Revenge of the Tennessee Donkey Squatch (Archives)

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Welcome to the Big for Society.
You've got a special episode from the archives

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for you today, interview I did
with Elijah Henderson from the Cryptid Studies Institute

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about some wild things he's experienced down
in Tennessee. You are not going to

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want to miss this one. You've
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Society. Now let's get on with the

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show. All right, Big Faciety, You've got a special treat for you

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tonight or whenever you're listening to this
got mister Elijah Henderson with me from the

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Cryptid Studies Institute from beautiful Clarksville,
Tennessee. How's it going, Elijah?

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It's going good, brother. I'm
not sure how beautiful Clarksville it is because

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it's not a lot of night you're
here anymore. It's mostly and I hate

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it. But the cool thing is. It sounds like you're getting out in

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the woods though, when I can
after it, when I can, If

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everybody doesn't mind, excuse my look
tonight. As you can see, I

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sort of have sunglasses shapes sunburned into
me. I'm doing construction now and they've

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had me outside a whole lot recently. Oh, I got you tell me

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all about what is the Cryptied Studies
Institute. Well, the Cryptied Studies Institute

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is a is the brainchild of my
dad, Johnny Henderson. He and another

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researcher you know, talked about going
into a cryptid group, and you know,

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then it was born, so to
speak. It's existed for quite a

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long time since, maybe abound twenty
fifteen or so. But our actual YouTube

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channel where we do all of our
documentaries and whatnot, it's only been around

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for two three years or so.
But in that time it's been a really

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great experience and a lot of really
great things. Talk to a lot of

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great people and whatnot, and yeah, I reckon, we're trucking along.

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We're our main spot of research is
land between the lakes in Tennessee and Kentucky,

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and we find ourselves there pretty often. In fact, I think sometime

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in May, we got a trip
of some friends planned to go out there

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too. Oh that's awesome. How
far away from Land between the Lakes are

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you, guys? So, Clarksville, Tennessee. Where I'm at, where

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I'm situated, it's in a really
good spot because you're close to a lot

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of really popular, famous creature sites
or spots of renown. From where I'm

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at, I'm close to about fifty
minutes to an hour from Land between the

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Lakes, about an hour from Montgomery
Bell State Park where the werewolf springs is.

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I'm like twenty minutes or so from
the Bell Witch haunting site Hopkinsville where

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the Hopkinsville Goblins stuff happened. If
you're in the ghost you know, close

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to lb Al's Fort Donaldson. I
believe it's a supposedly haunted battlefield. And

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yeah, white Bluff or the White
Bluff screaming stuff happening, a lot of

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stuff happening close to hear and I'm
all like within an hour of it,

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So listeners know, So this may
the main episode we're going to be focusing

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on Bigfoot? Is the cool thing
about Elijah? And uh do you call

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you? Do you call yourself?
A C? S I or Crypto Studies

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Institute. Usually go by Cryptis Studies
Institute. But you know what everybody wants

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to call us, I Reckon.
So Elijah, he's telling me beforehand they

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started out with Bigfoot and then they
went into dog Man. So the main

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episode is we're going to be talking
about Bigfoot stuff, but Elijah is going

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to stick around for a Patreon after
Patreon episode where he's going to talk specific

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about dog Man stuff, because I
was like, man, I've got you

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on here. I'm trying to focus
on Bigfoot, but I would be remiss

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if I didn't spend some time afterwards
talking to you about what you know.

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From what I've heard, you guys
are considered some of the some of the

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experts on the subject. But the
other cool thing, Elijia is you were

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kind enough to share a few sounds
my way. Let's let's start off by

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by playing a few of those and
getting your commentary on some of them are

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very interesting. We're gonna play the
Bigfoot ones and I will save the dog

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Man ones for the after show for
the Patreon, But any specific Bigfoot one

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you want to start out with or
just I'll pick for you. Ice you've

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got Well, let me let me
play it here first and then we will,

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uh, we'll do some commentary.
So I'm going to play it one

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more time a little bit louder,
all right. So that's very interesting,

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and I think I want to play
this the other one right after it,

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because it's kind of they're similar.
Okay, so what's the story behind those

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two, Elijah, So let me
give you a little bit of background on

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the region that comes from that comes
from Indian Mound, Tennessee, and Indian

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Mound is actually about twenty seven minutes
from Land between the Lakes, which is

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very ironic. But I have some
people that lives on, you know,

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a good piece of property up there, and they're basically like grandparents for me.

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I've known them my whole life,
so you know, they're like grandparents.

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But they've lived on this property for
like sixteen seventeen years, and most

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of the time they've been there,
there's been something on their property. And

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man, it's been a great research
spot down there because it's great in the

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way a lot of the time you
don't have to go out, you know,

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and hike around in the woods and
try to stir something up. If

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you just sit outside with a fire, generally something will come up and start

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making noise at you, or you'll
just be shooting the breeze outside and you'll

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hear something off in the distance.
Oh there's the bigfoot. You know those

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that whoop that first whoop, We
were actually sitting in their yard, ran

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a campfire, you know, shooting
the breeze with the family, and it's

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like something got curious and came close, you know, fairly close by and

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heard activity going on, and it
was kind of curiously whooping. I guess

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to get our attention now. That
secondary whoop. The people who owned the

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property, they left a audio recorder
out all night and they caught that one.

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That's how he's gotten a lot of
noises. I've actually got like folders

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of audio clips from him, which
may or may not have anything on it,

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a lot of them. I'll probably
just have to go through and see

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if there's something there. But he's
gotten a lot of weird noises just by

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leaving like a little tupperware bowl with
a voice or chorder sitting in overnight.

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And that second one, I think
it might have been called like S two

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whoop something like that. It's a
lot higher pitch, so I kind of

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suspect maybe that was a juvenile because
it had like a much higher tone to

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it. Oh. Absolutely, It's
like when I heard him, I was

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like, are these like it sounds
like almost like gibbings from the zoo.

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This is incredible, Like and these
are just out in Tennessee at some dude's

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properties. Pretty much. It's why
I'm going to play the second one one

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more time since we were just talking
about it. That's wild, dude,

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oh man. And it's it's probably
the most unique bigfoot spot I've ever been

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to. And the reason I say
that is before I get into that,

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let me give everybody kind of a
lay of the land. Indian Mound is

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is is a pretty rugged spot.
You know, it's starting to get some

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construction in the areas. It's starting
to you know, see some see some

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traffic, so to speak. But
it's still got quite a bit of nature

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to it. There's a I believe
it's a nature reserve. It's called Cross

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Creeks pretty close by to this property. And uh, there's quite a bit

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of nature there. We found you
know, evidence of like bear up in

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the region. You know, there's
wild boar up there. But uh,

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this particular spot where these people are
living at. It's off the road.

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You drive up a gravel road up
a hill and they live kind of up

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on top of a hill, and
they're surrounded by lots and lots of woods.

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There's a couple of houses like around
them, you know, a couple

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of different properties, but basically it's
all out in the woods and some fields

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and what not. Now, one
of the thing that probably makes it the

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most unique Bigfoot spot I've ever been
to is that in the time we've been

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there, it imitates a donkey and
there's not a donkey up there, But

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when I was a little boy,
there used to be a donkey like way

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down the road and where they live. From where the donkey was, you

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would never be able to hear that, you know, it's just too far

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of a distance. But up on
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you'll hear donkeys braying out in the
woods and there's nothing like that in

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those woods, and they'll you know, bray in different points on the property.

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So I have an audio clip somewhere
in there that like two or three

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donkeys bring at the same time,
and uh yeah, man, uh that

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it makes it really wild because in
this day and age, there is no

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more donkey anywhere around and my name. He's even asked his neighbors before,

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Hey, you ever hear like a
donkey out here? And his neighbor told

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him there's no donkey out there,
ain't been donkey out here long time,

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or there's never been a donkey out
here. So there's something around there that's

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imitating a donkey. That's wild.
I'm going to play the sound in a

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few in a minute, but it's
just so. The weird thing is is

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like, you know, I've interviewed
people about Bigfoot for a few years and

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what I've got so far is bigfoot
try to make sounds that don't make sense.

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There are people that will hear what
they think sounds like a car door

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in the middle of the woods,
far from away from any cars. That

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doesn't make sense. And who's to
say that they couldn't do a donkey impression.

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And let's listen to it right now. This is really fascinating. Here

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we go. Now everybody can hear
that there's like two or three donkey sounds

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there, and historically, from when
I was a boy, I only ever

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seen one donkey down the road.
That's like three four donkeys there. I

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don't know what to I don't know
what to think of that man. And

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it sounds like no tracks have been
found, no donkey tracks, nothing like

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that. Nothing like that man.
This is all like rugged woods. Like

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on one side where you could hear
some of these sounds. It's a thick

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wooded hill and it goes straight down
a hill, like into a deep ra

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vene, and then it comes back
up on the other side. It's all

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just like one deep ravine. I'll
be working out there since he's like my

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grandpa on the day, and I'll
just hear like a donkey brain in the

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woods. I'm like, huh,
is that bigfoot somewhere? I've got a

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recording and I haven't been able to
find it. I would love to have

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it back. I don't know if
it got deleted or what. We were

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sitting around the fire there one night, because me and my dad we'd made

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a geodesic dome and put it out
on the property and used it like a

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like a big giant tent, you
know, through a weldersh tarp over the

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top of it. We were sitting
around the fire around that campsite, which

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was smack Dad right in the woods. That donkey started braying pretty close to

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the camp, you know, real
deep sounding, and it sounded like it

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got strangled on something like I got
strangled on his own spit and it started

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like trying to bray and there was
like coughing at the same time. It

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was a good audio clip. I
haven't been able to find it. Drives

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me mad. Sometimes I'll be looking
through everything can't find it. That would

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drive me nuts because it's like,
yeah, because that's like something's trying to

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imitate it and then it's got like
a frog in its throat or something.

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It was some impressive audio. And
man, you hear all sorts of stuff

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out there. We've heard like things
that sound like cows up there. As

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far as I know, there's no
cows, tropical bird sounds, you know,

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some stuff that just sounds like out
of the ordinary, at least in

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the entirety i've been there. I've
never seen a cow close to that close

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to that property that I can recall. But sometimes you'll hear it, like

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some of those audio clips in there. It's coming like from out of the

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woods, you know, where nothing
like that would be. You said,

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this is Indian Mound, yes,
sir, it's about twenty seven minutes from

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the opening of the south end of
lambagewein the Lakes. Is it named because

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there is a an Indian mound in
that area? I would imagine that's why

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it's named. That man and I'm
friends with a safety man who he used

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to have, you know, things
happened to him down there, some unusual

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things when he was a younger man, and he has he knows where the

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Indian mounains are, so they're still
down there. I don't know where they

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are, but he said he was, you know, doing some hunting pretty

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close to one one night and he
gave us like a weird supernatural encounter.

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Some of those audio clips are as
recent as as like probably around September October

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twenty twenty two. What do you
do? You have a feeling as to

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like, what do you think Bigfoot
is? What are you dealing with when

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you're out there? Well, you
know, I think he kind of got

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a lot of things going on,
to be honest, you got your you've

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got your group of people that think
it's you know, something supernatural or something

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in their dimensional because you got all
these folk that report it just vanished,

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right before my eyes or I watched
it step into a portal. You got

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your your more unusual stories like that, and then you got something that comes

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from a more grounded point of view, like I was watching it. It

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was knelt down and eating out of
a blueberry bush, you know, just

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something like that. I've actually got
hair samples here that was genetically tested and

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came back as undocumented primate. So
I think there is something physical running around

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in some capacity. But I think
a lot of the things people see there

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is something supernatural, you know,
impersonating something like that or appearing as it.

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You know, there's a lot of
confusion that could be spread. You

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know, if something out there demonic
is posing as one of these things,

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you can you can really stir the
pot. I know that's you do have

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to be aware of what you're investigating, et cetera, as some listeners may

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be aware. So you send it
on to a lab and unknown primate.

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Really well, the it wasn't me
that sent it off. What happened was

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when I was a when I was
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these groups. Are you familiar with
Mary Green? Yes, yes, But

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for listeners who aren't, would you
mind described a quick summer. Yeah,

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yeah, absolutely cool. Mary Green
Green was a famous bigfoot researcher and she

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did a lot of work with the
Chattahooche Bigfoot Research Organization. And when I

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was a little boy, you know, we joined that group and they would

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have annual gatherings in Standingstone State Park. That's where they did a lot of

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research. We've done a lot of
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a really good spot and it's declined
pretty badly. But Mary Green, you

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know, she wrote the book Fifty
Years with Bigfoot, which they got an

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audiobook of it on YouTube, but
it's it's been impossible to get a physical

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anymore. But she's a very well
known woman. She would have sort of

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more in her research. It seemed
to take more of a personal relationship with

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the bigfoot, because you know,
she would have specific bigfoot she worked with

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in standing Stone that she would call
by name. She'd go unto this spot

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called Grumpy's Place or Grumpy Spot,
and there's a sasquatch there named Grumpy that

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you know, they'd sometimes have experiences
with. I forget the names of the

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other one. That's when I was
a little boy, but uh yeah,

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she uh for one of those annual
conferences that they had up there. They

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had a sort of raffle that they
were doing. They had like a poster

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board sitting on a table, and
you know, they'd have different prizes,

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and one of the prizes was some
of those hair samples and they had,

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you know, pictures of the results
of the hair that came back from the

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lab. And just as a nice
gesture, Mary gave me and my sister

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like three bags like with a couple
of strands of that hair. And yeah,

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that's how that's how we got ahold
of that nice there you go,

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there you go. I love it. Chatahoochie. Is that in Georgia or

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Tennessee? It was Georgia. They
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It was over in's Overton County at
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be such a good spot. Man. But I'm not going to name names,

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you know, publicly, but from
what I heard, a very well

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known TV Bigfoot researcher went over there
and was firing guns. And you can't

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hardly get anything to show up there
anymore. I've heard like sort of outside

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of the park that people have stuff
happen, but actually in the park at

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the old locations. So has Bigfoot
been in your your family DNA for quite

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a while, Elijah, like our
family history and whatnot. Yeah, yeah,

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sorry that that was a really weird
way to say. That got weird.

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Yeah, family history, let's say
that. Yes, So there has

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been a lot of Bigfoot stories in
my family. So my dad, my

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grandma come from East Tennessee over at
Dayton, Tennessee. And for those that

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aren't familiar with that area, it's
a small town. Even today it's it's

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small, but you know, it's
starting to get bigger. It's where the

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famous Scopes monkey trial took place,
you know, which was basically the starting

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point of evolution being taught in the
schools. It was the creation versus evolution

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court debate, so to speak.
And that that's the same time where that

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took place. But you know,
there's a been quite a bit of activity

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happening up there. My family used
to own some property up there. They're

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you know, in the sixties,
they'd been there for a while, but

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this took place sometime in the sixties. Where they lived. It was down

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an old gravel road and there's trees
on both sides and they'd kind of curl

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over like this, and you know, make the road really dark at night.

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It would you know, block out
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they'd be coming down that road at
night, you know, after getting their

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business done in the day, whatever
it was, and they would hear something

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following them. I'm up on the
hillside, you know. They'd see little

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stones coming down the hill, you
know, kind of rolling down the hill

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as it was walking. They would
walk, it would walk and follow them.

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If they'd start running, it would
run, or if they just stop,

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they would stop, you know,
classic bigfoot. And they would run

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back to the house and this thing
would be coming after him, and they'd

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close the door and they didn't have
like a dead bolt or anything like that

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on their door, so they'd push
the stove up against the door to try

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to keep this thing out, and
they'd see the doorknob, you know,

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the door kind of shaking back and
forth like that. And it didn't seem

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to know how to operate the act
will door knob mechanism, but I guess

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I'd watched them, and you know, it was grabbing the door and shaking

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it. Things continued down there,
and the family one night was sitting around,

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you know, listening to Loretto Loretta
Lynn records nice and they heard some

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sort of noise coming from the from
the window that looked over and they've seen

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something looking in at him. I
think I think I was told that it

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was kind of a growl and a
kind of raspy breathing something or other.

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But it had glowing red eyes his
watching them, and it kind of had

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a monkeyish appearance, but it had
a wide nose like an old man,

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it was described to me. And
you know, this was the Deep South,

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you know, over an Appalachia.
So what did they decide to do.

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They took the rifle outside and they
were going to try to shoot this

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thing, but you know, get
outside, it's gone, can't find anything.

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they're having home ugs come up missing, you know, and at that

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time, you know, hogs were
a staple. They were their food.

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They you know, you could trade
them if you wanted to. They were

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just really a staple resource for the
people up there. And to have them

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come up missing was a big problem. So one of my uncles, one

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of them, he's not living anymore, but he was one of the meanest

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men to ever by the daylight.
You know, nothing really scared him.

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He did a steak at with some
other folk, and you know they're watching

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to see who was coming up here
taking the hogs. Well, they described

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that something that looked like a gorilla
loped out of the woods, stepped over

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the fence into the hog fence,
picked one up by its front legs,

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by its back legs, slung it
over its shoulders like that, traps back

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into the woods. And he said
he wouldn't have shot it for anything.

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It would just made it mad and
would come and killed us. But I

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mean, hogs are hogs are massive. My sister's got a mini pig.

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He's not many anymore, but I
can't even wrangle him, you know.

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So something just coming in there and
grabbing actual hogs, grabbing them by the

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legs, throwing its over its shoulders, and just taking off with it.

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That's some force there. I cannot
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Man that hosted be so cool man. And I guess the last thing from

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up with that property that I know
of is one of my It was either

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a cousin or an uncle. I'm
sorry I can't remember which, But he

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was riding his horse out in the
field around that property, and as it

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was described there as one of those
bigfoots sleeping in the field and his horse

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jumped over it, and it scared
the bigfoot. It jumped up and run.

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It scared the horse. It started
doing this thing, and obviously it

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scared my family member. Some versions
of the story it bucked him off,

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and some story versions of the story
he was able to hold on to it.

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But either way, that horse jumped
over a sasquatch and it terrified both

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of them. Bigfoot got up and
run. And sometime after all this stuff

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had happened, the neighboring county started
having newspaper reports of a wild man around

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there, and didn't really have anything
go on there anymore that I know of,

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So I guess it moved on.
Whatever it was. That's good,

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man, Is that is that property
still in your family? Then? No,

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there's a man, Oh what was
it? It's it's like the housing

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projects they're built there. Now.
It's on a hillside and it's kind of

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overlooking some of the town, but
at that time it was a lot more

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wooded and whatnot. I've got a
picture of like the old place. I

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can privately send it to you later
if you want to see some sort of

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where it was at, because it's
only like a shot of like one of

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the houses. You can't really see
the woods, but you can see the

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house that was there is off in
the distance. See, this is why

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people don't get like, how how
can these sasquatch be seen like so close

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to the houses. Well, it's
because the areas where we're building houses used

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to be extremely wooded, and we
just cut all the trees down and put

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up some parking lots and stuff,
and you know, it's like that's how

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it happens. It's crazy in your
area. Yeah, I love hearing about

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like the regional Bigfoot stories, like
the names. You don't hear the names

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that you're not going to see in
the books. Are there you know,

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creatures that are well known in your
area that have like the crazy nicknames like

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that there's an Alabama white Thing or
any any big Foot type creatures down in

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your area, well close to me. Not in Clarksville, because Clarksville's pretty

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awful. I'm not gonna lie,
it's pretty awful. I've heard a Bigfoot

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story or two from up here in
Clarksville, but it's all neighboring things.

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We got about forty fifty minutes from
here with a White Bluff screamer. And

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that place is unique because you've got
almost like two variations of the way it's

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told. Some variations or is that
it's like a supernatural spirit type thing,

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and then some variations are more of
like a told like it was a bigfoot.

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Excuse me if I forget some of
the details, but it's the most

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famous story that I know of attributed
to It was something to the effect of

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every night. This is probably like
seventeen eighteen hundreds something like that, but

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this fellare you know, he was
in his home and late in the night

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he'd hear just some sort of blood
curdling scream off in the woods, and

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you know, this would repeat,
I guess for a night or two or

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however long. But he eventually was
hearing it again one night and he decided

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he was gonna go check it out, whatever this was. So you know,

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he got his gear, whatever that
was. I guess it would have

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been a lantern and a gun went
off in the woods, storming off after

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this thing, and he would hear
these blood curdling screams and he'd approach them,

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but he could never get closer to
him. They was always kind of

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moving further away. And then when
he got so far off in the woods,

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he heard all these horrible screams coming
from his house and he turned around,

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ran back to his hounds, got
home and his wife and kids had

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been just massacred by something. And
I remember hearing something like he looked at

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his window and he could see like
a white bigfoot of shape standing there,

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and there's I want to say,
they had left like footprints in the grass

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that almost looked like they'd been burned
into the grass. Now, like I

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said, sometimes it'll be told and
more of like it was a spirit.

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Sometimes it'll be told more like it
was a sasquatch. Now, I do

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got a buddy up there who he
got some recordings, as I want to

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say. He said it was as
a train was going by, but it

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sounds like God's Zilla roaring in the
distance. If anybody wants to hear that,

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I've got a White Bluff screamer video
on my channel and that audio is

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in it. Not trying to self
promote or anything, but if anybody wants

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to hear the audio, it's there. Oh, everyone should go oh,

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So the thing is, I'm sure
half the people have been there and subscribed,

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and the other half need to go
there, watch the video and subscribe

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and hit the bell because Crypti Studies
Institute YouTube channel. Isle. Shit,

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it's good. I should appreciate that, man, your good stuff. So

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yeah, it's going to be in
the show notes, don't you worry.

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But at the end of the day, you're saying that this the story is

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is that this white sasquatch took out
a family or almost a whole family.

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That's wild man. Yeah, whether
it was a bigfoot, some sort of

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evil spirit something, that's one of
the stories attributed to it. And now

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I mean just right close to that. I mean it's basically same area.

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White Bluff is basically smack dab up
against Montgomery Bell State Park, and there's

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bigfoot activity up there. My dad
seen in. Another researcher named Nathan Davis

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seen three of them up there in
two thousand and nine. And even Mary

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Green, who we talked about earlier, said that the bigfoot up there were

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known to be kind of a violent
variety. And on the back side of

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the park there you got werewell springs
where historically there's been more what seemed to

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be dog man sidings up there,
violent dog man sightings. So all this

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crazy stuff is going on in the
same area as the Belwich Cave. Well

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from Clarksville, it's about twenty or
so minutes, so it's probably like an

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hour or so from Montgomery Bell State
Park. But it's all roughly in the

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same area. I mean, bell
Witch happened in Robertson County, and in

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that same county. You know,
there's been bigfoot reports, there's a you

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got the Critter of car Creek up
there. It's a weird area, man,

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dude. I mean that's close enough
for me, Like I if I

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am, If I'm like an hour
away from the Bellwich Cave, that's that's

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close enough for me. That stuff
that's wild, man. Uh, but

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tell me about the critter. What's
what's the story on the critter there?

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Well, Uh, the Critter of
car Creek. It's kind of described as

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like a like a hyena, and
you can find newspaper reports about it,

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the Critter of car Creek as they
called it, And every now and then

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people still see some sort of hyenas
looking canine up there. I got a

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friend who we went to a Bigfoot
Conference in Lamb between the Lakes with him,

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and he was saying he's seen something
like that down in a creek and

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what's kind of ironic o wur construction. So, you know, I'm around

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a lot of people. I shoot
in the breeze with this guy. You

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know, I'm an expediter and he's
in the trailer next to me. He's

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an electricians expediter, and we're out
there talking. One day he said he

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was from Robertson County, Springfield area. I was like, man, they

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still see them hyena looking things up
there? And he ship his head,

404
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Yeah, they people still see him
up there. WHOA. So maybe that's

405
00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.799
some of the dog men that they're
up there, you know, because sometimes

406
00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:34.079
they'll go from on all fours to
upright. Maybe it's like just some hyena

407
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:37.039
that was in a circus show and
got released up here. I don't know,

408
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.920
man, but some of those.
You'll see the name America's Hyena thrown

409
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:51.599
around on the internet for some things
being seen and listeners may have just got

410
00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:56.039
a little bit of a hint as
to how to ask someone about if they've

411
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:04.240
seen a creature the good way,
which is, hey, you ever seen

412
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.680
the you know, just be nice
about it, be kind of you know,

413
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:13.640
don't be super direct and serious.
Just be a nice guy, and

414
00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.680
man, you're going to get some
info. That's how you do it.

415
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.160
Man, I tell you what.
Being around all these people in construction,

416
00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:23.160
they know exactly what I do.
I'm always shooting the breeze with them about

417
00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.839
bigfoot and whatnot. And I'll go
up to them and I'll be like,

418
00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.559
man, you know, this is
gonna be random. But in my experience,

419
00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.759
it seems like everybody's got at least
one bizarre story to tell in their

420
00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:37.079
lifetime, at least one weird thing's
happening that they can't quite account for.

421
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.759
You ever had anything like that?
And he'll kind of be like, well,

422
00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:45.279
you mean like supernatural? I mean
like yeah, you know, supernatural,

423
00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:47.880
bigfoot, anything like that. And
he'd be like, well, it

424
00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:52.119
was in this house when I was
a young man, and it had it

425
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.200
was attributed to be haunted, and
me and my buddies are up there,

426
00:32:54.200 --> 00:32:58.000
and we were up in the attic
and all at one time, out of

427
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.119
nowhere, all the doors in the
house, everything door in the house just

428
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:05.000
slam shut all at once, and
we got the heck out of there,

429
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:08.200
and I don't think he's a gentleman
that generally believes in that type of thing.

430
00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:15.680
So everybody seems to have at least
one story to tell generally. That

431
00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:21.559
is a great piece of advice too, about how to approach someone like what's

432
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:25.000
your what's your weird, weird weird
thing. Oh that's so good man,

433
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:31.240
I love it. I'm gonna I'm
gonna remember that one too. Are you

434
00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:37.960
a guy that that tries to go
after the uh, the reports that are

435
00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:45.279
held by the state Forestry and this
state parks in your state? Do you

436
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:51.319
do any of those report things or
stick more to witness reports. Well,

437
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:52.680
we sort of just have areas,
you know, we've always went to,

438
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:57.799
you know, as family, like, hey, there's a in activity up

439
00:33:57.839 --> 00:34:00.000
here, let's go up here.
So I usually hit the same spots over

440
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:05.039
in Dayton, Tennessee. There's a
park up there called Pocket Wilderness or I

441
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:08.800
think the newer names like Laurel Falls
or Laurel State Falls or something like that,

442
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:15.199
but the town's always called the Pocket
Wilderness. The one of the rangers,

443
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:17.719
the officials up there, he'll be
pretty open and just tell you,

444
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.199
yeah, there's bigfoot in this park. I've had people that let me back

445
00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:28.280
up, there's like a there's been
a like a lot of coal mining done

446
00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:31.159
in that park before, okay,
and there's a ventilation shaft that you can

447
00:34:31.199 --> 00:34:36.039
walk up to that's right along the
path. Basically on one half you got

448
00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.719
all these this beautiful water rushing and
big giant boulders, and on this other

449
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:44.480
side he had the hills going right
up to the mountain. It's a most

450
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:50.199
beautiful park I've ever been to.
But there's a ventilation shaft on the excuse

451
00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:53.400
me, one of those hillsides,
and he's had like five different people tell

452
00:34:53.440 --> 00:34:58.599
him that they've seen a bigfoot coming
out of that ventilation shaft. It only

453
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.559
goes so far back, but it's
know, it's full of water and whatnot,

454
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.719
and maybe something goes in there drink
or just get shelter. It's not

455
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.840
extremely big, but even he's seen
it. It was throwing stuff off of

456
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:15.559
one of the hillsides at his truck. I remember he said something like that.

457
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:20.440
Someone told him they were hiking up
somewhere along that hill and they've seen

458
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:24.639
one up there. I believe it
was a reddish color and it was a

459
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:30.000
fairly violent bigfoot. But yeah,
I've got him. I wouldn't post it

460
00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.400
because I wouldn't want him to,
you know, lose his job or anything.

461
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.159
But I've got audio of him recorded
telling us about it, and even

462
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.400
his boss told him, Man,
stop telling people this stuff. You're gonna

463
00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:45.800
scare somebody. But he just seems
to keep telling people. How do you

464
00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:51.480
get a park ranger to get like
to be like you just asked him,

465
00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:55.480
Hey, you're okay with being recorded
talking about Bigfoot or how he's super cool

466
00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:59.639
about it. You'll go up there
and he'll just kind of be leaning on

467
00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.760
a post. I guess he loves
the history of the park, real good

468
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:05.960
guy. He's like, you want
some history, and you'll go up and

469
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:07.559
just shoot the breeze and he'll tell
you about like the history of the park,

470
00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:12.840
show this like photo album he's made
of, like the ventilation chefts,

471
00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:16.440
and there's like an old dynamite shock
he'll show you pictures of and he just

472
00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:22.199
kind of, I guess, just
sort of transition the conversation, or at

473
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:25.119
some point he may just kind of
tell you, yeah, there's there's something

474
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:31.719
up here. But I remember even
seeing somewhere online where somebody was talking about

475
00:36:31.719 --> 00:36:35.719
the ranger up there, you know, telling them a big fit stories like

476
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:40.480
just some random post online. So
he's super open to that guy. Yeah,

477
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:45.719
I mean he may still be up
there. I haven't haven't seen him

478
00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:49.480
in a long time. But that's
wild, real cool guy. The thing

479
00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:57.199
I love about your area it is
so rich with just wild, untamed stories

480
00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:04.199
of creatures and supernatural and things you
can't explain, and everybody seems to be

481
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:08.480
into it. It is awesome.
It's a weird spot down here. Man

482
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:14.000
does get old. I love all
I love all sorts of weird stuff.

483
00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:15.960
So I'm like, oh man,
we got all this down here, we

484
00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:19.960
got bigfoot over here, we got
dog men over here. I love it.

485
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.599
Then, I mean it's like you're
you're living Scooby Doo pretty much like

486
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:29.119
you just go out on the weekends
and you Yeah. What what's really ironic

487
00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:35.599
is where I live. Historically before
this was Tennessee and Kentucky, some organization

488
00:37:35.719 --> 00:37:39.679
called like the Henderson Organization, which
is ironic, the Henderson Foundation something right.

489
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:44.039
Uh no, maybe it's just a
bunch of Henderson's, but they are

490
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:47.360
with the transilv I think it was
the Transylvania Company. And this land around

491
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:52.280
here actually used to be called Transylvania. So I mean, how how's that

492
00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:58.320
for ironic? You know, jeez, wow, that's weird man looking for

493
00:37:58.440 --> 00:38:06.159
monsters in Transylvania. H M,
that is crazy. Was there ever a

494
00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:09.920
time that, you know, I
know you said earlier that you earlier in

495
00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:15.639
all this you guys were big fort
one hundred percent. Was there ever a

496
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:22.000
time when you're out looking for Bigfoot
that things just got to a point where

497
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000
you're like, you know what,
I'm not sure if I want to be

498
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:30.079
right here right now, Like it's
just got a little bit too crazy.

499
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:35.960
Well, actually, there has been
a time or two like that over in

500
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.320
an Indian mound. This was a
I was still fairly young at the time.

501
00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:45.159
I was with my dad, fellow
researcher his name was Jason Acey,

502
00:38:46.360 --> 00:38:54.039
and my sister and we're walking.
It's on somebody's like around somebody's property,

503
00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:58.159
like where they've built now, so
we can't really get to it as well

504
00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:01.679
as we could years ago now.
But we were crossing one of the fields

505
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:07.719
out there and there's a there is
a cave off on in the woods somewhere

506
00:39:07.719 --> 00:39:10.400
over in that area, and we're
going to that cave. It's it's a

507
00:39:10.440 --> 00:39:16.440
big rock face and it's it's a
pretty narrow gap that you can crawl into

508
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:23.280
and it opens up. But uh, it's a fairly decently sized cave,

509
00:39:23.800 --> 00:39:27.360
but it's it's a tide entrance in
the front, you know what I mean.

510
00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:31.920
But anyway, we were going to
that cave and we spied some blue

511
00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:36.719
eyeshine off in the woods, which
there's not really a lot of animals that

512
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:42.039
give off blue eyeshine. We had
heard that juvenile animals have a blue eyeshine

513
00:39:42.079 --> 00:39:45.400
color, and we didn't know if
maybe there's some sort of a like a

514
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:49.000
juvenile sasquatch there. It's low to
the ground and there's kind of a ditch

515
00:39:49.079 --> 00:39:52.639
behind where it was, and you
know, we shined the lights at it

516
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.480
and just kind of stared at it
for a few minutes, and then went

517
00:39:55.519 --> 00:39:59.880
further off in the woods toward this
thing, well toward the cave my bad.

518
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:06.559
And we're walking along and I got
this audio somewhere. You hear just

519
00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:09.920
something snapping. You can hear like
the individual fibers of the tree snapping,

520
00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:15.920
and then boom, this tree just
slams on the ground. And I heard

521
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:19.519
something hollering. I don't think anybody
else with me heard it, but I

522
00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.519
heard it, and that was one
of the only times my dad has ever

523
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.480
drawn his gun in the woods.
He's like, yeah, Jason, you

524
00:40:27.519 --> 00:40:29.239
and me, we can come back
if you want, but I need to

525
00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:30.960
get my kids out of here.
You know, this is this is dangerous,

526
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:34.719
and he had his gun out and
ready in case something, in case

527
00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:37.920
something came out, but we left. We didn't know if maybe we got

528
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:43.079
too close to its juvenile and it
was kind of letting us know, hey,

529
00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:46.159
stay out of here. But that's
one of the only times I ever

530
00:40:46.159 --> 00:40:51.639
seen my dad draw gun in the
woods. And we're not like pro kill

531
00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:54.519
people, but you know, we're
pro if something with taxes, we're gonna

532
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:58.960
we're gonna defend ourselves, you know
what I mean, You're pro I'm gonna

533
00:40:59.000 --> 00:41:01.079
get out of this a lie.
If I have anything to say about this,

534
00:41:01.559 --> 00:41:06.960
absolutely you can attack me, but
I'm gonna go out fighting, you

535
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:08.239
know what I mean. That's right, that's right. I don't know your

536
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.840
thoughts about this, but it's like
if someone actually, you know, let's

537
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:15.559
say these groups where it's like we're
gonna take down a bigfoot, Well,

538
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:20.719
dude, you might, but it's
going to be the worst day you've ever

539
00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:25.960
experienced after you take down that bigfoot
and the other three come out just disgruntled

540
00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:30.679
as I'll get out, And dude, you guys are going like, I

541
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:34.119
don't want to wish bad on anyone, but it's like, man, you

542
00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:37.280
be careful. If you're going to
take one down, you better be ready

543
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:40.480
for its brothers that are coming after
you. Well, you know, you

544
00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:45.159
got all these stories of people shooting
these things and nothing happens, but you

545
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:50.880
don't hear a lot if if if
people try to shoot toward the face and

546
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.039
eyes or the neck. You know, if I was going to try to

547
00:41:54.079 --> 00:41:57.880
shoot something like that, I would
aim for probably either of the neck,

548
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:04.119
the mouth, or eyes, you
know, the sensitive areas. That's interesting.

549
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.000
Yeah, that's very interesting. I've
never thought that deep about it.

550
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:13.559
I'm not a I'm not a a
super outdoors man, if if you can

551
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:19.480
imagine, but yeah, that's interesting
to think. That's an interesting discussion there.

552
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:21.719
Well, if you I mean,
if you think about it, if

553
00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:24.079
it was something, you know,
some sort of ape like thing that's as

554
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.800
massive as people say, you already
got a lot of thick muscle in its

555
00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:32.199
chest, and then you got that
thick chest bone that the bullet would have

556
00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.159
to penetrate. And if and if
you ain't for the head, you know,

557
00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:40.199
if it's if it's like an ape, you also have a lot of

558
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:44.159
apes have kind of that thick brow
that you'd have to worry about as well.

559
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:51.039
So you better better be carrying something
with some knockdown power, you know,

560
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:53.280
just something like that. I think
we'll go to lblmar Night or something.

561
00:42:53.599 --> 00:43:00.800
Dude, man, this has been
a super fun to discussion. I

562
00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:06.239
think a good intro discussion to what
you all are up to down there in

563
00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:13.559
Tennessee. And guys, you need
to go over to Elijah's YouTube channel next

564
00:43:13.599 --> 00:43:16.400
after you're done listening to this,
and you just need to start watching some

565
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:21.760
of those videos because there's some wild, wild stuff going on in there.

566
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:28.000
Elijah, thank you so much for
hanging out with me. In the main

567
00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:31.800
show, we're going to be talking
for a little bit longer about some dog

568
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:37.639
Man stuff, some LBL stuff that's
going to be for the Patreon after show.

569
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.599
I've got maybe some other questions to
ask you about some other non Bigfoot

570
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:45.360
relaid creatures. Absolutely please take it. Take a few minutes. If there's

571
00:43:45.360 --> 00:43:49.840
anything else that you would like to
make sure the listeners know anything you need

572
00:43:49.880 --> 00:43:53.079
to plug besides the YouTube channel,
Go go right ahead, man, Thank

573
00:43:53.119 --> 00:43:55.519
you, brother, And I've had
a blast on hair as well. I'll

574
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:02.119
just say, you know, thank
you. My main outfit is Cryptid Studies

575
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:07.719
Institute. My main platform is YouTube. You know, I upload all my

576
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:15.719
investigations, documentaries and whatnot all there. You know, you can find most,

577
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:19.840
if not all, those sounds,
well not the not one of them

578
00:44:19.840 --> 00:44:22.880
because I just haven't uploaded, but
a lot of our sounds are on there.

579
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:25.760
You can go and listen to or
they'll be in the videos for each

580
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:31.719
area. But yeah, come over
and check out the channel. Let me

581
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:36.239
know what you think. We got
a lot of different a lot of different

582
00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.679
dog Man research videos, Bigfoot,
got a lot of different things on there.

583
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:44.320
And yeah, I guess that's all
I got. If you want to

584
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:47.719
send me a friend request on Facebook, feel free too. We're on Facebook.

585
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:52.599
We got an Instagram that I don't
really use anymore. Sorry, but

586
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.519
yeah, that's basically it, y'all. That's awesome. And if the cool

587
00:44:57.519 --> 00:45:00.880
thing about this podcast is I have
like listeners all over the place. If

588
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:05.840
there's a person, let's say,
if they know something weird in that area.

589
00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:09.280
How best can they get in touch
with you to say, hey,

590
00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:12.679
man, I gotta I gotta tell
you about what happened to me in this

591
00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.960
area so you know about it.
Well, you can always drop me a

592
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:22.440
comment on YouTube, send me a
message on Facebook, or my email is

593
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:29.079
Cryptidstudies Institute at gmail dot com.
I'll try to get back as quick as

594
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:32.360
you know when I can. I'm
I'm sorry. I'm bad about getting back

595
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:37.199
quickly. You know how that went, Jeremiah. I have good intentions,

596
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.920
but I'll generally forget to reply back
to somebody. I'll get a message,

597
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.480
oh yeah, I'll reply that in
just a few minutes, and I'll forget.

598
00:45:45.559 --> 00:45:49.679
It'll be like two days later.
That's our whoops. Well yeah,

599
00:45:49.719 --> 00:45:55.199
I'll try to get back to everybody
when I can. And remember, if

600
00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:00.840
you're in the Patriot, go have
a listen because we're gonna be talking about

601
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:06.320
LBL and dog Man and the rest
of y'all can check that out too Patreon

602
00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:08.199
dot com, Forward slash bigfoot Side. But thank you so much for coming

603
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.519
on, Elijah H I know problem. Brother. Please take a minute to

604
00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:17.599
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605
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so much, make sure that you're
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Really, it's all about sharing the
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had a bigfoot encounter related to the
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please reach out to me at Bigfoot
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my email. Here's the list.
All right, I'm going to use this

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space this week to announce that I'll
be at the Sasquatch Summerfest and Oakridge,

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Oregon as an atender. I won't
be presenting or anything, but I'll be

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hanging out trying to interview people that
have had bigfoot counters. If you're from

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the Oakridge, Oregon area or surrounding
and you've had a bigfoot experience, please

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contact me directly Bigfoot Society at gmail
dot com. Also, Priscilla was nice

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enough that if you get your tickets
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Bigfoot Society, you can get fifty
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which is a big amount. So
code Bigfoot Society to get fifty percent off

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your tickets Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and
helps out the podcast as well. A

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special thank you to all the Bigfoot
Society Patreon and YouTube channel members. It's

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your support that helps keep the show
going and I extremely appreciate it. I

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had a listener comment, hey,
what's a current update with the road to

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getting to full time? Well,
here's the deal. The push, as

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if you've seen on social media,
is well, now I've kind of tweeted

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it a little bit, so alculations, once we get eight hundred and twenty

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four people in the Patreon we should
be good to go. So what I

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did is we're gonna do it a
little bit differently. It's now adding the

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current amount plus the amount that are
joining, and there's tons of people joining

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every day. It's wild guys.
So right now, where one hundred and

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seventy six members are in there ready
to go out of the eight hundred and

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twenty four that are needed in order
for us to go full time, that

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puts us at about twenty two percent. So if you've been putting around back

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and forth the idea of joining the
big Foot Society Patreon now's the time.

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I'm telling you it's time to check
it out. Seven dollars a month starts

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fifteen dollars a month as well,
but seven dollars a month is a great

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place to start. Patreon dot com, forward slash the Big Foot Society,

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and if you can't swing that,
please just share the show with your friends

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and make sure you're subscribed on your
favorite podcast platform and YouTube as well.

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But thanks again so much for listening. Guys, hear and I can get

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out here, we can tell our
stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there

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listening it's too afraid to tell their
story. Maybe this will give them the

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courage to come out. And I
feel so bad about it. Who cares

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what anybody's thinks. I know what
I saw, I know what's out there.

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That's all I care. Please let
people know, Please let them know.

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If you ever see one of these
things, you need to tell because

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if you don't, then shame on
you, you know, shame on you.