Arizona Bigfoot Mysteries: Sightings Explored with Brenda Harris

0:00 And so I did unlocked the main deadlock. And here's that quick. I could really hear that the doorknob like dis thing, let the doorknob go. I swung that door open, and I couldn't believe what I was seen. I really like you greet someone at the door. That's how closesting was. And what I think was very tall, covered in hair from head all the way down its legs. I couldn't really make out the face because it was covered in hair. It's like we looked at each other for a couple of sects and it just darted off the porch. On this episode of Bigfoot Society, we talked to Brenda Harris, bigfoot researcher in New Mexico and Arizona.

0:44 What is exactly going on out there at the Navajo Reservation. Find out this and more on this week's episode of the big Foot Society podcast. Quick note before we get started, this is actually an older episod so that I've never been really able to share justin the Patreon and at that time it was a low amount of members. But this is a interview that was recorded April twenty nine, twenty twenty one, with Brenda Harris. If you may remember a few episodes back, Alex had asked me, Hey, have you ever talked to Brenda Harris? And I said yes, But going through all my archives, I realized the world hasn't actually been able to listen to that yet.

1:26 So here is the unveiling of pretty much at Lost interview with Brenda Harris from twenty twenty one. So enjoy. I have the pleasure of talking to miss Brenda Harris from the Southwest, and she's here to talk to us about Arizona and Bigfoot, but we're going to get a little bit of other stuff in there as well. So Brenda, nice to meet you, Thank you for having me on. Is there anything else you would want the listeners to know about your yourself? I know you've got a pretty interesting YouTube channel, but what else do we have going on? Well? I do a lot of big Foot investigation on the reservation that made me out of New Mexico. I do some calls from Arizona to as well, But other than that, I'm really just a stay at home life, work on the farm, and you know, just taking care of my husband who's been ill for a while but sent back on a seat. So now we're just working on the farm the homestead right now. And you know, if I get calls and you know, on big foot, and I'll go and check into some what's going on, and you know in different areas. That's about what I do. What got you into a big footing originally? What was the thing that caught your interests there? Well? It it goes back to, oh jeez, since

2:58 I was a little kid, a young girl, we had some things that had happened back at home. But you know, I still can't explain what had come around our home and into that and then boom to my teams. I would hear on the radio on the Nava whole hour, you know, they would share the news of what's going on on on the reservation and stuff like that, and the Ladywood and how I got to kind of listening to this. As I'm going to back up a little bit here, my mom and dad used to take us out to Arizona. That's where my grandma lived a whole out side of the family. And we would load up, you know, three four o'clock in the morning, and Dad and a truck and had a camper and he made like a mixshef be in the back end, we'd all called go to sleep. And during the summer times, we would go on the weekend to go go see my grandma and it takes three about three hour driving little over three hour drive, and are our way. As we're even driving through Farmington, my parents would be listening to the Labajo and you know, something that caught my attension was the lady would be saying, don't be going down to the San Juan River because there's a monster down there.

4:21 And that really caught my attension. That's my mom that what is she talking about? There's a monster down there? Oh, you know, it's nothing. Just go to sleep, you know, wake up, we get the grandmats. You know. I'm like, okay, So, you know, left it at that. Throughout the summertime we would go and again that time that we had, you know, load up and took off again. And then this time then, of course my mom and dad didn't know that I was listening, and she again would say you don't go down to the San Juan River. This time she used the name soft Squatch, and that name really stuck to me for a long time, and I'm like, what is she talking about? So again I asked with MoMA that what is the soft watch? What is she talking about? And it was always at the San Juan River or the Animals River. And again, you know my mom and dad, that's nothing, just go to sleep. So as I got in you know, older, and then into my teens, you know that movie The Legend about the Creek came out. Sure, yeah, And you know at the beginning of the movie, you know how that guy talks and then he says the name soft Watch. And I'm sitting in the theaters and I'm listening, like when the guy said her name, like I remember that name. That's the name, the exact same name that the lady said on the Navahol Hour. I'm like, what is a soft watch? You know?

5:44 At that time, I didn't know. And as the movie goes on and then that shows a tall creature but you know, Harry Monster. At that same night, I thought I would see the monster, you know, and I'm like, that's what that's she's talking about, you know, And I'm like, that's running around down here at the San Juan River, you know, and I'm like, whoa. Now, I's like wow. Ever since then, that's when it peaked, you know, I really got kind of interested in checking more into it. And then I got married, okay, and we had I had two kids, oh what thirty nineties. My kids were I believe four, I'm gonna say four and five. It could be maybe even five or six, but it was around that age. It was really young. Well, I'm just gonna leap right into the story.

6:42 This is where I mean I just really got, you know, really into into bigfooting more is because that was this was my very first encounter, like opened the door, just standing right there. Now, what had happened was it was in the summertime, and at the time, my husband was working at the mine, and so he's working you know, different shifts. Well, this night he was working the Great Show, and he had left the house about ten thirty at night, and about fifteen minutes fifteen twenty minutes that he had left, I had all like the living room windows and our bedroom windows open to us so much time, and it was pretty hot. So my kids, my two kids, and I had one of my youngest brother at the time, he stayed with us that night, and my distance of cousins, couple of them stayed over from next door with us. So they're all laughing and giggling and stuff. You know, it's having a good time.

7:46 And then all of a sudden, I hear something, have you walking onto the porch or there was gravel that we had put just before you hit the stairs to the porch. And another thing that really caught my pitch and is we had some dogs and my dogs. I could literally hear my dogs really whimpering and crying and they were underneath the porch. I'm like, quiet, they crying, you know what, what the heck? And I could hear this saying whatever it was was walking gets onto the porch. And so I tell the kids hate the quiet, and you know, just there's something something out there. And my brother, my young brother, was standing in front of me, and he was a little bit closer to the front door.

8:35 Well, I had already put the dead lock and locked the door up, and we had a screen door, but I didn't lock that one. Then I didn't have my porch light on at the time, and so I'm like, someone is on the porch because I could I could hear, you know, porches a lot of them had a squeaking sound, right, and so I'm like, okay, like the dogs are really crying, you know, what the heck? But what is out there? I thought, maybe it's just you know, the kids from next door to their dad or their mom, or somebody's trying to scare us, you know. So I'm thinking a few seconds later, I could see the doorknobs turning like someone's trying to get it. Opened the door, and now I'm like, oh, okay, what the heck. So that's I told my brother, I said, open the door to see who it is, and I'm I'm just thinking that it's either my husband putting your check on us or someone next door is doing it. Well, my brother was so scared he couldn't move. He was just frozen. So I went around him, and I get to see the doorknob is moving back and forth, and so I did the unlock the main deadlock. When hit that plick, I could really hear that the doorknob like distinguish the door knob go. I swung that door open, and I couldn't believe what I was seen. I didn't really like you greet someone at the

10:07 door, that's how close this thing was. What I what I seen was very tall, covered in hair from head all the way down. Its legs. I couldn't really make out the face because it was covered in hair. It's like we looked at each other for a couple of sects and it just darted off the porch. And that was the beginning of what I'm doing now. That was my very very close encounter that had happened. I was like, I couldn't believe it, you know, like you know, I was stunned. You know, I didn't know what to say. You know, as soon as it darted off, you mean, this thing taken off run and my dogs still wouldn't come out from underneath the porch. They were still scared, and they were still crying, and you know, my kids behind it. What was what wasn't I'm like, oh nothing, let's just all go to bed. I shut down everything else, and it was better because I didn't want to scare the kids, you know, turn off all the nights. And that was the beginning that night. I mean, this thing came back that night throughout the whole night, and what I wanted, you know, I don't know, you know, I was really really really shocked, you know, and you know, like I said, this thing came came back throughout the whole night, but tried to open the door. You know what it wanted. I have no idea even to to stay. I go back and see question it want? Why was it trying to get into the house? Was it the kid? Was it? What did it want?

11:41 You know, I had no idea what it wanted. Just went went on throughout the night, and I would get up, turn the light on and I could hear it taken off and it would come back about ten minutes later. And I'm like, you know what, right, we have our master bedroom the windows right there, so I could see out to the front who's walking up? And I get it, kids, I can't get a really clear vision of who's on the porch. So you know, I opened you know, I was standing there and I'm like, oh, what is it want? And I'm like, what the heck? So I flipped a light on in the bedroom and it took off. Each time I did it, it would come back every fifteen minutes, every ten to teen minutes.

12:26 While three three thirty, and I'm like, okay, you know what. I lost the kids in the house, and I had my brother watching my kids, and I locked up everything. I jumped into the truck and I drove around down to the field and had I just paid attention to one of our dogs. She finally came out and started running beside me in the truck, and if I would have just paid attention to her, I could have seen her this thing was hiding, but I didn't. I passed right by it and the dog wouldn't come any further. She went was running back to the house crying, you know, scared, and I had just passed this thing. It was hiding in the bushes, I think bushes down at the end of the field in the corner, so I didn't see it. Apparently I passed it and went drive around behind the house, might see anything sin to came back in, locked up everything, thinking the thing was gone.

13:16 I'm gone by now, and no, no. I crawled back into bed. About ten minutes later, there it is again. You know, this was going on throughout the whole night until about daybreak, which is probably about room about six o'clock, and it's like everything stopped. And then my husband come pulling enough about real after seven in the morning, and I had told him, well, what had happened, and he's looking at me like, yeah, right, and it's probably just a spin one person. I'm playing johnsu No. Yeah, I just desided everything to what I what I had seen, and I said, okay, well, let's go walk around the house since imply you finding footprints. And right behind the house, behind my at my kids's budgeom window in the back hold, there's a footprint. And the best I could describe this footprint, well, it looked like exactly the same footprint that in that movie the Legend of Bog you picking out those two young guys are fishing down at the creek and the young guy finds a footprint that's the exact same footprint that I seen we found behind the house. And I'm looking at him black seeing what there's there's my proof, you know, there's a footprint. He's like oh, He's just like, oh crap, you know, And I was like wow, And I was just I don't

14:48 know what I wanted and why why you wanted to come in? I I don't know, you know. And that was the beginning of me. Really. It goes back to younger days of you know, hearing some stories and stuff like that. But but this was my very very first encounter basically face the fence. You could say that night, like I said, daybreak. No, it was quiet. After that. We could hear maybe like about a week later, we could hear the dogs crying and barking and stuff, but it never came back to the door like he did that night. That was pretty scary, you know, it coming around like that. But now we moved from about less than a quarter mile from there, just down the road, and we have our old property. Now that was like my father in law's place that it happened. But the plot that we're on right now, we've had so many activities here. It runs through our field during the summer time into the fall time when harvest. When it's harvest time when I'm saying harvest, a lot of farmers down here in our area, they plant a lot of vegians, corn and watermelon the garden. Well these things like the common and raid the garden, so that'll take the watermelon. Yeah, So we get a lot that comes through here during that time. That time,

16:19 fall time is when we start having the harvest. Everybody's harvesting their gardens and that's when we get a lot of activity. So this is happening, you said in the New Mexico area. Yes, is this a common thing down there in Arizona and New Mexico where you have big foot almost messing around with people's properties, or is your situation pretty unique, You would say, no, that's pretty much a common thing. You know, A thing comes around when it's hungry, okay, left right now, these things are hungry, so there's no more harvest food. So now they're looking for food. And usually when they start coming on to people's plots, always get calls on my dogs, missing cats, are missing chickens, rabbits, some sheep that go missing, you know, and so when that happened, because they're hungry, and so that's when they'll start going for animals. I've gotten calls out there in the Arizona area where a lot of people have had their sheep taken.

17:30 I would even come across. I got in the call several years ago some people's ranch up there out in the mountains, and one Sunday, and I was on Friday night of me that the family decided to go stay out up their ranch out in the mountains, and they had I think about maybe eight eight or ten people stay there at the ranch that night. Well when they got there, they got there lay that night Friday night, they said that they had a lot of yelling going on, a lot of it howling out there in the mountains the ranch, so they started to on fire and that they said they yelling went on for I believe maybe hour hour and a half maybe, then it stopped and they could hear a lot of movement around them. And Saturday they did the rounding up kettle and stuff like that, and I believe it's this should be Friday, Saturday. Saturday. When they got done, you know, doing stuff, they went to the south end of the corral, you know, walking acting things, and well they come across this deer and this deer was I mean it's neck was this body was like all twisted. Oh boy, And I mean this thing just ripped into

19:02 that deer that I shouldn't say deal was a fuck. They called me, Yeah, they called me on Saturday night. No, it was on Sunday when I got the call and I went out there to go look, and what I see was this buck was just ripped up. I mean, the whole body was twisted. I couldn't believe how how the body was just twisted. And I'm like, okay, there's no cat, no bear. That was around. They used to have. According to the family, they used to get a lot of bears, but ever since they've been having biquit activity out there in Arizona and the mountains where in their ranch in Arizona that they said they don't see anymore bear because of this that's been running around up There's it's almost says this issue. They were saying that this thing just push all the bear out and in that area, you know. So when I went to go do like my new investigation there um around the deer or a buck there, there was actually no like K nine footprints, okay, no no bear tracks, and there was no chat tracks you know, like mountain lions, you know, to those. I didn't find any of that. The only footprint that we come across around where that book was killed was sixteen a

20:37 size sixteen to sixteen and a half footprints that were around, Oh wow, that book and trees that were broken. When I got to Lucky, you know, more and more, and I was talking with the gentleman there, I said, you know that night that you guys all ended up there, this thing must have killed But because it was a fresh kill, so I'm kind of assuming that the deer was killed late Friday because family got there. It was Saturday when they showed up there, and then they said that that's when they heard a lot of yelling and stuff, and then that's when they found the deer the next morning. And so I was telling her, I was telling you that, I'm I said that, you know, I said, I'm kind of wandering being that they killed that that bug must have been late Saturday morning, you know, late Friday night into Saturday early morning.

21:41 They must have killed it then, and Saturday night you guys showed them and these things are yelling back and forth. I'm kind of thinking. I thought they were coming back to retrieve that buck and finish it off. You up when I said it, I mean by eating it and its seeing that the family was there so they can get close to it if you do, you get what I'm saying. So that kind of kind of messed things up, being that the family was there and they were probably going to come back for that that buck, but they couldn't get to it because the family was there. Exactly exactly. I have a clarifying question. You've mentioned this isn't a mountain area of Arizona, So is this up in the Mogian Rim area.

22:30 No say that or no, no, it's in the what they call the USA Mountains, Okay, it would be the west, west west, south southwest, Okay, Okay, So definitely a different area. I know there's a whole there's a whole area in Arizona where it's like the Mogian Monster type deal. That's like, yeah, up up north of the Grand Canyon in the Moga and Ram area. But you're saying this is a totally separate thing. This is this is Bigfoot in the southwest corner of the state. Yea is what you're saying. Okay, very interesting? Be the west also up north Okay, northwest. Yeah. So when you do these, when you look up these reports, are you doing these yourselves or are you, you know, involved with like a BFR or or are you kind of like no, oh, I have my my own little team that we go and do our investigation. Are you a casting tracks if you can and things like that?

23:41 Are more interviewing witnesses? Yeah? Yes, the different reports that you've followed up on, have you found that there are characteristics that stand out, um among big Foot of that state? I know, different states, maybe the big let's have different color fur. Have you noticed any details like that at all from the reports that I get, and especially from right back east, you know, someone like reddish, brown, black, or white. We get those same here. But see, I think the only difference that I'm getting is the ones back pieces are a lot bigger than the ones here around our area around the Chief the mountain areas. Now, those ones out there in the mountains are pretty big, but the ones back heast, I'm hearing their height start from maybe seven to about nine ten feet way deep in the in the mountains back east, now around like around here, I think the average height that runs along the river, I'm going to say between seven two maybe ninet and then plus you get nine feet that go a little bit taller up in the mountains. Those ones that are not very muscular, the ones that are away, you know, deep in the mountains, are the ones that are here along the rivers. There a lot of them. I

25:15 hear. They're like stragging looking, kind of skinny, not very muscular. There's there's very few that are muscular along the river. But the ones that are really just like built, like a lot of reports are those are out in the mountains I've found that sometimes reports vary from state to state, where in some areas it seems there's very aggressive reports, some areas maybe not so much. Have you found any similarities in how the Bigfoot are acting in the reports that you've investigated, or maybe it's all over the place. It's all over the place, Okay, Some are aggressive, some are among the natives, you know, like my relatives. You know, so many of the elder people, elderly people of the native they say too, you know, we just leave them alone, you know, let them do what they maybe to do, and don't don't bother them. You just mind your own businesses, don't do its own thing, you know. And you know they always say, you know, you're not supposed to be talking about them. You just let them be. Don't think it's kind of frustrating because of how they're some of them, how they're acting. Now, Why why are they coming up to the houses now? Why all of a sudden, you know, they got the river, they got deers and all down you know, along the rivers are out in the mountains, they got food out there. Why why are they trying to Why are they coming down this way to the home set now? You know, you know that, you know, I don't

26:45 have an answer for that. You know, the food and majority of its food. Maybe two is they got too many people hunters that want to try and kill one and they don't want to be around that, so abow they're hanging wrong, you know, down this way along the rivers to hide so and you know, because really nobody kept be hunting down at the river anyway down this way. Maybe that's why they feel safer this way. And we do get some some that aggressive around the area or a shout in the mountains, you know, so they're you know, I'm not going to say they're nice and youthing anything like that, but hey, go make friends with them. You know they're pretty nice and you know, I just don't think so because there's don't be that one time, just at one time like t you you know, then what we're like, Okay, you said it was notice don't know, you know, you don't know, I don't know. You know, I don't want to say that I know everything. It doesn't matter who you are or if you have some movie star or someone that has a lot of money. I don't care, you know, because that stuff is not going to say this thing attacks you. You know, be careful out there. You just don't know what these things because there's going to be that good second when this thing will turn on you. And then what you know, if there were people that were wanting to you know, look, go to that area of Arizona that you have researched bigfoot reports, what kind of

28:17 terrain and how do they have to be prepared to go to those areas? Like what would they need? Be really good shape and never never wear tennis shoes. Oh yeah, we're good high team boots that can support your ankle because some of these terrains are really rough and you'll do a lot of rock climbing, and you know, just be prepared and always tell someone at home where are you going to be at, give them some kind of a location. That way, something happens you're not back home when you're supposed to, they can check those areas right right away. Then always have someone with you.

29:03 Also, don't go into these areas thinking you know it all. I mean, you could be very experienced hiker, but again there's that split second that something could happen that it'll blow your mind away. You know, you just have to be so alert and be careful. It's always takes someone with you. And for me, you know, I've always taken the side on them just in case something. I'm not going to go out there just to go shoot it because I want to. I'm taking it for my protection and for whoever's going to be going along with me. You know, how to protect the protect them too, is Oh, yeah, for sure, you know not It's not the only thing that's out there that's running around out there, and whether it be New Mexico or Arizona or Colorado, you know, there's a lot of strange things running around out there in the mountains, so you know, maybe very careful. Just got to be alert and always make sure you have light left, left light on you flashlight, and yeah, just be careful, super careful. There are any other interesting reports that you've investigated over the years to do with Arizona that might come to mind. They've gotten one where a family as a matter that happened two it's going to be about two years now, I believe, or two separate families. Okay, so what happened in August? A family towards I believe it's in August they went out pinion picking out there in Arizona and the mountains, and I think

30:38 it was black rock or I think it was black rock, I tend to remember, but somewhere in that area and Arizona family went picking. And if you don't know, know what a pinion is that they're like little nuts. Shake them off the tree and you know they'll go office though, pick those. So the family went out there and they had some of the kids with them. Well then the little girl was I believe she's picking some or something. Well, this thing, this stick for came and tried to tick off with the little girl, and the parents saw and they went after and they tried to trace that thing off. And they from what I understood, was that they bret the little girl's arm and like you know, trying to pull her back, and they did get the little girl this thing, they got this I don't know how they got this thing to release her arm. They got her back and they just packed her and they just last they went straight to I bring to the police department Madalpini out there in Arizona and tell them what had happened, and they just took a report down. I don't know what happened with that, but the following month, another family they went out opinion taking again. They said that same thing happened, but this time they sing to try to take off with the little boy, and they fought what

32:09 that thing did, did you know, to get the little boy? And they did. They did take a little time, they said, they got the little way back and they did. You know that they were everybody's so shook up, you know, both families were, and the dad and everybody did. They took off to the police department, told them what had happened, and the dad was really upset with the officers there because it was almost as that they weren't going to do anything about it. You know, you let the people know what this thing was, you know, tried to do and all you know from what I heard from the families that they were really upset, really shook up about what had happened. And they they've never gone back up there to that area to go pick you know, what they were doing opinions and stuff like that that has happened there out towards let's see here, Haylee, Arizona. That area there they've had a lot of howling and just see running summer close to the college out that one on the reservation.

33:22 I forget the name that the net college out that way, I believe, but yeah, they've had some activity out that way. Wow. There was another one. Well, this one was in New Mexico, somewhere down south. Had gotten a call. Now this one is not you know, purely was in the area too, you know, in this area, but the family also had mentioned that, hey, there's something out out there. I said, what are you talking about? And she's going, what my my uncle see what they're calling there's they're calling it a lizard man. Now like what I was like, there's this thing that looks like a lizard and in it walks. I'm teags, it's huge. They said this things up there too, So I'm like, oh wow, So I'm supposed to head that way here probably honestly not so summertime, when I get prepared that everything is okay, they go that way and they said they had found a cave down that way. They believe that's where this thing is and they want to recycle head ups and cameras and stuff like that. So that's probably what I'll do and check into that. Sound like oh wow, lizard man. I'm like, okay, that's not the weird thing I've heard. So it was a oh, what do you comment? Where? And a family a guy had

34:52 They said that they had a guy out somewhere out there in Arizona, said black mesa stop, black blot. Oh, I can't think of of the name. But apparently a guy shot one. But I'm hearing and this was like what six years ago, six seven years ago that a guy shot one and had some friends of his or brothers or someone helped them load this thing up, and you know they were going to go turnating or I don't know what they were going to do with it. But one of the guys started kind of bragging about it, from what I understood, and they were got out so fast, and they said with him about Chris team twenty minutes from where this guy had the body in his truck. All of a sudden, they said that they guys and he was black man. All the windows tended everything, and these guys, you know, they picked that body and they took their phones and they just raised every picture that they had. Wow.

35:58 And they said that they closed that area off and they strapped up every blood that was well, the sky shot it. I mean, they said they just swept that area and cleaned off, cleaned everything else. That's intense. Yeah, they took all the blood everything. I was like, wow. They said they were here within about twenty minutes after the guy was dragging about it. They hauled everything off and wow. So I was like, wow, you know that's what thing you don't do you come across something like that. Yeah, keep it quiet. Yeah, I know, like all people.

36:45 People do not know how to be quiet for sure. No. Oh man, Brenda, this has been extremely, extremely fun. Thank you for sharing with us with the listeners about big in the data Arizona. I appreciate you talking with me and sharing your stories that you have looked into your personal encounters. Thank you so awesome. Thank you for having me on. Sorry to shake that you got it. Have a great rest to your night, Brenda, you two, thank you so much. Become a supporting member of the Bigfoot Society podcast by going to www. Dot Patreon dot com forward slash the Bigfoot Society and receive extra episodes and early ad free episodes as well.

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