April 20, 2025

Inside Georgia’s Most Active Bigfoot Zone!

What happens when two retired law enforcement officers move to the mountains of North Georgia — and encounter something they can’t explain? In this unforgettable episode of Bigfoot Society, Jeremiah Byron sits down with Scott and Sheila Granger of...

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Season 1

What happens when two retired law enforcement officers move to the mountains of North Georgia — and encounter something they can’t explain? In this unforgettable episode of Bigfoot Society, Jeremiah Byron sits down with Scott and Sheila Granger of Squatch-Fishing Outfitters to unpack a whirlwind of strange events, from whoops in the night to a full-on bluff charge in the woods. You’ll hear how a single Bigfoot expedition turned a skeptic into a believer, what happened when rocks started flying at their campsite, and why their own home may be ground zero for Bigfoot activity in Georgia. With stories from Ellijay to Rabun County, this episode dives deep into one of the most active Sasquatch regions in the country — and the couple who now leads others into the mystery. Whether it’s tree knocks, growls, clicking sounds, or a Bigfoot who mimics “shave and a haircut,” you won’t want to miss a second of this mind-bending tale from the southern Appalachians.

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You're listening to Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron

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Tonight's story doesn't come from a seasoned researcher or a

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lifelong believer. It comes from a retired cup and a

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former federal law enforcement officer who thought Bigfoot was just

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a myth. That is, until the woods of North Georgia

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came alive. A broad shoulder figure crossed the road in daylight,

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a truck shook, a tent was approached, and somewhere in

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those Appalachian foothills, the believers became the hunted. This is

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the story of Scott and Shila Granger and the night

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Bigfoot came calling. So stay with us, all right, Big

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for Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Scott

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and Shila Granger today. Scott and Shila are involved with

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Squatch Fishing outfitters down there in l J, Georgia, up

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there in Northern Georgia. And now listeners of the show

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might have heard of that area already. If you haven't,

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it's an extremely active area up there in Northern Georgia.

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So welcome to the show, guys. How's it going today,

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It's going great.

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Thank you for having Thank.

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You for absolutely. I've been looking forward to this one

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for a while. How did you guys get involved with, uh,

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with Bigfoot to begin with and start up this, uh,

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this outfitters business that you have.

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Okay, let's see years ago in South we lived in

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South Georgia. Uh, I'm retired police officer for a little

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over twenty years. Scott's retired federal law enforcement. You know,

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we would we would watch all this stuff on television

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and the biggest thing was Legend of Boggy Creek. That

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was my favorite movie. He had never seen it, and

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so I had him watch it and you know, talked

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about the NonStop back then. Did I thought it was

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just like like a unicorn, you know what I'm talking about,

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Like it wasn't couldn't be really real. But you know,

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we we ended up moving up here to North Georgia

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about eight years ago, and I've seen an opportunity did

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to go on a big fit expedition, and I was

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just I lost my mind, you know, begged him to go,

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let's go, let's go. He finally consented, and uh we

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went on that expedition and that kind of like snowball

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from there.

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Did you know it was? It was kind of unique.

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She she wanted to go, you know, and I'm one

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of them fellers that I tried to do everything and

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do to satisfy your wife and all, you know, because

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I like to eat, you know, I'm like everybody else.

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I'm not going to miss a meal over by doing

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what she wants to do. Nice but so so I

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went on the expedition with her, and we had a

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few things happen, you know that kind of opened my

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eyes on that outing. And you know, because I was

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probably the biggest skeptic in the world, you know, I

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was that guy that I tell you QUI you know, men,

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I have hunting and fish and the river bottoms and

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the swamps all my life. I truly have. And I

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did see a lot of things during those times, you

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know it, and heard things that I couldn't really explain,

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but I never put two and two together about it.

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And after going on that first hiding, you know, and

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getting to hear some things, I opened my mind a

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little bit more and said, you know, that could be

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something to this. And that's kind of how it got

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started off.

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That one weekend. You know, we heard several things. Just

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if I had not been there and heard it with

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my own ears. Somebody could have told me that, I

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would have thought, man, you're nuts, you're crazier or whatever.

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And you know, I wanted to believe so bad. We

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were so excited about it, but I kept telling Scott,

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you know, I'm just I'm not going to say there's

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such thing as biga until I see it with my

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own eyes. And I'm one hundred and ten percent sure that,

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you know. That's when I all admit it, and lo

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and behold. It was a few months later. I got

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the opportunity during the day, at two o'clock that afternoon,

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about twenty five yards away, I saw a bigka and

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from that point on and I went from in I

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believe her to a knower one percent.

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Oh man, it's okay. So there's a lot a lot

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of stuff that happened to you guys pretty quick. I

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want to I want to hear what kind of vocals

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you guys heard on that expedition, Like what kind of

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things were you running into?

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First? Yeah, what what happened? We had a friend that

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was on this outing with us that we had met,

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you know, a good bit prior to this outing and

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the night before the actual expedition, started. We all loaded

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up in my truck and we take off of the

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woods day. He's want to show us a couple of

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different areas. So we're we're heading up there, and she

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will see something go across the road in front of her,

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in front of us. Well, when she saw that go

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across the road in front of was you know, I

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got on the brakes, stopped, and we all bail out

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of my truck. And it's a full At that time,

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we had a full size ram, so we had five

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people in there. And I'm standing right in front of

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the truck and Sheila and our friend he goes on

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on up ahead. We're whatever crossed the road up there.

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We're standing there, we're talking amongst ourselves, and the prettiest

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whoop you ever wanted to hear come from less than

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fifteen yards away from us, right to the left of us. Well,

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we're in an area that we had never been in.

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And and I say that telling you about that ram,

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because the ram has a really good set of headlights

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on it that shine the way out to the sides.

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And I'm looking over there where this whoop come from,

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and I look back at another young lady that's standing

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out there beside me. In her eyes are about his

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bag as saucers, And she said, did you hear that?

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And I said, of course, so we're looking for it

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and never did see anything, but I mean we got

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to hear it. And Shela and our friend, you know,

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they're up there. They're looking at her. Whatever it was

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crossed the road, and some limbs are still wiggling in

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the in the way there where it crossed. After that.

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Our buddy, he said, he told us, he said, you know,

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he said, these things are up here, pretty pretty thick,

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and he says, they they're real good to mimic things.

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Now what I'm fixing to tell you, if there hadn't

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have been five other, you know, five of us up

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there to witnessed this, I would never tell it.

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And if I hadn't hurt it myself, I wouldn't have

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believed it.

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She gets two rocks, and he classes me together flies

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and right down from us, probably not thirty to thirty

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five yards, there's a small stream running something. Class two

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rocks back twice, and he eggles a little bit, and

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he class some rocks again two more times, and right

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off the bat, something down there clacks those rocks.

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Twice, so he's playing with that a little bit, and

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he said, I wonder so he's done the shave and

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a haircut deal, you know that don't don't it, don't don't,

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don't don't clax with those rocks, and we're all sitting

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there and this whatever it is, mimics that back with

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rock clacks.

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And at this point we're all, you know, like an

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amazement and everything, and we are up here in the

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middle of absolutely nowhere in these mountains. There is no

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other person up here where we're at to you know,

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do anything like this back at us. And then we're

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all talking and he says he he's telling us. He says,

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you know, these things are extremely over c d about things,

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and he does the don't don't, don't don't and he

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doesn't do it anymore. And down at the creek it

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goes clack clack.

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It finished it.

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It finished it, no way. Yeah, yeah, And I'm telling you,

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if if there happen to been as many people standing

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there that all heard and witness this, I would never

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tell that story.

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Yeah. And it's still kind of like people are not

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gonna believe this, and I wouldn't believe. I wouldn't blame

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them at all.

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No, not at all. I mean, because if somebody told

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me that, you know, right off the bat, my first

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thing was saying, he said, I believe your cheese is

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just about slipped off your cracker use. But you know

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that happened, and uh, we were there to witness that.

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And then we go on up the road. You have

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to kind of picture some of these mountain off the

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way roads. We get to the top of it and

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there's kind of like a cold to sack are in there.

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Dead end into just nothing but woods.

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Yeah, and we get my truck turned around be where

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we're pointed out in the event something does have for anything,

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we need to get out of there quick. And then

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she listening out behind my truck, probably twenty yards away

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from my truck and our friend, a couple of people.

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They go on down a little trail. Well we can

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see their red head lamps and every thing as they're

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going down the trail. As they get on down the

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trail out of sight, we noticed this area up here

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has like a like a next level down off the

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edge of it. Something extremely heavy starts walking around this

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terrace of the stock.

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You can feel the percussion and hear it boom.

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Boom, and as it's walking, you know, you think like

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something it's stomping. It was walking so hard, and it

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gets around toward the front of our truck and you

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could hear it walk up toward us a little bit.

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And I told she loved that time. I said, let's

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see he's on towards the truck and she was like

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a why, and I said, well, I don't want whatever

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this is to get between us and our vehicles. So

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we started easing towards the truck. And uh, our buddy

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had to laid his cell phone on record on the

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hood of my truck. And as we're easing to the truck,

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that phone lights up, and which I didn't think a

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whole lot about that at that point in time. It

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you know, it wasn't nothing either way to me. But

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we get up there and when they get back, I

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tell him that, you know, you must have missed a

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text or something, you know, your phone lied up. Well,

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he looked, he looks at the phone. He says, that

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phone doesn't light up unless you touch it, and uh,

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and he showed me that that phone doesn't light up,

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you know, unless it gets touched, and which was pretty unique.

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You know, to say the least about that point right there.

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The rest of the weekend went off, you know, small

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things happened, and not not a whole whole lot.

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Well we had we were this is our first camping,

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real big camping, you know, we were brand new to it.

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But later that night we were in our tent and

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heard I heard something he did to walking across the

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river towards our campsite. And you know, I'm like Scott, Scott,

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he says, I hear it, I hear it, and it

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comes to the little table we had it there. We

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had been cooking bacon earlier in the evening, you know,

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and you could hear it. You could hear it, and

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I'm kind of freaking out over there. And this is

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no joke because we had no idea of what to speak.

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I heard Scott reach over there and unsnap his you know, holster,

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which that wouldn't have done any good, I assure you.

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And this thing is right beside the tent and it

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lets out this big, like exasperation kind of thing, you know,

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and just turned around and started walking off. And again

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you could hear the boom boom. Let me tell you something,

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I was so scared. Had that thing touched that tent,

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I would have jumped up and ran with a tint

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and everything, probably laid myself out with a tree. But

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I was terrified.

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But that, you know, that kind of sets up the

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tone here. That was our first outing for this, and.

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They say, you know once you start down that, I'm

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gonna tell everybody, if you start down this rabbit hole,

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be prepared for more questions you will ever have answers

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to either you're going to be addicted to it like

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we are, or you're probably never gonna go in the

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woods again.

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Absolutely, yeah, I agree, one hundred percent. I'm makingness.

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Wow.

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So from what you guys had, the way you've been talking,

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it sounds like this is this is more of like

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a private expedition.

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That one was it was, and that we went on

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and we wound up after that helping that group out

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a good.

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Bit and just going out with friends we'd made from

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that group.

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And the more we helped out with that group and everything,

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the more we've seen how things were going in that group.

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And it's a big group and uh, very costly and

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actually had done that for a pretty good while. We

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would always have people when people would find out that

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we had went on these things and had been on

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them things that a lot of folks had a lot

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of interest in it and really wanted to go, but

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they weren't willing to drop that kind of money on

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doing that. And we sit back and we thought about

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it for a lot and said, you know what, what

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would we actually do one of these four for people

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and uh and make it where there's not as many

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people there and you know, get away with money wise

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and at least break even. So we did that and

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that's how squat Fish Outfitters got bare.

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It took a while, over a year and a half

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to get everything we needed to get, but it's pretty

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much our life now.

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Yeah, that's wow. How cool is that? I mean, it's

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a thing where it's obviously you guys love love going

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out there and to make it a part of your

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life in that way. So now now I got to

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get it out there and it's just that's awesome.

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How cool.

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We we've met so so many good people and become

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friends with so many people. I mean, we have a ball.

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Yeah, We've had people leave an outing with us and

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be become lifelong friends with other folks that were there. Oh, yeah,

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you know, that's that's a lot of what it's all about.

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We also also guide fly fishing and we try to incorporate.

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That's how the name Squashed Fishing Outfitters come about. We're

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trying to find something where it incorporated both of them

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into it, and she looked come up with it one day,

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she said it, and it stuck from that point. Yeah,

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I love it. Our our mannerism of doing things is,

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you know, the group we had been asociated with and

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going off with, they would they would take a lot

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of folks on outing, and it seemed like when we

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were there, prior to all the other people getting there,

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there would be a good activity happening and everything.

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Big for society who would be right back after these messages.

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As soon as all the folks showed up, everything would

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kind of quiet down, which stands to reason you started

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introducing a whole lot of folks into the forest that

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all the animals and everything are still there, they just

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kind of honker back and sit back and watch and

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remain quiet. So we drawed it down before. We only

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take ten participants at a time, and you know, smaller

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group of group large enough to be safe, but a

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group not so large to where it overwhelms the forest.

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Yeah, I think last year's was it last year, the

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very last last excussion. We had a We had a

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guy that was doing a documentary, Greg Ogle, was a

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very nice guy. Him and his his the young guy

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that helps him. We were going out out to where

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we were going to go hunting that night, right, and

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so Scott was in the Lee Troit. We had like

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three or four vehicles. Scott was driving, Greg was in

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the passenger seat and his friend was in the back seat. Uh,

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and had one run right across the road in front

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of them.

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Oh yeah, both of the eyes got to see it,

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the weak they were. And you know, and here it is.

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We're filming a documentary and everything, and it's no cameras rolling.

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Yeah that's the age old story. Yeah, something truly amazing

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happens and you're there doing this specific thing, but you

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don't have any cameras throwing. But we did get footprints, Yes,

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we did.

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Went up beside the ridge. Footprints we got I think

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it was eighteen half inches seventeen and a half.

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It was awesome and you know, those guys were shocked

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and everything, and it's it was very good outing.

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But we you know, the best thing I enjoy We've

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done this for a few years now. The best thing

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I enjoy is when new people come, you know, with expectations, Ah,

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this is bull crap, this is not real, blah blah blah,

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and then something happens. I'm thinking about the last last year,

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we had a gentleman, you know, he believed in it,

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but he's never seen anything. And we told him these

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jokers up here like throw stuff. So he was standing

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there and all the rockets get thrown and he loses

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his mind.

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He did, and it's that's you know. We have a

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a pair has been a wife team. They're both Dennis,

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and she drug him to one of our addings. They

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come on a very regular basis, super great people, and

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she was the believer. He was the sure enough just

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like me, big skeptic and uh. But he wound up

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in See One first through through a thermal and after

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that moment right there, now he's ready to get up here.

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Ever since he gets now.

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It was it was so funny because after he's seen it,

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he come back down to the campfire and he sat

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there and didn't say a word. I said, you okay,

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He said, yeah, I'm just I'm trying to absorb what

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I just saw. You know, you get quiet because your mind,

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I know in my mind, you know, it sent me

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about three days. I was trying so hard to convince

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myself they had to be a bear, They had to

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be a bear, but I knew it wasn't a bear.

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Are you guys going all over North Georgia then? Or

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you probably have to keep locations a little bit, you know,

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in the back pocket. But is it all over like

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that l J area or.

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It is we spanned out? Uh, we spanned out from

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a little Jay all the way over to Rayburn County, Okay,

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and uh, you know in that in that region right there.

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And the big thing is we have several areas that

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we keep monitor We monitor very closely, and this isn't

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a weekend thing for us, you know, this is a

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four to six day a week thing we do. And

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we keep real close observation on these areas and that's

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how we determine where we're carrying folks, you know, on

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our next outings and everything, because we may have two

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areas that are very active at that point in time

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and we have to we always want to carry folks.

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You know, to the area that's the most active at

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that point in time, you know, to afford them the

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opportunity and are the best opportunity and chance to get

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to experience you having a experience or even possible sighting.

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Now we've we've taken people out before and had to leave.

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You know, of course, if you see a mama bear

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with cubs, you know you don't want to stay in

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that area, or if something you get that feeling, or

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something's being thrown, or the grouls and stuff. We're not

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trying to put anybody into any danger.

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Now. We pushed that envelope a little a little hard

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on ourselves, but when we have other folks out there,

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we maintaining the most safety as possible.

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Yes, Scott, you said a phrase that it was real quick.

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But you said you have a group that's that was

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something like a group that's large enough to be safe.

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What what do you mean by that?

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Yes, Well, when when situation and things like what we do,

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you want to have enough people there that enough numbers

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like to show a little bit where you have it

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de tours something from wanting to you know, encroach on

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you more. Yeah, more than one or two people. The

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but not big enough to where it makes things shut.

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Down, and we don't do this by we have a

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crew that helps us, and thank goodness for them.

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Oh absolutely. If it wasn't for them, you know, we

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couldn't get accomplished the amount of things we do. And

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that's what I mean by that. And I hope I

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answered your question.

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No, I think you did. Was there a situation that

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you guys went through where you had to learn the

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hard way, like maybe you didn't have enough people present

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and just things kind of escalated or.

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No, it happened with Well, it was me and Scott

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and a couple of others when we were out scouting.

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We weren't really weren't doing our thing yet. We were

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out scouting. We were bluff charged.

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Oh wow, Yeah, we were hard blood. We were hard

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bluff charged. And that there were four of us and

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that was it. And it weren't like we were all

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right there in a very tight knit group. We were

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kind of spread out a little bit. We're walking along,

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you know, checking out some areas and this at night,

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and we heard it coming off the ridge above us

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to our right. And when it started coming, I mean,

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it was, oh my goodness, it was. It was coming. Yeah, well,

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the Mountain Laurel up here in these mountains and certain areas,

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you know, it's pretty thick and that stuff was tough.

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As soon as it started coming off of that ridge,

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everybody spins their head around, so all the headlamps were

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point up that ridge and you could literally see that

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Mountain Laurel parting. I mean as it was coming down,

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and u it stopped within about ten yards of us.

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I mean just all of a sudden stopped. I don't

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we don't know if it jumped over the top of us,

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if it come to a trail right there, you know

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and cut off on a trail or something, or what

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it done. But it immediately stopped. But we were we

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were both braced for impact, you know, and like you

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won't get right over by a linebacker or something.

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Yeah, I'd done like prepared for you know, like a

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rabbit squatting down.

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Just no. Yeah, And then we've had some other things happening,

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you know, where we've had things thrown, you know, a

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small number of people there, and I mean some big

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opposites thrown and things like that. It's uh, and you

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know that's kind of where I get to have enough

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people to be safe, but not enough people to overwhelm things.

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And I think people when they, like I said, when

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they come on these expeditions, especially the ones that are skeptics,

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that's that's the best ones.

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You know.

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We had we had a couple that come and and

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he did get to see Actually they both got farm

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that night and they had we have a base camp

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and they had put their camp or tent on the

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edge there, you know, around everybody else's and you know,

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that's where they wanted to be. That's fine. But apparently

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we got back two three o'clock in the morning and

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everybody going to bed, settling down, they had some stuff

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happened to them, and they got up and set around

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the campfire all night too, scared to go back to

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bed because of all the stuff that was happening. Because

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so it does follow you back sometimes. But yeah, I

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mean they're both.

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Believers now, and yeah they are. And that's uh, when

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we found out the next morning they had both set

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up around that campfire all night long and they're stoking

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that fire even it going. I told him, I sent him,

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why didn't you let me up? And he said, he

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you know, very nice guy, he said, he said well,

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we really didn't want to bother anyone, I said, buddy,

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I said, that's what I'm here for. And uh, needless say,

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next day they did move that their tent system on

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up there, very close around everyone else.

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I told God, I said, I don't think they'll come back.

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Ib you know, they signed up for how many three

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or four cents there?

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Oh wow, that's that's that's an intense experience that that

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they had in these areas for them. Yeah, absolutely absolutely

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in these areas that your guys are going to. You know,

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I talked to people from all over the US, and

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there are definitely different. You know, sometimes people are seeing

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things that look like an orangutan, or sometimes it's it

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looks like an old man or a humanoid type figure.

462
00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:48.400
Is there are there any uh, you know, common things

463
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:52.200
that are usually seen in the sightings that your people

464
00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:54.880
are having when they are are being taken out on

465
00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:59.880
these expeditions.

466
00:26:00.799 --> 00:26:02.960
What I saw when I saw, like I said, that

467
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.880
was two o'clock in the afternoon, not twenty five yards away,

468
00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:10.519
and it made a noise. Otherwise I probably went I

469
00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.480
looked that way, it made like a clicking noise, and

470
00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:15.480
I took a step back and looked about my four

471
00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.759
o'clock and it was behind a tree, and you know,

472
00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:21.400
you're looking. This was in September, so there wasn't a

473
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.599
lot of green foliage left, foliage left or anything. I'm

474
00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:27.720
looking at it and it moves a little bit, you know,

475
00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:30.599
I'm seeing something something. I'm looking at it. It's looking

476
00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:32.920
at me. There's no doubt. It's behind a tree. It

477
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:37.240
had his hands around the tree, and his left shoulder was,

478
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.799
you know, on the left side, but the right shoulders

479
00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:41.359
on the right side, so I mean the tree was.

480
00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:43.160
He was way bigger than the tree, is what I'm saying.

481
00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:49.039
And he was like a cinnamon color. But it looked

482
00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:52.599
like a huge person to me, with no neck, with

483
00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:55.279
like a red reddish fur coat on. But the face,

484
00:26:55.400 --> 00:27:00.759
it had no hair on the face. It looked like clay. Yeah,

485
00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:04.440
like gray clay, you know. And I looked and I

486
00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:06.880
thought Scott and our friend was right behind me, but

487
00:27:06.920 --> 00:27:09.079
I apparently I went on up the ridge by myself

488
00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:11.799
and I said, you know, I remember saying Scott, and

489
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:14.759
he said something down way down the ridge. You know,

490
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:16.880
this thing starts moving a little bit more. I'm looking

491
00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:19.839
at him. He's looking at me and then you know, bouncing,

492
00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.640
and I said, Scott, like that and when I did,

493
00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:25.039
it dropped down and just it just dropped like a

494
00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:28.240
puff of smoke and was gone. Well he recognized, you know,

495
00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.920
something's wrong, and so they come running up the ridge

496
00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:33.599
and when they get up there, I'm just shaking all over,

497
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:36.200
like you know, just had a huge dump of adrenaline.

498
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:37.920
And you I tell him, I said, there's a bit

499
00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:39.839
there was a big foot there, you know, and pointed

500
00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.160
and my friend and I ran over to the tree

501
00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:45.640
I had pointed out to Scott. And if I had

502
00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.279
called that over the radio, I didn't realize it was

503
00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:51.880
a decline, so I would have thought about six foot.

504
00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:53.559
But by the time I got down there and seeing

505
00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:55.519
that it was on the decline, it would have had

506
00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:59.559
to have been like seven and a half eight foot tall.

507
00:27:58.240 --> 00:28:06.079
Yeah. The ones that we're you know, typically encountering up here,

508
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:11.319
they're they're more human looking than apish. They're more kind

509
00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:14.799
of I would call it like nand orthotic. Yeah, on

510
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:22.440
looking the Uh. Everyone I've had the opportunity to witness,

511
00:28:23.680 --> 00:28:25.759
have you know, you hear a lot of people say

512
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:29.599
about the conical shaped head. Everyone that I've had the

513
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:34.400
opportunity to witness has had a roundish round more round

514
00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:39.039
head not that up jettisoned conical.

515
00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:40.359
Shape and no neck.

516
00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:43.200
Yeah, and the no neck things just for their from

517
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:47.519
their traps, their muscles and everything being you know, you

518
00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:50.640
think of an Alabama linebacker, you know, sitting there without

519
00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:53.640
his pads on, how he looks like he's trapping his

520
00:28:53.799 --> 00:28:57.000
muscles from the top and from the base of his

521
00:28:57.039 --> 00:29:00.319
skull out to shoves. That's that's kind of how these

522
00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:03.640
things are. And they can move and that age will

523
00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:05.680
say and that people say, well, they don't have any neck.

524
00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:08.359
They have to turn turn their body to be able

525
00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:11.440
to turn their head. That's wrong. These things turn their head.

526
00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.920
I've witnessed that personally in the daylight of them turning

527
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:22.880
their head and it's uh. The only variation we have

528
00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:26.680
up here pretty much that we've encountered and noticed is

529
00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:35.480
color incise. Yes, the we have seen black ones, uh,

530
00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:38.039
Like Sheila said that the one she's seen was a

531
00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:44.279
cinnamon color type brown. We've had people report to us

532
00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:51.599
of seeing grave ones white and one white one. But

533
00:29:51.759 --> 00:30:00.240
that you know, they have that primate look typical will

534
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:05.400
look but more Neanderthaltic. If that if you can imagine that.

535
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:08.839
Yeah, And I think at times, because we go to

536
00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:12.640
several different spots that we kick on routine, I think

537
00:30:12.680 --> 00:30:13.559
they recognize this.

538
00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:15.599
Big.

539
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:18.279
So society will be right back after these messages.

540
00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:35.680
Oh yeah, much as where you.

541
00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:42.599
Go, Sheila. You said something in your account that made

542
00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:47.079
me almost fall out of my chair, and I'll explain why,

543
00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:50.279
but I have to be it's going to be vague.

544
00:30:50.359 --> 00:30:56.000
So an individual reached out to me from Iowa. I'm

545
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:00.799
in Iowa, and he had shared about he's been checking

546
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:07.720
out this area where there's been wood knocks happening, howls,

547
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:11.920
but also there was a night where he had him

548
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.599
and his friend there and they started to be surrounded

549
00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:20.599
in this wooded area and the creatures that were out

550
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.839
there started clicking at them. And I was like, I've

551
00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:26.279
never heard the clicking thing, and I've been doing this

552
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:28.759
for years, And when you just said clicking, I was like,

553
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:32.119
holy mackerel. So is that a thing you guys are

554
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:34.680
experiencing a lot down there where there's like these clicking

555
00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:35.480
things happening.

556
00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:42.000
Yes, And you know, at first I'm thinking, like I said,

557
00:31:42.119 --> 00:31:43.759
it had to be doing that to get my attention,

558
00:31:43.880 --> 00:31:45.640
Otherwise I had no reason to look where I was

559
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:47.720
looking because I was at the top of reach looking

560
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:50.440
over it, you know, looking at the dirt roads and

561
00:31:50.440 --> 00:31:52.079
everything down there, and I had to take a step

562
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:55.119
back and go to my four o'clock. But that wasn't

563
00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:56.960
the first time we've been in the woods before and

564
00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.240
had the clicking, so we were associating it to it

565
00:32:00.359 --> 00:32:02.359
was wanting us to look that way maybe while the

566
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.359
other one moves to distract us. Well, then we've we

567
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:11.200
just recently heard uh from other people that this this

568
00:32:11.279 --> 00:32:13.519
is a what do you how do you want to

569
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:18.400
say that? Like a mating thing or something like that.

570
00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:20.319
That's when I fell out of my chair.

571
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:26.680
Chairs. Yeah, I don't have to compete with other fellows.

572
00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:30.160
I got to compete with.

573
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:36.440
I don't think so not a forest ride, right, Yeah,

574
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:40.160
but yeah, we've we've heard the clicks makes us a

575
00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:42.319
ton popping thing. I'm not sure how they do it.

576
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.480
There's it's definitely a click.

577
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.319
And we it's very noticeable. It's not something you know

578
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:51.720
that did I think I heard that now? It's very noticeable.

579
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:53.319
What happens.

580
00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:57.400
The only the thing that really has freaked me out.

581
00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.440
Scott and I were putting now We were hiking in

582
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:03.759
the woods, of course, and we were going to set

583
00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:07.559
out audio and we were way back in the woods

584
00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.160
and I started hearing something. I said, do you hear that?

585
00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:11.759
And he says, now here's something off to my left.

586
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:14.160
I said, none of them stop listen. It kind of

587
00:33:14.200 --> 00:33:17.119
sounded like somebody was like driving in a tent steak,

588
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.440
you know, that kind of repetition. But then all of

589
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:21.319
a sudden, it was almost like you're in front of

590
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:26.920
a gorilla cage. It was like like it was building

591
00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.319
itself up. It done about three or four times, and

592
00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:33.279
the fourth one was like something was mad, you know,

593
00:33:33.480 --> 00:33:35.160
So of course we go down there to try to

594
00:33:35.200 --> 00:33:37.839
find it. We did get the audio put up, and

595
00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.000
we were gone for about three or four days. We

596
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:43.440
came back and we brought two friends with us, my

597
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.240
best friend and her husband. So Scott and him went

598
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.200
back in the woods to retrude the audio, and she

599
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:54.039
and I were around a fire. We were in the woods.

600
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:56.319
We just went as deep as they were and it

601
00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:59.359
was just me and her and we're sitting there and

602
00:33:59.400 --> 00:34:02.680
I start here stuff and this was about dark. Start

603
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:05.519
hearing something, and it's getting closer, and I've got all

604
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:10.679
this on audio, and I said, you hear that. She says, no,

605
00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:12.679
I don't hear it. Of course she's she's not going

606
00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:14.559
to let the fire go out. She was busy trying

607
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:16.800
to put wood on the fire. Sit down and listen.

608
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:20.079
And it's the only thing I can liken it too.

609
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:25.440
If you've ever heard of alligator growl, that real guttural growl,

610
00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:30.519
I got fourteen on those recorded. It was coming up

611
00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:33.199
from the ridge to Ada, was getting closer and closer

612
00:34:33.239 --> 00:34:33.960
to us.

613
00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:37.119
Yeah, you know, there's fourteen of those growls on that

614
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:40.679
audio and right right at the end of the last growl,

615
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:46.320
one of the prettiest works everyone here. But it's and

616
00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:49.079
we're going to catch that on two different audios, on

617
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:53.320
a recorder and on phone recorder, which was pretty neat.

618
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.360
Yeah, I don't know, you know. I sent it to

619
00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.760
a friend of mine and they said that, you know,

620
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.159
thought it was an alpha male that you know, no

621
00:35:02.639 --> 00:35:05.079
women needed to be by their sell or children. Will

622
00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:06.079
let me tell you something.

623
00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:11.760
Who you were talking about your friend having a situation

624
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:13.960
where they were out in the woods. You know they

625
00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:18.599
were thinking they were being surrounded. This is another reason

626
00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:23.119
why you know, we use the number of enough enough

627
00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:26.079
to be safe. Me and Sheila and three of our

628
00:35:26.119 --> 00:35:29.320
other friends. We were out just camping one evening and

629
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:33.599
over the weekend, and we had a situation where we

630
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:39.639
were at where we had at least three at these

631
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:43.840
three different individuals just outside of the light of our

632
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.079
camp tree knocking. I mean, these things were beating on

633
00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:51.199
trees like they were no tomorrow and whooping all around us.

634
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.239
And we were surrounded that night and that was extremely,

635
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:56.599
very uneasy feeling.

636
00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:59.079
You can tell them about two thirty that morning.

637
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.920
Yeah, that about two thirty that morning, after we're all

638
00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:07.360
bedded down and everything, we've left lanterns and everything running.

639
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.000
This particular night because of all the activity and everything

640
00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:15.440
that's going on, we had we had something walking in

641
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:19.440
behind our tent within we were in a camper. Now

642
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:19.960
that's different.

643
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.639
How is the different?

644
00:36:21.239 --> 00:36:24.800
Wellin eight to ten yards of our tent and walk

645
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.039
in and I fully expected to start hearing the the

646
00:36:29.119 --> 00:36:31.800
kitchen tent, the stuff, you know, start get rubbings through,

647
00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:35.719
and it didn't. But it walked in between our tent

648
00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:38.800
and our buddy that used to always go with us,

649
00:36:38.840 --> 00:36:43.719
he sleeps in a hammock of all things. And it

650
00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:45.480
gets over there close to him, and you can hear

651
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.280
it leaving out like it's gonna go on past him. Well,

652
00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.800
it doesn't get probably ten yards past his hammock, and

653
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:57.239
he turns around and does a woodmut right there. Next

654
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.000
morning I asked him, I said, I said, you heard

655
00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:01.920
heard that last night? He said, of course I heard it.

656
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:03.400
He said it's some other words, and he said, of

657
00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:05.840
course I heard that. He said it was right there.

658
00:37:06.760 --> 00:37:08.960
And I said, did you see it? And he said, man,

659
00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:11.280
I did not open my eyes? Are you crazy?

660
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.000
That's the best thing to me, That's my most favorite

661
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:18.639
thing is when you're you're asleep. And I love tent

662
00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:21.079
camp because you can hear it all real good that

663
00:37:21.159 --> 00:37:23.920
walk and reminds me of Jurassic Park with that couple

664
00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:26.840
of waters there and the percussion. It just wakes you

665
00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:29.480
up from a dead sleep and you know instantaneously that's

666
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:30.079
what it is.

667
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:35.360
And what Sheila was asking me about was we had

668
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:37.480
a we had a little small camper. It was a

669
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.119
little thirteen foot you know, a little behind camper, and

670
00:37:43.159 --> 00:37:48.800
we were in pretty close to that same location. We

671
00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.039
were up there and we had betted down for the

672
00:37:51.119 --> 00:37:53.880
night and we had them whooping all around the camp

673
00:37:53.920 --> 00:37:57.840
and they were They walked into the camp and we

674
00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:00.360
had parked our jeep right behind our camp right there,

675
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.039
and we had two that were, you know, sitting over

676
00:38:03.079 --> 00:38:07.239
there right in behind our jeep, just whooping and we're

677
00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:10.639
giggling about, you know, that wooping over there. All that

678
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.920
kind of settled down a little bit and I had

679
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:18.039
to cough all of a sudden, and when I did,

680
00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:22.039
I coughed really hard. Well, the moment I coughed, that

681
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.400
little camper we were in got uh pushed almost off

682
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:27.079
the blocks, but it was on.

683
00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.519
So it scared us and we scared them.

684
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:32.440
Yeah, and uh then she asked me, said, are you

685
00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:36.159
going out there? Of course not, I'm not because I

686
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:37.079
know what's out there.

687
00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:40.719
The next day we could see like where something was

688
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:43.239
on its knuckles, you know, and had crawled it there

689
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.920
that way you could see really good muckle impressions.

690
00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:51.079
We run across the head, you know a lot of

691
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:58.320
experiences and things, some good, some not so good, but overall,

692
00:38:58.360 --> 00:38:59.960
you know, we've had a blast with it something.

693
00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:04.159
I mean, we're not experts by any means of that word.

694
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.800
I mean we learned stuff. We learned from people, we

695
00:39:06.920 --> 00:39:07.400
talked to.

696
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.159
Yeah, that to me, an expert will be a person

697
00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:15.119
that could tell you exactly what these things are, their origins,

698
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:18.719
total nine hours about them. There's no one out there

699
00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:20.880
with those those credentials.

700
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.639
No, there's not no and no experts yet for sure.

701
00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:29.960
Anyone that's been on any of your trips, have they

702
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:35.559
ever experienced anything similar to to what people call infrasounds.

703
00:39:35.760 --> 00:39:42.679
No, not really. We've had a lot of severe nervousness,

704
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:47.800
but okay, not that's not that party headaches and knowledge

705
00:39:47.840 --> 00:39:53.599
you but nothing that I would attribute to the whole

706
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:56.440
thing where you hear people to my getting zapped and

707
00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:59.280
things like that with EF sound not.

708
00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:02.559
Really to me, it's almost like intuition, like when you

709
00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:05.760
know you shouldn't be there. We were in an old,

710
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.159
old graveyard and once since we got out, it was

711
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:13.199
like you could feel the tension so thick, you know,

712
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:15.840
and it was not good. It's like your hair just

713
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.920
stands up. And I told Scott we need to leave

714
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:20.480
and everything was dead quiet. You know, when you get

715
00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:24.159
out and there's no birds, nothing going on. But during

716
00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:26.599
that time, if I hear any like a twig break

717
00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:28.840
or anything, I start taking pictures because if you can't

718
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:30.880
see it with your eyes sometimes if you start taking

719
00:40:30.960 --> 00:40:35.639
random pictures, you know, and I did get something on that, yeah.

720
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.960
A good picture that you know, trying to try and

721
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.519
take your photos in the direction of wherever you hear

722
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:47.239
the least little thing is. You know, the big things

723
00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:50.079
are obvious and they're not going to show those to

724
00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:54.159
you too much. It's that a little small like small

725
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:58.360
twig crack or anything, that's what you're looking for. And

726
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.000
we allows that on a lot of our expeditions, you

727
00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:04.920
know where when I have a group out and set

728
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.639
on the hiking group, I have one team member that

729
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:10.760
he stays on the back side of our hiking group.

730
00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:14.440
You know, he's monitoring both sides with thermals and behind

731
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:19.440
us and everything. And one particular evening, we we have

732
00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:24.039
something thrown at us from the right hand side. Well,

733
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.000
when things like that occur is his job. He starts

734
00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:33.519
skinning the entire area with the thermals, and that particular evening,

735
00:41:33.679 --> 00:41:37.960
he caught one on the left hand side. The what

736
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:41.599
come from the right was just a distraction. He caught

737
00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:43.639
one on the left hand side over behind a rock,

738
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:47.920
peeking up over a rock watching us. Now, this rock's

739
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:52.679
not thirty five yards from us, and we everybody's watching

740
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:54.719
him through thermal, you know, peeking over the rock. He's

741
00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:57.880
getting up high enough where you can see his head, shoulders,

742
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:02.320
arms up her torso, so that went on for a

743
00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:06.960
pretty good while, and then I walked out there with

744
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:11.280
this critter. My intention was for him, you know, to

745
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.480
get up and walk off, or to run off, so

746
00:42:13.599 --> 00:42:17.840
everyone could see him move move away. One of my

747
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:22.679
best friend's son, he's in his mid twenties, he asked

748
00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:23.960
me if he could go with me, and then he

749
00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:28.079
had a short discussion about the dudes, dawns and whatever

750
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.039
is when we go out here. So I let him

751
00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:33.159
go with me, and we get out to this rock.

752
00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:35.800
I'm watching and paying close attention the whole time going

753
00:42:35.840 --> 00:42:39.239
out there, and about I was almost out of there

754
00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:42.599
to it, and my team member told me, hollered to me,

755
00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:44.719
and he said, I don't see it anymore right this minute.

756
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:47.679
So then I thought, I said, well, he's laid down

757
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:50.119
behind that rock. He's going. And I told the young

758
00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:53.199
man with him with me, I said, be careful, I said,

759
00:42:53.199 --> 00:42:55.239
we get over here, this thing's to jump straight up

760
00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:58.559
and take off. So we get over there and we

761
00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.440
look around behind the rock with our head lamps and

762
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:06.800
there's nothing there. So immediately I pull out a big

763
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:10.199
white light and shine in the direction I thought it

764
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:13.199
may have went, and it was there, and I start

765
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:17.679
scanning the area, and as I come around, I put

766
00:43:17.679 --> 00:43:20.199
the light right in this thing's face. He is fifteen

767
00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.880
yards away from us, squatted down with his back towards us.

768
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:27.760
He's looking over and he has his shoulders turned. He's

769
00:43:27.760 --> 00:43:30.639
looking at us. Well. He had something on the ground

770
00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:32.639
right there that he was just not willing to leave.

771
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:35.840
I don't know if he had a deer or what

772
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:37.679
he had there to eat or whatever, but he wasn't

773
00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:40.719
willing to leave it. I told the young man that

774
00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:43.639
was with us, that's when I've become very nervous, you know,

775
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:48.119
more so because I had him with me and told him,

776
00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:51.920
I said, he's backwards away from this, and he's on

777
00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:55.920
back to the group. So we did. The whole time,

778
00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:59.440
I'm keeping not directly on him, but the cast of

779
00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.920
the light on where I could watch him, and we

780
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:05.679
ease on the back and get away from him, and

781
00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:07.800
then we kind of eased the group on the way because,

782
00:44:07.840 --> 00:44:10.159
like I said, he wasn't willing to leave what he had,

783
00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:12.880
so at that point, that wasn't a really good place

784
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:17.559
for us to be. And that's actually the closest I've

785
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:18.239
ever been to one.

786
00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:21.199
Yeah, he was a little shoo up by that. Well,

787
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:24.039
there was another time we were close to that same area,

788
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:26.559
and I think this is kind of like in the beginning.

789
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:31.119
And remember we had the guy that you think they

790
00:44:31.159 --> 00:44:34.239
reached out and grabbed his angle because Scott always tells

791
00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:38.440
everybody you know, if something happens, don't run because once

792
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:41.760
you run, you've become prey. And Scott always tells him

793
00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:44.760
all I will tackle you if I need to to

794
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:46.719
keep you from running to get hurt. He said, Now,

795
00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:49.039
if you see me or Sheila running, you better try

796
00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:49.599
to keep up.

797
00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:53.199
Or if you hear one of your guys say you're

798
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:57.079
time to run, time to go. But yeah, that same

799
00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:00.000
particular area, I did have an individual take off on him.

800
00:45:01.559 --> 00:45:04.639
I'd say this area of the night or the day before,

801
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.280
I'd carry folks up there and had a small game

802
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:10.760
trail leading up to this area. Game trail about a

803
00:45:10.760 --> 00:45:13.719
foot and a half wide. All the foliage on each

804
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.360
side of it was about between two and two and

805
00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:17.519
a half and three foot tall.

806
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:22.679
Big for society, who will be right back after these messages.

807
00:45:38.719 --> 00:45:42.079
Well, that evening, we have everybody up there and there's

808
00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:46.119
two guys that are watching, one on thermal and this

809
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:49.000
individual he's away from the group just a little bit

810
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.199
and he's panning around, you know, with a night beating.

811
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:54.800
He's looking around, and all of a sudden, I hear it,

812
00:45:55.079 --> 00:45:58.480
because I'm not fifteen yards away from this individual. I

813
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:02.159
hear the pop. I mean it was that kind of

814
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:07.480
pop that I honestly thought he got snaked it, and

815
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:11.800
that loud, and he stumbles around by falls down and

816
00:46:11.840 --> 00:46:14.239
it goes to take off, and I actually catch him

817
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:18.079
and get that all settled down because I think he

818
00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:20.639
snaked it at this point in time. So we pull

819
00:46:20.719 --> 00:46:24.000
them riches, legs up and look, you know, no wounds

820
00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:26.920
or anything. So he's on over there to where you're

821
00:46:26.960 --> 00:46:31.679
standing at and I'm looking around. There's no rock there

822
00:46:31.920 --> 00:46:36.360
or something's thrown or stick or anything. Nothing there. And

823
00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:39.559
I look at that game trail, and this game trail

824
00:46:39.639 --> 00:46:44.480
now is not a foot and half wide. It's all

825
00:46:44.559 --> 00:46:47.599
the foliage is pushed down to the ground a good

826
00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:50.159
foot and a half more on each side of the trail,

827
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:52.880
and it's that way for as far as I can

828
00:46:52.920 --> 00:46:55.800
look down that side of that mountain on that game trail.

829
00:46:57.360 --> 00:47:00.320
And after seeing that, I didn't say anything to anyone,

830
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.679
but I kind of had it in my own mind

831
00:47:02.719 --> 00:47:07.199
of what had happened, and it's, uh, you know, that's

832
00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.760
it was a pretty unique situation. Well, the next day,

833
00:47:11.320 --> 00:47:13.960
when I carry him all up there and he gets

834
00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.679
to get back up there to see where he was

835
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:19.480
standing at and all that, he tells me. Then he says,

836
00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:21.559
he said, all that toli is and he notices it.

837
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:24.679
He said, all that Pholius and everything's pushed down. Then

838
00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:27.599
I told him, I said, yeah, the day before you

839
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:30.280
came here, that photiue wasn't pushed down.

840
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:33.159
That's the only time we've you know, people talk about

841
00:47:33.199 --> 00:47:37.480
the smell. That's the only time we've ever smelled an

842
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.360
awful future smell. I mean it's like hitting.

843
00:47:40.079 --> 00:47:43.639
A brick wall. We smelled it before, but not like that.

844
00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:47.239
H well, I mean, yeah, to that extent, we smelled

845
00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:49.360
musky doll, you know.

846
00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:53.400
That that particular evening And you kind of have to

847
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:56.119
picture this a little bit because from where our sitting

848
00:47:56.159 --> 00:48:00.199
group is at a firing to where these individuals we

849
00:48:00.320 --> 00:48:04.280
hack too, is up the side of a mountain. Once

850
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:07.599
everyone heard about these smells were smelling all the way

851
00:48:07.639 --> 00:48:10.599
up this mountain. Scot went up the side of that

852
00:48:10.639 --> 00:48:13.719
mountain three times that night. Good extra sense, it was.

853
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:18.039
But I slept well just for everyone to get smell

854
00:48:18.079 --> 00:48:18.760
these smells.

855
00:48:18.920 --> 00:48:21.599
But I don't want to. You know, people say I'd

856
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:23.719
like to go on the expedition, but I can't hike in.

857
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:27.519
It's not that, you know. We we stay at a

858
00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.079
base camp. Everybody's kind of camped together, whether you're in

859
00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:32.320
a small camp or ten or whatever. And then we

860
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:34.559
don't go too sometimes we won't have to go anywhere.

861
00:48:34.719 --> 00:48:36.679
We don't go too far away from that to where

862
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:40.559
we'll go and build a fire and whatever whoever wants

863
00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:42.440
to sit there can sit there, and whoever wants to

864
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:46.000
hike will lead to hike or change off back and forth.

865
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:48.519
But to be honest with you, once you build that

866
00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:52.400
fire and just start talking and you're their entertainment, they're

867
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:54.360
going to come to you regardless. I mean, we've had

868
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:57.480
them follow us back to the to the base.

869
00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:02.760
Camp, and the hiking group gets followed back to the

870
00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:03.719
fire ring area too.

871
00:49:03.920 --> 00:49:08.159
The very first expedition we ever had. Scott had one

872
00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:10.559
group and I had another. So we stopped in one

873
00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:13.760
area and I mean it's pitch black, dark, pitch black.

874
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:16.599
We only had one guy in that group and the

875
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:19.280
rest were females, and I think what was about seven people,

876
00:49:19.320 --> 00:49:22.679
I had something like that, And we were sitting around

877
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:26.000
the fire ring and uh, out of the woodline because

878
00:49:26.000 --> 00:49:29.039
we're totally circled by the woods. At the woodline, rocks

879
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:31.840
started getting thrown. But it was funny because they were

880
00:49:31.840 --> 00:49:34.440
only getting thrown at the one male in the group.

881
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:38.599
Yeah. That, and everybody picked up on that, noticed that

882
00:49:39.880 --> 00:49:42.719
the only male there is the only person getting rocks

883
00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:43.559
thrown towards him.

884
00:49:44.159 --> 00:49:46.639
Yeah. Of course he was very uncomfortable and I said, yeah,

885
00:49:46.639 --> 00:49:47.559
they don't want you here.

886
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:50.840
That's goodness.

887
00:49:51.199 --> 00:49:55.440
Wow. And you know a few lives in the fire ring,

888
00:49:55.760 --> 00:49:58.199
you know, a sitting group and a hiking group. We

889
00:49:58.239 --> 00:50:01.480
do our best to accommodate anyone you know that wants

890
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:05.239
to do something like this, and it doesn't matter about

891
00:50:05.280 --> 00:50:10.800
their physical abilities. You know, if you can't hike, that's fine.

892
00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:13.440
We had that sitting area that you can participate in

893
00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:16.880
a lot of times, the sitting area has as much

894
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:19.239
or more activity than the hiking groups.

895
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:22.840
Yeah, yeah, that's true in females. I don't know what

896
00:50:22.880 --> 00:50:27.920
it is. You know that's that's true females and children. Well,

897
00:50:27.639 --> 00:50:30.920
we have a lot of activity at our house. We

898
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:33.159
did not buy this house with that intention. We had

899
00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:36.639
no idea when we bought our cabin, but we found

900
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:40.519
out and when the grant our grandkids are here, activity increases.

901
00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:45.119
Oh yeah, a lot, that's for sure.

902
00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:51.079
Yeah, we've had them. Let's see, jiggle the door handles, open,

903
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:54.079
the screen door, slam it shut. Our daughter in law

904
00:50:54.159 --> 00:50:56.119
was the biggest skeptic I knew of. And she got

905
00:50:56.199 --> 00:50:57.920
up one night, was going to sleep on the couch,

906
00:50:57.960 --> 00:51:00.719
and that's when she says, I heard something walk on

907
00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:04.360
the porch. Jiggle the door handle, she said, I got

908
00:51:04.400 --> 00:51:06.280
it and went back to the bed, and she said,

909
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:08.159
and a couple of minutes later, it starts tapping under

910
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.559
the window. Well, we had other people say the same

911
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:12.920
thing that stayed here before it taps under the window.

912
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:15.679
It just I guess we've gotten so used to it.

913
00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:17.960
We just if it wanted to kick in the door,

914
00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:18.960
I mean, what are we gonna do.

915
00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:22.880
A few people listening to this are gonna say, how

916
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:25.360
do you they're going to be like that sounds like

917
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.000
ghost stuff. Are there things at your house happening that

918
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:32.519
make you think, oh yeah, this is This is absolutely

919
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:35.480
one hundred percent a big Foot related stuff that's going on.

920
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:37.960
We can slay it.

921
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:38.559
This is no.

922
00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:41.159
When we first moved here, we were like, lead in bed,

923
00:51:41.199 --> 00:51:43.599
what awake? Because like I told you about the footsteps.

924
00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.199
You know, there's a little path at the end of

925
00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:48.000
our house that goes down there to the water, and

926
00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:51.039
I called the pit pit cemetery path. I don't know why,

927
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:54.480
but you can hear here run boom boom, boom, boom boom.

928
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:57.400
It would turn our motion to take her push them up.

929
00:51:57.639 --> 00:51:59.960
It would oh my gosh, think what else?

930
00:52:04.159 --> 00:52:06.960
This home when we first bought it and had floodlights

931
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:11.119
on all corners, but the floodlights were activated on switch

932
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:15.559
inside the home. And I went to turn the floodlights

933
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:20.239
on one evening and they didn't come on on the

934
00:52:20.239 --> 00:52:22.960
back side of the house, and I thought myself, I said,

935
00:52:22.960 --> 00:52:25.800
you know, that's pretty unique. Have both bulls blow at

936
00:52:25.840 --> 00:52:29.360
the same time. Now, to get to this corner of

937
00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:32.000
our home, it takes a twelve foot a frame ladder

938
00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:34.800
to get up or to change those bults. So I

939
00:52:34.840 --> 00:52:37.559
break out my ladder. The next day, have me in

940
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:41.079
two new bulbs. I run up the ladder to change

941
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:45.119
these bulbs out. When I grabbed the first bulb, it's loose. Well,

942
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:50.960
it took four quarter turns to tie that bull back up. Well.

943
00:52:51.039 --> 00:52:53.039
I reached over and grab the other one. This loose also,

944
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:56.280
and it's the same exact thing. Four quarter turns tie

945
00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:59.920
this bull up. Well. Now this house does not vio

946
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:03.480
break or have any you know, any kind of rattling

947
00:53:03.480 --> 00:53:06.039
in like that to cause those bullets loosened up on

948
00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:08.880
their own. And I got to think, and I said,

949
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:11.519
wait a minute. So I run down the ladder, run

950
00:53:11.559 --> 00:53:13.440
back in the house, run over, flip the switch on,

951
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:17.639
and the lights come on, and I'm laughing to myself.

952
00:53:18.760 --> 00:53:22.480
I left right then went and picked up two motion

953
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:24.440
to take her lights for that side of the house

954
00:53:25.480 --> 00:53:29.760
and installed them. Well, when I installed them, had them

955
00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.760
off set like I want them. We let because we

956
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:36.360
were laying in bed at night in our bedroom, we

957
00:53:36.360 --> 00:53:39.679
we can actually see that one particular light come on.

958
00:53:40.960 --> 00:53:42.880
So I'm laying there waiting on that light to come on.

959
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.760
And nothing happened that night the first night, but the

960
00:53:45.800 --> 00:53:49.679
second night the light come on. I was like, oh yeah,

961
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:54.760
we got you now. Well the motion light at the

962
00:53:54.760 --> 00:53:57.519
other end of the house. She was now a hostless nurse,

963
00:53:57.800 --> 00:54:01.159
so sometimes she has to work in the evenings, comes

964
00:54:01.159 --> 00:54:03.840
home after dark. So we set that one up so

965
00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:06.840
when she pulls in out of the car port, the

966
00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:08.800
light will come on so she can see, you know,

967
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:13.400
a lot better to get to the back door. And

968
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:15.480
I had it set just right for and everything. Well,

969
00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:17.440
she pulls up one day and she says, hey, that

970
00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:20.599
light didn't come on. So I walked down and looked

971
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:23.400
and the head the motion tacked her head on that

972
00:54:23.480 --> 00:54:28.000
light was pushed all the way up to the roof light. Well,

973
00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:31.039
these heads on these things, know, when you put this

974
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.639
light together, there's teeth on these things that interlock to

975
00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:40.320
hold them in position. And you can't hardly move that

976
00:54:40.360 --> 00:54:44.920
thing without breaking it. And do that, I had to

977
00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:48.159
physically take that thing apart to pull the head back

978
00:54:48.199 --> 00:54:53.400
down to reset it. And it's uh, you know, little

979
00:54:53.440 --> 00:54:54.480
things like that right there.

980
00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:56.840
Well, we've been sitting at our fire pit in the

981
00:54:56.840 --> 00:55:00.199
front yard and it's i know, exactly six point fifty

982
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:03.719
and it's recorded and we're sitting there and just right

983
00:55:03.760 --> 00:55:05.880
across the road. Now mind you, we're on a dead

984
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:08.159
end road. There's five houses on this road, and you

985
00:55:08.199 --> 00:55:11.360
can't see each house, like you know, I can't see

986
00:55:11.360 --> 00:55:13.840
the neighbor's house or whatever. And we're like in a

987
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:19.119
basin in between mountains. But something started right there across

988
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:21.480
the road, and I'm telling you it would give you

989
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:25.320
chill bumps. It was. It was like the biggest whoop

990
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:27.840
to begin with. And right after that the code you

991
00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:31.360
started kicking in. And it just in the house. So

992
00:55:31.400 --> 00:55:33.440
I'm sitting there and Scott gets something. He said, I'm

993
00:55:33.440 --> 00:55:35.119
going to the house and get my gun. I said, well,

994
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.880
I'm sitting right here. And I recorded that and it

995
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:39.920
continued doing like that for the rest of the night.

996
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:42.559
I mean, we can we can leave audio on the

997
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.840
front porch, you know, and get all kinds of recordings.

998
00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:47.639
I can be in the bathroom getting ready in the morning,

999
00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:51.000
had the window up, and they'll start howling down the

1000
00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:54.159
down the way there. You know, it's just not unusual.

1001
00:55:55.559 --> 00:56:00.840
I'll be it's you know, I'm used to the fact

1002
00:56:00.880 --> 00:56:04.199
of it and never think. And a lot of a

1003
00:56:04.199 --> 00:56:06.199
lot of our neighbors. One of our neighbors in particular,

1004
00:56:06.920 --> 00:56:09.639
he's had a sauding out here, and he'll text me

1005
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:11.800
in the middle of the night, and hey, step out

1006
00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:14.239
on your front porch, and we all step out on

1007
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.360
the front porch and there there on the ridges aling.

1008
00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:19.920
And these things are smart, I'm telling you their observance.

1009
00:56:20.239 --> 00:56:23.039
Scott was staying back and forth in Florida for a while.

1010
00:56:23.079 --> 00:56:26.360
He he was down there with family, and so I

1011
00:56:26.400 --> 00:56:28.360
was here at the house by myself. Other than you know,

1012
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:32.840
my little dogs. They know when he's not here. He

1013
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:36.440
might take him a day or two, but activity will increase,

1014
00:56:36.880 --> 00:56:38.199
you know. I got like I said, I've gotten to

1015
00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:39.800
the point where it just don't matter. I'll come out

1016
00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:41.119
here and go to bed, because if they wanted to

1017
00:56:41.119 --> 00:56:43.000
come inside, there's nothing I could do to stop them

1018
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:45.840
in the first place. But about four o'clock that morning,

1019
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:48.519
I heard something out of that bedroom window. I just

1020
00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:50.280
made a mental note of it. When I got up

1021
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:52.239
to go leave. The next morning, I go around and

1022
00:56:52.320 --> 00:56:54.199
look where I heard the noise. For sure enough, there's

1023
00:56:54.239 --> 00:56:58.280
a huge track right there. It's it's on our TikTok page.

1024
00:56:58.360 --> 00:56:58.599
You know.

1025
00:56:58.840 --> 00:57:02.079
It was right there at the window. So that's not

1026
00:57:02.360 --> 00:57:04.679
unusual now, And.

1027
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.679
Prior to be, you know, fixing the motion tators. We'd

1028
00:57:07.679 --> 00:57:09.360
be here at the house, the side of the house

1029
00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:12.920
and get slapped. Our gas team would get slapped our

1030
00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:17.480
meter box, something about that mer box. They love that

1031
00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:19.360
that meter box for some reason, but they will they

1032
00:57:19.360 --> 00:57:20.559
will slap fire around of it.

1033
00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.400
There was one time our neighbor Texas and told us

1034
00:57:24.440 --> 00:57:26.679
to step outside. He's at the very end of the road.

1035
00:57:27.360 --> 00:57:29.639
Scott went out there first, and then he called me

1036
00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:32.920
outside and I got outside on the front porch and

1037
00:57:33.039 --> 00:57:35.599
something let out, some kind of I tell you what.

1038
00:57:35.800 --> 00:57:38.159
It was like a war cry. It's the only thing

1039
00:57:38.199 --> 00:57:40.400
I can liken it too. But again I had that

1040
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:42.639
rapid thing where you just don't know where to run,

1041
00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:46.039
you know what what to do? It done that, and

1042
00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:48.719
about I don't know, about five seconds later, on the

1043
00:57:48.800 --> 00:57:51.360
other side of the house there was another one that

1044
00:57:51.480 --> 00:57:53.360
let out one like that. I don't know if they

1045
00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:55.639
were fixing fight. I don't know what was going on,

1046
00:57:55.679 --> 00:57:58.519
but it who scared me to death.

1047
00:57:59.719 --> 00:58:02.960
Yeah, up here on these ridges, there seems to be

1048
00:58:03.320 --> 00:58:05.800
like a clan that stays in this area all the time.

1049
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:09.719
In two times a year, in a spring and in

1050
00:58:09.840 --> 00:58:10.440
the fall.

1051
00:58:11.400 --> 00:58:11.960
Keeps up.

1052
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:16.280
The activity around here picks up dramatically, and you can

1053
00:58:16.320 --> 00:58:20.159
tell it's like it's like two titans have met each

1054
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:22.880
other on the ridge side up there, because it will

1055
00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:27.440
sound like battle royal going on up there. And like

1056
00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:29.920
I said that, those that happens about twice a year

1057
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:31.239
in the spring and fall. Here.

1058
00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:34.360
I walked out of the back porch before, and you know,

1059
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:36.480
you can know what's especially a woman. I know what's

1060
00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:38.480
in my yard, what's in my little flower garden there

1061
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:40.920
or whatever. And I looked over there and there was

1062
00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:44.920
a quartz rock sitting by the front stairs. And I asked, gott,

1063
00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.679
I said, did you leave that there? So I think

1064
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:49.519
they do stuff like that, you know.

1065
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:52.840
Yeah, like the rocks at the light.

1066
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:54.760
Yeah, something about that.

1067
00:58:56.639 --> 00:58:59.199
You know how when you weed each your yard and

1068
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:03.360
everything you moan your yard, you know what's in your yard.

1069
00:59:03.800 --> 00:59:08.360
And I had just we did not a day or

1070
00:59:08.360 --> 00:59:12.199
so before, out behind the house here and me and

1071
00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:14.559
She'll were out there for some reason and we were

1072
00:59:14.559 --> 00:59:17.079
walking around a little and that there's two quartz rocks

1073
00:59:17.639 --> 00:59:22.000
leading about three foot apart, you know, parallel to each other.

1074
00:59:22.039 --> 00:59:24.960
And I see these rocks and I look it up there,

1075
00:59:25.039 --> 00:59:28.199
those lights I told her, I said, let's come back,

1076
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:33.760
you know, just after dust's dark and see something. So

1077
00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:36.840
we waited till just before dust dark. We walked down

1078
00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:40.239
that path and as soon as it was dark enough

1079
00:59:40.239 --> 00:59:42.159
that I knew those emotional lights would come on, I

1080
00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:45.559
started walking up toward the house. As soon as I

1081
00:59:45.639 --> 00:59:49.039
got to the quartz rocks right down, the light comes

1082
00:59:49.039 --> 00:59:54.320
on and I'm giggling myself about it. And then because they're

1083
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:58.360
marking where that light comes on, so I picked their

1084
00:59:58.440 --> 01:00:00.440
rocks up and I leave them the same disk as are

1085
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:07.280
moving forward toward the house about three feet and I said, well,

1086
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.360
y'all won't know where your marker is now. You'll trip

1087
01:00:09.480 --> 01:00:14.519
lots that that they triple lots. And you know, it's

1088
01:00:14.559 --> 01:00:17.719
like a game, you know, and we call this playing

1089
01:00:17.760 --> 01:00:20.840
games sometimes, but you know it's like a game. Okay,

1090
01:00:20.840 --> 01:00:21.880
I called you this time.

1091
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:28.519
So yeah, we enjoy what we do. Otherwise we'd probably

1092
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:31.519
be traumatized and moving a big apartment in the middle

1093
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:33.440
of Atlanta somewhere right right.

1094
01:00:33.480 --> 01:00:36.360
I mean, obviously you guys are having some stuff happening

1095
01:00:36.360 --> 01:00:39.480
around your house, and it's just it is very interesting

1096
01:00:39.800 --> 01:00:44.079
the perspective because all have things like you've just shared

1097
01:00:45.079 --> 01:00:47.599
to me from people and they will be just out

1098
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:50.199
of their mind, just like what is going on? But

1099
01:00:50.480 --> 01:00:52.360
I mean, you guys are into it, which is awesome,

1100
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.840
and it's it's on and how you look at it.

1101
01:00:55.920 --> 01:01:02.400
I do want to ask on exportitions, what what do

1102
01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:06.000
you think is the weirdest thing that has happened? That's

1103
01:01:06.119 --> 01:01:09.320
just like, God, don't don't really get what that was

1104
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:09.840
all about?

1105
01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:13.920
How your orbs?

1106
01:01:14.159 --> 01:01:21.239
Yeah, we were out on one one evening and we

1107
01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:26.280
had an ORB appear in a food plot of all places,

1108
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:31.239
and this orb was about the size and shape of

1109
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.239
a nerf football well. This orb appeared and it traveled

1110
01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:39.079
down the side that food plot for a distance of

1111
01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:43.519
about seventy five yards and there are four of us

1112
01:01:43.639 --> 01:01:49.920
witnessing this orb. And it's uh, she was in in

1113
01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:51.480
that area with us, but she was up in the

1114
01:01:51.840 --> 01:01:54.559
area behind where, just out of side where she couldn't

1115
01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:59.639
see this light coming, this orb. And once it got

1116
01:01:59.639 --> 01:02:03.079
about twenty five yards up the food plot, coming directly

1117
01:02:03.119 --> 01:02:07.559
towards us, it turned and went off into the forest

1118
01:02:08.239 --> 01:02:11.199
and in behind the burn well. Once I went in

1119
01:02:11.239 --> 01:02:15.079
behind the bern, we didn't you couldn't see it anymore. Didn't.

1120
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:18.880
It wasn't illuminated or anything like that. So we come

1121
01:02:18.920 --> 01:02:22.639
back the next day and walk over there in behind

1122
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:26.400
that burn and all the foliage is crushed down to

1123
01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:29.679
the ground like something that had embedded and laid right there.

1124
01:02:31.159 --> 01:02:34.400
And hindsight, thinking about it, I kind of wish we

1125
01:02:34.440 --> 01:02:36.280
had a walked over there through that burn that night,

1126
01:02:36.960 --> 01:02:37.719
but we didn't.

1127
01:02:39.320 --> 01:02:41.119
Yeah, we're still trying to figure the orbs out.

1128
01:02:41.960 --> 01:02:47.719
Yeah, that orb you know, they're a that's unique, you know,

1129
01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:50.639
having't got a real good grip on that. I don't

1130
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.079
think anybody does. My thing is.

1131
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:56.639
Probably not My thing is the tracks. You know, we've

1132
01:02:56.719 --> 01:02:59.679
we've seen tracks. I've seen tracks and the snow and

1133
01:03:00.039 --> 01:03:02.559
all them, and they just disappear. Where did they go?

1134
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:09.079
Yeah? But when when when a track line just totally

1135
01:03:09.280 --> 01:03:14.679
disappears in an area where be it snow soft train

1136
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:18.280
like that? I mean, if you're in some of this

1137
01:03:18.400 --> 01:03:22.559
rock hard train, I totally understand them disappear, but and

1138
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:26.199
snow a soft train. When a track line just totally disappear,

1139
01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:30.159
I mean it just it's no longer there and there's

1140
01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:33.000
nothing around for something to jump up in the trees

1141
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:35.639
to travel in the trees. Where the trees aren't big

1142
01:03:35.719 --> 01:03:36.719
enough to support something.

1143
01:03:37.559 --> 01:03:40.199
When we first got into this, we went down this

1144
01:03:40.320 --> 01:03:43.239
rabbit hole. Scott and I both were in agreement. You know, Okay,

1145
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.159
We're just going to concentrate on big fit. I don't

1146
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:46.800
want to talk about all this other stuff that people

1147
01:03:46.840 --> 01:03:49.920
are talking about orbs, dog men, all these other cryptis

1148
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:51.599
blah blah blah. You know, this is just too much

1149
01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:54.159
to bite off at one time. But I'm telling you now,

1150
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:57.239
once you start down this rabbit hole, forget it, because

1151
01:03:57.239 --> 01:03:59.599
there's so many branches, you know, like I said, with

1152
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:02.800
the track to the orbs, and that went a dog,

1153
01:04:03.079 --> 01:04:04.559
that was a dog man, that was this, it was that.

1154
01:04:04.800 --> 01:04:07.000
I mean, it's just like you're gonna have way more

1155
01:04:07.039 --> 01:04:10.519
answers than you'll ever questions rather than you have answers.

1156
01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:13.800
Oh absolutely, I definitely agree with you. The more I

1157
01:04:13.840 --> 01:04:17.760
talk to people, it's like, and the weird stuff is

1158
01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:21.880
definitely part of it, and way more questions than answers

1159
01:04:22.000 --> 01:04:24.719
at this point. I don't know if that'll ever flip around.

1160
01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:29.519
We'll see, but man, guys, it has been just such

1161
01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:33.280
a fun chat with you. I'm sure there well, there's

1162
01:04:33.320 --> 01:04:36.639
a few wrap up questions I would say.

1163
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:36.840
So.

1164
01:04:37.079 --> 01:04:42.000
You've mentioned a few times where you've taken photos, you've

1165
01:04:43.159 --> 01:04:46.119
had audio recordings. Are there any places that people can

1166
01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.239
see these photos and hear what you've recorded.

1167
01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:54.000
I post a lot of that on our TikTok page

1168
01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:58.159
squat Fishing Outfitters.

1169
01:04:57.440 --> 01:05:01.280
And will you love the TikTok by for posts and

1170
01:05:01.320 --> 01:05:03.920
stuff like that more so than our Facebook page.

1171
01:05:04.719 --> 01:05:08.639
And we encourage people, you know, we enjoy this so much.

1172
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:11.960
We've been helping this little lady that's having a problem

1173
01:05:12.199 --> 01:05:15.119
with a big foot and you know, we have not

1174
01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:16.880
seen it yet. I don't It might be a bear,

1175
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:19.920
it might be a possum, who knows, but she's terrified

1176
01:05:19.920 --> 01:05:21.880
to death, you know, and we're trying our best to

1177
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help her. So, you know, if people want to ask

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us if they're having problems, we can help them in

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any way or tell them and give them ideas. We're

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all about that too.

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Absolutely, that's awesome. We have a Facebook page Quatch fash Outfitters.

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In our TikTok page.

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If people are like you know, it sounds like I

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would love to look into maybe checking out an expedition

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with you guys. What's the best way to contact regarding.

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That the best way to contact us is through messenger

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on Facebook, through our school fishing messenger, or our phone numbers.

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Our phone numbers are on our page. They can take

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to you the one of us.

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It's fantastic, man, It's it's that you've got some really

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cool stuff going on down there. North Georgia is one

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of those places I just love to talk to people

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for North Georgia. It doesn't matter if it's the northeast,

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central or northwest, and there's a lot of stuff going

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on in that state up in the north. But guys,

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you know, definitely stay in touch. I'm sure you'll be

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getting into even more crazy things. But but I'll have

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the links in the show notes for for how they

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can reach out to you and maybe take part in

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the expedition themselves. But thank you again for coming on

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the show. It has been a fun time.

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Guys, thank you so much for having us.

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If you get this, come go with us.

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Yes, sir, I just wanted to say thank you for

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listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Scott

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in Sheila's story is one that lingers, not just because

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of the rocks thrown in the dark or the truck

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that shook, but because it shows how quickly a life

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can change when you finally see what you thought was impossible.

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So huge thanks to Scott and Sheila Granger for sharing

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their powerful encounters from the forests of North Georgia and

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for reminding us that belief often starts with a moment

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you can't forget. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe

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to the channel on YouTube hit that bell so you

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never miss a new one, and share this with a

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friend who loves Sasquatch, Appleachian lore, or just a wild

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story from the woods. And if you're on Apple Podcasts

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or Spotify, please hit the fall button and if you'd

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be kind enough to leave a review, it really helps

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other listeners find the show. And if you've had or

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know someone who has had a Bigfoot encounter, especially in

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North Georgia around places like lj or Raven County, shoot

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me an email at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

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I'd love to hear it. Also, don't forget sasas Watch

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So huge thanks to Priscilla and the crew for making

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that happen. Thanks again for being part of the big

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for society. Until next time, keep your eyes open, trust

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your gut, and never stop asking what else might be

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out there. See you in the woods.