Megan Moonchild - Cree Heritage & Unraveling Sasquatch Mysteries

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Well, Grandpa, you need to
stop the truck. The big guys down

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there. He's with his family,
He's not alone. Welcome to the Big

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Fist Society podcast. On this episode, we welcome Megan Moonchild, who talks

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about her multiple Sasquatch encounters in remote
Alberta, Canada on her grandfather's farm in

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her Cree heritage. What was it
that Meghan stumbled upon eating berries in the

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backyard of the property when she was
a young child and what did her and

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her grandfather see that one day when
they were out for a truck ride.

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Find out this and more on this
week's episode of the Big Fust Society podcast.

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All Right, Big Society, have
got the privilege of talking to a

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new friend tonight, Miss Megan Moonchild
from Alberta, Canada. I ran across

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Megan's Bigfoot story that she shared in
a Facebook group online and approached her and

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asked if she would ever be up
to sharing her story on podcast, and

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thankfully she did say yes. So, Megan, how's it going tonight?

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It's going good. Thank you for
having me on your show. It's a

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it's an honor, honestly, thank
you. That's great. That's great,

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And how are things up in Alberta
right now? Currently? It's nice at

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the moment where I'm at anyway,
But it depends on which part of Alberta

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you live, So right now it's
kind of springy, and I'm happy for

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it, honestly, I just want
the snow gone already. Do you live

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in a pretty heavily wooded, forested
part of Alberta then, oh, yes,

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absolutely, yeah, yeah. The
town I live in is called Rocky

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Mountain House and where like literally we
have a view of the Rocky Mountains from

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Main Street. It's amazing, and
like surrounding us is like a glacial river

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and just heavy, heavy woods.
Like you could easily get lost out there

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in this wilderness no problem, honestly, but it's so beautiful. Have you

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always lived in the area in Alberta
up there? I actually lived further north

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originally a slave lake. Also grew
up in high prairie, but like not

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in the town, more like on
a quarter section. Just nice, little,

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heavily wooded but beautiful farm and lots
of grazing fields and thick woods.

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So it was heaven. But there
was definitely some odd things that happened on

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that land here and there when I
was growing up, So, oh,

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really, what kind of weird things
did you experience? Feelings of being watched?

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At times, I'd get like a
really creeped out kind of feeling,

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like I wouldn't see anything, but
I'd just have this feeling like something's watching

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me. And like my grandfather would
be either working in the field or with

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the you know, with the cattle, or in the garden or something like.

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Everybody had their jobs, so we
all kept busy, but just when

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i'd be like helping to feed the
cows or working in the garden, I'd

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get a weird vibe in them sometimes, like a just a weird feeling up

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my spine. And sometimes there were
lights in the woods, like in the

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distance every now and then. They
were usually like white or like light colored.

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Weird sounds like sometimes like sounds that
sounded like, I don't know,

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like you'd think like you're in the
jungle or something out like where there's eight

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like monkeys or chimps or something like. I don't know. It was just

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sometimes you'd see I shine every now
and then, but like I only just

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thought it was like you know,
the cows or horses or something. But

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every sid I don't know, like
there's just weird things that happened. Thankfully,

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my grandfather he was smart, like
the way that he had the farm

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all set up, like there were
absolutely no woods near any of the windows,

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Like he had all the woods back
away from the trailers, so it's

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like nothing could just come up and
you know, just you know front Like,

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Yeah, he was smart. And
he had all these these big gass

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lights everywhere that lit up the place
so you could see it really well at

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night. And he always just said
it was good so we wouldn't trip or

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something because it would get pretty dark
out there. So do you think your

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grandfather had experience is that led him
to that point where everything was you know,

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the heavy lights, not being near
the woodline, things of that nature.

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Yeah. Um, Like he didn't
even tell me about any of his

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experiences until I approached him on the
day that I ended up seeing a I

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mean, I guess a sasquatch or
whatever you want to call it. Uh,

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sorry, I'm a little that's all
right, that's all right. You

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did share something with me before any
view that was very interesting, And do

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you feel comfortable sharing a little bit
about your heritage? I think that really

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helps provide some context maybe to the
stories you're about to share. Oh,

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of course, Um, I'm part
Cree indigenous on my father's side. I

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didn't know a whole lot about my
culture until much later in my life.

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I only just recently last year I
got to finally meet my blood grandmother on

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my father's side. But currently we're
all working towards getting our actual official treaty,

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like a certificate or whatever you call
it. So I'm excited for that.

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But right now I'm just kind of
been on this spiritual journey. It

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seems like my whole life, but
for some odd reason, like I saw

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strange things growing up and sometimes had
odd experiences I couldn't quite explain, such

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as seeing that particular being on the
back of my grandfather's property. Yeah,

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my grandmother on my father's side,
she's considered an elder and she's actually quite

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respected and I adore her. She's
such a sweet lady, and I've asked

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her questions concerning my experience. I
told her my story and what happened,

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and she said that she thinks that
it's like a guardian. They're like can

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be spirit guardians, I guess,
or guardians of the forest, but also

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like there are good spirits and bad
spirits. So I learned that, Yeah,

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sometimes these things they don't even mean
to appear to us. Sometimes people

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just have like a site like they
just one day are just mining their business

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and they just see it and it's
like all shocked, like you see me,

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even though like maybe it thought it
was in like its own little dimension

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or it was like somehow hiding from
us, like doing that at Predator thing

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it does where it tries to,
you know, like blend in with everything

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and conceal itself. It's so weird, the cloaking. But yeah, my

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experience, it happened at like ten
thirty in the morning, you know,

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it was pretty early, well not
really, I guess, but basically,

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my grandmother she asked me if I
would be willing to go and just pick

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some wild berries and just fill this
uh you know, just ice cream piale,

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you know, And I was like, hell yeah, because she was

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going to make homemade pie and I
absolutely loved her berry crumble was so good,

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and so yeah, I was totally
down for that. And I had

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my dog with me. He was
a Border Collie who was the sweetest dog.

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His name was King. He was
the best dog I ever had.

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I loved that dog. He was
a good protector and he was with me

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the whole time, so I didn't
feel concerned because I was only walking like

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fifteen minutes down the cut because like
my grandfather, there were these cut lines

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that went down and he'd keep them
nice and cut short because he'd let the

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cattle in there so we'd have some
extra pasture so they could have new grazing

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ground, and the cows weren't there
at the time, so I'm like,

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heck, yeah, I'm gonna go
get these berries. I was only twelve

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years old. It was nineteen ninety
nine, and it was like the end

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of August, like end of summer, like when everything is in bloom and

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everything, like I love that time
of year. But anyway, so I'm

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walking Kings with me and U to
take a turn to the right, and

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as I take the turn, I
see King he just basically freezes in front

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of me. And of course I'm
usually more like looking at the ground.

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I was, you know, looking
at the flowers, and then I see

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my dog. All of a sudden, he freezes, you know, basically

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in front of me, and I'm
like, what's up, boy? Like

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what's got you scared or whatever?
And and then like I look ahead,

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I was about twenty twenty five feet
not too far, and I see this

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black figure like you know it was
It was Harry. Um, I thought

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it was a BlackBerry. Honestly,
like just my mind could not compute what

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I was looking at because at this
time, I had no idea what a

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sasquatch was, Like I mean,
and I didn't even watched Harry and the

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Henderson's I was probably fourteen, so
that was probably one of the first times

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I even learned about what a sasquatch
was. But when it stood up on

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two legs, it was massive.
I mean, I've never ever seen a

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person that big before. I mean, I've gone to like a wrestle like

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WWE wrestling, and I saw the
Big Show. I've seen the Undertaker.

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They're big guys, but they looked
small compared to this guy. And so

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my dog he backed up like right
up against my leg, just tied against

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me, and he was just kind
of loaded the ground almost frozen in place,

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but like he didn't run away,
thankfully, I probably I don't know

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what would happened. I just felt
like, thank you to my dog.

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You know, for not leaving me
behind. Pardon to me. So,

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um, it's standing there looking at
me, and its hair is uh,

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reminds me of human hair, Like
looked like human hair. Uh. It

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was long, looked kind of silky, actually nice. Mostly he didn't he

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doesn't. He didn't look like uh
really, um, how would I describe?

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Sorry? Um, he looked so
human. It's just really it's just

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really jarring thinking back to it.
Um hm. So the first look that

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he had on his face that I
noticed, like emotional, was kind of

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like mine. I felt like we
were both like, oh shit, Like

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he almost had this look like you
see me, like a very surprise for

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a moment look, and then all
of a sudden, his face just went

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completely like neutral, like from surprise
big eye to like just straight face.

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He didn't look aggressive. He didn't
show his teeth or growl or anything.

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You know, he was just very
quiet. He didn't have any leaves or

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anything in in his hair. I
mean, his hair was nice. So

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it was maddened in a couple of
spots, but like for the most part,

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you know, like he didn't look
like really old. He kind of

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to me seemed more like maybe middle
aged or maybe a little younger in his

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prime, just from the sense that
I got. Honestly, his eyes were

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so piercing because like they were like
a gold amber kind of color, and

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they were the most they were so
big, Like they were huge, Like

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this thing must have been at least
eight to nine feet tall, like though

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I mean I was twelve, right, and it's it's literally a giant,

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So anything would probably look giant,
but to me, he looked pretty vergan

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big. But like I feel like
in my mind after all these years,

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trying to attempt to calculate kind of
later on down the line, when I

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was like sixteen, I tried to
use a measuring tape and try and figure

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out like the relative height just from
that tree that he was standing near.

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I mean, he was there picking
berries when I walked up on him,

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and he looks really happy and content
until I came along. So that is

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a fascinating description of what you saw. And do you remember anything particular about

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how the head, maybe the shape
of the head looked or anything like that.

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Yeah, um, kind of like
a sort of cone shape but not

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not not completely um more normal looking
head, but just just overall just bigger,

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just a bigger head, like a
massive head, like just it's insane,

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Like I can't believe how massive he
was, like his hands, his

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feet is freaking everything and his damn
I don't even want to talk about the

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other thing that was just dangling there, like dude, but like what can

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you do? I mean, it's
not like you expect them to have clothes

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on or anything. But he was
very calm. Um honestly, when he

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and I were we were like in
having eye contact. Um. I was

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scared, but I was also kind
of curious because I'd literally never seen anything

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like that in my life, and
I'd always believed as a kid, you

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know, that maybe fairies did exist, you know, maybe these other mythological

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creatures once existed, and we just
don't know for sure, and you know,

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some things are never certain until proved
otherwise. So and I always just

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kind of, I suppose, was
a whimsical child in that way. And

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so seeing this big, hairy wild
man, this giant, literal giant,

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you know, standing there so close. My grandfather taught me as a child,

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like from a very young age,
because I used to love hunting and

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fishing and being outdoors with him,
and he was like, if you ever

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come across a bear or cougar,
just stay very calm, do not tear

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back to them, back away slow, do not run, whatever you do,

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right, So that was kind of
what was going through my head,

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is this looks like a human and
yet he looks like a sort of animal

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like just because the harold over his
body and his smell too. I mean,

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at first I smelled it a little
bit as I was proaching what I

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just thought that was cows, Like
genuinely I didn't. It was just musky

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and smelled like like wet dog a
bit, and just earthy smells. I

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guess, yeah, like just a
wild animal smells how I would describe it.

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But it wasn't over like overbearing,
like even when I was standing there,

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like I could only I could smell
him a smidge a bit, but

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not very much. It's weird because
like where I saw him, So I

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got this back part of the property
of the farm, there's a river.

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There's like a fifteen twenty foot drop
off and then there's the river and that's

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like literally the end the end cut
of the property right and there's like a

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birch forest, just all these beautiful
white birch trees everywhere at this one part.

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It's incredible. And I used to
love playing there because I called it

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those you know, forest of ghosts
and whatever as a kid. And like

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sometimes I'd find weird things, like
I'd find trees very high up just snapped

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off, you know, like trees
that are not little trees. Some of

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them were even still young trees,
like not even like dead, and they

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didn't look like they should have been
dead, you know. They It was

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weird. And I found sometimes like
uh, formations with rocks, I guess,

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like I even found some owns at
one point, like carcass of a

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deer, some other bones, like
like it looked kind of like like a

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little animal graveyard a bit. But
my grandpa also said that he sometimes would

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take like parts of animals that he
had butchered or whatever, and he just

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threw the scraps out there, you
know, out there in the forest.

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Why would he give back to nature? Okay, okay, yeah, in

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his mind it well okay, at
first I didn't understand it either, but

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then he told me later on that
he did it because it seemed to keep

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them away from us, Like he
felt like if I just give them some

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portions from the garden. You know, food that's like overly ripe or whatever,

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and just you know, whatever's left
of whatever I butchered, I'll just

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put it like throw it away,
you know, really far away from us,

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out there in the woods, there
was a spot and he said that

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he felt like they had it was
like an understanding, like they wouldn't come

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into our space, and they never
did. Like I never saw them ever

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enter the yard or nothing like.
I never saw the eyeshine come any closer

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than from the woods. So thank
goodness, I never felt like I was

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being watched in in my own home. That was nice. That's that's a

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plus. I want to get back
to your grandfather a little later, but

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I also want to make sure that
we give your encounter the full time as

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well. And I just have some
questions for you. So, you know,

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you're looking at the face. You're
looking at in the face, and

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it's always interesting how some people will
describe what they see. And I'm just

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curious, what did you notice about
the features of the face and you're actually

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looking at it. He looked.
He reminded me of like I've seen some

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pictures that were old black and white
photos of some Native American chieftains from back

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in the day, and he just
reminded me of like a very native American

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looking in the face, I guess, his nose was pretty was quite wide,

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his lips were, you know,
quite wide, like his just whole

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face was just so big. So
his hair was like swept back out of

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his face. It uh didn't look
messy or anything. He had kind of

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a beard sort of going on.
Didn't look really all too messy. Of

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course, it had been raining that
morning, so you never know, maybe

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he got a shower, But his
eyes were very human to me. They

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were actually they stood out quite a
bit. His hair was very black,

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but it had a bit of a
reddish tinge to it, and like I've

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heard people say that they can look
really really dark, like a shadow dark.

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But he didn't look that dark to
me. He looked just like a

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really like a nice just a black
hair basically, that's that's it, with

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some red hue to it. In
the light. I mean, we were

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literally standing there in the lights,
and I could see his features quite well

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because it was sunny and there was
no cloud in the sky, which to

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me makes it even more insane,
just because like these beings seemed to be

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so cautious. So the fact that
he was very comfortable just you know,

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their crouch eating away happily like nord
deal. You know, it was just

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kind of funny to me when I
looked back and think about it. Would

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you say that the actions it was
doing as it was picking the berries,

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would you say they were more human
like or more maybe ape like, or

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maybe a mixture of the two.
Mm. Honestly, it reminded me more

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of like I suppose, how a
human might just be their crouch just eating,

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But I mean it could have been
maybe a little bit of a mix

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of the two. But I felt
like he was just sitting there like a

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normal like any person would, just
showing down and enjoying himself. Basically,

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that was just kind of the feeling
I got. I just got the sense

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like I was interrupting him maybe,
like I just came along and like these

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beings though, they seem so in
touch with their environment, So I'm like

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surprised that I was able to even
like come across him at all, to

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be honest, especially when he had
that really surprised look on his face,

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you know, when he turned and
looked at me. But yeah, I

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remember also being very quiet, just
standing there us looking at each other.

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I felt this weird feeling come over
me. At one point, I m

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curiosity. I lifted my hand very
slowly and just gave a little wave with

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my fingers and just kind of like
like just to see what he would do.

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I was just kind of curious,
I don't know, childish whatever.

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I was scared, but I was
also like you a person? Like I'm

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literally thinking to myself like are you
a person or are you like a wild

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animal? Like So anyway, he
gave he gave like a grunt basically at

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me. He just gave a grunt, just one grunt, and it was

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a deep kind of grunt, and
I felt like this weird um sensation in

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my body. It was very odd, like a a numbing tangling. I

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even had like this weird ringing in
my ear at one point, which is

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odd. And uh, yeah,
he just turned. It was like when

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he turned his whole upper body turn. You know. He had a very

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thick neck. I will say this
right now, Like physically he was wow

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built, Like I mean, he
looked like he could take down a buffalo

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or something. He was so built, like his traps were massive, his

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shoulders he didn't have much of a
neck, but it like he had a

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neck, but it was like super
thick. And it's just his traps.

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They were just so fricking massive,
like it's ridiculous. It almost reminds me

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of a bowl or something like.
And he looked healthy. He didn't look

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sickly or anything like that. His
skin was kind of a gray color.

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I described it as like a gray
color. That's interest. So the actual

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skin tone was kind of gray.
You're saying, yeah, yeah, he

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was like gray with like black,
nice black hair. It was kind of

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like wavy, like you know if
you if a woman or a person has

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like long, wavy, silky hair. It kind of looked like that.

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Like on his arms and his legs
it would be about, you know,

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four to six inches long hair,
sometimes two inches long, you know,

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like on his face. His chest
it had not as much hair, which

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is surprising, but it was kind
of like a little bit thinner on his

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chest and his stomach. He had
hair down there, but it didn't hide

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much, I'm afraid. Also,
you know, he had the thickest thighs

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and arms, like holy crep,
bodybuilder, like even I don't even know,

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maybe more than a bodybuilder, because
like that was just crazy. How

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Like Eddie Hall one of the strongest
men in the world, and he made

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him look like small and that's crazy. It's because he's like a heavyweight champion

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or bodybuilder or whatever. So,
yeah, you notice any specific details about

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the hands or the feet, yes, um, so he looked like he

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had human hands and feet. But
he definitely had like hair on his hands

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and feet, but not much Like
he had some hair on top of his

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hands, some on top of his
feet, but like for the most part

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I could see that was just like
a lot of dark skin and like dark

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gray skin. His hands and feet
looked a little bit rougher, Like understandably,

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they're probably using their hands and feet
you know, for everything obviously hunting

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and everything else, so I'm sure, but like that's probably the one part

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on his body that looked the more
worn or rough. Like his nails were

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kind of like they didn't they weren't
sharp. They looked like normal human nails,

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and they were kind of maybe a
little cracked some of them. But

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yeah, like his hands and feet
looked pretty human to me. Honestly,

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I didn't. I didn't know it's
really anything differently other than his finger nails

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and toes seem to be like more
dark, like almost black or something.

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It's kind of weird. That is
very weird. Actually, the same number

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of fingers and toes as as a
human would down. Yeah, five fingers,

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five toes. Yeah just massive,
right, Yeah, a lot bigger

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than than we're going to have obviously. Um, so you're saying the individual

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he turned and then started to walk
away. Then, Yeah, when he

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turned, his whole upper body turned. It's like it's not like with a

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person you could just turn your neck
and then turn your body. It was

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like a whole turns and then he
just walks into the white birch forest and

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it's literally like ten steps. I
can hear the movement of the trees,

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you know, some cracks of wood, and then absolute silence, like absolute

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nothing. And it was And that
is the thing I noticed, too,

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is when he and I were apart
from each other, everything was so quiet.

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I couldn't hear nothing. I could
hear my dog whimper occasionally, and

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I certainly felt like whimpering, but
I tried my best not to do so.

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I just didn't get a sense like
he was going to hurt me.

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I felt like, if he really
wanted to, he could literally have reached

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me in no problem and snatched my
little twelve year old butt up and taking

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me. I do not think my
dog could have done anything to stop him

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though that I think that's just me. I mean, my dog he literally

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fended the farm against bear, cougar, coyotes, all kinds of creatures over

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the years. But this was very
different. And I could tell because my

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dog was shaking, just he seemed
a little shaking, like literally and I'm

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shaking just talking about it because I
feel like I could feel like my dog's

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fear. And I also was like, just stay calm, Just stay calm,

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Everything's gonna be okay. I didn't
get a sense of danger. I

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just but I know, like after
that experience, that made me think,

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holy shoot, I could I could
have been the end of me, Like

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I could have been common missing four
one one or something and that would be

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the end of me. And I'm
so glad that didn't happen. When you're

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watching the sasquatch walk away from you
towards the birch forest, did you notice

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anything in particular about you know,
how there's the way a person will walk.

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It's gay, did you notice anything
about the gate of the sasquatch?

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Has it walked away from here?
Actually? Yeah, okay, so like

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it seems almost like their ankle is
It seemed like it wasn't quite in the

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normal place that like a human ankle
would be. Pardon me, It seemed

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almost like lower or something. And
maybe it was really odd, like the

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way he talked, like the way
he walked, sorry, was very smooth,

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like I couldn't I could barely like
I could barely even hear him moving

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like he it was. It's crazy
how quiet it was, because after he

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was gone, like everything in the
forest returned to normal and all the noises

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came back. But it was like
for that moment when he and I were

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there together interacting, for that moment, it felt like it's almost like time

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stopped, and like everything like around
me as really uh. To be honest,

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I feel almost comforted, kind of
weirdly enough, like I feel scared,

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but at the same time I don't
feel maybe I should be more scared,

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But I've also been kind of curious
about a lot of things like supernatural

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or crypti related for a long a
lot of years since I was a kid.

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But the fact that it even happened
to me. It was just I

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was just a normal person until until
that. And then and then of course,

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like a couple weeks later, I
end up seeing him again and really,

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yeah, I saw the big guy
again. He was not alone either.

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He was actually with like a female
and a little one. And this

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is this is crazy, Like I
mean, the first the first site,

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the first time I saw him,
you know, after everything returning normal,

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I'm like, holy shit, I
got to run back home. I got

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to tell my grandpa what I saw
like and yeah, I can definitely tell

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you what he told me. If
you'd liked Yeah, anything that you would

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feel comfortable sharing, anything you feel
comfortable sharing would be crazy. Um okay,

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Well, so my grandfather was always
a very practical man, a very

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hard working, down to earth person. Um he was my hero and I

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missed terribly. And he was always
such a someone you could always turn to

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that would think calm, you know, um when things were kind of crazy.

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And when I got home, he
was like, where have you been?

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We were starting to get worried.
It's been like, you know,

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almost an hour, and I'm like, well, I gotta tell you something.

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And I wanted to talk to him
alone. So I took a little

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walk and I explained that I had
grandpa. Grandpa. I saw a big

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hairyman. He was black colored his
hair, you know. I was like

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he looked like like some kind of
wild man or something like. He was

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just a really giant hairyman on the
back end of your property down where you

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know all the saskatoon berries are and
the strawberries and everything, because we had

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loads of raspberry strawberries, blueberry saskatoons, like you name it, wild rhubarb.

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I mean, where we lived,
we had a lot of really yummy

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natural foods that just grew on the
land. So we were very lucky.

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And I feel like maybe that was
part of the reason why they probably liked

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my around his property. And I
think that's why they always kind of lingered

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on the edges. And yeah,
I don't know, that's just kind of

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my my thoughts. And plus he
did sort of start giving them, you

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know, leftovers and whatever now and
then It's just my grandfather always felt like

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it's important to give back to nature, that it's important to uh, you

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know, if you have extra anything, you know, make sure you can

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give to the community and give it
back to nature, give back to animals

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so that they can eat, because
you know, sometimes animals struggle and they

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go through a lot during the winter. So like we were always kind of

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like that. I don't know.
He was always a very a very good

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gentleman with tough as nails, that's
for sure. But it's just I guess

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before I was born. He said
that sometimes things in the garden would go

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missing, you know, during the
night, he'd find stuff gone, you

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know, like we had squashes that
would go missing. You know, we'd

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have all kinds of greens that would
go missing. I'm not one hundred percent

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sure on everything, per se,
because he never really went into that detail,

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but he said that, um,
it got on his nerves and he

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was like, screw it, I'm
just gonna build a frigging garden for these

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whatever they are all the way over, way the hell away, and just

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hope the hell that that they'll get
the hint and just go there and not

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take from our garden. Because he
felt like that scaling and they're being passed.

409
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:50.880
He did not feel comfortable with the
notion of because here in Canada we

410
00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.800
don't exactly have a lot for guns, like I mean, we have like

411
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.760
the occasional, you know, we
have rifles and stuff for hunting, and

412
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:02.039
he just did not feel like it
would be wise to pull guns out,

413
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.400
especially a rifle like a twenty two
or anything else. He just did not

414
00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:09.440
feel like any of these guns would
do a whole heck of a lot.

415
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:15.639
He didn't have like big game hunting
guns at the time, so in his

416
00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.880
opinion, he felt like, if
I do something, what if it angers

417
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:27.239
these creatures and they start doing things
that make it really hard to live there

418
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.960
peacefully. So he just kind of
decided, I hope that this is enough

419
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:34.920
that they'll just recognize, hey,
this is for you guys, stay over

420
00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.960
there, basically, and they did, like they never they never came in

421
00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:43.800
the yard, nothing went missing again
from the garden. Everything was fine,

422
00:37:43.920 --> 00:37:46.679
and sometimes when there was extra crap, he'd just go and give it to

423
00:37:46.760 --> 00:37:51.440
the cows and you know, the
pigs and the goats and all that anyway,

424
00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:54.719
so it didn't really matter, Like
in his mind, he's like,

425
00:37:54.920 --> 00:38:01.119
these creatures are going to come and
take the food from my animal or I

426
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:06.480
can just leave you know, some
out there for them and hopefully they won't

427
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:10.719
steal from my animals. Because like
everything always happened at night while we're asleep.

428
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:19.239
So my grandfather, his parents were
Norwegian, like he's a Norwegian descendant.

429
00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:22.119
He grew up in Canada, but
he grew up with a lot of

430
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:28.480
stories about you know, giants and
like a lot of Norse kind of stories,

431
00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:37.159
and he believed that there were things
that existed that maybe we're beyond our

432
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:45.119
ability to understand or fully comprehend,
you know, even spiritual things, and

433
00:38:46.760 --> 00:38:51.119
so like, for him, he
just kind of felt like, I don't

434
00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:57.159
want war with these things, whatever
they are. He genuinely just wanted to

435
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:02.280
live his life out there peacefully because
my grandma and a great grandmother, they

436
00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:07.480
were the sweetest ladies, but they
could be a little sometimes they could get

437
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.440
a little bit like anxiety, and
he just did not think that they would

438
00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:17.239
be able to handle knowing that information, and did his absolute best to keep

439
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:22.440
it just to himself, Like he
carried this by himself for so long,

440
00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:28.039
you know. And then I'd tell
him my experience, and now all of

441
00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:30.559
a sudden, he's like, well, you've seen the big guy, so

442
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:36.239
I might as well tell you some
things and kind of explain to you why

443
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:40.519
I didn't want you going to certain
parts of the property, like where certain

444
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:46.400
parts of the forest are, and
I didn't really know how I felt about

445
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:50.840
you going out there to pick those
berries. To be honest, even though

446
00:39:50.840 --> 00:39:54.199
it's not far, I still had
a feeling like, you know, something

447
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.480
was off, like especially because I
was gone a little bit longer than expected

448
00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:02.639
because they literally told me, you
know, you're only can be gone for

449
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:07.800
so long and then we expect you
back type deal. So because I was

450
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:09.519
twelve, so like, I knew
the property really well. But I was

451
00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:13.960
definitely the kind of kid that was
rambunctious and like to run off into the

452
00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:20.039
woods and play and play per tend
with my animals. Such a nerd like

453
00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.760
that. But yeah, I was
very close with nature. Like I always

454
00:40:22.800 --> 00:40:27.159
loved nature. I always loved running
around barefoot except for her in the cow

455
00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:34.119
field. Nope, right, yea, but yeah, like I yeah,

456
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:37.880
I loved it like I was.
I loved it because we had a giant

457
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:43.280
family rock. There's actually that's hilarious. Like not far from the garden there

458
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:45.719
was a rock, a giant rock, and it was painted with flowers on

459
00:40:45.800 --> 00:40:51.119
it. It was so cute and
I loved it and it was like a

460
00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:57.880
family project that my mom and grandma
did together. And it's funny because there

461
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:02.519
were sometimes were things that were on
that rock, things that would be wrapped

462
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:09.760
up and like leaves with I don't
know, some sort of I'm not exactly

463
00:41:09.800 --> 00:41:15.079
sure how to describe it. It's
like sometimes there was a pretty rock,

464
00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:25.039
sometimes there was some pretty flowers.
Sometimes these flowers had medicinal properties I guess,

465
00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:30.119
like like wild lavender or sage or
whatever. It was interesting. I

466
00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:35.119
don't know, I don't know.
Sometimes like there'd be little things, like

467
00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:38.079
little trinkets on there, and my
grandpa would just take them and I'd be

468
00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:42.280
like, hmm, I just wouldn't
think about it, really, I would.

469
00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:44.840
He'd be like, oh, it's
just a gift from the fairies.

470
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:49.199
But in reality, now I think
I know maybe where those things were coming

471
00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.639
from. It's very interesting. I
don't I never quite understood it myself,

472
00:41:52.800 --> 00:42:01.880
but that is a fantastic Yeah.
Sounds like the entire interactions that your grandfather

473
00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:10.039
had were very peaceful though with the
creatures. M Yeah. Yeah, he

474
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:15.360
never felt threatened by them, but
he did say that that didn't mean that

475
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:20.599
they weren't capable of becoming threatening,
so he was I don't he was very

476
00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:23.079
cautious man. Honestly. That was
one of the things I always respected about

477
00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:29.639
him is he was never a fool. He always thought things through very very

478
00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:34.440
clearly before he did anything. And
I love that about him because somehow he

479
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.639
managed to make it work. And
it was kept a secret for so long,

480
00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:42.239
and I kept it a secret,
like I couldn't talk to anybody but

481
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:45.800
him. I talked to my mom
eventually about it, but it took me

482
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:52.159
years before I finally opened up to
her about it. I mean, and

483
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:57.000
then my second experience happened, and
that was crazy because I was with my

484
00:42:57.039 --> 00:43:02.960
grandfather when it happened. So before
we get into that, a few more

485
00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:09.239
questions for context this area. How
close is your nearest neighbor in this area?

486
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:15.239
Would you say about a mile a
mile and a half away. Oh,

487
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:21.960
I'm about twenty twenty thirty minutes away
from the town High Prairie. That's

488
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:27.400
about how far it was. We're
out there, pretty far. Got we

489
00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:34.840
spread out. It's either a lot
of farming land or a lot of forest.

490
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.599
So I am very interested to hear
how you and your grandfather actually had

491
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:45.119
a sighting together, which is very
poetic in a way. Really that you

492
00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:52.360
both were able to experience the family
together. I agree. Yeah, I

493
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:55.159
never really thought of it that way, but no, that's true. Actually

494
00:43:55.360 --> 00:44:00.119
yeah, I mean it's something we
ended up sharing together a lot. Actually,

495
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:07.639
it definitely brought us closer. Okay, I'll be happy to tell you

496
00:44:08.119 --> 00:44:14.599
what happened. It was a couple
of weeks after I saw the Big Guy

497
00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:22.519
the first time. So it's like
nine thirty in the morning, and we're

498
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:28.400
in my grandfather's old beat up for
a truck, just one of those old

499
00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:35.400
fashioned farm trucks you can take out
there and have fun and whatever. And

500
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:40.960
we're just driving down the cut and
we're going to the back cut of the

501
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:45.239
property and we're driving along the river. We went to go check on the

502
00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:52.960
cows because they were often this backfield, and we're just talking and enjoying the

503
00:44:53.079 --> 00:44:58.880
morning sun. It was a beautiful
day, I mean, just perfect,

504
00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:04.840
honestly. I can I remember having
the window whirled down. And so after

505
00:45:04.840 --> 00:45:07.320
we check on the cows, he
wanted to check on the calves, make

506
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:16.000
sure everything was going good like the
younger cows anyway, excuse me, So

507
00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:21.119
he uh turns around. We're driving
back and we're going to go back home.

508
00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:27.360
So we're going very slow. We're
just casually enjoying, chatting whatever.

509
00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:31.599
And then and I'm looking down at
the river off the drop, you know,

510
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:42.039
and well, basically I end up
seeing the big guy down there on

511
00:45:42.079 --> 00:45:47.320
the other side of the river off
the drop, like, and he wasn't

512
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:58.559
alone. He was standing there with
his hands in the water, and he

513
00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:05.119
had another or with him. He
had a little one as well. The

514
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:10.440
one that was bigger with him was
a female. She was she looked thick.

515
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:15.039
I'm not gonna lie like, she
looked like a like broad shoulders,

516
00:46:15.159 --> 00:46:21.159
just thick, kind of like Patty
looking sort of, but she didn't look

517
00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:24.119
like in my opinion, she didn't
look that old. And she was like

518
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:32.880
a red brown color, very actually
kind of a nice color. And the

519
00:46:32.960 --> 00:46:38.079
little one was like in the water
and she picked it up. She leaned

520
00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:43.280
down, picked it up in her
arms and just held it and it wrapped

521
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:49.119
its arms around her neck and shoulders. And they were literally just stopping doing

522
00:46:49.159 --> 00:46:52.079
what they were doing, and they
were just looking up at me and looking

523
00:46:52.159 --> 00:47:00.920
up at the truck. And again
I'm just seeing them standing there and I'm

524
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.920
like, what, Grandpa, Grandpa, And I'm like leaning over and I'm

525
00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:07.039
like patting him on the arm,
like, Grandpa, you need to stop

526
00:47:07.079 --> 00:47:10.760
the truck. The big guys down
there, he's with his family. He's

527
00:47:10.800 --> 00:47:15.000
not alone. Like I'm like,
please, Grandpa, stop, we need

528
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:20.119
to I need to show you so
you know that I'm not lying, like

529
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.960
see, and he's just not stopping, and he's like, Megan, it's

530
00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:28.639
okay, take a deep breath.
I could see him as we're passing.

531
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:37.679
I'm like, well, he's like, I know he's there, and yeah,

532
00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.599
I guess he's showing us his family. I don't like, he just

533
00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:43.559
didn't quite understand it himself. He
just thought, oh, well, they're

534
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:51.119
probably fishing or something. And I'm
just kind of like he's has a family.

535
00:47:51.360 --> 00:47:57.079
I mean, he has this little
fluffy he almost looked like a almost

536
00:47:57.119 --> 00:48:01.719
grill like sort of but not quite
just like just really fluffy looking the little

537
00:48:01.719 --> 00:48:07.719
guy. And he had dark hair
like his dad. He looked a lot

538
00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.360
like his dad. He had,
you know, like kind of like a

539
00:48:12.199 --> 00:48:16.559
brownish face, though more like his
mom, but he had like reddish,

540
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:22.760
dark brown black hair. It was
very interesting. And they were just standing

541
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:25.400
there next to each other and the
baby in her arms just looking up at

542
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:34.000
us. As we're driving by,
and so like my grandpa decides, he's

543
00:48:34.039 --> 00:48:37.719
like, okay, Megan, look, I think when you're a little older,

544
00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:44.360
I will tell you more about the
big guy and his family. He's

545
00:48:44.400 --> 00:48:47.239
like, I just want you to
know that nothing is going to happen as

546
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.480
long as you stay you know,
stay home or you know you're with somebody.

547
00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:57.679
Just be smart. Basically, just
don't go out in the woods anymore

548
00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:00.519
on your own if you don't feel
safe or comfortable. Basically, you know,

549
00:49:00.599 --> 00:49:05.159
he's like, just be smart about
it. And he's like, these

550
00:49:05.199 --> 00:49:08.840
things have been here longer than us. Like he's like, I have a

551
00:49:08.880 --> 00:49:16.400
feeling that when I moved here,
you know, we settled here, maybe

552
00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:22.079
they had been here or maybe they
had come through this area before. And

553
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:28.360
he's like, we are here,
this is their domain. This is the

554
00:49:28.400 --> 00:49:32.400
wilderness, you know, even though
we have these fields and everything. At

555
00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.559
the end of the day, they
live out in the wild, off the

556
00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:43.519
land. And he's like, they're
very quiet and private for the most part.

557
00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:46.280
I've never seen them really ever.
He's like, I've only seen them

558
00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:52.760
a couple of times, but like
it was never for very long and he

559
00:49:52.880 --> 00:50:00.639
never had any violent experiences either.
But he did say that the big guy,

560
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:07.239
he felt as though he could be
very dangerous if he did anything at

561
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:12.920
all that he might think was aggressive, so he just did his absolute best.

562
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:17.119
Like my grandpa, he even like
looked up some information on champs or

563
00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:22.199
guerrillas. He's kind of wanted to
try and understand what the heck he was

564
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:24.880
even looking at, because he himself
like he just thought, oh, it's

565
00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:29.559
a giant, giants are real,
what the hell? Or like you know,

566
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.800
and then it's like maybe either it's
just like some kind of ancient human

567
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:43.079
that is extremely proud thing to do
with people, like maybe they're an ancestor

568
00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:46.840
like maybe they're an alien who knows, Like he personally thought that maybe they

569
00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:52.840
were like kind of partially spiritual being
and partially physical, And I think I

570
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.400
kind of agree with him, but
I'm not one hundred percent on that.

571
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:07.079
But yeah, there was this one
night. This was really actually one of

572
00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:15.039
the creepiest, weirdest things that I
remember happening. This is probably like a

573
00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:22.039
year later, but it was nighttime
and we would have coyotes that would come

574
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:28.480
on the property. Sometimes we'd even
see wolves occasionally, like we were My

575
00:51:28.559 --> 00:51:35.079
grandfather's farm was near an area called
Swan Hills, like it it was very

576
00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:38.880
wild. There's hills, you know, miles upon miles upon miles of wilderness.

577
00:51:39.000 --> 00:51:46.119
Like it's insane how thick and dense
it is out there, and there's

578
00:51:46.159 --> 00:51:50.760
just so much that you can live
off of the land. You know.

579
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:55.239
Here, Honestly, Canada has so
much diversity when it comes to plants and

580
00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.360
animals. I really believe that these
creatures were living out here for the most

581
00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:05.079
part just fine. But I can
tell from looking at Big Guy that I

582
00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:12.000
have a feeling their lives are probably
pretty difficult or pretty harsh, just the

583
00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:17.679
thought, but I'm not sure I
would. You know, what I've heard

584
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:23.199
about your area, it seems like
a very wild and the winters can be

585
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:28.119
very hard up there, for sure, very brutal. Actually, that's one

586
00:52:28.199 --> 00:52:31.599
of the things that my grandfather specifically
told me, is because winters here can

587
00:52:31.639 --> 00:52:37.119
be so brutal, especially where he
was living, because he's pretty much out

588
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:39.320
in like the middle of nowhere,
Like he had to like, you know,

589
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:45.639
hire somebody to come out with a
grader to do the roads and stuff,

590
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:49.440
because our entire road going up to
our house, you know, would

591
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:53.079
just get snowed at snowed so much, and we definitely did not want to

592
00:52:53.079 --> 00:52:57.480
get stuck out there, because that
could easily have happened if we weren't smart.

593
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:02.079
Thank goodness, he was a very
prepared man for winter. But yeah,

594
00:53:02.119 --> 00:53:06.639
there were some very brutal winters that
I even remember as a kid.

595
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:15.639
And he said that sometimes winters were
so brutal that he would hear almost like

596
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:19.039
a sound of a gunshot going off
in the woods, but he was like,

597
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:23.880
not just a tree breaking, because
sometimes if it gets so cold,

598
00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:30.920
sometimes like little trees or whatever or
branches will snap off every now and then

599
00:53:30.079 --> 00:53:35.679
just because it's so cold. And
he felt like, I guess kind of

600
00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:39.559
sorry for a lot of the animals, especially these beings. For whatever reason,

601
00:53:40.079 --> 00:53:43.960
he just kind of felt like,
we have plenty, we have more

602
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:47.039
than enough. We have so much
in fact, that it's we're gonna end

603
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:51.760
up throwing stuff away and it's going
to be a waste. So he was

604
00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:54.920
kind of like, screw it,
I'll just go and leave all this crap

605
00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:59.679
way far out in the woods,
away from home, and kind of as

606
00:53:59.719 --> 00:54:01.920
almost was maybe an offering to the
land even and just kind of be like,

607
00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:07.400
here, this is our portion we're
given back kind of to nature.

608
00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:09.679
I hope this will do kind of
thing, like he even told me.

609
00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:15.400
Sometimes he'd just talked like like he'd
be like, I don't know if there's

610
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:20.360
anyone here, but just in case, this is for you, guys,

611
00:54:20.679 --> 00:54:23.719
please do not come tom our home, okay, like it's so funny,

612
00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:29.360
like he would. It creeped him
the heck out, like he definitely believed

613
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:32.239
that things could be possible, but
for him, even seeing something like that

614
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:37.440
was very jarring. He just never
really talked about it much. He just

615
00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:45.559
felt like it's something beyond his comprehension
because he, you know, was very

616
00:54:46.679 --> 00:54:52.119
very oldful, old school. Excuse
me, sorry, he's very old school

617
00:54:52.239 --> 00:54:57.519
like. He was just a very
hard working person, very you know,

618
00:54:57.760 --> 00:55:02.840
not the type to be dreaming like
me like how I was when I was

619
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:09.000
younger. He sounds like the guy
who the world needs a lot more people

620
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:14.159
like him, you know, that
respect the land and just a hard working,

621
00:55:14.800 --> 00:55:17.639
good guy. You're very lucky to
have a grampa like him, for

622
00:55:17.719 --> 00:55:22.119
sure. I was very lucky too, actually very lucky. If it wasn't

623
00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:29.840
for him, I wouldn't know the
difference between deer dung and bear dung and

624
00:55:30.039 --> 00:55:36.559
like just other hunting or fishing like
activities. Like he was he just always

625
00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:39.480
felt like nature will heal you and
it'll help you get in touch with your

626
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:44.800
true self and make like bring out
the best in you, because like you

627
00:55:44.880 --> 00:55:49.400
have to push yourself in nature to
survive or to eat, you know.

628
00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.320
So he was always kind of like, don't ever kill anything you don't intend

629
00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:57.159
to eat, don't ever waste like
he was very much against wastefulness. So,

630
00:55:58.599 --> 00:56:01.960
Megan, there was a few minutes
ago where you had started to bring

631
00:56:02.039 --> 00:56:07.239
up that there was one night where
something very unsettling happened. Oh yes,

632
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:10.440
yes, do your mind? Do
you do you remember? Do you mind

633
00:56:10.480 --> 00:56:15.639
sharing that? Yes? I would
love to thank you, thank you.

634
00:56:16.480 --> 00:56:24.119
So what happened was there were very
large packs of coyotes. There still are

635
00:56:24.360 --> 00:56:30.440
here in Alberta and Canada. They
can be a real problem for livestock.

636
00:56:31.000 --> 00:56:36.199
And so at this time, this
was a year later, it was a

637
00:56:36.320 --> 00:56:39.639
nighttime, probably around I'm going to
say ten thirty eleven thirty at night,

638
00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:45.039
very very dark out. The lights
are on in the yard, but beyond

639
00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:50.679
that point pitch black, and I
could hear all the coyotes just you know,

640
00:56:51.119 --> 00:56:54.239
howling what I do in normal coyote
you know, sounds, and I

641
00:56:54.280 --> 00:56:59.199
could hear the dogs, you know, they'd go out there to make sure

642
00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:04.039
the perimeter was guarded and that the
coyotes knew that they weren't welcome, while

643
00:57:06.199 --> 00:57:10.000
the coyotes were just making so much
racket and it's like, what in the

644
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:15.440
hell, Like it went from being
kind of normal sounds like coyotes to all

645
00:57:15.480 --> 00:57:20.719
of a sudden sounding almost like just
way more racket like. It was just

646
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:25.159
weird. It was almost like alarmed
sounds or something. And I felt,

647
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:32.000
Okay, this is what's weird is
there was this loud like h like this

648
00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:37.280
freaking all of a sudden, and
then just fucking excuse me, it's this

649
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.360
absolute silence, and I'm like,
what in the hell was that. I

650
00:57:42.440 --> 00:57:46.320
was literally, I was just had
the window opened and I'm sitting in the

651
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:52.480
bedroom watching a movie and I heard
this and then silence and no more coyote

652
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:57.519
sounds, and I see the dogs
come running back in the yard and they

653
00:57:57.639 --> 00:58:00.199
just go and hide in the doghouse. The other one goes and hides under

654
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:07.360
the trailer, and I'm like,
okay, I was freaking weird. So

655
00:58:07.519 --> 00:58:13.400
yeah, I was kind of like, what in the f And then years

656
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:16.119
later I was just I've been kind
of thinking about it, and I was

657
00:58:16.199 --> 00:58:20.559
like, maybe he was just sick
and tired of all the racket. I

658
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:24.599
have no idea. Well, that
was not me, It wasn't my grandpa.

659
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:30.639
That did not sound like like an
animal to me that I've ever heard.

660
00:58:31.559 --> 00:58:36.800
I've never in a million years heard
something just such a loud, ballowing

661
00:58:37.159 --> 00:58:40.159
raw. It wasn't like a roar, though, but it was like a

662
00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:47.800
loud ass scream. Give me Willie
Wild. It was like a really deep

663
00:58:47.960 --> 00:58:52.559
voice. It was so loud it
was crazy. Scared the crap out of

664
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:59.599
me. The time that you had
heard sounds like that from the woods that

665
00:58:59.639 --> 00:59:05.599
you did recognized to be other animals
or mmmm, other than like tree knocks.

666
00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:12.320
Occasionally I would hear like loud,
loud snapping sounds, or loud like

667
00:59:12.400 --> 00:59:15.719
sometimes like a tree was getting pushed
over sometimes, and sometimes it would sound

668
00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:20.599
like a bat was being hit against
another like a tree or something. It

669
00:59:20.639 --> 00:59:24.480
would just echo every now and then, and but like mostly it was just

670
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:30.800
sometimes just the weird feeling of being
watched. Sometimes I'd see lights out way

671
00:59:30.840 --> 00:59:35.400
out in the distance. I was
just like, hey, what the road

672
00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:38.159
is over here, and this is
only one road that comes in and out

673
00:59:38.159 --> 00:59:44.119
of this place. That's it.
This is literally one singular road. So

674
00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:49.920
why would anybody be out there in
the woods on the very back part of

675
00:59:49.960 --> 00:59:55.039
the property, Like why were there
lights out there? And it was and

676
00:59:55.159 --> 01:00:00.400
I'm like, better not be people
creeping. Like my grandpa told me that

677
01:00:00.440 --> 01:00:04.760
every now and then he'd see these
weird lights sometimes and they wouldn't be around

678
01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:09.079
much, but like every now and
then he'd see like these weird little orbs

679
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:14.719
I guess, like one was big
and look kind of like the size of,

680
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:19.079
oh, I don't know, like
a grapefruit maybe, but like mostly

681
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.760
yeah, they just they were just
always really far away. But he always

682
01:00:22.800 --> 01:00:27.400
said that it was weird how they
were just kind of moving along through the

683
01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:31.599
woods and then they'd just be gone, you know. And he also said

684
01:00:31.639 --> 01:00:40.559
that just the eyeshine was creepy,
and I agreed with him because it was.

685
01:00:42.159 --> 01:00:45.280
I wouldn't see it happened very often, but I definitely saw it at

686
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:51.079
least three different occasions. I saw
like, I saw a pair of green

687
01:00:51.159 --> 01:00:54.159
glowing eyes. They were pretty friggin
high up. And then I saw another

688
01:00:54.239 --> 01:01:02.719
pair which were the kind of yellow
glowing. Yeah, And that's that's about

689
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:09.000
all I can recall for that is
seeing, yeah, that color of eyes

690
01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:13.199
sometimes. So I didn't know if
it was a cow or what, but

691
01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:16.880
like it was situated in a weird
part of the woods, since the cows

692
01:01:16.880 --> 01:01:24.559
in the field would always be over
like in one section, and the where

693
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:31.960
the eyeshine was was situated pretty much
right across from my grandparents trailer, right

694
01:01:32.000 --> 01:01:37.519
across the road, all the way
into the tree line. Like, so

695
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:42.599
it's like they could see everything that
was happening, you know, like the

696
01:01:42.719 --> 01:01:45.639
entirety of like the whole side of
the trailer, in the whole yard.

697
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:49.239
It's I just feel like maybe sometimes
I don't know, maybe they were just

698
01:01:49.280 --> 01:01:52.559
watching because they were bored. I
have no idea why they do what they

699
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:55.599
do. I'm just glad they never
came in the yard because that would have

700
01:01:55.639 --> 01:02:00.679
been so freaking scary seeing one of
the night scary enough seeing him during the

701
01:02:00.800 --> 01:02:06.360
day. I mean, I don't
know, it's just really jarring. It's

702
01:02:06.360 --> 01:02:12.119
so it's just, man, you
never think that's something that looks human,

703
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:20.079
and this just seems so human,
Like that massive, that powerful, that

704
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:27.880
mysterious could exist out there, and
it's and the fact that it keeps itself

705
01:02:27.960 --> 01:02:34.519
hidden and it's so intelligent, and
it obviously knows it's environment better than we

706
01:02:34.599 --> 01:02:37.199
do now. Like humanity used to
be in touch more with the land.

707
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:42.760
We used to have, you know, more respect for the balance of things

708
01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:45.960
and be closer. And maybe we
were closer with some of these beings because

709
01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:52.800
like I've heard stories, you know, of some native tribes having them as

710
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.440
kind of like wood like neighbors of
the woods, and most of the time

711
01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:00.840
they just kept to themselves, but
like they were recognized, is like another

712
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:06.559
tribe you know of people just kind
of wild people, people that preferred to

713
01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:10.599
live in the old ways and did
not want anything to do with us,

714
01:03:10.760 --> 01:03:14.800
because I don't know, maybe they
just saw the way we treat each other

715
01:03:15.199 --> 01:03:17.679
over this thousands of years. Who
knows, you know, maybe we went

716
01:03:17.679 --> 01:03:23.400
to war with them thousands of years
ago. And because I've heard, like

717
01:03:23.639 --> 01:03:29.239
you know, tales of that as
well that you and definitely people have had

718
01:03:29.280 --> 01:03:31.440
some very nasty run ins with these
creatures. And I could believe it.

719
01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:38.119
These beings seemed very peaceful. They
seemed more human than ape or animal to

720
01:03:38.199 --> 01:03:44.000
me, they really did what.
I've also heard stories of creatures that are

721
01:03:44.039 --> 01:03:49.320
genuinely terrifying, that look like,
well, like an experiment gone wrong,

722
01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:54.519
like a monster. And I've been
told that there are evil ones and good

723
01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:59.599
ones, just like there are people
that are good and evil, and these

724
01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:06.639
being somehow can they can tell what
you're like, what your interest is.

725
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:10.679
And then I guess, like,
I don't know if it's true if they

726
01:04:10.679 --> 01:04:15.239
can read your mind, but I
mean, I've certainly heard tales of mind

727
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:20.519
speak and anything as possible. I
certainly felt some sort of weird connection with

728
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:29.039
the one that I saw, the
big male and years later being told,

729
01:04:29.440 --> 01:04:35.239
you know, even by a medicine
woman that I just met randomly. She

730
01:04:35.280 --> 01:04:40.679
approached me and she told me that
in a past life you were a medicine

731
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:45.280
woman and these being there that you
have the sight to be able to see

732
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.800
things that I'm like, okay,
well, it's nice to meet you,

733
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:54.159
ranger I just met. But she
was like, I'm a medicine woman.

734
01:04:54.199 --> 01:04:57.639
I just wanted you to know,
but I see that there's something you know,

735
01:04:57.679 --> 01:05:00.920
that you have some kind of sight
or something or some kind of connection.

736
01:05:01.039 --> 01:05:04.360
And I'm like, okay, and
you know it's just at the time.

737
01:05:04.440 --> 01:05:08.920
Like I mean, I've studied a
lot of a lot of things when

738
01:05:08.960 --> 01:05:14.760
it comes to spirituality, religion,
history, I like, you know,

739
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:19.039
biology, archaeology, paleontologil of all
that stuff. I think it's amazing,

740
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.880
you know, and it's good to
learn about our history. And I feel

741
01:05:23.920 --> 01:05:28.960
like we're doomed to repeat the same
mistakes if we don't learn about history.

742
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:32.679
And I feel like these beings are
a part of our history, and I

743
01:05:32.719 --> 01:05:38.880
don't feel like it's quite right that
so much about them is kept a secret

744
01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:45.960
or hidden by a certain government branches. But I get it. I think

745
01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:55.119
a lot of people might not be
prepared or ready quite yet to accept fully

746
01:05:55.360 --> 01:06:00.679
the notion that there are other beings
that could potentially be more intelligent than us

747
01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:04.639
in some ways. We as humanity, we've evolved amazingly in a lot of

748
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:10.519
ways, and we can dominate almost
any area of our planet, but there

749
01:06:10.559 --> 01:06:15.039
are still some parts of it that
we can't. And these beings they know

750
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:21.199
how to at least coexist with the
planet. And and I'm trying my best

751
01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:25.920
to kind of I suppose follow that
example. Like my whole life, I've

752
01:06:25.960 --> 01:06:29.360
definitely, I mean, I've seen
weird things, like I've seen some shadow

753
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:34.760
beings before, you know, I've
had a dark entity that messed with me

754
01:06:34.920 --> 01:06:42.360
once. It was really scary actually
because it literally tried to like possess me,

755
01:06:42.480 --> 01:06:45.920
and that really terrified me. And
I was very lucky, thank goodness,

756
01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:53.039
Like I had some help praying actually
to God and Jesus really did.

757
01:06:53.159 --> 01:06:57.880
Like I feel like that really did
save me, because for I was just

758
01:06:58.000 --> 01:07:01.639
getting involved in a lot of stuff
I shouldn't have a point, like witchcraft,

759
01:07:01.679 --> 01:07:05.880
and I just wanted to understand these
things. But then I came to

760
01:07:05.960 --> 01:07:11.159
realize all I need is God,
all I need is Jesus. All I

761
01:07:11.239 --> 01:07:15.480
need is to have some faith and
try my best to be a decent person

762
01:07:15.599 --> 01:07:18.440
and live in the moment and be
grateful, you know for what I have.

763
01:07:19.480 --> 01:07:25.519
So like that's basically, yeah,
I'm at peace, and I feel

764
01:07:25.599 --> 01:07:28.719
that more than I've ever felt.
But for a lot of years I searched

765
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:32.519
for answers. I wanted to understand
why is it that I ended up meeting

766
01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:36.320
a being like this and then seeing
his family, and you know what,

767
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:40.760
I kind of feel like maybe that
was a show of trust, or maybe

768
01:07:40.760 --> 01:07:45.519
it was just a random act and
I just randomly saw them there and they're

769
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:49.159
just minding their own business fishing.
Who knows, have you heard? I'm

770
01:07:49.199 --> 01:07:56.440
just very curious about the area that
you're I'm sure have you ever heard?

771
01:07:56.559 --> 01:08:00.280
Have you ever talked to neighbors and
have they told you stories about how they've

772
01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:03.559
seen things too? Or is this
very like it's kept inside your family and

773
01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:10.360
it does not get talked about it
was kept inside the family. I actually

774
01:08:10.400 --> 01:08:15.360
wish that my grandfather could have asked
our neighbors. That would have been nice,

775
01:08:15.480 --> 01:08:17.439
But I don't know if he ever
did. If he ever did,

776
01:08:17.479 --> 01:08:27.079
he never mentioned it to me.
Sure does the does the homestead still?

777
01:08:27.880 --> 01:08:32.079
Is it still owned by your family
or has it been passed on to someone

778
01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:38.000
else? So it's been sold unfortunately? Um? Actually, that's that's what's

779
01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:44.680
weird too, is the place has
changed a lot, and um, yeah,

780
01:08:44.760 --> 01:08:48.159
I don't know. I don't know
if they've seen anything or experienced anything

781
01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:54.359
there, but last I saw the
place was very much changed and ever since

782
01:08:54.359 --> 01:09:00.279
my grandfather left, So who knows. It's quite isolated though, that for

783
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:04.199
sure, So if they had any
experiences, I just hope that they're happy

784
01:09:04.279 --> 01:09:10.319
for the floodlights that my Grandpa still
left in the yard, and I hope

785
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:16.399
that they're doing okay and that they're
not having any unwanted visitors or any issues

786
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:24.520
because my grandfather, in his way
of coexisting with things, I feel,

787
01:09:24.600 --> 01:09:27.840
in the end, really did work
out. But it doesn't always work out

788
01:09:27.840 --> 01:09:32.520
for other people, because I know
that, oh, hello kitty. Sometimes

789
01:09:33.239 --> 01:09:40.199
sometimes these beings are not always friendly, and sometimes in fact they don't have

790
01:09:41.760 --> 01:09:46.239
must going on, and they seem
to be decide to come into people's lives

791
01:09:46.279 --> 01:09:53.159
and torment them or watch them they're
in their homes through their windows of bet

792
01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:58.720
creepers, and that sucks when that
happens. And I feel great sympathy for

793
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:02.279
people that have had the experiences,
that have had the daylight scared out of

794
01:10:02.279 --> 01:10:09.840
them by these beings. And I
would like to believe that there are still

795
01:10:09.920 --> 01:10:12.840
good ones. I want to believe
that. I don't know, maybe it's

796
01:10:12.880 --> 01:10:15.439
because I want to believe they're still
good in people, and I really believe

797
01:10:15.520 --> 01:10:20.159
that I have nothing, but I
have mostly just faith that in the end

798
01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:24.560
good will prevail, that we're going
to be okay as long as we all,

799
01:10:25.199 --> 01:10:30.399
you know, actually come together and
recognize how blessed we are. Because

800
01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:34.840
we really live in an age where, you know, less disease, less,

801
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:41.880
poverty, less everything than it was
prior centuries. And I just kind

802
01:10:41.880 --> 01:10:46.239
of feel like we shouldn't take for
granted, you know, the blessings we've

803
01:10:46.279 --> 01:10:50.079
been given and this beautiful world that
we live, Like, I don't want

804
01:10:50.119 --> 01:10:53.640
to be afraid of nature. I
don't want to be afraid of going out

805
01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:57.119
in the woods. When I go
camping, I definitely sometimes get a little

806
01:10:57.159 --> 01:11:00.920
anxious before going, but that's all
so because I'm like, oh, I

807
01:11:01.039 --> 01:11:04.760
just hope one day I don't come
across another one and it's not a nice

808
01:11:04.800 --> 01:11:09.960
one, Like That's That's kind of
where I think now, is like I

809
01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:14.640
do not want to come across any
of these especial entities or beings that might

810
01:11:14.680 --> 01:11:17.199
be demonic, like if it's a
dog man or something, I do not

811
01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:20.479
want to see them. And I
know they're up here in Canada, just

812
01:11:20.560 --> 01:11:29.600
like freaking Wendy goes all kinds of
freaking cryptis aren't way lucky. But that's

813
01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:38.720
like exactly, Megan, I would
be remiss not to ask you just because

814
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:47.399
I'm curious, have you experienced anything
else besides bigfoot in that area or has

815
01:11:47.439 --> 01:11:58.760
it just been the sasquatch creature that
you fix experienced, other than me seeing

816
01:11:58.800 --> 01:12:06.520
some shadow being. At this one
house that I went to, the people

817
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that lived there said that it always
had a very rank, kind of rotten

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smell in the basement, and they
said that their house was haunted, and

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they were just like a friend of
the family, you know, And we

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went there and I just out of
curiosity, I went down the basement and

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it smelled really really bad. And
the next thing I know, I see

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this black shadow figure literally moving from
one side of the room to the other

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right in front of me. And
that scared the crap out of me too.

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And also I've seen little orbs,
you know, here and there as

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well. In my life. Sometimes
I'll see like a weird aura above people's

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heads, but I don't know what
that is. Sometimes it's just like a

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color, like an energy. Sometimes
this one woman who had an accident,

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she ended up drowning, and I
saw this dark shadow hovering above her head

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and behind her, and that was, you know, really weird. And

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then next thing I know, you
know, she's like in the river,

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drowned, and I'm like, oh
crap, And it's just weird. Sometimes

832
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I see these weird things and I
don't understand it. This has been happening

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my whole life for the most part, thankfully, especially these past years.

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It's been very peaceful and normal,
thank goodness. But I do live in

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town. I really don't want to
live on a farm again. Really,

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I just I don't know. It's
just kind of a creepy idea or notion

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01:13:45.680 --> 01:13:51.920
that these things could be out there
and I wouldn't know, or I would

838
01:13:53.079 --> 01:13:58.079
know because sometimes they seemed to reveal
themselves to me for whatever reason. At

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least back then. I haven't seen
it sense, thankfully, but who knows.

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I'm still young, I'm only in
my prime. I still have more

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camping trips to go on. But
you have some amazing, amazing stories,

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and I'm so thankful that you were
able to share them with me and my

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audience. I mean, I'm just
blown away by the family history that you

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have. And thank you so much. Well, thank you so much for

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coming on, Megan, and thank
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If you've got a personal bigfoot encounter
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