Bigfoot Family Stuns Fishermen at Johnson Shut-Ins, Missouri

0:00 You're listening to BIGFA 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. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the carring Bridge link in the show notes. Thank you, Hey, how are you?

0:45 I'm doing good? How are you? Hey? You doing great? And this is Opal Creek just north of Detroit. Is that right? I don't know if there's a Detroit in Oregon, but it's kind of closer to Portland. I'd say, Okay, yeah, I think I know what you're talking about. All right, awesome, Well, yeah, feel free to share what your experience was. Yeah, it's nothing too crazy. But I didn't see anything. I'll start with that. But so we were at Opal Creek and there was a little offshoot of a campsite that's right next to like a waterway, and it it is like a river, it was more like a creek where we worked. It was really shallow you could easily like walk across. So anyway, we were out there camping, we haven't seen anybody. We went to all the tourist sites, we went to the actual Opal Creek where the natural water slides are, and we went hiking all around. We did not see a soul. We went up to what was that, it's a job Oone Flats, which is the old mining town. We like walked all the way up there.

1:44 We hiked all the way up through all these old abandoned mine shafts, and we got up to the town Joblone Flats. There's nobody there, Okay. And so anyway, later that night, right our campsite, and I fall asleep, well actually before we went to sleeper out at the campfire, and these we haven't seen anybody all day. And then right as it's getting dark, like it's already pitch black. It's like nine eight or nine at night, and these two people pull up to the campsite next to us and they're like unloading, and we're getting kind of freaked out. We're like, who the heck does that in the middle of the night. It just was so strange, and so we were like called, We're like, okay, well, we're just gonna go in our tent and let it be. And so we went in our tent and we had had like some Jiffy pop so we had like some popcorn out like by our campsite that had like gone astray.

2:34 But here in Oregon, we don't really have to worry out about bears. Maybe a cougar here and there, but it's not really a worry to leave food out in Oregon. It's not like Montana where you can we have to put your food under the ground or whatever. And so I go to sleep and then I wake up and it sounds like there's like little pebbles hitting our tent and there is like a like we didn't obviously, we weren't thinking it was like bigfoot or anything. It was not what we thought it was at all. At the moment, I thought it was squirrels jumping on our tent, like trying to eat the popcorn or something, and it just it kept going and it wouldn't stop, and they were just like, it kept hitting our tent. And I wasn't really too worried about it, except I was asleep and I had woken up to these sounds and my husband was holding an axe, and I was like, what's going on?

3:26 He said, I I don't know what it was, but I heard a growl and some like low pitch growls. I don't know, I'm terrified, and so we basically stayed up the whole night and there and we were like, we don't know what's hitting our tent. What is this? And then he was hearing low pitch growls. I didn't hear any growls, but yeah, And so I asked him later because I didn't think it was bigfoot until I started listening to Sasquatch chronicles and I was like, dang, those people who pulled up to our tent, like it was crazy. There was two of them, just like you hear, and I don't know. It was just really strange after the fact, and I asked my husband a little while after that, thinking like, how do we actually have like a big foot encounter? And I was like, what did you hear? Like what was that?

4:07 And you said, honestly, I don't know. I was like in fireflight. I was just holding onto my axe, ready to go, and that's my encounter and that's really it. Wow. So I know exactly pretty much exactly where you are once you said job Own Flats, because my guinness, you were in the one of the most active areas in Oregon when it comes to Bigfoot. I mean you're right under the Oregon Bigfoot Highway Detroit, Oregon, just south of its super active. I mean you were right in the middle of it, and so I wouldn't be surprised if that's exactly what happened. But my goodness, thank you so much for coming up. Yeah. Absolutely, I've told the story before and everyone's like, oh, you know, probably is nothing. But like the area we were in, right by the water. The two people who came up, I don't know, it was weird, but yeah, thanks for listening.

4:56 Hither, how are you hey, I'm doing well, How are you hey? Doing? Great? Show here? Oh? Thank you? I try to do this every so often. Perfect Well, just real quick. It's it's a place. It's called Johnson shut In State Park. It's around one hundred is miles so south I think southwest of Saint. Louis, Missouri. Sorry those oh Johnson's Shut INDs got. It, Johnson's Shut in Missouri. And it is generally around the Black River area. It's just Black River runs through every place down around there. And I've seen other sightings as when I was younger with this one who was the most prominent, uh, my father and I was fishing on a spillway when I was about fourteen years old, fifteen.

5:38 It smelled just really pungent, like you know, the wind was blowing. I'm like, well, there. Must be rotten the fish laying, you know, like it was on the spillway. We were on the bank, and but we didn't see any fish. It's like, you know, something smells really bad. You know. We kind of look over. It might have been dead fish. I'm not sure, but it's just something was just not right, you know, the scenery. So I looked over over and I'm like, this is a really big beaver across the spillway eating a fish. And you know, around fourteen. Fifty years old, like looking across it's about maybe forty yards maybe you know, on the spit what's coming through and there's mist in the air. We get to really look and the things stood up on behind legs. It wasn't there, and it wasn't a bear. It's about the tall it's the fish. And from everything we just kind of froze. From everything we could gather, it was it was a young bigfoot because when we looked up, we seem two other ones, like a darker colored one and a lighter colored one, almost like a blondish color, like like brown. And they were probably eight and nine foot tall, standing next to each other on the tree line. And I'm assuming that it was like a child, because I think they got startled in and run up to I guess his parents, the other.

6:55 Ones up there. My father and I said, like maybe forty fifty yards from these things. Just you know, it's just like the blatant obviously, you know, and it's before we had cell phones, you know, take pictures. Didn't expect anything, so wow, super obvious. You know, they're out in the open like that. But it's just you know, and it's just me and my father. Nobody really believes us, but you know, we don't mind. Dad never lied, but it's like that would have been a perfect opportunity if given the decent camber to take. You know, it was a family, so that it's like and we we hear things that we've seen what we know the next river river too, So it's just they're out there.

7:36 It's just you know, they know how to hide. So that's all absolutely. So I missed how tall you think the one that that you saw was the first one? I missed the height on that I. Think probably around five foot tall, I would say, because I thought it was just like it looked like a man in a suit. It looked like a man and like a little monkey sack or something. But because the spillway was coming through and there was a miss but then they it up, you could tell it was just it wasn't a. Man in a suit. So I'd say five ish but tall something like that. Maybe, Wow, Okay from interesting how I gauge it worth day. They were huge, So it's such. It's such a wild area too, because it is like right outside Mark Twain and it's yes, uh kind of close to Tomstack Mountain, which I've gotten stuff there.

8:28 It's just like right on the other side, I believe. So yeah, there's all sorts of activity, not just me, like I know other people who have any heard things too. All around there. It's just kind of like the other and nobody really thinks anything about it. So just how it is. Was it, uh, did you smell anything or was it making any noises or anything like that? Yeah, it smelled sour. That's what we were thought were like, because we went there before, like a month before, and we seem like dead car and it's like, well, they're you. Know, the spillway on other side, it's kind of it looks like. A creek, kind of like in the spillway, it's blowing water out, you know, from the dam up above. It's kind of like a creek. So they were like washed up fish they were smelling. There weren't any of this time we assumed there was. It's what it's going like, sour smell almost like really bad body order.

9:15 I mean kind of like after we like. It's like a like a big armpit, if I should say, just like trash. So I don't know if it was it or not that it was. I've never smelled anything. Like it since, so that is wild. That's probably it. So yeah, I'm trying to think was it is it Saint Francois County, Missouri. Is that how you say it? That would be? That would be I think bordering maybe on Saint Francis County or Reynolds. County, Okay, because I've gotten a ton of stuff just east of there too, that Saint Francois County and Madison County, Missouri. Yes, just that whole area is totally bonkers. I don't know what it is.

9:58 I grew up in Renalds County. It's just down there. Black River runs all the way through back around there in the mountains, and there's just all sorts of state of. Things that go on down there. So yeah, there's And remind me, did you did you then watch them walk away? Or yes? Yes, we stood there next to each other like like I I want to say, I'm a parked here, maybe forty fifty yards away or hunters, we can have a good estimate. And maybe I mean just the younger when I'm assume it's younger kind of just had a fish in its tan and held it like you you would a puppy, or just kind of hugged it, you know, and walked straight up the hill. And I'm assuming it's parents were just they walked straight out from the tree line, probably three or four foot apart from each other, looking over at us. Didn't make a sound, didn't do anything, and the younger one, I assume, just.

10:48 Walked up to it, and the other one kind of like put its hand on its back and dropped its hand, and they both and the. Child or the younger one walked ahead of them, and they just like turned like we weren't even there anymore, just followed. It up in the boat the tree line. You know, Hey, how's it going right? Have you looked into that specific area to see if there's been other sightings to that Johnson's shut. In, Yes, just just throughout the years, and just other people like, yeah, we've seen you thought we'd seen different things like them, and some of one of my I guess there was a friend or a friends and they see something similar. To that, like one of them was swimming down there in another part of it or or next to like a.

11:28 Creep and they see it was like walking out of a creek. So that was a couple of years, two three years after I'd witnessed that. So it's just people. People shrugged that off. I mean but you know, anybody's gonna. Want to hunt them, hopefully not hopefully not. What year was that again, it's just. Part of it, uh, fourteen or fifteen, so let me see about ninety yich or so. Say more a math. So that's awesome. Do you uh? Do you follow sasquatch theory as well?

12:12 No, I just I don't really. I've just been kind of. I get my feeling like I'll jump to one thing from another, but it's all so very interesting. It's like, I think there's so much evidence out there, the points stores or something, then there's not, you know, and I think I just I think if there is, we all should be you know, allowed to know. You know, all that consists of. I just you know, things are hidden for a reason. I seen it, either for us or for something else. I mean, but you know, people get crazy and things like that. You know that would be horrible. So it's just I think it's just something in our nature that's always been there. It just needs to be left alone.

12:52 It does kind of unlock some primal thing when you hear you know, when you hear that, even the sounds, So it's it's very strange. But thank you so much, for coming up and sharing about southern Missouri. I appreciate it. It's crazy stuff. Thank you, thank you. All Right, we've got Have I seen him? That's a great question. So the close here's the closest I've gotten to that. I was in Stakida, Oregon, last July twenty five with a researcher whose name was Frank Canister. He's passed away now, and we were I was recording his stories and We're out in the woods about thirty miles and I'm facing him and he's looking over my shoulder telling his story, and all of a sudden, his face goes totally pale, totally pale. Drops. I've never seen a face go pale and drop before. It's crazy. And I was like, Frank, Frank, are you okay? Because I thought he was having like a freak out or something. And he's like, dude, I just saw something walk yards over your shoulder tree, a tree, tall, dark. It's like, oh my goodness, it's the closest. It was right there. That was the closest. It was crazy. So that's the closest I've gotten is probably twenty yards behind me. There you go.

14:15 But you can watch that documentary I made about Frank on the Big for Society YouTube channel. There are you? Yeah here, let me turn my volume up. Take a yeah, okay, there we go. Yeah, awesome, Okay, thanks for coming up. I told my story once before, about a year back. It was kind of a lengthy story with myself or. Yeah, it with you okay. And but I also have my main reason for coming up is asking a question about the bigfoot. Sure, I've had two years of a bigfoot that did live with me.

14:56 I told that story. It lived on my ten acres property and then I had undeveloped property all around me, so but it liked to be near me for some reason. But that was the story that I had told you once before. Can you remind me of the area this was in. I'm trying to make sure I have the right one in my mind. Yeah, I'm in Washington State, Okay, okay, okay, yeah, yeah. Maybe you could recall when I told you I had a rock fight with it. We were throwing rocks back and forth at each other. Do you remember that? Yeah, Okay, I'm that lady, all right, yeah yeah yeah, and uh and he was not a friendly bigfoot. He never did any harm to me. Or my children, or my husband.

15:48 But he. Did just rid of all the wildlife in the whole area, I'm telling you, including all my chickens, you know, and my neighbor's dog. And you know, he attacked the animal and would screen constantly every night. You know, our neighbors were knocking on my door wanting to know if I was okay. But anyway, my question is okay. I that bigfoot in particular, I. Found out. He was not black, he was not brown in color. He was pure white.

16:29 Yes, okay. And since then I had moved from that place. I had to They sold the house and we had to move, and we moved about, oh, I don't know, maybe fifteen miles up the road. And when we first moved in. It was a few weeks later that I detected what I used to offer the first big foot, and this one, in part, this is a different one now that showed up here where we moved, and I used to get actual fear, not even seeing it, not smelling it, just his presence, to the point that I wouldn't go outdoors.

17:20 I was afraid. I wasn't that way with the other one at all, but this one had given me this horrible fear, and I fear nothing, as you well know. You know, when I'm having a rock fight with it with a big foot, I feared nothing. I confront everything. This thing kept me in the house, and I would hear this thing, just like the other one, holler and scream at night. Okay, it decided to move over across the main highway over into Fort Lewis, and it would holler and scream at night over there, and well, all of a sudden, the screaming and hollering stopped. Now I know of a couple guys who live over there in the Fort Lewis, there in the military, and they told they both told me, oh that there is no way they would have allowed that to continue. They either got in one way or the other, and that's why there was no more screaming from there. But I did get a glimpse of it before it took off. I got a glimpse of it where my fencing is. One part of my fencing is old wood, and the boards were falling out, and I got a glimpse of his coloring in between the vacant boards, the gaps. And now remember the first bigfoot I had was solid white. This one

18:51 was not brown again, not black either again or white. It was a golden color, a yellowish golden color. Have you ever heard of that? Yes, yes, there is. Well I just looked it up real quick. The closest I've so. Okay, one way to look at this is, uh, there's a creature that was seen in Ontario, Canada where it had like yellow, blondish hair on its head and they actually called it old Yellow Top. That was between like the early nineteen hundreds to nineteen seventy and that was in Ontario, Canada. I do get a lot of like people that say it has a rust color to it, the white white Bigfoot I hear quite a bit actually, but yellow, I don't know if I've ever heard that one from.

20:00 Yeah, it was a golden golden yeah, yeah. And it was daylight that it was right outside, right out in the open. I have trees along there, you know. It was amongst the trees. Not a lot of trees, but I have trees along that fence. And it was on the other side of the fence, and the sun was shining and its fur, its hair whatever they call it, was shiny and it was not dull and dirty. It was shiny and It was a golden color, golden yellow, more golden than yellow, but golden. It was a very beautiful color, very beautiful color. And this was about twelve years ago. Okay, wow, But it stuck around across the street after that, you know, when I first seen it twelve years ago, it stuck around for about a year between me and Fort Lewis before they captured it or done away with it.

21:05 So that's a great question from Umbri and the chat. So do you remember anything specific about how it would move or how fast it was? No, because, like I told you, this thing, I had genuine fear, and I feared nothing. So I stayed in the house. I wouldn't go out, only during the daylight. And that's when I did get a glimpse of it. Okay, gotcha. Was it leaving things around your property ever, like weird weird objects or animals that were no longer living anything? I thought, And well, it would like break a lot of bushes and trees and all of that along my property line along the fencing, and it used to. Yeah, and to the point there wasn't much left. So that was intentional. There was no accident. I don't know why it was doing that, but it was just joined everything along there along my fence. And whether you know, because I wouldn't let it in, or or it knew I wouldn't have anything to do with it. I don't know why it would be doing that, but that was destruction.

22:14 That was, you know, definitely destruction that it was. Sure were your neighbors having issues as well? No, because, like I said, I first moved in and didn't know the neighbors quite yet. Okay, got it, got it, thank you, thank you so. But it's so that was twelve years ago and you're still in the same. Area, right, Yes, same house. Yeah, you're saying the Fort Lewis guys took took care of. Yeah, that's what these two guys in the military told me that there was no way they were going to tolerate it because it was screened from over there in their property, in their their land. And now it stuck around about the same amount of time that the wh at the other house, the white one was at because that one, the first one, stayed with me for about two years, constantly regularly for two years, and this one just about the same amount of time. And I noticed that with this one, it brought my attention to it.

23:23 That it was a month of February that it started its screaming, this is the golden one. And then it screamed for about a week or two and then stopped the following year. Now, I used to sit by the window, even in the wintertime with the window open. My computer was right there by the window. That's why for fresh air. And the following year, same thing, the month of February. It was silent the whole year until then the month of February, and it would start that screaming again. And that's what I believe. I could be wrong, but I believe that's mating.

24:06 Season, right. I've heard that too. Yeah, very interesting. There's there's so many stories I've heard about encounters around the Fort Lewis area, and even things where they have dispatched them. I have to be careful how I say that or yeah, you know, things like that, and and I've almost had people come on record about it, but they get very they're very scared to talk about their encounters. And usually these are military related encounters too. It was when they're in the military in Fort Lewis. So I've not had the chance to talk to anyone yet, but it would not surprise me that that happened. If you're in that area, you know what I mean. Yeah? Wow wow. So now it sounds like there's nothing going on, which how do you feel about this? Do you wish? Do you wish there were things going on?

25:10 Or well, you know, the last year and a half, I have not lived in this house, even though I own the house. But I became ill and needed to be under care. I came back home six months ago, so I really don't know what's going on around here, if anything yet, I don't know. Okay. I hope that you are able to get the care that you need and that is taken care of. Well, I'm back so that's yeah, that's an improvement. Yeah, I'm back home. So that's a good that's good news. What what an adventure. The closest white bigfoot I've ever heard to your area is es Decada, Oregon. The same gentleman that I went out in the woods with a researcher.

25:56 He said that in his area there was an albino. So it was white, but it also had pink eyes and this wild wild stuff. He would talk to it through sign language. Absolutely incredible stuff. Yeah, thank you for sharing your experience. Please keep us informed different those. Warn people, worn people, you know, if they have no fear with them and they want to, you know, be okay with them hanging around, Be careful with them around your children, because that's when the white one became violent. And uh yeah, and when he seen my two daughters outside playing, they were just little, great school kids. And then he became violent and I had to go out and stop him. And he started breaking large trees. Actually he wasn't just shaking them at first. He was then he started throwing rocks at me, and his grunting and growling and all that hoot and hollering that he was doing down there. And he was down in a little gully on my property, right off the edge of my yard, and he would be shaking, and then next thing I know, he started throwing rocks. So I picked them up and I threw them right back at him, and that continued for a while. Some of the rocks were quite large where it took two hands for me to pick up, you know, and try to throw it down the gully.

27:24 I think I might have hit him with one of them, because then he started Actually, these are fairly large trees he actually was breaking them in half down with my trees would go down. Oh yeah, and that that really made me angry and he it all started because my kids were out the yard plane and he was shaking the trees and screaming and yelling at them also, and that's what created you know, me going out there and the rock fight and all of that to make him leave. Yeah. So you know, I asked people if they go off camping and that, keep an eye on their kids. Please keep an eye on the kids, because I actually witnessed it, his anger over my children.

28:07 Absolutely, that is that is a good good warning for people to hear it. Thank you so much for coming out, ma'am. I appreciate. Yeah. Yes, I just had to know about the colorings that I'm seeing the white, and I've been so curious that I figured I've been watching you when you come on. You know, I've kept silent for a long time, but I'm just tired of wondering what specialty are they? They're at all? I don't know, you know, are they certain breed? You know? Do they come from somewhere else? You know? I don't know, And I just needed an answer, that's all. So I appreciate your help.

28:47 Good. I hope I was able to maybe get you some information, but hopefully you can continue to listen and hang out with us today. Thank you. Yeah, I do, I do, okay, thank you. Thank you. 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.

29:32 And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence, you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous.

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