Aug. 19, 2025

Cascades Terror: Bigfoot at Arm’s Length | Washington

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Season 1

What happens when a young boy’s summer afternoon in the Cascade foothills turns into a brush with something massive, gray, and very much alive? In this chilling episode, master botanist Keith shares decades of encounters stretching from Newcastle, Washington, to the wilds of California’s Sierra Nevada. You’ll hear about the day a Sasquatch rose to its full height just feet away, the night screams echoed through the forest like a woman being torn apart, and the time a pyramid of six glowing lights floated toward a tree fort with terrifying intent. From Cougar Mountain to Willow Creek, Keith’s stories weave together close-range sightings, rockfalls, strange smells, and moments when the woods seemed to hold their breath. This is a rare, raw firsthand account of how one man’s childhood playground became the stage for some of the most unnerving encounters we’ve ever heard.









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

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account is from a man who grew up in the

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wild foothills of the Washington Cascades, where the woods were

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both his playground and would become the fuel for his nightmares.

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Just a few steps away, he saw something that changed

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his life forever, and over the years, the strange events

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have not stopped. This is Keith's account and it spans

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decades states in more than one kind of terror. So

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stay with us, all I Bigfoot Society. You've got the

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privilege of talking to Keith today. Keith is an individual

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listens over on the YouTube platform I believe, so we

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got connected there. He is a master botanist that grew

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up in the Cascade foothills of Washington State. And I

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know a little bit about what we're about to get into.

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It's about to get pretty intense, so I'm looking forward

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to it. Keith, Welcome to the show. How are you

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doing today, sir.

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Good afternoon, doing great.

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Awesome, Keith. I love hearing about the Cascades. I actually

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got to go up into them in Oregon. They are

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not to be messed with. You do not underestimate them.

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I underestimated them. That's a different story for a different day.

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But you know, Keith, take us back as far as

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you need to to when all these things started happening

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to you.

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Okay. Well, I spent a lot of time growing up

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on the foothills of the Cascades there in Newcastle, Issaquah,

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Cougar Mountain, Tiger Mountain, and about nineteen seventy nine, nineteen eighty,

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I was playing with a group of friends at a

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dead end street down the street from my parents' house

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and just skateboard and you know, do all the things

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that kids did back and then and the dead end

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street led back the woods where we have a little

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BikeE tracks and stuff like that. And then, uh, there

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was two hills next to that, and for some reason, uh,

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I think we were planning to go to one of

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our tree forts or something. So my friends had taken

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off to go home and meet me. They're going to

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meet me back in the woods on top of this

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this uh, this hill. It was kind of a lookout.

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It could you kind of look out across the Seattle

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and uh Lake Washington. And I was supposed to meet

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them up there, and I said Okay, well, I'm not

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even gonna go home. I'm just gonna I went back

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in the woods and started climbing the first hill, and uh,

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this is probably June or July, I remember. I remember

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it being warm and very sunny that day, and I

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decided to climb this first hill and I finally got

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to the top of it, and I was cresting the

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top of the hill and I heard branches breaking, and

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I caught something out of the corner of my eye

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and I looked over my shoulder and I see this

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big creature like standing mid standing up. I catch it

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right when it's standing up, and it's just it's a

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bizarre dark gray color covered in hair, and all I

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could see is like it's buttocks, it's back and shoulders

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and part of its head. And it took like three

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steps and it was gone. And I was close to

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this thing. I got a really good look at it,

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and it didn't make any noise, it didn't look at me.

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It just busted through the bushes and was gone. And

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my mind was going a mile a minute trying to

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figure out what I'm looking at. And the color was

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really bizarre, and I was just in awe. I was frightened,

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and I was kind of hurrying myself away looking at

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this thing, but it was it was going away from me,

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so I was glad about that, and I was quite frightened,

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and I said, you know, I'm gonna get out of here.

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So instead of climbing the next mountain to meet my friends,

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I cut down this ravine between my neighbor's houses and

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went home. And when I was walking away from this thing,

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I smelt this odor I've smelt many times before out

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in the woods, and it smelled It smelt like horse poop,

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body odor and urine all the same time. It was

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a very sickly sweet smell. And I got out of

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there went home. I tried talking to my dad about

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what I'd seen, and he was kind of like, oh,

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don't worry about it. You know, it was probably this

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or that. You know, you got a couple hours of

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before dinner when you go out and play with your

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friends some more. And so I never really brought it

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up again. I never talked to my friends about it,

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and after that I was pretty paranoid about going into

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the woods by myself. After that, it really frightened me.

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I didn't know what I was looking at and as

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a child, our only experience with like Bigfoot and stuff

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like that was like, you know, the six million Dollar

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Man and uh Leonard Nimoy at the time, and us

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as kids, we thought that was all you know, fiction.

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It wasn't real, you know, stuff like that that it

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was never on our mind is when we were when

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we were hanging out in the woods. So that was

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my my my first experience with uh really bizarre encounters

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in the woods behind my parents' house and trying to

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remember what the next thing it kind of happened. Then again, uh,

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me and one of my friends, Steve, we decided to

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hike up to uh Cougar Mountain and stay at this

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place called uh Dlio Wall And it's like a rock

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out cropping on top of the on top of the

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mountain that uh kind of looks over h the backside

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of the Rent and Highlands May Creek, you know, horse

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pastures and stuff like that. And we're going to camp

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the night up there. And I remember we were setting

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up camp there and we had a whole bunch of

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like rocks and stuff tumble down the side of the

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cliff next to us twenty thirty feet away, and you know,

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We're like, that could be anything, dear, whatever. There's a

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lot of critters out there. So we make our camp.

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Everything's cool. We start getting kind of a rain rainstorm

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coming through, so we're like, well, we better get in

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a tent and just you know, hunker down and let

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the storm pass or whatever. So we're sitting in there,

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we're trying to sleep, and it's raining and not raining,

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and it's raining again, and we keep hearing this like

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stomping around thirty forty yards away in the woods and

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it sounds like something heavy is pacing back and forth.

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And my friend and Steve's like, what is that? So

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I don't know, maybe somebody's out there messing with or

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or something as well. You know, we got a gun

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and everything, so we had a rifle. And this went

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on and went on, and my friend Steve started getting paranoid,

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and I was like getting paranoid. I said, hey, I'll

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just I'll shout out and say, hey, you know, who's

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out there, who's messing with us? We got a gun,

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leave us alone. And we kept on hearing noise again.

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So Steve's like, why don't you shoot around through the

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shoot around through the top of the tent and see

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if we can scare whatever it is away. So I'm

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like reluctantly, I'm like okay, and I fire one shot

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through the top of the tent, which was a really

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bad idea. It ended up striking the aluminum crossbar on

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top of the tent, and the tent basically falls down

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on top of the soaking wet and then we're like

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in panic mode and we got to fix the tent,

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or we've got to you know, We've got to fix

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something here. So we end up taking a tarp and

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making kind of a tentile the tarp with a fire

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in front of it, and we ended up sleeping under

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that the rest of the night. And then it became

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very quiet and we didn't hear any more noise again,

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and it stopped raining, and that was a very unusual

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a coincidence. And we'd walk around in the forest a

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lot of the time. We'd hear entire trees falling over

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from time to time, and we didn't think much of

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that either, because there was a lot of dead trees

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and we had a lot of windstorms there up there

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in Seattle, and we used to push trees over all

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the time. But this must have happened five or six

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time over a couple of year period, and as I

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got older, you know, thinking back on this stuff, I

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just said, this is really weird that we were witnessing

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these kind of things. So that was about nineteen. This

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was about nineteen eighty three, eighty two eighty three when

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that happened. And then I remember the summer of eighty three,

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we were up at a tree fort up which is

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now Newcastle Ridge. It's a big luxury home view neighborhood

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now that we used to tramp all over the woods

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back there and it's all homes now, but we had

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a tree forward up there with a nice rope swing

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and kids from all of the neighborhood which would hike

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up there and go, you know, goes, go on the

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rope swing and hang out and stuff like that. And

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me and my neighbor Doug, we're up there one evening,

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probably around five point thirty. Just started kind of getting dark,

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I believe, and we were sitting up in the tree fort.

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I don't know what we were doing, but we all

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of a sudden we start hearing this very loud, very

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intense screaming, and it was loud. It sounded like a

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woman being torn apart, screaming for her life, and my

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friend Doug's looking at him, goes, what was that? Never

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heard anything like that before out here. It was Sny

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getting hurt, and we were kind of we were very frightened.

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That to me was being something's happened to somebody. And

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I had a double barreled shotgun that I used to

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carry up in the woods with me, so we were like,

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you know, we were protected and everything. And this went

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on for three or four minutes, and then it just

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it got dark, and then we didn't hear it anymore.

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And a few months after that, we were up there

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again and this this screaming started, and this time we

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went home and grabbed a deer rifle and a moss

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Bird five hundred and twelve gage and we went back

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there looking in this area to see what was going

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on back there, and there was nothing around. It was

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dead quiet, couldn't see anything, didn't hear anything, and we

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went home, and you know, just crazy crazy stuff we'd

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hear out there. Another another incidents, we had a place

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where we would have campfires up on the hill behind

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the house, and me and groups of people would come

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up there and you know, cookcot dogs and you know,

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talk and stuff like that. And we would constantly hear

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somebody walking around in the bushes or in the tree

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line constantly, and me seeing hearing this kind of stuff

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back in the woods, I was pretty paranoid and I

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was always kind of an alert, you know. And I

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noticed it right away and I just kind of ignored it.

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And then another friend that was there was like, man,

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it sounds like somebody's over in the bushes. There is there.

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You know, got weird. I was out here something watching

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people as I don't know. I hear a lot of

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things out here, and so that was weird. And then

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where I where I had seen that that creature at

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there was a family that lived about one hundred yards

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down the hillside where I'd seen this thing. Where I

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cut through the I cut through the neighbor's yard there.

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They lived there, and my friend's mom would always question me,

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she's seen me. She's like, uh, She's like, Keitha, you

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guys been hanging behind the house at night. You guys

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have been out there. I know you guys go out

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there all the time. I said, I said, no, I'm

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never out behind your house at night. And She brought

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this up three or four times over like a five

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six year periods as I was growing up. And now

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it dawn's on me today that maybe they were witnessing

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some stuff too and didn't know what was going on.

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So that was strange. And then let's see if there's

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a line here, see here, and what's the other thing

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that happened here. So anyways, some of us relatively uneventful.

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And there was a time that this is around nineteen

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eighty four, and me and a group of friends we

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went to another tree. We had three or four tree

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for us back in the woods, and we went to

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this one that was quite large. It was like a

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big giant deck built up in a tree, and we'd

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go up there all the time, and we had a

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lot of strange experiences there as well. We would hear

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sound like people were talking, like gibberish, like women talking,

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but you could never you can never make out what

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they were saying. And other friends said they would hear

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it as well, and that was strange. But this one

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night that we were up there, we're up there listening

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to music and there's about four four of us up there,

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and I was looking off, I was hoping that tree fort,

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and I was looking off to the with the northeast,

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which would be kind of the direction where our houses

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were on the other side of the woods, and off

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in the distance, maybe three four hundred yards, I could

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see it look like a porch light in the distance,

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and I was like, well, that's odd. There's no houses

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over there. There's no porch lights in that area. It

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was just a kind of like an abandoned field that

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was kind of overgrown. And we we had walked by

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that area getting to the tree fort, so I thought

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that was odd. And we're you know, listening to music

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and doing you know, kids doing stuff. And twenty minutes

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go by, and I look over again and this this

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light looks like it's closer now. So now I'm kind

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of paying attention, like, who, you know, semi four four

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wheeling out there some kind of flashlight. But the light

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didn't look like it was panning around like somebody carrying

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a light or or you know, being a truck light

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a four wheel drive or something. It didn't look like anything.

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It looked like a forty or sixty watt porch light bulb.

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And so I kind of started watching it, you know,

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another fifteen minutes goes by, and now it's about one

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hundred and fifty yards away or so, and I can

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see it a lot better, and I look at my

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friends and I go, hey, guys, there's a weird light

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over here in the woods. I've been watching. It's getting closer.

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And they're like, ah, you're crazy, there's nothing over there.

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They can see the light, they don't think nothing of it.

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So this is kind of transpired over about a forty

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minute time frame here, So we carry on with everything again.

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I finally I look over again and this thing is

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getting closer and closer now, and I started getting worried.

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I don't say nothing to my friends. I'm kind of

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watching it, and it's like hovering and moving through the tree,

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through the trees, similar to like maybe a drone, like

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a drone would be kind of like, but it wasn't

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panning around or moving. It was like directly coming at

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us and not deviating from that at all, which was

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really weird, which was frightened me. And it started getting

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closer and it looked like a pyramid shape with six

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lights in it. And I look at my friends again.

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I said, hey, guys, hate to bother you. Again, but

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you might want to look at this light. And all

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I said, three or four of my friends were up there.

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They all go up to the edge of the tree

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floor and they're looking at it and they're going, that's that.

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And I said, well, that's what I've been trying to

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tell you. I don't know what it is. And it

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was moving to maybe one or two miles an hour.

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It's probably about twelve feet off the ground, and it's

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just it's slowly coming towards the tree for it and

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it got within maybe sixty yards of us, and my

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friends flipped, They're like, let's get out of here, and

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we split down this tree. For we practically fell out

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of the tree for getting out of there, and we

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ran the opposite way. There was a trail that went

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to the south that we could that we ran through

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and completely went around the entire woods back to our homes.

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And we never talked about that incident ever again. None

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of us never brought it up. And that was extremely frightening.

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And I have I don't know what I saw. I

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don't know what it was, but it really frightened us.

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And you know, after seeing some of these things, I

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started becoming I didn't like to go out in the

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woods by myself, and I usually carried a shotgun with

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me or something like that if I did go out

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there and gosh, so that had happened, and what else

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had happened. I had another experience there where we we

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had a small little party up there one night and

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I came back here and meet some people, and I

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had I had a twenty two rifle with me, and

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some of the girls from high school were there and

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they wanted they wanted to shoot my my my twenty

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two into this tree, and I said, no, that's not

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a good idea, you know, I don't want to, you know,

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alert because there was neighbors not too far away, one

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hundred two hundred yards away, There's some houses and stuff

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like that, and I definitely didn't want the cops to

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come or anything like that. So we're standing there and

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the next thing I know, I start hearing I hear

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like a dog collar, and I see a light coming

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up the hillside underneath the tree for it, and I

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grabbed my twenty two away from one of my one

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of my girlfriends, and I haul out of there. I

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don't know if it was a cop, but I started

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seeing a light and I saw a dog and I say,

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god ohe might be a sheriff or something like that.

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So I split out of there. I run. I get

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about thirty forty yards away from his tree fort I

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heaved my twenty two into the bushes and I take off.

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I run home because I didn't want to get caught

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with the rifle, obvious reasons, you know, being a young kid.

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So the next day, I go out there really early

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in the morning. I go out there like six in

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the morning. I said, got to go find my rifle,

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and I knew exactly where I'd thrown it. So I

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went there looking and looking and looking. I couldn't find it.

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I couldn't find it, and I'm like, somebody took it,

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maybe the cop. Maybe it was a cop that took

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it or something. I'm going to get in trouble. So

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I'm really freaking out. I'm really worried about that. So

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I walk, I get back on the trail, I start

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walking home. I get halfway down the trail, I look

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down and there's my rifle sitting parent sitting on the

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side of the trail, just sitting there, exactly where I

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didn't put it. So how my gun got there. Why

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my gun was there, I have no idea. So I

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picked my gun up, cleaned it off, I took it home.

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Never had any cops come around or anything like that.

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But that was another really bizarre incident that I have

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no explanation for. That's pretty much the most relevant things

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that I witnessed, you know, growing up there in the

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cascades the foothills, and you know, we'd walk around and

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hear miscellaneous wood knocks, voices, stuff like that. But like

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I said, you know, we weren't out there looking for

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any any kind of stuff like that. So a lot

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of this stuff I just blew off. It's just being

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critters or just you know, hearing things. And that's the

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most pretty much the most relevant things that I experienced

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out there over maybe from nineteen eighty till about nineteen

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eighty six, and then shortly after that, me and most

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of my friends we had to get jobs and you know,

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grow up, and we didn't spend a lot of time

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out in those woods like we used to. We would

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we would once in a while, we would go and

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we would go to the dead end street hang out,

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have beers and stuff like that. You know, Later in

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our high school years and college years, and then we

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kind of a lot of us just kind of drifted

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apart because we've just grown up. And I still remember

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going up there and hearing noises, people walked, stuff, walking

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around stuff like that. Well another thing is we would

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get very paranoid and very frightened for no reason, which

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was which was really weird. We just you just be

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walking all of a sudden, we'd all of a sudden

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become frightened. Like SEMy was watching it, watching you. And

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like I said, I smelt that strange odor quite a

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few times, and to this day, if I smell I

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know exactly what it is. So pretty much, in a nutshell,

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that's the most relevant things that I witnessed growing up there.

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And like I said, this, this was like from like

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seventy nine up to maybe eighty six, uh is when

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most of this stuff happened. And then, uh yeah, that's

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kind of pretty much the story of I wish I

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had more for you, but that's pretty much, in a

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nutshell kind of what I witnessed out there.

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Keith, thank you for sharing all that. I mean, really

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intense stuff I've never you know, so like do come

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up on the show. Quite a bit, but I've never

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heard anyone describe something exactly like that where you know,

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triangle or pyramid shape with six lights in it. Very

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very strange. And there were no drones or you know

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things like that back then, not.

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At that time. And like I said, when I was

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watching it, it wasn't like panning around like somebody was,

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you know, falling a trail with a flashlight. It was

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like it was controlled and it didn't deviate it like

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it like went like from when I first saw it.

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It just went directly through the through the trees where

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there was no trails, And yeah, it was really frightening.

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And like I said, my friends thought I was pulling

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their leg at first until they saw it. And we

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never ever brought it up again. And I don't know

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if that was that was probably one of the last

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times that we ever up in that tree for it. Yeah,

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just and and not only that, I've never never seen

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lights out in the woods like that before, and if

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we did, it'd be like some me on a motorcycle

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or you know, kids screwing around or something like that.

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And that was an experience I have I have no

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answers for, and I'm glad we got out of there,

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because I don't know what it was. It almost looked

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you've ever seen one of those boxes that they put

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like it put like a veteran's flag in sure, it

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was about that size, with like six lights in it.

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And I said, it got close enough where we could

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really take a look at it, and we were out

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of there. Man, we were practically falling out of that

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tree for it to get b out of there, and

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we just ran, ran, ran, and then, uh, we never

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brought it up again. I was, like I said, I

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was telling my brother about it, and he got really

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quiet because he he hung out in those woods back

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in the sixties, and so my brother is a lot

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older than I am. I'm the youngest in the family.

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And I was going to tell him about, you know,

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me seeing the big hairy creature. And I didn't get

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a chance to talk to him about that yet. And

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I actually brought that up with one of my friends

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by the name of Steve, that I still talk to

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this day, and he got real quiet and kind of

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changed the subject about halfway through I was talking to

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about it, and I just said, okay, I'll just leave

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it alone. And I like, like, I said, this has

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bothered me for many, many years. And I had like

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when I, like I said, when I was up in Mariposa,

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I was sleeping late at night up there at this farm.

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And this farm was like thirty five hundred feet and

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was way out there. And I remember talking to the

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guy's wife they lived in she lived in town. They

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lived in town, an apartment there and in Mariposa, and

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she was like, yeah, don't quit your day job, you know, like, yeah,

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I don't, don't hang out there a lot or something.

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And then she wanted to talk to me about how

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she never she never went up there ever. She wouldn't

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go up there for nothing. She doesn't want anything to

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do with that property up there. And it was so

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warm up there, was about one hundred and five degrees

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by like twelve or one o'clock, and I would sleep.

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I actually went and slept up on the roof on

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top of his house because it was like a very

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slight incline and I was up about everything, and it

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was really hot. So I just slept on the roof

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for a couple of days up there, and uh, I

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woke up about two thirty two thirty three in the

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morning to hear almost the exact identical kind of screaming

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like somebody being torn apart, extremely loud. And I brought

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it up with the guy that owned the property, and

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he didn't really say much about it. And then later

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on he's like, he goes, yeah, you're the You're the

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only one that's ever stayed up here that long because

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I left there for like a week. I was fixing

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some stuff up in his property up there, and he

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was like, yeah, you're the only one that hadn't called

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me a nine to one one and want me to

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get get him out of there. And I thought that

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00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:18.279
was odd, And yeah, it's just kind of hard for

461
00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:20.200
me to remember all the stuff that happened over the

462
00:27:20.279 --> 00:27:22.559
years because a lot of it I just blew off

463
00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:25.519
as just not just being nonsense, you know, not thinking

464
00:27:25.559 --> 00:27:29.079
anything paranormal or oh sure, bigfoot definitely.

465
00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:33.680
What was the year roughly again on the Mariposa incident?

466
00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:38.359
Oh and that was the summer of nineteen.

467
00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:43.680
Oh wow, okay, so a lot more recent okay, yeah.

468
00:27:43.480 --> 00:27:44.039
Yeah, yeah.

469
00:27:44.079 --> 00:27:50.640
So for for people for listeners for context, Mariposa's in California.

470
00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:54.400
So this is not in Washington. This is down south

471
00:27:54.440 --> 00:27:56.680
of Yosemite National Park.

472
00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.480
Right, yeah, exactly.

473
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:05.519
Okay, okay, so I that area is intense. Well, this

474
00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:10.680
would be probably twenty let's see how old is.

475
00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:14.160
Going on out there.

476
00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:17.839
Twenty fifteen ish twenty somethingwhere around there. I used to

477
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.119
work for a big tech company. We got sent out

478
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:23.960
for training and one of the guys was like, let's

479
00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:26.880
go out to Yosemite for a weekend, and we ended

480
00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:32.599
up staying in this fun resort called the Yosemite Bug Resort.

481
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:35.039
And it was way out in the six you know it.

482
00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:38.920
Hold on for a second, what you know, you know,

483
00:28:39.240 --> 00:28:40.319
I was going to bring that up.

484
00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:47.240
Don't even say, don't even say, dude.

485
00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:50.839
Where the bug is? Yeah, if you look directly across

486
00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:53.400
the street from the Bug, Oh no, that would be.

487
00:28:54.079 --> 00:28:59.000
That would be south the hill, directly across south of

488
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:01.920
that of that place on top of that mountain right

489
00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:08.599
there was where I was at. No way, yeah, way,

490
00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:12.240
And the Bug's big food there, and it's a nice place.

491
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.640
The Bug is great. The Bug is great if you're looking.

492
00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:18.799
I mean it was. It was a cool place to

493
00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:22.519
hang out and you know kind of you know, get

494
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:24.960
a place to stay, but it's just a cool, cool vibe.

495
00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.799
But dude, you're out there and you're like, I am

496
00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:30.640
out here and there. I wasn't into Bigfoot at the time.

497
00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:32.400
I can't imagine if I was in the big Foot

498
00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:34.480
back then, I would have been in heaven, you know.

499
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:39.680
Yeah. And you know, you know another thing too, is

500
00:29:39.759 --> 00:29:43.039
like I don't go out looking for this kind of stuff,

501
00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:47.279
and I don't research this kind of stuff. It just

502
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:51.200
when I started hearing some of these programs, and a

503
00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:54.039
lot of them got started getting close to home, like

504
00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:58.279
the experience with what was the the marine and his

505
00:29:58.440 --> 00:30:04.400
brother were Rattlesnake Lake and they encountered that twelve foot

506
00:30:04.440 --> 00:30:07.640
big foot up on a creek up there. Do you

507
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:09.680
remember do you remember hearing anything about that?

508
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:14.160
Was this on my show? I don't think, uh no, this,

509
00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:15.960
I don't think I've heard of this one.

510
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.759
Yeah, we used to we used to hide that area

511
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:24.160
quite a bit. And that's really really there's a lot

512
00:30:24.200 --> 00:30:26.400
of forest out there. That's that's in Seattle, and that's

513
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:30.400
in Washington again, and it's close to snow Qualmie Falls,

514
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.640
and there was this what what what kind of uh

515
00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:39.680
interested me? Is when I heard this story and this

516
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:41.319
story is on the you know, it's on the net.

517
00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:45.200
You can look it up. And it's a story of

518
00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:49.880
a a marine and his younger brother were rock hounding

519
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:55.240
at Rattlesnake Lake and they decided to climb that. It's

520
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:57.440
there's a big mountain there, looks at a matter horn.

521
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.880
It's beautiful and you can hype to the top of it,

522
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:04.000
and it's got to look out. It's it's really intense.

523
00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:06.680
And apparently they went off the They went off the

524
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:12.720
main trail and started falling a creek up and uh,

525
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:16.519
the marine, the brother and the marine all of a

526
00:31:16.519 --> 00:31:19.319
sudden sees this thing in the in the creek. He

527
00:31:19.319 --> 00:31:22.559
thinks it's a huge bear, and then his brother sees it,

528
00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:26.880
and the marine's armed by the way. This thing stands up,

529
00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:30.480
it turns around. It's like twelve feet tall. And a

530
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.960
guy was describing as having like biceps the size of watermelons.

531
00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:37.920
And he said, he he he, he had a gun,

532
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:39.279
but he was he said, there's no way I would

533
00:31:39.279 --> 00:31:41.519
have shot the thing. He says it was it was huge.

534
00:31:41.559 --> 00:31:44.160
He says, like twelve feet tall. And that's what kind

535
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:46.880
of kind of you know, when I started to remember

536
00:31:46.960 --> 00:31:49.200
back to my childhood of seeing this thing, and that's

537
00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:53.319
what kind of sparked my interest in the subject again,

538
00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:56.880
and I'm surprised you haven't heard about that one.

539
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:00.559
Yeah, no I haven't. I'm looking real quick. Kind of

540
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:04.799
sounds like a BFRO report I just found. Did you

541
00:32:04.839 --> 00:32:06.799
say this was in the early two thousands? What was

542
00:32:06.839 --> 00:32:07.720
the year on this again?

543
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:11.400
Yeah, it had it been the Yeah, the early two thousands.

544
00:32:11.599 --> 00:32:14.519
Okay, I think I found it. But if anyone has

545
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:18.759
has an actual link or more specific info, go ahead

546
00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:22.839
put in the comments on YouTube. But oh man, that's intense, dude,

547
00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:26.160
really really intense. Thank you, Thank you for sharing that,

548
00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:29.000
because uh there's so many stories out there, you know.

549
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:34.000
Yeah, and uh, you know, like I said, I wouldn't

550
00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:37.279
even have called you unless I actually saw saw this creature.

551
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.200
And like I said, I got a good look at it.

552
00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:43.400
But the color of it was just bizarre. It was

553
00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:46.359
it was dark, but it had this weird gray color

554
00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:49.720
to it at the same time, and I was just

555
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:51.599
trying to in my mind trying to figure out what

556
00:32:51.640 --> 00:32:53.480
animal I knew that would be a color like that,

557
00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:56.400
and then being that big, I mean, it's it's rear

558
00:32:56.559 --> 00:33:00.960
end was probably just up to my eyeballs, and uh,

559
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:03.839
that's what kind of that's always been bothered me over

560
00:33:03.880 --> 00:33:08.799
the years seeing that thing, and to this day, I'm

561
00:33:08.880 --> 00:33:11.359
paranoid about going into the deep woods. I'll be honest

562
00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:14.319
with you, I'm I'm a bit paranoid and concerned. And

563
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:18.440
I just went and looked at this acre property get

564
00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:25.640
this in Willow Creek. Oh dude, Okay, So my business

565
00:33:25.680 --> 00:33:28.519
associates want me to run this this farm and ranch

566
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.319
up there on acres. And I was talking to one

567
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:35.839
of my business guys. He doesn't know anything about the wilderness.

568
00:33:35.839 --> 00:33:37.960
He doesn't go camping or anything like that. He's he's

569
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.759
a banker. And I was like, oh, yeah, this is

570
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:44.480
a big hotspot for bigfoot out here. He was, oh,

571
00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:48.440
yeah really, and I'm like yeah. So a guy that

572
00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:51.720
owns this property. He takes us in this uh four

573
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:56.000
wheel drive, four wheel drive Toyota with is Ball tires

574
00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:59.640
and we're slinking up these these crazy roads. There's like

575
00:33:59.720 --> 00:34:02.279
drop boss with like five hundred feet and this guy

576
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:06.039
basically owns like a whole mountain range almost, so he's

577
00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:08.920
taking us up and showing us all these greenhouses and stuff,

578
00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:12.039
and this place is blown up. It's huge. And we

579
00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:14.280
got about halfway through the property and we're like, yeah,

580
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:18.559
we've seen enough. You know, we've seen enough. And we

581
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:22.119
get out to look at some stuff and uh, you know,

582
00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:24.559
there's the hill was there's still plenty of hill going

583
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:27.119
up to the top of this mountain and we're standing there.

584
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:31.599
It's quiet, and all these rocks come tumbling tumbling down

585
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:35.039
on the side of this hillside. I don't say nothing.

586
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:38.639
My business guy doesn't saying nothing, and like, uh think,

587
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:40.920
like a week later, he's like, he goes, yeah, it

588
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:43.239
wasn't that weird that all those rocks come tumbling down

589
00:34:43.280 --> 00:34:45.079
the side of the hill when we're standing out there,

590
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:48.199
And I'm like, I go, yeah, that was yeah kind

591
00:34:48.199 --> 00:34:53.039
of and you know, kind of interesting. So uh yeah,

592
00:34:53.639 --> 00:34:55.840
I'm thinking to myself, I'm gonna be living out here

593
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.639
by myself right acres out here, and and I'm like, wow,

594
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:02.639
this is going to be interesting to be out here.

595
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:06.559
And I thinking, God, where can I buy a shotgun

596
00:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.400
and stuff like that before I go out there? And

597
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:12.519
I'd be honest with I probably wouldn't have. I probably

598
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:14.960
wouldn't shoot in any of these things. I would leave

599
00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.880
them alone unless they tried to harm me or something

600
00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:20.840
like that. And it when I'm getting it sounds like

601
00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:24.440
the most of these creatures up here in Washington State

602
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.559
are relatively I don't know if they're friendly, but they

603
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.800
kind of avoid you and don't try them as much

604
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:34.559
as some from other parts of the United States and

605
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:36.440
stuff like that. That's what I'm kind of getting from it.

606
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:43.559
But yeah, I definitely definitely was a little rattled when

607
00:35:43.559 --> 00:35:48.280
that happened in here. Again, it's kind of hearsay, you know,

608
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:51.159
it could have been anything, but my business partner did

609
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:52.800
bring it up, and I thought that was kind of

610
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:55.679
strange that you would bring it up because when I

611
00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:57.760
told them it was a big foot hotspot. I guess

612
00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:59.679
it kind of may may have bothered them a.

613
00:35:59.639 --> 00:36:04.840
Little bit, dude. And so, man, you gotta you gotta

614
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.320
keep me in the loop if you actually do end

615
00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:10.320
up going to this property and in being the caretaker

616
00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:13.960
and what happens, because man, I got a feeling it's

617
00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:15.880
probably gonna get interesting.

618
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:22.760
Who my goodness, it's right between it's right between Willow

619
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:26.960
Creek and about halfway there, and I actually looked at

620
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.199
it on a satellite and the place is huge, and uh,

621
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:31.920
we didn't even go to the top. We didn't even

622
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:34.119
go through the entire property. And he even has kind

623
00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:36.800
of been out there for almost three hours, going up

624
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.039
and down these uh these roads out there that this

625
00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:43.199
guy built, and uh, well we'll see if I take

626
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.519
the job. I mean, I got to get paid pretty

627
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.559
well to do this, So I ain't gonna go out

628
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:50.880
there unless the price is right because I live a

629
00:36:50.880 --> 00:36:54.039
pretty pretty good life as it is right now. And uh,

630
00:36:54.159 --> 00:36:55.960
you know, taking on something like that, it's got to

631
00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:58.400
make sense. So you see what happens with that.

632
00:36:59.159 --> 00:37:01.519
It will be interesting to see how it plays out.

633
00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:04.599
I do have a few more a few questions for

634
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:07.719
you about the sighting that you had, if that's all right.

635
00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.920
So you'd mentioned it was it was very close to you.

636
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:15.920
How close would you estimate that it was?

637
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:21.360
Probably within eight to ten feet? This thing could have

638
00:37:21.400 --> 00:37:25.119
grabbed me. This thing could have grabbed me and been gone.

639
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:28.039
And I walked. I walked about five or six feet

640
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:31.039
past it, and that's when I heard it move, and

641
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:34.760
it was probably within six six feet off the trail,

642
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.440
kind of punched down in the bushes and it was

643
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:41.239
facing away from me. And as I looked back, I

644
00:37:41.320 --> 00:37:44.159
caught it standing up and it just leaned forward and

645
00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:49.360
took two three steps and it was gone. Didn't make

646
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:51.760
a peep. I heard it crunch into the the bushes

647
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.440
for a few for a few seconds, and then it

648
00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:00.000
was gone. And you know, the neighbor lady that lived

649
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:02.800
really close to her this happened, Like I said, she

650
00:38:03.000 --> 00:38:04.960
approached me three or four times over the years and

651
00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.159
asked if I'd been playing behind the house. I'm like, nope,

652
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:10.320
I don't play behind there at night.

653
00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:16.599
Gotcha. Wow, So that is so so very close. And

654
00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:20.599
you saw the shoulders, the back of the head, the

655
00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:21.480
buttocks area.

656
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:26.280
Correct, it looked like it looked like for Mike Tysons

657
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:28.639
in a gorilla suit is what it looked like. The

658
00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:32.239
back of a like a silver back gorilla is what

659
00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:34.960
it looked like. It was heavily muscular. It's probably maybe

660
00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:39.239
six hundred pounds or more. But like I said, the

661
00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:42.199
color was it was really bizarre. I've never seen a

662
00:38:42.280 --> 00:38:44.119
color like that on the animal before, at least in

663
00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:47.039
the animals I've seen in the north in the Northwest.

664
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:48.400
It was a really weird color.

665
00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:54.199
Did you notice anything about the neck of it at all?

666
00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:56.880
No, it didn't really have the neck. It just it

667
00:38:56.920 --> 00:38:59.599
was just all massive shoulders. And then I could see

668
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.840
just the kind of a little bit of a conical

669
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:06.800
shape of its head, you know, sticking up, and uh,

670
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:09.119
I didn't see its feet, its hands, or its face.

671
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:12.159
I'm glad I didn't see its face because I'm really

672
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:15.360
frightened enough. And I was on my mind, was going

673
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:18.159
a mile a minute. Man, I was like, what is this?

674
00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:20.440
What am I looking at? Why is it gray? What

675
00:39:20.960 --> 00:39:25.360
is it? And it? It completely caught me off guard

676
00:39:25.400 --> 00:39:28.960
and it scared me. And Uh, like I said, I

677
00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:30.719
I didn't I didn't go meet my friends in the

678
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.119
woods that afternoon. I cut down through the ravine through

679
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:38.039
my neighbor's backyard and got out on my street by

680
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:40.480
my house, and I went I went home and I

681
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:43.960
tried talking to my dad about it, and uh, I

682
00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:46.679
think I ended up taking a nap and uh after that,

683
00:39:46.800 --> 00:39:50.679
I was very very careful about going out in the

684
00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:55.519
woods by myself. And uh, yeah, wow, what.

685
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:59.719
What incredible encounter. Keith. Thank you for coming on on

686
00:39:59.760 --> 00:40:03.320
the show show and for sharing what you've experienced. And

687
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:08.719
it sounds like your story may may continue with with

688
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.800
some weird things. We'll see what happens in the future

689
00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:15.559
for you. Hopefully you'll be able to keep us in

690
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.679
the loop. With what happens. But man, it has been

691
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:19.280
a pleasure chatting with you today.

692
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:24.280
Thank you. Yeah, you bet. And one more thing now

693
00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:26.559
that I live down here in San Francisco right now,

694
00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:29.119
and I have run across a lot of people that

695
00:40:29.199 --> 00:40:31.800
have seen things in the wilderness here by the way.

696
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:34.000
A lot in San Francisco.

697
00:40:34.639 --> 00:40:37.360
Oh yeah, really, it's a lot of people. A lot

698
00:40:37.360 --> 00:40:39.639
of people here at Hike, A lot of people do

699
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they do trout fishing remote areas, and quite a few

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have approached me without even knowing what I What I've

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never even said anything to them about is yet I've

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seen him before, my friends have seen him before.

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So yeah, well that's that's that's intense, dude. I mean,

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you never know. It's it's a thing where you know,

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you can be anywhere and you can have an interaction potentially,

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but you're on the West coast and even more so.

707
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But man, what a great conversation. Thank you, Keith.

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Yeah, Like I said, I've been wanting to get this

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off my chest for many years and actually try to

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talk to some of my friends. And I'm a little too,

711
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I'm a little hesitant to talk to I've talked to

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a few people about it, but it's bothered me for

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many years, and I just kind of wanted to get

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off my chest and let people know that I guess

715
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these creatures do exist. I saw one, So where we're.

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At, I just wanted to take a minute to say

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thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot

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Society podcast. Keith's account is one of those rare encounters

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that stays with you, not just because of how close

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he came to the creature, but because of how the

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fear followed him for decades across states and through every

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quiet forest trail. Huge thanks to Keith for trusting us

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with his memories from Newcastle to Willow Creek. If you

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