I Saw One An Hour Ago!

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1:37 The following is the recording of the follow up with the witness. Hello Matt, Hello padre remin was going on not much, dude, Thanks for reaching out just to here where I do have have recording going. But we can always cut stuff out later if we need. Yeh cool, we usually I have a whole deal at the beginning. But let's just get into it. So you had reached out to me about there was something that happened just a few hours that you were involved with out there in New Jersey. Correct?

2:18 Correct? Do you mind sharing what you had what you experienced today? No, not at all. I didn't see I didn't see its face, It didn't roar at me, it didn't know. There was only one. It was very I just walked up on it and it sprinted away, just like a deer would, just a scared animal would. There was no confrontation or anything before it even saw my face. It sprinted into the brush, and the brush is so thick that you could literally walk twenty feet lay down and nobody would see you in the pine bearings in New Jersey. Yeah, it just ran away. My dog caught it first. She was only like thirty yards ahead of me, and I thought it was a deal. I was one hundred percent sure it was a deer because I see deer all the time.

3:00 But when it ran away, it was black, its head was black, and it was taller than me. So then that made me realize that. I was like, oh, that's a black deer that's taller than me. And then it started running. Like the way it was running, it jumped up and it took a look back, and I was like, that looks like a deer, but it was so tall and it was black. And then it stopped in the woods like I want to say, forty yards away, and it just didn't make any noise. So I stood there and I was silent for a couple of minutes, waiting for it to do anything. And so I started walking up a little bit up the trail because it was a little bit of a hill. And then about four minutes later, I'm still dead silent. I hear it walking in the brush further away, it's walking further away from me.

3:43 And I just waited there for a few minutes, and then I looked around and I was like. Wow, this is if this was a if Bigfoot. Would be in the pine barans in this area, this is the perfect spot. It couldn't have been any more perfect for them. It was like on a a half a mile square of just high ground, and the woods are pretty much flat beside this, and there was only a tiny little trail going through it that you could tell there wasn't really anybody going on. There's no dirt bike tracks or people or footprints. There's a meadow right down the hill that was covered in what do they call it, the I forget what they're called, the tall oh my gosh, like the tall weed things.

4:25 Can't remember their names, cattails. And yeah. I was like, wow, this is the perfect spot if they were here. And so I think I'm going to go back, maybe tomorrow at night. I want to go at night and just see what the deal is and maybe bring a little. Bit of fruit and leave it for them. There was one other thing when I was walking out I was in the middle of the sand field. There's sand mines everywhere, and I was in the middle of the sandfield, not in the middle, but probably about I'm pretty good with distances estimations because I work with boats and I play football, so with yardage. And it was probably about forty yards away from the trees, and it was right on the trail that I walked before, and it was in the middle of a big open area, and it was two pine cones attached to a couple of pine needles that you can only really get from high up in the trees. So it looked like it just blew off the tree. But I picked it up and it was perfect. It was like it was so perfect.

5:20 It wasn't it was fresh, and it was like it was just laid there for me. I threw it in the air like three times as high as I could because it was a kind of a windy day, and it just came straight down. It was so it couldn't have blown off the trees. As my point, there was no possible way. So I was like, that's weird. I don't know if it was anything, but and the ground was too hard for footprints, it was just stones, on the stones on a hard. Sand, so I couldn't see any footprints. But yeah, that was about it. That's awesome, though, Do you mind if I ask you some questions about the whole? Yeah? Why were you out in the area to begin with? Every No, every day, but I'd say every other day. I just go out in the pine barrens with my dog walk about five miles. I explore like these abandoned and not abandoned sand mines, where it's just these sand companies dig huge lakes and then they drain them and sometimes they're not drained and they're like crystal clear blue water.

6:12 It's weird. There's some chemical in it, but you can swim in it and there's fish and stuff. So I just go explore them. The abandoned ones are cool because there's these huge like machinery and towers where they silt the sand, so I climb up them. I look around at all the old equipment. I like to go into the like empty lakes because they're like one hundred feet deep and they hit rock at the bottom. There's all these different types of rock. It's just something to do because I work from home and I'll go crazy if I'm at home all day. So once I'm done working, I'm like, all right, let's go. Let's go in the woods. And the pine barrens is a million acres, so I've been to so many different I've walked hundreds of miles through it, and there's so many different places you can go, so I just use it as an escape. Pine burns a million acres. It is massive. Is was it by any certain part of it or just a random area?

6:59 I can tell you this. It's in Lacy Township. Got it. I parked at the end of that road, and. I took the trail and then I went in directions, and then I walked into the sand mine, and then I went and see I basically just went south of the sand mine, like almost directly south where there's you could see the meadow. If you're looking at it from the map, you just look south of the huge sand mine and you see a big open area and there's a little meadow with a tiny little pond, and then the elevation area is just is at the northern tip of that meadow where I was, and that whole square basically it's really dense. There could have been hundreds of them in those woods. You could not see through the woods.

7:43 You never can in some parts. Yeah, it's just trees and there's no brush, but sometimes and sometimes the brush is low, but in a ton of areas the brush is five feet tall. It's literally like walking into a brick wall. There's so many thorns and devils club and other bushes and little trees, and it's like impenetrable, literally, So they could. And there's hills, tiny little hills that you can hide behind. You can only see thirty feet probably like forty forty feet into it. It's yeah, it's perfect for them. I usually see good spots and I'm like, this would be a good spot, but this was the best spot I've ever seen. So this is south of Lacy Township, in that wooded area down there, exactly, I got it. I'm looking at on X right now, so I have a better view of it of what you got going on there. Yeah, okay, there is a lot of the wooded area in that for sure. You mentioned you do listen to the podcast.

8:34 Is it something where you regularly go out looking for Bigfoot ever? Or this is just a random thing random I'm looking. I'm not looking for them, but I am looking for them when I like, when I'm in the woods, I want to see something. I know I'm not going to see one like a creature, but I do look for that one footprint that I might find because I'm looking at the trail. There's snakes and animals and stuff all over the trail, so I'm looking down. I'm just looking for like anomalies, anything that's out of the ordinary, not specifically for sasquatch, just for anything. But I would love to see when I just never have my hopes up because I know that it's so rare to actually happen. Yeah. Absolutely, now, it's definitely rare. Do you know if there's been other sightings in this particular area where you had the sighting.

9:20 I was actually going to search that up. I know there's some in the pine barrens, which if it's in the pine barrens, it's not too far from where I was, But I'll try to search this. When I was in the woods actually Forked River bigfoot, Yeah, there's definitely some. There was a big foot setting a turner's mill. I'm just looking through. Yeah, I'm sure there was one. I just don't actually see it. But there's like there's really a T shirt. Yeah, there's a T shirt that says respect the Locals and it has a picture of Sasquash on it and it says forkid River. So I mean, I'm sure somebody's seen one. In there exactly in order to make that shirt. So let's talk about the sighting in general. So it sounds like for the the most part, you had a back view of it.

10:03 Yeah, backside, but mainly. Back, so you were able to see the full creature from the back. Then now it was just the top of its head for the most part, and it was much taller than me. And the weird thing about it was also is that my dog is like the queen of chasing deer, Like she will chase deer till she dies. It's like her favorite thing to do. And she walked right on it and she didn't step foot off the trail, which was so weird, and I was and she stepped back. She was not going in the woods. So I was like, Okay, that's weird too, but I was still trying to convince myself that it was a deer. But then I was like, then it started walking, Like after a few minutes when I was listening to it and I was like, that sounds like two legs, and it was too tall and it was too black, because my first thought was that's a black deer and I was like that, but then it was like, first it's a definitely deer, and then it's a black deer.

10:57 Then it's like really tall black deer. And then the way it was moving, it was fast and it was tall, and I was like, that can't be a deer. And my dog didn't chase it, and I'm like that, it's just it's so not I run up on deer all the time, and I was like that, that must have been the tallest, blackest deer I've ever seen. But then when I was walking away, I was like looking around and I was like, that was probably a big foot because there's just no other explanation what it because I've never seen a black deer, and every deer I see there's no beer. I've never seen a big buck. In the Pine Barons ever, the deer are just smaller. They're just small, like up in North Jersey, yeah they get bigger, but pine barrens deer are just they're just not that big. So it was really odd to see.

11:41 How tall would you estimate that it was. I'd say it was about at least six and a half seven foot. It was tall because I thought the deer was jumping at first, like it it had jumped really high. But then I realized that's how tall it actually was. Did you notice anything about the shape of the head at all? It was small. It was a small head. It was like not a gigantic head. It was like a compact. Okay, so like you're saying, like rounded, like a shape. Yeah, it was like tucked in to its to its upper but I didn't see its upper but like actual per body, but you could see where the head was positioned on and it was just it was like very compact onto whatever.

12:26 It was. Almost to say, do you think it had a neck at all or lack of. There was no like bobbly headed. It was like locked onto its body. Okay. Did the whole thing that you could see did it look like it was covered with hair? Then? Yeah? It was black hair. It was. It was dark black. So it was weird. Could you get a feel for how long the hair was at all? It wasn't like I'll tell you it was not super long. It was like short, not short cut but it was shorter, definitely not like long and straggly. Gotcha any could you see any ears on it at all? No? I could not see any ears. Okay, any muscles at all that you could see.

13:10 No, no muscles. It was like it knew that I was about to approach it, and it was like it was so scared to be seen. That's what like the feeling I got was like some animals are like that. You just approach them and they're like get out of there immediately. They don't even look at you, They're just gone. And that's what it felt like. It was like it wanted nothing to do with me at all. Absolutely, Just to ask, did you happen to get any photos of anything or audio recording or anything like that. No. I should have been recording after I saw it because it was walking around, but I just wanted. To see it so badly. I really didn't care. I wasn't thinking about anything like afterwards. I was just so not excited. But I was so like in the moment, I didn't really want to.

13:57 I was listening so hard, and I was like, I need to really focus on seeing this thing and see if I can get it back over here. Did you smell anything weird at the time. No, I didn't. I didn't smell anything weird. I did notice though, that where it was standing was not on a deer pill like, because when I walked up to where it was actually standing and where it ran through, I was like, that was probably a huge black deer and it just ran down a deer path, because just from my experience, deers stay on the path, even small, tiny game trails, they take those. They don't like to go in the brush just no trail at all. And that's where this thing was. There was no trail at all, just to mill the brush.

14:38 So that was weird. Any weird sounds or was there a lack of sound at the time. There was just it moving, and it moved so quickly and aggressively through this brush. And this brush is thick, man and it is filled with thorns and all these types of bushes, and it which is just barreled right through it fast too. To ask that another way, was there any ambient sound at all at the time of other things? No dead silence. Have you ever experienced dead silence like that before? Yeah? I have, Okay, I have gotcha. Same area or different areas, different areas you'd mentioned. There was a point where it almost looked back.

15:32 Yeah, yeah, I thought it would maybe I'd get a glimpse of it, but then it just kept running down. It was like a little bit it was a little bit of flackground, and then it went down a hill, so I couldn't see it once it went down the hill. That I was going to double check with you. So when it did that, did you see any other features or anything, since it was positioning its head in a different relation to you. Yeah, I didn't see any other features except for its blackhead, but it was you could tell that it was using its arms to move through the brush, like it was grabbing it and pushing it aside fast. So just to refresh my memory, So you said that for the most part, you saw the back of its head, were that there are other times where you saw more of the creature?

16:19 Then, now I saw the blur through the brush, but I could only see really the top of its head. Got it. So you're saying that at times you could see brush being pushed aside things like that, or you just are going off the sound. Oh yeah, definitely, it was a lot of brush being moved aside. But it was so much brush that it was hiding it and I only could see. All I could see was the top of its head. But you could tell by how it was running and moving through the brush that it was huge. When you went into that area, did you notice any broken branches or twisted off trees or anything.

17:01 The problem with the where I am and the pine barrens is that the trees naturally like twist off, and when they get weak and old, they literally snap in half, so you can't really tell if what it is, and they bend naturally too, ark, so it's just it's hard to tell. Yeah, that would be rough. I was going to ask you that next. So yeah, you've got naturally occurring tree bends then as well. Any xes in that area that you see, Ever. There are x is, yeah, I see them sometimes, not in that area. I wasn't looking for one, but in that area. I will say, before I saw this thing, I looked to there was a couple areas on my right where the trees were snapped at the bottom, and they were small, and they were spread across a tiny little trail that the trailer didn't lean anywhere. It was just a dead end, probably like thirty yards ahead, but they were just snapped at the bottom, and there were two of them identically pushed on the ground next to each other, same size, not very big, five foot a couple inches around. And then it looked like somebody was trying to block that area from going through, and I was like, that looks odd and then a minute later I saw it, so it was funny, and.

18:11 Then that is really interesting. So you've you mentioned there are deer in this area, correct. Yeah, there are some deer. I didn't see any deer on this plateau though that I was on. I've seen him maybe a mile away, but I didn't actually see any on this plateau. In that area. Have you ever heard any sounds that are out of place? Whooping tree knocks, things of that nature. Not in that area. In an area maybe two hours south in the southernmost point of the pine barrens, I heard a growl once and it freaked me out. But I don't know what it was, but I can't say it was a bigfoot or anything. It scared me, though.

18:52 I grabbed my dog and put her on the leash because she's never on the leash, and I walked back looking behind me at all times, and then I heard an hour, well the loudest owl I've ever heard multiple times, right behind me where the ground was. So I was like, that's weird. And it was dusk, it wasn't dark out and his owl was way too loud. Was that Vineland area? Yeah? Actually, how did you know that? Because I've done this for five years? Buddy, No, sorry that was sassy. But so here's the thing. I've talked to this guy for multiple times from New Jersey from your area, and there's a high amount of bigfoot activity down the Vineland area. This guy I go there a.

19:39 Lot actually, but I didn't know that. Did you talk to this guy? Yeah, his name is swamp Dog. You might see a truck driving around and says Swampdog on it. He's the dude. I haven't talked to to him in a while, but that area has a ton of bigfoot activity and you can listen to I have a few other episodes. But yeah, I'm not surprised that happened to you. In the Vineland arearedy crazy down. Literally my name. I go there a lot, actually, like maybe twice a week, so and that area is where I've seen big trees that aren't there. There was no stump for the tree, but it was laid up against other trees. And I've seen trees that are completely upside down laid against other trees.

20:20 But my mind would always just say it's a storm or it couldn't be and just keep going. But then there's nothing like that in other areas. There's every other area I go that's not Vineland, the trees are smaller that are broken and bent and twisted. But in Violand the trees. Were huge and they were turned over, and it was like, Okay, that could have been something for sure. Yeah, there's been some real wild stuff that's been going on down there in the last few years. Back to your sighting today, were there any other things that you noticed? How about this? You said there were cattails there? Right, yep. Did you happen to get close to the area where the cats were?

21:01 No, I just look because that's not the way I was going. I was headed back north. But I'll probably like two hundred yards away from the area. You said you are going to go back to check things out again tomorrow. Probably, Yeah, I'd say almost definardly. I do know a few researchers in southern New Jersey. Is that anything where you would want to talk to a researcher in the area or go buy yourself? Yeah, okay, see what if I reach out to him? Can I pass on your phone number or would I Yeah, that'd be fine, okay, cool, yeah, yeah, especially all right. Oh, Also if you if in the next few days you notice anything else out of the ordinary, feel free to to reach out, just so that's documented.

22:04 But okay, cool, I have a question for you. Actually, I was thinking about what so I ran up on this thing and it was clearly just an animal running away from me. I know Wes from Sasquash Chronicles. I talked to him once two years ago about I just texted him because I listened to the show all the time and I want to talk to him. So he let me talk to him for a good while and I asked him what he thinks it is, and he's I think that they are there's something about them. There's something that they can do. They have superpowers that we can't do, and that's the reason that they're always ahead of us and we can't pin them down. And then I've heard stories on your. Show that say they deal with like energy and their energy beings, and they can cloak and they can do all this weird stuff. But at the end of the day, I've seen from my experience, they're just animals that are really good at hiding and they hunt deer, so they can't be seen at all times. They wake up and they're hungry, they're in hide mode all day long. They can never have a deer get near them or see them that they're always hunting, right, just like an animal.

23:06 So I think that's why they're so stealthy, and I think that they're not dumb. They know that they stink or they have a scent, just like most creatures probably know this, and they don't want the second they step foot on a trail, they leave their scent on that footprint. So I don't think that they like stepping on the trails for that reason. And I know that deer always follow the trails. They follow their game trails, and they follow the regular trails see their footprints all over, So I think that they know not to step on the trails for that reason, and they also know that they're just they're wired to be in hide mode at all times, and they've just gotten so good at it over thousands of years. That's why they're so stealthy. But then I hear these other stories that they're like magical beings, So I'm curious, what do you think they are?

23:51 Yeah, So my show it's definitely unique, as in I talk to a wide variety of people from all all specials. Right personally, what I think is, I do think that we are dealing with so currently, what I think right now is we're dealing with some kind of physical animal that can do a whole lot of weird stuff that science doesn't can't grasp it. It's mine and around right now, and I think hopefully in the future science will understand exactly what's going on, and that might involve getting one and being able to study it. I now, there are things that I can't explain away at there's stories where like Skinwalker Ranch where it's like they saw one come through a portal up on the top of the bed and you've got the connection between them and UFO sightings and Chestnut Ridge and Southwest Pennsylvania.

24:40 So there's all lights like lights like the lights are intriguing to. Yeah, and you've got other stories like one in Iowa in Backbone State Park, where an individual saw a blue orb and then they look back and there was a big foot controlling the orb with its hands, and there's all this weird stuff that I can't quite categorize yet, but what I personally feel is it's just it's a physical animal that can do some really weird stuff. So this all is a way for me to figure out what's going on too. But that's what I feel currently. So cool. Yeah, that's awesome, man, love to hear it. Absolutely, that's interesting. Yeah, all right, you can hook me up with the researcher and if I see anything else or anything else, I'll definitely give you a call.

25:23 Absolutely, Matt, thank you for hopping on real quick. I appreciate you coming on the show to share what you saw. Just this is it's a new world record. It's just a few hours ago, so I mean, it just keeps getting crazier and crazier. But I appreciate you coming on, and I will get you in touch with that researcher. I'm going to try to reach out to him next. So you have a great rest of your night. Man. Awesome man, Thanks you too, brother, I'll talk you soon. I was able to reach out to a southern New Jersey Bigfoot researcher who was able to spend some time with Matt the Witness and check out the area. Stay tuned for updates regarding that research. Here at Bigfoot Society, our goal is to provide a platform for those that have encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter in a safe and respected environment. But we need to hear your story.

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