Oregon Sasquatch Encounters with Backwoodz Bigfoot!

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0:40 I've got the privilege of talking to Nick Taylor today. He is an individual from out there in the great state of Oregon, and you may know him from his YouTube channel, which is called Backwoods Bigfoot. We'll talk about that more in a little bit. But how's it going tonight, Nick? It's going good. We actually just had a huge storm come through last night, so it's a nice and calm tonight, but it's going well. Thank you. Oh man. Yeah, this is some crazy weather out there. Recently, I've been watching it more in the Willamite National Forest area and they've gotten a ton of snow, and I think you've got some big rain coming in. Maybe that's what you're referring to when you were talking about that. Yeah, I'm on the coast, the Oregon coast, so we had we get hit with the rain and the wind and then it turns into snow when you get to the Cascade.

1:28 Man, that the Oregon coast. We were talking a little bit before this started. I was referring to the Wilamite National Forest out there in Eugene. But man, stuff out there in the coast, it's a different ballgame. It almost feels like stuff even gets crazier with Bigfoot the closer you get to the coast. Is do you have any thoughts about that? Yeah, I've obviously experienced quite quite a bit of the coast, but also in the Cascade area. But the coast has a weird, i don't know, almost haunted vibe to it. It's freaky and foggy and gloomy. But then you add the sasquatch, Bigfoot and other weird things that happen and weird people there's definitely a lot of weird people out here too, So yeah, the coast has a lot of action.

2:19 And the cool thing about Oregon is you can there's forests all the way from the coast the beach. There's the beach, and then the forest literally starts at the beach and then it goes all the way to the Cascade Mountain Range. So theoretically a bigfoot or any other animal could literally make it from the coast to the Cascades without being detected. So it's pretty cool. Oh wow, So you could be at the beach on the Oregon coast, look right behind you and like there's the woods. There could be a big foot or something right there. Pretty much yep, yep. And I've actually heard quite a bit of at least a handful of sightings actually on the beach where people are like having a fire on the beach and then they literally saw a sasquatch or what they believed was a sasquatch. I've never been that lucky, but yeah, because it's think about it's a great food source. You got the whole ocean. There's a bunch of rivers that feed into the ocean, bays, crabs, clam fish all that. So yeah, it's the forest literally meets the sand here, which is pretty awesome.

3:32 That's extremely interesting, Nick, Let's go back to Let's go back to however far we need to go back to when you first got involved with all this bigfoot craziness out there. I've been into the subject probably my whole life, really like diving deep into it, probably like fifteen years or so, and then probably the last couple of years, I was like, I go out in the woods all the time. I love looking for bigfoot and other weird anomalies. And I actually had a little bit of film background from college.

4:13 Nothing crazy, but so I was like, why not just make a channel and see what happens. So I did that and it's going well. But one thing is I don't like to just put out a bunch of videos for no reason, So usually I wait till I find something cool or what I think is cool, and then make a video. But yeah, I've been into it my whole life, but just recently the last couple of years started taking it more seriously. You know, that was actually something I was going to ask because you watch your videos on your channel, and you know what I was watching I was like, it feels like this guy has a little bit of a film background. They are, they're really well put together, and the people definitely uh will want to check out Backwards Bigfoot off of the link in the description or show notes for this episode. But it's a very cool look at research that goes on through your eyes out there.

5:14 It's very I enjoy watching the episodes that I've seen. Was there a experience, you know, back towards the beginning that really set things off, that puts you down this trail. I've had quite a few crazy things, weird things happen, but I did actually see one one time. So that was probably the one that was like, holy moly, Because even though you believe in it and you've researched it and heard all these encounters and the news clippings that go back a long time, no one really knows unless it's you're always ninety nine percent, unless you actually encounter one.

5:55 I was in Bellingham. We went to go move my wife's grandparents. They lived in Bellingham, like on ten acres in the rural area Bellingham, Washington. It's super far north, almost the Canadian border for those that don't know. So they lived in a rural area ten acres long gravel road, and we went over there to help them move because they were getting older and couldn't manage living alone anymore. So we were They had like a pole barn and a bunch of out buildings and stuff. So we had all these dumpsters and we were filling them for like two days straight. And the neighbors have horses, and there's deer all around there, and so I was like, you guys, are seen any bigfoot? And they laughed, and her grandmother's like, I believe in them, but I haven't seen any. So after we were done working one day, I went out there and there's a big forest right like butts up to their property and I went out there looking just for like twenty minutes. And then the next day I went and she took my camera and as I'm going up up this kind of grassy hill, I literally see this.

7:11 I don't even know what to call it at that moment, but it was like a hairy person. But it was actually a juvenile or what I assumed was a juvenile, So it was probably like the size of a eight year old boy or something, and the grass was probably like five feet tall. Four or five feet tall, just overgrown field, and it scurried across there and then basically jumped down on all fours. And I had never because this is probably like thirteen years ago or so, and it was before I've ever heard of them crawling on all fours, so it was really weird. But this thing jumped down on all fours and then scurried down this kind of small embankment into the forest BlackBerry bushes, and it was probably like fifteen yards for me when it did that, and I was standing there like stunned, like what the heck did I just see? And your mind doesn't quite put it all together. It's like, was that what I think it was? Or was that something else?

8:19 Or it was crazy? And it moved. The way it moved was just weird. It moved stop motion animation type movement, but super fast, faster than any person could be and it when a frog kind of goes with his arms, moves super twitch fast muscles. It was like that, but just like the blink of an eye, it moved probably like twenty yards straight down into the BlackBerry bushes. And I didn't get a great look at it, but I saw like full body hair, and the hair was like thin and patchy. I always think out, I don't know, if you've seen the Marvel movies, that Raccoon from the Guardians of the Galaxy, how he has the hair reminded me of that creature on that movie. So it went dove down into the BlackBerry bushes and I was like, well, that's weird. And of course my camera wasn't rolling at the time because I was just getting started, which is a bower. But I don't even know if I would have been quick enough to get it much of it.

9:26 So I of course did the dumb thing and followed it down into the BlackBerry bushes. And it was that area of the forest was just super thick and there's BlackBerry bushes up to my chest and so I was moving super slow, like trying to move them over, step on them and stuff, and never could catch up to it or find it again or anything. But it does something weird did happen afterwards. So I probably get one hundred yards into that forest and I see this huge tree that's fallen over. It's probably like eight feet across, six feet across, and I was like, wow, this is awesome, and so I climbed up on top of it, just for the heck of it and to get a good view, you know. And I'm standing up there and all of a sudden, something was bedded down, like right next to it in like the ferns and the blackberries were just all super thick, so you couldn't see very far in front of you. That's why I climbed up there. And I don't know, probably your listeners that have been out in the woods a lot, like if you are going through the woods and you disturb something that's bedded down, it jumps up and takes off running and it's super loud, like an elk or something. Just it's it's shocking how massive and how fast they are, how much it disturbs

10:56 the branches and foliage. So I'm up there on the thing and then boom, this something bursts up and just books it I think, to the east. But what was weird is I could tell by the sound that it was I was right next to it, but I could not see anything. And if it was a large it was a large animal, because you can tell from the sound. But I couldn't see anything like at all. And I but I could hear it go through the forest till it the sound dissipated, and so that literally scared me raising a thousand miles an hour, And in my mind I was like, oh, that was probably the creature's parent or whoever was with that little one. But of course I have no proof of that, but in my mind, that's just the correlation that I made. But what was really weird weirder than that, probably like two minutes later, I heard gunshots in the direction of where that animal ran to, like three gunshots. So that was the first real Sasquatch experience, was seeing that little one run and then being scared to death of quote unquote an invisible something jumping up and running away from me.

12:19 Oh man, that is such an intense introduction to really getting into it. Can you remind me what year and approximate month that would have been? Oh man, it was summertime. I know that because it was super hot. I can't remember the exact year. I'm not very good with dates, but it was probably so I would say two thousand and fourteen ish, okay, in summertime. I don't know exactly what month. I do know Bellingham has had just hearing stories that area has a lot of sightings and strange anomalies going on and close. Of course, it's close to the Olympic Peninsula in Canada, so it's probably location. And there was actually on their road there was a huge bigfoot carving, which was cool.

13:13 Yeah, And actually I was going to actually point out something similar to that is so listeners will remember that pretty recent we had an individual share about the Lummy Reservation and all the things that have happened over there. This is just to the west of Bellingham, Washington, so same area. You've got a ton of bigfoot activity, at least over on the reservation part. If you look on a map you can see how relatively close this area is to that reservation. But so you mentioned when you had seen the juvenile you saw on all fours, did you at any point were you able to get a good look at its face at all?

13:59 No, That's the bummer of the whole thing was when it was in the grass and it jumped up. I probably took like three steps and then went down on all fours. Big for society will be right back after these messages. And it was facing away from me the entire time, So I was thinking it was hiding in the grass. The tall grass, and then it saw me walking towards it.

14:41 I was walking towards the actual tallest point on the on the acreage. Right when I got almost to the top, it jumped up from my left and took about three steps going towards my right, and then jumped on all fours and scurried down this little embankment. So it went from my left to my right, but it was always facing the forest. It never faced me, unfortunately. Were there any details you remember that when you saw that particular part of it or experienced it that you're like, Okay, what I'm looking at is definitely not a bear, but it's definitely something else.

15:27 Oh yeah, that's definitely not a bear or a human. Other creature it could be would have been like some sort of primate monk, chimpanzee, but it didn't have the proportions for a chimpanzee. I've seen plenty of bear in the wild and familiar with all the wildlife in the northwest here Pacific Northwest. Yeah, and what's weird is it took me probably five minutes for it to register in my mind that's what I saw. You know, it was definitely I couldn't tell you for one hundred percent it was a big foot, but it was definitely not normal wildlife and not a normal human that we would consider.

16:12 So I guess my mind was like, it has to be a sasquatch. Ninety nine percent sure it was a juvenile sasquatch. That's extremely interesting. Were you able to notice any shape of the head at all, or with shoulders or anything. I thought no, it was pretty like gangly skinny, because it was probably four feet at height I would estimate, and pretty skinny. The hair was like a dirty brownish type. It wasn't like a full It was mattie and not even patches. I guess you could say more. But the head probably to me that I can remember, it seemed a little small for the body, but that could have just been the perspective of it going away from me and possibly looking down. I wish I could have seen his face. That would have been crazy.

17:16 It's so interesting because there are a fair amount of encounters I've taken where the person is not able to see the face, and you almost have to wonder if it's because. I don't know, man. Sometimes I think about this stuff and it's like, Okay, how far do I want to take this, but it's like, is it because the person wouldn't be able to handle it? I don't know, man, Yeah, I really don't know. Yeah. That's the crazy thing about this subject is there's so many unknowns and variables, and you hear the whole gamut from people thinking they're just a primate normal animal to a human species or extraterrestrials or enlightened forest beings protectors, and there's the whole range, and you know, who knows the who knows what's real? Maybe a few people, But then how can you believe it? Even if you even if someone told you, hey, this is the truth. I know I've studied these in a lab for fifty years around best friends with one or whatever, It's like, how could you even believe them? It's that's what's cool and fascinating about the whole thing is there's so much to it, and the more you learn, a lot of people say this, the more you find out, the more you learn, the less it's just wild. You're probably saying for you because you probably hear all kinds of stuff to where you're like, really,

18:47 this is where it's going right now? I hear enough? Where now when a person comes up to me and says, I really want to see one or experience one. It's not even just that I'm saying, be careful what you wish for a thing. It's like having a serious discussion with the person, like are you absolutely like are you absolutely sure? Because you need to be aware of what this could lead to, as how you could be affected physically and or mentally. I have to be careful how I say that, because that could be taken a different way.

19:29 But it's more like sometimes when you've encountered these things or when you're in the same area, it can affect you physically, but you can also start to have things happen inside your mind, and it is hard to be able to control those things. I don't know if that's anything that you've encountered over the years, but things can get really wild. I've never had that. I don't know if it's good or bad. I'd like to, but I'm a little weird and crazy, but never had any like the mind speak or anything like that. I have been terrified to the point where it's probably the scariest I've ever been in my life, and like primal fear to where you're like I might die. But I've never had and I've heard like the whoops and tree knocks and all that stuff, but never like physical sickness besides just adrenaline dump and scared out of your mind that that affects you pretty hardcore.

20:33 Never like the mind speaker communication or anything like that. But I guess depending on how it went. If it was good, then I would like to experience it. If it is real, and then but if it's like you said, if they're in your mind doing weird things, and no, thank you. It's such an interesting topic because it's it can range anywhere from we're trying to get you in a certain part of the forest, so follow us here, or hey, we just want you to know what our name is, or we really don't like the way you're acting and you should probably stop, or there's going to be issues.

21:16 And those are all from encounters that I've taken. But you'd mentioned that there was a time where you just got gripped with fear. Is that anything that you would feel comfortable sharing that situation or yeah. Of course there's two times. The one that really got me was we were my family and I were staying at a cabin just outside of Rockaway, Oregon, which is a coastal town here. It's in the Tillamook National Forest, and Tillamook has a lot of sightings and history. So we were staying as cabinets and Rockaway's tiny, it's like a little tiny beach town, and so were out right in between basically the forest and the ocean, probably one hundred yards west of the forest one hundred yards east is it goes straight up into the mountains. And that day I was out went sasquatching for a couple hours, and I had my dog with us. She's half pit half border Collie, and we went out there and the only weird thing we found was like an area where the ground was super disturbed, like something was digging in there, and then there was animal droppings that were huge, like literally the size round of a pop can. Actually I took a picture of it. I should have it somewhere.

22:47 And then my dogs are rolling around in the part where the animals were digging. I assumed it was a bear just digging up there, but there was a lot of bear scat and cougar scot and the other scat did not look like either, So that was strange, but Anyway, so came home that night. It's about two o'clock in the morning, two to three am, and everybody's asleep, and I was literally just about to go to bed and I hear what I thought at the time, there was a cabin probably like a block away from Mars, where I saw people checking in that day, and it was like younger, probably like three couples in their twenties or something.

23:33 And so I'm about to go to bed and I hear this blood curdling scream that sounded like a woman was getting like dismembered, and I was like, what in the world. So I go out on the deck and this cabin has a deck that goes all the way around the cabin upstairs. So I go on the deck and I hear the scream again, and I'm like, this ain't good. I literally thought a woman was getting butchered close by. So I went back in the house, grabbed my side arm, went back on the deck, and I the scream. The woman scream mutated, not mutated, but turned into more of a roar slash howl scream. When it did that, all my body just like froze. When they say the hair stands on the back and up on the back of your neck. It did that times a million, Like every hair in my body was like I was zapped with static electricity, was all like tingling. The goosebumps were like you could sand a two by four with my skin. It was that that big of a reaction, and the roar thing happened probably like ten more times, and basically I just stood there like in tear or And obviously I don't know it was a sasquatch, but

25:05 all the other howls and stuff you hear on YouTube they're very similar. And the fact that it must have been probably within a couple hundred yards to half a mile away whatever it was, but it was the loudest, craziest, deafening sound I've ever heard in my life. And it basically made me paralyzed and just stood there and like almost to the point where like you you can't move because you're struck with fear. It was crazy. That's extremely powerful. I get.

25:47 I've experienced that howell scream roar as well, and yes, it is like there's some primal reaction that you're does and you just you can't control it. It just yeah, stuff comes into play from our past where we used to be freaked out by something, I think, and it just our body is like, yeah, good luck. Yeah. It was crazy, and like I think it was probably about ten to fifteen roars, and I had my phone on me and I never once even thought to hit record. I was that like just holy crap. And then like by the end of it, I was like the sidearm that I have is not going to do any good. And whatever that is making that sound, it could walk right through the walls of this cabin. Like basically, I was like, I'm at the mercy of whatever this thing is and there's nothing that you could do at that moment if it wanted to walk in there and take you out. And I backtracked a little bit like my late teens. We went to the San Francisco Zoo, and that place, I guess it's famous for their big cats, tigers and lions and everything, had this big horseshoe cage thing, and we got to you got to go inside that

27:19 and all the tigers and lions and they had a lager would all come inside there into the indoor pins and this guy comes walking in with a wheelbarrow full of like meat, horse meat, and he would make the tigers and everybody roar, and he'd be like, oh, I didn't hear you, and they'd roar louder and he's like, I didn't hear you, and they'd roar louder. And it was a concrete You're in a concrete box. So the echo was just crazy and you could just your chest was vibrating from these lions and tigers roaring. And that experience was nothing compared to the sound that I heard out there in that cabin. So just a little bit of perspective like it was. I imagine if you're on heard a t rex screaming, roaring, that's similar to what it sounded like. So, yeah, it was nuts. I've never heard anything like that before or since.

28:17 So have you heard or is that area that you had that experience and is it well known for other things other experiences happening in that area of people hearing things or seeing things. Yeah, it definitely has a lot of bigfoot and even just like I'm not sure if it was like the BFRO or whatever. Online, like you can look up stories like there's actually a lake up there called Skukum Lake, and you think scuo COM's a native word for that is used for sasquatch sometimes, but yeah, that whole area, Tillamuck National Force in general has a lot of crazy stories and from everything from like hidden gold from like pirate ships to Native Americans finding some gold and hiding it up there because it's where the Goonies movie got their plot from. And then of course there's other weird orbs and I've never heard of like dog man stuff, but I'm sure there is over there. I just haven't heard of them any over there.

29:31 When you've been out or in the state of Oregon, have you experienced anythings that weird stuff that you're just like, I have no idea how to explain what I just saw or what I just experienced. Here big for society, who will be right back after these messages. Yeah, So we've had so my buddy Andy goes out with me a lot when he can. He lives actually a couple hours away, so it's not enough. That kind of sucks. But on the on our YouTube channel, he's on some of the videos with me. But we've had borbs that we've seen in the woods that moved and did weird things. There's no way it could have been flashlights or car lights or anything else. And then sounds you always get, just weird sounds, whoops and tree knocks and howls, and so supposedly there's no wolfs here on the Oregon coast, although people have seen them, they're claiming to have seen them, but there's And then also one night we saw probably like we basically laid on our

31:04 backs on a logging road for like three hours in the middle of the night, just watching the sky as we saw I guess you would call them UFOs UAPs all through the night, probably a total of like a couple hundred. Some would go fast and move direction, change do all that. Some look like they were chasing each other. Kind of looked like a weird Star Wars scene from way far away. So those are a few of the weird things. You had given me, a few things that had happened over the years. So there's a few things that I want to ask about specifically that I know about. You had said that you'd had an interesting event happen around Cannon Beach and.

31:56 Order where you were. Something happened in the forest area around there. Oh yeah, actually I think that wasn't the same night as we were laying on the logging trail. But it was I think it was the same week, but almost the same exact little area we were at. So we were hiking out there, squatching looking for sasquatch. We found. Usually you can see a lot of in this area of the coast. You can if you look hard enough, you'll see stuff that you think might be or could be, like from weird tree breaks to possible footprints, impressions, and then weird sounds, like I said. But so we were hiking up behind the in the mountains of behind Cannon Beach and we actually got turned around, so we lost where we were, but I knew the general direction we were going. And on just side detail here, my buddy Andy was staying on this huge log and fell off the log and just a normal person would have broken their elbow, but he's a tough son of a gun.

33:09 But he landed and was in terrible pain, which of course amused me. But we were hiking back to trying to find where we were going, and we stopped and we're just taking a break kind of. It was wet out and a lot of the forest up here is super up and down and lots of stuff you gotta climb over and go around and slip and fall. So we stopped and took a break. And Andy loves to hike with no flashlights. He's a weirdo, and of course me being the camera it's pretty pointless to hike without a flashlight if you're going to try to film. We had about that all the time. Anyway, we stopped, took a break. We're sitting on these logs, no flashlights or anything.

34:03 We're just sitting there in the pitch dark in the middle of the forest, probably for about ten minutes, just talking and hanging out, and all of a sudden, something comes down the hill. We were on a flat surface and up above us was a hill, and down blow us was a hill going down. All of a sudden, something starts coming towards us in the night and the pitch black from up above us, and I'm like, we're both like you hear that, and it starts getting louder, and then it's like running towards us, and I'm trying to get my flashlight or my phone. I don't think we had a flashlight. I was trying to get my phone light on, and we whatever it was probably got within like five yards By the time I got my light out on my phone and turned it on, and there was nothing there. It was completely either it wasn't visible, or it cloaked, or it dough behind a tree at the last second or something. But it was super loud, and you know, when you're out there at night, you're hearing is super enhanced and sensitive. And basically something bolt rushed us and by the time we got the light out, it was not there, and so we were both super freaked out about that and made for a fun rest

35:35 of the walk back to the car. That's something I've not experienced yet. What was the sound like in the woods around you during that time, besides something rushing towards you. Yeah, No, it was super quiet. It's like one of the way they hear you hear all when the woods goes definitely quiet. That's not a good thing. So it was like that besides us talking back and forth. But we didn't really we weren't paying attention enough to notice anything other noises or anything. But I do remember it being quiet that whole trip. We're walking back. I usually to hear some stuff, but it was. Yeah, it was crazy, and I have no explanation for what it could have been other than some strange anomaly. No normal animal or person or anything could have done that.

36:45 It's so hard to I think it's really hard to convey to people listening that have not been in Oregon how weird it is. You literally you just have to go out there. But don't just go out in the woods by yourself, Like, don't do that. It is like you really don't want to mess around. But if you can find someone that knows what they're doing and you can go out and just like spend at least a week out there, and like if you can go in certain areas like you are going, your outlook for me, My outlook on life totally changed.

37:26 It. I experienced some weird stuff and it's just like it's a whole different world, and it's not just the whole Portland is weird thing, Like the state state has some very weird things going on in the woods. Have you ever heard or experienced anything that you think may have been a mimic sound or anything like that out there? Oh? Yeah, all, not all the time, but definitely a lot. That's the crazy thing about it is how it's either a bird or something mimicking a bird, or whatnot. But we've heard lots of hows. One time, we were actually up Mount Saint Helen's at Ape Canyon. Yeah, Andy and I went up there. We went up there and basically there was not another soul in that whole area. Went up.

38:19 I don't know if you're familiar that. I'm sure you've heard the the Ape Canyon story of the the bigfoots attacking those miners like in the I think it was early nineteen. Hundred, nineteen twenty four. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, there you go. Yeah, so you know about that. Yeah, we were like, let's go up there. And we went up there. We went up early in the day and drove around until probably like four in the morning, so we went inside there. That was spooky, but we were walking somewhere in Ape Cannon because it was I have no idea where we were at the time, but in that general area, and we just heard like soullowed whoops, and then like ten minutes later or like five minutes later, super loud howls that didn't sound like a it could have been a coyote, but didn't really sound like a coyote. And then weird, weird hoots that you think were owls, but you don't know. There's always something and then, oh, I forgot about this. The same trip, we were driving and we came to a fork in the road and I was like, which way should we go?

39:27 And we're like, I don't know that way. It was crazy, let's go this way. So we went that way. And we're going probably like five miles an hour, ten miles an hour down a gravel road like I think it was a logging road up on Mount Saint Helen's three o'clock at night, and all of a sudden, an owl is up on the branch, probably like twenty feet above the car, and it swoops down and literally attacks the grill of the car, are like wings out like like it would when it picks up a rabbit or something. Huge.

40:09 Owl swoops down, attacks the grille of the car and then just stops and sits there in front of the car. So I jump out and like go walking towards it, like what in the world. And then it flew back up and went right back to that same branch that it was on. The liver bowls like that is super weird. So we decided we should not go down that road. We turned around and went down a different road. That's that is a very weird way of maybe something attempting to get you out of an area. Yeah, I don't know. That's just how we took it.

40:50 I was like, if that's a sign, then probably we should probably listen to it. Have you ever experienced any sounds such as like baby crying noises, or like voices from the woods saying your name, anything weird like that. Not voices, but I we have heard crying sometimes. That's hard to tell, because cougars make a crying sound, tyoscan and there's lots of both, and they even like raccoons make weird crying nothing that I was like, Oh, that's a baby or that's a sasquatch or whatever entity does that.

41:33 But we have heard where you think it is, and then it plays with you and you're like, was that And then you hear it again a little bit later, but it's further away a different direction or so we had never like super clear to where like, oh, yes, that's I've heard about that happening, but never to the point where I was like, that's definitely what's going on. So you've definitely you spent Yeah, a lot of time out on the coast that area. I believe earlier you had mentioned quickly about the Cascades as well. Have you then spent any time doing any research or anything related to further inland to the Cascade area.

42:20 My buddy Andy, who I keep referring to, he's actually from Bend. Don't know if you know where Bend is, Oh yeah, yeah, I think you do. Yeah, so he actually prefers that all area, which depending on the situation. I love it too, but it's just further drive for me, so I'd rather stick around here, so I'd have to drive two hours, but because I can be in the forest in less than ten minutes from my house, so it's nice that way. But yeah, we've been up Mount Hood, like a totally Mount Saint Helens. I think we were chatting about it on your live on TikTok. Sweet Water.

43:02 Is that sweet home? Yeah? Oh sweet home? Yeah, I'm sorry, Yeah, sweet homes crazy. And then the McKenzie River area is just beautiful and crazy and like Detroit Lake area, which is basically like if you were in Bend or on I five in the valley and an Oregon you could basically there's different corridors, so you could go through Detroit or up Mackenzie or up the Sweet Home area. They're all like, you could all get there through the forest if you could. But that whole area is just and probably has more sightings than the coast. But there's probably actually more people hanging out over there because there's big, huge lakes and skiing and rivers and just summer activities are crazy over there and could super hot in the summer, And so you're in a mountainous lake and there's a lot No, actually there's compared to what it should be. There's not very many people around, but there's more people around than there is in the coastal forest.

44:12 Oh. Absolutely, you do have to have the people in order to report what is experienced, for sure. When I was. In the Oakridge area in July at Sasquatch Summerfest, I was talking to a lot of people, and a lot of people were talking about Sweet Home. So I was like, man, I gotta look a little bit more into what's up north of this area and is there anything that comes to mind when you think of the Sweet Home area when it comes to Sasquatch activity up there. Well, I've probably been there like maybe like five times, actually looking squatching. I guess you'll call it camping squatching, but just it's so vast and big. You could go there for ten years and never go to the same spot if you didn't want to. But the place that I want to go to, uh this summer is there's this reservoir called Green Peter. I don't know if you've heard of it, but it's a huge reservoir. I don't even know how big it is, but to like drive around it would probably take four hours or something just because the windiness and everything. But that I don't know if you're you ever see the TikTok thing about that giant door and stuff.

45:37 Big for Society will be right back after these messages. All the giant store? Is that up there? Yeah? Yeah, that's it. I know, like that's like twenty minutes from Sweet Home. Dude, that's right, is it really? Yeah? Oh you remember that whole deal that was nuts? Yeah? That was nuts. Okay, So I was gonna go up there, and I kept not going. I was like, I gotta go this weekend. I was like no. Then I was like, but this summer, I'm going for sure.

46:21 Okay. We got to try to explain because there's going to be a lot of people listening to this that are like, what are you guys talking about. So it was like the side of a hill. It looks like there's a massive door the size of that a giant could walk into, but it's not open, right, yeah, yeah. I think the original guy I remember his name, but in his first video he said that he saw it close, like or was closing as he turned to look at it. And then that's how it blew up, because it does like you've seen it. It looks like a doorway. And then subsequent people started trying to get out there. It's hard to get to, like people had to get ropes and stuff to go to it, and no one could ever not say it wasn't a door. But no one ever said, yeah, that was a door. But then that the guy who made the videos other people go and then people were getting harassed by I don't know who they were, but weird supposedly they're getting harassed by people trying to cover it up apparently, And it was a whole couple months of crazy the giant door and on the side of the cliff.

47:31 What's funny, I always have Google maps pulled up when I'm on these interviews and it's actually listed as a tourist attraction. It's called the Giant Door. It's technically so yeah, it's on Green Pewter Reservoir. Yeah, it's technically in Cascadia, Oregon. But yeah, it's exactly where you need to go on Google Maps if people want to check it out. Just it's the Giant Door, Cascadia, Oregon. Now that everybody knows it's probably a Giant's gonna have to use the back door or something. Yeah, exactly. He's like, what do you guys. Do I have to put up a ring camera or something. Man, it's too many. Yeah. Yeah, that's interesting because all the research I've been doing about that area Green Peter Reservoir keeps coming up and uh oh yeah, it's something about that area, and it is it's massive, and it is way way out there.

48:25 It's got to take a bit of time to get out to that reservoir from Sweet Home up. Yeah. I can't remember how long it is, but it's probably, if I guess, probably like thirty to forty five minutes, depending on which part of it I can't remember, but it's definitely worth it. And then there's camping. I mean you can camp anywhere along there. There is camp grounds, but you can also just camp anywhere. And like summertime, it's ninety two one hundred and you can swim in there. It's it's awesome. It's a cool spot. That's a that's great. That's great. You'd also mentioned a McKenzie River. I'm guessing McKenzie Bridge area is probably close to maybe where you're talking. I've talked to a few individuals and that area is definitely pretty wild. But is that an area you've looked into as well yourself?

49:17 Then yeah, we my buddy Annie that's like his favorite place in Oregon, and it's there's a little town in my town, gas station and a restaurant and hotel right called Rainbow, And I think it's probably like thirty minutes from the bridge if you're talking about that, the old covered bridge, Is that what you're talking about. I'm just all I know about the area is I believe there's a place called Ike's Pizza up there, which it's got a cool Bigfoot mural, and there used to be like a gathering that would happen up there as well. Oh yeah, so yeah, there's that's pretty close to Rainbow, Oregon, which is literally nothing. I think there's a couple of cabins and then a hotel and it's literally in between two huge reservoirs and it's right on the Mackenzie River.

50:09 But the reservoirs, one's Cougar Reservoir and one's Blue was it Blue River Reservoir? And I forget, but yeah, there's the whole area is just magical, like seems like some Lord of the Rings where the elves live or something. Yeah, it's just beautiful. And both of those reservoirs, oh yeah, Blue River Reservoir and Cougar, both of those are huge, just like Green Peter. Blue River one has or maybe Cougar. I forget which ones which, but Cougar has. One of them has awesome hot springs too, and like the gas station there has bigfoot carvings and actually cast footprints above the bathroom that were cast in the hills over there.

50:56 But we actually were walking one night, it's probably like two and they had closed the reservoir road that goes around it for some reason, and Andy and I were walking towards the hot springs and we just kept getting these crazy whoops that seemed like they are coming from across the reservoir up and up on the hill. But we probably walked for two hours and we heard it probably like steady for every five minutes, and it was like pacing us along the way. Could have been a sasquad, could have been anything weird. It was strange, though, But that whole area is just magical. I've found lots of tree structures and footprints. We've been out there in the snow with the snowing footprints did have some weird activity in that area, and it's just gorgeous. And it's known for its like people talk about it as a hot spot for sasquad.

52:03 Oh so it's well known in the community in that area. It sounds like for that duty. Okay, okay, yeah. That is that. That's good to know. And of course I gotta ask you, just because it's the area that I'm familiar with. Have you ever done any research up and down fifty eight, like the Oakridge area or going down to Odell Lake or anything down there at all? No, but I was checking out your stuff about that regarding that, and sounds like I need to it's bonkers. So yeah, it sounds like it. I want to check it out. And you were saying, there's another there's another festival or whatever going on this summer there.

52:46 Yeah, so let me bring it up. Sasa's Summerfest is this year July eleventh through the twelfth. It's going to be fantastic. July eleventh through twelve in Greenwaters Park and Oakridge, Ore again, and listeners, if you're going to go, you can get two day ticket for the cost of one if you use the code b F S like Bigfoot Society. But BFS, I'll get used some off your cost. Priscilla was nice enough to provide that for my listeners. So there you go. But yeah, that whole area, dude, Oakridge is blonkers. It is absolutely wild. And I didn't even get even any further east than Oakridge. I just hung out there for the time I was out there, But I was talking to Yeah, I've been talking to a few individuals that whole Bend area to Shoots, National Forest, Cultist Lake. That whole area just sounds absolutely wild. It sounds like you've done some stuff out there as well.

53:49 Yeah. Since Andy's from ben Yeah, he has a bunch of spots that he likes to go all around there. Never to Oakridge, but I definitely want to check it out and maybe I can get down to the festival. That sounds awesome. But yeah, basically, theoretically, it's the whole Cascage range from down from northern California Sidings all the way up to through Oregon, all the way up through Washington mount Rainier, Saint Helen's Adams all have crazy things happening there, including sasquatch and other crazy things. It's the whole Cascades, is just I think theoretically, you go anywhere in that whole mountain range and be close enough to where you could have something happen, experience something, whether that be good or bad.

54:42 It's one of those things where you know it, you might come back a different person than when you first went out, which is pretty much what happened to me. There's another area that I want to talk to you about, just because it's come up in my research lately and just in a lot of interviews. Have you ever been down to or have any knowledge about things that have happened down in the Grants Pass Rogue River corner of the state. No. I've heard stories, but I've never had the opportunity to go out there and look, but hopefully so many days. My ultimate goal would be to be successful enough to with a YouTube channel and branch out maybe and not have to have a normal nine to five and just be able to go out in the woods all the time and film and have fun and try to get more answers to these crazy questions.

55:40 Speaking of your channel, so if we've already talked about we mentioned it a few times, but are there any that when you think about your channel backwards Bigfoot, that you're like, man, people should start here, Like there's a certain video that is just it a good one to start with, or just is it one of those where you just start at the beginning work your way through the whole deal. That's a good question. Some of them, Like I think the ones that are about the quote unquote nest are probably the most intense for me, and I think they have the most views. And there's other ones though, Like there's one where it's like a found this weird teepee out in the woods. Could have been people made it.

56:25 It was either people or sasquatched, but it was in the middle of nowhere, so it'd be weird unless someone was like making a hunting blind or I don't think younger kids would have been that far out doing that, but you never know. It's Oregon, there's weird people out in the woods and a found so I found this I call the Teepee thing, And basically I felt and sounded like I was starting to get surrounded by what I thought we're bigfoot, just hearing whoops and branches break, and probably like two or three least three, I think we're basically surrounded me is what it felt like and sounded like. So that one's kind of cool, but I think they're all cool in their own way. And they all show what could be or is sasquatch evidence footprints or weird tree structures, and if anything, at least the forest is beautiful and spooky. So if you like like that, check it out. But I will tell everybody it's backwoods bigfoot all one word, but the S is not an S, it's a Z. So it's backfoot backwoods bigfoot with a Z instead of an S. And that's the YouTube and Instagram, and there's Facebook and TikTok, but I don't really use that as much.

57:44 So good stuff. Again, guys, make sure you check it out. Make sure you're subscribed. It is a good one, but Nick has been It's been a just a privilege to have you on to chat with it. It's always fun to talk to you guys out there that are able to just travel around the state hit all these spots and get really familiar with all these areas. It's very cool to talk to you guys. This was maybe more of an insider baseball Bigfoot Oregon, but I think a lot of people are into that. But thank you so much for coming on the show tonight. Are there any ways that people can reach out and contact you if they had things that they wanted to Let's say they watch your videos, like, oh I know something about the area, I need to reach out to neck or anything like that.

58:39 Oh yeah, definitely I would love that. And anybody if anybody does have orgon sightings, I would love to hear about it so I could possibly go check out the area. That would be awesome. So I do have a Gmail and it's just Backwoods Bigfoot at gmail dot com. And again that Backwoods the Woods is a Z, not a S. I probably shouldn't have done that. I don't know why I did it, but Z sound cool or look cool? And then just the YouTube channel I think has the email on there, and then Instagram you could DM me and the same backwards Bigfoot and TikTok or Facebook too.

59:19 I have a Facebook that barely has any anybody on there following, so if for you Facebook folks, check it out. So yeah, you can get a hold of me very easily if you want to. Awesome Nick, Maybe our paths might cross next year out there in Oakridge, who knows, but hopefully someday. And yeah, fun to have you on the show tonight. And thanks so much. Man, Yeah, thank you, buddy. I just wanted to. Take a few minutes to say thank you to you all my listeners for listening to the podcast. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on you YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much. Make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email. Here's the list.

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