I Joined a Hippie Commune and met Sasquatch! (Member's Only)

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Welcome back to a special member's only
episode a Bigfoot Society. A special thank

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you to the members that are supporting
Bigfoot Society and I hope you enjoyed this

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episode. It's all about a young
lady back in the mid nineteen seventies who

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stumbled onto a hippie commune and got
more than she bargained for with the sasquatch

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that lived nearby. It's an incredible
episode. In fact, I wouldn't be

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able to put this whole thing up
on YouTube due to some of the content.

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I mean, it's wild. If
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I've got the privilege of talking to
Ledema tonight. She reached out to

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me about some really interesting things that
she experienced around the Sixes River area of

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Oregon a little while ago. But
Laedema, so glad to talk to you

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tonight. How are things going good? Thank you for having me absolutely And

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it sounds like it's a very interesting
story. I'm going to let you go

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ahead and launch right into it and
share what you would like regarding this story.

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Okay, I was about eighteen and
I met a girl that knew some

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people that lived on this eighty acre
property right off Six's River Road on a

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commune, and I was really interested
in what that would be like and had

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nothing going on in my life.
I lived in Las Vegas and she was

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passing through, and so I hooked
up with her and we hitchhiked from Las

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Vegas up to Six's River, Oregon. And when we got up there,

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we stopped at a house that was
up there, and immediately they start talking

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about Bigfoot and their experiences with Bigfoot
and all kinds of tales. Like they

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were telling me about how they were
outside in the bushes or trees over on

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the left side of their house,
which the house is still there, threes

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have grown up, but the trees
started moving and stuff, and their dog,

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a large lab started barking and ran
into the bushes whatever it was,

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which from what I've seen, that's
not normal for the animals, but this

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one did, and whatever it was
through the dog out of the bushes,

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out of the trees and bushes,
and so that was one of their tails

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that they told my friend that that
night because it was kind of like dusk,

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you know, it was getting dark. Went across the street with their

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little girl to the river. There
was like a sandbar over there, and

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uh came back screaming because they felt
the ground shaking, and come back screaming

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into the house. Big but it's
big. But about that time, I

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was like, okay, because I
don't think I really heard anything about Bigfoot

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too much at that point until I
got up there. We stayed there that

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night kind of talking and stuff to
these people, and and I was getting

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to know them and stuff. And
then of course, you know, they

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were looking at me like a city
girl up here on the mountains, you

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know, wanting to experience. They
knew, they knew I was in for

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a big treat. But what year
is this, nineteen seventy six? Wow,

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okay, nineteen seventy six. You
know, there was hardly anybody that

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lived on Six's the River road.
Hardly anybody. Now, there was some

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construction going on. I think they
were building the campgrounds Six's River Camp Campgrounds

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and the Edison Recreation Campgrounds. Right
there wasn't even built yet, no houses.

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One person lived on the river side
of the road, a man hippie

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guy that had lived there for a
while. He had had an a framed

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house on that side of the river
or the road, but other than that,

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he was the only one that was
on that side of the road,

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on the river side of the road
at that time. And then the eighty

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acres there was maybe about five or
six people. They had goats, that

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everything was natural. There was no
sugar, no tobacco, no nothing.

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Everything was grown up there, and
and it was a real commune. And

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I guess some lady had eighty acres
there and let these hippies, you know,

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lived there. And so in the
morning we were told that the cabin

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that we were going to stay in, which was across the river, had

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been burnt down by the construction people
who were getting rid of all the homesteaders

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at that time, and that we
had to go further up into the mountain

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to stay in this other cabin up
there. And of course, I'm like,

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I have no idea what I'm in
for or anything. And so we

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get escorted up the road like a
mile past everybody, uh, and and

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across the river. We crossed the
river on big boulders that were there.

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I lived and looked and looked up
the river recently and they're not there no

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more. I think there was a
full of them. But yeah, I

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couldn't find where we had crossed the
river to go up about a half a

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mile up the mountain. And to
go up the mountain was like a trail.

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I'm assuming now that it was an
animal trail of some sort. We

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had to cross over a big tree
that had fallen across the ravine, and

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the top of the trees were at
the bottom of this fallen tree. So

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we had to walk across this tree
and have moss on it and stuff.

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I actually think I belly crawled across
it the first time because I was afraid.

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I mean, yeah, So,
anyway, we got to the cabin.

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The cabin was hadn't built. It
was maybe the walls were maybe about

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six not even six foot tall,
maybe five foot tall all the way around.

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It was built up against a big
tree. There was a big piece

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of plast stick that was the roof, and there was a barrel that they

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made for a stove of some sort. It was kind of hidden up there.

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You use kerosene for light and stuff. There was some books and stuff.

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They had a hand built a couple
of like a bunk bed there,

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and the refrigerator was a hole in
the ground underneath the bunk bed, the

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bottom bed. So it was pretty
primative, pretty primitive. And then you

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walk down to the river to take
a bath. It was real, real

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