Military Bases, Cemeteries & Deep Woods | Unsettling Bigfoot Encounters

0:00 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Can you hear me? Yeah, I could hear you. Hope all is well. Feel free to share what you would want to share. Awesome.

0:40 Yeah. So I was in the Coast Guard some years ago and I got stationed up in Humboldt County in northern California, and upon reporting it's a gorgeous place. It's kind of infamous for the bigfoot scene, but it's beautiful. Got there and upon talking to you know, some of the other people that I had met at the Coast Guard base, I had told them that I was excited to go hiking, at which time I was instructed you know, to look over a set of a few sets of maps, because there's a lot of native land up there that we were restricted from visiting. And then there were three thousand known illegal drug operations in the county, so you know, when you look over the maps, it's like, okay, there's there's not really a lot of options for places I could go hiking. Being in the service, anyway, it took me a while and finally I found a trail. I was super excited about it. So I waited for my wife then girlfriend to come and visit, and we went on this hike, and it took us a while to drive out to the trailhead. We get there's no other cars, so you know, we know that we're pretty alone. There's nobody else around. We start to hike. It's beautiful walking

2:11 down the trail, and I'd say maybe hour hour and a half in, I noticed that the forest goes completely silent, and my wife's knee was bothering her. So I was maybe one hundred yards ahead of her on this trail. Forest goes silent, and I took note of it, and I immediately had thought predator, and so I had kind of stopped and started scanning the trees all around me, and my whole body from head to toe just got covered in goosebumps, like I've never had that sensation feel so strong, and so I'm scanning and that's when the smell hits me, and I just the best way I could describe it is like the strength of a skunk smell, but not quite a skunk. The smell hits me and I start. It sounds crazy when I say it, but I wasn't thinking this. I felt like a voice was in my head telling me, leave, you do not belong here. Leave, you do not belong here. And my wife caught up to me, and she had said, oh, I made some comment about the smell, and I'll just come out and say,

3:41 you know, I didn't see anything, but my boots felt stuck to the ground. I felt paralyzed, like I couldn't keep moving forward anymore. And between kind of that whole experience that I was having, we ended up packing up and leaving. It was very, very bizarre, and I think for a long time I couldn't explain it. I didn't know what that was, and maybe I was in a little bit of denial. But through listening to your show and a few others. It sounds like some of the things that I experienced line up with bigfoot experiences. Yeah.

4:22 So after after that, I didn't go hiking much more, but I fell in love with the area in general. And a few years later, my wife and I decided to buy a property up in the county and we bought a property actually in the town that the Patterson film was captured. So awesome we owned that. Yeah, so we own that property, and one of my first time visiting the property, I met the neighbor, elderly man, and he was sharing with me a little bit of his experience. His family settled the valley in the early eighteen hundreds, so he's, you know, they've been there for generations, and so of course I had to ask if he had any Bigfoot experiences. And he had told me that what he did for work for a lot of his career was he did like plumbing and irrigation, and he would set up he would set up a lot of the irrigation and plumbing for the grow ups that were in the county. And he said that routinely the thousand gallon water jugs were getting ripped out of the ground and thrown an inexplicable distance, and the larger five thousand gallon ones would be dented and essentially destroyed. And around

5:53 these big, you know, water tanks, they'd find these massive footprints, and it came such a regular thing that people started actually leaving. But of course they would never report it or call it in or anything because these were illegal grow operations at the time. So those are those are kind of my two experiences. I'm having a house built up there now with plans to move up there eventually, so I will definitely stay tapped in and see if anything else comes up. Okay, so you're in the you're in the town that people usually associate with it, right, that's what you're saying. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Yeah, Yeah, that's fantastic. Yeah, definitely keep in touch with me because you're probably gonna you're you're gonna experience some stuff from here on out once you get there. Absolutely, that's that's some wild stuff, dude. That's right. Yeah, film site.

7:03 I have not not yet, but definitely definitely planned to check it out. Yeah, that would be cool someday for you, absolutely, especially if you live right there, you know. Yeah, it's it's an absolutely wild place. I don't know if you've visited, but I think, yeah, people people don't realize just how remote it is up there. It's bonkers. Yeah, it's it's I mean just even from my Coast Guard experience perspective, like there's such little government presence up there that we were taking calls that would usually be handled by other government agencies. But I would get calls about aliens and all kinds of things all the time going on up there. Oh yeah, yeah, So my my job directly was essentially on the civilian side. It'd be a mix between like a nine one one operator and an air traffic controller, So I dealt with all the search and rescue and all those things, and we would get some wild calls.

8:09 That's awesome, dude, Holy mackerel. Yeah yeah, but. It's it's it's a crazy place. If you ever have the chance to visit, I recommend it. It's uh, it's like the wild wild West still up there. It's on the list for sure. I need to make it happen. But I went ahead and gave you a follow just because I want to be able to to keep in touch with you. But yeah, if you ever have anything happen you can contact me on here or my email is big for society at gmail dot com too. But thank you for sharing, man. Yeah, absolutely, thanks for having me on once the uh, once the property is done and built and everything up there.

8:50 If you ever passing through, I'd love to have you. And I'm sure my neighbor could tell you one hundred and one stories. Absolutely, yeah, that'd be there'd be some wild stuff, man, I'll keep it in mind. Thank you. Yep, have a good night, you too, Hey, how's it going. Thanks for coming up. Feel free to share what you've experienced. Yeah. I was a soldier at Fort Campbell, Kentucky from two thousand and four to twenty ten. I served twenty seven months in Iraq during that time. It just kind of seemed like I was going back and forth over there. But I lived. Oh yeah, you bad. Thanks. I lived in Stuart County. If you look on the map, Fort Campbell's cut between the southern and northern border of Kentucky and Tennessee. So Stuart County is that first county of Tennessee to the south of that state line, way in the back of the base, and it's in the land between the lakes.

9:52 And when I got back for my second tour in Iraq. We lived in the country, in the land between the lakes. Really just a simple little country house way deep in the woods, and it's about a forty five minute drive for me to get the base every day, and it's really just a peaceful little place. But you know, when I got back from my racks that second time, I heard a growl that I had never heard before. It wasn't a dog, it wasn't a bear. It was something that was about fifty feet away from me, behind the tobacco barn. And I ran inside the house and I said, Julie, where's my bat? And she said, I think it's in the closet. What's going on, I said, something in the back, something by the tobacco barn, And there was my baseball bat, and I grabbed it real quick and I went. I ran as fast as I could to the tobacco barn because I didn't know what that sound was. But all I wanted to do was to hit it as hard as I could to kill it. And I got to where that sound was.

11:10 I mean, it was a deep. Guttural growl that I've never heard before, and I started beating on that tobacco barn and I said, where are you? Where are you? And it was complete silence that thing. And for the rest of the time that we lived there, there was always little things that went on, and I would run up into the woods. And confront this thing that kept. Kind of messing with my property, my house. My son said he would hear things on the roof top. You know, he said that years later. You know, he actually said that a few years ago when he was actually a.

12:01 A young adult. So that Fort Campbell, Kentucky land between the links, it's a very strange place. I also have heard things from other soldiers that have incurred then. It actually. Saw or heard the dog man, which is like a dog man. Yeah, actually on base. Okay, wow, really yeah, So I've heard Fort Campbell has a lot of dog man activity. Yeah. And I there was the five o the five oh second Infantry Battalion was in the Stuart County kind of where I was, way at the end of the base.

12:51 They're kind of getting close to land between lakes. And what happened was one night, this is about ten years ago, they were just on a re It was basic basically a they were doing their mission, which was your basic infantry mission that you're set up throughout the night, and they're going to stay up all night. They're going to do their positions. And uh, the sergeant heard some creeping behind him. He thought it was his private coming to talk to him, and he said, he said, stop moving, what are you doing? And he kept saying, you know, similar things like that, And finally the sergeant got fed up and he took his his infrared flashlight, which is basically the flashlight with the red lens, and he turned around and said, what are you doing? And when he turned around and put the flashlight with the red lens on it, he saw the dog man.

13:55 And that thing took off into the woods. And that was on the Fort Campbell Army Base about ten years ago. Oh my goodness, dude. He thought it was he thought it was his soldier that was twenty or thirty yards from it. It wasn't. It's just that that whole area and then the stuff I've heard from Land between the Lakes, and then you take into consideration Hopkinsville where the Hopkinsville Goblins thing happened. It's all in that area. Dude. It's just it's crazy down there.

14:36 Yeah, and you know, I and just a throwing this quick story. My wife of almost twenty years now, when we started dating twenty years ago, we went to the land between the lakes to kind of just get away from the base, get away from Clarksville, get away from Hopkinsville, just to kind of have a weekend, you know that I just kind of chill, get away from it all. And you know, we went to the state park up there, land between the lake State Park and heavy rainstorm, I mean thunder lightning.

15:17 The I mean it was. We were in the actual campground. We had a tent set up, and it was about three in the morning. We were still because the lightning and the thunder was keeping us up and we were trying to fight the rain. The rain was coming the water and you know, it's practically coming in the tent, and we heard the streak like I've never heard before, just outside of the camp area where everybody was. I've never heard that streak before, but I've I've heard other stories of a woman screaming like in trouble.

15:58 That's what sounded like. Somebody was being murdered, and it sounded like it was just outside of that camp area at Lake Barkley, State Park and we looked at each other like what was that? And it was thundering and lightning and I'll never forget it. Oh my goodness, that had to been just horrifying. And so Lake Barkley, So that's southern part of it looks like okay, right, Yeah, I hear a lot of stuff up by De Mumber's Bay, which I guess is the northern part of it, right, But I think the whole the whole place is just crazy from what I've heard.

16:42 Yeah, and it's really secluded to so Kentucky does a great job of preserving nature, so I mean, I think that's a big part of it too. Wow. Oh man, you've got some intense stories. Thank you so much for coming up and for sharing those. I do appreciate it and thank you so much. Hey, Damien, how are you? What's up? Jeremiah hate doing doing good? Doing good? Oh yeah, I've been on one time before. I remember your voice. Yeah, but how's it going, man? Well, yeah, it's going pretty good. I'm sorry, I'm trying to get trying to get right here, yep, trying to get myself situated.

17:28 Anyway. I told you my story before, but it brought up I was thinking about it, and it brought up some like a story my dad told me when I was a kid. And I don't know if it's exactly like Bigfoot, but it kind of sounds a lot like it. Okay, hold on, I gotta turn on this radio right anyway, this story. He doesn't believe in Bigfoot and all, yes, he does believe in the paranormal. He thinks it was like a paranormal thing, but I think it was more of a big Foot thing. It was back in the so I'm in my thirties, so it was back in he was like in the seventies when he was a kid or a teenager. The story was, well, this happened in like Athens, Georgia. If anybody like, if you know about Athens, Athens now is like a mini Atlanta. It's a big town now. Everybody knows Georgia football, all that good stuff. It's a big boom in town now. But back in the seventies it was kind of small. But this happened in like I'd say, it was like seventy three, seventy four, but it was in a cemetery. He said that him and his cousin and his best friend which

19:00 is now My godfather used to sneak in the cemetery to fish at this river, like steak away from the house. The each to fish at this river. And it was that night. So they were down fishing at this river. Wasn't having much luck. And like now, this is a huge cemetery. It's called o'coney Hill now you can look it up. But so they packed up from fishing and was on their walk back home. It got dark on home, so they were on their walk back home. It was dark.

19:40 Of course, the cemetery is spooky anyway, The cemetery had like a seven seven eight foot fence around it. You really wasn't supposed to be in there, but they snuck in anyway. Down their fishing, was trying to sneak back out right after dark, and was walking around the trail that goes around the cemetery. And my dad said it was three of them and they were walking through the cemetery and he said that my cousin Timmy looked to his right, dropped his tackle and his fishing poles and just took off running and jumped the fence and passed out.

20:30 And he said his friend looked to the right dropped all his stuff and took off running and jumped the fence. And then he said, he looked to his right. My dad looked to his right. He said, what he saw scared him enough. He took off running, and he wasn't tall enough to jump the fence, so scrambled under the fence the hole that they dug to sneak in. Scrambled under the fence, and when he met back up with them, they like picked Timmy up, which was passed out out of shock. I guess passed passed out, and they picked him up and drug him away. And when they got him to wake up, they were like, hey, what did you see? Did y'all all see?

21:23 What? Did you see? What I saw? That whole situation And all of them collectively got theirself together and explained to each other what they saw and what they saw. Apparently they looked to their right and there was a huge oak tree, and they all of them agreed what they saw was two big shoulders and two big hands wrapped around the oak tree with a head peeked around the side. Wow, scared them enough to have that reaction, And he he thinks it's like more of a paranormal thing because it was a cemetery. But to me it sounds a whole lot like am you know a big foot things? At that time in the seventies, Athens wasn't so big. Nowadays Athens is huge. But yeah, that's just it.

22:23 Wow, that that's extremely interesting. You know that story. That story gives me the creep So. It's a it's a creepy one. And yeah, West Virginia and Tennessee. I hear some weird bigfoot stories from uh, from cemeteries as well. I don't know what it is, but sometimes you hear them. But that that is a creepy one. Thank you for sharing. It's a really creepy story. Uh, and reminds me some others I've heard from Tennessee over by the Smokies. But man, thank you for sharing that. That that is a cool one. Thank you. Oh yeah, that stuffinite. Hello, how you doing.

23:03 It's good. It's been a while, man. Man, yeah, it's it's been a little bit, but things are still kicking. Oh, we had some wild stories on here tonight. I see it's it's been out of control. My friend. Hey, you're good. If I potentially use the audio from this in the podcast. Oh you know I am. I know you are about have to ask, yes, yeah, just say erazy stuff. But how are things down your neck of the woods. Well, I have been doing in some investigating on what I think or may not be bigfoot stuff. You know, I've been looking at bigfoot thing for twenty one years now, and this last case that I looked at, it's got me stumped. But uh is definitely definitely uh cryptied. But anyway, we're here to talk about bigfoot stuff, so we'll go with that.

24:13 All right, all right, Oh. I have been I went down of course, I'm in northwest Alabama, as you know, and I have been going to Coon Dog Cemetery in Colbert County, Alabama, pretty regular this this year, and we've had some we've had some pretty interesting interactions down there. It been a cemetery, of course, it's gonna draw out things too, but this is a coon dog cemetery, not a human cemetery. And I took a friend of mine and his son in law down there here will back, and we did some sound calls.

25:08 His son in law believes in Bigfoot, but he hadn't never seen any. And my friend believes in Bigfoot, but he's only heard them, and that night we had well the cemetery, let me tell you, there's a pavilion there, and then it goes downhill about fifty feet and there's a tree line, and still it still had the leaves on the trees that they hadn't they changed, but they hadn't failed yet. And so we did some call blast and waited about thirty minutes and didn't didn't happen. And we sat down there and my friend said, you think I oh to do another one. I said, well, it's just been thirty minutes. You know, sometimes you got to set all night long and just and he was getting kind of antsy, so he said, I believe I'm going to do another call blast. And he was getting up, getting ready to do it, and there was a scream that come out of the woods that sounded like a mix between a Tranosaurus rex and a rooster. And I can't explain it any better than that. It wasn't a typical scream, but it wasn't anything I'd ever heard. And we was looking at each other and I asked him, I said, well you think that was a booger? And he said, man, you know more about them than me.

26:40 You've done more than I have. I said, yeah, but I've never heard anything like that. I mean, it started out of screaming and ended up on cockadoodle doing. And I'm like, listen, I don't know what kind of animal could do that. And me and him both hunters, and he's like, oh, man, I don't either. I said, well, just just out of marking off the list, it's not a bear, it's not a cougar, it's not a coyote, it's not a bobcat. Uh, it's not any kind of a nighttime bird I've ever heard, I said. The only thing it could be is something that can mimic. And we were sitting there talking about this, and his son in law had a night vision goggles. He was looking out or trying to figure out, and a a pine cone or flew, flew uphill or with enough force to hit him in the head while he was looking through his binoculars. No way, Yes, it hit. It hit right on the binocular on the on the where he was looking at and we were we were over there discussing and we didn't see this. We were over there discussing, discussing whether that could be a bigfoot or not. And he was like, hey, y'all, and we were just like

28:11 blowing away because it's his first time out and he was like super excited. So everything up to this point had been had been a big foot, so we'd almost just like, okay, yeah, he's doing this thing. And we were discussing this. It's like, hey, y'all, y'all come here, and he's like, oh, oh, I just got this pine cone. And the pine cone was about six inches long. It was a big one. He said, it just hit me in ahead. I said, where did it come? He said down there. I said, pine coons don't fall uphill. He said, no, this didn't fall. This thing flew. He said there wasn't an arc. He said there was. It was like a line drive and it hit me right in the head.

28:53 I watched it through the binoculars until it hit my binoculars, and so got out and we got the looking and we got out our spotlights and we got the shining and we could see a silhouette moving in the woods, not at the tree line, but about ten fifteen feet back in the underbrush. And we started hearing some huffing and asked, I asked my friend, I what I say, Can you see anything down there, because he was at one angle and eyes at another one, and we kind of triangulated these spotlights, and as we were doing it, the animal was trying to stay out of the light, but you could see him leaning around the trees. He wasn't like holding the trees. He's just behind it. You'd see him leaning out of the trees and you could see where the spotlight would hit its eyes and it would reflect back green and he would he would lean back.

29:53 And I told my friend Jim, I said, once you walk down there and see what it is and he's life. He said, no, I'm not gonna go down there. I said, well, I'll go down there. Well, I'll go to the tree line. And he said, I don't know if I do that or not. There's still leaves in there. And I said yeah, but we ain't gonna find out what it is if we don't go down there and see. So I cut off my spotlight and give it to his son in law. I said, now you shine that down there where it is. Jim was shining his in the same place. So I took out my flashlight and I clicked it on and I started walking down to the tree line. Which the animal was probably at least twenty thirty feet inside the tree line at this time in underbrush. So I walking down there, and I shining the lot down there, trying to see, and every now and then I could see like a hand the dart around the tree or whatever, or a shoulder in an arm. I couldn't see the whole thing. So when I got down there to the tree line, Jim all back at me and he said, Joe, I think you need to come back up this way, said And I said why He said, I think, I said another one coming off from the left of where I was, And so I started to shine a light in there, and I got a pine cone hit me in the forehead from the one that we was watching that through it the first time, and I like, yeah, I think I'm going to get back up here on

31:24 the pavilion. I said, I'm just gonna walk back up there. Y'all make sure that it don't jump out at me. If you see it. To see it coming at me, tell me that I'm gonna get out of here. And so I walked back up the hill to the pavilion and we sat there and his Jim's son in law, I asked us. He said, do they just throw pine cones? I said, now, they throw anything they get their hands on. Why, he said, because there's been like four hickory nuts throwed at me. He said, I don't even know where a hickory nut tree is around here. And I said, well, there's probably something in the woods down there, and uh, we didn't. We didn't go in the woods. But we sat there and after a little while we heard another huff, like a really loud huff, and we heard a second huff to the left of the first one, and then we heard two of them walking off, and they were They were noisy on purpose, I believe. And you hear like boot boot boot, three four steps, and then you didn't hear them no more. It's like they was telling us, Okay, we come up here, see what y'all were doing, and we see what you are. You ain't one of us, or we're leaving. And that's pretty much the last thing that happened down there to us at Coon Dog Cemetery.

32:51 Wow, some some wild stuff you have, some man, friend, you have some wild I'm almost saying your name, but I'm not going to because you don't have it. And you use your name, but you get into somebody stuff, it doesn't okay, all right, okay, fair enough. Yeah, yeah, I've got I've got some stuff going on that I'll get with you later. But I figured it out yet. Okay, Yeah, I really don't. I really honestly don't think it's a big foot. Oh. Like you know me, I've been in the woods twenty one years and I've not ever seen anything like this.

33:36 So wow. Yeah, we're still dealing with that. Oh but if you're interested, and I'll holler at you about. That, yeah, yeah, definitely. Once you figure it out, let me know. But thanks for coming out, man. Okay, no problem. I'm gonna listen in the comments. It's really a good show. To not it's a good one. We'll talk to you later. Yeah, all right, there's a gentleman who's talking about Happy Camp, California, and uh, I just sent you a request if you want to come up, because I've been trying to talk to someone about Happy Camp bigfoot stuff for like a year.

34:19 If you can't come up, send me an email at Bigfoot Society gmail dot com. I really really would like to talk to you about Happy Camp. Hey, Hey, thanks for coming up. Oh, Okay, So when I was in Washington, I mean, I'm trying to figure out which there was a lot. I'm trying to figure out what story is share. Well, a big one was when we were so we had a motor home and we were up camping and literally in the middle of them, I like we smelled something and it was weird, but like something started throwing out of our camp like literally like big rocks, just boom boom boom, and I got so scared and I was like, dude, what is out there? And my dog, I had a healer.

35:32 He he was under the camper just freaking growling, like he would not come out. And we went out in the morning about like six and there was two big duns in the In the motor home, there was big footprints and there was little footprints, and there was like this tree and swear on everything, like literally like big footprints and little footprints like like a mama and a baby. I was like, but this is not real. So then we kept going up there, right and uh, I would go up there for like two weeks, and I'd bring my kids and I had ten kids. So we go up there and we just hang out. And this one night.

36:27 We were just sitting there and uh, we just start hearing this freaking yelling, literal like screaming, and and I said, it sounds like a baby deer is like getting killed or something. And the big fos just kept screaming and screaming, and finally I just yelled at the woods. I was like, I literally went up with my gun to the woods, like to the clearing and I was like, shut up, you're scaring my kids dead silence. A freaking ranger came up there and he was like, there's a dead baby deer down there. And I was like why and he was like, well, I don't know why. And I was like, well, I'm pretty sure I heard Big Foods and he was like, yep, they're all out here.

37:37 I was like okay. I mean it was just like a casual conversation like, oh yeah, they're just hanging out here. But that was around er. Yeah, okay, very interesting, very interesting. So you're from that area, you just like to visit from. There, and we used to go up there. I mean usually you don't hear anything or like there's no activity until you're there for like three four days, Like you literally will not hear anything and then like my kids will get freaked out because I like do tree knocks and stuff like, because they would knock back and my kids would be freaked out. Like one night we were in a tent and literally heard them jumping out of the trees. Just dum dump dude. I have so many stories.

38:49 I'm getting too pumped up. That's wild. Well, Hate, I appreciate you coming up and thank you for sharing some of them, and I hope you are able to continue to hang out. Hey Stephen, how are you doing? Little Jeremi, how are you hate good? I definitely wanted to share a couple of like more circumstantial things that as I've listened to to yourself Saslaus chronicles other other things that are just kind of like weird in my life. I live in the Mountain West in Utah, and you know, never heard any kind of vocalizations or anything else like that. But back in twenty thirteen, I was up in North Idaho at Prets Lake, hanging out with some friends at a cabin, just out doing you know, twenty to twenty three year old things, drinking beers and whatever. Hurt A big rock get thrown in, well, hurt a big splash, get thrown into the lake.

40:11 Could not see anything that happened. And then. This last year, me and some friends actually owned some land up in southeastern Idaho, and I went up by myself to go camp and driving up, you know, definitely kind of by us listening to all the different bigfoot podcasts and everything got out of the car and the tree got pushed over. So correlation, causation, whatever you'd like to say. Definitely didn't see anything, didn't hear anything except for those things. Definitely definitely interesting. The land that we have has a good amount of deer, moose, everything else like that. So we're also pretty far away from water, so I don't think it's optimal optimal habitat, but definitely just a couple of interesting things. So just definitely been trying to share that. Yeah, definitely, that's.

41:39 Something I wanted to send an email to you about because it's very circumstantial. That's awesome. Though. Is that over by Palisades or. No? So this is in Bannock County, Idaho, not quite towards Palasades, more towards the lot of hot Springs. Got it? Oh yeah, yeah, Okay, as I look at as I've looked at like BFRO and everything. The only real encounter was like back in the nineteen twenties. But it's it's definitely squatchy up there. A lot of a lot of open land, a lot of yeah, just mountainous region. So there's possibilities.

42:32 There's I talked to a guy a while back, or talked to a witness about the Fort Hall area of Idaho. Yeah, that that's further north. Yeah, that that's on like the other side of Pocatello. This was on the south southeastern side. So yeah, where lava hot springs or soda hot springs is. You're in the mountains kind of kind of south of those. So it's it's definitely very rugged up there. But like I said, it's it's far away from a a water source, but there is.

43:18 A lot of mountainous region. Yeah, it's kind of just yeah, it's kind of squatchy up there. Well, I appreciate you sharing that. I mean, there's nothing something about when a tree gets pushed over near yet, dude, that is freaky as I'll get out. It happens all the time in Iowa where I go. It is wild, wild stuff. Right, and you know it coincidentally like, I'm very much the you know, make some noise, make sure the bears and the mountain lions and everything. Know that I'm there. So I get out of my car and I slam the door and going to get my chair out, and suddenly a tree gets pushed over.

44:04 I'm like, okay, that's that's something, right, like absolutely absolutely. Correlation may not be causation, but still it is. It's interesting. It's a thing that makes you take notice for sure. Well, Steven, I appreciate you coming up and sharing those for a few minutes, and thank you for listening. I do appreciate that. Yeah, absolutely, just yeah, keep on doing what you're. Doing, all right, Thank you, man, have a good one. Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon? And you think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what this year you can If this is interesting to you, stay tuned, because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than the previous year's. Reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this, there may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well, you just got to be there. We'll leave it that more about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his

45:34 documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot Spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just trust it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp like Bigfoot Society podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass.

46:29 So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can can get a little help with the costs there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it, and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul, and if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something

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