Bigfoot Ranch, Pt. 1

0:00 Welcome to Big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same area as discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode. And if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Big for Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more Big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes. Head on over to Patreon dot com. Ford Slash the Big for Society and now let's get on with the show, all right, Big for Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Connie today. She's from Iowa, and it's a really weird synchronicity because I've been trying to track down Connie for multiple years now, and I had a random individual reach out to me over email sharing that she knows this individual named Connie and you really should talk to her. And so it's a huge, huge synchronicity that this all is even happening because I hadn't been successful in shracking her down. But Connie, it's a pleasure chatting with you today.

1:08 I would love it if you would just share your story what you remember over the years growing up in this situation. Oh, I have I have a diary that I didn't start keeping until in the eighties, e the eighties, and I have a lot of interactions that I had wrote down. And so yeah, it's best that you just asked me questions because and then maybe it'll trigger something I'm getting old. Yes, ma'am, I will definitely do that. So Connie, can you share what part of Iowa this started back?

1:49 It sounds like you had interactions with bigfoot all growing up on a farm, And can you share what part of Iowa that started in Southeast Iowa? Okay, now we both know Southeast Ia is an extremely bigfoot saturated Jefferson Jefferson County, yes, ma'am, van Buren County and Okay, so Jefferson County and Van Buren County and this was in the early eighties or all. Well, No, Jefferson County was let's see, from fifty six to probably seventy and then then I got married in eighty and moved to Van Buren County from eighty to two thousand and sixteen. And so you're just saying that the timeframe that you lived in those counties not necessarily the timeframe that you had bigfoot activity in those counties. Correct. Well, I had a sporadically in different times in my life. Was I was grown up in Jeffer County and over by Low Creek and that was about the time if you look up, I think it was BFRO they had had Mike Pifer was a guy, he was a kid back then that his dad they lived out by four Corners and that was only

3:20 like three miles from us, and they had they had turned it in because his dad seen one eating apples out of the top of an apple tree. I can't tell you for sure what year, Connie. Are you talking about the fifers that had the Lockridge monster case in? Yeah? Yeah, three miles away from there. Yeah yeah, Oh my goodness. Yeah, this is insane. Oh yeah, and in a good way, not in a bad way, Connie, Like, that's incredible, Like you were involved with the Lockridge monster case? Oh man, that's all. I never told no one. I just like my granda, well, my grandmother when she told me, she told me when I said, what are those when we seen him out very picking one morning early and she says, Oh, that's just a tribe of people just like us, and she said, you don't have to be afraid of them, they're just really big man. I thought, okay, and I never was. And then then the first incident, I think I was, let's see, oh gee, one of the something as simple as back then you had out houses and I had a younger brother.

4:40 My stepdad says, take him out to the bathroom, he's got to go. So I took him out there and I and he was probably four, and I was four years older than he was, so I was probably about eight then. Anyway, while he's setting in the bathroom, I'm swinging back and forth on the door, and when I swung around, I looked backwards and there stood a great, big, bigfoot behind behind the outhouse. Anyway, that was that was my first up close encounter. It's sorry approximate year on that, Connie Well, probably fifty seven, nineteen fifty seven and nineteen fifty seven, and that was close to Lockridge. You were saying, yeah, yeah, three miles, so there was bigfoot activity in Lockridge years in years before the Lockridge Monster incident of the seventies. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, goodness, this is incredible. No, I don't think this. Yeah, oh my goodness, I okay, I need to.

5:46 This is very exciting for me as a bigfoot person. So I spent a lot of time researching bigfoot history in the nineteen seventies. Connie, and I know, like there are guys with the Iowa Bigfoot Center, the Iowa fit Information Center, and they were researching Lockridge. So you saw one in fifty seven, and do you remember any details about what this bigfoot looked like that you saw. Well, he was a lot taller than the outhouse because I was I looked at him back. I was swinging on the outhouse door and I had my head back and when I when I swung around, and he was standing back there. Here's probably I don't know what the average heigh of an outhouse was back then, but here's probably three feet or so more taller than the outhouse, at least much taller and a lot any adults you would know at the time, Oh yes, oh yes, oh yeah, oh yes, I'm guessing I'm guessing nine feet. Yeah. Then do you remember seeing anything facial details at all, not really. It was it was at night when I had to do this, and yeah, and the neighbor's security light just just shone across the field to the outhouse behind the outhouse and a little it was just real faint, and yeah, it wasn't. Yeah, I didn't see any real great details other than his hair was three or four

7:19 inches long, dark what color and then a dark color that looked like brown or black? Or did you notice anything the ordinary about the arms. No, all I've seen was the top from over the edge of the top of the outhouse that it was standing behind the outhouse, but I do, I don't remember. And then the next time my brother we were I don't know the other I had two younger brothers that were ten years younger than me, and my brother and my one evening we were playing outside and the younger ones were pulling the older brother, which they weren't anyway, and this big foot runs bias, probably two foot from us, runs bias, and my brother, which was older that well, he still wasn't over five years old, said, went in, told my stepdad a bear ran past us, and boy did he get a skin in for lion And that's all I remember on that. I just never said anything to anybody other than my granny. And like I said, we and the morning that we seen him out there,

8:50 and that was out by lockreachs too, of four Corners. That the four Corners is actually a few miles north of the town of lock Reach, so that's where that's where Mike Pifer's place was. And then we just lived a few miles west of there. But for other people seeing Bigfoot in this area of four Corners north of Lockridge, oh yeah, I'm sure there was. I'm sure there was. I'm sure there was. But that back then, you just didn't talk about stuff like that. Why was that then? You didn't want people to know you're nuts. Sure, yeah, no, I get it. It's only become a social in the last few years. But and then I had I had encounters off and on all through my life.

9:46 And what I've learned from my kids and my grandkids that usually if because they were all around them and and uh, my my daughter had one Okay, for example, she had one that we called Big Red, and she had had encounters with him when she was younger, and then when he actually put his hand on her back one night, they would make the electrical part of your car not work and stuff, you know. And anyway, sorry, I have a few clarifying questions before we go past it. So what years this set this happened to your daughter. Oh gee, let's see. Just really he was a teenager, so let's see. I think Tony was about seventeen, and she was probably about sixteen, so she was born in seventy one, so it was about early to mid eighties. Anyway, they had been it had been on a Friday night, and all my kids hunt.

11:03 We lived in the country, so they they were raised hunting and trapping and stuff like that, and had they had been out. It was it was a weekend and they had been went out and they'd come home fairly early, like ten o'clock. And about a quarter mile from us was the Des Moines River. There's been a lot of them up and down the Des Moines River. But anyway, this and we lived in the same area within a five mile distance. But anyway, four is what we're talking about right now. Now we have moved to Van Buren County. Okay, thank you, Okay, Now we're in Van Buren County and my daughter, for example, they had pulled in this field, just about a quarter of a block from the hose house, and down over this field down the hill was the bottom of the river. Well, they pulled the car up and parked, and Tony tried to the lights went out on the car, and Trace told Tony quick, goofing, you know, quit trying to scare me. He said, I'm not. It just went out well anyway, and so he takes he takes a flaf slight that kept going off and on, off and on,

12:35 and she stayed up at the car, and she said she got out and was standing there, and she said she could hear Tony walking through the stuff down to the edge of the river to check their traps. Well anyway, and she said the next thing she knew, she felt something put their hand over her, on her shoulder, and it covered most of the top of her back, and she screamed, and she said, you cuss, And she screamed, Tony, don't be trying to scare me. But when she screamed, he answered back to her, what do you want? So she said that spooked her and she ran all the way back up to the house, which was quarter mile and it was dark and out in the country and yeah, it had a fin or two you had to climb on. She said. She made it in no time. But I can yeah, I can introduce you to her. Name's Tracy. She can tell you some of the things. But anyway, later on and later on, when she had gotten divorced and decided to move to Des Moines, Iowa, a big red followed her. Okay, she said. She lived, I don't know,

14:09 in an apartment at that time, I don't know, a couple of stories two three stories up and red clumb up the outside balcony. And I thought she would just kind of exaggerating, well anyway, because I just thought that was kind of word that a bigfoot would go down to the capital of Iowa. Big for society will be right back after these messages. Well then, and at that time she was still living Let's see, when I first moved down to Missouri in sixteen, I would have some that would stop. I lived in a mobile home that was by a pond, and it was the last one next to these couple fields. And anyway, and I would have them stop by when they were traveling, when they'd migrate, and they'd stop and see me, and they were just like my neighbors. That's all I can the only way I know how to explain it anyway, And Trace decided she come to visit me, and she decided she'd move down there because things

15:41 were so much, you know, more inexpensive down there than it was in Iowa. So she moved down there. And right after she moved, Big Red showed up scratching on the screen door of my mobile home that I lived in and wanted to to know where Trace was. And I told him, and he showed up at her place, and she had a boyfriend that seen him and freaked out. He didn't have nothing to do with her after that. You know, you have contact with that boyfriend still. I no, I don't, No, I don't, but Trace could tell you and yeah, and then Mike, Yeah, I don't know. So you just yeah, asked me some more questions. We have some more for sure, Okay, So here we go. Let's rewind a little bit. I know you moved away. I just found that out. You moved down to Van Buren County, so you weren't in Lockridge area when the actual Lockridge Monster sighting happened.

16:49 Do you remember anything about that time period though? When they started having some crazy stuff happened on the Fifers farm. No, what happened was my it's dad. It just happened to be working fields with you know, I don't know if it was planting. Well, if it was, they were probably picking corn or beans or whatever because it was in the fall, because the apples were right and and his when he went and he was doing it late at night and the headlights of the tractor shigne is shown on the one by the apple tree, I guess or something. That's what Mike told me.

17:32 And yeah, so so yeah, but uh, yeah, it was just it was just I didn't know. I don't know if there was a family that were Native American that lived down by there too, but I don't know if I should say their names. But they did say that they had seen him really, but I just never. I had just never. And gee, now about most of the families dead, so I don't know. I couldn't tell you in what family are you talking about specifically when you say that, are you talking about the Fifers, Are you talking about the Native American family? The Native American family? Gotcha? Do you think there were multiple sightings of Bigfoot in that area that were never talked about out the locker.

18:27 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah. Do you remember any other sightings around that same time period, other things you've heard? No, not really, okay, not really when when? Yeah, yeah, I just yeah, I can't. Like I said, that's been a long time ago. It is really, it is really a long time ago. You said you had heard sightings around the des Moines River. Do you remember any of those? I lived on I lived by the des Moines River for forty years at Denton's Port and well actually on the south side of it port. And yeah, a lot of people seen them, but they don't They wouldn't talk about it to your normal people. I mean, you know, they just wouldn't open up about it. Very few of them, but I know a few that's come to me and said, hey, I've seen this and this and this and but I but my family, well, the last last few years, probably from ninety to twenty sixteen, seen them every day, seen them every day morning, noon, night. It didn't matter. They were like you, neighbors. I definitely want to get to that part before we leave Van Buren County, though, I want to check on a few things.

19:51 So I've heard many things about Van Buren County over the last few years. Did you ever hear anything around the Elden or Dodge area county? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'll tell you, yeah, I can. My dad lived. My dad before he passed, lived between Agency, Iowa and eld In Iowa. He was right pretty close to what they call the Cardinals School of the Eldon Community Yet School. And I don't know, maybe I made maybe five miles from there anyway, and my dad had moved back here.

20:37 He had lived in Missouri for years, and he moved back to Iowa to that place, and he got he bought a patch of land and moved a mobile home on it. And I was a clearbless guy. He wanted my son, my oldest son, to draw wall the one side of each trailer, cover up the windows and everything, and we all thought that was kind of odd, you know. But then then I started hearing from people about a half a mile from where dad lives that they were seeing a couple of bigfoot. And my dad he wouldn't talk about things that like that. He did very, very seldom. And because i'd had back in the eighties, I'd had an encounter with a big a mountain lion and they said, oh, no, mountain lions don't exist there. And you know in Iowa.

21:48 And my dad said, well, when he was fourteen, he ran across one when he was driving a truck to go pick up coal to take the furfield. He went to rock Cory or Dow's Rockery anyway, and he had to get there early in the morning, so he was first in lying. Otherwise it had take you all day and they sold cold anyway, and Dad said he'd fell asleep and while he was waiting, and he woke up to something digging on the side of the truck and there was a big mountain lion trying to get in his truck. Oh my goodness. So anyway, anyway, he just never talked about things. And the only thing he told me before he got bad this was he died of cancer. And it was about a year after he had my son dry wall all the north side of or the west side of the mobile home and cover up all the windows. That he said, there's some really strange stuff goes on around here at night.

23:02 And that's all he said. And I knew exactly what it was. I knew, I knew as sure as but yeah, but there as back in the early eighties there was I started hearing stuff about up and down the Des Moines rivers. It's like one night on a TV show they were talking about a female bigfoot that had been seen up and down the Des Moines River from Van Buren County clear to the mouth of the river anyway down there by Mount Rose. Do you remember, sorry, Oh no, no, I can't remember. It's been too long ago. But anyway, and then one night my husband and a friend that he he had, My husband brought him out and they were drinking and and I said, and he worked for the Dowd's Rock Quarry, And I said, have you ever seen or heard anything strange around there when you were working? He said, yeah, yeah. He said that a lot of there's a lot of caves down in there from you know, they had they where they can drive their trucks down in there and get from that rock and stuff. And he said that one day he turned

24:34 on the lies down at this cave and he said it was about a quarter mile from it had an opening out by the river. And he said it was about a quarter mile from the river that he was in this big cavern that they had dug out to get a load of rock, and he said there was a little pool of water there and he said he found He says, he looked at me and he says, I never seen anything, but I found scat as big as your arm. And I said, really, but that was just back in the early days. And this guy was pretty pretty and he wouldn't talk about it when he was sober. Sure, sure, that's incredible. You don't hear about stuff like that in Iowa, where it's like the large scot You always hear about that in the Pacific Northwest.

25:33 But the reason I brought up Eldon and Dowd was because I had an individual I talked to you once, and he told me about how back in the nineteen forties there were sightings of something called the Yehoties and they were just labeled as giants or bigfoot. And I just was that anything that you'd ever heard of over the years. No, But back in the early nineties, I got a call from some people that lived, oh, I don't know, not very not very far from Elden. They lived on the south side of the river, and they had an old graveyard on their property and they raised horses and cattle and stuff, and they I can't say their name, but they're prominent people. One of the sons had me and couple my son and can't remember if my daughter was there or not. But anyway, we did go researching and the horses. The horse was dead, its neck had been broke, and they kept having a lot of cattle come up missing. And we did find some big foot prints in this old graveyard. How long were they do you think? Oh? I think they were like about eighteen nineteen

27:03 inches. I figured it was a female for that size. Okay, from what I a female or a juvenile male. But that's but and that was that was Yeah. I so I've heard I heard different things around, but most people don't. Like I said, they've a lot of them now. The old timers were just getting so they kind of open up to you, and but then most of them are dead and gone now. So yeah, it's to the point where a lot of people that were involved in that period of time, they not a lot of them are around anymore. So it's a it's an incredible privilege to be able to talk to you, Connie, for sure, I want to thank you for that again. But anything ever happened around Schamex State Forest that you heard of. Oh dear, oh, well, see what where we lived? Okay, we lived about half a city block from the Des Moines River for thirty forty years. And and let's see, and on one side of us, about five miles to the west of US was the state Oh what the heck Lake Sagema and what in the oh my, I'm getting old and forgetful. But anyway, they had they had a state park there that was consisted of about six hundred acres there at

28:36 Tissauqua and and you just go straight west or east, and then about five miles and then we lived there at Benn'sport. And then about ten miles to the east of US was Symic State Park, and it's like six thousand and there was a little and there was a little creek there that was called Bear Creek where they said that there was a lot of bear back in the early fifties. And that's where I got that name. But anyway, and this is the route that the Bigfoot would travel. Big for Society will be right back after these messages. They had a mile or two before they got to the to the one end of the Bear Creek and then it and then Bear Creek went all through our property. Plus we had old Indian burial grounds on our property and our lower eighty acre field where we planted corn a lot of times. Was the last encampment that black Cock had before he was civilized and

30:06 moved to Iowaville. So yeah, and so they would travel back and forth, and there were times that and they they liked horses and two and I always had horses. And yeah, anyway, so that's how that sorry, how did you know that they liked horses? Huh? Because I had horses that first of all, they would take and they would braid their manes and tails during the night. And I would have a chain that I ran through around the post and through the gate, and it was padlocked and the only and it had to be lifted way up, and it was a heavy chain and it had to be lifted way up in order for and they'd let the horses out and uh, yeah, stuff, But they would do these braids and different things and twists to the horse's tail. The females, the female bigfoot, will also take and they would sometimes. It used to drive me crazy because they the females when they braid their hair. Shapinga used to braid

31:36 her hair all the time, and she would take tree sap and stick it on her braids so it'll stay well. They had do that sometimes to the horses manes and tails to make it stay. Okay, very interesting. That's actually Patty had had asked me. She was like, there's a few things you might want to ask Connie about, and Shapinga is actually one of those. Do you mind if we talk about I don't know if there's a way to transition into if that's an individual that you knew during this time where you was her for seven and a half years. We've seen each other every day, and where was this set this was happening. This is out of our farm? Was it in Van Buren County? Yes? Okay, so that same area for seven and a half years you were seeing this female bigfoot.

32:32 Yeah. I had all kinds of experiences I had, and my grandkids I had, We had what was it, one hundred and twenty one hundred and nineteen, one hundred and twenty nine acres of land, and I had a grandson with just he is five years old and he was just owner ear in Hell and he was always he took after his dad and he was always wanting to take off. And I told him, I told him when he was five, I said, you stay up here in the yard because you go down to the junk ditch, which we everybody back then had a junk ditch, and then you filled up some place that was washed out and you'd fill it up full of stuff and then you'd bulldoze it over. And anyway, I said to Spencer, I said, you stay away from the junk ditch.

33:34 Don't be taken off. Stay up in the yard. I said, if not, the junk ditch monsterl each year because I had to scare him, because he wasn't scared of really, So he's staying with me. And all of a sudden I look out and I don't see him, and here he comes. He'd been down to the junk ditch. And I said, I said, didn't I tell you when we got out, I said, didn't I tell you that the junk dicks monster would eat He said no. I already talked to him and he said he wasn't going to eat me. Nice. That's great. And what time period was that? What year do you think? Okay, well, let's see Spencer was born in ninety one, so and he was about five years old, so it's around ninety six, Okay, yeah, yeah, Can you share about the time that shapinga saved you from? She said, well, oh about Well, we had okay, on our land was v shaped, okay, and one side was the north side was the Demnes River, and the other side was Bear Creek.

34:54 But we had a little bit of timberland over there on the other side of Bear Creek. But anyway, and there was a couple of miles from our house to the next house, and there was a creek, it was called Bear Creek, and there was a bridge down there. Well, we had meth makers go down there and make math. And one Sunday evening I always carried a four to ten and one evening neil Man was up watching TV and I was I was always outside. I just liked being outside. And and I thought I smelt something in the air. And the creek bridge was about a quarter of a mile from our house. And anyway, so I take I walked down to the way. The smell was coming from the creek, and and on each side of the creek, well, on the one side there was a real steep hills where the Native Americans had burial grounds there and the other and a lot of cedar trees. Well, I'm I'm, I go walking through the timber and and I see a car sitting down there by the creek, and so I sneak down there and I get under this

36:28 cedar tree and i'm I'm watching these three guys and they're making math and and it was it was on a Sunday afternoon, our evening, and it was probably it was close to getting dark whenever. Anyway, and I was laying up there on the on the ridge looking down and watching them, and one of them found me. Okay, Well they took me down down underneath the bridge where they was cooking that stuff, and I thought wow, And they took my trusty four ten and everything, and they just was and they were trying to decide what they was going to do to me. And it didn't sound like it was good whatever it was, as you know. And anyway, and by then they knew I would if I wooked. I'm a horrible whooper. And if I whooped, they knew what it knew it was me and anyway, but I didn't whoop this time. That I recall, but I remember they was about done doing their stuff and they was starting to load stuff up and they had one I had me one guy next to me, and I had be kind of tied to this old air conditioner that somebody had

38:02 dumped out. I can smell, I can smell the bigfoot, or I get vibrations if like a or I get these vibrations. What did it a bear down there in Tennessee? He called it infrasound that I could feel this when they're closed. Well, anyway, I started getting these feelings and I went, who well, and that guy looked at me and he said, be quiet. So I did. The next thing I know, Shechipinga was standing next to me, and when that guy looked up and the other two were walking away from it, they ran. And when they seen her and she got me out of the how they she was able to unhook me from whatever they had me tied up. Was I can't remember, it's been so long ago, but scared them and Shapinga wasn't real big. She was only about eight eight and a half foot tall, and she had a shoulder span of probably four four feet or a little bit more. Does she have a similar color pattern or what color was Shapinka Schapinga was. I never seen one like her before. She was kind of a light beige, but on her

39:35 stomach and one bube she was like white and light gray. The hair, yeah, interesting, some of them. I've seen hair that had like four inches long, but she hers wasn't that long. It's maybe two inches. So similar to what we see in the Patterson Gimlin film then, is that? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I yeah. In some of my books I had, I worked with the guy, an ex police sketch artist, and he did several sketches for me that we worked with with Schappinga and Big Red and Baby Boy and yeah all that. You have books you've written, Oh I haven't. I've got a diary that, like I said, that of things that's happened, that's probably three or four inches thick. That yeah, and yeah, and it's got it's got like police sketch type style drawing a big foot in them. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that I that I I for my own personal use. I had a lot more, but right right, oh golly. About about ninety five, somebody broke in our house and they took everything of mine that was Bigfoot

41:07 related. I had electronics and stuff, you know that, I and game cams and stuff. They never took none of that. They just took all my my bigfoot stuff, pictures and stuff that I had. So after that, I didn't do pictures. So you had Are you talking about the sketches or did you have actual pictures of the Bigfoot? I had actual pictures you did. What were these taken with? What kind of devices? Oh? Well, I had I usual they had. I don't have a little camera that I had that I carried in my pocket all the time. Okay, and sometimes sometimes you could get if you caught them unaware, you could get the picture. If not, they project this this energy that makes the pictures all deformed or you know where you can't see them. But yeah, the diary. Was it a diary of like different Bigfoot cases you investigated over the years or just what you noticed? No, different experiences that I had, gotcha and that my family had. Okay. Have you ever considered making that public in some way in order for people other people to learn about what you've experienced over the years. Well, I've thought about it, but it takes money, and I'm I'm on a limited income. And so I don't.

42:43 Yeah, I just don't. But yeah, I've thought about it and if anything happens to me, my granddaughter when my oldest granddaughter gets everything of my big foot stuff. But yeah, I oh yeah, do you know have you ever heard of m NBRT Minnesota Minnesota big foot? A? Well, Abe, when I had I had a show that I was doing on podcasts, I started it and and that was I can't remember what year, it was, close around two thousand, I think, anyway, and he or maybe I was on Campfire Shadows or something I was on Somebody Want to Vix show I think, But anyway, Abe called in and talked to me, and he wanted to talk to me later. So and he he had never seen a bigfoot, but he had heard him and this and that. Well, anyway, so I invited him down. And well, I've been friends with Abe since two thousand and he was with me when he would come down.

44:07 He would stay a week or two usually, and we flipped days and big footed at night. So I could talk to Abe and he'd be able to tell me the same how he experienced the same exact things. Well, for something as simple as there was some from wildfires out west, and this is one night and he got picture. He had videos and stuff, but like I said, he had some of it to me and I had to delete it because people were taking it up and stuff. And I didn't know that much about things, and I just didn't know. I didn't want anything happening to him because the first time I met Scott Nelson down in Oklahom, I said, well, they speak, and he said, no, they don't, and I sug, yes, they do. And I didn't like him because he basically told me I was a liar, that they don't speak, and they do speak, and they can speak any language to anybody at any time. And that's how that is. They called me Awnie, they called my son Tony one, they said my granddaughter. Jess said, holler, Guessie, Guessie. Yeah. So so so you're talking about Scott Nelson, who's been analyzing the fear sounds, yes, and oh on fare sounds.

45:42 The first time I listened to him was back in two thousand and I had been and you have to I never knew how to explain they talk. But and this is how I learned to say, this big for society, who will be right? Back after these message. One night I had my dad was in the process of dying, and he was in Knoxville, and and I stop and pick up a friend, an older friend that didn't drive in Fairfield, and brought her down for a couple of days. Well, Chappinga. I had been gone with my dad, and Schappinga was out by the driveway and my friend, her name was Connie, also she was She had gotten some of her stuff and was up on the porch waiting for me to get something out of the back of the jeep, and and shippinga.

46:53 I wanted to know where I've been and what I've been doing. And I told him that told her that my father was dying. Well anyway, and and this was this was after this was midnight, one o'clock by the time we got home out there to the farm and anyway, Connie, when I walk up to her, she says, who was that? And I said, oh, that that's my friendly neighborhood neighbor. You know, that's my neighbor. And she said, well, do they have a cleft palette? Because they talked just like my cousin had had a cleff Pellette talk. And this is how this is how they talk. But anyway, but I was listening back in two thousand these theory sounds, and I can't remember but on what watch part of it was, but I've got I've got the CD here that i'd have to listen to it. But anyway, they they're they're saying something to the Bigfoot, and the Bigfoot replied, good will you want?

48:07 He goes good will you want? And that's what I have told everybody when they when they meet new ones or are dealing with them, you ask them first, good will you want? And they understand that. But it was about two thousand that that I didn't know you could. Well, yeah, it was when I've really started getting to communicate with them real good. It was after Janet Carter came up. Did you know Janet Carter? Hold on? So you Janet Janet Carter visited your property in Van Buren County. Oh yeah, you come up and stay. I've not had yeah, no, but that's incredible. Anyway, Well, I had talked to Mary Green.

49:02 Mary Green and Janet had wrote a book, and I was telling I had one night like when I first got a computer, and I was talking to Mary Green and I told her that I was telling her that the little ones would pull my doors off the hinges and come in the house and track mud and crap in and get in my deep freeze. And she said they had that a lot down there in Tennessee. And then and then Mary introduced me to Oh and this is when I was this is how long ago it's been.

49:45 I was like forty eight, and I had this one. Don't laugh at me. He was hustling me. And I had talked to Bear. One is Bear's really name? Oh gee, I can't think of it right now, But anyway, from Downtennessee. He was one of the big Foot outlaws. Yep, I'm aware, I know exactly. Okay, Okay, anyway, I had talked to Bear, and Bear had told me that they seemed to be larry of the Red big Foot, and big Red is red anyway, But anyway, this one night, my daughter was forever scared, trying to scare me and stuff. And my kids were like me, They run around at night, you know. And one night, on a full noon, I seen something kind of white in it. And my yard had like one hundred and thirty trees in it. Okay. And then around when I lived at the farm and then around on two sides. It was a heavy timber or well most people don't know what timber is. I found that out woods or forced heavy force, but anyway, and I thought it was her trying to sneak it. I was sitting out on the back deck talking

51:19 to my friend Connie on the phone, and it was midnight, one o'clock and everybody was in bed, and I seen that white hair and it was kind of tall, and my daughter is six foot tall anyway, and I thought it was her getting ready to scare me, so I just kind of ignored it. Well, the next thing I know, there was this big foot and my back deck was eight nine feet off. The house was built on a hill and the deck went out, so it was like eight or nine feet off the ground. And I'm setting out there at the table and about four foot from me, all of a sudden, this bigfoot just pops up. Well anyway, he's standing there and he's looking at me, and I'm talking on the phone and I just pretend like I don't see and he's four foot away from me, and the moonlight was shining through some of the trees, you know, on him. That's when I discovered that they have eyelids, like two eyelids, one that goes from the top to the bottom and then one that goes from side to side anyway, and I would glance at him, and then I just kept talking to Connie and Sonny. I said, calm, I got a big foot here, and I'm going to have to let you go. And she says, Paul, I think you

52:52 need this is before she had heard the one talk and she says, I think you need to get some one kind of nerve medicine. Because I never talked to her about it. I just and I said, okay, I said, I'll talk to you later about it. Well, anyway, so I hung up, and by then he is he went over to the other side of the deck and his skin he had the he he had the prettiest. His hair was silver. It was silver, and it was more than four inches long. He's the only one that I've seen that had hair that long. He looked like a hippie. And I had a picture of it, and somebody on the Facebook had got the picture. Well anyway, and what it was. I was friends with Dmitri and Igor in Russia, and Dmitri after a few years we figured out when this one with the silver hair, well, he told me his name, just calling the ancient one.

54:05 So I did, and I said anyway and anyway. So so next or the next day or two, I was. It was late at night, and I was sitting on the porch, and he come up and sat down beside me. And sometimes he had talked to me verbally, other times he had talked to me telepathically, and he said bye by our way, accounting that he was seventy two years old, and basically, but then anyway, Dimitri and I after a couple of years figured out that in the summertime here he'd be at my place and at the other time he would be in Russia.

54:52 Oh so you think that the same the same bigfoot was going, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And because I had taken a picture and I showed it to Dmitri, and Dmitri was an artist, and he drew the picture and a picture that looked just like it that he had drawn like ten years before, and I thought that was kind of neat. But since then Dmitri's passed, they invited me and I laughed, because I'm old fat I'm an old fat woman, you know. And one night I get a call or attacked from Dmitri saying, do you want to come over here and do a bigfoot expedition with us? And I laughed because I'm a hillbilly.

55:42 I just you know, and I thought, I can't you know, old fat they I wouldn't last ten ten minutes and some of those hills over and there. But yeah, he is the property in Van Buren County, still in the family farm. Nope, nope, nope. And since then, well, part of the reason that I left was I started having encounters with I. I was what they call the bigfoot, called me was the babysitter. Okay. Every every day around four o'clock, the adults would go off to go hunting, okay, and I would babysit and if anybody they had an area where they left the young ones, usually with an adolescent female, sometimes an older female. But if but if anybody come around, I would whoop and some and they would come back. Part two of my Conversation with Connie the Skinwalker Ranch of Iowa. Part two will be released soon on Big for Society, but if you'd like to hear it today, you can become a member of the Patreon over at Patreon dot com, forward slash the Bigfoot Society, or become a YouTube channel member in tier two. Thanks for listening. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube,

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