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Sept. 20, 2026

He Played a Song Into an Oregon Forest—Then the Knocks Started

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Season 1

Deep along Oregon’s Siletz River, Nick from Backwoodz Bigfoot carried a speaker into the mountains and played an unfamiliar song across a remote forest valley. Whoops, tree knocks and movement began rising from the timber—and the responses appeared to come from multiple directions.


Nick returns to Bigfoot Society with recent reports from the Oregon Coast, including a figure seen beside a creek, a photographer followed along the trail at Munson Creek Falls, repeated activity near Mount Hebo and two encounters reported on the same island in Detroit Lake.


He also takes us inside the 2026 Sasquatch Summerfest in Oakridge, where private conversations with legendary researchers led to stories involving caves, close-range encounters and unexplained nighttime activity beside a tent.


This episode travels through some of Oregon’s most active Bigfoot country with a researcher who continues returning to the locations where witnesses say something is waiting in the woods.

Resources:

Backwoodz Bigfooot:
https://www.youtube.com/@backwoodzbigfoot

https://www.tiktok.com/@backwoodzbigfoot

https://www.instagram.com/backwoodzbigfoot/\

Ben’s channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@northwestsasquatchStudies

Mamuna Song:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IFkzqsU8AzQ?si=bcfQnPfgTQaVwIL6

The first Backwoodz Bigfoot episode:
https://youtu.be/KTcyK-J-Qp8?si=KXEz697RMCAZBQ_e



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So I played it and I heard whoops and tree

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knocks and all this like rustling around.

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Along a remote BLM road above Oregon's Siletz River, Nick

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from Backwoods Bigfoot played an unfamiliar song across a deep valley.

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Something appeared to respond from the surrounding timber. What brought

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him to that particular stretch of forest in the first place?

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I'm Jeremiah Byron, and this is Bigfoot Society. All right,

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Bigfoot Society. The privilege of talking to Nick from Backwoods

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Bigfoot out there in the great state of Oregon today.

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Nick has been on the show before. I'll have that

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episode linked in the show notes. But welcome back, Nick.

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How are you doing, man?

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I'm doing good, man. Thanks for having me.

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Absolutely.

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How are you doing?

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You know, we were talking a little bit before, and...

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It's getting a little interesting. As the cycles of the

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treatment go, I get more and more tired, but I'm

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just having to be a little bit more, you know,

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just do things a different way, and I think it's

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working out. But yeah, we're getting through it. I'm recording

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this September... was this the ninth, eighth or ninth? So

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we're about halfway through and, and people will hear this, uh,

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maybe a few days after that. We'll see. But, um, yeah, doing,

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doing good for the most part. Thank you so much

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for your, for, for asking dude. Appreciate that.

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Yeah. Yeah. We're all thinking about you and worried about you. And,

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you know, there's a lot of people that care. So we, uh,

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We're wishing you the best, man. Thank you.

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Thank you, man. I appreciate that. Before we get going,

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just in case, uh, you know, listeners haven't heard the

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first one, which I really recommend that you go and

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listen to after this. Uh, what, what, what is Backwoods

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Bigfoot for, for the, for the listener who has never

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been able to, to meet you or hear about you before, Nick?

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Yeah. Well, um, that's probably a good place to start. Um, and, uh,

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since you brought it up, you guys can go check

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it out on YouTube, or Instagram, or TikTok, or Facebook,

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and it's Backwoods Bigfoot, all one word, instead of an S,

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it's a Z, so Backwoods with a Z, Bigfoot, all

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one word, so I guess the best way to describe

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it is just me going out in the woods. I

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guess the YouTube channel is the main, the main focus. Um,

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but it's just me going out in the woods filming. Um,

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and sometimes it's just random spots around where I live.

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I live on the Oregon coast, like the central coast. Um,

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so there's the coastal range mountains and I'm in between

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Newport and Tillamook and Tillamook has a lot of, bigfoot

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action and actually you know i get reports or just

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talking to people in town um and then i'll go

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go out there and film and look around um but

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sometimes just me going out in the woods pick a

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random day random spot and go out and look um

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but i've been doing it for a couple years in Uh,

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I wish I had more time to do it, you know,

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like twice a week or something, but with life and

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family and kids and work, I work in, uh, vacation rentals.

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So like summer is super crazy. Um, but it's, it's fun.

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And I, I enjoy it. I enjoy being out in

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the woods the most. And, um, I actually went to

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one of the most prestigious, uh, uh, I guess video

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production film schools in the world, Portland Community College. So

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maybe it's not prestigious, but so I learned how to

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do a little video and editing and graphics and stuff.

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So that's fun. So I get to put that to use.

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And so, yeah, it's just me out in the woods.

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Sometimes I have people looking for Bigfoot, basically.

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Which is, which is awesome. So a few things, um,

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talking about the backwoods Bigfoot channel, uh, and a little

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bit of humor there about, you know, Portland community college,

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which we probably lost a sponsor there. Nick, I'm just kidding. Um, but,

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but your stuff is, is solidly filmed and also, uh,

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it's just all around really good. Um, the, the thing

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I really, your area, you mentioned you're out on the coast.

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There's not a lot of like unless I haven't found them,

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but there's not a lot of people that film Bigfoot

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stuff out on the coast. So that is, that's very

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special as, as well. I mean, I guess maybe what's

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his name?

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Ben. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's actually, he lives like 10

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minutes away from me. But he does like a lot

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of the, Ben Dews or Corey. Yeah, his stuff is cool.

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We keep meaning to go out together. So one of

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these days that will happen and that will be very cool. Yeah,

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there's not a lot. I mean, there's that group. I

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can't remember their name that does a lot of Telemuc stuff.

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I'll put it in the comments when I remember.

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Okay, that's solid. Do you remember what Ben's name is

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he goes by is it northwest sasquatch studies maybe.

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Yeah studies and research i think okay yeah that's.

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Right yeah i'll have it linked in the show yeah.

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Yeah he's really cool really nice um and someday we

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will have a collaboration video um but yeah there's not

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a lot but what's weird is there's a lot of

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people in bigfoot uh you know like uh that flash

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of beauty documentary with Jack who saw the, the, uh,

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the Bigfoot turned into a deer or the deer turned

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into a Bigfoot. He lives in this town. Biko from

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expedition Bigfoot lives in this town. This is a tiny town,

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you know? Um, and then, so it's kind of weird

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that Peter Byrne rest in peace lived, uh, like 20

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minutes north here on the coast. So the coast has

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a lot of Bigfoot characters and history. And, you know,

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like my town, there's a Bigfoot restaurant called Squatch Saw

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Me that has some of the best fish and chips

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you ever had in your life. There's Bigfoot statues everywhere.

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There's some music store called Sasquatch Music something. There's, I mean,

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It's everywhere around the coast. Depot Bay, which is the

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next town south, has Bigfoot coffee shop with statues. Yeah,

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it's kind of weird.

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Also, on your Instagram, every once in a while, you're

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posting these pictures, these incredible Bigfoot books you're finding out there.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's just like... It's just like, how in the world

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are you finding these books in the middle of nowhere?

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Yeah, I guess it's luck or something, or I don't know.

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But right by my house, there's this huge used bookstore,

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Bob's Books, and it's cool. It's like, it should be

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in some 80s movie, you know, where just all these

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weird turns and books stacked to the ceiling and books

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on everything you ever thought of. And they get somehow,

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someway get Bigfoot books all the time donated. And luckily

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I found them or find them. Um, like I found a,

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well at a thrift store right across the street, I

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found a Peter Byrne autograph book for two bucks. That's sweet. Yeah.

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It's weird. Yeah. There's, I guess, you know, Oregon probably

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has a lot in the Northwest, just a lot of,

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bigfoot enthusiasts and researchers and as time goes on people

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pass away and their books get donated or something i

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don't know.

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Exactly so and you also i think the one that

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really blew me away was like you found a copy

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of dance orchard's book.

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Is that right oh yeah which is.

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Like crazy to be able to find that super super

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rare and that was autographed too.

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Oh my goodness dude yeah it was like my goodness

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25 bucks.

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That's a steal uh yes good stuff so nick i

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want that the main reason well there are a few

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reasons the main reason i had your back on is

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we just need to catch up second reason though is

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you were able to go to saskatchewan summerfest and uh

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this this last year of 2026 and 2025 we were

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able to hang out and we had a good time

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and you were hanging out at the booth for a

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few hours do we had dude I don't remember if

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you remember some of the conversations that we heard we

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heard some I mean we met the guy who got

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backhanded by Bigfoot right.

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Yeah awesome Yeah, and actually he lives here in town too.

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You were there and he was like, dude, yeah, I'm

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the one that got backhanded by Bigfoot. I was like, dude,

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you totally did. It was wild.

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I'm actually going to go out with him too at

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some point. I see him around town once in a while.

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He and his brother go out all the time, I guess.

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He's nice. He's a cool guy.

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Yeah, he was a nice guy. He was good stuff.

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Yeah.

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How was the festival this year for you, Nick?

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The festival was awesome except the fact that you weren't there.

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Everybody was sad and not to make this about you,

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but I actually was thinking since you decided not to go,

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I was like, man, I don't know if I want

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to go because hanging out with you last time was

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most you know, part of the fun, and I got

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comfortable just hanging, sitting by your tent, eavesdropping on all

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your stories, but I was like, all right, Jeremiah's not going, like,

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so I decided to go, which I'm glad I did,

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but just to say about about you not being able

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to make it that everybody was thinking about you and

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asking about you and, uh, you know, sending their best

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wishes and vibes and prayers and healing and all that.

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So it was, it was really nice. And, um, you

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probably would have been very humbled if you would have heard.

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I mean, I heard it probably a hundred times, not,

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not joking.

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So that's, yeah, that's hard to hear.

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Yeah, the love was definitely there for you, man. And

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you were definitely missed. So hopefully next year we'll be

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back there and carry on. But so I ended up

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going and I had never gone. So I think you

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had Priscilla on recently, right?

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Yeah, yeah, I did.

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Yeah. Yeah. So for those who missed that, Priscilla is

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the one that puts on the whole Sasquatch Summerfest in

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Oak Ridge. And then she has that, what's it called?

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Area 58, right? Yeah, Area 58 Museum. So last year

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I didn't get to go to that because they're too

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busy putting on a festival to have that open. So

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I was like, I'm going to go the day before.

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And Priscilla, she's so nice. She was like, yeah, just go.

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call me when you get to town. I'll make, I'll

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run over there and open it for you. I'm like, okay. Um,

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so I got there the day before and drove by

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the park. And as you know, there was half the

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park was full of cyclists, bicycle people. Right. Um, so

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cause the year before I camped there right on the

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river on the limit and it was awesome. Um, because

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you can bring your tent and camp at this festival.

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But with all those cyclists there, they, of course, took

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my perfect spot right next to the river. So I

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was like, well, and it wasn't as hot as the

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year before, but it was still like 80s, you know.

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So I think I'm just going to try the motel.

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So I got the Blue Wolf, I think it was called.

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It's the one when you first get into town on

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the left, it has like Oh, yeah, for sure. Literally

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a Blue Wolf motel. And for people that don't know,

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Oak Ridge is a tiny little mountain town in the

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Cascade Mountain Range. I don't even know why it's a town.

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I think there was frontier people that got stranded there

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that made a town or something like that.

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It also has a big history with the logging community.

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Oh, yeah, a logging town.

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Yeah, yeah, that's, it's really a logging town, yeah.

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Yeah, but it's, I think there's one light, one grocery store,

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you know, it's a tiny town, but it has a

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lot of, as you know, and your listeners probably know,

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a lot of Bigfoot action over there. Oh, yeah. But,

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so I get to town, get a room at the motel, it's,

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you know, a mountain logging town motel, so it's, It's

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got character for sure. Um, and then I texted Priscilla

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and she's like, Oh yeah, I'm out, out at Mazatlan

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eating dinner. But, uh, Don Monroe's there. You can, you

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can go over there and I'm sure he would love

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to talk to you about Bigfoot. So I'm like, well,

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that's awesome. So, uh, I run over there, which is

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a couple blocks away, really. Um, and go inside, and

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lo and behold, the legendary Don Monroe is there, and M.K.

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Davis were there. Oh, man. Yeah, just hanging out. I

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was like, this is ridiculous, you know? And I had

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never met either of them, so I walked in, I

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was like, hey, how's it going? And they're kind of like, oh,

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who's this guy, you know? And then Don was like, uh,

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who are you? And I'm like, Oh, I'm Nick. You know,

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Priscilla said I could come by and check it out

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and talk to you guys. And he shakes my hand

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and like, I think he's like 93 or something like that.

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He's gotta be, he's far up there.

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Yeah. Yeah. But for those who don't know him, you

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should probably Google him. He's like literally Indiana Jones, you know, he's, uh,

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one of the last true mountain men explorer. I don't

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even know how to describe him. Indiana Jones is probably

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the best description.

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Yeah, that's a great way to say it. It's the

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same guy where I, so I recently talked to Ronnie Roseman.

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It's the same guy that took Ronnie Roseman out in

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the wilderness. And then Ronnie had the tooth infection and

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Don was like, I'm going to pull it out. And

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he's like, no, don't do it.

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I believe it. Yeah. So, so I go to shake

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his hand.

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He grabs my hand super tight, grabs my arm, pulls

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me in and pretends like lifts up his knees that

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he's going to need me in the, in the family jewels,

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you know?

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And I of course went to block it, but he,

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he was literally just kind of.

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Testing me and he's testing.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Seeing my reaction. So that was, I'll never forget that.

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That was hilarious. So, um, I proceeded to hang out

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there for probably like three hours with them. Cause Don was, um,

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he was one of the speakers this year. And so he,

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he had a bunch of his photos and, uh, articles

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and stuff. And he was making like poster board presentations

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for his booth while we were hanging out. So he, he's,

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he's like got glue stick and he's gluing all these pictures.

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So every time he's like, see this, this is what happened.

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This is this, you know, no way. Yeah. So he, uh,

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you know, the love lock caves with the giant skulls.

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Uh, Oh, he was talking to you about going in

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there probably with a more head, right?

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Yeah. And he was, so I guess his, his original

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photos are the ones that everybody uses. I guess he's

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one that, one of the originals that found some of

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the skulls or saw some of the skulls or besides,

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you know, the, the way back story about it, but, um, but, uh,

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and you never quite know what's, uh, true. I mean,

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he's telling the truth, but he likes to, uh, embellish

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a little bit and incredible stories. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

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Hard to believe, but, somehow you believe them when they

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come from him and.

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He's, Oh yeah.

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He's literally like dressed the part. I mean, it was,

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it was really neat to be there to meet him.

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And MK is, I got to hang out with him

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basically the whole time too. And he is, MK Davis

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is literally a Southern gentleman. One of the nicest people

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you ever meet, you know?

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He is a hundred percent.

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Yeah. And, uh, him and Don have a, have a

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nice relationship and they've been out doing stuff and, you know,

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they have a cool kind of teasing banter, back and

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forth so that was really really neat and you know

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and Don found some paper that he wrote and he's

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like here this is a gift from me to you

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and I'm like will you sign it and he licks

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his finger and writes an X on it he's like

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there you go you know this Just stuff like that.

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He ended up signing it for real. Dude.

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Oh, my goodness. Here's my DNA.

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Yeah, I do have his DNA. But he's a character.

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And he literally had, like Indiana Jones, hat on. Had

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a button that said crazy bastard on there. He had

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a Bowie knife that was hand sharpened from probably like a,

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I don't know, over sharpened to where it could slice

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anything you know he's he's literally indiana jones he just

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didn't have the whip basically um so hung out with

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them there for for hours and hours and then ronnie

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shows up.

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Of course nice nice.

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Yeah so it got even better.

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Did when they were just talking did they bring up

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any stuff about bluff creek when they used because the

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two of them would go out a ton.

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Yeah so that was actually kind of weird um because

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i was like yeah they did and don started showing

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me photos he's like don't don't let mk see this

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you know know that i'm showing you these i'm like

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uh okay.

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Right here dude yeah he was.

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I'm like Well, MK was, I think, went to Dairy

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Queen at that time or something.

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Oh, yeah, it was right next door for people.

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Yeah, right next door. Yeah, he wanted some ice cream, yeah. So,

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I don't know what they were alluding to, and it

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might be above my pay grade, but I know MK

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spoke about it, too, at the conference, but From what

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I gathered, because it is hard to understand Don, too,

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because he kind of mumbles, which I do, too, my

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wife says. But, and this is just what I gathered,

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so don't quote me on it, or don't hold me

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to it, but that there was more going on at

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Bluff Creek than... the official story. Right. Yeah.

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That's, that's been a thing with MK for, for quite

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a while. And people can get into that. That's a

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whole rabbit hole.

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Yeah. And I'd heard that before. Um, but I never,

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you know, but it wouldn't surprise me, but MK is

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literally the, the guy for, you know, the Patterson footage. Um,

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As far as I know, you know, he's got all

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the breakdown of the videos and stuff. But yeah, he

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said basically they were alluding to that. There was more

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going on, more Sasquatches and more people. And then I'll

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let anybody that wants to dive down that rabbit hole can. Yeah, exactly.

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There is a video clip. I don't know if you've

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ever seen this.

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It is.

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There's it's on one of those. Forget. what channel it's on,

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but there's all this old video that MK took over

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the years when going to bluff Creek with those guys.

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And one clip is when him and Don Monroe are

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walking around and this is years and years ago. So

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they're younger. And all of a sudden Don Monroe goes

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flying through the air, 10 feet face first into the ground,

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like something pushed him hard and they got it on video.

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Do you know what I'm talking about?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It will make sense now because Don was telling me

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about it. Oh, he was? Okay. Yeah, I never saw

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the video, but he was telling me about it. I

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was trying to comprehend it, you know. And I will

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say this, in some of the pictures that they showed me,

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it literally looked like there was like federal agents or

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men in black type dudes there, like It was with weapons.

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I mean, they had like slacks in a white shirt

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and like ties. It was weird. I was like, maybe

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I don't want to know this. I mean, I do

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want to know it, but should I know this?

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You know, is that when MK was away and Don's.

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Like, Oh geez. Yeah. Yeah. He had him in his pocket.

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Like, Oh, that's wild.

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Yeah. He's like coming through. I'm like, Holy crap, dude.

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Yeah.

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Holy mackerel.

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So yeah.

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I mean, just that, just those three hours is that

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was probably worth you traveling all the way out there.

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No, it was, it was, I was like, if this

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is the first few hours, this is going to be incredible,

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you know? And, um, and then I will, uh, Don

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did tell me the story that, Well, they told me

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like four times. He likes to explore caves a lot. Um,

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and he, I don't even know where it was. Um,

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might've been Montana or somewhere cause he's from Montana, but, um,

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he was with this guy. He calls him the giant,

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but the guy's like six, eight. And I think he's

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like Norwegian or something. Um, and they're exploring this cave.

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and Don always says, well, one, he won't go out

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with anybody that doesn't have a sharp knife. So, um,

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that they carry all the time. And then he doesn't

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like to go out with dogs, but I guess this

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guy had a dog that was super well trained. Um,

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so anyway, they had to rappel down this cliff into

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this cave and, uh, you know, I don't know all

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the details, but the gist of it is something happened

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in there where the dog was alerted and started going

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crazy and they heard sounds and stuff, so they'd leave.

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And Don was the last one out. And Don lifts

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up his flashlight and literally like five feet in front

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of him, a huge... Sasquatch is literally relieving itself in

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front of him as the P is coming down the

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rocks towards Don's location where he's standing.

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Oh my goodness.

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Yeah, and then he ran out of there, obviously.

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Dude, I've never heard that one. That is intense.

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Yeah.

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Okay. Yeah, no, he's totally Indiana Jones of the Bigfoot world.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And, yeah, it was crazy. I mean, he was telling stories.

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He likes to tell stories, so that's good. Oh, yeah, yeah.

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He's good at it, too.

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Yeah, and he's super nice and just, you know, the

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last of a dying breed. You know, he's a pioneer

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mountain man from Montana, you know. Um, and of course

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Ronnie was, Ronnie shows up, so he's telling all his stories. Um,

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so it was quite the day, um, evening for sure. Yeah.

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And that's why I think it's important for people to

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go to events like Sasquatch number fest and there's others

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out there for sure. Because a lot of, as you

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were saying, the last, the generation that is getting ready

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to unfortunately move on, those guys are not on like

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TikTok or like Instagram, but if you can sit down

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with them at these, these festivals out in the middle

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of nowhere, Oregon, you will have conversations that you will

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remember for the rest of your life. And it will

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be totally, totally worth whatever you had to do to

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get there.

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It's awesome. Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

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And that's why I do it.

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Yeah. And, like you said, actually MK brought that up

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because he was saying how there is a generation that is,

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we're losing in the Bigfoot world. He was saying that,

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you know, the torches need to be passed to, and

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people need to be ready to accept it. And I

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think there is people that are ready, like yourself and others.

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But I think the generation that we are currently losing

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and will lose are probably the best out of everybody.

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You know what I mean?

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Oh, it's going to be like, uh, Don Monroe, Ryan Roseman. Uh,

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I feel terrible saying all these names cause.

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They're still here.

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Um, Morehead.

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Yeah. And what's the guy's name? Frank, that past couple.

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Uh, Frank Neister last year. And that one, hits the

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worst because I was able to spend just a few hours,

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but no one really knew who he was. I mean,

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00:29:45.019 --> 00:29:47.180
that's the one that hurts the worst is when no

455
00:29:47.970 --> 00:29:53.950
one really knew about him. So that's wild. That's just

456
00:29:54.329 --> 00:29:56.049
you getting into town the first day. Were you able

457
00:29:56.069 --> 00:30:01.710
to have any other– fun conversations during the festival or

458
00:30:01.950 --> 00:30:03.259
meet anyone cool?

459
00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:07.500
It only got crazier. Oh my goodness. So, and then

460
00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:09.140
speaking of the older generation.

461
00:30:13.900 --> 00:30:15.799
Joe, Joe Beeler.

462
00:30:16.539 --> 00:30:17.380
Yeah, he was there.

463
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:18.529
Wow.

464
00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:24.670
And he's doing a lot better. And he signed my

465
00:30:25.029 --> 00:30:28.190
Bigfoot Highway book, so I was happy with that. But

466
00:30:28.250 --> 00:30:32.369
he was so nice and such a gentleman, too. Him

467
00:30:34.569 --> 00:30:38.650
and his wife were there, and they were just super

468
00:30:38.710 --> 00:30:41.710
nice people. So that was really cool to meet them.

469
00:30:44.029 --> 00:30:46.150
And someday I keep saying I'm going to go do

470
00:30:46.170 --> 00:30:49.609
a video on the Bigfoot Highway, but just running out

471
00:30:49.650 --> 00:30:54.329
of time all the time. But, yeah, so the next

472
00:30:54.369 --> 00:31:00.039
day I go. uh, go back to the actual festival. Um,

473
00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:04.680
cause I was just the night before and, um, kind

474
00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:10.420
of hung out in that same corner where, where we

475
00:31:10.460 --> 00:31:14.900
were at the year prior, you know, side of the stage. Um,

476
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:23.940
and that corner had obviously had, um, old Tobe and

477
00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:29.230
his what's, uh, from Olympic Springs case thank you.

478
00:31:29.210 --> 00:31:31.289
Tobe and Allie and uh.

479
00:31:31.309 --> 00:31:33.849
Yeah Tobe and Allie were over there because Tobe was

480
00:31:34.009 --> 00:31:40.180
emceeing the thing and then um Dr. Robert Allie of

481
00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:47.039
course um and then MK and then Don Monroe had

482
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:50.359
his little setup in that corner too so that oh

483
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:56.160
and then uh Dr. Simeon Hine of course he was

484
00:31:56.220 --> 00:31:58.859
over in that corner and he's such a nice guy

485
00:31:58.900 --> 00:32:04.069
too very smart and got got some good theories so

486
00:32:04.109 --> 00:32:10.930
definitely look into him so that was really cool so

487
00:32:11.089 --> 00:32:16.349
hanging out over there and having fun and listening to

488
00:32:16.390 --> 00:32:19.440
all kinds of all kinds of stories that's like you

489
00:32:19.460 --> 00:32:24.579
were alluding to it's the whole reason to go is

490
00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:30.319
to meet the people. Um, and like, I don't know

491
00:32:30.339 --> 00:32:35.829
if this is like that at every, uh, festival, but

492
00:32:36.930 --> 00:32:41.230
at least at this one, almost everybody that goes has

493
00:32:41.329 --> 00:32:44.289
some kind of story or knows someone that has a story.

494
00:32:44.369 --> 00:32:49.980
So it's literally just everybody going and swapping stories and, uh,

495
00:32:51.130 --> 00:32:54.190
It's really neat to just be there and listen. That's

496
00:32:54.230 --> 00:32:57.769
what I do. I don't offer any stories unless people ask,

497
00:32:57.849 --> 00:33:01.410
but I just listen to all the incredible stories and

498
00:33:01.450 --> 00:33:09.369
meet the neat, nice people. It's definitely worth going if

499
00:33:09.470 --> 00:33:13.400
people are thinking about it. I would definitely do it.

500
00:33:13.390 --> 00:33:18.789
100%. The type of conversations do happen in other places,

501
00:33:18.910 --> 00:33:22.849
but it's more like, I think it's, it feels more

502
00:33:22.990 --> 00:33:26.609
prevalent at this particular festival because everyone is there with

503
00:33:26.630 --> 00:33:29.410
a good attitude. At least the year I, the years

504
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.200
I was there, I'd never had to worry about people

505
00:33:32.700 --> 00:33:37.900
messing around and trying to cause drama and stuff. And

506
00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:41.099
everyone's got a good, good heart and just wanting to

507
00:33:41.140 --> 00:33:44.700
learn and, and share with each other. And the people

508
00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:51.109
you meet make for some really, really great, uh, relationships.

509
00:33:51.210 --> 00:33:53.049
I mean, yeah, exactly.

510
00:33:53.170 --> 00:33:54.569
No doubt about it. Um, yeah.

511
00:33:55.690 --> 00:34:00.549
And I feel like the Bigfoot community as a whole is,

512
00:34:00.930 --> 00:34:05.039
you know, divided and people are kind of cutthroat about,

513
00:34:05.259 --> 00:34:07.240
this is mine and I'm not telling you where this

514
00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:11.280
is and da da da. But at the, at the festival,

515
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:16.530
everybody's open and cool and nice. And, um, it doesn't

516
00:34:16.570 --> 00:34:20.730
seem to be any, animosity or anything like that.

517
00:34:20.670 --> 00:34:23.750
You know yeah i don't know pretty solid yeah and

518
00:34:23.849 --> 00:34:24.349
i i've.

519
00:34:24.269 --> 00:34:29.440
Never experienced any of the negative bigfoot community community stuff

520
00:34:29.460 --> 00:34:32.619
but i'm not like deeply immersed you know i have

521
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.380
i have my toes in it you know not i'm

522
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:38.559
not waiting in it you know what i mean so.

523
00:34:38.699 --> 00:34:41.280
Right yeah yeah no i get i get it if

524
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:44.800
you go on deep enough you'll find it Yeah, I'm sure.

525
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:47.510
I mean, I get crazy comments all the time, but

526
00:34:48.030 --> 00:34:49.090
I think they're hilarious.

527
00:34:49.349 --> 00:34:50.929
Oh, on YouTube, for sure.

528
00:34:51.010 --> 00:34:51.889
Yeah, yeah.

529
00:34:52.570 --> 00:34:54.530
Yeah, no doubt about it. Another guy that was there,

530
00:34:55.090 --> 00:34:58.190
Michael Beavers. Did you meet him? He's more of a

531
00:34:58.289 --> 00:34:59.250
UFO guy, but.

532
00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.739
Michael's a guy I know of, Michael. I've never gotten

533
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.179
to meet him or talk to him, but I know

534
00:35:05.219 --> 00:35:07.880
he's really into UFOs in the area, which is interesting.

535
00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:11.820
Yeah, yeah. He was there, and he actually was one

536
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:21.889
of the speakers in... he's super nice and, uh, just great, great, uh,

537
00:35:22.090 --> 00:35:25.829
reference to have for UFO stuff. Cause there is, as

538
00:35:25.869 --> 00:35:31.789
you know, there's some sort of weird crossover between the two, um,

539
00:35:33.570 --> 00:35:36.559
that is yet to be explained.

540
00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:39.340
I think, uh, a hundred percent, especially in that area.

541
00:35:39.559 --> 00:35:40.800
It's great.

542
00:35:40.920 --> 00:35:45.230
And the words, every goodness, There's some weird stuff going

543
00:35:45.309 --> 00:35:46.190
on in that town, dude.

544
00:35:47.010 --> 00:35:49.710
Oh, yeah. Definitely. No.

545
00:35:52.610 --> 00:35:57.510
There's dwarves and people have told me they've seen fairies

546
00:35:57.570 --> 00:36:03.579
in the woods. They've seen dwarves. They've seen a 12-foot

547
00:36:04.280 --> 00:36:08.500
salamander cross the road by Hills Creek Valley like a dragon.

548
00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:10.440
Really weird stuff, dude.

549
00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:16.530
That is really weird, but I love it. Yeah, that's

550
00:36:16.570 --> 00:36:20.909
the fun part about all this is just, you know,

551
00:36:22.769 --> 00:36:28.070
all the weirdness and strangeness. And the weird part about it, though,

552
00:36:28.130 --> 00:36:33.340
is that it correlates with fairy tales and stories from

553
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.440
hundreds and hundreds of years ago, you know? So it's like,

554
00:36:38.210 --> 00:36:43.940
It sounds outlandish and ridiculous, but it's an age-old story

555
00:36:43.980 --> 00:36:49.239
that keeps popping up. I don't know. It's pretty weird,

556
00:36:49.300 --> 00:36:50.099
but amazing.

557
00:36:50.739 --> 00:36:57.989
It is amazing. So, man, it sounds like it was

558
00:36:58.030 --> 00:37:01.320
definitely worth going out. You had wild times. just talking

559
00:37:01.639 --> 00:37:05.699
to people and meeting people. That sounds fantastic. You're going

560
00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.099
out in the woods over on the coast of Oregon

561
00:37:09.139 --> 00:37:11.340
and you might be going other places as well, but

562
00:37:11.400 --> 00:37:14.969
have you had any interesting things happen out there while

563
00:37:15.010 --> 00:37:19.710
you've been, you know, researching or filming for Backwoods Bigfoot

564
00:37:20.110 --> 00:37:22.309
that have, that really stick out in your mind?

565
00:37:22.329 --> 00:37:26.969
Not, not a lot recently. Well, there is one thing

566
00:37:27.309 --> 00:37:34.199
I got to tell you. So, Um, have you heard online? It's,

567
00:37:35.739 --> 00:37:41.409
it's like the song of Mamuna. Uh, it's like, uh,

568
00:37:42.769 --> 00:37:46.690
this tribe in like South Papua, New Guinea or somewhere

569
00:37:46.730 --> 00:37:51.710
like that. And they, they sing this incredible, beautiful chant

570
00:37:52.050 --> 00:37:56.099
and chanting song as they walk through the forest. Um,

571
00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:59.159
you got to YouTube it and listen to it. It's,

572
00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:02.119
sometimes I just turn it on when I want to

573
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:07.920
feel happy. You know, it's, it's really weird, uh, beautiful

574
00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:13.070
song that they sing and they're actually great singers. Um,

575
00:38:13.909 --> 00:38:16.469
so I was like, this song is, so I'm like,

576
00:38:16.769 --> 00:38:20.090
I'm going to play this out up in the mountains,

577
00:38:20.610 --> 00:38:26.860
you know? Um, so I have like a little, uh,

578
00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:32.610
DeWalt speaker, you know, um, and I went up there

579
00:38:33.090 --> 00:38:36.409
like kind of close to my house, but up in

580
00:38:36.429 --> 00:38:41.110
the mountains, um, along the Siletz river where there's been,

581
00:38:42.650 --> 00:38:46.750
I've personally talked to people that have seen them out there. Um,

582
00:38:47.230 --> 00:38:53.789
cause there's a native American, um, good size native American

583
00:38:53.849 --> 00:39:00.340
population here. And there's, there's a couple of reservations, grand wrong. It's, um,

584
00:39:01.409 --> 00:39:09.300
So I've heard probably five different stories of Sasquatch up

585
00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:13.119
there in the Sluts River area. So I went up

586
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:19.949
there with my speaker and played this song as loud

587
00:39:19.969 --> 00:39:22.769
as I could. And it was like over this valley,

588
00:39:22.789 --> 00:39:25.690
you know, I was up on a cliff basically. So

589
00:39:25.869 --> 00:39:29.969
it was like super echoey and perfect spot to play anything.

590
00:39:30.139 --> 00:39:35.960
and I usually don't try to do like whoops and

591
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.420
sounds and stuff because I don't know what I'm saying

592
00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:43.929
type thing you know I don't you know what if

593
00:39:43.969 --> 00:39:50.650
I'm you know saying the wrong thing or making fun

594
00:39:50.750 --> 00:39:54.360
of anybody or i don't know just a weird feeling

595
00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:56.559
i get but i was like i gotta try this

596
00:39:56.579 --> 00:40:00.619
because that the song is that cool um and of

597
00:40:00.699 --> 00:40:05.119
course i filmed it but of course the speaker is

598
00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:07.900
so loud that you can't pick up any of it

599
00:40:09.019 --> 00:40:16.010
um so i'm gonna redo it but try to put

600
00:40:16.030 --> 00:40:19.119
the speaker one spot and then go, you know, a

601
00:40:19.300 --> 00:40:23.119
hundred yards to the side and try to record, um,

602
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:27.820
and maybe get a shotgun mic or something hooked up

603
00:40:28.360 --> 00:40:33.829
so I can actually see if I can get a

604
00:40:33.849 --> 00:40:38.050
response that way. But it was really weird, man. You

605
00:40:38.070 --> 00:40:40.329
gotta listen to that song and then you'll, you'll be like,

606
00:40:40.550 --> 00:40:42.110
Oh yeah, that makes total sense.

607
00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:46.650
So You were getting responses to that song, you're saying?

608
00:40:47.210 --> 00:40:49.329
Yeah. Oh, man.

609
00:40:49.389 --> 00:40:52.289
Did that sound similar? Did the responses sound similar to

610
00:40:52.329 --> 00:40:53.260
anything else you'd heard?

611
00:40:54.050 --> 00:40:59.360
Yeah, it was like the normal weird tree knocks, and

612
00:40:59.380 --> 00:41:06.500
then like the, you know, like on the serious sounds,

613
00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:08.449
those whoop, whoop sounds.

614
00:41:09.510 --> 00:41:09.769
Yeah.

615
00:41:11.849 --> 00:41:14.889
And And it was coming from more than one spot. Um,

616
00:41:16.900 --> 00:41:20.079
so that, yeah, that was really cool and really weird

617
00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:22.659
and a little spooky.

618
00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:26.639
So when you're out in this area, like how, how

619
00:41:26.719 --> 00:41:27.719
far out are you?

620
00:41:28.900 --> 00:41:34.659
Um, so if you look at a map and you go, um,

621
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:45.480
up the selects river, um, by the slits Bay. There's, uh,

622
00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:48.480
what highway is that? Hi. Well, not how I want

623
00:41:48.500 --> 00:41:55.300
to one is the, um, but it's two 29. So

624
00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:01.730
that's highway drive. Probably like, probably like 10 miles up

625
00:42:01.809 --> 00:42:06.670
that BLM road, give or take, um, to the middle

626
00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:13.039
of nowhere, basically. Um, and that, The reason I picked

627
00:42:13.059 --> 00:42:15.360
that spot, one, it's close to my house, and two,

628
00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:21.550
I have a video on YouTube, but there was a

629
00:42:21.590 --> 00:42:26.210
guy texted me or emailed in and said that he

630
00:42:26.289 --> 00:42:29.050
saw one, like this was probably a couple weeks ago.

631
00:42:29.070 --> 00:42:35.570
There's a little, that BLM road goes on forever. but

632
00:42:35.949 --> 00:42:38.909
there's like a little bridge and he drove over it

633
00:42:39.210 --> 00:42:41.289
and he looks over at the creek and there was

634
00:42:41.469 --> 00:42:45.869
one just standing there. And then he was like, roll,

635
00:42:45.929 --> 00:42:48.469
went to roll down his window and it took off

636
00:42:48.550 --> 00:42:52.960
into the, like slowly walked, I guess, off into the,

637
00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:56.840
to the bushes. So I was like, well, I gotta

638
00:42:56.860 --> 00:42:58.500
go check that out. So I went down there.

639
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:01.949
Oh my goodness. So this guy contacted you directly?

640
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:03.460
Yeah, yeah.

641
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:05.639
Wow. Because of your YouTube channel, probably?

642
00:43:05.739 --> 00:43:10.300
Yeah, yeah. And I'm local, I think. It might have

643
00:43:10.320 --> 00:43:13.880
been Facebook. No, it was YouTube. Yeah, he emailed me

644
00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:19.750
off my YouTube channel. And so I went out there,

645
00:43:19.769 --> 00:43:27.849
of course, and looked. And it's like thick, thick, trying

646
00:43:27.869 --> 00:43:29.980
to get down to that creek. I got down to it,

647
00:43:30.070 --> 00:43:33.679
but I don't know which... side of the bank he

648
00:43:33.699 --> 00:43:37.679
was on and you know it was i couldn't find

649
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:42.800
anything any clues but um it was definitely super squatchy

650
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:48.219
looking area and a couple weird things did happen one

651
00:43:49.829 --> 00:43:53.230
when i went up from the creek just probably like

652
00:43:53.230 --> 00:43:57.269
50 yards all these crows and birds just started going

653
00:43:57.530 --> 00:44:01.429
crazy like i've had that happen all the time but

654
00:44:01.489 --> 00:44:07.539
this was like weird like over exaggerated so that was

655
00:44:07.579 --> 00:44:12.219
kind of spooky and then i hear a weird you

656
00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:20.019
know the um missing 401 tales from dave um how

657
00:44:20.059 --> 00:44:25.820
sometimes people hear like a mechanical yeah yeah sound well

658
00:44:27.469 --> 00:44:31.650
i heard something just like that and it like like

659
00:44:32.130 --> 00:44:38.929
sounded like If you had a giant chain link fence, like,

660
00:44:38.989 --> 00:44:41.469
made into a box, and you would close the lid

661
00:44:41.510 --> 00:44:46.599
that was chain link and bars and stuff, it would

662
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:49.239
make that ching. That's what it sounded like, and it

663
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:53.320
kind of moved through the forest. I didn't see anything,

664
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.880
but then I looked up, and there was a white...

665
00:44:59.739 --> 00:45:02.019
craft I think it was a plane but it was

666
00:45:02.039 --> 00:45:06.000
literally the exact time like a second after that sound

667
00:45:06.360 --> 00:45:08.880
I look up and all I can see is a

668
00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:11.519
white dot it could have been a plane but it

669
00:45:11.559 --> 00:45:14.130
was really weird it's all in the video too the

670
00:45:14.170 --> 00:45:17.269
birds and the sound I had to turn the volume

671
00:45:17.369 --> 00:45:20.250
up you can kind of hear it but yeah I

672
00:45:20.250 --> 00:45:21.750
was like this is spooky but.

673
00:45:21.829 --> 00:45:25.090
That's why because you're you're out there by yourself about

674
00:45:25.090 --> 00:45:27.050
10 to 15 miles.

675
00:45:26.829 --> 00:45:31.920
Out right yeah yep wow Yeah, that actually scared me.

676
00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:38.219
Usually I don't get scared, but that was scary. Just

677
00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:39.139
the timing of it.

678
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:48.139
So what would that have put the approximate date, or

679
00:45:48.179 --> 00:45:54.199
I guess specific date doesn't matter, but when would that

680
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:57.210
guy have had that sighting up there, do you think?

681
00:45:57.230 --> 00:46:06.349
So it was probably... No, three weeks ago or I

682
00:46:06.469 --> 00:46:10.909
was just three weeks ago or maybe a month ago. Yeah,

683
00:46:10.929 --> 00:46:11.750
it was recent.

684
00:46:12.030 --> 00:46:12.550
Man.

685
00:46:13.070 --> 00:46:13.329
Yeah.

686
00:46:13.389 --> 00:46:18.179
Wow. No way. Yeah.

687
00:46:20.780 --> 00:46:22.099
That that's awesome.

688
00:46:22.900 --> 00:46:23.239
Yeah.

689
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:26.719
Yeah. You got to keep going up there.

690
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:29.940
Yeah. And so that's where I went up to do the,

691
00:46:30.900 --> 00:46:35.800
the sound thing or the, playing to that song and

692
00:46:35.820 --> 00:46:41.460
then heard that, um, that response. So I was actually

693
00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:43.400
going to, cause today's my day off. So I was

694
00:46:43.460 --> 00:46:45.340
actually going to try to go up there today cause

695
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:52.699
it's super nice out. Um, so yeah, it's a good area. Um,

696
00:46:53.460 --> 00:46:57.309
and then another cool spot, um, and I made a

697
00:46:57.349 --> 00:47:02.869
video of the area is Munson Creek Falls. It's in Tillamook.

698
00:47:04.099 --> 00:47:08.320
which is probably like an hour north of where I live.

699
00:47:08.539 --> 00:47:12.909
But Tillamook, as you know, has a lot of... All

700
00:47:12.929 --> 00:47:14.929
the way from Vernonia.

701
00:47:14.550 --> 00:47:18.110
To the coast is just stories.

702
00:47:18.150 --> 00:47:21.510
And you've had people on your thing that have had

703
00:47:21.690 --> 00:47:27.800
encounters in Tillamook, and that's where three of my encounters

704
00:47:28.900 --> 00:47:31.340
or stories come from.

705
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:31.500
So....

706
00:47:34.780 --> 00:47:37.989
Real quick. I was, I went to the Munson Creek

707
00:47:38.050 --> 00:47:42.789
Falls and I went to, um, the Kilchess River, um,

708
00:47:42.869 --> 00:47:49.389
and shot video and, um, Munson Creek Falls, like four

709
00:47:49.409 --> 00:47:53.519
or five years ago when we had, uh, crazy fires

710
00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:59.039
out here, uh, buddy, me and a buddy were camping

711
00:47:59.599 --> 00:48:05.510
in Garibaldi, or not Garibaldi, but like, uh, right past Garibaldi.

712
00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:11.440
And the fires, they closed the campground because you could

713
00:48:11.480 --> 00:48:14.659
see fire up on the hill. So we left and

714
00:48:14.699 --> 00:48:18.179
we went to the Munson Creek Falls and we pulled up.

715
00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:22.320
And so it was kind of a horrible situation because

716
00:48:22.500 --> 00:48:25.659
not only was there fires everywhere, the wind was just crazy.

717
00:48:25.699 --> 00:48:28.300
Like when we came back to our campground, our tent

718
00:48:28.340 --> 00:48:32.880
was in the trees. And then so we went to

719
00:48:32.900 --> 00:48:35.940
Munson Creek Falls. just to hang out for the night.

720
00:48:36.340 --> 00:48:41.889
And there was probably 50 trees knocked down so we

721
00:48:41.909 --> 00:48:44.909
couldn't even make it to the falls. So we just

722
00:48:44.949 --> 00:48:49.250
parked next to the tree that was closest to the

723
00:48:49.309 --> 00:48:53.289
road that we couldn't get over and just walked in there.

724
00:48:53.590 --> 00:49:00.190
And we heard a bunch of kind of the normal

725
00:49:00.750 --> 00:49:03.789
bigfoot what you hear when you think you you're hearing

726
00:49:03.829 --> 00:49:08.940
a bigfoot is the weird tree breaking and weird whoops

727
00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:15.340
and all that stuff um so i'm a lady so

728
00:49:15.380 --> 00:49:18.400
i made a video of that area, and a lady

729
00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:22.219
emailed me, I don't know, I think it's on the

730
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:26.739
actual video, she left a comment saying a couple years

731
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:29.179
ago she was at Munson Creek Falls, and these falls,

732
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:32.329
it's like you park and there's a little hike, like

733
00:49:32.690 --> 00:49:35.070
a quarter of a mile to the falls, not a

734
00:49:35.090 --> 00:49:37.530
bad hike, and you can walk right back. Well, she

735
00:49:38.389 --> 00:49:42.230
parked walked and she had a camera, a nice camera

736
00:49:42.909 --> 00:49:48.650
and a tripod. And all of a sudden in the trail,

737
00:49:48.670 --> 00:49:54.250
you're basically in a ravine. So there's, you can't go anywhere.

738
00:49:54.349 --> 00:50:01.329
You're stuck, cliffs on both sides. And she heard something

739
00:50:02.889 --> 00:50:06.980
up on the hill next to her. And she looks

740
00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:10.639
over and there's a Sasquatch. And it freaks her out.

741
00:50:10.719 --> 00:50:13.579
So she grabs her camera and tripod and starts beelining

742
00:50:13.659 --> 00:50:15.980
back to her car. And it's following her the whole

743
00:50:16.019 --> 00:50:16.440
way out.

744
00:50:16.460 --> 00:50:18.019
Oh, my goodness.

745
00:50:18.739 --> 00:50:21.480
And she was just freaking out. Like she said, it

746
00:50:21.539 --> 00:50:27.920
was just the scariest thing ever. And she, it was,

747
00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:32.030
you know, fight or flight. So she put her, got

748
00:50:32.090 --> 00:50:35.610
back to her car. And she could just tell that

749
00:50:35.809 --> 00:50:38.050
whatever it was came out of the bushes and was

750
00:50:38.110 --> 00:50:43.389
standing there. like at the tree line, just mean mugging

751
00:50:43.429 --> 00:50:47.429
and lurking. And she was so frightened that she said

752
00:50:47.469 --> 00:50:49.780
she couldn't even turn around and look at it. And

753
00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:53.300
she just threw her camera in there and got in

754
00:50:53.320 --> 00:50:55.780
her car and zipped out of there.

755
00:50:55.800 --> 00:50:57.679
That's terrible.

756
00:50:58.179 --> 00:51:01.099
Yeah. And you can see that the, um, it's on

757
00:51:01.179 --> 00:51:04.099
one of the comments. Um, I think that video was

758
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:10.300
a recent too. It's like, um, this is the titles

759
00:51:10.340 --> 00:51:13.860
like the Tillamook forest has a dark reputation or something,

760
00:51:14.380 --> 00:51:14.980
something like that.

761
00:51:15.340 --> 00:51:15.929
Okay.

762
00:51:17.389 --> 00:51:19.929
So that was cool that I had some kind of

763
00:51:20.110 --> 00:51:24.289
experience there and then she did as well, you know? Um,

764
00:51:27.309 --> 00:51:30.650
and then I made a Mount Hebo video. Have you,

765
00:51:30.750 --> 00:51:32.530
have you had any Mount Hebo?

766
00:51:32.570 --> 00:51:36.929
Um, story i want to say it's come up before

767
00:51:36.949 --> 00:51:39.110
but i can't remember specifics i would have to look

768
00:51:39.170 --> 00:51:44.199
at my map over on bigfootsocietypodcast.com plug for my own

769
00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:45.500
website there.

770
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:50.539
You go um but people keep telling me like messaging

771
00:51:50.579 --> 00:51:52.619
me or in the comments like go check out mount

772
00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:54.889
hebo because it's close to my house you know okay

773
00:51:55.590 --> 00:51:58.739
so I'd never been there before. That's the cool thing

774
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:02.300
too about here is there's so many spots and places

775
00:52:02.340 --> 00:52:05.099
in Oregon, you know, it's like you could spend a

776
00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:09.320
lifetime going to a new spot every day, you know? Um,

777
00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:12.739
so I went up to Mount Hebo, super cool area.

778
00:52:13.039 --> 00:52:16.929
And there's a video on my YouTube. Um, I didn't

779
00:52:16.949 --> 00:52:21.010
really see any Bigfoot stuff, but a guy told me

780
00:52:21.670 --> 00:52:24.010
the reason I went up there is because one of the,

781
00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:27.159
people said, oh yeah, I was camping at, there's a

782
00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:30.739
campground up there by the lake, really cool, beautiful lake,

783
00:52:31.360 --> 00:52:37.090
that he had one kind of approaching the campground and

784
00:52:38.409 --> 00:52:40.349
kind of messing with him at night. I can't remember

785
00:52:40.369 --> 00:52:44.570
all the details, throwing rocks or something. So I was like, yeah,

786
00:52:44.730 --> 00:52:50.389
I'll go. So I went up there and I see

787
00:52:50.449 --> 00:52:53.719
why people are saying go up there because it's beautiful

788
00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:58.429
and just super weird. Like, I don't know, uh, it

789
00:52:58.449 --> 00:53:01.050
has weird vibes up there and you can get to

790
00:53:01.070 --> 00:53:03.829
a spot where you can see all the way to

791
00:53:03.869 --> 00:53:09.659
like Mount hood, Mount St. Helens and, uh, everything. And

792
00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:12.980
it'd be a great, great spot to watch the skies

793
00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:16.659
for sure. And then there's like an old world war two,

794
00:53:16.880 --> 00:53:22.920
like radar, um, station weird thing up there so kind

795
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:27.380
of gives you that stranger things vibes up there um

796
00:53:28.539 --> 00:53:33.989
but in the comments a guy again i've been trying

797
00:53:34.010 --> 00:53:37.110
to i'm like hey man email me or call me

798
00:53:37.210 --> 00:53:40.730
or something but hasn't yet but he's left several comments

799
00:53:40.789 --> 00:53:44.000
in that video specifically but he lives close by and

800
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:50.150
he said he was close by Mount Hibo, and he

801
00:53:50.190 --> 00:53:54.050
said he's had them visit him many times, and he's

802
00:53:54.090 --> 00:53:58.849
heard them talking, and they slapped the house, and even, yeah,

803
00:53:58.869 --> 00:54:02.460
so I'm trying to get a hold of him, because

804
00:54:02.519 --> 00:54:05.269
I was like, man, I want to come see you,

805
00:54:05.320 --> 00:54:08.679
come talk to you at least, or shoot a video

806
00:54:08.780 --> 00:54:12.500
or something, you know, or tell me more, so, but

807
00:54:12.739 --> 00:54:16.260
no luck so far, but those comments are in there too,

808
00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:19.320
so you could look at that but he said he's

809
00:54:19.380 --> 00:54:24.559
had years and years of interactions with oh that's awesome

810
00:54:24.940 --> 00:54:28.699
yeah over there yeah and and sometimes those got man

811
00:54:28.909 --> 00:54:31.550
like i i try to respond to everything like that

812
00:54:31.590 --> 00:54:34.929
too on the channel the youtube channel and sometimes dude

813
00:54:35.849 --> 00:54:36.909
it will take.

814
00:54:38.269 --> 00:54:41.710
I mean half a year a year easy for a

815
00:54:41.730 --> 00:54:45.340
person to reach out to you it's intense but it's

816
00:54:46.280 --> 00:54:48.840
usually I mean it's always worth it but it can

817
00:54:48.880 --> 00:54:50.320
take a long time.

818
00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:53.639
Yeah I've noticed I've tried and some.

819
00:54:53.500 --> 00:54:57.539
People still haven't so don't give up no.

820
00:54:57.619 --> 00:55:01.559
I won't hopefully he does cause I'll send him to

821
00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:05.940
you cause sounds like he has some cool things to

822
00:55:05.980 --> 00:55:09.380
talk about yeah I'd love to talk to him yeah

823
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:15.849
sure and then another guy Speaking of comments, I think

824
00:55:15.869 --> 00:55:20.510
he emailed me because I know you like this area,

825
00:55:21.340 --> 00:55:27.900
Detroit Lake. This guy emailed me and said he had

826
00:55:27.940 --> 00:55:31.559
an encounter there and his buddy had an encounter there

827
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:39.239
in the same spot a couple years apart. You know the...

828
00:55:41.659 --> 00:55:47.969
I forget the name of the actual island on Detroit Lake. Oh, yeah, yeah.

829
00:55:48.269 --> 00:55:48.590
Okay.

830
00:55:49.250 --> 00:55:55.800
Yeah, he said up there on the actual island, like

831
00:55:55.860 --> 00:56:01.559
the backside of the island. Petey Naum, I guess, is

832
00:56:01.619 --> 00:56:03.019
the name of it. Yeah, it is.

833
00:56:03.039 --> 00:56:05.360
I wonder if it's the same guy, because I've interviewed

834
00:56:05.610 --> 00:56:09.510
a guy from the show a while back who had

835
00:56:09.650 --> 00:56:14.550
a pretty intense... encounter on that island same island and

836
00:56:14.769 --> 00:56:16.429
it might be a different guy which would be even

837
00:56:16.469 --> 00:56:17.429
better you know.

838
00:56:17.440 --> 00:56:22.900
Yeah and he said i could uh use you know

839
00:56:23.039 --> 00:56:25.820
use him as a reference for if i go out

840
00:56:25.860 --> 00:56:26.420
there and make a.

841
00:56:26.380 --> 00:56:31.800
Video but uh you need a boat for that island

842
00:56:32.380 --> 00:56:37.139
yeah you do and that's crazy because that means they're

843
00:56:37.199 --> 00:56:39.429
swimming over there because it's not it's not the island's

844
00:56:39.469 --> 00:56:40.820
not that big where.

845
00:56:40.659 --> 00:56:45.269
They're just living there only, you know? So that's super interesting.

846
00:56:45.309 --> 00:56:48.869
And we're, you know, of course you hear those stories about,

847
00:56:48.889 --> 00:56:55.349
I think up in Canada and stuff, how they're swimming

848
00:56:55.369 --> 00:56:57.909
through some of the islands and stuff.

849
00:56:58.489 --> 00:57:03.739
Oh yeah. So that would be. Detroit is weird. It

850
00:57:03.780 --> 00:57:06.360
is the one place in Oregon that comes to mind

851
00:57:06.480 --> 00:57:09.599
where I have been not only gotten a lot of

852
00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:14.539
Bigfoot stuff, but also a few Dogman-related things in the

853
00:57:14.579 --> 00:57:16.949
same area, which I don't really get into that. I

854
00:57:19.510 --> 00:57:23.909
just haven't really gotten that in Oregon. And Detroit is

855
00:57:23.969 --> 00:57:27.010
the one area where it's like, yeah, both types of

856
00:57:27.030 --> 00:57:29.989
reports have come in, which is very strange.

857
00:57:30.650 --> 00:57:33.769
Yeah, I don't hear any Dogman reports.

858
00:57:34.480 --> 00:57:37.639
And actually makes me happy. Cause I don't want to

859
00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:41.940
hear any of that. The thought of that, you know,

860
00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:44.440
I'm out in the woods sometimes at night by myself.

861
00:57:44.559 --> 00:57:49.880
And that's the last thing I want to run into. Um,

862
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:54.320
although that Wednesday guy I was telling you about earlier, he,

863
00:57:54.739 --> 00:58:00.210
he has some dog man stuff. And then I have heard, uh,

864
00:58:00.710 --> 00:58:04.539
some along the, um, columbia.

865
00:58:04.179 --> 00:58:09.460
River gorge which okay is yeah kind of farther away

866
00:58:09.940 --> 00:58:15.070
so but yeah that's scary you've heard that in detroit man.

867
00:58:15.489 --> 00:58:18.349
For sure man it's weird vibes when you drive through

868
00:58:18.389 --> 00:58:20.090
that because i drove through that town to go up

869
00:58:20.130 --> 00:58:24.690
to frank's uh area uh 20 yeah last year and

870
00:58:25.309 --> 00:58:29.610
that was the one area where i no one really

871
00:58:29.630 --> 00:58:31.179
wanted to talk to me and they were kind of

872
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:35.199
like was like, you should leave Vibes. I've never gone.

873
00:58:35.579 --> 00:58:39.099
I was like, okay, well, I don't want anything to happen,

874
00:58:39.159 --> 00:58:42.460
so I'll just kind of keep going. It was weird,

875
00:58:42.619 --> 00:58:46.860
but it's a great place. I mean, beautiful area. People

876
00:58:46.900 --> 00:58:50.300
are probably awesome, but the ones I talked to weren't

877
00:58:50.340 --> 00:58:50.670
having it.

878
00:58:51.380 --> 00:58:56.329
Yeah, they didn't want to have any Bigfoot. Did you

879
00:58:56.369 --> 00:59:01.789
get to go to the McKenzie Riverside when you went there?

880
00:59:02.510 --> 00:59:06.539
Yeah, yeah, dude. So the way I did it was

881
00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:12.280
after Oak Ridge last year, I drove back over to

882
00:59:12.360 --> 00:59:17.460
Springfield and then I took the McKinsey Highway and stopped

883
00:59:17.739 --> 00:59:25.590
at Ike's Pizza. I went up over the pass and

884
00:59:25.650 --> 00:59:29.010
then I was going over to I was staying at

885
00:59:29.110 --> 00:59:33.170
Subtle Lake nice and then dude this one day and

886
00:59:34.429 --> 00:59:38.590
i have i have a documentary that talks a little

887
00:59:38.610 --> 00:59:41.510
bit about this so the one day i did this

888
00:59:41.610 --> 00:59:44.079
all in one day i drove from a subtle lake

889
00:59:44.420 --> 00:59:47.380
up to estacada went out with frank for four hours

890
00:59:48.079 --> 00:59:51.739
went to the nabc for an hour then i had

891
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:53.900
to drive all the way back to subtle lake because

892
00:59:53.940 --> 00:59:57.090
i was staying there so i decided to drive through

893
00:59:57.110 --> 01:00:04.820
um uh, the reservation. Was it Springs? Yeah. And dude,

894
01:00:04.940 --> 01:00:09.059
on the way back, that's when I almost drove. Remember

895
01:00:09.079 --> 01:00:10.059
the Prineville fire?

896
01:00:10.940 --> 01:00:11.179
Yeah.

897
01:00:11.820 --> 01:00:15.420
So I almost drove into that. And I actually almost like,

898
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:17.360
I'm pretty sure I almost died a few times. Cause

899
01:00:17.380 --> 01:00:19.400
I was like almost passing out in the car as

900
01:00:19.440 --> 01:00:22.920
I was driving. Super scary. Learned a lot of lessons

901
01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:25.059
that day. Uh, but I finally made it back to

902
01:00:25.099 --> 01:00:27.820
subtle and like stuff is starting to burn. And I'm like, um,

903
01:00:28.969 --> 01:00:31.929
got to get out of here. Yeah. And then left

904
01:00:32.050 --> 01:00:36.889
and then flew out from Eugene the next day. It was,

905
01:00:37.329 --> 01:00:42.030
it was a crazy time after, after Sasquatch Summerfest.

906
01:00:44.769 --> 01:00:47.050
That's a long loop, dude. Yeah.

907
01:00:47.369 --> 01:00:50.320
It looks, it's, it's a thing where people need to

908
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:51.860
be aware of this. You look at it on like

909
01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:55.880
a map and you're like, Oh, that's totally doable. Dude,

910
01:00:55.900 --> 01:01:00.530
you got to remember like elevation, And it takes so long,

911
01:01:00.889 --> 01:01:05.429
like you cannot over, you can't go crazy with this stuff.

912
01:01:05.449 --> 01:01:08.110
Like you don't bite off more than you can chew

913
01:01:08.150 --> 01:01:08.949
for safety's sake.

914
01:01:09.570 --> 01:01:13.159
Yeah, no, I've done that with a buddy of mine.

915
01:01:13.179 --> 01:01:15.400
He used to be like, oh yeah, let's go this one.

916
01:01:15.659 --> 01:01:18.659
Or I got a shortcut and we would do almost

917
01:01:18.719 --> 01:01:23.940
that same route. And I'm like, it's 5 a.m. You're,

918
01:01:24.139 --> 01:01:27.809
you're going five miles an hour. falling asleep we need

919
01:01:27.889 --> 01:01:30.070
to pull over and just nap right.

920
01:01:29.869 --> 01:01:33.230
Here dude like yeah for sure for sure.

921
01:01:33.050 --> 01:01:38.980
But and it's just if something does happen there's no

922
01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:41.360
one out there you know i mean like yeah you

923
01:01:41.380 --> 01:01:43.659
might see a car for five hours.

924
01:01:43.559 --> 01:01:45.760
But people need to realize like that's something i learned

925
01:01:45.800 --> 01:01:50.130
too is like once you hit uh the mckinsey highway

926
01:01:50.150 --> 01:01:54.909
and it's like once you hit rainbow you're like oh

927
01:01:54.989 --> 01:01:58.210
no If anything happens to me out here, I'm done

928
01:01:58.309 --> 01:02:02.840
because there are, I have not seen a police officer

929
01:02:03.079 --> 01:02:06.980
or an emergency vehicle. And if someone comes out, like

930
01:02:07.059 --> 01:02:08.380
you guys take care of yourself.

931
01:02:08.679 --> 01:02:09.380
It's crazy.

932
01:02:09.539 --> 01:02:10.800
I've never experienced that before.

933
01:02:10.860 --> 01:02:11.480
It's wild.

934
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.170
Yeah. Different world out there, but beautiful country.

935
01:02:15.829 --> 01:02:18.530
Yeah. Rainbow. Rainbow is crazy.

936
01:02:18.610 --> 01:02:22.050
If you go over there and the blue river.

937
01:02:21.869 --> 01:02:26.349
Reservoir and Cougar reservoir, I've had some weird stuff happen

938
01:02:26.369 --> 01:02:30.369
there and heard stories and that, that little rainbows literally

939
01:02:30.409 --> 01:02:36.639
just what a motel, a store and a pizza place. Right. Yeah.

940
01:02:37.300 --> 01:02:40.579
Some weird vibes, even just driving on that highway. Like

941
01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:43.000
I remember I drove, you know, Finn rock.

942
01:02:43.659 --> 01:02:43.960
Yeah.

943
01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:47.940
So I drove, I was driving and all of a

944
01:02:47.960 --> 01:02:50.659
sudden I got hit with like crazy weird vibes out

945
01:02:50.679 --> 01:02:52.579
of what is going on. And I look up and

946
01:02:52.619 --> 01:02:54.860
it's like this huge rock here. And I'm like, there's

947
01:02:54.980 --> 01:02:58.010
something weird about this area. It just freaked me out.

948
01:02:58.510 --> 01:03:00.269
It's a cool rock, but I was like, there's something

949
01:03:00.309 --> 01:03:01.889
gotta be weird about this area here.

950
01:03:02.150 --> 01:03:06.210
Yeah, that whole area is weird. And you know, you

951
01:03:06.250 --> 01:03:11.510
ever heard of the Rainbow Festival? Where a bunch of

952
01:03:11.800 --> 01:03:17.400
hippies go and live in the forest or whatever? Yeah.

953
01:03:17.900 --> 01:03:22.400
That was like the place where the first one That's

954
01:03:22.420 --> 01:03:27.320
why it's called the Rainbow Festival. And the local lore

955
01:03:27.500 --> 01:03:31.139
is some of those people never left and they're living

956
01:03:31.219 --> 01:03:32.619
out there in the woods still.

957
01:03:33.139 --> 01:03:33.880
No way.

958
01:03:34.480 --> 01:03:39.960
Yeah. And I would believe it because I've had weird

959
01:03:40.619 --> 01:03:44.619
experiences where you, like I saw there either some of

960
01:03:44.659 --> 01:03:49.489
those people or my buddy saw it. you're there they

961
01:03:49.510 --> 01:03:52.610
were like feral people living out there like one of

962
01:03:52.650 --> 01:03:56.210
the two and yeah it's weird.

963
01:03:56.289 --> 01:04:00.110
Dude can you imagine feral hippies but also having encounters

964
01:04:00.150 --> 01:04:02.730
with sasquatch like it totally could happen.

965
01:04:02.690 --> 01:04:05.789
Yeah wild man yeah and there's hot springs up there

966
01:04:05.829 --> 01:04:12.750
too where uh on cougar reservoir where there's a lot

967
01:04:12.789 --> 01:04:14.909
of strange folks that go up there and.

968
01:04:16.420 --> 01:04:19.219
Uh, had some pretty weird encounters.

969
01:04:19.400 --> 01:04:23.840
Dude, Nick, I'm so glad that you are still getting

970
01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:29.550
out there and like, um, listeners definitely check out Nick's channel.

971
01:04:29.570 --> 01:04:31.570
I'll have it linked in the show notes. He is

972
01:04:31.630 --> 01:04:35.989
getting out there and having some really, really weird stuff happen. Um,

973
01:04:36.190 --> 01:04:39.769
and I'm glad you're documenting it out there. Uh, that is,

974
01:04:40.010 --> 01:04:42.840
that is great to hear. I'm so glad we were

975
01:04:42.889 --> 01:04:46.860
able to, to, uh, catch up. talk about the festival,

976
01:04:46.900 --> 01:04:50.760
talk about what you've been getting into. Um, thank you

977
01:04:50.780 --> 01:04:53.119
so much for coming on the show, man. Yeah.

978
01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:57.000
Thank you. Anytime, man. I enjoy it. And, uh, now

979
01:04:57.039 --> 01:05:02.510
that summer's over, I actually have more time to go

980
01:05:02.650 --> 01:05:05.949
out and put up more videos and do more research

981
01:05:06.010 --> 01:05:11.579
and searching. So definitely, uh, subscribe to the channel and check,

982
01:05:11.739 --> 01:05:12.219
check it out.

983
01:05:12.920 --> 01:05:16.679
Yeah, absolutely. Can you take a few minutes and just

984
01:05:16.719 --> 01:05:22.110
remind listeners how they can keep up to date with

985
01:05:22.510 --> 01:05:25.750
what you're doing about the channel and in your different ways?

986
01:05:26.530 --> 01:05:32.920
Sure. So again, the YouTube channel is Backwoods Bigfoot, all

987
01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:38.820
one word. And it's Backwoods with a Z instead of

988
01:05:38.860 --> 01:05:45.030
an S. So Backwoods Bigfoot. on YouTube, um, and on

989
01:05:45.110 --> 01:05:50.550
Instagram and TikTok and Facebook, but YouTube's the main one,

990
01:05:50.659 --> 01:05:56.800
TikTok and Facebook and Instagram. It just kind of helps, uh,

991
01:05:57.619 --> 01:06:02.019
spread the word, I guess. Um, and I try to

992
01:06:02.059 --> 01:06:03.699
do as many videos as I can. I have a

993
01:06:03.739 --> 01:06:06.659
whole bunch of stuff I filmed that I need to

994
01:06:06.739 --> 01:06:11.440
make into videos, but, um, just time-wise it's, you know,

995
01:06:12.130 --> 01:06:15.230
someday I'll hopefully be able to quit my job and

996
01:06:15.250 --> 01:06:17.929
just make videos every day, all day. That would be

997
01:06:18.190 --> 01:06:21.809
the dream. But until then I'll do it as often

998
01:06:21.869 --> 01:06:26.090
as I can. Um, yeah. So check it out.

999
01:06:27.530 --> 01:06:30.800
Good stuff. Good stuff. Well, well, Nick, new listeners, you

1000
01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:33.539
go out to Sasquatch Summerfest. Nick's just one of the

1001
01:06:33.559 --> 01:06:36.480
cool dudes you could probably meet out there. So we

1002
01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:39.699
hope to see you out there, uh, next year. And, uh,

1003
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:41.599
thanks again for coming on the show, dude.

1004
01:06:42.590 --> 01:06:47.280
Yeah, thank you very much, and we love all the

1005
01:06:47.320 --> 01:06:51.179
stuff that you do, and we're all hoping that you

1006
01:06:51.219 --> 01:06:52.159
recover soon.

1007
01:06:52.340 --> 01:06:54.940
Special thank you to Nick from Backwoods Bigfoot for coming

1008
01:06:54.980 --> 01:06:57.449
on the show today. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter

1009
01:06:57.650 --> 01:06:59.530
of your own, I would love to hear from you.

1010
01:06:59.550 --> 01:07:03.019
You can send me an email with your encounter. at

1011
01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:07.530
bigfootsociety at gmail.com. I've come out with a free report

1012
01:07:07.690 --> 01:07:11.630
about the top 10 Bigfoot hotspots. You can go over

1013
01:07:11.710 --> 01:07:17.920
to bit.ly forward slash BFS report. I'm Jeremiah Byron. Thanks

1014
01:07:17.960 --> 01:07:20.159
for listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'll see you in

1015
01:07:20.179 --> 01:07:20.519
the woods.