MASSIVE BIGFOOT TERRORIZES CAMPERS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY

0:00 You're listening to Bigfa Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the carring Bridge link in the show notes.

0:42 Thank you. The following episode is a collection of voicemails from you guys, the listeners. There's all sorts of encounters in here, all bigfoot ones from different parts of the country. If you've had a bigfoot encounter and you might not necessarily want to go on an interview, but you'll leave a five minute voicemail about it, then please now's the time to share that encounter in a voicemail. If you want to go over to Bigfoot Society podcast dot com, there's a share or send a voicemail button there. You can also go to speakpipe dot com forward slash Bigfoot Society. So let's get into it. Enjoy these voicemails of bigfoot encounters from all over the country.

1:25 So back in March of twenty twenty, it was around the twentieth of March. Me and my wife were hiking out in the Akron Peninsula area near Icebox Cave, and we decided we were going to jump off the beaten path and start taking some deer trails. Well, at a cross section of a deer trail, there was, if I had to guess, a bigfoot footprint in the middle of this trail, like it had stepped in the center of this section and then cleared it, and there was a clear indent of heat and toes pushing through the mud. It was full of water by the time we got there, but it was still very visible and I took a photo of it, and it's uh, it was. It was really cool, but I thought it was kind of strange that this bigfoot was thirty yards forty yards in the woods away from a normal hiking trail where hundreds of people are at almost every day. But I just wanted to share my story with you.

2:29 Guys. Hi, my name is Dave. Well. I guess my story starts when my cousin from New York came here to Grafton, Ohio. I was eighteen at the time, and we had the t tops out of my seventy nine Grand Prix Lindenburg and we were out on the back roads cruised and and this location has been well known for crazy stuff happening, like people parking there and party in and somebody coming up and trying to push their vehicle over, and a lot of stuff's happened there. I mean, people's been murdered there, and it's just I'm surprised that it's never made the news or it's not on YouTube. But I was thinking about trying to take somebody out there to show them at night time where this bigfoot lives. I have a YouTube channel with me at the location, and there's a structure there that got built by the by the big guy. Anyway, we backed my Grand Prix into the spot and we

4:03 were we had slayers cranked up, and it was about one o'clock in the morning. It was cold out when my cousin was driving my car, and he kicked the amp wire out of the fuse box and the radio went quiet, and it was pitch black. It's pitch black on this road. It's nothing, but it's in the forest that connects to other roads. And when he kicked the amphire out, we heard footsteps straight in front of us. There was a creek running lateral in front of the car, and then the road runs parallel to the creek, and then the woods behind it, and we heard footsteps coming and I got I got out of the car anyway. I got out of the car, walked around the car, opened up the door. While he's sat in the driver's seating, I was reaching underneath the dash to hook the damp wire back in. And that's when we heard the tree break.

5:06 It must have been like I don't even know, man, it sounded like a shotgun going off, that's how big the tree was that it broke. Me and him looked at each other and we screamed to the top of our lungs. And a pitch black and I couldn't get around the car fast enough, so I dove through the tee top and I told him start the car, go go, And by the time he pulled out of where we were back then and turned the left to go back to where I live. He turned the headlights on and I tried to get him to turn around, but he was crying. He wanted to go back to New York and a lot of crazy stuff's happened on this road.

5:51 I just I really don't want to give the location, and unless I take somebody there to show him, give him an adventure at and old, So I'd like to get the story out well. Anyway, after we got done screaming to the top of our lungs, this thing was, at least it felt like it was like ten foot away from us, and it growled a low growl, and it was so deep, and it rumbled, and all the hair on our body stood up. I've never ever been that scared in my Lif'm fifty years old now, I've never ever experienced something like that. If you want to give me a call, you can. My name's David Hicky.

6:47 Hey, Jeremiah dre Brandenberg. I was turned on to this place by someone who didn't care about them, but told me where they were, that they were there and so we went and sure enough, the first four hikes we went in there hiking, I have evidence from four different times and plus a lot more because we've been in there like thirty times an hour more over the last year and a half. I got video, I got pictures. I seen them. The craziest stuff you ever saw in your life, and it's really amazing what's in there, and I like to share it with you guys. It's on my Facebook. All the pictures are all real, but I'm willing to tell you about each one of them. Give me hit me up.

7:34 Thank you. Hi. My name is Shanda. I won't give out my full name, but I'm originally from Utah and I just wanted to share this experience. When I heard the howl back in twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, I heard a lot of stories and I noticed that when I heard like a big howl and all the dogs are barking, and even my neighbors dogs are barking. I never thought anything of it, but I would go inside after I smoke a cigarettes.

8:16 I used to smoke cigarettes and my grandmother would ask me what happened because it was just me and my grandmother at the place in a remote area within Monument Valley, Utah and Slash, Arizona. And she would always question me when I go in the in the room, like I told her what I heard. She said, yeah, that's in a Napaja way, that's the boogeyman. There's a word for it. I can't remember the word of it.

9:00 Right now. On this society, we're losing that, you know, in Navajoa way, we're losing our language. Right. So with that being said, she would always warm me that stay inside because I describe what was, you know, what I heard. And then slowly gradually I noticed that the dogs would just be quiet. But yeah, yeah, they barked, but there's a point where it got quiet, right, And to me it's not normal because they would always bark when the kyotos where we lived at the time. Kyotes, yeah, foxes, yeah, dogs.

9:54 I know the tone of each voice. But I noticed that at the time it was quiet and that and I noticed that there's there's a lot of things I must say. But if you want to reach out to me, I don't have a Gmail, but I do have a iCloud and I used to have Yahoo. But if you want to reach out to me, Jemiah Jender from Utah. Hey, Jeremiah, Nice to speak to a fellow Iowan. I'm a sixty five year old who lives in northern California.

10:42 Been out here for many decades, but I grew up in western Iowa, fishing, hunting, camping everywhere Minnesota, way back up in northern Canada with Indians at Alaska, and all throughout California. Again, giant redwoods to ancient for us, I've seen it all. Never thought of Bigfoot as a kid. Of course, we saw some of the movies. But I'm recording this to you because in nineteen eighty seven, eighty eight, eighty nine, coworker and I who worked in San Francisco together were I was about twenty seven to twenty eight at the time, and we would leave our work site Friday early, like at noon, we'd cut out. We'd drive up to the Upper Cash Creek. Yeah, that name starting to ring a bell because it's close to Indian Valley Reservoir.

11:43 And I've heard a few episodes or at least one about Indian Valley and it all made sense. Again. I've been around, Okay, I camped my whole life, and we would even float down this cash creek for three day float trips, and you wouldn't see anyone, very remote, two million year old ancient canyon. So we were there with our guns always in fishing poles. We would catch trout, small mouth bass, catfish, and just have a good old time. So middle of the night two or three am, which seems to be the witching hour for these things, we heard massive loud tree knocks. In hindsight, there were tree knocks that sounded like trees just smashing into each other.

12:37 We jolted up out of our sleeping bags, looked at each other and naturally said, what the heck was that? Shortly thereafter, we heard the most blood curdling scream shrill. It was not a wounded animal. This thing had lungs and it was loud and scary. It wasn't that close. We have no idea. We stayed in our sleeping bag because we didn't think bigfoot sasquatch. We didn't know what to think. All these years later, I know what I heard and what I heard again, the tree knocks. Nothing knocks trees. Bears don't do it. Deers don't slam their ear antlers against a tree. At two am, this tree knock is what was undeniable, but that scream never heard anything before or since. Again, this is Upper Cash Creek, not far from Indian Valley Reservoir, so there's been other incidences up there. So funny you travel all over the place and you see nothing, you hear nothing, and then you go a two hour drive from your work and you run into this pretty crazy any rate, if you can, you know, share this, maybe other people have had heard things up in that area. Again, it was late nineteen eighties,

14:09 So this is Pat from Novato, California. I grew up in Carol, Iowa, so hopefully that gives me a little credibility with a fellow Hawkeye. Thanks so much, Jeremiah. Love what you are doing. Love what you're doing. If I share this story with my family, they're gonna laugh at me, but I think I will because now it's all comes back loud and clear. Thank you, brother. I'll start with the first one because I have four. I was about eight years old. This was in Midway, Tennessee, in a cemetery, a very old cemetery that's not even used anymore, and I was looking at gravestones and I saw this little at that time. You know, I was eight, a little i'll just call it a man, but it had long hair hanging off of it and it was eating something, excuse me.

15:15 And. So I walked up to it and was like, what, hey, what are you eating? And it didn't say anything. It just kept eating off the ground who was on all fours? And I kept talking to it, what are you eating? Can I have some? You know, a little eight year old kid, And it never said a thing, never made a sound, and all the time, and I'm sure there were full grown ones around somewhere, but I just saw that little one. And when I went back to the house. We were at a relative's house in Tennessee, and I went back and I was talking about it, and my dad looked at me, like, what are you talking about?

16:01 And his cousin, who was sitting across the table, said, oh, yeah, it's a hairy man. Hairy man. What's a hairy man? He goes, We see him all the time. And he got up and left. He went back to see if it was still there. Of course it wasn't. But that was my first encounter with a bigfoot. And I see, I still have some time left, so I'll go into the next time I saw one it Actually it was just a couple of years later, and this was in Indiana, down by a river. A neighbor and I used to ride our horses back there, and we were on our horses again and they just stopped. They wouldn't go any farther, refused, and I looked at my friend and I was like, what is going on? And of course you can smell them.

16:58 They smell so bad, and he goes, oh, no, it's back. And I was like, what, what's back? And he said, you know, a big hairy thing. The DNR is tracking it, so I have to go tell mister who he lived on their property. He goes, I have to go tell mister it's back so he can call DNR. Well, I said, I want to see it. So I got off my horse. My friend was holding my horse, and I went back there and there was this huge and I mean huge thing.

17:38 At They had a it was a like a fishing camp, and they had a sink rigged up that pulled water from the river where they could clean fish. Had a little counter buy it, you know, and it was standing there looking through the dishes that were in the sink trying I guess it was trying to find something to eat or something. I don't know, and I do. I walked right up to it. I was standing like face to face. Well, I went face to face. It was much bigger than me, long brown hair, brown blondish mixed. And I looked at it, and I know it was like, hey, hey, what's going on. I didn't know what it was. It was nine, and it turned and looked at me, and I, of course, being nine, I didn't know at the time.

18:34 You never show your teeth to a primate. And I looked at it and smiled, stuck my hand out and I said, hey, my name's you know, blah blah, and I smiled, showed my teeth, and that thing was gone in the blink of an eye. I couldn't find it. I looked around, kept looking around, didn't see anything. It was just gone. But that was my second encounter, and I've running out of time on this one, so I'm going to sign off. Thank you very much for letting me share. Hi, Dearmiah, my name is Mary. My encounter happened in North Idaho. I was camping with my sists back in two thousand and eight. We went to our favorite spot every summer to camp. This area is called Bumblebee Meadow.

19:27 My tent is a small two person dome tent. My sister camped across from the fire pit area across from me, and she was on the opposite side of that corner of the meadow. I decided to head to bed to my dome tent. I was almost asleep when I heard something massive, massive, moving fast through the brush. I could hear the leaves going just so fast near the head of my tent. It stopped. It was on two legs. It sounded like its breathing was really loud and guttural. It sort of sounded like a mixture of a growl and a breath, and it kept doing that. I was terrified. I begin to pray silently, over and over in the name of Jesus, leave me alone. I was frozen for I don't know how long, but it seemed like a long time. I finally heard it moving through the brush away from my tent.

20:36 I was so scared, Deeremiah, I will never forget this. And I couldn't sleep that night, and I as soon as daylight hit, man, I was out of there, all right. Thanks Jeremiah, Hi Jeremiah. This is Dan from Shelby and Blacksburg area. We did the interview a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, I had forgotten to get into some of the specifics about Shelby. I guess the whole thing started a year, probably about March of last year, in twenty twenty five. My brother was struggling with some problems at the time, and he was always going out to the woods to clear his head.

21:31 And he said, he's going to show me a dark spell cast over Shelby, and so we went out into the woods and he was showing me all these blockages in the waterways and trash in the woods and all this kind of stuff. And we were going around out the backside of my neighborhood up the train tracks into the woods in these utility access roads, and when we were out there, we didn't really see anything at first. And then we went over to a graveyard across town where he was trying to show me a tombstone with the name on it that said self. Because he would always find these weird, weird patterns and weird strange things.

22:14 So there was a tombstone in a graveyard across town that said self. On it. I guess that was the last name of somebody. But when we were walking back, it was just kind of like a strange night because there was a lot of people out. It was like the start of spring, like end of winter started spring, and there was just strange people out. It was late at night, probably like around ten thirty eleven o'clock, and when we were walking back, we didn't take We initially went into a neighborhood through a utility access lane through the woods, and when we were walking back, we were going past that utility access lane over by the o YMCA, and about it sounded like about fifty coyotes started howling all at once, and my brother screamed out, shut up demons, and then they all kind of like faded into the distance about one hundred yards within a matter of like three seconds. And as they faded away, the chatter scattered, the yips and hows scattered into like like laughter and then a whispering chatter.

23:34 And then we were walking back up the street after that happened, and then probably three minutes later, when we got to that backside of the track, the pavement trails on the back side of the Dover YMCA where the soccer field is. There was this animal or I say animal, I mean, you know, I can't really identify what it is, but it it was over in the woods and it was like kind of like whispering and groaning to itself, was like you you know, some kind of like unintelligible gibberish.

24:17 And then. My brother was like, yeah, do. You hear that? And uh and I was like yeah, yeah, yeah, here, like what is it? And then and then it it kind of like it was like and then uh, you know, there was a couple of footsteps. It was like and I was and I uh, you know, I was like, yeah, I uh, I got a knife, tough guy or something, you know, something like that to try to scare it off. And it was like. And uh and uh it might have made that noise first. And then I said something. And I had a headlamp on and it was two dim to see anything, so we couldn't make out what it was, but you know, it sounded like it was probably one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds and somewhere within the range of five to six feet tall, just from what I heard.

25:16 And then you know, with those strange noises, and then we kind of like walked on. There was a lot more strange stuff that was happening, but that was one of the main instances that I forgot to record on the initial interview. Thanks. Hey, Jerem I, this is Steve from Michigan. I just seen that you were looking for more encounters or more reports of Sasquatch. I've had three encounters here in Michigan, different parts of Michigan. My first one was up in central Michigan by the Ostable River, and my other two in counters were in southeastern Michigan.

26:02 On the Raisin River. BE more than willing to talk to you about them. So, yeah, if you would like to touch base with me, I'm on Facebook. I don't receive emails right now. I'd have to I can check them every couple of weeks or every week or two because I don't have Wi Fi where I live right now. But I'd be more than willing to go more in depth into those encounters and be more than willing to talk to you about other stuff. I know you don't really do, like UFO or weird stuff like that, but yeah, I've had me and my friend I have had a ton of strange experiences here in southeastern Michigan. So yeah, be more than welcome to talk with you, and if you need the encounters wherever, just get a hold of me or send me an email and i'll hopefully i'll eventually be able to check it.

26:56 Thanks man, Hey, Jeremy. Yeah, this is Anita Allen from southwest Virginia checking in and an update from my area. Now. I haven't been back since early this year when they did the controlled burn that was absolutely necessary following the devastation of the spring storms. But when I was last up there, I was spending some time sitting on one of the rocks and I had some strange encounters. The first was a woman who at first I heard lots of ladies talking like a social group, and I wasn't sure what was going on. And I looked down the trail about a quarter mile and I saw a woman walking and I thought she was listening to a podcast, but when she got to me, it was her and her little docs and a what do you call it a radio in her backpack that she was playing. So I was surprised because normally dogs love me, but for some reason, this dog began acting panicky and he wouldn't come past the rock that I was sitting on, which was on the side of the trail. I had some crochet out because I find that when you sit quietly

28:27 and you do something. They get interested. And she said, oh, he's just afraid of strangers, which again very strange. Dogs usually will drag their owners to me. And again he wasn't exactly looking at me. He was looking more up the trail, and I did look up the trail, but I didn't see anything right away, and I didn't want to be obvious, so I talked with her for a minute and talked to the dog for a minute, and she was able to get him to continue down the trail, And though he was reluctant, it didn't seem like his issue was passing me. It was more something ahead. But he calmed down, so I think something may have been ahead. I'm not sure, but I sat there for a while continuing what I was doing.

29:16 I didn't hear anything with her that I would take as her radio playing. There was nothing that was multiple voices, so what was playing was just a newscast, so I don't know what it was. It sounded like several women down there. I expected a group of at least four walking up. So she passed, and I listened to her go up over the trail and around the way and out of earshot, and continued with my crochet, and then about again about a quarter mile ahead of me. This is over a whole lot of dead fall from the storms, and back towards the edge of the hill that I was sitting on where it starts to slope down towards some of the pasture lands. All of a sudden, I heard what I can only describe as either a goose like a Canadian goose, taking off out of water, or maybe a large jowl wet mouthed dog shaking its face.

30:30 It was a very loud, wet, slappy sound, you know. And I don't know what could have made that noise, because there's no such place for a bird to be flapping wet wings in front of me, and there was certainly no dogs on the trail that fit that description. As you re, Mana, you interviewed me probably about I don't know, maybe ten months ago, maybe it was a year. I can't remember what episode it was. I saw a big foot about fifteen feet from me in Long Beach, Washington, staring in the window, you know, since then. Probably about two or three months ago, I was out fishing on a highway between Sticata and Detroit, they call it the Bigfoot Highway.

31:30 And. A big boulder rolled down off the hill there and landed in the river right across from me where I was fishing. The boulder was rectank They're not rectangular square in shape, so I'm not sure how a boulder by itself that shape would start rolling at eight, you know, for any reason. And then one time when I got out of my car, I heard a woo something like that funny noise just as I got out of the car. And then the third time, another boulder came rolling downhill a little farther down the river from me, maybe two hundred yards. So rocks and odd noises could be coincidence, may not be, who knows. That's the only thing that's changed.

32:33 Lately. I have heard more stories though about Long Beach location. There's I guess there's a family up there that lives the stone's throw from that house I was at that have been communicating and having relationships with a Bigfoot family for more than I think twenty years, at least ten years on Louis Lake. That from another bigfoot reporter who interviewed me. Anyway, I hope you're well, thanks for doing your work, and yeah, maybe we'll talk again sometime.

33:15 Hello. My name is Craig. I have twenty five years or more of time in the mountains since nineteen sixty. I have had numerous experiences that I know are Bigfoot, and I have seen Bigfoot twice, once in nineteen eighty two and once in twenty twenty one for sure, giant nine foot tall hairy man in Northeast Oregon in the Blue Mountains. I'll tell you my story. It takes a couple of hours. I've had a jillion experiences out in the woods, so I'll talk to you anyway. It's all I can think of now.

34:04 Thanks. By the first time I've ever had a big foot encounter wasn't necessarily mine. It was a friend of mine and we were out on a fishing trip and we left him at the bridge. Well, we went down to set lines, and when we came back we found him sitting in a car, his own car, about a couple hundred yards up the roads from the bridge we left him at. The windows were all fogged up, so we can tell he's been in there for a little while. We get up to the car and this is a big guy, he's six to four Native American descent, you know. But he's in the backseat of his own car with all four doors locked, and it took us a minute to convince him to unlock the doors to let us in because he was just terrified. Apparently, while he was down there fishing something he said he wouldn't ever say exactly what it was, but the way he described it could only be a bigfoot something. He said, something ran across the creek at him. He said it looked like it was running on the water while the water was only a couple of feet deep, so it's something that knees or three foot high. You know, it probably would have been like it were just waiting. But

35:34 he said it ran across the creek at him, straight at him, and then turned and went off into the little cane thicket there beside him and just scared him. Scared him back enough he left his fish and pole on the side of the bank and went and got in the back seat of his own car, locked the doors and set there until we got there, and he would not get out of the car and would not go back to the creek. Hi, Jeremiah, this is Kelly Jones. I've had a couple of encounters now, both of them have been with expedition groups. My first was in October of last year with Charlie.

36:15 Raymond and the k B R O. We were in. A on some private land east in eastern Kentucky. And the first night we were we were visited, which was the very first, my very first encounter. I uh, I was I was trying to wake up about it was about we found out later about one thirty in the morning, and uh the uh. The dogs. The owner had some dogs on the property and they were going crazy, which was what what roused me in the first place. And as I was trying to wake up, I was hearing some noises that sounded like, uh, someone beating on the on a plastic or a rubber garbage can.

37:11 And when I finally woke up, the dogs had quieted down and I could hear footsteps around my tent and no one we had all gone to bed, probably an hour prior, and uh so they come into the camp and were walking. We could I could hear clearly the crunching under the feet walking around on the property, and we found out the next day that they had also we were flipping up cooler lids for some of the folks behind me, and uh so that was the first night.

37:54 The second night, well really it was. We had gone to bed later the second night because we were all out in different areas and most everybody got back by about twelve thirty or so, but we didn't start having an activity until about four. Some time after four in the morning. The dogs woke me up this time, and I had audio equipment running that night, and I could hear once the dogs quieted down, I could hear the steps again around the tent. And I actually have two recordings from that night. The first one because I saw my clock.

38:40 It was probably about a quarter to five. In the morning, and one of them was standing close to my tent, close enough for me to catch recording of flatulence from one of them. At first I thought it was a grunt, but an analyst listened to it and said, no, that's one of the that's one of them farting near your tent. So I've actually got a recording of that. And also it was about ten minutes later. I've got a recording of a howl from one of them, and it was extremely loud, much louder than any of the dogs, so I know it was not It was not a dog. I've had several other people listen to it and confirm the same thing. So they were walking around.

39:32 Of course I didn't I didn't leave the tent. I laid and listened for a while, and then they all left at that point. Later that same day, it was about two thirty in the afternoon, we were standing there. The couple that was in a tent behind me in the woods was packing up, was getting ready to pack up to leave, and the wife was standing at the end of her. Truck. It was next to my car, and she was faced away from the woods, kind of faced towards me, and I was at my I was charging something, so I was standing at the back of my car.

40:12 And she all of a sudden, she exclaimed, she said owl. Well she uh. She yelled for her husband and he came. He was packing up at the tent, and he came running over, and another gentleman came running over, and she said, something hit me in my back. And when we when he looked at her back, she had a big red welt on her back and when they looked on the ground for anything, there was a big, big onion, like a normal sized Vdelia onion. Uh that something in the woods had thrown at her and hit her in the back with.

40:53 So those two. So to continue my story, those two gentlemen went running off into the woods and they could hear two individuals running away from the camp site at that time. They never did get a visual, but they could They could hear them clearly running away, so they had been I guess, toying with us. We also had reports that. Same night of them scratching on the sides of Charlie's trailer and also urinating near one of the other tents nearby, so they were they were pretty active that night. I have a more recent encounter. I was with Sheila and Scott Granger that you're familiar with with squatch fitters, and we were we were in uh North Georgia in the Blue Ridge Mountains, camping and they took us to a site on top of a nearby mountain and we were able to capture at least one on a thermal. When Scott was leading the group, there were eight of us and as soon as we were trying to determine what we were going to do. We went around up we went on a service road that was up at the top of the mountain. When we went down that started

42:23 to go down that service road. Just as soon as we had crossed the barrier to the service road, Scott stopped and right in front of us two was a set of eyes. So we all saw it on the thermal and it was it was crouched down, apparently just watching us at the time. It stood up and walked off at that point, and so Scott then turned down the road, and as soon as he did that, after a few steps, we started to see one tree peeking with two more sets of eyes. We're not sure if it was the same individual or not. It might have been, but it was. It kept moving it, you know, right to left. It would peek out from the right, and then we'd lose it and peek out from the left.

43:18 And it was. There for quite a while, and then it moved and didn't walk away from us completely. It just walked to another set of trees a little further down the service road and started doing the same thing. And then Scott had seen it in his he had looked up from the camera and he could see it in his headlamp. He could see the actual creature walking away with its back to us. It went to the other tree. It did the same thing for a while, and then it walked across the road, and at that point most of us. Saw saw it walking across the road.

44:00 We could see a full sized creature walking across the road. It walked to another set of trees and starts doing the same thing, and then I don't it did that a few times, peeked out between and around the tree, and then it must have been crouching down the entire time we've seen it previously, because then it stood up, and when it raised itself up, it was fully above kind of a fork in the trees. And when we measured the next day it was it was approximately nine feet eight and a half feet to nine feet where we saw the set of eyes. Scott walked further down the trail and he could he could clearly see it and it actually Scott stood there for some time and watched it as it blinked at him. It blinked at him, he said, it linked at him three times, and then he advised as he said you know, this thing's this thing's not moving away from us, and so.

45:11 We may be able to we may just. Need to back off, which is what we did at that point, and then it disappeared off into the woods. But I'd be glad. To share more information if you feel like you want to pursue this. The The other thing I'll say is that there was a deer that was further down on the side of this service road, further down the trail. So we're not sure if it was staying there to protect its prey or if it was just curious enough to watch us that long, but it was there for quite a while.

45:52 Okay, So my second big foot encounter was close to Astro, Missouri, just outside of Springfield. A friend of mine and I were out looking for something he had thrown into ditch and lost. Well, there was a big storm coming and we wound up pretty much driving through a tornado. Once the storm was gone, we came to a forking road and there was a limb laying across one side of the fork, and even though we weren't going that way, my friend stopped and went to pull the limb out of the way so the other road was clear. Well, he parked with his headlights pointing in the middle of the way between the two roads, and while he was out moving the tree, I look up in front of the truck and these two chestnut brown creatures are standing there looking directly. And it wasn't bears. It wasn't a bear.

47:04 Space. Yeah, it looked like a big puts. Mean, there was a female and a young one, and the little one duck down under the bushes. Well, the big ones stood there looking at me. And about that time, my friend hits my window and tries to open my door, trying to get in my side of the truck, and he said, did you see that? Let me in? I said, we'll go around. So he runs around the truck and gets in the driver's side, which I don't know why I tried to get into my side he was driving. He runs around the truck and gets in his side of the truck and he's hollering at me.

47:47 Locked the door, locked door. Did you see that? I said, yeah? He said, what was that? I said, well, what do you think it was? Well all hechab was what was that? What was that? And he never would I kept saying, I kept passing, what do you think it was because I didn't want to say it out loud either, And we finally backs up and we'd drive off, and both of us are just, I mean on edge, you know, just all bouncing out around the cabin the drug and just all excited and yelling and all earn what was that? Oh, this story is about Bigfoot or what I think or what I believed to be a big Foot encounter for myself. So back in twenty seventeen, I lived in a campsite. I did have a house, but that house was so haunted I refused to live there. After I had already paid six months, I was unable to get a refund, so I basically just stayed at the campsite to get some good rest. Anyway, So I had two tents.

48:47 One tent was like for my cookie utensils and all of my clothing, and then the other tent was for just me sleeping with my blankets on the floor, you know, of course, and that's it. But this one night, I had worked so hard. I had two jobs, so I kind of just went to the morning job, went to the night job, and then just wanted to rack out as soon as I got wherever I was going to sleep, right. So, this particular night that it happened, I was super tired, and I did not want to sleep in the tent because there was a big spider that had gone into my blankets and it was you know, it just had a big butt, So I was afraid. I knew that was like a nasty spider. I didn't want to get bit. I ended up sleeping in the car. So as soon as I started getting ready to go to sleep, put my blankets and everything, I started samelling something and it smelled like trash. I don't know if anybody has ever smelled a raccoon when they passed by, and it kind of has that really nasty, trashy scent. So that's exactly what I thought it was a raccoon, because every now and then, you know, you'll see a raccoon out in the boonies, you know, anywhere, because if there's trash somewhere, there's food somewhere, they're gonna find it.

49:52 Right, I thought it was a raccoon. I didn't hear any little footsteps or anything, you know, I just kept smelling it, so like, okay, fine, raccoon, it's okay. And then I started feeling the van shaking. And I had a little twenty twelve Master five, so you can kind of look that up and kind of see how big, and you know it was you just lay the seats down and you'd be really comfortable back there, or at least I was anyway, So I just smelled the SAMEO and I just kept smelling it just smelled like trash, and I kept getting whips of it, like it was super close to the van or like you know, usually the van kept like you know, in the winter, sometimes I would sleep out there and it would go like thirty two degrees sometimes eight degrees, or you know, it was got a little cold in Washington sometimes and you know, the heat stayed in the van as well as when it was hot at night. You know, in the summers it would stay cool.

50:45 So anyway, I don't. Know how I was smelling it, and I know I didn't have trash in the van. You know, I just kind of figured something's out there and it just stinks, you know, that raccoon's right under the car or something. Anyway, but would shake it. So somebody was shaking the van or something was shaking the van. First it started like really slowly, like just barely, kind of rocky made as sleep is what it felt like. And then it just went really really fast right thereafter, and so I just screamed, leave me the f alone, or I'm gonna stab you, because I kind of thought maybe it's one of the other campers, you know, just running around, but I didn't hear any footsteps, right, So anyway, it stopped, and then you know, when I was told enough, it started again.

51:30 So then I opened the van door and I look outside and there's nobody there, nothing there. There's not even animals, nothing, nothing, and it's super quiet. So I close the van, lock it up, go back to sleep, and then it started again, shake it really bad, and I was just like, chinaw, you know, let me go out there, let me see what the heck's going on. So I'm looking through all the windows. The windows were really dark tinted, but I was able to see out. I know, nobody was able to see in. And so as I was looking out like it just I mean, there was this face right up against the van, like it was looking straight. Back at me. And that's what I think was the Bigfoot. I really do. The weird thing is is that I didn't hear any foodstays, I didn't hear any leaves, do nothing. But as soon as I saw that base, I started honking the horn and I turned on the van and I just booked it.

52:18 The next day I came back for all my stuff, and that's it. I never see that campsite again. I have a lot of stories about other campsites and the house that I lived in. I have pictures of things that happened to me there, and you know, demons and stu. I mean like real footage of different stuff that was crazy, that really happened. But I tried to upload all this to the Amazon KDP because I was going to write a book about all of it and put it all together, but it just wouldn't let me. So that's my story, and I hope you enjoyed it, but bye, have a good day. Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those words and experience it for myself. Well guess what this year you can.

53:02 If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up. July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than the previous years. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just it's gonna be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp like Bigfoot Society Podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can can get a little help with the costs there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to

54:34 a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or forestryt worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous, you can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. The world needs to hear what you've been forced to carry alone. And you're not alone.

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