Bigfoot Encounters Run in the Family | Iowa

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0:43 Welcome to big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode, and if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes head on over to Patreon dot com forward slash the Big for Society, and now let's get on with the show. All right, Big for Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Taylor today. Taylor's a listener that reached out via email to me from northeast Iowa with some interesting things that have happened over the years that he's aware of. But welcome to the show today, Taylor.

1:38 I appreciate it you thanks for having me. Absolutely, we were talking in the pre show and there's some really interesting things that we'll be getting into. But Taylor, I'm going to go ahead and give the mic right over to you, and you're welcome to share from the beginning what has been going on up there. All right, sounds good. So we're going to start with my first I ever had, and this I want to say it was probably when I was about like maybe six or seven years old. I don't remember exactly how they was, but I know I was really young anyways, though. This was during the summer and I was over at my grandparents' house. They live in a town that's in Fayette County and a small little town, and there was a forest above their house. And I asked my grandpa if we could go up into the woods one of those days. And I guess I had done that just because like the house I lived at with my parents, we also had a forest and I was really loved exploring those. Anyways, I asked my grandpa one of these days if we could go up there, and ractuously he said yes, which was weird to me because he has some mobility issues. He has a cane he has to walk around with, and it's also not their property. Somehow, he agreed, and we walked up on this hill, and also on this hill towards this forest, there was this little shack I want to say it was maybe like a four by four or five by five size buildings, maybe just made out of some I want to say,

3:10 a sheet metal or something like that. And IM sorry, I just got to catch my breath here. It's just also weird. Anyways, as we approached the building, we could see like underneath that there was like a burrow of some kind or something like. It looked like it had recently been dug out. And underneath there it was pitch black, so INKY could not see a shadow at all. And this was all during I want to say either early afternoon, maybe mid afternoon, but the sun was out. It was a bright summer day, and in this darkness there was just these pair of eyes. They were like a bright white, they had black pupils, and they were just staring at us, and I want to say they were probably about the size of a ping pong ball something like that, and it was just so malicious almost. It just seems so ominous and just we shouldn't be seeing this. And I asked my grandpa, what is this? What will we seeing?

4:14 And he was like, oh, it's probably a cat or something like that, and I just thought okay. And I remember i'd walked a little bit closer to it, thinking I was going to scare this cat out and I was going to be like, okay, yeah, it's just a cat. And as I got closer, the pupils followed me up as I walked closer to it, so I realized, no, this isn't a cat, so I backed off. I remember we did the semicircle around the building and I was hoping that maybe I could see deeper into the burrow, but it could not see anything. It was just too deep of a den or whatever. And we never even went in the woods. It was just too scary to us. We eventually just turned around and walked back to the house.

4:55 And that was really weird. I remember a couple of years ago I'd asked my grandpa about this. I was like, did I just hallucinate that or was this a weird childhood dream? And eventually he was like, yeah, there was that animal thing. We saw those eyes, and at that point I was like, whoa, this wasn't just a dream. This was something that actually happened to me. And it just still. I can close my eyes and I can see exactly what that space looked like, and it was just, like I said, so ominous and just settling. And just even this year, I remember, I've now tried to want to get answers about some of these things that have happened to me and the family. And as me and my mom went up to the spot that where that was, and for whatever reason, they tore down the shack that was there, and there was this giant brush pile. But underneath that brush pile you could see where the old hole was of whatever this thing had gug out, and it was just so weird. It was like, Wow, this is actually here. It wasn't just some like small fox din or something. And then also while we were doing that, the property owner came over to us and they were like, oh, what's going on, And my mom had the most clever story of just saying, Oh, we're just checking out the local trees, just comparing them to the ones we have in our woods. The lady was super nice, but then she mentioned to us that like someone had been breaking their cars recently. And this is all just like pure speculation because that could definitely be a person, but just

6:26 the like location of towns they're at, it would be so weird daft to go out of your way to go to their vehicles. And so I wonder if maybe something from the woods is coming out, But again that's pure hyperbole we have there's no evidence or anything, but just it's a weird place. So after that, that's my one true So I think now, after listening to other podcasts and other videos and stuff, I think maybe what we saw could have been a bigfoot, maybe a juvenile or something just as eyes. And that's based purely on the whole glowing eye thing that people have described, and it's just growing up, I always rot it off with the cat. But as I got older, I realized that no animal can by luminescent eyes. I think, no eyes glow in the darkness without some kind of light to shine on them, like a flashlight or something. And that's not even how these eyes looked. They didn't look like they were reflecting light or anything. It just looked like two I want to say, like an ivory white, ping pong ball sized eyeball. And they had small black pupils and they just started around and they followed us as we moved, and it's just weird. So I'm curious to think to see what you think about that, Jeremiah, once we get to that portion.

7:44 Yeah, we can talk about it now, if that's all right. Yeah, that's good just for you if you have any questions and clarification everything else. How wide across was the burrow? I want to say it was about so it was probably the full length of the building, like probably four feet, but on the left hand side it was a little bit deeper, wider, like almost that was the entrance, if that makes sense. Okay, so four feet across entrance under the shed when the shed was still up. Yeah, I was going to say too when you and my mom took a look at it this year. The hole that was there was roughly probably like a four x four sized hole in the ground or indent. It was probably like twelve eighteen inches deep. It wasn't super deep, but it was clearly a dugout space.

8:34 Okay, that was going to be my next question. So you're saying that the eyes that you saw at that point they were actually glowing. I want to say they were glowing, Yeah, they were just it was so bright. Nothing I've ever seen in my life has been as bright as is that in the darkness of how dark that space was. When you and your grandpa were up there were there any weird smells. Not that I can remember. Part of my mind kind of remembers maybe my grandpa saying, oh, it's a skunk, so he told me to get away from it. So I don't know if that was just him thinking of random wildlife animals or if maybe he smelled something skunky, But I don't remember anything like that.

9:16 Gotcha any tracks up there at all that you remember seeing. Not really. There was no other real definitive signs we saw anything that was there. And you said this shed was on top of a hill. Yeah, I was on top of the hill just like on the edge of town basically, and behind it there is a forest, and then behind that forest there's a like a giant corner field and then just a bunch of rural land. Are there a lot of deer in that area? Yeah, we've got a ton of deer, a lot of other just woodland game. The forest we have is always in my parents' house. In the winter time. We'd always see turkeys. One time we saw pheasants. Yeah, a ton of deer though all the time. Everything else like that, rabbit, squirrels.

10:01 What kind of predators are over in that area? Really, the most apex predator I would say that is definitively in the area would probably be like coyotes. Okay, there is some very scattered reports of occasionally mountain lions, occasional black beard, little wander down, but that's very few and far between. It becomes like it's like always highlighted on the news whenever one of those things is cited. It's very uncommon. Have there been reports in that area of like a lot of pets going missing or anything during that time period that. Was so long though, I don't remember if any pets have been missing, not that I can all know.

10:41 And what was the approximate year that this was that you were up there again? So if I would have been six or seven, I want to say this was like the early two thousands, probably like two thousand and five to two thousand and seven. There was a really big flood that happened in the year two thousand and eight. I know it happened before that, so. I know that around two thousand and six. There's a Class B that's on bf R at Vulga River. They that is, I don't want to say. It's pretty close. Yeah, yeah, that's not like super far away. Yeah, I've. Twenty three minutes and I have heard a few things come out of that area before. I'd be curious if other that that whole area, dude, is just you've heard stuff.

11:30 You've heard things from Backbone from Strawberry Point. You've heard a Yellow. River like Cardinal Marsh over by Cresco. Apparently that spot's pretty pretty active. Oh really, that's one I hadn't heard of. Actually, I'll have to look and sech I. Just looked on the like Bigfoot Mapping project. Oh okay, in that area there's a few things and you don't have to read about that because they're pretty detailed reports. Oh nice, Yeah, I will. I love that. Say. It's in a while since I've been on there, so I will definitely check that out. Another really funny thing I noticed about the Cardinal Marsh area is when I looked it up on like the Iowa DNR website, they actually note that there was like a big foot siting there, and I was like, Okay, the dn R is just going to have this on their website. Really look it up if you want to right now, Cardinal marshal and it's like on the information or like about us, like about the area or whatever.

12:28 That part of the website is. Okay, yeah, a legend of Cardinal Marsh. That's incredible. It was they say, bigfoot, that's wild. That's well yeah, oh. Man, I'm gonna have to ask a few people I know about that place from that part of I want. To get out there and just track around and see if I can start to find anything. To answer your question. It's not. I don't think it's crazy to think so, just because of all the stuff that happens around that region and even time frame two thousand and five, two thousand and six, there was stuff happening in Vulga River. So I don't think it's out of the question.

13:10 I've always been just so furious, but people think what it would. Be exactly, and if there are other people from this area listening, are from the northeast corner of Iowa, and they might have things that can help flesh this out, like, Hey, I was in the area and this happened, or I have a relative that lived in that area in the same time period and this happened too. Please reach out. If you put it in the comments, people can all see that as well, but you can always reach out directly to me as well. It's just such an interesting anecdotal account, and I don't think that it's out of the question, especially since you're saying the eyes were glowing, and I've I've heard more than I want to be just I've heard more than a few individuals that kind of mention glowing eyes with Bigfoot on expeditions, and I guess I'll keep it there just in case that's I don't think that's private info. But you're not the only one that had said that. Let's just say, as mentioned glowing eyes when it comes to.

14:19 Peter, I want to make sure it's clear these were They were glowing white. They weren't like glowing red or yellow or anything like that. It was very like almost maybe like a light almond or like an ivory color, but no like pigmentation. Aside from that. Okay, Oh, how approximate would you say the eyes were across from each other? They were pretty big. I would say it would be proportionate to almost. I would say it was bigger than a human's like I said, but on the same level of just distance. I would sign, okay, gotcha, gotcha. So it wasn't like a super long distance between the two eyes, but no, okay. No interesting, definitely tell it was some kind of some kind of face or something. Since there was eyes, and even looking back now, it felt like in my mind I could almost see that it was like grinning. And it just felt like it was like like if people have said, like you can see like smiling and eyes when people they don't, it's not actually smiling, it's in the eyes. And it just felt like you could see in the eyes and how like menacing it was, or like grimacing almost.

15:23 And just to remind everyone. So you're pretty young at this time. Your age is six to seven, big for society. Who will be right back after these messages? Do you remember if anything out of the ordinary happened after this, like at home, or just if you started to experience weird. Things, another weird thing that like, potentially this happened before, maybe it happened after. I'm not entirely positive. All that happened was I was laying in my bed at home, and I know I had a nightlight on because I was looking at my nightlight, so it must have been somewhere in this age frame of when this other sighting happened.

16:18 I was trying to fall asleep and I heard no sound in my room, but I very distinctly felt something tap me on my left shoulder. And I was really scared at first because I had heard nothing come in, like not my parents or like the cat we had. So I roll over and there's just nothing or no one there, and somehow I'm eventually able to just drift off to sleep. And that that experience also just is really it scared me because it was like there's nothing there. How can I explain that? Yeah, that's very very weird. Yeah, there's no way to explain that you have you had any any sightings of UFOs or any other weird paranormal type things.

17:07 In addition to that, Yeah, we did so growing up, and my mom one time did see UFO and that was probably in the mid I want to say, the mid two thousands, or not two thousands, the mid twenty tens. I was probably either fifteen sixteen or so. And I woke up and all my windows were open. I was in the room I had was like a converted porch, a covered porch, so it had a ton of windows. I wake up. There's like a full moon out, so I can see how clearly there's a beautiful night sky. I'm looking in the night sky and I can see this what I thought was either a plane or helicopter. But then it starts to just go around in weird patterns, and the sky starts going in circles fairly fast, not like super fast, but just in a really unreg regular pattern.

17:53 And I eventually called my mom in and she looked at it too, and she was like, yeah, that's weird. I don't know what that is. Is another experience that just recently happened here at my new house. I live in the Cross Now I'm no longer in northeast Diowa, but i'd regularly come back to at Terents place at least a couple times a month. What happened here on Lacrosse was, let me see, I've got this written down. I can tell you exactly the time. Happened around eight o'clock October fifth. So my roommate sends me a text and she says, come out to the front lawn right now. So I thought it was some kind of emergency or something. So I immediately like bolt out. I go outside, and I see she's out there with a friend of hers and they're staring up at the sky and she's on the phone with her mom, and so we look up at the sky and there's just all these balls of light all over the horizon, some further to the south, some further to the north, and they're all just moving in this continuous direction from east to west. Some are closer so you can see that they're a brighter ball of light. Some are further away and they're very faint.

18:54 Some look like they're almost triangular based on how the points were, And it was just so unnatural. They didn't have tales like how comments would have comets, like how a common has a tail that our meteor does. It wasn't like the Starlink satellites because I looked up that those are more in like a singular line. This was very spaced out and there was just so many of them, and to our knowledge, there wasn't like any some kind of like weather balloon release or some kind of crazy military exercise going on in the area. And that one. I'm very perplexed by what we saw. Yeah, that's very interesting. I was actually going to ask you if you had ever seen a photo of a Starlink satellite line before. So that's good you brought that up.

19:42 Yeah. I looked it up literally as soon as I came inside, as soon as it all got done, and we were like, okay, what is that. Let's try to figure it out. And then I was like, oh, Starlink, what do these look like? And now it wasn't anything like those, because these things were closer and further in the atmosphere and they were just really far spaced out, some further to the sound, I'm further to the north. They were all going in the same continuous direction. Did other people in the area. Did you hear other people reporting seeing it as well in the days around. That, As far as I know, no. I asked them co workers if they had seen anything. I tried to ask them what they thought would be. They did mention around that time that Aurora borealis was going on, so potentially it was somehow related to that. As far as I know, I've never seen an Aurora borealis. That's ball of light. They can do that, though, and cool, we have an explanation, but as far as I can tell, that's not really a thing. Yeah, no one to my knowledge besides us saw this, and also my roommate's mom because she's the one who called her to tell her this is happening.

20:47 I would say, after hearing a whole bunch of different stuff, just the different things you've had happened in your life, the area that happened the time, I would say, there's a big chance that you probably did experience something. And some people may say, no, not a chance, But I'm after looking at everything and talking to here for a bit, I think there was something weird there in that borough, dude, So I'm going to go with that. Aside from that, though, I do have some family reports that I can tell you. If you want to get into that kind of stuff. Yeah, go right ahead. So we'll go back in terms of the family timeline. We'll go with the first thing that happened. This was like in the mid nineteen nineties, made the late nineties, and this happened near West Junior and Iowa. It happened actually on the Airport Road, which is the road right there with the airport. I don't know what its official name is, but it's the one that has the airport on it. Anyways, though, so my cousin he was in seventh grade. This is what he told me. I just asked a pure freshman memory on this story because I always heard it growing up, and I wanted to see if what I remembered from childhood was still what he would tell me today. So anyways, he said that he was in seventh grade roughly, and it must have been around the time he was getting ready for some sport, so he was going to be out drogging often, and he remembered he was excited that the road had just gotten paved, so now he's going to be able to run on a paved road, and he doesn't have to run to gravel. So he'd been out one afternoon and he's running from his house towards the direction of the airport.

22:17 His house was very close to where that airport was, and as this road has a series of like small hills, and from the direction he was running, he was approaching the first incline, and he said he could see what appeared to be a dark object cresting the hill, just what he later determined was the head, but at that time he thought it was maybe part of a car. So he thought, okay, there's a car approaching, so he like out of the way, and it was on the opposite side of the road of him, also this dark object, and so he keeps jogging in the same towards it, but again on the opposite side of the road, and eventually it crests the hill further and further until it's like the waste of it. And then he can see that it's more. It's got arms, and he said the arms were going side to side. He described it like how a jogger runs, not the typical like front to back, like how like the Patterson Gnlin film is. And he kept running, just not really realizing what's happening until eventually he's slowed down to watch this thing. It eventually fully crests the hill, it stands there, and then he is absolutely petrified, like his fight or flight took over. He said, he had the biggest burst of adrenaline he's ever had and he just like immediately turned around and started to sprint helm And as he's sprinting onm he looks over his shoulder. He doesn't he sees it about halfway down this small hill, now crossing the road. He then turns around, keeps running. He looks over his shoulder second time, he doesn't see it, so he slows down and turns around fully.

23:50 He then sees that it's now crossed the road fully and is now down in the ditch and is its head is level to the road, of like how deep this ditch is, and then enters the cornfield as it's swinging its arms front to back. And that was the point where he realized, oh my gosh, that was a big foot, And then he sprinted home immediately told his mom, and she didn't believe him, and he was very upset with her because he knew what he had seen and it terrified him. Some other like descriptive things he said about it. He wanted to say that it was very shaggy like, it almost had six inch long hair all over its body, and its color was a very dark red, like a dark chest and up even darker than that.

24:32 And it had highlights on his shoulders, and then that highlight almost went in a stripe down to its elbow. So that was his experience. After that, we can then talk about my dad's experience he had. Now this was probably about ten years ago, and this took place out of my grandma's house. She lives just outside of the town that my parents live in, and on our property. She has a small pond creek in a forest. It's very kind of hilly, turning very it's the driftless region, so it's got that typical driftless ecosystem and typography. So my dad was going out there, it was probably said, and he is retelling of this story probably eight o'clock, nine o'clock. It was a summer day, so it was our summer night. He was starting to get dusk, starting to get dark. So he's driving his truck out there and he goes down to a burn pile that she has that they burn brush, fence stuff, and that's down by the pond and also by this forest and creaking everything.

25:31 So he gets down there, he parks the truck and he gets out of the truck and he immediately can hear this noise. First, he doesn't really pay attention to it, thinking it's just some kind of bird or some kind of other local wildlife, and he starts unloading the brush he had in the truck. He's got to pitch fork, he said, and he was shoveling it out or whatever. And as that's going on, he keeps listening to this noise because it just keeps going and it doesn't stop. It doesn't let up, it doesn't get high or lower. It just stays consistent. And he really is He described it as what sounded like talking, but not humans talking. It was just this constant jabbering or chatter, and it just stayed consistent. And at that point he started to get scared, so he kept he like unloaded the truck really fast, and he put the pitchfork in the back.

26:19 He kept looking over to the woodline, trying to expecting something was going to come out at him, some kind of creature. He couldn't tell what this was. And then he got in the truck. He said he locked the door because he was scared, and he drove home and he said, in all my life, I have never heard anything like that ever. And we have played all kinds of animal sounds for him, like mountain lions, foxes, all kinds of stuff like that, and every time he says, no, it's not that it was talking but not human talking. Have you ever played the Sirius sounds for him before we did? Yes, we tried playing that for him, and he just kept saying that it was so long ago and it wasn't exactly like any of that, but he couldn't exactly remember if it wasn't like whooping or like any type of like the samurai chatter per se. He wanted to say, it was more high pitched, like a higher sound, not really low and like Artilly gotcha and my dad's he's a really reputable guy. He's very hard working. He's not a storyteller. At this point, he wasn't very tech savvy or like surfing the internet. And he later in life he told me that once I told him I thought that maybe he experienced bigfoot chattering at him. He said I only thought there was one, so I was just out west in Washington, and then he had all these questions because he had never been exposed to this. And that's what makes his story so interesting to me, because this guy, he's fifty years old at this point, he's heard every animal that we have around here. He's lived in this area his entire life. He's been outside all

27:50 night some nights, and he had never heard anything like this before, and it's just it scared him. And even to this day, like when he talks about it, he doesn't I wouldn't say scare him now, but it just makes him uneasy because we don't know what it is and it still could be out there for all we know. Another weird thing I guess that did happen to me that I just thought of. That also happened out of my grandma's house. It's very brief, but I remember I was above the pond. There was a giant like Cobono trio standing by, and I could hear this sound coming from the woods, and in my mind, all I remember saying is that's a Star Wars noise? Why am I hearing Star Wars? And it just was really uneasy and I remember I didn't stay outside anymore after that, and I just went inside and it just bizarre, and listening to other people's stories, I thought maybe that could have been a bigfoot, just because again I've listened to all the animal sounds from my area, and it definitely wasn't an animal sound. It was against Star Wars. That's just what it immediately clicked as it was, like I want to say, it was all like the Star Destroyer alarm, like that pulsating alarm.

29:05 Oh yeah, yeah, totally. Okay. Have you ever heard anything else like that? Is that like a before someone else? Not like that? That's really weird and you just heard it the one time. Yeah, And I feel like probably in my lifetime growing up, I've probably heard other weird things, but I didn't really know to recognize it and remember it. And I feel like there's probably other times in my life where I've heard this similar sound or other weird things, and I just it doesn't resonate because it's out that's just a bird or whatever. But knowing now it's now, that's not a bird. It's not just no voices or anything talking to you from the woods ever on that property.

29:50 Not that I can remember now, I'm just trying to think back now. Definitely some eerie times, like where the animals go off silent but no no noticeable things stalking me or making noise directed towards me. I know. The least. Have you ever talked to your grandparents? Did they ever have any weird stories about, like from a long time ago on that property. Oh yeah, there's that's just the I don't know. In the South, they would say it's it's just the wood bugger. So my grandma is very skeptical of all things that aren't explained. Just like growing up, I would always ask her about all these weird like ghost tales and stuff and like bigfoot and stuff, not knowing that my dad was going to have this experience, and she would always just write it off as some plausible.

30:35 Thing big for society, who will be right back after these messages. So I feel like if she had ever really experienced anything out there, she would just not attribute it to something unexplainable or bizarre. She would just say, oh, that was it was just a deer and it was some kind of owls fighting or something. So unfortunately, now my grandma doesn't have any historical accounts or anything that I know of. Makes sense.

31:16 Another weird thing that I did think of that happened out there. It happened with my mom. And I don't know if this is potentially attributed to a bigfoot or not, but it could be at least I have thoughts so just based on the way she tells what happened, she was sitting in the sun room that my grandma has, and it it was probably dusk or nighttime or just starting to get dark, and behind them, behind where my mom was sitting, they heard this really loud noise. And she described this noise. It's very hard for her to even try to describe it, but the way, the best way I could probably put it is it sounded like the Tasmanian Devil when he's like doing his tornado spin.

31:56 And it was just like this really big commotion of noise, and it wasn't like something was fighting him injured. There was no whimpering, there was no snarling. Then there's like this thirty second pause, and it happened again, this noise just right behind them, and it was really she said, it was really spooky. My mom also heard the same noise at her house, probably four years after that, and it was much closer to her when she was outside nighttime. It was up in the woods, probably maybe fifty feet from her, and she immediately ran inside. She was terrified. When you say Tasmanian Devil noise, isn't are you talking about the noise that the Tasmanian Devil makes, or the noise of the spinning that it.

32:40 Makes, the noise like the spinning from the Looney Tunes character, like that character, the Tasmanian Time Devil. That's the best way I guess that I've been able to have her describe it. She also would always say that it was like a safari noise, because she immediately remarked to like my grandma, oh, there's a safari out there. That was some kind of really loud not noise we're supposed to have in this area, and it just was weird to her. And she's listened to again, like just all these other like recordings of like mountain lions and foxes and owls, and she's never able to find anything else, but it resonates like what she heard.

33:22 So it would be interesting to know because how she said, it sounds like a safari out here. Sometimes people will describe what they hear as like a combination of sounds at the same time. One of the sounds including like an elephant trumpet or kind of safari type creatures. Yeah, I would say that could be a way that the way that she was describing this, it was just like a mess. It was like a scramble its noise. It was just a bunch of jumbling of a lot of commotion was happening. She also describes it as like when cartoon characters start fighting and there's like that fight cloud where they all just are like mangled together. It was very much like that. That makes sense. It's a very weird description, but it's the best way she could articulate it into a descriptive way.

34:08 Has anyone ever reported any hearing any like weird mechanical noises that don't really aren't really explainable away. I don't think so, not that I know at least, But again, growing up, I feel like there's been times where I've been out in the woods and I probably have heard like the car door noise right where car doors closing, yep. But I don't have any like direct accounts of that or or memories directly of that. You're that whole Tasmanian devil slash safari noise thing. That's very very interesting.

34:48 Yeah, yeah, it's just bizarre to me because it's like, what if somebody can explain that as, oh, that was just that's coyotes, okay, and if you can feel me that noise, I will one hundred percent. Now we know, but as far as we can tell from everything we've heard, and we've poured through at this point basically hours of different animals sounds, and it's not like anything else we've heard or the cheese heard. I should say, did you say daytime? That probably happened the first time it happened at my grandma's house. For her, it was like dusk, okay, they started to become dusk. The second time when it happened at her house, it was nighttime and she was outside with our dog at the time, and our dog also she immediately was scared and wanted to go inside. She was a little like Yorky, but she normally would have you know, a ton of she would be at you know, too big for breeches almost so to speak, and not that she was really she was not okay with that.

35:47 That is very interesting. Have you guys ever talked to neighbors of either property to see if they've experienced weird stuff? Not really just because of how do you casually bring us up? Now, I get it. I live in Country Iowa too, I get it. I want to. I would like hopefully sometime soon I can start doing that, because I want to try to just investigate the town that I lived in and see if anyone else has had reoccurrings of something like this or long ago something happened. Growing up. I do remember there was like an incident my neighbors told my parents about and it definitely this could be humans or maybe it's not. But at night times someone was breaking into their garage and like going into our forest and they didn't really describe it was just a dark figure, so I mean, could have been a human, But that was just a story I remember growing up, and it was always a little weird to me at least.

36:48 Yeah, that's interesting. That feels like definitely they could. You could ask some interesting questions about that those people, see if they were if they were holding certain types of food in the building that was broken into, or all sorts of interesting things. But yeah, that's an interesting story. One question I wanted to ask you because growing up in that area, I just interviewed a guy from up in your walk on and I want to know. I want to see if you've heard anything growing up in that area. Did you ever hear any people talking about bigfoot around Yellow River State Forest or Backbone?

37:31 Not really? The only the only first thing I ever heard growing up was my cousin's account, and that was taking place more towards where we lived. We didn't really at that point. It was occasionally we got to Backbone, but not often. Gotcha? Gotcha? And I guess the same question, but more towards Southeast Iowa. Nothing down there, actually southeast. Yeah, Now, nothing really happened in southeast Iowaka. It's a big funt in my family. Cool man. You guys definitely have experienced some really interesting things. When you put the whole picture together, it's a pretty incredible story for Iowa.

38:13 Was another couple of quick stories you had to leave them. And my aunt she had an experienced by the Turkey River once probably again early to mid nineties, where they were out camping her family, and next to their camp, there was a black panther that walked by and went down to the river, didn't bother them or pay attention to them, but she was very clear that it was a large black panther, and she was not. No one believed her, and she was very upset because she knew what she had seen. She knew what what house cat looked like, she knew what dogs look like, and this thing and too long of a tail, was too lanky of a body to be something else other than what she described. And then another thing she recently told me about too, more towards southeastern Iowa, but more middle of the state. I guess. She was out one night with her and her boyfriend. They were going in. They were in their garage. They were like watching a movie or whatever, and they were getting ready to go in the house, and they looked out over this cornfield and they could see these lights glowing, and she described it and they described it as five to six lights. It was glowing above this farm. Then I shot over above this field, sat there for probably five minutes, and then it just shot up in the sky super fast. And she was super scared. Her boyfriend wasn't as scared, so he watched it a little bit longer. But she was really put off by that just because of how low to the ground it was, just how unearthly it seemed and how fast it was going.

39:42 Was that also in the mid nineties as well? That took place. No, actually, that took place just last year, in twenty twenty twenty three. I should say. Let me see if I'm forgetting any of the details from what you told me. I think it was probably like spring or summer, because it was pretty nice out. That's what they were. And I think that's pretty much everything I can think of with that. Sorry, did you say that was Fayette County as well? Actually that took place down more towards Clinton, Iowa, that kind of area. Okay, that is really cool. Iowa is such an interesting place because it's one of those states where people usually don't talk about stuff, but when they start to talk about it, they definitely talk about it. And it's almost a thing too. When you start to become the person in your area that will listen to the weird stuff, then people are going to come directly to you on the side. So I think as it sounds like you're trying to look into your area and even over in Wisconsin, as you become known for it, they're going to come to you. They're not going to want other people to know that, but you know, but they'll come to you on the side for sure, I hope.

40:55 So because that's yeah, that's what I want to start doing. I just want to start trying to get some man of what's going on in this area, what people are seeing. If it all possible, some kind of DNA or footprint evidence that would be ideal. Unlikely, but based on what people are seeing, it's got to be something awesome. Taylor, I'm glad you reached out to me. It's nice to have more information about a part of Iowa that everyone talks about but they I don't have a lot of solid info yet, so it's good to have some good solid information. So thank you for reaching out. I appreciate you letting me be on and then let me tell my stories or my encounters. I should say stories just sound so you know, not really credible, but again, these things are all things that happen. I mean, my family, we're not exaggerators. We're very incredible people. We want to know the truth of what's happening. And it's just so unsettling with what's happened and it's more just the fact that, aside from my cousin's citing and actually physically seeing it, it's the unknown of what it is. It's just a figure in the darkness and some elusive shadow.

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