Girl Scout Spots Bigfoot in Illinois

0:00 You're listening to Big Flat Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. One good to see again. Yeah I came on your lafe a few nights ago. Oh yeah, I remember. Yeah, I'm kind of uncomfortable about that, man, But I kind of did some research and got to talking to some of my friends. This spot, man, where I'm at.

0:49 I'm like, it all came rushing in. I started talking to you. This place was the Bigfoot small Bigfoot capital pretty much of the world. Well, man, now it's hit in a nice little place right by a military base. I want you to check out. This is two thousand and eight. It was a Bigfoot. It was actually was a cop impersonating a bigfoot and when they caught him he had all type of raccoons skins. And this is a true story. It's Clayton kind of Georgia two thousand and eight Bigfoot. A cop was a personating Bigfoot. It we used to have so many Bigfoot sightings and stuff like that. It was just like we knew where the big one was going to be standing at every day we go to school, and it was a lot of people and personate bigfoot.

1:36 So it was like a bigfoot. Craze around here in two thousand and eight, and it was going on so while that. Actually we used to make jokes with like the bigfoots were looking at the people dressed like bigfoot crazy, so that this wow, yeah. I got it. I didn't even think it was so deep. And it was a ConA store on Highway forty two and Forest Parkway. I think we used to call it Rascals. It was the store had you know, the guy would come out and wash your wonders. But it still had the gas station through the old pumps, like the nineteen thirty pumps, and it used. To be a big foot at that store door and people used to put the cigarette. Ashes out like where we had the hands open. I didn't realize it was that serious. I had to think about it. I was like, yeah, I remember this stuff.

2:24 Man around here. Then I was telling you about I knew how I've seen a bigfoot. You know, he can run like maybe five steps on the football field. Then I realized the reference for that. We was at Junior High. It used to be one standing at the end of the football field, this Adamson Junior High School and Rex Georgia and all. We used to see it. Every day and then all of a sudden we were like, you're getting closer and closer. One day he's gonna end up at the school, and you know, everybody was kind of on the alert watching this thing. And one day we came out of I know, it was track so early in the morning, it's kind of warm, and he was like almost at the end of the football you know, closer to the school, and he kind of looked at us, and when he took off that I had to remember the reference when he took off.

3:13 That's how I know it was exactly five. Steps to cover football field because he took five steps and everybody coaching, everybody's watching them and he covered their football field. Then he just went off in the woods and that was his area. He used to be out there. Back then. It was like a little young little yellow plums and like the little little bitty ones they just grow wild and stuff like that. He used to be out there eating and stuff. But we used to see him every day and around that area before they built Highway six seventy five, you could see one in his own little spot, like we had gave him names and stuff, and you would see him out in the past, and you know what time of day he would be there, and it was I didn't realize it was that serious man, and then I was kind of hold him back. But around here is Highway forty two and Forest Parkway and rich Georgia.

4:07 This used to man, we used to see him so much as it wasn't even nothing no more. It was nothing, and it was a place called town of Church now that kind of when we saw it. It used to be a big one out there. I mean, he was the biggest one that we used to see and he hung out at the back of his church. It's kind of like in a cot sat you really have to know where it was at. But that one right there. We kind of thought that he was watching something, guarding something right there behind his church. It had a graveyard behind him, and it was an old graveyard. But he always stood right there and it looked like he was like he had something back there. He didn't want nobody balling.

4:51 He was the biggest one. He had to be about the reference I got with that, Like I remember basketball goal because I just to see him at the and I know ten feet from the ground to the rim is ten feet. This average one was seeing and this one that were saying he would be the headboard. His head would be as high as the headboard on the basketball boats. I don't know if that's thirteen feet or fourteen feet, but he was like that. But if you check that out, man, the two thousand and eight, anything around like Clayton County two thousand and eight, this man, it was it was like a joke. It was like a joke. Man. We were seeing them so much and people would clown around.

5:34 I used to see people man jump out in front of the cars and new gorilla suit. It was actually the lot man around here. Man, when they. Built Highway six seventy five, that's come from a two eighty five and it'll be seventy five going toward Florida. Then that duration when they built that, I remember them. I remember seeing the bridge, the construction coming, when actually walked across the bridge when it was only just that going through the rails and rail and all that to get to the other side. I used to hunt when they built that. Them bigfoots. Man, they came out. Man by the tens and the twenties. You will see him everywhere.

6:16 You will see just one and you know where He'll be at it every day. He'll just be there. You know that was his spot, and you know which one is. And we'll be in the woods and he'll be standing around just watching you and stuff. And that was normal for us. And I'm like, I don't know what's going I can hold his wad with it. I've really been watching a lot of people trolling other people when they come out and try to test somebody that got crazy and stuff. But I don't find myself, man, in some of the number one places in the world. Man, I told you painted fast inferid when. Paul Walker died, I was there and I honestly did the first burnout on the Foe Wheeler. And oh my goodness, so wow, I.

6:59 Don't care when nobody got to say by me. So I really like this because I ain't seen too many people dogging people out. But I'm telling you the truth. I feel like I'm here right now just kind of enlightening people that really have seen this and really know because we all hitting the same key points, and we can probably come out with what we've seen and and match it up and do some AI and come up with a real picture of what this thing look like because it's and match it up and do some AI and come up with a real picture of what this thing look like because it's it's to other people that seen it, that know about this. It'll get kind of boring to us because we all know, okay, yeah, we know that that it's only five or six different things distinctive, These things that make this even look you know this, you know how make you know? We can make a picture, so we can come up with a composite just by the four or five simple things that we know about it. Man, a lot of I can tell you now, a lot of people are going to get bored when they see that this thing is not a monster.

8:09 Money that's interesting. That's very interesting. And I see it like I've been looking, man, I feel I can talk about it. But I see a lot of people on the ail and their graphics and they're making this, you know, the gorillize. I can see how some of this could be for money and exactly you know, the scare. And I can see people if someone actually see you want or something like that, we get some pictures. I can see that people will lose a lot of money when they notice that. This kind of look like your uncle that's on steroids just got her out over. That's a true story. But in reference to you know, you're looking for any proof anything, you check.

8:53 That story out. That's two thousand and eight Clayton County Police officer personally, and you it's from that area around and that's gonna be the rawest ground and it's not much left, but you might and ease that way if you know what you know, you might find one. There's a there's a question we're getting. Do you remember how the shoulder width of it compares to the width of the basketball goal. I really can't. I can just remember looking at the basketball goal and seeing him behind it, and I can see that he was by tall and like stuff like that. Uh, I'm really new that telling anybody like that.

9:38 But I have. Been programmed sometimes to make myself think in other ways. I would talk like that in school. So if I keep trying to remember if the ears were like this and the eyes were like that, it'll ruin my what I really have. So this is new to me. So one day I come that might just tell you everything I seen, But right now I want to just kind of keep it fresh. But that one, the big one man, the biggest one that say in his head, the tip of his head is gonna be about the top of a basketball gole and his show. He is big. It's white. I ken't know if it's three four feet, but he is big and no hair on his face. It kind of looked like a kind of looked like a guy on steroids. He's got a very distinct nose, lips. You can tell that it's a person.

10:32 Just look. We look like a water down version of it. I face and standing a kind of smoothed out. When you look at him, you were like, oh, that's a guy. You know. He looks like that big old flax square teeth. The only thing I can reference is somebody could I remember also the laying little loss or something, the little thing, Yeah, it kind of looked like that, and the but the forehead one like it actually looked like maybe a strong go down cyndrome. I hate the reference, right that? Right right? Yeah, yeah, you know I've heard that from a few people before. But yeah, I appreciate you coming up again and chatting a little bit more. It's good to hear from you.

11:18 Hey, thanks brother. But in reference of that, man, this little town was a big foot hotspot and it got so bad people actually playing games with this and they were actually getting in trouble. That's wild, absolutely wild. Wow, thank you for coming up. Man. Okay, good stuff. Hey Steph hes Hi, how are you great? Great? Are you coming up to share a big foot and counter you've had today? Yeah? I wasn't today, but yes, so this would have been back in like, man, I want to see like two thousand and five or six, maybe maybe even a little bit before that. Two thousand and four, I was a kid.

12:04 I went to girl Scout camp. This was in I think it's in Orland Hills, Illinois. But I remember like the group of girls that I was with, they kept like saying that, like it was a very hearsay thing where all little kids, but they were like, oh, well. Somebody saw like a bigfoot in the woods. And then it was kind of like snowballing into like different stories, like oh, well they saw different colored ones. Someone said they saw white ones, someone said they saw brown, someone said they saw black. But I remember being on like a hike with all of these other girls, and I was so fascinated by like potentially seeing this creature.

12:55 So I remember like really really looking in the woods and I swear I saw like a brown one sitting and like eating, and I like turned, I turned to like talk to somebody to you know, see if she, if anybody else had seen it, and then like before I could get anyone's attention and I turned back around, it was just gone. Then there was another day at camp where I thought I saw this like white one that other people were talking about like almost I guess like in my mind as a child, it came off as like swinging from branches, almost like a monkey would.

13:43 But now if I like think about it as an adult, it was it probably would have been just like walking and like swinging its arms. But again it was just like a really really short like glimpse of it. And I've always wondered like if I had just made it up or whatever because of like the hearsay. Roways thought it was interesting because if you look back into like the I forget what it's called, but like the Bigfoot Archive the map, there are like sightings in that area. So I've always wondered like if I had seen it, or if if it was just something that my brain made up, Jack.

14:26 Because this is just south of Chicago, right, Yeah, it's. Like south southwest. Ish looking at it right now, Yeah, definitely. Are Yeah, it's also funny. There was another guess you had the other night. He said he was in the Chicago area and that he had seen one by the river. And I grew up like very very very close to where he was talking about out and it would not surprise me one bit if he did see something over there, because it's like it's a small area, but it's a very like dense forested area and it's not like super.

15:18 At least when he was talking about it. He said it was like like fifteen years back or so, but it's not like a super congested area. It wouldn't have been at that time. So yeah, I'm pretty. Sure this area is like active. It's just like very small pockets of like where it's active because of how urban a lot of it is. Wow. But yeah, I know. Also I wanted to just like ask your thoughts because like I listened to your I watch your TikTok live a lot. But there was another guy the other day he was mentioning how like or he asked you if you thought that Bigfoot was like an interdimensional creature. And I know, like Bigfoot is associated a lot with like paranormal.

16:13 So that's another. Thing too, is where like I have always experienced the paranormal since I was a kid, So I feel like with my encounter, like what I thought was my encounter if that was like so a paranormal encounter versus. Like a true Bigfoot sighting. And I just wondered your thoughts on like how do you feel about like you know the people that have these sightings. Do you think something correlates where it's like, Okay, these individuals are people who maybe like inclined to have like a sixth sense, or.

17:04 They're seeing things that other people might not see. So and I want I want to make sure, I get the question, right. Yeah, So you're asking if are you asking if there's a pattern between the types of people that have sightings like this, Yeah. Yeah, or like you know, like if people like for like lack of a better way to put it, like if you see like spirits, or if you see ghosts or other creatures. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So what I've noticed is that usually people that have a sighting, I can ask them, have you had other things happen? And more often than not, yes, they've had other things happen in their life where you know, they're experiencing maybe stuff that could be said paranormal events at home.

17:58 They might be able to sense things about people. There's usually other stuff going on, not just the one sighting a bigfoot. So yeah, it's like they are sensitive to other things as well. Yeah. Yeah, because I was gonna say, I mean, like I'm I've never been like, I've never seen like spirits, I've seen shadows and things like that. I did have a UFOO sighting, But yeah, that's really interesting that that like correlids. That just had me thinking about like what that guy was saying about interdimensional thing And it's pretty interesting how like all of those things, and like cryptids in general kind of coincide with that.

18:40 So the question, yeah, yeah, you got it, no problem, you're go ahead, go ahead. Oh, I was just gonna ask you, do you know if there are any other like creators, either on TikTok or maybe like twitch or something that do pretty much what you do? But right, yeah, well so let me think. So, I don't know anything about twitch, so I can't help you there, but I do know and he's in here so he can put a comment so you can see him. Squatch and holler is good another creator? Okay, arahn, so it's e A R A and then h A n is really good too. But stuff like this, okay, awesome, thank you cool? Do you would it be all right if I use your account on my big Foot podcast that I have?

19:40 Yeah? Absolutely awesome like the audio from it. Yeah, yeah that's fine. Cool, all right, Well, thank you for sharing stuff and great question. All right, thank you so much for having me. You got it? It's stuff. Ehi there, how are you? Hi? How are you great? Are you coming up to share a big foot account today? Sure? Well. My first encounter happened when I was I think five years old. Me and my mother and my sister and cousin were We're in Tennessee and we were at this creek that was really known for bigfoot. Like people's pigs were coming up half eaten and other animals, you know, like they wouldn't eat the whole animal, they would just like rip them.

20:27 Apart and just eat certain parts of them. And of course he was spotted a lot, and a couple of people recently in the same area caught them on their cam on their house cameras well. When I was five, we went to this creek to go swim in it. It was I mean, the creek wasn't deep at all. It might have came maybe the middle of my shen at five years old. So we were following the creek and we came up on these huge footsteps. And at the time I was five years old, I didn't know anything about bigfoot, but my mom did. And it was this really really bad smell, like it's a smell I will never forget ever.

21:13 It like sticks with you. So we followed the steps and there were limbs hanging over, you know, into the creek, you know woods. So we come up. On this one limb and there was some brown hair like it snagged some hair off of it and it stunk so bad. Well, the footsteps went a little further and then they stopped and crossed the creek. So here we were following the steps and going to cross the creek. We got about the creek was maybe thirty foot wide, you know. We got about middle ways of the creek, and then we heard something on the other side, and it was this after hearing the noises on YouTube and stuff, I know for a fact that this is what it was.

22:05 So yes, we heard it on the other side of the creek, and so of course we turned and was coming back across the creek to we were running. My mom and us little ones were running back to the car back to the bridge. It was chasing us on the other side, and it was grunning and growling and just it was the most scariest moment of my whole life, you know, as a child. Here we are running and screaming and crying, and we never saw it, but we heard it. And so after we got up on the bridge and got away from it, got in the car.

22:46 We never saw it, but we heard it. And so after we got up on the bridge and got away from it, got in the car, you know, I asked my mom. I was like, what was that? You know? It had three toes, just three toes, and she I remember her telling me that that was a bigfoot. In the same area. A few years later, I was about nine years old. My aunt, my dad's sister, lived right down the road from the same creek, and we had moved in with them. And one night, I remember my dad and my uncle we heard something. He heard it outside.

23:27 He heard something outside, so of course he grabbed his gun and they went outside and we heard a couple of shots, and then my dad come and my uncle come running through the door. And all I remember is hearing him yelling, I hit it. I hid it, and they seen blood, but they never found it. They heard it yelping and stuff like that, but it had done ran so far away apparently. I guess they know to maybe pack mud or something to stop the bleeding, because the bleeding stopped, so therefore they couldn't find it. And then I have another story. I live on the Mississippi River about an hour north of Memphis, and in this little town, a friend that worked with my husband, he saw this was like in town, like behind the high school of course it's woods, you know, But he saw a white bigfoot. He saw it, I mean plain as day.

24:32 It was standing right there on the side of the road. And this was probably eighteen years ago, and he still shook up about it. So and he won't really talk about it much because a lot, you know, how people are, you know, they don't believe in this and that, So we won't really talk about it much. But he he swears that he saw it. And there's another incident that happened in our bottoms with he swears that he saw it. And there's another incident that happened in our bottoms with me and my husband. It was late one night, and we have a river that runs into the Hatchie I mean into the Mississippi River.

25:19 It's a small river called the Hatchie River. I think it starts in like Alabama, and it comes all the way down through Tennessee into the Mississippi River. And we're not far from the Mississippi River where we were at on the Hatchie River, but we go down this hill and then it's a parking lot with a boat ramp where people launched their boats and stuff. And there was no one down there. We were by ourself and we had our windows down. It was summertime, and when we went down the hill, both of our hairs just stood up on the back of our neck. The smell was unreal, and I told him, I said, I remember this smell when I was a kid. And my husband is six foot seven, he's not scared of anything, but this night, it scared him enough and I had to urinate. But I had to hold it because I was too scared to get out and go there, so we just hoteled it.

26:22 About a year ago, a good friend of mine and her good friend were riding the same bottoms the same road and she saw one, a brown one. She saw one leap in front of her, in front of them. She said, it took like it was on one side and it took one step in the middle of the road. It like it just one leap, and it was gone. It was on one side and it took one step in the middle of the road. It like it just one leap and it was gone. And to this day she still will not go down down there. And I was sitting on my front porch one night and I kind of think we have a youth sasquatch like a young one behind our house that kind of comes and goes.

27:15 Maybe it was just coming through or something. I don't know, but it was about one in the morning and I had my grandkids here, and we don't smoke in the house when my grandkids are here. So I was outside about one am and I was just smoking my cigarette and. I heard something and it went whoop, whoop. It did it about three times, two or three times, and then it sounded like it picked up like two kind of small rocks, not big ones, and you could hear them clank. It clanked them three or four times, and I immediately knew because I do a lot of bigfoot research, and I was like, whoa, you know there is I think it's a teenage like youth sasquatch back then, and I told my husband about it. I haven't heard it since, but I will say that around the same time, I seen a UFO hovering in the same woods just directly behind my house, maybe three hundred foot behind my house.

28:20 There's just a line of woods and they're not very wide, but it was just hovering there and then all of a sudden, it just disappeared. And my son at the time, he was probably he's thirty now, but at the time he was probably fourteen. He has a friend that lives on the other side of the woods, and he was walking home one night and he was with the friend that lives next door to us, so it was two of them, and he's seen this glowing kind of neon green, human looking thing walking towards him, and he thought it was somebody with a fllight, so it didn't bother him at first until it got closer, until he realized this thing is glowing and it looked human. So they come running in the house and I my son doesn't lie like that, like he doesn't, you know, the makeup stuff. Especially, I could tell when my son's lying to me, you know, his mom, I can tell. So, and they were white as ghosts. They were terrified. They were like, this thing was just walking towards us, and then they just took off running. The next two nights, I was standing out by the garage and I was looking out towards those same woods, and I seen a yellowish ball, maybe the size of a basketball, and it was floating in the

29:53 air about midways up the trees, about in the middle of the tree line, you. Know, along the field. So yeah, that was kind of scary for us. So we definitely have one here. And when I was a kid, there was a couple that came down from Europe and they stopped in Memphis and they wanted to bicycle, you know, ride their bicycles from Memphis to Dyersburg, which is a few miles from where I am, quite a few miles. They wanted to just ride their bicycles, you know how people just ride their bikes travel or whatever they ride. Okay, they were riding along the Mississippi River. Well, they decided to camp at the end of the Hatchie River that I was talking about that runs into the Mississippi River.

30:50 So they were on the corner of these two rivers. And so the next morning there was a hunter that pulled up. He pulled his boat up and he walked about five foot into the woods and he's seen a tent shredded. There were clothes everywhere, there was blood, and so immediately he called the police. He hung around there to see what was going on. He set in his boat kind of docked off of the bank a little bit, and marines came in. They all had guns. Police. I can't even explain that National Guard all kinds of people come in with guns.

31:35 Apparently they knew what it was. They found the people shredded to pieces, shredded to pieces. And so. The man said that after they found the tent that he heard a bunch of shooting. He said, it sounded like a war going off in the woods. And then the next thing he knew it was a helicopter, and he said it was something really huge. They pulled up out of the woods with a blue tarp over it. And he said, whatever this thing was was very, very big, And of course he couldn't see because they had a tarb over it. But I already know that it was a bigfoot because it's rumored that it was a bigfoot that attacked these people, because there's a bigfoot that goes up and down this Hatchy River. It lives along this Hatchy River. Now you go a few miles up this Hatchy River, down this Hatchy River. It lives along this Hatchy River. Now you go a few miles up this Hatchy River, probably.

32:40 Four or five miles. And there was another incident with another person with a tent that a hunter found with the same thing close, scattered everywhere, Tents shredded up, and the man was shredded to pieces. And the same incident, the National Guard came in marine or whatever you want to call it, barret, it's whatever they were, I don't know, but they shot this one also and they pulled it out with the helicopter. So I'll tell you where it's at. Its just Tipton County in Tennessee. It's about an hour north of Memphis on the Mississippi River.

33:22 And if you go down the Mississippi River a little bit, there's a small river that goes off to the right. It's called the Hatchie River, and so that's where a lot of our sightings are. So that was pretty scary. And my husband hunts down there a lot, and he was down there one night. You know, he coon hunts. He we have coon dogs, and so he said he was down there hunting one night with the dogs and it was no wind, absolutely no wind whatsoever, but this huge tree he heard crackling and fell over, and I guess in a sense he kind of knew what it was.

34:05 So he kind of just yelled out, you know, I'm not here for nothing, but I'm just hunting my dogs. I'm not here to harm you, you know, I'm not here to bother you. And nothing ever happened, he said. It was just like it just went away. So yeah, we've had quite a bit of experiences down in these Hatchie River bottoms with the. Bigfoot, with the white one. Yeah, with the white one being seen in town that was pretty crazy. And this one was solid white. But the ones that are seen that we're seeing down at the rivers were brown.

34:49 So yeah, I just thought about for all, yes, sir, yes. Wow, yeah, thank you for sharing that. The ones at the beginning when you're talking about the creek or the stream, was that Tipton County as well? Or is that a different area that was in. The next county over in Lauderdale County. That's where I was born and raised up till I was nine years old, and then I moved to Tipton County, which is south of Lauderdale County. Gotcha, Wow, this is this is extremely helpful information because I don't get a lot from Western Tennessee. Right right right, Well, there's definitely some here, definitely some here.

35:35 The audio from this conversation. Would I be able to use it on my Bigfoot podcast that I have absolutely sure. All right, well, I appreciate you coming up and Sharon, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for allowing me to come up and tell my story. Hi there, How are you? Hi? Are you there? Yeah? Yeah? Are you coming up to share bigfoot experience you've had? Yeah? I have actually one, actually two that happened, One that I think was a bigfoot and one that I think was a different story, but I think it might be interesting for the people that are listening. The first one was I was living in New Mexico, in a rural northern New Mexico about thirty thirty years ago, I guess it is now, and I was driving through like around like the Los Alamos area, and it's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful area. But I was, you know, something told me to pull over to the side of the road. I don't know why, and I wound up pulling over and there was like this like sort of a copse of like a forest that had trees that were sort of like bent over like they were like, I don't know, they made U turn somehow. I don't understand it, but I thought it was kind of interesting. And I was taking some pictures and then all of a sudden, I

37:05 felt like an absolute sense, like I was in terrible danger. And you know, here's the thing, Like I had no reason to feel that way. It was a beautiful day. I was enjoying my trip and you know, I was in a good mood and everything, and suddenly out of nowhere. And I've been following I don't know if you know Steve is Dall not sure, Yeah, yeah, And you know, I've been following a lot of what he says, and I'm like, I've rethought because I thought it was like an evil spirit or something like that. But listening to Steve Isdel how they kind of get into your head and their territorial I was, I've reconsidered what I thought happened to me there, because I felt like I was trespassing on somebody's property, you know, like you don't want somebody to be in your backyard, you know, And I felt like they were mad at me and they wanted me out of there. And I'm telling you, I felt like I was about ready to die, Like I had such a sense of terror for no reason because I didn't see anything, I didn't smell anything, I you know, you know, they say that there's usually a bad smell or something like that, but I didn't, and I was just invited out of that area. And from what I hear from Steve Isdahl, I would say that they were being very nice to me. And I encountered a sasquatch and they didn't want me in their backyard and they wanted me out of there. And you know, I would say that it was a terrifying experience. But you know,

38:37 I think if they wanted to, you know, if they wanted to do me harm, they probably would have done harm to me. You know, they just wanted me out of their terror code. Now, I don't know if your if your audience might be interested. First of all, I don't know what you think about that that story, but I. Mean it lines up with I've heard many many different accounts like that, where doesn't make sense that they start to feel the way they do, but they get a feeling like you need to leave right now. Yeah. So so now, my dad, my dad was you know, I'm I'm I'm fifty six years old. You know. My dad was you know, in the sixties, in the seventies.

39:17 My dad was French Canadian from Montreal, and he was a truck a long distance truck driver, so he spent a lot of time on the road, a lot of time in you know, just sort of barren, empty places and things like that. And he always told a story. Now he was a big, you know, sort of blue collar, you know, truck driver. Like he wasn't he didn't like to sound stupid or anything like that, so he wasn't going to be telling a tall tale. But he was like, I saw Bigfoot. I saw Bigfoot. I saw Bigfoot. And you know, for years, you know, when he told his story, it was terrifying. He died. He died in nineteen eighty four.

39:58 It's been a long time since he's been I remember as a kid he used to always tell this story. He was very serious. And I after listening to you know, after giving it a lot of thought. And I'm only bringing it up because I think it's probably related to this. If people are interested in Bigfoot, they're probably also interested in feral people. And so my dad was a like I said, he was a long distance truct over. He was up in Quebec, you know, and he pulled over on the side of the road, and you know, he had a you know, you know, a bunk in the back of his truck, and you know, he was about to just you know, kind of go to sleep for the evening, and and you know, he said that, you know, after a while, you know, he was lying down and he heard footsteps outside the truck, like you know, crunching, crunching on the gravel, you know, on the on the ground, and so he's like, well, you know, he didn't think much of it, but he was like, it's probably a deer or you know something, you know, some some kind of wildlife or something. And he didn't think much of it.

40:59 But he said that he noticed that it circled his truck, completely circled his truck, and he was feeling a bit nervous, you know, because that's kind of you know, that's like that's a calculated move, you know, I mean, that's the you know that it kind of walked the back and it walked around and it was obviously surveyed, was a surveillance, you know, and he said that he really started to feel like his shackles were going up, like he was really he did not feel good. So he really had a problem because apparently, he said that the the doorknob on his passenger side. Something was trying to move the doorknob.

41:41 Now that's not Mike kens, that's not an animal. No. So he's like, all right, it was locked, you know. And he was you know, he was a big guy, and he was like, I'm he was scared, you know, he was scared. He's like, what is this. There's something out there trying to get in. And so the footsteps went to the front of the truck and stopped, like you could you can hear if something moves off into the distance, you know. And he said, he just stopped, like you could. You can hear if something moves off into the distance, you know. And he said he just stopped, so he knew that the thing, whatever it was, was standing in the front of his truck, and he said, all right. You know, after a couple of minutes, he's like, I got a look. You know, I can't sleep, you know, I don't know what the hell this is, you know. And so he turned on his headlights and he looked out the front window and he said, now this is why he thought he saw a bigfoot. And I think I don't know. You can tell me what you think if it was a big foot or if it was a feral human. He saw man that he was wearing like like a jacket and a and he was wearing clothes apparently, Like I, this is a long time ago. This is the seventies and eighties, and the last time I heard that story, but it never left me. Like he was wearing clothes, but he was also fully covered in fur,

43:16 and his eyes reflected in the headlights of the truck, so he was furry, but he was wearing clothes. And finally, my father said, you know, he got so scared that he blew the truck horn, you know, the big horn. He blew it and this whatever it was, it went down on all fours and it ran off on all fours into the forest. And he said after that, you know, he never he never, he always stated at a hotel after that. And so I've heard something about a loop garu from French Canadian, a feral I think it's a feral human. Maybe it was a bigfoot, but he was wearing clothes apparently, So what do you think about that?

44:08 So this this is a tricky one. If I had to go off of my own encounters I've taken, or that i've heard, I would go ferrell to feral human too. But except for this, I have read a book called Where the Footprints End, and there's a section in it where there's multiple encounters of Bigfoot that are seen actually wearing different types of clothing. That's a tricky one. I would probably I'd probably go towards towards Bigfoot because of what I read in that book. That is really weird. Though. Yeah, I mean, like, like I said that, that story always scared me as a kid, and my dad, you know, if we were having a barbecue, my dad would be like, you know, I saw Bigfoot one time, like he would tell that, he would tell that story like that, And but I don't know, I mean, is it was it?

45:04 I think what I saw, what I personally encountered in New Mexico was a Sasquatch telling me to just get out of its backyard. Because there's no reason why I was having such a good time to automatically have a lightning bolt of terror when I didn't see anything, I didn't smell anything. That meant that it was in my head, like it was getting inside me exactly. But this other one was I don't know, I don't know, maybe it was the Bigfoot. Maybe it was maybe maybe a Bigfoot wants to wear a jacket, and I don't know if it's cold. I don't know, but I don't know. I just figured i'd share. A lot of people get mad at me when I tell that story because they're like, I can't sleep now, you know.

45:48 It's an intense way. I appreciate you sharing it. Would it be possible if I used that the audio from that conversation and the Bigfoot podcast. That I have, Yeah, sure, if you don't mind, that's cool. Cool. Well, thank you for coming up, sir. All right, thank you very much, good stuff. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with a friend who's into mysteries, monsters, or the unexplained. And if you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple podcast, please follow the show there and leave us a five star positive review because all that helps more people discover the show.

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