Bigfoot Steals Maple Sap in Missouri! | Members Only Episode A17 PREVIEW

0:01 Hey guys, We've got a special preview episode of the Big Fist Society Podcast for you. This is a preview of a member's only episode. Got one of my favorite stories that I've heard in a long time. That has to do with maple syrup and sasquatch. I think you're gonna love that one. There's stuff from Michigan, there's stuff from Northeast Washington, all over the place, some really really good stuff in here. If you want to hear the whole episode, I put a ten minute clip here for you to so you can kind of see where we're going, and then if you want to listen to the whole thing. If you're on YouTube, just click the join button. You can become a member there, or you can go to Big for Society podcast dot com and click the members login button and become a supporting member. That way, there's plenty of awesome members only episodes to listen to once you're on the inside in either place. Either way, enjoy this ten minute clip and I hope to see you on the inside. Hey, how's it going.

1:01 Hey, I'm back man. How are you hey? Doing great? What's going on? So previously we spoke about my encounter, well my sorry, the room my roommates encounters the Romanians right and like things that they had seen. So after I spoke with you, I decided the next day I was going to reach out to them and ask them if they had any further encounters like after I had left. So it turns out they had two, and both are pretty interesting stories. Neither of them are like scary, you know, dangerous or anything. They're more interesting than anything. And they were both pretty detailed the way that they explained to We were on for a couple hours, just chatting away about you know, things that things that have happened, and you know, what do you think now that you've you know, lived in America for so long and you've gone through these things and you've done your research and stuff, and you know, they're they're both pretty firm believers in what they've encountered.

2:00 So again back in Rolla, Missouri, I had left. This would have been two thousand and five and I had left. So they told me the other two encounters. The first one that we spoke about, we had a bunch of per Simon trees on the property. I don't know if you were familiar with per simon. They're just a fruit, like a fruit tree. And they were pretty serious about making like jellies and jams and things. So her husband and I got a bunch of abs and we made this like almost like a catching net underneath the trees and we would put them up in September so that when the fruit would fall at the end of the month there, when the frost would hit, it'd land in there instead of hitting the ground and getting all damaged.

2:43 So they could make you know, like their their gems or jellies or whatever with it, and they wouldn't have fruit that was destroyed. It also stopped the turkeys from coming in and eating all the percimons. So they told me that the same thing. They went out and they set it up that year towards the end of September because early October so is when the uh the per simons will drop. Once we hit that really or whenever the first heavy frost hits was in Missouri is usually towards like the can be anywhere from the late late September into August, right, And they set up their per simon trap around the two big trees, and they were harvesting.

3:26 They were coming out with the first frost, they went out and they got stuff. They went out the next morning and there was you know, a few percentmons in the trap, but they knew that there should have been way more. So they were like, okay, you know, strange. So they went over to the next trap to get the persimmons out of there, and it was the same thing. Almost all of them were gone from there. But here's the kicker. There was a great big chunk of quartz rocks sitting in there. They've and. So the persimmons were gone, but there was a big chunk of quartz left in there. Not not like a perfectly round piece. They told me. It was just like a broken chunk of quartzite that you would have found, you know, anywhere in Missouri. The just the standard what is it, the dreary courts that you can find just about anywhere. It wasn't polished, it wasn't anything spectacular. It was just a bit of a glittery piece of quartz.

4:29 The pouch comes down in a v for all the fruit to run down into like the tray area, and it was just it was there with like a couple you know, pieces of persimon that were left over, like the whole fruit, sorry, not pieces, just the fruit and everything else was gone. So I was like, and what what was your guys' thoughts? And they were like, well, it was kind of weird because you know, we used to cut the grass all around that orchard and everything, so you don't there's not any rocks in that feet in that field that we would have known. We would have run them over with the lawnmower, right, So obviously they even said something has to have left it there, whether it was a person or or something else. And I just I found that really interesting because we used to go out and we'd find a lot of quartz out in the woods, you know, and coming from where I am, like living in Canada and then moving there and moving back here, we don't have a lot of that stuff like in my area of Canada, so finding it was really neat out in the woods. Anytime I would pick it up and it was shiny. I love stuff like quartz and malachite and you know, sparkly, anything sparkly.

5:39 It's like a like a crow when it comes to that stuff. And they said it was just so interesting because it was just it was It definitely wasn't like thrown in there or anything. They said, it looked like somebody just had placed it there as if to say sorry about the fruit. Here's this. I asked them what they did with it, and they took it and they put it just like back at the base of the tree. They just left it there. And they went. Through the rest of the persimon harvest for the next couple of weeks or so per Simmon's falling and things, and they didn't have anything missing at that point. But when they came back, the piece of quartz was gone.

6:20 What she told me was she thinks that maybe whatever did it thought, okay, they accepted it. They they put it back that I'm gonna I'm gonna take it back. Maybe this is my this is our like our trade piece or whatever. So nothing nothing else happened after that, nothing around the cabin or anything. Until the end of January early February. We would always go out and tap our maple syrup tree like the maple trees on the prop of the sugar maples, and maple sugar would run like the sap would run when it would get like cold and warm and cold and warm cold nights, warm days. And they said it was a particularly good season that year, and we had like plastic taps that you would hammer into the tree and then we would run oh what do you call that? Like hosing, you.

7:17 Know, like yeah, so that the sap goes into the bucket. I actually grew up doing that too. Yeah, yeah, just like the tubing, and then that would run into buckets that had a hole and you know, the drow right, anything to keep bugs at bark from falling into your sap. So it was less work in the end, is what we would do. Uh. And they said that they were walking and his wife told me that she saw the hose was off of a few of the taps, and she says it was down there with its mouth open, just like almost sucking on the tap. No way. And when they both come around the corner, he said, they stepped on a bunch of leaves and it made like a cracking sound.

8:03 Hey, cowboy, how you doing doing pretty good? How you doing? Hey? Doing good? Doing good? Well? Feel free to share what you've come up to share today, sir. Okay, I talked to you. I shared three stories that I had. I don't remember how many days ago it was, but you asked me at the end of that if I had anymore, And I told you know, and I forgot about one of them. Two of them are mine personal stories, and the other one was my dad when I was so well. Start with a story that my dad told me when I was a little kid. He used to have a writing stable when I was about from the age of two until I was four, and him and my uncle used to run it. And every fall, they said there was a big pasture there by the barn.

9:06 It was about eighty acres, and then there was a woodline of about thirty acres, and then it went after you went through that little timber patch there. Then on the other side of that was another open patch of about sixty acres. And they said in October of every year, at the time he was there, the horses would never cross that timber in the month of October, ever, and he said they used to hear whooping sounds. They called it. The whoop is what they called it, and they would hear twigs breaking and hooping back there, and the horses would never would never go down there.

9:57 And he said when all that ruckus would start, they would always stay up there around the barn. And that was over by Michigan, Milford, and when I was twelve, my dad was running a riding stable for Pontiac Lake Riding Stable in Michigan, and he was coming. I remember we were wearing jackets, and the leaves it was come and fall, they were still still in the green color. I just remember it was getting later because during the evenings you'd have to wear a sweatshirt or something because it was it was getting cool. Well, he was friends because it was a state riding stable. He knew the game wards there DNR and he became good friends with one of them. So he decided that we would go right down to his house. So we saddled up our horses and he was I don't remember exactly how far it was because I was all the time, but I want to say it was somewhere between a mile and a half to two miles from the house. So we took a flashlight with us. I don't even know if he considered a flashlight. It was a fluorescent light that held one of those big square batteries, nine gold batteries, and yeah, so he had me take it and I tied it on my saddle horn, and so that was just for the ride back. Because my dad gets into

11:28 a conversation at somebody's house. They sit down, drink coffee, and we could be there for three four hours. So anyway, you get down there and we visit with him, and so he's like, all right, let's go ahead and take off. So we get on our horses. We're riding back, and of course it gets dark on the way there, so I turned the light on. It'll push button on top, and we're just riding down the road and we're on the home stretch. We're probably I'm going to say, within a half a mile from the house, and it's it's pitch black on the gravel road, and it's Michigan. So Michigan is the bush and there's trees everywhere, and I could hear something off to my right. I'm on the right side of the road. He's on the on the left, and I hear something on my right walking beside me in the bush and all those trees in the brush, and my horse is getting kind of skittish but still holding the ground. And I look over at my dad and he just got this weird look on his face, and he, you know, he said, really calm to me in his real low voice. He said, Brett Switch places with me.