Sept. 13, 2025

Every Time We Went, It Answered: Boykin Springs Bigfoot Encounters

Every Time We Went, It Answered: Boykin Springs Bigfoot Encounters
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Season 1

What happens when a teenage Eagle Scout and his father go looking for Bigfoot in the piney woods of East Texas — and actually find it? In this intense and unforgettable episode, we hear from Ryan, a Boykin Springs native who has spent years interacting with something wild, powerful, and very real in the forests of Angelina County. From roadside sightings and campfire wood knocks to police dashcam videos and quiet tracking moments near Aldridge Sawmill, Ryan’s encounters have left a mark — not just on him, but on an entire community. You’ll hear about his early sightings, how curiosity turned into weekend investigations with friends, and why so many members of his local church refuse to return to the woods. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be watched, followed, or even protected by a creature no one believes in — this is your episode. Featuring stories from Boykin Springs, Crockett, Huntington, and beyond, this is East Texas like you’ve never heard it before.

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

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to

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

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seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers

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

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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

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

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us, all right, I pick the Society.

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We've got the privilege of talking to Ryan today. Ryan

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is an individual I met over on the TikTok platform,

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and he is on the show today regarding some really

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interesting experiences he's had in the Boykin Springs area of Texas,

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the highly active area. If anyone listening is familiar with

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Boykin Springs, so you are going to really enjoy what

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he has to say. I believe, I mean, I have

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full disclosure. I've heard it before. We've had this conversation

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on the TikTok platform. Unfortunately, that audio was non recoverable,

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so Thankfully I had a way to contact Ryan and

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he was able to come on the show so that

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we could get this out there to the general public.

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So welcome to the show.

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Ryan.

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How are you doing today, sir? I'm doing pretty good

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about yourself doing great? Also, just in case I forgot

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to mention it, the background for yourself. During the time

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of this, you were in Eagle Scout correct.

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Yes, I was part of the Boy Scouts of America,

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part of two different troops in the area. Yeah. Everyone

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else is thought I'm crazy, but I'm glad I found

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a platform too that is telling me I'm not so

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here we are.

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Absolutely did before we get into it, did Bigfoot come

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up a lot in your your Scout training down there

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in that area?

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I mean, aside from all the camp fire stories we

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would get from the dad's on camp house just trying

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to scare us kids, not really. It was just a

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lot of stories of oh yeah, if you go walk

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in to night, you better look out for this for

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this such and such animal because it will tase you down.

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And I'm like, I don't know about that one.

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Chief right, That's funny, Yeah, yeah, good, good way to

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put it. Brian. I would say let's let's get right

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into it. Feel free to take us back to these

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experiences that you had in the Boyk and Springs area.

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They're intense and they are one of the most favorite

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things I've heard on the show in a while. So

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you know, feel free, the floor is yours and take

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us back there.

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Yeah. So it was late summer of two thousand, I

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guess i'd say ten twenty eleven. I was righting around

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with my father at the time, and we were coming

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down the the main stretch of Boyk and Springs Road.

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It cut off and part of it cuts off towards

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a cell phone tower because we were trying to send

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some pictures that we had took early in the day

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to to our family members, and yeah, we're coming down

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this one lane dirt road. We had the windows down.

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We were just having a conversation about Actually we were

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discussing the topic of bigfoot at the time, because it

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was one of those common interest points that we had,

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like we both would go out on the weekends if

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we ever had the time to and would try and

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search because we were both advent bigfoot. We're a bigfoot

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people and we want to understand more of how the

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creature interacts with everybody in the area, because hearing an

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experience from another person is one thing, but having your

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own is very is much more, much more intimate. So

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we were going across and I'm looking at it on

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a map right now. You were going across this stretch

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of road off of Boykin Springs Road called three thirteen

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A to a cell phone tower and right in between

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that stretch he had you were coming across that I'd

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say ten miles an hour, five miles an hour at

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the best. We we're driving along and I'm looking out

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the passerside window and I saw this creature look like

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it had just crossed the road. He was about. It

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was about i'd say eight to eight and a half

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feet tall, broad shoulders, built like a D one college linebacker,

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the classic long arm, short legs, sunking in eyes with

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the with a with a second end face and a

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more ape like ape like facial features, solid black hair.

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Beautiful creature. If if I had my phone out, I

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would have taken a snapped a really good picture of it,

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because I don't think anybody would believe me if I

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did have a picture of it. But we believe it

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had just crossed the road and then continued on up

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the hill towards towards off into a bigger thicket of woods.

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And that was my first instance that I had with

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the creature. And that's what really solidified all of the

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noises and sounds that I had heard previous in the

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area hunting and camping and whatnot.

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That's that's fascinating.

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So was that the first time that you're like, Okay,

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this is one hundred percent real? Was that at the

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time that pushed you over the edge into knowing?

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Yes? Yes, that was the first time that I truly

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believe that we are not alone in our forests, that

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there is something out there, that there's something primitive out

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there that we don't know about. Gotcha, that was my

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first interact. That was the first time I saw one

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in the first time that I was dead set. I

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knew what I was looking at. Wow, I.

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Have a few questions about about that sighting. So did

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you actually see it as it walked away through two area?

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No, what I saw as we were driving along, because

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we didn't. We slowed down to about i'd say five

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miles an hour at this point because we both saw it.

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He was on the pass He was on the right

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side of the vehicle, heading left to right up the hill.

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So I saw my dad sawt out of order his eye.

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We didn't stop to think about it. We just both

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looked at each other way, Yep, that's exactly what we

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saw pool and kept on trucking. But that was the first,

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my first time seeing one and thinking, Yep, this is

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exactly what I thought I was gonna This is exactly

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how I thought my sighting was gonna be. Just short, quick,

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to the point I already knew what it was. Everything

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just popped into my head. When the creature was walking,

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it did the I'm sure everybody has seen the Patterson

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Gamlin film, including you, Jeremiah, where the creature is mid

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stride and then it turns back. It's exactly how it is,

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exactly how I saw it. His back was to us,

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and I saw the immediate turn around with the head

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over the shoulder, and then it just kept on walking

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up the hill. And after that it was out of

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sight and I couldn't see anything else.

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Did it have any certain posture when it was walking

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up the hill?

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It was a very slouched posture. Granted, his the shoulders

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were up, but the back had a little hunch to it,

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so even though they were it was in a straight

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almost how you could see a straight line down a

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human spine. You looked at it from the side profile,

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there was a little bit of a hunch forward. But

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that's also I also deemed that one to the terrain

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that it was walking across.

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To Sure, you mentioned that it was a beautiful creature

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to see. What were things that stuck out in your

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mind that that made it so beautiful to you?

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Just the majestic the majesticness of seeing one after hearing

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stories of realizing, you know, these creatures aren't that bad, rude,

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they're just misunderstood. We're not understanding what they are, and

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then seeing one in person, it was a very awestruck

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feeling for me, which is why I say it was

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a very majestic and beautiful creature. Or say that about

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a lot of creatures and wildlife, but this one was

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definitely like the fur was this beautiful black. It was

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like this almost how you would see a German shepherd,

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just solid black hair from head to toe. And that's

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all I can say about that. I was very awestruck

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at that time, being being as young as I was

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an early teenager.

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How was your emotional state the days after you had

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that sighting?

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My emotional state was, gee, my emotional state was very relaxed, almost.

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It was like I had seen something that confirmed everything

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that I had known about being in the woods from

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the time that I started in Boy Scouts to the

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time that I got out of Boy Scouts. I something

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felt confirmed in my head about what I had seen.

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Absolutely.

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Sometimes when you have well some listeners will get this.

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When you have an experience with a parent, they're either

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and you see something like this, whether it be a

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UFO or a big foot, yeah, They're either going to

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be like, Nope, didn't say a thing, see a thing,

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or yeah, totally saw it. Did you have conversations with

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your father after this sighting? In the years after.

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We did, we would reference that day a little bit,

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and it was just that. How I explain it is

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there are certain activities that you do with friends and

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family and coworkers where you can sit back and laugh

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and say, yeah, we did that, Yeah we saw that.

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That's how it was for us where we wouldn't have

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to you wouldn't have to say words half the time.

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All we had to do is just exchange looks and

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know that yes, we saw what we saw and we're

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just going to leave it at that.

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That's really cool after having this sighting. Sometimes when people

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will have a bigfoot sighting, it'll affect them in different ways.

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Sometimes they won't want to have anything to do with

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bigfoot related things, or they'll really jump into it. Do

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you feel like it affected you in a certain way

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after this.

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Oh, I, as some people would say, I jumped headfirst

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into learning anything and everything I could about bigfoot every

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time me and my friends would go up because eventually,

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after all, after having this sighting and then hanging out

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with friends the next weekend, we realized that we had

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all seen the same creature in the same area. So

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when we were around fifteen sixteen years old, one of

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us was able to get a driver's license and we

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went out to that area with a loudspeaker and we

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would play the Sierra sounds just to see if we

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could get a response, and we got responses.

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Before we get into those responses, what kind of sightings

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had your buddies had before leading this time?

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The typical the hunter instances where they see him through

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a scope, peeking out from behind a tree, instances where

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because two of my buddies they hunt with their rightfle

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hunters and then two others are bow The two rifle

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hunters had one peek out from trees in two different areas,

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but they claimed it. They claim it was the same one.

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I don't know. The other two bow hunters when they

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would go for when they would go claim their kills,

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they would find either their kills missing. They would go

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searching for their kills and they would find their kills missing,

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or they would have they would hear random tree knocks

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or whatever just to startle, just to startle them and

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try and get them out of that area. Just the

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small stuff, the small stuff that they do just to

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screwe with hunters because it's funny.

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Oh absolutely so.

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Then so you guys go to this area and you're

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playing the Sierra sounds, how much of the Sierra sounds,

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or you're playing as much as is available or just

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a few minutes.

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We would play thro the from the time that they

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from the time that on the sounds where you hear

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the distant howls to the chattering is the clips that

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we would play and we would play it over loud

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speaker and the responses we would get back were varied.

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We had a couple long, drawn out whoops, what sounded

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to be like coyotes, but was that creature because no

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coyote had hit that pitch at that range, A couple low,

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a couple of low aggressive howls. And then I'd say

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at least four to five wood knocks within a close

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range of within a close range of us.

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And when you say close range, can you be specific

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as to how close that was?

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Ten yards? Oh? Wow?

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Okay, m oh yeah.

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How how quick did it take for things to kick

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in after you stop playing the recording by Ron Moorehead.

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I would say ten seconds at best. Wow, Yeah, it

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was about the first The first time that we did it,

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it was about ten seconds, just because we were using

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a very powerful amplified speaker, so it was about ten

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seconds from the time that the sound ended to the

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time that we started hearing sounds coming back to us.

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The second instance, when we did the sounds again the

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next weekend is when we started encountering the wood knocks

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and we would just we eventually ended up making it

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a weekend thing where we would go out to Boyken

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and just circle up, make a campfire, and just sit

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there and just talk and every once in a while

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just you know, let off a couple of wood knocks

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with a wooden baseball batty us a tree and then

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go sit back down and see it. We see what

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we can hear, because as teenagers we actually liked interact.

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The interaction that we were getting was not threatening more

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as it was just basic curiosity. And that's what we

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got was the curiosity part of the creature in which

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that really kicked off the curiosity for us as well

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as how close can how close can we get this

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creature to us without it being scared of us and

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without us frightening off everything else.

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It's an interesting combination that you hit on there, The

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curiosity of the creatures combined with the curiosity of you

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and your friends at that time at you know, that

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age in life is probably a wild combination. How many

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times do you think you went there and did this

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over the years.

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I'd say at least till till I graduate, till my

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eighth grade year is when we all was the last

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time that we were all together and the last time

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that we did that sort of campfire or hangouts deal.

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And just so you think maybe less than ten times.

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More than ten times.

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Yeah, I would say more than ten times.

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Okay, And out of those times more than ten times.

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How many times did you guys get responses?

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Every single time?

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The experiences that your friends had prior to this when

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they were hunting, were these in a similar area as

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to where you and your father had the sighting, or

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different parts of Boyk and Springs.

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Different parts of the area. Actually, one of my buddies

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he used to hunt, and I don't know if he

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still does or not, but he used to hunt a

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big thicket National Forest in between Huntington and Zavala, Texas.

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They had a piece of property out there and they

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would go hunt, and he had an instance in that

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national forest. Another one of my buddies, he had an

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instance in the seeing if I can find it on

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my computer, he had an instance with the creature outside

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of Crocket in the Davy Crockett National Forest, and he

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had that happen out there. Another one of my buddies

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had his happen in the right along the Trinity River

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close to I'd say close close to Antioch, Texas.

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Gotcha.

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A lot of us have been all over the place

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and have had things happen.

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Yeah, and those are all areas where there's there's definitely

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been activity reported over the years. Now getting back to

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you know, you and your buddies having these times where

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you're trying to elicit interactions or have interactions happen. Was

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there ever a time you feel where they started coming

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closer to your camp or there might have been a

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visual that was had.

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The only time that we had one get close to

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us was when we when we were going fishing. We've

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we went out because we go out at about eleven

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o'clock in the morning and we'd get there, break out

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the fish and poles, start fishing, and then we clean

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up our fish, get them all cut up, filayed, and

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ready to cook. And there was one night that we

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did this. It was a Saturday night, overcasted, and one

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of one of my buddies had taken the guts from

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all the fish to the to the trash can at

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the end of my camp site, put them in the

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trash can, left it alone, and then came back to

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camp and we started we fried up the fish, we

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were eating. We were talking doing our normal Saturday night

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thing of trying to get Bigfoot to come close to us.

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And sitting there, and then we heard the trash can

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leg get ripped open, and then it sounded like a

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raccoon going through the garbage. But we knew what it

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was without a doubt. Hearing tails from all the fishmen

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that were there prior to us being in the Bigfoot,

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we knew what it was right right away.

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You've also had had another instance happened by a sawmill?

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Was that right?

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Yeah? The Aldridge Sawmill is the sawmill that I had

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a encounter at well along a hiking trail towards the

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saw mill that I hadn't encounter at.

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Yes, gotcha.

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And for listeners, if you go to the website for

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the podcast big for Society podcast dot com, there's a

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sightings map there where I'm putting trying to put locations

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where or put encounters where the locations happen, so you

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can fall along if you go over there and click

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on siting map. But looks like the Aldridge Sawmill is

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a little bit south of Boykin Springs right, Yes.

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Still on the same property. That entire area is the

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Boykin Springs Recreation Area. The main area that comes up

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anybody listening that is interested in this area, The main

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spot that's going to come up is the main campground,

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and i'd say the sawmill's about three four miles south

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of the main camp area.

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Thank you, And would you be able to walk us through.

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What happened during that sighting at the sawmill that day?

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Yeah?

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Yeah, So it was about eleven thirty in the afternoon.

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I was with I was on a scouting camp out. Actually,

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one of our leaders wanted us to go through and

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hike to the sawmill just to get a couple of pictures.

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See it, enjoy it, see the area. So we're hiking

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through and we're on a we're on a bottom hat.

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We're on the bottom part of a rail line spur.

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So the spur is up top by about ten twenty

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feet and we're down low by about an extra five

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and we're walking along and everything's going good. Common thing

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for us scouters is if we're ever hiking and we

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have to stop somewhere, always have a buddy with us.

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So I had to stop to take a leap because

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nature called, and I tapped my buddy and I said, hey,

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I gotta stop. Told the scout master we'll catch up.

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We'll catch up to the group, y'all. Keep going. So

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about this time everything is the woods are they're normal

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at this point, birds are chirping, the wind's rustling, everything

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else like that. And then it all goes quiet for

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a second. And my buddy, who's he's at my back

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looking up the hill and he taps me on my

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shoulder as I finish up my business, and he goes, hey,

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what's that up there? And I turn around and I look,

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and I say, walking more like shuffling across the top

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of this rail line spur. Is this seven and a

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half eight foot tall what I've already seen before known

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as what I know is sasquatch standing there well, shuffling

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across there, looking down at us. And my buddy was

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starting to freak out because he didn't know what it was.

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And I told him, hey, calm down. As long as

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you don't mess with it, it's not going to mess

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with you. And we started walking, and as soon as

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we started walking towards our group, I could hear the

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creature about ten to twenty feet behind us, tracing us

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from a distance but keeping a watchful eye on us.

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Till from the time that we were alone to the

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time that we made it back to our group, that

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creature followed us there, and I couldn't tell you if

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it was a natural instinct or a protective instinct that

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it had to follow us to make sure that we

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got back to our group safe and sound.

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How did you feel after having this encounter? Was it

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different than the first one that you had?

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I'd say about the same. It actually solidified what I

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knew and what I thought I knew even more.

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Gotcha.

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And another thing I wanted to ask you is after

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having these these sightings and now your few years past,

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that have you continued to go back out to that

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area to try to have interactions even though you know

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your buddies might not be involved. Or are you still

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doing any research in the area about encounters that happen.

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Oh? Yeah, without a doubt. This has not swayed me

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from my distance from the area, has not swayed me

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from stopping what I have come to enjoy as a pastime.

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Quite frankly, it's ramped up what I enjoy a lot,

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because now I have something to do on my pastime

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that that what I'm not working is actually more uplifting

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and can get me out of all the heavy stuff

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that I do with that work. So it's it's one

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of those things that I see as a It's one

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of those things I see that for the area is

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needed to be put out there as Hey, if you

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have this encounter, don't be afraid of it. Just this

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is what you need to do. I'm trying to get

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out there so I can have more encounters and can

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tell more people about Hey, these are just general giant creatures.

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Don't mess with them. They won't mess with you. This, that,

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and the third.

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Have you been able to have any discussions with people

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that have also had things happen in this area.

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I've had a couple of conversations with a couple of people.

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Some of their settings are a little bit more, a

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little bit more rough than others. The typical coming up

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to the vehicle, shaking it, tossing stuff around the campsite,

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scream and holler and yelling, slapping trees and all that stuff.

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I've had a lot of interviews with people that have

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been I've been scared out of the woods before. I've

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had a lot of people say that I'm not going

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back into the woods after such and such instance, because this, this,

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and this happened. And I after hearing most of those

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stories of being of people being run out of the woods.

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I am of the opinion that I've been fairly lucky

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in not getting chased out of the woods by these creatures.

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So I don't know what that says about me and them,

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but I guess we're on a good rapport.

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Yeah, that's really interesting. Have you found any patterns about, like, okay,

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the people that reported being you know, just just chased

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out of there or scared out of there? Did you

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see any patterns between those sort of witnesses or was

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it kind of just random? Who would get that and

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who wouldn't?

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It was that random, I'd say, because I would go

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to the I would talk with most of my people

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at church. I'd say one in ten that I would

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talk to have been chased out of the Boyken area

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and have not returned since.

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So okay, well done. That's a really wild statement to say.

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And I just because you don't hear stuff like that,

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and that's incredible, I'd say, that's incredible to hear. How

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roughly big is a congregation.

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Our congregation is about six hundred members. I've asked the questions, well,

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what have y'all been doing? And they're like, oh, well

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we've been we've been throwing trash everywhere. I'm like, yeah,

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that's not what you're supposed to do.

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Okay, so that's that's a pattern right there. So mm hmm,

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it could be it could be individuals that are messing

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up the area, not being respectful. That could definitely be

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a pattern. And are these individuals where you're talking to

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people where they're younger, some are older.

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It's all over the place, all over the place. Okay.

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I've had a couple I've had a couple dads come

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up and tell me that they've been chased out for

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leaving deer corn bags on the ground for and then

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a couple of kids come up and say, well, we

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just we ran out of there because this, that and

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the third. I'm like, don't be scared of them guys.

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And to the others that leave the trash on the ground,

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I'm like, look, don't. The biggest part of what I

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used to do as a child in boy scouting was

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one of the biggest things that I was taught was

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leave no trace, Leave no trace that you were there,

469
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so no one knows that you were there. Pick up

470
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.039
after yourself.

471
00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:27.119
It's not hard, absolutely so, and that would you know,

472
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:29.599
if you look at it a certain way, I'm sure

473
00:30:29.640 --> 00:30:32.359
that affects the intention that you have when you're in

474
00:30:32.440 --> 00:30:36.559
these areas. You know, just just to kind of, you know,

475
00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:40.000
the vibes that you're giving off are probably way different

476
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:43.640
than you know, most per person that might be there

477
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.559
have a drink, toss the cans, whatever. But it sounds like,

478
00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:52.920
from what I'm hearing, the worst that happens in this

479
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:55.279
area is people are going to get freaked out and

480
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.759
they could get chased out of there. But you know,

481
00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:01.759
there's nothing where people are getting hurt. It sounds like

482
00:31:01.799 --> 00:31:03.119
that you've heard.

483
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:06.920
Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not

484
00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:12.960
even kind of never have I've never interviewed anybody that

485
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:16.559
has gotten hurt from being chased out of boycned by

486
00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:17.200
a Bigfoot.

487
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:23.319
I haven't heard any stories about that. Granted, this isn't

488
00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:27.839
you know, north this isn't the Pacific Northwest, this isn't

489
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:34.079
close to Canada. This is you know, south southeast east Texas. Like,

490
00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:39.160
what's no one's going to get hurt being chased out

491
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.319
of the woods by bigfoot. If anything, there's going to

492
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:47.880
be the likely event of someone getting hurt is one

493
00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:50.119
of two things has happened. Either a they got so

494
00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:55.400
scared they purposely fell and broke something, or they weren't

495
00:31:55.400 --> 00:32:00.240
paying attention and broke something against a tree. That's it.

496
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:05.359
These people that you're talking to that were scared off

497
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:09.000
that ran off, were they also ones that had visual

498
00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:11.960
sightings at the same time, or it's just they heard

499
00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.319
something something maybe was bluff charging.

500
00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:16.319
Them, something was bluff charging.

501
00:32:16.440 --> 00:32:18.240
Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

502
00:32:21.079 --> 00:32:23.880
Most of the people that I've had that I've talked

503
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:28.680
to have said that the ones that have had and

504
00:32:29.079 --> 00:32:32.559
have had visual encounters have said that they felt a

505
00:32:32.599 --> 00:32:38.319
certain wave of peace come over, like it's not here

506
00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:40.960
to hurt me. It knows I'm not here to hurt it.

507
00:32:41.640 --> 00:32:44.359
And it's one of those mutual type of deals where

508
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.839
both parties know that one is not going to be

509
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:51.079
hurt by the other and then they usually hang out

510
00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:53.440
for about five ten seconds and then they're off into

511
00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:54.759
the woods doing their own thing again.

512
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.480
So that's really interesting too. So what I hear most

513
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:03.279
of the people that have had visual encounters that you've

514
00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:08.200
talked to, they have a peaceful feeling about it. But

515
00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.880
the people that are not seeing it and are just

516
00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:14.279
being bluff charged they're freaking out, So that's kind of

517
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:20.119
an interesting thing as well. Have there been any any

518
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:22.240
tracks that have ever been found in the area?

519
00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:29.640
I can ask around, Okay and see, I haven't personally

520
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.839
seen any tracks around. That doesn't mean that they're not there.

521
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.279
I just haven't encountered. I haven't talked with anybody yet

522
00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:41.839
that has had any footprints cast that who have made

523
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:48.279
casts with footprints. But I do know majority of campers

524
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:51.000
that have been in that area have whether they've been

525
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:56.519
camping in the main campground or have been camp hiking

526
00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:01.880
doing hiking trail camps, that they've all heard wood knocks.

527
00:34:03.480 --> 00:34:09.079
They've heard wood knocks, screens hows, all the mannerisms of

528
00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:10.880
what bigfoot would do.

529
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:17.880
It's extremely interesting the things you're hearing from people at

530
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:21.400
the church. How far back in history? Do those stories go.

531
00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:27.639
Far back as the late sixties early seventies?

532
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:28.159
Okay?

533
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:29.320
Wow?

534
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.000
And yeah, Do you think you're the main person in

535
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:39.480
this area or that's getting encounters about this area or

536
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:44.159
have you ran into other researchers or people that are

537
00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:45.440
documenting things as well?

538
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:50.239
As far as I know, I'm the only person within

539
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:54.199
my church group that is talking to people about this,

540
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.920
it's just I guess it's just the luck of the draw.

541
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:05.719
I know, my church group we have very we're a

542
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.480
very big outdoor community. We have a lot of hunters,

543
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:10.719
we have a lot of boat we have a lot

544
00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:14.039
of hunters, a lot of fishermen, a lot of campers, hikers.

545
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:19.320
And I'd say about almost every single person that I've

546
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:23.480
talked to within my congregation has either seen one or

547
00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:27.719
has heard one in the Boyk and Springs area.

548
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.960
That's it's really cool.

549
00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:35.239
And yeah, I'm going to say a statement and there's

550
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:36.599
going to be a lot of people that are probably

551
00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:40.360
well whatever, But so I mean, these are people that

552
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:44.800
are going to church. Usually people that are going to

553
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:48.440
church are not going to be inclined to lie, right,

554
00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:51.800
They're they're gonna exactly they're going to hopefully not be

555
00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:55.920
doing that with you know, if we're talking about like

556
00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.239
a you know, some sort of Christian church, usually buying

557
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.440
equals a bad thing. And just to hear that, there's

558
00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:06.119
so many people talking to you, and these are people

559
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.360
that have, you know, nothing to gain. You're not writing

560
00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:11.960
a book from what I know, You're not you know,

561
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.880
with a podcast or a TV show or anything. They're

562
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:18.159
just like, yeah, I saw something too, or had something

563
00:36:18.199 --> 00:36:20.840
weird happened too. So it's very very cool that you

564
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:26.039
are having these conversations. Are you writing them down or

565
00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:27.639
keeping a journal or anything like that.

566
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:34.480
I'm trying to, but more times than not, most of

567
00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:41.159
these individuals are just asking that their information be left out.

568
00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:44.320
That yes, I can write down their sighting, but they

569
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:49.000
would like to remain anonymous so they're not construed by

570
00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.400
the community, by the surrounding community of those that don't

571
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:56.480
believe in it, and respecting their wishes and keeping them

572
00:36:56.599 --> 00:36:58.599
anonymous in the journal entries.

573
00:36:58.639 --> 00:37:02.400
But oh yeah.

574
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:05.840
Another cool thing you could do is you could also

575
00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.000
start plotting out on a map if you wanted to,

576
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:12.840
where stuff has happened, and you would probably start to

577
00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:17.719
see patterns arise in Boycotting Yeah about okay, this area

578
00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:21.199
around this time of year. Probably shouldn't go in there

579
00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:23.519
because something might be going on. You're going to get

580
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:24.880
chased out, who knows.

581
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.119
Oh yeah, So that those were the instances that I

582
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:34.239
had in Boykin Springs. I was talking with a of course,

583
00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:37.679
I told you over TikTok high stream. I was talking

584
00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:41.679
with a buddy of mine who's a law enforcement officer, sure,

585
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:46.440
and he had he had a run. He had a

586
00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:51.960
run in on dash can with a in a place

587
00:37:52.079 --> 00:37:56.760
not too far from Boykened Springs off of County Roads

588
00:37:57.320 --> 00:38:02.639
or Highway ninety six that follows right close to the

589
00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.360
sam Rayburn now sam Rayburn Lake.

590
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:11.679
Gotcha looks like on that side of it, yeah.

591
00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:16.840
Mm hmm. He said that he was coming southbound on

592
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:23.920
ninety six and had one step out across the road. Wow,

593
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:26.000
trying to find the location right now.

594
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.840
If I remember our conversation, he was trying to get

595
00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:31.880
access to that footage, right.

596
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:37.400
M h he's they're still working on it. Someone in

597
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.800
his office has given him some pushback right now.

598
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:42.840
That's terribly wich.

599
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.199
It doesn't surprise me at all. It doesn't surprise me.

600
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:50.320
It's like, what's what's the problem. Just give out the video.

601
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.360
If there's nothing on the video, it's not a big deal, right.

602
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:53.800
Just give it out.

603
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:56.400
Public access. It's public access to public access.

604
00:38:56.480 --> 00:39:00.599
Yeah, make a foia, you know, like it's yeah, that's

605
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:01.519
that's terrible, dude.

606
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:11.599
So it was. He said. His instance happened right outside Pineland, Okay,

607
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:14.960
on County Road ninety six before the turn off before

608
00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:20.239
it curves off towards the the trailhead number three west,

609
00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:22.199
the trail between the lakes.

610
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:26.679
Oh yeah, which is when you're on ninety six. It

611
00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:30.280
looks like in that area you are in, Oh yeah,

612
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:33.559
Sabine National Is it that in Subin National Forest?

613
00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:38.480
I think it's the Bean or it's Angelina National Forest.

614
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:42.440
I could not tell you off the top of my head. Wow,

615
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:49.840
but yeah, our area, that area is very poppin' because

616
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:53.960
of course there's we're not that far from Taleda Bend

617
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.920
and that area of Louisiana.

618
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.599
God, it's pretty wild as well. I mean, I've heard

619
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:08.440
stuff about this area for four years. It just wasn't

620
00:40:08.440 --> 00:40:11.840
smart enough to put it all on a map, which

621
00:40:11.880 --> 00:40:14.079
is what I'm doing now and start to see patterns.

622
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.599
And if anyone's listening that does this too, you need

623
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:20.360
to document it on a map stuff you hear so

624
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.920
that you can see patterns and all that. Unless your

625
00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:27.280
memory is incredible, which mine, I need to see it

626
00:40:27.320 --> 00:40:32.920
plotted out. Wow, this is this is absolutely incredible. Oh yeah,

627
00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.119
my goodness, Ran you are. I mean, you're in the

628
00:40:36.199 --> 00:40:39.280
right place at the right time, and you're you're taking

629
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.079
the time to actually talk to people, and it's really

630
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:45.360
really cool. I wish more people across the US were

631
00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:48.400
doing what you are. It would probably get us to

632
00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:53.599
disclosure quicker. Oh yeah, but man, I want to make

633
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:56.679
sure that you were able to share everything that you

634
00:40:56.760 --> 00:40:59.400
had come on the show to share about what you're

635
00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:01.599
what you've experience down there, and what you're hearing.

636
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:06.480
Oh yeah, I've been able to give my peace of everything.

637
00:41:08.039 --> 00:41:12.440
I just have one additional story to tell. This is

638
00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:15.239
from This is coming from a corrections officer out of

639
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:23.960
that I know personally outside of Huntsville. He works for TDC.

640
00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:27.719
He works for the TDC Texas Department of Criminal Justice,

641
00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.960
and he's part of one of the units down there,

642
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:34.800
and he had a he had one walk out across

643
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:40.000
walk out across him on Highway nineteen headed towards Trinity.

644
00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.480
Oh wow, just just in the middle of the day.

645
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:52.960
No, sir. He he was doing an evening transport and

646
00:41:53.039 --> 00:41:56.119
he was coming from he was coming from Trinity into

647
00:41:56.440 --> 00:42:00.800
Huntsville after picking up his in the train party from

648
00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:06.360
Jarney County. And he said, I was coming down the road,

649
00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:10.000
He's like, I saw something in the road, so I

650
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.039
slowed came to a slow pace. He's like, damn, you're

651
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.920
a stop and then as soon as I slowed down,

652
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:21.320
that's when this creature went from a crouching position to

653
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:25.760
a standing position and cleared cleared the road in one

654
00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:27.880
and a half steps. Wow.

655
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:31.679
Yeah, man.

656
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:36.719
This is one of those discussions where it's it's crazy

657
00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:38.840
because it's not the Pacific Northwest, but it's like there's

658
00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:41.480
so much activity in this one area when you.

659
00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:44.639
Look at the big view and.

660
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:51.559
It's just you're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna keep hearing

661
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:53.679
some cool stuff down there. And I'm glad that you're

662
00:42:53.719 --> 00:42:57.000
keeping track of it. And if people that are listening

663
00:42:57.079 --> 00:43:00.280
to this have also had stuff happen in you Can

664
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:04.079
Springs or the area, I'd love to hear about it.

665
00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:04.519
You can.

666
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.880
You can reach out It's big for society at gmail

667
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.880
dot com. Also, are there ways that people can reach

668
00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:13.920
out to you, Ryan or we're kind of keeping in

669
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:16.159
the shadows and dealing with people locally for this.

670
00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:22.239
If anyone in the local area has any information on

671
00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:25.400
any sightings that you may have had or anything else,

672
00:43:26.119 --> 00:43:28.559
and y'all don't feel comfort reaching out to Jeremiah, you

673
00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:32.280
can reach out to me. I can give you a

674
00:43:32.360 --> 00:43:33.800
email to send that.

675
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:38.400
Okayation over to sure gotcha, got you?

676
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:44.239
Got you? So that email is going to be lone

677
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:48.800
text and six eight at gmail dot com. That is

678
00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:51.800
one of my that's one of the emails that I

679
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:58.079
take reports on, get stories and yeah, hopefully here soon

680
00:43:58.159 --> 00:44:00.760
I'll start plotting all this stuff and then I'll get

681
00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:03.000
with Jeremia again we can compare notes.

682
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:06.079
I would love that this is one of those deals

683
00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:11.280
where you know, I'm starting to have people on different

684
00:44:11.599 --> 00:44:15.199
parts of the country that are there in person and

685
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:16.840
pretty much boots on the ground.

686
00:44:16.880 --> 00:44:18.639
So yeah, we'll definitely keep in touch. Ryan.

687
00:44:18.719 --> 00:44:21.400
But thank you so much for coming on the show today.

688
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:22.039
I appreciate it.

689
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.480
Man, Yeah, no problem, thanks for having me on.

690
00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:27.880
Thank you for listening to this episode of The Big

691
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:31.159
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692
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:34.280
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693
00:44:34.320 --> 00:44:36.920
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694
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712
00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:36.039
your gut, and never stop asking what else might be

713
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out there? And see you in the woods.