Nov. 17, 2025

Chad Christensen: Idaho Legislator Sees Bigfoot!

Chad Christensen: Idaho Legislator Sees Bigfoot!
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Season 1

Former Idaho state legislator Chad Christensen opens up about his real-life Bigfoot encounter deep in the Palisades Reservoir and Jackknife Creek area of Idaho.


In this exclusive interview, Chad recounts his chilling night in the wilderness — a 2 a.m. rock throw, glowing red eyes on a ridge, terrified horses, and a scream unlike anything human. He also discusses his background in law enforcement, his time in the Idaho legislature, and why he’s decided to go public after two decades of silence.


Host Jeremiah Byron guides listeners through one of the most credible firsthand Bigfoot accounts ever recorded in Idaho.


If you’re into Bigfoot sightings, Sasquatch encounters, or government witness stories, this episode is for you.

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Chad's FB page - https://www.facebook.com/chadchristensenforidaho/


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

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to

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bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've

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seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers

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to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us, all right, Big the Society. You've

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got the privilege of talking to mister Chad Christiansen today.

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Chad has law enforcement and military experience and was also

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a state legislator for four years. So welcome to the show, Chad.

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It's great to have you on today.

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Hi, Jeremiah, I give it me Honarly too. I was

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an Army MP the clerk for a while for a while,

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and it was also a deeven operation officer and then

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went to the state Probation and pro and dealt with prolleues,

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come out of prison and also ran in the futuitive

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warrant team.

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So when any.

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Any of those proli user probationers in the office absconded

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and got a warrant after you for them, I would,

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you know, run a team to chase them down and

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we'd arrest them and put them in jail. And so

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that part of the job was pretty exhilarating. And and

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I from there, I went to state welfare fraud investigations

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and dealt with a lot of you know, a lot

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of people that have scammed the welfare system. And then yeah,

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I was elected to the state legislature in twenty eighteen.

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I'd beat a thirty year incumbent and the State Affairs

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Committee chairman. So it's pretty kind of a big deal. It

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was kind of state wide news. Hey this new guy

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that nobody knows about kind of beats this thirty year incumbent.

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So it was pretty exciting. And I spent four years

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in office. I'm running again in twenty six. I was

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in the House for four years then, so I'm again

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in twenty six. You know, you know, being the legislature

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was a good experience. You know, I feel like I

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stood for the people and not the establishment, and for

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what was you know, for the for freedom and the Constitution.

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So that was important to me.

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Chad, we had gotten connected about that. You have an

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experience that you were wanting to share that happened out

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out in Idaho to you correct.

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Yeah, I kind of had sit for years, and I've

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told more and more people after after the fact and

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friends and you know, my dad. Yeah, so you know,

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I get into it now if you want me too.

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And it was back in two thousand and three, and

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you know, it was the area I hunted quite a bit.

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You know, friend showed me this area for deer and

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elk and mostly elk. You know, I go back in

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there and elk usually and and my first it's called

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jet Nat Creek area and you go past Palasage Reservoir,

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which later I've come to know the area is quite

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you know, there's a custy stories about big foot in

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that area. And then that I've come to do research,

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and I didn't I had no idea there was that

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many stories and accounts that go back in the area

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around Palisades. So yeah, you'd pass Palasage Reservoir and go

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into Wyoming and then take it and go and go

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back west and go back in Idaho, and I would

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hunt there quite a bit. You know, I've been in

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there in this certain canyon it's called School Canyon, and

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I'd go in there, and you always feel just a

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weird presence. Hard to explain. I just didn't feel right.

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I was a little bit off. But I'd always just

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go back and hunt. It was a good area and

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I always get my elk and and be successful. And

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then I got my first chuck in there, probably in

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the nineties, and then went back in there and I

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took my dad and brother one year it too deer hunt.

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I remember one night we were and we were in

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camp and I and I had woken up and I heard,

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you know, I didn't think of anything at the time,

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but I heard a bipedal heavy walk at our camp

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and I know, I spoke like a skunk type smell,

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and I just okay, this is weird. And I didn't

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think much of it then. And the next day a

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warden came into our camp and in front of me

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about driving my jeep on it on that trail I

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shouldn't have been on. Oh, I didn't know it was.

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He says, what's parked? I said, Okay, I didn't see that,

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so I attributed that.

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I told my dad, hey, maybe that ward.

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Came into our camp last night. I heard somebody walking

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through it. I don't go to him now, obviously I

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think it was something else. So if you later, I

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was hunting elk in that same canyon and my dad

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was there. He didn't come up with he stayed down

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in it in the camper, and I went up and

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hunted in that canyon and I came across to six

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six by six elk leaving the herd of elk down

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the canyon. So I shot him and we got down

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to my dad. Hey, I got I got a bull,

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and he's going, oh awesome. So I still addressed it,

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and then I was it was getting late in the day,

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and I said, well, I'm gonna be just gonna still

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dressed and.

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Call my friend help me come get it out.

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Because he had horses. He told me, good help if

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I got something down, and so I, you know, still dressed.

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It went back down and I called I got I

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went out to get some syrus on my cellphone and

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called him, Hey, I got this out down. You're still

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on you still help me? He said yeah. So I

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drove back into town. And we got his and his horses.

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And had it back up.

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So we got there back up to that carryon about.

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It was around midnight, so it was late, and so

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we had two horses. His horse he was riding on

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it was a normal saddle, and then we had the

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other horse, which I rode on most of the way.

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It was it was a pack saddle, so it was

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very uncomfortable to ride on what I did. So we

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went kind of a different He knew the area well,

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and we didn't go ship up the canyon like I

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did the hunt. We went kind of up a different

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ridge and knowle to get down to the spot where

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we dropped down down in the canyon. And so as

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we got that Noel, we were looking down in the

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canyon that my elk was in and the horses were

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started going crazy and my horse butt me off and

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I got up back up. A guy slipped across the canyon.

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There was a set of eyes and they appeared to

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be red, and my friends like you see that. I'm like, yeah,

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He's like, what the heck is that? And well, I

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don't know, I never know an I want to have

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red eyes. And we were just nervous and and and

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then then it went away, and IKE were like, okay, well,

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let's just go get dealt now, and and he told

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the horses were still really nervous and agitated, and we

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went down and down the pass where that those eyes were.

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So we went up to get my We went up

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the canyon and the horses and I just spilled like again,

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like it was someone was off, and I thought I

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was being washed and just what we're feeling, you know,

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feeling of didn't feel good. It just felt weird. I

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got to my elk and I was surprised I hadn't

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been touched because of that whatever that was. I thought

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it probably got to my elk, and it was had

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been touched. Like okay, well that's good. So they got

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the elk and fours accorded it up and put on

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the pack horse, and I took I took the antlers

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off to take them. So he went out with the

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horses and he's like, well follow.

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Me up that no again, and on the way out

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where you know, whether we.

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Saw that or horses went nuts, And I said, okay,

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well you know, but he was always he was faster

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than me. So I was by myself in the dark

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and well at the lantern and a flash I can't wish.

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I think it was a flashlight. So I have the

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antlers in my other gear and I was at his

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side arm and at you know, forty five, and I

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went walking down the canyon and I got to this

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point where I was He told me to turn up

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the know again and ridge.

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And follow that area. And I don't know that, very

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very little I.

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Want to do in the dark, but so I decided

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to go down the canyon.

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And that area where.

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I was talking about why I was supposed to turn

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up right below me had a big set of logs,

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a downfall, huge trees that I had to go over

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and get down the canyon. As soon as I started

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into those logs, a big rock flew by my head

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and it was I mean, it was a big of rocky.

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It was probably fifty pounds. And I could tell I've

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been throwing pretty a good distance. I mean, I couldn't

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see the whole lot of the dark, but I knew

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it wasn't a short distance. It wasn't like ten feet

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it had it been like fifty seventy five feet away

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or you know, out of my estimation and my eyes

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froze and what in the world. And I saw about

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seventy five feet away. You know, I couldn't see, I

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couldn't make it out real well. But I saw a

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figure and I saw and I saw his eyes look

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at me again and then turn away, and and.

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Then I just.

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So I started moving forward. It came real slow, and

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looking up there, I was super nervous, and I heard it.

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Then I heard a scream that I can never explain.

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The pitch I was. It's that was just a nerving

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It was high pitched. And if I could low growl

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into a high pitch, I guess a way to put it.

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And at that point, I just was busting through the

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the downfall as fast as I could, and I ran

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and ran all the way down that canyon to get

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out of there. And I got to the bottom, and

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my friend was waging down down there at the moment

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at the bottom that came with horses, and he was

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all Me and my friend were always drop with each

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other and always playing games on each other, and he

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was waiting there and you know, for me to come

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around a corner, and he scared me. So I was

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already scared, obviously, and I'm going for my gun because

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I didn't know what. But I obviously calmed down and

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I was okay, it's him. H So that was, you know,

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a pretty quick story, I guess, but that was the

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gist of that experience. And I've always we had another

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friend that the hut are quite a bit and he'd

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always told us, Hey, I hear the scream up the

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scream up there all the time. I can't tell what

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it is. It's not it's not any animal I know.

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And this guy is a quite quite a mountain man,

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and for him for him to say something like that

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to me, I was shocked because this guy knows his animals,

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and he's in the mountains all his life and he's

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pretty much a true Idaho mountain man. And it tells

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me that he didn't know what that that noise was

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that screamed up in there. It just made me even

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verify even more of it. Okay, this is there's something

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through this to this. I haven't been that back in

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that kind of since, So, I mean I might go

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eventually one day again.

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Wow, Yet.

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That's some That is a pretty frightening encounter. So just

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a few questions for you. So it was it was

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midnight when you went back and got the elk.

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Correct right, And I would say, well, I got down

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to that spot where it took a rock at me.

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I would say it's probably two three in the morning, okay, gotcha,

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probably two probably two.

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Yea, so two thirty ish, and that's around the same time.

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Then you're seeing a figure that's about seventy five yards away.

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Right, yeah, I would say it no yards, I would

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say it was probably in the yard is probably fifty.

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Okay, it's about fifty yards, which is about the length

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of like two tennis courts. That's an ex what that is.

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So around two thirty in the morning. And then how

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much of were you just able to see the figure

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that the sorry, were you just able to see that

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the silhouette of the figure or how much of it

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were you able to see?

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Well, I didn't see much detail when I saw the

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silhouette a couple of times, but sometimes it kind of

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faded into a dark background. But yeah, the silhouette, you know,

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I you know, I knew it was huge with that silhouette,

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and I definitely looked by a people to me, the

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way it moved and across that it was it was

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on the side of it a ridge. It wasn't on

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a flat It wasn't on flat grounds on the side.

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You know, all the time that we saw the eye

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that was on the side of the ridge when I

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was walking down the canyon was on the side of

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the ridge, and it moved on the side on that

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steep ridge with ease when it followed me for a

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little bit. I don't know how far to followed me,

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but well I saw it. It was on you know,

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it was walking next to me. It was on that ridge.

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And it seemed to be a very large bipedal. Yeah,

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and have mass to it. It was skinny, you know,

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it was a mass.

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And so when you say it had mass, were you

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able to to estimate, like, you know, was it very

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muscular or lean or was it did it look like

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it was a certain length acrossed at the chest or

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anything anything like that.

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Yeah, it seemed broad and and muscular, right, It definitely

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didn't seem like it was skinny, and very very wide

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from the shoulder to the shoulder, and very wide when

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it turned sideways. I can see it was wide that

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way as well. Take that way.

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Were you able to get an estimate of how tall.

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It seemed to be not real.

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Will, but I would.

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Just kind of ballpark figuring it and maybe from the

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rocks and boars and trees around it, you know, I would,

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I would. I would have said, just guessing eight feet gotcha.

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At any time when you saw it fifty yards away

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from you and it it was moving, it was walking,

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did you ever see anything glowing at all or anything

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that made any any light.

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No, I don't think anything was glowing. I think it

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was a reflection. I think when I saw its eyes,

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it was a reflection from the moon, is what I

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think it was. Yeah, the first time I saw the

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eyes across the canyon with my friend, I think the

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redness coming it was a reflection I believe from the

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light was there. So I don't I don't think it

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was glowing. I think it was reflected from you know,

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the light from the moon.

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Sure were you able to see any of that reflection

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when you were looking at it when it was starting

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to move walk away after the rock was thrown at you, Yes.

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Yeah, yeah, it would. It would look forward, it would

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turn look at me and and I see the eyes

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were looking at me, and they would they would they

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would have a turn again and go to walk forward

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and to look back again, maybe probably three times. I

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probably saw it transcend toward to me and saw reflection

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when it was on the side of the ridge. I

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see that. I see that reflection of the eyes.

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What what color did it seem to have for reflection?

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Red?

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Okay, so it was red at that time as well.

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When it.

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Made the move in order to turn its head to

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look at you, could you tell if it was more

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of a having to turn its whole body or was

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it able to just turn its head and look over.

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No, I think it turned. I think it was kind

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of both. I think it was its shoulder turned too,

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and its head would turn a little bit with it.

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I believe that's how I kind of so more of

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a more of his body I think turned first, you know,

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a shoulder turned back and turned towards me. And you know,

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I believe they had turned some too, sure most of

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the body. Yeah.

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Was there anything that you noticed that would have made

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you think that you're dealing with a male or a

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female bigfoot?

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No? I could make that out at all.

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No, gotcha? How did this affect you? After you had

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this encounter? And then you know, you go back home

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and you try to go about your life. Did it

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affect you in any ways right off the bat, Oh, yeah, I.

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Mean I just I went nuts on researching and before

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I know, I always kind of you know, I never

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I never dismissed sasquatropic for the being real. I didn't.

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I wasn't one of those people that are like, oh,

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that can't be true, and it's there's no way. I

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always have an open mind about it, but I didn't

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know it existed, and I didn't really put my thought

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into it. So when I after it happened to me, yeah,

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I became not on researching it and looking at other

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people's stories and just finding out there every tribe in

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the world has a name for it. And the encounters

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people's witness account encounters are just so consistent with some

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of the things that I came across. The you know,

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the smell, I thought I miss all the thing out

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of the canyon, but in my camp I realized, Okay,

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maybe that was big fit. I came into a camp

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and the smell is consistent, and the rock throwing and

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the eyes seemed consistent for a lot of people, and

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so many behaviors. You know, people don't make up those

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things and it's so consistent, and being law enforcement and

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witnesses are important, and when the stories are consistent, that's important.

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You know, people aren't you know, of course there's going

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to be some people that are fraudule in their stories,

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and that when those people when a lot of people,

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most of them are very consistent in their stories. Okay,

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somethings to this, something's going on, sure, So yeah, since

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you know, twenty years I just became a nun researching

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it and so changed me for sure. I became assesssed

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at times and look in researching it. And you know,

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doctor Milderham. It's close to where I live, so I

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would email him and call him and pick his brain

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a little bit, and I began to respect him. You know,

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he's and his science. You know, you know things that

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he's come across, and you particulately things real well, how okay, yeah,

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you're right mid tussle break, that's it. Absolutely. You know.

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His his explanations were, am I, okay, you know you're

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right or something to this, and and I believed them.

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I didn't tell many people the story for a long time,

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and then I told my friend that night. He knew

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I was someone's wrong with me, and you know, he

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kept asking on the way home, what's wrong, and I'm good.

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I finally told him and he that's when he told me, Okay,

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our friend, but what I mentioned to you that I

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heard those noise, heard those screams up in the in

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the area. He told me, yeah, our land from from work,

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you know heard I heard these screams up there for years.

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And he can't he can't put there, you know, a

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creature to those streams. So I think he believed me

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because of that when he said that, And then I

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finally told a friend of mine and we were pretty

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close during that time. He's a deputy sheriff. I won't

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use his name, and it finally told him and he

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and when I did it, he's like, oh, and I

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could tell something was honest. His demeanor changed and he

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knew something was he knew something.

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I said.

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I pushed him, what what are you what? Something's you're

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thinking about something? And you want to tell me, I think,

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So I kept bugging him, tell me what you're thinking,

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and he finally told me. He came across the Sasquatch

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what he believed to be a sasquatch over and led

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or Idaho m He told me, you know, me and

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me and my friend he was and I an a

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false police officer and him were I mean folders down

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what they called eight mile of trail up and let

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or and then coming down this canyon. It was towards

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you know, he was getting trying to get dark. There

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still light enough to see well, but the sun was

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starting to go down. And he came out the corner

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and he said his friend was ahead of him. So

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his friend had passed whatever the scene was, and he came.

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He came on his corner and he said this scene

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was off the trail. So the trail to the right dropped,

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and he said this scene was standing on the off

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the side of the trail and his back was to

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him and it put his arm out to kind of

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protect itself from the four wheather as he passed, and

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he said that he was as tall as him on

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his foot with her and was standing down below the trail.

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So he thought, okay, the scene is like ten feet tall,

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and he went past. He went down to the trail

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head and made it with his friend, and he told

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his friends for him this laughed at him, and see

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you're full of it, and and that's why he was

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so hesitant to tell me. I don't think he told

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hardly anybody besides me and maybe his parents the story.

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But fact that was pretty cool that, you know, Okay,

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you know what else is out there that I don't

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know about that people, you know, friends and family have experienced.

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And since you know, I, since I told him my story,

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he eventually told me his. And I think a lot

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of people's reports are people's encounters don't get reported, you know.

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I know that the BFRO has you know, a map

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of how many reportings are across the nation, and I'm like, okay,

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it's probably only like ten percent of the real reports,

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if it's that much. You know, looking back to when

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I was a kid, and it's not far from the

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area where I had my encounter. You know, we we

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would go, you know, on time reunions to it's called

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the Kelly Canon area, which is, like I said, not

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too far from policys we had my encounter. And I

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remember because my cousins and we'd pick cuckleberries and there

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and there's you know, you know, in a canopy of trees.

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I remember one time I looked back way back at

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then a canopy of trees and I saw the same

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thing red eyes, and I would hit my cousin, hey,

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what's that back there? And I one time I heard it.

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I saw it swaying back and forth, and so did

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she and we were like this and we point out

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to her cousins, hey, look back there, what is that?

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And you know, some of the cousins didn't care, so

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we did, me and my female cousins of mine. So

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after after my experience in the mounds and then looking

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back to that, I'm like, okay, that is possibly a sasquatch.

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And I after my research, and you know, I came

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to realize, Okay, a lot of them are pretty curious

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about kids and there kids being playful, and they'd come

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down and watch kids being just sili and playful, and

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I was in our to them, I believe. So it

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made sense to me, okay, that that's why that was there.

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Watching those chat a few a few questions for you.

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You know, you're coming forward with your you know, your

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full name and exactly who you are, and that you

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were a state legislator. And not only that, it's not

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that you're retired, it's that you're also trying to get

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back into this position as well. Why come forward now

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with what you experience regarding Bigfoot in these areas.

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You know, I'd have been afraid of truth, I guess

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I've I've always been one the truth important to me,

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and I don't want to and I know people, you know,

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some people might get a little of this and they

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chance a no job and you know they probab already

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to do the ones that don't like me. But you know,

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it's just my personality. I guess I don't. I'm not

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really afraid of things like that. I'm just the kind

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of cursions just always you know, speaks the truth. You know,

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when I was not this, I was pretty hated by

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this you know what we call the establishment, for speaking

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the truth about what happened in the legislature. You know,

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I would I would out him for hate. There's this

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corruption there and there, and I would point it out.

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So I was I was a big target for that

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reason for speaking truth and and not and letting people

464
00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:24.000
know the truth and what was going on. So I've

465
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:26.720
always I've always been one never been afraid to shy

466
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:30.000
away from the truth. And you know, I can't say

467
00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:34.359
definitive definitively that what I saw was a bigfoot. But

468
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:40.680
all signs point to that direction. Of course, obviously, if

469
00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:43.960
I I'm calling you and explaining the story to you

470
00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:48.119
and and my friend that I had experience and let order,

471
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:51.480
I mean that was Crows the bill to him, and

472
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.480
he was so hesitant to tell me that. He was like,

473
00:27:56.559 --> 00:27:58.000
he was trying to offer it to me. This is

474
00:27:58.000 --> 00:28:00.319
what happened to me, and please believe me. You know,

475
00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:02.200
he was so hesitant to tell me, and I'm like, Okay,

476
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:03.079
this is this is true.

477
00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:04.680
He's not lying to me.

478
00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.559
You know. It's just I've always been wondered to seek

479
00:28:08.599 --> 00:28:12.079
truth and I don't care what people think. It's just

480
00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:12.920
too I am.

481
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:18.359
I guess during your time as a legislator so far,

482
00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:21.680
did the topic of bigfoot ever come up in conversation

483
00:28:21.960 --> 00:28:25.519
or did people know that, hey, Chad's the bigfoot guy,

484
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:27.160
you know, anything like that.

485
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:32.000
No, I never I never prought it up to anybody,

486
00:28:32.079 --> 00:28:37.440
am I the little legislators or in that realm of politics,

487
00:28:37.480 --> 00:28:40.559
And I mean I wouldn't try away from it. I

488
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:42.640
guess I never came up a topic. And you know

489
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:45.599
the times I made there, you know, you know you

490
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:47.079
know there's one I trust and I would tell that

491
00:28:47.359 --> 00:28:50.880
story too, and I just never came up. So I

492
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:54.119
guess I didn't think about killing anybody. That.

493
00:28:56.319 --> 00:28:59.160
Have you heard of any other government officials that have

494
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:03.920
also had big foot encounters? Anything that you've heard through

495
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:05.240
your channels over the years.

496
00:29:07.839 --> 00:29:09.319
Oh yeah, I mean I've done a lot of research

497
00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:13.000
and her stories from you know, police officers, and I

498
00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:16.160
mean not not in our area, but yeah, I've heard

499
00:29:16.200 --> 00:29:19.920
lots of individuals that were Dublin officials that were you know,

500
00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:22.799
forest rangers and police officers and you know Dutch princes

501
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:25.359
and their how they were told to be quiet. You know,

502
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.759
if you don't be quiet, you lose your job. Well,

503
00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.880
you know I did show went up in North Idaho

504
00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:34.519
a story that came across the different research and it

505
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:38.599
was a state employee that was out so doing some

506
00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:42.920
kind of surveying I think, out in forests for a

507
00:29:42.960 --> 00:29:44.960
long for like a month at a time, and they

508
00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:49.799
came across a family and then you know this, this

509
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:51.400
this guy was streating with his job. He if you

510
00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:53.480
don't be quiet, you know, you don't lose your job.

511
00:29:53.720 --> 00:29:55.000
So I know, I know that would happen to an

512
00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.839
Idol State employee. I don't. I think it was up

513
00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:02.799
Orth or maybe Central Idaho. You know, I came across

514
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:07.599
some stories of guides over in that same area around

515
00:30:07.680 --> 00:30:11.039
Palisades Sasha's chronicles. I came across the story of it

516
00:30:11.960 --> 00:30:14.839
a guide over in the area where I was, and

517
00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:18.559
he had like three encounters. Michael it cal He's a

518
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:20.240
lot more prevalent than I thought in the area.

519
00:30:20.640 --> 00:30:25.079
What do you think it would take for the topic

520
00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.359
of bigfoot to be widely accepted or disclosed?

521
00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.039
You know, I don't. I believe that there's been after

522
00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:38.920
you know, after by twenty years of research, I do

523
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:42.160
believe there's been bodies fund and and you know, a

524
00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:43.920
good amount of evidence that's been found. I think the

525
00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:48.200
government just covers it up. So I don't know if

526
00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:51.000
anything that we've, any evidence that we find, can be

527
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:56.319
really put on the mainstream science and media. I don't

528
00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:58.200
think it's I think the government cuts up so much

529
00:30:58.240 --> 00:31:01.759
and threatens people that it's not a possibility to be

530
00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:05.039
to get to that point. In my opinion.

531
00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:09.880
I've heard stories like that as well, some of them

532
00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:13.440
that can never really be put out there into the public.

533
00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:17.359
But there there are some some definite stories out there

534
00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:22.119
of the government showing up in different areas, like maybe

535
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:25.519
even the Navajo reservation and showing up with black SUVs

536
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:30.000
and and you know, taking whatever it was off in

537
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:30.720
their vehicle.

538
00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:33.000
Right.

539
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.319
Oh, and I didn't. He was telling the story about

540
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:39.319
as well as the story of my friends over and led.

541
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:42.039
Or he went back to that area. I could. I

542
00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:45.039
could a few days later because he was curious. I

543
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:47.400
would have been scared to go back, I guess. But

544
00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:50.000
he he got curious and went back to that trail

545
00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:53.880
and he started up the trail a little ways. Also

546
00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:59.119
enything was taped off, and he you know, the trail

547
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:02.920
was was closed, and he came across the ranger that

548
00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.920
was really close started questioning the rangers, and the ranger

549
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:07.200
started saying, hey, you know, my closing trail because of

550
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:10.960
a cougar has been having problems, and he's like, he

551
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:14.599
kept questioning him, and he didn't believe him, so he

552
00:32:14.680 --> 00:32:17.960
kept questioning the ranger. The ranger got a little stinty

553
00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:21.240
with him, and so, yeah, that did happen with him.

554
00:32:21.279 --> 00:32:22.759
My friend to mention that, So I think they're that

555
00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.559
ranger knew something was going on there with what he

556
00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:29.160
saw so did he. So that's that's why he was

557
00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:32.440
so he questioned that ranger so much.

558
00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:38.519
It's a tricky subject because, and I've never heard this

559
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.920
from just from what I've heard, I think a lot

560
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:45.839
of those guys, you know, if they do start talking

561
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:49.240
on record, I mean, they're going to lose their job. Actually,

562
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:51.759
I can say I've talked to one guy out in

563
00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:54.720
the Pacific Northwest and yeah, he won't come on there,

564
00:32:56.480 --> 00:33:00.279
but he's sad stuff happened out there. And let's just

565
00:33:00.319 --> 00:33:04.839
say the the PNW, uh this is pretty wild. Well,

566
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:09.359
it's it's getting close, man. So I would feel that

567
00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:12.359
over the last let's say, maybe ten years or less,

568
00:33:12.799 --> 00:33:17.559
we've really started to experience a disclosure in the UFO

569
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:23.160
or UAP phenomenon field. And it's slow, it's really really slow.

570
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:26.759
Do you think that will ever happen on the big

571
00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:31.200
Foot side of things or are we probably a while

572
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:32.079
away from that.

573
00:33:33.400 --> 00:33:39.960
Yes, it's a good question, you know, I know, you know,

574
00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:43.279
in my research, I came across the Army manual and

575
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.519
in that same area that you just mentioned, the city

576
00:33:45.599 --> 00:33:50.759
northwest of Roshington. Well, they in that manual they were

577
00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:52.160
talking about you know, you know, if you come across

578
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:58.200
the Sasquatch, this is what you do. So and that

579
00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:02.519
was a real army manual for for training. But so

580
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:05.240
I think it's kind of been in and out. I

581
00:34:05.279 --> 00:34:07.079
think if we're gonna print something like that in an

582
00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:11.119
army manual, I think that there was it can be

583
00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:16.079
kind of gradually canal into that in that realm of

584
00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:22.280
being more open and honest about discussion, you know, and

585
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:25.199
what was to me, you know, doctor Meldrim was very

586
00:34:25.239 --> 00:34:27.920
open about it, and I appreciated about him. He was

587
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.559
just you know, we were kind of like that, you know,

588
00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:32.280
you know, I liked that way that we were just

589
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:35.280
we cared about truth and that's what he cared about.

590
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:39.199
And to see all these professors treat them like crab

591
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:42.960
really really bugged me. You know. That was you know,

592
00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:46.159
they made fun of him, and his colleagues wouldn't talk

593
00:34:46.159 --> 00:34:49.320
to him and made fun of him. And that's so

594
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:50.920
I guess my point with Dad is just getting past

595
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:56.639
that childishness and and having an open mind and and

596
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:02.360
stop stuffing science a way like they did. You know,

597
00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:05.440
you know, Molder had good science behind what he what

598
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.920
he knew to be true, and stop dismissing that. I

599
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.920
guess it's going to be the key to the key

600
00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:11.639
to that theme.

601
00:35:11.559 --> 00:35:14.480
You know, Oh absolutely. I mean doctor Meldrum was a

602
00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:18.639
fantastic individual. I there's going to be there's quite a

603
00:35:18.719 --> 00:35:22.320
void to fill, and hopefully, for sure we all realize that,

604
00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:26.079
you know, we need to step up in that regard,

605
00:35:26.239 --> 00:35:30.079
and I believe some people already are. Would you be

606
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:35.079
able to talk to individuals that might be listening to

607
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:41.239
this particular episode that are let's say, in higher maybe

608
00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:47.800
government positions or et cetera, that might have knowledge about

609
00:35:48.599 --> 00:35:51.119
you know, Bigfoot that they're not coming forward with and

610
00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:52.639
why is it?

611
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:53.400
Wow?

612
00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:54.000
Did you hear that?

613
00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:56.199
I didn't.

614
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:01.400
I just had some really fun interference on my side.

615
00:36:01.920 --> 00:36:06.840
Uh wow, oh boy. Okay, So could you take a

616
00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:11.079
minute to maybe discuss about why it would be important

617
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:14.920
for those individuals as well to come forward with what

618
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:17.280
they know about this subject?

619
00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:24.280
Yeah, I think it's important for you know one. You know,

620
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:27.199
the reason I mentioned before is just you know, the truth.

621
00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.599
I think the truth is important. I think people deserve

622
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:35.280
to know what's out there. I think there's beings out

623
00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:38.599
there that you know, I think some are very docile

624
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:42.679
and friendly and some are some are aggressive. You know,

625
00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:44.559
I think they're a lot like like humans.

626
00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:45.320
I think there are.

627
00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:48.199
Different personalities involved. I think it's important for people to

628
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:55.000
be aware of if possible dangers in the wild. And

629
00:36:55.119 --> 00:36:59.880
I think you know, these these these government workers or officials,

630
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.000
you know, they what to their to the public. I

631
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:08.079
believe in my opinion that you know, to tell the truth.

632
00:37:09.119 --> 00:37:11.320
You know there there are people to go missing in

633
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:14.159
the mountains every year, and I think I think some

634
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:18.559
some can attribute to to these creatures. I think they

635
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:22.880
have it have to kidnap people and taking people, and

636
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.159
I think that's and I think, like I said, I

637
00:37:25.199 --> 00:37:27.360
don't think all about that. I think a very small

638
00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:32.280
portion of these beings are aggressive. What there are some

639
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:35.199
that are, and I think people deserve to be aware

640
00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:41.880
of what's around them and and the possibilities of you know,

641
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:45.360
being out there in the forest and then their surroundings.

642
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.400
I think, you know, these government officials are what to

643
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:51.519
the public. To speak up and tell what's going on.

644
00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:56.920
I agree one hundred percent. And to put a little

645
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.199
plug out there, I guess for the own my own show.

646
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:04.840
If you are listening and you do have something to share,

647
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:08.079
and even if it is off record, and anonymous and

648
00:38:08.199 --> 00:38:10.320
it can't go on the show. I'd still love to

649
00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:12.800
talk to you. I think that information is still important

650
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.320
and if you do want to come on on the

651
00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:18.079
show and share whatever you know, please reach out to

652
00:38:18.199 --> 00:38:22.559
me at Big Fuz societygmail dot com. But Chad Man,

653
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:27.880
this has been such such an interesting conversation in an

654
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:30.039
area where you know, I've had a few people on

655
00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:36.000
from the Palisades area and there's some weird stuff going

656
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:40.519
on in that region as as you've experienced yourself, and

657
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:43.519
if other people I've experienced stuff around there, please reach

658
00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:45.599
out too. But you know, Chad, I want to make

659
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:48.880
sure that you were able to share everything that you

660
00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:51.440
came to the show today to share about.

661
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:56.800
Yeah, you know, I had those three different experiences I

662
00:38:56.880 --> 00:38:59.119
wanted to share. You know. I know my experience as

663
00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:03.440
a kid was brief, but asually I had experience in

664
00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:05.280
the mountains. I look back to my you know that

665
00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.079
came to my head and yeah, I remember as a child.

666
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:11.599
But yeah, I did share all the experiences that I

667
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:12.199
came to share.

668
00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:12.519
Yeah.

669
00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.599
Absolutely, Well, thank you so much for spending some time

670
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:19.639
on the show today. It was a privilege to have

671
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:22.599
you on, and I wish you. Best of luck to

672
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:27.199
in the future as you try to get a I

673
00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.119
guess another be another four years in the state legislator

674
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:31.360
of Idaho.

675
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.480
Those two year terms two years, yeah, get yeah, hope. Yeah,

676
00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:36.920
I'm going for the Senate at this time and before

677
00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.000
I was in the House, so I'm going to get

678
00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:44.119
for the Senate this next in twenty six so yeah,

679
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:45.840
I'll get a two year term if I get in again.

680
00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:48.559
And yep. So I appreciate that.

681
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:53.679
Fantastic And just asking is there anything that you would

682
00:39:53.920 --> 00:39:58.800
want people to follow, you know, regarding yourself or anything

683
00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.039
like that.

684
00:40:01.639 --> 00:40:05.079
Sure, I mean, I guess my Facebook campaign pages check

685
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:09.639
which is for freedom loving Idahoans. He's my Facebook page,

686
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:13.760
and yeah, follow that and for more campaign information and

687
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:15.760
that'd be great.

688
00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:18.960
Awesome, good stuff. Well, chat Thank you again for coming

689
00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:22.559
on the show. It has been a pleasure chatting with you,

690
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:25.519
and we'll have to stay in touch maybe for the future.

691
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:28.719
You have a good one, sir, you too, Thanks Jeremiah.

692
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:32.000
Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something

693
00:40:32.119 --> 00:40:35.320
directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're

694
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.079
in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've

695
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:41.960
seen something that no one can explain, or if you're

696
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:45.239
a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been told

697
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.679
to stay quiet. If you're a pilot who's seen something

698
00:40:48.800 --> 00:40:51.679
strange down on the ground, or if you're with the

699
00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:55.719
FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled

700
00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:58.599
upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if

701
00:40:58.639 --> 00:41:02.199
you're a firefighter, ParaMed or search and rescue responder who's

702
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:05.840
heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If

703
00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:09.519
you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

704
00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:12.679
or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

705
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:16.199
happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

706
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:20.079
a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

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contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.

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If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

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spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

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or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or

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anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

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then I want to talk to you, Even if it's anonymous.

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You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

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The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

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carry alone, and you're not alone. You've got the story,

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We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

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you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast.

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Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is

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bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth

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is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you

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if you or someone you know has had a Bigfoot sighting,

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please I'd love to hear from you, so email me

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at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com and let's start

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the conversation. If you haven't gotten a chance yet, check

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out our membership community over at www dot Bigfoot Society

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podcast dot com and that's where you can hear tomorrow's

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episode today early in ad free and members only episodes

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every week. Also it's a place to connect with other

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people that are into the Bigfoot subject as much as

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you are. Thanks again for following along with the Bigfoot

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Society until next time. Keep your eyes open, trust your gut,

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and never stop asking what else might be out there?

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And see you in the woods.