May 14, 2025

Bigfoot Rocks Ohio: Close Encounters in the Woods!

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Season 1

In this spine-chilling episode, Mike Miller from the Ohio Night Stalkers takes us deep into the heart of Ohio’s wilderness for a firsthand account of his terrifying Bigfoot encounters. From eerie rock throwing to a Silver Sasquatch under the moonlight, Mike details how his research turned into life-threatening confrontations with a creature unlike anything he could have imagined. Along the way, we’ll hear about Ohio’s hidden cryptid hot spots, including East Fork State Park, Adams County, and the haunted graveyard that holds a secret of its own. This episode also dives into the powerful audio evidence Mike has gathered—sounds that will make even the most hardened skeptics pause. Don’t miss out on this wild adventure into the unknown.

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You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremi Byron Tonight's

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story comes straight from the woods of Ohio, where a

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group of seasoned Bigfoot hunters thought they knew what to

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expect until they stumbled upon something that shook them to

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their core. Mike Miller, part of the Ohio Night Stalkers,

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takes us on a wild drive through encounters with a

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creature that rocks the very foundation of what we thought

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we knew about bigfoot. Rock throwing Eerie Howell's in an

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unexpected moonlit glimpse of a creature so large it defies belief.

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This is no legend, no myth. It's a first hand account,

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straight from the heart of Ohio's darkest forest. So stay

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with us, all right, Bigfoot Society, You've got the privilege

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of talking to Mike Miller today. Mike is an individual

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from the Ohio Night Stalkers group from down there in Ohio.

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We've talked to one of Mike's proteges, Cody, on the

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show recently, and afterwards I was able to get connected

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to Mike. Mike has recorded over ten years of interesting

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audio evidence from southeast Ohio, some of which we will

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be listening tonight and that's been Those have been also

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listened to by David Ellis from the Olympic Project. You

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may have also heard some of Mike's encounters that were

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featured in the Terror in the Woods TV show. But Mike,

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welcome to the show. How's it going tonight?

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Man?

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Thanks for having me. It's going good. How are you

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going doing?

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Great?

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Man?

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Just kind of hanging out and talking about Bigfoot makes

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for a good night. You know, There's it's crazy how

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much wild stuff happens in Ohio. And when I was

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talking to Cody, he was really sharing some interesting things.

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But before we get into that, you know, someone who

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has been involved so long as yourself, I always like

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to start off the interview by asking, you know, what

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was it that got you into the big foot field?

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To begin with?

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Well, you know, I never never, I didn't wake up

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one day and say hey, I'm gonna go do this.

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I basically watched growing up in any show on Bigfoot

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or UFOs or anything unexplained stuff. I watched all that stuff,

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you know, in search of and all those old programs,

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and I was interested. And I never really thought anything

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was in Ohio. I didn't think Ohio had big enough

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tracts of woods, you know, wooded areas for anything like that,

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and I thought all that would be Pacific Northwest and

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you know, stuff like that, California, stuff like that. But

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I don't know. Seventeen eighteen years ago, on the local

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Channel seven news, I was living in Hebrew Heights at

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the time, and they talked about bigfoot sighting in Ohio

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and I like laughed, you know, I'm like, oh, come on,

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And I thought, you know, people were freaking drunk or

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stoned or you know, scared of their own shadow kind

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of thing. And but it kind of, you know, maybe chuckle,

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and I decided to get on. I was working like

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a second third shift hybrid thing at the time, so

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I was gonna be up a while. But anyway, I

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got online and I typed in Ohio and Bigfoot and

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lo and behold. I think I stumbled into the BFRORO

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website and I clicked on the state and then I

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I was expecting to see one or two reports, is

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all I thought, And basically it dropped down to reports

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by county and I both fell out of my freaking

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chair and I just started, you know, the counties I

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lived or the county I lived in. I read those

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counties I used to live in. I read those, and

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I just started looking neighboring counties and reading reports. And

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you know, some of them, I laughed. You know some

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of them, I thought, you know, you're just scared of

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your own shadow, basically. But there was a couple of

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those that kind of struck a nerve. And one of them,

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the guy was in southern Ohio and he had a

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five year old male German Shepherd. And I grew up

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with a German Shepherd. I'm I'm partial to him and

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my favorite dog. And he said he didn't know what

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was in his backyard, but his inside door was open,

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his outside door was closed and it was all glass. Well,

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this dog came through that glass door to get back

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in the house, ran to the furthest point away in

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the house, curled up and pete itself. And those dogs

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don't do that. And then there's a report where a

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lady had her kids walking along the river. This is

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in Miami County of my Tip City, and I'm reading

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that report and there was whistling going on, and the

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and the mom at first thought somebody was fishing and

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just playing around. But What worried the mom is she

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taught music, and she said the whistles went so high

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up and active and stuff. She said, a person can't

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do that. And her boy was kind of dragging behind

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there and he's supposedly seen this thing and had to

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have therapies. And she called the police. And I'm thinking,

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no way that this is only you know, ten miles

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or so from the freaking airport. I mean, come on.

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And I back then, I was younger and stuff, played

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a lot of softball, and guy on the team his

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brother was a Troy cop. And I said, hey, ask

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your brother. I said, I'm not trying to run this

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lady down or nothing. I said, I just want to

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know if this really happened, you know, or is this

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like when internet stories, you know, especially you know nowadays.

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Oh my goodness, but I don't know. A month or

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two went by and he goes, oh, by the way,

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I talked to my brother and yeah, they went there,

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you know, the cops went there. He really did call that,

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there's a report that. So I decided to go to

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that area. I was married at the time, and it

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took her cousin Paul, and we walked back in there

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and this is the strangest thing. You know, it was

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August had rained in weeks, but this kind of a

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weird feeling, and I seen like structures. You know, what

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I know now is is a structure. But I just

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seen weird things that didn't make any sense. And I'm like, well,

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you know, how could the tree be broken like that?

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And that could be like that? You know, you know,

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how did that? You know, and it's too big for

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someone to lay it in there? And I thought, well,

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you know, storm work do that, you know, And but

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you know, I just seen some weird stuff and you know,

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had the feeling of kind of being watched, and I

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don't know, it just kind of that kind of struck

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me too, and I just kept basically, I know this

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is winding on and on. I'm sorry about that, but

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you know where you keep going absolutely okay. Well, I

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just kept looking, and you know, the more I looked,

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the more I found. And I didn't expect that, and

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you know, the Internet set me. I found a guy

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named George Taylor through Dan through Dan Moser. Dan Moser

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had a website and he had post pictures posted from

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Clark County like Buck Creek State Park and but you know,

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I were blurry, but it was something I'm like, no way,

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you know, And I contacted him and he looked me

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up with George, and George took me through freaking I'm

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gonna go ahead and say the name of the park

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Charleston Falls in Miami County. And we went off the trails,

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and if you go off the trails there you find

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some really interesting stuff. Structures. A tree that had it's

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had all the limbs ripped off of it, It's bent

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and driven into the ground. Looks like a little mini

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Saint Louis arch. I seen trees that were probably two

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three inches in diameter, snapped at about a seven foot high,

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laid the same way. And when you looked above those

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and these were this was a fresh break. I mean

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the wood was not you know, hadn't been exposed, you

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know that long. I mean the wood was bright color

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and everything, and all the canopy above it was perfect, untouched.

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And I'm like, a storm isn't going to come in

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here and break these trees and then not rip that

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canopy out, you know. And he just showed me, and

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George taught me the difference between storm damage and unnatural damage.

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You know, there's a tree there that's leaning into these

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other ones. And the tree was snapped almost at ground level,

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probably sixty yards up a trail and dragged, you know.

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And you'd had to have this a big breaking part

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of a tree, you know. You wouldn't need a you know,

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fork lived you need some types of equipment to do that.

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And I just kept seeing all this stuff and filling

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my head with it. But I was still on the

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fence and we had an encounter over there during the

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daytime where we went up a dry creek bed, did

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some whistles, and something followed us the rest of the

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way we hiked for the park. And of course I

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worked for UPS and people at work are having a

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field day riven me, you know, and they're like, oh,

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that's you know, he probably had one of his buddies

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over there, and he did that is scary. And I said, okay,

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that is definitely possible. I said, but why I don't

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work for the newspaper, don't work for a TV station.

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Why go to all that trouble to trick a truck driver,

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you know? And but I decided to do a comparison test.

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So I waited probably a month, and I decided to

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call in sick that day and go over there by myself.

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I didn't tell any anybody, you know. One person that

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knew I was going there that day was God. That

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was it. And I went there and I hiked that

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same creek, bed off the trail, I whistled, went back

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to the trail, walked the park and lo and behold,

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I was followed again. And that was kind of pretty

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unnerving actually, And I told them people at work, I said, now,

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either something that's in there, or this guy's buddy lives

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in the park in case someone comes by, you know

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that he needs to, you know, sneak around and sneak

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up on. But anyway, long story short, ran into some

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of the people i'm with now. Mike Feldner met him

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through Mark Mills. Mike retired this year. He's just him

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and his wife, Pam. Have a lot going on. They're

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trying to get their house ready. They may sell it

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and move. They're not sure they want to travel, you know,

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kind of got to do the husband thing, you know.

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And I met him and they were different. They went

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out at nighttime. You know, George was a day stalker.

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Everybody else I had ran into or talked to was

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all during the day, but these guys were the exact opposite.

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So I'm like, okay. So they invited me on a

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night hike and we went to East Fork State Park

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hiked one of the horse trails, and this was in October.

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It was rainy by forty degrees, not a really good night.

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I'm like the third wheel here. I'm just along to

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the ride and I don't know mile or two up

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in there, and they did the wooden knocks and the

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howls and nothing replied, and you know, rain picked up

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a little bit, and they're like, well, nothing's going on.

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We stayed a couple hours. It's his head out and

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I'm thinking, okay, this is cool. I went on a

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night hike. Looks like I'm going to survive it. You know.

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Paul's good. And about ten minutes, not even that, not

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even ten minutes into the walk out of there, It's

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when things really changed for me because at this point

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I'm on the fence. I've seen a bunch of blurry pictures.

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I've read some really compelling stories that were just you know,

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made you, you know, goosebumps and all that. But still

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I'm kind of like I don't know. I don't know.

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We start walking out of there and we had the

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first time I heard a rock thrown at means they

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saw a rock at us. And this rock was big.

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And I'm not saying this because I was in the

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woods at night with no light on. It was just

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my imagination, and I was scared. I was a teenager,

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you know, and don't do these kids, but I you know,

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I threw rocks of trains. You know how big a

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rock is, and you know what it sounds like, and

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all that this rock is. It was in flight because

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we couldn't see it. It was hitting the tree limbs.

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It wasn't bouncing off of him, it was snapping them.

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That is a totally different freaking noise. And it hit

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the tree over by me with a lot of forests,

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bounced off, hit the ground, and tumbled end over end.

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I mean I heard all that, and I'm like, I

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was really freaking, pretty much freaked out and alarmed at

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that point, and at the lectures, I like to say,

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you know, anyone that's you know, I was. I was

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the person in the back of the line. I was

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the third guy there, you know, trying to walk out

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of there, and anyone that's seen a good horror movie,

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you know, you know what happens to the guy in

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the back of the line. He's the first one gone,

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you know. And that's what I thought was awaiting me

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and we and we had like, I don't know, probably

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fifteen minutes still to walk out of there. And as

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we made our way out, there's a spot where the

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woods came right upon that trail, and I thought, oh,

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my goodness, this is an ambulance point, and sure enough

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had another thrown and the same thing. It's sailing over

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our heads, its stampeding branches. And at that point I

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did not think I was going to see my son

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grow up. And I literally, I'm not saying this just

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to say it. I really did it. I said the

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Lord's Prayer under my breath the rest of the way

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I hiked out of there. I just kept repeating it.

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And when I got off that trail, I knelt down

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and kiss the ground because I didn't think I was

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getting out of there, and that unnerved me. And uh,

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and of course you know, they're like, oh, you know,

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people threw rocks at you, and like no one knew

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we were going there. We didn't put it you know

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on fate on Facebook at the time. Hey we're going here,

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We're gonna look for big Foot. No, you know, and

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we we went somewhere else, first to a private property

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that said they had something going on, and then went

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to this place. It was like this the out of

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the blue, Hey let's go here, since we got time,

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you know, for something to do. And you know that

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kind of night way back in there, and kids are

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going to this hide in case somebody comes by the

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rocks at him. I mean, that's crazier than Bigfoot actually

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to think that. But that that struck me because I

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thought there's something going on, and I said, I, well,

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I pretty much retired. I had a winner to think

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about it, and I unretired because I thought, I want

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to know what's going on. But a three inch knife

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and a walking stick weren't going to cut it anymore.

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So I got my consumer caring permit, and that's only

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for my own kind of peace of mind. But we

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continued on. You know, Mark kind of left the group

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and it's like Mike and his son Jordan and I

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and we went into it was probably about a year later.

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We went down into Adams County because there's just a

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lot of places down there. There's a lot of roads

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that aren't marked. There's just a lot of It doesn't

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look like Ohio. I mean, it looks like West Virginia

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or something, you know, the Appalachians start there, and it's

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it's just it's wooly. It's crazy, and uh, we would go, uh,

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you'll be to keep the one sap, No, you are

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good to go, okay, right the second sorry, we went

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into Adams County. I had a map. I'm a ups driver,

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so I got a map because nothing's broads down there.

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There a lot of them aren't marked, and I got

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to know where I'm going. So I get a map

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and we start gritting and I said, okay, this unmarked

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road is this, this one is this. So we start

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driving them and I noticed one of these roads dead

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end and into a graveyard and I thought, wow, that

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looks kind of crazy. And I had a lot of

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green around it, and I thought, hey, that means it's

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supposedly nothing there. So we drove back in there during

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the daytime. I always want to go back during the

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daytime and look at where we're going to be at night.

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So I don't know what the heck I'm getting into,

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you know, because I've seen to me horror movies, you know.

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And so we drove back in there during the day

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and it was creepy in the daytime and really heavily wooded,

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a lot of undergrowth, you know, the sun doesn't make it,

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you know, down to the ground all the way and

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a lot of the areas it's just kind of it's

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it's different. And so we were like, okay, we're going

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back here. And this was this was like a year

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later or so, in October. It was actually October eleventh,

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twenty fourteen, and Jordan, Mike Feldner and I you know,

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rolled it. You know, we had to go into West

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Union for a while because it was raining directionally. You know, Ohio,

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Ohio and rain both have four letters. It's not a coincidence.

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But we waved the rain out and then we went

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back to where we were. We went down that road.

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It went to the graveyard. Now that TV show Tear

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in the Woods, they showed us going there during the daytime,

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like when it started. We did a recon thing. They

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just kind of they put some stuff in there that

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didn't happen. But we go in there and it's probably

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after ten o'clock at night, easy, And at the first

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location we stopped, we got a reply, and to me,

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it sounds a lot like kind of a given monkey,

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kind of a sound, and like a young one. And

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that's all that happened there, and we went. We drove

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this road, it's probably five miles long. It's windy, glly,

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gotta have a four wheel drive to get back in there,

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and as you would destroy a car going in there,

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back in there. But we went to the graveyard. We're

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dead ended. And I never thought I would feel safe,

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safer in a graveyard than anywhere else I was that night,

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But that really happened because everywhere else we were the

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way the woods were right up against the trails and stuff.

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I felt like something could reach out and grab one

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of us at any time and pull us in and

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we would just be gone. Someone would turn around and say,

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you know, where did he goo? You know kind of thing,

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And but at the graveyard, it was, you know, I

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kind of felt safe. And nothing happened for a long time,

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and then we heard whistles and stuff moving around, and

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then pretty much all help broke. It was there. They

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started screaming, howling, whatever you want to call it, and

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the coyotes were going off with them. But you can

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definitely tell the difference between the coyotes and the squatch,

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I mean, because the coyotes are yippie dog like noises

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and you know, the other other noise was very deep powerful.

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It's totally different. But they did mimic. They actually started whooping,

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like doing wa whoa, like they were, you know, mimicking

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the coyotes. But I'm not sure if I sent you

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that recording or not.

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But that that one's good, but it's kind of bad

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because we're both talking too much in it, just because

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we were we never had anything like that happen, and

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you know, adrenalines through the roof and we just kind of.

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Like, wow, you hear that, wow, you know, and kind

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of thing. And of course they they embellished that in

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that TV show. They had a shining flashlights. They were ware,

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which we did not do. We're there in the pitch black,

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it's probably like one point thirty in the morning when

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we're in that graveyard, total darkness, and never thought I'd

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do that. If you told me that years ago, i'd

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do pull something like that. I said, you're crazy, and

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we uh it was so weird that went on. It

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was very intense that it just stopped, like somebody through

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a freaking switch to stop. And we waited probably forty

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five minutes because we wanted to hear that again. Nothing happened.

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So we start heading out and you know, one way in,

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one way out kind of thing. So we stop at

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this place we call the bridge because it's a little bridge,

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little guardrails on it. And I know, I since this

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one it's the one label bab boon. But this thing

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went off, I mean, way more powerful than the other

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ones because he was closer. But that wasn't that did

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not dawn on us. We were just kind of oblivious

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that these things were following us and getting closer. We're

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just kind of didn't think about that. And Cody's went

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off with that too. But you know, like you mentioned

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in the introduction, David Ellis who's a professional sound analyst

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Washington State. He's analyzed this audio and the one from

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the bridge. The reason it's called baboon is because his

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computer program not only identifies sounds, and it can tell

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if it's a sound is being manufactured by a person,

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you know, to mimic something else. But it Also there's

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a spectrograph hooked into that and he can see where

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it goes and hurts the hurts band. He said that

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scream at the bridge picked higher than a bamboon on

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a spectrograph, and that is evidence.

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Wow, let's let's let's check that out right now. Okay,

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all right, I'm gonna go ahead and play this. Uh

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this sounds from the bridge area.

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Yeah.

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Wow, that that's one of the freakist things I've ever heard.

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Yeah, that's uh, he looped it. You know, it repeats

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itself three times, so he does that, so better chance

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to hear it. It didn't do it three times. It's

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the it's the one recording loop three times, and you

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can hear at the end where it's going whoa, whoa.

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So it's actually member Member King the coyotes again at

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the end of that. But that pegged higher than a

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baboon on a spectrograph at that location. And then it stopped,

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just like every place we had been, this dead stop

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nothing else. So we go on down the road or

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out of there, and there's a place we stopped at

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we called the turnaround. It's only place that's wide enough

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you can turn around if you want to I know

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that's clever, but uh, you're given when you're not familiar

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and you're back in the middle of nowhere, you're gonna

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start you're going to give stuff names, you know. And

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but we got out of the vehicle there and uh,

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you know, Mike had did some hows earlier. This thing

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had howled it like mimicked the how he had did earlier,

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but just sounded a lot bigger. And he kind of

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went over by the by the uh edge of the

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woods off the trail, and this thing was behind the

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tree actually peeked around the tree at him. He's seen

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the you know, the cone shaped head and one of

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the eyes and uh, you know, he kind of stumbled

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back toward the car. They showed him and the TV

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show having a full blown anxiety attack. It wasn't that bad,

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but everybody was, you know, kind of I would say,

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freaked out. But we were like, you know, we were

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it was you know stuff, something was going on and

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we were reacting to it, and you know, nothing else

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happened there. We move on. We stopped again. We're within

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probably half a mile a being out of there at

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this point, and that off that road if you want

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to call it a road and we all get out

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this time and Jordan does a how and he gets

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a reply. We don't have that recorded because our batteries

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died and we learned a lesson that night. So now

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like we go out, I have a tackle box. It's

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just nothing but batteries basically, and but so we didn't

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we didn't record anything else that night. But Jordan was

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wasn't even that howling, and they replied, but they were

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on each side of this road trail we want to

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call it. And uh, that really alarmed me because I'm like,

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wait a minute, we're freaking surrounded. That's when it dawned

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on all of us that hey, we're surrounded and they're close.

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They're way closer than they were, and it's like, are

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they going to let us leave? Kind of feel are

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we being heard it in you know, closed off and

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you know, we know we're not that far from getting

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out of there, but it's like we're still inside the bottle,

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if you want to call it that. And I wondering

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if we were going to put the lid on on

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close this in and all this is going on, and

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I hear air leaking out of something and I thought

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my kid driven over something. I went over by the vehicle.

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There was nothing. Wasn't coming from there. It was coming

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from inside the woodline. And I thought, what the world

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could be in the woodline doing that noise, And I

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actually walked into the woods. I walked to the edge

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of the woodline. Then I walked into the woods. And

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this is where I could have quite lost my life

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actually without knowing, totally freaking oblivious, you know, no light on,

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and I walk into the dark woods trying to figure

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out what this damn noise is. And you know that's

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saying curiosity kills a cat. You know that's that's a

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reason that's there. But I stopped, and thank god I stopped,

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because if I if I take another step or two,

458
00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:26.599
I don't know what would happen, because there's something in

459
00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.079
the woods there with me. It's not even probably twenty

460
00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:32.119
yards in front of me. I just can't see it.

461
00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:36.119
It's dark. But I stand there and I close my eyes,

462
00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.160
and I thought, Okay, I'm gonna concentrate on this noise

463
00:27:38.200 --> 00:27:40.559
and figure this out. I mean, to someone throw a

464
00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.920
damn scuba tank in the woods. I mean, I'm gonna

465
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:46.240
find out what's going on. That's what I'm thinking at

466
00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:51.000
the time. That's not that. What's happening is there's something

467
00:27:51.079 --> 00:27:55.839
there breathing in and out. And at this point I

468
00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:01.279
walked in there. When it finished its breath, it had

469
00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:05.160
that that huff kind of sound, and I got you

470
00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:07.160
can't see if I got freaking use bump saying this

471
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:12.319
right now, and this thing is doing this and this huff,

472
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:18.559
breathing that air out, and I am frozen. I am terrorized,

473
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.759
but frozen. I can't even move, and I'm like, well,

474
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:27.920
I got myself into and I I don't panic, but

475
00:28:28.039 --> 00:28:33.680
I decide to slowly start backing up. I'm afraid to

476
00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.039
turn my back. I don't want to run, but I'm

477
00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:40.599
just taking little bit steps backwards and trying not to

478
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.599
fall down. And I took because I don't know if

479
00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:47.319
this thing's going to come out or not. But before

480
00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.559
I did that, excuse me, kin, I forgot about something here.

481
00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:54.920
After one of those last huffs, this thing actually emitted

482
00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.200
a very low, very guttur role I don't even know

483
00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:59.559
what you want to call it, roar, some kind of thing,

484
00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:04.039
and it reverberated off my chest. I actually felled it.

485
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:09.240
It was like being in a heavy metal concert. And

486
00:29:09.279 --> 00:29:11.759
that's when I decided. I thought, you know, this is it,

487
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:14.519
you know this one, this is Big Daddy, and he's

488
00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.079
you know, he's wanting us out of here. This is

489
00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:19.440
a final war. To me, it was a final warning

490
00:29:19.519 --> 00:29:22.839
get out of here or else. So I'm backing up

491
00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:25.240
when I took it. After I took maybe I don't

492
00:29:25.240 --> 00:29:28.599
know how many steps, a few steps back, I did

493
00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:30.880
pull my gun and I did not point it. I

494
00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:34.440
just left it against my leg kind of because I

495
00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:36.240
don't know if this thing's going to come out at

496
00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:39.240
me or not. You know, the TV show has me firing,

497
00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:43.359
firing a warning shot. I did not do that. When

498
00:29:43.400 --> 00:29:47.799
I felt my feet hit the gravel, I turned sideways

499
00:29:47.799 --> 00:29:51.359
a little bit and I yelled out, and I probably,

500
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:54.319
I probably my voice is probably higher than Michael Jackson's

501
00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:57.079
at that point, and I yelled out, we're getting the

502
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:01.000
aft out of here now. And and those guys heard

503
00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:03.759
that too, I mean they sit and feel it reverb

504
00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:07.640
right off their chest. We go running into Mike's vehicle.

505
00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:10.039
We get in and Mike, I mean he literally almost

506
00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:13.440
killed us. He almost drove off the cliff, not a cliff,

507
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:17.319
but we were elevated, you know, and he almost you know,

508
00:30:17.599 --> 00:30:21.559
put us in the trees a different way. But and

509
00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:24.759
we got out of there, and we went down probably

510
00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:26.559
almost where you come out of there, and we stopped

511
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:28.920
one more time, just to make sure everybody's in the car,

512
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.240
make sure everything's good, and just to kind of and

513
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.559
to kind of calm down, because we are breathing heavy

514
00:30:38.079 --> 00:30:42.599
driddlines through the roof. We are just you know, and

515
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:46.799
we're trying to just calm down, take deep breasts. And

516
00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:49.880
we're sitting there, cars running, bright lights are on, and

517
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.200
a deer walks in front of us and stops, doesn't

518
00:30:53.240 --> 00:30:56.480
even look at us in the car, could care less

519
00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:59.359
about the car. I look at Mike and say, hey,

520
00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.720
is this freaking thing on a ride or what? And

521
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:06.839
it snorts. It paused the ground. It knew those things.

522
00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:11.240
It was watching the direction we came from, and they

523
00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.359
were probably coming again, and it sensed them and it

524
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:17.559
turned and it ran the other way and we got

525
00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:21.400
out of there. And that was, you know, October eleventh,

526
00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.839
twenty fourteen. And I will never forget that. I will

527
00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:29.079
never forget the feel of that hitting my body, the

528
00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:35.480
energy of that. I won't forget how that sounded when

529
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:40.920
it's exhaling its breath, and that little at the end

530
00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.440
and all that. I can never unhear that, and I

531
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.559
don't those are two things I don't ever want to

532
00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:48.119
hear again.

533
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:55.400
That is absolutely intense, My goodness. I mean, that's the

534
00:31:55.480 --> 00:32:00.480
kind of encounter that would either send you away from

535
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:05.319
the field forever or you'd be in it forever. Wow.

536
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:11.720
Yeah, I lost some sleep over that one. The following weekend,

537
00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:16.839
I had my son and at that time on East Side.

538
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:19.480
Since then he had a full finished basement in the wood.

539
00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.880
I had the woods behind my building and uh uh,

540
00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:27.640
but not that big of a woods, and no one

541
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.599
liked to sleep down there. And he called it camping

542
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:33.079
out in the basement. And uh, so we're down there,

543
00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:36.640
it's the weekend and and Al went off about three

544
00:32:36.680 --> 00:32:39.079
in the morning, and when he woke me up, and

545
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:42.799
at first I thought he'd found us, you know, and uh, yeah,

546
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:47.599
I was. I was unnerved by that for a while,

547
00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:51.960
and uh that story got out, and uh that's why

548
00:32:52.000 --> 00:32:54.200
we were on tearing the woods.

549
00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:56.599
Now.

550
00:32:57.039 --> 00:33:02.519
Something you had mentioned earlier is so there in the group,

551
00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:06.119
there's been at least one visual sighting. That's happened so far.

552
00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:15.160
Yes, we've had I know other people have had stuff

553
00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:18.240
at other times. I know Cody has seen shadows and

554
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:23.119
stuff move around. Mike's had the one look around the tree.

555
00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:28.079
There's been glimpses I don't I've seen until last October.

556
00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:32.160
It's always October. October some kind of a special month,

557
00:33:32.359 --> 00:33:36.559
you know, for stuff going on. It seems I've had

558
00:33:36.599 --> 00:33:41.720
glimpses of stuff. I've turned around and thought I've seen something,

559
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:45.960
And there was a bush I walked by, but I

560
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.920
didn't touch it, and it's moving, which meant something cut

561
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:53.839
behind me, you know, one time and big enough to

562
00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:56.440
make that put that bush in motion. And I didn't

563
00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:58.480
touch it because I came from kind of the other

564
00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:04.839
side of it. And I wouldn't count those. But last

565
00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:10.800
October at one of our new spots, just we're able

566
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:13.360
to given permission to get in there because it's it's

567
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:20.239
privately owned. This is an area that these different valleys

568
00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:24.880
kind of dump into this area. It's I don't know.

569
00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:27.400
You go back in there and it's like wow, it's

570
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:29.119
like you feel like you went back in time. You

571
00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.559
feel like you've left the zip code. You know, you're

572
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:36.960
just like you're somewhere else and it's just it's a

573
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.280
crazy feeling and you want to go ahead and tell

574
00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:48.760
you what happened. Absolutely, Okay, last October we were out

575
00:34:48.800 --> 00:34:52.559
there and Mike was unable to do a lot last year,

576
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:54.880
but he did go that weekend and it was our

577
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.559
ten year anniversary, so we spoke at the Portsmouth Library

578
00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:05.599
on the twelve of October. But on Friday night on

579
00:35:05.679 --> 00:35:08.280
the eleventh, we went out for the ten year anniversary.

580
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:11.960
We went to all those spots and on the ten

581
00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:14.840
year anniversary it was kind of special. So on the

582
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:19.559
night of the twelfth, we're at this new spot and

583
00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.760
the moon is out, which I normally don't like because

584
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:25.239
I just kind of feel like everything's you know, you're

585
00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:28.119
I don't know, you're just like got a spotlight on

586
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:30.840
any kind of thing. But we found a spot where

587
00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:35.800
I parked in an area where we were shadowed and

588
00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.559
we had we had some special guests that night. We

589
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.559
had well you know, Mike was there, and Sabrina was there,

590
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:46.639
Cody was there, Jeff Byers, who was on our creature replica.

591
00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:50.320
If the people that watch Expedition Bigfoot, Russ has that

592
00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.559
Bigfoot action figure on the back of his pack. Jeff

593
00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:57.840
makes those, and he was there, and Donna was there.

594
00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.400
She's like our contact and Adams County. She's Native American.

595
00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:06.800
And we're all there, and the McCoy's Bevan mcmcoy are there,

596
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:12.360
and we kind of split up, and Cody, Jeffs, and

597
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.599
Mike go up the trail walking away from where we're

598
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:18.280
at because a lot of times, you know, they don't

599
00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:21.760
like that. They don't like you splitting up because they

600
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:27.440
just don't know how you're doing. And the rest of

601
00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.559
us start in this other spot and I'm we sit

602
00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.840
like kind of in a circle that we're each watching

603
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:37.599
a different area. We're watching three sixty, but everybody's got

604
00:36:37.599 --> 00:36:41.039
their spot. So I'm watching the cross where this woodline

605
00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:45.119
is and there's this huge tree out in front of

606
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:48.239
it in a little bit of a field, and I

607
00:36:48.280 --> 00:36:51.239
see something come out of this woodline, and at first,

608
00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:54.639
you know, I'm like, okay, and then it keeps coming

609
00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:57.840
and I thought at first it seemed like he was

610
00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.480
kind of hunched down, so I wasn't sure what it was.

611
00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:04.719
And then and there are bears in that that area.

612
00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:08.400
There was one actually hid by a card and way

613
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:13.119
north of there, but anyway, that's another story. It stood up,

614
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:16.440
and at that point I thought, you know, I'm looking

615
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:18.679
at it. I'm like, that's not a damn bear. And

616
00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:23.599
it keeps coming and it's watching them. It's looking up

617
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:29.360
the road, at the trail whatever, at those guys. I

618
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:33.119
don't think it's sees this. And it keeps coming and

619
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:35.280
I'm seeing I'm seeing it. You know, I don't see

620
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.880
it super clear, but it's out to where I can

621
00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:40.199
see it, and it's standing up, and it's seven eight

622
00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:46.519
foot tall, it's big, and it keeps coming, and I

623
00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:50.360
at that moment, I actually start having an argument with myself.

624
00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:53.360
In my mind. Half of my brain is saying that

625
00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.440
it is not what you think it is. There's no

626
00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:58.239
way it would walk out that far and expose itself

627
00:37:58.239 --> 00:38:00.519
because I, you know, I think they're pretty really they're

628
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:03.960
really good at being stealthy and they don't like giving

629
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:06.800
up the upper hand, and they usually don't make mistakes.

630
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.119
Maybe and maybe this wouldn't made a mistake because it

631
00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:11.559
didn't see us, but it's seen the other people and

632
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:15.119
it came out. My brain's saying, that's not what you

633
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.719
think it is. It wouldn't it wouldn't do that. Then

634
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:20.360
the other half of my brain is saying, dummy, right

635
00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:25.679
there it is, and it keeps coming and there's a spot,

636
00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:27.639
but there were these trees have a little bit of

637
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:31.320
space between them, and the moonlight's coming through there and

638
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.320
it gets right to that spot and that moonlight hits

639
00:38:34.360 --> 00:38:39.039
that thing. And it's the craziest thing I've ever seen

640
00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:42.360
in my life. And I've told the story a little bit,

641
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:44.880
but not a lot. I've not toltally it worked, because

642
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:46.880
you know, I'm afraid the reaction is going to be

643
00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:51.599
and to most into skeptics, they're going to say, yeah, right,

644
00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:56.800
you research bigfoot and you've seen one. Yeah, sure, you know,

645
00:38:57.519 --> 00:39:01.920
but you know this happened, and this moonlight hits this

646
00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:06.400
thing and it's shimmering. It's shimmering like silver. And I'm

647
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:08.800
not saying it's glowing silver and it's from outer space.

648
00:39:09.719 --> 00:39:14.159
What I think the reason that's happening is thanks to

649
00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:18.400
a TV show I watched three four years ago. They

650
00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:21.599
had a hair sample and it's between ape and human.

651
00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:25.119
They you have nothing to compare it to. It's black

652
00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:27.360
at the base, but at the tip of the hair

653
00:39:27.519 --> 00:39:29.320
toward the top. You know, it's top of the air.

654
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:33.639
It's translucent, which means it's clear, and I think that's

655
00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:36.320
how they blend in so well. I think the hair

656
00:39:36.400 --> 00:39:38.400
is like that, and they can go stand next to

657
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:41.440
something and blend in with it, just like a chameleon.

658
00:39:41.920 --> 00:39:45.960
You know. It's not supernatural. It's just natural, you know.

659
00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:50.199
And because of the moonlight hitting it, that's the tip

660
00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:53.440
of the hair absorbing the moonlight, and it's shimmering because

661
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:56.920
the silver just kind of like it was washing over it.

662
00:39:56.920 --> 00:40:00.880
It was I don't know how to playing it the

663
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:03.480
right way other than that. And at that point I

664
00:40:03.559 --> 00:40:07.719
stood up because I'm shell shocked. And when I stood up,

665
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.599
it seemed me move, and it turned and looked dead

666
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:14.239
at me. And I could tell it was brown underneath

667
00:40:14.239 --> 00:40:16.840
the silver. I could, and the face was dark. I

668
00:40:16.840 --> 00:40:20.400
couldn't make out any features. I wasn't close enough for that,

669
00:40:20.920 --> 00:40:24.480
but it seen me move when I stood up, and

670
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.679
it knew it knew I was. We were there then,

671
00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.440
and we're just kind of looking at each other, and

672
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:33.039
I don't know what it's going to do, you know.

673
00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:36.599
I put my hand down. I've got it on top

674
00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:39.800
of my gun. I haven't took it out of the

675
00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:43.760
holster or anything it says there, and We're just kind

676
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:49.199
of looking at each other, and I'm still almost a

677
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.360
disbelief of what's going on. And I then I raised

678
00:40:52.360 --> 00:40:55.800
my hands up the show, you know, like my advice

679
00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:58.119
sound stupid doing this by just kind of showing my

680
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:00.239
hands like hey, I got nothing in my hands, kind

681
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.760
of raised my hands up. And then it just like

682
00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:06.639
doesn't give a damn and it just turns and walks

683
00:41:06.679 --> 00:41:09.280
back into the woodline. But when it went into that

684
00:41:09.320 --> 00:41:13.360
woodline is to me as like a little message to us.

685
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:16.960
It could have stepped over this part of this tree

686
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.920
that fell down, it stepped on it and it crushed.

687
00:41:20.960 --> 00:41:23.880
I mean it was like crunch, crunch, and then it

688
00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:26.719
went back in the woods, kind of like saying, you know,

689
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.159
you don't want to follow me in here kind of

690
00:41:29.159 --> 00:41:35.559
a thing. And yeah, so that's my you know, I

691
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:38.440
didn't see its facial features, didn't see eyes and stuff

692
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.639
like that, but I seen it. I mean, it was

693
00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:43.599
out in the open far enough to where I you know,

694
00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:45.760
I can tell you that's what it was. It wasn't

695
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:52.440
anything else, you know, And I'm still still kind of

696
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.360
a wore with myself over it. Also too, just because

697
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.519
it was unexpected. I never expected that to happen, and.

698
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:10.079
I don't know, that is incredibly intense. And you know

699
00:42:10.159 --> 00:42:12.360
it looks like I mean, you at least got a

700
00:42:12.400 --> 00:42:16.840
really good look at the hair the silhouette and is

701
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:21.920
there anything that you notice that you said to yourself? Man,

702
00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:26.000
the community usually gets that wrong. And what I'm seeing

703
00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:28.480
right now is is a little different than what people say.

704
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:35.360
Nothing like that. Just the size of it, you know,

705
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.239
because I've been I've been to football games and and

706
00:42:38.239 --> 00:42:41.719
and been down at field level and seeing you know,

707
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:44.679
NFL players and stuff like that, you know, in uniform,

708
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:48.119
and and this thing was way freaking bigger than the people.

709
00:42:48.440 --> 00:42:54.119
I mean, it was you know, it was you know

710
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:59.599
that for sure, you know, was striking, but nothing nothing

711
00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:03.840
I could say, well, no, it's you know, but just

712
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:06.239
the you know, the odd thing was just the shimmering

713
00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:09.639
the silver light shimmering off of it because they you know,

714
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:15.639
I think because of the translucent hairtips, you know, absorbing

715
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:18.800
that and and that's that was the weirdest thing to me,

716
00:43:18.840 --> 00:43:20.920
because you know, I'm not saying it was colored silver,

717
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:25.800
you know, it does. Its hair absorbed that light for

718
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:28.960
a little bit until it moved and then that went away.

719
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:32.639
Of course, once it steps out of the moonlight, it's

720
00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:34.880
back to me. And you know it was black before

721
00:43:34.920 --> 00:43:39.320
then because it was in darkness. But when but I

722
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:41.400
could see, I could see that it was brown. It

723
00:43:41.440 --> 00:43:44.559
was a dark and brown actually color, you know, underneath

724
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:46.199
the silver because of the moonlight.

725
00:43:48.679 --> 00:43:53.280
Having that that visual encounter. Did that affect you in

726
00:43:53.360 --> 00:43:56.440
any ways in the days after that sighting?

727
00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:02.840
Yeah? It still effects me now, is because it's like,

728
00:44:02.840 --> 00:44:05.199
like I said, in my brain is like, no, that

729
00:44:05.239 --> 00:44:08.440
couldn't have happened. He wouldn't have done that. They're too

730
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:11.000
smart to do something like that. But then it's like, hey,

731
00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:13.880
you know you've seen it me, you know you know

732
00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:19.119
what was that? Then? You know it did that. It's

733
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:23.239
just I guess because I didn't expect that. I never

734
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:27.320
all these years I've researched. You know, I've been thrilled.

735
00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:30.360
You know people, you know, doctor Jeff Beldrim is like

736
00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:33.400
you know, with Bob being pretty much retired. To me,

737
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:36.280
Meldrim is like the pope of the Bigfoot world. He's

738
00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:39.719
Numero uno and he does the tracks and that's great,

739
00:44:39.800 --> 00:44:43.559
and his stories and stuff and examine those tracks is

740
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:47.360
second to none, and and tracks are fun. I found

741
00:44:47.400 --> 00:44:50.320
a few by accident, but I don't want to carry

742
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.280
stuff out and try to try to make casts of tracks.

743
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:56.880
I'm excited about audio because audio is something I can

744
00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:59.880
bring home and I know it happened that night I

745
00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:02.400
was there. You know, a track could be a day old,

746
00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.119
a week old, could be a month old or longer.

747
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:09.360
The audio happened that freaking night. Well, we were there.

748
00:45:10.119 --> 00:45:13.119
And then I can send that to people like David

749
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:17.119
Ellis and he can put it through his program and

750
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:21.320
tell me if it's, you know, really something strange, or

751
00:45:21.320 --> 00:45:24.400
if it's an owl or whatever else or you know,

752
00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:25.480
horse whatever.

753
00:45:25.639 --> 00:45:28.840
You know, have you been back to that location since

754
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:29.360
that time?

755
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.119
Now we're going back to Memorial Day. Wow, and you

756
00:45:35.159 --> 00:45:39.079
actually have a recording from the audio is what excites me,

757
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.639
and that's what I'm trying to record. That's why the

758
00:45:43.719 --> 00:45:48.159
recorders are set up to try to gather evidence that's

759
00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:52.880
happening that night. Yes, we we are going to that

760
00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.320
area this coming Memorial Day. And you have a recording

761
00:45:56.360 --> 00:45:59.719
I think I sent you from last year Memorial Day.

762
00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.480
It's within it's not at that exact spot, it's probably maybe,

763
00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:09.360
I don't know, not even one hundred yards north of there,

764
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:14.519
you know, same area, and it's labeled I think Hidden

765
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:18.400
Valley Angry Giant. What we started doing in the last

766
00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:21.239
couple of years we got away from the wood knock,

767
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:24.199
you know, we would wood dock sometime, but we got

768
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:28.400
away from doing howls, you know, a human doing a

769
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:33.639
howl or whatever. And Cody's got a call blaster and

770
00:46:33.639 --> 00:46:37.000
it's got real animal sounds embedded in it, already loaded

771
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:40.280
in there, and they're not it's not a fact simile sound.

772
00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:45.079
It's a real animal and that kind of breaks up

773
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:47.239
the monotony you'll be sitting. We sat in the dark

774
00:46:47.239 --> 00:46:50.000
and talked obal voice for about probably thirty forty minutes.

775
00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:54.199
If nothing happens, we break that thing out. And that

776
00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:58.440
night last year we called blasted a wolf howling. I'm

777
00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:00.559
not sure if there's wolves still in a high or not,

778
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:04.920
I don't know, but it's it's a great thing to

779
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:08.360
play because it stirs the coyotes up and it freaks

780
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:12.159
things out, and it's the end of the wolf howl

781
00:47:12.159 --> 00:47:14.119
has got a real good ooh kind of thing as

782
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:16.559
it drops down, you know, kind of like a big

783
00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:19.039
foot in the way. But it's just and this echoes.

784
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:25.800
It's awesome. Nothing happened. Then Cody played wolves howling a

785
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:29.800
pair of wolves, and after he played that, we got

786
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:32.440
to reply, I'm not sure what that is in the

787
00:47:32.440 --> 00:47:35.159
beginning part of it is a coyote. There might be

788
00:47:35.239 --> 00:47:38.440
something else in there, but I don't know. Twenty seconds

789
00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:42.639
into that, there's a roar and that's big. That's big daddy.

790
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:45.920
You know what I think happened is happening there. I

791
00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:49.119
think that's the big daddy of that area of the group.

792
00:47:49.159 --> 00:47:52.880
There's more than one and he's saying, hey, mister wolf,

793
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:55.840
you know whatever, this is my freaking yard.

794
00:47:56.800 --> 00:47:59.119
If you want to play that, absolutely, let's go ahead

795
00:47:59.119 --> 00:48:09.239
and play the angry giant sound here. Nope, that's wrong. Here,

796
00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:12.360
here we go, let's play the angry giant sound.

797
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:58.599
Wow.

798
00:48:58.679 --> 00:49:03.320
That that was extremely I would I'd probably be getting it.

799
00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:06.920
I don't know how i'd react to that. That's some

800
00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:07.559
wild stuff.

801
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:11.079
I'm the one that whistled like when it in between

802
00:49:11.119 --> 00:49:15.559
it there, Yep, we didn't talk. I was like like, whoa,

803
00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:18.639
but it was mad. That thing was mad.

804
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.000
Was that a one time deal that you heard something

805
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:26.280
like that or is that something that you hear more

806
00:49:26.280 --> 00:49:26.719
than once?

807
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:31.159
No, there's there there was more that night recorded that

808
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:34.840
was you know, that was kind of the intense, kind

809
00:49:34.840 --> 00:49:37.039
of kind of what I would call the finding moment.

810
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:44.880
Though there's I'm not sure I can't remember everything I

811
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:45.599
sent you, but.

812
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:49.039
We've got we've got two more. Let's make sure we

813
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:51.800
get them in. So the the one we haven't done yet,

814
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.000
there's one called hidden Creatures.

815
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:56.519
Okay, that's from that night.

816
00:49:57.599 --> 00:49:59.559
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and play that one here.

817
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:38.559
H M, all right, so what's uh, what's the story

818
00:50:38.639 --> 00:50:40.760
behind the Hidden Creatures there?

819
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:44.440
That was a little bit later that night, and there's

820
00:50:44.559 --> 00:50:50.239
more than one. They're communicating and did you notice the

821
00:50:50.320 --> 00:50:56.960
one where it's like it's it's like it changes pitch,

822
00:50:57.920 --> 00:50:59.280
you know, coyotes don't do that.

823
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:05.159
And that was weird that that was extremely, extremely weird.

824
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:07.480
I can't imagine hearing both of those sounds on the

825
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:12.960
same night. We also have one that says ooh uh ooh.

826
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:17.760
So that's from a I'm trying to think of that

827
00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:20.519
was that was a couple of years ago in a

828
00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:26.480
different spot. The reason it's titled that I know I

829
00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:29.960
have these insane titles. Is it actually makes that noise

830
00:51:30.039 --> 00:51:34.280
whether the creature that's doing that goes ooh uh oh,

831
00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:38.280
it really does that and you have to you've got

832
00:51:38.320 --> 00:51:40.519
to be a primate to sound out vowel sounds.

833
00:51:42.679 --> 00:52:05.480
All right, let's let's check it out. Yeah, you weren't kid,

834
00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:08.840
I mean that is yeah, that's actual vowel sounds that

835
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:12.840
dude that I've never heard anything like that. That is weird.

836
00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:16.480
Yeah, David Ellis he analyzed that one. Also, he's the

837
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:18.760
one that looped it, you know, three times there. Yeah,

838
00:52:18.800 --> 00:52:23.320
but uh yeah, he's actually he's doing a book now

839
00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.960
and he's collecting a bunch of He's got a couple

840
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:32.280
of ones that I've recorded were it almost sounds like

841
00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:35.840
a language like the ou ouh or where the tone

842
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:39.000
changes and all that. And he's putting all those together

843
00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:43.159
trying to I think maybe make a Rosetta stone kind

844
00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:46.199
of thing. But that's very exciting.

845
00:52:48.119 --> 00:52:51.559
It is. It is very weird. By you know, doing

846
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:54.920
the show talking to a lot of people, has started

847
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:58.480
to notice a pattern where a lot of people are

848
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:02.880
are we poorting from different parts of the country where

849
00:53:03.039 --> 00:53:09.119
they'll hear something it sounds like a two syllable type

850
00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:15.519
of word or phrase. Like they can't make a large word,

851
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:18.480
but they can kind of put two sounds together. It's just, uh,

852
00:53:18.880 --> 00:53:21.079
is this one of those things where you you just

853
00:53:21.159 --> 00:53:24.760
keep getting little bits of info here and there and

854
00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:28.239
be interesting to see where David Ellis, you know, takes

855
00:53:28.920 --> 00:53:31.880
takes all this and including the sounds that you guys

856
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:34.880
have captured down in Ohio. It's very very cool.

857
00:53:36.239 --> 00:53:38.280
Yeah, very very honored to be part of that. And

858
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:43.079
David Is he'll do a great job of that, I know.

859
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:46.960
And and he'll he'll probably he'll probably find something or

860
00:53:47.000 --> 00:53:52.239
come up with something. And you know, I'm I'm predicting

861
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:54.880
he'll have some kind he'll create kind of a template

862
00:53:54.960 --> 00:53:57.800
for something. I'm saying something something good is going to

863
00:53:57.840 --> 00:53:59.960
come out of that, you know, because if you keep

864
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:03.719
putting sounds together, you know, maybe pretty soon you can

865
00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:04.880
maybe figure something out.

866
00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:10.599
Yeah. Absolutely, have you guys or I guess I'll you know,

867
00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:17.039
ask you specifically, since you're the one here. Have you

868
00:54:17.440 --> 00:54:22.159
over the years, you know, thinking about what you've experienced,

869
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.400
what you've seen, what you heard, have you come to

870
00:54:25.599 --> 00:54:30.800
a point yet where you have an idea of what

871
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:34.360
it is we're dealing with when we talk about Bigfoot

872
00:54:34.360 --> 00:54:35.119
out there.

873
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:40.480
I don't know, I think, Mike, and this is just

874
00:54:40.559 --> 00:54:44.000
my guess. You know, people out there don't kill me

875
00:54:44.079 --> 00:54:47.360
for this, but I think it's maybe a mix of something,

876
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:51.760
you know, maybe early hominid and an ape or something,

877
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:55.239
because it's got you know, it's got different characteristics of

878
00:54:55.320 --> 00:54:58.679
different things, so it's got to be some kind of

879
00:54:58.679 --> 00:55:01.199
of a hybrid of mix. You know. I do not

880
00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:06.480
believe aliens brought them here to mind gold. If if

881
00:55:06.519 --> 00:55:10.719
a you know, if UFOs can come here with you know,

882
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:13.639
with the spacecraft, they should be able to pull gold out.

883
00:55:13.639 --> 00:55:15.360
They should have something to do that, you know, some

884
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:19.440
kind of contraption and so and you know, all the

885
00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:24.000
Native Americans, the languages haven't worked for Bigfoot. And it

886
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:27.960
doesn't refer to Bigfoot as a god or a deity.

887
00:55:28.039 --> 00:55:30.400
It's you know, keeper of the woods, watcher of the woods,

888
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:34.320
grandfather of the woods. It's it's just something they dealt

889
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.199
with and lived alongside. It really wasn't a big deal.

890
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:41.320
It was you know, respect and and stuff like that.

891
00:55:41.559 --> 00:55:45.719
And so they were here, you know, So I don't

892
00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:48.079
think they were brought here. I think they've been here

893
00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:51.519
the whole time. I just think when you know, when

894
00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:56.880
the white people, you know, we got here and you know,

895
00:55:56.920 --> 00:55:59.639
we started killing everything, we start putting in dollar generals

896
00:55:59.639 --> 00:56:03.519
every three miles, you know. I think I think Bigfoot

897
00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:10.320
before us, I think Bigfoot was awake during the day

898
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:12.199
and slept at night. I think it had, you know,

899
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:16.199
that kind of a pattern. I think they flipped that around.

900
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:20.199
I think they are mostly down during the daytime and

901
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:23.880
they're up at night because you know, most of us,

902
00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:26.880
most of the same people in the United States were

903
00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:29.599
you know, we're dead or whatever at night time and

904
00:56:29.639 --> 00:56:32.400
we're not in the woods and except for crazy people

905
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.280
like us, and they have less chance of running into

906
00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:41.159
a person. I think they've changed their their method of operation,

907
00:56:41.239 --> 00:56:46.840
their mo you know, to keep away from us. But

908
00:56:47.000 --> 00:56:50.480
I'm not sure what it could be. I mean, I

909
00:56:50.519 --> 00:56:53.199
think if one was ever, if they ever got enough DNA,

910
00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:56.360
I think it would make sense. It's gonna and I'm Christian,

911
00:56:56.599 --> 00:56:59.519
it's not it doesn't mess with my faith or anything.

912
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.559
It's just it's gonna make sense wherever it falls in.

913
00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:04.320
It's it's gonna be like, Okay, I got it.

914
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:10.719
Absolutely. Will there be a point that you get to

915
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:14.800
where you can say, you know what I did, what

916
00:57:14.880 --> 00:57:17.199
I set out to do, and I can walk away

917
00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:17.559
from this.

918
00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:23.840
I don't I've never thought about that. I've been asked

919
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:29.320
before if if you know, if someone you know, you know,

920
00:57:29.320 --> 00:57:31.320
they had a body somewhere or something and you can

921
00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:34.039
actually go up and look at it and everything, and wow,

922
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.960
it's that was we're having a stom here. If you've

923
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:45.679
heard that, if I would quit because there would be

924
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:48.239
I don't know. I don't know how to answer that.

925
00:57:48.440 --> 00:57:54.159
It's just right now, I'm having fun researching and you know, guys,

926
00:57:54.239 --> 00:57:57.840
people on the team you know, are just wonderful, will

927
00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:00.480
be around. It's fun to year round. It's you know,

928
00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:03.760
I played I played baseball in football in high school,

929
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:08.199
played softball. It's forever when I was done with that,

930
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:14.039
and this is my hobby now. So it's it's fun.

931
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:15.800
You get out in the woods, you see things, you

932
00:58:15.840 --> 00:58:19.320
see other animals, you see you know when nothing A

933
00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:21.920
lot of times nothing happens. You know, we're out there

934
00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:23.960
and not a freaking thing happens, other than you know,

935
00:58:23.960 --> 00:58:26.199
maybe a raccoon looking at us. We've had deer walk

936
00:58:26.239 --> 00:58:28.719
up and looking at us like, hell, are you doing

937
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:32.000
here at this time at night, and uh, but you know,

938
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:34.079
you see the moonlight coming through the trees and it's

939
00:58:34.079 --> 00:58:36.400
just beautiful. And I think to myself, you know, there's

940
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:38.960
people in bed right now that I haven't seen this,

941
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:45.400
and they're missing out. And so as long as as

942
00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:48.840
long as you know, gots some people I enjoy being around,

943
00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.480
and uh to do that and uh, getting out there

944
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:55.039
is fun and it's and it got to keep it fun,

945
00:58:55.360 --> 00:58:59.159
you know, and uh and not get crazy serious and

946
00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:02.400
sae with it. And as long as it as long

947
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:04.880
as it remains fun, probably keep doing it. But you know,

948
00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:07.039
of course I'm going to get older and you know,

949
00:59:07.519 --> 00:59:10.800
maybe squatching from the freaking car. What was that? What

950
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:13.239
was that? Sunny? You know, I pushed my son out

951
00:59:13.280 --> 00:59:15.159
of the car, see what that was? You know. But

952
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:18.800
I have to tell you, this is one of one

953
00:59:18.840 --> 00:59:22.360
of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. We were

954
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.440
in an area, nothing was happening, and there's this huge

955
00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:28.480
oak tree in this field, and all of a sudden,

956
00:59:28.639 --> 00:59:33.599
all these you know, fireflies, lightning bugs, whatever, welled up

957
00:59:33.639 --> 00:59:37.719
from the ground and came up and rose and just

958
00:59:37.880 --> 00:59:43.039
kind of dispersed into this tree. And I'm like, and

959
00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:46.000
you know, I couldn't get a picture of it or anything,

960
00:59:46.039 --> 00:59:49.360
but too far, I mean, too far away to do that.

961
00:59:49.440 --> 00:59:54.400
But it was just beautiful. And I pointed and I said,

962
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:59.119
look at that, and I said, somebody years ago seeing

963
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:02.400
the exact thing. And he's probably the one that had

964
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:05.239
been at Christmas Lights because that's what it looked like.

965
01:00:05.440 --> 01:00:06.440
It was unbelievable.

966
01:00:08.639 --> 01:00:12.519
So that that is beautiful, and I think that's a

967
01:00:12.679 --> 01:00:15.920
that's a great thing, you know, to remind us that

968
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:18.920
when we are out looking for things like Bigfoot, we

969
01:00:18.920 --> 01:00:23.639
need to be also aware of the beauty and nature

970
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:26.400
that's out there and not to take that for granted.

971
01:00:26.480 --> 01:00:30.599
So yeah, that's pretty cool. Well, Mike, just thank you

972
01:00:30.639 --> 01:00:34.360
for coming on and for sharing some some great interactions

973
01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:36.880
that you've had over the years and some great audio.

974
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:40.679
And you know, before we close our time out, is

975
01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:44.519
there a way that people can keep up to date

976
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:49.039
with what the Ohio Nightstalkers are up to?

977
01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:53.960
Or yes, we have a Facebook page. Please like it,

978
01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:58.679
Ohio Nightstalkers. Space between each word there I post anything

979
01:00:58.679 --> 01:01:03.679
we're gonna do, like any place. You know, Mike's not

980
01:01:03.760 --> 01:01:06.400
even doing the lectures this year, and he's like retired, retired,

981
01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:10.880
and but I'm doing them this year at Solo and

982
01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:13.320
the next one coming up is June twenty first, I'm

983
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:16.519
actually speaking at the Glide Sasquatch Festival in Glyde, Oregon.

984
01:01:17.079 --> 01:01:20.199
But I do have some in Ohio, Pennsylvania and some

985
01:01:20.320 --> 01:01:25.360
other places and they can check on there. I think

986
01:01:25.480 --> 01:01:29.719
one of them is in oh not sure. September October.

987
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:33.519
It's a Spirit of the Spirits of the Forest Bigfoot

988
01:01:33.559 --> 01:01:36.639
Festival that's in Solina, Ohio, and Russ is going to

989
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:39.880
be there. We actually took Russ to our location three.

990
01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:42.679
It will be three years ago this July, where like

991
01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:46.840
some of the rocks were thrown. But anyway you can

992
01:01:46.840 --> 01:01:49.559
find anyone can find out information if they go there.

993
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:54.559
That's great. People can meet you at different places around

994
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:57.599
the US. Coming up, it sounds like. But Mike Miller,

995
01:01:57.639 --> 01:02:00.480
thank you so much for spending some time tonight. I

996
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:01.880
appreciate you coming on.

997
01:02:03.639 --> 01:02:07.000
I appreciate you having me on and talking about it,

998
01:02:07.079 --> 01:02:11.760
and thank you very much. Appreciate it. I had a blast.

999
01:02:14.159 --> 01:02:16.199
Thanks so much for tuning into this episode of the

1000
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:19.599
Bigfoot Society podcast. Mike's Encounters from rock throwing to the

1001
01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.519
Eerie sounds of the forest remind us that sometimes the

1002
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:26.119
wilderness holds more than we can ever understand. You enjoy

1003
01:02:26.199 --> 01:02:28.880
this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, share it with

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1005
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1006
01:02:35.639 --> 01:02:37.960
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1007
01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:40.960
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1008
01:02:40.960 --> 01:02:43.639
an email at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. I'd

1009
01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:45.639
love to hear your story and maybe feature it in

1010
01:02:45.639 --> 01:02:49.320
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1011
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1016
01:03:08.159 --> 01:03:11.000
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1017
01:03:11.159 --> 01:03:13.719
trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might

1018
01:03:13.760 --> 01:03:15.639
be out there, And see you in the woods.