Peoria County is Full of Them! | Illinois

0:00 Welcome to Big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode. And if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more Big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes. Head on over to patreon dot com. Forward slash the Bigfoot Society and now let's get on with the show. All right, Bigfoot Society, But the privilege of talking to Bill today. Bill is a listener who reached out to me from the great state of Illinois. He's experienced some really interesting things out there over the years.

0:50 So Bill, welcome to the show. How's it going good? How are you? Thank you? We're doing good out here in Iowa. We've got a little bit of snow on the ground, but we're making the best of it. So yeah, Bill, there's stuff going on in your area. Current day I'm excited to hear what you've experienced over the years. And then at the end, I mean, we'll talk about some stuff. We'll talk about some stuff that's going on current day too, So feel free to you know, I'm going to pass things right over to you, Bill, and feel free to take us back to where we need to be. Well, I'll tell you, Jeremiah, as I say, I'll tell you I was a skeptic until two thousand and eleven May fifth, to be exact, twenty eleven. I have my first experience here in puer Tony, excuse me, and I was out Morell mushroom hunting on private property and not too far, probably approximately about five miles from Jubilee College State Park. I'm very aware of the property. Hunted there for years there, hunted, turkey, hunted, squirrel, hunted, you name it, I've done it. Just that one day, I took my lab.

2:10 She was a female dog, Nabba door retriever. I took care of with me, very obedient, and I decided to go out to a spot that I've always hunted for years, probably a dozen years in or you know, prior to this incident. As I was walking through it got out of my pickup truck. It was a nice sunny day. It wasn't no cloud cover or anything. And as I got in there started walking through. My dog went ahead of me as it normally did, and she started walking away. And the next thing you know, I'm looking around. I'm starting to pick up my shrooms, and I hear a noise off to my lap. And what I mean by noise is is trees cracking. I heard the lees brushing, you know, if someone had been walking. And first thing comes to my mind is maybe it's either someone in turkey hunting or or a deer running to you know, running through the timber, running through the brush. I stopped, but I knew something was watching me. I had that eary feeling something was watching me. Most hunters will tell you when you're in the woods, uh, you know, out in no timber, if you're hunting, most animals, squirrels, birds, when they see it, they'll stop. They'll go dead silent.

3:34 That day, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop, And as I looked over to my left, I thought I had seen something, some movement. I wasn't for sure, so I act like I was pretending. I still knew something was there. I act like I was still going to pick up mushrooms. So when I kneeled down, there's an old deer trail there, and I kneeled down, and as I kneeled down, I was looking around trying to scout the area, like where you at? Who is it? All of a sudden, I hear a big yell. I yelled, and I've never heard in my life. When it yelled, I kind of like, uh, oh, you know, what's just the same. So Kyle and the center. Now, I ain't no human being, and I just pretended like I was going to, you know, pick up mushrooms again. And in my mind, I'm thinking that wasn't nobody, no man. He couldn't yell that loud and deepness of it, and it scared me. I was scared. Then again, about maybe ten seconds later, I heard another one. And then I could hear trees breaking, branch is breaking off, and I could hear the you know, the footsteps, So I knew it wasn't a deer. And the second thing had come on my mind is maybe somebody's out here turkey hunting and her running through the woods and I spooked them or something you know. And it ended up it wasn't fat either.

5:09 As I went on hunting the mushrooms, I stopped up. I took a few steps. I could hear the brushing in the trees cracking off to my left, and when I would say probimately, maybe, I would say forty feet maybe if that. All of a sudden, here comes my dog running back to me with her hitting her tail between her legs all the way up to her belly, and her hair up from her neck all the way down to her back. And she had her head down in a submission, and she was grown and looking off to where I had heard the sounds. And I said, oh, my dog scared something over there. She wouldn't be doing that.

5:54 The dog came running towards me and it laid down in front of me feet and I told her to stay, and she was turning off round towards where I was hearing the trees break, and I heard the yell, and again I heard another yell, and the dog started to bar and that all and it scared me to the point where I just sat still for a few seconds. And I tell it, it's gonna get me. It's got me. Now I have nothing on me and my dog. I grabbed the dog by the collar and I walked backwards. I jumped into the put her into the passenger side pickup that I was driving, and I was pulled on this side of the beanfield. There's a little area where the tractors go up along the field to do the corn fields and the beanfields, and I was parked there, so I backed up. I went probably it was only probably maybe fifty feet from where I was parked at.

6:59 So I backed up, got the dog in the truck, and I went to go around. And I thought, if this thing's gonna get me, it's gonna get me now. I hurried up, got the truck, and I got out of there as fast as I could have. Backed the truck up and reverse got all the way over into the other end. I back up about three blocks, turned and went down the road, and I went down on the property approximately about a mile and a half from where I was at, on the opposite side of the timber. So I thought I was safe. And I was trying to get my mind like what did I just hear and see it? Wow? You know, And my dog wouldn't even get out of the truck. It was that scare and anybody that knows Poia County or the state, you can look it up or google it. Kick a pool.

7:46 Creeks got tributaries off of that, and it's not far from the property. It's on the property of joining property I was on, but there's tributaries that go off onto this property. Also. It's not real deep, probably a few inches, but it's always flown. And we used to keep cattle on that side. And I went over on that side, I think, and I would be okay. And I walked down into an area heavy and thorns and brushed temper. When I get down there, i'd see a bunch of footprints traps, and it goes across the creek and up a thirty foot in the bank, and it was a about a four inch tree sticking out of the side of the hill and it was broke freshly off and the track looked like I took four feet across one foot you could see where it went up the hill and broke the tree, and then it was gone. It was that was it. I went ahead. I just went decided to go back to the farmhouse. And I get out and I go to the woman that owns the property.

8:58 And she was in her mid eighties. She was out and the lawn and she was messing with the garden and she my nickname was called Elmer, uh because I'm sure and that's my nickname. And the lady there goes, hey, Almer, what have you been doing with my horses out here? She said, somebody's been coming out here all week and my horses have been jumping like you're in a rodeo. And her name's Mildred. And I said, well, Mildred, I don't come out here at two thirty in the morning or twelve o'clock at night or anything else. I said, that wasn't me. And I said, what do you mean they're acting up? And she said, yeah, one jump the fence.

9:38 She said, something's been spooking them all week. And my brother in law, who was a well known tracker and hunter, his name was William h. He was a caretaker there also, like a handyman, knowing him all alive, and he pulled up and he goes, hey, what's going on? He heard her ask me about the horses. Then he goes, well, I told him what had happened, and I said, no, horses have been acting up and she thought that was me. I said, but I want to tell you what just happened to me. He looked at me plenty and he goes home. He does, you know, that's strange. These horses had been acting up. I wonder if they didn't, you know, something, they didn't sense it. And where I found the tracks at Jeremiah were right below where the horses walk out of the barn. It's like a little pastur area that goes down into the creek. And that was in twenty eleven.

10:39 They fifth two eleven and the big back. I'll never forget that day after that. The next day my son in law, who was a police officer at the time here and taswell comedy. He was laughing at me. He was a skeptic, you know. And him and my older daughter decided they said, well, let's go out and look at the place. And I said, if you go, I want you to take your you know, your rifle or some kind of a weapon. I won't go out without that. And we went the next day and he laughed at me and said, oh, you've seen bigfoot. I said, no, I don't know what it was. So we get out to the farm my daughter stands up to the barn.

11:26 Me and him come in from behind where the horses were throwing a pit and helping the fences. We climbed a fencicle down into the area where I found the tracks originally now in the back where I had the dog. We're walking around and we see the tracks. I said, well, there you telling me what them are? And he looked at him and he goes, you got me baffled. He goes, I'm sorry I laughed at you. He goes, this ain't where you're at here. There's no way. He goes, this ain't. There ain't no waste for me. Could have just walked doron here barefoot and hurt you big now mind you just guy the police officer. So we had to be kind of skeptical after that day that changed his life.

12:10 He's a definite believer. As recently after twenty eleven, I hadn't been back out to the property. I went back to this last April and made to go mushroom hunting with my daughter Kim and some grandkids, and thinking years later, maybe you know they moved on. Then I actually go in there and tell her where it happened at We not only I not only see him, but also on this date actually saw found tree structures, more footprints, heard them, heard yells that I've never heard before, similar to the ones I heard in twenty eleven. And that's just then.

13:02 The surrounding areas of Fiuya County had multiple sightings in the last six months. There was one in Farmington, Illinois. Guy claims he's seen one out. He actually saw one on his property coming away from his barn. That's in Bolton County. Also, there was residing just recently or footprints found in a state wildlife park, and I think it's Wildlife Prairie Park in Piuoya County, not far from where I had my experience. I would say within ten miles or less. So yeah, there's a lot of sightings in this area here in mine.

13:50 Oh absolutely. And you know you had actually reached out to me the other day about that Wildlife Prairie Park the footprint that were found, which I've been there multiple times. It's a great place. You know, people would definitely check it out if you're in the Peoria area. But I actually reached out to the park after we had talked real quick and I got someone on the phone said who I was, and I was interested in the tracks. They started talking and then they're like, uh, yeah, you need to talk to someone else. I was like, okay, So I got I had to contact pretty much the media department for the park. I haven't gotten anything back yet, but I'm guessing if I'm going to it's probably gonna be this Monday when they although, well, maybe normal business hours, but yeah, I thought that was interesting, So who knows.

14:57 Yeah, you know the thing I never really thought about when I was out there this last time, Geremiah, I didn't know anything about making you know, cast of the tracks. I wish I would have done that. Big for society. Who would be right back? After these messages. Now? I do have pictures on my old flip flop phone from years ago, the original pictures, and I have video on my phone and stuff like that today from last year that I've never showed the public. I've never went public with it. I've never ever, you know, tried to make any media attention or anything like that. I never done all that. I'm sure it would have made the media, but I never wanted to do that. I was never one to want to do that. I wasn't out to make money or anything like that. My family went to Branton, Missouri, and anyone that's been there knows that they have a new museum, a big Foot museum, in a place called Beyond the Limbs. Oh really and yes, and it's got a whole display for Bigfoot, one whole section, signs reports and stuff like that from the BFR or

16:29 another places all over the world. My report from twenty eleven was in there and they seen it said hey. They called me and said they've got your report up in here, and they put me on with an owned the guy that owned the museum, and he wanted me to come out and down and promote a new opening opened. And I didn't do that. I said that's not my goal. I said, I'm not going to do that. But he had some interesting things there. We talked over the phone, you know. But I'll tell you, like I said, I was a skeptic until that day. Today, I'm one hundred percent sure what I what I seen, heard and found.

17:13 Yeah, I mean the whole area. I don't know what it is about it, but you know it's probably something to do with what is that the I is that the Illinois River. Yeah, there's so many sightings I've taken, you know, some from the seventies north of Peoria, northeast of Peoria. And then there's that one that was pretty big, this within the last year, where the truck driver saw on twenty four I believe it was, and it was coming out of Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area. It's like you look on the map and it's like, you know, you can easily draw a line where it's like coming from that area up to Wildlife Prairie Park and then up to i mean just north of that at Jubilee College State Park area where there's been other sightings up in that area besides yours.

18:07 Correct. Oh, yeah, I know of the guy, the gentleman from terre Ha, Indiana. He passed away. Now he is my nephew's father in law. And he told my nephew right out, he said, when he told him about me, they were laughing and he said, well, I'm going to tell you he's not lying. He goes, and I'm never going back. He goes, You'll never get me to go back. I saw it crossing the field and he goes, I know he's not lying. And this is a very when I say religious man. He lived seven days a week. You know, he went to Churchill lot. He was a very intelligent man, college educated, went to Indiana State University.

18:53 You know, So you know these people are not all of them. I would say, there's a lot of faiths in the world or in the United States. There's a lot of them that do get faked. I can say, yeah, that's true, that's true. But I would say, what about the ones that ain't? Do we just ignore those? You know? I'm a firm I know mine wasn't. There's no doubt in my mind. I would take a polygraph on National TV fifty times, and I'm convinced that I would pass up. That's all confident that I am on what I did and what it's all. I had no reason to fake it because I was scared to death. I'll tell you I know of at least two other reports almost by a county sheriff koa county and then he's retired, and he told me about it. And I'll tell you I was told by a game warden that come out to the property, told him what was going on, and the experience that not just me, several of the other people had and this game Warden had another young man win him that he was training, and I said, well, I'm going to bring my nephews and my brother and him out and let him hunt it. He said, if you shoot it, this was his exact words. If you shoot it, we will take you to jail and take every possession that you have. He goes, You'll be in jail and you

20:25 will be fine. I said, well, how can you take me and arrest me for something that you claim doesn't exist? And his answer to me was don't do it. You know what will happened? That puzzles me to this day. If you don't think of exist, why would you make that kind of a statement. I think people get that all over I don't think that's just me. Was that back in twenty eleven, that that happened with the game Warden? Yes, yes, m. That's really interesting because yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things. It's like, you know, obviously they know what's.

21:11 Going on, Jeremiah, how could I rescue for something if you shoot something that you say doesn't exist. Well, you know, we know there's no bears in the area. Now, we did have a bear, a black beard. I think it was in the up a camp down Lenois or Lewiston that someone spotted and that was true. There was one there where it come from. They never said any more about it. I don't know if it got you know, released from a park or cage or something like that, or someone just had it, or if it wondered in that area. I don't know. But you're not going to see a bear here. You're not going to see elk or anything like that, you know what I all. I know if there was no man that big and he couldn't move that smoothly, uh through the woods. I've got relatives in my family there six eight six', nine big, guys and, uh they're. Agile they were, athletes but they couldn't move like. This this thing made them look like little.

22:19 Kids i've watched sports all my, life and this thing made. Chats if Ke O hill looked like a, baby it would it would dwarf me just by the. Side the pure size and the weight of. It. Uh i'm still puzzled to this. Day you, know it's still got me. Puzzled you, Know i'll never forget. IT i can't remember a lot of, things BUT i can remember, that like, Yesterday oh. YEAH i. WOULD i would never. Forget. UH i, mean are there ways that it's affected you since you had? That? Oh, yeah. ABSOLUTELY i don't. Know out into the woods by. Myself IF i, GO i go armed or AND i don't go. Alone i'm a big mushroom. HUNTER i fish a. LOT i do a lot of things like.

23:12 THAT i used to be a big. HUNTER i used to hunt deer in turkey and squirrel and rabbit and things like. That you name, It i've done. IT i don't do that no. More the area THAT i was in has gotten a lot of uh it seemed what they call if you look In boone And crockett magazine AND i think it's uh, uh there's another. One. Uh it's got that area At jubilee as the, triangle the magic. Triangle they believe that that's where the next world record to come out of for. Bucks the property has a lot of, that a lot of deer on. It my nephews and, them they did hunt. IT i there is a cabin on the property that's been there since about eighty.

23:59 Five two of my nephews told me just within the last year they were out there gonna go deer. Hunting not this, year but Last October bowl hunting and they stayed all night in the cabin and they said something shook the cabin and was throwing rocks at the, cabin and they thought somebody was playing a. Prank and mind you, know these guys are about six four sixty, five about two a big, kids and they had weapons on and they never went. Back they were scared to. Death they left that morning and they never went deer. Hunting that scared him so. Bad it was off Of Evans Mill road here off Of Greene Hall, road the Old Kicker pool sand and gravel pit off of Green Tall, road not far From Jubilee College State. Park it's down the, opening very. REMOTE i had a guy tell me, that, well there's not enough timber In illinois for something like that to, survive or it would be. Seenmore AND i told him that's not, true AND i actually drove. OUT i didn't take him on the, property BUT i showed him the surrounding area and he come back and he was just in. Awe he, said you're, right he. GOES i, said let's just put it to you this. Way IF i don't want you seeing, ME i could wear a bright yellow jacket and you could take one hundred, people and IF i didn't want you to see, me you

25:31 wouldn't find. Me AND i said that to the, fact and he agreed with. Me after he's seen the. Area the guy that owned the, property his family had it prior to. Him he had passed, away And i'm gonna say ninety six AND i used to go out and help him with the cat on, it and as a handyman with my brother in law and help him with. Cat you he said he used to have beef, cattle angus angus by and even, Then, jeremiah all the YEARS i was there helping put fencing, up beating cattle going back in, THERE i never had an experience by, myself but after that twenty eleven that changed my whole life and my whole outlook on. It you.

26:18 Know it's it's areas like this that it makes you wonder if the current day owners are still having things happen on the. Property you, KNOW i always wonder that WHEN i hear stories like. This, WELL i know the owner told me And william and my Brother jaiff when he was still, alive even in the summer hearing you, know anybody that knows In Peoria county. Knows In, June, july And, august it's, hot it's. Worn it doesn't get dark until right around nine or nine thirty in the. Evening and this gentleman that owned the, property he told us right out we used to go out and helping bel hay or put pencing up or feed the. Cattle and he, SAID i don't work past five.

27:12 O'clock my question, was, was why is? That? Chris he, goes, WELL i don't know what's out. There he, GOES i used to find cattle all mauled. Up we were assuming years, ago we used to find, calves probably four or five hundred pound calves that were ripped. Apart we was assuming that it Was kyle's all them. Years and WHEN i say every probably once a month he would use it lose a cab and we just assumed it Was. Kyle's and anybody that knows anything About kyle snow or even coy dogs usually or a. Cat they will eat from the belly out and you'll see some kind of evidence of wear tracks or something in that name nature to where you could see what they ripped, it you, know ripped them. Open these didn't have. That the calves would be, ripped their head would be separated from the whole, body legs would be, different and testings would be laying were with one. Part why the head and the legs were separate from the body and there was no clall marks on it at. All and at the, TIME i just you, know didn't think about it on my brother in, law but we knew something was. Up but the old man would Never he would never go out past five. O'clock he, said, NO i don't know what's out. There he, said there's strange things out there that, happened and he wouldn't do.

28:41 It he was scared to death and you wouldn't catch him out on a tractor or anything after five. Pm this is. Fascinating so you actually saw these calves. Yourself oh, yes, Yes i've actually not only saw, Them i've seen more than. ONE i saw probably a dozen over the. Years. NOW i guess not to get overly. Graphic but so you're saying the head was separated from the. Body was it like a clean cut or was it like it had obviously been torn off the? Body it was torn, off you could see that it or looked like something just said it'd be like you're putting the tracker around in a chain around one on the neck and a chain on it and pulling it in.

29:25 Half that's what it looked. Like it looked to me like you did, something just took it and ripped, it just ripped. It there was no claw. MARKS i didn't see any claw. Marks we were thinking it Was kyle SAYS. I you, know And i've seen deer where they've shot. Deer i've found deer Where kyles have gotten, deer and you could see where they dug at it with their, claws dig at it to get to the. Intestine and they will eat from. That i'm not trying to be, graphic but they will eat from the belly out and you could see the teeth marks or a canine in the. Tracks this had none of. That this was nothing like. That was there ever a situation where you found one of them that had its neck?

30:11 Broken, OH i found them there the head would decapitated from the. Body Big so society will be right back after these, messages. Okay you know most of the time when we found, them they were like just ripped. Apart you, know it was like something just came and just ripped it. Apart and my brother in law even. Thought you, know later on he, said you know all those, years you're, Right he, goes that Wasn't kyle that could have did. That he said something had to rip them apart and they had to be awful strong to do. That and, uh you, know of course he's passed away, now you, know But i'll tell, you uh it it shook you up when you've seen it with your own, eyes it would it makes you, think you, know it really opened your your mind up to like, wow you, know oh?

31:19 Absolutely and is this same area is it known for any other strange things happening as well Besides? Bigfoot uh THAT. I know, HIM i. Don't i'm not aware of Any i'm aware of the other sidings in the. Area and on the same. Property if you look it up on the, map you can, google uh reports from the BF R. O, uh you'll find that reports on. There it tells by you, believe but it was actually on the same property shame spot THAT i was. On, okay, YEAH i see. It Peoria, County. Illinois mushroom hunter, One.

32:01 Yeah and there was also a deer hunter one on. There he was dear that was him and he didn't give tho details he. Was he didn't want the media of the. Hounding he didn't want the you, know people criticizing him or you, know things like. That but he did give, it And i'll tell you he did the report to a guy Named Stan courtney In Southern. ILLINOIS i actually never uh Called. Stan it was like an older daughter and her husband that called. Him. Uh those of you that don't know Who stan, Is he's A bigfoot research organization gentleman For Southern. Illinois he lives down By Seanee National park and uh In Southern. Illinois he called me up and did a little bit of an interview over the, phone BUT i didn't give him all the.

32:53 DETAILS i was stealing shop from the honest you. Know to this, day it still baffles my, mind, like you, know what was you, Know i'm still, curious what? Was you? Know, yeah just to so just to talk About Stan courtney for a. Minute Stan courtney is A he's got a great website stancourtney dot, com and he has so MANY i, mean he's The Illinois bigfoot. Guy he's got so many reports on. There but also he has an incredible page that HAS i would JUST i would say easy two to three Hundred bigfoot sounds to download and listen to from Oh. Illinois, yeah it is absolutely, Wild so you, Know i'll have that in the show. Notes people need to check that, out especially if you are interested In Illinois. Bigfoot BUT i have tried to talk To stan many a, time not been able to come to to go. Through so if anyone listening has a pretty good connection To stan and wants to reach out for, me feel free to do some one.

34:09 Thing one THING i would say too to let you know it is To jeremiah on that day in twenty. Eleven i'll tell YOU i gotten the. MINDSET i think it was playing with. Me be honest with you WHEN i say playing with. Me it was trying to manipulate the. Movements IF i took a few steps forward or, backwards you could hear it. Move IF i, stopped it would. STOP i think it was playing with. Me DO i think it could have wasn't gonna harm? Me it. Didn't it could. HAVE i think if it wanted, me it could have gotten. Me you, know there's no doubt in my mind it could have had, me you, Know but it didn't do. That SO i don't know if they're Violent i've never heard of them being that, way at least that. Day with. Me it didn't couldn't. Have it could have easily got. Me if it wanted, me it could have got. Me there's no no doubt in my.

35:10 Mind but WHEN i went back there this last, year it was at the same time of the, year right Around April. MAY i understand If, jeremiah if there isn't something to that pattern of them using the creek, beds because all the tracks THAT i found were all on the creek BED i think they're using it as their pathway to go from area the. Area that's MY i could be, wrong BUT i think that's What i've. Seen, NO i, mean it makes perfect. Sense and that's that's something that you you hear a. Lot and, also you, know if you if you're looking for a good, area you, know make sure there's a water source or a creek or a river or Especially Creeker river that hasn't been.

36:03 To it seems like that that's a commonality, too. If you look around all over the. Country if you And i've been out. WEST i just came back from Northern. California my daughter used to live out, there And i've been to shafts Of National, park And i've been to The Sands Flat National. Park i've been all over out, there And i've seen, them you, Know i've seen bear And i've been around that stuff all my. LIFE i did gold panting and prospecting out, there And i've got pictures and video to prove. That So i'm very knowledgeable about the. Outdoors anybody that knows anything about, deer, Honey and we'll tell. You if you shoot a deer and they don't die right, away he'll run the water to lick.

36:49 Water he'll lay in the sand and mud and try to patch that, hole he'll stop the. Bleeding i'll tell you, THAT i think whatever, this whatever this, is, bigfoot, sasquatch whatever you want to call, it whatever it, is it has to have. Water we know that if it's a, living breathing animal or bipedal, animal whatever it, is it has to have. Water AND i Believe i'm convinced THAT i could go out there today AND i can find new. Tracks i'm convinced to that. Today BUT i would never go by. Myself that's how SCARED i. AM i wouldn't do it on a broad, night sunny. Day But i'm convinced that sooner or later it's got to come. Out i'm sure there's going to be somebody hunting or something that someone's going to get one in this. AREA i Think Peoria county and the surrounding area is one of the most hottest spots for south squats or bigfoot, RECENTLY i would say one of the top three in the, nation if not top.

37:56 Two, no there's a lot going. On there's and there's people that are talking to me that are off record too About Peoria county that just jo not want. ANYTHING i, Mean i'm Probably, yeah there's there's more than is documented that's going on in this area in recent years and also in not so recent. Years it's JUST i don't know what it is about the, area but there's a lot of bigfoot sightings and encounters in The Peoria county in uh this area where you had a encounter as.

38:39 Well and you, know the crazy thing is like if you look at it on a, map it's not that far away from Southeast, iowa which you, Know i'm From. Iowa there's and that's where all the well most of the action is For iowa's that southeast. CORNER i, mean it's less than two and a half hours away FROM. UH i tell, You, jeremiah as you, know you know you're From. IOWA a lot of people got just misunderstanding THAT i want To, illinois don't have the timber to, come you, know to have something like, that you, know so buy. It but that's simply not To in, fact that's the opposite of WHAT i. Know you could go in south you, know southeast hourway over there By. Uh i'm trying to think of. That is It burlington And downd just east of, that And i'll tell you you go along there take. It if you don't don't believe.

39:33 It if anybody out there in the skeptic doesn't believe, that just take a ride going Through burlington or From illinois to, there go down in that. Area i'll guarantee you you don't change your mind when you ride through. There look at the brush in the. Timber it goes for. Miles you can go from you, know and it Can i'll tell you anything that going. There if you don't want to be, found LIKE i, said you can go out here Employ county AND i could wear a bright yellow. Jacket you could send a thousand people in there and IF i don't want them to find, me they'd never find me UNLESS i wanted to be. Found that's how thicke it, is you. Know and IF i could do, that what makes you think an animal that's been out there every day and you, know those the outdoors that's got a better sense of, smell direction of, eyesight, hearing you, know they know you, know and they know the area you.

40:31 Know And i'm convinced to. That but one THING i want to say to all the, LISTENERS i really appreciate you in your show because it brings this stuff to. Light it brings more information out than a lot of the other ones That i've ever. HEARD i got to be, honest AND i enjoy your, show really enjoy talking to, you AND i think you're more informative than any of them That i've ever listened. To, well you, Know, BILL i appreciate. That at the end of the, DAY i try to make something THAT i would like to listen to, myself and you, KNOW i there's at any given, Time, bill there are people reaching out all day. Long there are so many accounts that need to be shared and people that need to be reached out, to and you, know some of them end up not coming, on but you, know the ones that, DO i am super thankful for, them like, yourself being able to come on and to share what you, experienced and it helps other. People it helps other listeners make connections to what's going on at in their encounters as.

41:44 Well but you, KNOW i have to ask, you based on what you experienced that, day how would you would you be able to categorize what bigfoot? Is is it something more ape like or human like or? Something, well from WHAT i seen back In, april the one the woman that i'd seen back Last April, may it was about eight and a half to nine feet, tall easily eight hundred. Pounds that's a. Gas it's a, gas give or, take you know on the, weight but the, Height i'm pretty convinced that it was easily over eight feet EASILY i. Would i'll tell, YOU i just wonder if it ain't some kind of like a gigana pithecus something similar that we just haven't discovered. YET i it's got to be it's got to have some kind of human gene in. It? Uh is it? Human? No it's definitely not. Human but WHEN i mean it's go churistics as something like walking on two, feet the way it, ran the way it, moved and it moved smoothly through the.

42:56 WOODS i seen it go up a hill and up on over and it moved through like nothing and very. INTELLIGENT i don't know what it. IS i don't want to say something THAT i don't. KNOW i don't want to lion set this or, that Because i'm not. SURE i will say it's highly, intelligent very, fast very smooth. Moving AND i would say if it wanted to get, you it. COULD i think it could do a lot of damage to any human being if it really wanted. TO i don't know if anybody actually been killed by him or, harmed maybe rocks thrown or maybe a tree being knocked on or something like. That if there's reports of anything, Else i've never heard of THAT i know that day That i've seen it on on multiple occasions out.

43:53 THERE i felt that it could have gotten me IF i wanted. Me there was NOTHING i could have. Done you ain't going to find a grizzly bear off with a, stick and, uh you, KNOW i feel that this was way bigger than, that you, know And i've seen grizzly, bears uh you, Know And i'll tell you just made it a grizzly bear look. Small. Oh, absolutely from WHAT i, Hear you're absolutely. Right but you had mentioned that you went out to The shasta area and just on a on a, side did you have anything weird or out of the ordinary happen when you're out in That shasta. Area, NO i didn't experience anything like. That. Wow you.

44:36 KNOW i talked to a few guys that were, there you, know they were sitting alongside the one of the trails, there and, uh me and my daughter and the grandkids were walking and we were looking at the scenery and it is, beautiful the scenery. BEAUTIFUL i you, know brung up my experiential guy and he was talking to me and we were talking about gold, pans and told him WHERE i was, from told him about my, experience and he, goes there's a lot of sightings out, here more than get them gets. Reported that was his. Words AND i, said oh really and he said. Yeah AND i, said, Well i've never seen nothing out, here But i'm sure they're out. Here in missionary he, said look around. You he, said you think you couldn't you? Know you could get lost out. Here and he, goes my advice for you stay on the trails and don't go. WRONG i thought that was, weird you, know but then we. Left BUT i never did ever have the experience out there THAT i had. HERE i can't SAY i. DID i don't.

45:45 Know if you're familiar With, Morgan. California there and just in Between Lake tahoe And, renal there were a place called Col. PATS i was on the what they called A bear river pann and, Uh i've got videos from pictures of, that and, Uh i've had people up in there tell me that they've had sightings even WHEN i was, there BUT i never had. None and if you've been in that, area very beautiful the scenery or just blow your. Mind and, UH i WHEN i was Here, CANNING i talked to people there and they there was a lot of people telling that they've had their stories about sightings and stuff. There you, know everybody can't be, lying you, know, know there is people that probably made some stories up or light or you, know there could be fake tracks and all that. Stuff And i'm one that to, say, yeah that's. True well what about the other ones that?

46:45 Aren't you, know, well you you can't say all of. Them faith and there's too many instances on some of the stories That i've heard that match one of what happened to, Me SO i know they're NOT i, said AND i, listen And i'll tell you some are so accurate to everything that happened to. Me the, sounds the way they, ran their, looks and from What i've seen as far as the fur on, them the closest THING i could think of what the third That i've seen on them were close to an. Orangutane oh, really, yes it wasn't all dark, Black and of course it was running up the hill or had it back to. ME i didn't, see you know how they'll have a lump on the back of her. Neck it seemed like a solid, muscle and, uh you could see a. MOVEMENT i MEAN i.

47:41 WAS i was only probably sixty yards from, it AND i can tell you, This you could see the muscles. Moving it had the colors of more closer to an orangutang than Anything i've ever. Seen i've seen garrillas in The Henry Dooley zoo if you that's An. Omaha, Nebraska absolutely. Yep i've been there a dozen times And i've seen them and they're. Big you can walk up to the glass and see the actual size and, them and they're pretty good. Size this was at least double. That and the colors weren't the same as an eight or a. Gorilla they're. Dark they were. Dark the face was, dark you, know on the. GORILLA i couldn't see the face on, this BUT i could take you from the. Back it was more of a raddish brown back.

48:32 Color fascinating. Stuff, bill thank you for coming on the show and for sharing what you experienced back in twenty. Eleven and it sounds like we definitely need to keep an eye on this area and maybe if other listeners have had things happen in The Peoria county area or this area Around Jubilee College State. Park you, know feel free to reach. Out you can reach me At Bigfoot society at gmail dot, com or you can leave a comment on. YouTube but the best way to make sure THAT i see what you're leaving is to send me an.

49:14 Email But, bill thank you for coming on the show and for sharing what you. Experienced thank, You, jeremiah and you Stay shafe AND i appreciate everything you. Do, yes, sir you have a great, one you, Too bye, Bye just want 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, 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.

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