Aug. 6, 2025

Bigfoot Terror in Connecticut — Slaps, Screams, and Eyes in the Dark

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Season 1

What happens when a lifelong Connecticut resident starts noticing strange voices, broken trees, and something watching from the woods — all just feet from his suburban home? In this chilling and thought-provoking episode, we sit down with JJ Messenger, a witness from Barkhamsted, Connecticut, whose story begins with a mother seeing glowing eyes at the window… and escalates into unexplained gifts, roof footsteps, and strange voices recorded deep in People’s State Forest. JJ shares his years-long journey documenting the unknown — and how it all connects to a mysterious local history of “wild men” dating back to the 1800s. You'll hear stories from Winstead, Colbrook, and the heavily guarded Barkhamsted Reservoir — and a firsthand account of the day something peeked up from behind a log... and blinked. Is it Bigfoot? Is it something more? This episode dives deep into audio evidence, potential paranormal overlap, and the spiritual theories behind these elusive beings. A must-listen for believers, skeptics, and anyone who's ever wondered what's really out there in the woods.

Resources:

JJ's Youtube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@winstedwildmanresearch

Referenced book - The One Who Runs and Hides by Chris Merola - https://amzn.to/3UexcW7 (Amazon affiliate link helps support the podcast)

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You're listening to Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron

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Tonight's story doesn't come from the Pacific Northwest or the

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Alaskan Wilderness. Comes from a suburban home in Connecticut, just

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minutes from grocery stores and paved roads. But what happened there,

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what was recorded, and what was seen through the window,

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may be the most disturbing account we've heard yet. Slaps

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on the walls, footsteps on the roof, and something crouching

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behind a log watching. So this is a story of

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JJ Messenger and what he found in the forest of

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bark Hampstead. So stay with us three two one, Bigfoot Society.

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You've got the privilege of talking to JJ Messenger today.

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JJ's an individual that reached out to me about some

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interesting things he's experienced over the years in bark Hampstead, Connecticut,

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after he heard my interview with Chris Reinhart about activity

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down in people State forest Believe, and JJ reached out

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because he's very tested to hear that other people were

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having things happen in the same area.

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So, JJ, welcome to the show. How are you doing, sir.

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I'm doing good. Thank you for having me.

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Awesome awesome.

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Yeah. I was very surprised and shocked to hear that

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other people were experiencing things in people's stay forest and

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that there was active investigators going through this area, because

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for the most part, I figured that it was a secret,

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it was unknown, and I lived right on the border.

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I moved in the past month, but I lived right

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on the border people's state forest. There's a state forest

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access road down the street to me, and I grew

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up there and I inherited my parents' house, and you know,

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it's a fairly populated area, so I would never, ever,

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ever suspect that there was an unknown shall we say,

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species or creature that could exist and stay hidden in

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this area. It's a suburban area. It's got quite a

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few homes. I remember doubting my own experiences because I

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would tell myself, no, no, no, there's just too many

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people here. It can't be you know. I've always believed

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that that there are sasquatch or Bigfoot, that they would

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be in the most remote areas, you know, like the

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Sierra Nevada or northern California. I never ever thought that

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they could be in Barcampstead, Connecticut. And apparently apparently there

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are people reinforcing my experiences. There are people also having

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experiences which that blew me away. I mean when I

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heard your show, that blew me right on my chair.

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You know, I was very surprised.

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Wow, And you know I have we're talking a little

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bit off air where. You know, I grew up in

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western mass so I'm a little bit familiar with this area,

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you know, Winstead, all that area. Intend to find out

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that back in the day, you know, there is actually

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as the Winstead wild Man. Correct, there is a pretty

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important historical accounts of Bigfoot being seen back in the

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eighteen hundreds, is that right?

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Yes, eighteen ninety five several sightings in the town of Colebrook,

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right by Winstead, several sightings of a hairy six foot

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tall what they call the wild band. The first sighting

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was from a town selectman. Well, not the first sighting,

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but the most prominent sighting was the town select man

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who was picking berries with his dog and out came

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this hair covered what they called the wild Man. He streamed,

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he leapt, he jumped into the forest, and it shocked

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the man completely and he shared his story. And after

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he shared his story with the local papers, more and

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more accounts came in incredibly fascinating.

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One of my favorite things is to hear about an

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area where it is active in current day, but then

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see the historical documents to back back it up that

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that area has been potentially active for hundreds of years.

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It's just it's the coolest thing to see. But you know,

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jj I, I'm very interested to hear you know it

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what it was. You know, feel free to take us

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back to maybe the first time that you started realizing, Okay,

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something out of the ordinary is going on in this

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area that I live in.

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Yes, I was a caretaker from my elderly mom. She

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in her eighties, and she had various disabilities. And one

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night she told me she saw a pair of glowing

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eyes in the window looking at her. And I said

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to her, was and I'll you know, I'm looking for

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logical explanations for the glowing eyes. She said, no, I

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look like the silhouette of a large being. I knew

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that she enjoyed watching the show Finding Bigfoot along with me,

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so I figured that she was letting her imagination get

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the best of her, right, so I literally did not

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take her seriously. I went out, I looked for footprints

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I didn't find any evidence of anything. But if it

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was as tall as what she was saying, it would

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have to be over eight feet tall. So yeah, I

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told her, I don't really believe this, but I'm going

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to prove it to you, right, I'm going to set

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up what's called gifting in the back. I'm going to

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put out like a peanut bird jar. Now I'm not

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I'm not a big advocate of gifting, and I wouldn't

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have started it if I didn't if I had thought

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there was even a chance of sasquatch being back there.

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But I set out peanut butter jars, and I searched

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around for indicators of a possible bigfoot, you know, with

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the branch structures, and I really didn't see much. I

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tried a few hitting trees, you know, back in the day,

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all I knew about the research was what I saw,

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I'm finding bigfoot. So I was trying to hit trees

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to solicit a response, and close by there was a

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very loud branch stamp, so I'm like, whoa. You know,

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I didn't expect that to happen. So I'm scanning the

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wilderness close by. You know, it's all on video. I

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would always video or audio record everything. I'm scanning the

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forest looking for black bear because we do have a

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lot of black bear. As a matter of fact, people

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re locate their black bear too. Bar camps did that.

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They get in trouble when they are more populated town.

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So yeah, it is see any evidence of any type

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of wildlife. And I thought that branch stamp was very unusual.

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But I left out the peanut butter for a few

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weeks and eventually something took the pan be out there,

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unscrewing the top and leaving the lid, and I thought

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that was highly unusual because you know it was black bear,

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there'd be tooth marks all through it. So I started

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to get perhaps a little bit of pau I was thinking, well,

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maybe my mother did see something in that window after all,

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because I couldn't understand why. I do know that raccoons

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are very amberdexterous with their hands, so I'm still looking

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for logical, you know, excuses for everything. Okay, the raccoons

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took the peanut, but so apparently what I'm doing is

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starting to increase your conventional sasquatch activity because I'm starting

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to find those triangular branch stick formations in the woods,

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and I'm starting to find large foot impressions. Nothing that's

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really detailed, like a foot impression in a mud where

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you could like count all the toes or anything, but

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instead large indentations in the vegetation in the grass that

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were human shape but much larger than my foot. And

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you know, being logical, I was also thinking, okay, black

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bearris they have their front and back paws overlap, right,

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and that that can create the illusion. But the trouble

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with these foot impressions where is that they were much

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wider than the black bear would have. They were extremely

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wide foot impressions. I have a wild photographed, and you know,

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I'm I'm still very doubtful, you know, I'm still very skeptical, thinking, no,

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this can't be, you know. So I'm still exploring as

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a skeptic. And I start setting out audio recorders in

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the woods, and I start recording what I considered to

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be unknown sound, sound that are not easily traced to

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black bear, fox or any the common wildlife of our

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area fisher, you know, And I'm making a point of

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trying to familiarize myself with the common wildlife sounds, and

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I'm catching what appears to be like a gibberish, you know,

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like that kind of sound, and I'm you know, logical explanation, Well,

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maybe there are people while in the woods in the

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middle of the night making odd sounds. But you know,

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for the life of me, I couldn't imagine such a

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scenario because, you know, the only scenario that could indicate

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that it was people is that if they were trying

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to prank me. But no one knew what I was doing.

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This was all in private, you know, just my mother

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who was disabled in her wheelchair. Nobody knew what I

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was doing. Where I was setting recorders, no one knew

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the areas I was investigating, so the idea that someone

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was pranking me was non tenable. And it got to

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the point where there was activity around the house. I

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mean slaps on the house light, footsteps on the roof,

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which I believed to be smaller entities that they would

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actually go up on the roof and walk around. There

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was one evening when my mother and I were sitting

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in the living room and there was a literal conversation

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in the backyard, you know, of a low guttural voice

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going back and forth with each other. And I'm looking

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at her like, are you hearing this? You know, I'm

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just in total with disbelief because this is Bark Camp Stay, Connecticut.

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You know, this is not the Sierra Nevada Range. You know,

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this is you know, for the Sierra Sounds, they had

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to go riding horseback deep into the wilderness and stuff,

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and here I'm hearing similar sounds in a very populated area,

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in a fairly populated town, in the house that I

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grew up in, and you know, it's just it became

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a very strange and surreal experience for both of us.

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And she has since passed on. But the few people

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we did I'd share these experiences where did not believe it,

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you know, family members or friends or whatever. It's obviously

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a hard thing to swallow, and people are like, well,

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you're obviously misinterpreting or you're obviously mistaken. But I have many, many,

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many recordings of what I believed to be a unidentified

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vocals out in those woods, and I just have no

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idea what these vocals are. Now some of some of

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the recordings, perhaps if I had like a wildlife specialist

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that I could prefer with, you know, perhaps it could

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help me out on that but I'm fairly certain that

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many of these recordings are you're, conventional sounding bigfoot recordings.

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I can't prove. There was an occasion when I was

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walking out back to lead more food at the Gifting

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log and I saw a small form. He was about

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fifty to seventy five feet away, and he was behind

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a fallen tree, and this small form sat up to attention,

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and I do have it on video. Unfortunately it's kind

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of a blob on video, you know, because my camera

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was not of top quality. But he sat up, and

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there's a few frames in the footage where you can

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see shoulders ahead and you don't see the conventional black

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bear ears sticking out. Especially with the younger black bear,

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they had those very prominent years that come up. And

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he ducked back down behind the log and he sat

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up again, And that's not a conventional black bear behavior

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of ducking and sitting up. Black bear will climb up

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added attention and sniff you know, the air, but they're

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not they're not playing like peekaboo, you know. And whatever

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this small form ended up doing was crawling close to

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the ground to retreat. So I actually didn't see his

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retreat because of the undergrowth, but that this peak aboo

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behavior was very unusual, very unusual, and combined with the

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audio recordings and the various footsteps on the roof and

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it's flat on the house and foot impressions in the

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grass and all right on the edge of People's forest

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of bark Hampstead. So when I heard your your podcast

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of a man that was having experiences at People's forest,

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I was like, oh, okay, okay, this this fakes it

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more substantial, you know.

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Yeah, absolutely, when you unscrewed that jar peanut butter, did

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it look like anything had reached inside to try to

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take some out.

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Yeah, the peanut butter chars would disappear and the weeds

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would be left behind. And once in a while I

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would find the chars with no toothbarks and they would

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be like cleaned out, spotless, you know, like like something

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bright to the brook. And there's this little brook that

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runts out back that's very it's spring fed, it's fresh water,

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it's it's very high quality water brook. And yeah, yeah,

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the containers should be cleaned out spot with And I

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would also find what I considered to be possible returning

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gifts on my footpath, like a bird's net or two

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birds nests, a turkey feather and a hawk feather.

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The sounds that you've recorded, the Gibbers sounds over the years,

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are those available anywhere to listen to or is that

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you have those you know, privately in a research collection.

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Yes, yes, I put them on YouTube. But I did

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take a lot of the YouTube videos down because I

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kept reworking my channel trying to get more popular, because

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it wasn't at tracking attention. And actually the only attack

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attention it was attracting were the trolls, you know, and

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the people that would mock here make fun of it.

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You know, I wasn't getting that attention from the open

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minded audience that will open to the subject. I am

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reworking the videos and I will put the audio, much

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of the audio back up.

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Yes, that's great. I'm going to soapbox for a little bit.

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Never given to those individuals. There will always be individuals

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that will just be putting terrible comments on your show,

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your channel and making fun of people. And there's a

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great feature where you can mute those individuals. That I

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have to do that over and over and over again.

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It's just yeah, don't let that stop you from putting

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stuff up.

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I would say, right, right, Well, what was discouraging to

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me was that was the only attention I was getting,

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you know, like like if you had a fair balance

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of people going oh wow, that's incredible, or people going well, yes,

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you know it, there's a balance of reaction and that's better.

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But to only get the skeptical responses was it was

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very disconcerting.

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Yeah, well, I would say, I would say, keep it up,

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keep putting stuff up.

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The right people will see it eventually.

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Have you ever reached out to Chris yourself after hearing

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that interview?

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No, I haven't, but I'm very interested in what he's doing.

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He's he's doing a lot of the paranormal side of things.

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I do have experiences with the paranormal investigation because while

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growing up, I knew the family at the Warrange, and

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I also knew a lot of their students, and I've

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been on investigations with a lot of their students, like

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David Khans Dying for example. So yeah, yeah, I'm very

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familiar with the paranormal. I've attended Catholic exorcisms, I've been

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in haunted homes, I've watched Poltergeis activity. But I've never

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approached the Bigfoot subject from a paranormal angle. You know,

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to me, this is something physical, this is something material.

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I do know that a lot of people are suggesting

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that these unknowns, or if we want to call them

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sasquatch or Bigfoot, I just still call them on the

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always that they're inter dimensional, or that they have extraordinarity,

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extraordinary qualities and abilities. But I have yet the witness

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at what I've experienced so far has been very grounded

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down to earth, you know, like an actual physical entity.

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That's very interesting. It actually kind of brings up a

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question I was going to ask you, is so you're

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having this activities start to happen around the house, Slaps

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on the house, light, footsteps on the roof, conversations in

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the backyard. Is there anything that is starting to happen

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inside the house over the years.

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No, okay, nothing inside the house?

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Gotcha, yep.

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Has there been a time where you have experienced things

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happening to yourself? I think if you remember the interview

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with Chris, he started to have some really interesting things

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happened to himself, physically detached, retina's, et cetera.

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Anything like that.

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No, No, there have been a logical things that have happened,

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like getting buying disease from ticks, you know.

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Oh man, I'm sorry.

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I've had several flare ups of those buying disease rashes

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and had to be on antibiotics. But I don't have

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any disabilities from it we so far, thank god, you know.

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But I haven't had any detrimental physical experiences like some

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people suggest that infrasound frequencies or whatever, can you some

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detrimental physical reactions I had. I hadn't experienced any of that, No, gotcha.

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And maybe also asking have you ever experienced anything where

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you know, witnesses will say I started hearing a type

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of voice in my head or mind speak or any

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communication like that.

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No, no mind speak whatsoever. One thing that I was

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experiencing now, and having a background with paranormal haunted house investigations,

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I would record all my walks in the woods and

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I would get there what is typically called VP or

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electronic voice phenomena on those recordings, whispery type messages you

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know in English. I would get a lot of EVP

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on those recordings during my walks. Not one EVP. Now,

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it would seem to be something that the sasquad tried

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to Bigfoot would want to communicate because the peanut butter

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I was leaving was starting to be ignored, and one

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EVP suggested, do you have honey? And so I would

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start to leave small containers of honey, and that honey

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would not be ignored always taken.

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So it kind of brings up an interesting conversation because

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I think there's overlaps in these two fields sometimes, And

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so you have the background of the paranormal research but

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also the background of the bigfoot research, and at times

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you're having things that could be interpreted by either side

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that it could be due to a ghost or spirit

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or a bigfoot. So, and especially you've had some contact

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with some very very intense things over the years. How

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do you know then that what you are experiencing or

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what you're experiencing is either related to a potential Bigfoot

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or a potential spirit.

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You know, that's a very good question. I still puzzle

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as to whether a certain phenomena is actually Bigfoot sasquatch

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related or just generally spiritual spirit paranormal related. They do

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overlap in crisscross and I really sometimes I'm not certain,

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Like those EVP recordings in the woods. I can't say

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we're certain, oh that's Sasquatch, you know. I can't say that.

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I don't know. I mean, it could very well not be,

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you know. And when you do get involved in paranormal investigations,

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people realize in that field, the more that you're encountering

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supernatural activity, not only do you become aware of them,

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but they become aware of you. So it becomes something

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that kind of dogs you through the rest of your life.

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You know, many of us with this experience, we will have,

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you know, paranormal or supernatural experiences sporadically for no rhyme

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or reason, you know. And it's not because our current

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living situation is haunted or anything like that. It's just

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that apparently there are certain forces in the environment that

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just want to make themselves known, and they remind you

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once in a while.

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So that's extremely interesting you're saying that. Also in the

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paranormal field, there are people that think that you can

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open yourself up to other things. It's very similar thinking

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to what people think in the big foot field. I think, yes, wow.

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Yes, and I do think there is a connection between

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the paranormal and the bigfoot. But it's not necessarily as intertwined.

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Is what people think from what I've seen on the

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Internet and people that I've talked with on Facebook and elsewhere,

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that a lot of people with big Foot or sasquatch

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encounters had also had early histories of living in haunted houses,

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are experiencing paranormal things, and there seems to be an

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overlap that could just be a coincidence, you know, I

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you know, they call it the WO. I never was

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like big into subscribing to the wo or going heavily

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into that because to me, you know, my thinking was

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that this is an unknown species that has this uncanny

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ability to stay hidden and to watch us, but just

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this uncanny ability to not be found or not be discovered,

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and you know, it would take a high intelligence. Now

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I don't doubt for any for a moment that if

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they do exist, and you know, even on my YouTube channel,

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I'm calling them unknowns from the forest right because I'm

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not I'm not saying with absolute certainty, hey, this is bigfoot.

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This is conforming to a lot of what people report

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with bigfoot. You know, you have branch and tree structures,

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you have a tree knocks and grunts, and big foot impressions,

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you know, very large foot impressions. Could this be like

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some kind of paranormal con game or some kind of

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supernatural with's pulled this guy? It's like, well, maybe it's

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like but when I heard that Chris Reinhart was having

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experiences in people stay forest, that just brought it right

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back home again. You know, that's that's my backyard right there.

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Yeah, exactly.

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And some listeners are maybe going to have the thought

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where well, maybe they're just overlapping and each of them

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or hearing what the other is doing. But at the

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end of the day, you have to remember that it's

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happening on the home property as well, and to the house,

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and the likelihood that Chris, Chris or someone else is

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going to this house and slapping the side that's not happening, right,

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I mean.

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Right, yeah, No, I don't think Chris knows who I am.

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Chris doesn't know who I am.

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Exactly.

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What I've done with the forest walks is sometimes all

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offered them a generic prayer right now, I won't be

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in the name of Jesus, so be more like, may

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our heavenly Father bless you with all good things, that

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sort of thing, And I may get a tree knock

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and response, you know, so that the tree knock is

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an affirmation or protest. I don't know.

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That that is extremely interesting. So you are okay, so

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let me let me work through this. So you're not

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it's a generic prayer, but you were asking for blessing

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on the Bigfoot whatever is out there.

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Yes, yes, I tried to. I tried to bring the

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most positive mentality and communications that I can because sometimes

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I think they're neutral that if you bring negativity and

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suspicion you're going to get it back, or if you

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bring positivity and affirmation will actually may Now this is

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a possibility, I don't know for sure, but they may

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actually respond with friendship. You know. It's a theory. It's

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a theory.

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Yeah, it's fascinating though, And you know, I talked to

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people from all different walks and different viewpoints of this subject,

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and some people would also say, well, you know, you

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need to make sure that your frequency is raised up

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in order to have these these connections. And so I

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wonder if offering up that prayer is is kind of

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a way to do that.

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I don't know.

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There's a lot of speculation there, but it is. I've

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never heard of anyone else doing what you just said.

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That's that's very interesting.

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Yeah, yeah, that was sort of inspired by the fact that,

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you know, being being exposed to the warring style of

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paranormal investigation, you do bring this faith element into the situation.

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You see how things happen now. I know there was

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a researcher named Scott Carpenter who believed they were in nepheline,

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which are descended from apparently fallen angels, And I'm not

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sure I subscribe to that view, but I can see

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the logic of what he's what he used to propose.

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I know he's departed now, but yeah, some people they

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subscribe to the Nephelene theory that these are giants of

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renowned from the ancient days. I really don't know a lot,

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very skeptical of that theory personally, because from what I

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understand the biblical history the Neffeline, they were very aggressive

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and violent, and these beings in our forests they are

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controlled now. Quite frankly, if they wanted to break into

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into your house, that they wanted to force open your door,

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it would be no problem for them. It would be

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like us pushing on balsa, would you know, Uh, they

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wanted to do you harm. It would be no problem

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for them to do so, even at well aamed rock.

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You know, even at well Amed Rock would do you winstely.

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So they were aggressive and violent, it would be like

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no problem for them to enact this, you know, to

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to complete these actions. And it's like, and someone got

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struck by a rock in the woods. You know, no

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one's gonna be won't be in the news. So Bigfoot

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killed someone, that will be like, oh, and mysterious death

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someone found in the woods, you know. So yeah, I

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don't think they're nepuline per se, but there might be

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some connection somewhere down down the mine.

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Another thing that Chris had brought up in his interview

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is that they're in that area in in other areas

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around the US, they're picking up on weird humming noises

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or hump noise. Is that anything that you've ever heard

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or experienced in that same area?

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No?

458
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:46.400
Okay, gotcha?

459
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:49.480
No I have any experienced any any weird.

460
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:51.920
Hums ok gotcha? Gotcha?

461
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:56.480
You know, going out into the forest and when you

462
00:36:56.559 --> 00:37:00.760
live so so nearby. And also we've we've talked about,

463
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:04.280
you know, being in this subject and getting deep into

464
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.239
it can open you up to other things. Is there

465
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:10.920
ever a time where there could have been something else

466
00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:15.079
out there that was not Bigfoot, that was maybe more negative,

467
00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:17.639
but also maybe some kind of cryptid.

468
00:37:19.239 --> 00:37:26.360
Yes, yes, I'm totally open to that possibility because I've

469
00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:32.800
been countered very negative things, you know, paranormally with those

470
00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:42.840
haunted house situations and actually attending certain exorcisms as a witness.

471
00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:49.719
You know. I I'm open to the idea that there

472
00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:54.760
could be other types of cryptids maybe causing some of this,

473
00:37:55.679 --> 00:38:00.599
or there could be a paranormal or supernatural thing going on.

474
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.639
That's quite possible. See, I don't know for certain. I

475
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.559
just I think it's the safest approach to just say

476
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:16.960
I really I don't know. There's all sorts of possibilities.

477
00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:18.320
Absolutely.

478
00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:22.239
Have you ever heard any other people that have had

479
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:24.639
encounters or experiences in the same area.

480
00:38:26.079 --> 00:38:32.400
Yes, Yes, there was a friend on Facebook and she

481
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:37.320
was saying that her brother, who has since died of

482
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.960
cancer unfortunately, that her brother used to work for the

483
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:48.000
Metropolitan Water District. Now where I live, it's right near

484
00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:54.400
a reservoir, a very large reservoir called Barkanstaed Reservoir, and

485
00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:02.119
it's no trespassing. This is an extremely guarded, well maintained area.

486
00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:07.440
It's a water supply for the Greater Harford area, and

487
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:11.880
that night there are helicopters patrolling this place, so you know,

488
00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:17.280
nobody can sneak in. They have infrared thermal vision and

489
00:39:17.480 --> 00:39:22.880
they'll find you and arrest you if you're near the reservoir. Well,

490
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.920
he worked for the water district and there was an

491
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:31.719
access road down to the reservoir, and it was part

492
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:36.440
of his routine to make sure the access road was secure,

493
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:41.559
you know, with chains and gates and stuff. And when

494
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:45.199
he would drive down this access road, apparently he would

495
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:53.440
see large human shaped entities with glowing eyes, and it

496
00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:56.360
scared him so much that he told his sister he

497
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.840
was going to quit his job because he couldn't he

498
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.480
can deal with the fact that if he has to

499
00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:05.639
go down this access road and see this large thing

500
00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:10.480
in the woods with the bright growing eyes staring at him.

501
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:14.760
There was not a situation that he was comfortable with.

502
00:40:18.840 --> 00:40:19.880
That is wild.

503
00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.760
I've never heard of any activity by that reservoir, but

504
00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:26.800
it's definitely something I will, you know, keep in mind,

505
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:30.280
especially being so close to those fosts that we've been

506
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:34.280
talking about before. Thank you for sharing that account.

507
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:40.159
Yes, yes, and yeah I would. I would never have

508
00:40:40.199 --> 00:40:43.920
thought there was anything abround the reservoir. And let's face

509
00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:48.880
that they're monitoring by a helicopter. So if there is

510
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:53.960
something abround the reservoir, whoever, you know, whatever government agency

511
00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:57.800
is doing the monitoring, they they know, they would know.

512
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.960
Some researchers have a certain goal that they keep in

513
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.519
mind when they're they're in this field. You know, for you,

514
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:12.840
is there a goal that you have in mind when

515
00:41:12.880 --> 00:41:16.679
you're trying to find out more information or maybe get

516
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:18.800
contact with Bigfoot in this area.

517
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:24.960
Yeah, my goal is to understand exactly what's going on,

518
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:32.880
because I currently have like a thousand and one questions

519
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:38.519
that are unanswered and I really do not understand exactly

520
00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:42.000
what is going on or what they are or why

521
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:50.400
they are in the area. And also it's my goal

522
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:54.400
that people be aware of this, you know that I

523
00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:57.480
don't want people to think this is you know, some

524
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:04.119
crazy lunatic who mucination type thing where crazy people you know,

525
00:42:04.280 --> 00:42:07.639
congregate on the internet and share crazy stories. You know.

526
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:12.400
I want them to realize that this is based in reality.

527
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:17.639
That's that's why I do always do the audio recordings

528
00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:22.239
in the camera, you know, because you know when I

529
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:26.119
share that footage, when I share those recordings, it's like, see,

530
00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:31.440
I'm not this is a matter of someone, you know,

531
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:38.119
being off the rocker. This is an external phenomena that

532
00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:39.239
can be recorded.

533
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:40.559
I think.

534
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:47.480
The public eye has slowly been turning over the years.

535
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:51.000
You know, you mentioned finding Big Fun. I think that

536
00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.719
has a lot to do with it. You know, that

537
00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:56.360
really put it in the public eye. And then I

538
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.880
think as there's more and more media that gets out there,

539
00:43:02.119 --> 00:43:06.159
and I would say positive media, positive shows that actually

540
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:12.239
highlight individuals like yourself, let them speak what they've experienced.

541
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:17.280
I think that's very, very important. There's some great, great

542
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:21.519
shows out there that are doing that. And hopefully one day,

543
00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:23.880
you know, a great example of what can happen when

544
00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:28.159
the public really gets behind it is with the UFO

545
00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:33.320
uIP field, and once enough people push, then stuff starts

546
00:43:33.320 --> 00:43:36.679
to get released. It maybe slowly, but it does start

547
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:41.199
to get released, and just hopefully, you know, as we

548
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:43.880
we both go along in our journey that you know,

549
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.360
stuff does continue to get out there. I don't think

550
00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.559
we're at the point yet, but hopefully in the future,

551
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:57.800
maybe people can contact their their congressmen are you know, represented,

552
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.599
and be like, hey, what's with the bigfoot thing?

553
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:01.480
Who knows?

554
00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:05.920
That might be fun, But it's been a fun, fun chat,

555
00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:08.960
fun time chatting with you about an area. You know,

556
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.280
we don't get a lot of Connecticut episodes, and so

557
00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.360
I'm always glad when someone is able to talk about

558
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:18.519
this state. There is a lot of weird stuff that happens,

559
00:44:18.679 --> 00:44:21.159
especially in the northwest corner.

560
00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:21.920
Of the state.

561
00:44:23.239 --> 00:44:23.480
J J.

562
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:25.199
I want to make sure that you were able to

563
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.800
share everything that you'd want to share today about what

564
00:44:28.840 --> 00:44:30.079
you've got going on down there.

565
00:44:31.840 --> 00:44:37.599
Yes, yeah, I do have a YouTube channel. It's It's

566
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:41.760
Unknowns from the Woods is the current title. Because I

567
00:44:41.880 --> 00:44:45.360
wanted to be very careful with how I frame it,

568
00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:52.440
you know, whether it's paranormal or natural or somewhere where

569
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:57.920
there's a mixture, it's I don't know, I really don't know.

570
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:04.039
I didn't want to make grandiose claims like like I

571
00:45:04.199 --> 00:45:07.480
think Bigfoot found or something like that. You know, I

572
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:11.119
didn't want to make grandiose claims because yes, a lot

573
00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:14.800
of the things I've been finding is what you would

574
00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:19.639
conventionally associate with bigfoot, you know, the foot impressions and

575
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:25.039
the branch structures. And there was one broken tree that

576
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:28.199
was impaled into the ground that a couple of feet

577
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:33.559
you know, like a like a fence post, like perfectly

578
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:40.119
ninety degree vertical fence posting of the tree, which is

579
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:45.400
kind of hard to picture occurring in nature because okay,

580
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:49.639
you know, say, say it tree breaks in nature, and

581
00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:53.559
it's going to impale into the ground when it falls, right,

582
00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:58.440
but it's going to tilt, it's going to lean off,

583
00:45:58.599 --> 00:46:02.719
and it's going to pay and it will they'll be

584
00:46:02.960 --> 00:46:06.320
like damage to the ground and it won't look like

585
00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:10.719
something that a road crew did, you know, it won't

586
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:17.000
look intentional. But this simpale tree looked intentional and clean

587
00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:22.519
and deep, which is bizarre to be. And this is

588
00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:26.719
a tree the normal human being could not let you know.

589
00:46:27.800 --> 00:46:32.159
So things like that, things like that very very strange,

590
00:46:32.320 --> 00:46:37.920
very bizarre. Perhaps there was a one in a million

591
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:44.039
circumstances that created that trees. I have no idea, but

592
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:48.679
it's something worth sharing, you know. It's also on the

593
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:53.239
YouTube channel, and and my name on the YouTube channel

594
00:46:53.360 --> 00:46:56.719
is the Winsted Wild Band Research Organization. I have a

595
00:46:56.760 --> 00:47:02.440
few friends that they are helping me with digging into

596
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:06.239
the history of the Winstead wild Band and perhaps that

597
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:13.920
there's a continuing presence of these supposed wildmand I know

598
00:47:14.039 --> 00:47:17.800
that there are people in the area. There's a man

599
00:47:18.079 --> 00:47:24.920
in Cobrook, Norfolk area who wrote a book and the

600
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:30.519
title of the book is the one who I don't

601
00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:34.679
want to misquote the title, but he wrote a book

602
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:40.280
about the cottage at the cabin he lived in, all

603
00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:44.400
the experiences that he was having there, and how his

604
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:47.599
family and his friends and all that didn't believe him either.

605
00:47:48.400 --> 00:47:52.800
So you know, it can be a lonely thing to

606
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:56.639
experience this type of thing because people will not believe you,

607
00:47:57.079 --> 00:48:01.639
or they'll think that you're just being strange, you know.

608
00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:06.480
But the more mainstream we can make this, the better

609
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:11.639
I think for everyone. Like currently we have Pentagon officials

610
00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:16.559
on the Florida Congress talking about these unidentified flying objects, right,

611
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:20.119
oh yeah, and just a couple of decades ago, that

612
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.840
would have been unthinkable. That would have been unthinkable. People

613
00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:27.400
would be like no, no, no, swamp gas right right,

614
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:32.840
So yeah, we have to make it more acceptable, more

615
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.880
mainstream that people are experiencing these things and they're not

616
00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:45.519
all you know, what they would consider mentally or emotionally compromised.

617
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:49.320
Oh sure, is that book one that was recently released

618
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:50.559
or is this an older book.

619
00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:55.119
It's an older book. It was released like fifteen years ago,

620
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.679
The One Who Runs and Hides. I think it's titled, uh,

621
00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:05.920
you know, referring back to an old Native American name

622
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:12.719
for the sasquat. I may be misquoting, just so people

623
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.199
were something in that in that general idea, you know,

624
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:18.760
the one who runs and hides.

625
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:23.599
Nope, I found that as well. It looks like it's

626
00:49:23.599 --> 00:49:29.239
written by Chris Maarola. So yeah, maybe another good lead

627
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:31.840
to follow. So thank you for bringing that up and

628
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:34.360
that that could be fun so.

629
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:38.280
Well, Chris. Oh in the sorry JJ.

630
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.559
And the other thing I wanted to ask you is

631
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:42.199
is there a way that people can reach out to

632
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:46.199
you if they, you know, uh have questions for you?

633
00:49:46.239 --> 00:49:49.000
Do you kind of just you know, you've got the

634
00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:50.559
YouTube channel and that's good.

635
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:56.320
Uh yeah, I had the YouTube channel. They can email

636
00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:02.320
me at mr Medicine. That's M E R M E

637
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:09.159
S S E N at hotmail dot com. And uh yeah,

638
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:12.920
anyone who wants to get in contact. I did the

639
00:50:13.000 --> 00:50:19.239
Harvard Radio show, you know, a Saturday afternoon radio show

640
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:24.400
talking about these experiences. And I've been reaching out hoping

641
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:27.840
that people would be interested and hoping people would join

642
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:32.519
my group and help me get to the bottom of things.

643
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.960
You know, it's fantastic.

644
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:37.400
JJ.

645
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:42.119
Will definitely need to to stay in touch. It's a

646
00:50:42.199 --> 00:50:44.639
it's an area of the country, as I was saying,

647
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:46.360
you don't hear a lot about, but when you do

648
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:49.199
hear about it, it's very interesting. But you know, thank

649
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:51.559
you so much for spending some time this afternoon and

650
00:50:51.639 --> 00:50:54.599
for talking about us, for talking to us about the

651
00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:58.000
bigfoot activity in this area of Connecticut.

652
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:00.800
Yes, thank you, thank you very much.

653
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:02.519
Just want to take it a minute to say thanks

654
00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:05.039
for listening to this episode of the Big for Society podcast.

655
00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:07.480
JJ's story is one that stays with you, not just

656
00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:09.679
because of the voices in the forest or the slaps

657
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:13.079
on the roof, but because it happened in a place

658
00:51:13.159 --> 00:51:15.719
no one thought Bigfoot could be so huge. Thanks to

659
00:51:15.760 --> 00:51:18.760
JJ for sharing decades of research and courageously opening up

660
00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:22.679
about what he and his mother experience in Barkhampstead. If

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