Alaskan Bigfoot Encounters: Truckin' with Tim and the Kenai Sasquatch

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I pull over in these spots and
sleep. So I'm thinking to myself,

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Oh my gosh, he saw my
truck, he saw me. I could

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imagine on the side of the road
trying to sleep on him out there because

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I was in that SIMI and it's
a big semi trip and I felt small.

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I just kind of envisioned him wrapping. He could probably wrap his arm

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around the cab of the truck and
just shake the whole thing. Welcome to

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the big Foot Society Podcast. In
this episode, I talked to Tim,

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a long haul trucker from the Kenai
Peninsula in Alaska. What exactly did Tim

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see those nights while driving down the
Seward Highway? Find out this in more

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on this episode of the big Foot
Society podcast. All right, big Foot

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Society, Who've got the privilege of
talking to him from Alaska today? He

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had said that he's has some very
interesting encounters that happened up there in the

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state of Alaska. How's it going
tonight too, I'm going, all right,

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thank you. Is there anything else
that the listeners should know about your

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background that will help with you sharing
your stories tonight. At the time when

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I saw him, I was long
hauling between Anchorage, Stewart, Keena,

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I fair Banks, and the particular
area that I saw these two encounters that

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I drove every single day, sometimes
twice a day, and so very familiar

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with the scenery, just everything as
far as along the road sounds good,

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Let's go ahead and I'll have you
start right in with your stories of what

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you saw when you were long haul
trucking. Okay, the first encounter was

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I believe it was end of September, beginning of October. The leaves had

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already fallen off the trees, so
you could see pretty clear the brush that

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in the particular area that I was
at, it was pretty low lying.

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It was probably about five foot tall. And I was just driving along and

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I come around a corner and I
saw somebody walking across the street or the

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road, and I was just down
in the middle of nowhere. And before

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I come around the corner, there's
a cabin right here on this corner that

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people would frequent throughout the summer and
stuff, and I didn't see any vehicles

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there when I came around the corner, so I was puzzled when I saw

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the person walking across the street and
had a glimpse it looked like they were

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wearing dark brown corduroys with the real
white tan shirt. Pretty slender, real

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long hair like down to the shoulders
on the upper facial area, which I

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thought, you know, somebody that
had long hair. Was just thinking to

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myself, that's hot that somebody was
out here in the middle of nowhere.

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I didn't see anybody at the cabin, so I'm wondering if they're parked up

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around the corner. There's another corner
about half a mile or so past where

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I saw and walking, and she
wasn't going very fast normally like a typical

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regular person. They see somebody coming, they scree across the road and they

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just very lax and daisies very slow, just like not a care in the

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world. And I kicked myself in
the butt for not watching a little bit

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longer, because as soon as he
got to about a quarter turn, I

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guess for about halfway to looking to
his shoulder, I checked my rear view

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mirrors because sometimes people, even out
in the middle of nowhere, would be

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right on your butt following you and
assimi m and as slow as he was

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going, I figured I might have
to slam on my brakes here pretty I

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a better double check, make sure
anybody not on my butt. And when

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I looked, there wasn't anybody,
and I was watching, and that's about

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when I saw Bigfoot walk up to
the guardrail. And that's when I realized

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what I was looking at, because
when he went to step over the guardrail

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came up about halfway maybe just a
little bit over halfway up the ship,

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and I was always see it to
believe a kind of person, and I

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just couldn't believe my eyes. And
I'm just thinking, no way, that

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can't be what I'm what I think
it is. And I'm driving i think,

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around seventy seventy two miles an hour, and I'm like, I'm gonna

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be there in about one to two
seconds, if not sooner. And I

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just kept watching and it just looked
like it sloated, just collided down the

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side of the embankment, which was
probably i'm guessing ten to fifteen v maybe,

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and knowing where he had gone off
the road there, it was like

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I had mentioned a little lying brush
and it was open, and I said

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it, that's what I think it
is. I'll be there in a second,

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and I'm gonna see it. And
that second came and I slowed down

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and I was looking. I figured
it'd be running to be, don't I

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didn't really know what to expect,
and I just I ended up passing the

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area and just sitting there thinking to
myself like that had to have been a

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moose. I trying to make up
some kind of logical explanation in my mind

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for what I just witnessed. So
I was trying to think of, you

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know, like on a four legged
animal there. I don't know if i'd

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stay hinging, but you can see
how they walk versus just glided right down

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the side of the bank there,
and as tall as it was, it

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would have been standing way above the
brush that had no leaves on it.

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And I thought, maybe if it's
lying down, excuse me, if it's

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laying down. I'm up high enough
in the semi where I can see down

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and I could see the floor of
the hundred up there. But so,

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yeah, that was the first experience. Do you mind if I ask you

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if you follow up questions about that
story. Sure, that's a fascinating story.

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Just the fact that you said the
guardrail went halfway up as shin that's

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incredible, or up the creatures shin. How far away were you from the

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nearest town or civilization. It sounds
like it was a kind of a remote

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area. I'd probably say the nearest
town of me was Cooper's Landing, which

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is down on the Kenai Peninsula south
of Anchorage, about maybe hour and a

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half two hours or so. It's
very small. I got one grocery store

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and maybe a couple of things.
That's about it. It's probably about fifteen

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miles or so from there. So
it was really kind of out and remote.

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But it was a very remote wilderness
where I was at. It's pretty

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Alaska's pretty vast. Did you notice
anything about the creature's arms when you saw

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it for just a few seconds,
it looked like like the arms had hung

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down longer than normal, because it
almost looked like it wasn't quite all the

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way to the knee, but it
was or maybe around the knee. I

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can't recall the specifics. Everything seemed
like it happened in slow motion, but

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it all happened pretty quick because he
was walking sideways. I could just like

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a bean stock kind of talk.
Personally, I thought I initially saw it.

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If you had to give an estimate
as to how tall the creature was

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what would you say, looked tall
and tim did you notice anything about the

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head structure or the top part of
the creature when you saw for a few

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seconds, nothing out of the ordinary
other than thinking it was like somebody that

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had really long hair down too shoulder, maybe a little bit below shoulder,

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and I would have probably thought that
the hair just was parted or something.

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And you couldn't really cover in the
face a little bit. You can't think

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of anything else right off the top
of my head other than being darker on

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that lower half and lot lighter to
dirty blonde on the upper. It just

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looked like it just didn't have a
care in the world. And that was

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one of my first thoughts, was
that I didn't want to run them over

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anything like that. How did that
sighting affect the rest of your travel that

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day? I was in disbelief.
It was really just kind of I kept

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telling myself it had to have been
a moose, It had to have been

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something else other than that. And
I was just trying to tell myself without

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shreaking myself out, and a little
bit worried of, you know, about

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saying anything, because I'm just not
one to tell story especially something like that,

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and then I don't want to be
ridiculed or anything like that. It's

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very interesting because I believe in your
account you had said that you saw it

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on two legs. But yet the
human mind when it sees something like that,

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it's trying to make sense of what
is it that I saw. It's

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got to be a moose, It's
got to be something else. There's in

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a way it could be that,
And that's just such a fascinating detail for

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you to throw in there. Were
you actually able to see it cross the

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road? Then when I first came
around in the corner, I looked at

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that house or the cabin there,
and it was just starting on the passing

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lane. It probably was just like
maybe a I don't think it was even

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halfway into the oncoming traffic lane going
from left to right, so I had

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watched it those Probably it was only
a couple of steps. But if I

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had seen that'd be I would just
be replaying that over and over in my

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mind a few times for sure.
That is fascinating. Thank you for sharing

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that around Cooper Landing, Alaska on
the Kenai Peninsula. Very cool. Would

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you mind sharing your second encounters him
the second encounter was just probably about one

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to two miles away from that one, and this one was I think around

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February, so it was a few
months after that first initial sighting. I

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passed through that area before, like
the winter previous, and in that same

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area, you'd be driving along and
he'd look over and there'd be foot It

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looked like human foot tracks, and
I'd imagine that the snow is pretty deep

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because some of the moose are pretty
tall. They're probably about eight eight foot

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or more, at least eight foot
up to the about the top of their

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back. Because the snow is so
deep, they have a tendency to walk

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on the road a lot to just
try to preserve their Ownergy and I have

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a recording where we're falling a moose
and it's running down the road and then

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it after it just got too tired, had jumped off. The moose had

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just almost disappeared. So that's what
I had in mind when I saw those

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tracks out there, thinking that's odd
that it looks like almost human tracks,

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you know, because if it was
a four legged animal, the underbelly of

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it would be dragging. The tracks
would just be a little probably more shuffled

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or muddled together, and which was
in almost that same area where I saw

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that initial sighting. In the second
one, it was middle of winter and

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it was just past it as I'm
going north one to two miles and it

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was probably about midnight, one o'clock
in the morning, and it was a

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full moon. The lights don't carry
as well when it's a full moon.

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And just past where I saw there's
some other first snowmobilers would go generally in

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the wintertime, and pullouts are probably
three three hundred feet or so long,

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and they're pretty wide because they'll be
pulled and trailers stuff like that for their

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snowmobiles. And it was really cold, I remember that, and it was

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a full moon. It was probably
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And I'm getting tired a little bit, and I get to one of

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those pullouts, there's two of them, and they're on the right hand side,

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and I get to where I could
see a little bit and I see

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the shadow of something. And when
I first initially seen it, it was

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just kind of walking. I'm just
I didn't really I figured it was probably

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a moose or something, and I
hadn't seen any trucks or trailers anything like

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that. Pulled over there, because
sometimes I would pull over. I was

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pulling. I pulled doubles a lot, so we're like one hundred and thirty

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four feet long, so you can't
just pull over anywhere. When I first

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steena, it just was walking in
the closer I got it was getting ready

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to like it surprised it, and
it was getting ready to bolt to the

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left, and it made that body
just your movement, like it was getting

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ready to run in it thinking AH
might have just said, well, I'll

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screw it, I'll just keep going. And so at this point I'm thinking,

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I'm looking around for vehicles. I
thought maybe somebody's broke down my initial

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thought. So I'm looking for vehicles, snowmobiles, anything like that. But

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I'm also looking on the object to
try to see any kind of reflective gear

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like a face mask, advisor or
any kind of reflectiveness on the code,

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or snow pants gloves, something like
that. And I didn't see anything,

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and the object was just really big. This one. I could tell it

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was a lot bigger big foot,
and it was wider, and it just

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was walking, just meandering towards me, so I could see how wide it

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was and it must have been about
four foot wide, maybe a little bit

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whiter, and it's walking towards me, and I'm starting to slow down a

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little bit because it must have been
going about fifty five sixty And as I'm

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watching it, it would speak just
on the outside to my light, what

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my light would carry, for my
for my lights. And it's as I'm

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getting closer and I'm slowing down,
and I'm really just focusing on what this

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is. As I had mentioned it
was about twenty some below and if I'm

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thinking if it's if they needed help
or anything like that, just etiquette,

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especially that cold middle of nowhere.
As I'm getting closer, I could see

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how big the belly was. This
belly on this I couldn't touch my hands

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together, maybe three medicine balls all
in one, if not bigger than that.

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And it just was had this kind
of a wattle and it was dark

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because you know, the moon and
stuff was behind it. And this one

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I didn't quite get a as good
of a clear picture as I did during

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the day of that first one.
And but it's walking kind of at a

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diagonal towards the white one from where
it was. And as I'm getting closer.

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I'm slowing down. I'm probably down
forty year or so, and I'm

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trying to see but they just need
help. And I realized how tall it

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was, and I would then again
say it was probably ten eleven football and

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I just was like slow motions.
As I'm looking out the window, I

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just forgot where i was. I'm
just focused on looking to my right hand

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side out of the passenger side as
I'm starting to roll up to it,

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and it just stopped and it's just
staring at me. And I think I'm

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probably about eight to ten feet maybe
a little bit more, not much.

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I'm just looking at it and the
shoulders. Like I said, it was

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super wide, but the biggest thing
that really stuck out was the belly,

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just because how big he was,
and I it just stared at me.

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I couldn't quite see because I couldn't
see the top of the head. It

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was above the what I could see
out across the vehicle out of this semi

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end. So it was taller than
like the I don't know how to explain

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it, but I could see out
of the window of the passenger side if

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I didn't get a facial look on
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just kind of just watched me by
go by in some motion. I'm just

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like, I'm not stopping, if
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there again, I was just kind
of disbelieve, trying to explain to myself

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and comprehend what I just saw.
And I drove as the way to Anchorage

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and I didn't say anything for a
few months, and I was that had

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kind of freaked me out because knowing
not only be lucky to see one,

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but two within that time span,
and I'm thinking that's pretty crazy. First

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of all. Second, I pull
over in these spots and sleep, so

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I'm thinking to myself, oh my
gosh, he saw my truck. He

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saw me. I could imagine on
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and him out there because I was
in that semi and it's a big semi

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trip and I felt small, and
I just kind of envisioned him wrapping.

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He could probably wrap his arm around
the cab of the truck and just shake

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the whole thing. And I think, you know, you saw me freaking

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me out, feeling the side of
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My mind was starting just kind of
racing all over by then, but it

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was that one did freak me out
because I pull over a lot in that

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area to sleep, and I didn't
really know what the thinkers say or do.

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That is fascinating is that you said
that's also in the Cooper Landing area.

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Yeah, it's up by somewhat lake, which is so they call it

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the Why. So if you're headed
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If you keep going straight, you
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Y as you're kind of dropping out
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the Y, which would be to
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It's about six seven miles from the
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homer So Dot and stuff like that. But where i'd seen both of them

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was in between Somewhat Lake or right
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is I think it's within four to
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map right now, and yes,
you are correct. There's the lake,

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there's the Why. You take that
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so I can see the exact area
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the Lake. That's absolutely fascinating and
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little bit, and I never stopped
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that. It must have been probably
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been about April. I was in
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cafe called the Sunrise Cafe right there, and I'd stopped in there a lot

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and eat where I was breakfast or
dinner. And I was in there and

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there's a gentleman, two of them
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the one guy that had mentioned he
said his grandfather had seen families in that

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area and had homestead in that same
area where I saw the two. It's

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probably closer to the first one,
because the first one was a little bit

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closer to the why. And this
was back in the sixties. I can't

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remember exactly when he had mentioned,
but he had said his grandfather had seen

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families back there in that area back
then. He had said into his story,

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and then it came down to a
pause, and I finally got enough

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nerve to say I saw a big
foot in that area too. Wow.

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And he turned around and he looked
at me and he goes, I believe

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you, because I was as a
tempt to even say anything, and I'm

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just like, oh, my gosh, you can't believe I just said it,

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because thinking they're gonna say, oh, you're just pulling our leg.

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He goes and yes, where it
was? And I told him what mile

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marker it was, and he goes
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like three miles from there is where
his grandfather had homesteaded, and so,

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yeah, it was. Do you
remember the mile marker. I think it

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was around forty seven, forty eight
and forty nine. There's a friend of

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mine who he's a bigfoot researcher,
and I don't know if you're familiar with

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small town Monsters, but they had
a Beyond the Trail series and he actually

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was researching at an area on the
Kenai Peninsula and you can watch that as

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Alaska and Coastal Sasquatch on YouTube.
But he's actually headed back up this summer

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to the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska again
to research for an extended period of time.

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I'm sure he will find this episode
extremely helpful because you've been descriptive as

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to where the area and it sounds
like there could be some stuff there.

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You've had two sightings in the area. You had the gentleman in the sixties

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that had multiple families that were being
seen in that area by where his homestead

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was. It's just that's fascinating.
Look between mile marker forty one and forty

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eight on the Stewart Highway. I
guess if you're going north, it'd be

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on the right hand side on somewhat
lakeside. And how long ago did this

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happen? Tim February tenth of twenty
eighteen, and that was after so it

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might have been in It might have
been a month or two. I might

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have seen that second one, because
that was the one that really freaked me

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out and I really just being that
much closer to it and seeing I'm feeling

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that small and a truck that big, and I finally reached out to somebody.

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I think they might run up there. I don't. I didn't know

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what to really expect when I said
anything. I didn't know if they ever

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did or not. So that must
have been probably in depend in December January

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of two seventeen, and the first
one would have been in September October twenty

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seventeen as well. I don't want
to overstep, but if you would be

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able to send any information that you've
written down would be extremely helpful in that

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email. But that Bigfoot Society at
gmail dot com. Yeah, that would

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be great. Yeah, definitely,
that would probably be very helpful to Alex

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for sure. Do they go up
there? Is it often or every year?

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It's not. Last year they were
filming some documentaries up there, Small

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Town Monsters was and then Alex and
Eli there they were up there at Ron

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and they were doing their thing at
the Area A, which is a cabin

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that's had some big foot activity around
it. But this summer, Alex is

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going to be spending multiple weeks in
Alaska again, so if he has some

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solid leads to follow, like maybe
this, he'll have the time to look

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at those leads for sure. So
it's pretty cool. That would be pretty

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neat to get back in there and
research it. And winter time, I

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guess it's easier to probably see in
the winter time, just because you can

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see the tracks and stuff like that, like I was seeing, and I

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always I've seen it a lot over
the time going down there, and I

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just often wonder to myself thinking what
would make tracks like that? Sure?

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And I think I know that now
to say exactly, just not knowing deep

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the snows. And really I often
wondered that with the snowmobile or stuff like

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that, that we're in those areas
because where they do pull over into those

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big pullouts. Let's see a vehicle
park there for days, two, three,

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four days, and somebody had mentioned
their cabins and stuff back in there

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that'd be right into and that was
generally the reasoning why people would park and

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go go up there. And then
driving that every day, you just get

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to know where every little if anything's
out of place, you notice it.

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Tim. Thank you so much for
sharing both of those encounters in the Cooper

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Landing area of Alaska. You've probably
been driving other places as well. Have

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you ever ran into any other interesting
big foot stories along the way or just

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the main big footing of your career
was right here in Alaska. It was

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right there in Alaska. Down here
in Montana, there was somebody had told

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the story to a very short version, and they were telling me there was

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somebody that they have. I don't
know if there's any truth or not,

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but that they use portals and if
you do see one, they want you

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to see them. And they're supposed
to be these things that were made out

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of rock that giants maybe Bigfoot has
made. I don't know enough about the

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details, but I could send you
the link and stuff that I did look

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at that this person had told me
about, and I can forward that to

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you as well, because I was
curious knowing that i'd be talking to you

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on talking to that person and just
kind of seeing if there was any kind

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of correlation of with that first sighting
just vanishing because it just disappeared. But

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when you're going that fast too,
it's really hard to You're scanning the lay

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of the land as fast as you
to see all that you can, and

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but it just disappeared. So you're
just putting two to two together and not

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knowing really, but so it's just
kind of something in the back of your

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mind. And final question, Tim
before I let you go, And this

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has been an amazing conversation. I'm
sure you've had some time to think in

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the years past about what you saw
and about Bigfoot, and you may have

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looked at things or research stuff like
that, But ever since that time,

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what do you feel that we're dealing
with when we're talking about Bigfoot up there

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in Alaska? What is this creature
all about, my guess, probably just

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survival and trying not to be seen. It's really there's no I don't know.

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There isn't enough about it. I
hear about all these sightings, but

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is there any really good clear picture
that says, oh my gosh, that's

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and everybody's probably wreaked out thinking,
oh, I just got great footage and

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you look at it. So I
could be wrong. I don't know,

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but I kind of at the same
time, I was like, as much

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as it seems like it's seen more
and more throughout the world, eventually one

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day I'm guessing better footage. And
second I'm like, if I didn't slow

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down, has there been anything or
anybody to come around a corner and boom

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hit them or something. It's something
to think about it. And one of

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these days you would think that,
you know, a trucker would have some

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kind of incident, especially in a
remote state like Alaska, with a big

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foot in their truck, and hopefully
they would be safe because that's a very

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large animal. But yeah, Tim, if you ever run into any other

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info or things of that nature,
have any other sightings, please feel free

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to reach out to me. I'd
love to chat with you again. Absolutely

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Hopefully some of the info will help, and I think he says his name

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was Alex, will be able to
get in that area and maybe do a

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little bit of research, and I
can't imagine if they've been there since the

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