PEEKABOO MAN STALKS FAMILY IN WHISTLEVILLE, GEORGIA

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

0:42 Thank you, Hi Jeremiah. Hi, how's it going. It's going good. I was just so weird because I was just listening to your latest YouTube show. I got the couple that was from Missouri and You've got to make the Church the tennesse Town. Yeah, yeah, And I fell asleep during it last night. When I woke up, I didn't have a chance. But when I was taking a break, because we're actually like I told you when I talked to you before. I'm the rock lady on the back porch that threw the rocks back, thinking it with teenagers. Well, it's gotten so bad, I know, right, And I saw your video was so cute. I saved it.

1:27 It's like, and I believe I told you that that we had decided, Okay, that's it, we're going to move. So right now we're in the process of We've had to repaint a few things, we're refinishing some cabinets. And guess who is coming to our house tomorrow. I am so excited. You can't guess somebody from people from LJ that you had on your podcast. Yeah, I'm so I'm so excited they're coming. Yeah. I just couldn't take it anymore because the activity. I mean, like I told you about their rock throwing, and then I believe I told you about the monkey noises walking up the street and then the hounds chasing it around our yard, down through our other lot and then out to a field, and then the coyotes and I don't know if I told you that part, but that was absolutely horrifying.

2:26 Is this Northwest Georgia? This is. North Georgia. Probably about it's probably about an hour south east of La Jay in between Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. So there's like a big stretch of highway that they've been clearing all the way from I want to say the metro County into the rural counties all the way to a highway that pretty much goes across the rest of the state. And they have been clear cutting, and it's a nightmare. It's just like you go down there and it is gone because they're putting in bridges and they're extending from the city of Atlanta to eighty five to go to an outer perimeter that comes all the way up past like Jackson County, going up towards Hall County, which Hall County just sits just south of l J where they are, so it's really encroaching and the State of Georgia is just building this thing. And you're looking around and you're like, what happened to the forest? I mean, they're just gone. So our activity here beyond just the throwing the rocks, beyond just me sitting outside and hearing I thought it was somebody's chimpanzee had escaped, because that was where my brain went, like, it's chimpanzee coming down the road. It's four point thirty in the morning, and

3:57 there's a chimpanzee, and that's where the mind goes until it starts coming closer, and then I'm like, wait a minute, you can't own a chimpanzee. My thought was, somebody better tell the owner, you know, who would owned a chimpanzee. And so my mind went through all that, and then there was an abandoned house that some people had moved out across the way. Because the houses here sit on in the middle of like farmland. Because even though I'm ten minutes from a major metropolitan county, everything else is rural. Once you cross over, there's just trees, little neighborhoods off to the side, rivers, parks, very thick, very thick forests orchards.

4:45 You know, it's kind of hard to explain, but anybody that's been to Atlanta, you know, when you're out of the metro it is definitely like you just cross over from one world to the next. And so here in the area the people call this creature of the pikaboo man. And I have told you that we had taught we had gone to the corner storm. We're like, we're kind of having some issues. Now, that's the pekaboo. Man, he won't hurt anybody. Oh yeah, he does. He does. And so as time has gone on, we had a missing dog, a small dog, which was heartbreaking. I started having problems about a year ago. Now mind the rock throwing thing was like maybe two and a half years ago. But I started having problems with owls and they didn't sound like owls to me. They I was like, there's something wrong.

5:40 Because I grew up over on the outskirts of Athens, Georgia, which it can be pretty rural when you go outside of you know, Athens itself, because you got Jefferson Commerce and I know you haven't heard of these places, but they're pretty woodsy. It's pretty backwood. And then for quite a time I lived in the metro Atlanta, but we came here because I was like, man, I only have to drive ten, ten, fifteen minutes. I can be in the middle of you know, a shopping mall, or twenty minutes to be at a shopping mall, but come here and just be in the middle of nowhere. And that is is basically how it is. It's definitely how it feels you don't hear anything. You're just surrounded by woods.

6:22 And to make a long story short, I went back after speaking with you, and all we were thinking about was, you know, as soon as we can, we've got to redo these things, which we're in the middle of now, collecting boxes and we're doing like cleaning out and all that. We're serious, but lately we become more we're doing it more quickly, so I'm trying to kind of catch you up. So I started hearing after talking with you, like literally like the week after I told you about the rocks and everything, just owls, and I'm like, what is this? And being from here, like I said, I spent a lot of nights camping down by the upper and the Lower Oconey up near like Hertwell, which is up like a mountain lake. So I know what an owl sounds like, screech owl, barn owl. I know when the barn owls come, I know when when they're there, I know when they hunt.

7:18 It's just you just know it. And I kept going, you know, these owls must be sick because they cannot make owl noises. And I would hear them like right outside of my yard, and this would be at two at three o'clock in the morning, and they kind of sounded like they were on the ground. And I told my husband, I said, I cannot sleep. I said, something's beating on the side of the house. This is this is a newer phenomena. And I'm like, are you not hearing this? And I would sit up and you know, he go, what I go, did you just not hear that? I mean, it's like from the ground up to where our bedroom is, it's about ten feet up. Okay. And so at this point now, because of things that have happened since then, we keep our blinds closed. Now. Scott told us the dust from dust till dawn, and that's basically what we're doing. So yeah, So when my dog took to missing, man, my dog is chipped. It's a small dog. I knew immediately. When the dog went missing out of the backyard, I knew, and I was just horrified.

8:24 So I was like, well, it's probably our fault, you know, But you know, I couldn't come up with any other any other what I'm trying to think definition or consequence. We had consequence because we had signed everywhere the dog is registered with the state. Most dogs get recovered. We went to our vet. It's like, oh, she's chipped. Whoever's got her is eventually going to take her to a pound, or it's going to take her to a vet or a groomer and they're gonna scan her and you're gonna get your dog back. No, never happened. So we ended up getting another rescued, which pretty much I was in so much grief and I was angry because I knew there was a connection. And the only reason was because during this time my husband was listening to me talking about I would hear screams again. I mean I would wake up like at three in the morning and I can't I would say to myself, I cannot believe people are not calling the police. Well they were. So we've had squad cars that will come down several times this March that come down and they just spotlight all the houses and they go down to the very wooded part of our law of where we are, and then there's just one little cul de sac which is just all wooded.

9:38 You wouldn't even think there were houses there. And then there's a huge field, a big farm, and huge power lines that go through that cut behind where we are yes. So I'm just sitting there and I'm like, okay, okay, you know, I just we've got to get We've got to get started. We've got to do this. Then my husband came in. That's about month and a half ago, and since then the activity just multiplied. He says, I was just out walking the dog and some of these stories rocks at me, and he was really angry, and so I'm trying to walk. Now they're not hitting him that they didn't hit me when I was out there, right, But it's like I'm up on this deck and your kids and I'm going to throw them back. I didn't know that was not something you weren't supposed to do at the time. I don't know anything about bigfoot behavior or Sasquatch behavior, but I have known. I've been listening to your podcast You're kind of am I go to as well as Scott as she said, right, And then I got into kind of Ted Baker because I just he he kind of talks about different behaviors and things like that. So it's like every night I'm watching something out Bigfoot. So he had the rocks thrown at him and I said, I told you, I said you know, it doesn't do any good to throw the rocks back. Well, I want to say, well, now I warned to April first.

11:02 So I'm in the first. We're in the first week April. The weather has been really weird. Uh, And I'm sitting out on the We have a front porch, but it's there's sides on both sides right, so it's like the front porch is kind of I don't know what the wood it ingressed or whatever, like where nobody can see you on either side right, and it's like a little walkway front porch where you can just sit down. And I'm watching TikTok videos and just sitting out there, having a glass of wine, just saying, you know, I wish spring would come. And all of a sudden everything just went and I was listening to the tree frogs and I was like, well, at least three frogs are out, and then everything stopped. It was silent, eerily, eerily silent.

11:45 And this is about ten thirty at night, and all of a sudden I heard a shot go and go off from my neighbor about maybe four acres down and then I heard a scream and it wasn't It was like a combination of a baby and like a baby, but it was very loud like an adult would sound. And my spivey senses went up because I was like, that's not that's not normal. That's not normal. And then the shots and once in a while I'll hear them over there, and I'm like, I wonder if he has a chicken coop or something, because I know there's cows, and I know there's a lot of coyotes. I don't know. So all of a sudden, I was sitting there and I just turned and I said, Okay, what's going on over there? And I heard a whistle. Now this whistle you know how men can make a really big whistle sound when they put their two fingers in their mouth, and it's like, well, it was like who a big whistle, Like I can't even do it. And then about seven houses down would would be about seven acres and I'm in the middle of this and this was in the woods, at the very end of the woods where the field and the coyotes are. There was a return whistle and I went, I'm in Jurassic Park.

12:59 You are. They're hunting. They're hunting, like nobody can drive fifteen minutes and I can be on the outskirts of one of the one point four million people like are you kidding me? So I ran inside it and I said, honey, get out here, and so he was like what as he said, it's quiet, I just listen, listen, and then he hears the whistle. So now we have three whistles. So I said, they're hunting. They're hunting. They're hunting, right. So next thing I know, here comes the police. My husband went up to the edge of the driveway and the police are coming down and they're spotlighting, and they're going, Hi, sir, how are you And he goes, oh, I'm good. I live here. He goes, sir, I would recommend that you go back inside. No way, really, yes way, yes way.

13:43 So my husband said, got it, because we've seen them do this, but we've never stopped and go, hey, why y'all keep coming down here spotlighting. Well, we've had a lot of people that have moved in, especially down from us, about three acres that have just moved in because for some reason, people don't stay in this neighborhood very long. So now remember I've got about an acre behind me, solid wood with a natural spring creek, it bubbles up with water, and then to the right of me, our land goes over another acre completely overgrown. So I start thinking, we need to get a bulldozer, we need to bulldoze ten feet out and find a way to put a lighting system out there because it's too dark. And my husband's like, no, we're just going to sell and I go, yeah, but in the meantime, I want to go back on my deck.

14:37 It could take forever to sell it. Right, that's my point. So we have ordered, we have ordered the lights, and Scott recommended that, and that's one reason they're going to come out here. But the biggest thing is about a week ago, I was sitting it was raining, and I was just sitting out there and finally we had rain, and all of a sudden, I hear what sounded like the biggest log drop out of the sky over to my right where I had a bench, and it was like boom. I mean, it was like a sonic boom. And I sat there and what I heard in my head was you are in my way.

15:19 So guess what I said, Well, I'm going to take care of that right now, sir. And I ran in the house and I told my husband. I said, I'm in the way, and I think they something dropped a log, because you know when a tree breaks that we have we have seventy five to one hundred foot trees. Okay, when a tree falls, it usually falls from the root right, or if it's falling and it's cracked from high up. You hear it come through the vegetation like boom. This was like something through it. And my husband goes out there. I'm like, don't go out there. Don't go out there because there's nothing here. And I said, it'll be there in the morning. He said, well, I heard it from upstairs.

16:02 I said, honey, I'm telling you. All I got was you need to go. It was just a feeling. I don't want to say it was like this mind speak thing they're talking about, because I'm not that woo woo. I'm getting a little woo woo though, well not yet, but I'm getting a little woo woo right because I heard that. And he came out there, didn't find anything, and I am angry. He says, I think what you're hearing is something maybe that came from in the back part of the acreage over the creek. It's been raining, and I said, I was raised around woods. I lived on the Oconey River, the Upper Ocney, growing up on seventeen acres. And you cannot tell me that I don't know what it sounds like when a tree falls or a limb falls, and there is no limb that big, and if it did, it's going to make noises like floating down through the leaves, breaking other branches as it goes.

16:55 I was furious. I came in the house, sat on the sat on the couch and I was turned my eye to where it was dark. The blinds were still open, and I was thinking the blinds shouldn't be open, and I saw balls of light just traveling around that I go, honey, did you see that? No? And He's like, I think we just move. We need to move because this thing is starring rocks and it might be aggressive. And I'm thinking, well, I think it's a juvenile because they kind of they what I've heard. I'm thinking maybe they kind of sound like monkeys. Those hounds never return. The lady couldn't find them, by the way, the ones that chased it. No man, really. Yeah, so that was you know, so then I kind of this month kind of got into this. I'm getting a registered thing that I'm going to carry with me and if I hear you come near me again, I'm going to use it. And my husband's like, you can't discharge one of those, honey. You don't even know how to put the you don't even know how to chamber this thing. And I'm like, I'm so mad. I'm so mad at being afraid to go in my backyard right I'm tired of it. I'm tired of it. And I'm yelling at him. We're literally having an argument. I said, I'm tired of being afraid to go on my deck.

18:10 I'm tired of these owls. I'm tired of the noise. I'm tired of the smell. The smell is horrible. It is horrible. It's like a smoke, and it's like a because I've run into skunks more but take a skunk, multiply that times maybe two. But then take the strongest amount of pneumonia urine, and multiply that times ten. You can't breathe. And I've been outside and I go, you know what, thank you for the warning. I'm out, but I am I don't want to live somewhere and pay a mortgage where I have to be fearful, and all we hear is, yeah, all we see is the little effigies of a bigfoot, like it crossed right here, And I'm like, did it eat your dog? I mean, I don't.

18:53 I don't say that, I don't, but I don't feel we can. I wanted to go to our neighbors and say, are you aware that? Are you hearing this? Are you having problems? Because I literally made a video called Bigfoot coming to a neighborhood near you? We're running them out of their habitat. It is clear where I live because Scotts and she will know where I leave, and they're live and they're totally they totally can see that, right have you? Have you called the police station in town and being like, hey, guys, obviously knows something what's going on? Right? But well, what do you say when you say, well, I swore hert the log being thrown at me, but there was no log. Now I've been trying to watch and see and some people have said, you know, it's them jumping down or something. It's kind of like a warning or you know. So I'm like, well, I don't know because I'm learning or if I go to the police.

19:50 I haven't until this week. We had a sighting right here on property. Literally, yeah literally, And I'm kind of glad because guess who saw it. Guess who literally got down on his knees and said, oh, look. And it was actually happening. Yeah, my husband. So now it's you know, honey, I was just not trying to scare you more. And you know know, he said, but I apologize because he would minimize when I would say monkey, and then he would go out the next night and sit out there and hear the noises himself about the owls. About this. You can't fool me on bird sounds or things that are just naturally here in the forest in Georgia, because as a kid, I walked through those forests. I played in those forests by myself, and my mother used to go, you can't go that deep into forest by yourself. I wasn't afraid, but I'm like, well, that's a whipper will, and that's this and this will Robin's. I know what I know them, turkey, I know what they sound like.

20:53 So we saw it right in our foot well on our property. We have the cleared green part and then the woodland, then the woods, the very thick woods is next to us. And it came out of there, ran across the street literally a small it's not really like a two lane, you know, it's like a lane and a half that's covered, you know, when you're talking about rural roads that are covered with asphalt. It stepped out over a ditch right into so it stepped out about five feet with one foot right onto the road. One more step and another step. It was on the other side of the ditch and went between property. And I'm not sure what the other guy's name is, because she she just put up a fence. Why she did it?

21:46 Thursday soda? Yes, uh huh. And so my husband went down to where he went down to where it crossed so that we could kind of got an idea of how tall it was. When my husband's six five and he reached his hand up and he was jumping up to this one kind of tree limb that kind of comes out over the yard. And then we measured it and I said, now that's eight and a half feet. That can't be I think we were I think it should be a juvenile. He's like juveniles grow up, so exactly we've got boxes now all over the house. We're just finishing the kitchen because we were putting on new cabinets and painting. So I told Scott and Sheila, you know when you come over to you know, because we just talked to them Friday or Saturday, I think, And then we played for them two recordings and Scott said, that's a howl. That's the best howl I've ever heard.

22:45 So he's coming probably to hear that, but he heard it over the phone when when we called. But they're driving down and they're going to walk us through the property and tell us where to put it. We're going to get the big solar lights, I mean the big ones right that we can just cut on at dusk, like go out there and cut them on. We don't even like to enter that property. And then also behind the house because I wanted to get a bulldozer to break out all the undergrowth. And also in the back by the creek there's a an archway that's been built with two trees. Goodness really, and I'm sitting there going this, look, honey, the thing is building something here and he's like, no, honey, I think that's just you know, and after Thursday, he just looked at me because he said, I'm not sleeping the night.

23:34 He was really visibly shaken, and I felt vindicated. So I had a lot of different emotion. Yeah, but we finally had the sighting and I said, let's call the police. Now, let's call the game ward. And now this is not a fun peekaboo man. I think it made that noise. I don't know how it made that noise, you know, like a huge like like a hundred foot tree had just want to bam, like almost like a sonic boom, because. Do you have that sound on you? I would love to hear that sound too. My husband's he's got two records. Well he's got the two, yeah, and what he's trying to do is remaster it larger and then I believe he's going to give it to Scott.

24:20 I know Scott has it, he has one of them. But I've told him about you. He just keeps missing your lives because he was going to come and try to play it for you, but it doesn't come through live. So what I will do is see if he can get it to me. He's trying to over the course of a couple of years, it doesn't sound like it did before, Like it sounds like you really have to be listening to it right there in front of you where it's like you try to play it. It just doesn't. It's very faint. But he goes, that's a howl. So judged on the height right now, Scott seems to think that we have up to maybe a nine foot black. It was definitely black moves very fast. I mean, this thing was trucking it. And all I was thinking was there's nothing you can do to me anymore but make me mad. So, I mean, I'm kind of getting over the anger. And so I was listening to another podcaster.

25:23 I think that does something in North Georgia. But it was kind of like just go out. I think it was the nursery one because I listened to the nursery Neil the nursery. Oh yeah, Neil's situation is way different than yourself. Yeah it is. And I thought, you know, because he and Scott got our friends. But I thought I couldn't listen to the whole thing because number one, I couldn't do what they do. I think they're very special. I think that it's a difference scenario they have. Yeah, right. And I also think that my belief is if they're coming in, everything's getting clear cut all over North Georgia, right, And people here call it something cute.

26:03 I don't, And I just think that people need to know that this creature is in the area, living amongst us. And but for the first time yesterday, I have to say I saw a dough coming through that through the wooded part of the property. But she was hauling it and I was like, going, oh, girl, go girl, go go, go, Come on baby, move, you know, like go go. So I think the horrifying thing for me is that I've tried to balance the fact that I believe they've been here longer than me, longer than a many of us. And it's probably just this is where it travels through and stops off for a month or two, goes hunting, runs across our road, goes down to the other creek, because all he has to do is run across between Karen's house, her property is very wooded, and then just you know, run for maybe ten minutes and be right in that field where the coyotes and the cows, the lakes and the chickens and all that. And I don't know if it was one of the ones that was whistling.

27:06 But I counted three and they were triangulated, like one was to the left, one was to the right, and then one was further on. And that's when I said, I live in Jurassic Park. They're literally triangulating their prey and they're very smart. So what we've Ascott to do is just educate us on right, Yeah, because all I know is I can listen to these really cool stories. I think I've listened about fourteen of your shows at this point, and people like I said, there are the woo woo and then there's just a downright mysterious But yeah, go ahead, Jeremiah. But I told them that you and I would do what I would do. I'm just trying to think if I was in your scenario, because it's like you're way past like, oh, I'm going to listen to stuff to help like your like Jurassic Park. The dinosaurs are out of this stuff like the two Rights. So what I would do is like, man, you've got to start talking to your neighbors if you can, and like get an open line of communication. And then I it'd be interested to see with Scott and shielda say with that, because they're super smart. But man, I would be calm the local cops and I'd be like, guys, I.

28:17 Know you that's what I want. And I said, let's call the police. It just crossed the freaking street. My got it, Just do it. He said, absolutely not. It's he. I don't know what it is with him. Because even when we when he was talking to Scott, because of both veterans, I had said, I want to go to the guy that's right on the edge of our property because his is all wooded in the front and on the back, and he's lit up like the Fourth of July every night. Everything's there. Good. He could be a target. He could be a target for people flying, you know, from the Atlanta Airport to go, Okay, here's our location, because there's a house. I mean, it's that lit up. So I wanted to go to them.

29:04 I said, you know, let's just walk down there together and talk to them. Because he had complained. He had said something to me one time, Uh, you know about all these owls, right, you understand about the owls. I was like, no, I hear them and they're getting on my nurse. That he just kind of looked at me without saying anything. So my husband got the impression that he knows he's lived there in this in that house, I think, since he built it thirty years ago. So the point is, yeah, yeah, So I wanted to go down and say, hey, we're going to be lighting up the entire fricking forest and it's going to affect you, and then see if he would say why are you doing that, or hey, we're going to be having We're going to try to figure out what's going on, you know, And my husband said absolutely not. He said, they call this thing the pikaboo Man, and they put up effigies to it, like big Pikaboo Man crossed here, you know.

29:59 And and he said, so what are they They're going to think we're crazy. And I think that when when you look at our property from a satellite, you can literally see where this could be a traveler or it could be a I think I was told maybe a rogue. But I but it's here too long to be just traveling through because we've started summer time. But usually in the spring and then it's gone and we don't have any problem, we don't hear anything, and then in the fall like around maybe late September October. We hear stuff, so we always know, oh, Spring is here, but he's staying longer, and I don't know. It could be a female. I don't know. I didn't see. I didn't look long enough to see if there was any distinguishing characteristics. But I think the thing that I think is more of the story when I think about the Sasquatch nursery in North Georgia, I think he's doing a wonderful thing. The part that I couldn't, I had to turn it off was when he's talking about when he went out and said, please don't hurt my heads, and that just it got my heart and I just said, I can't. But I think he's doing an important thing because as he's studying and learning from these creatures, I don't want to do that myself. But the fact that they're coming in so close, walking across our streets and neighborhoods, and who's going to believe me? Jeremiah, I mean, that's why I feel like I'm just like, I don't feel safe in my house.

31:26 I pay a mortgage. People here keep to themselves. You know. We had a guy that came down the street about a month and a half ago in the morning to pick up his friend who is near the bottom cul de Sac, which is all wooded. I mean, it's kind of scary when you go down there, it's so wooded. He banged on his horn like a bear or something had crossed the road, like like to you know, when something's crossing the road and you're like and you lay down on the horn. He laid down on that horn and I said, oops, and he all of a sudden, he just went backwards at fifty fifty five miles per hour all the way back to the opening onto the smaller rural road. And I said, well, let me guess that guy's not that his friend's not getting picked up from work today, because the creature could be coming back because it knows when the train runs. It comes out after the train train goes at ten thirty and does it sing. And this was about our This was about ten forty seven. Because I look down at my phone, neither one of us like had time to grab our phone and film it. It was just that quick. It just ran right out of the woods. And then and I didn't want to go tell across the street because she lives by herself. She's a very nice lady and she gardens and stuff, and I'm like, no, I'm just not you know, hello, I guess what I'm not. You know, it's I don't think it's not happening on her property.

32:55 You know, we have the largest extra wooded, wooded acreage in the neighborhood, and then down in the coul Di sect there's some people who do, but they have totally recently fenced all that area, so you can tell they're taking measurements to deter I can almost. Assume just ask them, do you have anything weird going on your property? That's all you have to ask, seriously, that's it was. That was the third time to see it was once twice in March, and then that night last Thursday, so that would be three times in the last two months. The cops had come down spotlighting, so yes, things are happening. And then the neighbor on the ridge, because it kind of we had lived in the foothills of the Appalachia, so the neighbor behind us, who have a ton of woods, for like two days cut down every tree and I'm like, that's kind of drastic. So we could either clear cut, not clear cut because I can't I won't do that, but take a bulldozer and get the undergrowth, and then the undergrowth all through the back, all the way down to the creek, and set up cellar lights everywhere, maybe put a shed. And my husband's like, we're not spending money on a fence. We're not spending money on sheds.

34:04 We're not going to We'll buy the lights, but we're not doing all that. We're not going to do all that. So we've got boxes everywhere. And I wanted to say you were the first time that I shared just those few little experiences, But my gosh, since they have clearcut, do you out of? What state are you? And Jeremiah Iowa? Iowa, Okay, so you wouldn't know. I'm trying to think if you like pinpointed in your mind where downtown Atlanta was, It's in North Georgia. Like I've had the map up and I know exactly, like it's between Athens and Atlanta. So right, and you go there, and you're going to see a road that just goes straight kind of eighty five kind of veers to the right, I guess on the map, like going towards the east, for a minute, and it turns into a road that says Highway three sixteen or Highway twenty nine, and that goes straight to Athens and you have Highway seventy eight. They have literally in the past six months, this was an entirely wooded world two lane one lane or two lane on one two lane. On the other side, right by the Appalachi River, it's gone. All the trees are gone. Like every time we go down there, I go it looks like Armageddon.

35:22 So when I was talking about Neil in the sanctuary, I think he's doing valuable research as for the future is how we cohabitate because you just can't keep moving. You either have to tur And I'm not going to gift it because I feel like, as a former teacher, that's like saying, yeah, keep throwing rocks at me, Yeah, keep throwing this. Yeah, take my dog. But we don't even walk our dogs. We don't even take our dogs out anymore. They have been trained now to use a peapad and when we can take them out, it's only during the day into the left, like right by the driveway, like not even near any kind of tree. Nothing. And I feel like an idiot because you know, I wave to my neighbors when we see them. There's not very much traffic on this road, and I want to go, hey, did you call the cops? And I asked my husband and he said, we're not calling the cops. We're not calling the cops, and we're not telling our neighbors. And I am. We've gone through so much over the past year with me saying this is happening, is that there's orbs over there, there's lights over here, what is happening?

36:34 And my husband not minimizing a little bit, not to be mean, but I think you keep me calm, But I was like, I want the truth. I want the truth. And I said, I don't like the fact that I don't want to go in my backyard, that I don't want to entertain on my deck. I don't even want to I don't even want to cook. So my husband says, well, I've been throwing some old avocados back that way, and when the sweet potatoes go back, I go, stop doing that. They think you're gifting of it. Yeah, that's that's not there. That's not a good Yeah. So that's the update. They're going to be here tomorrow. They're going to walk the property and I did find this archway and my husband's like, what's that another thing I've noticed because I've been really watching on higher up in the trees. You know how bear scratches on trees.

37:16 Have you ever seen a bear scratch. It's a little different. It's like a whole piece of bark is ripped for about two feet and it'll go up like you'll see one and six feet later you'll see another. And I've been literally taking pictures, going, that's new, and I have another photograph to compare it with, so I don't And we don't have bears here. We do have deer. We do have all kinds of beautiful birds, and we have hawks and turkey vultures and apparently twenty five owls on my property, which is but now the other day I heard a real owl and I went, that's a real owl.

37:58 Yeah, thats a real owl. I would say, Scott and Sheila are going to give you the right things to do, and yeah, at the end of the day, you know, stick together with your spouse. You guys got to do the stuff together right to make it through. But Scott and Sheila are gonna they're gonna steer you right. They're good people, so yeah, and. We feel really honored that we're coming. It's like, I'm like, we need to get them like a little present or something. When they come. They're gonna have to come in and go where's the kitchen. Oh, it's it's being gutted right here. There you go. But there's boxes everywhere, so they already know that we are. We will deter and he's going to show us. But I think he was really hoping.

38:43 And it didn't rain today. It did rain yesterday. He was like, gosh, I hope it doesn't rain. But we went down to the area where I call him Barabbas, and then for sure, yeah, that's what I nicknamed him. I don't know why I call him Barrabbas, but I nicknamed him Nephi from the Philiaus Leo after I would listen to one of your podcasts and the guy was kind of talking about the Nephelin. So but now I just call him Barabbas. But so I went down. I went down with my husband around our property down to the wooded part and I just started walking it. But on the road side, and you can see where the twigs and the vegetation has been broken, so that's where he's been coming in and out. My question is I think is he rogue? Is he is he just coming through and chilling for you know, a couple of months, or is he just literally traveling through here because he lives around here? And was he hunting with that group?

39:43 You know? Is that his group that's out there. I call it. I call my neighborhood Jurassic Park. Now, so like, is he a part of Jurassic Park? Yeah? I feel it. I'm like when I heard it, I thought of the raptors hunting and the coyotes went off, and then eventually, like forty five minutes later, all the bugs and the frogs returned. So I what I do now? If I have to go outside, I put my ear out. If I hear the tree frogs, the cicadas and the other little nightie creatures, I'm good. If I don't, I'm a door shut. So I wanted to say, I know people would not believe. Yeah A long time serious.

40:24 Well, I watched that. I watched the missing. I don't know if it was the hunted because I've been really just absorbing this so I can try to find something that happened to me. I think there's a there's a section where a lady lives in a neighborhood. I'm not sure if she was in Pennsylvania, and there's it's a row of neighborhood homes and she's like at the very end, and the creature came up and left Prince and then stood up and was had. Her and her husband were seeing the creature look into their home and they live in a subdivision, but now it's an outer subdivision. I think of Philadelphia. Yeah, I don't know. I think it was Philadelphia, but it was in the hunted the last part of it that they're moving in closer for whatever reason.

41:10 I think she was on the close to the Allegheny, but now we're not close. We have a park, but it's a state park with a big lake, but that's like five miles away. I think the thing that feels most insane to me, Jeremiah, is that we have people four or five minutes from us in the across the tracks, and they're really the million dollar homes but in the area, but they don't come over here to the countryside. I live across the tracks right they're getting up and you can hear their cars starting at four forty five, or you can see them on the road and they're hitting Highway three sixteen that takes them now straight to eighty five into downtown Atlanta within forty five minutes. So we have a lot of people that have moved out here.

41:55 There's all new neighborhoods about four miles down from us in the same little a little bit, you know. But I think that's the weird thing for me is that, you know, I hope I'm going to document this because I believe we're going to start hearing more about I only live forty minutes from you know, Iowa City, or I only live thirty minutes from Pittsburgh or you know, Columbia, so Columbus, Ohio. I think we're going to start hearing more about them. No, absolutely, you should write down everything. You really should. Yeah, keep me in the loop too, please, because I am extremely interested. And is this a Is this a conversation that I can put on the podcast?

42:40 Absolutely? Absolutely, I think. It's really valuable. Yeah, because you know, I think that it's fine to say to give it a nickname. I think Peekaboo Man is really cute. But I think at the same time, whether there's wu who involved or not. To me, my impression with the smells and with the hunting, this is an apex predator, and you have an apex predator living amongst you now there. When people have spoken about the Peekaboo man here, it's kind of like, well, he ain't hurt no one, and I think that's that's cute and that's sweet. But you've got people from metropolitan areas moving out here. Yeah, Like you talked about the guy from Palmetto, Georgia.

43:24 I looked where that is. That is right on the outskirt of Atlanta too. It's just on the other side near Henry County, So, and Henry County is where Trilla Studios and all the Hollywood stuff is. That's just being overwhelmed and being taken over right in Palmetto neighborhoods out there. Do you use the map that I've put together, I. Haven't seen it. Do you have a map on your LinkedIn? Yeah? So if you go to big for Society podcast dot com, I have a siting map. It's actually have you on right now. I just put you on pause. I was listening to what. You should you should check that map out. It's going to blow your mind how much how many things are close to Atlanta?

44:05 It'll really is it in the big Is it in the one that says Bigfoot podcasts like under the Bigfoot Society? Is that where the map will be? Because I'm on. It's It's Bigfoot Society podcast dot com. So it's the actual website. Okay, yeah, because I'm on the tiktoks, I see it and then it's not okay, good, well I will leave that. Oh their society map, I see it. Yeah, so if you're looking at that, let me see. It's opening up for me. Let me go to Georgia. So it's going to blow your mind. Oh yeah, I heard, well, I was listening. I was listening to a fellow from Mississippi. Uh the other day he was on here and he was talking about Okay, is the are the blue marks? That's where people have seen him.

44:52 The blue marks are people that I've talked to. Okay, well you can put me Okay, I'm from Athens, which is already marked, but you can put our siding if you'll want to. If you go, all right, do you see let me see I'm trying to think. If you go to the northeast of Atlanta. Can you see Lawrenceville, Georgia. That's part of Metro Atlanta. So if you go you hit Atlanta and you kind of take a little bit of a right, you'll see Gwinnett County. You'll see Lawrenceville, Georgia. Oh yeah, okay, now keep going and then you're going to see a highway that goes in the highway. What does it say on your map? I can't even see.

45:38 Let's see me back up. I think that's it. There's twenty nine, which is the same as three sixteen, and it says al Kobe Forest. And now I'm going up and you're going to come to a place called winder Yeah. I was guessing that because you said state park with a body of water has to be right. Right, And if you go to the left, if you go to the left of that, you're going to see a place called Whistleville. Yeah, okay, you can put a little dot there. Oh nice, that's cool. You'll see the krega. Well, actually we're actually in whistle whistled So if anybody here is from Barrow County, I'm sure you've heard about the Peekaboo man. You know, start calling the police more please please, or even the Georgia State the rangers or the Storage Estate Forestry Commission, because I think I don't even know if they're aware of it.

46:40 You know, the police may think that we're just all these whoever keeps calling is just seeing things. But we were told to immediately go, well, my husband was told immediately go into the home, like we're looking for something that's really upset someone. So yeah, there's that, but yeah, put us there, which is uh, and we're probably gonna move to Athens. We used to live in Lawrenceville area. We were in the metro. But you can see how close it is, like I can be I was in Lawrenceville within fifteen minutes and that's one point five one point four million people. But they're all moving out to winder In Russell and Bethlehem, which is south of that.

47:21 You'll see three sixteen twenty nine. That's where you're going to see. And that's on the way to Athens, and there's like three little counties in between there, but it's that whole road in there. Yeah, and so I just think there's there's we're gonna see. You're gonna hear more about it. I think it's important that people know. I am probably the last person in the world that I just thought it was just a thing, and if it was just a if it was a bigfoot or a peakubu. Man, he was just passing through. Hello, I'm just going past your yard by like maybe going up to the North Georgia Mountains or maybe headed down to the Okefinoke. But remember we had the forest fires all through South Georgia. That was a really big deal. But last time he stayed this past summer, he was here in July because I said, why is because he gave us the smell when I was outside because I thought it was safe, and my husband goes, I can't breathe. I said, I'm I'm a vomit and we ran back in the home.

48:16 So yeah, but I still don't understand the sonic boom thing in my yard. There's no trees down, nothing, so I don't know. I think the couple that you had the podcast on, they were real cute. I like listening to the one from was it Illinois? And they live in East Tennessee. Right. Oh, yeah, they're really nice people too. We talked about Yeah, they talked about the same noise, the same exact noise, but when it started hitting the hot outside of my house, I was just like, are you trying to tell me, hey, I'm here? Are you trying to let me know you need to stay in? What? Like? What is your point? What's your point? I'm up now, you know? So I find that, Yeah, I just find it to be kind of like hold on, buddy. Realized that that I could make one phone call, you know, I could do that because there's a part of me that doesn't want to do anything to harm this animal.

49:10 I don't think we know enough about it. But he's going to have to coexist while we're still here. He's going to have to play the game a little bit because I'm going to right. But I'm happy to spend money on one hundred and fifty dollars on solar lights to deter him, just so I can sell my property and do I put that on the disclosure. Once in a while, you may hear a sasquatch and he could cross the road in front of your house and hounds and puppies maybe, and your animals may start disappearing. But you might see the police come down and shine on your house and the other five houses down here, so yeah, but he had I've never been hurt. The rocks never hit us, which it hit like a foot away from us, and I think that's Jim Baker was talking about how that's on purpose, and I really respect him, the guy that work at NASA. Yeah, so I was thinking, you know, that's true. When he threw them at my husband about three weeks ago, he was frustrated and he threw them back, and he just threw them behind him. I said, no, honey, he's throwing those rocks from fifty feet away at that speed.

50:19 He is in the creek which is ten foot deep, and it's a freshwater creek too. So anyway, yeah, we're going to be okay. I just we blinds open till about seven, six o'clock, six o'clock closed, six am open. That's kind of where we are right now. So well, hang in there. And you were talking to the right people tomorrow. That's like the best people you can talk to. So I'm so glad they're going to come over. And thanks. Yeah, and thanks for your podcast videos and all that people you have on because I have heard about I was told about the dog Man or something, and I'm like, I can't do that right now, get in the dog man. Yeah, I cannot do that because this right here has kept me up nights.

51:07 Yeah, because I didn't. If I wanted to, like run into forest creatures, whether it be panthers, mountain lions, bobcats, whatever, I would have moved to La j okay, but I didn't. I am right outside the metro where I can have peace. But then I can go to Atlanta if I want to, because maybe I want to go to a museum or I want to go to the aquarium. I wanted the peace, but I don't have any peace. So but listen, Thanks Jeremiah, and thank you the first time I spoke out about it, so I'm a lot more comfortable speaking out about it coming to a neighborhood near you. Got it. Keep me in the loop and we'll talk later.

51:48 Okay, all right, Thanks Jeremiah, Bye bye. Bye, Holy mackerel. That, Oh my goodness, Georgia is out of control right now, guys, I gotta go cook suppers. So appreciate y'all being here. If you have something you were wanting to share with me, If you have an encounter a story, please send me an email, right now at Big for Society Gmail dot com. If you want to share your account as a voicemail which I could use on the show, go to speakpipe dot com, forward slash Big for Society. Let me check. I think that's it. Yeah, speakpipe dot com, forward slash Big for Society or Big for Society podcast dot com. And there's a voicemail option.

52:43 But I appreciate y'all being here. Hey, take what's up? Dog? Oh my goodness. I'm going to try to be on later tonight. Guys. I'm really gonna try because there's so many people I want to talk, but I will. I gotta go, got to make supper. Guys, I'll talk to you later. 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 years. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot Spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just it's going to be a wild,

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