Sept. 20, 2023
Bigfoot Nests and Devil's Creek with Shane Corson (Bigfoot Society Classic)
Originally recorded 4/28/20
Shane Corson is a Bigfoot research with the Olympic Project. The following interview was the first time I was able to interview him and one of the favorite episode of most Bigfoot Society listeners.
The Ground Nests....
Originally recorded 4/28/20
Shane Corson is a Bigfoot research with the Olympic Project. The following interview was the first time I was able to interview him and one of the favorite episode of most Bigfoot Society listeners.
The Ground Nests.
The Devil’s Creek Property.
Enjoy
Resources:
http://www.olympicproject.com
Monster X Radio podcast:
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/monsterxradio
Watch the STM documentary about the Olympic Project: https://tubitv.com/movies/671386/on-the-trail-of-bigfoot-the-discovery
More discussion on Devil’s Creek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztIscUvzTw
https://www.youtube.com/@thedevilscreek2279
https://redcircle.com/shows/ok-talk-paranormal-tales-of-mysterious-travels
Search “Devil’s Creek”
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Shane Corson is a Bigfoot research with the Olympic Project. The following interview was the first time I was able to interview him and one of the favorite episode of most Bigfoot Society listeners.
The Ground Nests.
The Devil’s Creek Property.
Enjoy
Resources:
http://www.olympicproject.com
Monster X Radio podcast:
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/monsterxradio
Watch the STM documentary about the Olympic Project: https://tubitv.com/movies/671386/on-the-trail-of-bigfoot-the-discovery
More discussion on Devil’s Creek: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sztIscUvzTw
https://www.youtube.com/@thedevilscreek2279
https://redcircle.com/shows/ok-talk-paranormal-tales-of-mysterious-travels
Search “Devil’s Creek”
WATCH THE IOWA EPISODE IN THE “SASQUATCH: A SEARCH FOR SABE” DOCUMENTARY SERIES BY TATE HIERONYMUS // FIND OUT ALL ABOUT MY FIRST BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo8O4rvywzE
Call the Bigfoot Society BIGFOOT ENCOUNTER hotline! Have you seen a Sasquatch and would like to get what happened “off your chest” but don’t have time for an interview? NOW YOU CAN DO IT ON YOUR TIME AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD! Share it here - https://www.speakpipe.com/bigfootsociety
To unlock more bonus content and much more, become a supporting member of Bigfoot Society by joining the Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety
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Support Bigfoot Society one time by buying me a coffee here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsociety
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Send me a voice message to potentially be used for the show by calling 515-809-0165
Here’s a fun prompt - “Hey, my name’s [your name] and you’re listening to the Bigfoot Society podcast!”
If you’d like to send me fan mail, Bigfoot related products to check out or written out Bigfoot encounters then you reach me at the following address:
Bigfoot Society 125 E 1st St. #233 Earlham, IA 50072
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time so far, so let's get
on with the show. Morning. You're
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listening to an episode of Bigfoot Society
recorded more than three years ago. Interviewing
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skills in audio quality have improved since
then. Please don't judge the podcast on
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this one episode. We'll see you
next week. All right, Well,
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welcome back to another episode of the
big Foot Society podcast, and we have
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the privilege this time of talking with
mister Shane Coursen. Shane is involved with
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all sorts of cool stuff Bigfoot and
I'll have them talk about that in a
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minute. But the way that I
picture is doing research into Shane. It's
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kind of like if you have the
Marvel Avenger movies and you know Agent Colson
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is there at the beginning, and
then when you start to look for Agent
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Colson, he's everywhere. So I
mean, you are, you have your
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hands and everything, sir, would
you mind going ahead and kind of what's
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a brief summary of who you are
and what you've done in the big foot
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community over the last few years.
I guess we'll start there. Okay,
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Well, I don't claim to have
done anything, but I'll tell you I
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was born and raised in Scotland,
had an interesting cryptids as a young in
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it was always fascinated with of course
in Scotland and your fascinated with the lock
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this monster and Yeddi and other cryptids
that are you know, around the world.
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Always fascinated with the subject of sasquatch. Moved over to the States in
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ninety three, still fascinated with the
sasquatch phenomena. I really did not start
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getting into sasquatch research, or what
I thought was sasquatch research, until about
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the ninety seven and that's kind of
when I got my wheels and was able
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to travel doing research in southern California
where we moved to around San Bernina Mountain,
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Julian area, and then definitely Yosemite
was on my radar for a number
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of years. Yosemite was fascinating to
me. Talked to a lot of great
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individuals individual with the head encounters,
but I personally never found anything during my
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years in California. Eventually moved up
to Oregon. I got Mary, moved
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up to Oregon in two thousand and
eight, and that's really where I started
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hitting the ground heavy up an again
and had an encounter in twenty eleven that
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solidified the existence of Sasquats for me, okay, and from there I realized
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that being a one man band,
somebody that is going about their business by
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themselves, was not very productive.
I realized that I really wasn't doing research.
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I was investigating stuff. I read
every book out there been online.
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I really had no context at that
point. I talked a few individuals and
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eventually got involved with the Olympic Project
after my encounter and got involved with like
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Cliff Barrickman and those individuals very cool
and that's kind of really jumped my research
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and joining a group and realizing that
there's more to research than what you think.
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And I really wasn't conducting research.
Now I'm now up in Washington State,
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up in you know, Western Washington
here where we do a lot of
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research and I work. You know, I'm one of the core members of
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the Limit Project now and I work
with an amazing and fantastic group of like
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minded individuals, both from the layman
world and the academic world. So that's
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kind of where I'm at now.
I've been working on a lot of projects.
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I've been around the block, and
there's a lot of cool stuff going
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on now. There's a lot of
cool stuff that's happened. So I'm very
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proud to be working with the individuals
that I work with and collaborating with them.
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And you know, I'm always an
optimist. A lot of people get
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frustrated in this field. Not me. I see all sorts of opportunities.
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Back right before this interview here,
I just got the phone with somebody that's
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working on an amazing project, very
scientific project, and so always things going
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on behind the scenes. I'm sure
my listeners listen to Bigfoot and Beyond with
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Cliff and Bobbo as well. You
had a fantastic episode on that, and
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you've referenced something that I wanted to
ask you. If you had been in
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the them, I would have asked
you right there. So you mentioned the
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Olympic Project, and I believe what
you mentioned was that in the coming year
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you would actually be having primatologists coming
to the area. Did I get that
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right from the episode or maybe did
I hear that directly? Are you talking
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about the nest area? I think
so, yeah, Yeah, we've actually
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already had primatologists. Okay, now, yeah, we've had primatologists come out
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to this area. We've had bare
biologists come out to this area. We've
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had anthropologists, archaeologists, we've had
even zoologists, which was the most recent.
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Two individuals came out from a certain
zoo here in the United States,
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not in Washington, but a certain
zoo. I can't mention it, but
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they came out and we really wanted
to get their feedback on, you know,
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these nests when it comes to known
primate behavior. These individuals worked directly
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with chimpanzees, bonobos. Uh so
we're back gorillas. So we really wanted
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to get their feel on on these
nests. Because they're not bairness and they're
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not they're definitely nests and they're formulated. Doctor Meldon's talked about these nest loads
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of time, so it's Cliff.
They've both been out to the area and
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helped us collect sample. So yes, we've brought in a lot of academic
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individuals out there because we're not you
know, I'm not a scientist. I'm
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not an academic individual. I'm I'm
an explorer. I find stuff, I
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collect stuff, and you know,
sometimes I'll visually analyze stuff, but I
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have my limits and I recognize those, and so you got to bring in
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to people with the right eye.
So yeah, we've done that. Yeah,
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very cool, very cool. If
if so, if listeners do not
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know the nest we are talking about, of course, so you can fill
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in details as we go along,
of course. But there's so you have
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access to an area of land where
it had not been touched for was it
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forty years? Yeah? Fifty plus
year? Yeah, fifty plus years.
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So like a logging company and there's
these nests that were found on there,
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and I mean they're big enough for
I believe it was either you a Cliff
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said that you could lay down in
the nest and it was quite comfortable,
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and man, it's just it's fascinating. There is one part where it's like
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you're saying, from one nest you
could see the other nests, and I
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thought that that was very fascinating.
Yeah, the the Huckleberry So all these
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nests, there's twenty two nests bound
to date, spread along a ridge line
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and they're spread out on fingers or
saddles or ridges, depending where you're from
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the country. Everybody calls it something
different. But you have a ridge line
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with a finger or a ridge or
a saddle coming down and they're spread out
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on multiple saddles, fingers, ridges
or and whatnot. And they're they're definitely
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formula. They've been constructed intelligently.
They're not some that's been haphazardly put together.
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And by what I what I meant
when I said and when I say
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that you can see from nest and
nest, well, that's that's on purpose.
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The huckerberry branches them in stripped completely
of leaves, whether that was a
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food source or on purpose to see
from nest and nest to nest and in
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their their very strategically placed these nests. But yeah, you can see every
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nest and they range in size from
you know, about three feet to about
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nine feet in size and circumference,
so I mean huge, huge, and
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we're a foot in depth. I
mean just huge law material. That is
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very, very cool. The question
I also thought the other day is so,
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uh, of course, right now
we're in the middle of the COVID
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nineteen pandemic. How has that affected
the work of the Olympic project tremendously.
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Yeah. You know, nobody gets
paid to do sasquatch research. We all
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have day jobs, we have families, and so it's really there's a lot
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of stuff we can do at home, and fortunately we do have access to
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you know, when it comes to
research, we do have access to timberland.
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We have gate keys and whatnot,
and that's where we conduct a lot
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of our business. But this whole
COVID thing, regardless of would you think
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of it and how it's affected you, it's affected everybody economically, socially,
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you name it, and so I
can speak for a lot of enthusiasts,
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bigfoot researchers, you name it that
it's affected at big time. You can't
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get into some areas that you used
to be able to get into legally.
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I mean sure, I'm sure people
are sneaking out here in Washington. They
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closed down it's opening up May five, all of the trails and parks and
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whatnot. But it's affected it tremendously
and what it's really done for the Aliment
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project. Recently, kind of jumping
ahead here, we've come across some newer
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nests. Finally, after searching for
four years, five years now, we
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came across a new nest. I
can't really get into the kills right now,
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okay, but a partner of mine
by the name of Todd Hale,
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he's a project Mayber. We were
out scouting an area that Derek Randalls and
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I had scouted two weeks prior.
While we went back out to this area
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and came across something physically making a
nest. Did not see it, but
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spooked. It sounded very large song
by pedal and oh it was. It
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was quite the experience. And I
won't get into that right now, and
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that's some stuff we're working them.
But we did come across a nest in
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the making or multiple nests in the
making, and we came across a lot
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of other really unique and very cool
tidbits to this that it proved a lot
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of things to us. So we
were in the right area, the right
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time of year, the white circumstances, and we just got really lucky and
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walked upon something making a new nest. But go back to your question,
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Well, I have some samples that
I've collected, that we've collected as a
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whole, as a one project that
I got. I can't send it anywhere
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right now, you know, And
it sucks because some of these samples,
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you know, they they go to
junk after a while. It's time sensitive
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sort of stuff. And some you
know, you know, we got some
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hair samples for example. Some of
that you can visually analyze, but to
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do any real work on it.
It's, man, it's really been.
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It was just this whole virus is
the worst timing, and we talked about
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that as a group, the worst
timing ever. Unfortunate. But upwards and
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onwards, you keep plugging away and
we'll see if we anything comes from this.
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No promises, no guarantees, but
exciting tells me we're we're doing something
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right. Regardless, you can say, regardless of what's making these nests,
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we came across whatever was making it
fresh, and that's that's awesome. That
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that is really exciting, and maybe
you can start to see a pattern like
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Okay, it's this time of year. You know, who knows the data
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that you'll get from this like this, that is super exciting. And that's
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you said, that's very recent that
that happened. Yeah, this happened back
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in February. So, I mean
the reason and cool, The real key
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there is that we hypothesize originally that
the older nest that we had we were
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led to. We didn't discover the
old old nest. They were discovered originally
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by a timber cruiser in a really
remote area doing his job. These areas
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aren't places you go hiking in,
you go hunting in, exploring in their
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off trail. They're hard to get
to there, it's a nightmare. And
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he came across them. Well,
we started to mimic what he was doing
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for years and possibly came across some
very very old nest. So ran we're
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kind of on the right truck.
Maybe we don't know. And then we
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come across this and that was in
the month of February. Again with the
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same elements. You got the salmon
come up these creeks, you got a
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lot of things going for you.
So you're right, it does add value
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to that and it's exciting tells us
we're on the right track. Oh man,
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that is that is very cool.
You've also been involved with, yeah,
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the Devil's Creek project, and that
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where there was a lot of that, you know, those stories going around
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and you know what was going on. Would you be able to kind of
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you know, there's a chance there
are some listeners that you know, when
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I say Devil's Creek, they might
not know what I'm talking about, But
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would you be able to maybe give
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you'd mentioned before our calls started that
you actually have some some new things that
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you can share. Some things you
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Yeah, absolutely so. Several years
ago, Derek Randalls was contacted by an
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individual by the name of Donna.
Her husband's name is Greg, up here
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in western Washington on the east side
of the Olympics, and they had a
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lot of suspicious activity going on on
their property. Well, Donna's husband Reg
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he works all around he works all
around the country, he was rarely home,
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and Donna had all the stuff,
weird stuff happening, noises, stuff
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happening on the property. And her
husband, Greg, when he was home
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with witnessed some of this. The
majority seemed to happen when she was home,
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but he got to witness a lot
of unique things, especially audio things
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they found on their property. And
so they got ahold of Derek Randalls of
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the Olympic Project, and he came
out, and Derek's not an audio guy,
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and so he got them in touch
with David Ellis of the Olympic Project,
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who is like the audio guru.
He looks at audio visually on a
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sonic visualizer program and so he's not
just listening because your ear replay tricks on
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you. But if you can visually
analyze something and listen to it, it
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really adds value. And you can
compare those recorded sounds to the mcaulay Library
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of Sounds, for example, so
you have a context and a baseline to
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compare unknown sounds, at least unknown
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really started place, you know,
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property, you know, when they
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just down the road in what it's
been coined Devil's Creek. And let
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me clarify something. There is no
Devil's Creek. You know, there's no
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Devil's Creek. It was a name
made up by a third party that got
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involved. And you know, at
first, a lot of us really didn't
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like to name Devil's Creek because there
are Devil's Creeks around the country. We'll
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be back with more big Foot Society
after these words from our sponsors. This
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was a pseudo name, just a
made up name. We stuck with it
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mainly because there was a lot of
individuals trying to find this area and we
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wanted to throw them off. They
you know, they were trying to there's
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a lot of people out there.
Yeah, they find spots. So we
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stuck with Devil's Creek. Not the
greatest name and a little bit disingenuous,
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but there was a reason behind that. Now, don't get me wrong,
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there's a lot that creek plays a
huge role in this whole experience, this
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phenomena. And so after David Elle
started recording stuff, Donna, you know,
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previously had her sighting. I started
getting involved in going up there placing
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audio and I spent quite a few
nights out there in the property, had
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some my own experiences and no sightings, and I do have flear equipment.
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I tried very thick, hilly area, and it wasn't like every night,
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it was every once in a while. But this one on for several years
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and I did get the chance.
Donna called me up one day and said,
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hey, basically, backpack a little
bit more. Don and Greg actually
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moved out of that house, planning
on renting it or possibly selling it.
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They got another house, well not
nearby, but you know, about hours
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away from this place. They got
another house, so they're paying two mortgages,
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and they wanted to do something with
this property, but they knew that
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it was important for research, and
so they weren't ready to give it up.
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I mean, God bless him,
because we did record a lot of
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neat stuff on the property, experienced
a lot of neat stuff. And as
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as they were living on this separate
property, they were trying to fix up
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this house and they hired a contractor, a contracting business to come up and
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fix one of their like a kind
of a guesthouse slash garage and lo and
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behold this guy. This one of
the contract tractors, had a sighting possibly
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two sidings in the area, and
he knew nothing about the big foot phenomenon
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going on in the property. He
knew nothing about it. I interned the
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best part. That's the best part
where he's like, that's a little weird
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that all what's gone. That's awes
exactly exactly. You know. We talked
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about this on MONSTRAI Tradio, my
podcast, but oka being is that it
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was just it was phenomenal, and
you know, and going through this area
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over the years and studying this area, some of the elderly neighbors that live
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close by. One of the women
who has an apple orchard in this area,
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she knew there was sasquat. She
straight up told Donna one day,
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without Donna really you know, insinuating
anything. Yeah, it's sad squats it.
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It's up in this area. So
there's a lot of collaboration, there,
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a lot of ideas there where other
people are aware the other people have
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seen something and there's no it's not
that they're having a discussion on sasquatch.
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It just pops up and then historically
in this area there's multiple reports on one
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project gets taken in personally, I've
had people that are close in the know
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of this area that have talked about
other reports from neighbors and people within a
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couple of square miles and some of
the lakes in this area, there's reports.
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So why why Donna was having this
activity on the property, I don't
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know. You know, she was
home alone. Her house was like a
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lot of really big windows where something
from the forest line could watch her.
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There was apple orchards in the area. A lot of hypothesizing here, but
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no doubt she had a lot of
tremendous amount of activity on this property.
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Now fast forward, there were some
unfortunate events that took place. Unfortunately,
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Donna and Gregg sold the property and
they no longer have access to the property.
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There's still stuff going on in some
adjasent areas that I follow, but
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it's not an area you can get
intoout getting into trouble, and it's private
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property and all that stuff. So
it's a real shame there. But I
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guess, you know, paying two
mortgages and just that Donna did not feel
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comfortable staying there anymore and they had
to leave. So as far as Devil's
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Creeks concerned, there's not really anything
ongoing there now. As far as research,
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I'm not being in contact with the
new inhabitants. They're not aware of
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any of the stuff that went on
there. I'm not sure if they're experiencing
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anything. That's a story in itself. It's like, did they know what
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they were getting into buying property?
And like if they're just slowly, I
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don't think it would be slow.
I think it would be quick that they
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would figure out, like there's something
going on here. You know, who
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knows, right, I mean,
all bets are off. I don't know.
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I do know that there's still some
occasional activity in that drone area.
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Still get reports from that area.
I do still visit some of the adjacent
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areas, but it's not you know, as far as the property is concerned,
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I don't get I can't get access
to that. And definitely, my
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personal opinion, they definitely had sasquatch
stuff going on, I mean no doubt
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about it, with the multiple signings
from different individuals and the things that occurred
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with me. I've had rocks thrown
and stuff like that, and I couldn't
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spend enough time there. I really
wanted to capture something on a fleer and
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I spent many nights are by myself
edge the property had you know, a
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lot of experiences. I've never got
anything on fleer. The brush is so
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thick and whatever it was would never
get close enough for me to get on
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flear. So it is what it
is. Yeah, man, thanks for
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sharing that. That's that's a really
cool up to add. No idea that
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that had. Yeah, that's not
happening to get shared. Yeah, yeah,
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Well but I'll tell real quick.
I'll tell you Donn and Gregg.
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Sorry to interrupted Donn and Gregor,
two fantastic, phenomenal individuals I have to
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the utmost respect from Donna and David
Els did phenomenal audio work on the property.
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And I know Donna's very thankful for
David Ellison and Derek and myself,
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two stand up individuals that didn't ask
for this, just happened, and they
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were willing to go along and do
what they could to a certain extent,
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and unfortunately things didn't work out with
their lives and with the property. But
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the chance to to get involved with
one of these rare occurrencies where you have
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this consistent activity happening on the property, not necessarily year round, but consistently.
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That's the sort of places you want
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I'm not, for say, an
ambulance chaser. I don't you know those
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days are asked, I don't you
know. Derek Randall's a the Elent Project,
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but the co founder of the Elment
Project talking this years ago, you
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know heat for years. He's been
in research since nineteen eighty five, and
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he used to go to Idaho,
I mean, living in Washington, would
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go to Idaho at the drop of
a hat looking for uh, you know,
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if there was an account, he
drive out there or wherever. And
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you can get a lot of good
information on that. But it's almost you
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know that the crime's done and defined
a place where there's a lot of activity
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and it's ongoing. That's really not
ambulance chasing. You're trying to do a
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conductive study there and figure out what's
going on. So that's that's that's something
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I think when those occurrences happen,
and it's happened a few times in my
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experience with this research and and some
others, that's the places you really want
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to be m very cool, very
cool. I'm gonna throw out a random
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left field question just to see if
anything sticks. Doesn't, we'll go to
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somewhere else. So you've had all
these you know, you're focused on big
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foot. I'm in uh this the
Midwest area. We have a lot of
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like things flying around, thunderbirds,
stuff like that. Have you ever run
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into any weird stuff? I don't
know. Is that a thing where those
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actually will come up in the Pacific
Northwest, like large flying cryptids or anything
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like that, or not really a
thing that you you run up against.
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Well, here's the thing. You
know, growing up, I was involved
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interested in a lot of crypt It's
not involved. I was interested in all
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sorts of cryptics. I'm well burst
on a lot of cryptids up here and
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northwest. I mean, you go
to Portland and you know that there's a
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big sign that says keep Portland's weird
down in or it's great. Yeah,
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and it is weird. The you
know, the Pacific Northwest is a weird
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spot. There's a lot of things
that you know, people will claim to
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see. You know, they have
a Cadborosaurus on the coast that apparently it's
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like a water cryptid because from San
Francisco all the way up to Alaska they
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call Caddie. There's, of course, the the large thunderbirds. There's you
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know, pterodactyl, tranidon sightings.
Apparently you got UFO sightings. I personally
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never seen any of that stuff.
And I spend I mean I live in
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the woods, and I spend ungall
the amount of time in the woods.
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I've never personally come across you know, I've never seen any weird orbs or
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lights. You know, none of
that's a but you do hear stories from
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credible people that claim to have seen
you know, Cadburisaurus or a flying cryptid
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that's much larger enacting peculiar. You
do have people claiming to see lights in
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the woods or UFOs. I mean
Washington State, you know, I think
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one of the really first big UFO
sightings was around mount very near back in
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ooh, what the sixties, fifties
or seventies, I forget flying discs.
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So it's an where there's a lot
of stuff that happens up here, and
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different cryptids, you know. We
know, mainly though my focus and mainly
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what I come across the sasquatch sightings
up here and It's way more prevalent than
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people will ever guess. You know, for every you know, one siding
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you hear about or two signs you
hear about, there's I mean, I
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can only imagine how many more signings
are out there that you know, from
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people that are either not willing to
talk or just don't have an opportunity to
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talk about it. Very cool,
very cool. You'd mentioned before that you
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have actually you spent time in the
Yosemite area early on. Can you go
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in? I've actually so I visited
that area. It's a beautiful area and
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I'll just I'll paint a little picture. When we drove there from Cupertino area,
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you lose cell service like an like
two hours outside of the park.
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It felt like it was nuts and
there was apart when we were like driving
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around in this little electric car up
these hills and like we had to stop
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and literally if you had stepped you
always hear people say this, if you
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stepped a foot off the road,
you would be a lot like you'd be
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done. It was prehistoric and it
was amazing. Do you have any you
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know, I can recall anything that
happened around that area or like any cool
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stories about researching that area or yeah, I mean so from when I one
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of my old girlfriends work to Yosemite
and that really was a nice a kick
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in the pants and get up there
even more so, but Yosemity when my
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perst. I remember going through a
tunnel and coming to an area inspiration points,
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and seeing the Semity Valley and it
was absolutely amazing. A guy from
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Scotland that got the witness that,
you know, I was, you know,
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enthralled. I see why you know
Theodore roll about some of these others.
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You know, I said, this
is God's country. It's just an
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amazing country and just amazing. So
I fell in love with it. And
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and of course I heard about all
these sad squats reports in the Sierras and
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Yosemite and all that. So I
made at a point, you know,
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even though from I lived in San
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I would do it as much as
I could, and I did it for
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years. Amazing area. I've been
all around yo semi backpack in Yosemite.
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I've been up to half Going,
I've been all around Elk Cap with Semni
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Falls. I've been all around there. And I always liked to backpack,
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you know, off trail and off
country. I personally, you know,
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I've had a lot of bear encounters
up there, a ton of bear encounters.
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There's bearers up there galore. Oh
yeah, man, I'm chasing from
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my camp up there. I never
personally had a big foot encounter. Right
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there. I came across one impression
I thought was interesting, could have been
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a double bear stamp. The most
interesting thing that that I took away from
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Yosemite, besides just that it's it's
so vast, and you know, there's
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a lot of people that go there. I talked to a a former park
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She was a female, and she
was working the l cap area below the
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base, near a hotel out there, and she had something throwing rocks at
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her. And when she looked up
from this little bluff, she saw this
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black shadow and it took off by
pedally up the hill. And I heard
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that first person. Now we're talking
ninety seven through about two thousand and six,
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it's kind of a time prime I
would go up there. Really I
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didn't. Back ninety seven, I
had a beeper. I didn't really have
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a cell phone, you know,
so it wasn't like I could get cell
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phone reception anyways. But that's awesome. You know, there are a lot
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of missing people in that area,
but I'll tell you it's easily. You
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could get lost up there easy.
And I mean the last time I was
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there last summer, I realized I
will never go there. During the height
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of the season, I took my
family down there and they had never been
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there. My eight year old daughter
and my wife. We took him out.
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I took him out there on our
way down to San Diego. Driving
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down from Washington, we stood.
We sat in our car for over an
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hour trying to get in the park. It was a nightmare. There's so
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many people, millions of people.
I forget the number, but it's over
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a million people that go through the
park every year. You've got that many
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people come through a park, and
you've got a lot of tourists from out
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of the country, they don't speak
English, that had no business being in
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the woods. People are going to
get hurt and people are going to disappear.
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So there's no shock to me that
I always get whold your sementys a
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hotspot, woll Yeah, but there's
when you have that number of people that
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go through that area, it's to
be expected. You know, I can't
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accounting times that I came across hurt
people or lost people out there while I
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was hiking. And the amountain villagers
out there, oh yeah, all the
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time. I mean I experienced that
up here in the pacivin Northwest, hiking
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the Olympics. There's people that are
unprepared or ill prepared and don't know what
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they're doing. So yeah, I
mean Yosemite, I have no doubt there's
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probably sasquatch down there. I just
you know, and talking to a few
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people that had experiences really solidified that
for me. But I never had an
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the counter down there. But you
know, when you lived eleven twelve hours
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away and you're kind of like a
glorified camping because you're just doing it for
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a weekend, four days or whatever. You can only do so much,
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and it's an area you need to
live in. The Sierra's beautiful, tons
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of wildlife. And if you think
Yosemite is primordial or you know, you
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know, Jurassic Park is, should
come up to Washington State or Oregon,
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specifically Washington State up in the Olympics
where you got mobs and I've been there.
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Yeah, we hiked, we hiked
the whole as a whole rainforce who
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rainforts is crazy, it's nuts.
Primorial We've been to the Forks area and
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and all that, that's a different
story, but the whole rainforest is simply
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beautiful. Unexpected part of the trip
definitely. Man as we start to kind
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of get towards the end of our
time here, what is what is kind
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of next for I know the Olympic
project is probably the main focus of your
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your time with squatching. Is there
anything that maybe you can tease us with
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something that you guys are are working
towards or I guess you did say that
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you you've found these new new vests, which uh nests, which are huge.
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That's that's a huge deal because you
thought that that was a dead end,
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but then finding new ones that's incredible. So yeah, yeah, So
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basically, so, you know,
this initial nest site that was discovered by
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this Timber cruiser was probably the most
exciting thing and still is the most exciting
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thing I've ever worked on, based
on a number of actors, based on
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just so many different things, and
you know, historically speaking, there's been
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other nests bound, but just not
this many and not study like this where
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you have unknown hair that matches primate
hair is doctor Melgram Moltoya. You have
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nest formulating constructed the huckleberry breaks and
snaps and how it's formula. You needed
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opposable thumb, you had rocks that
had score marks found, you had bush
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nests off the ground that were constructed
like the ground nests. So still it
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was and still is the most exciting
thing. Now going forward, well,
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finally after four years, we've come
across some possibly new nests, but actually
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being I just you know, all
we had as a goal as a team
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was to find more nest and as
new as can be. I had no
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idea we were going to come across
something making a nest as it was being
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made. And now we got all. We got some samples, we got
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some casts, some different things that
I'll eventually release. We've had some really
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key people involved with helping us cast
this stuff. And so going forward,
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really it's we're just we're not ambulance
chasing. We're studying was one area,
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this one bass area as much as
we can collecting audio. You know,
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we do use some troll cameras,
but like Lee and we're just you know,
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studying the area, getting all the
known animals in this area, all
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the sounds they make, so that
we can roll in and roll out what
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we're recording if it's suspicious, collecting
data from this new nest site, looking
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for new nest sites. But at
the same time, we're also there's the
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thing, something's making these nests and
making them for a reason. And you
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know, part of you when you're
out there and you feel guilty because you
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disturb something and the amount of work
that went into making like even this new
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nest, it was in the you
know, the process of making it,
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the amount of work. When my
partner I disrupted it, you know,
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when I got back to our camp
because it was in the evening, we
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just kind of we backed out of
there. It was getting dark, went
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on. You know, I don't
care what's making I didn't want to disturb
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it, and didn't know if we're
in a good spot to be disturbing anything.
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We went back into the next day
with a few more people and discovered
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what we discovered. But part of
you feels guilty for disrupting something making that
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but you know it is what it
is, and uh, you know,
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and we'll study that area. You
know, it's disturbed. So we're constantly
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looking for a new nests. The
same time, we're also trying to be
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not jerks, you know, you
know, if something's making a nest for
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a little one or a baby or
a newborn. You know, who are
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we to go in these areas and
disturb them and disrupt that that amount of
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work. So it's a catch twenty
two the same you know, science moves
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on, but at the same time, uh, you know, I don't
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want to. I'd rather come find
the nest later after it's been departed,
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you know exactly. That's kind of
where're and that's what we're focused on,
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is finding new nests and studying this
nests and learning everything we can about these
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new nests and and and the Element
Project is not about proving sasquats exist.
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We're about studying what we already pretty
much know to exist. The majority of
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our Limit Project members, so we
do have some things in those individuals that
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never had an encounter, but we're
about collecting as much data so when that
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day comes across that sasquatch has proven, we already have everything laid out there
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for academia to look at. Yeah, it's so fun and it gets it
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out in the woods which we enjoy
and we have a great group, right
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because at the end of the day, you're still spending a lot of good
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time and nature, which there's nothing
wrong with that. If people want to
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keep track of what you're doing,
what is the best the best things for
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them to look at? Website or
social media what have you. Yeah,
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so we have our website is it's
still we're still building upon this and working
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on it. A lot of us, like I said, are we have
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dave jobs, so it's hard to
keep up, but we do keep up.
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So Olympic Project dot com you can
send emails there anything, audio and
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all that you can share and we
will get back to you at some point
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in time. David Ellis kind of
really leads that. Pardon me at this
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point in time. Of course,
I do host my own podcast called Monster
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Rex Radio, and you can reach
me or my partner Gunner Monson at monster
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x Radio one, Gmail dot com. And you know, so I'm on
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Facebook Change Courson, so if you
got any you know, reach out to
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me on Facebook at Chang Corson and
on Instagram, Twitter and all that stuff.
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But the LIMP Project dot com it
is probably the best way and we
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have lots of resources and lots of
individuals on there, David Elle, Derek
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Randalls, myself, just a ton
of you know, Cindy Dowson, a
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ton of different individuals from different backgrounds
and different fields that may be able to
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help you out. Or just check
out the website. It'll be updated even
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more so down the road here.
That's awesome, Yeah, very cool.
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Well, thank you again Shane for
coming on tonight and spending a little bit
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of a time with the big Fast
Society podcast and some some pretty cool updates.
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I'm sure all the listeners out there
will be checking out the Olympic Project
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website and keeping track of what you
guys find next. So thank you again,
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sir, Thank you, Jeremy.
I appreciate yep, have a good
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night. You two here at Bigfoot
Society. Article is to provide a platform
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for those that have encountered Bigfoot to
share their encounter in a safe and respected
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environment. But we need to hear
your story. If you've experienced something that
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you just can't explain, please send
me an email at Bigfoot Society at gmail
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dot com. Then we can start
the conversation. And I know a lot
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of you have not shared your encounter
at all. It's been twenty years and
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it's time that you get this off
your chest and then you can get some
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well deserved for rest, because I
know you haven't been sleeping. I understand
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what you're going through, and I
appreciate every one of you listening
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Either you're listening to the Big Fust
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time so far, so let's get
on with the show. Morning. You're
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this one episode. We'll see you
next week. All right, Well,
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welcome back to another episode of the
big Foot Society podcast, and we have
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the privilege this time of talking with
mister Shane Coursen. Shane is involved with
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all sorts of cool stuff Bigfoot and
I'll have them talk about that in a
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minute. But the way that I
picture is doing research into Shane. It's
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kind of like if you have the
Marvel Avenger movies and you know Agent Colson
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is there at the beginning, and
then when you start to look for Agent
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Colson, he's everywhere. So I
mean, you are, you have your
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hands and everything, sir, would
you mind going ahead and kind of what's
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a brief summary of who you are
and what you've done in the big foot
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community over the last few years.
I guess we'll start there. Okay,
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Well, I don't claim to have
done anything, but I'll tell you I
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was born and raised in Scotland,
had an interesting cryptids as a young in
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it was always fascinated with of course
in Scotland and your fascinated with the lock
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this monster and Yeddi and other cryptids
that are you know, around the world.
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Always fascinated with the subject of sasquatch. Moved over to the States in
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ninety three, still fascinated with the
sasquatch phenomena. I really did not start
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getting into sasquatch research, or what
I thought was sasquatch research, until about
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the ninety seven and that's kind of
when I got my wheels and was able
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to travel doing research in southern California
where we moved to around San Bernina Mountain,
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Julian area, and then definitely Yosemite
was on my radar for a number
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of years. Yosemite was fascinating to
me. Talked to a lot of great
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individuals individual with the head encounters,
but I personally never found anything during my
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years in California. Eventually moved up
to Oregon. I got Mary, moved
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up to Oregon in two thousand and
eight, and that's really where I started
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hitting the ground heavy up an again
and had an encounter in twenty eleven that
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solidified the existence of Sasquats for me, okay, and from there I realized
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that being a one man band,
somebody that is going about their business by
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themselves, was not very productive.
I realized that I really wasn't doing research.
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I was investigating stuff. I read
every book out there been online.
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I really had no context at that
point. I talked a few individuals and
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eventually got involved with the Olympic Project
after my encounter and got involved with like
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Cliff Barrickman and those individuals very cool
and that's kind of really jumped my research
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and joining a group and realizing that
there's more to research than what you think.
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And I really wasn't conducting research.
Now I'm now up in Washington State,
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up in you know, Western Washington
here where we do a lot of
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research and I work. You know, I'm one of the core members of
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the Limit Project now and I work
with an amazing and fantastic group of like
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minded individuals, both from the layman
world and the academic world. So that's
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kind of where I'm at now.
I've been working on a lot of projects.
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I've been around the block, and
there's a lot of cool stuff going
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on now. There's a lot of
cool stuff that's happened. So I'm very
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proud to be working with the individuals
that I work with and collaborating with them.
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And you know, I'm always an
optimist. A lot of people get
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frustrated in this field. Not me. I see all sorts of opportunities.
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Back right before this interview here,
I just got the phone with somebody that's
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working on an amazing project, very
scientific project, and so always things going
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on behind the scenes. I'm sure
my listeners listen to Bigfoot and Beyond with
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Cliff and Bobbo as well. You
had a fantastic episode on that, and
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you've referenced something that I wanted to
ask you. If you had been in
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the them, I would have asked
you right there. So you mentioned the
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Olympic Project, and I believe what
you mentioned was that in the coming year
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you would actually be having primatologists coming
to the area. Did I get that
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right from the episode or maybe did
I hear that directly? Are you talking
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about the nest area? I think
so, yeah, Yeah, we've actually
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already had primatologists. Okay, now, yeah, we've had primatologists come out
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to this area. We've had bare
biologists come out to this area. We've
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had anthropologists, archaeologists, we've had
even zoologists, which was the most recent.
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Two individuals came out from a certain
zoo here in the United States,
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not in Washington, but a certain
zoo. I can't mention it, but
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they came out and we really wanted
to get their feedback on, you know,
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these nests when it comes to known
primate behavior. These individuals worked directly
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with chimpanzees, bonobos. Uh so
we're back gorillas. So we really wanted
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to get their feel on on these
nests. Because they're not bairness and they're
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not they're definitely nests and they're formulated. Doctor Meldon's talked about these nest loads
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of time, so it's Cliff.
They've both been out to the area and
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helped us collect sample. So yes, we've brought in a lot of academic
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individuals out there because we're not you
know, I'm not a scientist. I'm
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not an academic individual. I'm I'm
an explorer. I find stuff, I
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collect stuff, and you know,
sometimes I'll visually analyze stuff, but I
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have my limits and I recognize those, and so you got to bring in
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to people with the right eye.
So yeah, we've done that. Yeah,
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very cool, very cool. If
if so, if listeners do not
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know the nest we are talking about, of course, so you can fill
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in details as we go along,
of course. But there's so you have
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access to an area of land where
it had not been touched for was it
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forty years? Yeah? Fifty plus
year? Yeah, fifty plus years.
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So like a logging company and there's
these nests that were found on there,
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and I mean they're big enough for
I believe it was either you a Cliff
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said that you could lay down in
the nest and it was quite comfortable,
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and man, it's just it's fascinating. There is one part where it's like
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you're saying, from one nest you
could see the other nests, and I
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thought that that was very fascinating.
Yeah, the the Huckleberry So all these
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nests, there's twenty two nests bound
to date, spread along a ridge line
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and they're spread out on fingers or
saddles or ridges, depending where you're from
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the country. Everybody calls it something
different. But you have a ridge line
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with a finger or a ridge or
a saddle coming down and they're spread out
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on multiple saddles, fingers, ridges
or and whatnot. And they're they're definitely
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formula. They've been constructed intelligently.
They're not some that's been haphazardly put together.
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when I said and when I say
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that you can see from nest and
nest, well, that's that's on purpose.
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The huckerberry branches them in stripped completely
of leaves, whether that was a
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food source or on purpose to see
from nest and nest to nest and in
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their their very strategically placed these nests. But yeah, you can see every
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nest and they range in size from
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nine feet in size and circumference,
so I mean huge, huge, and
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we're a foot in depth. I
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very, very cool. The question
I also thought the other day is so,
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uh, of course, right now
we're in the middle of the COVID
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nineteen pandemic. How has that affected
the work of the Olympic project tremendously.
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Yeah. You know, nobody gets
paid to do sasquatch research. We all
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have day jobs, we have families, and so it's really there's a lot
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of stuff we can do at home, and fortunately we do have access to
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you know, when it comes to
research, we do have access to timberland.
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We have gate keys and whatnot,
and that's where we conduct a lot
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of our business. But this whole
COVID thing, regardless of would you think
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of it and how it's affected you, it's affected everybody economically, socially,
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you name it, and so I
can speak for a lot of enthusiasts,
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bigfoot researchers, you name it that
it's affected at big time. You can't
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get into some areas that you used
to be able to get into legally.
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I mean sure, I'm sure people
are sneaking out here in Washington. They
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closed down it's opening up May five, all of the trails and parks and
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whatnot. But it's affected it tremendously
and what it's really done for the Aliment
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project. Recently, kind of jumping
ahead here, we've come across some newer
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nests. Finally, after searching for
four years, five years now, we
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came across a new nest. I
can't really get into the kills right now,
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okay, but a partner of mine
by the name of Todd Hale,
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he's a project Mayber. We were
out scouting an area that Derek Randalls and
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I had scouted two weeks prior.
While we went back out to this area
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and came across something physically making a
nest. Did not see it, but
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spooked. It sounded very large song
by pedal and oh it was. It
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was quite the experience. And I
won't get into that right now, and
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that's some stuff we're working them.
But we did come across a nest in
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the making or multiple nests in the
making, and we came across a lot
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of other really unique and very cool
tidbits to this that it proved a lot
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of things to us. So we
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time of year, the white circumstances, and we just got really lucky and
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walked upon something making a new nest. But go back to your question,
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Well, I have some samples that
I've collected, that we've collected as a
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whole, as a one project that
I got. I can't send it anywhere
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right now, you know, And
it sucks because some of these samples,
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you know, they they go to
junk after a while. It's time sensitive
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sort of stuff. And some you
know, you know, we got some
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hair samples for example. Some of
that you can visually analyze, but to
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do any real work on it.
It's, man, it's really been.
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It was just this whole virus is
the worst timing, and we talked about
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that as a group, the worst
timing ever. Unfortunate. But upwards and
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onwards, you keep plugging away and
we'll see if we anything comes from this.
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No promises, no guarantees, but
exciting tells me we're we're doing something
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right. Regardless, you can say, regardless of what's making these nests,
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we came across whatever was making it
fresh, and that's that's awesome. That
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that is really exciting, and maybe
you can start to see a pattern like
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Okay, it's this time of year. You know, who knows the data
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that you'll get from this like this, that is super exciting. And that's
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you said, that's very recent that
that happened. Yeah, this happened back
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in February. So, I mean
the reason and cool, The real key
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there is that we hypothesize originally that
the older nest that we had we were
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led to. We didn't discover the
old old nest. They were discovered originally
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by a timber cruiser in a really
remote area doing his job. These areas
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aren't places you go hiking in,
you go hunting in, exploring in their
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off trail. They're hard to get
to there, it's a nightmare. And
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he came across them. Well,
we started to mimic what he was doing
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for years and possibly came across some
very very old nest. So ran we're
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kind of on the right truck.
Maybe we don't know. And then we
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come across this and that was in
the month of February. Again with the
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same elements. You got the salmon
come up these creeks, you got a
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lot of things going for you.
So you're right, it does add value
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to that and it's exciting tells us
we're on the right track. Oh man,
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that is that is very cool.
You've also been involved with, yeah,
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the Devil's Creek project, and that
was a few years ago where that
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where there was a lot of that, you know, those stories going around
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and you know what was going on. Would you be able to kind of
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you know, there's a chance there
are some listeners that you know, when
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I say Devil's Creek, they might
not know what I'm talking about, But
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would you be able to maybe give
the summary of that scenario. And then
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you'd mentioned before our calls started that
you actually have some some new things that
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you can share. Some things you
can't because it's you know, special situation.
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Yeah, absolutely so. Several years
ago, Derek Randalls was contacted by an
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individual by the name of Donna.
Her husband's name is Greg, up here
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in western Washington on the east side
of the Olympics, and they had a
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lot of suspicious activity going on on
their property. Well, Donna's husband Reg
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he works all around he works all
around the country, he was rarely home,
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and Donna had all the stuff,
weird stuff happening, noises, stuff
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happening on the property. And her
husband, Greg, when he was home
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with witnessed some of this. The
majority seemed to happen when she was home,
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but he got to witness a lot
of unique things, especially audio things
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they found on their property. And
so they got ahold of Derek Randalls of
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the Olympic Project, and he came
out, and Derek's not an audio guy,
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and so he got them in touch
with David Ellis of the Olympic Project,
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who is like the audio guru.
He looks at audio visually on a
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sonic visualizer program and so he's not
just listening because your ear replay tricks on
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you. But if you can visually
analyze something and listen to it, it
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really adds value. And you can
compare those recorded sounds to the mcaulay Library
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of Sounds, for example, so
you have a context and a baseline to
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compare unknown sounds, at least unknown
to you. And so David and Donna
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really started place, you know,
placing audio recorders on the property. Well,
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property, you know, when they
were driving up the road to their property,
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just down the road in what it's
been coined Devil's Creek. And let
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me clarify something. There is no
Devil's Creek. You know, there's no
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Devil's Creek. It was a name
made up by a third party that got
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involved. And you know, at
first, a lot of us really didn't
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like to name Devil's Creek because there
are Devil's Creeks around the country. We'll
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be back with more big Foot Society
after these words from our sponsors. This
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was a pseudo name, just a
made up name. We stuck with it
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mainly because there was a lot of
individuals trying to find this area and we
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wanted to throw them off. They
you know, they were trying to there's
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a lot of people out there.
Yeah, they find spots. So we
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stuck with Devil's Creek. Not the
greatest name and a little bit disingenuous,
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but there was a reason behind that. Now, don't get me wrong,
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there's a lot that creek plays a
huge role in this whole experience, this
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phenomena. And so after David Elle
started recording stuff, Donna, you know,
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previously had her sighting. I started
getting involved in going up there placing
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audio and I spent quite a few
nights out there in the property, had
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some my own experiences and no sightings, and I do have flear equipment.
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I tried very thick, hilly area, and it wasn't like every night,
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it was every once in a while. But this one on for several years
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and I did get the chance.
Donna called me up one day and said,
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hey, basically, backpack a little
bit more. Don and Greg actually
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moved out of that house, planning
on renting it or possibly selling it.
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nearby, but you know, about hours
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away from this place. They got
another house, so they're paying two mortgages,
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and they wanted to do something with
this property, but they knew that
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it was important for research, and
so they weren't ready to give it up.
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I mean, God bless him,
because we did record a lot of
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neat stuff on the property, experienced
a lot of neat stuff. And as
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as they were living on this separate
property, they were trying to fix up
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this house and they hired a contractor, a contracting business to come up and
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fix one of their like a kind
of a guesthouse slash garage and lo and
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behold this guy. This one of
the contract tractors, had a sighting possibly
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two sidings in the area, and
he knew nothing about the big foot phenomenon
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going on in the property. He
knew nothing about it. I interned the
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best part. That's the best part
where he's like, that's a little weird
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that all what's gone. That's awes
exactly exactly. You know. We talked
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about this on MONSTRAI Tradio, my
podcast, but oka being is that it
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was just it was phenomenal, and
you know, and going through this area
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over the years and studying this area, some of the elderly neighbors that live
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close by. One of the women
who has an apple orchard in this area,
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she knew there was sasquat. She
straight up told Donna one day,
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without Donna really you know, insinuating
anything. Yeah, it's sad squats it.
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It's up in this area. So
there's a lot of collaboration, there,
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a lot of ideas there where other
people are aware the other people have
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seen something and there's no it's not
that they're having a discussion on sasquatch.
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It just pops up and then historically
in this area there's multiple reports on one
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project gets taken in personally, I've
had people that are close in the know
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of this area that have talked about
other reports from neighbors and people within a
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couple of square miles and some of
the lakes in this area, there's reports.
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So why why Donna was having this
activity on the property, I don't
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know. You know, she was
home alone. Her house was like a
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lot of really big windows where something
from the forest line could watch her.
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There was apple orchards in the area. A lot of hypothesizing here, but
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no doubt she had a lot of
tremendous amount of activity on this property.
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Now fast forward, there were some
unfortunate events that took place. Unfortunately,
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Donna and Gregg sold the property and
they no longer have access to the property.
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There's still stuff going on in some
adjasent areas that I follow, but
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it's not an area you can get
intoout getting into trouble, and it's private
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property and all that stuff. So
it's a real shame there. But I
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guess, you know, paying two
mortgages and just that Donna did not feel
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comfortable staying there anymore and they had
to leave. So as far as Devil's
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Creeks concerned, there's not really anything
ongoing there now. As far as research,
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I'm not being in contact with the
new inhabitants. They're not aware of
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any of the stuff that went on
there. I'm not sure if they're experiencing
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anything. That's a story in itself. It's like, did they know what
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they were getting into buying property?
And like if they're just slowly, I
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don't think it would be slow.
I think it would be quick that they
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would figure out, like there's something
going on here. You know, who
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knows, right, I mean,
all bets are off. I don't know.
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I do know that there's still some
occasional activity in that drone area.
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Still get reports from that area.
I do still visit some of the adjacent
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areas, but it's not you know, as far as the property is concerned,
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I don't get I can't get access
to that. And definitely, my
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personal opinion, they definitely had sasquatch
stuff going on, I mean no doubt
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about it, with the multiple signings
from different individuals and the things that occurred
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with me. I've had rocks thrown
and stuff like that, and I couldn't
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spend enough time there. I really
wanted to capture something on a fleer and
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I spent many nights are by myself
edge the property had you know, a
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lot of experiences. I've never got
anything on fleer. The brush is so
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thick and whatever it was would never
get close enough for me to get on
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flear. So it is what it
is. Yeah, man, thanks for
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sharing that. That's that's a really
cool up to add. No idea that
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that had. Yeah, that's not
happening to get shared. Yeah, yeah,
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Well but I'll tell real quick.
I'll tell you Donn and Gregg.
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Sorry to interrupted Donn and Gregor,
two fantastic, phenomenal individuals I have to
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the utmost respect from Donna and David
Els did phenomenal audio work on the property.
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And I know Donna's very thankful for
David Ellison and Derek and myself,
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two stand up individuals that didn't ask
for this, just happened, and they
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were willing to go along and do
what they could to a certain extent,
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and unfortunately things didn't work out with
their lives and with the property. But
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the chance to to get involved with
one of these rare occurrencies where you have
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this consistent activity happening on the property, not necessarily year round, but consistently.
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That's the sort of places you want
to be in because I'm not a
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I'm not, for say, an
ambulance chaser. I don't you know those
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days are asked, I don't you
know. Derek Randall's a the Elent Project,
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but the co founder of the Elment
Project talking this years ago, you
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know heat for years. He's been
in research since nineteen eighty five, and
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he used to go to Idaho,
I mean, living in Washington, would
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go to Idaho at the drop of
a hat looking for uh, you know,
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if there was an account, he
drive out there or wherever. And
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you can get a lot of good
information on that. But it's almost you
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know that the crime's done and defined
a place where there's a lot of activity
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and it's ongoing. That's really not
ambulance chasing. You're trying to do a
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conductive study there and figure out what's
going on. So that's that's that's something
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I think when those occurrences happen,
and it's happened a few times in my
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experience with this research and and some
others, that's the places you really want
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to be m very cool, very
cool. I'm gonna throw out a random
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left field question just to see if
anything sticks. Doesn't, we'll go to
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somewhere else. So you've had all
these you know, you're focused on big
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foot. I'm in uh this the
Midwest area. We have a lot of
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like things flying around, thunderbirds,
stuff like that. Have you ever run
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into any weird stuff? I don't
know. Is that a thing where those
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actually will come up in the Pacific
Northwest, like large flying cryptids or anything
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like that, or not really a
thing that you you run up against.
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Well, here's the thing. You
know, growing up, I was involved
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interested in a lot of crypt It's
not involved. I was interested in all
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sorts of cryptics. I'm well burst
on a lot of cryptids up here and
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northwest. I mean, you go
to Portland and you know that there's a
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big sign that says keep Portland's weird
down in or it's great. Yeah,
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and it is weird. The you
know, the Pacific Northwest is a weird
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spot. There's a lot of things
that you know, people will claim to
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see. You know, they have
a Cadborosaurus on the coast that apparently it's
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like a water cryptid because from San
Francisco all the way up to Alaska they
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call Caddie. There's, of course, the the large thunderbirds. There's you
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know, pterodactyl, tranidon sightings.
Apparently you got UFO sightings. I personally
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never seen any of that stuff.
And I spend I mean I live in
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the woods, and I spend ungall
the amount of time in the woods.
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I've never personally come across you know, I've never seen any weird orbs or
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lights. You know, none of
that's a but you do hear stories from
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credible people that claim to have seen
you know, Cadburisaurus or a flying cryptid
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that's much larger enacting peculiar. You
do have people claiming to see lights in
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the woods or UFOs. I mean
Washington State, you know, I think
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one of the really first big UFO
sightings was around mount very near back in
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ooh, what the sixties, fifties
or seventies, I forget flying discs.
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So it's an where there's a lot
of stuff that happens up here, and
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different cryptids, you know. We
know, mainly though my focus and mainly
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what I come across the sasquatch sightings
up here and It's way more prevalent than
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people will ever guess. You know, for every you know, one siding
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you hear about or two signs you
hear about, there's I mean, I
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can only imagine how many more signings
are out there that you know, from
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people that are either not willing to
talk or just don't have an opportunity to
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talk about it. Very cool,
very cool. You'd mentioned before that you
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have actually you spent time in the
Yosemite area early on. Can you go
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in? I've actually so I visited
that area. It's a beautiful area and
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I'll just I'll paint a little picture. When we drove there from Cupertino area,
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you lose cell service like an like
two hours outside of the park.
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It felt like it was nuts and
there was apart when we were like driving
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around in this little electric car up
these hills and like we had to stop
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and literally if you had stepped you
always hear people say this, if you
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stepped a foot off the road,
you would be a lot like you'd be
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done. It was prehistoric and it
was amazing. Do you have any you
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know, I can recall anything that
happened around that area or like any cool
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stories about researching that area or yeah, I mean so from when I one
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of my old girlfriends work to Yosemite
and that really was a nice a kick
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in the pants and get up there
even more so, but Yosemity when my
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perst. I remember going through a
tunnel and coming to an area inspiration points,
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and seeing the Semity Valley and it
was absolutely amazing. A guy from
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Scotland that got the witness that,
you know, I was, you know,
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enthralled. I see why you know
Theodore roll about some of these others.
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You know, I said, this
is God's country. It's just an
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amazing country and just amazing. So
I fell in love with it. And
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and of course I heard about all
these sad squats reports in the Sierras and
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Yosemite and all that. So I
made at a point, you know,
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even though from I lived in San
Diego it's like eleven twelve hour drive,
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I would do it as much as
I could, and I did it for
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years. Amazing area. I've been
all around yo semi backpack in Yosemite.
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I've been up to half Going,
I've been all around Elk Cap with Semni
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Falls. I've been all around there. And I always liked to backpack,
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you know, off trail and off
country. I personally, you know,
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I've had a lot of bear encounters
up there, a ton of bear encounters.
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There's bearers up there galore. Oh
yeah, man, I'm chasing from
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my camp up there. I never
personally had a big foot encounter. Right
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there. I came across one impression
I thought was interesting, could have been
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a double bear stamp. The most
interesting thing that that I took away from
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Yosemite, besides just that it's it's
so vast, and you know, there's
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a lot of people that go there. I talked to a a former park
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She was a female, and she
was working the l cap area below the
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base, near a hotel out there, and she had something throwing rocks at
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her. And when she looked up
from this little bluff, she saw this
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black shadow and it took off by
pedally up the hill. And I heard
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that first person. Now we're talking
ninety seven through about two thousand and six,
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it's kind of a time prime I
would go up there. Really I
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didn't. Back ninety seven, I
had a beeper. I didn't really have
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a cell phone, you know,
so it wasn't like I could get cell
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phone reception anyways. But that's awesome. You know, there are a lot
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of missing people in that area,
but I'll tell you it's easily. You
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could get lost up there easy.
And I mean the last time I was
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there last summer, I realized I
will never go there. During the height
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of the season, I took my
family down there and they had never been
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there. My eight year old daughter
and my wife. We took him out.
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I took him out there on our
way down to San Diego. Driving
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down from Washington, we stood.
We sat in our car for over an
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hour trying to get in the park. It was a nightmare. There's so
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many people, millions of people.
I forget the number, but it's over
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a million people that go through the
park every year. You've got that many
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people come through a park, and
you've got a lot of tourists from out
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of the country, they don't speak
English, that had no business being in
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the woods. People are going to
get hurt and people are going to disappear.
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So there's no shock to me that
I always get whold your sementys a
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hotspot, woll Yeah, but there's
when you have that number of people that
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go through that area, it's to
be expected. You know, I can't
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accounting times that I came across hurt
people or lost people out there while I
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was hiking. And the amountain villagers
out there, oh yeah, all the
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time. I mean I experienced that
up here in the pacivin Northwest, hiking
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the Olympics. There's people that are
unprepared or ill prepared and don't know what
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they're doing. So yeah, I
mean Yosemite, I have no doubt there's
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probably sasquatch down there. I just
you know, and talking to a few
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people that had experiences really solidified that
for me. But I never had an
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the counter down there. But you
know, when you lived eleven twelve hours
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away and you're kind of like a
glorified camping because you're just doing it for
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a weekend, four days or whatever. You can only do so much,
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and it's an area you need to
live in. The Sierra's beautiful, tons
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of wildlife. And if you think
Yosemite is primordial or you know, you
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know, Jurassic Park is, should
come up to Washington State or Oregon,
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specifically Washington State up in the Olympics
where you got mobs and I've been there.
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Yeah, we hiked, we hiked
the whole as a whole rainforce who
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rainforts is crazy, it's nuts.
Primorial We've been to the Forks area and
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and all that, that's a different
story, but the whole rainforest is simply
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beautiful. Unexpected part of the trip
definitely. Man as we start to kind
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of get towards the end of our
time here, what is what is kind
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of next for I know the Olympic
project is probably the main focus of your
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your time with squatching. Is there
anything that maybe you can tease us with
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something that you guys are are working
towards or I guess you did say that
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you you've found these new new vests, which uh nests, which are huge.
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That's that's a huge deal because you
thought that that was a dead end,
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but then finding new ones that's incredible. So yeah, yeah, So
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basically, so, you know,
this initial nest site that was discovered by
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this Timber cruiser was probably the most
exciting thing and still is the most exciting
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thing I've ever worked on, based
on a number of actors, based on
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just so many different things, and
you know, historically speaking, there's been
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other nests bound, but just not
this many and not study like this where
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you have unknown hair that matches primate
hair is doctor Melgram Moltoya. You have
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nest formulating constructed the huckleberry breaks and
snaps and how it's formula. You needed
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opposable thumb, you had rocks that
had score marks found, you had bush
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nests off the ground that were constructed
like the ground nests. So still it
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was and still is the most exciting
thing. Now going forward, well,
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finally after four years, we've come
across some possibly new nests, but actually
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being I just you know, all
we had as a goal as a team
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was to find more nest and as
new as can be. I had no
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idea we were going to come across
something making a nest as it was being
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made. And now we got all. We got some samples, we got
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some casts, some different things that
I'll eventually release. We've had some really
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key people involved with helping us cast
this stuff. And so going forward,
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really it's we're just we're not ambulance
chasing. We're studying was one area,
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this one bass area as much as
we can collecting audio. You know,
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we do use some troll cameras,
but like Lee and we're just you know,
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studying the area, getting all the
known animals in this area, all
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the sounds they make, so that
we can roll in and roll out what
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we're recording if it's suspicious, collecting
data from this new nest site, looking
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for new nest sites. But at
the same time, we're also there's the
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thing, something's making these nests and
making them for a reason. And you
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know, part of you when you're
out there and you feel guilty because you
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disturb something and the amount of work
that went into making like even this new
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nest, it was in the you
know, the process of making it,
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the amount of work. When my
partner I disrupted it, you know,
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when I got back to our camp
because it was in the evening, we
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just kind of we backed out of
there. It was getting dark, went
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on. You know, I don't
care what's making I didn't want to disturb
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it, and didn't know if we're
in a good spot to be disturbing anything.
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We went back into the next day
with a few more people and discovered
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what we discovered. But part of
you feels guilty for disrupting something making that
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but you know it is what it
is, and uh, you know,
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and we'll study that area. You
know, it's disturbed. So we're constantly
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looking for a new nests. The
same time, we're also trying to be
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not jerks, you know, you
know, if something's making a nest for
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a little one or a baby or
a newborn. You know, who are
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we to go in these areas and
disturb them and disrupt that that amount of
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work. So it's a catch twenty
two the same you know, science moves
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on, but at the same time, uh, you know, I don't
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want to. I'd rather come find
the nest later after it's been departed,
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you know exactly. That's kind of
where're and that's what we're focused on,
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is finding new nests and studying this
nests and learning everything we can about these
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new nests and and and the Element
Project is not about proving sasquats exist.
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We're about studying what we already pretty
much know to exist. The majority of
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our Limit Project members, so we
do have some things in those individuals that
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never had an encounter, but we're
about collecting as much data so when that
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day comes across that sasquatch has proven, we already have everything laid out there
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for academia to look at. Yeah, it's so fun and it gets it
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out in the woods which we enjoy
and we have a great group, right
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because at the end of the day, you're still spending a lot of good
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time and nature, which there's nothing
wrong with that. If people want to
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keep track of what you're doing,
what is the best the best things for
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them to look at? Website or
social media what have you. Yeah,
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so we have our website is it's
still we're still building upon this and working
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on it. A lot of us, like I said, are we have
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dave jobs, so it's hard to
keep up, but we do keep up.
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So Olympic Project dot com you can
send emails there anything, audio and
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all that you can share and we
will get back to you at some point
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in time. David Ellis kind of
really leads that. Pardon me at this
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point in time. Of course,
I do host my own podcast called Monster
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Rex Radio, and you can reach
me or my partner Gunner Monson at monster
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x Radio one, Gmail dot com. And you know, so I'm on
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Facebook Change Courson, so if you
got any you know, reach out to
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me on Facebook at Chang Corson and
on Instagram, Twitter and all that stuff.
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But the LIMP Project dot com it
is probably the best way and we
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have lots of resources and lots of
individuals on there, David Elle, Derek
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Randalls, myself, just a ton
of you know, Cindy Dowson, a
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ton of different individuals from different backgrounds
and different fields that may be able to
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help you out. Or just check
out the website. It'll be updated even
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more so down the road here.
That's awesome, Yeah, very cool.
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Well, thank you again Shane for
coming on tonight and spending a little bit
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of a time with the big Fast
Society podcast and some some pretty cool updates.
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I'm sure all the listeners out there
will be checking out the Olympic Project
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website and keeping track of what you
guys find next. So thank you again,
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sir, Thank you, Jeremy.
I appreciate yep, have a good
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night. You two here at Bigfoot
Society. Article is to provide a platform
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for those that have encountered Bigfoot to
share their encounter in a safe and respected
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environment. But we need to hear
your story. If you've experienced something that
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you just can't explain, please send
me an email at Bigfoot Society at gmail
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dot com. Then we can start
the conversation. And I know a lot
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of you have not shared your encounter
at all. It's been twenty years and
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it's time that you get this off
your chest and then you can get some
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well deserved for rest, because I
know you haven't been sleeping. I understand
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what you're going through, and I
appreciate every one of you listening