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:34.480
It's just all over. My best piece of advice is

533
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:39.239
to go look at either BFRO or the Bigfoot Mapping

534
00:34:39.280 --> 00:34:42.559
Project and that will tell you where those sidings are.

535
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:45.119
And what we try to do is we try to

536
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.320
look for those sidings and go to that site and

537
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:51.440
talk about it from the original siding. So we do

538
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:54.760
some of that in our research. But yeah, go to

539
00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:58.760
BFRO or the Bigfoot Mapping Project and there's so many

540
00:34:58.800 --> 00:34:59.840
sidings around here.

541
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:04.880
Is it one of those regions where you really have

542
00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:07.880
to do your homework before just launching into an area

543
00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:11.519
or is it pretty easy access to get to these places?

544
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:16.119
That depends. Some of them, you know, you need a

545
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.719
four wheel drive. I would some of them are pretty

546
00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.559
rough roads. Now, we haven't ventured into too many wilderness

547
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.159
areas here. The wilderness areas are more like up North

548
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:35.480
and Lost Creek and stuff like that. But I would

549
00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:39.320
say when you're going into the woods, always be prepared,

550
00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:43.519
just like boy scouts, right, So you want to you

551
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:48.079
want to be able to especially defend yourself against bears

552
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:51.599
or cougars. Those are probably more of a danger than anything,

553
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:55.840
although we've never had any problems with that. But you

554
00:35:55.880 --> 00:35:57.519
want to be prepared if you're going to go into

555
00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:00.280
the woods. I'd say that's the number one thing. So

556
00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:04.199
you haven't a wotter, and you have some kind of

557
00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:09.960
protection like maybe it's bear spray, and you have whatever

558
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:11.960
it is that you need. To be in the woods.

559
00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:15.119
You have a good map, so those kinds of things.

560
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:18.559
That's that's pretty solid advice.

561
00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.639
Yeah, yeah, I'm here lock. What happened to the people

562
00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:25.159
in Washington State. It went out but in December and

563
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:29.400
they died. That you just have to be smart about

564
00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:31.199
it and be prepared.

565
00:36:32.119 --> 00:36:35.360
That is definitely an understatement. You know, the elements can

566
00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.559
change on you, and especially right that area.

567
00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:41.400
Is Oh that area, it could snow in July, you

568
00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:41.960
don't know.

569
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:49.880
Yeah, do you guys ever talk about you know, man,

570
00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:53.039
if we could go to this place in the US

571
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:55.119
too to look for Bigfoot, that would be really cool.

572
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:57.280
Do you guys have like a bucket list of places

573
00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:59.880
to go to or just kind of focus on Colorado?

574
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:03.519
Well, I'll tell you I have a nephew who lives

575
00:37:03.599 --> 00:37:08.559
in the Olympia. I'd love to go there. Oh my gosh.

576
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:11.440
I also have a niece who lives his sister lives

577
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:17.039
in Reno near lay Tahoe. That would be amazing. So yeah,

578
00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:22.280
definitely those two places. Also, my parents are both from Wyoming,

579
00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:26.159
and my mother lived in Sheridan, Wyoming when she grew up,

580
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:29.440
and so I know that there's a lot of sidings there.

581
00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:32.760
We would just love to go to the Big Horns

582
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:38.079
and to the wind River Reservation area. There's a lot

583
00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:42.440
of sidings there and in Riverton where my dad grew up,

584
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:45.480
so I think that would be awesome. So definitely we

585
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.119
would love to now like in twenty twenty where we

586
00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:51.000
went to South Dakota into the hill country and we

587
00:37:51.079 --> 00:37:53.719
did do a little bit of big footing, but I

588
00:37:53.719 --> 00:38:00.320
don't remember anything too significant happening. It was fun, but

589
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:03.599
but definitely yeah, and then then our ultimate goal and

590
00:38:03.639 --> 00:38:05.559
not that we would find any big fit over here

591
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:07.679
over there, but we'd love to go to Scotland and

592
00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:12.199
then like a totally different subject and see lock Ness.

593
00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:16.480
That would be really fun too, So I.

594
00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:19.320
Mean that that would be phenomena. But yeah, Scotland, I

595
00:38:19.320 --> 00:38:23.840
mean there are some of the Highland areas and you've got, yeah,

596
00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:26.119
you know your wild man stories and.

597
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:30.480
You exactly right right, you never know, I think it

598
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:33.840
would be well, it would just be fascinated. For one thing,

599
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:37.800
I'm I'm a Scottish Scottish ance history so I just

600
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:40.920
love to go there again. But yeah, that would be fascinating.

601
00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:45.880
That would be our ultimate ultimate dream there.

602
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.079
Do you this is kind of putting you on the spot.

603
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:55.679
But do you have any advice to Let's say, if

604
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.000
there's parents that are listening where they have, you know,

605
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:05.840
autistic where they are super into bigfoot. Have there been

606
00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:09.000
any lessons that you've learned over the years as you

607
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:15.400
started to get into this subject with your son, Well, I.

608
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:21.119
Would say give them time and space. I mean, my

609
00:39:21.280 --> 00:39:25.920
son struggles with energy, so he's not always able to

610
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:29.400
go when I think I want to, so I have

611
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:35.480
to be patients. And then sleep is a huge factor.

612
00:39:35.599 --> 00:39:40.039
So if you're going out camping, making sure that they

613
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:43.719
get outequate sleep. I know it's difficult when you're out

614
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:47.760
they're camping, especially if you're in a tent, but that

615
00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:51.559
has been something that has thrown us off. If Sam

616
00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.719
doesn't get to sleep that he needs, then he just

617
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.039
doesn't have the energy to go out in the mountains.

618
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:02.440
So definitely king about how the kids can get sleep

619
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:08.280
is important. And also you want to make sure that

620
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:12.239
you're in sight of each other at all times. Having

621
00:40:12.280 --> 00:40:14.800
walkie talkies would be really good. That's what we have,

622
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:20.079
so but yeah, definitely my number one thing would be

623
00:40:20.199 --> 00:40:23.159
don't let them out of your sight. Train them never

624
00:40:23.239 --> 00:40:25.559
to get out of side because it could take a

625
00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:28.760
second and they're gone. I don't mean to scare anybody,

626
00:40:28.920 --> 00:40:31.440
but it's just the facts. So you want to make

627
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.840
sure that they're always in your site and they know

628
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:35.239
to be in your site.

629
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:39.679
No, I think that that is great advice as well.

630
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.239
I mean it's yeah, it's definitely not to scare anything anyone,

631
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.639
but it is it is a conversation that needs to

632
00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:50.480
be said. How many stories have you heard of an

633
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:54.480
individual being there one second and you turn around, turn back,

634
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:56.079
They're gone forever I'm in.

635
00:40:56.440 --> 00:41:00.159
It's so easy to turn your back for a few

636
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:03.960
seconds and then they're gone. That is so easy. So yeah,

637
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:09.440
just having having that is so important. Even with us

638
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:12.800
and we're three adults, you know, we don't you know,

639
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:14.760
let's we have the walkie talkies. We don't go up

640
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.199
by ourselves.

641
00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:25.639
Absolutely. M Dana has been a really fun time talking

642
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.920
to you tonight, and thank you for being so so

643
00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:33.920
open with your your view of the subject that it's

644
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.280
just it's it's such an interesting and unique one. Do

645
00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:42.800
you mind spending a few minutes reminding my listeners how

646
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:46.800
they can keep up to date with with what you

647
00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:52.559
guys have going on with your search into sasquatch out

648
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:53.360
there in Colorado.

649
00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:58.360
Yeah, i'd love to. So my YouTube channel is the

650
00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:04.119
handles at squatch as qua tch Mom. That's my channel,

651
00:42:04.400 --> 00:42:07.559
and I have a hundred videos right now, I'm going

652
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:09.760
to have one hundred and one very shortly because I

653
00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:14.760
just finished it. So there's that. And then honestly, I

654
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.039
just started my sub attack, So I don't know the link,

655
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:19.119
but if you want it, I can give it to you.

656
00:42:19.760 --> 00:42:23.920
But that's the other place where I write about Bigfoot,

657
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:27.960
either through fiction or I write recaps all of the

658
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.199
experiences that we've had.

659
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:33.320
That's great. Yeah, I'll make sure to have both those

660
00:42:33.360 --> 00:42:37.440
links in the show notes. But Dana, thank you so much,

661
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:40.320
Dana Beasley for coming on the show. It has been

662
00:42:40.400 --> 00:42:41.360
a pleasure.

663
00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:46.039
It was fun. Bigfitting is my number one therapy. It's

664
00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:48.519
just it's my life saver, so I love it.

665
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:53.599
Just wanted to say thank you truly for listening to

666
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:56.719
this episode of the Big for Society podcast. Dana's story

667
00:42:56.760 --> 00:42:59.800
is a reminder that sometimes chasing mysteries into the woods

668
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:03.519
leads to unexpected healing, deeper connections, and moments that you

669
00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:06.199
never forget. So huge thanks to her and her son

670
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:09.559
Sam for sharing their journey with us. If you enjoyed

671
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.559
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676
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677
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:29.480
know has had a Bigfoot encounter, especially in areas like

678
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:34.400
Subtle Lake, Rainbow McKinsey Bridge, Sweet Home, Oakridge, or anywhere

679
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.039
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680
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.840
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689
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690
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