I Grew Up with Bigfoot (Member's Only)

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Welcome to Bigfoot Society and this special
member's only episode, I talked to Stephanie

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about her childhood growing up with a
bigfoot in her backyard. It's a very

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emotional and intense episode. And you're
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and enjoy our Bigfoot Society. We
got the privilege of talking to Stephanie today.

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Stephanie is a member of the Patreon
and whenever anyone joins the Patreon now

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I always reach out to him and
say, hey, thank you for joining,

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and do you have a story at
all? And she gave me a

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bit of information that she's had some
really interesting things happen. So I am

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looking forward to chatting with you,
Stephanie. I know you're down there and

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out Alabama, but how's it going. It's going good. It's a beautiful

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Saturday, hot Saturday. Already you're
in Alabama. So I'm very glad to

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be on the show. Like I
was explaining before we started recording, I've

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oftentimes tried to share my story with
people, and due to the mixed reactions

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I would get, I kind of
withdrew from that. So it's a big

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leap for me to come on the
show and share a bit. There's a

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part of me that wants to share, so this is a good thing.

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Well, it all started well,
I was a little girl. I was

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about six years old and I was
raised my mother, unfortunately was an alcoholic

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and she had me at a young
age and she could not take care of

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me. So my great aunt and
great uncle that would are like if they

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were alive today, Well, they
were born in nineteen ten, in nineteen

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twelve, my aunt and uncle were
so they were older people, and my

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uncle died when I was ten,
so it left me and my aunt alone

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for quite some number of years.
But I used to play out in the

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yard every day. I was not
the kind of little girl to sit inside

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the house. I was always outside
and I always had a little spot where

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I would sit and play barbies or
make forts, make little forts out of

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twigs and leaves and things like that, and I was very quiet. I

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was very subdued. I wouldn't go
to nursery school or preschool or anything like

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that. It was just me and
the old folks. But I adored them,

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you know. I had this huge
love for them, and I get

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emotional when I talk about them.
I'm sorry. So I was just outside

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playing and I had seen the show
In Search of the One that talked about

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sasquam. I remember that, and
it didn't scare me. And then I

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also remember there was an episode of
The Six Million Dollar Man where Steve Austin

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had to fight a sasquatch or a
bigfoot, and I liked that a lot.

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So it was never a concept that
made me afraid. I never thought

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monster for some reason. I just
thought that's I don't know what I thought,

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really, but I know I definitely
didn't think of the creature as a

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monster. So I was playing outside
one day and a walk a little pebble

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fell on me. And we lived
on This is important too. I'm sorry

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I'm going to ramble, but we've
lived on three acres and it had originally

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the peace of land that my uncle
bought originally was one hundred acres but they

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sold off part of the property and
there's a subdivision there now, and he

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kept three acres for him and his
family. So when I was living there

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growing up, we were on three
acres, very big yard for a little

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one. And like I said,
the little pebble came and it hit me,

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and I looked up because I thought, maybe this is a squirrel playing

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with me. And I couldn't see
a squirrel, and I didn't hear any

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cheering or anything. Everything was very
quiet, and I just started scanning the

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yard and I got up and I
walked. I don't know why, but

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something kind of pulled me towards the
back because out of our three acres,

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there was about an acre of it
that was fixed, so I could go

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to the back, the very back
of the yard where the fence was located,

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and there was kind of like a
little playhouse that I had back there,

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and I would go there sometimes but
not usually. So something pulled me

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to that area. I was just
a little girl. I can remember all

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this so vividly. And I kept
walking and I started thinking, someone's watching

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me. I feel it. I
feel someone looking at me. And the

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closer I got, the more the
shadows kind of separated from each other,

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and I realized that I was looking
at something. And it really didn't take

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me long to realize Bigfoot, because
of my introduction to him from the television

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shows. And I was like,
whoa, And I just stopped and I

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stared and it stared back, and
I was like hi, and nothing,

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there was no answer, no movement. And I was like, do you

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want to play? And still nothing, no answer, no movement. And

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I was like, well, I'm
going to bring my toys back here and

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I'm going to sit with you.
So I guess it's just an innocent little

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child, you know. And I
didn't have any fear of him. So

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I went back there with my toy
and I just kind of sat a distance

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away, and by then the bigfoot
had crouched down. I'm still not sure

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to this day if it was a
male or a female. I don't know

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if it was like a subadult male
who had not developed enough for his manhood

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to show through the fur, or
if it was just a small breasted female.

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But there weren't any really identifying factors
as far as so I was quite

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a distance away, and I would
just sit there and play and talk and

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sing like I always did. And
he crouched down, he or she crouched

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down and just started listening to me. I was singing. I used to

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sing. I still sing a lot, but I sung a lot when I

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was a little girl. Happy little
songs that I learned at nursery school.

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I did go to nursery school.
At Sunday school, we had a little

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kind of program for kids that wasn't
on Sundays. It was on Tuesday afternoons.

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It was called Tuesday Thursday School.
And I did go to Tuesday Thursday

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School. So I learned a lot
of little songs and I would sing all

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the time. And he started swaying
like he was crouched down on his haunches.

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That he started like kind of swaying
back and forth listening to me.

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At least that's what it seemed like. And I thought, Wow, this

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is really really neat, and I'm
seeing a bigfoot and I'm going to tell

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everybody. And you know, it
got late and I heard my aunt calling

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me to come inside, and I
said, well, I have to go

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now bye, and I ran.
I gathered up all my toys and I

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ran inside the house. I had
dinner. I didn't you know, I

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really didn't tell anybody that night because
my grown ups were talking grown up things

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and I was raised by again,
these people were quite a bit older than

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me, and they had some interesting
rules about kids. Children are to be

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seen and not heard, was one
of them. So I just sat there

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quietly and had my dinner while they
were talking about their grown up issues,

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and then I had my bath,
watched a little TV, and went today

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what The next morning, when I
woke up, I did go to my

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aunt and I was like, there
was one of those creatures from the TV

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outside in our yard. And she
said, what creatures from the TV?

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And I said, don't you remember
on Steve Auston he had to fight that

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big creature And she was like,
no, baby, I don't remember.

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And I was like, well,
okay, I'll tell I'll tell my mom.

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Mom, because even she was an
alcoholic, she would still come around

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sometimes and spend some time with me
and we would go out in the woods.

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I think that, looking back,
I think that my mother and I

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playing around in the woods might have
been the first time the bigfoot saw me,

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and maybe that's why it came to
the yard and kind of wanted to

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check me out or whatever. But
yeah, my mom and I would often

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take walks out into the larger property
and we would I remember, the woods

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would go really silent sometimes and I
didn't know why, and I would whisper

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and say, Mommy, it's so
quiet, and she would say, well,

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it surely is. It's very quiet. Maybe we should maybe we should

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go back, and I would say
okay, and we'd go back to the

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house or whatever. But that's the
only theory I have as far as where

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the big foot came from. That
we were pattering around out in the woods

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and he caught a glimpse of me
and just was curious about me. That's

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the only thing I can think.
So I went back outside to play,

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and I just just to be curious, went back up to the spot at

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the back of the yard and I
could see where he had crouched, and

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you know, there were footprints and
the leaves were kind of messed up,

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and I started thinking, I hope
he comes back. That was really neat

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and I'd like to see him again. Because I didn't have any playmates.

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I was an only child up until
I was ten years old. I was

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the only child, and I lived
on this large property with a couple of

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old folks, and you know the
kids I met at my little preschool type

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thing. We were too young to
like to spend the night overs or anything

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like that. We were just little
preschool kids, so I was very lonely.

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I didn't have any playmates. It
was just me. And I hate

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to get into the wu aspect of
it, because I know a lot of

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people are very distinctly torn over over
whether or not that's real. But I

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didn't see the Bigfoot for several days. But I would sit there and play

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or run over and get on the
swing set or whatever, and I would

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really kind of be concentrating. Please
let the Bigfoot come back. I want

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to see him again. Please let
the big Foot come back. I want

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to see him again. And I
don't know if my thoughts were projected as

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prayers are what happens, but eventually
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them the courage to come out.
And now it feels so bad about it.

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Who cares what anybody's thinks. I
know what I saw, I know

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what's out there. That's all I
can. Please let people know, Please

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let them know. If you ever
see one of these things, you need

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you tell, because if you don't, then shame on you, you know,

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shame on you.