An Oregon Outdoorsman Shares Years of Sasquatch Encounters Near Seaside and Mount Hood

0:00 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the. Voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us, all right, Bigfoot Society. You've get the privilege of talking to Matt today. Matt is out there in Portland, Oregon area. He's an outdoorsman, a hiker, and a fisherman, and he's had some really interesting things happen out there over the years.

0:47 So he's on the show to talk about that today. How are you doing today. Matt doing pretty good? Awesome, awesome. One of my favorite things to talk to people about Oregon and especially you know, really that that Cascade region. I know we're going to be going a few different places, but you know that area right outside of Portland, the Clackamis area, the mount Hood National Force is just a very cool place to visit. But you know, Matt, feel free to to take us back to when your your whole Bigfoot journey started for you. What was the first thing that kind of got you into it?

1:31 So, you know, I've heard and you know, obviously seeing the Patterson Gimwin film growing up, so it's kind of always in the back of my head. The very first encounter, I think I was back in college or senior year of high school and me and my buddy were hiking down a logging road into kind of a secluded area at the coast near east side for a spring chinook and uh we had to Uh it was on like private timberland. So we had a Parker car and hike on a logging road for probably like four miles and then uh bushwhack through a clear cut down to a canyon and then from there, you know, we'd hike this uh very isolated canyon and just hook a bunch of salmon and uh when we got down there this day, it had rained a lot, and uh we got down there in the river was just really high and muddy, and so we were really bummed out. And uh, and so because we just did all that work to get in there, you know a lot many hours of hiking, and so, uh my buddy tried a new rig to fish, which was called back bouncing. I didn't think it was gonna work, and uh we ended up hooking back to

3:01 back limits of salmon after we switch up the technique, and it just it went from like a total bummed out, we're not going to hook anything, we just waste their time day to just like you know, soaring on the clouds of accomplishment. And right right at the moment when. We finally both got our limits and we're just kind of sitting around eating lunch, you know, just really happy, we heard these wood knocks and uh the woodknocks came from about one hundred feet above us because we were in a really deep canyon. And uh, the wood knocks were so. Loud that uh I could feel the sound waves like hit my chest, like I remember that it.

3:46 Uh, the the. Feeling of the sound was like, uh, it was like at a concert, like when you go to the concert and you stand right next to the big subwhoopers and it hits you in the chest. And so uh when I heard that. I knew exactly, you know, I just knew in my head. I'm like, man, that's something huge with like a bat striking a tree. And so, uh, I'm a pretty big guy, you know, I'm like six. Five and uh and SO i picked up the biggest STICK i could and UH I i would knocked back AND i was trying to hit it as loud and as hard AS i, could and uh it responded back like.

4:30 Immediately but, UH. I JUST i could not recreate like one tenth of that. Sound and so that was the first encounter and we never did see, it but, uh those wood knocks catapulted me into a lot of research and, yeah uh it. Was uh started listening To Sasquatch chronicle right when it Started West Girmer's, channel AND i kind of just stuck with that for many. YEARS i went a very long time in between. Encounters AND i was cool with that because LIKE i WASN'T i was, terrified you, know LIKE i just wanted to go out there hike and catch my salmon AND i have a good camping trip IF i was, camping AND i really just didn't want.

5:23 ANYTHING i didn't. WANT i didn't want to see one. Ever and and then, yeah and so after, that it's probably about five or ten years later WHEN i had another. Encounter and WHEN i talk about these encounters, tonight it's very. Distinct, uh they will go from like a really, mild really kind of just like easygoing, encounters and then there's a very distinct moment when the encounters just like get really intense and. Amplified And i'll get to. That but, Yeah so after that First woodnock, EXPERIENCE i you, know at this, Point i've done like years of.

6:08 RESEARCH i know they. EXIST i was talking to my co worker about it at the, time and he didn't he didn't believe, me you, know he didn't believe, me but he wanted to go camping with, me and so he loved camping right up to twenty four outside of S. TAKADA i guess they call it the was it The Sasquatch highway Or Bigfoot highway or something like, that. And it is called The Oregon Bigfoot. Highway, yeah You Oregon Bigfoot. Highway. YEAH i didn't know that at the, time but he just, loved you, know camping up, there you, know kind of Past Fish. CREEK i didn't know exactly where we went this, day but he was, like, yeah let's go on a camping.

6:53 Trip he had this trailer he just. Got he was really excited about, it getting a little camping trip for his. Family wanted to test it. Out so we drove up there after work on our, weekend like. Three or four. Hours and we lived In Oregon city area at the, time and SO i just remember driving through the, night well off the main, road up logging, roads and then we finally reached the end of this logging round and it was just completely washed, out and so we just camped right. There and when he was in bed AND i was sitting by the, FIRE i heard this just this weird mumbling in the, distance like behind, me and it sounded like something was having like a hushed. Conversation and SO i heard that. Mumbling and then the next, morning my, buddy, uh we woke up and he was just, like let's just hike up that road and just see where it, goes you. Know and so we're hiking and at this, point you, know he's he's given me a lot of grief over the, subject but you, KNOW i know WHAT i, heard AND i generally like to warn everyone at least about like what's in the, woods you, know if they're an outdoors type of, person just so they can be safe.

8:16 And just and just truly know what's out. There and so we got up there and on our way it was either on our way back down another route or at the last part of going, up we found these tree breaks that were about ten to eleven feet off the, ground like in a. Row and again we were like four hours three hours drive up a logging road that washed, out and then we hiked like another five or six miles up the wash out. And then found these tree, breaks you. Know AND i was, like you, know to my, FRIEND i was just, like we think caused, that you, KNOW i was just, like there's no. Eat he is a really, scientific mind oriented, person you. KNOW i was, like there's no, cable you, know burd marks around a, tree there's no tracks to have equipment come, in and these trees are, out they're they're they're pretty big sized. Trees and and so once he realized that like something with hands went out there and broke him in a row about ten feet eleven feet, high he had a panic attack and he couldn't get off the.

9:31 Mountain and so. YEAH i ended up having to like coax him down the. Mountain probably one of the worst panic Attacks i've ever. Seen but you, KNOW i wasn't holding it against, him you, know because it is pretty terrifying at first once you know what's in the. Woods so that'd be my second. ENCOUNTER i want to jump in real, Quick, matt to provide some context for that, area if that's all. Right the area you're talking about right there is a really intense. Area people may have heard about that area recently in the news and not realized, it And i'm not saying, that So i'll so there was an, individual a hunter that went missing In. Estacada his name Was Devin, DOBEK i, believe and he was that was in the same area That Fish creek campground where he went missing and then he was. Found i'm not saying that it was due To, bigfoot But i'm saying that this area is wilderness that you're talking. About and WHENEVER i talk about The oregon Big Foot, HIGHWAY i put a huge disclaimer in. There if you go down in that, area you gotta be prepared for. Anything you got to have extra, tire extra.

10:54 Gas there's all sorts of weird stuff out, There so go. Ahead absolutely after the wood knocks and the tree breaking EXPERIENCES i, had, UH i, MEAN i can't confirm it was a, bigfoot but, uh just because of the eye, shine you, know and then actually seeing them and then looking back on, It i'm, like that was probably a. Bigfoot But uh on The Sandy, RIVER i hiked in before sunrise and uh down a Trail i've been down my whole, Life, uh and just caught some green eye, shine uh where the eye shine was pretty, big like the the actual, eyeballs and, uh the spacing of the eye shine was really, WIDE i mean like wider than any ANIMAL i had seen at the, time and it was like off the perfect spot off the trail to like, ambush you. Know so, yes saw that with some green.

12:03 Eyeshine and then another experience THAT i had hiking at night after fishing Near Oxbo park on The sandy that was the last fisherman off the bank that. Day the sun had just, set and from across the RIVER i could hear something huge and grunting and making just the strangest Sounds i've ever heard an animal make in the, woods kind of just breaking its way down to the river bank and. And then that about ends it for the just the we call it the calumn.

12:48 Encounters and CAN i ask you something about the First Sandy river thing real, quick, MAP i just got a question about. That was that in the same area As oxbow or BECAUSE i know The sandy goes uh quite a quite a, ways, Right. Yeah the one with the eyeshine that was near the the fish Hatchery Cedar, Creek Cedar creek Fish. Acchery at this, POINT i mean sask listening to sasquatch chronicles and doing other research at the, time like in the early YouTube. Days, uh was just probably like my number one way of studying the subject because at this, point you, know it's just Like i'm having a lot of experiences so. FAR i JUST i have to figure, out you, know like what is this? Creature you, know like what what is going?

13:41 On and why are they? Attracted it seems like to, me you, know like because some people go their whole lives without hearing, anything you, know and, uh and so one THING UH i HAVE i have to bring up is uh. At this point in my life and, uh. Right, Now i'm just like kind of nitpicking the The bigfoot stories out of a whole other Experience i've had with the uh the. Paranormal so and during this, TIME i GOT i received. Life during this, TIME i received like a full dose of the supernatural im. Paranormal And i'm going to talk about what kind of set that.

14:33 Off and so just kind of. Being, uh just the the PERSON i am was studying like the. MYSTERIOUS i had started studying the occult and trying to figure, out you, know like what is going on with this? Stuff and, uh. WHEN i had started researching into like occult practices and you, know like what is behind, this what are the? Forces is even? REAL i started to become, haunted uh my fallen angels and. Demons and at this point in, TIME i uh just out of desperation to uh save, myself you, know from being terrorized every, NIGHT i had found Uh jesus because that was the only name that would keep these entities.

15:32 Away and uh at this TIME i had a you, know A jewish, background and so when these entities came, AROUND i tried like every, name Uh hebrew name to try and keep them. Away and as like a last, ditch you, know. EFFORT i UH i threw Out, jesus you, know and they and they, left and, so, uh you, know that set off a whole other list of experiences THAT i could talk, about you, know on a on another channel and a. Half i've gone on a few few channels talking about. It but so right, now leading up to these next, EXPERIENCES i am literally fighting off.

16:23 Demons and being haunted every. Night so AND i just want to say right here That, bigfoot the, paranormal it's all. Connected and, yeah it's all. Connected so. At this POINT i am just going through, it really, spiritually going through. It. NOW i was just, LIKE i really just want to go on a fishing trip to that secretive river by seaside WHERE i had my first. Encounter and WHEN i drove out, THERE i parked AND i was just going to sleep in my, car just on the edge of the woodline and then wake up in the morning and hike.

17:11 In and AS i was trying to go to, BED i noticed that there was a, drone like not too far above my, car AND i JUST i just didn't like that at. All and right about the same time THAT i noticed a, DRONE i noticed a lot of, grunts a lot of, grunts and a lot of tree, brakes AND i was probably only like ten feet away from the tree, line AND. I knew what it. WAS i knew what was going. On it seemed like multiple bigfoot had come to the tree line and they were grunting and breaking, branches AND i could see orange, Eyeshine and at this POINT i started it seemed like receiving like psychic communications from. Them it felt like my mind was being overwhelmed with the just words and feelings and. Emotions AND i was in my car and my knee was really hurt, Bad LIKE i was, contemplating like how AM i going to make this hike? Tomorrow AND i have a graphite fishing rods that were sitting in the car as.

18:24 Well and so. When this whole troop family of, bigfoot you, know or just right in the tree, line they didn't come out of the tree. Line they just stayed right. THERE i think maybe because the, drone you, know kind of the drone was sitting there and just like capturing all of. IT i just thought that was so. Strange but and so while that is all going, ON i started getting hit by WHAT i think is. Infrasound it was an extremely low, vibration AND i remember my, rod my rod, tips my graphie rod, tips my car were just like waving back and. Forth but.

19:07 The infrasound was like healing my. Knee my knee was just really. SWOLLEN i had heard it at work and it felt like it was just so soothing on my. Knee AND i was, like, oh there seems like they're trying to heal my knee before the fishing, trip you, know or something like. That SO. I went to, BED i woke, UP i went, fishing and a bunch of other stuff happened during that fishing, trip but bigfoot, wise that was the end of that. EXPERIENCE i have a few questions for you about. That that is extremely. Fascinating that's a Pattern i've seen come up on just my show a few times where there is some healing, aspect AND i do not know what to think about that so. Far but my question for you, is so you're getting you said these words and. Emotions do you remember any of the words you were getting or the emotions you were.

20:09 Feeling, yeah it, was you, know Without i'm trying to without sounding, crazy you know WHAT i? Mean, whatever whatever you got say, It, Matt you're. GOOD i have like a psychic communication with them and it was just regarding like are you a bigfoot? Family you, know like, yes and. You, know how have you guys seen me? Come Because i've been out to this spot for years and it was like the place of like my first encounter and it was just like a lot of yes is to my. Questions BUT i asked them one. QUESTION i was, like is there a bunch of fish down? There and they're like, yes and they're right there there was a bunch of.

20:56 Fish but, yeah so uh yeah that's what that's what happened. There and at the same time that was going, on a drone was like thirty fifty feet above the car and that's just like really, yeah it just uh it just really uh freaked me out and it just like it made me feel like like someone's. Watching but it just. It was a really it was just a really kind of bad time for. Me you, KNOW i don't know what to what how to explain, that but. Yeah that's that's an incredible. Experience what year was, that, approximately.

21:39 Oh twenty twenty, two twenty twenty. One the whole uh demonic thing really kicked up AFTER covid that's when it kicked. Up. Wow really oh, Yeah, okay. Right around right Around halloween, two like a week or two After. Halloween that's when it started kicking. Off so, yeah that experience was, yeah probably twenty twenty. One, yeah, okay in the. Spring in the. Spring so then the next day was your knee completely healed? Then or how was that? Going it felt? Better it felt? Better, yeah, yeah it felt.

22:23 Better and. During that fishing, TRIP i did find some bigfoot scat and, yeah that was like LIKE i was, expecting like this next, day like huge reveal that come out and broad. Daylight you, know we're just talking to, You, matt you, know and they did. Not it seems like they only come out at. Night did you go over to that tree line the next day and see if you could find any tracks or anything like. THAT i. DIDN'T i tended, to but WHEN i woke up in the morning before, sunrise you, KNOW i was just focused on getting to the, river get down, there, fish catch my, fish because you, know that's Why i'm there to.

23:12 Do and then on my. Way, out on my way, out you, know kind of look. Around but that during that whole fishing, TRIP i JUST i got harassed by The timberland property owners who never really have harassed, me you, know fishing there, before and so that just like really put a damper on you, know going to that tree line and like looking for prints and. Stuff were they trying to just get you off the, property you? Think or, yeah, yeah, OKAY i wonder if there, Was if it was their, drone then who. Knows after that fishing, trip you, know just just suffered a lot of other paranormal.

23:54 Things and then UH i. Got another fish trip lined. Up it was like literally the very next fishing. Trip AND uh this fishing trip happened later in in, spring. AND, uh so. This next big foot encounter was really really, scary really. Intense my, uh me and my buddy HAD uh had a plan to go anchor his boat in The Columbia River gorge in The Columbia river right Below Bonnaville dam in the, springtime, uh right off the tip of this island in The Millder river AND uh in the, springtime The columbia is the highest and The willlamite is usually the highest and uh has the fastest. Current and my buddy bailed on me at the last, minute and so, UH i was pretty bummed. Out BUT i knew in my head that IF i could just get to that, ISLAND i could fish off the bank with a technique AND uh camp on the. Island and SO i in my, HEAD i set out to uh take one of my whitewater, rafts and UH i was going to launch At Beacon, rock and you, know.

25:21 Rode my way to this. Island and, uh SO i got out. THERE i barely made it out to the island if the river was so, fast like extremely, fast and, UH i probably. CROSSED i probably rode across like a mile of river in the gorge LIKE i think The columbia sometimes like a mile and a half to two miles. Across and SO i made it out to this, island AND i set up, camp got in a really good fishing, spot and then, uh the encounter happened somewhere around one or two. Am it was kind of doing a light rain and the weather was lightly, raining and it was kind of keeping me up and and SO i REMEMBER i was frying some fish over the fire right around one or two, am AND i looked up from my campfire just across since it was a small island, too and looked ACROSS i saw three sets of glowing orange, eyes like a, bigger bigger than a golf, ball but smaller than a baseball in. Size and so there's three sets of, them three, creatures AND i just looked, up you, know with my head lamp and the fire and saw them walk. In and they must have been.

26:53 About forty feet. Away forty feet away WHEN i noticed, them and they were they weren't like peeking or look. In they're just walking straight up on, me you. Know and so UH i jumped up and UH i started screaming at, them and UH, i uh they wouldn't. Stop and so because of the increase of paranormal ACTIVITY i was experiencing and then just kind of like my uh my lifelong fear of bigfoot and what's in the, WOODS i had gotten myself like a green laser that, shoots you, know one of those ones that shoots like ten.

27:36 Miles and the REASON i got that is because long ago On wes's, channel he had on some guys that, said, uh the green, laser if you shine it in a bigfoot's, eyes that will permanently blind. Them and SO i had this laser on, me and when these three bigfoot were walking up on me and they weren't, STOPPING i took out the green layer and, UH i just you, KNOW i didn't want to like hit it immediately in the eye and piss them. Off you, KNOW i kind of you, know wave the laser. Around they weren't they weren't. Stopping and then SO i REMEMBER i finally got one right in the, eye and, uh the SECOND i hit one right in the, eyeball they all three stopped at the same, time as if they were like linked, up as like one.

28:29 Mind and then they all kind of turned to the side and walked. Away but and at this, point they're probably like thirty feet walk thirty feet, away and, uh you, KNOW i couldn't see like colors or you, know the color of the mills at, night BUT i could see their their whole dark, form and uh when they turned and walked, away it just it looked like they were doing like, this uh like forward moon, walk and, uh it was it was, freaky AND, i, UH i JUST i couldn't believe that those creatures swam across The Columbia river at. Night you, know the current must have been like five or six miles an, hour you, know during that.

29:19 Time but, uh and so AFTER i finally you, know shown the laser and their eyes and they. LEFT i was just probably the most Terrified i've ever been in my. LIFE i called my, mom you, know just to tell her what, happened and, UH i remember she laughed at, me she. Laughed and so right after, THAT i was In. Skamania it's In Skamanian. County the AREA i was. AT i called The Scamania County sheriff's office and they. Sent a boat out. And the boat sat anchored right off the, island, uh in the river like a like A Scamane county Sheriffs office jet, boat you, know and they sat with me all.

30:04 Night you, KNOW i, think you, know, observe and you, know it brought me, comfort you. Know so. In the MORNING i, left and, YEAH i was really scary. That that's, Intense. MATT i got a few questions about. That so you're saying it's on The washington, Side i'm guessing was That Cascades. Island then it Was Peer Silent peer S? Island, okay. Gotcha you actually could see like the silhouettes of them as they're. Walking, yeah how tall would you estimate that they? Were if you could see that.

30:45 Ten or twelve feet? Tall they were? Huge seems like to me it seemed like like three big, males you, know just three of the biggest. Bigfoot, yeah that's. Interesting and the way that that Uh skamania sheriff boat reacted and just kind of hung out with it really makes you wonder if they've gotten calls like this before and they're, like we may want to hang out here for a little. Bit it's that really really makes you. Wonder but, yeah that is. Wild have you ever been back to that island?

31:26 Since? Oh, yeah, YEAH i fished there every spring and uh with some of my. Buddies you, KNOW i don't bring up the, encounter BUT i you, Know i'll LIKE i was there last spring catching, fish just being you, know in my, head, like, oh that's right where they. Came up right, there you. Know so, Yeah i've been back there quite a bit And i'll be back there next. Spring but, YEAH i would like to. Mention, UH i haven't confirmed, this But i've always kind of heard that the In Scamanian. COUNTY i think it was like the first county to like recognize, bigfoot And i'm pretty sure it's a felony charge to kill one if you had the. CHANCE i haven't confirmed, that but Something i've heard.

32:17 There was an ordinance that declared the county A sasquatch, refuge made the wilful sling Of bigfoot of felony punishable by five years in, prison which was later amended to a gross misdemeanor one year in jail one thousand. Dollars. Fine, so, yeah it's something you don't want to do In Skamania county and other places. Too that has kind of happened in other counties. Too what year was this again that you had the incident ya the Dam. I'd say twenty twenty one or twenty twenty. Two, okay, gotcha. Gotcha at this, point it just it felt LIKE i just had really dark forces that were trying to kill, me trick, me scare, me you, know all because all BECAUSE i had looked into the occult and Found, jesus you, know and so it, was, UH i truly felt like the devil was just trying to use whatever tool he had to scare the crap out of me and to make me lose heart and. Faith and it, was you, know on top of These bigfoot, encounters you, know, Again i'll say LIKE i, WAS i was being haunted daily nightly by. Spirits so, Anyways uh so this brings me to my next set of. Encounters this all happened In,

33:49 welches and at this point in, TIME i had just had enough Of, portland and uh it felt Like god was telling me to just immediately Leave portland and just move to Central oregon and just get away from just everywhere else having bad experiences that just kind of have like a fresh. Start and, uh you, know so. At this point in my, head you, know when When god tells you to do, something, uh you know you should listen and follow. Through and SO. I, i UH i literally left my life and UH i just went up To Mount hood to just just hide away from a lot of other stuff that was going.

34:42 On and, UH i really just wanted to hide in the. Woods and you, know work in a small mountain town and SO i DIDN'T i didn't have any uh any friends up there yet up In, welches but UH i found a cool place to camp in The National, forest AND I i went out AND i got like three part time jobs and uh and so one of my part time jobs up there was cleaning out. Airbnbs another one was tree Cutting Arbert, arbury uh with my friend who uh talk to me about getting on your, show and then uh and then another. One my my other part time job was working at A mexican restaurant in.

35:34 Town and so, Uh i'm just you, know hiding away in the, forest camping and uh working all these part time simple. Jobs and, UH i, remember you, Know i'm out there in the Mounta Hood National, forest, uh every, night. Sleeping and the first weird THING i heard was just laughing in the. Woods Starts i'm, laughing and you, KNOW i was really like, hoping, like you, Know god's going to protect me from more. Encounters but that laughing in the woods at night like was just the start of more.

36:15 Encounters and. THE i forget how like how long it was of me being out there BEFORE i saw this. Bigfoot but again it was at night during a full. MOON i walked from my tent to my truck just to just to get, something AND i was using a, headlamp and WHEN i got to my, TRUCK i could just see like just those huge golf ball glowing orange eyes in the tree line just off the, road you, know probably like forty or fifty feet, away and they're at my eye, level you, Know so, UH i JUST i turned my headlamp on really. BRIGHT i started like bobbing my head up and, down you, know LIKE i was just kind of scared of just trying to just do something. Funny and, uh the bigfoot start bobbing his head up and down, too and, uh you.

37:17 Know just kind of mimicking. Me and uh the eyes are at, like you, know my eye level six or seven. Feet but, then, uh you know when he started, Bobbing, uh he stood up and he was at like ten feet, tall and so you, know she was, like, MAN i gotta go to bed and uh wake up for work. Tomorrow SO i just walked back to my tent and uh went to. Bed. Yeah oh oh my, goodness. Dude we got to talk for a few minutes about this. Area oh, yeah this is a. This is off of a Low Low pass. Road, yeah, exactly AND I i was going to double check that with. You so, listeners if you've Heard Lolo pass In Lolo Pass road come up on the, show this is the exact. Area and this is then it's also Called Mount Hood village. Too the episodes this area has come up so. Far Gary allen's, episodes you've heard him how he takes his electric bike and his girlfriend takes his horse up there and how they experienced all that.

38:30 Stuff and then there was the gentleman who was at a campground in this area and they saw some a dark figure down close to the, ground and then it stood up to be a very tall, sasquatch but then it turned into a black form of smoke and went over the creek. Nearby it's just a very very strange. Area Lolo pass is extremely, active SO i was, like it's got to be the same. Area i'm just, curious AND i can cut this out too IF i need. To are you able to share the campground that this happened at or is that a thing where you're kind of keeping that up your.

39:18 Sleeve, yeah, no, no, no, NO i don't. Care you, know, Like i'll tell you exactly where it. Happened so WHEN i found this, spot it was it's not at the. Campground that's all the way at the end Of Lolo Pass. Road you know. That big camping area on your way up to those that, waterfall really nice beautiful waterfall up. THERE i was camping Like Ramona. Falls, YEAH i was camping like in between people's. Houses there was this little sliver Of national forests that came up in the cross over this creek with like a parking, spot and SO i was just, Like i'm going to park my truck right here And i'm going to camp and you, know drink creek water and you, know just just kind of hide.

40:11 Away but, uh but, YEAH i was literally these. Creatures WHERE i saw these creatures was literally and everyone's backyard. Area oh my. Goodness, yeah because There's airbnbs up that road for. Sure. Yeah so you weren't at an actual, campground but you were in a place where you could. Camp, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah my, Goodness i'm not surprised at. All that area is just bonkers the Stuff i've. Heard my. Goodness, yeah did you stay there for a few days or where you're, Like i'm out of. HERE i was just like ALL i know IS i can't go back To. PORTLAND i have to move. Away and you, know at the, time my family was just not in friends just.

40:59 What we're not believe even WHILE i was going. Through SO i was just Like i'm on my own And i'm just, uh just gonna hide away up here In Mount hood and you, know make my way To Central. Oregon but but. Yeah so another Thing i'd like to add, is, UH i was, working uh cleaning out, airbnbs you, know as one of my part time, jobs and, uh you know some were just like right down from where else camping and you, know kind of all over The welches, area and, uh every single one of, them they they always are just like all, right make sure you lock up the, Garbage, matt you, know like we we have problems with black, bears and and, UH i would.

41:41 Go out there and look at some of the. Damage like a lot of people In welches have like these elaborate wooden crate locked, garbages you, know and all the black bears keep breaking into. Them i'm, like you, know The, Bigfoot i'm breaking into your garbages. And bring all your, food you. Know so so that's WHAT i think they were, doing is they were coming Down Lo lo Pass road and they would just you, know go through everyone's, neighborhood go through their. Garbage and then people just chalked it up to black, bears you, know. So oh my. Goodness so working working in that area and living there for a, while would you hear stories from from people that were also having bigfoot encounters or sightings in that that same.

42:26 Area uh, NO i KINDA i kind of just kept it low, key you, know only certain, people BECAUSE i only knew my, coworkers you, know from my various jobs up. There that won the tree arborist that likes listening to your, show he, UH i was sharing with him WHAT i was going, through you, know and he was just. Like, dude you're. Crazy AND i don't know IF i believe, you, man BUT i kind of believe. You WHILE i was, living uh camping and while, WORKING i had another encounter. Where one. CAME i was sleeping in my, tent you, know and one came a foot away from my tent and it was going through my uh my, food the place WHERE i stored my, food and uh, yeah and it was it was during a like a the moon was. OUT i don't know if itels fuller or, not BUT i just remember waking up and, seeing you, know something making like the noise it was, making uh was it was just like. Demonic like it was just like a really, dark demonic grunting, breathing you. Know it just it's just it did not sound like a like a good, animal you, know but it was hunched over it just going through my, garbage you, know and AND i was just laying in bed AND i was like a foot away from, it AND i was just, like, yeah this is my, life you, know this is My, yeah same Area lolo.

44:02 Pass oh, wow, DUDE i don't know how how you, survived just like mentally just knowing that they're like right there and they're messing with. Me. Dude oh my. Yeah was this really recent or was this like twenty twenty three or what would you? Say, Yeah i'd say this was about twenty and, yeah and twenty twenty, three, uh, yep, okay spring of twenty twenty. THREE a lot of my encounters happened in the. Spring i've, Noticed, YEAH i think THEY i think they hide away in the winter. Time so.

44:44 But, yeah so so, then, uh within the same area Of, welches but in a different side Of. WELCHES i had driven my truck up The Salmon river and so on the complete other side of town from WHERE i was camping and having these bigfoot. EXPERIENCES i had driven my truck up The Salmon river and, UH i just felt like sleeping in my, truck you, know and just kind of camping out for the. Night AND i woke up to.

45:25 One big foot coming within three feet of my car, window and. Uh it just kind of looking. In it was it was different because it had green glowing, eyes and its eyes they were they were so bright and green that it like illuminated its face facial. Features and so this, encounter you, know it was it was just, different and uh the facial, features you, know it looked like a really stereotypical uh like half.

46:11 Man half, gorilla but more. Gorilla and so WHEN i had this, encounter it just seemed kind, of uh suspicious to me because at the same, time you, Know i'm coming out of being haunted by fallen, entities and, uh WHAT i can say about fallen, entities, demons fallen, angels what have, you is that they shape, shift they can take on different. Forms so. But, YEAH i, mean LIKE i definitely saw a bigfoot with green glowing eyes right from my car or car, window and uh, yeah it was just completely. Different and then immediately after, that.

46:59 Just like. On the at the top of the ridge going down to the, RIVER i could see two other sets of green, glowing huge bigfoot eyes kind of like scanning around and looking like kind of peeking over the edge and. Uh and so, yeah that was, uh that was the other EXPERIENCE i had In. Welches so it's interesting you're, saying half man half gorilla looked to the, face what were the features that looked more man like that you? Remember? Uh maybe maybe just like the eyes and uh maybe the nose Wasn't maybe.

47:50 The nose was more gorilla. Like but, UH i just remember it's its face was just like the bottom half of its face was like a. Gorilla. Uh but, UH i just that's HOW i. Remember it was like a man like, gorilla you, know just like your stereotypical. LOOK i want to make SURE i got that. Right so you are thinking that because of the other spiritual things you're going to have going on in your, life that what you're looking, at because it looks a little, different it might actually be like a shape shifting demon or. Something. Yeah, yeah oh, wow. Dude how long was it looking at you?

48:30 For? Oh probably probably like a minute a? Minute and then, uh and then it kind of just walked to the tree line and just kind of stood there while these other two you, know bigfoot sets of eyes came. UP i could see their, eyes you, know scanning, around and, yeah and then just kind of stood there in the tree line and just, yeah was staring at. ME i think it was kind of like bowing or doing something weird like. That and, uh After i'd had, ENOUGH i, left you, KNOW i just started my truck and.

49:10 Got out of. There but but, yeah so. That Was welch's my, Goodness, yeah oh my. Goodness they're everywhere up, there and they come in to eat the. Garbage so if you want to have, it you don't have to go far away into. The, woods you, know to find. THEM i mean you, can but you can just you can just go out there and just kind of chill out in people's, yards you, know and they come in and take the, garbage you, know because that's an easy. Meal and you, know, yeah yeah.

49:50 Absolutely now just there are also bear up there as, well, correct. Sure, yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah there's there's black. Bear i've never seen a black bear up. There i've seen more bigfoot than than black bear in my. LIFE i Think i've seen one or two black bear in my whole, life maybe only. ONE i have another encounter WHEN i moved out To Central. Oregon, okay, yeah go, ahead. Immediately following, This i'm pretty, Sure SO i went out to Central oregon to move back in with my. Father he was suffering from just a bad. Back he's had multiple, surgeries you, know AND i was just trying to Leave portland start a new. Life and so that was like the first ANCHOR i had coming out to Central.

50:47 Oregon and. SO, i uh this was this happened in the town Called, Culver, uh just out there in the. Desert and uh we lived near this mountain Called Round Butte Round, butte and UH i, UH i JUST i really wanted to go camping and have a little. Bonfire and uh. SO i drove to uh the top of the mountain and, uh the top of the mountain Called Round butte was only about half a mile from my father's. House AND i drove up there AND i took uh my dad's little.

51:29 Dog uh it's like a it was a brand new Puppy Yorkshire. Terrier SO i was, like, Yeah i'm gonna take the little dog outside, finally and we're gonna go camping and have a, campfire you. Know and uh And Round butte's the tallest mountain in that area outside The. Cascades so and uh when you're when you're up, there there's just a room for enough like one, vehicle maybe, two and a place to. Camp and it just goes in like a just a perfect round circle and then there's like a little road that leads down the. Mountain SO i was camping on the mountaintop having a, bonfire AND i NOTICED i just started getting really bad spooky, vibes you, know Like i'm being. Watched and THEN i started hearing weird female voices off in the, distance and, uh you, KNOW i JUST i felt these vibes, before and in my, HEAD i was just, like you, know it just it sounds like.

52:32 Another bigfoot is like sneaking up on. Me and so, UH i hopped my subrou uh you, know put the, car the dog in the, car hopped in my little subrou AND i started just like reving my engine and driving around the top of the, mountain you, know AND i took out the green ladies AND i was like shining it. EVERYWHERE i. Think. UH i started kind of you, know yelling out the. Window you. KNOW i in my, Head i'm, Like i'm just gonna re establish dominance and scare this thing, away BECAUSE i was just like kind of sick and tired you, know of having these, experiences and you, know FINALLY i, was you, know near my, car AND i just you, KNOW i just wanted to kind of shine it on a little.

53:16 Bit and so AFTER i did, THAT i drove the half mile back to my father's. House and WHEN i got, inside you, know it was probably around like eight. O'CLOCK i got, INSIDE i was, like, Hey, dad you, know LIKE i you, know at this, point he's still kind of unsure about, bigfoot AND i was just, like, MAN i just heard one on top of the mountain round, you you, know with the. Dog and he's, like, really are you? SURE i don't, Know. Matt and the, second it must have been like thirty seconds to a minute after getting home and explaining everything to my dad that we both heard the bigfoot roar at the, house probably like fifty feet, away and, man when when it, roared it sounded like a lion man.

54:10 And then LIKE i. Want to say, gorilla but it WAS i JUST i remember it being like a lion, man which is like. This a huge h. Ample a just just a huge. Uh it was just a really loud sound AND i don't, KNOW i can't remember if it shook the, house but we both heard it and scared us to. Death and that night my dad was like, Here, matt, Like i'm putting a shotgun right in your, window you, Know AND i got mine in my room, Too and my dad became a believer after that. Night. Matt that is that's absolutely. Wild that is out in the high desert right that. Area how recent was, this.

54:56 This encounter with you and your, Father. I'd say that was in twenty twenty, Three, okay gotcha twenty three sometime around. There, oh my. Goodness is that the most recent thing that you've had happen or have you had other things happen since? Then i've had a couple more experiences. Also on top of the Experiences i've, shared there's a couple other ones recently Where i've heard screaming in the in the early morning at the coast at some other fishing. Locations and then at another trip where this was two winters ago Near Lincoln, CITY i took two of my really good fishing buddies up into the mountains up there to go fisher winter sealhead and there it was like a rare.

56:00 Snow uh the night, before you, know at the coast is pretty, rare and the snow was already kind of melting when we got up to the, location and, uh you, KNOW i at this POINT i told my two buddies like all these experiences are, like, yeah, whatever, man you, know and, uh but you know they're they're good, guys are my good. Friends and uh when we pulled up to uh the fishing, SPOT i got this on. Video it's on my old uh picks A google pic google. Phone we got up there AND i looked up ahead AND i was, like, oh this is like a secretive, area not really expecting anyone to be.

56:43 There AND i looked up. AHEAD i was, like, oh, no like someone beat us to the hole BECAUSE i could, see you, know footprints going up you, know the trail and the melting. Snow and then WHEN i WHEN i got up to the, footprints, uh they were probably about like fourteen inches, long and, uh you, know JUST i just remember them being so, wide like six inches, wide seven inches. Wide AND i and you, KNOW I i have a like a size eleven or a, twelve BUT i just remember like sticking my foot into that track and it just looked like my foot compared to Like shaquille. O'Neal AND i was. Like, LOOK i told you, guys like there's the tracks right, there you.

57:26 Know but uh, yeah that was two winters. Ago and then, uh. My most recent encounter was last. SUMMER i Had UH i had just kind of prayed To god AND i was just, like you, KNOW i have had all these scary bigfoot encounters at, night leaving me half terrified with probably some LIKE, ptsd you know That i've Trauma i've been dealing. With and, UH i was just, like you know, WHAT i JUST i would like to see a, happy, daytime safe daytime.

58:06 Encounter and, Uh god definitely. Delivered the very next fishing TRIP i went, ON i was just hiking out AND i just stopped at a PLACE i would never have. STOPPED i just got this feeling to stop on my on my way, out AND i just looked over AND i could see one hanging. Out from a. Tree and WHEN i stopped and, LOOKED i COULD i just caught it going like that and the color of it was jet black and it was probably about like. Fifty feet. Away so that was my most recent. Encounter so that was.

58:52 Awesome are you able to share an area that WAS i know you might be able, to or you don't give away your fishing spot. Definitely but what area was was that around. Seaside the mountains Behind seaside right had the first wood knox and then had the family come, Out and, yeah that's same For. Rea. Yep that is really cool that that you were able to have that that good experience. Too so many PEOPLE i think go for years just having really scary. Stuff but, uh good on you for asking.

59:37 Specifically, yeah, yep, yeah and uh, yeah that that basically wraps up most are most of my big foot. Encounters i'm leaving out like a lot of just like other weird stuff That i've been on and other weird Noises i've, heard you, know but, uh but, yeah the are My bigfoot experiences thus far in. Life you, KNOW. I have a question for, you why do you think it was that the name Of jesus was the only thing that that made those things stop for? You because.

1:00:21 He is the king of king And lord of, lords and it it's a spiritual battle we're, fighting and like, truly it's just a name that carries a lot. Of weight and a lot of. Power and you, KNOW i first hand experience with stopping entities den their tracks and you, know get in bigfoot to leave me alone or go, away you. Know so. What i've learned is that there is a stark spiritual connection with, bigfoot UFOs lights in the, woods you, know orbs balls of light and uh, yeah. Demons SO i truly believe that the bigfoot are remnants of the. Nephilem they're definitely, Ah they're they're definitely children of the Fallen the.

1:01:31 Nephilem uh in The book Of enoch has said, that you, know not only did these fallen angels produce giants with human women and uh creature uh giants with human, women but they had, ah it says in The book Of, enoch they corrupted all. Flesh so then, that you, know that tells you that they they mixed themselves to put, it you, know in a better terminology with. Animals and so you. Know i've heard a lot of other eyewitness accounts with other, cryptids and SO i just firmly believe that ever since the devil got kicked out Of, heaven he's been down here on earth kind of like a mad, scientist mixing himself and making, monsters you, know monsters out.

1:02:32 THERE i will, SAY i will say, this there is definitely some extremely evil things going on in this. World but if The book Of revelation has anything to, say it won't be going on. Forever you know WHAT i. Mean he's coming, Back jesus is coming back and people will have to answer for what they've. Done So, matt you've got Some you've got some incredible. Accounts thank you for, sharing keep, me keep me in the loop with if you experience anything else out, There i'd love to hear about. It But i'm glad that you. Are you're on the right, path and it sounds like you're trying to figure stuff out and you've you're well on your. Way but thank you so much for coming on on the show.

1:03:26 Today, absolutely thank. You have you ever heard. All the accounts of bigfoot activity Around, Oakridge oregon and you think to, Yourself, MAN i would love to get out in those woods and experience it for. Myself well guess what this year you. Can if this is interesting to, you stay tuned because it's pretty. Cool Sasquatch Summer fest is coming Up july tenth through the, eleventh twenty twenty. Six it's going to be even better than the previous. Years reason number, One i'll be one of the speakers it's gonna be. Wild i'll Probably i'll say, this there may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere, else because let's just say sometimes it's, well you just gotta be. There we'll leave at. That more about looking For bigfoot in The Oakridge. Woods now check this. Out you may Know Jason kenzie from his documentary Series searching For. Sasquatch, well this year you can not only go to the, festival but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside Of oakridge With Jason kenzie to The Bigfoot spots to look For. Bigfoot there's only eight spots to sign up for, this and, yes this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary,

1:04:57 series which Is searching For. Sasquatch this is a once in a lifetime. Deal it's just trust it's. Going to be a, wild wild. Experience to get a, ticket head on over To Sasquatch summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp Like Bigfoot society podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day. Pass so thanks To priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can. Can get a little a little help. With the costs. There appreciate, That. PRISCILLA i hope to see you at the booth In oakridge this. Year we can talk about your. Encounter was able to talk to so many people last year and the year. Before it is an incredible. Time you're not going to want to miss, it And i'll see you. There before we wrap this, EPISODE i want to say something directly to a very specific group of. Listeners if you're in the, military any branch or, forces and if you've seen something that no one can, explain or if you're A national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay, quiet or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the, ground or if you're with THE fbi a federal, agency or working intelligence and you've stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk. About and if you're a, firefighter, paramedic or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found

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