April 25, 2025

Fort Pickett: What We Saw Wasn’t Human

What happens when a Navy veteran returns to his childhood ranch near Mount Shasta — and starts uncovering memories of something that never left the forest? In this chilling and personal episode, we talk with Nick, an Eagle Scout and military vet, who...

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Season 1

What happens when a Navy veteran returns to his childhood ranch near Mount Shasta — and starts uncovering memories of something that never left the forest? In this chilling and personal episode, we talk with Nick, an Eagle Scout and military vet, who grew up in one of the most active Bigfoot areas in California. Nick walks us through four gripping encounters spanning his youth, high school years, and even his time on a secure military base in Virginia.

From being shadowed through thick manzanita as a child to hearing bone-chilling vocalizations near an abandoned pagoda, finding mutilated calves, and finally locking eyes with something massive between two trucks at 2 a.m. — Nick’s story will leave you questioning what’s really out there.

This episode explores not just what Nick saw and heard, but how these moments have shaped his mission today: to document and connect with others who’ve experienced the same. You’ll hear stories from Mount Shasta, Fort Pickett, and mysterious meadows that hold more questions than answers.

If you’ve ever wondered whether Bigfoot might be real — this one’s for you.

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You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's

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story isn't from a backpacker or a hiker. It's from

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a man who grew up in the forest of northern

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California and spent years in the Navy, trained to spot danger,

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but none of that prepared him for what he encountered

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near Mount Shasta. A shadow in the brush, a boulder

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crashing to the ground, saombie like sounds in the dark,

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and one night, a pair of eyes reflecting back at

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him from between two trucks on a military base. And

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this is next story. It's one that spans decades, coasts

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and things were not supposed to talk about. So stay

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with us, all right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege

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of talking to Nick today. Nick is an individual that

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reached out to me quite a while ago. He's got

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some interesting things to share from over the years. He

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is a individual with a military background and also an

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eagle scout as well, and grew up in the Mount Shasta,

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California area. So welcome to the show.

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Nick. How's it going, man, Yeah, he jo, I'm doing good.

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I'm glad that we finally made this made this happen.

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I know it's been a little bit of a process

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for sure, but you know, I guess we're here, so

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that's all that matters.

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Now, absolutely, man. Yeah, I'm glad to glad to finally

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get here. We've been talking. I mean it feels like

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maybe maybe months, maybe over a year, I don't know.

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But yeah, as you said, the important thing is that

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we're here. But you know, Nick, I want to make

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sure that you have the time to to share about

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the things you've experienced over the years. Feel free to

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take us back to where these interactions first started happening

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for you.

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Yeah. So, like you said, I'm born, raised Northern California,

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matt Shasta Eagle Scout, and then I joined the Navy.

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I was in a reverine squadron, spent five years in there,

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came out, and now I'm working on a ranch and

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doing kind of like ranch hand stuff and kind of

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my experience has started a long time ago. I guess

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my first one. I know, I just want to preface

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it by saying I was, you know, pretty young, uh,

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but it was I was being babysat by my my

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cousin and s basally me and my sister in my

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Shasta and a pretty good sized meadow outside our you know,

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our backyard. I think it's altogether probably like seven hundred acres,

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and it butts right up next to uh, National forest Land,

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I mean like as it crow flies. I mean just

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to the coast directly west. I mean, there's there's nothing

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between us and the coast. I mean there's the Trinity

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Alps National Park and uh, I mean Scott Valley maybe,

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but that's more more northern than we are. So but

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we got a large meadow out there. He butts right

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up the National forest Land and we like to go

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out there a lot growing up. And my cousin kind

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of knew that, so she said like, oh yeah, let's

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take the dogs out there, and we're taking for a

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walk and check it out. And we have this path

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that leads through all this really thick man's it. It's maybe.

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I mean I sent you kind of like a pin

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drop to the location. It should just be home. I

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don't know if you got that or not, but yes,

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it's it's clear. It's clear now, but back in the day,

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kind of all that everything north up until the actual

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meadow was all this real thick man's and meta so

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the three of us and we had two dogs at

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the time, start, you know, walking on this trail. It's

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kind of like a little deer trail through this this

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brush and it's you know, maybe six feet high and

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uh real thick. I mean, mansmy is like, it's pretty unforgiving.

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It's a real hardwood too. Uh. We're out there and

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we hear something like we get we get out defence,

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start into the brush. I started hearing something kind of

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like shadowing us. And my cousin's probably about you know,

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fifteen sixteen. About this time, I was pretty young. I

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was probably around around nine. That makes my sister like eleven,

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eleven or twelve. Uh, it's like late summer and you're

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this thing like you just working through the brush shadowing us.

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The dogs are acting weird. I mean, we had Nike

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and Ta Taz was a sweetheart and Night he was

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a little more you know, aggressive standoffee. I mean they

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were both like, you know, not not leaving us at all.

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You're just staying moving through the brush. And uh, my

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cousin a mac. He thinks it's a person. And I

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mean I'm pretty young, but ah, she thinks it's a person,

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and it follows us for a while, and maybe one

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hundred meters down on this trail, just hear it just

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crushing through this brush and it's it's hard to move

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through that, and it's just, you know, it's trailing us

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pretty good. And she stops and it stops, and we

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all stop, and she says, hey, like this is private property.

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You're not allowed to be out here. Like if if

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you're out here, you need to leave, I'll call the cops,

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you know, that type of thing. And we waited, we

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heard nothing, and then we kept on moving again, and

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like right as we started moving, whatever it was started

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moving and then just big through the brush, you know.

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And you think that if it was something, you know,

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more quadruped, more of a quadruped, it'd be a little lower.

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I feel like it'd be able to navigate kind of

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underneath the brush a little bit better. I think it

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was just going right through it and we I mean,

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we have had black bear back there before. But again,

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it's nothing crazy, I mean a little bit smaller, and

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it followed us for probably i mean all the way

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up into the meadow. And it's a deer tell again,

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so it's it's real close quarters and we just wanted

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to get out of that. And I remember my cousin

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being real scared, and we're kind of following her, and

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you know, we don't really understand what's happened too much,

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but we make it out to the larger meadow there

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out of the brush, and we decide we're going to

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walk like directly through the meadow, so we have like

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a large line of site on either side and we

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can still hear it whatever. It always fall like in

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the tree line, and we ended up falling the meadow.

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It crossed a couple fences, crossed a some railroad tracks too,

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and made her way to the nearest rail it was

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about four miles, and got someone to call my mom

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and she came picked us up and was pretty upset

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with my my cousin for dragon us on a three

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mile excursion out in the woods. But she's pretty adamant

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that someone was following us. But I mean, I didn't

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really think too crazy much of it at the time,

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but then my my later encounters kind of made me

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go back and think about it. So, yeah, I guess

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that was kind of the end of my my first

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experience there. So if you go right back from my house,

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there's some railroad track running right through. I don't know

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if you see that one. Yeah, so we we went

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all the way back and that little kind of dirt

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spot that used to all be Man's Anita, we're going

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through that, and we cut through and I mean my cousin,

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you know, fifteen sixteen, and we're staying out in the

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middle of this field. We had to cross those little rivers.

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You know, there's a barbed wire fence on either side

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of that railroad track to you know, keep cows off

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the off the railroad tracks. I mean it's a seasonal thing,

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a seasonal like crazy pasture. But and then all the

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way over that road up there, so I mean it

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was a hike for sure, and my mom was not

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super happy with my my cousin. And I mean again

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I I take that story for you know, the Grand Salt,

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because I was you know, I was nine, but that's

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how I remember, and just looking back, I think, you know,

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maybe I could be associated with it. But I guess

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if you okay, I'm gonna go into my my second

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account now. Yeah, and I dropped I dropped another pin

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to that one kind of location at which that happened, right,

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So me and my my friend. I'm not gonna name

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names because he's doing other government stuff now too, But

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so growing up that there's this house that just like

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continued to be abandoned. We called it the Chinese Mansion,

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which I mean, I don't know if mansion is the

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right word, but I think it's like eight bedroom, six bath,

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and it's kind of a weird combination of like, uh

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like Japanese and seventies style, like the core inside it's interesting.

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But every family that like moved in there stayed there

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for like a couple of months and then move doubt

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and then is you know, they're asking like you know,

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at the time, like three hundred thousand dollars or whatever

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for the property when it's way it's worth way much

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more than that. And attached to the property there is

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a it's a cold it's like it's a Japanese structure.

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They're like super tall or kind of like I think

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almost like a church of some sort. It's like a

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pagoda or something like that. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So

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they have one of those right next to the creek

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there that runs through the meadow as well. And uh

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so it was it was late summer in twenty fifteen.

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So it's like the summer of my sophomore year in

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high school, right, So we decided, me and my buddy,

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we're like, all right, we're going to run up there,

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like go down the driveway and like we're going to

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check out this old pagoda because it's up there. I mean,

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there's no one's lived there, like, you know, for a

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hot minute, and we're just gonna look in there and

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check it out and shoe what happens, you know, And

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we ride our bikes down there. It's really not that

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far of a bike ride. We get there, the sun's

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kind of setting. It's like, you know, seven o'clock during

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the summer, so sun's kind of starting to go down,

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and we have a chain across the driveway and we

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just decide we're just gonna drop our bikes there at

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the driveway. And there's a really thick like area of

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pine trees right behind us, like Douglas Fir, you know,

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where like all the saplings grow up, and it's just

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like it's almost like a wall, if you know, young trees.

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And then on the other side there's the river with

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the creek right and so we drop our bikes there

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and we're getting off and we're just talking about going

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back there and like, oh, yeah, we need to hurry back,

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and like as we're talking, uh, this is the part

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like I feel really silly saying. But from that, like

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those pine trees, it sounds like like a zombie noise.

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It's like, uh, I'm assuming you know, like Minecraft is.

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It's like the zombie was just a real deep like

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you know, and then followed by like just like some chatter.

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And the closest thing that I can describe it to

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is like is the old man in the Sierra sounds?

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And I mean we like we pause, and it's like

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it's just it's such a deep noise. It's crazy. I

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mean you could like I want to say, you feel

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in your chest, but you know, like it's just it

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was so deep. And we stop and we both look

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at the pine, like the pine trees there, you don't

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see anything. And then from the other side of the

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creek we hear a repeat of the same exact noise

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just there, like a slightly higher pitch, and we were

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both pretty pretty freaked out by that, and I mean

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we just you didn't say anything. We just looked at

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each other, grabbed our bikes and we paddled home as

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fast as we could, and you know, and told my

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parents like, oh yeah, we heard like a zombie in

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the back or like you know, on the side of

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the road of there by the the Trya house. And uh,

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I was, I was. That was the second thing that happened.

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I'm just going to chronological order here through the through

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the years, you know. So I don't know if you

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have any anything you want to ask about that, but.

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Man, it it you hear stories like that, and it's

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like it really makes you wonder what's going on the

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property now, and like if you were have you ever

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been have you been back to that area since that

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that situation or no?

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Yeah, yeah, I mean I think I don't think anyone

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in my family. I mean my sister had an experience

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out there too, but no one in my family really

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loves going out there around you know, like.

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Dusk big for society. Who will be right back after

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these messages?

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Uh yeah? And it was it was interesting too because

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that same that same summer, like before we had that experience,

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all right, they had like let some cattle out there

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and we'd hear them at night like just going crazy

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and freaking out and we'd aly, you know, and we're

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thought like maybe you know, some teenagers were out there

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messing with them. We got we got permission back in

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those days to go out there and like walk our

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dogs and whatnot from while the owners, ah, you know,

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like repair some fences if they needed it, or let

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them know if their cows got out, or you know,

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if some high schoolers were going out there and you know,

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having a bonfire drink because you know, wildfires are a

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big thing up and you know the north here, so

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like just let them know. And we had permission to

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go out there. So we would hear the cows going

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crazy out there, so the next morning we'd get up

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and we got check on them. They have calves, you know, uh,

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just like we'd find them. They'd have like legs or

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necks like broken. I think we found probably five or

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six just in that one summer, you know, like three months,

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and we've called me, you know, we called the owners

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a couple of times and asked them and they come

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out and they check on it, like, yeah, like probably

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a cougar. But there's there's no bite marks, there's nothing

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like that. You know, it's just broken legs and thrown

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in the same place.

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All right.

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So so just for my clarification, so this is the

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same property as the pagoda.

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No, so this so the pagoda is across the road,

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and then that's where the ranching land starts. Right. I

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don't know if you can see that. They should be

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under Encounter two for that pin drop, but you can

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kind of see where that is in relations to like

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the actual property.

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Okay, so you were you were buddy buddy with the

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owners of the ranch.

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Yeah at the time, Yeah, I got it. It went

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over It came under some new management later down the road,

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but yeah, at the time we were we were my

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dad knew the owner of the ranch, and we went

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to school with some of their kids, or you know,

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my sister knew one of their daughters or something like that.

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All right.

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Yeah, so this this the the pictures really starting to

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get painted for me here. So you've got this this

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ranch area, this huge meadow you guys were were you know,

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something was walking beside you in the woods, and then

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you've got this other area with the pagoda. You're hearing

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the Sierra sounds over there. But also the owners of

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the ranch are having to deal with just their calves

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just being taken out in really weird ways. So there's

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a ton of activity happening in this area so far. Absolutely.

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Yeah, yeah, at least back in that time period. I

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mean I've only been back maybe five months about so

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I'm kind of curious to see what this summer's like.

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Oh yeah, yeah, I mean I talked. I mean I

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think Eric got in touch with you and I met

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him down to China Flats Museum, right and he recommended

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some audio recorders. So I'm going to go out there

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this summer and kind of set that up and see

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what happens.

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But no, yeah, Eric is a great dude. He is

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sending me emails with with people to follow up on

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and he's like, hey, I got another phone number. The

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guy wants you to reach out Eric. Eric is a

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great dude. China Flats Museum people need to check that out.

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It is such a great place. I need to get

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out there one day myself. But yeah, Eric's a great dude.

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But yeah, are you thinking of maybe getting some some

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like handheld recorders, like a task gamor or maybe something

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a little.

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Bit Yeah I had one. Yeah, so I have a

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taskkam right now. I just got it. I was talking

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to Eric about my experiences when I visited UH and

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he recommended this one. So I got one of those

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spot off Amazon, you know, got a little a little

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windscreen for it in a tripod. So set that up

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suit we find so absolutely I'm excited for that. But really,

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I mean during the winter time, I ain't like, really

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not much happens out here, but it seems like late summer,

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you know, this seems kind of be the time for it.

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If anything.

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Growing up in this area, did you hear a lot

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of stories from like in school or people talking around

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the town. Yeah, there's stuff, weird stuff going on, or

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like we don't know what's going on or is it

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just the time experience?

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I mean, I had my experiences, and I've talked to

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a couple of people. I mean, like one of the

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kids I went to school with was I guess their

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grandpa was really into the whole as sasquatch. When I'm

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on the big footing, he had like casts and stuff,

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and back then I never believed. I mean, my dad

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is a big non believer too. He's you know, a

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growing up in Scouts too. I mean we bring it

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up and talk about it and like, ah, it's not real.

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It's just you know whatever, crazy people they're you know,

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out and they're drunk or whatever. But yeah, I mean,

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you know, talk to people around here. I don't think

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it's uncommon for it. I mean I got ah some McLoud.

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I don't know if he nor Mcloud's at, but it's

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it's near here and it's just on kind of the

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more eastern side, like the Mountain. Went over there. There's

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a little thrift store and it kind of specialized in

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like Native American stuff. Uh So I dropped in there

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one day I was home on leave and I found,

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uh a first edition of one of John Green his books. Yeah,

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kind of cool. I of course I bought it, but

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I had to talk to him. I was like, you know, like,

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do you have any like experiences? And he's telling me

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about over McCloud. I just wanted to come in and

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seeing the books and just been like if I saw

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one of those, He's like what He's like, yeah, I

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saw one of those, you know. He just I was like, yeah,

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I was out one night, I was you know, working,

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went out to my truck to leave and saw one

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of those things jump the fence running the woods. So

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I mean I think that this is a pretty hot spot.

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I mean as the crow flies. I've measured it before

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because I'd like to go see the Bluff Creek film site,

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you know, Patterson Game one, and it's probably about sixty

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miles as a crow flies from my house, So I

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mean they're around here.

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So oh absolutely, absolutely.

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Yeah, and then uh give me am I good to

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move on to the go ahead, Okay, yeah, So the

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same same meadow. So there's that that lower meadow and

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the upper meadow or the small which is the lower one,

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and the larger one, which is the upper one more northern.

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So we're walking up there towards the larger meadow, and

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it's it's me and a different friend this time. It's

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again late summer, but twenty sixteen, so I'm going onto

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my senior year in high school. And we're walking up

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there and the road is kind of cut out of

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this little like ridge bridge line here, so it's really

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you know, real steep on one side and the other

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side has like a little embankment, and we're walking and

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then all of a sudden, like a branch, I mean

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it's been cut because they had done some like fire

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reduction out there the year two years prior, and it

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was like a fire a firewood like size piece of

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log I just flew down and hit the side of

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the bank, maybe ten feet in front of us, you know,

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rolled down in front of his on the road, and

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we're like, man, you know, that's kind of crazy, like

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it probably got stuck in a tree during like you know,

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the logging and fire reduction. I guess the wind blew

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it down and we were you know, looking up in

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the trees, and I mean, it really wasn't any wind,

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but like, man, well, good thing it didn't hit us.

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And uh continued out there and uh, I mean we

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had probably just reached that log that was in the road,

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and then it's probably about football sized stone. You know. Well,

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first off we hear we hear this thing hitting like

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branches coming through and then a football sized stone hits

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the embankment on that same side and rolls in front

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of us, and we look to our lefts and you

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can see the branches like in a perfect arc like

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where it had just been like hitting branches flying over

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and it kind of leads to a larger the incense

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seater probably sixty meters sixty seventy meters out and we're

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just looking at this stone, you know, the size of

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a football. They've just been shocked at us and were

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just about faced. Went right home like yeah, we're we're

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not doing that whatever that was. And uh, they just

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just turned back and went and as the end of

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that one.

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But does do you think the ranch owner has any

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idea what's going on with his property?

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So it's under new management, I don't. I mean maybe

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at the time he did. I mean, so that that

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river or that that creek I guess runs all the

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way through the large the larger meadow down into the

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smaller meadow under the road by the Pagoda house. So

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I think they kind of follow that stream there. But

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he had a property like that. He had like a

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little campsite kind of he had like a mobile trailer

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there and you know some like horseshoe pits kind of

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right along that little creek. Then they go out or

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you know, once or twice a summer and just kind

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of hang out, have a little party or whatever. I

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can't imagine, you know, owning that property for so long

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as it was a family property, you know, so his

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dad had owned it before him, and then he inherited it,

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and then his you know, he keeps on going, right.

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I can't imagine they didn't know that there's something like

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that going on, you know, especially if you're you're spending

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all that time out there and you know the other properties.

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I can't imagine they're losing as many cattle as they

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were out there. So you know, it's just wild.

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It's absolutely wild. It's like if you were if you

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were going to have a huge land area where you

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could I get involved with some really good sasquatch activity.

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I mean, it's in a perfect area. I mean, it's

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like you've got Mount Shaster there. It's nuts man, so cool.

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Yeah, it's yeah. So I'm excited. I mean, and it's

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it's unfortunate. I mean until you know my my other encounter,

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which I've talked about in a second, but it's like

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I don't really connect the dots. I mean, the first

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two stories and I told you know, or it's like

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all right, you know weird, but I didn't know. I

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didn't see anything. I mean, and the first encounters like

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all right, you hear like some like strange kind of

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zombie moan and then some gibberish coming from the woods,

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you know, like, yeah, all right, maybe there's some someone

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doing some illegal substances out here, right or something. You know,

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I didn't really put two and two together, and then

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by the time that I kind of put it together,

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it's like I'm I'm training, I'm you know, in the

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delayed entry program for the Navy and getting ready to go.

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So it's like I didn't really have time to go

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out there and check things out, which is unfortunate. But yeah,

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I'm excited to be back, so hopefully I can go

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out and kind of explore a little bit more. And

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I'm thinking about putting together a some type of reporting

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system just for the area. I think it'd be cool to,

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you know, once a year release like a little magazine

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or something with some some local reports, release that we

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have a big Fourth of July festival. Would be kind

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of cool to sell those there or something.

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So, oh so, is it like a local town Fourth

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of July festival thing?

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Yeah, we have the was it the country's largest small

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town gathering for the Fourth of July here? Oh wow? Yeah? Yeah.

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One year we had to you know, we had to

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replace the entire sewer system. And it goes from like

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a town of like five thousand to like fifteen thousand

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and one week. Yeah, it's kind of wild.

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I would I would definitely encourage you to start becoming

461
00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.480
the guy for that area that you know. I mean,

462
00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:06.519
eventually it'll happen if you start, you know, talking to

463
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:08.960
people and people will start to know you're the guy.

464
00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:11.559
I'm going to come to this guy with with the

465
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.480
weird stuff that's that I've encountered, and it will come man.

466
00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.319
But uh yeah, it'd be interesting if you can also

467
00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:21.799
uh find I'm sure there's other people in that area

468
00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:26.039
probably right now where you know, you could maybe even

469
00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:29.319
make a team. But you know, it's uh such a

470
00:29:29.359 --> 00:29:32.440
good area, dude. I mean you you would never run

471
00:29:32.440 --> 00:29:35.359
out of reports. It would be so cool. So I'm

472
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:39.319
excited to see what comes from this in the future.

473
00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:42.759
For sure, I'll get you the fourth here, right, So

474
00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:45.079
the fourth encounter kind of breaks the norm a little bit.

475
00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:50.000
But I mean, I think you had a growing up.

476
00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:53.440
I think every like, you know, person that's into Big

477
00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:56.039
Player's housequatch you know, at some point has seen you know,

478
00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:57.400
finding Bigfoot.

479
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.680
Big for Society will be right back after these messages.

480
00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:19.559
And I think growing up kind of watching that and

481
00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:23.559
seeing a little bit of it, right yeah, at the

482
00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:25.599
time too, it's like, you know, my Dad's like, man,

483
00:30:25.640 --> 00:30:30.200
this is you know, complete bs and I'm like, yeah,

484
00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:37.160
this' bs. I mean not seeing that, you know, you

485
00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:41.559
know they do anything crazy on that show anyways. But anyways,

486
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:44.519
so this the lash boar I have kind of breaking

487
00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:48.240
norm happens in December. It's December third. I'm up pretty late.

488
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.279
I had gone through kind of a rough period in

489
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.359
my life. I went through a breakup and I was

490
00:30:56.440 --> 00:31:00.480
upset about it. And it was about two am, and

491
00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:06.759
I like was just getting ready to lay down. I

492
00:31:06.759 --> 00:31:08.400
don't know if I said to stop the December thirty,

493
00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:14.279
twenty eighteen, that is just about to lay down. And

494
00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:17.400
like as I'm sitting on my bed to like get

495
00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:22.400
in right, I just hear this. Like at first, I

496
00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:25.000
think it's an air siren, like like the old air

497
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:28.920
raid sirens from World War Two, you know, I think

498
00:31:28.960 --> 00:31:33.359
it's that, but just slowed down and pitched down, and

499
00:31:33.400 --> 00:31:36.880
I mean it just like it starts. It just keeps

500
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:41.279
on going up up and up and volume and it

501
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:45.039
and it starts like resonating with my window, Like I

502
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:49.599
can feel my window vibrating, and then I start feeling

503
00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:52.640
in my chest as I'm sitting there in my bed.

504
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.720
I'm not in bed, I'm just I'm sitting like on

505
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.319
the side of my bed, and it just keeps on

506
00:31:59.440 --> 00:32:06.319
going all the way up and then down. And then

507
00:32:06.359 --> 00:32:09.599
that's it. And that's the only thing that happened. But

508
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:15.000
that that noise reminded me enough of like the calls

509
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.599
that they make in that show where I'm like, oh man,

510
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:23.519
that's probably what that was. And then I've been I've

511
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:26.519
been kind of looking for that sound for a long time,

512
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.880
and then I found the Ohio Howels and that was

513
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:33.480
the closest thing that I could find for the longest

514
00:32:33.480 --> 00:32:40.599
time until you released episode six ninety four with a

515
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.319
Garden of the Gods and that noise. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

516
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.920
It is like exactly the first recording you played exactly it.

517
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:54.039
Mine was maybe just a little bit longer. But I mean,

518
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:55.599
like I was here, I heard that I was I

519
00:32:55.640 --> 00:32:57.160
was driving my car, like I told you, I listened

520
00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.240
to this like on my way to and front work. Right,

521
00:33:00.200 --> 00:33:03.920
the ranch is probably like twenty minutes twenty five minutes

522
00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:06.640
maybe from where I live. Right, this is almost perfect,

523
00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:08.839
and I was on my way back listening to that

524
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:11.240
episode and I heard that and I pulled off to

525
00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.720
the side of the road and I just like had to.

526
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:15.680
I played it like four times, and I was just like,

527
00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:20.000
that's crazy. And I looked up and it's I mean,

528
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.000
it's the same noise that I heard here in northern

529
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:29.440
California that they're recording now, you know, years later in

530
00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:32.759
the Garden of the Gods, which is about eighteen hundred

531
00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.559
miles from where I am. And that's crazy. And I,

532
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:39.680
you know, I'm used to being around larger animal. You know,

533
00:33:39.720 --> 00:33:42.799
we had all those cattle out in the back growing up.

534
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:45.480
Go to bed during the summer, have your windows open,

535
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:48.519
you hear them out there, you know. And then now

536
00:33:48.559 --> 00:33:49.960
I'm working out there and you out there, you know,

537
00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:53.319
feed the bulls, and you know they're are and making

538
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:59.160
all their noise. Nothing compares to just like the volume

539
00:34:00.440 --> 00:34:03.799
that whatever was making that noise made that night. It

540
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:08.639
was crazy. And I saw the Paul Freeman footage, you know,

541
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.159
from from a was it nineteen ninety four. I just

542
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:16.960
looked at like the girth of the animal that like

543
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.239
was walking through that video, and you're just like, man

544
00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:27.039
like that could probably you know, resonate, you know. So

545
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:32.360
that was my uh my last encounter here in northern

546
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:35.760
California that I've had. It was just like put all

547
00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:38.079
the dogs together to you. I mean like I got

548
00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:42.480
up and my my dad and my sister A go

549
00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:44.679
sleep with the ear plugs. And I don't know how

550
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:49.559
they do that, but my mom is a super light sleeper.

551
00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:52.559
And she got up and I you know, came outstairs

552
00:34:52.760 --> 00:34:55.559
or came outside my bedroom and walked into the kitchen

553
00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:57.920
and she gets up and she's like, what is that,

554
00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:01.719
you know, And I'm like, oh, I you know, idea,

555
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:02.480
you know.

556
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.719
So do you know why they sleep with ear plugs?

557
00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:13.639
They're just like sleepers. Yeah, I mean they just need

558
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.280
like complete quiet to sleep.

559
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:21.400
It's it's interesting, but all right, sweet, all right. So

560
00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:26.400
that was my final last experience there. I mean nothing

561
00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:30.639
visual so far or anything like that. So then from there,

562
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.360
I joined the Navy. I spent a couple of years

563
00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:38.760
in I got back from my first deployment. I was

564
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:45.559
back home for now three weeks and we had to

565
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:49.320
keep up on our weapons squalls. This extrasory commands. So

566
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:52.800
everyone needs to shoot and I'm a gunner's mate or

567
00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:56.920
I was a gunner's mate, so we run all the ranges.

568
00:35:57.719 --> 00:36:02.360
So I was back for three weeks after deployment and

569
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.880
then went out to a range and uh Fort Pickett,

570
00:36:06.599 --> 00:36:12.039
I believe now it's been renamed Fort Barfoot. It's in

571
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:17.360
uh it's in Virginia, a way back in the sticks there.

572
00:36:17.679 --> 00:36:20.360
It's probably about two and a half three hour drive

573
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:27.000
from Norfolk. And uh, so I went back there to

574
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.119
get one qualed. I was, you know, line coaching all that.

575
00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:38.000
In the first four weeks were fine. I worked on

576
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:41.159
the small arms range the entire time, which was it

577
00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:44.079
was so cool. I liked the orso out there and

578
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:48.360
it was a good time. But uh, I ended up

579
00:36:48.440 --> 00:36:52.480
volunteering to stay for an extra two weeks and just

580
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:57.039
doing some some night watches. Right, So the cruiser range

581
00:36:57.159 --> 00:37:00.679
ended and it was just a couple of straggs for

582
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:07.719
small arms, and uh we're out there and all the weapons.

583
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:14.280
You can't just leave out on the range at night. Uh,

584
00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:16.440
So you have to have an armed watch out there.

585
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:20.559
And there's TPI so two person integrity. So it's me

586
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:27.320
and a watch partner and we're standing night watches. How

587
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:35.320
don't let me get into this, so say I'm just

588
00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:42.239
trying to pull up the range here. So one of

589
00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.800
these nights we're out there, and it's probably February of

590
00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:51.599
twenty twenty three, and we're we're out there and one

591
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:55.119
of our we have we have two range tasks or

592
00:37:55.199 --> 00:37:57.360
like watched tasks out there because it's it's already on

593
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:00.719
a military base, so not really we're worry about anyone

594
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:03.920
actually like showing up or bothering us or anything. It's

595
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:07.280
a closed range. You have to make radio reports every

596
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:11.760
hour on the hour, you know, saying that all kissions

597
00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:20.920
are normal, and we're out there. We have to keep

598
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.599
the fire going, and we have to clean a couple

599
00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:27.519
cruiser weapons like while we wait. This it's a twelve

600
00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:32.400
hour watch, so from eight am till eight am, and

601
00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:35.840
then the rest of the range staff shows up, shows up,

602
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:39.760
you know, takes command of the range, and the shooters

603
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:43.559
show up maybe thirty minutes later. So we're out there

604
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:51.159
keeping the fire stoke, we're cleaning some fifty cows, have

605
00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:54.480
our little headlamps on, we have just the red light going.

606
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:59.519
It was particularly cold that night, so we were just

607
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:03.280
like really trying not to go out to the fire

608
00:39:03.360 --> 00:39:04.679
or trying to sit in the truck as much as

609
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:11.320
we could. You let me just kind of describe the

610
00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:14.039
range here a little bit. I don't know, do you

611
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:15.760
have the Google accentia or the.

612
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:20.000
Guys I do have it pulled up. It's kinda out there.

613
00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:23.239
A little bit. Yeah, it's out in the sticks for sure.

614
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:26.480
And I mean most of that stuff you see too,

615
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:32.000
like it's it's a very empty base. It's not like

616
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.840
you know, all those barracks are full. I mean they

617
00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:39.000
use it for this here and refugees back in the

618
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:41.440
day just because they had their rooms. So I mean

619
00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:44.320
the base looks big, but really there's not a lot

620
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:49.440
going on out there. There's some training center for something

621
00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:51.800
kind of important out there, but other than that, I

622
00:39:51.840 --> 00:39:54.719
don't really know what what else is out there. It's

623
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:57.719
always super quiet every time we go out there. It's

624
00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:01.079
a little a little creepy. But so you got the

625
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:06.039
range going down there kind of towards the south east,

626
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:09.360
and then you're going up and you see that little

627
00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:16.559
green awning there when we back a state truck up

628
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:20.519
there that has like our mobile armory on it all right,

629
00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.039
and then the fire pit that we had is just

630
00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:25.800
like a like a fifty gallon drum right like a

631
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:32.519
hobo fire, and it's between that awning and that red

632
00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:37.480
like conics box there. I don't know, you had some

633
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:43.519
kind of yeah, And then where all those little trees are,

634
00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:48.119
it's probably like a good ten foot kind of hill

635
00:40:48.360 --> 00:40:52.920
drop down. And then there's that little car junk yard

636
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:56.639
which they use for like scenarios. They take different cars

637
00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:03.519
from there and make different barriers and whatnot. But anyways,

638
00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:09.679
so we're underneath that awning doing our gun maintenance and uh,

639
00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:14.119
we're just finishing up with some of our fifty couns.

640
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:16.119
We're like, all right, we've cleaned like the allotted amount

641
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:19.159
of weapons that we had for that night. Like, let's

642
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.840
let's throw something else on there. I'm gonna pee and

643
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:24.760
let's get in the truck, start it for a little bit,

644
00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:30.719
crank the heater and just hang out, you know. And

645
00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:32.559
I'm walking over there to pee, I have my red

646
00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:35.440
light on. I throw a couple like pieces of the

647
00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:40.480
wood into the fire the drum. I'm peeing, and as

648
00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:44.519
I'm turning, I turned kind of towards that little ledge

649
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:49.440
there right, and there's that little white building. We have

650
00:41:49.719 --> 00:41:53.840
two other state trucks there and they're parked. You know,

651
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:56.679
there's there's like a four foot gap between the two

652
00:41:56.719 --> 00:42:02.679
of them, and and uh one one of them is

653
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:04.480
a State truck that has a conics box on the

654
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:08.440
back of it for our dunnage, and the other one

655
00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:10.599
there is a State truck with the conics box for

656
00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:14.719
actual ammunition, and they have you know, reflective plaquers on

657
00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:19.039
the back. And uh, I'm I panned by it with

658
00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:23.880
my red light and I see the reflection of two

659
00:42:23.920 --> 00:42:28.920
eyes from between those two trucks, and I'm like, oh,

660
00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:33.440
there's a coyote over here, right, and I'm I'm looking

661
00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:38.719
at it with my my red light on, and I'm

662
00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:40.360
kind of looking at I'm like, man, I things like

663
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:46.079
really far up there, and I'm trying to switch to

664
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.039
my white light. But the way these these head these

665
00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:57.360
headlights work, it's a red lamps. It's a red, green,

666
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.599
and blue, and they have to hold it down for

667
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.280
like three seconds to get a white light, and they're

668
00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:09.440
kind of finicky, and I really could not get my

669
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.440
white light going, so I'm just like strobing it with

670
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.639
all these different lights, and there's things just like looking

671
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.440
at me, and I'm looking at it, and I'm like, God,

672
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:21.599
you know there's there's four hinges on the doors of

673
00:43:21.639 --> 00:43:24.079
these Conics boxes, and it's already on top of the truck,

674
00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:28.119
and these eyes are looking at me between the third

675
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.239
and the fourth's like all the way at the top,

676
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:34.480
and I'm like, I'm really starting to try to like

677
00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:39.519
focus on my visions, kind of getting adjusted to the darklobe,

678
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:42.480
and I can kind of make out like the headlines

679
00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:47.000
or like the contour of like shoulders and a head.

680
00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:53.679
And then I started like, I'm just I'm just looking

681
00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:56.519
at this thing, and I can't really see any any

682
00:43:56.599 --> 00:44:01.559
details of it because of the the reflective markers on

683
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:07.960
the back of these Conics boxes. And just as I'm

684
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:14.400
able to kind of make out some shapes, it turns,

685
00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:17.440
but with its entire body, like I can see its

686
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:25.320
shoulders and its head move duck down and it comes

687
00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:28.119
up real fast, and then a rock hits on top

688
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:38.840
of that metal metal awninging my range partner, here's that

689
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:44.440
and he's the one that's armed and Nick, Yeah, did you.

690
00:44:44.440 --> 00:44:45.639
Hear that interference?

691
00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:47.280
No?

692
00:44:48.480 --> 00:44:51.840
I jumped out of my skin. Holy Mackrel. I hope

693
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:52.800
it got caught.

694
00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:54.960
On the recording on the audio.

695
00:44:55.280 --> 00:44:59.320
You're doing great, Just yeah, keep going, man, sorry, that

696
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.639
interference break me out.

697
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:05.280
Yeah. So so there's things between these two trucks. I

698
00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:07.840
see its eyes. It's up higher than it should be.

699
00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:11.079
As I'm kind of putting two and two together, it's like,

700
00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:16.719
you know, there's this entire body throws something. It's the top.

701
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:18.159
It is like, you know, it's kind of like an

702
00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:19.320
aluminum AUNI.

703
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:23.000
Big for society, who would be right back after these messages.

704
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:41.920
Like you'd have like oh, I mean it's it's over

705
00:45:42.039 --> 00:45:47.599
like some some kind of some benches, you know, And

706
00:45:47.639 --> 00:45:50.360
it's for the shooters when they're not doing their course

707
00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:54.599
of fire. They can sit down or whatever. And my

708
00:45:54.880 --> 00:46:00.440
armed range partner hears that, and I I'm like, hey,

709
00:46:00.480 --> 00:46:02.199
I think there's a you know, a coyote over here

710
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:04.480
right when I first saw it, and he's a great

711
00:46:04.519 --> 00:46:06.840
you know really and I was like, yeah, I started

712
00:46:06.840 --> 00:46:09.639
looking at it, flipping through my lights and that happens,

713
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:14.079
and he's already walking over Here's that, you know, and

714
00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:19.480
he starts seeing some crazy you know, hey mother, you know,

715
00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:22.920
and he sees the eyes now too. He's you know,

716
00:46:23.000 --> 00:46:27.000
hey mother, you know I have a gun. I'll shoot you,

717
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:31.199
you know, like and you see this thing I don't

718
00:46:31.199 --> 00:46:32.880
think it knew that he was there at the time,

719
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:38.360
because it it goes like you can see it's body move,

720
00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.679
like it's looking between me and him. And at this point,

721
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:48.519
this guy has drawn his nine is yelling at this thing.

722
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:52.760
And again it's still like I just have a single

723
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.519
red light on it, and the reflective tape on the

724
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.719
back of this and this truck is really keeping that

725
00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.360
light from penetrating any farther than like, so we can

726
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:09.440
make how many details, you know, and uh, it just

727
00:47:11.440 --> 00:47:19.039
turns around, ducks down, and we didn't see it anymore.

728
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:25.039
And then just about that time, I get my white

729
00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:33.760
light to turn on right and my buddy, my my

730
00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.400
watch partner again I'm not gonna say I mean, it's

731
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:39.480
kind of generic, but so I'm gonna say his last name,

732
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:45.199
but uh, comes over and he's like, dude, what what

733
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.199
was that? I was like, I don't know, and I

734
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:52.840
my white lid on and he has the gun and

735
00:47:52.880 --> 00:47:57.840
we're going around and we're like looking behind like that

736
00:47:57.880 --> 00:48:04.239
white building. And as we're doing that, we hear just

737
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:12.760
something start just just running through some trees back behind

738
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:19.239
the cars there that like car lot, so it had

739
00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:23.280
ducked down and somehow managed to stay away from the

740
00:48:23.360 --> 00:48:29.480
light and get over there. And it was just plowing

741
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:32.920
through these bushes at that point where these trees at

742
00:48:32.920 --> 00:48:34.519
this point, I mean not like knock them over, but

743
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:40.280
you could hear it breaking branches and whatnot. And we

744
00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:44.599
opened up our mobile armory and we got some M

745
00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:47.800
five hundreds. We load them up with doublet buck pulled

746
00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:50.559
out some thirty one bravos, hooked those into our helmets

747
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:53.400
and we sat in that truck and it was the

748
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:57.199
longest night of my life. We just sat there all

749
00:48:57.320 --> 00:49:02.880
night with shotguns night vision looking out the windows and

750
00:49:03.679 --> 00:49:05.400
there's that little I don't know if you can see that,

751
00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:10.159
that building kind of north of the range. Yes, yeah,

752
00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:12.199
there was a light post up there too that just

753
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:15.760
was flickering on and off. And every time we do

754
00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:19.519
that mess up your your mvgs. Just sitting in there,

755
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:24.400
just like after experiencing that, and it was it was

756
00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:27.440
just a very long night. And then our relief came,

757
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.679
you know, eight o'clock. We got there a little early,

758
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.840
studnizing them and we told them what happened, and they

759
00:49:35.880 --> 00:49:40.039
didn't believe us, and you know, they thought that we

760
00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:43.880
were like just messing with them or whatever, but yeah,

761
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:47.960
it was so it was quite an experience.

762
00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:51.079
Yeah, that is intense. How did that conversation go with

763
00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:53.719
the guys that were were leaving you? Was it like, hey,

764
00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:57.280
there's something out here messing with us, or did you

765
00:49:57.360 --> 00:49:59.400
go straight to it might be a big foot or

766
00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:00.599
like how was that?

767
00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:04.119
No? I mean at that point, like I was pretty like,

768
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:07.079
you know, I'd only had that call up to that point,

769
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:10.760
and I was pretty reserved with like talking about that stuff. Again,

770
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.000
I still don't know what is, but you know, you know,

771
00:50:15.039 --> 00:50:20.800
I saw the shoulders in the head and uh, yeah,

772
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:24.440
I didn't have much of a neck. And we one

773
00:50:24.440 --> 00:50:26.480
of the guys that was were leaving us, we called it.

774
00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:28.800
We called him big Red had a uh he was

775
00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:31.639
probably he was probably like six six sixty seven something

776
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.880
like that. His son's coming up. So we went down

777
00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:39.679
to where we saw it, and his head just like

778
00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:52.159
was barely at that third third what's it called, like

779
00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:56.559
the pivot on the door? Got it? Yeah, so I

780
00:50:56.559 --> 00:51:01.239
mean it's probably seven eight feet maybe that's where the

781
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:05.920
eyes were at. Yeah, I mean yeah we did. They

782
00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.639
just showed up and and we told them, hey, we

783
00:51:09.639 --> 00:51:15.400
we saw something between the two trucks. Its eyes were

784
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:18.880
at this point, and it threw a rock at us,

785
00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:21.960
and I mean we just kept it pretty simple and

786
00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:28.920
they're like, you're joking and we're like no, And I

787
00:51:28.960 --> 00:51:32.360
mean the rock was even up on the the Awnings

788
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:37.880
still and me and me and my either Washburn, we were

789
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.199
pretty pretty ready to be out there at that point.

790
00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:45.559
And I mean that happened probably like two am, and

791
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:48.639
we had, you know, another six hours of watch, just

792
00:51:48.679 --> 00:51:52.800
sitting out there in the truck listening, had the windows cracked.

793
00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:59.320
I don't know, that's intense.

794
00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:04.239
After you tried to tell the other guys that were coming,

795
00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:08.199
they were kind of like whatever about it. Did you

796
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:11.599
then have a conversation with your partner like Okay, we're

797
00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:14.639
not going to share this anymore, or did you keep

798
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:17.679
sharing their story to other people as well on the base?

799
00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:20.440
I mean not like not on the base. I mean

800
00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:25.320
we it was kind of like a a two day thing.

801
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:29.679
We had a pretty pretty skilt and watch crew and

802
00:52:29.880 --> 00:52:35.000
our guys kind of told those guys like, hey, you know,

803
00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:41.280
Nick and his watch partners saw saw saw something out there,

804
00:52:41.679 --> 00:52:46.760
and uh, you caught a little a little flak for that,

805
00:52:46.920 --> 00:52:51.119
but I mean it's it doesn't feel too much like flackness.

806
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:53.000
You know, you're just telling the truth. It's like that's

807
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:59.719
that's what happened, you know. Uh. I mean later the

808
00:52:59.719 --> 00:53:02.719
the guy that came to the like six seven guy

809
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:04.239
it'd come out and talked to me. He was like, yeah,

810
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.280
like they were out here before, and Fort Pickets were

811
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:11.920
usually do all of our ranges and whatnot. And I

812
00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:16.679
guess back in the day, uh you know eight endres whatever,

813
00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:18.840
before the base was actually there, there were like some

814
00:53:18.960 --> 00:53:25.880
hod homesteads out on the base itself, and uh, they

815
00:53:25.880 --> 00:53:27.960
bought the land from the families, right, but they still

816
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:31.719
had like some graveyards out there, and they would go

817
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:36.000
out there just to like check them out. I guess

818
00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:40.360
one weekend they went out there, like at night to

819
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:45.000
check out one of those graveyards. Uh, and things kind

820
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:47.000
of like a Civil war time frame. I'm not sure

821
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:54.599
exactly like those houses were out there, but so they

822
00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:57.679
went out there to check out those those grave sites.

823
00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:02.480
And I mean they're in government vehicles and they're out

824
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:04.880
on these range roads which seem to go for you

825
00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:07.719
know miles. I don't know how how many you know

826
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.239
miles of road they have out back on those bases.

827
00:54:13.119 --> 00:54:15.119
But they're out there, they're driving around these dirt roads

828
00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:18.239
and then all of a sudden they get stopped by

829
00:54:19.280 --> 00:54:25.119
two unmarked black SUVs with dudes in civilian clothes with

830
00:54:25.280 --> 00:54:28.519
guns that say, hey, you're not allowed to be back here,

831
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:32.639
and then tell them to get back in their truck

832
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:35.679
and then they'll escort them out and then escort them out,

833
00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:40.800
and so I don't know what's going on there, but

834
00:54:42.800 --> 00:54:44.280
I mean I was just kind of nice to hear

835
00:54:44.280 --> 00:54:48.039
that someone else had had like something else weird happened

836
00:54:48.039 --> 00:54:49.519
to them out there. So it's nice to have that

837
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:53.719
kind of camaraderie with Mentley's, you know, kind of have

838
00:54:54.519 --> 00:54:57.519
a shared experience, even with what exactly the same, you know.

839
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:01.320
Absolutely were you were you and your partner at any

840
00:55:01.360 --> 00:55:07.920
time told to not share what happened to you that night.

841
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:11.960
No, I mean we never like try to make any

842
00:55:12.159 --> 00:55:15.800
formal report of it. It's just kind of a weird encounter.

843
00:55:18.280 --> 00:55:22.840
And I mean we we talked about it a little bit,

844
00:55:22.920 --> 00:55:24.400
kind of, you know, in the barracks. Better than that.

845
00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:27.480
It's not like, you know, we're like when you know,

846
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:30.119
founder any tenant or whatever, and like, hey, you know, sir,

847
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:32.400
this happened to us. You know, they should probably check

848
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.280
into that, you know, But right so, as far as

849
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.880
I know, it's only a bunch of you know, four

850
00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:40.079
e fives that you know about that.

851
00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:46.760
So that's some wild, wild stuff, dude. I mean, those

852
00:55:46.760 --> 00:55:51.599
are the stories that that make me wonder. It's like

853
00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.920
you just you just had enough, you know, yeah, you

854
00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:59.400
just saw enough. And I mean it's hard to logically

855
00:55:59.480 --> 00:56:06.639
explain way what you saw. I mean, you were seeing outlines.

856
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:09.519
Yeah, it's kind of hard to tell. Its kind of

857
00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:11.239
hard to tell it too. It's like it was the

858
00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:16.480
entire thing like black or was it just you know,

859
00:56:16.760 --> 00:56:20.760
was I just seen outlines? You know? So I don't know,

860
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:27.800
he's get the eye shine. I'm trying to turn my

861
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:31.199
light on. It was not having a good time. And

862
00:56:31.239 --> 00:56:33.880
then of course right after it it dips down and

863
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:39.199
goes off and I I managed to get that thing on.

864
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:44.800
But yeah, I don't know. I've heard stories two of

865
00:56:44.840 --> 00:56:48.880
them like getting down on all fours, be crawling off

866
00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:52.480
or something, you know, And I'm not sure. Maybe maybe

867
00:56:52.519 --> 00:56:54.679
that's what it did, because I mean we did pretty

868
00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:57.320
good scan. I mean, there's some trees there, but they're

869
00:56:57.360 --> 00:57:01.400
cut up pretty high, so we had a pretty good view.

870
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:04.199
There's not a lot of places that could have gone.

871
00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:11.719
And then we kind of started moving down past the

872
00:57:11.800 --> 00:57:14.800
fire pit and we're trying to get like a look

873
00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:17.239
at because we thought gone but behind the white building

874
00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:22.559
and we hear it crashing through the trees, you know,

875
00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:26.639
back behind that, you know, I mean that's some good distance.

876
00:57:26.639 --> 00:57:28.679
I mean, I don't know, I haven't measured that, but

877
00:57:29.639 --> 00:57:35.960
you know, maybe one hundred meters and you know, Olympic

878
00:57:36.559 --> 00:57:45.639
sprinter speed. Yeah, without making any noise until it gets

879
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:49.199
to some type of consumer. It's impressive.

880
00:57:49.360 --> 00:57:57.199
But yeah, So Nick, You've had some really interesting things

881
00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:00.400
happen over the years. I mean out in northern California

882
00:58:00.519 --> 00:58:07.719
and then out in this base in Virginia. And I mean,

883
00:58:07.760 --> 00:58:11.519
you're it sounds like you are. You're going, you know,

884
00:58:11.880 --> 00:58:16.760
going gung ho to see what you can find next,

885
00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:19.480
and you're going to start talking to more people in

886
00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:23.480
that area of California. Are you prepared for, you know,

887
00:58:24.039 --> 00:58:28.280
if you start looking around in California for if you

888
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:33.639
are to have a really good visual sighting, like let's

889
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:36.119
say in the daytime, are you prepared for that?

890
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.519
No? Yeah, I mean I've thought about that before, and

891
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:46.480
just like, do I like, do I want to see one?

892
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:48.400
You know, because I mean at this point, I've had

893
00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:50.559
you know, rock story. I mean, I've just heard noises,

894
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:58.840
I've seen outlines of something. I think, really I'd love

895
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.639
to have an actual one D visual sighting. But I

896
00:59:02.639 --> 00:59:06.239
mean my ideal siding be me, you know, on a

897
00:59:06.320 --> 00:59:11.960
highway doing right, you know, fifteen, see one run across

898
00:59:11.960 --> 00:59:14.000
the road and I'm like, oh, well, good thing, I'm

899
00:59:14.039 --> 00:59:17.559
in my car. You know, I don't say I don't

900
00:59:17.559 --> 00:59:19.239
think i'd want to be out in the woods at

901
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:23.320
night and you know see one. I mean even during

902
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:25.280
the days. I mean, I'm a couple of miles from

903
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:27.360
my house. I don't know if I want to see one.

904
00:59:27.400 --> 00:59:34.199
I mean, I don't know if they're particularly aggressive, but

905
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:38.159
I mean I think that, you know, every animal has

906
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:43.320
the ability to be aggressive, and they're obviously large, you know,

907
00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:45.159
and strong and fast.

908
00:59:45.400 --> 00:59:53.320
So NIX is a fascinating account across the years, and

909
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:56.920
it's really cool because you know, as we said before,

910
00:59:56.679 --> 00:59:59.719
you're you're keeping going with it. I cannot wait to

911
00:59:59.760 --> 01:00:04.760
see what you're able to hopefully find next to Northern California.

912
01:00:04.960 --> 01:00:07.760
And I want to say thank you for coming on

913
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:10.639
the show. And I also want to, you know, make

914
01:00:10.679 --> 01:00:13.400
sure that you were able to share everything that you

915
01:00:13.440 --> 01:00:14.440
wanted to share tonight.

916
01:00:16.559 --> 01:00:17.800
Yeah. I think that's it. I mean, I don't know

917
01:00:17.800 --> 01:00:20.039
if I did an amazing job of describing it. I

918
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:23.519
was a little nerves to come on, but I mean

919
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:26.360
it's behind me. I feel like it's important to share

920
01:00:26.400 --> 01:00:29.039
your experiences, even if it's the best detail.

921
01:00:29.119 --> 01:00:34.079
But I think it was a great sharing of some

922
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:38.159
really interesting things that happened on both sides of the US.

923
01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:40.000
But just thank you for coming on the show.

924
01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:43.840
Man. Yeah, man, I appreciate you have a good one.

925
01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.199
Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you

926
01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:50.639
truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

927
01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:53.239
And next story isn't just memorable because of what was

928
01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:57.519
seen or heard, because of how it all connects across years,

929
01:00:57.559 --> 01:01:01.320
across states, and across some seriously remote ground, from the

930
01:01:01.320 --> 01:01:04.280
shadows of Mount Shasta to the edges of a military

931
01:01:04.400 --> 01:01:08.440
range in Virginia. His experiences remind us that bigfoot encounters

932
01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:11.360
don't always happen the way we expect. And if you

933
01:01:11.440 --> 01:01:14.480
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Now.

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If you or someone you know has had a Bigfoot encounter,

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especially near Mount Shasta for picket or the trendy alps,

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I'd love to hear from you, so shoot me an

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the twelfth at Greenwaters Park in Oakridge, Oregon, and Bigfoot

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Society listeners can grab two day passes for the price

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Thanks again for being part of the Bigfoot Society, and

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until next time, stay curious, trust your instincts, and never

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stop searching and see you in the woods,