ENORMOUS SHADOW FIGURES RACE ACROSS HIGHWAY NEAR MEMPHIS TN

0:00 You're listening to Bigflat Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us, all right, Pickfoot Society, Welcome back to this show. We've got the privilege of talking to friend Dan today. Dan is an interesting individual. He travels all over the place, works on the road, and he makes sure that he goes to some really cool place places and he's had some interesting things happen along the way.

0:52 So welcome to the show. Dan. How are you doing today, sir? I'm doing pretty good. That's awesome. I will point out this is definitely a video episode. You can watch it over on the YouTube side for Big for Society and Dan' Scott pret sweet Tiger on his back walls. So if you want to check that out, definitely go to YouTube. Make sure you subscribe over there. But Dan, you've got some interesting things to share, my friend. You've actually had some interesting encounters with bigfoot over the years. That's correct, Yes, gotcha. How did that all start out for you? Was it a thing where you're traveling us through a certain area and all of a sudden boom, there it is you have an encounter? Did you work yourself into it gradually?

1:41 Well, the first time that I noticed something strange was I was working in Arkansas and I was doing estimates for fixing houses and Hebrew springs, Arkansas, and I was driving back to North Carolina towards Memphis, down in the Mississippi Valley area where it starts heading towards Memphis. And I was in farm lands and there's probably like a tractor trailer and maybe three cars ahead of me, So it was probably about somewhere between a quarter to eighth of a mile down the road. There was two large silhouettes that ran across the road at the last second in front of the tractor trailer, and everything happened within a split seconds. I was like, I was thinking to myself you know, that's weird. Why are those people running across the road right from a tractor trailer like they like they're trying to get high on it, adrenaline rush or something. But they jumped off the road into a drainage ditch and it was two of them, and they just looked like black silhouettes. And I also thought that that was strange. So and but the thing that threw me off was when the splash came up, it looked like a mortar round going off that went way above the tractor trailer. So I was like, okay, uh So

3:16 when I so when I finally got up there on the road, I was looking at the drainage ditch like having no perspective on the size of the of the ditch, and it's about ten feet down and twenty feet wide. Okay, So you're saying, what I get from that is that for it to make a splash that big, it would have had to been something with a whole bunch of force or a super heavy creature, I don't know. It had to be massed. Yeah, And when I played back the memory, it was probably somewhere around the side like the head the head level of the big one which would have had to have been, you know, around the windshield height the of the tractor trailer.

4:02 And so for let's say, for listeners who are not super familiar with tractor trailer trucks, what what height or approximate height would that put it out? We're talking somewhere between six to eight feet. I'm driving my jeep behind the truck and I see it from a distance. Did you did it have a weird way of moving across the road? You said it was running. It was it was like really fast and they were they were It was like they were they were. They were like frantic and they kind of like look back like you know, and uh, they like scuffled really fast and then just like took a huge upwards leap and then down and then like a like a mortar round went off.

4:50 Okay, how did that affect you afterwards? When you had that sighting of the of them running across the road? I mean I was at a distance and it was probably like fourth somewhere between four and six at night. The sun was like going down, but it was still light outside. So that's why I thought it was strange. But it seemed like whatever happened was they were scared at the last second. Maybe out in farmlands, not much area at all hide because it's just huge cornfields for miles, right, And it seemed like they were trying to cross the road and then got flustered and then at the last second made the last ditch effort to run across the road and jump into the dish to hide themselves.

5:33 Were Did it seem to affect the driver of the tractor trailer truck at all? Yeah? I could hear his tire sketch up and slow down a little bit, and then we all slowed down, and then I kind of like coasted at like probably like forty miles an hour when we were probably going sixty five before that. Okay, So it probably probably flustered the truck driver more than it flustered me, and he probably out there with his story somewhere not telling it. Yeah. Probably a lot of those drivers have some incredible stories, and a lot of them are just holding on to them sometimes until they stop driving, which is understandable. So after this, did you keep on driving or did you pull over or what happened?

6:22 No? I had to get I was in a rush get to where I was going, but I stopped and looked, and I was like, I was like, man, that's crazy. It was ten feet down, twenty feet wide, and the splash was so high. You know, you know, the top of a tractor trailer cart is probably like what fifteen feet in the air or something like that. That's all the way at the top, somewhere between like twelve and fifteen feet, And this splash went from ten feet down below the road up above the top of the tractor trailer. There's no human that can make it splash like that. Would you say, say, at that point, were you confused as to what happened or were you Were you at a point where you're like, I know exactly what just happened right there.

7:08 It took me about two minutes to calculate everything in my head and then determined that that's exactly what happened because I played it back, and because at first I thought, I was like, why are these humans running across the road like in the in the you know, right in front of a tractor trailer. They're going to get themselves killed. And then I played it back and I was like, wait, they weren't wearing anything. They were just silhouettes and they were really large. Yeah, absolutely, so you you could notice that, you know, they're not wearing clothes. Could you tell that it was a hairy figure it all? Or you know sometimes when you have a road crossing it happens really really quick.

7:52 No, just black silhouettes. No, No. And it was daylight, you know, so you would have seen like a lighting of you know, muscle form or the shape of the hair or something, you know, something like that, or clothes you know, moving with the body. But there was none of it. It was just it was just the shape and form of the body, you know. So, and that was two of them. There was one that was probably somewhere between six and eight feet tall, and then there was one that was somewhere between six and seven feet tall. I mean yeah, seven six and seven feet all. Yeah, So.

8:33 It sounds like you you then kept on driving. What was your How did that affect you? How did it affect you emotionally? After after you pulled away from there and you kept on driving. It didn't really affect me emotionally that much. I was it was kind of more like, huh, you know, just because I've always you know, to start from the beginning of where I where I come from my background. It's like I. Saw UFOs when I was in growing up in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia, so you know, from that point forward, I was like the abnormal was kind of like, all right, you know, stuff's going on they don't tell us about.

9:18 So I had already been used to that condition of that feeling of a normal stuff being in reality. Absolutely, It's it seems like most individuals that have these interactions or sightings with Bigfoot, if you start talking to them, there's going to be other stuff that you'll uncover, such as you said you had UFO interactions or were even weirder, weirder things sometimes, But so did this interaction you had where you saw them cross the road, did this pick off or did this kick off a string of events or was it a while before you had something that may have been related to sasquatch in the future.

10:14 I'd say it was too much of a period of time in between the recent stuff. So it's kind of like, you know, that put it on my radar for me back then that you know there was something going on with that, but it was you know, probably that was back in twenty twenty one, so that was five years ago. At this point. And so Crowder's Mountain is in King's Mountain and the area with the footage of the tree farm that's in South Carolina, fifteen miles west. I don't want to give the exact location because it's not really a tourist site. If somebody's abandoned property and then that's a tree farm locked off. Plus they have like hunting posts out there, and there's still a large animal out there, so I'm not going to say that as a sasquatch.

11:07 It could be a bear, but it could also be the sasquatch because that's where the footprints were bound. Yeah. Yeah, I think the South Carolina. That sounded interesting because it sounds like there's multiple different things potentially going on there. Yeah, and that's the best evidence that. I have is the South Yeah. Yeah, feel free to kind of share what you've been experiencing done there. Okay, So in South Carolina, me and my brother. My brother's got social anxiety, so you know, I can't take him to a gym, and he's also out of shape.

11:48 So there was an abandoned house up the road. So I was like, well, why don't we buy like a tarp would like, you know, jog around the yard and do like calisthenics on the carport, you know, so that you can get your workouts in. And we had been there like three times, always cleaned up after ourselves. They don't leave any mess or anything. And then one of the times we came back, there was like all this disturbed mud on the side of the road that I didn't see before. So I went over and looked at it. I was like, what the heck is this? And there was like this swirled disturbance in the mud, and you could tell that there was some large I guess like a dump truck or a tree cutter or earth mover that came by. Those large industrial tires for the heavy machinery had come by, and it looked like it had spooked some large sasquatch and a smaller sasquatch that were crossing the road, and then they ran back over. They were crossing a road from the left to the right from from my perspective looking towards the tree farm, and then ran back to the left up the hill and broke some trees as they stepped as they smashed through them to run into the woods. And then it also

13:19 looks like it had spooked the tree farm driver, which I would talk to them, but I'm not. I mean, you know, I'm not even supposed to be back there. So so it spooked the tree farmer, and then the truck like beard and smashed into the into the tree of the embankment next to it. So there's a section where where there's like a straight line into the mud. You can tell that the truck got spooked and went. And then to the next to that, there's these tracks that run up the hill that smashed through trees, and then inside inside the woods there's that are snapped six feet up twelve feet up, and they are also arch trees.

14:08 Interesting. How long were the tracks that you were seeing. The one track was absolutely massive, and I know that I have not encountered that being because I would be peeing myself and running away like a little girl. The main track, the largest track was probably somewhere between twenty and twenty four inches and then probably about twelve inches wide. It was massive, unless that's expanded from unless that's expanded from a slide. But I mean the size and width of it, plus the little toe divits that weren't really visible on the tracks because they pierced into the mud a little bit, you get what I'm saying. Y that foot was terrifying. When I saw that, I was like, oh my god, I'm gonna get the heck out of here.

15:06 And then the other one was probably somewhere between thirteen and sixteen inches. Was it possible to see how many toes were on the foot through that? I believe that that they have five toes. Yep, that's interesting. Sometimes. What was the sounds of the area, like, is it a noisy area when it comes to nature or was there anything that fell off about it. So that road's creepy? It's always quiet over there. I did hear on the list. I said, it's like a falcon deer call. Starts out like a high pitched falcon and then goes to like a more vocal range deer call.

16:01 And I think it's some kind of female. And it was always off in the distance. We heard it on up there by that property and then across the street by the power lines on the r V park and it's kind of like or something like that, but but it's really high pitched at the beginning and then kind of like vocal range. Have you ever tried to to to do any track casting in that area. I was thinking about it, and uh, I don't. I don't go back there anymore. So I've been creeped out since then. The so right after that, the tree farm, there's all these conflicting stories. But they tree cutter went in there, cut a line straight behind to my trailer and then went all along the edge of the trailer park retainer fence to the end of the trailer park.

17:10 And I was like, what the heck are these people. I was staring at the guy while he was doing it. You know, he's cutting down trees, like you know, fifteen twenty feet from my trailer. I was worried about the tree swalling on my trailer. And they tried to say that it was Duke Energy for power lines. There hasn't been a Duke Energy back there putting up power lines. And ever since he cut them down, that large thint creature has been coming up the back of my trailer on the retainer fence. So there's a six foot wooden retainer fence and then the embankment behind it rises up about three feet of mud in the tree start, and about five feet back there's a chicken wire fence with the posts and the chicken wire, and it's smashed down right behind that chicken wire fence and smashed down right behind my trailer.

18:00 Oh okay, so you think it's it's getting pretty close to where that property that trailer was. Did you see the video that I sent you where it was like I was outside at night and I was in the dark, and then I waited till the footsteps got close, and then I put up the headlamp. Yeah you can. Is that something where you can walk us through what happened for the listeners. Yeah. So I was on the road working in Massachusetts. So after the initial video when I contacted you, I had to go on the road to work and I this and the tree farm. The tree farm had cut down trees before I left. When I came back the night that I left, I heard something scramble and the trash down the street, and then about twenty minutes later, I'm a night out. I'm not you know, I'm usually up like around ten am and then I'm up until like two in the morning or something like that. So I spent a lot of time outside because I used to work third shift for a long time and I like to relax and maybe have a seltzer water or a beer, and smoke some cigarettes and just relax in the quiet nighttime with the moonlight and the crickets and everything.

19:20 And I'm sitting out there and I hear some rustling in the distance, and there had been a warning when I was on the road that they had seen bear tracks, and I thought to myself, they didn't see bear tracks, they saw something else, you know. So I because there's not many bears around here, Like there's not many bears in Shelby. There's not many bears in South Carolina with the areas near Gaffney and Blacksburg, so there's not many bears around. But I mean there are, there are some bears that passed through sometimes. But there's also been sightings of sasquatch in the area more south, you know, and then also up in Shelby or Kaser or something like that.

20:15 So so I'm sitting out there, I'm smoking a cigarette and I'm drinking a beer. I'm relaxing after I got back from being driving back from Massachusetts. And I hear something in the distance, so I shine my light. Well, this thing doesn't scram it moses on over to the to the light and then I turned the light off, and when it gets right next to me, it stops, and I put the light on. But the tree line's so thick you can't see anything. And there's there's a picnic table right there, and I was not about to get up there and put my head over that fence. You know, I might be uh, I might be take risks, but not that risky.

21:00 So right exactly, because you do put yourself in some really interesting situations. Now, you also have a note here that down in Shelby, North Carolina area, you've heard some really interesting vocalizations in that area too, Is that right? Yeah, there's all kinds of stream noises I hear all the time. Yeah, what kind of Well, well. I do have to say that before I went on the road in Massachusetts, I did hear a coyote at the end of Did you see any of the videos from the trailer park like I was set up?

21:41 Yes, yep, So. Down the hill there's like a bunch of trash cans. Probably like three nights after the initial video in South Carolina, I heard the coyote call and then like switched to like some gibberish and stuff. And then nothing like nothing after that. And my brother was there to hear it too, and he's like, you hear that. I was like, yeah, He's like, that wasn't a coyote? Yeah? So that that was another thing that I heard down there. Goshcha. And is that the same On your list you mentioned how you have heard something that's similar to samurai chatter. Would that be the same experience or that was a totally different experience.

22:24 That was right beyond my house? Okay? And that was just May of this year, Is that right? Yes? Oh wow, okay. Can you can you take us through what it would be like when you would hear that those type of vocalizations around the shelby? Well, that was the only time that I heard that one, okay. Yeah. And so I was on my back porch watching clickbait videos scrolling through. I got it. It's it's like a second story stilts porch screen in and all that, and uh, this is at my mom's property. You know, I haven't trailer.

23:05 Uh my mom has like a large property with about three acres and uh, there's a drainage creek out back and in the one area kind of like curves around and then like straightens it out to come into my yard, and then the rest off to the right side of the property is thick weeds and woods, and then off to the left side is thick weeds and woods, and then it's cleared for the backyard itself. But we also owned all the acreage on the right and the left. So I'm watching, I'm not even paying attention to any of the sounds outside, and then all of a sudden, this loud vocalization of like, I'll try, I'll try to give an example. It was like something like that. You know, I kind of feel silly even mimicking it, but you know it was. It was very guttural and deep in the voice. But the weird thing was is it had this kind of like metallic after effect, like if you would put like one of those voice box things up with the alien robot sound that they used to have during like the early two thousands and nineties, that that metallic sound to the voice. Yep, it had that sound.

24:27 I was like, why the heck? I was like, that was that? Why did I have that metallic sound? And then kind of like blended into like a really deep vocal voice, right, and I went my dog had gone back there the next day because he sniffed, she was sniffing around and in the water. The acoustics of that spot in the water create a metallic feedback sound like throwing a stone down a pipe. You get what I'm saying. Okay, weird, Yeah, yeah, so there you go. So that's the explanation right there. Yeah, going off your list, you there is also some weird stuff that happened right after that, right, yes, where like your your neighbor had an interesting interaction. Could you share the events of what happened the days after you heard those vocalizations?

25:23 Okay, so the next day, I well, that same night, right, I got freaked out. I was like, somebody's in my backyard, like you know, But I also thought to myself, you know, they didn't said like a person. So I stood up and I was like, what are you doing on my property? You know, you don't belong here. Get out of here. And then I heard right, and it was like real fast, like and it was soft too, Like I didn't hear splashes or anything. It was just really quick, really really soft, and it traveled about fifty yards in that matter of like that sound effect. And then and it was still in the creek. Never heard it come up onto the land.

26:05 And when I the next day, I went out and checked by the creek and then there's a pathway coming from the creek. And this whole time, I'm still questioning, like is this a bear? Is this a sasquash? What you know? Which is it? But I was challenging AI to like format, and they tried to. They trying to say it was a bear at first, but then it also said that if bears run fast like what I described, they're going to have the four feet pinched at high speed. You get what I'm saying. There was none of that. There was five feet strides in between single feet. Wow. Yeah, okay. And I didn't hear it. I didn't hear any of it. When it got on land, I didn't hear I didn't hear that silence.

26:55 Interesting, and then you're after that your I believe this might have been the next the next day where you were talking to your your neighbor in the camper next to you. Is that right? Yeah, So I'm talking to my neighbor and camper next to me. He's a good old boy, and you know, he drinks a lot of beer. Does does his day job and stuff like that, and he, I guess he he has a lot of daughters. This was his excuse. He's got a lot of daughters. So he moved out of his house and got a camper stuff. I guess they they're older and they kind of like take up most of the house. And he also likes to drink, so that might have something to do with it. But you know, I'm not giving his identity, so it doesn't matter.

27:47 But yeah, I'm talking to him and and he's I'm telling him how to flush his black water tank and his great water tank so that you know, you don't have the sludge left over by doing them reversed and all that stuff. And we're out there talking and uh, I told him a set of timer, but he he forgot to set the timer and started flooding out of his shower for running the fasces to fill up the gray water. And and we went right inside the turn that off and stop it up. And then we came outside and it was right around dusk, and we heard the heard the footsteps coming up and the you know, he's like, you know, trying to be machismo. So he says he goes inside the house and gets his gun and that he's gonna shoot it if he has to or whatever, and I'm like, well, I don't know about that, man, I want to mess with that. You don't even know what the heck it is. So but yeah, and I had to leave right after that anyway, But I kind of felt because it's like he's got this large animal beyond the beyond the house. But you know, he didn't.

28:50 He didn't seem too worried about it. But you know, we both looked for it, though, Like we put on headlamps and went over to the edge, had a little bit, had a little bit of more courage because there was two of us, but we didn't see anything. This thing, whatever it is, it's not scared of humans, and it's elusive enough that it can be right near. Yet you also have gone to a place that really hasn't come up on the show a lot. I'm trying to think. I don't think it really has. But you had some interesting things happen over in the bunkers by point pleasant, right. Yeah, So there was no real experience of like any animals around, Like I didn't hear any footsteps or anything like that. But what happened was we went over to the bunkers because well, we went to Point Pleasant and we were like, what is this going to be? Like we thought we were like two random clowns coming into town to ask about yeah, the moth Man. We didn't know that they like have like a whole industry of like tourism.

29:55 Oh yeah right, excuse me. So we were we were downtown doing the shops and I was like, well, where's the real stuff. I want to see the real stuff, you know. So we drove out to the bunker location where the TNT factory was for the Western West Virginia Ordnance Works. Uh. It's World War two T and T ammunitions production site and the entire factories torn down except for the two bunkers that that are still left, and it's the rest of the area around it is turned into a wilderness reserve. Uh and it's a super fun site. Uh. Anyway, we pulled up the spot and we went to the bunker and that was the creepiest part that I experienced because the door was busted open. You go inside and it's like every every sound that you make echoes like probably like twenty times, Like uh, what what the thing, the thing that, you know, something like that, and it's like every sound you make, it's just kind of cashe and then and then it like builds off of itself and it is really dark and damp and creepy. A lot of graffiti, you know. Outside was covered in vines and stuff. So my brother likes to find strange paths through the woods.

31:16 And there was some vines arched right off to the left of the bunker, right, so he says, don't walk through the don't walk through them. They're portals, that's what he thinks. He thinks of their portals, like the vines bend around some kind of portal. So he always walks off to the side. So we went around them, and there was like these really old stones that were covered in heavy moss, and then there was like trails through the woods, and I didn't want to go in the woods. I had my nice sneakers on and I didn't feel like getting them dirty. I mean, I did walk through the woods a little bit, but he likes to go like miles into the woods, you know, so I convinced him not to. And then we walked up the main trail that's kind of like gravel and there was another bunker.

32:10 He went in there and then we walked. He said, let's go a little further, and then we found another large archway, probably about fourteen feet tall, that was arched with trees and a path through the grass. And I was standing out. I was like, all right, man, you could go in there. I'm just staying here. So he walked in and he was telling him while he was telling me that there was split trees at the route that were knocked down, which is not how trees fall. They fall from loose gravel at the tree ball, and then more woven trees. I didn't get pictures of this stuff because I didn't go into the woods, but we did get pictures of this creepy, large clump that's all I can describe it as on the edge of the lake, which looks like some giant monster took a dump and all the undigested stuff came out of it. It looked like there was a fleece in there and a teeky umbrella that somebody would drink with a my tie. You know.

33:21 It was really creepy, and it had a bunch of sludge on it, and there was a large deep foot impression next to it on the and this was on the bank of the of this swampy lake to the left of the trail, in high grass like you know, what do they call them cattails and all that kind of stuff? Uh excuse me? Sorry? Uh this this uh pandana makes it hard to breathe. So there was a large foot that was sunken into the ground and water had filled it. Right, So there's something with enough pressure to make the ground sicken and water fill it. And then next to it, it's this large clump that looked like a giant mass of excreted material and it was probably the size of a medicine ball.

34:22 That's massive. Yeah, it was. It was massive. And when I was looking at that, I was like, man, we need to get out of here. And he was like, he's like, all right. You know, my brother's like an a normal person, and he doesn't have the usual survival instincts as most people's fear keeps them from doing dangerous stuff, you know, So he disregards that all the time, which really makes me irritated. Right, But yeah, I mean he finds interesting stuff because of it, but you know, it's still kind of annoying. So that's cool because excuse me, that's a different story than you hear from most people that are going out to Point Pleasant Usually, as you kind of alluded to, it's just hang out at the statue and go over to the Mathmian Museum. But yeah, you guys are going out there and finding finding the weird stuff as well.

35:18 I do want to make sure were there any other Bigfoot related incidents that you have had over the years. Let's see. Oh yeah, so there was one time back in twenty twenty when when I was on my back porch with my brother and his friend Micah, and we were in the middle of the conversation having nothing to do with Bigfoot or UFOs or anything. We were just seven usual conversation and there was this large crashing of something stepping and crushing trees, unning through the woods, and then there was like a large growl, like a raw you know, and it was there's a really terrible example because the ground was way more large and deep and aggressive than that. But and my brother was like, did you did you hear that? And I was like, yeah, I heard it, and he was, you know, we were in the middle conversation, so I was just disregarding it, not even worried about it, because there's large animals around here all the time, but not not that large. I just for some reason, I was just disregarding it and uh, and he was like, that was a sasquatch, Like okay, you know, not even not even really paying attention to it because we were like focused on the conversation or whatever.

36:45 But that that was. That was probably one of the only other times that that we had anythings strange going like that. You have other than other than Shelby, which there's been repeated stuf going. On, right, Yeah, Shelby, definitely you've had weird stuff going on. It'd be interesting just because I've never been able to talk to anyone about the area. So maybe not Bigfoot related, but still could be interesting. You were able to kind of go through Centralia, Pennsylvania. Can you share what the deal with Centralia is and what it was like to be in a situation like that.

37:29 So Centralia was a coal mining town back in the sixties and they caught on fire and I guess over decades they cleared everybody out because of noxious gas vapors coming up to the earth and sinkhole's and all kinds of other stuff. There's still looked like there's still three houses there living a normal life. Plus on one hand, you got like a five to ten minute drive to the right out of town that goes to Ashland. Then you got another five to ten minute drive to the left that goes to Mount Carmel, and those are completely fine towns. But it's weird because the main area that's burning is off to the right near Ashland, but Ashlands not abandoned. So I don't really get that.

38:29 Because does it have like abandoned town vibes or like almost like stuff is overgrowing the town in a way, or how would you describe it. Well, it's kind of strange. It's a really weird spot because you could tell that the streets are still maintained, the sidewalks are still not the sidewalks, but the curbs to a degree whatever's left or seem like they're maintained a little bit. And then somebody goes around the entire town and then takes a lawnmower and trims the edges of the blocks, you know, and it said something about like the Borough of Centralia requests that you do not hunt here, you know, for your own safety and blah blah blah. And I'm like, the borough of Centralia, what are you talking about? There's nothing here, it's borough, But somehow there's a there's a fire station still there, you know.

39:27 I guess that's just in case those three houses catch on fire. Maybe maybe the three guys that live in the house have their own fire station. They just run to the fire station and save their houses. Who knows. Well, there you go. Yeah, might make sense. But I've never been able to walk around a town like that. Does it have is it weird vibes when you're walking around or what's that like? Yeah? It was weird. Well, I mean we saw a large trails in the grass everywhere and there when you're in the town, it's like the only thing is streets. There's absolutely nothing but streets and then grass and trees, a lot of trees knocked down. Some areas you'll see like trees that are dead because you know, obviously the fumes are coming up through it. And the way that plants grow there is so random. It doesn't look like other places. It's like there's such a variety of random plants growing it's kind of strange. And then when we the area just up the hill between the two houses that are left. The other house is way further down, but just up the hill between the two houses that are left, you go up the street and it goes up the hill just a little bit, and if you go to the right, there's these trails back there that lead into gravel and and then this turns into like a dirt path into trails, and that's where a lot

40:59 of weird stuff was. There was a I mean, there's obviously like a large regular animal paul prints like bears and cougars, but there was also arch trees woven trees which I had put the pictures in the file where it's like the top branches were like this to create an arch yep and uh. And then you can see the large tracks moving up through the through the hill through that and this this was on the grass that comes off the main comes over down from the mountain over the main road that goes through town towards Mount Carmel up the hill to the right of the second house that's left that's closest to Mount Carmel, so it's it's it's to the right of that house in the fields goes up up the hill and there's like this walkway with trees that are push down for the clearing, and you can see you can look down from the hill and see where they walk through. So something comes up through there and then they got this arch of woven trees at the top and then it goes across the road and there's a pathway that goes up the hill and that's got trees that block it every so often like that.

42:24 That's weird, weird weird stuff. Is it a so I don't know, I've never looked into it. Is it one of those places where it's like, well, you can go there, but you're kind of a lot of it's you know, be careful stuff like that, because it is like still burning underground, right Like. Yeah, I mean we thought that maybe there would be some kind of tourists. No so so Pleasant Point, Pleasant, West Virginia. They had a little tourist thing. The Centralia thing is like, no, you're not supposed. To be here here, don't pay attentions to the burning underground talent. Yeah. So m m, well, there you go, there you go. What how about this? Well, one one last question, Dan, thank you so much for being on the show and sharing the things you've experienced over the years as you travel around. What do you think is the weirdest thing you've ever experienced as you travel around this country.

43:30 Firdest thing you have experienced would be a horrible because I've experienced a lot of strange stuff. Mhmi. I'd say the weirdest thing I ever experienced was I was driving out uh driving out the Arkansas one time, UH just past Memphis, probably like an hour past Memphis on forty and I was trying to get around this tractor trailer and then all of a sudden there was two cars stopped on the side of the highway, and I when I got around the side edge of the track and trailer speed up past it. There was a car stopped in the like had slowed down to like maybe twenty miles an hour on it where most people go like seventy or eighty, and I almost smashed it in the back end. So I had to veer out of the way to the intermedian. And then there was a car completely stopped with a flashing lights on next to that, so I had to do a double veer and let the car roll down into the media. And thank god, there wasn't a barrier right there, and there was no drop off. And when I after the anxiety had faded off,

45:01 which was about ten seconds, like the whole thing was like ten seconds, there was nothing there. There was one one car or one suv and nobody else was there, so there was probably so there was a car that was stopped blinking on the right side of the road. Then there's a track and trailer, and then there was a car that was slowed down to like twenty miles an hour. Then there was another car on the intermedian that was on the side of the intermedium in one of those diamond lane type things that was completely stopped with blinking lights on. And when I finally collected myself after like you know, ten seconds, I looked around there was nobody there except for the.

45:42 Sub as that. It's very very strange stuff. Man, what a wild trip you've had so far, but some cool stuff and I think that you know, maybe individuals have also had things happen around Shelby would love to hear about it. You can always reach out through the comments, so you can send an email. But Dan, thank you so much. Is it a thing where do you post some of this stuff on like a YouTube channel. You're just kind of experiencing life yourself and sharing some stories along the way. Yeah. I mean I used to post stuff years ago, but I just kind of stopped doing that after a while.

46:22 I just sure, I'm older. You know, I'm forty three. You know when I was, when I was like in my mid twenties to mid thirties, I used to post videos and stuff. But I'm kind of like, you know, just old and don't really care about doing that that much anymore. So gotcha, gotcha. Yeah, it's it's a lot of work for sure. Well, man, thank you so much for coming on on the show today. And if you ever have anything else cool happen in the future, you know, to send an email. Would love to hear from you. But thank you so much for hanging out today, Siri. But I thank you for the opportunity.

47:03 Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon and you think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well guess what this year you can If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up. July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well, you just got to be there. We'll leave at that.

47:50 More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching for Sasquae watch well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot Spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just trust it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp Like Bigfoot Society Podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oakridge this year.

49:12 We can talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it, and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a National Park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make make sense, if you're in the logging industry, on a remote oil field or a trucker with government contracts, and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or anything with clearance, and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous. You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. The world

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