It was Killing Something Right Outside my Tent at Salt Fork!

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All right, Bigfitt Society. We've
got the privilege of talking to E today.

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He is an individual that reached out
to me through email from Central Ohio

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about some things that he's experienced in
that state. So it's a pleasure to

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talk to you tonight. E.
I'm going to go ahead and hand it

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right over to you. Sarah,
thank you for being here tonight. Yeah,

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thank you for having me, Like
you say them from the Central While

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I guess I've always been a believer, now a kind of a knower.

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Had to type be class be exciting, pretty pretty. I guess Volga,

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you'll say that happened to me never
never will forget it. So obviously living

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a while, Grassman is the terminology. Didn't even know about the Grassmen until

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I moved to Ohio about over ten
years ago. In so for State Park

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is like the mecca of it all, and so me, I always want

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to go out there and check it
out. This situation happened to me April

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twenty ninth of twenty twenty two.
I know that because it was a while

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for ohipped for conference and I want
to go. I want to meet people.

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I knew, you know, all
the big names in the Bigfoot community.

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We're going to be there and just
and it's like, you know,

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the place to be for Ohio.
So the place that my situation happened was

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a spot called Bigfoot Rich It was
Campsite number six. U never never forget

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it, still go there to this
day. So it was on Friday nights.

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Got there kind of late, probably
about eight o'clock, nine o'clock and

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it's still kind of like that sunsetting
about six, So I was putting on

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my camp got off work setting everything
up in the middle of the kind of

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like darkness. Had to use my
headlamp to put it up, and it

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was gonna get cold that day,
so I got my mister heater, got

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everything I needed. So after after
I set everything up, I had Chipotle

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and a Chipotle and forgot I left
it outside and raccoons were got your little

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footsteps coming in and whoever was at
the Hobbit for conference. I even told

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the story to them Mark who runs
it to everybody that year as well too,

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that falling Sunday. So if you
were there, you know who I

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am, what I looked like,
and everything else. So so yeah,

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fast forward to you know, raccoon's
coming in and out of my camp and

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this is about two o'clock and they
kind of di serve me, decided unzip

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my zipper, kind of scam away
and used the bathroom also to mention there

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are people from the buf r O. They were camping that night around me.

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Later found that out they were from
New Jersey. They drew allways from

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New Jersey to a while to experience
the been for conference. So they went

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out for a night investigation. So
it's about two thirty now, going out

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to relieve myself, and they're coming
back from a night hike. They had

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their red lambs and everything, and
so I knew I wasn't the only one

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up during that time, so decided
to go. Because they're coming back from

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the cars and have their head lamps
and going into their tents, and I'm

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going back to my tent as well. So I'm kind of surmounded by people.

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If you've ever been at both,
be for rich. There's a brush

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line near the connected by that sign. If you're pulling in, be on

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your right hand side, and campsite
number six. Like I said, so

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I had a red tant had my
mister here was going to be in the

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thirties. And so I hear this
raccoon, like I said, they're coming

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in and out, in and out
here go back to the brush line,

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and they're taking food that I left
Chipotle, the kind of hear rolling through

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some other stuff as well. And
here it nibbling like and you can hear

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it's like a small creature of raccom
possum, something on that nature. And

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as it misses this animals eating whatever
it was, small rodents, natural animal,

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I hear it die like like I
hear it like like it's fighting for

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his life, like somebody's attacking him. And I'm like, okay, I'm

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thinking I'm trying to be logical,
like a coyote fox something like that,

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you know that'd be could kill like
a predator or some type of predator the

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only predators we have, or black
beer. But we only got like a

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population of one hundred in a while. It's not like Tennessee was. It's

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in the thousands. So so yeah, by my mom a awoke now like

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heard this animal die and so forth. So decided to turn on my mister

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heater to keep me warm. Thirty
five degrees probably came a little bit colder,

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and the nap and from the brush
line I heard and I was like,

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did I just hear that? And
it was all because I turned on

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my mystery heater and my whole tent
lit up from being red. And I

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heard it the third time and it
blew me away. And the third time

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at first time I turned it on, the mister heater is weird because it's

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like counterclockwise to turn it off,
like I said, it was the first

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time, I'm using it too,
and such like I said, I turned

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it on, I didn't believe what
I heard. And then it happened again

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the second time, and I had
it on a low setting and it got

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super loud when I accidentally turned it
from low to high and I was trying

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to turn it off. I mean, the loans on the stage. It

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was like, and I'm laying on
my back too, like laying on my

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back, and I'm like, it's
not even ground level, and I'm like,

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this thing is up like if I
was a stand up, like you

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know, six feet plus, like
I'm trying to because I'm trying to get

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distance from a distance and how high
up it is and I'm like that that

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sounds like taller than me. And
I can't even do justice of with the

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grunts and so forth. So in
my mind, like I'm thinking, did

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I just disturb a big triot kill? And I didn't even hear it come

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up. And I'm thinking thinking to
myself, if this was a black bear

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like it would it would have it
should have went through my camp, which

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it didn't, should go to other
people's camps, but it didn't. You

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hear it slowly like crunch crunch,
crunch away, But for something that big,

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I should have heard it come up
to the brush line, and yeah,

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it pretty much ambush whatever that was. It was a raccoon or apossum

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or whatever. But I didn't hear
it. I mean, I didn't hear

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anything until it made to kill.
Like I could hear the little animals and

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then it just like if you ever
heard like a like like a calf,

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not a calf fight, but something
fighting for his life, and then you

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could tell it small like a dog
or like a dog fight or whatever.

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And so yeah, sometimes, I
mean I'm up by then turn on my

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my mister heater, my tense read, and I hear the grunts and I

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didn't believe it, and I heard
it again, and I'm thinking to myself,

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is this is this the vocalization that
people? Is this what it sounds

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right? And it clearly is directed
towards me because I'm the only one that

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they had to like lit up the
tents. I mean when I went out

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to use the bathroom prior, nobody
else had there turn lit up at all,

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so that red on red really glowed
up the area. And I'm probably

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like twenty twenty yards twenty five yards
pretty close to our brush line. I

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know that because I played football,
so I how like you know, first

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downs and all that. So yeah, I'm pretty close. It's this thing.

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I mean, it could have been
on me right right then and there,

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and luckily it didn't. And the
third grunt, because I was trying

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to turn it from load to off, I actually journed to low to hide

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and so hit grunted. So I
didn't get a look a look asleep all

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night. I know what was gonna
happen next, it was gonna come back.

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I didn't at all. And so
as soon as daybreak, like soon

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as daybreak, I go back to
Columbus. Central Aisle was on one city

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that's really in Central Aisle. So
so go back to Columbus. My wife,

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I thought I was going to spend
the night there, like you know,

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in the morning and the online come
home and I to come to her

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and I said they're out there.
I said they're out there. She said,

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I look like I've seen a ghost, like I I my pain my

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skins. You know, I'm African
American, and I just kind of like

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lost pigmentation. I guess a little
bit of my skin fair skinned African America.

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So so I got I guess I
look whitish and pale scared. Kept

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be playing that over and over in
my head that night, kept listening and

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listening. Didn't hear anything, but
I did hear it, like by Peter

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walk Away. So I just left
everything there, you know, I was

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just gonna come back and get it. And so, because I just there's

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no way I was going to sleep
out there. I needed some sleep.

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So and my son had a soccer
game anyways, so I decided to go

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later that afternoon. So April twenty
ninth, that Friday night was Cacas.

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Technically is April thirtieth, two thirty
in the morning, So April thirty if

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the next Foucus the week in the
Bigfoot converces just a weekend thing. So

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and later go to the afternoon and
I pull up and the BFRO people from

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New Jersey came up to me immediately
after I got in my car and asked

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me, did you hear anything?
And I said, yeah, two thirty

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in the morning. They're like yeah. So that gave me validation that I

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wasn't the only one I heard it, and it was I don't know what

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else. And a while, the
biggest thing we really really got his white

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tailed deer and one hundred hundred bear
roughly black Bear, and I mean the

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place is notorious for obviously big Foot
and grass Man, so yeah, I

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mean I the validated for me was
after we're playing it over and over and

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over my head was the fact how
high up those vocals And I can tell

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if it's ground level or not.
You can tell if this is six feet

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or more. You know, you
know from the street light, so it

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definitely was. And look runs at
you and like walks away, and there

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was nobody with flashlights, nothing like
that. So if it was, if

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it was a bear, it should
have went through everybody's stuff. It didn't.

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It was particular. It had a
mission, it completed a mission,

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and I think I deserved part of
its mission. That's why I got those

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vocalations directly towards me. And yeah, yeah, so share with my experience.

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That would a while being for conference
that Sunday, whereas it's like a

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town hall meeting that Mark Colds I
can't remember march class name, but he's

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pretty much runs a sort of told
everybody there in front of Nanny Cliff,

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doctor uh No Droom even a moneymakers
world too. So Don Don Keeney was

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there as well, and so John
as well. Let's see John quite a

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bit when I go there. So
uh so I after that happened, I

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was like, I'm never don't need
to go back, don't need to I

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was scared, Like it took me
months to even build up the courage because,

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like I said, this is COVID, the ending and ending of COVID,

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And you know, I was always
curious about it, and beforehand I

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was hiking. That was my first
time spending the night there. And you

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know there's a map of I guess
where all the sightings has happened as well.

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And I wanted to go to a
primitive site and it's a primitive spot

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throughout the park, the snow running
water, there's no electricity. And yeah,

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I've done hikes there where I've seen
footprints in March which is still like

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thirty degrees and I wear a size
a little boot and I with the length

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the depth, the depth is like
incredible that something can leave an impression like

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that and frozen ground. The heel
print like when you step like hell first

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tost second and the heel is somewhat
deeper. The heel leaves the bigger impression,

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because that's why all the weight goes
and it spreads the earth, spreads

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the dirt around, pushes it,
rolls it up. Got pictures of that

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in Southton County, went on the
high control there. This is probably like

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a year or so ago, hunting, and it sounds I'm walking there's deer

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everywhere. I mean, I think
Contract the county. In Jersey County they

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got the biggest kills deer, deer, Carroll kills your and your plenty of

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food, and those two kinds kind
of touch each other, aboard each other.

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And so yeah, fall obviously deer
season. Walking down the trail fior

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like a mile a mile and a
half, and there's some houses on my

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right hand side, not houses I
would at a farm, a farm,

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but the loudest like Louisville's Celever not
ever. And oh, I do a

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lot of hyping hope when I get
lucky, like I said, to build

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some some time after. This situation
happened to me in two thousand two,

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and this not probably happened last year
last fall. So there was some courage

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to go back out there and heard
that as fact. I don't know what

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else. I mean, it wasn't
it was so early in the morning it

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was like seven thirty in the morning, and I'm like, who's building anything?

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And it wasn't repetitious knocking. It
was just one solid just like pow,

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and that was it. It wasn't
a like it wasn't even a tree

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falling over because you were with crunch
crunch, crunch, crunch fall over.

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It wasn't even that. So I
had a walker stick. I tried to

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knock back nothing, but I saw
when I saw the deer on that day,

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that day, this is like last
fall, it felt like a knock,

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like someone's here. The grunts,
I'm going back to the run some

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sorry, I'm all over the place
because the grunts felt like someone's saying,

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hey, hey, knock it off, like that's what That's what it felt

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like, cut it like, cut
it out, knock it off type grunts.

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And I didn't act fast enough.
Of the grunts are probably be the

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second apart, and the third one
just got pretty pretty pretty love like.

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It escalated and I couldn't get that
mister leear shut off fast enough. So

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I mean, I've I still go
out. I reached out to Harley Owens.

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I let him know that I was
pretty close. I mean was six

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hours away to uh I heard him. I've seen the impressions they leave in

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the earth, and I do I
do one day, I want to have

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a class obviously, I want to
if I'm going to have a Class A,

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you know, if I have my
pickings of something that is, I

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can go home that day. But
uh so, yeah, so far I

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had those Class B s and they
were never never forget them. And yeah,

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I mean they're definitely here. I
mean, I don't know what else,

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what else could leave that type of
type of front in the middle of

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the night, and yeah, yeah, it has to be. So that's

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that's very interesting, that whole situation
happening that weekend. Do you mind if

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I ask you a few questions?
Yeah? Yeah, So you leave early

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in the morning to go back to
Columbus, which is just under an hour

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and a half, is right,
and then you go back get your stuff.

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Now, when you went back to
the campsite to get your stuff,

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you know, did you notice signs
of a struggle? How you know,

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you were saying, like that raccoon
or whatever it is got taken out or

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did you see any evidence? So
yeah, so one of the guys from

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how I knew it from Bilfaro because
he had a ber farro add on and

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and I talked to him and they
told me they were from New Jersey.

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And there this one particular skinny lady
red hair, pink hair that we went

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back there to look to see like
a tussle this thing it sounded like I

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got a hold of and it was
like, you know how if you pick

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up a wild cat's trying to get
out of your arms, and I think,

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I think this just like snapped his
neck, twisted something and that was

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the end of it. So it
wasn't much. It wasn't even tusseling.

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Really, it was like I snatch
up them. It wasn't like the bushes

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weren't, you know, rumbling around
the leaves, none of none of that.

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It's like like I said that that
animal that was eating my chipotle was

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occupied, yall. And I'm thinking
to my that night, I'm thinking,

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what a perfect opportunity to ambush animal
in the midst of it, you know,

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being occupied eating this food, you
get behind it or and get it.

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So I'm thinking, what do we
have in a while that can do

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that. I'm like, possibly fox, coyote. But they're not going to

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leave those vocalizations like how I heard
or there for that matter, because they

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don't go like they This is different
between a growl and a grunt. And

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this is definitely a grunt. Right, And it was immediately so you said

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you heard you actually heard like bipe
all footsteps as well afterwards. Yeah,

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it was odd. It was.
It sounded like a sneak sneak up.

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I mean, I mean when I
say it sounds like the fact that I

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didn't hear it come the fact that
I didn't hear it. And it was

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it was large. It was large. It was it was, it was

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And I'm laying on the ground and
I can hear it like six feet up.

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I'm being conservative when I say that
too. When I say six feet

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up, I'm like a minimum of
six feet like a minimum of that.

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I'm glad I got the validation from
the people from the UNFR telling me,

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hey, did you they I couldn't. They came out. I couldn't get

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out the car fast enough without them
coming towards me. Right, and and

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and the lady she heard it,
the skinning girl from New Jersey. The

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guy with the DFR had on.
He said he fell asleep. I mean

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when they went in their ten and
after I got done doing number one.

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It happened ten minutes fifteen at the
most. And I'm thinking that they like,

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you know, when you're in the
woods and if you're looking for Bigfoot

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like they were, you're gonna want
to stay up a little as long as

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you can, especially just got into
your tent. So for him to say

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that, yeah, I fell asleep, I was like, man, you

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fell asleep less than ten minutes.
And I was kind of like, there's

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no way you fell it. And
then here and I was like that that

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didn't that didn't like wake you up
at all, Like you're I can understand

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if you're going slowly to sleep.
But so he was kind of bummed out.

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He didn't hear it. A little
bit. She did, and other

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people were saying that, yeah,
there was a lot of animal activity,

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which makes sense because there's a dumpster
there, which prime opportunity for them to

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get into the trash cans after the
people leave or you know this camps.

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But yeah, big Foot, Bigfoot
Ridges obviously a hospital. Whoever's been there

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knows about it. So yeah,
I mean they've been saying throughout the whole

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entire park. Can you can you
share just in case listeners don't know,

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do you can you share any information
about why that area is called Bigfoot Ridge.

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The story that I know of is
that there was a picnic area before

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they made it a campsite. And
I think John has said that on one

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of his podcasts on YouTube, or
he was telling the story as somebody was

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is that. I guess this is
going back the eighties or maybe early nineties,

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that some two of them stepped out
and I think it was a handicap

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like picnic area, so and then
they converted into a campsite eventually a primitive

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campsite. Like I said, it
doesn't have any electricity or running water or

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anything like that. And I guess
when they named it, they named it

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Bigfoot Ridge. There's a sign up
for it and everything you can look get

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up on Google. I guess once
it was being known as the hot spot

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of Ohio in a sense, they
decided to name it Bigfoot Ridge. So

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absolutely, a solid Fork State Park
is a huge, huge Bigfoot area for

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people that aren't aware. It's also
the site of the Ohio Bigfoot Conference,

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as you said earlier, But were
there any other reports from that night or

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weekend of other people are having big
foot in around. Yeah. So the

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place there's a horse there's a horse
camp area everybody everybody that has courses.

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I like to go over there as
well too. And there's a lot of

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bridle trails. It's like four or
five long. I like, it's a

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great place if you want to go
for long hikes. I do now,

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just to see what I can see. I think the next thing for me

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is like possibly smelling them. Never
I didn't smell anything. I did get

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asked the question did I felt sick? I remember tell my story at the

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conference and when one guy came up
to me says, did you feel sick?

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And said, no, I didn't
feel nauseous because I heard of ultrasound,

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but with the aggression of the vocalization
towards me, because I turned my

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mister here and just look up place
with my red tent and so just kind

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of gave it like a you know, a glow. It littered up for

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sure. And that's why I think
because I didn't hear it, it was

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certainly trying to be stealthy and me
lighting up the tent, you know,

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blueish like somewhat cover so and so, yeah, I mean it was definitely

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towards me. I mean, like
I said, that happened a seconds soon

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as I turn on. I'm justster
here. But other people did the There

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was another lady from New Jersey,
from the bfrl by, like I said,

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the horse camp. There's the orange
trail that kind of begins there,

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so to speak. There's like the
white trail, blue trail, purple trail,

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orange trail. They saw two sets
of blue and red eyes, one

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blow and high. So yeah,
there's other people that saw all something and

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glowing red eyes. And they they
were out there when I was setting up

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tent, like I said, eight
o'clock six sick whatever it was, they

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were heading out. So they were
out there for like six hours from about

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it was to say, from eighth
to to That's very very interesting. Besides

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so I guess a few few follow
up questions. Uh, No, strange

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smells in the campsite. No,
no, nothing, nothing wors like the

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stuff you hear, right, the
stuff that like like this, the skunk,

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the wet dog and all and this
stuff that makes you want to throw

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up like none of that. No, the NFL info sick, but the

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like the sound the best way I
can describe is like below the dira fram

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like like gutna roll bulleting your gut
if you can like make sounds from your

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belly up versus from your lungs up, like That's how I would describe it.

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It sounded like if if a gorilla
could do that, that's I mean,

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that's I never really heard a gorilla
grunt. But but it's not a

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known animal in Ohio that can,
like I said, deer and bear right,

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And it was like it had intelligence
because it didn't do what I wanted

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to like it clear it stopped the
grandsons, I turned off the mister heater

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you know, after the time of
third runt, So it had intelligence like

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to do that. And I'm thinking, if this this this, I think

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we're not known for a bear state
at all. We're just just not West

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Virginia and Tennessee are right, but
we're not known for that. Lets you

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tell people you have a better chance
of running to a big foot than a

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than a black bear here in Ohio. And I mean I think Ohio is

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the hospital just because all our rivers
run into Ohio River, So you got

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the water stream, all the creeks
and the small rivers at Sayota rivers and

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all that run into it. Obviously
you got the Great Lakes that that you

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know, so we were surrounded by
water. Really no main big predators one

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hunder bear, black bear, which
is nothing to them. And we mean

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trophy if you want a trophy book, ohios. Whereas at for a trophy

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book, you're trying to get that
to two fifty range of pounds if you

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definitely get here. So and I
know winters are not whether lately they've been

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very very mild, but but yeah, I mean it goes back to the

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eighteen hundreds when that one particular father
and daughter of walking down and she just

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I don't think she said gorilla because
the group of gorilla didn't exists back in

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those terms. I forgot what she
called it and attacked her dad. So

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so yeah, I mean it's it's
And then I also go to Hawking Hills,

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which has the stories when National forests. I haven't had experienced there,

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but yeah, I don't, I
don't. I really don't go once in

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the summertime just because you can't see
any foliage. I mean, the foliage

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are so thick. But yeah,
the situations that happened to me with the

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Knock vocalizations. They were springing and
fall. So yeah, that makes that

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makes sense. Yeah, that's a
that's a good time, especially the fall

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from what I hear. So you
are you're actively going to Hawking Hills or

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you've been there a few times?
Yeah, yeah, I mean living living

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in Columbus, you know you're about
I mean I live on a hour fifteen

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that can get to on South Fork
and then like an hour hour and fifteen

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painted Hawking Hills. The National Forests, southeast Ohio, Tayor Hall is a

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good place, Broke, It's a
good place, state park. I'm trying

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to think of some other ones as
well, but yeah, anything over there

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is uh. Obviously Hawking Hills,
that whole general region is a good spot.

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If you look at it on the
bfr ol map that's mapped out,

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you can pretty much draw a straight
line from Columbia County all the way down

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to Hawkin Hills, which runs into
Saltfork. So it's our highest point of

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the state. And there's the I
guess, the appellation of foot foothos and

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plateaus, I guess, And it
kind of makes sense where they stay from

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eastern Ohio southeast to northeast so kind
of a diagonal line which kind of runch

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through Soft Fork if you were dryer
on the map. But but yeah,

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I'll never forget. There's nothing.
I've been to the zoo. I've been

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at San Antonio Zoo. Columbus Zoo
is pretty well known. There's there's there's

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nothing that makes not there's nothing in
North America, well at least classified,

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it makes that type of noise.
Did you say that you had actually seen

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a track there, Yeah, yep, tell us. I think it was

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I think the weekend. That was
in the weekend, No, that was,

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that was like the year prior that
was. I was going out there

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like two thousand and two I'm sorry, two thousand COVID COVID years because there's

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not much else to do then go
hiking and camping, and I was getting

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tired of playing golf all the time, so needed another outlet of And I

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think that's where I picked it up
because, like I said, one story

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short, I was working from home
and listen to a bunch of podcasts and

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so forth, so it kind of
expired me to go out, you know,

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to Soft Fork and get on those
trails. Like I said, it's

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a whole bunch of bartle trails that
can go eight miles to ten miles and

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you get some four mile once as
well too. So yeah, I got

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on the trail and I saw the
footprint, like cross the trail, there

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was this one single footprint that stepped
on the trail and off and you couldn't

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see the recipe because it was you
know, leaf litter everywhere, but the

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trail didn't have any leaves, and
you can definitely see a heel for sure.

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It looked blocky, like a blocky
foot it didn't, yeah, just

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wide and blocky. You can see
toes as well in it. But the

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heel, it looked like the dirt
just rolled up on his heel when it's

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stepped on it, because it's pretty
like rounded or mounded at the heel area

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as it's pushing off his heel into
the toes or landing it heel and going

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on to the toes. But yeah, I was walking down the trail of

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it and step right over it,
step right over it, and was kind

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of it looked fairly fresh. But
but what caught me was the impression.

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And I was looking for rocks,
but I'm thinking like and it's a horse

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trail so like they're going to clear
rocks out the way. They don't want

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their horses breaking their expensive animal the
own and take care of it and all

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that, so they keep it somewhat
kind of cleared out for the horses.

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And I'm looking around for rocks.
I'm not firing a rock, but it

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is clearly going across. This is
on the Blue Blue Trail. That's all

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this and the blue trails. If
you look us all focused on the peninsula,

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you can say and a lesser crossing
the waters is a really one way

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in and one way out on land
without crossing water. So that's the reason

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why I went on a blue trail, and that's where I noticed it.

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Did you have any way of did
you have like a tape measure or anything

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with you to try to Yeah?
I did, I did. I had

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my foot size of leven foot so
I can I can send it to you

408
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:19.239
of it to compare. And it
makes my foot like a child's foot,

409
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:23.400
it really does. And that was
that was that was astonished, and like

410
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:28.519
I got, I guess quote unquote
grown man feet. I mean I'm not

411
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.599
six four six five, but that
made my stuff with like my my toddler

412
00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:37.880
when I have. My kids were
toddlers size compared to my feet, So

413
00:37:37.719 --> 00:37:42.559
were you able to try to do
like a cast or a three D scan

414
00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:45.440
or anything like that. Besides,
no, I didn't have anything. I

415
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:47.480
didn't have anything on me. I
mean the only thing I don't even think.

416
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:51.400
I didn't have my wallet on me. I loved it in the car.

417
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:58.800
So I didn't have really not much
other than I knew everybody knows what

418
00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:02.400
the size of level foot looks like
or a boot. So so I put

419
00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:07.840
my foot up against it to say, hey, this is like almost twelve

420
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:14.039
feet right here at the size eleven, so man, it's another three to

421
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:21.920
four three yeah, yeah, it
looked like fifteen feet to me. Yeah.

422
00:38:22.679 --> 00:38:27.400
And then the with like my it
was like the with of my foot

423
00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.639
plus another half of my foot at
least. So I got I put my

424
00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.440
foot in it, and it was
spaced on left and right of it,

425
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:40.159
and I weighed to forty to forty, So I'm not I'm not a skinned

426
00:38:40.159 --> 00:38:44.880
guy, and I couldn't do nothing
in the ground, and the ground was

427
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:47.360
frozen. It was let me freeze
that night and thaws out a little bit.

428
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.760
So but we're in March, so
it's like forty for a high.

429
00:38:52.360 --> 00:39:00.000
It's not thrown out that fast or
back that efficient, so it's more frozen

430
00:39:00.360 --> 00:39:06.760
throughout the death than it is above
freezing. So yeah, And to leave

431
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:12.400
their impression into the ground like that
was something. How how deep into the

432
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:15.719
ground did it go? Again?
Oh, Lisa, Lisa in a lease

433
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:21.000
like inch and a half. And
I couldn't do nothing. I couldn't do

434
00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:24.400
nothing, Like I tried stopping on
it and everything around it, like not

435
00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.639
in it, but around it to
see what I can do. I couldn't

436
00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:32.920
moved it. I mean the grounds
like sex seemen almost. So there's nothing

437
00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:39.239
I can my two andy pound body
could do to put an impression into the

438
00:39:39.239 --> 00:39:47.599
earth like that, and coming out
of winter so barely. Scott from Patreon

439
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:53.039
has a question for you, what
was it that first got you into Bigfoot

440
00:39:53.119 --> 00:40:04.239
in the first place? Master Quests
Us definitely did the Old while grassmend episode

441
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.199
and I just moved to I guess
a while and O seven and I think

442
00:40:09.239 --> 00:40:12.679
that came in like two thousand and
seven or I want to say eight,

443
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:19.039
really, and that for me,
And then they had another one about Kentucky,

444
00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.679
like they're in a while Kentucky.
They got to be in West Virginia

445
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:27.599
and found out about the Florida's country, so they did intrigued me. I

446
00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:31.760
was in and that was about going
to college and then school and girls and

447
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:37.199
bars and parking and all that got
in away, and then COVID hit and

448
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.199
it was like, okay, I
think everybody had to find an interest because

449
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.920
if you're guy was going to the
gym, I was going to movies,

450
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.320
going up to eat all. I
came to a hall. So I need

451
00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:53.760
something to gravity take towards keeping my
interest throughout the day. And that's what

452
00:40:53.880 --> 00:41:00.679
kind of I guess we sprung it
or it was there. But I always

453
00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:08.039
believe. I always believe in evolution
anthropology as well too, the evolution of

454
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:13.599
I guess you could say beings human
beings. I guess neanthos and so forth

455
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:16.920
and all that. But uh,
yeah, I mean, and then the

456
00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:22.760
fact that every Native American has a
word for it. It's huge, and

457
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.440
I was like, oh my,
And then like from coast to coast,

458
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.320
like they're they're definitely not calling each
other, writing each other, none of

459
00:41:30.320 --> 00:41:39.039
that. And then yeah, that
and that everybody can be crazy. Everybody

460
00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:43.840
is like making this up over and
over and over and over and over again.

461
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:46.480
I'm like, you know, I
was like, there's no money to

462
00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:50.639
make this stuff up. There is
nothing, Like you're not you're not going

463
00:41:50.719 --> 00:41:55.960
to get rich off of telling the
story. You know, all these people

464
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:05.519
emailing and giving reports and it's like
they're not. My emails is full every

465
00:42:05.599 --> 00:42:09.360
day and it's like these people are
not getting anything from sending these emails.

466
00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:15.239
Like no, it's just yeah,
I totally get what you're saying. And

467
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:22.719
then like for me, like,
but the podcast was the harshness of treatment.

468
00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:28.400
I guess higher authorities in the government
that people get And I was like,

469
00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:34.400
really, like they go that far
of threats and stalking and yeah,

470
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:39.440
the harassment. I was like,
wow, So that that caught my interest

471
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:47.280
on my crether definitely not making this
up absolutely at all. Have there been

472
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:53.079
any other interesting encounters you've heard of
from the Salt Fork area? Just curious

473
00:42:53.119 --> 00:42:58.480
if you've ever heard anything. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to give

474
00:42:58.480 --> 00:43:01.400
out this guy's name. Sure,
so I don't know if it's his permission,

475
00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:08.639
but he's pretty well known. Yeah, there was a guy if you

476
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:14.320
know, well, you can google
were the I met him, a big

477
00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:20.559
foot ridge. This is he knows
who he is if he's listening, his

478
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:30.199
name starts really eat as well to
let's say that. So and over by

479
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:34.800
the group camp, there's like a
swampy area and it's a little road that

480
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:40.039
goes into it. And him and
his his his partner in crime. He

481
00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:44.800
has his own YouTube channels well too. He's I don't want to tell too

482
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:52.239
much about him, but uh,
him and his partner go out for a

483
00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:58.599
hike and come back. His story
is that I think his wife was going

484
00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:01.519
to don't have one car, so
normally he goes in with his car,

485
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:05.159
comes out of his car, go
back in his car, and leaves.

486
00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:07.159
But this time, like I guess, his wife was dropping them off,

487
00:44:08.320 --> 00:44:15.320
and so they dropped them off.
They go in and out they where they

488
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:21.400
normally park at. They kept on
walking and at soft Fork, like I

489
00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:24.960
said, at the campus is little
road and it's kind of swamp on both

490
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:34.920
sides, he saw one about ten
feet tall, all black. Moved trees

491
00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:39.320
out the way to see if they
left, because normally, like I said,

492
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:43.719
they drive in, drive out,
They doors close, open and close

493
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:49.639
and all that, and I guess
the big foot was like where are they?

494
00:44:50.079 --> 00:44:52.159
I didn't hear them get back in
their truck. I didn't hear them

495
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:58.840
drive away, and they were walking
towards his bridge, this narrow bridge over

496
00:44:58.880 --> 00:45:05.480
this little swamp spot to get I
guess closer to his wife that was on

497
00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:08.519
her way. She was running a
little bit late, and so they did

498
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:16.519
something out of the routine that they
normally do and he saw one and he

499
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:22.920
was shook up for months. He
told me, showed me a picture.

500
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:28.719
I guess Mark Seene went as well
too. I talked to Mark. I

501
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:30.760
think you know who Mark is,
who wants to be a big Foot conference.

502
00:45:32.159 --> 00:45:37.599
He saw a black one as well, So I guess they're pretty common

503
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:40.840
to be black here in Ohio.
Not to say there's not brown ones or

504
00:45:40.840 --> 00:45:46.119
anything like that or whatever, but
to two of the people I saw talk

505
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:52.719
to face to face that had an
encounter and that class a good class a

506
00:45:52.920 --> 00:46:00.360
that they had, they're black.
So so yeah, I that's the class

507
00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:07.239
that I heard of as soft Fork. Yeah, and yeah, that's extremely

508
00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:12.719
interesting. Let's I'm sure a lot
of people listening to this would be like,

509
00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:15.320
man, I've always wanted to go
to soft Fork and look for bigfoot.

510
00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:20.760
Do you have any advice for people
that are going to sol Fork for

511
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:29.159
the first time to go camping.
There's gonna be a lot of knuckleheads out

512
00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:31.599
there. Don't go and don't don't, don't. Don't go out there in

513
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:38.280
this summertime because every everybody that I
know, there's people that don't even bother

514
00:46:38.360 --> 00:46:45.360
going to Salt Fork anymore because it's
it's some people nothing. It's just saying

515
00:46:45.360 --> 00:46:49.360
it's getting squashed out. But you
get all these people going out there in

516
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:53.760
the summertime, knocking on trees,
hooping and hollering and doing hoops, and

517
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:59.000
you know, they got they got
the kids camp where they go out there

518
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:02.360
and they walk around. It could
be pushing them away at certain times of

519
00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:09.400
the year. And that's why I
talked about while if you look on the

520
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:14.719
BFR, oh, you can plot
a straight line so they can go up

521
00:47:14.719 --> 00:47:19.840
and down online in the state so
they could I said, Hawking Hills is

522
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:25.360
just right below it on that appellation. The appellation a while really that they

523
00:47:25.480 --> 00:47:29.440
do get pushed out because there's too
many people in the state park. They

524
00:47:29.480 --> 00:47:35.760
got somewhere else to go. So, yeah, if you're going to do

525
00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:40.519
this, do it. When I
did it, really spring lay Fall.

526
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:46.239
I like going because if you're going
on these trails. It's so thick in

527
00:47:46.239 --> 00:47:52.639
there you can't see ten feet and
you're almost wasting your time doing that.

528
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.360
If you're going to do it,
you want to go when all the leaf

529
00:47:54.519 --> 00:48:00.800
leaf flitters down, you know it's
November, December, January, February,

530
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.079
where you actually can see a mile, you know, half a mile.

531
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.440
It's pointless doing it during the summertime. He really is. So I don't

532
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:13.000
even waste her. I mean,
I'm not saying not go out there,

533
00:48:13.039 --> 00:48:21.360
but I have a little expectations.
In other words, I would say,

534
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:25.119
if you want them to come up
close, you're going to need at least

535
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:31.360
three days. I think I just
got lucky that one night of them.

536
00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:35.320
It really didn't come up to me. It really had no interest in me.

537
00:48:35.679 --> 00:48:40.119
I just disturbed it but turning on
my mister Hero lamp glowing up my

538
00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:44.559
tent, and it got pissed off
of me. So it wasn't there to

539
00:48:44.639 --> 00:48:47.519
check me out. It was really
there to do its normal routine of getting

540
00:48:47.679 --> 00:48:52.400
a dinner, a meal, and
move keep keep it, keep it moving.

541
00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:58.119
But if you want these things,
I guess I've heard you need at

542
00:48:58.159 --> 00:49:05.039
least a week about that, four
or five days for themn't even feel comfortable

543
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:10.199
approaching you. It was clearly pissed
off of me, and you know,

544
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:15.920
probably didn't want me there to begin
with. So if you want to have

545
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:20.679
an encounter, I guess them coming
into your camp mind didn't come in my

546
00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:24.840
camp. I don't count that account
is passing my camp by. I just

547
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:30.719
got lucky. I'm turning on my
mystery here at the time that I did

548
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:38.719
and definitely directed towards me, and
the other people heard it too, So

549
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:45.960
yeah, I think it's a solid
Yeah, a solid class B vocalization.

550
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:52.000
I really haven't heard too many stories
like mine, like kind of like the

551
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.960
old man get off on your type
of thing, like yelling at me.

552
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:05.079
Never really heard that from anybody else. Thank you for coming on and sharing.

553
00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:08.840
This is a very interesting interaction.
It's kind of a unique one.

554
00:50:08.840 --> 00:50:13.320
I would say, definitely haven't heard
many like it. But I appreciate you

555
00:50:13.360 --> 00:50:17.000
coming on to talk about your experience
at soul Fork. Yeah, appreciate it.

556
00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:22.119
Thank you for having me. It
was a pleasure, and yeah,

557
00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:27.079
I'm surprised we don't have more for
a while. Be honest with you,

558
00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:31.159
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559
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563
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564
00:50:53.719 --> 00:50:59.760
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565
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566
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:07.760
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567
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:13.840
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568
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569
00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.400
interview people that have had bigfoot counters. If you're from the Oakridge, Oregon

570
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:27.360
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578
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headed to the moon, and here's
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579
00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:09.079
so here we go. As of
five twenty two, you're now at two

580
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hundred and two patroons out of eight
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581
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:17.400
four point five to one percent,
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guys, brings us down to six
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586
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588
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forward Slash The big Foot Society I'll
see you there, and again,

589
00:52:50.760 --> 00:53:42.880
thanks for listening. Her and I
can get out here, we can tell

590
00:53:42.920 --> 00:53:46.280
our stories. Maybe there's somebody else
out there listening it's too afraid to tell

591
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:51.320
their story. Maybe this will give
them the courage to come out. And

592
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:54.199
I feel so bad about it.
Who cares what anybody's thinks. I know

593
00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:58.760
what I saw, I know what's
out there. That's all I care.

594
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:19.960
Please let people know, Please let
them know. If you ever see one

595
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.239
of these things, you need to
tell, because if you don't, then

596
00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:35.719
shame on you, you know,
shame on you,