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Join us on Bigfoot Society as Jeremiah Byron hosts an engaging conversation with Mike Familant from the YouTube show 'In the Shadow of Big Red Eye.' Mike shares his thrilling experiences and research into Bigfoot sightings across the United States,...

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Season 1

Join us on Bigfoot Society as Jeremiah Byron hosts an engaging conversation with Mike Familant from the YouTube show 'In the Shadow of Big Red Eye.' Mike shares his thrilling experiences and research into Bigfoot sightings across the United States, from New Jersey to Florida, and even encounters with the Jersey Devil and the mysterious Brown Mountain Lights. Mike also discusses his journey from skeptical newbie to dedicated Bigfoot researcher, recounting personal stories that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Discover what it's like to search for Bigfoot, the tools and techniques used, and the incredible community that supports this fascinating pursuit. Don't miss this episode filled with captivating tales and practical advice for Bigfoot enthusiasts!

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Forward slash the Big for Society and now let's get

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on with the show. All right, Big for Society. You've

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got the privilege of talking to Mike Famelot from In

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the Shadow a Big Red Eye.

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How's it going, Mike, Hey, thank you so much for

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having me. This is awesome. Yeah. In the Shadow of

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Bigger and I we're a YouTube show. We go around

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the country and we look for bigfoot. It's pretty awesome.

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Absolutely. Man, it's been a while since I talked to you.

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I had interviewed Mike. You were like one of the

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first original interviews that I had, So, yeah, the og

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starting to ogs, but Zoom destroyed it. Oh it's lost forever.

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You were one of the first ten people I talked to,

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and it was a wild one and at the end

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Zoom was like, Nope, it's not going to happen. You

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have to wait a few more years. Well, finally got

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around to chatting with you. But man, you have really

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been up to some wild stuff. You are going all

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over the place and I'm just excited to talk to you.

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What's the elevator pitch that you give people for in

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the shadow of a Big Red Eye? Besides being a

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rock and YouTube channel all about bigfoot research.

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It's like the true, uncut, re non edited version of

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some of the shows that are on TV right now,

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except it's what big footing is really about. Some of

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the shows on TV, and people that spend any time

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an amount of time in the woods looking for bigfoot

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realize that the shows on TV don't accurately depict the

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way bigfooting is actually is done. So I was like,

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I am going to make a show that's not based

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off of ratings. I don't care if anybody doesn't like

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the show. It's just a hobby for me, and I

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started doing that in twenty sixteen making a show and

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now yeah, two point seven thousand subscribers. It's crazy.

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There's something for everyone on the channel. You go everywhere

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from New Jersey of course, down to Florida. If you

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are going all over, at least definitely the eastern side

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of the US.

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I would say I have not been west of the

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Mississippi yet looking for Bigfoot, but I'm hoping to change

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that next year. For the Mike Femlant Library Tour Searching

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America Tour twenty four.

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I'm telling you, I'm west of the Mississippi, and I'm

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telling you Bigfoot is out here. So you got to

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get out here. You've got to hit up some Oklahoma.

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You gotta hit up oh Man, was stuff some Missouri.

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Oh Man. It's going to get wild for you. But

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let's rewind a little bit. Mike, what's your origin story

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with what got you involved with all the Bigfoot craziness

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to begin with?

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Yees, it's a kind of funny story. I was living

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in Florida. I was working at a beach resort in Sarasota, Florida,

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which was like the best job that I've ever had

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before my entire life, and I was watching Finding Bigfoot

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on TV. It was on in the background. I didn't

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have any real a parent liking to the show or whatever.

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It was just on. And at the end they were like, hey,

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if you want to come out with us, you could

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pay this ridiculous amount of fee and sign your life

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away and you can come out on an expedition with

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these guys. And I'm like, there is no way I

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am not doing that. That sounds like it's incredible. So

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I signed up that night. I was engaged at the time,

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did not tell the fiance what we were doing. This

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is going to be like a little pre wedding, little

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surprise thing. Wow. And anyways, this is my first time

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ever camping. I was an inside child growing up. I

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was never outside TVs, video games, that was my thing.

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So this was my first time ever camping. I had

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to acquire some camping gear, my tent, my sleeping bag,

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literally everything. So I'm getting the stuff prior to this

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expedition and I'm hiding it in the closet so my

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fiance didn't see this. Finally, she's cleaning one day, which

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she never cleaned, so I was shocked. That you found it.

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But she found it and she was like, Mike, what

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are we doing. I said, hon, we are going to

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go look for a big foot in North Florida. And

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then we broke up. There was that, but anyways, get

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up to North Florida. I invite a buddy, an EMT

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friend of mine. I'm an EMT or I used to

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be an EMT and I invited a friend of mine

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and we went up there on this BFRO expedition. Nothing happened,

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We talked to witnesses, we did the night hikes. We've

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actually found a Florida panther foot. Which is really cool

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is at the time there's only like twenty five and

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left in the wild. This is back in twenty eleven.

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And yeah, so nothing happened except the last night And

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it was about three o'clock in the morning and me

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and my buddy Jimmy, we are sitting next to our

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campfire and we hear a tree dock. I didn't think

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anything of it. I said, oh, that could be anything.

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About two minutes later, a tree dock from the complete

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opposite direction. So I immediately think that it was the expedition

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organizers that are in the woods knocking on trees because

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we paid a lot of money, didn't have any big

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foot activity, so this has got to be what's going on.

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They're hoaxing us. Obviously, nothing happens. About ten minutes goes

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by and you hear come crashing down through the trees

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a fist sized rock. And it was at this point

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in my life where I said, nope, this is how

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horror movies start. I am out of here, right, my buddies,

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if you want to sleep in the car than And

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by the time he said that, I was just in

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the car. And finally he talked some sense into me. Mike,

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bigfoots knock on trees, they throw rocks. This could be

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a squatchy activity that we're having. So I was like,

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I suppose so, all right, So he talked me back

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out by the campfire. Over the course of the next fifteen minutes,

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four more of these fifth sized rocks come crashing, landing

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down five to ten feet from us. So that's horrifying

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as it is, right, So I'm petrified this is going

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to be a sleepless night. We already are aware of that.

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And my buddy, he's I got an idea. I'm gonna

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throw a rock back at it, So it was a

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bad idea. Yeah, So he took one of the rocks

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and he chucked it back in that direction right, and

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we knew it wasn't a person because a fifteen pound

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laptop sized boulder came crashing down land at five feet

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from us. And then that was it. That was done.

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Nothing else happened that night. The next day we asked

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our neighbors because there was a lot of other people

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at the expedition. We were like, hey, did you guys

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hear or see anything. Nobody heard or saw anything. So

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then we did some measurements because we wanted to be

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all scientific and stuff because that's what saw them do

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on TV. We did a measurement of how close this

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thing could have been that was throwing the rocks Because

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of the terrain and the topography and stuff. The closest

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this thing could have been was seventy five yards away.

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Unless Nolan Ryan's chucking rocks in the middle of the

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Florida Panhandle at four o'clock in the morning.

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I don't know how did you go to sleep after that?

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Oh? You got to think about it. What can throw

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rocks a person? Primates are bigfoot, those are the only

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three things right. If there was a population of primates

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living in North Florida, I think we would know about it.

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They're not going to be like Bigfoot stealthy. We would

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know that they were up there. We actually, in fact

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do know that there's plant primates living in Florida. But

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you could rule out a person because it was just

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so heavy. I couldn't chuck it ten feet rather than

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coming crashing down through the woods. That takes substantial power.

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That kind of gets it on your radar. Was it

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after that GameLine, you're going out, you're making this video

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or is there a little downtime before the YouTube series

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actually started kicking off.

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into making. So after this expedition we are totally into it. Now.

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We are everything, Jimmy and I everything about Bigfoot we

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can get our hands on. We're we're talking to researchers, witnesses,

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finding hot spots, everything we can do because we think

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this is so cool. And about three weeks goes by,

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we go out and we call ourselves experts now because

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it's been three weeks and we know everything, So we're

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going to go We're gonna go out so low doing

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our own thing. One night expedition, I'm doing bigfoot calls

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like it's my job. I'm doing them every two seconds, right,

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because that's what I do on TV. So I'm just

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imitating what I see him do on TV. Right. So

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I'm doing these bigfoot calls, and Jimmy he's he's got

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his ten million lumen spotlight that he's got shined around. Right.

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The light shines upon two pairs of eyes. One pair

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was a reflecting red color and the other was like

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a reflecting aqua blue color. And they were just looking

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back at us. And we thought, in our inefittent wisdom

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of everybody and everything in the woods, we thought that

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it was people. We didn't realize people don't have eyeshine.

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We can't see at night, right, since we were all

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so new with this. But anyways, we start yelling, hey,

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we're just out looking for bigfoot. Sorry, we'll go back

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to camp type of thing, and just the eyes are

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just staring back at us at these things. These suckers

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are about seven and a half feet off the ground.

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So we're like, okay, this is we still think it's

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a person. We think they're actually illegally hunting out there.

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It's a big hunting area, so and it was poaching

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at night. But anyways, so the eyes are just staring

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back the one set, the red set turns, looks at

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the other set, turns and looks back at us and

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then blinks. Another nope moment out of there. But we

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did go back the next day and we found the

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eyes were at about seven and a half feet. We

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did a recreation like we saw him do on TV

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and everything like that. So those were just the two

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first times that I went out looking for Bigfoot, and

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we had some really incredible activity and that's what I

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think got me so into it, so hardcore if you

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will so quickly.

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Oh, I can definitely see if that level had happened

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to me right off the bat, it would have the

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same effect some wood knocks tree pushed over on my

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first time out in Iowa with tape. When does Red

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Eye become involved?

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Okay, perfect, perfect segue twenty sixteen. I get a little homesick.

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I'm living in Florida, still I get a little homesick.

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Jersey shocking. I know that's crazy to get homesick over

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New Jersey, but it happens. People. Anyways, So I moved

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back home and I was like, man, my big footing

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career is over. There's no bigfoot New Jersey. Little did

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I know. Starting to do research, and I quickly established

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that a Facebook group called Susset's County Bigfoot and networked

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with a lot of really interesting people. I met a

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lot of really cool people, and shortly thereafter I decided

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I'm going to make a show and it's called in

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the Shadow Big Red Eye. And I called it that

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because in nineteen seventy two, a state park ranger up

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here in High Point State Park in northwestern New Jersey,

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he was on patrol during the night. He was on

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foot patrol walking one of the trails at night, and

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he came across two pairs of reflecting red eyes, very

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similar what happened to us in Florida. Right. He put

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that on his report, and somehow how the newspaper got

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a hold of it. In the next day, Big Red

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Eye was front page in the newspaper. That's little Sussets

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County is a little Bigfoot claim to fame there, And.

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It looks like, from looking over your channel, you've done

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more than a few investigations in that area. Of New Jersey.

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Correct, Yeah, Yeah, it's a high Point. State Park is

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about forty five minutes from me, and we just have

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so many good squatching areas in northwestern New Jersey and

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in New Jersey itself. People don't realize this is sheer

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acreage that we have for something large to be able

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to be supported and stuff like that. So it's staggering

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when you think of bigfoot in New Jersey. People think

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you're crazy, but it's really cool. I'm a very big

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fan of the bear and bigfoot. They eat similar things

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to apex. Predators living in the same area probably eat

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the same things. Right. We actually have in Sussets County

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the highest density of black bear population east of Mississippi.

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So I think if there would be anywhere that bigfoot

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would be able to be supported, it's somewhere where it

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has the food that can support these large predator preachers. Right.

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New Jersey definitely can support a large animal like that.

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Absolutely. When you are going out to these certain spots

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in Sussex, have you had any interesting encounters.

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We've gotten some of the best best pieces of evidence

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that I've ever collected from Sussex County, and that's probably

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just to say, because I go out there all the time,

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I'm obviously going to get more evidence from there. But

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we've collected a footprint back in twenty and sixteen, fifteen

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and a half incher that I've posted everywhere that I

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could possibly find, track identification pages, everything like this, and

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people just say that it can't be real, but I

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found it. We've gotten some vocalizations from high Point State Park.

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There's a gas line that runs through the north end

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of the county here, and I think that's a big

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foot highway. I think bigfoots would follow these gas lines

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and power lines of things. But we were on this

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gas line we did a barred owlcohol, which is an

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owl that lives around here, and about five seconds later

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we got like this vocalization, three distinct loud howls. I

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always try to vet my evidence before I release anything,

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so I would send it away. I sent that piece

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of audio off to a linguist from the military who

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also does bigfoot research on the side, and he came

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back and said, because X, Y, and Z, this is

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outside a human vocal range and it's no known animal.

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Have you ever heard any whoops type vocalization anything like

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the given type sounds.

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Or the most recent one we had up but that

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was over the summer. I was up in Whitehall, New York,

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actually in Vermont, in a beomosine, Vermont, in the next

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to the state park there. We went up to this

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one lake and we hiked up there and it's like

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like two in the morning, and it sounded just like

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a person but a monkey. We did a whoop and

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it just did the same exact thing back. It wasn't

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an echo, And it was like, like we are literally

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two miles from the closest road, there's no campgrounds. It's

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those things that make you go and make you really

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want to go back and figure out what's making those sounds.

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Going back to New Jersey for a little bit. It's

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a few months back. I had a gentleman on a

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few times. His name is swamp Dog. He's a great guy,

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but he is a guy who is seriously researching in

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southern New Jersey. Oh cool, there are some really interesting

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things going down. I don't know if you're familiar with

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the Vineland, New Jersey area in the south, have you

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ever gone down into the south part of New Jersey

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at all?

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Man, The South Jersey is really wild because you have

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one point one million acre Pine Barrens Preserve, right and

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that's that's right outside of it, right in Bolin's right

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inside of that area, and that's obviously known for the

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Jersey Devil, right the South Jersey and the Pine Barons

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known for the Jersey Devil, but also Bigfoot. We have

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found baby Bigfoot tracks down there, so that was very interesting.

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We actually found him on three separate occasions through different

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years apart, in the same area. We actually went down

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there not too long ago. We went out with this YouTuber,

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very popular YouTuber who contacted me and was like, I'm

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doing a fifty state cryptid thing and I want you

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to be New Jersey's guy, and I'm like okay. So

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we went down there looking for the Jersey Devil and

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he actually obtained some goat's blood, which their goats are

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said to Jersey Devil said to eat goats. So we

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got some goat blood and we smeared it all up

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on this tree, got some trail cans and stuff. Yeah,

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we go big Wow.

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Who was do you mind dropping the name of who

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that was?

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Channel I have Andrew Callahan.

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Okay, I have to look that up.

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Yeah, it's like a news real fake news site something.

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Oh okay, cool, it's interesting.

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Yeah, he's got like two point two million subscribers or

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something like that. It's cretably been down there, and it's

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I always like to have fun. So why just research

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Bigfoot when you could do both? Two birds one stone, Right,

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all you got to do is look up same thing.

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So what are your thoughts as to Some people think

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of the Jersey Devil as just interesting folklore story. Some

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people actually think that there is a creature out in

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the woods of the pine bearance. Do you find yourself

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more in either camp or Yeah?

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I think after doing a whole lot of research into it,

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I want to say it's a really good folklore story.

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What's interesting about it is that you can piece together

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every part of that story can have happened, like the family,

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the Leeds family is actually a real true family. You

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could trace it back. I have a brick from the

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chimney that the Jersey Devil was said to fly up through,

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which is really cool from the original household. That's creepy.

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Andrew Callahan got me that too. Yeah, I will say

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though I do my library presentations and I do have

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a slide in there about the Jersey Devil. I had

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a presentation in South Jersey, down the Pine Barrens area,

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and I used to say that I think the Jersey

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Devil was actually a misidentified bigfoot, and people are a

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little appalled by that. Apparently down in South Jersey. My

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thing is seven foot tall, screams at night, glowing red eyes.

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Sounds like a bigfoot to me. But I think initially

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it was a misidentification of a sand hill crane, which

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is a big bird that may have weather pattern could

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have caused it to come up to New Jersey, and

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they don't have internet or anything like that, so there's

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no way of looking up what kind of bird this is.

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But it looks like a devil at screams like a devil,

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and has red eyes, so of course that would be

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a flying devil for the Jersey Devil.

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I liked the idea of it maybe being a misidentified

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big foot. When I hear about the Pine Barrens, and

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I've talked to people a few times about it, there's

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some really weird stuff that happens in those pine barans

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for some reasons. Have you ever had anything weird happened

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to you in there?

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On expeditions or routinely when we're camping, big trucks will

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come into the campground and just like idle there for

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fifteen twenty minutes, tinted when not a cop type of thing.

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Just odd. We've been late one night and we were

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deep in the pine barrens driving in there, and you

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can get very lost in there. We came across either

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it was somebody bearing a body or somebody looking for Bigfoot.

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One of the two. It was one of the two.

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We didn't stick around to find out. But yeah, it's

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just a crazy area. There's I will say, if anybody's

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interested in going out to investigating the Pine Barons. The

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New Jersey State Park Police do a very proficient job

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making sure nobody is breaking the rules down there is

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keep that in the back of your mind as well.

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Yes, no breaking the laws guys.

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And I got pulled over one time and the cop

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was really cool. I was at a memorial. It's Cran's

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and memorial used to be in a Mexican aviator went

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down the Pine Barons. I put this memorial up for

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him and I was down there just showing my friends

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the memorial because they've never seen it. And State Park

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police pulls up. What are you doing? And we have

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our Oliver camera gear. We're in Camo. We're looking for

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bigfoot and he's what, Oh, that's interesting. I don't think

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there's any bigfoot here, but if you want, you can.

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You just can't be at the memorial. I was like, okay,

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thanks and any let's go. Sounds weird.

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You had an interesting video about investigating the Brown Mountain lights.

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Oh that was a cool trip up down in North Carolina.

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I did it on a last minute thing, knew about it,

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and I was staying down in Ashville, which the Brown

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Mountains are about hour fifteen from Ashville, just like one night.

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I'm going to take a ride up there. And the

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road to get up to where we were, I think

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we're at Lynnville Gorge. I think it's called is not

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for the faint of heart, So you need a four

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wheel drive to get up there. But if you want

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to check it out, it's really cool. There's a big

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overlooking thing and what said is near or on the

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mountain in the distance, Actually not Brown Mountains, a different

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name of a mountain. But anyways, they say that there's

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these ghost lights that appear some people think they're fires,

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somebody starts a fire. Some people think they're headlights, and

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sometimes they even appear off the mountain, as in the

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sky or behind the mountain, which is unusual. And sometimes

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there's a fog that comes off the mountain in very

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peculiar spots. I just wanted to go out there just

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to see if I could find anything. I sat out

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there for about two hours and did not hear nor

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see anything, but it was very beautiful.

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Another one it really caught my eye was that what

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happened to you when you were doing a big foot

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call one time?

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In Yeah, yeah, I know what you're talking about.

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It's even a cautionary tale.

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All right. Let me just say this was after like

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a ten mile hike in the Florida's heat. This is

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day seventeen tent camping for us, so we were a

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little exhausted by this point. So the story is, we

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walk out to this lake in the middle of Maya

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Haka Hatchie River State Park or my no Mayaka Forest. Anyways,

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we get out this area and everybody's Mike, do a

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big foot call. Mike, do a big foot call. You're

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the best at it. You're the best at it. I'm

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like I'm really not feeling it, guys, I'm not. And

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they're like, no, you to do one. It's the last

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one at the trip. It's like, all right, fine. I

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didn't even it wasn't even like a long hal it

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was just it was a very good, good, powerful vocalization

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and I passed out after it a little bit.

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You definitely did. Knowing that background information, I could definitely

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see how that could happen. Though, being deep into camping

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for that long, you're going around all over the place

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for red Eye. Has there been a time when you

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are going out into a state forest and you've just

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had something happen that really took you back or it

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just things got really intense.

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Yeah. Just the other day, we were hiking up in

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Stokes State Forest, which is in northwestern New Jersey, and

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we had a class a encounter of a bare box.

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And let me tell you that they put bare boxes

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in the state forest by the campsite, so you put

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your food in there so the bears can't get them.

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And these things look or they're about the same size

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as a extremely large black bear and dark. They paint

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them black for some reason. So we were going around

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a corner and we came across this and it was

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darker than the rest of this pitch blackout. I'm like, fleer, flear,

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get the fleer. So we're getting the fleer up, there's

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nothing on it, and finally we get this big spotlight

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on it. It's just a bare box. So that was crazy,

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and this happens, I think to everybody that goes big footing.

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You get the occasional I'm walking and I'm going to

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pick up a stick from the trail just to make

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sure it's not not blocking anybody on the trail, but

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it's actually a six foot snake. That kind of thing.

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That's a common thing that happens to me apparently. But

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now I think the most I take out of going

456
00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.920
on these expeditions really is we get a lot of

457
00:24:55.960 --> 00:25:00.319
cool stuff. I know, when I was down in West Virginia,

458
00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.200
in Sutton, West Virginia, there's this place you go down

459
00:25:03.240 --> 00:25:05.960
to and I went down there doing it. It's right

460
00:25:05.960 --> 00:25:07.720
along this river board and I was doing a big

461
00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:09.160
foot call. I wanted to go down there at night,

462
00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:12.839
and I literally went down there every night, not because

463
00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:17.240
it was squatchy, but the whole forest was just a

464
00:25:17.279 --> 00:25:20.920
firefly lit up. It was casting shadows that how many

465
00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.319
fireflies there were. I was like, man, this is the

466
00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:27.960
coolest thing. This is why you go bigfoot. It's every

467
00:25:28.079 --> 00:25:32.400
place that I go. It's not about looking and finding Bigfoot.

468
00:25:32.519 --> 00:25:34.880
That's not what I do. I like to go and

469
00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:39.599
see areas that you wouldn't necessarily see. Like today, we

470
00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.559
just got back from a little excursion up in the Catskills.

471
00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:44.920
We were up there for a couple of days doing

472
00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.240
a little filming and we stopped at this waterfall today,

473
00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:52.160
pal Kills Waterfall, and it was just absolutely incredible And

474
00:25:52.200 --> 00:25:54.920
it wasn't anything bigfooty related or anything like that. It's

475
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:56.480
just one of these side things that you do because

476
00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:59.039
you're in the area, and it's those things. It's the

477
00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:01.880
views from the out and tops and those waterfall things

478
00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:06.640
that really make you remember why you're doing what you doing.

479
00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:08.799
It's not about finding Bigfoot. It's about seeing something and

480
00:26:08.880 --> 00:26:11.359
being outside in nature. That's how it is for me.

481
00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:14.119
I got a message back on YouTube, and this is

482
00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:16.680
back in like season two. I get an email from

483
00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:20.839
somebody that says, because of your videos, I watch your

484
00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:23.480
videos every week, and because of your videos, I live

485
00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.480
vicariously through you. Because I have a new illness that

486
00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:30.960
I will not let me out into the woods anymore.

487
00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:35.640
So you're the videos that I watched to experience what

488
00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:37.319
I used to do, because you're doing the same thing

489
00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:38.960
that I used to do. And I said, oh man,

490
00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:42.960
that's really me. That's how I knew. Like we're filming

491
00:26:42.960 --> 00:26:46.160
season eight's that's just how it goes, right.

492
00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:49.440
Yeah, you experienced stuff like that and you're like, Okay,

493
00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:53.000
this is actually making a difference in someone's life.

494
00:26:53.400 --> 00:26:53.759
For sure.

495
00:26:54.119 --> 00:26:55.839
It makes it all worthwhile.

496
00:26:56.440 --> 00:26:58.160
I know that's why I do it, and I'm pretty sure

497
00:26:58.200 --> 00:26:59.319
that's probably why you do it too.

498
00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:03.920
I really like providing a platform for people to share

499
00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:09.079
their encounters where it's a safe, respected environment, and I've

500
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:11.960
noticed that you have started to do that as well.

501
00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:15.000
Do you mind sharing about you have a series where

502
00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:18.440
it's almost you run into these people and you get

503
00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:20.640
them to share. How did that come about it?

504
00:27:21.279 --> 00:27:26.079
Bigfoot Campfire Store is basically what it was. I have

505
00:27:26.319 --> 00:27:30.759
some of these really great, long interviews with some really

506
00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:35.519
unique people, and I can't, for the life of me,

507
00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:39.039
fit them down into one episode of my show because

508
00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.079
it would just be the interviews the whole show. And

509
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:42.480
I can't have that, you know what I mean. So

510
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:46.000
I decided to I'm going to make this extra special

511
00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:50.400
series docuseeries of and it could be from two minutes

512
00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:52.839
long to two hours long whenever they want to talk

513
00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:59.640
about their experiences. And what I've gathered from the feedback

514
00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:03.680
is that everybody thinks it's it is. It's extremely raw,

515
00:28:03.920 --> 00:28:07.839
it's not edited, it's it is right from the mouth

516
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:10.000
of the person that had a class A insight at

517
00:28:10.039 --> 00:28:13.680
sighting with a Bigfoot. That's that's cool. And a lot

518
00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:15.960
of times ninety percent of the times were actually back

519
00:28:16.000 --> 00:28:19.799
in the area. I know there was one hunter that

520
00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:22.920
had not gone back to the area for thirty years

521
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:25.359
before I took him back there, and he was the

522
00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:28.079
first first time back there that I took him that

523
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:31.759
he saw I saw on Bigfoot, which is crazy. Yeah,

524
00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:37.440
But speaking of platforms to allow people to open up

525
00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:40.279
about their Bigfoot encounters, I don't know. If you see

526
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:43.920
my vehicle, the Bigfoot Mobile Command Center, it's all grasped

527
00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:44.880
out with ye.

528
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:46.880
Seen a little bit of it in videos, but tell

529
00:28:46.960 --> 00:28:49.200
us about that. It looks very cool.

530
00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:54.119
Yeah, it's I made it myself, took out the back

531
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:57.400
seats and I made like a raised sleeping platform so

532
00:28:57.440 --> 00:28:58.920
I could like sleep in the car. I don't have

533
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.880
to pay for Airbnb and like travel expenses and stuff

534
00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:03.079
like that. You just sleep in the car if I

535
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.359
need to. There's storage compartments. I put a secondary car

536
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:09.000
battery in there so I could charge up all my

537
00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:12.240
stuff all the time. But I put graphics on it

538
00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:16.079
real big This is Bigfoot Mobile Command Center. And every

539
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.920
other week I would say, I'll be at like seven

540
00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.039
to eleven or a convenience store or something like that,

541
00:29:21.160 --> 00:29:23.039
and somebody will come up to me and say, hey,

542
00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:27.759
I've never told anybody this before, but I saw a

543
00:29:27.759 --> 00:29:31.720
bigfoot thirty years ago, and that's so wild, and it

544
00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:36.240
happened so frequently it almost would shock you how frequently

545
00:29:36.279 --> 00:29:41.680
it happens. But funny story is, so as I'm sure

546
00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:46.279
you do, you talk about Bigfoot a lot, right, And

547
00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.200
I know for me, if it bigfoot's my job. So

548
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:52.480
I want a day off of my job every once

549
00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:55.039
in a while. So like I called my friend up

550
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:56.559
this a couple of years ago. I called my friend up.

551
00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:59.640
I said, Hey, we're going to go out tonight play

552
00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.759
some pool, but we're not going to talk about Bigfoot.

553
00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:05.960
Bigfoot is off the table right. So we get there,

554
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.000
get out of the car, slam the door, and what

555
00:30:09.079 --> 00:30:12.480
do I hear from across the parking lot bigfoot? And

556
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:16.119
I'm like, oh, no, here we go. So the guy

557
00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:21.559
comes over and he's, hey, my grandfather has a big

558
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:24.359
foot cast that he's never shown anybody. Do you want

559
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.319
to see it? And I said no, I am off tonight.

560
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:29.720
Now I said absolutely, of course I want to see you.

561
00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:32.400
Of course. So a couple of weeks later I go

562
00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:35.279
up to this gentleman's house and he has not one,

563
00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:39.519
but seventy bigfoot casts off of such Indian that he's

564
00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:41.000
never shown anybody before.

565
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.319
And this, you said, Sussex County, Yes, sir, WHOA, So

566
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:50.319
that's really interesting. Was he getting the tracks from an

567
00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.839
area that you hadn't researched before?

568
00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:56.160
Gets him from all over the Kiddatiti ridgeline actually butts

569
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.400
up against it, which is really cool. The place that

570
00:30:58.440 --> 00:31:01.200
I don't go because, especially during the summer, because there's

571
00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:05.400
are a ton of rattlesnakes, which is very interesting that

572
00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:09.000
he a is going up there himself and be pulling

573
00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:11.079
big footprints from the side of a cliff.

574
00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.519
Your professional opinion, looking at did the footprints look pretty

575
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:16.759
legit or.

576
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.400
Oh yeah, yeah, this guy didn't know how to mix

577
00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:23.759
the plaster of Paris at all, but he the prints

578
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:26.200
were there are some wonky ones there, but of course

579
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:27.680
you're going to get wonky ones when you have a

580
00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:31.240
seventy of them that captured over the years. But the

581
00:31:31.319 --> 00:31:33.400
guy wasn't faking it. He wasn't going to tell anybody

582
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.240
about it ever, like he was going to die not

583
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:39.200
telling anybody about this. So that's why I know that

584
00:31:39.200 --> 00:31:42.119
they're legit. Like he wanted me to come over, like

585
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:45.200
his grandson was the one who told me about it,

586
00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:46.160
Like he didn't call me.

587
00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:50.440
Okay, so you man, I feel like I need to

588
00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:55.119
put some Bigfoot stuff in my car now because it's incredible, man,

589
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.839
Like you never would have gotten that unless you had

590
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000
Bigfoot Command Center.

591
00:31:59.799 --> 00:32:02.680
And it's one hundred percent absolutely yeap.

592
00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:04.559
Dude, I'm going to look into it.

593
00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:09.920
Thetickers on my se.

594
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:14.039
A, we'll have to put that in the show for sure.

595
00:32:14.119 --> 00:32:16.160
People had to get those, had to plug it.

596
00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:20.640
Oh yeah, oh yeah, totally. When you are out filming

597
00:32:20.720 --> 00:32:25.160
these expeditions we've talked about there was an issue with

598
00:32:25.200 --> 00:32:27.680
a snake. You picked up a snake. Have you run

599
00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:33.359
into any other animals when you're out there looking for Bigfoot?

600
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:38.039
And yeah, yeah, the most scared I've ever been in

601
00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.759
the woods before, the most scared I've ever been the woods.

602
00:32:40.839 --> 00:32:43.160
Let me set the scene for you at Stoke State

603
00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.279
Forest right before a public BFRO expedition. I was an

604
00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:48.079
investigator at the time, and we got out there a

605
00:32:48.160 --> 00:32:53.359
night prier, me and another investigator, and it was cold,

606
00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:57.279
but it was very There were no clouds in full

607
00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.720
moon right you could see casting a shadow, no question

608
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:04.920
about it. So I had this one person ten maybe

609
00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.720
maybe like just as like you couldn't sit up in

610
00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:09.680
it type of thing, like the only thing you could

611
00:33:09.720 --> 00:33:12.559
do is snuggle up and sleep in it. So since

612
00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:14.839
it was cold, I was under my two mummy sleeping

613
00:33:14.880 --> 00:33:19.319
bags and I'm just got situated in a nice warm

614
00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:23.599
and everything. And then it happened, right came up from

615
00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:27.000
the top and just the shadow started casting dout, came

616
00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:29.079
right over my head and then started dropping down.

617
00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:31.839
What was it, spider?

618
00:33:32.640 --> 00:33:35.240
Oh? Gross, scared I've ever been, most scared I've ever

619
00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.160
been in the woods. I screamed like a little girl.

620
00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:41.960
But that's the three people asked me, like Oh, you're

621
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:45.480
not scared of bears in the woods. Yeah. Inherently, bears

622
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:47.680
are scary creatures, but if you don't mess with them,

623
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:49.200
they're not going to mess with you type of thing.

624
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:51.559
So the three things that I don't like in the

625
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:52.960
woods tick, spiders, and people.

626
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:59.680
Oh yeah, yeah, people. That's a great point. That's a

627
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:01.880
crazy sure that you don't know what's going to happen

628
00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.519
if you're way out in the boonies and all of

629
00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:08.639
a sudden there's a person and you don't know if yeah,

630
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:13.320
they're actually out of control, or if they've got a weapon.

631
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:19.119
Or inherently, as a bigfoot researcher, you don't want to

632
00:34:19.159 --> 00:34:24.039
see anybody else when you're researching. That's the goal of

633
00:34:24.119 --> 00:34:27.480
going out to look for Bigfoot. But we were in

634
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.079
the Delaware Wood Gap National Recreation Area. This is what

635
00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:32.880
you're going off of what you were just saying. We

636
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:35.199
were doing a it was a night and a half.

637
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.719
It was a very weird night. We almost stepped on

638
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:40.880
a bear. Mom and bear, no it was baby bear.

639
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.400
Mom was in the woods but didn't. But anyways, we

640
00:34:45.400 --> 00:34:48.679
were driving through this village called Millbrook Village. It's an

641
00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:51.760
old historic village, not it's abandoned, but they fixed it

642
00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:55.039
up all nice. Anyway, there was a guy walking along

643
00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:58.440
the road. Nobody lives here, okay, and it's two o'clock

644
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:02.440
in the morning, and he's in shorts and has a

645
00:35:02.480 --> 00:35:06.400
backpack on and flip flops and it's cold, and I'm like, okay,

646
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.039
something's not right. We got to stop. And we drive

647
00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:10.920
past him and I'm like, guys, we got to turn around,

648
00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:13.800
and everybody else was like, wait, that's a ghost. We

649
00:35:13.840 --> 00:35:16.639
didn't that's that's definitely not a person. That's just a ghost.

650
00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:18.559
And I'm like, no, it's not a ghost, it's a person.

651
00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:21.840
We got to stop. So we stopped this guy. He

652
00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:24.800
was having a medical emergency, psychiatric emergency, right. He was

653
00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:28.000
actually running away from his house and he was going

654
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.719
to he was going to attempt to do the Appalachian

655
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:34.519
Trail and this is this was in February. He had

656
00:35:34.519 --> 00:35:37.039
his flip flops on, he could he wasn't going to

657
00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:39.880
make it the night type of thing. So we ended

658
00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:43.159
up finally, he wouldn't give up any information about when

659
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:46.920
I'm not there's the state police out there, but they're

660
00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:48.639
just going to lock him up in a hospital or something.

661
00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:52.039
So we ended up getting contacting his dad finally after

662
00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:55.599
hours of talking with him, and his dad came out

663
00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:59.400
and got him and stuff. So and I wouldn't recommend

664
00:35:59.400 --> 00:36:02.880
anybody doing that, especially with somebody that's having a psychiatric emergency.

665
00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:05.119
As I mentioned though before, I'm an EMT, so I

666
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.599
know how to handle this situations. But definitely it wouldn't

667
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:11.519
have made it the night talking about being in the

668
00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:13.800
right place at the right time, even and that's just

669
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:16.000
because we were looking for Bigfoot. God, if we weren't

670
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:18.480
looking for Bigfoot out there, who knows what had happened

671
00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:18.840
to that guy?

672
00:36:19.679 --> 00:36:23.159
What are the chances dude, that you know, just an

673
00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:26.800
random EMT Bigfoot just happened to be in the right

674
00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:31.320
area so he could help Adde not have his last night. Like,

675
00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:33.800
good on you for sticking it out and making sure

676
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:37.079
that he was good. A few questions that maybe the

677
00:36:37.159 --> 00:36:41.880
listeners might be trying to imagine that, I would ask,

678
00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:45.320
have you been fortunate enough to have any visual sightings

679
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.440
of anything Bigfoot related yourself? Are you still working towards

680
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:50.920
that maybe someday.

681
00:36:50.960 --> 00:36:53.320
Another funny story for you. We were down in the

682
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:55.559
pine barns as we were just talking about along this

683
00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:59.679
river where we found footprints before, and we were walking

684
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:03.039
and it was me and my friend Tom, and all

685
00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:04.920
of a sudden, I was a little bit ahead of him.

686
00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:07.440
Talked about being at the right place at the right time.

687
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:11.079
I just I also hear his flop and I turn

688
00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:15.639
around and he is literally up to his chest in mud.

689
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:18.559
He fell through. It was like quick mud. He lost

690
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:20.920
his like he lost his boots type of thing, Like

691
00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:22.559
he wouldn't be able to get out if I wasn't there.

692
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:26.480
So if bigfooters, if you're going to go out, always

693
00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:28.840
try to go with another person. You never know what's

694
00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.960
going to happen. It could be as freaky as getting

695
00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:36.119
caught in quick mud, but it happens. Anyways, after this,

696
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.199
we're walking. He doesn't have any boots on. He's a trooper.

697
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:42.880
He's tough it out where He's like, I see something,

698
00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:45.800
so I grab I wasn't filling my show. I had

699
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:48.559
a still camera and I just pick up the still camera.

700
00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:52.960
I'm just snapping away and I didn't see anything. He

701
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:56.239
saw it. We went back and looked at the pictures

702
00:37:56.400 --> 00:38:01.960
and it was actually like a little blur like tip

703
00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:03.599
of a head that you could possibly see that was

704
00:38:03.639 --> 00:38:06.400
like coming out over a rock. Oh man, it was

705
00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:08.679
so far away you can't make it out. It could

706
00:38:08.719 --> 00:38:10.719
have been a deer. Nobody's ever going to see that picture,

707
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.239
you know what I mean. Have I seen anything? No,

708
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.000
but I think I've come across everything, but short of

709
00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:17.599
seeing one.

710
00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:21.920
Yeah, I get you. It's one of those things where

711
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:26.760
I've been out two times, which is low number compared

712
00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:29.679
to yourself. But I think we I think we both

713
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:35.360
would one day want to have that experience. There's that

714
00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:39.320
old question that always gets brought up. How are you

715
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:43.320
classifying this creature that you're trying to find? What is

716
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:44.000
Bigfoot to you?

717
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.000
I go about researching and looking for this creature the

718
00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:54.360
way I would go about researching an extinct or expired animal.

719
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.639
So I think they're biological creatures. And the evidence that

720
00:38:59.679 --> 00:39:05.039
I have found, aka footprints, I've been given some hair

721
00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:10.679
and stuff. Like if they weren't of this dimension or

722
00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.880
whatever this plane that we're on, I don't think they

723
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:19.199
would leave too much physical evidence. But anyways, it's just

724
00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:25.679
I think that you can't explain an unknown with another unknown,

725
00:39:26.639 --> 00:39:29.840
And I think when you have people that are of

726
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:35.639
the realm of Bigfoot or UFOs or intradimensional creatures that

727
00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:40.840
we have, No, we don't have any knowledge of. You

728
00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:44.519
can't use that to explain something else. It just doesn't

729
00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:48.199
work like that. So when you have somebody that tries

730
00:39:48.239 --> 00:39:51.119
to use that logic to explain something away, it's just like, man,

731
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:53.320
we got to think of the most simple. If it

732
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:55.159
walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's

733
00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:57.960
probably a duck, right. So that's what I think bigfoot is,

734
00:39:58.000 --> 00:39:58.920
except obviously a.

735
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:04.320
Bigfoot absolutely, So we've got definitely we're in the physical

736
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:09.920
creature something flesh and blood camp. So then going down

737
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.079
that road, there's a few ways you could go off. Right,

738
00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:21.360
are you categorizing it in any specific we have maybe

739
00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:24.920
something more ape like, something more human?

740
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:30.000
Yeah, any I think it's got to be. It would

741
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.840
be nice if we knew more about this creature, right,

742
00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:36.199
But we just don't. And that's the thing. I think

743
00:40:36.239 --> 00:40:39.239
we would be speculating at anything if we could guess

744
00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:42.800
at that. But I think personally that it's probably more

745
00:40:42.920 --> 00:40:46.679
human but also has characteristics of primates. I don't think

746
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:50.880
they're intelligent enough as we are. I don't think bigfoot

747
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:53.519
can start a fire. I do think They have like

748
00:40:53.920 --> 00:40:56.360
means of communication though, so they could talk to each

749
00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:58.840
other and communicate with each other. So that's where I

750
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.360
think that I think that I could use primitive tools

751
00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:05.000
to be able to do their daily tasks and get

752
00:41:05.039 --> 00:41:06.800
food and stuff like that. That makes sense to me.

753
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.719
So I think that they're like at a premium R

754
00:41:10.880 --> 00:41:14.639
doll level of existence. When it comes to where we

755
00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:17.239
have evolved from and where they might be right now,

756
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:19.920
I think they have evolved just like we did, except

757
00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:23.320
they took a totally different path coming over than we did.

758
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.119
If Bigfoot ever discovers fire, we are in a whole

759
00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.960
mirable Can you imagine.

760
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:32.000
That, Yeah, worse fires everywhere?

761
00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:34.760
It would that would be bad news. Or like all

762
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:36.519
of a sudden you'd be in your campsite and this

763
00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:41.679
huge like torch would get thrown through your head. Yeah,

764
00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:46.599
no thanks, that would be some wild stuff. The Big

765
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:53.800
Red Eye is becoming definitely quite quite the quite the

766
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:58.000
thing you've got. You're sending out a few graphics I've

767
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.679
seen where you're you're trying to almost gather a team together.

768
00:42:01.719 --> 00:42:05.519
Can you talk a few minutes about what are certain

769
00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:08.679
people you're looking to join your team?

770
00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:11.880
Yeah, so here's what it comes down to it and

771
00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:18.159
this might take your listeners by surprise, but big footing

772
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:20.960
isn't a priority for a lot of people. I do

773
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:24.239
this full time. This is my life. Like I go around,

774
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:27.599
I support myself. I speak at libraries during the day.

775
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.159
That's how I get to travel around to all these places.

776
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.480
I set up a library tour and I'll do seven

777
00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:38.039
to ten libraries over a twelve day period and be

778
00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:40.400
camping that whole time film in the show. It's really awesome.

779
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:44.840
But yeah, it's like pulling teeth trying to get people

780
00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:47.760
to come out to some of these longer expeditions. I'm

781
00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:51.840
at a place where I'm able to compensate people now

782
00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:54.119
to come out and with their abilities, whether it be

783
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:57.760
for filming. We're always looking for camera people to come out.

784
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.079
I'm getting tired of hold the camera and film on myself.

785
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:01.920
That's just what it comes down to. But that's it

786
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.440
is what it is. But we're also looking for like

787
00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:09.039
somebody who will come out to these expeditions but manage

788
00:43:09.199 --> 00:43:14.800
and be the logistical operations person, Like we have an

789
00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:17.199
interview this time, so we need to leave here and

790
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:22.119
get to the library at this stuff just so everything

791
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:25.800
moves easy, and it's gotten to the point where I'm

792
00:43:26.400 --> 00:43:28.559
I have to I have to get more people to

793
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:33.039
do this now where it's become more of a it's

794
00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:37.559
become big. It's getting larger than myself. Like I said,

795
00:43:37.599 --> 00:43:39.639
I do this full time and it's a full time job.

796
00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:43.480
Editing the show, running my website, doing the library towards

797
00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:46.679
like that in itself is a full time thing. So

798
00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:49.360
we're also looking for people to book podcasts and stuff

799
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:51.400
like that, and just just some of the stuff that

800
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.159
it would take loads off my back right where we're

801
00:43:55.199 --> 00:43:58.239
doing a sponsorship manager now where we have we're going

802
00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:03.400
around looking at companies that could have some items that

803
00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:05.840
they would want us to use on our show. We've

804
00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:09.559
got that unique following where all you need is a

805
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:12.559
really good email and you could do some pretty amazing things.

806
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.119
M Let's say you have someone that is new to

807
00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:21.920
your channel, do you have a top three videos that

808
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.039
you would really want them to check out?

809
00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:27.559
Yeah, first would be when I got Bear maced Oh

810
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:31.199
oh yeah, that would be number one. Yeah, yeah, no,

811
00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:35.840
number some of the actual like legit episodes. I know

812
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:39.079
there's some that I put out because I put out

813
00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:41.599
a video a week and it's almost impossible for me

814
00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:44.000
to go on a bigfoot expedition each week and then

815
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.480
edit the show and whatever. That's why there's a lot

816
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:49.400
of episodes from high Point and from Stokes and stuff

817
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:51.679
like that from Susset's County because that's where I can

818
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:55.159
get to logistically. But check out some of the big,

819
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.280
longer episodes that there's a couple that are coming out

820
00:44:57.280 --> 00:44:59.280
that are really good. The Whitehall, New York one that

821
00:44:59.320 --> 00:45:00.880
we just had that that hal a lot, or the

822
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:04.480
Whoop on that one's coming out soon. And I know

823
00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:06.760
we just filmed up in the Catskills, so there's going

824
00:45:06.800 --> 00:45:08.519
to be a cat Skill episode coming out, which is

825
00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:11.280
really it's going to be a really cool episode too.

826
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:14.719
Just check out some of the funny things. I have

827
00:45:14.800 --> 00:45:18.000
a thermal capture of a bigfoot that I filmed in

828
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:21.159
high Point that it could be a big foot. I

829
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:22.840
don't know what it was, but I filmed it on

830
00:45:23.079 --> 00:45:25.960
thermal during the day, and I actually filmed it on

831
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.079
my regular camera during the day too, and I do

832
00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.800
a side by side comparison of where what it was

833
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:32.400
and stuff. So when we actually go back and do

834
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:35.480
a recreation, that's something cool to see. As well.

835
00:45:35.920 --> 00:45:39.519
Do you have any advice for listeners that are like

836
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:43.840
I might want to go out and find some state

837
00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:46.639
force with some bigfoot action, go out there and see

838
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:49.199
what I can do. Do you have any advice for

839
00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:52.679
the new researchers that are trying to get into it.

840
00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:57.599
Yeah, and I've been asked this question a lot. So

841
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.760
what I just did because I can, is I made

842
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:03.280
up a docu series called squatch Obles, how to Find

843
00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:05.239
a Bigfoot big footing one on one. So just pick

844
00:46:05.320 --> 00:46:06.719
up a copy of Squatch Doubles. It's ten bucks in

845
00:46:06.719 --> 00:46:10.760
ore Etsy now, But it's what it is. It's you

846
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:12.559
got to You would you don't want to go by

847
00:46:12.599 --> 00:46:15.119
yourself the first time. You want to play it safe,

848
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:16.800
but you also don't want to go out with a

849
00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:20.079
complete stranger. Bring one of your friends out and have

850
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:23.119
the tools and equipment that you'll need to be able

851
00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:26.880
to that you would going on a hike, be smart

852
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:30.480
about it. I would scout out an area during the

853
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:32.440
day first. That's what I do is I don't go

854
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:35.039
to any area that I haven't been first during the

855
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.639
day at night because that's dangerous, right. There could be

856
00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:41.199
loose rocks or the ice or something that you didn't see,

857
00:46:41.400 --> 00:46:44.239
So always scope out a place during the day. But

858
00:46:44.280 --> 00:46:47.280
the most the biggest part about it is have fun,

859
00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:51.119
have a good time when you're out there. Is like

860
00:46:51.159 --> 00:46:53.400
I said before, see something that you would see sitting

861
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:57.960
on the couch, and make it, make it something that

862
00:46:57.960 --> 00:47:02.119
that you are really interested in, and make it how

863
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:04.039
it's going to be fun for you. There's no right

864
00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:05.880
or wrong way to look for bigfoot.

865
00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:08.800
Right, absolutely, Yeah, that's at the end of the day.

866
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:14.119
Good bigfoot outing is also a really good camping outing

867
00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:15.039
if you're.

868
00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:18.000
Doing that right, camping on steroids. Absolutely, that's what I

869
00:47:18.039 --> 00:47:19.719
tell people. Yeah, do you.

870
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:24.159
Have any things that you follow when you're trying to

871
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.119
find Let's say I'm going to this state and I'm

872
00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:30.280
looking for the good bigfoot areas.

873
00:47:31.239 --> 00:47:35.760
Here's the thing. When I do my tours, the way

874
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:39.239
I find a place to squatch or a place to

875
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:42.639
camp is I go and I map out my library

876
00:47:42.679 --> 00:47:45.320
locations and then I pick a state park that centralized

877
00:47:45.320 --> 00:47:49.280
to all of them. That just logistically makes it easy

878
00:47:49.320 --> 00:47:51.679
for me. I can't be driving three four hours each

879
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:53.400
day to get to a library. That just doesn't make

880
00:47:53.440 --> 00:47:56.280
any sense. So all camp in one of these areas

881
00:47:56.280 --> 00:47:59.480
that's centralized now that may or may not be the

882
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:02.320
squatch used area that I can go bigfooting. But that

883
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:05.760
doesn't mean anything to me, because just as there are

884
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:08.360
reports the bigfoot, there are not reports the big foot.

885
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:10.920
People aren't reporting bigfoot because either they're not there or

886
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:14.159
maybe there's just nobody looking there. You need to have

887
00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:16.719
two things to report a bigfoot. A person in a bigfoot,

888
00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:18.920
and if there's no people looking for bigfoot, you're not

889
00:48:18.960 --> 00:48:23.000
going to find one. But they take that a step further.

890
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:28.000
And what I'll do is during my library presentations, I'll

891
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:30.599
just say they're all local people. I'll say, hey, who

892
00:48:30.639 --> 00:48:32.280
here is seeing a bigfoot? Is my first question that

893
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:36.639
I asked, And people will come up to me, especially

894
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:37.880
at the end of the thing, and say I saw

895
00:48:37.880 --> 00:48:40.320
a bigfoot here and here in this park, in this park,

896
00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:43.800
And then I'll go there, why not?

897
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:49.159
But it sounds so obvious, but like it's smart. Yeah,

898
00:48:49.400 --> 00:48:51.000
it just ask the people if they.

899
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:53.400
Where it comes down to.

900
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:57.280
I love it. I love it. That's so awesome, Mike.

901
00:48:57.360 --> 00:49:01.159
It has been a fun, fun chat with you. I'm

902
00:49:01.159 --> 00:49:03.079
glad we're able to actually.

903
00:49:03.079 --> 00:49:06.159
Get to spend an hour. That's crazy get an interview.

904
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.719
And this is if stream Yard doesn't mess this up,

905
00:49:09.840 --> 00:49:12.119
we might be curse. But do you mind spending a

906
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.199
few minutes reminding people how they can keep up to

907
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:18.159
date with what you're doing, Things that you can pick

908
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up on your sc stuff like that.

909
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:24.320
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I like that.

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933
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If anybody has wants me to come to their area

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and speak at a library out by them, or has

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some interesting stuff that they would like to share with me,

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you're more than welcome find me on any platform or

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social medium.

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Very open, awesome. Are you really only waiting on your

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four thousand hours watch time for the year because you're

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over like two k okay, so big with seti I'm

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going to talk directly to every list for a second.

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Please make sure you're subscribed to Mike's channel hit the

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bell like you do on Big for Society so you

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don't miss anything, And then please just watch a few episodes,

945
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a lot of episodes, because the fact that Mike hasn't

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hit four thousand, like, we need to fix that for him.

947
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We're gonna hopefully fix that for you. Mikes. Thank you

948
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so much for coming on. It has been a really

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fun chat. We can't see what comes down the pipe

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from you guys next, but thank you so much for

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coming on.

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Man Hey, next time out in your area, I will

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let you know.

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For sure you're at Bigfoot Society. Our goal is to

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provide a platform for those that have encountered Bigfoot to

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share their encounter in a safe and respected environment. But

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we need to hear your story. If you've experienced something

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00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:53.239
that you just can't explain, please send me an email

959
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:58.079
at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Then we can

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start the conversation. And I know a lot of you

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have not shared your encounter at all. It's been twenty

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years and it's time that you get this off your

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chest and then you can get some well deserved for rest,

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because I know you haven't been sleeping. I understand what

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you're going through and I appreciate every one of.

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You listening Bigfoot Society podcasts, hosted by our Captain Jeremiah Byron,

967
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:28.800
where it's all Bigfoot, all the time. Have you ever

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had the urge to do more? To be more?

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Now?

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You can by joining Bigfoot Society on the Patreon get

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out free episodes and even number only episodes, take part

972
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.480
in Movie Night and even live video chats interact behind

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the scenes with Jeremiah and other Patreon members like me

974
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slay it. The Powerful podcast goes on, and you may

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contribute a verse in our Patreon community car padm Seize

976
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the Day, Bigfooters and make your lives jordinary.

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Please take a minute to help out the show by

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subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so

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you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on

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YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us

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on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that

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you're subscribed share the show with a friend. Really, it's

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all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've

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had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know

985
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someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot

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Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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Here's the list. These are all in Oregon by the

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way Oakridge, Dexter Fall Creek to Shoot National Forest Area,

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Cultist Lake, Spirit Lake, Subtle Lake, Mackenzie River Area, Sweet

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Home Area, the area west of Crater Lake, east of

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two thirty West Diamond Lake Highway and north of sixty

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two Crater Lake Highway. You can use email Bigfoot Society

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at gmail dot com. A special thank you to all

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the Bigfoot Society, Patreon and YouTube channel members. It's your

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support that helps keep the show going and I extremely

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appreciate it. If you want to join in the fun,

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you can join over at patreon dot com. Forward slash

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the big Foot Society. I'll see you there, and again,

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thanks for listening.