I Saw It Just Hours Ago!

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0:43 Welcome to big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode, and if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes head on over to patreon dot com. Ford Slash the Big for Society, and now let's get on with the show. The following interview was recorded on October tenth, twenty twenty four. It's Josh, Hey, Josh, do you hey this Jeremiah? Do you want to be referred to as Josh during this?

1:37 Yeah? Okay? Is it okay? If I'm recording right now? Absolutely perfect? All right? Well dude, I mean, this is gonna be a whole different thing because usually I put a nice song and dance at the beginning, like hey, here we are. But I'm just gonna say, well, dude, tell us what happened. I mean, tell me what you told me in messenger, just a that. Yeah, yeah, so forgiving. I'm I'm a little rattled still. I guess the thing to know about me is I hunt, like pretty much all year. Long, amount in the woods. I've always been like a Bigfoot enthusiast, but I wanted to believe, but I've never seen anything to give me any kind of indication that this assquatch is real.

2:26 I mean, I listened to all your shows. I love hearing the stories. I've always been hopeful, but I've never never seen anything. And for a guy who spends as many hours as me in the woods hiking around, I just I haven't seen anything, you know. So I've been el Cunning. I'm muzzleloader el Cunning in Washington. Stay the season seven days long. This is the sixth day of the season, so tomorrow is my last day. I've been averaging about twelve to fourteen miles on foot behind warehouser locked gates, and today I decided to go into an area I haven't been in about four years, and I hiked in there and it's pretty uneventful. I didn't see any elk all. The ELK sign I seen was pretty old, and so I just kind of sat in the clear cut where I had cell phone service and kind of browse the Internet.

3:28 And about every five minutes I'd look up and I'd start glassing. I glass for about fifteen minutes and I kind of go back to my phone. I really take a lot of time to pick apart everything with my binoculars. I have a Seroski twelve by fifty, pretty high end optics, so I can see just about everything moving. And this year I decided to buy a thermal, so I also have a thermal so I can kind of catch stuff, and then I look at it through my binoes and I seen a really nice buck walking down the road on the other side of the clear cut, and I wanted to get a better look at it, because you don't really see a lot of nice bucks around here.

4:14 So the wind was blowing down, so. I kind of snuck around to the edge of that clear cut, and like I said, the wind was blowing pretty strong, and I couldn't see the buck anymore. He went into the timber, and I really wanted to get a better look at him, so I pulled up my thermal and I could see him in the timber, and then I put my glass on him, and somewhere in between there, I. Lost sight of him. So I decided, you know, the wind's really strong, He's not gonna smell me if I creep in below him, and so I sat there and kind of thought about it. For a few minutes. I wasn't really hopeful to see the outcome out, so I snuck down into the timber and I started scanning with my pheromone. I wasn't seeing anything, and then I seen this faint kind of white spot about one hundred yards away, but it's pretty thick timber, and I thought, oh man, that's that buck. So I pull up my binos and I'm looking. I can't see it. And I pull up my therm and I'm looking. I can see it, and I'm making mental notes like okay, it's like the third branch up next to this mound. And I'm kind of doing the math in my head to find this thing.

5:25 And I pick up my thermal and I find it again and pick and I'm really trying to break this apart and grid it and see this buck. And then I see something I never expected to see it. The best way I can describe it is it's like a monkey. Its face looked like a monkey, like if you watch like, what is it like? I can't remember the name of that that movie with the apes on it where they like take over, That's what it looked like. Had a really feminine face, really pronounced lips, had black and gray hair.

6:24 It was like grooming itself, I could see. I couldn't tell if it was like grooming its hands or if it was eating something, but that's all I seen was its face, and I could see that it was real interest in whatever it was doing. It was putting something in his mouth. I couldn't tell if it was its hand, like I said, like it was grooming itself, or if it was eating something. And I just thought, WHOA, I can't believe what I'm looking at right now. And you know, I sat there for about three minutes washing it, and I said, you know, I'm going to back out. I do not want to sing to see me, and so I just backed out of the timber.

7:05 And this road is a road I had to walk down to get to the trail to hike out to my truck. So I walked all the way around. And snuck out and made sure I stayed down, went and snuck through the timber to get I probably went a half mile out of my way to get to the trail and then hike back and had another mile and a half to the dugout road in the gate where my pickup was. And when I got back to my pickup, I was completely covered and sweat and shaking and sick to my stomach. And I've never had anything like that happened to me. But on my way out, I found a tree in the trail that was snapped in half, probably about a six inch round alder tree, and when I was cutting through that clear cut, I found a track that was way bigger than my foot and I worse. I was fourteen, and I took a photograph of the track end of the tree, and I also have my GPS coordinates that shows my trail that I made tonight when I went on my hunt. So that's that's about all I got.

8:17 I'm still pretty in shock, you know. After that, I left the woods, which is. Unlike me, and I called my best friend and I told them what happened, and we're bolchous in disbelief on the phone because I don't ever leave the woods until it's dark, and especially it was one more day in my elk season. Left you know, about five six o'clocks when they start feeding out, and I laughed at about four point thirty. Made it back to my truck at about five fifteen. So I mean, it was pretty serious for me to want to leave. And I don't think I'll ever go back in that spot again. Yeah, that's that's I don't know, Like it wasn't and it wasn't something I ever thought would happen, and I never in my wireless imagination.

9:09 Thought it would happen like that. If it did happen, you know, it just makes me wonder how many times I've been, you know, miles back in the back country and walked right by something. You know, I want to make sure that listeners get that this just happened hours ago today. Yeah, roughly how many hours ago. It happened around four four twenty somewhere right around there, and it's seven twenty right now, three hours so just just just a few hours ago this happened.

9:52 Oh my goodness. And you know, it's one of those things. You know, every time I talk to somebody who's out in the woods, you know, I ask them if they've ever seen anything weird and stuff. You know, the general consensus with the outdoorsman that I hang out with and with that we none of us have really ever seen anything. And you know, I think that this thermal energy imaging unit that I have is gonna really make me see a lot of stuff that I never seen before. And it really makes me wonder what I've walked by and you know what I haven't seen, because like I said, I usually walk in in the dark with a headlamp, and that's how I walk out it's in the dark with a headlamp.

10:40 When I'm out there. I know you've shared. You shared with me a little bit location wise. Is that Are you comfortable with sharing location wise the area or we keeping that? Okay? So I I live in Washington. I hut on the coast everywhere from about Kathlamett down to Chinook, Washington. There's tons of timber company gates, and I usually hike back up into the coastal mountain ranges. This particular location was in between Abernathy and Germany Creek, and like I.

11:22 Said, I took a cut off to get me in closer. It's kind of the end of a spur road that they dug out when they when they abandoned the road to let the timber grow. And so I came in one area to get me closer. To another area. I kind of just took the abandoned road to get closer to Germany Creek. And so that way I didn't. Have to walk like six miles up the logging roads to get to the clearcuts I wanted to get to. Instead, I only had to walk like, you know, three miles. So it put me in a pretty good advantage to get back there because the pressure is really tough right now, and there's a lot of people hunting, so I wanted to get as far ahead as everybody.

12:09 Else I could get and get away from people. And that's kind of what I was wondering, you know, I don't I don't know if it's because it's so far back in there. You know, I'm not a lot of people go in there, so I'm kind of thinking that that's kind of why it was so comfortable. I don't think that they had any idea that I was there, sure, because I was keyed up. I'm in you know, full solid camouflage though olive drab clothing. I'm playing the wind and I'm not walking down. The gravel or anything. I'm watching every step I take and moving very slow, you know, because I'm trying to sneak up on elk and everything else. So I don't think i'd ever seen me, and I wasn't scared in the moment, But as soon as I backed out and I crept up the road and dove into the clear cut and started getting out of there, I started getting weirded out. I started feeling sick to my stomach. I was like, what if this What if this thing knows that I've seen it, or what if there's other ones that seen me that I didn't see, you know, and now they're on to me and you know, going to follow me out. I felt like I was followed out, but I didn't see anything or hear anything out of the normal.

13:32 Did you experience any other weird physical effects during that same time where you're feeling sick to your stomach things like that. Uh, nothing other than heavy sweat, And I wasn't tired. Today's one of those days. I didn't hike necessarily. That far, and towards the end of the season, you know, I'm I'm in pretty good shape. I hike a lot, especially with a heavy pack on. So it was pretty strange. To me that I was profusely sweating. But I just kind of chalk that up to like just being kind of nervous and not really knowing what to think, and.

14:13 I think that played into it a lot. But I was definitely very cognitive about everything I was doing to get out of there, and taking mental note on which parts of the trayal I could be you know, ambushed on, or you know, what could happen. You know, there's a. Lot going through my head on that thirty five to forty five minutes. Hike out, and I was moving. Fast, like I said, my on ex, my my GPS data. I'll send you. I'll send you the snapshot of it. And it will not only show you the loop that I took, it will show you how I picked up my speed on the way out.

14:56 Oh yeah, it kind of. It kind of tells the story a little bit better too. It kind of adds context. You can kind of see what I did, you know. It shows that I went around a mile and then I sat there for a few hours. Then it shows you when I went over to the other side and crossing to the timber, and then all of a sudden, I just got out of there really quick. Yeah, that would be incredible. I mean, I use on X for this show all the time just because it's such a great I mean, they're not a sponsor, but guys, if you're listening, yeah, let's party. I mean it's such an And one of the icons you can use in on X is a bigfoot icon. Dude, you know they're to buy told me I had no idea, and when I was telling my buddy and the story and I sent him the icon.

15:40 He said, how could you didn't use the Sasquatch icon. I was like, what, I had no idea that they had one. But, like I said, when I was creeping through that clearcut to get out of there, because I was trying to make sure I stayed out of site, off the road and. Out of I didn't want this thing to see me. I happened on. That that foot track, and I got a picture of it next to my size fourteen, and I mean, you can see it just plain as day. And I've never found a footprint. And I'd like to think I'm usually always looking, because that's how I get to know the elk in the deer. You know, I'm always looking for rubs and I'm always looking for tracks.

16:27 Above everything else. I'm an outdoorsman and a woodsman, and. You know, everything that happened to me tonight has definitely changed the way I think about everything. And it's changed the way I'm going to be moving through the woods. And I mean, I don't know if you're super familiar with the muzzleoder, but it's not the most effective weapon. No, it's not, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, but it is. Not, and I only had I only had two reloads with me. And for the people listening, you don't understand a muzzloader. You shoot it. It's a primitive weapon. And then you got to, you know, pour your powder in, and you got to put your your project island, and then you got to put your primer. And it takes time to load, especially under pressure. And normally I carry a keen milimeter pistol when I'm with me out in the woods hunting, and you know, it's just I'm tired.

17:22 I've been trying to cut down on weight because I've just been out hammering in the mountains. So today I just decided, you know what, I'm not even going to pack a pistol. I never need one. I'm just gonna take my muzzleloader and a couple of reloads and we're just gonna go find an elk. And I felt completely unprepared. For what I experienced today, and it's going to change the way I recreate in the outdoors. You know, I'm I don't know if they want to hurt people or if they want to intimidate people, but I don't want to find out, you know. So a few things I want you to reach out over the next few days if just if anything out of the ordinary like happens and I'm not gonna I'm just gonna leave it at that. I mean, I would just be curious. Uh right now, do you have Are you okay with with going into the woods again or is it just like that area? Probably not going to go there again.

18:31 I'm telling you, man, I spend all year thinking about this time of the year. It's it's my passion everything, it's it's my entire life, besides being a father. It's it's everything I think about. I have tomorrow left for my tag. I'm going out in the woods. I'm gonna wake up at three am. I'm gonna get out. There, and I'm hiking somewhere. But I am nervous, and I am not going. Back to that spot right not not without a few buddies with me and some serious firepower. And you know, I might go out there and try to try to go I know exactly where it was sitting, at, where it was standing at, where that area is, and I would really like to get in there and kind. Of tear apart the topography and.

19:13 Kind of get some better understanding and ideas. But at this point right now, I'm not ready to do that. I totally get it. I mean it's you. You're a hunter, you're not a researcher, so yeah, it totally makes sense. But you have the exact area, so maybe at a later time, you know, you might be able to go back in there if you had some buddies with you. And but I get it. Wow, I just I wouldn't want to go in there by myself. No, you know, the places that I go into, Jeremiah, something could happen to you and they might not find you for a long time or not at all.

20:00 I mean thick, overgrown, old growth timber. With massive, you know, holes in the ground and riot wads out and cricks and you know, it's it's a rough country. And I just I can't believe that, after all these years, it took till today to see. Something when I least expected to see anything. On an otherwise very uneventful day. And you know, I've probably called four or five of my buddies. And the first thing that I said, I said, Hey, I'm not crazy, and don't repeat this, but I need to tell you what happened.

20:42 To me tonight, right right, And. You know when you spend a lot of time out in the woods, Jeremiah, Like, sometimes you spend you know, ten hours out in the woods with your buddies, picking apart every tree and bush and branch, looking through binoculars, and you sit there and you talk. You talk about all your hunting stories and all the weird things you have or haven't seen. None of us that, none of the people I know or talk to or hunt with, none of us have ever seen. Like I was just doing a basic search real quick for people that have anyone sasquatch near German Creek and something Creek something does come up, but it's it's just from a news article. Okay, a guy named Paul Graves.

21:34 He's gotten like hundreds of reports. That's cool because it does tell us that you're not the only one that has seen the sasquatch near this area of Longview, and it kind of puts even a little more to your report. So to put this into respector into perspective for. You, Longview is a couple miles from Rainier, Oregon. Yep. Kind of mentioned I think I sent you a Facebook mastic or something you had that one gentleman on who had stories from Rainier organ Yes, we're just a bridge away. I mean literally you can see Rainier from longview. Okay, so that's kind of how I found your show was the Rainier episodes. You know that that gentleman who lived in Rainier and had some experience as a child or whatever.

22:27 So, I mean it's wild to think about because perhaps the one that you saw it might even be related to the ones in that story somehow. You have no idea, right, but. No no clue. Yeah, man, it's wild. And nobody talks about it openly. Anything that you hear just kind of old, you know, logger tails and stuff. There's like a stigma behind it almost. So so you are going to forward some or send some stuff over to me.

23:12 Where can I send it to you? I mean you My email is Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. If an email is easier for you, okay, I was gonna. I can send you an on x pin with my loop and on expin of where it was, and that way you have an exact understanding of where it happened and you kind of see my my trail. Yes, and then like I said, I really want you to see the photograph. The photographs could be nothing, but on my way out, I've seen that stuff and I'm like, hey, this, this is it, this is this. Isn't a coincidence. I don't believe in coincidences. And you know, by the time I made it to my pickup and got down the road, I was like, I know exactly who I need to reach out to you.

23:52 Right exactly exactly. Yeah. I don't know if you can send the on next stuff through email. I've never tried to do that before, but I don't know if you have you have more knowledge about that, but. I've never I've sent it to these texts. I've never sent it on an email, but I can try. Oh you can text it then. Yeah, you have my number right now. Yeah that's perfect. Yep, that'll work. But like I said, that's that's all I got for you, buddy. I'm glad to get to talk to you. I never thought I would have any reason to call here, but yeah, we are, man.

24:39 I hope that you're able to just, you know, kind of chill out tonight. And are you kind of coming off of the adrenaline off of it? Okay? I am, yeah, I am. Okay, good, Yeah, I just gotta chill out a bit I might do. This is just really I've never had one that is this recent, So I'm gonna I might see if I can think of some people in the area. I might. I might message you later if that's all right. Yeah, I'll do some thinking about some stuff. But yeah, I'll be looking for your your text and I'll check out your your stuff you're gonna send over. But yeah, wow, Josh, thank you so much for for reaching out. No wild stuff.

25:33 So we'll be in contact. You got it? Yeah, thank you again. I'll be talking to you, Josh. Ye all right. A local researcher has been contacted and is investigating this report further. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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