Finding Bigfoot in New Hampshire with Aleks Petakov

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on this one episode. All right, thanks for coming back. This is

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Jeremiah with the Bigfoot Society podcast and
we have the privilege of having Alex Pettakoff

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from Pettacough Media with us. Alex, thanks for coming on. Yeah,

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thanks for having me on. Man, how you doing doing well? Doing

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well? And I mean this is
as real as it gets because you are

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directly back from the woods. Can
I right? I was just out there.

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Yeah, I was just out in
this area that had some strange activity

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in the past. But we can
talk about that in a little bit.

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Very cool, Very cool. Do
you mind starting out by making maybe doing

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a quick synopsis of who it is
you are and what it is that you

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do. Sure. My name is
Alex Petakov. I am a documentary filmmaker,

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sort of a cryptid researcher. And
I say researcher in the sense that

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I sort of researched the subject,
the cryptosology, so I'm not necessarily trying

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to find DNA evidence to prove something
is real or not. I'm just I

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like all aspects of it, and
that includes getting into individual subjects, whether

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it's through documentaries or writing about it
or just doing research in general. So

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yeah, that's basically it. I'm
a filmmaker, adventurer, I love the

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outdoors. I am a big hiker
as well, so I've just always had

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the I always had a good time
out in the woods, and I think

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cryptosology, looking for bigfoot, that
sort of stuff. It goes hand in

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hand with just being out and enjoying
nature. That's awesome. That is very

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cool. You've done a few really
cool docum I'm sure you've done many cool

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documentaries, but the ones I'm familiar
with are your champ documentary. Very cool.

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If you want to hear more about
that, definitely listen to the Cryptic

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Campfire episode that you were on.
If you don't listen to those guys,

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you should. That was a great
episode. And you've got an awesome documentary

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about mountain lions in the Northeast.
Correct. Yeah, that's my latest documentary.

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Feature documentary about mountain lions and mystery
big cats in the New England area.

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Just sort of released right as the
whole COVID things started in March.

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So it was unfortunate timing because the
premiere got canceled and like four screenings I

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had planned for the spring were canceled
as well. So we're hoping actually have

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an actual premiere on the point during
the summer and then from there, oh

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wow, it's in't so we were. We were checking it out a bit

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ago, and I want to make
sure if people are going to watch the

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trailer the documentary it gets there.
It's graphic in there. There's a warning

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at the beginning where it's like,
hey, there are going to be images,

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and I was like, oh,
yeah, okay, and no it

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gets a little graphic and I look
over in my four year old it's like

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oh dad, and I'm like no, no, but hey, you did

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your due diligence and the warning is
there. So if that doesn't make you

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go check it out, you need
to go check it out, guys.

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Yeah. And it's nothing, nothing
too scary. It's just nature. It's

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basically if you've see the Bad Nature
documentary, you know, lion ripping a

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part of zebra. It's nothing worse
than that. Yeah, totally, totally.

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So let's see your history. You
have kind of been in different parts

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of the world, is that correct? I grew up in other country and

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yeah, so I was actually born
in South Africa. That's where my parents

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went to in the nineties when their
home country of Yugoslavia Southeast Europe started falling

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apart during a civil war there that
lasted a while, so they kind of

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went to South Africa for a little
bit. South Africa was as well,

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transitioning politically from apartheid to sort of
a more democratic system. Even though it's

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still a bit shaky to this day. And I was born there. We

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didn't stay very long. I was
very young when we left became the United

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States. South Africa just became very
dangerous. They were talking about it possibly

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being a war there too, so
that's the last thing they needed after just

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escaping another war. Beautiful country.
I've only been back once. I wish

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to go back again someday, hopefully
if it down a bit. But uh

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yeah, so that's my history.
I kind of came over the US.

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I've been in the US since then, sort of grew up always kind of

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traveling around and really interested in exploring
different cultures and different areas of the world.

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And I think cryptozoology is always kind
of fit into that a little bit,

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because every corner of the world or
anywhere I go, I'm always looking

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for those local legends. It's there, it's there. Yeah, Oh man,

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that's universal. Humans all have stories
of strange creatures or legends, mythology.

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I mean, since people have been
living in unorganized societies, even you

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know, cave all sorts of stuff
to seek out the unknown. Definitely around

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and tell the stories around the campfire. It's so great, right, uh

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you so your base currently is in
New England. Yeah, so I'm New

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Hampshire, sort of Austin area.
That's you know, most people think New

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Hampshire all Europe and up on the
mountain. I am often up on a

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mountain, but I am closer to
the Boston area and that's sort of New

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England small, so you can get
around pretty quickly. So I say kind

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of New England based because I'm often
moving around different parts of New England.

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The pictures you're putting up on Instagram, I mean, you're not kidding when

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you're saying you're climbing mountains. This
is crazy stuff, like stuff where it's

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like if you take her on step
you are you're falling off into oblivion.

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Like I mean, you do some
some wild stuff and it does it look

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like you do drone work as well? Is that true? Yeah? So

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I do, you know, kind
of just my own photography on the side.

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I've always been interested in that and
going to these natural, beautiful locations

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lends itself perfectly to always having a
camera or something on me and whether it's

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trying to do some night photography or
a drone. A couple of mountains I

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recently hiked, I just the good
conditions. We didn't have much wind.

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Usually there's a lot of wind.
We have pretty bad weather up in the

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White Mountains and a lot of the
mountains here, so you oftentimes get winds

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that will blow you right off.
So a drone, yeah, a couple

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of times, you know, you
get you get lucky, and then you

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see a lot of wildlife that sort
of stuff. And one of the hikes

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I just did, actually I just
posted about it. It's called the Watcher

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and it's right actually near in Franconia
Notch, which is beautiful little kind of

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highway goes right through the area where
Betting Barney Hill abduction happened. Actually,

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you know, definitely, Yeah,
part of their encounter was in that notch,

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and it was something called the Watcher, And it's this cliff face that

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if you look at it from a
certain angle, it has like a face

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and it's actually directly across the highway
from the Old Man of the Mountain.

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It's famous for unfortunately he passed off
off the rock in like two thousand and

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three. So this is they call
her the Old Woman of the Mountain,

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the Old Wow Mountain, or the
Watcher. But it was some of the

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gnarliest train getting up there. We
had pretty much, you know, almost

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a vertical at one point rock slides. Uh, there was a way around

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it we didn't see and we went
straight up and I'm like, this is

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if if this was any steeper,
we would have need rock climbing gear.

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Basically, No, you were totally
you were almost there. Like you might

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have seen that on Instagram that I
posted. Yeah, but it was yeah,

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still plot twist. I don't know
if I've ever told you. I

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actually grew up in New England.
So I think a little town called Northfield,

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Massachusetts, which is you know,
right where for Montnehamshire and mass meet

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in that area, and that's that's
the area the Berkshires and stuff is out

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there, and you're not too far
from Keene. I can imagine Keen.

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Yeah, Keene is where you go
to to get a job. It's a

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little it's well, it's a it's
a big college town in the middle of

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the mountains. Nothing around it.
Famous for the Pumpkin Festival and the riots

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that that is true and the filming
of Jumanji starring Run Yeah, you can

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still see the pair of shoes up
on the wall, the mural that they

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had painted, but so awesome.
I love the The Madame Cherie Forest is

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real close there as well, and
there's this kind of ruins there, and

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you can climb up on these cliffs
that have a great view of the Connecticut

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River and you can see Brittleboro,
Vermont, right from that cliff. And

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that's yeah, yeah, Pisga Forest
or something like that. Yes, yep,

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beautiful area. Oh my goodness.
Yeah. So you said, is

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the southern New Hampshire that you're based
out of. Yes, yeah, southern

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New Hampshire, so where most people
in New Hampshire live. New Hampshire's kind

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of funny because it's sort of the
same shape as Vermont, just flipped the

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other way. We kind of joke
around we're very similar in that way,

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but we have twice the population.
We're about a million one point three million.

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So most of southern New Hampshire's people
who work in the Boston area northern

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Massachusetts, and there's just a lot
more in southern ne Hampshire than you have

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Middle New Hampshire, which is kind
of the Lakes region, and then a

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little bit of the White Mountain region, and then you have Kowas County,

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the northern part which is most of
the White Mountains, and then the Great

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North Woods, which is by far
the least populated area of the state,

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and that's where all the hiking there. Yeah, yeah, that's that's the

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area that it's just filled with moose. I mean, there's some areas that

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have more moose than people. Shout
out to Colebrook, New Hampshire if you

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haven't been to Colebrook. I was
just there last week. Yeah. Oh

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my goodness. They have the place
where you can get your motorcycle blessed at

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the shrine. Oh really, I
didn't know it's a big deal. But

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no. I mean I remember going
up there as a young kid on family

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vacations and we were literally be driving
at dusk. We saw twelve thirteen moose

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in an hour, very big deal, and there'd be things where I remember

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my Dad's driving down the road,
this moose comes out of nowhere, comes

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right towards us, and it's like
you had to throw it into reverse because

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so many people die a year with
the moose going over the top of the

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car and get squishing, the people
crazy and then you hit one of those.

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It's just not We saw nine between
two days and we were up near

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Pittsburgh, so we were supposed to
have a wedding actually pre Corona days,

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we were supposed to have a wedding
that week. So we decided to still

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use that time. And they had
just opened up Airbnb's and that sort of

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stuff for New Hampshire is it.
So we're like, you know, let's

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just go up north for a little
bit and hung out for a couple of

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days and drove on the famous Moose
Alley which goes from Pittsburgh to the Canadian

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border and that's like the largest concentration
of moose in that area. And we

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drove some of the gnarly logging back
roads that go into Maine. Oh wow,

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really, I got like a nail
on my tire I recently. I

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just had to get that fixed.
Buddy, you're taking your life in your

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hands man, done Fundler style.
I love those areas though. Driving that

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kind of stuff in Maine in New
Hampshire is is just so cool because you're

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there's nobody around you for for such
a long time and you get to see

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some If you don't have a four
wheel driver a truck, you pretty much

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can't get to some of these spots
either. You're as my as my kids

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say, you're done, Zoe Lorenzo, I have no idea how it came

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up with that, but he's hilarious. That's great. So you've got a

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really cool opportunity because when I was
out there, I wasn't really into like

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the bigfoot stuff, encryptid stuff a
lot. It kind of clicked when I

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was so I moved out to Central
Iowa, right, that's where I am

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now. But you're like, you're
out in the middle of some crazy stuff

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because I remember well, so I
grew up at a summer camp. We

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did a lot of hiking. So
I've done a lot of hiking up with

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my dad on the Appalachian Trail,
you know, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and

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there's times when you're in the middle
of those forests and you can feel something

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watching you. And at the time, the worst I could think of,

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what's the mountain lion could have been
but it could have been something else,

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you know, I wasn't thinking could
be Bigfoot. You don't know what's out

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in those woods, Like it gets
deep and dark, and I don't know

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if you've been in the area.
So Franklin County, Massachusetts, where I'm

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from, there's some places you can
go like Warwick, Massachusetts, or like

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the Satan's Kingdom part Oh yeah,
further Vermont, it gets wild and wild

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and like you go like far western
Massachusetts out in the Berkshires. Man,

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it's wild country. Got to check
those out, Like, oh, sorry,

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let me know if you got a
text. So I almost almost said

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something. But so I'm doing a
thing where I'm doing commentary on on the

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trail of UFOs. I didn't know
you were in it, and I'll come

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out of nowhere and I didn't know
this this side. Do you do you

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mind sharing the story where I didn't
know you guys had like the sightings of

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you know that that UFO, Like
I would love to hear that story directly

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from me. That's really cool.
It's down absolutely right. Yeah it was.

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It was like central western Pennsylvania is
the best way I can describe it.

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A place near a place called do
Boys. Man. It was.

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It was never really that into the
UFO stuff. Really, I'd always kind

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of have been interested in peripherally.
I was much more on the crypto side

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of things, bigfoot lockness Champ.
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really good friends here in the New
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as well. They do paranormal research, Paul and Benino. They have a

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radio show out of Rhode Island called
Behind the Paranormal, and they've been like

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a father father son duo. They've
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mean Paul trained with or I guess
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back in the day and has been
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and his son's worked with him,
and they have had this show and

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they have a pretty big following.
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an area they were researching Connecticut,
which was like one of these kind of

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flap areas as they call them,
where there seemed to be totally high strangeness

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creatures and UFOs strange things. One
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and somehow it got down to them
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in Pennsylvania to investigate this proper pretty
where people were claiming to have tons of

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activity. So they had been for
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on in twenty eighteen we'll be back
with more Bigfoot Society after these words from

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our sponsors. Yeah, twenty eighteen
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so I've been twice so far.
What primarily interested me was the bigfoot stuff.

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So they said that there were people
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O Man, one of our group
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well, who wasn't really into the
bigfoot stuff. So that was kind of

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interesting. But I went into it
kind of thinking, you know, this

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flap area stuff, I don't really
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to me. It sounds kind of
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to it. So we went into
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generations of a family that was having
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are we generations? Yeah? So
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and then his daughter, and they
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was near a wooded ravine. But
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the ravine in the woods up the
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all their other relatives. Now,
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were seeing shadow people in another area
they were seeing pos and the people in

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the area report seeing black helicopters,
strange things in the sky, glowing lights,

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all sorts of stuff. So the
first year we saw like a glowing

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red orb in the woods, just
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really think too much of it.
It was just kind of weird. At

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the time, we sort of thought, well, you know, if we'd

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gotten a better look at it,
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we were back there. It was
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all been split up in different parts
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kind of night investigations, hanging out. What we would do is we'd go

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for three or four days and then
we'd have a town hall meeting and meet

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with locals and ask them about their
sightings. And that's where we'd find out

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a lot about the Bigfoot stuff.
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I was mostly interested in the bigfood
stuff. It was a perfect night,

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though, we decided to all go
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the property that we were staying at, where they had a little kind of

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fire pit. We could just sit
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we were all watching the stars,
and it was after midnight at one point

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that there was not a single cloud
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a cloud that had like an illumination light

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in it started just moving in slow
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well, that cloud is in front
of the moon, but we didn't

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see the moon until now that it
would be really weird. And it just

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sort of in slow motion, was
moving kind of like a leaf in slow

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motion, and we're watching and we
all start realizing and then five of us

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begin to watch it and a smaller, more defined light literally flew out of

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it at high speed and then right
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we're freaking out. We're like,
oh, yeah, totally, some of

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these guys. We had a guy
with us in the group who has interviewed

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dozens of people who have claimed to
have had alien encounters, and he's,

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you know, without mentioning him who
he is, he works for some states

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doing stuff with veterans in the psychology
and that sort of stuff, so he

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has like that professional background. So
each member of the group had a different

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sort of area that they were interested
in. I was more of the camera

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guy and the more of the big
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thing and we're just like, man, this is just amazing. We watched

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it for about five minutes. We
saw again another light fly out of it,

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and at one point one of our
members, Paul there, went to

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grab his night vision up inoculars that
he had just gotten recently and he began

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filming it. He actually filmed it
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I think, and we actually got
on video and then the video you can

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see this hazy object moving and there's
a small circular object that stays parallel to

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it the entire time. And you
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We haven't really published it much.
It was in on the trail of

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UFOs, That's what it was in
there, but it hasn't We've had it

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looked at by one of the chief
video and photo analysts from Moufon and he

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he's a friend of he's a friend
of ours, and he's usually shoots down

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ninety percent of the stuff that gets
sent his way. You know, it's

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a lens flare, it's something that's
been seen and he genuinely could not figure

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out what it was, so we're
wow, We're still not really sure,

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you know what exactly it is,
but it was kind of what we saw.

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And we watched this thing as it
went over the horizon. It then

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stopped, and a few minutes later
we saw from right to left an object

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fly through the sky at a tremendous
speed, something you wouldn't imagine. And

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it was the strangest thing I've ever
seen. Yeah, absolutely, and we

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all recapped and it's funny. We
then we actually had another experience the night

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after, and this one I don't
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kind of out there. I didn't
talk about it at least on the OH.

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I did talk about it on the
tri UFOs, but I don't think

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that park was included. It's just
a very long story. But it was

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about twenty four hours after this,
we all were in this garage where we

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were staying. That was where my
gear was. Everyone's getting ready to go

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to bed in different areas, and
we heard this just high pitched noise like

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a be It was just it started
going and then all of a sudden,

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you know, we're looking around out
who stepped on a piece of he Who

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activated the fire alarm. I'm looking
at all my camera here. They're like,

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oh, is that your drone.
I'm like, no, my dron

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doesn't make that noise. Sounds like
it's right above us, and we're all

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scrambling to see what's going on.
And mind you, there's the owners of

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the house are sleeping in the bedroom
right above the garage, and there's a

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there's door that isn't fully closed where
another group member is just laying there on

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his phone, you know, he's
like getting ready for bed. So you're

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listening to this noise and it's almost
like it moves outside. I don't know

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how to describe it. Man.
We go outside and it sounds like it's

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in the sky and you can hear
it like moving around in a sort of

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pattern, or at least like in
different spots. Two cell phones are recorded

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at this point, so we have
it the audio captured, and it gets

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to the point where it kind of
it's almost like it's circling over the house

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and it goes towards this wooded area
and then all of a sudden, it

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just stops. It didn't fade out. It went from like as if someone

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just hit an off switch. It
didn't fade out like you'd expect foo maybe

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like a Tibetan singing bowl, you
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Actually, that's the closest thing.
Uh, And so we have audio of

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that as well. It just was
strange. It happened right after that UFO

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experience. We still couldn't figure out
what it was, and that the day

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after that we had our town hall
meeting and we were so excited to tell

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all the townsfolk about it, and
they weren't really that intrigued, I guess

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because they're like, oh, yeah, that kind of stuff happens pretty much

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all the time around here, very
common that it's not weird, like exactly,

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you know, like that's the crazy
thing. Yeah, who cares about

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that, you know. Yeah.
They were just kind of like, yeah,

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we've had stuff like that happened very
nonchalantly, and it was very interesting

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for us, of course. So
right, So, so it was the

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weirdest thing I've ever seen. I
don't know what it was, and I

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always say this, it truly fits
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don't know. I've never seen anything
that can fly in the way it did,

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like a slow motion having things flying
off of it and back into it.

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Yeah, that's yeah exactly. And
it was like it was like a

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cloudy haze kind of thing. That's
what it really reminded us at first.

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And the object that flew off of
it was defined and smaller, a lot

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smaller, and it kind of circled
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were just and we got on video.

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I mean, it's not just a
wild story, and we you know,

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we just don't know what exactly it
was, and we don't claim to

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say it was extraterrestrials or interdimensional travelers
or or whatever. It was just truly

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a UFO. Wow, that's awesome. Like all of that add on information

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to that story. That stuff I
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that's very cool. It's a long
story without it, and that of course

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that's kind of it just makes more
sense like that. And like I said,

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I never was really interested in that
UFO side. That kind of opened

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up my eyes a little bit to
the UFO subject, and that's when I

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got you know, involved a little
bit more not really researching, but I

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definitely have have reconsidered some of my
previous positions. Not that I was closed

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off to the topic at all,
I just it wasn't really my cup of

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tea. I was more interested,
just like I'm not really in the ghost

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you know, I was around people, I say, you know, being

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hanging around in a dingy basement in
some insane asylum does not sound as fun

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to me as being in the woods
looking for Bigfoot. That's just me,

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you know. Yeah, exactly two
to have a horrible segue, Tell me

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more about the project you're about to
embark on later this year. From what

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I know, it's still later this
year with the Chasing Legends crew. Yeah.

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Absolutely, So that's something that's been
kind of in the works recently.

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A lot of fun. Nash Hoover, who's a pretty similar guy to me.

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I guess he's just from the Midwest. I'm from the East Coast,

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So he's a young guy filmmaker,
adventurer, loves the cryptied subject. He's

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had this program called Chasing Legends for
quite a while and they just sort of

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it's exactly what it sounds like.
They go and investigate different cryptied legends or

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strange locations and just sort of investigate
it from that first person perspective, you

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know, what are they, what's
going on to them? And so they've

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this past year they've been working on
a season one. So originally he contacted

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me because they were going to do
a show on the Puck Qudgy, which

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is here in the Bridgewater Triangle.
Yes, yes, yeah, so keep

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going, Sorry, I have questions, No, absolutely, yeah. Yeah.

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So he he hit me up because
he's like, oh, I know

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you're out there in New England,
like we're planning on coming out there.

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Would you want to help us?
I'm like, I'd be happy to.

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I just I don't really know much
about the Puckqudgy myself. As a researcher,

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I've done Bridgewater Triangle stuff, but
mostly Bigfoot. So I put them

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in touch with people that were more
into that. So my friend Paul,

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my friend John Horrigan, who actually
narrated Lines of the East, he researched

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in the previous life the Bridgewater Triangle
pretty intensely and was involved with a lot

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of the key players and Lauren Coleman
and everyone. So I put him.

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I put them in touch with people
who have dealt with that subject for a

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while and they were like, well, would you want to be kind of

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like a guest in skater. I'm
like, yeah, I'd love that.

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I mean, it'd be a lot
of fun to go back to the bridge

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Waid to Triangle. Haven't been in
a while. And then I sort of

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we started working together. We had
this really funny shoot. What wasn't funny

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was great, but we had some
funny experiences while there. We had this

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insane Motel sixth experience that was like
that was a bonding experience right there,

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and yeah, that put us together
as like we're going to talk about this

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story in twenty years. Okay,
yeah, I gotcha. So they came.

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It was funny because the timing was
so perfect. It was the weekend

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or no, it was like four
days before Massachusetts declared a state of emergency

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for the COVID That's when they were
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Minneapolis and they were here in Boston. I showed them around Boston. We'd

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go to check into this Motel six
and it was like I don't know if

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it was like a drug den or
something, but there was like we lost

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power six times. There was a
snowstorm all of a sudden, there's like

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people with pit bulls walking around the
hallway and people having loud parties and kids

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screaming, and we're like, we
need to get out of it. So

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we we do another hotel and we
were all just like, this is some

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wild stuff and it was. It
was comical. It's comical looking back on

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it, but that was a bonding
experience. But aside from that, we

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had a fantastic shoot. We hung
around the Freetown State Forest, we talked

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to people in the area, and
then after that we kind of said,

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hey, Nash's kind of like,
hey, would you want to like maybe

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join as a as a researcher with
us for the first season. I'm like,

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I would absolutely love that, especially
some of the things you're playing investigating,

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like those are I've either investigated them
or I'd love to investigate them.

406
00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:36.000
So oh yeah, totally. So
we started a Kickstarter here back in the

407
00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:41.160
end of May and within a week
we reached one hundred percent funding, which

408
00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.279
dominated so it's great, thank you, thank you. So we're doing some

409
00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.200
stretch goals, are actually going to
do like a poster. So some guys

410
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:52.799
are so inclined. Every listent helps
just make it a little bit better,

411
00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:56.079
so you have a puck Wedgies done. That's that's basically, I mean,

412
00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:00.559
it's all filmed and everything. The
next expedition we're hoping to do is the

413
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Moggion Monster Arizona, which is sort
of a bigfoot kind of thing. So

414
00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.519
that's very different terrain. Yeah,
absolutely, it's it's very cool one up

415
00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:15.599
there in northern Arizona, so it's
not in the deserts of Arizona. It's

416
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in the what's called the Moggion Rim, which is this called Rim Country,

417
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:23.400
and it's the basically this canyon area
and then the top of the canyon it's

418
00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:29.200
all pine woodland, forest nice.
So that's where a lot of elk and

419
00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.839
mountain lions and other forest creatures actually
live. And it's in the mountains,

420
00:27:32.839 --> 00:27:37.319
so it's not really like what you'd
expect you think Arizona cactuses, wild West

421
00:27:37.319 --> 00:27:40.599
that sort of stuff. It's very
mountainous actually, so they have reports of

422
00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.160
a big foot like creature. So
we're hoping to do that here in July.

423
00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:48.119
And then after that Champ of course
personal favorite of mine, so that

424
00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:51.279
one you have to you have to, Yeah, that one will be great,

425
00:27:51.359 --> 00:27:53.960
and then another one will be the
rugaroo, so, which is the

426
00:27:53.960 --> 00:28:00.119
weir wolf type creature of Louisiana.
Oh, oh my goodness. Yeah,

427
00:28:00.160 --> 00:28:03.440
I've been down there once in Louisiana
and I've I've actually been to the town

428
00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:07.079
where that festival, the Ruguru Festival
happens, So we're hoping to get down

429
00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:11.200
there. So it's like in terms
of terrain, that's that's why I like,

430
00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:14.160
you know, the extra funding was
needed just in terms of transport and

431
00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.920
all that kind of stuff, because
we're dealing with in March, frigid snow

432
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:22.400
conditions in Massachusetts July Arizona, you've
got rattlesnakes and everything that wants to kill

433
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:26.480
you in the woods. Same as
Yeah, no joke, that's a very

434
00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.920
like Lake Champlain. So it's it's
we're trying to present very different terrain and

435
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.599
different types of cryptids. So you're
just you're not just getting like big Foot

436
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:38.960
type creatures. You're getting a puckwudgy, which you know is totally unique in

437
00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.720
terms of cryptids. You're getting a
lake monster, a swamp monster, and

438
00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:48.240
a big foot type creature combined with
a little bit of you know, mountainous

439
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.680
sort of terrain in the desert so
it's it's it's pretty awesome. So it's

440
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:56.519
it's been really cool. I actually
was just talking ton Ash earlier today.

441
00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:00.440
As of this recording, we're trying
to figure out for the DVD cover,

442
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:03.880
doing some like art and stuff like
that. So it's it's fun. Yeah,

443
00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:07.240
I'm glad to be a part of
it. And they're great crew,

444
00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:10.400
and you know, we had we
just worked pretty well together on that initial

445
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:14.440
shoot, so we're happy to move
forward doing that. So it sounds like

446
00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:18.680
you're very excited to answer Nash's question
on how excited you are, and so

447
00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:25.240
we'll leave that at that. Also, do you do you care to comment

448
00:29:25.279 --> 00:29:30.240
on how many puck would you you've
seen? Cryptid Campfire is trolling you hardcore?

449
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:33.680
It sounds like, because that was
addressed, I've seen a whole tribe

450
00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:36.799
okay, and they Hey, if
you want more of that action, go

451
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:41.039
listen to their episode. Guys,
come on, No, they're good guys,

452
00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.119
they are. It's a good man. That's a good one. Yeah,

453
00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:51.599
definitely. One thing I had the
thought of was after I listened to

454
00:29:51.599 --> 00:29:53.039
the episode, I went and looked
at the Kickstarter and I was like,

455
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.880
the amount that you're trying to to
raise does not feel like it's enough,

456
00:29:57.039 --> 00:30:06.039
so literally, don't take that it's
already raised in stop donating money for you

457
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:11.240
know, kickstarting, Like if you
haven't yet, please go because you guys

458
00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:14.400
have high goals. Like absolutely,
that's off to you. Like through the

459
00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:18.640
Louisiana thing by itself, you could
run into some crazy stuff down there.

460
00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:21.200
Definitely. Yeah, So that's the
thing. I mean, we did the

461
00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:23.640
Puckwogi thing pretty much out of pocket, so as much of the mogion okay,

462
00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.880
and we're just sort of at the
point where we're like, you know,

463
00:30:26.920 --> 00:30:30.599
we'd like to keep the quality going, so you know, we're hoping

464
00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:33.839
if people want to get involved.
What's cool about it is obviously with Kickstarter

465
00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.200
you have the different rewards, so
you kind of become part of the crew,

466
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.359
and you become part of the you
get put in the credits. There's

467
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:44.920
also we have the kind of the
there's a couple executive producer roles that have

468
00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:47.440
been filled in, so those people
will actually get to put their input in

469
00:30:47.480 --> 00:30:51.680
and like meet with us when we
have our virtual meetings and kind of maybe

470
00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.559
if they want some aspects of the
mystery that are explored, they get that

471
00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:56.720
opportunity because they're they're in a way, they're part of the production. So

472
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.599
it's just making more interactive. And
the way I look at is it's cryptid

473
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:04.559
content for people, made by people
who are interested in crypto content. We're

474
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:08.839
not you know, LA producers that
just want ratings. We actually care about

475
00:31:08.839 --> 00:31:12.559
the subjects a lot, and we're
passionate and we'd be doing this if even

476
00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:15.359
if it weren't for this exactly,
we'd be getting out there anyway. So

477
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.400
we're just kind of putting that.
And what I like for me of this

478
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:23.480
project is it's my sort of first
really getting out there as an investigator more,

479
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.680
you know, putting my sort of
time I've spent out in the outdoors

480
00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:32.039
and putting that in terms of searching. Because most of my work and documentaries,

481
00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:34.519
which you know I love, has
been without myself in it, so

482
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.599
I put myself to the side.
I just focus on the subject and try

483
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.160
and cover it from that perspective as
like a historian or a documentarian. But

484
00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.279
this will be just me straight up
saying what I think about a certain situation

485
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.480
or what we should do that kind
of thing, and as well as Nash,

486
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:52.200
and that's kind of been his approach
so it's definitely different for me,

487
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.839
and that's why I'm on board as
well, because I like kind of changing

488
00:31:55.920 --> 00:31:59.759
up a little bit. I always
like having my hand in different sort of

489
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:05.920
air, so to speak. Very
cool. Believe it or not, we

490
00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:08.720
are kind of starting to get to
the end already. I would love you

491
00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:15.759
to share about your amazing show that
you have Monday nights correct on YouTube.

492
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:20.920
That's the day of the week usually
that happens. Yes, yeah, it's

493
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:24.519
pretty much every Monday night so far. We've had like eight or nine episodes.

494
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.240
So it's my YouTube channel, SaaS
gotch Out of the Shadows, And

495
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:31.359
that's a YouTube channel I've had since
like twenty sixteen where I just decided to

496
00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:36.799
put Bigfoot interviews and interviews with witnesses
and kind of short documentaries that I don't

497
00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:38.559
really put out in a sort of
official format, just kind of get them

498
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:43.079
out there. And since the whole
virus thing started, everyone was at home,

499
00:32:43.359 --> 00:32:45.160
I'm like, this would be a
perfect time to start a show.

500
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.599
I already kind of had an idea
I wanted to do for and it's just

501
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:52.440
interviewing people that I've always wanted to
talk to, are personal friends, people

502
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.720
like Seth Jeff Melder mother, folks
that I just find interesting. We're gonna

503
00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:01.920
have Jonathan Wilcone very soon, Cliff
Barrickman very nice. Yeah, so just

504
00:33:01.960 --> 00:33:06.480
folks that people will hear of in
people that you've never heard of. And

505
00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.079
that's what I like, just engaging
conversations. So it's every Monday night,

506
00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:14.559
eight pm Eastern, and we take
audience questions. So we always get some

507
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:19.200
people asking fantastic and intelligent questions,
which is awesome because we're very cool talking

508
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:22.240
to these researchers and really kind of
you're not. If it's somebody wh've seen

509
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:24.400
on TV twenty times, this is
your chance to kind of interact with them

510
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:29.359
in a way. Yeah. No, I mean every week I look at

511
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:31.359
the guests you get in, like
pedacoffee, You've done it again. I

512
00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:36.359
don't know how you did it,
but hats off to you. Thank you.

513
00:33:36.359 --> 00:33:40.400
You got some connections that are amazing, and I'd say keep going with

514
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.640
that. You were making some quality, quality content. What if, let's

515
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.359
say, if I'd be surprised if
people haven't heard of you before this this

516
00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:53.759
episode of how can people also keep
up to date with what you're doing?

517
00:33:54.039 --> 00:34:00.519
Besides yeah, the easiest place is
petacov Media dot com and that's filled a

518
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:05.839
ko vmedia dot com. It's got
links to everything from Facebook to YouTube to

519
00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:09.039
Instagram, links to projects, links
to the Kickstarter for chasing legends too,

520
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.000
on the trailer champ. Anything you
want, it's all in there. That's

521
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:15.599
the easiest single place to get it. Very cool also, and I can

522
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:22.480
talk about that thing if you Okay, that's your screen cap, do it

523
00:34:22.519 --> 00:34:25.760
now? We have like three minutes
now now, sure? Absolutely so.

524
00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.679
At the end of the month here
in June into July, we're going to

525
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.079
start filming on on the Trailer Bigfoot
two. So this is the continuation of

526
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:38.119
small Town Monsters on the Trailer Bigfoot. This is going to be sort of

527
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:42.480
a feature documentary, but it's going
to focus on the Northeast. So we're

528
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:44.679
going to start in Whitehall, New
York, and we're going to be in

529
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.599
Massachusetts, slash Maine and kind of
filming in those areas, talking about researchers,

530
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.559
all sorts of stuff. I'm not
going to go into specifics, but

531
00:34:53.480 --> 00:35:00.599
the crew will be Seth myself,
Mark Matski, Andy Maskie as well as

532
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:05.400
Adam of small Town Monsters. So
it's going to be a pretty skeleton crew

533
00:35:05.480 --> 00:35:07.800
compared to the usual sort of crew
that is on there. But that's the

534
00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:10.239
whole thing with on the trail of
it's much more of like a running gun

535
00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:15.239
style. So we're really excited.
I'm super excited to get out to some

536
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.000
of these locations like White Falls back
in the Maine, so keep your eyes

537
00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:25.320
peeled for that. Uh So,
we're just gonna be interviewing folks. Okay,

538
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:30.119
we're gonna be interviewing some folks in
Massachusetts. Yeah, so we're not

539
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:32.639
going to spend too much time in
Massachusetts, but it's going to be definitely

540
00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:37.159
part of the film. Yeah.
Oh man, that is so cool.

541
00:35:37.719 --> 00:35:45.159
Uh wow, So Northeast section of
the US, all the Bigfoot encounters and

542
00:35:45.199 --> 00:35:49.760
goodness of their we're giving it some
especially Maine, which doesn't get covered as

543
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.079
much. Whitehall people might know about, but we're going to cover it all

544
00:35:52.119 --> 00:35:55.199
and we're just hoping to really show
people, you know, just the natural

545
00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.480
beauty these areas too, because it's
ridiculous. Oh my goodness, that is

546
00:36:00.519 --> 00:36:04.920
such a cool thing that you could
you could share with the listeners here.

547
00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:07.039
Thank you for of course. Yeah. The text came in and I'm like,

548
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.960
yes, yeah, definitely. I
almost said something by by accident halfway

549
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.800
through because Seth hadn't given the go
ahead by text. So thank you Seth

550
00:36:15.880 --> 00:36:22.719
because I know that you listened to
big Foot Society, right. But I

551
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:24.920
love Seth. He's a good dude, he's a good good chat in the

552
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:30.880
past, but again, I would
love to have you back on in the

553
00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:35.119
future. Sure we can kind of
have a wrap up of Chasing Legends.

554
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.159
Yeah, on the trail Bigfoot too. But hats off to you, sir.

555
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:42.239
You are doing some great work.
Maybe I can see it at the

556
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.039
Van Meter Visitor Festival if you if
you guys come, I don't know.

557
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:50.039
I think I know, he goes. I will try my best. I

558
00:36:50.039 --> 00:36:52.960
don't know when that is, but
September in the fall. Yeah, it's

559
00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:57.679
around September. I've been there for
the last It's like twenty minutes from where

560
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:00.199
I live, so oh nice.
Yeah, I would love to. If

561
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:04.840
not vicariously, I will be there
for oh yeah. Ja Pajoci was there

562
00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.360
last year too from Wisconsin and al
Linda Godfrey. Every year it gets a

563
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.960
little bit bigger, so it's a
good time. But again, well,

564
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.199
chat later. Have a good one, Alex. Thank you. Again for

565
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.320
coming on. Absolutely thanks for having
me. Man, have a good night

566
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:23.280
here at Bigfoot Society, our goal
is to provide a platform for those that

567
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:30.320
have encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter
and a safe and respected environment. But

568
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:34.880
we need to hear your story.
If you've experienced something that you just can't

569
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:40.360
explain, please send me an email
at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

570
00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.920
Then we can start the conversation.
And I know a lot of you have

571
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:52.079
not shared your encounter at all.
It's been twenty years and it's time that

572
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:54.960
you get this off your chest and
then you can get some well deserved for

573
00:37:55.000 --> 00:38:00.679
rest because I know you haven't been
sleeping. I understand what you going through

574
00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.039
and I appreciate every one of you
listening.