Bumping Lake Bigfoot with Tristan Yolton (Remastered)

0:03 Welcome to the big Foot Society. In this remastered episode, we talked to Tristan Yolton, who shares some incredible recordings he's captured over the years in the Bumping Lake area of Washington. If you've experienced something similar to what Tristan has, or have more information regarding Bigfoot or other cryptids in the same areas, please reach out immediately to me after this episode. Remember, your encounter could be the key to unlocking this mystery once and for all, so please don't hesitate to contact me at big for Society at gmail dot com. All right, Bigfoot Society, you've got the privilege of talking to Tristan Yolten today. He's a Bigfoot researcher from Washington State. How's it going today, Tristan, It's going great. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, you got it.

0:45 It's a lot of people have been throwing your name around and I remember seeing you in Tates. I believe it's a Bumping Lake documentary he did in his series Asquatchesars for Save. But is there anything else that the listeners should know about you? Tristan to kind of set the stage, well, growing up, I've always been interested in monsters and creatures, and Bigfoot was one of the things I was interested in, but I was never I was never interested in going out there looking for it. It's just something that like. I like dinosaurs and aliens and things like that, Godzilla, I liked those kind of things. Growing up in Bigfoot was just another thing I liked that was interested in, but I never had any I didn't want to go out there to look for it. I just thought it was just something cool.

1:34 So that all changed for me though in twenty fifteen, when my father heard some whoops coming up from this hill behind our house one morning while he was sticking the tresh out, And he didn't tell us about this until a week later because he didn't really think anything of it, but I guess he was kind of stewing about it and maybe thought maybe could be sasquatched. So he brought it up to me and my mom and we were like totally surprised, and so we decided to go up there. Made my mom decided to go up on the sale media left the recorder out in a jar of peanut butter and some peanut butter crackers, and the next day when we went up there, the jar looked like the jar looked like there was a hand that went inside of it. You could see some possible dermal ridges on the inside of the jar, impossible finger holes inside of it. Possibly something took its hand in there and scooped it out, scooped out the peanut butter, and the peanut butter crackers were they were gone, but they looked like they were opened very neatly, not ripped open like some kind of like a bear or something would do it. It kind of looked like somebody carefully opened it and took the crackers out and ate it. And the weird thing, the most weird thing is this. I had this recorder strapped to a stump with a bungee cord on it, and when I went over to it, the recorder looked fine. It looked like nothing touched it. But when I went home and listened to it on the computer, about an hour after we left the recorder up on this hill and it became dark, I would say about an hour

3:06 later, something came in and as you hear on one of the recordings I have, you'll hear it eat the food and then it, I guess it sees my recorder and comes over to the recorder. It starts growling and messing with it, fumbling with it, and I mean, the thing is, there's no marks on the recorder or anything like that, So I had no idea that occurred. And I've left recorders out in the woods before and I've had bears take them and chomp on them and eat them the bits, and this where this thing was didn't do that, So that was very strange to me. And was that a bear that did this? I had no idea, but it's not the same kind of behavior that I've experienced with other recorders, so it really makes me wonder. And also on the recording, there's this really loud at the beginning of it, there's a really loud humming, humming feet back kind of a sound, and I don't know if that's a moth going by or something else, but some kind of weird interference that just goes by the recorder. And then a few seconds later you'll hear a possible wood knock in the background and a whoop. And then about thirty seconds so here this when you start hearing this thing start coming in and start eating the food, and then you'll hear a loud, really deep growl. I guess it sees my recorder and then about a few seconds later, that's when you hear it come over to the recorder and start really growling and messing with them, fumbling with the recorder. So and then after that happens, it just

4:36 it just leaves. It just stops what it's doing and it just leaves and there's is silence. So again, if it was a bear, I would think the bear would really try to try to eat it and scratch it and chomp at it. But my recorder was intact. There was no scratches or teeth marks or anything on it. So that really perplexed me, and to this day I have no idea what that was. But with some of the sounds that you can hear on the recording, such as such as the possible would would knock in the whoop in the background, makes you wonder what was going on up there? Mhm mkay, yes, can you that that is

8:26 really weird? Because it is a it's an interesting one. Let's give listeners a little bit of a context in that area where you had those bigfoot interactions at the beginning. Are you comfortable with a certain region of Washington that you were in. To give context for the listener, I'll just say it's it's near the Cascade Range near the mountains. Yeah, it's not. It's not near the Olympics or anything like that, like where the Olympic project is. It's like totally near the mountains. So and that's the thing too. Like this area around where I am, it's surrounded forests and mountains everywhere. So it's the possibility of a sasquatch has been around is very very high, in my opinion, very possible. What I think is happening was happening because I don't I don't even know what if they're still going on up there, if that's what they are, if that's what it was. But we were thinking maybe this, this hill was a travel route for them, and maybe they're going to and from like every night or every few days or something like that through there, because there's no there's really no at the time, there's really no development up there. There was it's just pretty much woods up there and there's a there's also a stream up there, so maybe they were they felt comfortable in traveling that is a route every night or whenever they wanted to during during the night without being detected being seen by anybody. And one other thing I want to mention about my dad's encounter, if you want to call it after the thing is he was taking the trash out in the morning and then he was going to go to work. So on his way to work down down our road here he saw I heard of elk standing in the middle of

10:01 the road and they were all looking up towards the direction of this hill up here, So they must have they must have heard those whoops that my dad heard, and maybe that spooked them. My dad had to drive around that heard of elk that was standing in the road. He thought that was very odd behavior to see them do that, to be focused on the hill up there. I can't say for sure that that was a big foot, but really makes you wonder though. It sounds like you got interested in the whole bigfoot thing, Is that right? Yes? Oh yeah, yeah, definitely. It was pretty shocking to me because after all these years of living out here, I never had a clue that the bigfoot exists that they would probably be right near where I live. So that was a huge shock to me and that really got me interested in maybe I should start investigating this more and the audio of course here in the audio just really that really started it.

10:54 So yeah, after I did that, I started I started checking around looking on on websites for sightings and Bigfoot groups. And I won't say the name, but we did get in contact with the Bigfoot group and we started searching with them for a few years, go on camp outs with them. That was able to teach me some more things about what's going on out there possibly, but unfortunately I haven't really I haven't really experienced that much with that group. Being part of that group, though it did teach me things of what to look for and maybe how to approach some of my research. So it's mostly been on my own kind of research. Is that where I've been able to where I've been able to collect things mostly, but I will say there's been some times where I have collected some audio, like a bumping Lake.

11:39 If we would go to Bumping Lake, I would collect some audio there with them. So talking about Bumping Lake, which if you're in the Bigfoot community, that's a buzzword area that's been going around quite a bit over the last few years. Can you describe the Bumping Lake area From what I know, it's An, a lake that is to the east of Mount Rainier. Correct, Yeah, roughly, yes, very high up in elevation too, three thousand feet or so up an elevation. There's two ways you can get there. There's one way from Yakama to get there, and there's another way through to get there called Schnook Pass, where you basically have to climb up this pass up this mountain to get there. But for me, it takes almost three hours to get the Bumping Lake and the Bumpy Lake road itself, it will take you forty five minutes to an hour just to get to the lake itself. It's along the main road. Getting there is a long road to take and then there's some campsites. So here's the thing. The Bumping Lake is very huge. It's a very huge lake. There's some primitive campsites behind it. There's a dirt road behind it which leads to these primitive campsites, and that's where we like to go in terms of our camp outs because it's away from the lake. It's more towards the mountains, and there's some RVM spots right next to the lake, and that's that's where a lot of people congregate and populate there and we try to get away from that as much as we can. And obviously during the summer it's very popular. You'll see a

13:09 whole bunch of people out there fishing and rafting, doing all the all sorts of stuff out on the lakes. The surrounding area Bumping Leg is this forest and mountains, and in my opinion, it's perfect habitat for these guys. Like though, there's out there all sorts of wildlife, and of course you got the big lake, the source of water, and there's also little creeks and streams around and a lot of woods, a lot of high peaks and everything like it's it's perfect for these guys to be there. And yeah, are there reports going back pretty far of seeing Bigfoot there or is this a thing where it's just more recent times that people were realizing that there have been bigfoot a scene and heard in that area. Kind of like what you mentioned leg, Bumping Lake has been it seems to be more popular in the past few years. But I want to understand it's been kind of like a secret area for a lot of Bigfoot researchers. Now not a lot of people know about it until in the past couple of years. But I guess that's because more people are hearing about it and you know, taking more people out there, kind of like what happened with my Bigfoot group is that they took us up right, It wasn't really a well known thing everywhere. It was this more kind of a secret area for a lot of the I would say maybe Washington researchers. As far as how far back I I mean, it could be back from the eighties and nineties from from from what I know, yeah, there could be a lot of people. I know people are going up there for years, so it could be reports could be stretching from years back.

14:41 Possibly. I bet you can probably search for reports dating back back then too, So no, no doubt. Yeah, if you know, if you know where to look for those, you know what I mean, right exactly. Yeah. So I was looking through all the files folders you sent over, and one of the things I got right away is that you've been studying You've been researching this area and gotten evidence out of it for multiple years. There were folders twenty twenty twenty one, twenty two, right, what kind of things have come out of your time researching in the Bumping Lake area that that you consider interesting when it comes to bigfoot research. Well, I guess the main thing for me at Bumping Lake is gathered an audio at these primitive campsites, as I named in some of the folders that are there, one called California Camp. There's too many for me. There's two main camps that I go to that that were introduced to me with my bigfoot group that I was going with. One is called California Camp and another one is called Rock Camp. And the interesting thing about those is that there are my all apart from each other, not that close to each other, but there's still very far out there. They're very remote primitive camp spots. And Rock Camp, for example, was very popular with the bigfooters. Like I've gone there

16:12 and I've seen other bigfooters camp there. So it's a very well known spot. And I know, I know that Bob Gimlin he's been there before and he's had some stuff happened to him there. Oh really that's cool. Yeah, So yeah, it's a very it's a very popular spot. And but yeah, they call it Rock Camp because it's it's a it's a camp that's kind of it. It's like a circular camp that's surrounded by some high cliffs and peaks behind it, and there's a rock, a big rock shell behind it. And but I guess that's where they got rock camp from. I really don't know for sure, but that's what I'm assuming why they call it rock camp. And for me, that's the majority of my bigfoot audio, if you want to call it, that has occurred at this camp. There's a little bill above, there's a within this big circle, there's a camp.

17:04 There's like a main campfire, and behind it there's just a bunch of woods basically, and then there's like a rock shale and then that mountain beats behind it, all surrounded by woods. If you watch tape documentary, you'll see some of that. And the thing is, I believe that if the Sasquatch is there, they are coming down from that from that mountain, mountain peak and rock shale, and they're coming down to this hill that's right above our camp, and they're watching us at the campfire or doing whatever. But I think there were I think they come down and watch us from this hill that's behind us. I possibly think they're juveniles because I when I put an ire recorder up in this hill. I've gotten some I mean, as you probably heard on the audio, I've gotten some weird language kind of sounds and beach and chatter and stuff like that. And that's not us. We're not making those sounds at the campfire. That's I mean. I have these recorders pointed at the woods and there's no camp uppers behind us. That's all woods back up in there. So something's coming down and making those sounds. Man.

18:06 And I can't say for suret sasquatch because I didn't see it, but something is making those sounds. It could be juveniles doing that. As we get into some of the audio. Just to clarify, you've got the California camp and the Rock camp. You said the are a mile apart from each other, right, yeah, yeah, those camps are. So there's like a dirt road, right, there's a there's a it's a bumpy dirt road. It's really it's not paved or anything like that. It's really rough on your tires. I would I've seen people go through it like crazy, but they shouldn't because they'll pop a tire easily. It's a very These are very primitive campsites. Some of the campsites are a mile apart. Others are like maybe across the road, but still still a little ways away from each other.

18:49 But well, like I said, like this rock camp, for example, there's no campsites behind behind us there, so there's no way anybody can come through there from behind. I'm getting like some of the some of these sounds are happening way late at night too, so behind us doing that. That's what I'm curious as to the content. So you listen to some of these sounds, and I'm like, I gotta have the context in the story behind these sounds, because some of them are wild. Man, Let's go ahead and let's let's start with one of them. I'll play the sound first and then you can give the story behind it. So here we go.

19:32 Ok, yeah, that's so wild, dude. So, so that wasn't recorded bumping lake, which is fine. That is that was recorded at an area about an hour away behind my house. Well it's like an hour away from us. Yeah, yeah, it's not like right behind I mean there's a there's a forested area where just logging that happens about. Well, it's like warehouse you used to be behind us back here and somebody else's bottom out, but it's it's a big lumbard forest area that you can in some spots you can only get in through the permit. There's some gates, but you have to have a permit to get in, and this this area is one of those. I would just say it's near lake. It's it's near lake behind one of these permitted gates. And my mom and I went went to the spot one time and we were just researching. Well, the thing is,

21:04 we've camped in this spot before, and we've had I've had an audio recorder in a tree next to our truck. We camped in the truck one time and I had an audio recorder on this tree next to our truck, and during the night, something was throwing pebbles at our truck and you could hear a whoop. Yeah, you could hear a whoop too, So that really got excited. There's another time I camped there in the same truck and I put a recorder out in these woods here near this lake. And about three o'clock in the morning, I woke up and I said, you know what, I just want to get the hell out of here, so I'm gonna go out there and I'm just going to get the recorder and come back and we can go home. So I did that. And the thing is, I didn't have a flash light on me or anything like that. I just had the moon light. So I just followed the moon light to the recorder to these woods. And when I picked up the recorder, as soon as I picked up the recorder and turned around, it was a loud growl behind me and scared. It scared the hell out of me. And I did not look behind me. I just stared right ahead, and I walked all the way back to my truck, all the way back to my truck, and I got in my got in my truck, and my mom saw me, and the first thing she said was you're as white as a ghost.

22:26 And when I said I was drive, all I told her was drive and we got the hell out of there. So that so that really freaked me out, and that that helped. That helped get some interest in this area. So she so that recording that you just played. She and I went up there during the daytime and on her way out, I did a really loud whoop. Where I was. When I did the whoop, I was away from the lake, but close enough for the sound to carry across the lake. Why I couldn't hear from where where I was, I can't hear anything coming from the lake. So that whoop response and there's two wheel responses you hear in it. Those that couldn't hear, Uh, those were on the recorder when I listened to them. So in the wood knocks woo, the woodnock sounds that you hear were me doing that. So those two whoop responses you hear after my initial whoop, and then you hear the okay, got it, got it, got it. The two woops was something in response to me. Those two whoops there and then so yeah, there's my initial whoop and then you hear the whoop. Whoop wasn't me wow?

23:33 And then I did the knox, I did the three knocks, and then you hear one more whoop, which would which was kind of like a build up. He goes whoo. Yeah you know what that that list It was like a build up kind of a whoop and me you first, then your knox, then two whoop responses. No wait, it goes like this. It goes my first whoop, I go whoop, and something goes whoo whoo. And again I didn't hear that in person. I didn't hear that wow. And then because so that's the thing I didn't, I didn't hear a response, So I just said, well, maybe i'll do a woo knock, maybe i'll get something, Okay, So after so there for me.

24:18 For me, it was silence after I did my initial whoop. So I did three knocks and then that's when you hear that response again, the build up response, Yeah that we have the story. Yeah, that's that's fantastic. Yeah. What was your response when you heard that audio recorder and you heard the responses on there that you hadn't heard in real life? Dude?

25:26 It was total wow? Like, where the hell did this come from? Because I didn't hear that in person, and there was nobody else out there with this man. It was just me and my mom, So it was shocking, total Shocklate, where did the hell did this come from? Because I couldn't hear it from where I was sore where I had the recorder, where I had the recorder place, I guess it was closer to wherever this thing was, so I was able to the recorder was able to pick that up but I couldn't hear it with my own ears, so maybe the recorder maybe it amplify sound, so maybe that's why you hear it better. But in person, man, I I cann't hear any of that. So that's why I did the whoop and then the knox because I was thinking, well, if I'm not gonna get a response with a whoop, maybe i'll try some knocks. They're similar, but the response one does ramp up and yeah, oh man, it's hard to describe, but it's very cool. That's the thing that wasn't my whoop you heard the second time or third time, because I my whoops whoop, But this thing that if you listen to it more, it sounds more natural, like a more natural kind of a loop cell something that something instrumid than me, especially like that ramp. Like you're talking about that third one where it goes woo, I wasn't doing that.

26:34 Wow. Yeah, that's awesome, dude, that's legit. Let's go on to another one, and this is this is the drumming one. I'm I'm really curious what this. I'll play it for you so you remember, and then I'm just curious what the story is behind this one. Okay, what's the story there? Oh yeah, I remember that one. This was out Rock camp and me, me and some fellow researchers were at a campfire.

27:21 And that's the thing that we like to make some noise at the campfire, try to hopefully bring them in. That's our way, using drums and instruments and talking and laughing. We were hoping that we'll bring the Sasquatch in. And and so what happened on that one night is I had the thing is I always have my recorders placed up on this hill behind camp, but either just a rig just a digital recorder, or with a with a pair of bolic mic as well. I got a pair of bowk Mike a couple of years ago, so I've been using that work for this recording. And I think I had a task cam recorder for that, and I just had that strapped to a tree and I have that pointed towards the mountain, towards the woods. That's another thing too, at place these recorders pretty far up on this hill and into the woods. I try to put them away far away from camp as possible, but with the surrounding area around us, any sound we make at the campfire is gonna kind of echo around, so I'm gonna pick them up. But if you hear in the beginning of that of that record, and you'll hear like a female voice and like a real deep male voice closer to the recorder, And I don't think that was one of us making those sounds like that last that last sound where he goes raw, you know, the real loud thing. Yeah, that wasn't us. Man like you is no anything close to the recorder, in my opinion, is something that's close to the recorder not us. Goodness, That's what I'm saying.

28:42 Like when you're when you hear those voices in the like those far off voices, like it sounds like somebody's singing, I think that's one of us at the campfire. But when you hear something closer to the recorder, like there's a there's a female voice that's kind of that's close to the recorder and it's saying something that you can't even understand what that what she's saying because it sofferent like a different language. And then you hear like a male response to that. I believe towards the end of it, that real deep raw sound and again that it sounds like a language that doesn't sound English or anything to me. So I think they're conversing. If it's a Sasquatch, I think they're conversing with each other while watching us at the campfire. So yeah, you hear us singing and stuff and drumming in the recording as well. But if you hear some real, you know, close voices, I think that's what could be sasquatched possibly. All right, let's listen to that again. Then that's that's some good context here we go. H that's weird. Yeah, So did you hear that female kind of voice in the beginning. Yeah, And it sounds like it sounds like a different language though to it right, it doesn't sound like any kind of English. It's kind of hard to explain, but it's it just sounds like it's some kind of odd native language to me. And in that response, that was a real deep response when it

30:15 goes about man, yeah yeah cool. So yeah, roughly how long ago is that? That might be from two thousand, I don't know if it's stated on there, but it might be from twenty twenty. I mean, I mean, yeah, the past couple of years I'm beginning a lot of audio up on that hill every time we go there. In fact, I even got some during Tate's expedition as well. I think I included those in your folders. But on the last night we were there, would say Paul Graves is playing his guitar and singing, and then up on the hill there you get a couple of response stuff happens. There's a there's something that goes whoa. Then you hear like a woodknock or like a wax sound. Funny thing about this stuff is that we don't really hear that. We don't hear the stuff at the campfire. This is all on the shortings. There's been a couple instances though, and I don't know if I can't remember if I included them in the files. But we had a friend at the campfire one time and he went whoaw, and then on from the hill behind us, you can hear something mimic him twice and I actually really person yeah, oh yeah, And I can't remember if I I can't remember if I have that in your audio recordings I sent you, But yeah, that's I don't remember that one. Maybe I just didn't know what it was. At the time, it's all good. But that's one of the things we've heard at that campfire is like bus on responses. If these are Sasquatch, I think they are juveniles coming in to watch us and messing with us. It's almost like

31:47 you need you need a way to do like a live monitoring of the audio that's being captured in your camp at the same time that you're recording. I don't know if there's even a way to do that that's cheap enough for most bigfooters. Myself, I'm thought about camping up on this hill, but I'm kind of afraid to. But at the same time, I kind of want to do it now, just to see if something happens, if I see anything, because well, if you don't, you're going to be regretting it for the rest of your life. You're you're an old dude. You're going to be like, I should have done it, Dude, you should do it. That would be Oh man, I probably should. But again, is I going to deter them? I don't know. Maybe they feel comfortable.

32:30 Maybe they feel comfortable on a hill, So if I go up there and actually stay up there, maybe they'll scare them off. So I don't know, or they might feel threatened. I mean, you never know unless you try, right, exactly unless you try. And another thing I want to bring up is that there's been some forest fires up up in the lake the past couple of summers over so that I think that might have just disrupted something. So that's the other thing too. Not every time you go there you're going to get something, and so I think everybody should know that that. Don't always expect to get anything every time you go there. It's just luck. And and also real quick, that recording I sent you, the thirty minute one, the one I found out to show the chorus. Yeah, that was a that was a California camp a couple of years ago.

33:14 It was just it was just me and my mom camping there and at two o'clock in the morning, these things started going off and it woke me up. But unfortunately her hearing isn't the best the best or tea can't hear it in person. But I'll tell you, man, like, the recording doesn't do a justice. It was so freaking left and it was coming from different directions too. It wasn't coming from one source, So I I don't know what it was. I can't say for sureless sasquatch, but in my personal opinion, it's either sasquatch or somebody making those sounds. It's I don't think it was any other animal out there because something they sound like, they sound like some kind of vocal, like some kind of vocal track making those like a human ways doing that. So what what Tristan is referring to is he was if most people are going to be aware of who Alex Pettakoff is from Beyond the Trail. He used to have a interview YouTube series live stream, and Tristan's been on two times correct, two different shows, and you're able to play a lot, a lot a lot of the audio on those shows.

34:22 So after this one, head on over. I definitely recommend you head on over listen to the two Tristan episodes on Alex for even more sounds. What I have next is when I saw these two sounds, I was excited to hear the story because I have a story that is very close to those sounds myself, as listeners will know. But I'll play I'll play him and then we'll get your story here, So go ahead. So those are recorded at Rock Camp behind again, up on this hill behind us. I just have these recorders out, man, they're just pointing towards the woods behind us, up on this hill. And yeah, these zipper sounds. I've actually captured these in different spots as well. There's been a couple other spots I've been to that that I've captured zipper, these zipper kind of sounds. And so I a sasquatch, I don't know, but I've heard of people talk about these kind of sounds before as well. So how far away is your recorder from camp approximately? See up on this. I mean we're talking yards, It's not like feet. We're talking yards up up on the hill.

35:43 I'm not the best with distance, but I'm telling you it's not that close. Like you, I walk up pretty far in there. I pointed it in the woods and I just let up run. And then you get these things at one o'clock, two o'clock in the morning, three o'clock in the morning, going on on their own. And like I said, I've heard I've heard those recorded those zipper sounds in other areas as well, So I think there's something going on with that. You know, obviously you're not, are you leaving unzipping your tent during those nights. No, but these aren't near that, those aren't These aren't near their tents, so they would even capture those kind of sounds. Yeah, okay, so here's the weird thing. So I'm just going to give you the summary real quick, Tristan.

36:27 So, when I went on out with Tate in the Iowa episode of that documentary series, we had my recorder about I mean it was it was far outside the campsite, it was not near the tent, and I didn't leave my tent at all that night, and at around three forty five, I get a sound recording of what sounds like a ten zipper. Sounded just like that, And I've been I mean, I've heard similar stories, but like nothing as close as the story you just told me of that you're capturing these zipper sounds not even close to a tent outside of the camp that's wild man.

37:10 Yeah, man, No, these are far These are far from my tent. So I figured it's just some kind of way of conversing with each other and some kind of communication that they do if it's them. And like I said, I've heard this in other areas too. I've captured it. I've captured that same exact sound in other areas, so it makes me think it could be sasquatched, But again, you don't you can't see what's making it, so it makes you wonder. But yeah, I'm glad you brought that up because I didn't. I didn't know about that. That's interesting. I've heard very many people tell me about that. I've heard the same thing, because I I haven't really heard that before from other people, So that you messed with me for for quite a while, Tristan, still until I heard in a few other interviews I did with random people how they've experienced the sasquatch unzipping a food container at their camp and also a sasquatch on zipping a tent that a female was in out in the Pacific Northwest somewhere. But yours is different because it's obvious that it's making the sound because it's not close to camp, which kind of makes me interpret my story in a way too.

38:21 But it's just very interesting to think about. So thank you for that. Yeah, Because yeah, I wondered the same thing. Because the more you listen to it, and the more that I've listened to it in other areas. I'm starting to wonever. Maybe it's just not a mimic of some kind. Maybe it's some kind of communication that they do amongst themselves. Definitely. I also have a record I don't think I put it in the file's ipologies, But I also have a recording where where there's a thing that comes up to recorder and it makes a really loud h sound with its mouth. It sounds like it makes it with its mouth, and then you hear it start talking, you hear it start talking with something else. Well, it's just when you hear this weird wow like wush sound it mixed with its mouth, and that is intense. So I don't know what that's all about. It's pretty loud too. I guess I should have put it in with the other files, but I just have so many that it's a lot. Like, yeah, it's a lot, listeners, you just have to imagine the most bigfoot files you've ever seen. It's a lot. Yeah. Well, and the thing is that I've been recording since twenty fifteen. I've been going out there. Yeah, that's a good point. That's why I have so many files. And that's the thing too, Like I recommend people record all the time as much as as much as possible, because even when you're around like you won't even know. Even if you can't hear anything in person, that doesn't mean the audio recorder won't capture anything. That means it's true. I've I've been able to capture things on my audio recorders while they're in person,

39:52 and I just never heard it, but you hear it on the recorder, so I can't explain it. Let's let's play some more, some more sounds here, let's see what we got up next. Sure that again, that was that rock camp behind on this hill again behind our camp, And again we didn't hear that in person, but on the recorder you can hear it. But oh wow, well, as you can tell, that was a weird language, right, that's weird, man. Then you hear the then you hear the knock afterward. I've heard that many times. You hear that many times where you hear like a vocal and then a wood knock or vice versa. So do you think do you think it's a wood knock or or maybe even a rock clack. It's hard to tell. It could be a rock clack. Yeah, let's listen again, it's a totally different language.

40:52 Man. Yeah, I wouldn't be able to make that sound like or come up with that sound. Well, who does? It sounds like good native kind of a language. That's weird. Wow. And that's the other thing too. I think a lot of people think that the rawn mohead sounds are gonna be everywhere you record, and that's not the Like every every language you record is gonna be like moreheads, and that's not the case here. I think if we're dealing with the Sasquatch, maybe it's a different type of Sasquatch or a different tribe of them that they're not all going to have the samurai chat or and things like that. Could be just a different tribe with a different kind of language. That's fast. Yeah, all right, let's see what we gut here. Okay, So that was recorded at California camp and I was around midnight and I was up with another big corupt researcher and we were just talking at the fire and all of a sudden, that thing just popped off behind us way in the woods on our camp in the woods.

42:06 It was pretty damn close. And again like that, it was even louder that was even louder in person. But that thing just popped off right behind us and then that was it. No, no other vocals or anything like that. I was for certain. I was like, he's going to say that that was him, But no, that's a sound that you captured. And it sounds really close to your camp too, Yeah, it does. It sounds like it was right in the woods there probably watching us. Well. That came from where California camp is more like a slope. It kind of slopes up into another hill, but you can actually camp up on this hill as well. But where we were, where I was with this other big for researcher, we were at this campfire towards the entrance of the camp and then this thing, whoever it was, came from the hill up behind us, behind our camp in the woods and it was, like I said, it was very close and very loud. So whatever it was was right there. And it has a really like even Alex not on his shoe.

43:00 It's lung capacity is crazy and it carries that sound carries too. Does it almost sound like it has a female tone to it? Yes? Right, yes, or maybe a juvenile maybe a female. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, it's just it's really weird. I'm gonna play it one more time. Well, that would be man. There's no campers behind us there, so I don't think I personally don't think it was another camper. There's a road next to California Camp, but there was no as far as I remember, there's no campers around us at that point. So and everybody else in our camp was asleep. It was just me and this other bigger researcher at the campfire. Nothing just popped off and only did it once.

43:54 No other vocals were heard that night, but that was it. And he he immediately said that's a big foot. As soon as he heard it, he said, he said, that's a big foot. Absolutely, Yeah, that's funny. That really freaked me out that I'll hear in that person because you don't expect that it just happens out of nowhere. So yeah, I saved what I feel is my favorite for last. If I had heard this, I would probably I don't know what I would. I would probably been like, pack the bags because if we stick around here, we're just gonna get taken out. But I'll play a little because it's a long clip, but I'll play a few minutes of it here and then I'll have you to talk about it. So okay, okay, that went on for thirty minutes

45:39 straight. Yeah, it's hard to explain, but that's the only clip that I almost had a feeling of. I don't know if dread is too over. It just makes it affects you when you hear it, and it's hard for me to explain. And I can't imagine hearing that real life. Dude. It was, like I said, the recorder doesn't do it justice. It was incredibly loud. I have you ever heard the Snowhole much recordings from the seventies before. There's some sounds in those recordings that are stunds sound very similar to that. Again, I forget who there was. I forget who the woman's name was, but she was near a rock quarry and these were coming from a rock quarry in snow how much Washington. I know I heard the name, but I can't think of what they sound like. So I'm going to have to look that up later. Yeah, I looked that up later. But there's some what's called the whoop hoal And immediately as soon as I heard this in person, I said, wow, that sounds just like the snow whole much stuff. Now, I'm not saying that's the snow ho Musch record now, I'm just saying whatever that is sounds similar to that the whoop howl. And like I said, when you hear that sound, it does sound like something dread, something you had dread and run away from, like a male. That's a male yelling, possibly a male sesquatch. Do you think there were multiples in there or just one. Yeah, Throughout the

47:13 whole recording, you'll hear different types of voices, possible female voices, maybe juvenile voices. It's a whole chorus of them. And they were coming from different spots too. It was on just one spot, it was like different spots from around the whole area there. And again this was at two o'clock in the morning, and it went on for thirty minutes straight. There was no breaks in between. Basically, So if it was a human doing this, why the hell would they be doing that for thirty minutes And with that kind of lung capacity and with that many many individuals as well, And I've never heard I've never heard vocal. I've never heard anything like that before. Besides that voopal stuff at the beginning. I've never heard the rest of the course stuff before. So again, if it was humans, why are they doing that two o'clock in the morning for thirty minutes. I mean they didn't they didn't even stop. If there are people called last day, they didn't stop for a response, They just kept it just keeps going, which is that would be weird, right, Yeah, there's no Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, the chorus stuff is weird because it's I've heard other recordings that are similar to that from the Pacific Northwest, like the chorus thing.

48:23 Yeah, but like yours is very unique as well. And man, so you you woke up at two am and you heard that live Yeah, well that first call you, that first thing woke me up because it's so freaking loud. Wow. Yeah, when you hear that rack, when you hear that thing, man, like that roar kind of sound like that wakes that woke me up all my sleep. Oh my god, goodness. And unfortunately my mother, my mother couldn't hear that person. I get. That's why I have that, That's why I had that sixty minute version one that I played on Alexis Show, because I didn't want to have me and my mom talking while you hear that stuff going on. So that's why I had the version of just the sounds. I didn't want my voice and her voice in it. And there's been some other Bigfoot research chargers. I'll just say Dave Ellis has gotten sounds from there as well. That's kind of similar to that chorus sound. And I've actually recorded himself. You're saying, yeah, he's recorded there before, and he's gotten some sounds from there, And in fact, some friends of mine were there last year got something kind of similar to that. In September, they recorded something kind of similar to that a little bit weighs down from California. It was further away from California, a California camp, but they recorded something kind of similar to that. Wow, but again like thirty minutes, man, Like, why would anybody do that?

49:43 For thirty minutes? They would blow out their vocal cords. It was somebody something like that. Absolutely, what time of year did that happen in? That was in July July twenty twenty, July seventeenth, so it was after obviously, it was after full to July, so well obviously people, I mean that's the thing too. Like this, people people do go to this lake and camp and stuff. I mean there are people there around, but I I don't know. I don't know if this as much are comfortable with that or not? I mean, why why would something so elusive be making that sounds like that? That's that's what makes me wonder were they that Are they that comfortable to make those kind of sounds? You know, and and for that wold you know, being that wold too, So maybe it's much a're comfortable there? Yeah, I mean we don't know. Have you had people analyze your your sound, especially that clip there, like people like David Ellis, Yeah, Dave, Dave Ellis and Chris Spencer and Manonga Hill have all looked at it. And you know, Dave Els and Chris Spencer say, it's not it's where it is comes from a living thing. It's not. It's not. Yeah, they think it's from a living subject.

50:59 And I guess Manonga Hill agrees with that, but he he made he made the comment I wish the audio was closer to the subjects. But I do too. But you know I could help that, right, Yeah, good point. But they but they both but they did say they think it comes from a natural you know source, that it's not fabric and and for the work. And I'm not hoaxing anything here, Like I'm just putting my recorder out there capturing sound. So I'm not hoaxing anything. Yeah, I mean you're you're camping out and having a recorder, doing some doing some wood knocks, doing some sounds yourselves at times. I'm just putting my recorders out there and letting the broad just like other researchers are doing. I'm doing nothing different.

51:46 Really, I got a few questions for you about about recording audio, and hopefully you know people can listeners can can get some really sol advice from this. So when it comes to let's say you have someone they're going out in the field and it's their first time where they're going to try to record audio right of a bigfoot, what are the absolute what's the necessity the must know advice about recording audio out in the wild. Well, for one thing is I keep my audio recorders in plastic bags to keep from moisture and condensation.

52:31 Obviously it rains a lot here in the Pacific Northwest, so I try to keep them covered as much as I can, and I put them on bungee cords and I strap them the trees and such and just let them run. And sometimes I'll put moss on them to try to hide them and maybe put some different smells on it. Because here's the thing, like I mentioned earlier, I've had bears grab my recorders and to them the bits or carry them off somewhere. Right now, I've lost recorders based on that. So I actually try to hide them with moss and put some different sense on them, so hopefully a bear won't sniff them out. But I think a bear is gonna I think a bear is attracted to the batteries. I've heard that before that there's something. I've heard that as well. Yeah, that there's something that they're attracted to. So just be aware of that, you know, if you put in a battery operated operated device out there, or even game cameras. I think they've done that with game cameras as well. And so going back to the recorders, I mean, I just what I like to do is as I mentioned with rock camp, I like to put them around. Say that you're at a campsite, I like to go around the campsite, but not too close to it, but just far enough to maybe where something can just watch you. And I like to put you know, kind of put auto recorders in different spots, say one part of the hill, on another part of the hill over here, kind of surrounding the campsite, but not too close to it, just in case you might get something coming in and watching, you know. I like to do that, And as far as me, you know, there's there's also times where I just go to a research area and I'll just leave a record or out like on a stump, high up on a stump or on a or on a hill

54:05 or something like that, kind of high up, because I think the sasquatch like to be in high places, so they may come up and they may come up and down a hill, up and down a hill. So I try to keep them up high a little bit just in case they might they might walk by it. Well, you know, I'm really doing nothing special with these recorders. I'm just putting them out on trees and such and making sure they're covered, and I try to look for areas. I try to look for spots where there's water, like a lake or something, and then maybe there's a ridge you can walk up or something like a high high hill or eye spot where I think the sasquatch might come up and down that hill to the water or to get maybe if some kind of foods or it's like a deer or something. That's how I think these guys are operating. So so going back to your camping, if you have a hye spot behind you, possibility a sasquatch might be going up and down that hill that mountain to watch you. So that's another thing too. I like the idea of bringing them in as opposed to going out after them. I think you might have more better luck and capture an audio that way if you bring them in.

55:15 What if your camp was on the high spot. It's just a random thought. No, that's a good idea. Yeah, if you can find a spot where you can camp up high and maybe but I think the sasquatch like that kind of cover ide you know, they kind of like the idea of being able to have some cover, right, and maybe they kind of they might strategically they might like to be up high totch you. I'll just say I'll just quickly talk about a quick thing that happened. I think essentially the audio of this too, But in one of my research areas, maybe my mother put up a plot watcher in this little goalie. It's kind of like a like as like a hill you can climb up that overlooks like a little goalie. And I believe we I believe I've seen some foot traffic near where we put this potlatcher on this tree, and up above us there's like a stump. This is thirty yards away. There's a stump. And one time I put a recorder up there, running on top of the stump that's three yards away, up above us and down below. My mother and I were putting up this plot launcher, and then when I went home and listened to the recorder, I heard some possible speech and chatter on the recorder as if possible sasquatch might come in and watch us put up that plot watcher. And I have that. I put that in your files. I think it's called bigfoot closer the recorder, but you hear some voices talking to each other, and it's not me or my mom, So I don't know what the heck it is as well, But that's the thing I think. I think in some instances the sasquatch might be watching people put up game cameras and things like

56:49 that, and they might be up they might be up high too where you can't see them. So they might be in a strategic place watching you. But I'm not saying that's always the case, but I think in some cases maybe that's what's happening, and that's maybe that's why people aren't getting things on their game cameras because they're being watched. Do you have a specific recorder model that you use, Yeah, I would see if let's see if I can get it up. Well, kind of a mess, but I'll just show you one of the I'll show you one of my new ones. This is a Yeah, this is a this is kind of expensive, but this is the kind of recorder that I use. It's like a it's a Sony PCM recorder PCM D ten. This is one of my new recorders I've got and it has two microphones on top. Okay, and it's it's pretty hefty, but it will this will record for eight hours and what and like I said, what I do is I just put it in a bag and I just put these on, put these on a tree or something, have them sticking out towards forrest away from camp and I just have them record overnight and yeah, yeah, that's it. There you go, it's a whole night.

58:17 Do you have to when you're setting up a recorder for the first time to use for bigfoot audio recording, do you want to make sure that you do any specific settings a certain way or well, that's the thing. I know there's some filter settings, noise filter settings, but I actually don't even use those. I just I use A I use a I use Adobe Audition for my audio audio editing, so I just use that if I need to bring down the noise on something. But no, honestly, I really I just I just make sure I set the I set the parameters on this thing so it doesn't overpeak. Obviously you have to set them. They have to set the speakers to a setting where it doesn't go into the red all the time to see that's where that's where it peaks. Get that real crappy audio.

59:04 Other than that, man like, I just let it run, and I let it run on normal play, not on long play, because long play we'll give you really bad audio. Just let it run normally and yeah, and recorders like this while we run for eight hours because the batteries. It eats up batteries pretty quickly. There's small recorders that I use actually record for at least a day or two, like twenty four or forty eight hours, so I use those as well. I don't always use these big guys. I like to use this big guy when I'm camping out. I'm like I'm bumping, for example. But if I'm just going to a research area, I'll leave out these little small digital recorders and just leave them on trees for a few days or even a week or even a couple of weeks, even if they run out batteries are just after a week or two, I'll just go back and grab them and listen to whatever a couple of nights that are on there. I got to say, though, definitely, if people are going to be doing audio recording, try to get a parabolic dish because the voice quality is amazing on those things, and they'll they'll pick up things even even further away, and so I and I I've had pretty decent success with that too, So I recommend people try to get a that satellite a pair of bog dish to use when audio recording, so you can use that with an audio recorder because I've when I've seen that used it's for live monitoring, right, but you can use it for recording. You're saying, oh, yeah, yeah, you can strap a dish, a dish to a tree and you have it. You can have it plugged into one of these guys.

1:00:32 Wow, you just have a recording. Yep, that's what I've been doing. Man, I've been doing that with this and and and uh and with a task cam. But that's my other big recorder is called a task cam. Yeah. You can hook them up to these things and they'll record whatever's on the you know, from the dish that feeds much longer? How much longer do you think you're able to go up out roughly with it parabolic attached to it? Well, that's a well that's the thing. Way. The cord on the parabolic at least the one that I have, doesn't go very far, so you have to you have to keep these close together. But what I usually do is I'll tie both of these to a tree like I'll have I'll have the parabolic dish facing out on one side of the tree, and then I'll have this guy on the back of it, and I'll bunge of court, both of them together, and have them have this recording both of them. Sorry I said that question not good at all. What I meant to say was, so, let's let's imagine with a regular recorder you're able to capture like a mile out of sound. How much further out do you think you're able to capture if you've got a parabolic mic in the mix? Yeah, I'm sorry, I miss I'm totally misheard or misinterpreted.

1:01:47 Maybe, well, I don't I don't know if this will record a mile out maybe, but yeah, maybe double that. I'm not the best with difference, man, but maybe double that, especially depending on actually the how big the dishes, how big of a dish is working, and how much sounding can funnel and pick up. Got very interesting thing. I've used this before. This is like a forty dollars one you can get on Amazon. Oh you can actually this is like for birds. But you can actually take this out and record with it as well. But the other dish I work that I have is bigger than this. But this is just a little small example of something you just have to you have to click and the trigger for the record, but you can still hear it's still captures pretty well, pretty good audio. Are you of the mindset that do you start recording right when you get to the camp site or when do you usually start your recording?

1:02:51 Well, when I'm camping, I like to wait till it gets dark and I and a lot of times I even I even try to put them out as it's getting dark, and I that's the thing. I'll walk up the hill when it's dark out and I'll just put a recorder up there with a flashlight or something with the headlamp or flash light. I'll just go up on the hill and put a recorder out even when it's dark. But I believe we get I get I believe we get most activity during the night and as we're at the campfire. So I like to put them out right right as we're going to the campfire for the night, and I just let them run all night and then I go back in the morning and pick them up. If I'm if I'm camping there, I just pick them up in the morning. Have you ever considered doing a long term field recording unit? And I don't know if you'd be able to put it in the area out there.

1:03:40 I've talked to Chris Spencer about units like that before, right, Yeah, with Chris's unit there, Yeah, I would love That's something I'd love to try. I don't have one, but I would be interested in trying that out. But the other thing is going through audio is a heck of a process. You have to seal, you have to say there and listen to hours and hours of audio. So that's why I kind of that's why it was some of my recordings. I like to just go at night and then I can get through the night possibly. And obviously, if you have a spectrogram or a graph, you can see these little spikes and hopefully you'll you can just zero in on that and go, oh, that could be a possible sound. But there's there's been sounds that the audio that the recorder picks up, but when you look at them on a spectrograph, they're really low.

1:04:27 They don't always show up as like big spikes or anything. You actually you have to really listen for it, like little blips and things like that, because they're not always going to be real loud. So that's another thing I want to bring up is that if you're looking on a spectrograph, don't always look for the big waves, because you've got to get stuff in between that, or even down below where it gets kind of no where the noises too. You have to really look for these little red these little orange bumps and things like that in between. Oh. Interesting, there's others. There's some other sounds going on. Man, it's not always like these big wavelengths. So speech for example, okay, okay, for like speech sounds I'm supposed to like cowls and stuff. You get the little blips of things or like the zipper sound, that zipper sound that we were going through earlier, those don't go like this. They're like little little things on this spectrogram you got to look for. Yeah, you could easily overlook that if you were just going by spectrogram, yeah yeah, or if you're not listening for it, you're just got you might overlook it because you're not looking for the big big wait points on there. So absolutely, Oh man, Tristan, this has been a very very interesting discussion. And thank you for sharing your audio with me and listeners. That was cool. Oh yeah, man, yeah, you're welcome. Yeah yeah. I recommend people just going out there and recording as much as they can if they're going to be researching. That's all I can. I mean, that's all I'm doing. I'm nobody special doing

1:05:58 this. I'm just my audio recorders out there and hopefully capture something. But you don't always do that. You don't always get something on audio. So hopefully we'll be checking in with you in the future. Who knows, who knows what will come out of bumping like next it's especially maybe even if you camp up and on the hill, We'll see if it happens or not. But you know that would be a wild adventure. But were any last thoughts before we close out the night? Well, just in general, like even what I mentioned in Tage's documentary, when you go squatching, you're not always going to get you. You're not always going to have something to happen.

1:06:43 It's not like what you see on the entertainment shows like Exhibedition, Bigfoot or something for example. You're not always going to have something happen to you. So I just I just want people to understand that. The reality is is that not a lot happens when you're going out there. And I've had so many hours of recordings where I have nothing on them, so it's not every time I go out there I get something, but hey, if you're in the right spot, yeah, sure maybe you'll get something. But don't always expect to get audio or anything, or audio or all the kinds of evidence every time you go out squashing it, because that's really that's just the reality of it, in my opinion. And so I just want people to know that the reality of bigfooting is that now, a lot happens, and sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you get something, but it's not like what you see on TV exactly. And if you don't. If you do go out and you don't get anything, stick with it, try again, try again, and eventually you'll get lucky. How can people Is there any ways that people can keep up to date with what you're doing, Tristan or or contact you or anything like that, or is it saying where you kind of keep under the radar. Yeah, Well, the thing is I don't post my stuff publicly. I mean, I'm happy to share them like on podcasts, like with you or anybody, but yeah, I don't. I have a YouTube page, but that's not dedicated to Sasquatch. It's okay, more other stuff. But if people want to reach me, they can go on Facebook, I'm on Tristan Yelton. They can contact her, their message me there and I can talk to I'll be happy to talk to them about anything.

1:08:15 And but yeah, I mean, if I get anything now, I'll contact you or somebody else about it, and I'd be happy to share them. I'm happy to share them, share my stuff with anybody. I mean, there's nothing to hide. Cool. So yeah, so there you have it. It's one of those interviews where if you see if you see the name Tristan Yelton pop up in a podcast, it's going to be something good, so make sure you If it's not big for society and something else, listen to that one too. But Tristan, thank you so much for coming on. This has been a really fun and also I learned a lot about audio recorders. Thank you well, thank you for having me. I had a great time. I just wanted to take a few minutes to say thank you to you Homan listeners for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast. Thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed, Share the show with a friend.

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