Bigfoot Ranch, Pt. 1

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Society and now let's get on with the

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show, all right, Big for
Society. We've got the privilege of talking

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to Connie today. She's from Iowa, and it's a really weird synchronicity because

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I've been trying to track down Connie
for multiple years now, and I had

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a random individual reach out to me
over email sharing that she knows this individual

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named Connie and you really should talk
to her. And so it's a huge,

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huge synchronicity that this all is even
happening because I hadn't been successful in

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shracking her down. But Connie,
it's a pleasure chatting with you today.

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I would love it if you would
just share your story what you remember over

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the years growing up in this situation. Oh, I have I have a

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diary that I didn't start keeping until
in the eighties, e the eighties,

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and I have a lot of interactions
that I had wrote down. And so

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yeah, it's best that you just
asked me questions because and then maybe it'll

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trigger something I'm getting old. Yes, ma'am, I will definitely do that.

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So Connie, can you share what
part of Iowa this started back?

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It sounds like you had interactions with
bigfoot all growing up on a farm,

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And can you share what part of
Iowa that started in Southeast Iowa? Okay,

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now we both know Southeast Ia is
an extremely bigfoot saturated Jefferson Jefferson County,

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yes, ma'am, van Buren County
and Okay, so Jefferson County and

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Van Buren County and this was in
the early eighties or all. Well,

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No, Jefferson County was let's see, from fifty six to probably seventy and

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then then I got married in eighty
and moved to Van Buren County from eighty

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to two thousand and sixteen. And
so you're just saying that the timeframe that

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you lived in those counties not necessarily
the timeframe that you had bigfoot activity in

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those counties. Correct. Well,
I had a sporadically in different times in

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my life. Was I was grown
up in Jeffer County and over by Low

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Creek and that was about the time
if you look up, I think it

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was BFRO they had had Mike Pifer
was a guy, he was a kid

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back then that his dad they lived
out by four Corners and that was only

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like three miles from us, and
they had they had turned it in because

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his dad seen one eating apples out
of the top of an apple tree.

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I can't tell you for sure what
year, Connie. Are you talking about

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the fifers that had the Lockridge monster
case in? Yeah? Yeah, three

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miles away from there. Yeah yeah, Oh my goodness. Yeah, this

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is insane. Oh yeah, and
in a good way, not in a

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bad way, Connie, Like,
that's incredible, Like you were involved with

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the Lockridge monster case? Oh man, that's all. I never told no

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one. I just like my granda, well, my grandmother when she told

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me, she told me when I
said, what are those when we seen

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him out very picking one morning early
and she says, Oh, that's just

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a tribe of people just like us, and she said, you don't have

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to be afraid of them, they're
just really big man. I thought,

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okay, and I never was.
And then then the first incident, I

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think I was, let's see,
oh gee, one of the something as

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simple as back then you had out
houses and I had a younger brother.

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My stepdad says, take him out
to the bathroom, he's got to go.

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So I took him out there and
I and he was probably four,

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and I was four years older than
he was, so I was probably about

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eight then. Anyway, while he's
setting in the bathroom, I'm swinging back

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and forth on the door, and
when I swung around, I looked backwards

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and there stood a great, big, bigfoot behind behind the outhouse. Anyway,

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that was that was my first up
close encounter. It's sorry approximate year

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on that, Connie Well, probably
fifty seven, nineteen fifty seven and nineteen

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fifty seven, and that was close
to Lockridge. You were saying, yeah,

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yeah, three miles, so there
was bigfoot activity in Lockridge years in

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years before the Lockridge Monster incident of
the seventies. Oh yeah, oh yeah,

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oh yeah, goodness, this is
incredible. No, I don't think

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this. Yeah, oh my goodness, I okay, I need to.

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This is very exciting for me as
a bigfoot person. So I spent a

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lot of time researching bigfoot history in
the nineteen seventies. Connie, and I

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know, like there are guys with
the Iowa Bigfoot Center, the Iowa fit

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Information Center, and they were researching
Lockridge. So you saw one in fifty

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seven, and do you remember any
details about what this bigfoot looked like that

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you saw. Well, he was
a lot taller than the outhouse because I

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was I looked at him back.
I was swinging on the outhouse door and

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I had my head back and when
I when I swung around, and he

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was standing back there. Here's probably
I don't know what the average heigh of

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an outhouse was back then, but
here's probably three feet or so more taller

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than the outhouse, at least much
taller and a lot any adults you would

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know at the time, Oh yes, oh yes, oh yeah, oh

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yes, I'm guessing I'm guessing nine
feet. Yeah. Then do you remember

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seeing anything facial details at all,
not really. It was it was at

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night when I had to do this, and yeah, and the neighbor's security

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light just just shone across the field
to the outhouse behind the outhouse and a

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little it was just real faint,
and yeah, it wasn't. Yeah,

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I didn't see any real great details
other than his hair was three or four

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inches long, dark what color and
then a dark color that looked like brown

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or black? Or did you notice
anything the ordinary about the arms. No,

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all I've seen was the top from
over the edge of the top of

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the outhouse that it was standing behind
the outhouse, but I do, I

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don't remember. And then the next
time my brother we were I don't know

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the other I had two younger brothers
that were ten years younger than me,

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and my brother and my one evening
we were playing outside and the younger ones

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were pulling the older brother, which
they weren't anyway, and this big foot

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runs bias, probably two foot from
us, runs bias, and my brother,

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which was older that well, he
still wasn't over five years old,

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said, went in, told my
stepdad a bear ran past us, and

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boy did he get a skin in
for lion And that's all I remember on

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that. I just never said anything
to anybody other than my granny. And

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like I said, we and the
morning that we seen him out there,

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and that was out by lockreachs too, of four Corners. That the four

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Corners is actually a few miles north
of the town of lock Reach, so

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that's where that's where Mike Pifer's place
was. And then we just lived a

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few miles west of there. But
for other people seeing Bigfoot in this area

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of four Corners north of Lockridge,
oh yeah, I'm sure there was.

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I'm sure there was. I'm sure
there was. But that back then,

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you just didn't talk about stuff like
that. Why was that then? You

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didn't want people to know you're nuts. Sure, yeah, no, I

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get it. It's only become a
social in the last few years. But

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and then I had I had encounters
off and on all through my life.

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And what I've learned from my kids
and my grandkids that usually if because they

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were all around them and and uh, my my daughter had one Okay,

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for example, she had one that
we called Big Red, and she had

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had encounters with him when she was
younger, and then when he actually put

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his hand on her back one night, they would make the electrical part of

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your car not work and stuff,
you know. And anyway, sorry,

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I have a few clarifying questions before
we go past it. So what years

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this set this happened to your daughter. Oh gee, let's see. Just

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really he was a teenager, so
let's see. I think Tony was about

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seventeen, and she was probably about
sixteen, so she was born in seventy

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one, so it was about early
to mid eighties. Anyway, they had

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been it had been on a Friday
night, and all my kids hunt.

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We lived in the country, so
they they were raised hunting and trapping and

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stuff like that, and had they
had been out. It was it was

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a weekend and they had been went
out and they'd come home fairly early,

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like ten o'clock. And about a
quarter mile from us was the Des Moines

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River. There's been a lot of
them up and down the Des Moines River.

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But anyway, this and we lived
in the same area within a five

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mile distance. But anyway, four
is what we're talking about right now.

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Now we have moved to Van Buren
County. Okay, thank you, Okay,

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Now we're in Van Buren County and
my daughter, for example, they

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had pulled in this field, just
about a quarter of a block from the

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hose house, and down over this
field down the hill was the bottom of

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the river. Well, they pulled
the car up and parked, and Tony

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tried to the lights went out on
the car, and Trace told Tony quick,

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goofing, you know, quit trying
to scare me. He said,

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I'm not. It just went out
well anyway, and so he takes he

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takes a flaf slight that kept going
off and on, off and on,

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and she stayed up at the car, and she said she got out and

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was standing there, and she said
she could hear Tony walking through the stuff

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down to the edge of the river
to check their traps. Well anyway,

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and she said the next thing she
knew, she felt something put their hand

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over her, on her shoulder,
and it covered most of the top of

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her back, and she screamed,
and she said, you cuss, And

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she screamed, Tony, don't be
trying to scare me. But when she

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screamed, he answered back to her, what do you want? So she

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said that spooked her and she ran
all the way back up to the house,

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which was quarter mile and it was
dark and out in the country and

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yeah, it had a fin or
two you had to climb on. She

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said. She made it in no
time. But I can yeah, I

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can introduce you to her. Name's
Tracy. She can tell you some of

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the things. But anyway, later
on and later on, when she had

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gotten divorced and decided to move to
Des Moines, Iowa, a big red

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followed her. Okay, she said. She lived, I don't know,

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in an apartment at that time,
I don't know, a couple of stories

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two three stories up and red clumb
up the outside balcony. And I thought

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she would just kind of exaggerating,
well anyway, because I just thought that

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was kind of word that a bigfoot
would go down to the capital of Iowa.

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Big for society will be right back
after these messages. Well then,

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and at that time she was still
living Let's see, when I first moved

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down to Missouri in sixteen, I
would have some that would stop. I

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lived in a mobile home that was
by a pond, and it was the

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last one next to these couple fields. And anyway, and I would have

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them stop by when they were traveling, when they'd migrate, and they'd stop

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and see me, and they were
just like my neighbors. That's all I

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can the only way I know how
to explain it anyway, And Trace decided

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she come to visit me, and
she decided she'd move down there because things

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were so much, you know,
more inexpensive down there than it was in

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Iowa. So she moved down there. And right after she moved, Big

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Red showed up scratching on the screen
door of my mobile home that I lived

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in and wanted to to know where
Trace was. And I told him,

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and he showed up at her place, and she had a boyfriend that seen

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him and freaked out. He didn't
have nothing to do with her after that.

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You know, you have contact with
that boyfriend still. I no,

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I don't, No, I don't, but Trace could tell you and yeah,

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and then Mike, Yeah, I
don't know. So you just yeah,

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asked me some more questions. We
have some more for sure, Okay,

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So here we go. Let's rewind
a little bit. I know you

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moved away. I just found that
out. You moved down to Van Buren

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County, so you weren't in Lockridge
area when the actual Lockridge Monster sighting happened.

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Do you remember anything about that time
period though? When they started having

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some crazy stuff happened on the Fifers
farm. No, what happened was my

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it's dad. It just happened to
be working fields with you know, I

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don't know if it was planting.
Well, if it was, they were

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probably picking corn or beans or whatever
because it was in the fall, because

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the apples were right and and his
when he went and he was doing it

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late at night and the headlights of
the tractor shigne is shown on the one

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by the apple tree, I guess
or something. That's what Mike told me.

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And yeah, so so yeah,
but uh, yeah, it was

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just it was just I didn't know. I don't know if there was a

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family that were Native American that lived
down by there too, but I don't

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know if I should say their names. But they did say that they had

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seen him really, but I just
never. I had just never. And

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gee, now about most of the
families dead, so I don't know.

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I couldn't tell you in what family
are you talking about specifically when you say

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that, are you talking about the
Fifers, Are you talking about the Native

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American family? The Native American family? Gotcha? Do you think there were

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multiple sightings of Bigfoot in that area
that were never talked about out the locker.

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Yeah, oh yeah, yeah yeah. Do you remember any other sightings

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around that same time period, other
things you've heard? No, not really,

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okay, not really when when?
Yeah, yeah, I just yeah,

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I can't. Like I said,
that's been a long time ago.

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It is really, it is really
a long time ago. You said you

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had heard sightings around the des Moines
River. Do you remember any of those?

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I lived on I lived by the
des Moines River for forty years at

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Denton's Port and well actually on the
south side of it port. And yeah,

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a lot of people seen them,
but they don't They wouldn't talk about

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it to your normal people. I
mean, you know, they just wouldn't

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open up about it. Very few
of them, but I know a few

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that's come to me and said,
hey, I've seen this and this and

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this and but I but my family, well, the last last few years,

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probably from ninety to twenty sixteen,
seen them every day, seen them

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every day morning, noon, night. It didn't matter. They were like

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you, neighbors. I definitely want
to get to that part before we leave

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Van Buren County, though, I
want to check on a few things.

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So I've heard many things about Van
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Did you ever hear anything around the
Elden or Dodge area county? Oh yeah,

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oh yeah, I'll tell you,
yeah, I can. My dad

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lived. My dad before he passed, lived between Agency, Iowa and eld

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In Iowa. He was right pretty
close to what they call the Cardinals School

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of the Eldon Community Yet School.
And I don't know, maybe I made

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maybe five miles from there anyway,
and my dad had moved back here.

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He had lived in Missouri for years, and he moved back to Iowa to

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that place, and he got he
bought a patch of land and moved a

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mobile home on it. And I
was a clearbless guy. He wanted my

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son, my oldest son, to
draw wall the one side of each trailer,

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cover up the windows and everything,
and we all thought that was kind

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of odd, you know. But
then then I started hearing from people about

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a half a mile from where dad
lives that they were seeing a couple of

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bigfoot. And my dad he wouldn't
talk about things that like that. He

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did very, very seldom. And
because i'd had back in the eighties,

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I'd had an encounter with a big
a mountain lion and they said, oh,

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no, mountain lions don't exist there. And you know in Iowa.

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And my dad said, well,
when he was fourteen, he ran across

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one when he was driving a truck
to go pick up coal to take the

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furfield. He went to rock Cory
or Dow's Rockery anyway, and he had

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to get there early in the morning, so he was first in lying.

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Otherwise it had take you all day
and they sold cold anyway, and Dad

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said he'd fell asleep and while he
was waiting, and he woke up to

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something digging on the side of the
truck and there was a big mountain lion

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trying to get in his truck.
Oh my goodness. So anyway, anyway,

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he just never talked about things.
And the only thing he told me

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before he got bad this was he
died of cancer. And it was about

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a year after he had my son
dry wall all the north side of or

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the west side of the mobile home
and cover up all the windows. That

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he said, there's some really strange
stuff goes on around here at night.

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And that's all he said. And
I knew exactly what it was. I

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knew, I knew as sure as
but yeah, but there as back in

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the early eighties there was I started
hearing stuff about up and down the Des

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Moines rivers. It's like one night
on a TV show they were talking about

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a female bigfoot that had been seen
up and down the Des Moines River from

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Van Buren County clear to the mouth
of the river anyway down there by Mount

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Rose. Do you remember, sorry, Oh no, no, I can't

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remember. It's been too long ago. But anyway, and then one night

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my husband and a friend that he
he had, My husband brought him out

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and they were drinking and and I
said, and he worked for the Dowd's

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Rock Quarry, And I said,
have you ever seen or heard anything strange

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around there when you were working?
He said, yeah, yeah. He

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said that a lot of there's a
lot of caves down in there from you

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know, they had they where they
can drive their trucks down in there and

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get from that rock and stuff.
And he said that one day he turned

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on the lies down at this cave
and he said it was about a quarter

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mile from it had an opening out
by the river. And he said it

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was about a quarter mile from the
river that he was in this big cavern

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that they had dug out to get
a load of rock, and he said

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there was a little pool of water
there and he said he found He says,

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he looked at me and he says, I never seen anything, but

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I found scat as big as your
arm. And I said, really,

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but that was just back in the
early days. And this guy was pretty

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pretty and he wouldn't talk about it
when he was sober. Sure, sure,

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that's incredible. You don't hear about
stuff like that in Iowa, where

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it's like the large scot You always
hear about that in the Pacific Northwest.

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But the reason I brought up Eldon
and Dowd was because I had an individual

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I talked to you once, and
he told me about how back in the

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nineteen forties there were sightings of something
called the Yehoties and they were just labeled

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as giants or bigfoot. And I
just was that anything that you'd ever heard

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of over the years. No,
But back in the early nineties, I

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got a call from some people that
lived, oh, I don't know,

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not very not very far from Elden. They lived on the south side of

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the river, and they had an
old graveyard on their property and they raised

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horses and cattle and stuff, and
they I can't say their name, but

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they're prominent people. One of the
sons had me and couple my son and

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can't remember if my daughter was there
or not. But anyway, we did

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go researching and the horses. The
horse was dead, its neck had been

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broke, and they kept having a
lot of cattle come up missing. And

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we did find some big foot prints
in this old graveyard. How long were

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they do you think? Oh?
I think they were like about eighteen nineteen

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inches. I figured it was a
female for that size. Okay, from

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what I a female or a juvenile
male. But that's but and that was

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that was Yeah. I so I've
heard I heard different things around, but

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most people don't. Like I said, they've a lot of them now.

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The old timers were just getting so
they kind of open up to you,

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and but then most of them are
dead and gone now. So yeah,

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it's to the point where a lot
of people that were involved in that period

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of time, they not a lot
of them are around anymore. So it's

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a it's an incredible privilege to be
able to talk to you, Connie,

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for sure, I want to thank
you for that again. But anything ever

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happened around Schamex State Forest that you
heard of. Oh dear, oh,

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well, see what where we lived? Okay, we lived about half a

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city block from the Des Moines River
for thirty forty years. And and let's

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see, and on one side of
us, about five miles to the west

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of US was the state Oh what
the heck Lake Sagema and what in the

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oh my, I'm getting old and
forgetful. But anyway, they had they

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had a state park there that was
consisted of about six hundred acres there at

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Tissauqua and and you just go straight
west or east, and then about five

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miles and then we lived there at
Benn'sport. And then about ten miles to

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the east of US was Symic State
Park, and it's like six thousand and

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there was a little and there was
a little creek there that was called Bear

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Creek where they said that there was
a lot of bear back in the early

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fifties. And that's where I got
that name. But anyway, and this

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is the route that the Bigfoot would
travel. Big for Society will be right

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back after these messages. They had
a mile or two before they got to

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the to the one end of the
Bear Creek and then it and then Bear

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Creek went all through our property.
Plus we had old Indian burial grounds on

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our property and our lower eighty acre
field where we planted corn a lot of

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times. Was the last encampment that
black Cock had before he was civilized and

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moved to Iowaville. So yeah,
and so they would travel back and forth,

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and there were times that and they
they liked horses and two and I

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always had horses. And yeah,
anyway, so that's how that sorry,

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how did you know that they liked
horses? Huh? Because I had horses

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that first of all, they would
take and they would braid their manes and

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tails during the night. And I
would have a chain that I ran through

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around the post and through the gate, and it was padlocked and the only

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and it had to be lifted way
up, and it was a heavy chain

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and it had to be lifted way
up in order for and they'd let the

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horses out and uh, yeah,
stuff, But they would do these braids

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and different things and twists to the
horse's tail. The females, the female

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bigfoot, will also take and they
would sometimes. It used to drive me

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crazy because they the females when they
braid their hair. Shapinga used to braid

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her hair all the time, and
she would take tree sap and stick it

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on her braids so it'll stay well. They had do that sometimes to the

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horses manes and tails to make it
stay. Okay, very interesting. That's

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actually Patty had had asked me.
She was like, there's a few things

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you might want to ask Connie about, and Shapinga is actually one of those.

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Do you mind if we talk about
I don't know if there's a way

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to transition into if that's an individual
that you knew during this time where you

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was her for seven and a half
years. We've seen each other every day,

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and where was this set this was
happening. This is out of our

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farm? Was it in Van Buren
County? Yes? Okay, so that

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same area for seven and a half
years you were seeing this female bigfoot.

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Yeah. I had all kinds of
experiences I had, and my grandkids I

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had, We had what was it, one hundred and twenty one hundred and

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nineteen, one hundred and twenty nine
acres of land, and I had a

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grandson with just he is five years
old and he was just owner ear in

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Hell and he was always he took
after his dad and he was always wanting

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to take off. And I told
him, I told him when he was

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five, I said, you stay
up here in the yard because you go

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down to the junk ditch, which
we everybody back then had a junk ditch,

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and then you filled up some place
that was washed out and you'd fill

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it up full of stuff and then
you'd bulldoze it over. And anyway,

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I said to Spencer, I said, you stay away from the junk ditch.

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Don't be taken off. Stay up
in the yard. I said,

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if not, the junk ditch monsterl
each year because I had to scare him,

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because he wasn't scared of really,
So he's staying with me. And

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all of a sudden I look out
and I don't see him, and here

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he comes. He'd been down to
the junk ditch. And I said,

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I said, didn't I tell you
when we got out, I said,

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didn't I tell you that the junk
dicks monster would eat He said no.

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I already talked to him and he
said he wasn't going to eat me.

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Nice. That's great. And what
time period was that? What year do

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you think? Okay, well,
let's see Spencer was born in ninety one,

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so and he was about five years
old, so it's around ninety six,

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Okay, yeah, yeah, Can
you share about the time that shapinga

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saved you from? She said,
well, oh about Well, we had

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okay, on our land was v
shaped, okay, and one side was

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the north side was the Demnes River, and the other side was Bear Creek.

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But we had a little bit of
timberland over there on the other side

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of Bear Creek. But anyway,
and there was a couple of miles from

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our house to the next house,
and there was a creek, it was

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called Bear Creek, and there was
a bridge down there. Well, we

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had meth makers go down there and
make math. And one Sunday evening I

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always carried a four to ten and
one evening neil Man was up watching TV

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and I was I was always outside. I just liked being outside. And

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and I thought I smelt something in
the air. And the creek bridge was

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about a quarter of a mile from
our house. And anyway, so I

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take I walked down to the way. The smell was coming from the creek,

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and and on each side of the
creek, well, on the one

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side there was a real steep hills
where the Native Americans had burial grounds there

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and the other and a lot of
cedar trees. Well, I'm I'm,

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I go walking through the timber and
and I see a car sitting down there

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by the creek, and so I
sneak down there and I get under this

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cedar tree and i'm I'm watching these
three guys and they're making math and and

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it was it was on a Sunday
afternoon, our evening, and it was

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probably it was close to getting dark
whenever. Anyway, and I was laying

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up there on the on the ridge
looking down and watching them, and one

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of them found me. Okay,
Well they took me down down underneath the

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bridge where they was cooking that stuff, and I thought wow, And they

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took my trusty four ten and everything, and they just was and they were

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trying to decide what they was going
to do to me. And it didn't

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sound like it was good whatever it
was, as you know. And anyway,

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and by then they knew I would
if I wooked. I'm a horrible

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whooper. And if I whooped,
they knew what it knew it was me

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and anyway, but I didn't whoop
this time. That I recall, but

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I remember they was about done doing
their stuff and they was starting to load

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stuff up and they had one I
had me one guy next to me,

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and I had be kind of tied
to this old air conditioner that somebody had

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dumped out. I can smell,
I can smell the bigfoot, or I

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get vibrations if like a or I
get these vibrations. What did it a

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bear down there in Tennessee? He
called it infrasound that I could feel this

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when they're closed. Well, anyway, I started getting these feelings and I

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went, who well, and that
guy looked at me and he said,

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be quiet. So I did.
The next thing I know, Shechipinga was

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standing next to me, and when
that guy looked up and the other two

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were walking away from it, they
ran. And when they seen her and

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she got me out of the how
they she was able to unhook me from

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whatever they had me tied up.
Was I can't remember, it's been so

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long ago, but scared them and
Shapinga wasn't real big. She was only

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about eight eight and a half foot
tall, and she had a shoulder span

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of probably four four feet or a
little bit more. Does she have a

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similar color pattern or what color was
Shapinka Schapinga was. I never seen one

409
00:39:28.679 --> 00:39:35.519
like her before. She was kind
of a light beige, but on her

410
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:42.400
stomach and one bube she was like
white and light gray. The hair,

411
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:46.880
yeah, interesting, some of them. I've seen hair that had like four

412
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:52.480
inches long, but she hers wasn't
that long. It's maybe two inches.

413
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:57.920
So similar to what we see in
the Patterson Gimlin film then, is that?

414
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:04.599
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I yeah. In

415
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.719
some of my books I had,
I worked with the guy, an ex

416
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:16.400
police sketch artist, and he did
several sketches for me that we worked with

417
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:23.760
with Schappinga and Big Red and Baby
Boy and yeah all that. You have

418
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:29.960
books you've written, Oh I haven't. I've got a diary that, like

419
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.039
I said, that of things that's
happened, that's probably three or four inches

420
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:39.199
thick. That yeah, and yeah, and it's got it's got like police

421
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:45.280
sketch type style drawing a big foot
in them. Yeah yeah, yeah,

422
00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:50.800
yeah, that I that I I
for my own personal use. I had

423
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:59.599
a lot more, but right right, oh golly. About about ninety five,

424
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:07.039
somebody broke in our house and they
took everything of mine that was Bigfoot

425
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:13.920
related. I had electronics and stuff, you know that, I and game

426
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.239
cams and stuff. They never took
none of that. They just took all

427
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:22.000
my my bigfoot stuff, pictures and
stuff that I had. So after that,

428
00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.360
I didn't do pictures. So you
had Are you talking about the sketches

429
00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:30.519
or did you have actual pictures of
the Bigfoot? I had actual pictures you

430
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.400
did. What were these taken with? What kind of devices? Oh?

431
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:39.920
Well, I had I usual they
had. I don't have a little camera

432
00:41:40.119 --> 00:41:46.639
that I had that I carried in
my pocket all the time. Okay,

433
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:53.639
and sometimes sometimes you could get if
you caught them unaware, you could get

434
00:41:53.639 --> 00:42:01.320
the picture. If not, they
project this this energy that makes the pictures

435
00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:07.639
all deformed or you know where you
can't see them. But yeah, the

436
00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:13.239
diary. Was it a diary of
like different Bigfoot cases you investigated over the

437
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:17.400
years or just what you noticed?
No, different experiences that I had,

438
00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:23.400
gotcha and that my family had.
Okay. Have you ever considered making that

439
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:29.159
public in some way in order for
people other people to learn about what you've

440
00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:35.599
experienced over the years. Well,
I've thought about it, but it takes

441
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:42.880
money, and I'm I'm on a
limited income. And so I don't.

442
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:49.280
Yeah, I just don't. But
yeah, I've thought about it and if

443
00:42:49.320 --> 00:42:54.360
anything happens to me, my granddaughter
when my oldest granddaughter gets everything of my

444
00:42:54.440 --> 00:43:00.199
big foot stuff. But yeah,
I oh yeah, do you know have

445
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:09.800
you ever heard of m NBRT Minnesota
Minnesota big foot? A? Well,

446
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:19.639
Abe, when I had I had
a show that I was doing on podcasts,

447
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:24.320
I started it and and that was
I can't remember what year, it

448
00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:30.599
was, close around two thousand,
I think, anyway, and he or

449
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:38.559
maybe I was on Campfire Shadows or
something I was on Somebody Want to Vix

450
00:43:39.079 --> 00:43:44.440
show I think, But anyway,
Abe called in and talked to me,

451
00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:50.679
and he wanted to talk to me
later. So and he he had never

452
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:54.360
seen a bigfoot, but he had
heard him and this and that. Well,

453
00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:00.519
anyway, so I invited him down. And well, I've been friends

454
00:44:00.559 --> 00:44:07.800
with Abe since two thousand and he
was with me when he would come down.

455
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:13.760
He would stay a week or two
usually, and we flipped days and

456
00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:19.239
big footed at night. So I
could talk to Abe and he'd be able

457
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:23.159
to tell me the same how he
experienced the same exact things. Well,

458
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:32.599
for something as simple as there was
some from wildfires out west, and this

459
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:39.000
is one night and he got picture. He had videos and stuff, but

460
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:44.280
like I said, he had some
of it to me and I had to

461
00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:47.400
delete it because people were taking it
up and stuff. And I didn't know

462
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.000
that much about things, and I
just didn't know. I didn't want anything

463
00:44:52.199 --> 00:45:00.000
happening to him because the first time
I met Scott Nelson down in Oklahom,

464
00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:01.920
I said, well, they speak, and he said, no, they

465
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:06.760
don't, and I sug, yes, they do. And I didn't like

466
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:09.719
him because he basically told me I
was a liar, that they don't speak,

467
00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:15.000
and they do speak, and they
can speak any language to anybody at

468
00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:21.800
any time. And that's how that
is. They called me Awnie, they

469
00:45:21.840 --> 00:45:27.840
called my son Tony one, they
said my granddaughter. Jess said, holler,

470
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:35.039
Guessie, Guessie. Yeah. So
so so you're talking about Scott Nelson,

471
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:40.800
who's been analyzing the fear sounds,
yes, and oh on fare sounds.

472
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:45.679
The first time I listened to him
was back in two thousand and I

473
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:51.920
had been and you have to I
never knew how to explain they talk.

474
00:45:52.519 --> 00:45:58.280
But and this is how I learned
to say, this big for society,

475
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:17.320
who will be right? Back after
these message. One night I had my

476
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:23.599
dad was in the process of dying, and he was in Knoxville, and

477
00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:29.960
and I stop and pick up a
friend, an older friend that didn't drive

478
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:32.639
in Fairfield, and brought her down
for a couple of days. Well,

479
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:38.960
Chappinga. I had been gone with
my dad, and Schappinga was out by

480
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:45.000
the driveway and my friend, her
name was Connie, also she was She

481
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:49.360
had gotten some of her stuff and
was up on the porch waiting for me

482
00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:53.800
to get something out of the back
of the jeep, and and shippinga.

483
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.719
I wanted to know where I've been
and what I've been doing. And I

484
00:46:58.800 --> 00:47:05.320
told him that told her that my
father was dying. Well anyway, and

485
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:08.519
and this was this was after this
was midnight, one o'clock by the time

486
00:47:08.559 --> 00:47:14.360
we got home out there to the
farm and anyway, Connie, when I

487
00:47:14.440 --> 00:47:16.360
walk up to her, she says, who was that? And I said,

488
00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:23.559
oh, that that's my friendly neighborhood
neighbor. You know, that's my

489
00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:29.559
neighbor. And she said, well, do they have a cleft palette?

490
00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:35.800
Because they talked just like my cousin
had had a cleff Pellette talk. And

491
00:47:35.880 --> 00:47:38.800
this is how this is how they
talk. But anyway, but I was

492
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:46.760
listening back in two thousand these theory
sounds, and I can't remember but on

493
00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:53.079
what watch part of it was,
but I've got I've got the CD here

494
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:59.320
that i'd have to listen to it. But anyway, they they're they're saying

495
00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:06.719
something to the Bigfoot, and the
Bigfoot replied, good will you want?

496
00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:15.000
He goes good will you want?
And that's what I have told everybody when

497
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:21.719
they when they meet new ones or
are dealing with them, you ask them

498
00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:28.480
first, good will you want?
And they understand that. But it was

499
00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:36.039
about two thousand that that I didn't
know you could. Well, yeah,

500
00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:43.559
it was when I've really started getting
to communicate with them real good. It

501
00:48:43.639 --> 00:48:47.440
was after Janet Carter came up.
Did you know Janet Carter? Hold on?

502
00:48:47.599 --> 00:48:53.400
So you Janet Janet Carter visited your
property in Van Buren County. Oh

503
00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:59.480
yeah, you come up and stay. I've not had yeah, no,

504
00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:02.719
but that's incredible. Anyway, Well, I had talked to Mary Green.

505
00:49:02.920 --> 00:49:09.519
Mary Green and Janet had wrote a
book, and I was telling I had

506
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:15.519
one night like when I first got
a computer, and I was talking to

507
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:21.800
Mary Green and I told her that
I was telling her that the little ones

508
00:49:21.840 --> 00:49:28.800
would pull my doors off the hinges
and come in the house and track mud

509
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:35.199
and crap in and get in my
deep freeze. And she said they had

510
00:49:35.239 --> 00:49:40.440
that a lot down there in Tennessee. And then and then Mary introduced me

511
00:49:40.519 --> 00:49:45.239
to Oh and this is when I
was this is how long ago it's been.

512
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:52.639
I was like forty eight, and
I had this one. Don't laugh

513
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:58.280
at me. He was hustling me. And I had talked to Bear.

514
00:49:58.880 --> 00:50:02.559
One is Bear's really name? Oh
gee, I can't think of it right

515
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:07.960
now, But anyway, from Downtennessee. He was one of the big Foot

516
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:13.800
outlaws. Yep, I'm aware,
I know exactly. Okay, Okay,

517
00:50:13.840 --> 00:50:17.280
anyway, I had talked to Bear, and Bear had told me that they

518
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:28.079
seemed to be larry of the Red
big Foot, and big Red is red

519
00:50:28.400 --> 00:50:32.760
anyway, But anyway, this one
night, my daughter was forever scared,

520
00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:37.599
trying to scare me and stuff.
And my kids were like me, They

521
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:43.079
run around at night, you know. And one night, on a full

522
00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:50.079
noon, I seen something kind of
white in it. And my yard had

523
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:55.760
like one hundred and thirty trees in
it. Okay. And then around when

524
00:50:55.760 --> 00:51:01.000
I lived at the farm and then
around on two sides. It was a

525
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:07.159
heavy timber or well most people don't
know what timber is. I found that

526
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:15.079
out woods or forced heavy force,
but anyway, and I thought it was

527
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:19.239
her trying to sneak it. I
was sitting out on the back deck talking

528
00:51:19.239 --> 00:51:23.079
to my friend Connie on the phone, and it was midnight, one o'clock

529
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:30.480
and everybody was in bed, and
I seen that white hair and it was

530
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:34.639
kind of tall, and my daughter
is six foot tall anyway, and I

531
00:51:34.679 --> 00:51:37.760
thought it was her getting ready to
scare me, so I just kind of

532
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.480
ignored it. Well, the next
thing I know, there was this big

533
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:49.440
foot and my back deck was eight
nine feet off. The house was built

534
00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:52.519
on a hill and the deck went
out, so it was like eight or

535
00:51:52.599 --> 00:52:00.039
nine feet off the ground. And
I'm setting out there at the table and

536
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.519
about four foot from me, all
of a sudden, this bigfoot just pops

537
00:52:04.639 --> 00:52:08.679
up. Well anyway, he's standing
there and he's looking at me, and

538
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:15.119
I'm talking on the phone and I
just pretend like I don't see and he's

539
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:20.639
four foot away from me, and
the moonlight was shining through some of the

540
00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:25.760
trees, you know, on him. That's when I discovered that they have

541
00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:32.800
eyelids, like two eyelids, one
that goes from the top to the bottom

542
00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:37.920
and then one that goes from side
to side anyway, and I would glance

543
00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:42.559
at him, and then I just
kept talking to Connie and Sonny. I

544
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:45.840
said, calm, I got a
big foot here, and I'm going to

545
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:51.960
have to let you go. And
she says, Paul, I think you

546
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:57.760
need this is before she had heard
the one talk and she says, I

547
00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:01.840
think you need to get some one
kind of nerve medicine. Because I never

548
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:07.239
talked to her about it. I
just and I said, okay, I

549
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:10.840
said, I'll talk to you later
about it. Well, anyway, so

550
00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:15.760
I hung up, and by then
he is he went over to the other

551
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:24.599
side of the deck and his skin
he had the he he had the prettiest.

552
00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:30.159
His hair was silver. It was
silver, and it was more than

553
00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.000
four inches long. He's the only
one that I've seen that had hair that

554
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:37.320
long. He looked like a hippie. And I had a picture of it,

555
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:45.800
and somebody on the Facebook had got
the picture. Well anyway, and

556
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:52.000
what it was. I was friends
with Dmitri and Igor in Russia, and

557
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:59.480
Dmitri after a few years we figured
out when this one with the silver hair,

558
00:54:00.239 --> 00:54:04.840
well, he told me his name, just calling the ancient one.

559
00:54:05.639 --> 00:54:13.400
So I did, and I said
anyway and anyway. So so next or

560
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:16.360
the next day or two, I
was. It was late at night,

561
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:20.840
and I was sitting on the porch, and he come up and sat down

562
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:25.960
beside me. And sometimes he had
talked to me verbally, other times he

563
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:32.079
had talked to me telepathically, and
he said bye by our way, accounting

564
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:38.719
that he was seventy two years old, and basically, but then anyway,

565
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:45.079
Dimitri and I after a couple of
years figured out that in the summertime here

566
00:54:45.679 --> 00:54:51.519
he'd be at my place and at
the other time he would be in Russia.

567
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.159
Oh so you think that the same
the same bigfoot was going, oh

568
00:54:55.320 --> 00:55:00.599
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And because I had taken a picture

569
00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:07.719
and I showed it to Dmitri,
and Dmitri was an artist, and he

570
00:55:07.840 --> 00:55:12.400
drew the picture and a picture that
looked just like it that he had drawn

571
00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:17.719
like ten years before, and I
thought that was kind of neat. But

572
00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:24.199
since then Dmitri's passed, they invited
me and I laughed, because I'm old

573
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:30.440
fat I'm an old fat woman,
you know. And one night I get

574
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:37.079
a call or attacked from Dmitri saying, do you want to come over here

575
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:42.440
and do a bigfoot expedition with us? And I laughed because I'm a hillbilly.

576
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:46.440
I just you know, and I
thought, I can't you know,

577
00:55:47.639 --> 00:55:52.840
old fat they I wouldn't last ten
ten minutes and some of those hills over

578
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:58.320
and there. But yeah, he
is the property in Van Buren County,

579
00:55:58.360 --> 00:56:04.440
still in the family farm. Nope, nope, nope. And since then,

580
00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:10.159
well, part of the reason that
I left was I started having encounters

581
00:56:10.320 --> 00:56:16.719
with I. I was what they
call the bigfoot, called me was the

582
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:24.599
babysitter. Okay. Every every day
around four o'clock, the adults would go

583
00:56:24.760 --> 00:56:32.360
off to go hunting, okay,
and I would babysit and if anybody they

584
00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:37.360
had an area where they left the
young ones, usually with an adolescent female,

585
00:56:38.800 --> 00:56:44.800
sometimes an older female. But if
but if anybody come around, I

586
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:49.440
would whoop and some and they would
come back. Part two of my Conversation

587
00:56:49.559 --> 00:56:53.760
with Connie the Skinwalker Ranch of Iowa. Part two will be released soon on

588
00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.079
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602
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go. As of five twenty two, you're now at two hundred and two

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patrons out of eight hundred and twenty
four needed. That's twenty four point five

614
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:57.960
to one percent, almost a quarter
of the way there, guys, brings

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00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.800
us down to six hundred and twenty
two laughed to join the patroon, So

616
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:06.679
a huge thank you to Barbara Gregory, Dana Craig, Jeff Steve, rickyde

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00:59:06.880 --> 00:59:09.719
Norm Meghan, Dan, Daddy Chatty, Joe Eber, Eike Jewels, Josh,

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00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:15.000
Ryan Todd, Nathan Gabe, Bill
Lucky, Meghan William, Bobby Joe

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and Inger for joining recently. If
you want to join in the fun,

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you can join over at patreon dot
com. Forward slash the big Foot Society.

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00:59:25.199 --> 01:00:20.000
I'll see you there and again,
thanks for listening. Her and I

622
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:22.159
can get out here, we can
tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else

623
01:00:22.199 --> 01:00:27.400
out there listening it's too afraid to
tell their story. Maybe this will give

624
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:30.039
them the courage to come out.
And I feel too bad about it.

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01:00:30.400 --> 01:00:35.039
Who cares what anybody's thinks. I
know what I saw, I know what's

626
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:54.480
out there. That's all I care
about. Please let people know, Please

627
01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:59.719
let them know. If you ever
see one of these things, you need

628
01:00:59.800 --> 01:01:02.679
you tell, because if you don't, then shame on you, you know,

629
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:55.079
shame on you. Wait there's more. Monster Fest two is coming up

630
01:01:55.119 --> 01:02:00.840
soon and Beautiful can't Ohio and I
will be there doing a live podcast.

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01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:05.679
If you've ever wanted to meet Bigfoot
Society in person, this is the year

632
01:02:05.760 --> 01:02:09.679
to do it. My special guest
in the live podcast episode will be Justin

633
01:02:10.000 --> 01:02:15.199
from Cryptids of the Corn. You
will not want to miss this live episode

634
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:21.719
and then you can hang out with
me at Monsterfest. You can go to

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01:02:21.760 --> 01:02:25.719
Small Town Monsters dot com to get
your tickets. Pre sale tickets are twenty

636
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:30.679
dollars fifty cents and tickets at the
door will be twenty five dollars. But

637
01:02:30.840 --> 01:02:36.840
kids twelve and under are free.
How many places can you go to where

638
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.199
at kids twelve and under are free? Not many. New this year are

639
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:45.320
the live workshops. I'm excited about
this, extremely excited. How to cast

640
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:50.199
a footprint, how to collect DNA
in the woods, ghosts hunting tools one

641
01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:58.119
oh one, how to do research. Also, there's going to be food

642
01:02:58.119 --> 01:03:04.320
trucks outside this year and new guests, new speakers, people you won't I

643
01:03:04.360 --> 01:03:07.960
mean, the coolest thing about last
year is that I got to meet people

644
01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:12.960
I was not expecting to be there, people like less Odell, John Hickinbottom,

645
01:03:14.519 --> 01:03:17.199
really cool, big people that I
never would have thought that I would

646
01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:25.079
have met before. And Seth Breedlove
made it happen by making this incredible place

647
01:03:25.320 --> 01:03:31.239
for the community to get together.
Monsterfest in Knohio June twenty eighth through twenty

648
01:03:31.320 --> 01:03:35.320
ninth. Guys, do not miss
this year. If you missed last year,

649
01:03:36.199 --> 01:03:40.599
don't miss this year. Head on
over right now to Smalltown Monsters dot

650
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:43.920
com. I hope to see you
there