March 10, 2025

It's About Time I Shared This | California

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Lance recounts his astonishing encounter with an unexplained creature in 1967 near the North Fork of the Trinity River in Northern California. As a nine-and-a-half-year-old, Lance witnessed a massive, fur-covered...

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Lance recounts his astonishing encounter with an unexplained creature in 1967 near the North Fork of the Trinity River in Northern California. As a nine-and-a-half-year-old, Lance witnessed a massive, fur-covered being that closely resembled depictions of Bigfoot. With vivid details of the encounter, including the creature's physical features and behavior, Lance's story offers a compelling and personal glimpse into one of the world's most enduring mysteries. Don't miss this incredible account that has stayed with Lance for over 53 years.

A special thank you to Eric from the Willow Creek - China Flat Museum and Bigfoot Collection for making this connection possible.

Resouces: Willow Creek - China Flats Museum website - http://thebigfootmuseum.com

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

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with the show. All right, Big for Society. I've got

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the privilege talking to Lance today. This is going to

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be a very unique interview that I've been looking forward

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to for quite a while. Eric from the Willow Creek,

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China Flat Museum and Bigfoot Collection reached out to me

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and said, Hey, I have this individual I just talked

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to and I would love to try to make a

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connection with yourself at Bigfoot Society because if you can

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talk to this guy, it would be incredible. And now

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I was like, I'm immediately interested because I've heard of

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Eric from Cliff Berrickman's podcast and he sounds like he

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really knows his stuff. So thank you to Eric for

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help setting up this interview. And also make sure, guys

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that if you're in the Willow Creek area, check out

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the China Flat Museum. There's a lot of great Bigfoot

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artifacts over there. You will not want to miss it.

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But Lance, welcome to the show. I'm excited to have

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you on here, as as I had said, but you know,

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I'm going to go ahead and hand things right over

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to you, sir. It take us back back to nineteen

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sixty seven, to what you experienced back then, and we'll

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take you from there.

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You know, she'll get goosebumps the story. It was like

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he took your show when I was about nine and

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a half years old and my family, on my father's side,

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a one hundred and so years ago, I had established

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a mining claim up on the north fork of the

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Trinity River there in northern California, and all his lovely

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property big ponderas of pines and Douglas furs I guess

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for Douglas and the river great for fishing and swimming.

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Have you.

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And you know, I've never seen any bears up close

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up there, but I know there was plenty.

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But this comes into this story.

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My dad was going up to the property to do

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the assayer work on the property and everything else, and

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I got to go up with him. My mom and

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dad had been divorced for several years, and so seeing

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my dad and hanging out with it was a big deal.

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I was excited.

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So we went up there from southern California where we lived,

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and long drives, but yeah, we got up there late

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at night and spent the night. The next morning, this

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mid morning or show, a couple of dogs came wandering

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up to the cabins, highly unusual, and they were bear dogs,

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bear hunting dogs, and the antennas on.

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The call her.

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Named an address phone number, and we called the guy

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owned the dogs, and he said, oh, come down that

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evening and get them cool. I'm just doing the little

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nine and a half year old stuff, you know, walking

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around with us stick and hitting stuff and digging bugs

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and catching the garter shakes by the river. And I

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was in front of the cabin hanging out and I

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dogs started barking this crazy barket and they're looking west.

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the road between the river and the road, and I

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can see this the dog sparking in that direction. I

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look over and I can see a big, dark black

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things coming down the cutaway.

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I call out, Dad, what is that? He looks at

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it and said, get in the house right now, getting

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a cab.

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So I get got into.

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The porch is covered by screen and one by the protection,

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and he grabbed his deer rifle and shoot out front.

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This thing came closer closer the roads, about one hundred

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and fifty feet away. And this thing came, oh, I

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don't know, came right towards us. And then I noticed

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the sunshine and on it was kind of a little

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reddish in there in that coloring, and I was just

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an a mouth open, what is that? And it came

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closer and closer and didn't really pay any attention to us.

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It seemed like the contention was over towards the left.

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And there's been a dredger down there dredging for gold

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all morning, wow wow, and sucking the gold off the

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bottom big gas cartage. It was going on all morning

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since just fact the first light, and it was very bothershing.

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We could probably hear this thing for a mile the more,

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and it came towards us.

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Got with him.

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Oh, I don't know, thirty forty feet of my dad

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with that rifle point matter, and just he turned left

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and he's making me sounds, just growling and drunting, and

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I couldn't make him mouth because it's been too long.

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For fifty three years this happened, and I started heading

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over towards the dread well.

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Down up the river where this road kind of turns.

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It's kind of a trail deep road across the river

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and goes on up above the cabin to the actual

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mine site on the side of the mountain. We call

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it Montgomery Road. Montgomery's lived down the road just a

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mile and they they had the last remaining water cannon

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sluice box gold Vine operating in the United States and

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west of the Missouri at that time. Anyway, this thing

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disappears into the willows right along the creek bed. Suddenly

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we hear this tractor, his tractor start out and take

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off up that road as fast as that old tractor

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can go. It just it just went. And I never

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saw the creature again. I never met the old man

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on the tractor. But my dad comes back in the

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cabin and I get, what was that? Oh, that was

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a bear. It was just a bear.

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Land Well, I was.

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A young nine and a half naive, and I'm very

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confused now because this bear walks on four leg. This

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thing was on two. I'd never got a good look

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at his face, but I'm pretty sure it was mostly

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fur covered, probably six and a half seven foot Maybe.

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It took long.

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It covered the two hundred feet from the other side

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of the road to the cabin so fast. It probably

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walked as fast as I could crop row fast.

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You know, it's crazy. Just it didn't even look at us.

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Had two dogs, a rifle, and some man standing out

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in front of it, and just it was out in

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the open and the broad sunlight.

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I thought it was hot day year. It was one

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hundred degrees and there's no trees in the way.

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Right, So my up and me open fifty feet on

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each side, and I saw this thing up close and personal,

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and you know, pubb it be for many years?

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What is anyway?

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It was until I heard the turn bigfoot, and I

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saw the video of one taking up fluff greet and

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that's it. That's what I saw and didn't day. Like

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I said, I still get goose bumps telling his story. Yeah,

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the dogs wanted a piece of it really bad.

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I wanted to know what.

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The heck it was. But the funny thing is that

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it was a bear. My dad would have shot it

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as it was coming towards us. He shot one before

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when he was younger. He was the forest ranger all

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over northern California in Washington and he had one come

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up and when I attacked him, he ended up shooting

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it with a thirty forty Craig right gone barrel.

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This is a It was a thirty calipery lance.

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Sorry, a bear? Sorry, did you say the park ranger

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shot a bear or a bigfoot?

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No? A bear? He was young, Yeah, he was young.

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He had a job.

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And I'm sorry, I get going too fast, you're taking

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out hey.

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But that was the experience.

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It was about oh fifteen seconds of pure wonder and

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its lasted me fifty three years. And I'm getting older

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and my health isn't good anymore, and I wanted to

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get this story out to somebody who may not or

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may believe.

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I'm glad you did.

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I saw. Yeah. Good.

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I have definitely a few questions for you. It's know,

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this area that you were in, how close to Willow

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Creek would you say you were?

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Probably as a crow flies, probably fifteen miles maybe fifteen

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miles okay?

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And is that north or it would have.

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Been fifteen miles east? Yeah, east, a little bit to north.

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Gotcha?

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When you were watching it walk across, did it turn

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its head at all?

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Gouh.

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You know, it's hard to remember that long ago, but

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sure not much because I really don't remember too much

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of the face. Remember if I did see fingers and

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the skin was kind of cam very dark cam tanned feet,

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I couldn't see much black hair brown and dark dark

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black brown hair.

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Do you remember anything?

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Yeah? Go ahead, Oh no, no, go ahead.

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Do you remember anything out of the ordinary about the

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fingers on the hand, they.

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Were long and thick, and fingernails like people. I saw

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the fingernails. That's that's stuck with me.

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Claw.

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That's really interesting. So you're saying it looked like the

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fingernails of that a human would.

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Have exactly fit longer consult if you're regularly right.

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And I don't know whether it was a male or female.

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I don't know.

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You know, you mentioned that you had seen that video

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Patterson Gimmlin film. Thinking back to that video and what

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you saw that day as well, were there any things

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you noticed that were similar or different or anything like that?

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Just uh, the way it walked.

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This hair seemed a little bit longer, but I really yeah,

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it was pretty shaggy.

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The differences, no similarities. Yeah, the walk.

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So long strides? How how long would you estimate that

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its stride was?

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That would be hard to say. I grew up to

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about six foot two, and if I took a leap

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probably I could probably go five feet if I tried

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real hard. But yeah, this is taking big strides fourty five.

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Sure. Did you do you remember any details about how

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long its arms were or its arms in general?

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Well that's what led these look at the fingers because

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they were slinging. The hands were slinging pretty good, and yeah,

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I guess arms are long. I didn't notice at the

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time that I guess, yeah. And it was kind of

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slumped over, so the hands were down pretty low.

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Did it seem to have a neck all nor were

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you able to see any muscles underneath the hair as

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it walked.

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It seemed like up around as I pictured in my mind.

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It's not as rigid as it used to be as

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long time ago. But uh, trice, that area and the

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calves I noticed pretty muscular.

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I noticed that because.

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I just comparing it to the size of my dad

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and seeing this in the same site picture. It was

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much bulk here and my dad. My dad was six

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feet and slim. This thing was massively across the shoulders.

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How how wide across those show shoulders would you estimate?

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Oh? I couldn't say. I really couldn't say. It's been

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too long.

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Yeah, oh gotcha, definitely.

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Well, dad was average average width, so it was much

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wider than my dad.

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So that's all I could not say.

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Okay, so you've already mentioned the details about the fingernails

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on the hands, which is a very unique detail. Were

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there any other details you remember seeing that. Maybe when

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you realize that, you're like, wow, that is really it

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doesn't really make sense. It's kind of a little unique

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and it's just kind of weird.

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Yeah, it's awesome. Like I said, I wasn't I wasn't

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all that frightened because I was so intrigued by what

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the heck that well, as a as a very inquisitive boy,

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I was always digging up things and looking up things

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in books about nature and so forth.

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Yeah, so I was just enthralled by this thing.

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Did you have any neighbors around that cabin area at all?

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No, The narrow Snogger was who I mentioned before. It

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was from Montgomery, three quarters of a mile or so

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down the road, and they stayed up there in the

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summers during their minding.

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That's about the only ones up there in that area. Gotcha.

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Did you ever hear of any other encounters or sightings

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in that general area where you.

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Were at No, I was I was only nine and

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a half.

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True, Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah, yeah, I was just a little kid.

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Yeah I could when you grew up. Did you have

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any discussions with your father about what happened that day?

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No, No, we never talked about it. I got it

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up once to his sister, my aunt and their two kids.

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It's all else. That was just a bear. Your dad

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told us all about it.

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I said, well, you weren't there, and I got into

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a little bit of a discussion.

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Not much. Yeah, he never mentioned it. He never talked

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about it.

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Dad was hardly ever, and so I didn't get to

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talk to him all that my team, so I was

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kind of stuck inside.

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Growing up. I had shared the story a few.

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Times, and I've never got good reactions.

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I didn't. You know, no one believers. They didn't believe,

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you know, or they it'd be hard.

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To believe if you've never been Say, if you're not

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a woodsy person and you've never been out there in

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the woods in a wild see the creatures and.

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How they act. And now listen, if you.

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Couldn't believe it, as you mentioned that, you heard it

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make growling and grunting sounds. Have you heard any sounds

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since then that come close to what you heard that day?

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Certainly not a bear.

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It growled and grumbled as if it had sometimes almost

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as if I was talking like a darned some of

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the good loud thing. I gotta shut that loud thing down,

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you know, like the tensor for uh dragon m and

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nothing else except for maybe a girl is about as

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close as I could get sure.

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So it kind of sounds like, and this is just

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my interpretation, it almost was trying to say something, But

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you really couldn't make out maybe what it was saying.

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Yeah, kind of like luck I raw or like it

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was almost talking that.

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Right, he's so mad at that noise, no whistles really,

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but yeah, it's mad.

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That's very interesting. It's it's a it's something that comes

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has come out in other encounters to where you'll find

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that these you know, these big foot will will get

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kind of really mad at very loud machinery or generators,

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and we'll just go over and try to take him out.

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Sometimes they will take him out, you know, and just

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get it quiet again, which I don't blame him really.

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But now when you heard them making that those weird

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sounds where it maybe kind of saying something but not really,

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did that remind you of any other maybe language or

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way of talking you've heard over the years.

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Oh this is different. Yeah, okay, I gotta.

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Say that that Dredge Graham and Ram until the gas

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an out, that guy was never not coming back down

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out there, I'm sure.

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Oh he just was like I'm out of here.

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Yeah, wow, yeah, I'm out here. He didn't come back

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then to shut that thing off. It just ran and around,

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ran out of gas. My dad said, oh, we can't

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stay the weekend. We have to go now, I said, Oh,

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we've got I got business in town.

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We gotta go. And so we left that day. We're

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going to stay two or three days.

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Speaking of weird Speaking of weird sounds, would you ever

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hear anything in the woods that was just hard to explain?

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Uh?

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Maybe things like whoops or something knocking on a tree,

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or maybe even like weird metallic noises. Is that anything

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you ever remember hearing?

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Yeah, I've heard a whoop once, and I think I

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was in the Sierra Nevadas.

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Way up.

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We hiked up ten miles up King's Canyon state overnight

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and I I was trying to picture what kind of

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animal whoop in the woods?

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You know. I never came up with it, and they

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couldn't figure it out. Wow?

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Is that also?

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Well?

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There? I want to make sure I get this question.

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And about the cabin area, do you remember going out

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maybe in the days afterwards, and looking around where it

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had walked? Did you remember seeing any tracks or anything

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like that?

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You know, I didn't go out and look for track Okay, Yeah,

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we had to just get busy and get.

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Ready to go.

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That's true.

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Yeah, you're you're getting.

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I wanted to stay and see it again, and I've

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been intrigued ever since. Just everything bigfoot.

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Well, that's that's really.

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Some of the videos.

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It makes you a little easier to pick out the

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fakes on videos.

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You know.

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That's that's actually a great point. I mean, if you've

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seen a bigfoot, you can pick out the fakes pretty good.

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Is there anything a big foot?

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Yeah?

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You were right there. Is there anything you've seen over

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the years that even comes close to what you saw

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that day?

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Seen personally or well.

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You know, like there's so many videos out there and

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different things on shows and movies besides the Patterson Gimlin film.

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Is there anything else out there you've seen that is

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supposed to be a bigfoot that you're like, Okay, that's

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kind of close to what I saw.

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Yeah, So I've seen a few and it's just bos

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that's the real thing.

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That's a fake. I can pick it out pretty easy.

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There's a few of them out there that are okay,

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good good videos. I don't I can't remember exactly which ones.

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No, that's no problem. So you mentioned that seeing this

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as a nine and a half year old really affected you,

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and in what way did you become interested in Bigfoot

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as you grew up into an adult after this, I think.

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It shades Bigfoot. It just opened my mind up to

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what is really possible, and I've kind of follow all

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my life. Hey, it's bigfoots around anything that's possible, and

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that's been my.

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Belief for a long time.

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It really did open my mind up to what people say,

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it's impossible, you know, and I could argue the point

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it is possible, it's not.

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So. Yeah. It really did affect my life as a

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whole through.

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This day was going to the China Flat Museum. The

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first time then that you had gone to a place

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that would have had, you know, Bigfoot type artifacts or

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tracks in it to look at them.

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It would have been if I went there but a

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little bit there.

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Oh yeah, I got a whole lot of the museum

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on the phone.

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Oh I'm I am so sorry. I totally missed that

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part of the correspondence. Okay, well that's even more interesting.

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Do you ever have any desire to go to a

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place that might have Bigfoot tracks to look at like

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that museum or there's actually a few others around the

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Pacific Northwest as well.

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Exceedingly interested?

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Yeah, I would really recommend. There's there's so Eric's museum

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he's involved with, and then there's also one up in

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the boring Oregon area that Cliff Berrickman runs that is

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an incredible you know, Bigfoot Museum Center, the North American

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Bigfoot Center. I would recommend checking that out. It's on

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my list to go to as well. You before we

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started talking, I was, you know, saying thank you so

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much for agreeing to come on the show, and you

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had mentioned, you know, going on the show is more

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for me, and what did you mean by that statement.

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I found that really interesting.

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The people that listen or pick up thinks what society

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are generally interested or already believers. I needed to get

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my story out to someone who polaves me before I die.

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I've told the story. Some people believe me, but not

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all that much. So yeah, it's for me to get

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that release, the relief and tell a story someone might

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enjoy it so we can maybe picture it in their

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head because there's been a picture in mind for a

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long long time.

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I want to say thank you for interesting me with

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your account that is that is just a very very

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huge deal for me. When when people entrust my show

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with that, I do like to ask people though, So,

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based on what you had seen that day, the details

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you remember, would you categorize what you saw as something

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maybe more ape like or more human like, or something

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just completely out somewhere else?

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Well, you say ape like or human like? We are

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So we're just a clever, hairless ape all we are. Yeah,

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So we're looking for intelligent life. We will find it here.

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We're not find intelligent yet, but we're clever. And so

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there between an ape and a human, it walked a

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lot apish human apish design.

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It come between. That's all I can say.

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So long between it's a fascinating account, Lance, and thank

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you for coming on the show to share it and

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to get it out there into the world. As we

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start to wrap up, I just want to make sure

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that there was nothing else that you wanted to.

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Oh gosh, that's about the whole story. It was not

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a whole lot else I can share. Do you want

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to say thank you so much for letting me share this?

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Like I said, it was for me.

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I needed to get this off my dress and get

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it out to someone who might believe me. And it's

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a it's been a pleasure, absolute pleasure to view this

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with you.

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Absolutely and thank you so much. If there's anything that

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I can ever do to help, or you have any

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more questions, feel free to reach out. You've got my

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contact information and I'll definitely help you in any way

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that I can. But thank you so much for coming

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on the show today, sir, thank you. Just wanted to

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take a few minutes to say thank you to you

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FS like Bigfoot Society, but BFS and I'll get used

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some off your cost. Priscilla was nice enough to provide

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that for my listeners.

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So there you go.

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I look forward to seeing you there, So make sure

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you head over to www dot Sasquatch Summerfest dot com

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and pick up your tickets today