"Charlie Sheen was my Gateway to Cryptozoology" / Lija Fisher / Bigfoot Society Classic

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for another episode of big Foot Society
podcast. This time we have author Leah

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Fisher with us from Colorado, and
she writes books on a subject that everyone

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listening to this podcast will probably enjoy. So Leah, good to have you

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on. I'm going to have you
go ahead and kind of introduce yourself.

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Yeah, well, thank you so
much for having me. It's a pleasure

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to be here. Yes, I
write humorous adventure novels for eight to twelve

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year olds and they are on the
subject of cryptozoology, and it currently it's

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a duology. My first book is
The Cryptid Catcher and then the follow up

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novel is The Cryptid Keeper, And
these are just fun adventure novels about a

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boy who discovers that cryptids are real
and his father was a cryptid catcher known

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for traveling the world finding and protecting
these cryptids because there's one very special cryptid

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that if the bad guys find it, it could mean the end of the

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world as we know it. Oh
that's really cool. Yeah, I like

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that. Yeah, that's a cool
idea. I like it. Yeah,

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we had so. Leah was doing
a presentation with a local bookstore online earlier.

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I believe it was a bookstore,
right, yes, Nan, So

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I jumped on that. My four
year old son and I we were watching

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it and he hasn't stopped talking about
the nice lady that was talking to him

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from the phone. And so,
yeah, thanks for putting that on.

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We're actually going to put that presentation
at the end of this podcast, so

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you notice this podcast will be a
little longer than the others, but you're

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really going to want to listen and
also watch this one, especially as there's

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going to be a lot of visual
aids along with this. So that I

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worked very hard on. Yeah,
it's really it's a good presentation. And

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I noticed something. So we were
noticing the blue tiger from your presentation.

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I forget the actual name of it's
terrible, but the blue tiger, right,

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Yes, that's what we focused on. And I noticed on one of

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your books there's a blue tiger as
well. Yes, So could I infer

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that maybe the animals that you have
in this presentation are present in your novels.

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Many of the cryptids that are in
my presentation are in my books.

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I'm trying to think if there are
any that are. I think pretty much

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every cryptod that I talk about hasn't
mentioned in my book. There are just

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so many cryptids out there that I
lose track of which ones I've written about

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and which ones I've just researched and
studied. Very cool, and what was

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it? Of course I already know
the answer to this, but I'm going

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to ask you, so, what
is it that drew you, of all

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things, to the subject of cryptozoology. Was it watching in search of was

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it reading another book? There's all
sorts of things that draws us draws in,

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right, Yeah, I think I
had a very interesting gateway into cryptozoology,

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and it was actually through Charlie Sheen, where usually you don't want to

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use the words gateway in Charlie.
This is true, they do actually do

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go very well together. But he, Charlie Sheen, was my gateway to

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cryptozoology because many years ago, when
he was in his heyday, we'll call

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it, I read an article about
him in the paper about how we put

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together a hunting party to go to
Alaska to find the Otterman. And I

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thought, I read that article,
and the thing that stood out to me

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apart from that Charlie Sheen was hunting
the Ottoman, was who is the Otterman?

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What is the Ottoman? Yeah?
What does Charlie Sheen want with him?

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And so I started researching the Otterman
and it opened up this whole world

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of cryptids. And you know,
I knew about myths, I knew what

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myths and mythology was and I was
really into it when I was a kid,

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but I had never heard about cryptids
or cryptozoology. And once I started

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researching it, it just I went
down the rabbit hole and it just blew

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my mind and I just had to
learn everything I could about it. And

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I thought this would make a really
interesting adventure novel. Yeah, no,

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that that's that's I agree with that
one hundred percent. Like, uh,

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definitely get a lot of good adventure
themes just from your synopsis there. I

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mean it's probably got a little Indiana
Jones in it, maybe a little uh

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maybe Pokemon catch all the cryptids.
I mean there's yes, I'll be honest,

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it's on the list of books we're
going to buy from Amazon wonderful.

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Yeah, we're gonna check it out. So yeah, and yes, there

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is a you know, I grew
up in the eighties, so I definitely

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was a child of Spielberg and up
with all the Indiana Jones films. And

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somebody who reviewed my book said,
oh, these read like an Indiana Jones

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novel or Indiana Jones movie, and
I was like, well, seeing as

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how I stole everything from Indie,
that's a fair assessment. That's awesome.

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Well that's thing's going to be stolen
from Indie but yeah, no it.

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I gotta feeling it would be a
movie series someday. Well cross Yeah,

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good stuff. I am curious,
So I would imagine there's not many other

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authors that are focusing on cryptozoology.
Has doing this duology? Has that led

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to any cool encounters or experiences in
the field of cryptozology for yourself? Yes,

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very much so. Through writing these
books, I got introduced to Lauren

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Coleman, and for anybody who's into
cryptozoology knows him as one of the greatest

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workers in the field right now.
He's been doing it for about sixty years

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and and I actually went to the
International Cryptozoology Conference last year and spoke to

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meet him, which is amazing,
and I have a lot of stories about

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that. But before that, what
was so interesting is that, you know,

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I started writing the books before I
knew a lot about cryptozoology. I

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just kind of had a based knowledge
of it. And I asked Lauren if

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he would read my book, the
first book, and you know, just

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kind of vet it for me,
like, hey, is this you know,

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can will you vet my book?
And he read it, and he

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actually had me make changes because he
said there were parts that were factually incorrect,

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and I thought, how can there
be factually incorrect things about animals that

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don't exist? But what he taught
me is the importance of legend the importance

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of tales that are already in existence, and the importance of that This is

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Cryptozoology is a field of study.
It's not just things that people make up.

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So it gave me a great respect, a deeper respect for the search

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for these legendary animals. Very cool, And I'll just say, Bigfoot society

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believes that Bigfoot Israel and all cryptids
are reel. Oh I apologize, Yes,

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yes, they I believe that.
I noticed you've got a really cool

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mask behind your right shoulder. What's
the story behind that mask? So that

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mask is my Bigfoot mask that is
actually part of a whole Bigfoot costume.

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I live in Colorado, and when
I got my book deal, one of

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my friends was like, you do
know that there's somebody in Colorado who makes

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Hollywood quality Bigfoot costumes? Right?
Wow? And it's like I must get

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one, and so I would.
I've used the costume to for promoting my

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book, although Circling back to Lauren
Coleman, he did get mad at me

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when he saw a photo of me
dressed as Bigfoot in the forest. He

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said, Leah, you cannot go
trapesing around the forest during hunting season.

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Yeah, I know you can't.
You can't know you've you've heard the story

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about the filming of Return of the
Jedi where they wouldn't let the actor who

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was Peter Mayhew dressed up you know, he was Chewbacca and they wouldn't let

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him in the Redwood forest by himself
because yeah, hunting season right, absolutely,

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absolutely totally agree with Lauren on that
one. Yeah. That museum up

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there in Portland, Maine is you
know, it's very very cool. I've

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visited myself, our family went up
there. But the conference that would have

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been a cool experience, so very
very cool, really fascinating, and I

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learned so much about about cryptids in
the field of cryptozoology. I one of

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my fondest memories of attending the conference
is that I was walking back to my

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hotel room and somebody popped their head
up from the bar and said, Leah,

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we're talking sea serpents. Want to
come over, grab a drink and

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talk to sence do I Ever?
I sat down with these folks and and

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this guy was talking about how he
and I wish I could remember his name

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so I could give him credit.
But he had put together a database of

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every sea serpent sighting that he researched
that he could get a hold of,

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with all sorts of different categories,
you know, was it freshwater, saltwater,

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time of day, time of year, geography, And he had over

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forty three hundred different sea serpent sightings. And I asked him, I said,

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why do you do this? Are
you a skeptic? Are you a

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believer? And he said, I'm
a researcher. And the way that you

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proved existence of things is to research. And I thought, wow, this

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is this is serious stuff, and
I just got really into it, very

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cool. And I will say so
listening to you read your book, I

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mean I have to say it's well
written, Like I was getting flashbacks to

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the kind of way that like a
book like you know, Harry Potter's written,

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like you have a very good vocabulary
about you. But uh yeah,

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at first, when I first heard
about you, I thought I was a

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little skeptical, skeptical, and I
was like I don't know about this,

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but then listening to you here as
well here later, like it's good,

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Like, yeah, definitely check it
out. But what would you say,

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why is it important for the younger
generation to be exposed to to things like

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cryptozoology or you know, cryptids,
monsters, things like that. What would

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be have you ever you know,
thought it maybe why there would be important

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reasons they'd be exposed to that.
Oh. Absolutely. What they're discovering with

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cryptoso all is that it's acting as
a gateway science for kids. You know,

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back when I was a kid,
dinosaurs got kids really interested in archaeology.

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You know, we all wanted to
be an archaeologist and dig up the

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bones. And now cryptids are getting
kids interested in the life sciences. They're

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getting interested in zoology and DNA science
and just every kind of science that they

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would need in order to prove the
existence of these animals. And so not

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only is it exciting for kids to
think that there are still mysteries out there

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to be discovered, because nowadays with
the iPad and Google, it's like there's

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kids can ask any question and their
computer just tells them immediately. But to

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teach them that space is not the
next frontier. There are still so many

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frontiers on Earth. Yeah, it's
it's not space, it's it's the woods

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and eastern Oklahoma right in area X. Like that just blows my mind.

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It's crazy. So to teach kids
that we still need scientists. There there's

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still more to learn, to discover, to encounter, and there are mysteries

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and stories and legends. Just the
whole package of it I think is fascinating,

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and it's just so wonderful for kids, both from a stem educational standpoint

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and just from a pure imagination standpoint. That is awesome. That's a that's

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a very good way to put it. Actually, I haven't thought of it

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from that angle. Uh yeah,
I agree with you on p you know,

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like right now, my kids in
the dinosaurs and he's talking about paleontology

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and being a paleontologist. He's four
years old, and yeah, you know,

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yeah, what kids are into that
can change your whole life. So

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it's very cool. Yeah. I
had a six year old girl come up

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to me at one point and and
she said, you know, my dad's

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a scientist, my grandpa is a
scientist, and they want me to be

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a scientist. And I don't think
I want to be a scientist. And

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I told her about how scientists search
for Bigfoot and crew and are trying to

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prove the existence of Bigfoot and all
these other animals. We'll be back with

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our sponsors, and she got so excited

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and then said, well, now
I want to be a scientist. So

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that's awesome. That's awesome. To
circle back around to something you mentioned before,

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can you can you remember any specific
things that like Lauren called out that

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He was like, I need to
make sure that you get this accurate in

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your book. I think that would
be very interesting if you call any of

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that out. Yes, he corrected
my for a chupacabra. I had it,

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And forgive me if I'm pronouncing it
incorrectly, but I had it chupacabra,

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and he had me add an S
on the end of it for chupacabras,

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which I guess is the appropriate way
in the actual in the language,

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whereas chupacabra is more the pop culture
American americanized version of it. And then

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of course, I, you know, it is a fiction book, and

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I did need to have the cryptids
do certain things that that they don't actually

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do, like, uh, the
I have the erst Wilch and again I'm

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probably pronouncing it wrong, but it's
the chicken with antlers from Germany. And

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in my book, Yeah, it's
amazing. But in my book, I

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have it where it has a poisonous
beak and you know, and he's like,

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it doesn't have a poisonous speak.
And I'm like, but can I

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just have a poisonous speak And he's
like, no, it doesn't have it.

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There's no research, you know,
and and so again, like you

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know, I couldn't take all of
his suggestions because it is, at the

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end of the day, a fiction
book, but it but I just loved

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how he was able to to he
knew the parts that I made up.

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That was such a good story.
Yeah, because he knows the legends of

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these cryptids so well that he knew
the things that I made up that that

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had no research attached to them.
Yeah, I mean, there would be

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no Dover Demon without Lauren Coleman.
Like he's been so instrumental in the history

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of cryptozoology. It's crazy's amazing.
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the scenes for your books. So, I mean it's not just that that

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Leah is researching is she's had the
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over the manuscripts and make the changes. So yeah, it's in good hands.

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That's that's that's the solid Yes.
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his full stamp of approval on it
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But I was honored to get his
get his research feedback on it. Very

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cool. Yeah, would you mind
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selection from one of the books just
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things. Absolutely, So I am
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from The Cryptic Keeper, And it
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and in this part, Clive O
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this very special cryptid. So he's
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particular cryptid and he finds a Questers
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has a lot of books that gives
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So he's reading a book that tells
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about this cryptid that he is supposed
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to close the book and reached for
another, this one with a terrifying image

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of a sinewy creature flying through the
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opened it and the spine cracked,
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as if other questers knew better than
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for such a creature. The parchment
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looked fresh, as if the pages
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the other book spent a lot of
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legends with great exuberance, the pages
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few in the middle. There was
hardly any information at all, and what

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there was seemed to be restrained.
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shifted at the full moon, how
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impossible to catch, and how it
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would notice that the human form never
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people who had moved to the island
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he figured that out was beyond him. He turned another page and sucked in

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his breath as he stared at the
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was an eloquently scrolled caption. The
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thrives on death. If you find
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place wandering the earth. Clibo closed
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its cloth, as if just reading
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But I think could get the image
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black eyes out of his head.
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the sunshine on his face. The
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the warning from the book, had
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geebs. If you find it,
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the cryptids, not destroy them.
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that just might be pure evil and
the immortal that's so good? Like thank

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you man. Yeah, that's gonna
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Definitely. It's crazy to think,
but we are actually getting close to the

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end of our time together. Oh
that one so fast? I know,

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right, it's crazy. Would you
mind. Let's say, if you know,

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my listeners have never heard of you
before, what is so a few

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closing questions, what's the best way
they can keep you've been touched with what's

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going on with you? And for
purchasing your book, what is the best

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way to do that so it helps
you out the most, if you know

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what I mean. Oh, thank
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would say the best way to keep
track of what I'm doing is to look

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on my website and that's Leah Fischer
dot com. And I'll hold how my

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name is spelled up to the camera. I don't know if you can see

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that, but it's perfect. L
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R dot com. And really,
anyway that you buy my books helps me.

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But I will say that I encourage
you now that indie bookstores independent bookstores

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are closed due to the pandemic,
if you are able to support your local

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bookstore, that would I definitely encourage
you to do that to support small That's

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awesome, that's very cool, very
cool. Wow, It's been a great,

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great conversation and I feel like maybe
in a year we'll have to have

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a follow up and see what else
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like you've got a very cool future. Thanks again for coming on, Leah,

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Well, thank you so much for
having me. It's been a pleasure

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to be here. Hello everybody,
my name is Leah Fisher, and welcome

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to my presentation on cryptozoology. I
am the author of a book series for

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eight to twelve year olds and they
are called The Cryptid Catcher and The Cryptid

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Keeper, and they are humorous adventure
novels about the world of cryptids and cryptozoology,

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which I will be talking about for
about the next twenty minutes or so.

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Since I will be doing this presentation
recorded and not live, you won't

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be seeing me. So here is
a picture of what I look like.

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That's me on the left, and
that's me with Bigfoot on the right during

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my book launch for my first book, The Cryptid Catcher. All right,

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So I got the idea to write
this book series actually by reading an article

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in the paper about someone who put
together a hunting party to go to Alaska

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to search for the Otterman. And
I thought, who is the Otterman and

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what do these people want with him? And so I started researching what the

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Otterman was, and I discovered that
the Otterman is something called a cryptid.

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Now, if you don't know what
a cryptid is, acryptid is an animal

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that has been claimed to exist,
but whose existence has never been proven by

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science. So, in other words, a cryptid is an animal that people

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think is alive and walking the earth
today, but we haven't actually found it,

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so we don't know if it's just
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actual animal that we just haven't discovered. And you may tell yourself you know,

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I don't. I've never heard of
cryptids. I don't know what a

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cryptid is, but I bet you
do. For instance, this cryptid,

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this is the most famous cryptid in
the world. People search for it all

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the time, and I bet you
recognize that cryptid. That is the Luckness

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Monster or NeSSI. Now. NeSSI
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Nessie is a sea serpent like creature
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and Lockness is basically a big lake
and Nessie was first seen in nineteen

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thirty three, and just about two
summers ago scientists did a new search for

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her using a new kind of DNA
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the loch for dinosaur DNA because there's
a lot of theories that NeSSI is an

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old dinosaur that's still hanging out in
the lake. And they did not discover

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any dinosaur DNA, but they did
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so maybe NeSSI is a giant eel
who they just haven't found. Now here

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is another cryptid that you may know
or not know of. Now, this

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is not Bigfoot, although it looks
a lot like Bigfoot, but this is

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the Yeti or the Abominable Snowman.
Now. The Yeti is a folkloric ape

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like creature who is said to inhabit
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and Nepal. And the first sighting
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back in eighteen thirty two, so
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and folklore, and just to let
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tale passed down through generations, and
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trickster tales, myths and legends.
So as I'm talking about all these

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different cryptids with you, remember we
haven't found them yet, so they may

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be real or they may just be
a trickster tales and myths. Some of

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them are up for you to decide. Now here's another fun fact about the

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Yeti. In nineteen fifty nine,
there were so many Americans going to Nepal

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to search for the Yeti because people
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outlined guidelines if you wanted to do
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and some of the requirements where that
first you had to buy a seventy seven

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dollars permit if you wanted to search
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allowed to shoot the Yeti unless it
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fun fact from nineteen fifty nine.
Okay, here's another cryptid that I bet

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you know. That's right. This
cryptid very pretty, is known as a

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mermaid or a mermaid, And again
in folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic

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creature with the upper body of a
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of a fish, and mermaids appear
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and mermaids were first seen in a
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over three thousand years. And the
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been seen. They're one of the
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the world. And you may ask
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of the only cryptids that's been seen
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in the ocean, and the ocean
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apparently they swim everywhere. All right. Now, this next slide, I

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just discovered actually that these are not
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this is a UFO or an alien. So UFOs are unidentified flying objects and

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aliens, also known as extraterrestrial life
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life referring to life occurring outside of
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written on an ancient Egyptian papyrus scroll
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This is known as the Truly Papyrus. But some people believe that this

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is actually a hoax, so they
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aliens, but there is a theory
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want to go on to some cryptids, exciting cryptids who you may not know,

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such as this scary looking creature looks
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is actually an American cryptid. This
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a cryptid, is known as the
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the snally gaster is a dragon like
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and the snolly gaster was first seen
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in the seventeen thirties, so the
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while. Now I am from Colorado
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and this is Colorado's most famous cryptid. Now Bigfoot has been seen in

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Colorado, and this cryptid is Colorado's
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than Bigfoot. And this cryptid is
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rock Bolter is a beast who lives
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first seen in the nineteenth century by
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another legend of the slide rock bolter. As you can see, it's as

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big as a whale, with teeth
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tail to the top of the mountain, and it would wait for someone to

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walk below it. And as soon
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it would slide down the mountain and
eat the person. And that is

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its legend. Now, if you
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you're like, nah, they're just
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one reason why they may have been
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something happening, what do you think
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slide rock Bolter. Well, imagine
if you looked up the mountain and saw

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an avalanche, or if you looked
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saw a rock slide or a mud
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is going on, but it might
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there is a beast up there sliding
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of these stories begin. All right, Now, this is one of my

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favorite cryptids. This is the Ugly
Merman. And this is a frog faced

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creature who lives in Russia, and
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sits on a dam smoking a pipe, and the locals are supposed to show

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up and give him gifts and treats
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village. Well, if the locals
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for not destroying the village, he
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the dam and flood the village with
water. So that is the cute looking

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yet very nasty, ugly Merman.
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in China, and it literally is
just a big blue tiger that has been

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seen roaming around China. And then
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giant sloth that has been seen in
South Africa. Now on the right is

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a picture of a real sloth,
but then on the left is the drawing

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of the giant sloth. Again,
we have not found the giant sloth,

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but supposedly it still exists in South
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are of interest to you, you
might be interested in cryptozoology. Now,

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crypto cryptozoology is the science or the
pseudoscience of searching for cryptids. And some

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people believe that, you know that
it's not really a science, because how

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can you study something that doesn't exist. But really, the same way that

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you would prove the existence of a
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prove the existence of any mammal that
we have yet to discover. And we

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do still discover one to two mammals
a year, and we've also proven the

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existence and found cryptids. But I'll
get to that later. So for cryptozoology,

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let's talk about extinction. Kind of
a sad topic, but for extinction,

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about two hundred species of plant,
insect, bird, and mammal become

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extinct every twenty four hours. Every
twenty four hours, we are losing things

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from the earth, But are they
really gone? Because we have had many,

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many different experiences of rediscovering things that
we thought were extinct but are actually

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still around today. For instance,
in Colorado, just a couple of years

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ago, we discovered something that we
thought was extinct but was actually still here,

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and that was the San Juan cutthroat
trout. That's right. We thought

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that this fish was extinct until a
fisherman one day was like, hey,

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I think that that's the San Juan
cutthroat trout swimming in the stream. Well,

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since they thought it was extinct and
hadn't actually found it, it was

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considered a cryptid until it was actually
caught in twenty eighteen. So this fish

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was a cryptid because we thought it
was extinct, yet people kept seeing it.

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So it wasn't until they caught it
and proved its existence that it was

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now no longer a cryptid. Now
hopefully the fisherman put it back in the

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river or once again the fish probably
is extinct. So all right, And

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then next we have the Cuban and
I believe it's pronounced Selenidon, but I

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apologize if I'm mispronouncing that. So
this crypt did supposedly one extinct in nineteen

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eight, but it was rediscovered in
twenty twelve, So from nineteen ninety eight

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to twenty twelve it was a cryptid
because people kept claiming they were seeing it,

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but supposedly it was extinct. And
the fun thing about this cute little

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creature is that it is one of
the few mammals that are venomous, So

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if it bites you, be careful
because it's like getting bit by a snake.

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So I present to you the idea
that if we can discover the San

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Juan cutthroat trout and rediscover the Cuban
Selenodon, maybe, just maybe we can

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rediscover the megalodon. Now, the
megalodon is the largest shark that has ever

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lived. It one extinct about two
and a half million years ago, and

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there are some theories that maybe it's
still alive in the deepest parts of the

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ocean. So we haven't rediscovered this
shark yet, but maybe someday we will.

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Next discovery. So even though a
lot of species go extinct every year,

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we are still discovering about eighteen thousand
new species every year of plant,

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animal, bird, fish, mammal
and for instance, we recently discovered this

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orangutang. This orangutang was just discovered
in twenty thirteen. We did not know

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that this particular species was alive,
and this is the rarest great ape alive

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and they're only about eight hundred left
of these orangutang. Next, this is

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one of my favorite recent discoveries,
the bird eating vampire frog. Yes,

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it is actually called the bird eating
vampire frog. And this creature was discovered

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around two thousand and nine, and
it eats birds with its fangs. So

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this frog actually jumps up, catches
a bird with its fangs and then eats

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it. So it's kind of a
nasty frog, but very interesting. So

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I present to you the idea that
if we can discover the orangutang and the

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bird eating vampire frog, maybe,
just maybe, someday we'll discover Bigfoot.

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Now, a funny thing about Bigfoot
is that he has been seen in every

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single state in America except one,
and that state is Hawaii. And you

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may ask, well, how come
he hasn't been seen in Hawaii? Well,

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because apparently Bigfoot can't swim because he's
too hairy and his fur would get

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too heavy and wet, and who
would let Bigfoot on an airplane to fly

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to Hawaii. I bet he probably
doesn't have a suitcakes to take his things

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with him. All right, final
piece here mystery. So if you're thinking

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to yourself, we've pretty much discovered
everything on Earth, there's not really you

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know, I have an iPad where
I can type a type of question in

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and get an answer. There's there's
really very little that we don't know.

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But that's not true. There is
so much still to be discovered here on

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Earth. For instance, let me
ask you this question. Do you think

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we have spent more time on the
surface of the Moon or more time in

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the deepest parts of the ocean.
Believe it or not, we have spent

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more time on the surface of the
Moon for the oceans, believe it or

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not, more than eighty excuse me, more than eighty percent of the ocean.

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That ocean floor is unmapped and unexplored, including the merry on a trench,

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which is the deepest part of the
ocean. So who knows what could

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be hiding down there. Even on
land, there are places on Earth where

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humans have never set foot. For
instance, this mountain here is in the

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Himalayas in Nepal, and this mountain
is off limit to climbers because it is

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considered a sacred mountain by the locals. Now, in nineteen fifty seven,

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a British team climbed to within a
one hundred and fifty feet of its summit,

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but turned back because they promised they
wouldn't step foot on the actual summit.

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So if I were the Yeti,
I would probably live at the top

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of this mountain because no humans come
up there, and maybe that's why the

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Yeti has never been found. Finally, not only on Earth, but also

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in space, there's so much still
to be discovered, such as the black

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hole is the most recent clearest photo
of a black hole that we have in

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space and inside the event horizon,
meaning inside the center of that black hole.

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The very fabric of space and time
defies physics. We don't know if

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time speeds up, we don't know
if time slows down, so everything we

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understand about time could be totally different
in space. So there is still so

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many mysteries to uncover. Now,
Like I mentioned earlier, there are actually

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cryptids that have been found. So
cryptids are initially considered stories and legend until

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we actually discover them. For instance, here's the ocopy the ocopy is the

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world's first cryptid. This is the
first cryptid that people kept seeing. This

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is the first animal that people kept
seeing, but yet we hadn't actually found

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it. And it is known as
the forest giraffe. And it was discovered

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in Central Africa in nineteen oh one. And it is kind of you can

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see it's like half giraffe, half
zebra. And the fun thing about this

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cryptid fun fact is that it has
a foot long tongue that can clean its

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eyes and ears. So I imagine
having a tongue long enough that you could

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wiggle your ear with it. Next, we have the platypus. So the

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platypus has a duck bill, a
beaver tail, and an otter foot.

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And when it was first seen in
seventeen ninety nine, scientists deemed it a

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hoax because it was such an odd
looking creature with so many different animal parts

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on it. They thought that someone
had actually sewn on different animal parts two

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this creature as a hoax. But
it wasn't until it was actually discovered in

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seventeen ninety nine that it was deemed
to be real. And it lives in

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Australia. And guess what this is
also a venomous mammal. So if the

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platypus fights you be careful because it's
poisonous. Okay. Next, the mountain

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gorilla. Look at this big creature. So this is the largest living primate

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and it was considered a legend until
it was actually discovered in nineteen o two

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in Africa. Now I propels the
idea to you, if the mountain gorilla

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can be found, maybe we can
find Bigfoot, because this guy doesn't look

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that different from Bigfoot, does he? And finally, here's the manatee.

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The manatee known as a sea cow
and is also known as one of the

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most gentle animals on Earth. Now, when sailors kept seeing it in the

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fourteen hundreds, they actually mistook the
manatee for mermaids because it has a tail

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that looks very much like a mermaid, and so when sailors saw it swimming

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in the water, they thought it
was a mermaid until the manatee was actually

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caught and determined to be its very
own species. Now, if you are

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more interested in query more about cryptozoology, there is actually a museum, the

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International Cryptozoology Museum, and it is
located in Portland, Maine, and of

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course, it's unfortunately closed right now, but you can always google them online

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and discover all sorts of fun stuff. And the founder of the museum,

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his name is Lauren Coleman, and
he has been a cryptozoologist for about sixty

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years, and he has written a
wonderful book called Cryptozoology A to Z and

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it is a basically an encyclopedia of
cryptids. It's kind of like Bullfinch's Mythology,

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which is an encyclopedia of myths.
This is an encyclopedia of cryptids.

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And finally, for those of you
who live in Colorado, there's actually a

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Bigfoot museum right here in Bailey,
Colorado. It is called the Sasquatch Outpost,

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and when it reopens you can go
in and read all sorts of fun

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stuff about Bigfoot, because, as
I mentioned, Bigfoot has been seen in

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Colorado quite a bit, and the
Sasquatch out Post will tell you all about

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it. Well, everybody, I
want to thank you so much for listening

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to my presentation. Again. My
name is Leah Fisher, and I hope

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that you explore the wonderful world of
cryptozoology. It is acting as a gateway

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science for kids to get them interested
in all sorts of life sciences because hey,

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it might be one of you who
actually discovers Bigfoot. Thanks so much,

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everybody, have a great day.
You're a Bigfoot Society article is to

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provide a platform for those that have
encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter in a

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safe and respected environment. But we
need to hear your story. If you've

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experienced something that you just can't explain, please send me an email at Bigfoot

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Society at gmail dot com. Then
we can start the conversation. And I

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know a lot of you have not
shared your encounter at all. It's been

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twenty years and it's time that you
get this off your chest and then you

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can get some well deserved for rest, because I know you haven't been sleeping.

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I understand what you're going through,
and I appreciate every one of you listening.