Feb. 14, 2026

Growing Up Where Sasquatch Is Known, Not Questioned

Growing Up Where Sasquatch Is Known, Not Questioned
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Season 1

In this episode, we explore the remarkable experiences of Terry, a Navajo woman and longtime seasonal national park worker who has spent much of her life in some of the most remote landscapes of the American West. Raised on the Navajo Nation and later working across national parks and wilderness areas, Terry shares a series of encounters and stories that span decades and vast geography.


From time spent harvesting pine nuts in isolated mountain terrain to moments along quiet roads near the Grand Canyon, Terry describes experiences that left lasting impressions and raised profound questions. She also recounts stories passed through family and community, along with observations made while living and working in places few people ever see after dark. Her perspective is shaped by cultural understanding, deep respect for the land, and years of firsthand exposure to the natural world.


This conversation weaves together personal encounters, regional history, and reflections on what it means to share space with something intelligent and elusive. Terry’s account offers listeners a grounded, thoughtful look at Sasquatch as more than a fleeting mystery, rooted in place, memory, and lived experience. Join us as we listen closely to a voice shaped by the land and the stories it carries.

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

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to

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

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seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers

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

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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

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

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us, all right, Big for Society. You've

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got the privilege of talking to Terry today. Terry is

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an individual I got connected to. Terry was raised on

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the Navajo reservation and is also a seasonal worker at

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multiple national parks, which does play into her accounts as

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you will hear in a few minutes. But welcome to

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the show, Terry. How are you doing today?

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Oh, I'm doing fine. Thank you for having me today.

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Absolutely, it sounds like it. It's going to be some

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very interesting things shared. As we were talking before the recording,

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there's you know, when we're talking about the Navajo Nation

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and the areas around it. There's so many eye opening

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things that happen, So it's always a privilege to be

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able to talk to someone who has experiences from around

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that area of the US. But you know, Terry, is

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there anything else that we would need to know about

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your situation before we go ahead and start talking about

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what you've experienced.

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Over the years. Well, I consider myself quite open to

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a lot of happenings, but a lot of people would

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consider supernatural and such. But it's just kind of calm

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for us, especially most of us who are older and

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grew up without running water and electricity, that sort of stuff.

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And plus we were a lot more isolated from the

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outside world, so a lot of things that would happen

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just opened our eyes and made us aware that there's

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more out there than what you know, the typical, you know,

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civilized life is like, I guess that's this way I

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could explain it absolutely.

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Would you say that Bigfoot was a part of your

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culture when growing up or did that realization come in

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at a later time.

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It came in at a later time, But I did

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hear stories as I was older, I did hear stories

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about them already in our mountains and a lot of

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the stories go way back, but it's not something that

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they talked about as I was growing up. It later

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in my life I did hear a lot of different

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stories and still to this day there's sightings, a lot

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of sightings, and of course word of mouth and as

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gets around real fast.

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Absolutely well, Terry, I would say, you know, feel free

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to I know that you have a certain way that

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you're wanting to present your experiences today, so feel free

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to take us back to the first thing that you

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were wanting to share in this conversation today.

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Okay, Well, I've lived in the Seattle area for around

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twenty five little over twenty five years, and I have

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become acquainted. That's how I've learned about more about subsquatches

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such from the natives up here. So as on social

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media got more popular and you know, groups started, a

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lot of the native groups would talk about you know,

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fightings and stuff, and I would start, you know, understanding

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more about you know. I always thought it was up

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here from the stories that I had heard, like from

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the books and such, and but there would actually the

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actual things posted in the groups, like there was a

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sighting in this area with this tribe and they would

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all go out and kind of watch and listen and

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report what they would what they would hear, and so

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I became a little more aware of it like that,

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and it just along with that I heard about other

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types of entities that I didn't know existed, and I thought,

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then I started to realize that there's more out in

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the world and just what I grew up with. But

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in about twenty twelve, I went back to the reservation

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to help my parents out. And there's not a lot

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of jobs on our on our reservation, so it was

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one of the seasons that you know, we had a

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lot of opinions falling from the trees, the pine nuts,

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so that was one of the big winning makers to

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go pick opinions and process cleaning them and cooking them

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and then bagging them out and selling them. So that's

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what I was doing with one of my friends, and

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we'd go up in the mountains into very remote areas,

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and usually we would set up a place that we

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would have like our center. We would have like a

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radio plane so that we wouldn't kind of launder too far.

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We'd go like circle that area where we could hear

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our music. And then when we clean up to that area.

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We moved to another area, and know, I just had

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a feeling like I wasn't alone, even though, you know,

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like I was speaking one area and my friend was

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picking on the other side of our little circle there

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within range of the radio, so I knew it wasn't

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close by, but I just had a feeling that I

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wasn't alone. But it didn't really feel fearful. And that's

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one of the things I go by, is feeling fearful.

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If I actually feel like something's a threat, you know,

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if I don't, then I just go home. Probably by

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about a third trip, we would just go every day

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because it was really plentiful. And our third trip, you know,

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I'd be crawling around on the ground on my hands

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and knees and would hardly ever look up. And you're

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picking them up one by one. You got a badge

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with you, and you're throwing them in the bag. And

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then I began to find little piles of them, like neat,

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little piles, like little pyramid piles, like somebody just you know,

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carefully let it pour out, and then I would look

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at it and look around, but I didn't. It's like

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that's kind of strange, So I just picked up the pile.

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I started crawling around again. Then I find another pile somewhere,

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as you know, as I'm going along, and by my

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third pile, I looked around. I looked at my bag

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to see if I had a hole in it, and

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I looked around for footprints, like meeting somebody who's paid

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putting a trick on me. And the ground's too hard

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to really see. So I just put the pile back

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in my bag and I just shouted out, thank you,

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you know, And that day I had quite I had

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gotten quite a bit more than I'm w we do.

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I went home to my family and they're saying, wow,

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you really did good today. I go, yeah, I had help.

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They looked at me and they go help. I go yeah,

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I go, I go yeah, I thinks would help me.

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And they kind of chuckled. But then they looked at

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me to go really, I go, yeah, I think so.

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And you know it sounds like, you know, make believe that.

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It's just that's just what I felt. And so through that,

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through that fall, we were still continuing to pit. Every

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day we go to that same that same ridge, because

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especially after the snowstorm where the opinions would fall. So

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one day we're making our way back up onto that

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ridge that we were blocked the road as block and

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there were helicopters, like a helicopter flying over that ridge

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and said no entrance except for the residents that lived

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down that road. M hm. And you know, we're like, well,

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I wonder what happened. I don't know how we heard. Uh,

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there was a rumor that a saw squatch had been shot.

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And then you know, for me, I felt bad because

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I thought that that's that's the one that was helping me. Uh,

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it was through a family member. It was like a

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cousin of a cousin that lived in that area, and

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they had actually did shoot one kind of like at dusk.

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They saw one taking you know, like sheet and they

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didn't know what it was, so they shot shot it.

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So I was kind of angry about that whole deal.

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We couldn't pick up there for about for a few

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days because they had the road blocked. And and this

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is when you're the canyon where our our canyon candy

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to shape. So one day driving in town, which which

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where the mountain the mount of the canyon is, and

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coming from that road from that area, there was a

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convoy of navy glue unmarked government vehicles coming from that direction,

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like a convoys, seven of them. I think I counted

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about seven of them, and they're coming out of that area,

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and it was upsetting because I knew what they were carrying.

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So that was you know, I was angry about it

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being shot, you know. But it wasn't until like a

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couple of years later that I heard more on story

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and the family that had shot it. They weren't told

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to keep quiet about it, but eventually where it came

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out about it and found out that it was a

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young female and they took it away and through the

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next week they had to deal with another one that

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was running around screaming and the rocks at the house,

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and I'm upset about the whole thing that just totally happened.

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But through the years I heard that I I told

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a story in one group and I got confirmation from

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an ex police officer. He told me, he goes, so

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it was true, and I go you, I go, you

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heard about it. He goes, yeah, it came over. It

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was it was. It came over to get other radio

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and I go, yeah, it was true. So mm hmm.

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He was glad to know that, you know, it was

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something that actually happened. And then I heard through somebody

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else and they had heard it heard about it too

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through the word of mouth. But the family that did,

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you know, shoot it, they did. They were all there

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in muse fool once they had figured out what they

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had shot, uh, because you know, they've been there all

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this time, and of course we leave them alone, they

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leave us alone. But you know, if they had known

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what it was, they wouldn't have shot it. You know,

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it's something that a lot of the families that live

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at the base of the mountain know that if one

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takes the sheet, they just let it go. It's you know,

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kind of like a loud So that was one incident,

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and like the most that the incident that really told

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me it was true because in a way I had

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confirmation that had happened. So through the years of you know,

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i'd say it getting into the big Foot groups and stuff,

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and I had never heard anything before about their language

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or you know, the theory of their cloaking. But as

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I listened and started watching some of the the films

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and stuff about it, it kind of dawned on me

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about some of the things that the language I had

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actually heard, but I hadn't mistaken it for something else,

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because there was another time we're up on a different mountain.

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It is in the summer. We go to a family

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land and just to cool off, because you know, it's summer.

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It's in the desert and in the mountain would be

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at least fifteen between each Greece degrees cooler. So we

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go up on a mountain and we're a good gown

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or something. So this one area we went went to,

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as we came through the pine trees and stuff, and

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we're coming to this big opening where we're gonna cook out,

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I heard like voices in my head, which is you know,

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and I know it sounds crazy, but it just and

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then it's just to me. It sounded like a bunch

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of voices chattering, and they're all talking at once, and

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I couldn't understand them. And as we parked, I had

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told my mom, I go, I go, I heard voices.

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When we pulled in, I go, I heard voices. I go,

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I go. I couldn't understand them. There were too many

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talking at once. I go, I go. I think it

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was I told her, I think it's the massigns. We're

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talking up here. The massigns are like the Grandma's, like

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the elders. So I thought it was something like spirit,

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you know, and I go, I go, it's just a

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lot of chatter. I couldn't understand it. So as we're

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setting out to cook and everything, my mother kept looking

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towards that direction where the road came and where we

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came and and then I asked her, I goes, what's wrong.

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What do you see? She goes, something like a shadow.

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She goes really tall, She goes kind of like it's

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got a hat on or something, is really tall. She said,

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keeps going. They keep going from three to three. But

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when I looked, they're not there. Anyone just brushed off

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and we continued with our meal for that day. So

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it wasn't until like years later when I heard a

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recording of the chatter, I realized that is exactly what

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I heard. And then, you know, so I put that together

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and I thought, wow, you know, it's kind of with

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just a realization and understanding, okay, but it's so weird

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because I feel like it was in my head. It

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was I didn't hear it physically. I heard it in

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my head and it was something I had never heard before.

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And then another probably like another year later or so,

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I saw one of the films about the cloaking and

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there was an actual picture. And you know, this is

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before AI really went crazy. So this is I don't know,

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probably about eight years ago or so, and saw somebody

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had posted this film one that they thought was cloaking.

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And then I just kind of thought at the same

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time that, well, maybe that's what my mother saw because

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she could see something moving like a shadow or something,

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but she couldn't really see it, but she knew it

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was all. So that was like my conclusion, you know.

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And you know, so I told her about that, she goes, well,

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probably maybe, you know, I guess in a way, we

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just kind of take things, you know, into consideration or

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just like, yeah, that's probably what it was. You know.

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It's just because of the things that we grew up with,

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we always know that there's more out there that we

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can't see, but they are there. But like I said,

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there was always when she talked to her coworkers and stuff,

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there'd be a report of one that one lady was

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looking through her binoculars towards the mountain the base of

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the mountain, and she saw one actually taking a sheep

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and climbing up the rocks. Are the stories of one

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of my uncles who told me of a story that

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somebody told him about him, like trying to get tight

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out on isolated road one night. He couldn't get a ride,

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so he crossed the ditch and found a place by

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some rocks and went to sleep. But he was woken

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up in dull night by the sounded like, you know,

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the earth kind of rumbling, and when he looked up

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he could barely see. But when he looked up or

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in the rocks, he saw it like, oh, I don't know, probably,

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he said, I guess. He said something like forty to

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sixty of them, all going in one direction, and then

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of course he just kind of slumped back down and

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let it go by out like it was like out

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in the field away from him. So these are stories

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that you don't get passed around us all the time.

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One of my uncles said that ones always going by.

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He showed me pictures of the ones that went behind

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his trailer where he lives. Uh. But like I said,

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a lot of stories on the reservation about them. Uh.

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Even my grandparents have some that I learned later that

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they would try to lure you know, kids into the

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woods and stuff, and they would actually have to stop

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one of my aunts, which is a little girl from

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from following. Like it was, they were camping out and

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sleeping in the back of the truck and they would

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have to uh keep an eye on her because of

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the middle of the night, she would just start walking

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towards the you know, get out of the truck and

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start walking toward the woods. So, like I said, it's

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just been a whole lot of stories and still hear

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stories ongoing basis, but that was my biggest story, and

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you know, and you know, just kind of what happened

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in the beginning. And then my last encounter was in

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twenty twenty three. I had worked several seasons up at

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Northbroom with the Grand Canyon, and toward the end of

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the season in twenty twenty three, I had gone home

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for my weekend and as I was going back to work,

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I was going back up on the Kaida Plateau. And

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as you're climbing, you go on you know, the winding road,

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and then once you reach the summit, you come right

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around a corner and then it kind of flattens out

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and so surrounded by on resipplies, and it was about dusk,

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so it wasn't still a little light. And I had

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a line of cars behind me following me up up

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the mountain, and so it's as I come around the corner,

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there's two dirt roads that go off in both directions

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left and right right after you come up around that corner,

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and they're wide. They're very wide because a lot of

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people pull off right there and stop and rest, and

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it's just right way. And I came off around that corner,

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there was a figure that was crouching down, probably about

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thirty feet off the road there on my right side,

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and I was crouched down and I could see the

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silhouette of it, and it was like crouch down a

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one me with the other leg extended out to the side.

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And I just kind of thought, that's strange. Who's way

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out here and there's no vehicle around, And I thought,

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that's really strange. But I can't stop. I had to

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keep going because I got a line of cars behind me.

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And then as I got down the road a few miles,

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I just had to pull over because like all of

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a sudden, before I couldn't make out what I saw,

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but as I got down the road, it was like

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all of a sudden, the picture became very clear when

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I saw and then I finally could see the details.

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And the first thing I thought was, how did you

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do that? Because what I think, like I said, they've

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been in my head before. And as funny as that

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me sounds of young people, you know, I know a

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lot of people could laugh at all this, But it

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was just like I just kind of thought casually about

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it and then drove off. But as I got down

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the road, I started I couldn't stop thinking about it,

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and then I started seeing the details. I remember the details,

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and then I could remember seeing the shape of the head,

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also the fact that it wasn't smooth like you could see,

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you know, the hair. The lake that was extended out

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to the side was extremely long, but it wasn't very

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It wasn't like I would expect to be thick. It

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was and muscular. It was like kaya thin thinner line

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would you know, think of a sasquatch. And because I

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was thinking, I didn't see any outline of clothing. It

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was just all dark. But I remember, so I remembering

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the details at the top of the head was like

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fuzzy like, and then once the biggest memory that came

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was the highlighting of the face, kind of that like

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the protruding part, a triangular like an upside down triangular

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part protruding from from the head. I couldn't see details

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of an eye, but I could see like the brow,

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the brow light that heart highlighted down around the nose.

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And that's what I remember seeing highlighted. It was protruding

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from from from the dark space, the silhouette. And I

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just when I parked, I thought, how did you do that?

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How you know, how did you do that to me?

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You you know, I saw you. Yeah, that gang, They're

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in my head. They're always going to be in my head.

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But I can still see the image very clearly. But

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I just in my mind as I said, okay, well,

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thanks for showing yourself, you know. And I wondered if

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anybody else behind me saw it, because it wasn't that

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far after the UH. A few weeks later, my mother

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told me, don't go back there, but of course I did.

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I went on that road back there, just to see

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there's any sign of anything. That It was a few

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weeks later, and of course there was no sign of

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anything back there on that road that goes forward toward

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that area, but just out of curiosity, I had to

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go and look. I I'm always on my own and

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I just always go on the back rooms and stuff

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just to explore. I've always explored things. Even as a

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young girl, I would go up on horseback and explore

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all by myself. But those are the two main incidents

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that I had. But I'm always expecting something. And now

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I'm back up in Washington State and i'll be out

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in the Olympic Peninsula, and I had worked out there

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before for a season, and I've been out and around

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and on the trail of this stuff I was expecting.

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But I haven't had an experience out in Washington yet.

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But another thing that happened that I still wonder about

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happened to me up in King's Canyon Sequoia National Park.

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I worked there for a short short while in the

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winter time, and I'm still trying to put this together.

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This was probably in twenty twenty two, I think, I'm

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not I can't really remember the date because I was

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there for such a short time, but we had a

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really heavy winter. My truck was totally covered with snow.

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I had to dig it out from top to bottom.

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It was just one big mount of snow. But I

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woke up the middle of one night and I looked

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out my room out my window from my room and

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I had this view out into the woods, and I

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had woke up and I saw like lights, three lights across. Oh,

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you could probably consider it about a quarter mile away

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or less. It's hard for me to tell exactly the distance.

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But I saw these lights and it was they were

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moving smoothly. They started out from the right of my

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view and made their way to the center, and I

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just watched them move, and I just kind of thought, oh, well,

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I'm not sure if anybody can walk out there because

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the snow is so high. I'm five to three and

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the snow is up to my hips. It would be

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hard to just walk out there. And I thought, well,

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we got a lot of the maintenance guys worked through

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the night with the machinery, clearing the roads on a

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constant basis. Maybe that's what it is. Because I had

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come into the property at night in the snow, I

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didn't really know the roads yet. So when we had

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gotten a clear day and as warm, I decided to

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walk on the road off the property to see what

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would have been over there. Were there cabins over there,

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something I didn't know. I just I started walking on

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the road that went around to that area. And as

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I started down that road, I had crossed over a

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little bridge that covers across like a creek that goes

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to the lake that is right there. There's a little

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lake there that's the property is on. But as I

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was walking down the road, I was descending. I wasn't

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going not straight across. I was descending, and the land

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was a little bit slightly higher than the road, but

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it was also descending. And I walked for a while

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and went around a corner and I kind of looked

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at the situation of where my room was and straight

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across the whereas all the lights and the land is

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not as it was not high enough for somebody to

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be walking over there or driving or anything. There's no

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road there neither, because the road I was on is

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going down. So it was just an interesting thing that

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I saw. As lights, I don't know if they were

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orbs or anything, but there were three lights straight across

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from my room, across like a wide area where the

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creek was and it all went down for a field

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from there. So I heard about the stories about orbs

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and associated with with big cuts and stuff like that.

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So I don't know if that's but I have seen

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other orbs before growing up, and I don't know if

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it could have been anything spiritual or anything to do

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with them. But that was the other thing that happened

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to me on one of my work workers, and I

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just thought it was interesting and I'm still trying to

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piece that together. That's for me to always piece these

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stories together and try to figure out what it was

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and what caused it and everything. But those are probably

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my most interesting things that I've had happen.

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Terry, thank you so much for sharing you know what

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you've heard and also what you've experienced as a seasonal

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worker at different parks. Would you hear Bigfoot related things

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shared with other or shared by other workers as well,

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or do you think what you were experiencing maybe was

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was something?

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Everywhere I go, I make it a point to ask people,

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like especially the local community, if there's any stories or

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any sightings. Uh. One one thing that does I do

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remember right now is working up in the Cascade Mountains

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up in a town and one of my coworkers, him

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and another one of my coworkers segments hiking. I can't

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remember what lake they went it to, but they had

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taken pictures of footprints at the edge of that lake.

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And they're both very tall, tall young men, at least

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six feet tall, and they took a picture of the

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footprint and they're pretty tall, and they had they tried

461
00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.760
to follow the stride of the footprints that they found,

462
00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.840
and they had to kind of leap from one footprint

463
00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:51.679
to the other because they were so far apart. I

464
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:54.760
can't remember any other stories right now that I do

465
00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:59.199
make it a point to ask around and here are.

466
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.199
Anythings I think That's great. You're able to do that.

467
00:35:03.840 --> 00:35:11.280
That's really cool. So if you think about everything that

468
00:35:11.320 --> 00:35:15.719
you've heard and you've experienced, do you have any thoughts

469
00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:20.559
about what you think Bigfoot is based on all of that?

470
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:28.320
Well, basically, I think there are a different type of

471
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:35.639
people because of their intelligence and their abilities. I don't

472
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:40.960
consider them an animal. I consider them a different type

473
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:49.519
of people. They all have their own different tribes, also,

474
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:56.079
their own probably their own dialects and languages, and their

475
00:35:56.079 --> 00:36:05.320
own cultures depending by regions. Just because the native we

476
00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:11.400
all have our different little languages and cultures. Also, everything

477
00:36:11.480 --> 00:36:14.880
kind of gets thrown together as one major culture. It's

478
00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:21.079
not so. I believe. I believe they have their own

479
00:36:21.119 --> 00:36:26.320
different groups and everything, and I believe that they probably

480
00:36:26.360 --> 00:36:31.920
have their own meetings also, And I believe they all

481
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:34.679
have different you know, from what I've seen or heard

482
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.960
that they look different in different parts of the world,

483
00:36:39.039 --> 00:36:44.920
and even in our country, they all have different temperaments.

484
00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:48.440
Probably the ones that are living very remote in the

485
00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.639
mountains and stuff are less tolerant than the ones that

486
00:36:51.719 --> 00:37:00.719
they're close to society. But that's for me. For me,

487
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:06.880
it's just always it's a different type of people, and

488
00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:14.159
they deserve a lot of respect, and we do respect

489
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:14.920
and very much.

490
00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:21.840
What do you think the best ways to show them

491
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:25.360
respect would be if you're going out into an area

492
00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:32.440
where there could definitely be bigfoot activity, well.

493
00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:38.800
Just go about your business if they want you, if

494
00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:41.239
they want to let you know they're there. They will

495
00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:49.920
try to have an open mind about it and realize

496
00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:54.360
that there is more in this world than just what

497
00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:59.559
you know you're basically seeing, and that'll help you get

498
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:01.320
over the shoe or that's one of the things I

499
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:04.039
read about these stories that people that when they encounter

500
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:11.400
does these beings, that they get traumatized by it. It's

501
00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:18.679
because it breaks their perception of the world. And I

502
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:21.800
don't think anybody should be traumatized unless they're threatened, because

503
00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:23.960
if it was going to hurt you, it's gonna hurt you.

504
00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:29.239
But you need to have an open mind so that

505
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:37.079
you're you're not I guess, injuring yourself in your you

506
00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.840
know your psyche and hour. It's better to have an

507
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:46.599
open mind as something that seems unreal and can't possibly

508
00:38:46.840 --> 00:38:50.719
be there. If you open your mind that it is there,

509
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:57.360
you're not going to be traumatized. But being respectful is

510
00:38:57.440 --> 00:39:01.840
just backing off and letting them have their way. I

511
00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:04.159
would even talk to them and say, oh, you know,

512
00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:08.960
like I'm sorry, I'll just I'm just going back over here,

513
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:14.440
because I believe they can understand. Even if they don't

514
00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:20.079
understand the language, they can they can read it in

515
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:22.599
your mind. And you just basically have to show them

516
00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:29.039
respect because you're in their territory and I believe they

517
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:31.639
are very curious and it's probably been a lot for

518
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:43.000
them to understand us, and they're curious that I'm just

519
00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:46.599
showing respect for anything. If you're out in the woods

520
00:39:46.639 --> 00:39:49.679
of stuff, you don't want to do things to make

521
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:55.119
them angry, and that includes and polluting their world. I'm

522
00:39:55.159 --> 00:39:58.239
sure they don't like seeing garbage laying around things like that,

523
00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:09.320
respecting their privacy, respecting distance, and I'm sure they know

524
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:14.880
what firearms are, and and like I said, if they

525
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:18.719
want to hurt you, I'm sure they will. But the

526
00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:25.079
other thing I wanted to mentioned knows as I believe

527
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:27.199
they are a type of people, and I believe they're

528
00:40:27.199 --> 00:40:29.320
a natural part of this world. And there's so many

529
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:38.559
theories right now that they're somewhat related to alien you

530
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:44.760
know things. I have a different perspective on that. I

531
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:50.320
think that they are probably being studied. I don't think

532
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:54.000
they are being set here. I believe they're already here,

533
00:40:54.039 --> 00:41:00.239
but they're just also being studied, and maybe they're want

534
00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:09.519
accepting of what's going on in there, probably able to communicate. So,

535
00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:12.760
like I said, it's an open mind. I know it

536
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:19.159
sounds creaty some people, especially people who are granted in

537
00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:23.320
the cities and the suburbs and everything and don't really

538
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:33.679
have much experience with the natural world. But that's that's

539
00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.000
my theory, And like I said, I know a lot

540
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:39.440
of people laugh about it and stuff, but that's my theory,

541
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.840
and that's what I would pass on to our younger

542
00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:52.599
people is, uh, don't don't give into your fears. Be

543
00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:53.280
open minded.

544
00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:58.199
That that is really really good advice. Do you. Let's say,

545
00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:03.119
if someone just they want to get out there, they've

546
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:05.760
got so much fear, have you found there's a way

547
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:07.960
to get over that fear, like the fear of when

548
00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:12.519
you're outdoors in these areas it's dark out, you don't

549
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:14.639
know what else is out there. Is there a way

550
00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:17.519
that someone can can get over that.

551
00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:24.199
Well, for me, it's just been exposure to a lot

552
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:29.280
of things growing up. When I was a child, I

553
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:35.880
was extremely afraid. But I believe that my grandfather showed

554
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:41.440
all of us through example to not be afraid. That

555
00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:46.199
he would just I don't know, if you want to

556
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:53.079
hear about some of the experiences growing up, I'll tell

557
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:56.079
you a little bit about like when they talk about

558
00:42:56.079 --> 00:43:00.480
things like skin walkers as such, and it was a

559
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:11.960
very real thing and and basically what we encountered was

560
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:19.400
then more like coming around and trying to just cause

561
00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:25.719
problems for you. They would come around the house and

562
00:43:26.199 --> 00:43:29.519
you could hear the dogs just going crazy, and they

563
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:31.639
would come around the house and they play with the

564
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:37.079
door knobs and scratching the windows as such, and we

565
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:39.000
don't know what they're really tent was, but they were

566
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:44.199
basically just kind of harassing us in a bit. My

567
00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:50.440
grandfather was just one of those who'd get up, he'd

568
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:57.079
be upset. He always had his songs that he was

569
00:43:57.159 --> 00:44:02.679
singing for protection. To get up, go to the door,

570
00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:06.159
drab a weapon if you have one there he go

571
00:44:06.239 --> 00:44:08.079
out the door and he would just cuss it out

572
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:12.320
and tell her to go away. And we would follow

573
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:14.800
him to the door, and if we were brave enough,

574
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:17.400
we would look out the door. There's probably only one

575
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:23.440
time that I saw with but he would just you know,

576
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:29.079
Chris hadn't go away and everything. And I seen other

577
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.079
relatives of mine if they simp down and tell them

578
00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:38.519
I know who you are and you know and you know,

579
00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:47.000
leave us alone, and basically I see those strong people

580
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.320
kind of face up to it step and I realized

581
00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:57.000
that's basically what I have to do is just be strong.

582
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:04.320
Be strong, because if you're in that situation where you're

583
00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:07.639
out and you're afraid, you can't give into the fear,

584
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:12.599
and we have the strength within ourselves to word off

585
00:45:13.639 --> 00:45:22.320
bad things. So if they're out there looking, they can't

586
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.519
get in your head. And you need to just get

587
00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:29.800
over the fear because the fear is going to cause

588
00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:35.239
you more harm than anything else and try to be

589
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:38.960
logical about the thing that the whole situation, and you

590
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:46.920
can't speak to them through your mind and just say

591
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:52.280
I'm I'm curious, I'm sorry, I don't you know, be

592
00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:58.400
truthful about which why are you there? But fear is

593
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:01.639
just something that you you just have to stand up

594
00:46:01.639 --> 00:46:05.119
to it because if you don't, you're going to hurt yourself.

595
00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:12.880
M you can hurt your own your own site, you know,

596
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.320
your mind, you can hurt your mind. Just you know,

597
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:19.639
that's the place where people I have to deal with

598
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.840
the trauma because they got so afraid that they do

599
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.840
damage a part of their brain. And I believe that

600
00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.480
we're strong enough to just stand up to the fear

601
00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:39.039
and like I said, again, just be very respectful.

602
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:46.480
Well, I think that is some great advice. Thank you

603
00:46:46.559 --> 00:46:48.960
so much for sharing it.

604
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:56.880
I'm very glad to share it. And there's just a

605
00:46:56.880 --> 00:47:00.480
lot of stories going around and misconceptions about things stuff,

606
00:47:00.519 --> 00:47:08.039
and I'd like to give my side what I've you know, learned,

607
00:47:08.360 --> 00:47:13.559
And like I said, growing up, my grandfather's stories and

608
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:19.639
his encounters with different things and how he handled situations.

609
00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:22.039
I didn't realize it until I was much older that

610
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:26.199
I had learned a lot from him, especially when I

611
00:47:26.239 --> 00:47:29.320
had returned to the reservation as no longer kid. I

612
00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:35.480
was much older, and I felt things that used to

613
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:40.000
scare me. I had no more fear. I was just

614
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:45.719
able to let it go. That's it.

615
00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.559
Well, Terry, I appreciate you coming on the show today

616
00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:52.800
and thank you for teaching us us some things from

617
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:56.440
a viewpoint that most listeners will not really be able

618
00:47:56.480 --> 00:48:00.400
to experience that. And but I think there's been some

619
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:03.960
great things shared about how we can get over fear

620
00:48:04.239 --> 00:48:07.239
when we go out ourselves. And thank you so much

621
00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:08.440
for coming on the show today.

622
00:48:09.920 --> 00:48:13.079
Yes, thank you, I was happy to share. Thank you

623
00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:13.679
very much.

624
00:48:14.559 --> 00:48:17.559
Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity

625
00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:20.840
around Oakridge, Oregon? And you think to yourself, man, I

626
00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:23.719
would love to get out in those woods and experience

627
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:28.280
it for myself. Well guess what this year you can

628
00:48:28.920 --> 00:48:31.880
If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's

629
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.760
pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July tenth

630
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:40.559
through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be

631
00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:44.719
even better than the previous year's reason number one, I'll

632
00:48:44.719 --> 00:48:47.440
be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll

633
00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:52.960
probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't

634
00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:59.199
heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well,

635
00:48:59.320 --> 00:49:01.320
you just got to be there. We'll leave it that

636
00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:04.159
more about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now

637
00:49:04.239 --> 00:49:09.360
check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his

638
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:14.280
documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can

639
00:49:14.360 --> 00:49:17.480
not only go to the festival, but you can also

640
00:49:18.320 --> 00:49:25.079
sign up for a track deep in the wild forest

641
00:49:25.199 --> 00:49:29.840
outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots

642
00:49:30.239 --> 00:49:33.800
to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign

643
00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:37.480
up for this. And yes, this will also be filmed

644
00:49:38.000 --> 00:49:40.719
for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is

645
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Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal.

646
00:49:44.039 --> 00:49:47.119
It's just trus It's going to be a wild, wild experience.

647
00:49:48.760 --> 00:49:52.199
To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest.

648
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649
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650
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651
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So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so

652
00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:16.199
that you guys can can get a little help with

653
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:19.559
the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see

654
00:50:19.599 --> 00:50:23.840
you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can

655
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:26.159
talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so

656
00:50:26.239 --> 00:50:29.800
many people last year and the year before. It is

657
00:50:29.920 --> 00:50:32.760
an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it,

658
00:50:33.079 --> 00:50:37.559
and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode,

659
00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:40.119
I want to say something directly to a very specific

660
00:50:40.199 --> 00:50:43.719
group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch

661
00:50:44.000 --> 00:50:46.719
or forces, and if you've seen something that no one

662
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:49.960
can explain, or if you're a National Park ranger or

663
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:53.599
forestryt worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're

664
00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:57.039
a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground,

665
00:50:57.440 --> 00:51:00.239
or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or

666
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.760
working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed

667
00:51:03.800 --> 00:51:06.880
to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or

668
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:10.519
search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks

669
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:13.679
that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry

670
00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:17.519
on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government

671
00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:21.239
contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told

672
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:24.880
a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist,

673
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:28.440
or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence

674
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:32.199
you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary,

675
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:35.480
or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something

676
00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:37.960
that shook your faith, or if you work in the

677
00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:42.519
shadows CIA, NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen

678
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:46.320
what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you,

679
00:51:47.320 --> 00:51:52.199
even if it's anonymous. You can reach me at Bigfoot

680
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.440
Society at gmail dot com. The world needs to hear

681
00:51:55.639 --> 00:51:59.840
what you've been forced to carry alone. And you're not alone.

682
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:05.639
You've got the story, We've got the mic. See you

683
00:52:05.679 --> 00:52:08.199
in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode

684
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:11.440
of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds

685
00:52:11.519 --> 00:52:14.000
us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think,

686
00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:17.000
and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the

687
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695
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at www dot Bigfoot societypodcast dot com and that's where

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you can hear tomorrow's episode today early in ad free

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in members only episodes every week. Also, it's a place

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to connect with other people that are into the Bigfoot

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subject as much as you are. Thanks again for following

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along with the Bigfoot Society until next time, keep your

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eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop asking what

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else might be out there? And see you in the woods.