Dec. 17, 2025

Driver Spots Juvenile Bigfoot Near Pennsylvania Grand Canyon / Peoria, Illinois Updates!

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Season 1

A driver traveling Route 6 near the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon witnesses a shocking encounter with a lean, black, juvenile Bigfoot that darts into the brush in seconds. In this episode, we explore her detailed account of the creature’s shape, movement, and behavior—along with how the sighting has stayed with her for nearly a decade.


But the mystery doesn’t end in Pennsylvania. We also dive into multiple Bigfoot encounters across Central Illinois, including East Peoria, Farmdale, Mapleton, Goofy Ridge, Jubilee State Park, and Banner Marsh. From massive footprints in frozen creeks, to dark figures rising from cornfields, to pounding inside outbuildings at 3 AM, to strange lights moving through the treetops—witnesses describe chilling moments they’ve never forgotten.


This episode brings together first-person testimonies, regional Bigfoot hotspots, and decades of sightings, revealing a pattern of activity that follows waterways, remote forests, and isolated rural corridors throughout the Midwest and Northeast.


If you’re fascinated by Bigfoot sightings, cryptid encounters, wilderness mysteries, or eyewitness stories that challenge what we think we know, this conversation is a must-listen.


Topics Covered:
– Juvenile Bigfoot sighting on Route 6 near Gaines & Ansonia, PA
– Pennsylvania Grand Canyon (Pine Creek Gorge) encounter details
– Bigfoot footprint discovery in East Peoria
– Shadow figures, creature structures, and creek-side sightings
– Farmdale tree-line encounter and runaway eyewitness
– Mapleton cornfield creature rising to full height
– Terrifying pounding in a Jubilee State Park outbuilding
– Strange pulsating forest lights
– Historical patterns of Illinois Bigfoot reports
– Emotional impact on witnesses over decades

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

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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring

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

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something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to

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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, beg for Society. You've

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got the privilege of talking to Jill today. Jill is

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a listener over on the YouTube side that reached out

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about an experience that she had in northeast Pennsylvania. So

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welcome to the show, Jill. How are you doing today?

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Good?

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I'm good, awesome. I've heard a bit about this area.

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It's come up on the show recently a few times,

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so I'm excited to hear what your experience was. I

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know a little bit about it, So feel free to

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take us back to the day when you experienced what

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you saw that day.

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Okay, So I guess. I was just driving down Route

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six as east bound, somewhere between like Gaines and Antsnia,

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which is like near the coming close to where the

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Pennsylvania Grand Canyon is, And it was like about dusk time,

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starting to get dark, and I just, I don't know,

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just saw this black figure and it kind of looked apish,

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I guess. And it was like just dark, dark black,

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and it was smaller. So I would say, I believe

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it's a big foot. I would say, if it is,

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then then be like a juvenile big foot, because it

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wasn't real real big, but fairly good size. And I

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don't know he was there and he was not, you know.

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He kind of climbed up into the into the brush

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off the road and that was it.

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All right. So it happened very very quickly. How many

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seconds and all would you say that you had the

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sighting for.

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Oh, I don't know, maybe five seconds, gotcha.

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And you're saying, so as you're driving by, you see

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it on the side of the road, it climbs up

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into the brush. Yes, Okay, you said that it looked apish.

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Do you remember what details you saw that made you

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think that it had an apish look? To it.

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Just the shape of it. I guess it would remind

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me of like a I wouldn't say it was as

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heavy as a gorilla, but maybe like a orangutane. Maybe

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it was black black black though, Like.

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Gotcha, So when you say potentially like an a tan,

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are you saying like the shape of the body then,

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or maybe how the head looked or anything specific that

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that made you feel that way.

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Just sort of that, you know, long arms and sort

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of hunched over in the shape of the body. I

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guess too.

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Gotcha when you had you know, just a few seconds,

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but your viewpoint, was it dead onto it or did

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you see more of a side profile or the back

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of it?

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I'd say side profile because a neat So he's just

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on the side of the road and you just kind

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of crawled up a bank and into the rush and

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then I didn't see him.

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And was it on all fours or was it standing

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on two legs at the time.

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Sort of hunched over not really like on all fours,

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but definitely is like arms were reaching to the ground.

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Okay, so tell me if I got this right, then,

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So it was sounds like it's on two legs but

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also hunched over. And maybe having its front arms down

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to the ground, maybe leaning on those or something like that. Right, Okay,

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could you tell anything about you've said that it was?

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It was a darker color, darker black. Could you see

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anything to do with the hair, like the length of

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the hair, anything like that.

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No, I was pretty far off from it. I guess

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I wasn't terribly close, so like it was like that.

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I don't have the greatest size siet either, So details

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like that. And then with the time and.

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Day was gotcha? How far away would you say it was?

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I'm not good at distance. I don't know.

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How about this? Would you say it was about the

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length of a tennis court or longer longer? How much longer?

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Maybe a football field?

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Okay, and so yeah, that's a little bit of a length.

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Were you able to estimate how tall it seemed at all?

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No?

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I mean I would say it was bigger than a

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large dog for sure.

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Okay. When it climbed up into the brush, did it

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have to jump up to reach the brush or did

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it just reach up and climb up there?

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It just kind of climbed up. It wasn't really reaching

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this kind of climbed out.

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And I don't know, okay, okay, gotcha. So after you

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had that sighting, then did you stop or go back

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or continue to just keep driving? I just kept driving, okay, gotcha.

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Could you see anything to do with the shape of

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its head or anything about the head at all?

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Just that it was, you know, like, didn't really have

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much of a neck and I guess kind of leaning forward.

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Okay. Did the shape of the body. Did it seem

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like it was overly muscular or more lean the way

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it was put together?

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More lean?

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Okay, got it? So more of a smaller, lean juvenile

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as you had kind of said earlier. Then, right, was

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it doing any activity when you first saw it? No,

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just kind of hanging out there and then.

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Right, it's like you saw me and then left.

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Okay, gotcha. After you had the sighting, did you tell

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anyone about what happened?

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Yeah, I told some of my friends and stuff. This

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was like twenty fifteen, I think, I guess I didn't

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say that in the beginning, but so it was several

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years ago.

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Now, Okay, So twenty fifteen. And do you remember the

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month what happened in?

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No?

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I don't, okay. And maybe was it snowy out? Was

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it in summer spring anything like that.

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No, it wasn't. It might have been spring, but it

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wasn't snowy.

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When you told your friends about what happened, what was their.

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Reaction, Well, they don't believe me. I don't know. That

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doesn't bother me.

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And why does that not bother you?

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Because a lot of people don't believe that they're real,

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and I do, especially since I've seen one. I think,

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you know, it's highly plausible that there's creatures out there

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that we don't you know, have documented or whatever.

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So absolutely. You mentioned this was near the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon.

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Can you tell me a little bit about that area?

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Yeah, it's very remote. They called the Pa Wilds, so

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there's lots of wildlife, but the canyon is, you know,

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like just a canyon, but it's all wooded like trees

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and stuff, and very I mean, there's a lot of

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remote areas out.

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There, So.

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Okay, gotcha. So it's really sounds like it's a place

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where something could potentially hide out if it wanted to. Yes, yeah, okay.

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How did this affect you after you had this sighting?

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Did it make any changes in your life?

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Not really? I mean I felt pretty blessed to have

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seen one. Like I said, I do believe that they're

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out there. It felt pretty blessed about it. I guess.

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Absolutely. I mean it's a very I'd say it's a

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very rare thing and a very special thing to have

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happened to you. I guess it all does depend on

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how you view it. Some people would probably disagree that

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it's a very traumatic experience. But did you feel more

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that it was traumatic or you actually had a good

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outcome from it?

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Good because I, like I said, I wasn't like I

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wasn't that close to it. I was in a car.

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I wasn't scared at all, like it was there and

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it wasn't. So it was more just like, wow, I

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got to see one. But I feel that way about

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all wildlife when I see it. I'm like, you know,

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when I've seen bear. I get so excited when I see.

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Bear, and oh, sure, it's very cool right there with you.

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It's cool to see something like that that is hard

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to see. I guess, depending where what part of the

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country you're in. When you've been telling people over the years,

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which let's see, this happened about ten years ago, has

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there ever been anyone that said, oh, yeah, you know,

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I've heard of stuff in there or I've experienced stuff

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in that area too.

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No, I mean the people who do believe me, I don't. Well,

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I do have a one friend that said she'd seen one.

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It had been way long time ago, but out of

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I'm trying to think where. She said, Ogdensburg Road, which

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is kind of near Lassburg, PA, another very remote area.

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So she had seen one, a big one. And the

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other people that believe me are just they believe more

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in the paranormal stuff, which I don't really believe in.

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Not that I don't believe in paranormal I just don't

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believe that bigfoot is paranormal?

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Sure, sure, what do you feel that it probably is?

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Then wildlife?

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Okay, gosh, so like an undiscovered large wildlife of North America? Yes,

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actually all over the.

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World, I would say, all over the world, all over

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the world.

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How far away is this area from the Allegheny National Forest.

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It's like two hours from where I was because I

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used to live out that way.

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Gotcha, would you say, this is the first thing you've

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experienced that was out of the ordinary.

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As far as like paranormal?

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So yeah, I mean, and I know that you're you're

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not really looking at it like this, but sometimes it

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does get categorized with you know, if a person has

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an experience like this, well they may have had a

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UFO sighting as well, or or or a ghosts or

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et cetera, high strangeness things like that.

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Now, I've never really experienced anything like the UFOs or

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more ghost kind of stuff.

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So, okay, after you had this sighting, did it kick

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off anything in your life where weird things started to happen, like,

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you know, strange dreams or or things of that nature.

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No, I really it was to me just like seeing

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other wildlife. It wasn't. Yeah, I don't think of it

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that way.

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Yeah, absolutely, got it? Got it? Yeah, no, no, sweat.

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It's very cool. Is that something that you would want

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to see again?

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Oh for sure?

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Yes?

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Safely?

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Safely yeah exactly, So you would be cool with the

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same setup where you know, you're in the car and

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you have that kind of security, right, yeah, got it?

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How How close would you be comfortable with it being

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to the car?

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Uh? With an undred feet? I think?

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Okay, that's cool. Cool, after you had this sighting, did it?

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Sometimes with some people it'll start a time where they

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will you know, wanting start wanting to know more about it.

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They'll start, you know, reading a lot more. They'll start

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going on little investigations and area trying to figure it out,

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trying to find tracks that did do anything like that

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to you at all.

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so that was one of my trips back and forth

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because I was still living like out near the Alligating

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National Force back then, so I was pretty busy with

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all that and raising kids and everything. So in the

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last year i've I have read a book and started

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watching more things about it, but at that time I

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was pretty busy with other things.

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it is. It was quick, and it was a bit

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away from you, but it's in an area where I

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can't find a lot about it. I did some searches

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to see if I could find anything else around the

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Pennsylvania Grand Canyon, which is also called I think Pine

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Creek Gorge is what it's called. I couldn't find much.

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and I think those are within fifty Yeah, they're pretty

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cool fifty miles or so. And not a lot of

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recent stuff. You know, back in the nineties, the seventies,

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there were some some reports and maybe some vocalizations in

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the two thousands there, but it's interesting. Perhaps someone listening

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will We'll say, well, I know something near the Pennsylvania

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Grand Canyon, and if so, please reach out. I've checked

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my map and I don't have anything marked in that area,

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but I haven't gone through all my episodes yet, so

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we'll see. But Jill, I want to make sure that

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you were able to share everything that you experienced that day.

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Yep, that's pretty much it.

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Awesome, awesome, good stuff. Well, thank you so much for

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coming on the show. I do appreciate it. And if

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you you know, if you ever experience anything else in

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that area, please reach out. We'd love to hear about it.

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And thank you so much for coming on the show today.

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Thank you.

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All right, Bigfoot Society, thanks for coming back for another show.

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We've got Diana here today, and Diana reached out about

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some interesting accounts that she has gathered over the years

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and also some experiences herself. And these are all based

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out of the central Illinois area around Peoria for the

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most part, So welcome to the show, Diana, how are

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you doing today?

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I'm doing well, Thank you for asking.

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Awesome and point out. So with the show using a

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new program called Riverside, there will be some where there

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will not be the video of the witness or the

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interviewee for certain privacy reasons, which is a okay. But

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this program does allow us to have better audio quality

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than a telephone call, which I know a lot of

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you will appreciate. So yeah, Diana, I'm excited to hear

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what you have to share today. I'm going to go

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ahead real quick, and you've been nice enough to put

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a map together with some stars for locations, and you'll

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be kind of walking us through that as we go.

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But you'll feel free, Diana, to take the reins. I

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think you were saying that you might have a personal

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account to share first today.

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Yes, mine happened around nineteen seventy nine nineteen eighty. I

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grew up in Actually we built a log cabin facing

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Ice seventy four in East Peoria, and it come wintertime

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and my best friend came over and we were bored.

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We decided to go off into the woods. It was

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freezing cold out and a little bit of snow on

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the ground. But we were bored. We're kids, We're twelve

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thirteen years old, you know. So we went behind the

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log cabin down in the delly into the creek and

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was following the creek I had and I noticed one

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thing I would like to add. It was totally silent.

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And I didn't think twice about it. I was just

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a kid, you know. But even though bitter cold, you're

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still gonna have a little bit of a squirrel running

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through or something. But it was a dead silence. And

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I'm joking around with my best friend, and I said

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to her, wouldn't it be funny if we saw bigfoot?

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And moments I'm talking less than five minutes down and

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there is this huge like footprint in the snow and ice,

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right in the dead center of the creek. And we

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looked at each other and we looked back at that,

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and I know her heart was racing as fast as mine.

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I mean, you automatically got that nervous filling. And we

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took off running out of the woods, got out of there.

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She had to help me up the gully, of course,

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but anyway, we got out of there and got back home,

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and I noticed and we'd only been living there less

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than a year, we'll say, and after that I would

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try to ignore things, but I noticed I never went

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in that backyard really, You'd always have a sense of

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a nervous filling and uneasiness. And this led into me

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even being an adult. I lived there until I was

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about twenty five when I got married, and I wouldn't

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even go on the edge really, I just you always

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got the nervous filling. Now, on that note, I was listening.

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It could have been your podcast, or it might even

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have been Bigfoot case files. I'm not for sure which one,

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but there were sightings just a few years earlier following

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that creek, like say, less than a mile from where

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we saw that footprint. And if you start doing your

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research in the Taswell County East Furia area, it seems

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to be along that creek which feeds into a levee

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system and then feeds into the Illinois River. So snider

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following those waterways is how I look at it, you know.

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But that was that kind of hit me when I

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was listening to a podcast and I, you know, heard

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that where they had had sightings before, and I'm like,

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it was less than ten years and we saw the footprint,

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you know, and so it kind of led from there.

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But I've always had a fascination. I was one of

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those think about it seventies kid, you grew up with, Uh,

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what was that Leonard n moy and the show that

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he had and that, Yeah, yeah, exactly, even what was it?

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A million dollar man? Six million dollar man? Remember he

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had big foot on there? Yeah, yes, yes, definitely. So

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it was always a fascination to me. Now in the

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next area where there were three sidings or two sidings

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in an oddity, that was on a street named Kerfoot,

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which is only about a mile maybe two tops from

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where I grew up. And if you look on the map,

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you're gonna see East Peoria And I'm okay. I lived

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where the middle star was, and these other three happenings

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is where the left side start is, right undernath the

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o of Purea. See. The first one was my best

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friend come to school. We went to school, Glendale Grade School,

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and she shows up and she was telling me that

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they couldn't go outside to go to school right away

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because her dad had walked out and they kept a

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dog outside and when he come out, he found the

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dog skinned and from what Jewel remembers my best friend.

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It wasn't skinned like say a human with a knife

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and everything, but it was skin. It was dead, and

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he wouldn't let the kids see it. But that was

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a story, you know, since childhood that I've heard from

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not only my best friend, her family members are walking

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out and finding this dog skinned and in that same

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area or their backyard. You might as well say. They

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had an elderly man that stayed there for a while

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and Bud, Bud was his name, and he swore clear

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up to the moment he was dying, that he saw

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what he considered a bigfoot squatted down on a hillside

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behind their house. Now their house you had to go

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up a steep driveway to get to, so you're kind

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of isolated from the rest of the homes on Kerfoot.

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And then behind their house was another hill, and supposedly

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what Bud seen squatted down was on that other hill

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that was behind their house, But like I said, he

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swore to it. And then she informed me that her

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older brother, Billy, he was across the street. Now across

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the street, you've got your homes, and then you've got

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a creek, and then you've got a really Steaem Hill

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and on the other side of the hill is I

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seventy four. Well, on that hillside's tons of coal mines,

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old dilapidated coal mines. Some of them you don't even

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realize they're there. They've been covered with dirt through the

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years and so forth. But he swore that he's seen

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a very large, dark, shadowy figure in the woods there

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on that hillside. And what he did is he hid

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behind a tree to where he felt safe enough to,

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you know, run back home. But I just learned that

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today actually, But that was the three sidings on Kerfoot

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or two sidings, and one oddity of finding the dog's skin.

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I don't know what to think. Also, something that was

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found on that other hillside behind Jules house. Her and

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a neighbor kid went up there exploring, and all Jewel

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could say, and she still says it today, like this, Diana,

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it looked like somebody was having like a Satanic ritual

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or something other. She goes, there was a fire pit,

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and there was these markings, and just the way things

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were positioned. She can't fully remember details, but she remembers that.

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Oh boy, that puts a whole different spin on it.

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Potentially my goodness. Wow.

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So and there was just always this cluster though that

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you're seeing in East Puria. There's always been in an eeriness.

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Like I said, you know, I never even went into

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my backyard once we built that house. I just didn't

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like it. I would step out onto the deck and

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walk off of the deck, but beyond that, I would

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never go back to those woods. And there would be

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days I'm not even thinking of anything like a bigfoot

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being back there or whatever, but you would get that

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sense of nervousness, uneasiness. Let's see here. Now we're gonna

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go over under East Fury to the far right. Now.

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This was one of my cousins and two of his friends.

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They were in an area and if there's any listeners

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from this area, they're going to know Farmdll. Farmdale, of course,

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has a creek running through. It's kind of like the

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River Flats in a way. It's a valley, of course.

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But they were down there. They were like fourteen fifteen

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years old, not old enough to drive yet. So they're

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on their bikes and they're down there playing in the woods,

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riding on their bikes, and they happened to stop, and

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everybody's just kind of looking around. But Tim the friend

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happened to get real white. From what I understand from

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talking to my aunt and my cousin, he got really white,

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and they're like, what's wrong. And he flung his bike

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down and he ran back up the hill, which was

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an entirely residential area called Highway Village, and he basically

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ran home. He didn't want any part of it. But

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he's in his forties now and he still swears that

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what he's seen was a bigfoot. It was very huge,

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it was dark brown, almost black, and it was walking

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along the tree line there and he caught this bigfoot

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walking along a tree line. But he still swears to

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today that's what he's seen, and it still puts a

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nervousness in him.

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And Diana, is this the star that's in the southwest corner?

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Uh? No, this is the one in the southeast. It'd

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be you've got the three stars under East Peoria, well,

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two directly under Puria, and then one off to the right.

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This is the one off to the right that's farmdal

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got it. Yeah, And that's just an area where you've

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got homes here and there you got a little mobile

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home park. But it's there's a lot of wooded areas

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down in there, and of course a creek, so you

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got another waterway, you know. Now, the next one I

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guess we'll get to is my landlord where I live now.

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We've known each other since we were fourteen, but we're

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in Florida now, and he was just telling me this

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last week when I told him that I was going

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to be speaking with you. He used to live off

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of one fifty and mcluggage Bridge. So when you look

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above Peoria and you see the gold Star like in

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between Peoria and two and Puria, he lived right in

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that area, right off of I guess it'd be Washington

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Street or Adams. I'm not sure if it's I think

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it's considered Adams actually and one fifty and he would

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take his ATV, go up the hillside into the woods

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and you'd come out to a large cemetery called Springdale

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Cemetery right there on Uh was it Prospect? And I

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know if anybody's from this area, they know exactly where

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I'm talking about. But he said that one day he

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was going through the woods, not driving his ATV, he

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was just walking through the woods and he kind of,

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you know, he was getting lost. If you want to

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say it in quotations, you know, just getting into the

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woods and having a good time. But he told me

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that he come across the structure and I'm like, you did,

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and he goes, yeah, he goes, This thing was massive,

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and he said it was about eight to possibly ten

461
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:03.799
feet tall and at least eight foot or more in diameter,

462
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.519
and it was intertwined with the twigs, the tree limbs,

463
00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:12.039
the branches, and you know, we can't say that it

464
00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:16.720
was an actual Bigfoot structure, but it was something that

465
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.839
he's never forgotten, you know what I mean, because of

466
00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:23.319
the massive size of it and everything in the way

467
00:30:23.400 --> 00:30:28.759
things were intertwined. There was another time he was riding

468
00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:35.079
his ATV and something started chasing after him behind it,

469
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:39.240
and you know, he got away and everything, but that

470
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:42.720
is something the of knowing that something is back. There

471
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.279
could have been a buck, we don't know, but there

472
00:30:45.359 --> 00:30:48.799
was still something chasing him on his ATV. And this

473
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:50.119
was like in the middle of.

474
00:30:50.079 --> 00:30:54.880
The night, Like goodness, how far away from the zoo

475
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:55.440
is that.

476
00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:04.119
I'm trying to think Puria Zoo. Oh, actually less than

477
00:31:04.119 --> 00:31:04.559
a mile?

478
00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:08.240
Yeah, okay, And I will say this.

479
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:12.920
They have spotted a mountain lion, an actual mountain lion,

480
00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:15.599
and it's on camera. I think it was like twenty

481
00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:21.279
years ago or under twenty years ago in that cemetery. Now,

482
00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:24.000
the mountain lion can't build a structure, but he could

483
00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.039
be the one chasing you, you know, so that could

484
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:29.559
be it. But that the mountain lion didn't come from

485
00:31:29.599 --> 00:31:33.359
the zoo. We don't know where it came from. But

486
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:36.480
it was spotted up there in the cemetery and around

487
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:40.960
the same time or close to it, across the Illinois

488
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.400
River on the East Puria side. A homeowner just a

489
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.680
few years ago, less than ten years ago, maybe they

490
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:54.920
spotted the mountain lion on their trail camera buying their house. Okay,

491
00:31:55.079 --> 00:32:00.279
so we do have that to contend with. Now, see

492
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:03.119
where are we going. We got Roger, we got all

493
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.599
of us taken care of. We'll go to my aunt

494
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:11.880
which is below Peakin and she lived on the edge

495
00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:16.640
into Peka, Illinois, which she literally lived on the edge

496
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:20.480
of a community called Goofy Ridge. And I'll give you

497
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.519
a little history on Goofy Ridge. I actually know a

498
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:28.519
little history about this. My great aunt uncle was bodyguard

499
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:32.039
for one of the Shelton brothers. Have you ever heard

500
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:33.039
of the Shelton Gang.

501
00:32:35.720 --> 00:32:36.599
Actually I haven't.

502
00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:39.160
Okay, they you know, back in the mob days, what

503
00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:42.680
is the twenties and thirties or whatever. But they were

504
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:47.880
central and southern Illinois is what they were. And they

505
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:50.119
did run with el Capone. They were friends with El

506
00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:55.799
Capone and his bunch and everything. But Goofy Ridge has

507
00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:59.359
I think one large lake in multiple lakes. But you're

508
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:03.799
down by the area is where you're at. And actually,

509
00:33:03.839 --> 00:33:06.400
you know you were bringing up Banner Marsh one time

510
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:10.920
of that up. Yeahh you're basically across the river from

511
00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:12.119
Banner Marsh.

512
00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:13.160
Oh, there you go.

513
00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:16.880
But they used to take their victims down to Goofy Ridge.

514
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.759
And if you were to drain that lake, I'm sure

515
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:24.279
you're gonna find bones, evidence and stuff like that, kind

516
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:26.920
of like Lake mir things that they found, you know.

517
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:32.880
But what I'm getting at is is my aunt. This

518
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:37.359
is just I want to say, twenty eighteen, maybe between

519
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:41.519
twenty eighteen and twenty twenty, she was doing her dishes

520
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.559
and it was kind of dusk out and she happened

521
00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:48.160
to look out the window right there at her kitchen sink.

522
00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:52.359
And my middle name is Dora, so she calls me, Dorry,

523
00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.720
and she was like, Dory, I don't know what I've seen,

524
00:33:56.279 --> 00:33:59.720
But she goes, it was over in the alley and

525
00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:03.759
it was very large and it was dark, and she goes.

526
00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:06.599
It just made me so nervous. I had to step away.

527
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:11.119
And she's another one that still gets nervous with just

528
00:34:11.239 --> 00:34:15.800
that moment of seeing something, you know, years later, and

529
00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.760
she's seventy five years old, but it just makes her

530
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.320
a nervous wreck, you know. Now I did go out

531
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.719
there that next day to look for footprints, but where

532
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:32.119
I messed up, I got the alleys messed up. She

533
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:35.119
has an alley that runs right next to her property,

534
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:40.760
which that kitchen window faces, but then across the street

535
00:34:41.239 --> 00:34:45.480
there's another alley and that window faces it somewhat too,

536
00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:48.840
And I went to the wrong alley. I thought she

537
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:51.760
meant the one right next to her property, and it

538
00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:54.719
was actually the one across the street. So I never

539
00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:59.480
did find any footprints or anything. But whatever it was,

540
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:02.480
it's spooked her. She don't like to go out at

541
00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:06.079
night with their little dogs, you know, so here come

542
00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:08.920
the peep ads in the house after dark, you know.

543
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:12.920
But that also, like I said, when you kind of

544
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:17.599
estimate Banner Marsh and Goofy Ridge. You know, you've only

545
00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:20.519
got a short distance to the river. I mean, I

546
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.119
don't know how far, but you know, just a few

547
00:35:24.159 --> 00:35:26.360
moments and you're going to be at the river. I

548
00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:33.440
would say they're kind of close and.

549
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:39.000
Absolutely and Banner Marsh is where I was within the

550
00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:39.840
last year, I.

551
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:41.000
Think eight months ago.

552
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:43.519
Yeah, the trucker had the sighting.

553
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:46.280
Yeah, and I've been back in Banner Marsh and I

554
00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:51.039
could see that it's very isolated. Even in the middle

555
00:35:51.079 --> 00:35:54.280
of the day. You think there'd be people out there,

556
00:35:54.400 --> 00:35:57.599
more than what I have seen in my years, but

557
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:01.880
more people fishing and doing things. But no, it's real

558
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.800
quiet and very isolated. I don't know, but I can

559
00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:10.079
see that. You're all in that wooded area and you're

560
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:13.719
away from any urban You know, what you're gonna find

561
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.039
is a house here and there, or a small community,

562
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:21.800
you know, here and there, like Banner or was it

563
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:24.800
Glassford up on top of the hill. These are all

564
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:30.119
very small communities, you know, Okay, if you even want

565
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:32.880
to call them a community. There might be an abandoned

566
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:36.800
gas station, you know, and that's about it, or a

567
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:40.239
little restaurant and an abandoned gas station or whatever. Not

568
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:43.920
a whole lot going on that are near these areas,

569
00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:48.880
in particular where the truck driver in Banner Marsh but

570
00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:52.800
Goofy Ridge. I could definitely see something like that out there.

571
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.679
Let's see here. The next one is Mapleton. Now you

572
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:04.960
see where it says Hannah City. Ye, right below it

573
00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:10.159
is a gold Star. Okay. This is actually Jules's ex husband.

574
00:37:11.119 --> 00:37:13.440
Him and I were talking. He was helping me prepare

575
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.960
my move to move to Florida. And you know, we

576
00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:19.880
were talking and I had, you know, probably your channel

577
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:23.639
on YouTube playing on the TV while we're packing and

578
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:27.280
loading things, and he goes, Diana, you know, I've seen

579
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.800
something when I was young, and we sat down. He

580
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:33.480
started telling me about it. And this is probably in

581
00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:38.320
the late seventies, maybe seventy seven, seventy eight. He was thinking,

582
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:43.840
he's about fourteen fifteen years old, riding his dirt bike.

583
00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.079
You know. It was like a little Kasaki or Suzuki.

584
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:52.039
And his parents they lived on a street or a

585
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:56.800
road called Lancaster, and they lived in a big old

586
00:37:56.840 --> 00:38:00.519
farmhouse that had belonged to his grandparents. But they were

587
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:04.519
building a new home across the road from that. But

588
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:06.800
he'd go out there in the farm. You know, it

589
00:38:06.840 --> 00:38:10.519
was all cornfields being fields and stuff like that, and

590
00:38:11.559 --> 00:38:13.480
like he was describing to me, he goes, you know,

591
00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:16.840
when they plow the field and at the corners, there's

592
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:20.360
always a few stalks left over. And I know you

593
00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:23.360
would know this, Jeremy, being in Iowa. In the corner

594
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:25.880
areas of a field, there's always a little bit of

595
00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:29.880
a cluster that's left over. Well, he was on his

596
00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:33.719
dirt bike and he comes around that corner and he said, right,

597
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:37.760
is he's coming around that corner, something large and dark

598
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:41.159
stood up and he looked over at his shoulder as

599
00:38:41.159 --> 00:38:44.239
he passed, and he goes, I don't know what I

600
00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:47.079
was seeing. All I know it was huge and it

601
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:50.559
was harry and it was very dark. And he said,

602
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:53.639
I just I teled it home. Now. On a funny

603
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:58.719
note on that, when he got home, he's like, Mom, Mom,

604
00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:00.840
I don't know what I saw. Oh, you know whatever

605
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.760
he's saying and everything. And you know what she said

606
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:06.320
to him, Well, honey, did I want you to ride

607
00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:11.880
that over on the south side? Oh my god, Oh

608
00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:15.000
my god. It's like, missus Ford, what are you thinking?

609
00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:16.440
Right?

610
00:39:16.719 --> 00:39:20.559
But yeah, he believed that his mom probably knew a

611
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.800
little bit more, but she didn't want to book him

612
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:27.760
as a kid, you know. But it's something that still

613
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.199
sticks with him. You know, what was that thing? Because

614
00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.360
it was so tall and he couldn't really give me

615
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:37.119
an estimate of how many feet he thought it was.

616
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.639
It just it was so tall and he could see

617
00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:43.280
the fur on it, and it was so dark colored.

618
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:46.760
But it just it was coming up as he was

619
00:39:46.840 --> 00:39:51.320
round in that corner, So that would freak me out

620
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:57.239
a little bit. Now the last one, and I know

621
00:39:57.360 --> 00:40:00.559
you've had sightings in Jubilee as I've heard of it.

622
00:40:00.599 --> 00:40:05.920
Oh yeah, we've talked to a few people about Jubilee. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah.

623
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:12.079
Well this is just within twenty twenty and twenty twenty three.

624
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.000
The man that put my roof and my deck on

625
00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:19.039
my house up there in Illinois, he has a tree

626
00:40:19.079 --> 00:40:23.519
stand out there in Jubilee State Park. And one night,

627
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:26.280
he said, is about three in the morning, he was

628
00:40:26.360 --> 00:40:30.039
leaving his tree stand and he's the only one out

629
00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:32.000
there by the way. You know, his truck is the

630
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:35.159
only one in that particular parking lot. He don't know

631
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:39.519
of anybody else being out there, and he's walking to

632
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:43.119
his truck and you have to pass an outbuilding, and

633
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:46.960
he said. As he's passing that outbuilding, he said, Diana,

634
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.000
I don't know what was in there, but he goes,

635
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:53.519
whatever it was, it was pounding on the walls so hard,

636
00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:56.599
like it was trying to get out. And he looked

637
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:58.679
at me before I said anything, and he goes, no,

638
00:40:59.079 --> 00:41:01.880
it wasn't it. Deed an animal trying to get out

639
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.440
of there. He goes, it was pounding like a human's fist.

640
00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.360
But he goes, it was so intense, it was not

641
00:41:09.480 --> 00:41:12.760
a human. So I visualize that this thing trying to

642
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:16.119
get out of this building, you know. And of course

643
00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:19.519
nothing was reported, but I asked him, I said, what'd

644
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.280
you do? He goes, I got bout of there. He goes,

645
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.320
I ran to my truck and I grabbed my handgun.

646
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:29.239
And yeah, but that's something that is always stuck with

647
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:32.679
him because you're wondering what in the world within that

648
00:41:32.719 --> 00:41:36.239
building pounding so hard like it was trying to get

649
00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:41.320
out of that building. So could you imagine that though

650
00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:44.280
in the middle of the night, you're by yourself, and

651
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:46.840
he's a little guy. He's a little guy, he's not

652
00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:51.440
no big guy. So it's like, oh lord, I don't know.

653
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.400
And then he did have another instance, and this didn't

654
00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:57.599
have anything to do with Bigfoot. And I got to

655
00:41:57.599 --> 00:42:02.159
see the video on this. It's a light in the trees.

656
00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:05.519
He's up in his creek can. It's about five in

657
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:10.199
the morning, he said, and he goes, we're on position.

658
00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:13.480
He goes, No, what an airplane. It's not car lights.

659
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:17.639
When the flashlight, he goes, this light was in the

660
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:22.760
trees and you could see it dancing around in the trees,

661
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:26.559
back and forth, and then it would Paul sate and

662
00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:28.880
then not Paul say, you know, and just keep getting bigger,

663
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:31.760
and then it goes small, bigger and goes small. And

664
00:42:31.960 --> 00:42:34.960
it did this, he said, for about ten fifteen minutes,

665
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:38.719
and then it just disappeared. It just like bloop, It

666
00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:42.159
was gone. But I got to see that video of that,

667
00:42:42.559 --> 00:42:44.599
and it did it made you wonder, what in the

668
00:42:44.639 --> 00:42:45.800
world is that light?

669
00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:54.079
That area is so weird. I mean there was even

670
00:42:56.360 --> 00:42:59.239
you know, the wild Animal Park did you see that

671
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:01.639
hosted last winter?

672
00:43:01.920 --> 00:43:06.320
I lived less than a mile through the cornfields of

673
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:07.199
wildlife period.

674
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:10.119
Oh wow, yeah, okay, because when.

675
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:11.960
I when I moved you know, of course from East

676
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:15.000
Peory and I'm an adult now. I lived less than

677
00:43:15.000 --> 00:43:18.079
a mile through the cornfields there wildlife prairie, so I'm

678
00:43:18.199 --> 00:43:19.000
real familiar.

679
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:26.679
Yeah, I almost, man, but I almost got them to

680
00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:29.280
come on the show and talk about it. And then

681
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:33.320
I'm pretty sure they they may have gotten freaked out

682
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:35.119
a little bit because they saw it was a big

683
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:41.159
foot podcast. I'll throw it allegedly in there too, but

684
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:43.199
but it never happened at the end of the day.

685
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:49.360
But I mean yet, Jubilee College. I got to visit

686
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:50.480
that area one day.

687
00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:51.079
You do.

688
00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:53.880
It's not that far away from Iowa, to be honest,

689
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:56.039
It's just what four or five hours, Well.

690
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:58.760
It depends on where you live. But like say from Davenport,

691
00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.880
you're what an hour and a half from Des Moines,

692
00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:06.159
You're six to eight hours something like that. Yeah, you're

693
00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:10.199
not far. And I will say that area. You get

694
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:13.119
off on I seventy four at the or I four

695
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:17.199
seventy four at the Farmington Road exit, you're you know,

696
00:44:17.280 --> 00:44:19.079
you're right there. All you got to do is just

697
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:21.239
make a left on the Farmington Road and you're heading

698
00:44:21.280 --> 00:44:24.760
in the right directions. And that would also be for

699
00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.199
the one in Mapleton where lou the ex husband seen

700
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:34.800
it rise up out of the cornfield, you believe, and yeah,

701
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.239
that would be it for those but you'd be in

702
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.960
that vicinity. And I think you've even had others other

703
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:44.079
people call in through the years that you've done this

704
00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:49.280
that are out in that direction Farmington, and I can't

705
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:53.039
remember one other community I've heard it mentioned. I've listened

706
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:56.039
to so many because what I do for a living

707
00:44:56.119 --> 00:44:58.119
or one of my jobs that I have, I'm able

708
00:44:58.119 --> 00:45:00.840
to have my bluetooth in my ear and I listened

709
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:03.719
to the video. So it's like I go on binge

710
00:45:03.840 --> 00:45:07.000
nights now and then you know, with your podcast, I

711
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.400
think I've almost listened to every one of them too.

712
00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:13.079
So but I you know, when I hear my neck

713
00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.639
of the woods where I grew up, or that vicinity,

714
00:45:15.719 --> 00:45:17.960
it's like I'm all ears. I want to hear more,

715
00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:18.480
you know.

716
00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:24.280
A hundred percent. Peoria is one of those places where

717
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:26.920
it does keep coming up, and it has for years.

718
00:45:26.960 --> 00:45:30.920
And like even we're talking to an individual about a

719
00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.480
little north of Peoria, and I want to say they

720
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.239
were like kids and they had a sighting of two

721
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.880
of them in a creek. This is a few years ago,

722
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:42.280
so i'd have to look this one up.

723
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.920
That might be Kickapoo or Bradford or you know, any

724
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:49.559
of that north of there. But yes, you're out in

725
00:45:49.559 --> 00:45:53.679
the middle of cornfields and wooded areas. You know, somebody

726
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:57.480
brought up about on your show. They made a comment

727
00:45:58.079 --> 00:46:02.480
about most people think Illinois just flat lands, and you know,

728
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:06.840
you know farmland. We have a lot of wooded areas.

729
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.119
We have a lot of hills, a lot of just

730
00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:13.320
a lot more than what people think, especially in that

731
00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:17.400
central Illinois section, you know, with the river going through

732
00:46:17.440 --> 00:46:22.320
it and everything. It's I actually miss it. I miss it.

733
00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:26.320
I miss Illinois landscape over. I'll take it over Florida

734
00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:29.760
landscape in a lot of ways. Yes, the ocean beautiful,

735
00:46:29.840 --> 00:46:34.159
the golf is beautiful. But when you get more centralized,

736
00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:37.480
people make fun of Illinois and Iowa being flat lands.

737
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:41.920
Get down here to southern Florida. That's flat. I mean,

738
00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:42.840
that is flat.

739
00:46:43.800 --> 00:46:46.760
Noah, I know exactly. I hear that stuff all the time.

740
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:50.000
But I think the other mistake people make about Illinois

741
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:53.119
thinking that Bigfoot's justin like the southern part, which it

742
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:57.360
totally is down in the Shawnee, But they don't realize

743
00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:03.559
how crazy central Illinois is with bigfoot reports over fifty

744
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:06.599
sixty years. It is absolutely insane.

745
00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:09.840
There's a lot of things, and I will say this,

746
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:14.880
I have a different belief now. I've gained a close

747
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:19.119
relationship with christ so I don't really get into psychics

748
00:47:19.239 --> 00:47:22.440
and all of that. But I did have an incident

749
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.519
when I lived in a community or a village called

750
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:28.679
Norwood right off of Farmington Road. I lived there for

751
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:34.239
twenty years. But a psychic who my friend at the time,

752
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:36.840
the only thing we knew to turn to at that

753
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:42.400
moment when I had this experience was a psychic, and

754
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.920
he said to me, he goes, baby girl, he goes,

755
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:49.880
I'm telling you, as soon as you get out of Illinois,

756
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:53.320
you're going to feel a lot happier and you're not

757
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:57.199
going to feel that heaviness that you feel. He goes,

758
00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:00.760
I'm telling you there's a lot of bloodshed on lay Land.

759
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:04.480
And I started thinking about that. And there was one

760
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.280
time I went to Tennessee to see some of my

761
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:11.519
cousins and I'm listening to music. I've got it cranked up.

762
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:14.119
I'm not thinking anything. You know, it's late at night,

763
00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:18.800
and I realized I went from feeling kind of perky

764
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:23.119
inside to feeling kind of heavy and to kind of

765
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.039
down in the dumps, and all of a sudden, I

766
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.079
see the sign on what is I fifty seven? And

767
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.159
I realized I'm in Illinois, and so see, without even

768
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:38.320
me thinking about it, I crossed that line and I

769
00:48:38.400 --> 00:48:39.480
felt the difference.

770
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:40.920
Wow.

771
00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:44.000
So but I don't know, do you do paranormal too?

772
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.920
So it is it's a thing where like it'll come

773
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:55.880
up in some shows. I never, I think real quick.

774
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:00.480
I learned. I learned my listen long time time ago.

775
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:08.639
I don't. I don't try to go after it as focus,

776
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:11.639
but like sometimes it does come up in the episodes

777
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.719
because it's part of a person's experience. Just you have

778
00:49:14.800 --> 00:49:16.280
to be really careful.

779
00:49:16.280 --> 00:49:19.360
Yes see, because I had an experience for a year

780
00:49:20.079 --> 00:49:24.360
on my property in Norwood, which is right off of

781
00:49:24.440 --> 00:49:27.599
Farmington Road, and I had a creek that ran behind

782
00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:31.199
my house. But it was after my boyfriend at the

783
00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:36.840
time demolished my porch. It was a slab, but under

784
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:39.760
the slab was a hidden room. I'm thinking it was

785
00:49:39.800 --> 00:49:42.000
a cold room, is what it was, but it was

786
00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:48.039
hidden and that night it all started and I'd never

787
00:49:48.239 --> 00:49:54.480
experienced evil like I had felt in scene. Actually and

788
00:49:54.599 --> 00:49:59.119
for a year of all of these crazy happenings and

789
00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:02.440
that psyche. He wanted me, of course, well you need

790
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:04.440
to get a medium out there, and you need to

791
00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:08.159
get this and that. And I'm looking into it like

792
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:11.239
an idiot, and I'm seeing, oh, you're talking almost two

793
00:50:11.239 --> 00:50:14.880
thousand dollars to have these people come here and supposedly

794
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:18.920
remove this. And I thought, I'm not doing that. I'm

795
00:50:18.920 --> 00:50:22.760
not Catholic, but my client is a priest. I'm going

796
00:50:22.840 --> 00:50:26.960
to Father Carl. And so I went to Father Carl

797
00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:31.119
and I started to talk about it like normal. Now

798
00:50:31.159 --> 00:50:33.800
see I'm getting lump in my throat. It happens every

799
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:36.960
time because it was such a scary moment for me

800
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.880
or a year. But I looked at him, I said,

801
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:41.880
I need your help. I don't know what's going on.

802
00:50:42.800 --> 00:50:47.159
And it was so terrifying, and he took me seriously,

803
00:50:47.440 --> 00:50:50.360
and he started to bless me with holy water, and

804
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.480
he said, no, I'll be right back. He went and

805
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:56.920
got the holy oil, and he blessed me with holy oil,

806
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:01.639
holy water. He prayed over me, and he even gave me,

807
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:05.159
believe it or not, half a gallon of holy water,

808
00:51:06.440 --> 00:51:08.559
and he said, I want you to he goes, I

809
00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:10.960
want you to put this in a missing bottle, and

810
00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:13.800
he goes, I want you to go around every perimeter

811
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:17.199
of your property, go in the house. He goes, I

812
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:20.079
want you to bless yourself to again. I want you

813
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:23.079
to bless your animals and anybody that comes in at home.

814
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.519
I want you to bless them. That night, And it

815
00:51:27.639 --> 00:51:30.119
was ten o'clock at night, pitch dark, and in my

816
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:33.400
backyard it's so dark you can barely see your hand,

817
00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:37.079
you know, there's not much of lights back there at all.

818
00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:40.719
And I did just that. I went all around the property,

819
00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.840
I went in the house. I blessed my animals, even

820
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:47.840
my turtle. And my friend that was there with me

821
00:51:48.599 --> 00:51:51.920
for support, you know, got her blessed. And I'm not

822
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:56.000
kidding you, no, sooner than I got everything done, I

823
00:51:56.079 --> 00:51:58.800
walked out there with her, and I did, and you

824
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:02.639
could feel the heavyness was gone, the heaviness was gone,

825
00:52:03.199 --> 00:52:06.840
and my dog started being I had two little mini beagles,

826
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.840
and they were always when the thing, when the happenings

827
00:52:10.880 --> 00:52:14.599
first started happening, they would not leave that patio to

828
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.159
go to the bathroom. They would stay right at the

829
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:21.239
back door. And so eventually, after so many times of

830
00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:23.840
doing that, I've got to take him to the front yard,

831
00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:28.679
you know, and they were starting to go back out

832
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.519
the back again. But as soon as I blessed that

833
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:36.000
property with that holy water and just praying over it, it

834
00:52:35.840 --> 00:52:40.280
seemed to just remove it. Now, on that note, the

835
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.400
psychic told me, if I do this, he goes, you'll

836
00:52:44.440 --> 00:52:47.400
have blood on your hands. And I go, what do

837
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:50.679
you mean? And he goes, it's going to move to

838
00:52:50.760 --> 00:52:53.880
somewhere close to you or someone close to you. And

839
00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:57.440
I didn't know if he meant literally or figuratively, and

840
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.199
I'm asking him and he just kept saying, I don't know, Oh,

841
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.639
you'll find out. Well after I did that, three or

842
00:53:05.639 --> 00:53:09.000
four days it went by and I realized I hadn't

843
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.199
seen Jasmine, the German shepherd mixed next door out in

844
00:53:13.239 --> 00:53:18.119
the backyard. I'm only seeing Takara. And so Mark come

845
00:53:18.159 --> 00:53:20.920
pulling in the driveway, the owner, you know, into his driveway,

846
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:25.119
and I'm like Mark, I goes, anything happened to Jasmine?

847
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:28.199
He goes, Well, he goes, I had to take her

848
00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:31.719
down to peek into my daughters. He goes, I've come

849
00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:36.599
home the past couple days and Takara has just torn

850
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:40.679
her up and just blood all over the deck and

851
00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:44.199
her faces tore up and stuff like that. And to

852
00:53:44.360 --> 00:53:48.639
just keep them safe and her not getting injured, we

853
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:53.079
took her to his daughters and I always thought that

854
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:56.639
was so weird, you know, and those dogs would bark.

855
00:53:56.960 --> 00:54:01.880
We went a year with those dogs. Actually, Dakara, who

856
00:54:02.079 --> 00:54:07.400
was a hybrid like part wolf, part German shepherd or

857
00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.679
something like that. You know, she was one of those

858
00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:13.639
like she loved me. I loved her, but you still

859
00:54:13.679 --> 00:54:15.719
had to be a little careful around her, you know,

860
00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:19.599
no quick moves and stuff like that. But for a

861
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:24.239
year of whatever was on that property or on my property,

862
00:54:25.239 --> 00:54:28.079
starting at ten o'clock at night until the sun started

863
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:31.679
to come up, bark, bark, bark, bark bark. It was

864
00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:35.159
just constant to where it would drive you nuts. And

865
00:54:35.199 --> 00:54:38.079
no matter what you did, no matter what Mark and

866
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:41.119
his wife did to try to get him to stop,

867
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:45.159
it would not stop. But once I blessed that property,

868
00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:50.559
it stopped. But then Jasmine is getting injured, you know,

869
00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:52.639
for a couple of days in a row, you know

870
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:56.639
that starting the day after I did that. So I

871
00:54:56.679 --> 00:54:59.800
don't know, man, it is.

872
00:55:01.440 --> 00:55:03.320
It's one of those things that makes you wonder. I

873
00:55:03.360 --> 00:55:07.199
know that, you know, I get a lot of people

874
00:55:07.320 --> 00:55:11.719
that reference that. I mean, just using the name of

875
00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:17.239
Jesus can be very powerful in different situations, even regarding

876
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:23.679
you know, Bigfoot interactions in their own home. It's very

877
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:27.840
very interesting stuff. Not quite sure what it all means

878
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:32.440
potentially you know what that could say for what Bigfoot

879
00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:35.920
might be or what might what what it might not be.

880
00:55:36.159 --> 00:55:39.960
But it is some very interesting accounts that come out

881
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:44.760
when when that that topic gets broached. But Diane, I

882
00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:47.239
just want to say thank you for coming on the show.

883
00:55:47.440 --> 00:55:48.599
You are very welcome.

884
00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.320
Kind of information is crazy, I mean, it's it's very

885
00:55:52.400 --> 00:55:56.039
immense that you shared about central Illinois, and thank you

886
00:55:56.079 --> 00:55:56.880
for doing that.

887
00:55:57.199 --> 00:56:00.639
I wish I could give you more details that, Like

888
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.079
I said, I wanted to make sure people at least

889
00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:08.239
and you've got a visual a where even the smallest

890
00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:12.079
of sighting or oddity you know, was spotted to add,

891
00:56:12.440 --> 00:56:16.679
you know, to your research. So and I'm sure there's

892
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:19.760
people out there that know right where I'm talking, you know,

893
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:24.360
from I seventy four East Peoria Kerfoot Farmington Road, even

894
00:56:24.599 --> 00:56:29.559
Springdale Cemetery, They're gonna know where I'm talking. About, you know,

895
00:56:30.400 --> 00:56:34.599
and hopefully just adds to the research at trying to

896
00:56:34.639 --> 00:56:38.000
figure this out. But every one of these areas all

897
00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.400
leads to a waterway, and I got a tenant's leading

898
00:56:41.480 --> 00:56:43.000
right to the Illinois River.

899
00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:46.119
Exactly exactly.

900
00:56:46.199 --> 00:56:48.760
But I want to thank you forgiving me the time,

901
00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:53.880
and I wish I could give you much more. Unfortunately

902
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:56.719
this is all I got. But I will say every

903
00:56:56.760 --> 00:57:00.199
one of these people, including myself, we still have it.

904
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:03.719
Forgot the things that we see, whether it was a

905
00:57:03.760 --> 00:57:08.519
bigfoot footprint in the snow and ice. Yeah, I've seen

906
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:12.519
it walking along the tree line. You know, it's never

907
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:15.079
left us, and I don't think it ever will. It's

908
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:18.840
always it's part of us. Now, those memories that ye

909
00:57:18.920 --> 00:57:23.639
that energy that you feel, that nervousness, uneasiness, you know.

910
00:57:23.840 --> 00:57:27.840
I mean you saw me even here talking about you know,

911
00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:33.519
paranormal or whatever, and you heard me get emotional and

912
00:57:33.559 --> 00:57:35.920
that's all. Look at I'm doing it again. I'm getting

913
00:57:35.920 --> 00:57:40.239
ready to get emotional. It's a very genuine, genuine feeling that

914
00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:42.840
I get. And it's scary, is what it is. And

915
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:46.119
I think that's what gets me emotional is I was

916
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:50.119
always send too all of these paranormal shows, bigfoot shows,

917
00:57:50.159 --> 00:57:54.360
which I still love Bigfoot, but paranormal I don't watch anymore.

918
00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:58.800
I have a discernment against them. And I even learned

919
00:57:58.840 --> 00:58:02.559
from a friend who used to be like a true hippie,

920
00:58:02.760 --> 00:58:06.400
like living out in the woods for five years, you know, homesteading,

921
00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:10.039
and she was a true hippie, followed the dead for

922
00:58:10.159 --> 00:58:14.639
seven years and all of that. But she said, Diana,

923
00:58:15.079 --> 00:58:17.119
and she gave her life to Christ. By the way,

924
00:58:17.280 --> 00:58:20.440
she's far from that. But she said, Diana, you gotta

925
00:58:20.559 --> 00:58:23.800
stop watching these shows, and if you do, you need

926
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:27.920
to pray about it and rebuke certain things when you're

927
00:58:28.000 --> 00:58:31.920
watching this, because you're allowing that door to open up

928
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:36.920
for evil to come in. And I don't know, you know,

929
00:58:37.000 --> 00:58:41.920
even her saying that, I still watched a little, but

930
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.519
it really took hold. As my relationship with Christ grew.

931
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:48.880
I just have no desire. I don't want to chance it,

932
00:58:49.079 --> 00:58:52.360
you know. I don't want those doors or windows even

933
00:58:52.440 --> 00:58:57.320
can be open for anything bad to come in there.

934
00:58:57.760 --> 00:59:02.039
I mean, it makes it makes perfect sense. You're you

935
00:59:02.119 --> 00:59:05.679
start to get more into that relationship and your desires

936
00:59:05.719 --> 00:59:08.239
will will start to change. So it makes perfect sense

937
00:59:08.239 --> 00:59:13.119
to me, exactly Danae, keep in touch for sure. You

938
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:16.320
hear anything else, feel free to reach out. But thank

939
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:18.639
you so much for spending some time with us today.

940
00:59:18.679 --> 00:59:20.800
I will and I will say this real quick. I'm

941
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:24.360
friends with an artist down here and he lives in

942
00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:27.280
the Everglades out in the middle of nowhere with his

943
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:31.000
son and daughter in law. And I'm going to start

944
00:59:31.039 --> 00:59:35.400
asking him to see if he's ever seen or had

945
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:38.920
any things, you know, with stunk Ape, because he lived

946
00:59:39.039 --> 00:59:42.119
right down in the Everglades, you know, and he was

947
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:46.599
really interested in hearing about me having this interview with you,

948
00:59:47.159 --> 00:59:51.360
and so I'm probably gonna see him Saturday, and I'm

949
00:59:51.360 --> 00:59:53.440
going to ask him some things about it, and if

950
00:59:53.480 --> 00:59:56.199
I you know, if he's ever seen anything, I'll email

951
00:59:56.239 --> 00:59:57.800
you over you know what.

952
00:59:57.880 --> 01:00:01.440
He awesome that sounds. It's great, Diana will be We'll

953
01:00:01.440 --> 01:00:04.079
be watching out for that. But hey, you know, you

954
01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:06.559
have a great rest of your day. It's been fun

955
01:00:06.639 --> 01:00:07.159
chatting with.

956
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.719
You, are you too. Thank you so much and you

957
01:00:09.760 --> 01:00:14.800
stay warm up there in that snowy Iowa got it. Hi,

958
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:18.440
Thank you, Jeremy.

959
01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:21.079
Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something

960
01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:24.360
directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're

961
01:00:24.360 --> 01:00:28.159
in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've

962
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:31.000
seen something that no one can explain, or if you're

963
01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:34.320
a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been told

964
01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:37.760
to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something

965
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:40.760
strange down on the ground, or if you're with the

966
01:00:40.880 --> 01:00:44.800
FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled

967
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:47.679
upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if

968
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:51.239
you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's

969
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.920
heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If

970
01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:58.599
you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

971
01:00:58.760 --> 01:01:01.760
or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

972
01:01:01.880 --> 01:01:05.280
happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

973
01:01:05.280 --> 01:01:09.159
a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

974
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:12.559
contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.

975
01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.559
If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

976
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.079
spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

977
01:01:19.760 --> 01:01:22.880
or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or

978
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:26.280
anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

979
01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:31.119
then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous.

980
01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:36.400
You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

981
01:01:36.840 --> 01:01:39.280
The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

982
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:45.239
carry alone. And you're not alone. You've got the story,

983
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:49.480
We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

984
01:01:49.519 --> 01:01:52.360
you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast.

985
01:01:52.440 --> 01:01:54.840
Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is

986
01:01:54.880 --> 01:01:58.039
bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth

987
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.920
is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you

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995
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996
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997
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at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com and let's start

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you are. Thanks again for following along with the Bigfoot

1005
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Society until next time, Keep your eyes open, trust your gut,

1006
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and never stop asking what else might be out there?

1007
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And see you in the woods.