Roars, White Bigfoot & a Bowhunter’s Encounter — Real Sasquatch Stories from 7 States

0:00 You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Hey, James, how's it going. I'm going pretty good. Been watching Hey awesome? Been watching y'all, well, your shows and a couple more.

0:44 A lot of about the land between the likes where they had two nineteen eighty two massacre at the Yep Yep and or was it the doll Man Orank type base? Yes, you know, ironically, I remember hearing about that I was twelve years old on the new Channel five in Nashville. Wow. Really they didn't talk about it much, but yeah. That's wild. Do you have any have you experienced any bigfoot activity yourself? Years ago? I did, like I said. I lived northeast.

1:30 Northeast of Nashville on the Kentucky line, and it was back in the nineties. I lived in the area called Best Page, not far from Westmoreland, didn't sleeve, and owned a little house out there off Highway fifty two. It was on about fifteen acres, like hilled at side. There was nothing out there woods. I kept hearing and. I actually never seen it, but you can actually at night it would come around a bunch of dolls to get all upset, and I go out there and try to see.

2:11 It, and it would take off running. You could actually fill it something in the ground with your feet. And sometime passed. I believe it's ninety eight. I had moved West Morland, but down the road down there, it was called off of roads Fork Road. There was building power lines and stepped out on some property and I got from a sin to bowl one out there. We went out there one morning and it was just it was like you didn't hear nothing. I got up in a tree as sun comes up, heard a lot of racket and some tickets. First I thought maybe it was a couple of ds, but it was big and it had made a really strange noise. I was about twelve foot up in the tree, I guess twelve fifteen foot and I looked and hey, it run downside the hollow on two the legs.

3:19 It was big. It was harry, and I had a bowl. And I sat there was it stramelyxtramely quiet as it run off, went to the other side of the mountain. I went home. Wife looked. I said, I ain't going down there unless I got a gun. I never went back down there now. I told everybody, and there were several people I talked to in that area that had seen the same thing.

4:01 How far away from it do you think you were? Oh, God, probably about seventy five to a hundred yards. I mean, when when something like that happens, you're not wanting to sit there. I just couldn't believe what I was saying at first. That's aught no way, it ain't a bear. There's never been a bear up in this area. But the problem was that stood up on high legs and was running and it had weight to it. So, to be honest with you, I don't know if it was a dog man or bigfoot. To me it was a bigfoot.

4:53 Did you get a good look at its face at all. No, God, some was coming up. All I seen was here, gotcha? And of course he kind of shocked. Let me say, it's like twenty eight years old. Back then, I was like, oh, no, nobody gonna blieve me. Why I tell him this? Of course I went to work. I worked in Nashville, and I told him. I said, yeah, right. But then another guy heard some rumors about it too up there and uh here lately on YouTube, i've been Uh there was a gentleman and ladies that was interviewing a guy.

5:37 It's not the one that up at Land between the Lights. It's some guy I wish I remembered his name. He was on there and I talked about moving to west Moreland. He was out of Kentucky and down in that range around the Westmoreland area. He had encountered one or somebody he knew had encountered one, and he was going down there and investigate. But it was on one of those Land between the Lakes interviews. It wasn't that Martin guy. It was another guy.

6:24 Okay, gotcha? Yep? I know Martin pretty well, yeah, a few times. So it was another guy. I'd like to go up. I had no idea, of course as a kid that I had went on up there. And one night I was sitting here looking and I of course the tik tark and went to the YouTube and I. Said, no way. And now I got to thinking back, and I remember that, and I said, well, okay, I ain't crazy. There's other people who've seen it too. But up in this area now, I haven't heard much about it anymore.

7:07 Around the area. Of course, I moved more east towards Macon County, but I haven't heard nothing like that in this area. Okay, gotcha. Well, I appreciate you you sharing what you experienced when you were up in the tree stand that day a. Long time ago. But it looks like now it's becoming more common. People were coming out talking about it. I would say, so definitely. There's, man, there's people reaching out every day. Well, man, I appreciate you being up here. I got a few people to hang to check in with it as well. But thank you so much for spending some time up here.

7:48 Man, Thank you, sir, my boy. Hey, Chris, how's it going? Hey? Can you hear me? Yeah? You sound great. How are you doing, man? I'm doing real good. Back when I was about back about nineteen eighty nine. Uh. Well, first off, I live in Northeast Florida, northeast central Florida, and I got in some trouble as a kid having some beer on me and I got arrested, and I got some community service to how to do community hours to a local state park. Well, I reported for my hours, went over there and met with the park ranger and I got to riding around with him pretty regularly, and he always had this camcorder with him and I could never figure out, like, I guess he's, you know, videoing the the nature. He's taking nature walks. And he was a state park ranger at the time. And I later found out and he has a daughter that I kind of I grew up with and I worked with, and I used to say this to her. I said, Hey, your dad, Danny used to have that cam quarder. She said, yeah, he was always trying to catch the the bigfoot, that was the skun cape that was out here, and I was like really wow, wow. Well after that, I got

9:20 into hunting over the years, and we kind of I frequent the same set of woods that this state park borders, and over the years I would going through the woods and everything deer hunter, bowhunt and everything. I came out to the in this one section of the woods and I found this palmetto or palm tree or palms is what they are, that was pulled out of the ground and peeled like a banana and whatever it was ate the heart of the of the plant out like the heart of palm. And it also and there was a sinew everywhere. There's pieces of this tore up palmetto bush all over the place. Looked like a bomb went off, and I'm thinking it was a bear. But whatever this thing was made a bed with the sinew and twisted it and made a little mattress with the twisted fibers of this palm tree. And I couldn't figure. No, I didn't put two and two together. And then a couple of years later, I had shot a deer in the same area a dough and I watched it lay down and about eighty yards from me, and I continue to hunt that evening. It was early in the hunt, and I went to retrieve my deer and there's no deer now.

10:50 I watched it lay down and all that, and I blood everywhere where it laid down and I kind of followed the blood trail leading off into some deeper, thicker stuff, and I found a print. It was as whatever picked this dough up was not leaving a print. It was stepping on all the vegetation, not in the muddy areas or the soil areas. It was intentionally stepping on spots where it wouldn't leave a print. But it did leave a print as it crossed a small stream. I followed specs of blood and everything to the stream and there was about a fourteen inch print or a size fourteen I should say. It was a lot bigger than my size twelve boot. And I could see it in the sand in the center of this stream, and so I started thinking, you know, it started really biggering me.

11:50 Up like this. You know, there has to be a skun cape. And I put the stuff that I had in the past with the park ranger and what I've been told about the reports in this area, and so I continue to hunt out there over the last couple of years, and each year there'd be something strange happened. I had brought a bunch of oranges, a bag of oranges out there to kind of kind of not bake this thing up or just give it oranges to maybe a peace offering. So I was kind of scared to go in this area. I reluctant to get to hunt there because I was afraid what was you know, what was in there? Well, whatever it was, took the oranges and left no scraps, took the bag and everything. I never seen anything that following that year. But the year the next following year, I found an orange. There is wild oranges throughout the woods in this area. I found a wild ripened orange on the seat of my tree stand a year later.

12:53 Wow. Yes, And then and so I continue to you know, I almost got a funny feeling in this area that I was going, I don't want to go there too much anymore because the hair stains up on my back of my neck. So well. One and one of the times after that, I was hunting in there and I heard this. It sounded like a panther, a large like a tiger, growling like you know you hear in the movies and everything. And I'm thinking myself, why, you know, why is this panther making that noise like that? You know, I mean, it's kind of in the area, but I couldn't see what it was. And right at dark I seen something tall. It looked like a shadow. It was all black, and uh, it was kind of hunched over, almost bent in half, but it was walking on too leg on to it his bipedal and it was walking through the woods. As I was getting out of my trees, it moved and was heading off deeper into the woods. Now was it making?

13:55 And it came from that area where I heard that panther or that or that that lion sound or whatever it was it was making. And I'm pretty positive it was that skunk ape in there making no sounds because I don't I don't think a panther. We do have panthers around here, but I don't think it'd be hanging out with a skunk cape or anything. But I'm thinking maybe that skunk cape was, you know, making noises to mimic a panther, maybe to scare me away. Yeah, And so I continued over the years, and I did see that bent over I think he was he was bent over in half to kind of conceal himself. And just as I was leaving one evening, and uh, it was probably about a hundred yards off and I could barely see him. The only way I really could see him is I heard him. And then I looked through the scope of my crossbow and I could see it moving through the woods real fast, and it looked real shaggy and uh and other than that, I really have. And after that, I killed a wild pig and I put it out as bait, and I put a trail camera on top of it. He didn't mess with it. He liked my oranges. He didn't like the wild pig I left for him. He didn't mess with it, I guess because he maybe he knew there was a camera there.

15:08 But and then a couple of times the years after that, something followed me out. One time I shot a deer and I was dragging it out, and I could hear it something was following me out about two three hundred yards of this drag, this horrible drag that I had all by myself, dragging this nine point through the woods about killed myself. But I could hear about seventy five yards off that something was walking in the woods, following my every the same path that I took all the way out to the hard road that where my truck was. I don't feel as though this thing was threatening me. I think it was just trying to scare me, but the orange thing kind of tripped me out. And then I found a snake one time, tied in a knot or tied in one. It was a far to Kingsnakes and had tied it in a knot and hung it in a tree in the trail that I was coming by.

16:05 So I don't know. I never really felt this thing would hurt me, but I think it was just warning me off and kind of keeping me out of that area. But over the years, all these clues that the park ranger want, and you know, talking to the park rangers daughter, she told me that when there were kids, that this thing would stand on the edge of the woods. There's a playground at the park, and that this thing would watch them, watch the girls play on the on the playground, and that's what initiated her dad to get this video camera back in the day to try to record this thing and catch it. They never could. But other than that, I haven't seen any signs of it in the last four or five years, but there are reports now and again in this area where I live. I kind of live in between Saint Augustine, Florida and Daytona, but keep my ears open for it. But there's a you know, a section of woods that follow a Saint John's River and some waterways in here, and my opinion, I think they travel along the waterways and uh and and this follows right along the waterway where I've been hunting and uh and that'sing around for years. So uh, I'd love to get a picture of it. I've had trail cameras in there. I never got a picture on it with trail camera. But the the orange thing, the missing deer, the snake tied in a knot, you know, nothing else is going to do that. Nothing, nothing's going to put

17:36 an orange on Todd the seat of my tree stand a year after leaving a bag of them out there. You know, maybe that bag of oranges kind of sues things over and he knew it was me, and you know I brought it to him as a gift, I guess. But that's pretty much my story. And man, than you for sharing that. Yeah, sorry to a real go ahead. Can you share any any location or date info? Yes, it's Flagler County and this was Flagler County. It's like I said, it's in between Daytona and Saint Augustine, Florida on the east coast north northeast central Florida. And the particular state park that I'm talking about is Bulau State Park and the park ranger that was there for years.

18:27 I won't mention his name, but he was. He was on site and lived in a trailer there with his girls and his family for years and his daughters. I would love to get sit down with them and get a write down something, but I've talked to her many times and she talks like it like it's no big deal, like this is something that they've seen all the time. So maybe one day I'll get to do that and I'll give you a shout back and see what she says. But she said it was a pretty regular thing in the evenings for that thing to watch the kids on the player. So that's wild? Is this? I just want to Okay, Bulow Greek State Park? Is that it?

19:08 Okay? Got it? It's a lot of large section of woods through there, large that follows a fresh water waterways and stuff. So like I said, I believe they've been the travel between those along the waterways and they've been doing it for a long time. So that's fantastic. Thank you so much for giving that information what you experienced. I appreciate you coming up. Chris. Thank you man. I'm a big fan of yours. Thank you for listening. Have a good one. Hey, Sarah, how are you. I'm good. How are you? Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. Thank you for coming up. Yeah, it's not necessarily me, but they've been. Two of them are from my father and ones from my grandpa.

19:49 Just a premises. I live in northeast Oregon, so up here in the Pacific northwest. This I'll talk about the my family's ranch. We run cows and so they are a big indicator of stuff that's going on. But essentially the area would be the Minum State Park Recreation area is around where our house is at, very close to the Washington and Idaho border. This was probably I think it happened in twenty twenty one in the spring, and it was late in the afternoon, and my dad told me that he was walking down to my grandma's house, which is probably like twenty yards from our place.

20:34 And. He hears the most. Guttural scream roar come out from the timber. We live in the woods, you know, and there's clearing where we have our farm ground and stuff for our cows. But down in the trees he heard this extremely loud roar. And you know, he grew up hunting, he grew up in the woods. We all have, and. We've heard bear, we've heard what cats or mountain lions sound like. And he said that this was like something he's never heard before. And at the same time, my mom all the dogs were out there was we have five working dogs, border collies. They all came screaming under the porch trying to get inside. You know, there was a herd of deer down by one of our stackyards where we have our hay that completely took off out past our house. Everything was running from that location. You know, It's not like anything he's ever heard before.

21:32 And then when he was. Walking back up to the house, probably thirty minutes later, back to our place, he heard it again, the same extremely loud, weird, screechy roar. So that was the first instance my dad told me about. And then probably twenty years ago, this would be in the exact same area, that same stretch of remember where Dad heard the scream come from probably there's a clearing that sits just to the west of it where we have one of our pastures for our cows. My dad was out doing something, building fence or something, and again it was later in the afternoon, and he saw something walking on its hind legs, and I mean he said it looked like a bear, but because it was dark and it was tall, and it was black, shaggy looking, but it.

22:30 Walked all the way. He saw it walk from the stretch of timber all the way probably four hundred yards to another's patch of timber and then go back in, you know. So those are the two times my dad has had something happen, you know, whether he visual or the audio, and. Both times it you know, made the hair stand up on the back of his neck. And then third encounter that has been passed down in our family was something that happened with my grandpa. And this would probably be fifteen miles from where my house is at, in the same area around Palmer Junction around Oregon.

23:19 And he had a tree stand. So this was in the fall, probably in the eighties, and my grandpa was up in his tree stand and he smelt something horrendous, foul stinky smell, and he has grown up in the woods, knows what everything smells like, knows what a cat smells like, bears, etc. And it made the hair stand up on the back of his neck too, and he just got this internal got feeling like something was telling him to leave, you know, and so he took that as a sign. He never saw anything, but the scent. It stayed with him, and he felt like somebody was following him of the woods until he got back to his pickup to leave. So those are the three instances we have.

24:07 I don't know. My dad's a pretty literal guy, you know. He doesn't believe in the crazy or the weird or he's not a conspiracy theorist. But he knows what he heard and he knows what he saw, and those two different times, and it wasn't like anything he's ever heard or saw before. So those are those are great stories. Thank you for Sharon. And I've never actually looked into this area that you're talking about. I mean, I noticed though that the river connects. You could go from Wallawah Whitman National Forest up to where Freeman had his stuff happen, So it's kind of like a midpoint which is really cool.

24:50 Yeah, there's I mean, there's a lot of stories, especially like look into Mount Emily, like the Mount Emily, the Yu Mattelan National Forest. My brother's girlfriend. I don't necessarily remember everything she's told me, but they used to go writing snowmobiles up there a lot, and she's had some weird stuff happen, you know, with the smells and the feeling of like something's telling them to leave. There's a lot of stories up there about that particular area for sure. Wow, Oh my goodness, thank you so much for sharing. I don't get a lot about this area of Oregon. It's more over by the Cascades, but this is awesome.

25:31 Thank you so much. Yeah, you're welcome. Hi. How are you? Can you hear me? Yes, I can hear you. How are you doing okay? How are you honey? Hey? Doing good? I was eighteen years old and this is in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, And this is many years ago. It was nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty five, and I was walking on this road. It was called Wayne Road. It's a beautiful, sunshiny day. It's a Saturday afternoon, like one o'clock in the afternoon and at the time it's it's it was just covered in trees. It's not so much today. And I'm walking by myself and I hear something crunching on my left and I'm eighteen, only weighed like eighty six pounds. I was a little tiny thing. And now I'm scared, and I'm like, okay. So I kept walking and I would walk and then I would kind of like pick up my pace. It would track my pace. So I have a little timey boot knife. I pull it out and I'm like gonna, I don't know, stab the thing or whatever, because I didn't.

26:26 Know what it was. So now I get Now it's starting to like make all this sounds like I don't know is dude? No one believed me, okay, and I don't believe you don't believe me, but I'll swear to God, I'm fifty eight years old to this day, it still haunts me. So I take off running down the road. This thing is thrash and smash, and then the woods are really thick, so I can't even see what I'm looking at. And then about I don't even want to say. If it's a quarter a mile I ran, I'm not even sure. And then there was like a clearing where there was like a like a chain that you know, kept people driving up this one dirt road, and it took it ran past me and all I could see it had been eight foot tall, I don't know, and it was white and it was like it looked like it was dirty.

27:06 And no one ever talks about seeing a white bigfoot. And so I come home and I tell my family and they're all looking at me, like, what are you nuts. I'm like, you're not going to believe this. So it was like five years ago on Ancient Aliens, one of the shows that they had their history dot com and they had they were talking about this white bigfoot and they call it sheep Squatch and I'm like, and I looked at my husband. I go, there's that thing I was telling you about. So there is white bigfoots Now. It was probably a year ago. Talking to my girlfriend and I was telling her the story and she says, and she lives on Wayne Road, and so did her father at the time. And he said, she goes, what year was that. I said, I don't know, eighty four eighty five. She goes, my dad saw that. And I guess by the garbage Kansas thing was trying to dink for her, you know, the father's garbage. And I'm like, I said, I am so glad that someone else has seen it. And then other people only as of recently are coming out saying that they saw this white bigfoot in the Pennsylvania area and apparently it travels into New York.

28:09 And I guess they're the really aggressive type, you know, like they'll stalk you. And dude, I got to tell you that was one of the most terrifying things to this day I have ever experienced it. I don't know. I just had to tell you wild no one you know what I mean at the time, like nobody, you know, what's thirty forty years ago, ever heard of such a thing. And then oh yeah, bigfoot and now he's white. So I don't know, have you ever heard of a white bigfoot? Oh? Yeah, absolutely. I mean it's not super popular, but or you don't. I don't see a lot of them. But there's actually a really famous one I want to see, say, in the early two thousands in Carbondale, which is just north of northeast of Screanton and PA. You can knock that one up. There's actually a video of that one.

28:55 Far from there, like two hours from that. Yeah, oh yeah, totally. And then Alabama is pretty famous for having a white bigfoot in the northeast part of the state. It's called Alabama White Thing, So and check that out. That's a fun one. But yeah, not a lot of white bigfoots reported, definitely, So that's kind of a rare thing that you got to experience. That's pretty cool. Thank you, well. I appreciate you letting me air that because for years I've been sitting on a secret thinking everything, he's gonna you know, you're nuts. But I'll tell you right now, swear to God, no reason to fib or live on any of that end. When I saw it, I mean I didn't see its face because it was just it was running and then it ran up into the woods and it was you could tell it was white, furbocks kind of dirty. And I'm just excited to like to tell you because it's like nobody wants.

29:44 To hear this, No, I'd love to hear it. So thank you for coming up and for sharing about it. Thank you well, thank you very much for having me up. Enjoy your day, you too, Johnny how are you hey? How are you hate doing good? So it was back in the eighties Falk, Arkansas. I don't know if you're familiar with Foul. Yeah, oh yeah. So they have this legend over there. They actually made a movie called Legend of the Boggy Creek. You ever heard of that?

30:25 Oh yeah, yeah. So I'm from Texarkana. Texa Arcana is right there beside Falk, And I was very young back then. I was. I don't know, I was. Twenty twenty one or something like. That, and I decided to, you know, venture out on my own as a youngster and got a I rented a mobile home that was right there on Boggie Creek. There's actually a Boggy Creek, you know, I mean really examtly, And so I was on Boggie Creek. I was there the first night. They didn't have the electricity turned on.

31:11 They were supposed to get it turned on the next day, and so I was in the mobile home with that electricity that first night on Boggie Creek. I mean the imagine the mobile home being right there where you could step outside of the front door and walk I don't know, twenty feet and thirty feet and you're gonna there's Boggie Creek. And that first night I was I had already I was already aware of the legend, you know, I mean, about the monster. But that night I went to bed.

31:52 It was cold. It was in the winter, and so I was covered up really good, and I was cold. There was no heat, there was no electric. All of a sudden, I hear this loud, you know cry. I mean, it was not a cry, it was it was more of a yell, you know, like a I don't even know how to explain it. I mean, to me, it sounded like, you know, it would be like a like a bigfoot or a monster, a Boggy Creek monster. And the next day, I loaded what I had put into the mobile home and. I moved out. I was not going to live down there, man.

32:37 And I know, I know, they say it's a legend, and you know, it's just this and this and that, and they have different stories about it. But the fact that I was there and I actually heard that, I actually, I mean, I really do believe that there's I don't don't know if there's still something down there, but there was something. There was something in those woods. Man. Oh, I mean, I would say there's definitely still activity down there. What year was that again, that was like. In the eighties, like eighty five, eighty six, eighty seven, eighty five, maybe eighty six, eighty six, maybe eighty seven.

33:27 Wow, that is awesome. Oh my goodness, that's awesome. Good stuff, good stuff. How did that affect you afterwards? Well, I mean, I've always kind of been the kind of guy that believes in some of these things. You know, although a lot of people are thinking, as it's not true, but the legend of Boggy Creek, if you go back and look at the movie, there are people that were actually affected by it. There are actual testimonies of real people. It was based on a real story, wasn't. It wasn't some sort of fictional story. So it's based on real people that had interaction. Like if you watch the movie, you'll see actually there's a there's a scene in the movie where somebody and I'm not trying to get you know, tacky, but there was somebody sitting on their toilet and something reached through the window of the bathroom and tried to grab them.

34:28 And if you watch the movie, you'll see that. And that was based on a real event. I mean that actually happened. It wasn't It wasn't. A human being that reached through the window. And so there's there's a there's actual I think it was Charles B. Pearce that produced that movie. He also produced that movie in Texta Canada that you might be familiar with. That's called The Town That Dreaded Sundown, and so it's about the Phantom you know, that the killer, the Phantom killer that was out there back in the what was it the thirties, forties something like that in Texas, Cana.

35:10 And so that was real stuff. I mean, he based his movies off of actual events, and so you know, these things really happened to people, and so it affected me in the sense, to answer your question, That's why I got out of there the next day, because I'm not the kind of guy that thinks this stuff is mythical. I mean, I believe. It's real and absolutely. Maybe maybe people think I'm crazy for thinking that, but I really do believe that there was I don't know if there is now it's twenty twenty six, you know, I don't know how long something like that could live or exist out there. And then there was this story too, by the way. That kind of ties into that. And I don't know how true this is. I'd have to research it. But years and years and years and years and years.

36:07 Ago before I was even born, in sixties. I was born in the sixties, so years and years and years before I was born. Apparently there was a train, because we have a lot of railroads. Going through that area. There was a train that derailed and it had some circus animals on it, and so one of them was. An ape. Now, if you know, I don't know that this Boggy Creek monster is an ape because what I heard didn't sound like an ape, you know, I heard apes. It sounded more like an anomaly. But you know, they have they have said that too, that maybe there's something out there that survived from that tray and de rollment and you know, and and maybe that was still out there, but this thing actually attacked people, and.

37:15 Oh yeah, yeah, it's a it's a wild, wild story. Everyone should watch that movie if they haven't yet, I think you can find it on YouTube. Now, would you would you compare that to Bigfoot? Would that be the same thing or would that be something? I mean, in my mind, is the same thing. Yeah, and I think most of the community is gonna is going to agree with me that it is. It's just a regional name for Bigfoot. So yeah, but uh, that's a great story and very cool that you're able to be kind of part of things for a little bit in a way. But thank you for coming up, Johnny and sharing. I appreciate it. Thank you for having me. Hey there, how are you what's going on? Man?

37:57 Hey? Not much? So I got a question for you. The class A is when you see one, right, Yes, Class B would be. A vocal you hear it? Is there a C? I want to say class C is second hand, but let me look it up real quick because it's BFRORO classification. I should know this, but I'm only like ninety percent. Okay, So class A is visual. Class B is observed at a great distance or poor lighting or you hear it. Okay, So. Nothing too crazy. But I wanted to give you locations on this is that? Okay?

38:38 So this is at a Pennsylvania okay, and Southwest Pennsylvania. Nice. So there's as a reservoir in southwest Pennsylvania and there's a I heard a lot of stories coming out of there. But a buddy of mine a fish down there for years, and one night we were sitting there. He had fallen asleep and I was sitting there by myself when I heard this thing. Creeping through the woods towards us by petally. And it's weird.

39:26 To hear that, you know what I mean, You know, midnight one in the morning, you know those woodsmen know, and you get a deer walking around, or a raccoon or possums stuff like this, it makes a different sound. So listening to this thing walk through the woods and you can hear it step step step, And it didn't pay much attention to it because I wasn't. I had the big foot at the time. But as it drew closer, it stepped on a large branch and when it snapped, I knew that it was you know, all right, this is something heavy and it's it's coming towards us.

40:17 So he's laying there sleeping. So to paint the picture for you, I'm right next to the lake and there's a fire maybe six feet from me, and this thing is up on a ridge maybe eighty feet from me. So as it keeps coming in the closer it gets, the more attention that I'm paying to it. So it eventually gets to the point where it's between I'm at the lake, the fire is in between us, and it's dead ahead. To mean, it stops and it just stands there. I can't see it because I had one of those real weak This was.

41:03 How long you go out of this. It was before they came out with like the real powerful like small flashlights. But after that I became obsessed with flashlights because that had a real cheap, like twenty dollars Walmart headlamp that you can only see like maybe ten yards with it the most. But at this point, my heels are in the lake because this thing I know is standing there staring at me, and I I am you know, I'm not armed or anything. So if this thing comes out, my best option is to turntail and dive into the lake because there's nothing I can do.

41:47 But it stands there staring at me. I can't see it. Mind, you never vocalizes. Maybe ten seconds, that stands there and it moves off at the same it walked in. What's weird about. It is the confidence that it has. It wasn't being trying to be quiet, and it wasn't being super loud or aggressive. So I put that out of my mind and I don't fish there anymore. Another time, I'm in Warren County, Pennsylvania, Sugar Grove area, midday. I think this is in the fall also, and I hear something walking through the woods. We have a deer camp up there, and we have a bunch of property, So to describe it a little bit, there's like a house like near the road is kind of where I'm at, and then you have like a eighty foot flat air and then it knuckles over down into the valley where the tree line in the woods are. So I'm standing near that knuckle when I hear this thing walking down under the knuckle where I can't see it. And I've only heard this from one other person. I've listened to a lot

43:19 of different big foot podcasts. But it was making this slapping noise, like if you were to take your bare hand, and not skin on skin, but like if you were wearing like a pair of jeans or something, you were to slap your thigh or something. It did that three or four times, whilst rustling the bushes and walking towards me. Now there's nothing but woods down here, and I think This was a couple of minutes after having you know, you know, firing guns. And stuff like. There should be nobody down there. It's just miles and miles of woods there. So I hear it walking in.

44:08 It's rustling the brushes and it's making this slapping noise, and I know, and there's this is the weird thing when these things are around. This is this weird feeling kind of. Comes over it. And I didn't I knew that it was. It's close to me, it's like probably sixty feet, but I know that if I walk over that knuckle and look down, I'm going to see this thing standing there, and I'm not ready for it. So this is the second time this has happened, so I'm thinking, you know, sasquatch. At this point, I walk up to my buddy's truck and I grab a handgun out of the underneath the seat, and I come back and I finally get the tonys to look over that knuckle. There's nothing there, man, And that the lake.

45:05 I told you about earlier. There's four or five different accounts I've heard of people getting chased out of there. And my one of my best friends had heard vocals down there a couple of times, and he did in any interview with a. Researcher at one point. But what's the lake. It's Beaver Run reservoir. It's private property. You're not technically allowed to be in there. So that's it's really good fishing out. You've got to kind of sneak in there to I don't condemn doing it, but it's a real hot spot. And I think, and I want to ask your opinion about this, Okay, they only seem to be there during fall, so yeah, I think they moved through there to get to somewhere else and they're only there for about a month maybe, Yeah, so where they're going to, where they're coming from, But they're not there all year long.

46:19 And I think it's the same up north. They're not there in the winter time. A lot of people report that October is one of the the more active months for some reason or another. A lot of pretty high activity reports are in October. That's all over the US, so kind of interesting. They might be moving through to get to a different area. I mean, you'd have to look at a sighting map that would have dates. And well, that's why I figured out tell you about this, because I assume you do. Do you track this stuff out on a map?

46:59 Yeah, I so my podcast website is big for Society podcast dot com. And then I have a sighting map on there and I keep track of like everyone I talk to, and it's I mean, you should see all the ones in Pennsylvania. Blow you away. There's tons of tons of sightings, especially in that area southwest of course. But well, I would assume that if like. Skunk apes, I assume they're not moving around as much, you know what I mean, it's just because of hunting season and the weather. Could be, could be. But hey, I appreciate you. Appreciate you coming up and share. I mean, that's a new spot for that. So yeah, we'll definitely put that on there.

47:47 Thank you. Yeah, sir. And I know there's a lot of stuff that comes out of Alleghany National Force, so that Warren County is only like forty five minutes from there. Awesome, Okay, very good, thank you, Yes sir. All right, Garrett, I am giving you a request to see if you want to come up because Oakridge is my most favorite place in the world. Howdy, Hey, Garrett, Garrett, how's it going? Man? Good? Good? So we're talking about Wolf over on the way to Odell, Like, uh no, I mean kind of. Wolf Mountain if you go down the twenty three road down Hills Creek Reservoir.

48:31 Oh yeah, there's. Like Bear Mountain, Wolf Mountain, Cougar Mountain. Okay, string. I was up towards the top of Wolf Mountain bear hunting, and and I. Seen what I thought was a bear black. And it was kind of just in between the trees, you know, and then it kind of went behind a tree. And I was by that time, since I had a tag and it was season, I was like ready, and it was probably seven hundred yards away, maybe down in the bottom of a like a valley kind of thing, and it and then I caught a glimpse of it through two trees and it was crazy, just walking in between two trees like a person.

49:34 So was it crazy in that it was walking on two legs or what was it specifically that really made you take notice? What? Well? I thought originally it was a bear because sometimes they kind of they get injured and they walk around on two legs. But the. And I've never been a bigfoot believer, but it didn't have a snout, but it I had like a like a defined like I don't know what you'd call it, like the eyebrow muscle, right, eyebrow ridge thing. Yeah, that was defined. It had smaller eyes. It was black with a gray face, and there was minimal hair on the face.

50:23 And I was like, that's not a bear? What is that? Right? Exactly? Oh my goodness. How close were you to this guy? Again? Maybe six or seven hundred yards? But I was looking through a high powered rifle scope. Yeah, I got you? Gotcha? Oh wow? How long do you think you had eyes on it for? Oh? I knew there was I could. I mean I could see it for maybe a minute, but when it just walked in between two trees, it was like maybe three seconds, five seconds maybe something like that.

51:06 Gotcha. So you saw the eyes specifically, could you notice color or if there were whites to the eyes at all or anything like that. I didn't see any whites of the eyes, but it was definitely a darker brown or a black. Okay, gotcha? And did you say it was it was like a black color to the hair. Yeah, it was like a blackish brown, and in the sunlight it kind of looked a little red. It was like, okay, like rusty almost.

51:48 Gotcha. And what was the height that you would estimate on that again? Oh, maybe maybe seven seven seven and a half feet? Got you? So you saw it in between the trees and then did it just keep walking? It just kept just kept moving. And it was one of those things where me and my wife both seen it because she was looking through binoculars and we both kind of just looked at each other and was like, we need to get out a year. But okay, so this is extremely cool. So you've had two people at the same time having eyes on it.

52:31 That's really cool. My goodness. What year was this again? This was twenty twenty three, not that long ago. So after you both had this sighting it keeps walking, then what do you guys do? We both we both kind of got out of there in a hurry. We kind of slowly backed out of there and back to the truck and went home and just know we never talked about it again. Is one of those crazy things that.

53:16 My goodness, that is some wild wild stuff. Have you heard of any other? Well, first off, have you been back to that area ever since then? I have? I actually hiked down there last year looking for any kind of hair or footprints or something like that, and I never ended up seeing anything, but gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha. Have you heard of any other Bigfoot stories from around Oakridge? Yeah, my wife's father, my father in law, he's had a couple sightings around the Hills Creek area.

53:59 Yep. But he's he yeah, quite a few. Yeah, he's he's used to be a big bow hunter and he's seen he claims he's seen one closer than thirty yards just kind of peek at him from behind a tree. Goodness, but. Wow. Yeah, I would love to talk talk to him if you have, I mean, if you can pass on my email if you don't mis Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. I have interviewed about fifty people from Oakridge about their Bigfoot encounters over the last two years for my podcast.

54:40 I go there for the festival they have every year for the Bigfoot Festival that town. I mean, as you know, there's a big history when it comes to bigfoot. I might recommend if you've never been there. There's actually you know where the DQ is in Oakridge? Yes, yeah, so there's a place. It's called Area fifty eight. It's pretty much like a Bigfoot museum, but also they take information from people that have had sightings. If you ever get a chance, you might want to talk to them. They are local, they know all these places really good, and they have a lot of information about the area. So I'd recommend it if if you get a minute, but up to you.

55:24 Okay, awesome, thank you so much. Cool. Hey, thanks for coming up, Garrett. I appreciate it. Thanks for talking. Of course, you have a wonderful rest of your day. I really appreciate you. Let me tell my story. You got it right, Okay, Hey, justin how's it going. So the Lee High County, Pennsylvania area. Yeah, it's kind of widespread out there. It's nothing. It's not like the city, so to speak. And I go up on the Appalationian Trails quite a bit up there, and I hike and off in the trails, or you can camp while you're hiking up on the trail. I know what everything sounds like, I know what everything goes and you know, deer bear all that stuff. And I didn't start having encounters until I would say, like my second going into the third night on the trail campaign, and all of a sudden, everything went quiet, and I'm like, okay, you know, maybe a storm was coming in, something abnormal, whatever, and didn't think much about it. So the next day I got up to see if anything kind of got ruffled around, maybe a bear or something, and I noticed the tree branch, I'm six foot toss to the tree branch was probably another foot or two higher had been like snapped by like a by hand. It wasn't by like man or but it was snapped off like saying, you know whatever,

56:58 saying I'm here. So I had moved up the trail a little bit, and then I camped again. I go up and down that trail camp I don't go up and down the whole entire Appleation trail, but I just in that area. And so the next night I go into the another spot camp out and I don't know if it's the same one different one, but it had moved in closer and I had. And as I was camp moving up to the next campsite, which was probably another couple of miles up the trail, I went to get on my phone to take a picture. I noticed something weird way off the trail, I say, probably about five to ten yards in off the trail, and it was some kind of like man made structure like you know you see on air, how you know bigfoots make and stuff. So I went in to go take pictures of this, and you know, so people don't think I'm crazy.

57:58 And as I got closer, my phone had full percentage on battery, and because I don't keep it on during the daytime or anything, so I tried to use my phone sparingly. So I moved into this and all of a sudden my phone camera had cut out. My phone battery went from one hundred down to zero as I went to go take a picture of the structure. So later that night I went back went into my tent camping, and all of a sudden, I'm starting to hear a tree knocks, So I grab what I can and I start knocking back. I get three more knocks back, and this time it's even closer. This thing had been probably if I can't see, I didn't see it very well.

58:44 It was very dark out there. It had been roughly about eight to nine foot high and then heightwise and probably pushing about seven to eight hundred pounds. Goodness I get when I go up in those trails. It's not as frequent in the winter time or anything. But definitely like early spring all the way down to late October, I get nothing but all sorts of activity up on those trails. Really yeah, oh wow, he said, Appalachian Trail if it. Runs through that Lehigh Canty area, and the Athlete Trail does run up and down the whole eastern border of the States. But I only go up and down. And I know that trail like the back of my hand.

59:35 I know what's in there. I know, you know, other hikers and stuff, but other than that, I know exactly my surroundings very well in there and whatever is in there. And I didn't believe it. I've heard stories from other people about this, so it made me curious. And now you know, since then, i've it's what I've been what my hunches has been Bigfoot, Like I said, I don't know if it's just one, I don't know, if it's a family, I don't know if it's multiple, you know, different groups of them in there, but you know they're they're in there. There is a book by doctor Simeon Heine called Dark Battery Monsters, and it's about Bigfoot, but also the connection to things like why did your phone battery die? And I think it'd be very interesting for you to read if you can get a copy of it okay on Amazon.

1:00:34 I was gonna say because I've heard people report in the past too that they had the same issues with their phones or electronics, just all of a sudden, going from zero down to nothing. And you know, I didn't think much about it then either. So it's just like, you know, the way the structure was made, you know, it was put very well together by something, right. Absolutely, Yeah, i'd be if you ever see a structure, I would not recommend to just kind of look at it, don't don't mess around with it, you know. Yeah, I was trusting it, you know, for so I would have physical proof. But when I tried, that's when I lost phone everything.

1:01:16 Absolutely, justin Have you ever heard from any other hikers that they've had experiences in the same area. Yes, In fact, when I'm going up and down, there's in that same area. Other hikers come from like out of the country, Canada and Mexico, all over the world to hype that trail, and they've actually had come cross and they had told me some stories. They've actually were up in Upstate New York area on the Appalachian trail up there, and they were having h encounters with multiple groups they believe of bigfoot in the upstate New York region area. So I'm not sure if they're like staking to the like travel using that trail as like their you know, their main area to travel up and down the East coast.

1:02:10 Absolutely well, justin thank you so much for coming up and sharing about the Lehigh County area of Pennsylvania. What you're experiencing out there. I appreciate it, real welcome. Thank you. Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon and you think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what this year you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say, sometimes it's well, you just got to be there. We'll leave it that more about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot Spots

1:03:41 to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in lifetime deal. It's just it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp like Bigfoot Society podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it, and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're in that park ranger, a forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency or

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