June 15, 2025

It Hit Me Like A Ton Of Bricks | California

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Season 1

Join Curtis Jones as he recounts an unforgettable encounter with Sasquatches in the small town of Yreka, California, back in 1983. Curtis and his identical twin brother, along with other local kids, were playing hide and seek near the Klamath National Forest when they came face-to-face with three mysterious figures. Hear about the eerie details of the encounter, Curtis's ensuing shock, and how this extraordinary experience influenced his life. Curtis’s story not only highlights the area's rich history of Bigfoot sightings but also adds a vivid, personal perspective to the lore. Curtis has recently documented his story in his book 'Not Just Another Bigfoot Encounter,' now available on Amazon.

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

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

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got the privilege of talking to Curtis Jones today. Curtis

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is an individual that has an interesting encounter. He'll be

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sharing from northern California. Welcome to the show, Curtis. How's

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it going today?

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Yeah, I'm doing good. How are you doing?

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Doing great? It's starting to get warm out here in Iowa,

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so I can't complain that's a great day. Yeah, But

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you know, Curtis, I'm glad to have you on the

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show today, I'm going to go ahead and want to

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make sure you have the time to share what you

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came on the show to talk about. So you're welcome

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to take us back to the time when you experience

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something weird out there that day in northern California.

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I got an identical twin brother that also was there

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with me when we had this encounter. This encounter actually

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took place. It was probably about a ten minute ordeal

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all together. And what makes it unique, it was actually

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down in a small town in northern California. It was

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in Wyrika, California, the exact and the population was maybe

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thirty five hundred people at the time. And this was

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in nineteen eighty three. Me and my brother and my siblings,

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we pretty much grew up between California and Oregon. We

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spent our childhood up until we were fifteen years old

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in nineteen eighty three when we came back into California,

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which is just right on the I five while Rick

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is just about twenty miles from the Oregon border. And

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we moved around a lot, so we lived all over

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Oregon we lived and most of the places here in

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California as well. We moved way too much, but it

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came back into we came back into California. It was

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in the summer of nineteen eighty three. And after them

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the research, I found that it was going on. It

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was about a five year drought going on at the time.

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And this is in July. This is the middle of July,

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and it was the day that just happened with the

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night whatever, but during the day it was a it

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was a blittering like over one hundred degrees in northern

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California there, and so it was so hot that we decided,

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we decided, you know, we just stayed indoors until it

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got in the evening time when the sun came down,

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because me and my brothers, me and my brother and

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my sister were are skinner prey light and everything, so

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we we just we decided didn't want to stay outside

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in one hundred and ten degrees, you know.

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So so basically this we also had a couple there

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was a couple of neighborhood kids or they were about

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the same age me and my brother we were fifteen,

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and the other two brothers they were also twins, but

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they were fraternal twins, and we.

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Met them a couple of days prior and so they

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came over to our place. We're starting with my aunts

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at my aunt's house or apartment complex, which is right

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next door to the school ground, which is just you know,

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just not too far from the Actually when the where

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the west of the mountains start from the Klamath the

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Klamath National Forest, and uh so we're on the basic

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we're on the west side of town basically, and and

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probably you know, probably about a quarter of miles from

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from from when the mountain starts, you know, the forested

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area starts going up into the hills and everything. There's

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a few houses up there past that also, but we're

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at there, we're at there at the at the school ground.

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Actually we're we're decided, we decided we're going to play

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wars what we're gonna do. So there's which is basically

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a hide and go seek. And what makes it my

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encounter so unique is that there was three there's three

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of us on each each of us on on a

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team for the when we're playing a war. And then

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it just so happens that there's three Sasquatches as well

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that we're that we're going into the picture. So that's

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where the confusion comes in. Because especially my part of

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the story because I I was the one that actually

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came the closest to the to the ordeal that happened.

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So I can tell you what happened is that, uh

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it was my brother's team were set to They're like

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like they were playing hide and go seek. So they

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it was my brother's team, which which had the other

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two brothers with him, and I had my sister and

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and her boyfriend with me. And that was just the

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way it worked out. So it was my brother's team

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that we're the ones that are coming after us basically,

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so we so my me and my team had to

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we had like a hundred second they had to count down.

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My brother had to count down one hundred seconds or

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whatever it was, the countdown of one hundred while my

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team decided to take you know, go take off. So

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we're pretty much on the opposite side of the of

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the of the field of the school ground field. We're

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away over on the m uh just opposite of the

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opposite corners from where of my brother. My brother was

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at the uh the south, the southeast corner of the

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school yard and I was located at the north, uh

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northwest corner and uh so my brother already knew where

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I was at because for some reason they decided not

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to count do their countdown, and then they decided to cheat,

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and they seen us. They seen us going around the

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fence line, and they seen where we were at. But

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I didn't know where my brother was at. See, so

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he knew where we were at that I didn't know

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where he was at. So we're on the other side

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of the field there on the north northwest side, and

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there's a baseball guyman that we were me and my

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team were, uh, we're laying down at and then and

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then right there on that west the whole west perimeter

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of the school yard is a was an eight foot fence,

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a chain leak fence, and that went all the way down,

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you know, all the way basically from north where we're at,

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all the way down to the to the south end

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of the of the field and then on the other

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side of that hole on that on that stout side

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where the apartment complex was with those new fence line there.

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So basically my brother was right there, him and his

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team were laying there, and it was already getting dark

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out already, it was already the sun had already gone

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over the mountains and the and and there's the sky

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was pretty light. There was a lot of stars, like

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you know, millions of stars. So it's still pretty light

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kind of thing. And it wasn't light uns we can

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just see details a lot, but but you can definitely

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see because it was kind of brightness and where you

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can actually see you know, shadows or whatever you know,

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or a silhouette. Anyways, uh So, as we were, my

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two were sitting behind laying down behind the baseball diamond

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and uh so my brother was went over on the

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side and and so basically, these the three star squatches

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that came into the picture were right there, right pretty

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quick where my brother was at, right at the corner

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of the king and from the street or close from

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the street, right there, right by where my brother was at,

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but there, but it was walking there, walking across the field.

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Now it was still dark enough to worry. Even my

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brother couldn't see complete detail, but he knew exactly where

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him and his team they seen these three figures walking

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across the field in front of them. They were about

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fifty feet away from where my brother and his team

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were laying down looking at him. And uh and of

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course I'm getting this to my brother after after the fact,

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because I I was on the opposite side, and I

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could see the same figures, but they were way off

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of the distance compared to where my brother was at.

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So what I'm saying about this is that the three

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that were walking I could I was. I was totally

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convinced it was my brother's team, you know, And they

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were walking about ten or fifteen feet apart from each other,

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each one of those. And I could see this sil

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the wits walking across the field going towards the Chain

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League fence, basically where I was at. I was laying

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laying right there, right next to the Chain League fence,

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and I can see them, and then so my brother

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and then when they just when they see them, they

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were walking towards the Chain League fence, and they observed well,

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first of all, they looked at each other and they're

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whistling each other. They're saying, that's a big foot. They

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were saying that to each other. They knew exactly what

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they were looking at, you know. The way and my

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brothers telling me is that they weren't them. They didn't

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have any clothes on or anything, and they're all hairy,

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and you know, one was bigger, of course one was.

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They couldn't tell exactly how big was. There was definitely

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bigger than any normal human would be. And so they

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just stayed. They didn't say anything. They just sat there

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and they observed it. They would They witnessed all three

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of the Sasquatches go to the fence. Now there's two

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of them, the two of the smaller of the two

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of the three, they decided they decided to walk around

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the other to the other side of the fence. And

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on that fence is just nothing but what you call

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that just land, it's not. It's undeveloped property, just just

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a big open field within a lot of brush and

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the real tall weeds and grass, you know, three three

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feet tall, and a lot of dirt mounts and and

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stuff like that. You see a few trees here and there,

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but other than that, it's just all this like rolling

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hills and the and grass. But anyways, so the two,

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the two that beard off to go around the other

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side of the fence for whatever reason, I don't know.

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But but the bigger one he gets to the he

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got to the fence and and he did the other

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as soon. It was a he But we don't. We

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don't know that for sure, but uh, this sasquatch just

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all he did just put his arm, he put his

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hands on the top of the fence and just totally

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just looked himself up and just jumped right over the fence,

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you know what I'm saying. And now me, on the

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other hand, I was I was waiting for them. I

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didn't want to to go and start. Well, I guess

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you would say we were gonna play guns. Basically, it's

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kind of like how I was looking at it. My

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brother says it was. It was a hide and go seek,

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But anyways, we were playing war, but we I wanted

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to get on the other side of the fence. There's

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there's a man gate right there too, that where I

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was at. So me and my team got on the

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other side of that fence. And even when I was

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when I was at, I knew exactly where those figures

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were at because I could see I can see that

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I can see them down the line. So I thought

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it was my brother's team, so and I but I

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couldn't tell what that because I was I was going

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on the other side with my team on the past

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defence line. But I did not fill the fence moved whatsoever.

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I didn't feel any kind of you know, like like

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as if you were crawling up a chain lead fence

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and you can feel a vibration or anything. So there's

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no there was no no vibration at that time at all,

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so I couldn't tell exactly what was going on. So

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me and my other team would get on the other side,

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my sister and her boyfriend. We just started just crawling

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down the fence line basically towards where we were assuming

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that we were gonna run into my brother's team. And

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we get down about you know, this takes this has

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taken a few minutes, so and were just going to

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take our time because we were looking to make sure

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that we weren't getting spotted by my brother's team. So

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we get to we get about fifty yards down and

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then I'm thinking, okay, well now this is where we're

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gonna stay. So we decided to stay there. We're right

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next to the fence line. There's no an abankment right

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there too. The whole fance is just a little it

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was like an embankment that goes down to the open field,

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you know, at least a few feet up anyway, so

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we get down there. We're about like you said, we're

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about fifty yards down from where we got you know,

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came into the gate, and so that's where we're gonna stay.

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So I just had my back against the against the fence,

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and uh, and I'm just looking around. I'm just looking

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and just getting my eyes my eyes acclimated to the

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darkness a little bit. You know, I still see pretty good.

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But you know, but and off the distance, you're looking

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to the west, it's you know, there's not too much

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stuff going on. There's a lot, there's some houses, but

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beyond the houses is where you know, you start heading

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up into the mountains. So anyway, so we're sitting there

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for a for about a minute or so. And then

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but now my sister and her boyfriend, they they were

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getting bored and they didn't want to they we they

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didn't we care for the game that much anyways, and

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then they're kind of making a little bit of noise,

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and I kept wanting them to be quiet a little bit,

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you know, because I didn't want my brother's team to

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catch us, right, So so they decided, okay, well what

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is this gonna go ahead and then crawl out into

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the grass basically, and which is what they did. And

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I was glad to see them go because I didn't

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want to. I didn't want them to. I didn't want

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to give them to have them give my position away.

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So they just took off in the grass. But I

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wasn't paying attention exactly where my sister and her boyfriend

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were actually headed, uh, exactly which direction. But I could

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definitely hear them going rustling in the grass and just

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moving around for a little bit. But at the same time,

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I wasn't paying that much attention to where they're at.

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So I'm all of them scanning my head from left

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to right, just just kind of slowly just to just

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to you know, just to see if I see anything.

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And like I said, this is going off for about

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it at least a minute and a half, maybe two

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years at the most, you know, especially after my sister

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and her boyfriend got into the out in the grass

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and they were still making a little bit of you know,

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they're making a little bit of noise, I guess. And

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then basically from right where I was sitting, I happened

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to notice there's two figures sitting squatting on a on

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a mouth on one of the mouths. But at this point,

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I'm thinking that it's my sister and her boyfriend because

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they were that close. They were, because I can hear

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my sister and them giggling and stuff in the grass.

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Big for society, who will be right back after these messages.

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But the two figures I can see they're about they're

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probably about twenty feet away from me, and uh so,

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and I can hear my sister and her boyfriend gibbler

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and stuff. So I kept looking around to him that

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you know, I kept tell him to be quiet, you know,

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I kept trying that. I was looking at those two figures,

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but they were sitting down, squatted on that hill, and

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so I wasn't really paying attention too much. The only

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thing I found odd was that these two figures were

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just looking straight at me, at least facing towards me,

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and they didn't make they didn't move a muscle, not

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one bit, And and I was totally quiet, so that

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they definitely knew I was there, that's for sure. So

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basically I'm just I'm scanning my head back and forth

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and still, and meanwhile my sister and her boyfriend still,

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you know, they're not making a lot of They're not

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making a huge noise, but I could still hear them

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enough to where I just wish that they weren't being

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you know, that that that noisy for my you know,

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for the other team to catch us, you know. And

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so this is going off for about maybe i'd say

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no more than three minutes all together, because now as

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I'm trying to just look up and down the field,

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I'm looking over to my left towards the north, and

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as I'm turning, as I'm as I'm coming back to

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the looking towards the uh south, as he heading back

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towards the south, now I see a third figure. Now,

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this third figure came running around the backside of the

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other two that were already sitting there. Now this is

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where this is what this is the part that got me.

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This is this is where I went to I end

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up going to the shock after this. But that third

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one came running so fast, and that third one was

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at least on he was probably thirty feet from him,

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you know, at least because he was just right behind

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the other two, which I thought was my sister and

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a boyfriend at the time. But it came running around

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the other two, and it came running right dead at me.

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I mean, this thing was running at top speed. So

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at this point, even when I first seen as the

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other team, so I'm I'm feeling out that it's the

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other team at that particular time, but even before I

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can get on my feet, that that third one ran

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so fast and it's not I mean, we're talking leaping

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at me, you know. And but at this time, I'm,

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first of all, I don't. I never believed in bigfoot anyways,

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and Bigfoot wasn't even on my radar, so that was

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not even a question at that particular point in time.

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So that third bigfoot, uh, it got up to about

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it got it literally got ten feet from me by

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the time I got By the time I got on

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my feet and I was right, I was still right

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next to the fence, that thing stopped because I started

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because I started yelling. And then I started going bank.

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I started yelling bank, Bank, Bank, you know, like I'm

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shooting the gun. You know, I don't. I didn't have

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a weapon anything in my hand at all. I'm just

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I'm just just something I was doing. And I just

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started I just started going bang, bang, bang, yelling. And

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I was doing this at the top of my lungs,

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and I wasn't afraid at this time because, like I said,

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I thought it was my brother's team. At this time,

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it was my brother's team that was coming to get me. Now,

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once once that third one stopped, it just stopped and

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looked straight at me, And it was probably a good

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and probably took them at least the two or three

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seconds to finally just decide just all it is, just

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turn away from me. And the other two was already

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standing too. The other two got scared because I started yelling,

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you know, because of my loud yelling. So now all

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three of them they just turned around and started leaping

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away from me. And they were leaping. I mean we're

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talking about high strides. I just couldn't believe that. Now

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this is where I was in the shop. So as

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they were running away from the leaping away from me,

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all I can do is think, okay, for somebody. I

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did not have even a thing that they were even human,

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especially from what I saw when when that's over the there,

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I knew it was not human because I can see that.

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I can see the individual hairs. I mean we're talking

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from head to toe. It was just nothing but just

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just just total hairy. Even though I couldn't see the

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facial I couldn't see the facial features of this creature,

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but I know, I definitely know it was on two feet,

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and I know it was way bigger than me, and

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then bigger and bigger than anybody I like my brother's team,

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you know. And I seen how white it was too.

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There's no way, there's there's no way that this was human,

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you know. Anyways, so they're even away from me, and

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the only thing I could do is because because my

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eyes was telling me one thing, right, it's telling me

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that it's not human whatever, but my mind is thinking

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of this or I just started I just started yelling deer.

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That was my next words. I just kept yelling deer.

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And at this point I didn't feel like I was

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in shock, you know, but apparently I was, because I

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I was totally confused. I didn't know what was going on.

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These these creatures were just leaping away from me, and

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I could tell because they just they were leaping as

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if they're like running like deer, almost even though I

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know they're on two feet. So so that that's basically

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was going on right there and then, and I still

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didn't realize exactly where my sister and her boyfriend were

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at at this time, because I was still in shock.

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And then all I can remember is I could see

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at one point, as I can see and I can

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still see these sasquatches way down the road or not

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rode down the end of the field. They're heading. They're

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heading towards the towards the mountains. But they kept looking

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at me, They kept looking back at me. I've never

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seen the gamelin tapes. Of course you probably know all

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that stuff too, But the way that it was, the

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way that the sasquatches were looking back at me with

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just remind me so much of the way that their

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bodies were moving, you know, to look back at me

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without they couldn't turn their next completely around. They had

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to turn their their whole upper torsos basically towards me

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at the same time as their leaping through the field.

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So and I never even seen that gimlet tape until

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not just within the last five to ten years myself,

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because I never was that that interested in really trying

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to pursue anything. But anyways, my sister and there were

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my sister and her boyfriend finally were standing next to

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me even though I didn't realize they came up to me.

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But at this time, I can hear my brother yelling

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from the from the field behind, coming from the from

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the baseball field, coming from the apartments, and I couldn't

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hear what he was saying at the time. So I

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finally got you know, because I was already I was

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down the embankment at the time. So I when I

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when I see my brother come running. They were running

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a top speed coming, you know, coming towards me because

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they can hear me yelling at the top of my lungs. Anyways,

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so they got to the fence. They were probably within

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within about ten feet from the fence. I finally heard

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my brother because he kept telling he kept yelling out

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that that they saw Bigfoot, right, but I didn't understand

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what he's saying until he came within probably about basically

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about ten feet away. When I was finally I had

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my hands on the fence in between the links, and

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all it took was my brother just one time. He

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just said, hey, we just we just saw Bigfoot. And

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at this point in time, this is when this is

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when I went into a deep, deep shock, so shocking,

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maybe a fear I was totally This is when the

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fear hit me. They just all just hit me like

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a like a ton of bricks. I mean, it hit

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me so hard that I didn't even know where I

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was at. Somehow I ended up getting up on the

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top of that fence within my brother the way he

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tells me is that he couldn't believe how fast I

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got on top of that fence. Probably just I just

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got to hold that link of the links. I just

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used my arms and just just just got maybe a

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couple of different strides up and I grabbed the top

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of that fence and I was over the other side.

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But I didn't even not with it, not even crawling

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the other side. I just jumped over the other side,

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laying on my feet, and I was running into the

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middle of the baseball field. And that's finally I was

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probably about halfway down in the field, and I finally

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I realized I could definitely visualize. To this day, I

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00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:35.200
can remember myself knowing where I was at, or at

445
00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:37.359
least I was. I could. I could see where I

446
00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:40.400
was at, and all I could do is I just

447
00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:42.880
I finally just hit the ground and I was I

448
00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:44.920
went to the ground and I was just rubbing my

449
00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:47.079
eyes and stuff, and I had tears and everything in

450
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:50.359
my eyes, and I was shaking. I was shaking as

451
00:24:50.359 --> 00:24:53.319
if it was thirty you know, thirty degrees hot or something,

452
00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:55.759
and I was shaking so bad, it was, it was

453
00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.640
visibly shaking, and I felt pretty sick. Actually, you know,

454
00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:02.720
I didn't throw up or anything. But so now I

455
00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:04.279
was in the middle of the field, and I was

456
00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:08.720
It took a while for me to to finally start

457
00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:12.559
being able to communicate with the rest of everybody else

458
00:25:12.680 --> 00:25:15.880
was around on my brother's team and my sister and

459
00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:19.400
her and her boyfriend. I mean, it probably took me

460
00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:23.039
at least at least an hour if I could finally

461
00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:26.960
just collect my own my own thoughts, uh, you know,

462
00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:29.799
and without shaking. I mean, I was still shaking and

463
00:25:29.839 --> 00:25:33.720
I was still scared. But the other people, my brother

464
00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:37.640
and the teams everything were there together. But so finally

465
00:25:37.680 --> 00:25:40.799
we all just sat down in the middle field, and

466
00:25:41.000 --> 00:25:43.160
I was always still looking back at the fence. I

467
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.039
was that scared. I'm going, oh, man, if they come

468
00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:48.279
back at us, you know, I'm just I was still scared,

469
00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:51.720
but not not to where I was in total shock anymore.

470
00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:55.000
But so we decided to compare our stories after I

471
00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.000
was they were probably good a couple of hours just

472
00:25:57.119 --> 00:26:00.160
sitting there, and you know, it took a while for

473
00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.480
me to be able to just build a breathe them

474
00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:07.000
for one thing. Yes, So we just sat around and

475
00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:11.680
them and and and just we just all compared to

476
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.720
each other's story. I let them tell theirs first, because

477
00:26:14.720 --> 00:26:17.720
it's still. As they were telling their story, I was

478
00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:20.119
still just I was still scared. I was just I

479
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:23.000
was just still kind of just listening to them, listening

480
00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:25.160
to what they saw and everything. And finally when I

481
00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:28.519
was able to uh, when I was finally able to

482
00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:32.680
uh speak and feel and feel clear enough to to

483
00:26:33.160 --> 00:26:36.559
tell my story, which was very It was the scariest

484
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:40.359
situation I was. I was traumatized at that particular time,

485
00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:44.920
and I was traumatized for days uh after that. So

486
00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:47.200
when we uh finally at the end of the night

487
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.039
eating after all that was going on, after we decided

488
00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:53.000
to compare our stories and stuff, the two brothers that

489
00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:56.160
we had met that were with us, and that was

490
00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:58.720
the last night that we actually communicate with them because

491
00:26:58.759 --> 00:27:01.440
we finally just we all we already came up to

492
00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:03.839
the conclusion that that that's something like this is just

493
00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.200
we we can't just go and just and start blurting

494
00:27:07.200 --> 00:27:09.039
out and everything because me and me and my brother

495
00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:12.160
were very shy anyways. We didn't like any kind of

496
00:27:12.680 --> 00:27:15.240
controversy or nothing like that. And we just we just

497
00:27:15.400 --> 00:27:18.799
came to that town just just a matter of days before,

498
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:22.799
and uh so we didn't want to start any ways

499
00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:26.880
with anybody, and we we didn't embarrass We got embarrassed

500
00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:29.039
pretty easy. We didn't like being a center of attention.

501
00:27:31.079 --> 00:27:32.960
And that's the way we've always been, me and my brother.

502
00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:35.799
Even to this day, we hadn't even talked about the

503
00:27:35.839 --> 00:27:39.240
bigfoot thing. Uh we might have done it a couple

504
00:27:39.200 --> 00:27:43.680
of different times, but like I said, uh once we

505
00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:47.400
once those other two brothers let uh we left to

506
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.559
go home. We knew them talent and stuff. We did.

507
00:27:50.720 --> 00:27:53.839
We did spend a year in school right there, our

508
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.519
fourth year of high school, and we knew the book

509
00:27:57.599 --> 00:28:00.319
the brothers. We you know, we've seen him the time.

510
00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.000
But we never even we didn't even we didn't even

511
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:06.519
talk to them, and uh so we never even got

512
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:08.559
together and even think about trying to talk to each

513
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:12.200
other about the about the incident. You know, but uh

514
00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.920
at the same time, we spent that whole year with them, uh,

515
00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:18.039
going to school and anything. And then even my brother

516
00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:22.039
and I we didn't uh we we talked. We talked

517
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.160
to each other for you know, quite a few days

518
00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:29.599
after the whole incident. But but after that we just

519
00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:32.839
pretty much we had our own adventures growing up and everything,

520
00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:35.960
you know, just different things going on and uh and

521
00:28:36.079 --> 00:28:38.920
uh that's pretty much it even to this day. And

522
00:28:38.960 --> 00:28:42.359
then speaking of all that, I actually wrote a book

523
00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:46.960
it's called Not Just Another Bigfoot Encounter, and that just

524
00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.680
came out on the beginning of January, just about a

525
00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:54.839
month ago, a couple months ago here, and that was

526
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.519
just just the detail just to let's just tell my

527
00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:02.279
story from you know, from the from the days or

528
00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:04.640
from the not the days, but from the from the

529
00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:07.519
morning of the event that happened, you know, just what

530
00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:09.319
we did and how we met up with the brothers

531
00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:12.720
and all that stuff. And it also goes into after

532
00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:16.200
what we did afterwards, like the next day, Uh, we

533
00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:18.640
went to the libraries, do you know, get some research

534
00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:21.640
and try to find out about what we could about

535
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:24.440
the Bigfoot, because like I said, I didn't even pay

536
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:27.640
any attention about bigfoot up to that point. I did

537
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:30.680
see that I did see the Bigfoot movies in the

538
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.720
seventies when I was growing up. I was born in

539
00:29:33.759 --> 00:29:37.759
sixty eight, so I was I did watch the film,

540
00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:40.079
and I can't remember just even the name of the film,

541
00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:43.079
but I remember scaring me whatever it was, and watched

542
00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:46.839
and uh so basically all this time and I but

543
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:51.279
I never paid any attention to I didn't even think

544
00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:53.599
anything about Bidfoot. I didn't think he was for real,

545
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:56.079
for one thing, so I didn't It wasn't one of

546
00:29:56.119 --> 00:29:59.200
those things I was looking for. And then in nineteen

547
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:02.480
eighty three, use there's no uh. We didn't have cell phones,

548
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.160
and the only cameras that you can then get were

549
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:10.240
the uh the thirty five millimeter cameras and then and

550
00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:12.559
then only you're going to you know, you have to

551
00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:15.039
take a picture. But once you take that picture, it's gone,

552
00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:17.720
you know. But that's just something we didn't have. The

553
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:22.160
we didn't have the money to buy cameras.

554
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.279
Big for society will be right back after these messages.

555
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:43.680
Nothing that we were pretty We came from a poor

556
00:30:43.720 --> 00:30:46.400
family ourselves, you know, so we didn't have we didn't

557
00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:49.799
have that luxury to go to uh, you know, go

558
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:51.880
buy buy a camera. But we're also not going to

559
00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:56.039
have a camera at night time while we're playing you know,

560
00:30:56.119 --> 00:31:01.279
playing war either. So anyways, so that's my story until

561
00:31:01.880 --> 00:31:06.240
until I finally I wrote my book here just it

562
00:31:06.279 --> 00:31:09.039
came just a matter of uh, you know, about four

563
00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:10.720
or five months ago when I said I was gonna

564
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:14.960
write my books. Oh, and there you go. That's that's

565
00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.519
my story.

566
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:18.759
What a fascinating account. Thank you for sharing. And I

567
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:22.160
think it's it's very important what you just shared about

568
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:27.960
the technology that you had available to yourself during that time. Uh,

569
00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.200
there's gonna be a lot of listeners. I have a

570
00:31:30.240 --> 00:31:33.480
lot of younger listeners. And another way to put it, guys,

571
00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:38.119
is if you've seen the Stranger Things show on Netflix,

572
00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:44.079
it's pretty much the same time and history. So that's

573
00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:49.400
what Curtis had available to him and his friends is

574
00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:53.519
anything they had in the Stranger Things show. You know,

575
00:31:53.599 --> 00:31:57.359
they're riding around on bikes and getting into all sorts

576
00:31:57.359 --> 00:32:03.960
of crazy adventures and stuff. And but man, wow, what

577
00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:08.160
what a fascinating account.

578
00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:09.440
Have.

579
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.480
How did that affect you the rest of your life

580
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.039
growing up going through that.

581
00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:19.960
Well, the good thing is I and I had proof

582
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:22.640
it is not not supported by family because when I

583
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:25.400
told my story to my father my aunt, because we

584
00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.519
were staying with my aunt at the time, and my

585
00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:31.319
mom and dad they were actually proving around California looking

586
00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:33.400
for work and stuff, so we were actually staying with

587
00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:36.440
my aunt. So basically that same night, you know, I

588
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:39.599
told my aunt about the situation and see you, of

589
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:41.519
course you pretty much laughed about it. And see how

590
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:44.920
her boyfriend there too, and they're laughing. So and like

591
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.319
I said, we did embarrass pretty quick. You know, we

592
00:32:47.480 --> 00:32:50.759
were very shy. We were very shy kids, you know,

593
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:53.079
because we moved around so much. We didn't we didn't

594
00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:57.000
make friends that that that much, you know, like we'd

595
00:32:57.000 --> 00:32:58.480
moved to a town and we just have to end up.

596
00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.680
We just move anyways. But but I it affected me.

597
00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.680
I was able to I still had good friends. I'm

598
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.160
going up and we do finally have friends. We did

599
00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:10.440
a lot of hiking and stuff, and it was all

600
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.279
during the daylight, of course, so I wasn't afraid of

601
00:33:13.440 --> 00:33:15.880
going up in the mountain. I actually did a lot

602
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.079
of hiking throughout the the year that I was there,

603
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:22.440
and it was actually about four or five years on

604
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:25.880
and off that I that I lived in Mauya, Rica.

605
00:33:25.960 --> 00:33:30.160
But but throughout that time that we did go leave

606
00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.200
and come back, we had friends and we hiked up

607
00:33:33.240 --> 00:33:37.400
in those same hills during the Klamath National Forest. And

608
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:39.599
I also want to point out that this town is

609
00:33:39.680 --> 00:33:44.000
only about as the crow flies, It's only about ninety

610
00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:48.119
miles from the Patterson Tape location. As I was trying

611
00:33:48.119 --> 00:33:52.200
to say, Like I said, as the crow flies, it's

612
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:56.000
in the same mountain range. So it goes in that

613
00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:59.079
mountain right the Klamath National Force goes all the way

614
00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:02.720
up into it becomes another force where goes into Oregon.

615
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:07.200
But it's just as thick and and uh and rough

616
00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:13.639
terrain as anything that anybody who ever encounter Basically so,

617
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.320
and with all the stories I know, of course, Washington

618
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:21.960
has has the most amount of signing because that's you know,

619
00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.639
that's even more forced to for square inchs than even

620
00:34:25.679 --> 00:34:30.920
California is. Yeah, so that's basically where I'm at. And

621
00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:33.760
Black I said, I've gone hiking. I've done, I've hiked up.

622
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.119
I live not very far from uh from Sunday right now.

623
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:39.119
I just live right down the hill from the seventies,

624
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:43.079
you know, And so I've done a lot of hiking

625
00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:48.960
up there, and I've hiked the Angelus National Parks. I've

626
00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:54.400
also had about five different bar encounters throughout my uh

627
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:59.039
years after that, I've had five different bar encounters. Two

628
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:01.000
were kind of more and counters, and then there was

629
00:35:01.039 --> 00:35:03.679
just sidings. But you know, those are two different stories

630
00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:08.880
in itself. And anyways, so I've done a lot of camping.

631
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:13.559
I've done especially camping home I do. I do the

632
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:16.400
roughneck type of camping. I love going up in the mountains,

633
00:35:16.639 --> 00:35:18.840
not going to boy scout camps or going to any

634
00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.960
kind of campground, which I've done. Also I've taken my

635
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:25.639
boys and camping all the time. But I also like hiking,

636
00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:29.639
you know, like backpacking, which I've taken my boys backpacking

637
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.559
with me and the camped out for a couple of nights,

638
00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:35.800
you know, up in the high Sierras, and and then

639
00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:39.199
the other force down below there. I can't remember the

640
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:43.519
Chequoia National Force that's where it was. So, like I said,

641
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:47.920
I'm I was gone an avid hiker. I love hiking.

642
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:50.719
That's that's my favorite place. I love hiking. I love

643
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.039
the woods, I love the mountains. I've also lived up

644
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:55.599
in the Redwoods in the northern California. So my mom

645
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:58.280
and dad they moved around, and as an adult, they

646
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.199
happened to go move over there in the Kalambatha town

647
00:36:02.320 --> 00:36:06.559
called Kolambath, which is right there on the California coast,

648
00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:10.599
right by Eureka. And so I've done a lot of

649
00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:13.960
hiking up there. I've gone camping up there, so uh,

650
00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:16.760
you know, and I know I've ran all kinds of

651
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:21.639
different wildlife. Of course, I've seen elk so much deer,

652
00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.519
deer and elk, and just especially up in the redwoods

653
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:28.119
is like it's just an everyday occurrence. It's not that big,

654
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:30.159
it's not that shocking at all. You just see it,

655
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:33.400
you know, it's no big deal. I've seen rarecky big

656
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:36.639
rat raccoons. I couldn't believe how big the raccoons get. Man,

657
00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:42.519
they're bigger than most dogs. So other than that, yeah,

658
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:44.960
that's all I That's basically my story.

659
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:49.159
You know, it's it's not surprising that this happened to

660
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:53.599
you in this county, uh Siski County in California. It's

661
00:36:53.639 --> 00:36:59.119
one of the highest UH report reports in a in

662
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:02.639
a county in if you're going by the BFRO website.

663
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:04.800
I mean, and if you look at the list of

664
00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:08.199
the encounters in that county, it is absolutely wild. I

665
00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:13.320
mean there's Eureka sightings all over the place. And then

666
00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:15.920
you've also in this same county you've got places like

667
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.280
Happy Camp. People might be aware of that area. You've

668
00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:25.280
got Mount Shasta, Dunsmore has come up on well, I

669
00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:27.079
don't know if it's out yet. I think it's out. Yeah,

670
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:31.480
Dunsmore has come up once, some interesting things there. You've

671
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:35.679
also got you know, the Marble Mountains Wilderness and that's

672
00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:39.239
pretty famous in the community as well because of that video.

673
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:41.840
There's just so much and I wanted to point out

674
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:47.079
here's a really interesting thing. The reports in this county

675
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.800
go all and this is just the stuff that is

676
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:53.679
public right of course, how it goes. But in August

677
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:57.440
nineteen forty four, there was a class A, which means

678
00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:01.199
face to face. They had a visual and its sister

679
00:38:01.280 --> 00:38:07.519
and brother sees three creatures near Eureka or why Rika. Sorry,

680
00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:11.000
that's kind of interesting.

681
00:38:10.559 --> 00:38:15.960
Isn't that. Yeah. Yeah, I haven't even delved into that

682
00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.159
researching what type of sidings have been done up there

683
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:22.559
in Sisky County or anything. So I didn't I didn't

684
00:38:22.599 --> 00:38:26.400
realize that there was that many other encounters, you know.

685
00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:30.559
I thought that mine was kind of more unique in comparison,

686
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:34.559
you know, so I wasn't pretty aware of all the

687
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:36.559
different things going on up there.

688
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:40.480
Oh, Curtis, it'll absolutely blow your mind once you start

689
00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:45.280
going through the list of thirty one public encounters. And

690
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.639
that's just on this web one website. This county is

691
00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:52.960
well well known for people having sightings. When you were

692
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:57.960
living around that area, did you hear of any other

693
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.559
times when people were having encounters with big foot in

694
00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:03.000
that area?

695
00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:07.960
And that's that's one thing I had. So we were

696
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.239
so busy just wanting to play around and stuff, and

697
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:14.360
I never even the subject never even came up. So

698
00:39:14.400 --> 00:39:16.559
I never even got to that point to even even

699
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:19.039
try to ask around. But like I said, we were

700
00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:22.679
pretty shy anyways, And especially when you're talking about bigfoot,

701
00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:24.960
I would have been, I would have been. That's just

702
00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:28.039
something that's just totally embarrassed you embarrassing to even bring

703
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.920
up even right now. I even when I tell people

704
00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:32.679
I wrote a book and stuff. I people around me

705
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.599
now and that you know that I telled, But you know,

706
00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:37.360
like when I see them at in a restaurant or

707
00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:41.159
a store store or something like that. I don't like

708
00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:43.679
to say that I seen. I don't want to mention

709
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.880
the word bigfoot just around other people because I don't

710
00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:50.519
want people looking at me like I'm crazy. You know,

711
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.039
it's still embarrassing me when I even bring that subject up.

712
00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.239
You know, I have kind of limited education as as

713
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:02.119
it goes anyways, because uh and as far as my

714
00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:07.199
comprehension type of skills, my writing skills not that great.

715
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:11.400
So basically I'm on. I think it was through the

716
00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:14.320
Facebook and I, you know, just just going going down

717
00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:17.559
looking at different people's uh stories and stuff, and I

718
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.840
came across this advertisement for what do you call that?

719
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:28.199
A publishing platform to publish a book? Right, because I

720
00:40:28.199 --> 00:40:30.440
I just didn't I just didn't even have I don't

721
00:40:30.480 --> 00:40:32.639
have the means or even to know how to try

722
00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:35.599
to write a book. And then of course, after my research,

723
00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:38.360
I'm thinking, okay, well you know you have to go

724
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.519
you have to go to a publishing agent, which I

725
00:40:41.559 --> 00:40:46.599
found out I was way more money just to even

726
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.079
get your book for them to uh you know, think

727
00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:53.719
about pulist. You gotta you gotta had over like five

728
00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:57.760
thousand dollars just to just to a publishing agent, you know,

729
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:01.079
and then you end up only get like about you

730
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:04.960
only get like between three and thirteen percent of the royalties.

731
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.760
So then now go back to the to the platform

732
00:41:08.800 --> 00:41:11.880
that I found, I you know, the the you know,

733
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.320
there are advertisements that you get seventy percent of the royalties.

734
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.360
And then and then they got an AI. The AI

735
00:41:19.440 --> 00:41:25.320
tool is what helps helps you will help me edit

736
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:29.400
my story. I just I submitted my transcript. It took

737
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:30.800
me about a month or so just to be able

738
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:34.679
to already had notes, already had all my notes that

739
00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:36.679
I've had over the years. I just kind of looked

740
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:38.880
back through it and I already I remember everybody's name

741
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.400
that was involved with my you know, the two brothers,

742
00:41:41.480 --> 00:41:45.480
my sister's boyfriend. Normally I don't remember anybody's name growing

743
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:48.559
up and all the times i've been because i'venew that

744
00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:52.519
much where I just can't remember anybody's names. But because

745
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.239
I wrote that stuff down, I was able to, you know,

746
00:41:56.239 --> 00:41:58.039
I was able to still go back in time and

747
00:41:59.119 --> 00:42:03.480
remember exactly the sequence of events that happens. So basically,

748
00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:07.280
like I said, there was the AI program that they

749
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.440
have on that platform, that was able to uh get

750
00:42:10.480 --> 00:42:13.719
me to where I can, uh, you know, build the

751
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.880
sentence structure pretty good. You know, I had to do

752
00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:20.400
a lot of changing words and sentences and punctuations and

753
00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:23.400
all that stuff. And then after that, once that's done,

754
00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:25.880
then and then I get another person and actually one

755
00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:28.960
of my team members on on the platform, because I've

756
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:32.199
got a I've got a lady that's the main person

757
00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:37.360
that's that assigns these these uh, these these are different

758
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:42.320
people to to write my to write out my actual story.

759
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:44.719
And then they go through and they just double check

760
00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:47.679
make sure you know that the sentence structure is okay

761
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:49.880
and all that stuff, and that that's a little bit

762
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:51.480
of a process. It might take a couple of weeks

763
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:54.280
or whatever. And you know, so I get back and

764
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:58.519
I'm doing and I'm and I'm in communication via email

765
00:42:58.639 --> 00:43:00.599
and texting and stuff too, just to see how I

766
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:03.840
was going. And then uh, they also have another team

767
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:07.079
that the artist, the artist team that will that actually

768
00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:10.719
does the that makes out the cover of the of

769
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.400
the book. And the cover came out exactly the way

770
00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:18.320
I described it. You know, I told them exactly what

771
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:20.440
I want to see. I wanted, I wanted the three

772
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:25.239
Sasquatches leading into the town, uh, from the hills with

773
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:27.159
the with the tall grass, and then you can see

774
00:43:27.199 --> 00:43:30.239
the lights in the background. So now when you look

775
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:32.840
at my book, it's exactly the way. And they and

776
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:35.320
they had that done. They must use like a computer

777
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.360
or something to do all that, the graphing like that,

778
00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:42.119
because there's no way, you know, especially it was done

779
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:44.639
like in two or three days. It was pretty quick.

780
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:48.360
They sent me back the copy of my email and

781
00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:51.880
I was totally shocked that exactly the way I described it,

782
00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:55.400
you know, so, and that's basically. And then it took

783
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:57.000
the another It took a couple of months for it

784
00:43:57.039 --> 00:43:59.800
to finally once once I got everything up, I had

785
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.880
to prove everything. I approved the cover, I proved the word,

786
00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:07.079
you know, the transcript, you know, after I've rewritten or

787
00:44:07.119 --> 00:44:09.119
written the way I wanted it, like I had it

788
00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:14.280
in my transcript. But yeah, so once it was already

789
00:44:14.800 --> 00:44:19.360
everything was approved, they got sent out and they finally

790
00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:23.840
came back in the beginning of January. Here and and

791
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:26.719
now it's out on Amazon. That's the first place, and

792
00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:29.360
you get in Bargs and Nobles and there's I guess

793
00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:33.079
other places too, but Amazon is the main place that

794
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:35.480
you get it, and it's a lot probably the easiest

795
00:44:35.519 --> 00:44:39.599
and the cheapest. It's only small, it's only a short story. Actually,

796
00:44:39.639 --> 00:44:44.199
it's only like forty five pages, and but it's still

797
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:46.920
it's like a copy table type book. Basically. It's not

798
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:50.079
like it's going to be a uh, you know, a

799
00:44:50.199 --> 00:44:53.559
huge seller or whatever. But I basically wrote this book

800
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:56.840
for my grandkids. You know, I want my grandkids to

801
00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:59.800
know who I am, basically because I don't get to

802
00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:02.880
see done that much. But you know, I think they're

803
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:04.440
going to be interested in the you know, when they

804
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:06.880
get a little older and stuff. They're kind of young

805
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:10.840
right now. So I just I gave my copies to

806
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:16.639
my my son who's got my as my grandkids, and yeah,

807
00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.400
so that's basically it. I'm just it was It was

808
00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:22.159
actually pretty easy story to write because I already had

809
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.840
a story in my head and in my in my

810
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:31.639
journals that I wrote previously, so so the process that way,

811
00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:33.760
even though it was just my grammar self, it just

812
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:36.719
wasn't that great. So that was the only part I

813
00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.199
had to work out, and that's what took a little

814
00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:40.960
bit longer, because I didn't I had to make sure

815
00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:43.360
there was sound at least halfway decent, you.

816
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.119
Know, big for society, who will be right back after

817
00:45:46.159 --> 00:46:05.800
these messages. I'm glad you're able to get it all

818
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:09.639
all written down and edited, edited out with the help

819
00:46:09.679 --> 00:46:13.119
of them. And you know, thinking back to what you

820
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:21.360
experienced that day and you're you're looking at the things

821
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:26.239
that are running around you and getting closer, would you

822
00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.239
how how would how do you even describe them? Do

823
00:46:29.280 --> 00:46:32.079
you describe it more as was it like they were

824
00:46:32.119 --> 00:46:35.679
ape like creatures or more human or was it just

825
00:46:35.719 --> 00:46:36.840
a weird mixture?

826
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:40.800
Yeah? See, that's and that's the point of thing too,

827
00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:43.960
is that it took me a while to try and

828
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:48.079
decipher what I thought about them. You know, I think

829
00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:51.239
I even thought more about it when I'm actually going

830
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:55.840
through the writing, the writing process, But when I look

831
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.400
back at it, I don't. I don't have no at

832
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:03.679
all that wellther I definitely didn't look at them. I

833
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:05.880
don't look at them as monsters or anything. I don't

834
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:10.199
think that them as as being like I said, like

835
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:13.519
a bear or creature. I look at them as being

836
00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:17.559
more more human. They're definitely more human humanized than than

837
00:47:18.639 --> 00:47:22.679
then then be normally at least the average person probably

838
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.199
and gives them credit for. And I even to this

839
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:29.400
day right now, I definitely think that they're so far intelligent,

840
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.800
and I think that they even have I've been watching

841
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:36.119
videos and stuff too. But as far as they do

842
00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:38.519
have a communication, I think they do have a verbal

843
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:44.639
communication of some sorts. And uh, yeah, they communicate with

844
00:47:44.679 --> 00:47:47.079
each other. And at this particular time, and that one

845
00:47:47.199 --> 00:47:50.840
was coming towards me the way I'm looking as, I didn't.

846
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:53.039
I did not feel like it was trying to come

847
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:56.440
towards me and do any harm to me because they

848
00:47:56.440 --> 00:47:59.360
were They weren't making any noise, there was no grunting,

849
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:04.800
was nothing, and I wasn't. I wasn't being aggressive towards them.

850
00:48:05.760 --> 00:48:08.880
And I think mainly because they they knew that they

851
00:48:08.880 --> 00:48:12.920
were in the human territory. So if you, if you

852
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:16.239
think back or think about it, if they come into

853
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:19.039
our territory, they're probably not going to try to make

854
00:48:19.639 --> 00:48:22.519
too much of a ruckus or whatever you want to

855
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:25.239
call it. But then that's why you probably hear a

856
00:48:25.239 --> 00:48:27.920
lot of a lot of their aggression comes when you

857
00:48:28.039 --> 00:48:32.719
go into their territory, in their homeland, they're trying to

858
00:48:32.719 --> 00:48:35.599
scare you away. You know, so I look at that,

859
00:48:36.119 --> 00:48:38.880
but at the same time I felt I felt so

860
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.599
sorry for what I did. When I'm looking back about it,

861
00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.800
because when I scared them and it startled them, I

862
00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:46.960
don't see them as being afraid of me, because they

863
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:51.239
weren't like they weren't like totally running like they were

864
00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:54.239
like totally afraid of me. They were leaping away from me,

865
00:48:54.519 --> 00:48:56.519
but they're also kind of they were looking back at

866
00:48:56.519 --> 00:48:59.239
me at the same time as they're leaping, and they

867
00:48:59.239 --> 00:49:02.280
weren't like leaping like they weren't like running at like

868
00:49:02.360 --> 00:49:05.719
a dead full, full on sprint that I would think

869
00:49:05.800 --> 00:49:08.320
that are scared at something, would be scared of me,

870
00:49:08.920 --> 00:49:11.639
would have done the only thing that started me. The

871
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.320
worst of the thing is that just just looking at

872
00:49:14.559 --> 00:49:17.519
I'm just looking at them looking back at me. But

873
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:19.719
now I'm looking back at and when I'm looking back

874
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.440
into that time, I'm I actually feel bad for what

875
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:24.679
I did. You know, I do feel a little bit

876
00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:27.760
of a guilt, and I've I've pretty much expressed that

877
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.599
anytime I've been on a comcast to interview the same thing.

878
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:35.760
I just, uh, they're definitely very intelligent. They they live,

879
00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:39.559
they live in the basically deep in the forest where

880
00:49:39.639 --> 00:49:42.719
where man can't even them, but almost impossible to even

881
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:46.960
get through, because most people don't realize that there's like

882
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:53.000
three million acres of untouched land here in the United

883
00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:56.280
States that you know, that that humans handing them, or

884
00:49:56.320 --> 00:50:00.480
at least in our recent history, the human have them

885
00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:03.719
stepped on. Because now that we the way we've got,

886
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.079
we've got so much luxuries around us right now that

887
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:11.079
that the average person they may you might get the hikers,

888
00:50:11.079 --> 00:50:13.920
even the hikers may go maybe uh, you know, fifteen

889
00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:19.159
twenty maybe thirty thirty miles in uh into a forested area.

890
00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:22.320
I mean that's and that's just the very few people

891
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.519
doing that. Just think of the people that live in

892
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:27.039
the cities where they just they they probably haven't even

893
00:50:27.039 --> 00:50:30.320
been in the forest sometimes, you know. But but I

894
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:33.760
think that, ye know, these creatures are living so far

895
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:37.400
up into the woods that even that that that humans

896
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:41.920
can't even get to, you know, because people are too lazy. Now, people,

897
00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:45.199
we're just too lazy that if you look back in

898
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:49.519
the in the seventeen hundreds, those people they're like, man,

899
00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:51.960
those are real men back in seventeen hundreds, because they

900
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:55.679
had to they had to actually cross the mountain anges

901
00:50:55.719 --> 00:50:57.440
to get where they had to go, you know, so

902
00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:00.360
they didn't have a choice. I mean, as you have

903
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.960
a choice, but if you want to get and discover

904
00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:05.159
the rest of America, you have to you have to

905
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:10.039
go through the most the most rugged terrain possible just

906
00:51:10.119 --> 00:51:13.239
to get to where you had to go. And they

907
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:16.280
were true survivalists. They you know, you get up in

908
00:51:16.320 --> 00:51:19.519
the you go one hundred miles into into a forested land.

909
00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:24.880
You know you can you can do anything. That's my

910
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:26.119
opinion about it.

911
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:29.760
Is oh, and I I agree with you. There's you know,

912
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:37.199
compared to accounts you hear from from years ago, and

913
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:40.960
compare there are people that definitely, you know, don't get

914
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.440
me wrong, there are people that definitely still go out

915
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:48.920
to look for bigfoot in There are younger researchers you know,

916
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:53.760
coming up through the ranks. But you know, compared to

917
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:57.239
two before, I would say the number is is quite less.

918
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:00.599
But you know, Curtis, I would just say thank you

919
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:03.920
so much for coming on the show tonight to share

920
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what you experienced that day back in nineteen eighty three.

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And we'll definitely have the link to your book on

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Amazon so people can check that out. If they would like,

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But thank you so much for coming on the show tonight.

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Okay, thank you very much for having me. It was

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my pleasure.

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Just wanted to take a few minutes to say thank

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you to you all my listeners for listening to the podcast.

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Please take a minute to help out the show by

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subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so

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

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

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

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had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following or know

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someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot

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Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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Here's the list. The Subtle Lake area of Oregon, Rainbow, Oregon,

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McKinsey Bridge area, Sweet Home pretty much that entire area,

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the north part. If you get what I mean, I'll

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see you back next time. Listeners. SASA Summerfest this year

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July eleventh through the twelfth. It's gonna be fantastic. July

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eleventh through twelfth in Greenwaters Park and Oakridge, Oregon and listeners.

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If you're going to go, you can get a two

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day ticket for the cost of one if you use

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the code b f S like Bigfoot Society, but BFS

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and I'll get used some off your cost. Priscilla was

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nice enough to provide that for my listeners. So there

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you go. I look forward to seeing you there, so

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make sure you head over to www dot Sasquatch Summerfest

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dot com and pick up your tickets today