Dec. 7, 2025

Sasquatch Stalks Southern Illinois Farm Delivering Terrifying Close-Range Encounters!

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Season 1

Experience one of the most intense Bigfoot case files to come out of Southern Illinois. In this episode, Bryce Edwards shares decades of high-strangeness from his 642-acre family farm near the Shawnee National Forest, Pond Creek, and the legendary Big Muddy Monster region.


You’ll hear about massive footprints, eerie screams, tree knocks, mimicked voices, nighttime whistles, and two shocking Sasquatch sightings—including one broad-daylight encounter of a black, 8-foot creature digging into a hillside.


We dig into:
• Generational sightings dating back to the 1960s
• How Bigfoot may use nearby train tracks and waterways as travel routes
• Strange vocalizations captured near ponds, fields, and wooded creek lines
• Possible juvenile behavior, territorial displays, and mimicry
• New evidence filmed and documented with researchers on-site


If you’re fascinated by Bigfoot encounters, cryptid investigations, or Midwest Sasquatch activity, this is one of the most compelling Illinois cases you’ll ever hear.

Resources:

Contact Bryce Edwards: https://www.facebook.com/bryce.edwards.965

Pond Creek Monster documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHTANBHeVrA


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You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In

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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring

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you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen

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something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to

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quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us. All right, Welcome back to another

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episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. I've got friend Bryce

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Edwards with me from down there in the state of Illinois,

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just a neighbor over. Really, I'm out here in Iowa.

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But welcome to the show. Bryce. How are you doing?

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Thank you? I'm doing very well.

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Awesome, awesome. I'd been wanting to have you on for

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a while, and we're going to be talking about what's

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been going on your property. People might have seen the documentary.

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There's actually two documentaries out so far about been experiencing.

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Right, Yeah, there's the one that we did for Joe

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Turrey's YouTube channel and Redwood or Red Room Films No red.

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Yes, yeah, no Red Room Films. Yes. Yes, Joe's punching

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the air. Don't mess it up, guys.

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But yeah, we did that one, and then we have

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filmed one that's going to be on all streaming platforms,

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but it's in post production right now and should be

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coming out soon. That one's going to be called Pond Creek,

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Bigfoot and other heigh strangeness because there's a lot of

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weird stuff going on on the farm, but Bigfoot is

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like the thing I've seen and everything.

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Else absolutely, So yeah, plug for Joe Turrey with Red

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Room Films. Make sure you're following his YouTube channel. He

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is going out to all the Illinois Bigfoot spots and

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making great documentary films about the different spots places that

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no one else is going out and filming. So definitely

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make sure you subscribe to Joe's channel there. He's a

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good friend. But Bryce, let's get into it. So when

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did things first start getting weird for you at this property?

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Okay, Well, basically it started whenever I was a kid,

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I was about ten years old. My grandma told me

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this story. She told me this story about whenever. My

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dad was probably five years old and my uncle was

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like a newborn or maybe one year old. They were

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sitting out there at her house in the front yard,

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and she said that she saw a honeybear come out

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in the woods and it was on all fours at first,

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and then it stood up and started walking on two

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feet towards them, and like in a way, it's way

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she made it sound like it was, you know, not

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just like a like a bear would walk a couple

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steps and then go back down. This thne was coming

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towards them. So she grabbed my dad and my uncle

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ran in the house, locked the doors, and hid in

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the closet until my grandpa got home from work that night. Now,

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as a kid, I'm just thinking, okay, you know, ten

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year old mind, honeybear must have been a brown bear.

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I never knew of any bears in so in Illinois,

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as far as you know, native to the region. I

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know every once in a while we'll have a black

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bear migrate through. But yeah, So then I was actually

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listening to your show and you had a guest on

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named Country.

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And I'm from Oklahoma. That guy was I'd love to

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get him back on Oh yeah, I.

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Loved his episode, but he used that term honeybear, and

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he was talking about bigfoot. And then the light bulb

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went off, and I thought about her story again, and

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I'm like, okay, that explains her reaction, the walking on

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two legs, everything. And then on some other podcasts, I've

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heard some old timers use that same reference for a bigfoot.

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So I'm like, okay, good, all right. And so that's

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where it started, was with that story being told to me. Now,

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this would have been roughly nineteen sixty two, nineteen sixty three,

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and then ten years ago. My dad he was over

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at my cousin's house on the farm. Our farms, a

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six hundred and forty two acre farm, probably a third

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of it's wooded, the rest of its fields, and then

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you've got some ponds, creeks, streams, it's you know, it's

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its own, big place, you know. And so he was

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over there and it was getting to be about dusk,

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and you had the birds chirp in insects making noise,

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and across the road from Jerry's in the field over

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there in the distance, a bunch of coyotes were starting

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to go off. Well, Dad said, all of a sudden

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kind of over by the coyotes. The way the field goes,

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it kind of hels down a little bit into this

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like small wooded area, kind of like a grove almost,

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and out of that he heard this loud, deep, just roar,

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and it made everything go dead quiet. Hair on his

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arm and Jerry's arms stood up, and they both looked

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at each other, like, what was that? Because it was

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unlike anything they had ever heard. He said, like he

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told me, he was, like, honestly, he's like, son, I

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swear that was a Bigfoot roar. Now at the time,

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I mean, I've believed in Bigfoot for quite a while,

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but like I never thought southern Illinois. I always assumed

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it was just over in Washington and Oregon for the

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most part. And then so then, you know, he told

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me that, and then nothing really much after that. Well,

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in twenty twenty three, on Mother's Day, the month of May,

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that seems to be the month these last three years

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that everything starts kicking off. So my wife, she wanted

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to go to the farm and get there and go

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see if we could find some morell mushrooms. And I

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didn't know if they were still out or not, so

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I asked my dad where we could look to see

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if there was any and he told me, yeah, I

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go behind Jerry's place because my cousin he passed away

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in twenty eighteen, but his place is still there and everything.

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So he said, yeah, I go back behind there in

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those woods over there. He's like, where the fallen trees are.

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He's like, just look around there. There should be something,

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if there's still any you know out. I was like,

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all right, So we go there and we uh park,

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go through his yard, go to the back, and in

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the back before you get to the field. To cut

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over to where the woods are, you've got to walk

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through about chest Tigh Grad because it's just all overgrown

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back there. Well, whenever we were walking, I did notice

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or it looked like something big had been betting down.

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But I couldn't rule out, you know, deer, like a

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group of deer or something doing that, because I've seen

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that too. But after what I discovered in the field,

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I think it was using that as an ambush spot.

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Because my son, my oldest son, he was a little

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bit ahead of us. He got to the field first.

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He was like, hey, Dad, there's some footprints up here.

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And I was like, okay, like hmm, because I was thinking,

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I was like, well, maybe Dad was out here, or

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you know, maybe somebody's out here walking around that isn't

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supposed to be out here because we're pretty protective of

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the area. And I get up there and I see

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these humongous prints and you know, toes the whole thing.

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It wasn't like, you know, the field. It had been

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dissed within probably a week at that time, so I

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know whenever, like you step in loose soil, the footprint

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will spread. But as big as these were, I had

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to go back to the car and get my tape

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measure out of the glove box. I wear a size

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thirteen shoe. I measured these from the tip of my

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shoe to the tip of the big toe. Eighteen inches

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long by five minutes riches wide.

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My goodness, that's really big for the Midwest. Yeah, like

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that's pretty phenomenal, dude. Yeah. And I was like, holy crap.

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And on the first few sets of prints going cut

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because of what it did. It cut the corner of

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the field closest to the woods, and there's also a

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pond right there too. But the first few footprints had

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like grass and like moss that had I guess what

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must have been on the bottom of its foot, and

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then whenever it was walking through the dirt, it just

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clung to the dirt instead, but it was head in

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the same direction we were. Now, these prints didn't look

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like they were done that day. They were probably about

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three days old. And I've asked a few people about it.

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Lawn Strickler, he looked at him and he said about

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the same thing that, you know, he thought they were

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a couple of days old at least. And I was like, okay, cool,

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because I want to make sure that, you know, I

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was thinking right on it. And so we go into

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the woods and just as we got into the woods

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the tree line right there one of the trees, I

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noticed a bunch of sticks kind of made like a

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teepee style, leaned up against the tree. But they weren't

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like big sticks or anything. They were only about knee

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high and they were just like small, you know, small sticks.

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They weren't nothing huge like as far as roundness and

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all that. But it wasn't the way they were placed.

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You know, it looked like it was placed with purpose,

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because it didn't look like it was just you know,

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had a strong wind and some branches fell out and

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landed that way. So we're over there, you know. Of course,

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we didn't find any more else, and you know, it

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was really quiet in there, and I didn't really realize

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that until we all got back to the car and

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I was hearing like burns and insects. So I was like, okay,

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that was weird. So I said something to Dad about it,

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and it kind of you know, whenever I told him,

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he was like, well, you know, he's like right across

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the road there was where I heard that roarer come

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from all those years ago. And I was like, oh crap,

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I you know, I was like, yeah, that's right, okay,

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And so, you know, just kind of left it at that.

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That was the only thing for twenty twenty three because

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I was just I thought maybe if it was there,

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it was just there for a little bit, you know,

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because he never said anything else about hearing anything at

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the time. So then we go to twenty twenty four,

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and this was the year that I had my sighting.

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So my grandpa he had dementia and he's passed since then.

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He died back in April, but Dad called me and said, hey,

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grab Grham and bring him out to the farm. I said, okay,

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because my dad lives out there, and so I grabbed Grandpa.

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We headed out to the farm. And the way you

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gotta go, you got across the bridge. And whenever you

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cross the bridge, it's a kind of a narrow bridge,

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so you want to go slow when you're going across it.

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So I was only going about maybe twenty five miles

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per hour. Got across it, and there's like a woodline

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from the creek and everything going right there, to the

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right and to the left. But then you've got right

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after that, you've got fields on both sides of the road.

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And I caught movement out of the corner of my

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right eye. So I looked over and what I saw

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blew my mind. I mean, about sixty five to eighty

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yards into the field, it's a forty acre field. There

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was a big black figure bent over digging in the

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hillside of the field. Because whenever you go to go

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to my dad's that way, once you get past the creek,

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it's kind of flat and then it starts to go

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up a hill for about a quarter mile, and it

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was right there, kind of at the base of the hill,

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digging and That's what caught my attention was its right arm.

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It was bent down using its right arm to dig

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into the hillside, and it was thrashing the dirt back.

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And that's what caught my attention was the movement. Now

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the arm on this thing. Take my arm, add another

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half an arm. I mean it was long, the hand

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opening up and all that. It was black, like jet black.

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But it did have like kind of a weird shine

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to it or a sheine to it, the way the

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sun was hitting it. Because this was like three point

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fifteen in the afternoon, sunny day, beautiful day. Actually it

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was two weeks before Mother's Day in twenty twenty four,

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so the month of May still. And but the way

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that this thing looked because once it heard the car,

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it stood up. But I never got to see the

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face because even whenever it was digging it all that,

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whenever it would turn to pull the dirt out, it

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kept turning away from me from the road. So when

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it heard the car, it stood up. And when it

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stood up, I was blown away by how big this

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thing was. Now when I when when I say how

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big it was, I'm meaning like the height and everything,

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because the body of it wasn't what I expected. It

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wasn't like a hulking body like say Patty from the

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Patterson Gimlin film. This was more of the only way

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I really know how to describe it is there's a

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Sam Elliott movie called The Man Who Killed Hitler and

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then the Bigfoot, the big Bot that they have in

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that movie. That body style more of that leaner kind

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of swimmers bill, but still very muscular. You could tell

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it had muscles and everything from that far away in

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the car, you know, But the way the body was

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shaped it I was just like WHOA. At first, I

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wasn't even sure I was what I was seeing, you know.

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I was like, what is that? So I get Grandpa

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up to the house, tell Dad, hey, I've seen something

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big in the field. I'm gonna go back. He's just

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like okay. I'm like, no big and he's like, oh, okay,

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you know, like what, And so I hurry up because

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I had Grandpa in the car, and I had my

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three year old with me at the time, So it

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wasn't like I could stop, you know what I mean.

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And because I get that a lot people ask me like, well,

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why didn't you stop. It's like I have my grandpa

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to mention my three year old in the car. I'm

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not going to stop and get out and go run

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after it or something. But I get back down there,

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of course it's gone. So I just go on home.

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I tell my wife about it, and whenever I'm talking

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to her about it, she's like, well, let's go back tomorrow.

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I'm like, okay, yeah, I planned on it, but yeah,

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that's fine. And of course it rained that night, so

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whenever we get there, I'm walking out in the field

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trying to figure out, you know, where it was, and

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everything took me a little while, but I did find it.

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And you know, i mean, keep in mind, it was

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digging in the hillside, so when it rain, the water

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coming down the hill kind of it didn't wash out

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the area completely. You could still make out the prints

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and everything and where it was digging. But like, I

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could get my hand in that hole, and it had

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collapsed a little bit from the mud and everything. So

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I wonder how big that hole really was to begin with.

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After it got done. The prints, I measured them. They

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were sixteen inches and the widthought them was about four

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and a half. And it was pretty wild because I'm

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thinking to last year. I'm like, well those were eighteen.

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I'm like this is sixteen. I'm like this is a

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different one. And so I'm like okay. So my wife

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told me though, because there's a coal mine out that

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way and they long walled underneath there. So most of

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the people who lived out there, bias that weren't family

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just sold out to the coal mine. We're the only

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ones who didn't. So it's us out there and everybody.

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I mean, all the surrounding properties to my farm is

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all just farmland and woods. There's a train track that

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goes to the coal mine that also, I'm going the

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opposite way, connects to a train track that goes to

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the Shawnee National Forest. And you know how they say that,

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you know, Bigfoot will use you know, train tracks, electrical

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line right away, things like that path of least resistance

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kind of deal for walking and stuff. I don't know

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if that's how it got up here or not, but

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I know that there is a lot of squatch activity

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down in the Shawnee National Forest as well, so it

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wouldn't surprise me if that's where it came from. But so, okay,

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so back back to me being into the field, I'm

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sitting there, and when I'm standing there, my wife said

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she could barely see me from the car. I'm five

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foot ten, so she said that whenever I bent down

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to take the pictures, she lost sight of me completely.

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When I saw this thing bent down, I saw about

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upper thigh up to its head, So whenever it stood up,

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I'm thinking this thing had to be every bit of

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eight feet tall, because, like I said, I'm five ten

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and she could barely see me, and that kind of

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blew my mind. So I'm trying to figure out, well,

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where did it come from? And I'm thinking back to

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what it looked like, and I'm thinking about how the

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shine on it looked. I'm thinking, Okay, maybe it was

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in the creek and it was water that I was

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seeing on its coat that was reflecting, because the only

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way I could really describe it was either that or like,

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you know, how like sunlight hits a horse and how

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its coat will look sometimes really shiny like that, something

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like that. The hair on it, from the distance I

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was at, it didn't look like it had long hair

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on it or anything. It looked like it was kind

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of shorter haired. But so I walk around trying to

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see where it came from. And I go towards the creek.

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I find this area where it looked like something big

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had been kind of making a pathway through there. So

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I go in there looking around. I found some more

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friends took pictures of that too, and then I found

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this tree break. Now this tree break, it wasn't just

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like a branch broke down and it's hanging that's it. This

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thing was twisted around two or three times. To me,

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that says something did that with intention. It was about

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ten feet up in the tree where it broke it at,

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So I mean, it's not like I'm jumping up there

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hanging off of it, you know what I mean, trying

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to break it. And something that did that, when twisted

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it like that would have had to have had hands.

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I agree, Yeah, if I could jump in for a bit,

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which listeners are absolutely hating this, but we talked before

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and this is how we're going to do this interview guys,

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So my apologies, but I did have a few questions

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about when you actually had the sighting. So the whole,

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the whole sighting you had was it from the back,

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like you saw just the back or did you see

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the front?

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I called the back and the side that was facing

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the road. I never did see the front. I never

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did see the face. I really wish I could have

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because I want to know what its face looks like.

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But okay, like I said, whenever it would turn, I mean,

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you could see the back muscles on this thing, and

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like this this sighting it, you know, because I was driving,

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it took like five seconds. But whenever I'm looking at it,

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it seemed like time just stopped. Like I don't know,

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That's the only way I know how to describe it.

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Absolutely. So you were seeing the side profile the back,

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were you able to see things like the shape of

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the head at all?

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Yeah, it it was round, but like towards the top

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it kind of did the cone. But it wasn't very

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pronounced looking at least from that distance. Maybe up close,

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you know, it would it would look a lot more pronounced.

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But okay, but from that distance very pronounced.

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And the distance you said it sound like it was

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about approximately like three tennis courts, right you said, Did

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you say about like seventy five seventy yards something.

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Like that, sixty five to eighty somewhere?

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Okay, so a little closer, Yeah, hmmm, did you were

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you able to get a view at all, what the

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size of the head would be like if you were

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to able, if you were able to compare it to

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like the size of a household object, Is there anything

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that would come to mind?

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I would say, now this is just a guess, but

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I would say, take like maybe like a basketball, like

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the width of a basketball and a little bit you know,

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taller than a basketball would be Hethwise, the upper body

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on it like it had big shoulder muscles, uh, trap muscles.

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The trap muscles were big enough to where it didn't

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look like it had much of a neck right, because

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you could see that whenever it was turning and doing

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the thrashing in the hillside.

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Absolutely, from what you could see, did it look like

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it was completely covered in hair or were there parts

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that did not seem to be covered in hair?

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From what I could tell, everything looked black to me.

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But it's possible that its palms weren't you know what

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I mean. It's possible that it didn't happen right palm.

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But whenever it threw its hand back and everything with

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throwing the dirt out, I didn't see any like hair

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looked like hair follicles or anything on it, because you

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could see some hair follicle. It just wasn't very long.

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Yeah, how long would you say the entire time was

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that you were able to have a view of it.

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About five seconds smacks, which I know that's not very long,

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but like I said, when everybody's looking at it, it

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was just like time slowed down or something. I mean,

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I know I slowed down, but it was just like whoa,

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you know. And then you know, I just had to

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get Grandpa up there. So that's why I just went

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ahead and hurried up and got him out of there.

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I was hoping. My plan was to get him out,

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get him into Dad's house, get back down there, and

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hopefully whenever it took off walking, because it went walking

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further into the field, so it would have been heading south.

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And there's a small area of woods right there with

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another field behind it, and then an area of about

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two miles where it's nothing but woods. But we don't

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come back over there.

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And this is southern Illinois. You said it's close to

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the Shawnee National Force. Is it more like western the

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western part of southern Illinois then, or I guess that

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could be central too.

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Yeah, it's kind of the central southern part of southern Illinois.

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Yeah, yeah, I got it, got it. Got yeah, not

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over by like Garden of the Gods.

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Yeah, east of me. That that's about maybe twenty miles

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east of me, I would say, okay, And so you're so,

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I mean, you know, gotta follow the roads on that.

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They can take short cuts.

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Yeah, oh absolutely, they can do whatever. So you're kind

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of like you've got Garden of the Gods and Shawnee

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on one side of you, and then on the other side,

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if you go far enough, you've got like Murphy's Borough.

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Yeah, Murphy's Borough from there, I would say, Murphy's boroughs

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within thirty miles. So you've got Giant City State Park

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over there, and you've got in between the two, you've

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got fern Cliff State Park, which is also part of

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the National Force.

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Okay, and for people that are not up to aren't

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aware of like Illinois bigfoot stuff, so big muddy monster,

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that's Murphy's Borrow if you've heard of that. So that's

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why that's important. So okay, wild stuff Price, How did

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this change things for you after you had this sighting?

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It must have done something.

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Yeah, it blew my mind. It made me want to

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get out there and find more signs of it, try

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to have another siding, which ended up happening earlier this year,

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and I had a witness with me whenever it happened.

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It was Joe's cameraman. But uh yeah, so okay, So

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that happened, and I'm sitting there, like, I mean, it

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was so weird because like I'm sitting there and at

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first I'm like, I know, I saw it. I've got

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the I've got the pictures of the prince and the

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dig and everything like it was there. I was like,

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I got to talk to somebody who knows about this

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stuff though, because I'm like, you know, was it a

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bigfoot that I saw? Because I think it was, you know,

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everything to me inside said yeah, that's a big foot.

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So I contacted Joe Doyle. I don't know if you

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know who he is or not.

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Oh yeah help then holler yeah I contact Yeah, great guy,

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Yeah to him a lot.

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Yeah. He was very gracious to give me time to

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hear hear what I had to say about it, and

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I showed him the pictures and you know, he was like, man,

455
00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.799
he goes based on everything you've told me. He's like

456
00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:57.480
I think that you saw a sasquatch because everything the

457
00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:00.480
behavior and all that he said that, you know, that's

458
00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.880
everything that him and Jesse have either come across or

459
00:26:04.160 --> 00:26:08.200
seen happen things like that, and you know, so that

460
00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:11.440
was very like talking to him really helped me out

461
00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:14.240
because I was like, okay, cool, all right. And then

462
00:26:14.279 --> 00:26:17.039
you know, he told me get some audio recorders out there,

463
00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:21.319
get some trail cams out there, you know, just anything

464
00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:24.079
you can have to help you get evidence. And I

465
00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:26.279
was like okay. So I told my dad. I was like, hey,

466
00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:27.839
we need to get all this stuff and get it

467
00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:30.400
set up out there. And then I got to thinking

468
00:26:30.440 --> 00:26:33.319
about it because I've known Joe Turry for a few

469
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:36.319
years now. We've been friends for probably three years now,

470
00:26:36.359 --> 00:26:39.759
four years now. So I hit him up because I

471
00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:43.960
know he makes documentaries about these things. And I was like, hey, man,

472
00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:46.640
so you want to hear something wild and told him

473
00:26:46.680 --> 00:26:48.799
about it and he was like, dude, He's like yeah.

474
00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:50.119
I told him. I was like, you want to come

475
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.839
down here and check it out. And you know, because

476
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:53.720
Joe's got all the cool gadgets, you know, He's got

477
00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:57.119
the Cooke toy, he's the drone, he's got everything and

478
00:26:57.160 --> 00:27:00.319
he was like, yeah, So it took a while with

479
00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:02.279
our schedules to line up to where he could come

480
00:27:02.319 --> 00:27:05.880
out because of both our work schedules, and so he

481
00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:12.480
ended up coming out. When was it, I think it

482
00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:17.319
was July Junior July he came out this year, and

483
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:19.640
that's whenever we filmed The Pond Creek Monster for his

484
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:23.480
YouTube channel, and since I could never get his YouTube

485
00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:25.759
channel name right, if you go to YouTube, just search

486
00:27:25.799 --> 00:27:29.079
the Pond Creek Monster, it'll be the first one you see.

487
00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:31.519
And then there's a couple other shows I've been on

488
00:27:31.759 --> 00:27:36.519
that have it on there too, But yeah, it's It

489
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.920
was wild because when when he got out there, we

490
00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:42.839
did the interview in the field and then we did

491
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:49.680
like a daytime investigation there and we we didn't really

492
00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:54.279
get a whole lot of action that day, but we

493
00:27:54.359 --> 00:27:58.039
did come across another dig site and what was wild

494
00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:01.960
about that was it was a lot closer to the road. See,

495
00:28:01.960 --> 00:28:05.640
what happened with the field is the farmers that we

496
00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:07.839
rent the land out to to farm and then we

497
00:28:07.880 --> 00:28:09.599
get cut of the profits at the end of the year,

498
00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:13.799
they couldn't farm that field because there was a pipeline

499
00:28:13.839 --> 00:28:17.920
being put in for I think natural gas, and so

500
00:28:18.160 --> 00:28:21.440
that field hadn't been touched yet with plows or anything,

501
00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:25.759
and so you got like the old corn cobs that

502
00:28:25.799 --> 00:28:28.240
were left over from when the combines went through the

503
00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:33.759
year before. And there was this one spot maybe I

504
00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:36.079
don't know, fifteen yards off the road, like just as

505
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:39.839
you come into the field. We parked. We pulled into

506
00:28:39.880 --> 00:28:42.039
the field with our vehicles and just parked right along

507
00:28:42.039 --> 00:28:45.079
the edge. And the funny thing is is we didn't

508
00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:47.359
notice it whenever we got out. We noticed it whenever

509
00:28:47.400 --> 00:28:49.319
we were coming back and getting ready to go up

510
00:28:49.319 --> 00:28:53.119
to another area on the farm. But we noticed these

511
00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:55.319
corn cobs that were all kind of put around in

512
00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:58.519
like a circle. And I would say the circle was

513
00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:04.160
about the size of a big Christmas wreath, and inside

514
00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:06.119
it it looked like some they first we thought it

515
00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:08.519
was a footprint, but then whenever we got a closer

516
00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:12.240
look at it and everything, it was actually a handprint,

517
00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.160
like something that dug in there and been scraping. Now

518
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.680
what it was after, I have no idea. I mean,

519
00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:21.839
maybe it saw a mole, maybe it was going for grubworms.

520
00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:24.440
I have no clue, because like I said, it was

521
00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:27.200
not a very deep hole or anything like the one

522
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:32.920
I found in the hillside was. But so you know,

523
00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:35.960
we videoed it. We took pictures as best as we could,

524
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:42.079
and then we went to another location and it was

525
00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:45.519
where I had found those eighteen inch prints at and

526
00:29:46.279 --> 00:29:48.519
I showed him the area and we talked about that,

527
00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:53.519
and then him and his cameraman had to get back

528
00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:59.039
to Springfield, so they left right around lunchtime, and he

529
00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:01.079
told me. He told me, he's like, well just look

530
00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:02.640
around out here, man. It's like, if you find any

531
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.799
more prints, you know, take pictures of him, send them

532
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:06.559
to me and I'll edit them in that way we

533
00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.640
can have them for the documentary. He's like, anything you

534
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:11.400
can find that can help us is gonna be great.

535
00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:14.960
I was like, okay, So I go back out there.

536
00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:21.559
I think it was later that week, and I used

537
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:26.480
a really good camera and I was I went out

538
00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.640
there and this is the weird thing. So I've heard

539
00:30:30.720 --> 00:30:32.759
on or maybe I shouldn't say weird because I don't

540
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:38.319
want to sound disrespectful, but I've heard this one podcast.

541
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:39.920
I can't remember who it was, it may have very

542
00:30:39.920 --> 00:30:42.640
well been on yours. There was a Native American talking

543
00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:46.400
about Bigfoot and he said, if you're gonna go out

544
00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.759
there looking for him, you need to announce yourself. Call

545
00:30:50.839 --> 00:30:55.359
them Forrest brothers, welcome them, let them know your intention,

546
00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:59.000
that you come in peace, and you know, like ask

547
00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:00.960
for a sign of their press and things like that.

548
00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:03.920
So I figured, man, what the heck, I'm gonna give

549
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.680
this a shot. So that's what I did. I just said,

550
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:11.000
you know, Forest Brothers, welcome to my family farm. You

551
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:12.920
guys are more than welcome to make your home here.

552
00:31:13.079 --> 00:31:15.200
All I ask is that you respect the land and

553
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.279
respect our properties. I was like, I come in peace,

554
00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:22.160
and if you could give me a sign of your presence,

555
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.039
that would be great, But you don't have to. And

556
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:28.400
I'm out there in the field where I have my

557
00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:33.160
sighting looking around. I found some more sixteen inch prints,

558
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:36.240
which tells me it was probably the one I saw.

559
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:39.039
And then I found some that were fourteen inch. Now

560
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:41.079
they had the toes in them. It wasn't like, you know,

561
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:43.920
somebody in boots or something like that walking around out there.

562
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:48.759
I found that too, but these had the toes. And

563
00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:54.960
I'm out there for about ten fifteen minutes and I'm

564
00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.680
not very far into the field. I'm about maybe I

565
00:31:59.720 --> 00:32:03.960
don't quarter of the way into it, and coming from

566
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:09.839
the creek area, I start to hear this really strange sound. Now,

567
00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:12.119
the only way I know how to describe this sound,

568
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:16.839
it's gonna sound silly, but take like if you were

569
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:20.319
really hungry and your belly started growling, but that was

570
00:32:20.359 --> 00:32:24.880
your voice and you were mumbling, Oh yeah, that's what

571
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:28.359
I heard coming from the creek area. And what sucks

572
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.119
about the creek area now is the winter we just had.

573
00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:36.319
There was a big ice storm that happened, so a

574
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:41.160
lot of tree branches broke, some trees fell, and so

575
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:44.759
now everything out there is like perfect camouflage for these

576
00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:47.599
things to be just standing there and you wouldn't see them.

577
00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.119
So like, I can't even find where the tree break

578
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:52.400
was that I found in twenty twenty four. I can't

579
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.440
even find it anymore because everything's so broken right there

580
00:32:55.480 --> 00:33:00.200
on the tree line. Everything looks like a break. But

581
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:04.920
I hear this sound and I never did get any

582
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.880
bad vibes from it. I didn't feel like I was

583
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.279
in danger. I just heard it looked over that way.

584
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:13.200
I could kind of guess about where it was at,

585
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:16.839
like where the sound was coming from, and I just

586
00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:20.279
kept minding my business, you know, taking pictures things like that.

587
00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:24.839
And it did that for a good five to ten minutes,

588
00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:29.559
and not like consistently, but like it would it would

589
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:31.359
just it would stop for a little bit and then

590
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:35.880
it would started up again. And so I went up

591
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:39.079
to Dad's house showed him the pictures and then told

592
00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:42.359
him about that, told him what I did, you know,

593
00:33:42.400 --> 00:33:45.079
as far as the Native American approach to trying to

594
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:49.000
have contact with these things, and he goes, huh, okay,

595
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:51.799
He's like yeah, He's like I've kind of heard stuff

596
00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:54.839
like that before. And I'm like, you're just now telling

597
00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:59.599
me this and uh. And but he always called it

598
00:33:59.680 --> 00:34:02.920
the warbler because he said to him that that's the

599
00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:05.920
sound it makes, like like it's saying war, war, you know.

600
00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.400
And yeah, he didn't realize we were talking about the

601
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:14.440
same thing at first. And so then he started telling

602
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:18.280
me about how he'll have a lot of fires at

603
00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:22.480
night because he just after Grandpa died. That's just what

604
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:24.119
Dad did a lot of out on the farm. He

605
00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:27.119
just have bonfires every night. And he said that he

606
00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:31.719
would start to hear like that sound whoops, he's been

607
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:35.199
whistled out, he said, the whistle was a really shrill whistle.

608
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:38.639
It was about, you know, good ten seconds long whistle.

609
00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:40.000
And I asked him, I was like, well, did you

610
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.920
flash your spotlight at it or anything? He was like no,

611
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.119
He's like, I just kind of looked over my shoulder.

612
00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:47.800
He's like, you know, I didn't see it. He's like,

613
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:50.079
but it was coming from back over where one of

614
00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.480
the ponds are. There's there used to be five pawns

615
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:54.440
on the farm, but after the coal mine came through,

616
00:34:54.519 --> 00:34:56.320
two of them drained, so now we only have three,

617
00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:59.920
but all three of them are stocked, and so that's

618
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:03.639
other food supply. Ton of deer out there, raccoons, I mean,

619
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.039
you name it as far as like woodland creatures go,

620
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:10.360
you know, like the ones that you know we know

621
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:17.679
about right out there, foxes, everything like that. So he

622
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:22.000
was telling me about all this, well, you know, Dad

623
00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:27.079
interviewed with Joe for the documentary and he told all

624
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:30.360
that stuff on there. And then Joe was telling Dad

625
00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:33.239
some things to listen for, because Dad said, like, you know,

626
00:35:33.280 --> 00:35:37.039
I'll hear some owls, but they sound really weird. He's like,

627
00:35:37.760 --> 00:35:39.639
he was like, they'll sound like an owl, but then

628
00:35:39.679 --> 00:35:42.440
they won't finish like an owl like it'll it'll have

629
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:48.320
it'll sound like like a four hundred pound out And

630
00:35:48.320 --> 00:35:50.800
and also there's a like that set of train tracks

631
00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.599
I told you about. He said, there's been times before

632
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:55.760
when a train would go through, but the train's like

633
00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:59.800
gone on over to the coal mine. And then he'll

634
00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:02.719
hear a little bit later after that, he'll hear something

635
00:36:02.840 --> 00:36:06.840
try to do a train whistle, but whenever it finishes,

636
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.400
it'll be like, you know, train whistle and then like that.

637
00:36:11.559 --> 00:36:15.719
So gave him the Ohio House and I was like,

638
00:36:15.760 --> 00:36:19.840
did it sound like this at all? And he was like, yeah,

639
00:36:19.840 --> 00:36:22.039
it sounded a lot like that, but it didn't carry

640
00:36:22.079 --> 00:36:25.719
on as long as those are. And I was like, okay.

641
00:36:26.199 --> 00:36:29.400
And it's kind of funny because now that you know,

642
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:32.119
he knows what to listen for and things like that.

643
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:34.280
Stuff that he just thought was you know, just a

644
00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.239
weird sound or something, you know. And after talking to

645
00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:39.400
me and Joe, he's like, man, he's like, he's like,

646
00:36:39.440 --> 00:36:41.679
you guys got me got me looking over my shoulder

647
00:36:41.719 --> 00:36:43.079
all the time out here every time I hear you.

648
00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.000
Right right.

649
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.760
So I'm like, yeah, wait to go, Joe. But no, man,

650
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.880
it was it was wild, so like that was twenty

651
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.719
twenty four. I'm looking at my notes here to make

652
00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:03.079
sure I didn't miss anything. And okay, so this year

653
00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:06.159
or not twenty four, that was earlier this year, I'm sorry,

654
00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:11.760
earlier twenty twenty five. So then and either I want

655
00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:16.840
to say it was late August. Joe came back out

656
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:20.440
because he said it was so weird whenever the video

657
00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.400
on his YouTube channel came out. Within a month, it

658
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:28.679
had like twelve thousand views. I wasn't expecting that many views.

659
00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:31.119
I thought, you know, if we got five hundred, that'd

660
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:35.599
be cool, you know, and it was. It was so weird,

661
00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.760
you know. I wasn't expecting that at all. So he

662
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:40.760
was like, We're going to do a full fledged documentary

663
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:43.760
on this. I was like, all right, cool, And so,

664
00:37:44.480 --> 00:37:52.719
like I said, late August him a cameraman and his

665
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:57.519
buddy Jason Dickerson, he's part of his research team. They're

666
00:37:57.639 --> 00:37:59.800
like you, those two they are the ones in all

667
00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:06.320
the videos. So they came out and you know, we

668
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:14.039
redid the interviews and everything. Also, Tony Gerard, he used

669
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:16.639
to be in some of the episodes of Monsterquest. He

670
00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:17.039
came out.

671
00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:19.599
He's a cool dude. I've talked to him way back

672
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.840
in the day. Yeah, Yeah, I talked to him once.

673
00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:22.679
He's a cool dude.

674
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:26.039
Yeah, that guy is so knowledgeable and all sorts of Yea,

675
00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:30.559
he formed native growing passion fruit out there on the farm.

676
00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.679
I didn't even know we had it. It was just

677
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:37.840
growing wild out there out behind dad's house by one

678
00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:40.679
of the barns out there, Like you're gonna go towards

679
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:45.000
where that pond is, and yeah he was. He showed

680
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.320
that to Joe and everything. And then Joe showed me

681
00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:51.400
because I was at my kid's soccer game when Tony

682
00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:53.000
was there, so I didn't actually get to meet him,

683
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:59.639
but he was there. But yeah, so let's see, trying

684
00:38:59.639 --> 00:39:03.880
to see if I forgot anything. Oh, the night before,

685
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:06.079
not the night before, the Wednesday before Joe came out

686
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:10.679
to do that, I was. I borrowed my dad's lawnmower

687
00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:13.719
and brought it back on the trailer because it was

688
00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:15.760
a riding lawnmower. I live in town and he lives

689
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:19.239
out there on the farm, and so I brought it back.

690
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:23.400
And it's about nine thirty at night and we're unloading

691
00:39:23.400 --> 00:39:25.559
it and getting the trailer took off my car and

692
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.079
everything and before I get I'm getting ready to leave,

693
00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:31.079
and he goes, hang on a second, the boys forgot

694
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.199
their soccer ball here, I'm gonna go grab it, all right. Well,

695
00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:38.440
he wasn't more than three or four steps away, and

696
00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:42.360
all of a sudden, you hear this. It was faint,

697
00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:46.599
but you heard a whoop and coming from over in

698
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:50.880
the direction where the pond is, and the same direction

699
00:39:51.119 --> 00:39:53.760
that he says he always hears whoops, and where that

700
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.920
whistle came from. And I'm sitting there, like it was

701
00:39:56.960 --> 00:39:59.159
so faint that I almost ignored it, and I was like,

702
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:00.920
wait a second, a go, hey, Dad, did you hear that?

703
00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:02.840
He's like, yep, I was waiting on you to say something.

704
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:05.079
He's like, I hear that stuff all the time out here. Son.

705
00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:08.880
I was like wow, because I mean, there was no

706
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.199
mistaking and it wasn't like an owl that just you know, food,

707
00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:16.039
Like this was a whoop, and that blew my mind.

708
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.559
So whenever Joe came, I told him about that, and

709
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:21.599
you know, he just said, okay, He's like, whenever you're

710
00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:23.639
doing your interview, just throw that in. I said, okay,

711
00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:30.639
So we did that, and then we let's see, we

712
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:34.400
took a break for a few hours, and like Joe

713
00:40:34.440 --> 00:40:37.800
was camping here in town where I live, and then

714
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:41.920
him and Jason Tony had went back home by that point,

715
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:48.000
and so whenever we go to go back out there

716
00:40:48.599 --> 00:40:53.119
a little closer to evening, So it was probably around

717
00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:56.119
six o'clock, which summertime, you know, it doesn't get dark

718
00:40:56.119 --> 00:40:58.119
here until about nine o'clock at night in the summer.

719
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:03.599
And what we were going to do. My wife whenever

720
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:08.400
she was pregnant with our youngest kid, my grandma, whenever

721
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:10.880
she was still alive, she would come and sit with

722
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.440
her and while I was at work, and would tell

723
00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:16.800
her stories about weird stuff out on the farm. And

724
00:41:16.840 --> 00:41:20.679
she told her about the honeybear story some other things,

725
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.639
like she swore up and down she saw lights in

726
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:26.760
the woods that weren't you know, like people with their

727
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:33.280
head lamps on or anything. And she had just some

728
00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:36.800
other you know, not really bigfoot more on, like like

729
00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:39.960
seeing like UFOs things like that out there, which I mean,

730
00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:44.960
I've seen that too out there, but you know, so

731
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:48.000
Joe wanted that, you know, ambers to interview, to be

732
00:41:48.079 --> 00:41:52.599
about all the stuff that Grandma told her. And so

733
00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:57.039
then we get we're getting ready to get over to

734
00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:59.559
where we're going to do that at because we were

735
00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.400
what we were planning to do was a kind of

736
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.239
like a get a bonfire going over there and do

737
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:11.320
like a fireside chat, you know. And so we got

738
00:42:11.360 --> 00:42:14.559
everything loaded up in Jason's truck. He has this great,

739
00:42:14.599 --> 00:42:17.159
big truck, I think it's a Ford f three point fifty,

740
00:42:17.960 --> 00:42:21.440
and me and the cameraman were sitting on the tailgate,

741
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.199
and then Joe and Jason were in the truck. So

742
00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:29.760
whenever we go to back out and pull onto the road,

743
00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:33.159
I can see me and the cameraman we can see

744
00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:37.599
straight down the hill going towards the creek. Standing in

745
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.760
the middle of the road, right by the bridge, which

746
00:42:40.800 --> 00:42:42.880
is right next to the field that I had my

747
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:48.760
sighting in twenty twenty four, is this very tall, completely black,

748
00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:56.719
same build as before thing standing there. And I go,

749
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:01.480
I go, are you seeing that? And the cameraman he goes,

750
00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.840
he goes, yeah, It's like, is that a person? I

751
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.719
go From this distance, I'm like, this is a quarter

752
00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:08.719
mile up here. That is a very tall person. If

753
00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:12.719
that's a person. Plus they're totally black. And the cameraman

754
00:43:12.960 --> 00:43:15.960
good guy, but he's he's a big skeptic, you know,

755
00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:19.719
and he's got to see it to believe it, even

756
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.199
though we were looking at it, but he just kept

757
00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:25.960
trying to like rationalize what it is instead of you know,

758
00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:29.199
realizing that, you know, there's an eight foot tall black

759
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:32.679
thing in the road down there. And he even went

760
00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:34.840
as far as to think, well, maybe, because you know

761
00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:37.840
country roads, maybe it's the tarmark in the middle of

762
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.440
the road. And I'm like, it's standing on the tar mark,

763
00:43:41.159 --> 00:43:45.480
like no, And it was. It was wild because, like

764
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.519
you know, whenever I told Joe and Jason about it afterwards,

765
00:43:49.559 --> 00:43:51.800
they were like, why did you say something? But like

766
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.880
the whole time, I'm just like I'm talking with the

767
00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:57.079
cameraman and he's confirming what I'm seeing. He's seeing it too,

768
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:01.159
And I mean I was just in the moment, you know,

769
00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:08.320
the way that it was looking at us. It didn't

770
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:12.760
have it. I wouldn't call an aggressive posture or anything

771
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:15.280
like that. The thing is just big and built, you know,

772
00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:18.440
but like I said, it's not hulking. It's just built

773
00:44:18.480 --> 00:44:21.599
like you know, like a swimmer's build or something. And

774
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.800
it was kind of leaning a little bit to its left,

775
00:44:27.679 --> 00:44:31.079
and to me, it was almost like a curious posture,

776
00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:33.519
like trying to figure out were we coming down there

777
00:44:33.599 --> 00:44:36.719
towards it or were we going away? And I mean

778
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:38.960
I just kept looking at it the entire time as

779
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:40.840
we were driving away from it, and then I lost

780
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:42.760
sight of it because you know, the hill and everything.

781
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:46.760
So I told them about it, like I said, you know,

782
00:44:46.960 --> 00:44:48.679
they were like, you should have hit the truck or

783
00:44:48.719 --> 00:44:53.400
something got our attention, and but you know, I was like, well,

784
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:55.599
it's down there. I was like, he saw it too,

785
00:44:56.239 --> 00:45:01.920
and right, and uh yeah, And so we go ahead.

786
00:45:01.960 --> 00:45:04.280
We get everything set up to do my wife's interview,

787
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:08.480
and by this point in time, we've got the fire going.

788
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:12.559
Joe handed me a parabolic dish to use to just

789
00:45:12.639 --> 00:45:15.079
kind of scan around see if I could pick up anything,

790
00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:21.519
and my dad brought amber up the the the I

791
00:45:21.519 --> 00:45:24.639
guess you could call it her like a driveway. Basically,

792
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:28.840
what it was is the coal mine on my property

793
00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:32.920
that I personally own. Out there. They wanted to dig

794
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:36.440
a well, and so you know, they gave me money

795
00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:39.360
to let them do that, and they dug the well,

796
00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:42.199
but they didn't hit water, so I got to keep

797
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:46.119
the money, and they put in this nice driveway for me.

798
00:45:47.880 --> 00:45:49.360
But you got a big hole.

799
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:53.000
Yeah, and I got a big hole, but yeah, but

800
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:56.159
they so that was there. So you know, my dad,

801
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:59.440
he brought her up in his truck and we got

802
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:02.760
her all situated, sit sat down by the fire. Joe's

803
00:46:02.840 --> 00:46:06.480
getting the camera adjusted to her, Jason's got the lighting

804
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:10.039
set up, and the other camera man, the one that

805
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:11.920
was sitting by me that saw it, he was just

806
00:46:12.000 --> 00:46:15.519
kind of going around like shooting b roll film. And

807
00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:19.880
like I said, I had the pairabolic dish. Well right

808
00:46:19.920 --> 00:46:23.280
behind us is this big brush pile of a bunch

809
00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:26.320
of the broken tree limbs and everything from the ice storm,

810
00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:29.320
and Dad just stashed them all up there, and then

811
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.920
that burn pit he had right there, just burn them

812
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:35.559
a little bit at a time. And so I'm scanning

813
00:46:35.639 --> 00:46:40.519
around and behind us. You know the way it sounded

814
00:46:40.559 --> 00:46:43.519
on the parabolic dish, It sounded like it was distant,

815
00:46:44.199 --> 00:46:48.480
but I could pick up movement and it sounded bi

816
00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:51.599
pedal to me. And I even said it. I was like, hey,

817
00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.159
I think we got something back there walking And I

818
00:46:54.199 --> 00:46:56.159
was like, it sounds by a pedal, and they're like, oh,

819
00:46:56.159 --> 00:46:58.039
that's cool, and I'm just like I don't know. I

820
00:46:58.079 --> 00:46:59.760
was like I don't hear anything else though, other than

821
00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:06.199
just foosteps, So keep that in mind. So we get

822
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:11.719
ready to start to do Amber's interview and suddenly she goes, Okay,

823
00:47:11.719 --> 00:47:14.760
who just threw a stick at me? And we were

824
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:18.519
like what, Like, we're all looking at eah Oo like

825
00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:20.519
I didn't throw a stick, you know, none of them

826
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:22.320
did either, and she was like, you guys, seriously, none

827
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:23.639
of you guys did. Like she looked back at j

828
00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:25.239
She's just like, you didn't do it. He's like no.

829
00:47:26.320 --> 00:47:31.440
And what she said was that a stick? She thought

830
00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:35.719
Joe threw it because it came from like behind us though,

831
00:47:36.480 --> 00:47:40.199
but it came from you know, our direction, and it

832
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:42.840
wasn't a big stick or anything. It was more like

833
00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:45.760
a like a twig really whenever she picked it up,

834
00:47:46.159 --> 00:47:49.039
but it hit her in her lower leg, right above

835
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:53.079
her ankle, and it really freaked her out whenever all

836
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:55.119
of us were like, no, we didn't throw a stick.

837
00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:59.440
So I'm thinking, back, Okay, I heard those footsteps. I

838
00:47:59.559 --> 00:48:02.519
hurry up and turn around, turn the pairabolic dish back on,

839
00:48:03.079 --> 00:48:06.559
and I can hear footsteps in a hurry going away

840
00:48:06.599 --> 00:48:13.159
from us. So what I'm thinking is after I turned

841
00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:16.679
that dish off, it must have got a little bit

842
00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:20.559
closer and got like I mean, that brushpile is probably

843
00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:25.400
about thirty feet long and very tall, and so I'm

844
00:48:25.400 --> 00:48:28.480
thinking that it must have just like grabbed a stick

845
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:31.400
and just threw it over, you know, and it happened

846
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:37.400
to hit her, and which to me, just from you know,

847
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:40.800
I'm no expert, not that there really is and when

848
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.440
it comes to cryptozoology, but to me, it seemed like

849
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:50.760
juvenile behavior because I feel like if it would have

850
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.400
been an alpha or anything like that, it would have

851
00:48:53.400 --> 00:48:56.039
done a little more than just throw one little stick

852
00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:59.800
and then run off like that. You know, it wasn't

853
00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:05.760
either because Dad went back to his house and you know,

854
00:49:06.039 --> 00:49:10.840
so we did her interview, and on this particular night,

855
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:15.639
it was the lunar eclipse, so it was you couldn't

856
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:18.920
see anything out there once it got dark, and so

857
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:24.440
we've got flashlights, we've got I think Jason had a

858
00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:28.880
night vision camera, and I think there was a flear

859
00:49:29.079 --> 00:49:33.719
or a thermal one or the other. But my dad

860
00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:36.599
comes back, picks up Amber and takes her back to

861
00:49:36.639 --> 00:49:38.559
her car, and she goes ahead and goes back home,

862
00:49:39.199 --> 00:49:45.079
and then we go out and we go in to

863
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:49.800
the field where it was the field which field was it?

864
00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:51.920
It was the field on the other side of Dad's house,

865
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.239
the field that has the pond and all that. And

866
00:49:56.559 --> 00:49:59.079
we go back there and I've got the dish going

867
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:04.239
and and I'm picking up some vocalizations. Sounded like whoops.

868
00:50:06.239 --> 00:50:09.119
You could also hear a pack of coyotes going off,

869
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:13.000
and it sounded like there was something close to them

870
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:17.119
that was trying to mimic them, but it was so

871
00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.159
much lower in the sound that, like, you know coyotes

872
00:50:21.199 --> 00:50:24.400
how they get really high pitched at times, and this

873
00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:26.559
was like sounded like something trying to do that but

874
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:33.880
was failing. And so we did that, got that on there.

875
00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:43.400
Jason had this thing called an Aztec death whistle. And

876
00:50:43.519 --> 00:50:45.360
I don't know if you've ever heard the sound these

877
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:46.079
things can make.

878
00:50:47.079 --> 00:50:51.880
They're really I think they're really scary sounding.

879
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:54.360
At night.

880
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:57.159
I'm gone, yeah, no thanks.

881
00:50:57.760 --> 00:51:01.000
Yeah. He blew it once, and he blew it down

882
00:51:01.079 --> 00:51:04.519
the direction where me and the cameraman had seen it

883
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.800
standing in the road, and then you know, he blew

884
00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:11.239
it once. Didn't have anything, no sound, nothing like I

885
00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:15.199
didn't hear anything on the dish, So waited about thirty

886
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:20.639
seconds did it again. Now a word of warning, don't

887
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:24.800
point the dish towards him towards somebody with an Aztec

888
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:29.039
death whistle, because that will really be loud in your ears.

889
00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:35.360
But he did it the second time and instantly got

890
00:51:35.360 --> 00:51:40.360
a reply back with a solid knock. And I mean yes,

891
00:51:40.440 --> 00:51:44.280
And the knock to me was almost like a knock

892
00:51:44.320 --> 00:51:48.000
it off kind of thing, you know, yea, And I said,

893
00:51:48.039 --> 00:51:49.960
I was like, oh, I was like, we got a

894
00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.199
knock and I was like, and it was a strong one.

895
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.239
And so then we start walking down that way and

896
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:00.639
you know, we're shining the lights around trying to see

897
00:52:00.639 --> 00:52:02.960
if we can catch any eye shine or anything like that.

898
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:07.480
We've seen a bunch of deer. We didn't get any

899
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:12.719
eye shine down there. Actually that night, we didn't get

900
00:52:12.760 --> 00:52:17.840
any eye shine at all. That was in October, so

901
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:22.679
but we did find so in the opposite field there

902
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:26.440
where the train track is and everything. The train tracks

903
00:52:26.480 --> 00:52:28.639
towards the back end of the field. It actually kind

904
00:52:28.679 --> 00:52:31.159
of cut the field. You got like two thirds of

905
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:33.039
the field in front of the train tracks and then

906
00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:35.280
the rest of the field is behind it because they

907
00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:37.840
built it up and everything, and the creek right there

908
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:41.119
on that side of the road. They re routed the creek.

909
00:52:41.159 --> 00:52:43.599
Before it was just a straight shot, and now on

910
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.079
that side of the road it's kind of zigzagged. But

911
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:48.719
I don't know how they did it, but now there's

912
00:52:48.719 --> 00:52:51.480
always water in it all the time. Used to a

913
00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.320
lot of times the creek would be dry. You could

914
00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:57.079
go down there and find arrowheads or something. And it

915
00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:59.360
was too deep for us to get down there, and

916
00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.400
two over grown really to even be able to even

917
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:06.000
try to find any like footprints down there. But we

918
00:53:06.079 --> 00:53:10.000
did find some footprints in this little like roadway. I

919
00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:12.840
guess you could call it like a service road or something,

920
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.960
cause it was just gravel and you got parts that

921
00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:20.960
were washed out and there was some water standing and

922
00:53:21.559 --> 00:53:24.639
coming out of the water on the further side of

923
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:30.559
the puddle, found prints with toes and that was pretty wild.

924
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:31.920
How long would you say?

925
00:53:33.079 --> 00:53:37.440
I would say they were probably about sixteen inches, okay,

926
00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:39.440
because like I didn't have my tape measure on me

927
00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:44.920
that night, but they looked very similar to what I

928
00:53:44.920 --> 00:53:48.039
had found in the field where I had my sighting

929
00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:52.360
and all that. So I was like, okay, all right,

930
00:53:52.480 --> 00:53:55.719
so we got that, and then I want to say

931
00:53:55.719 --> 00:53:58.400
that was pretty much it for that night. Like we

932
00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:02.039
did some overhead drone foot footage and I think he

933
00:54:02.119 --> 00:54:04.320
had a thermal on the drone whenever he did that.

934
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:09.800
And then so you know, he's like, okay, He's like, well,

935
00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:11.960
he's like, we got what we got. He's like, you know,

936
00:54:12.480 --> 00:54:16.199
he's like, we'll come back out and do some more later,

937
00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:18.239
you know, a couple months from now. I was like, okay.

938
00:54:18.920 --> 00:54:22.039
So he gets a hold of me in October and

939
00:54:22.639 --> 00:54:26.360
he says, hey, he's like the seventeenth, we're gonna come out.

940
00:54:26.480 --> 00:54:30.800
We're going to do a livestream night investigation on the channel.

941
00:54:31.119 --> 00:54:35.280
I was like, all right, cool. And that night was

942
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:39.960
so weird because we had all kinds of equipment issues

943
00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:43.559
that night, like everything just didn't seem like it wanted

944
00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:46.920
to work. Parabolic worked, but like it wasn't even just

945
00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:51.320
that their GPS like where they were camped at. They

946
00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:55.199
camped down in Dixon Springs, and there's a backway you

947
00:54:55.239 --> 00:54:56.920
can get to get to the farm from there. It's

948
00:54:56.960 --> 00:55:00.519
a lot quicker, but and Joe knew that, but he

949
00:55:00.519 --> 00:55:04.880
couldn't remember exactly how to go, and the GPS kept

950
00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:06.760
trying to take him all the way to the interstate,

951
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:09.440
which would which ended up adding an hour's worth of

952
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:14.239
drive time. So yeah, that was really weird. So originally

953
00:55:14.280 --> 00:55:16.719
we were supposed to meet about I think six six

954
00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:19.480
thirty something like that, and they didn't end up getting

955
00:55:19.480 --> 00:55:24.400
there until about eight. But in the meantime, I pulled

956
00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:26.760
up to the farm and I went down the main

957
00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:30.320
road and I saw my dad on his tractor in

958
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:33.119
my right, next to my cousin's house in the field there.

959
00:55:33.960 --> 00:55:35.920
So I pulled over at my cousins and walked out

960
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:38.079
there and talked to Dad and I was like, hey,

961
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:40.079
you know, just reminding you we're going to be out

962
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.480
here tonight doing an investigation and everything. So I just

963
00:55:42.519 --> 00:55:44.880
wanted to let you know, you know, it's us. And

964
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:46.760
he's like, okay, that's fine. He was just sawing up

965
00:55:46.800 --> 00:55:49.400
some firewood and putting it in the front loader a distractor,

966
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:52.239
and so I was like all right. I was like, well,

967
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:54.280
I just let you know. So I go ahead and

968
00:55:54.320 --> 00:56:02.960
go to his house. And so it was probably about

969
00:56:03.000 --> 00:56:07.440
seven o'clock and it was starting to get dark at

970
00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:12.480
this point, because by then you don't fall around here.

971
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:14.960
About seven o'clock it would start to get dark. Now

972
00:56:14.960 --> 00:56:18.800
it gets dark at five o'clock. But I'm sitting there

973
00:56:18.840 --> 00:56:20.239
and I go ahead, and I just turned I rolled

974
00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.599
down my windows and I turned my car off, and

975
00:56:22.679 --> 00:56:25.119
I'm just gonna sit there waiting for them to get there.

976
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:27.280
And I'm like, I'm just gonna listen see if I

977
00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:32.559
hear any any whoops or anything like that. Well, this

978
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:36.920
kind of freaked me out because where I'm sitting at

979
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.119
in the car, across from my dad's house, there's a

980
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:41.679
field and the field is shaped like a capital L,

981
00:56:43.000 --> 00:56:46.519
and in like what would be like the forty five

982
00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:51.079
degree angle of the L. There's woods right there. And

983
00:56:53.119 --> 00:56:56.880
I know I've always heard people describe hearing them running

984
00:56:56.960 --> 00:57:00.960
through the woods how it sounds like an elephant blasting

985
00:57:01.000 --> 00:57:07.000
through there. Well I heard that, and I mean it

986
00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:10.079
startled me because it was like it was very quiet

987
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:12.760
and then all of a sudden, just boom boom, boom

988
00:57:12.760 --> 00:57:16.559
boom boom running and I'm like, what the heck? And

989
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:21.679
about fifteen minutes after that, it did it again. Now

990
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.880
I'm trying to rationalize this to myself. I'm like, Okay,

991
00:57:25.400 --> 00:57:28.079
could it have been a tree top falling out hitting

992
00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:31.599
every branch on the way down. Well, there was no win,

993
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:35.280
so it wasn't that. So I'm like, okay, So I'm

994
00:57:35.280 --> 00:57:37.480
like flashing my light over there, even though Dad always

995
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:40.360
said that he never did because they keep they'll continue,

996
00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:43.480
you know, doing things. Well, I wanted to see if

997
00:57:43.480 --> 00:57:46.599
I could see it. So I'm flashing the light and

998
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:50.679
didn't see anything. It did it again. I'm like okay.

999
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:54.400
So they get there, I tell them like, hey, guys,

1000
00:57:54.400 --> 00:57:56.639
I've already got activity. I'm like, and it's right there,

1001
00:57:57.199 --> 00:57:59.440
and told them what happened, and they're like, all right,

1002
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:01.400
let's get our and they were, you know, you could

1003
00:58:01.400 --> 00:58:05.360
tell that they were kind of frustrated because of the

1004
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:12.199
GPS issues and all that. So Jason carries this I

1005
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:13.960
don't know what it is, but it'll let you know

1006
00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:17.559
about like lightning strikes in your area and things like that.

1007
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.599
There was no clouds, and that thing started going off

1008
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:25.840
saying lightning strikes one mile of your area, two miles

1009
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:31.880
of your area. There's no clouds and no lightning. Started

1010
00:58:31.880 --> 00:58:37.599
having equipment malfunctions. That was weird. We end up hearing

1011
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:46.960
what sounded like something mimicking a person saying hey. It

1012
00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:54.119
was like hey, that was weird. Also, something mimicking a

1013
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.519
person laughing. And that was creepy because it was like,

1014
00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:04.760
you know, and it was just like what like you know,

1015
00:59:05.280 --> 00:59:09.039
shining lights around, couldn't see anything, and like Joe calls

1016
00:59:09.079 --> 00:59:12.280
it a disembodied voice, and I mean, it had to

1017
00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:15.639
have come from a body, you know, but that's what

1018
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:20.119
he calls it, and I'm calling it mimicking because the

1019
00:59:20.159 --> 00:59:22.039
way it sounded. We got it. We got it. We

1020
00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:26.039
got the audio of it and everything. I mean, it

1021
00:59:26.119 --> 00:59:30.679
was creepy. And then not too long after that, when

1022
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:33.280
we're walking, we're going along the edge of the woods

1023
00:59:33.360 --> 00:59:37.880
there and going further down into the field, got another

1024
00:59:38.239 --> 00:59:41.679
solid tree knock. But it wasn't like like the one

1025
00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:43.840
I heard before where it was like the knock it off,

1026
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.559
you know, tree knock. This was just like a boom

1027
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:50.480
and that was it. Yeah, and you know, we got

1028
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:55.039
the audio of that. So you know, we have all

1029
00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:59.320
this going on, and we're out there. We think we're

1030
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.400
live on Joe YouTube channel because on his phone and

1031
01:00:02.440 --> 01:00:05.519
everything it says we are. Well, I've got people texting

1032
01:00:05.559 --> 01:00:07.320
me like, hey, I thought you guys were going live.

1033
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.360
I'm like we are, and they're like, I can't find

1034
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:13.840
anything about it. So for whatever reason, it never was

1035
01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:15.960
popping up on his channel that we were live, even

1036
01:00:16.000 --> 01:00:18.920
though on his phone it said you were live, and

1037
01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:20.800
I mean he still had the footage from it, so

1038
01:00:20.880 --> 01:00:23.800
he just posted it a week later. But that was

1039
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:27.000
really weird because you figure that plus the thing saying

1040
01:00:27.039 --> 01:00:29.599
with the lightning strikes when there was no lightning or

1041
01:00:29.679 --> 01:00:32.880
clouds around us at all. It was just a starry night.

1042
01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:39.880
Plus the GPS deal, plus the equipment malfunctions. There was

1043
01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:43.000
just a lot of strange stuff going on that night.

1044
01:00:44.039 --> 01:00:49.119
And then what got me the most though, was, you know,

1045
01:00:49.199 --> 01:00:52.719
hearing and running through the woods like that, because the

1046
01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:54.920
only thing I can figure is because we did see

1047
01:00:54.920 --> 01:00:57.840
deer in that field and in the direction the sound

1048
01:00:57.960 --> 01:01:01.400
sounded like it was going I think was going on

1049
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:05.239
because those deer were fixated on looking at the woods

1050
01:01:06.000 --> 01:01:08.000
like they saw us, and they didn't run or anything.

1051
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:10.719
They weren't worried about us. They were staring at the woods.

1052
01:01:11.000 --> 01:01:15.480
So we go back into the woods and I'm not

1053
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:19.599
sure that we found where it ran through or not,

1054
01:01:19.880 --> 01:01:23.400
because it looked like something had been through there that

1055
01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:27.599
was big. But I mean, with the ice storm that

1056
01:01:27.719 --> 01:01:30.480
happened and all that kind of stuff. I can't really

1057
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:33.480
say for sure, and that's the only thing I hate

1058
01:01:33.519 --> 01:01:36.559
about that because there's so much broken branches out there. Now.

1059
01:01:36.639 --> 01:01:41.079
I don't know what was that and what was them.

1060
01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:45.599
But we ended up they ended up staying longer. I

1061
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:48.320
left at eleven because I had to work the next morning.

1062
01:01:48.360 --> 01:01:51.199
I had an overtime shift, and so I had to

1063
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:55.400
leave about eleven o'clock. But Jason had these electric bikes

1064
01:01:56.239 --> 01:01:58.719
and so they went and they went to some different

1065
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:02.559
areas on the farm and they ended up finding this

1066
01:02:03.800 --> 01:02:09.480
pathway where they found prints and it was about it

1067
01:02:09.519 --> 01:02:11.639
was going along one of the fields. I can't remember

1068
01:02:11.639 --> 01:02:16.280
which Phieldy said, but it was going like about twenty

1069
01:02:16.320 --> 01:02:20.000
feet and then it went in like there was this

1070
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:22.760
big opening where like stuff had like something big had

1071
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.880
been going through there a lot into the woods. So

1072
01:02:25.920 --> 01:02:30.760
they've got the footage of that, and you know, that

1073
01:02:31.199 --> 01:02:33.400
was pretty wild hearing that, because I was like wow.

1074
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:41.519
So then I'm sitting there and I'm just thinking about everything.

1075
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:44.800
My dad keeps telling me about things that he hears,

1076
01:02:45.679 --> 01:02:48.119
and he's like, yeah, He's like I'm still hearing stuff

1077
01:02:48.119 --> 01:02:50.559
out there. I'm like really, And he's telling me he's

1078
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.079
like a lot of times, you know, it's it's the

1079
01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:57.559
whoops and the occasional like mimicking an owl or the

1080
01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:05.679
train whistle thing. But just two Sundays ago, So November

1081
01:03:05.679 --> 01:03:10.360
twenty third, my wife, that was her birthday and she

1082
01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:13.000
wanted to go out on the farm and have a bonfire.

1083
01:03:13.480 --> 01:03:15.760
I was like, all right, it was a Sunday night,

1084
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:18.960
and it was really foggy that night too, Like that

1085
01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:23.480
whole day it was foggy, and especially that night. Now,

1086
01:03:23.480 --> 01:03:25.599
when it's foggy out there on the farm like that,

1087
01:03:26.079 --> 01:03:30.239
it is extra creepy out there. So we get there

1088
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:33.480
about four point thirty. Dad's already got the fire going

1089
01:03:33.519 --> 01:03:36.440
for us, and you know, he visits with us for

1090
01:03:36.480 --> 01:03:40.079
a while, he goes on back in the house. Well

1091
01:03:40.119 --> 01:03:43.280
we're sitting there, and we're probably sitting there maybe thirty

1092
01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:48.880
forty five minutes, and all of a sudden, from over

1093
01:03:48.960 --> 01:03:52.519
my shoulder in like a diagonal, So it would have

1094
01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:57.559
been if I'm thinking the direction and everything like that,

1095
01:03:59.039 --> 01:04:02.239
when I found those eighteen prints that woodline right there,

1096
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:07.199
it sounded like it came from over there. Could have

1097
01:04:07.239 --> 01:04:11.119
been a little bit past that, but over in that direction. Anyways,

1098
01:04:12.199 --> 01:04:18.119
we heard the most scariest scream I have ever heard

1099
01:04:18.119 --> 01:04:24.159
in my life. It was very high pitched, went for

1100
01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:29.199
good solid ten seconds or more, and it's to me,

1101
01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:35.400
when I heard this, it sounded not like feminin like,

1102
01:04:35.559 --> 01:04:41.079
and then whenever it ended, it sounded apish. So I

1103
01:04:41.119 --> 01:04:42.840
look at her, I go, did you hear that? And

1104
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:46.840
she was like yeah, And I'm like, wow, what was that?

1105
01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:49.519
You know what I mean? Because like then, of course

1106
01:04:49.559 --> 01:04:52.360
I'm thinking bigfoot because of the apish finish on it,

1107
01:04:54.840 --> 01:04:57.119
But I also know that, you know, fox can make

1108
01:04:57.519 --> 01:05:01.440
a high pitch yell like that, and sometimes dear too,

1109
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:06.480
but this wasn't that. This was way louder and from

1110
01:05:06.480 --> 01:05:09.599
a distance to be that loud where we were, and

1111
01:05:09.639 --> 01:05:11.559
it being as far away as it was, there's just

1112
01:05:11.639 --> 01:05:14.159
no way it was a regular animal out there on

1113
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:19.039
the farm. So then I'm on alert at this point

1114
01:05:19.119 --> 01:05:22.000
because it's foggy, I can't see anything. We've got the

1115
01:05:22.039 --> 01:05:25.079
fire going. I kept in mind what Dad said about

1116
01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:29.440
fires out there at night, and I'm like, okay, I'm like, well,

1117
01:05:29.559 --> 01:05:32.119
I'm like, maybe it's one of them down there. And

1118
01:05:33.719 --> 01:05:36.639
I start kind of walking around the yard over there

1119
01:05:37.480 --> 01:05:40.960
and then across the road in the field by where

1120
01:05:40.960 --> 01:05:44.639
the pond is, but going about maybe halfway down to

1121
01:05:44.719 --> 01:05:48.519
the creek, I hear another yell, but it didn't sound

1122
01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:52.400
the same as that one did. It sounded more. The

1123
01:05:52.480 --> 01:05:54.679
only way I could really describe it is it kind

1124
01:05:54.719 --> 01:05:58.559
of sounded like something that was like, uh, you know,

1125
01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:02.039
like like it's sounded like great, like you know, got

1126
01:06:02.039 --> 01:06:06.679
to do something or whatever. You know it it was.

1127
01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:11.480
It had base in it. It very well could have

1128
01:06:11.639 --> 01:06:20.440
been that belly growl, mumble, you know, but louder, because

1129
01:06:20.519 --> 01:06:23.960
it was, like I said, it was down in that field.

1130
01:06:24.039 --> 01:06:26.480
I knew that much. And it also sounded like it

1131
01:06:26.559 --> 01:06:29.400
had a hold of a deer because I could hear

1132
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:34.760
a deer noise too, And I'm like, okay, I've got

1133
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:39.360
stuff going on over here. Well, right after that, one

1134
01:06:39.400 --> 01:06:41.840
of her friends pulls up that we invited out there,

1135
01:06:42.239 --> 01:06:45.480
because at this point we're like, okay, we're gonna go

1136
01:06:45.559 --> 01:06:47.599
here in a little bit. Well, then her friend pulls up,

1137
01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:50.440
so she starts talking to her and everything, but I'm

1138
01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:55.320
still on alert, looking around, listening everything like that. So

1139
01:06:56.360 --> 01:07:02.159
about twenty minutes goes by and I hear something in

1140
01:07:02.199 --> 01:07:08.199
the woods that's only about at the most probably thirty

1141
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:12.800
yards away from us. I hear something to the left,

1142
01:07:13.960 --> 01:07:17.000
I hear something to the right, and then I hear

1143
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:20.079
something in the middle. So I'm thinking there was three

1144
01:07:20.119 --> 01:07:23.920
of them there. And the only thing I can figure

1145
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:28.000
because that one sounded feminine, the first that scream I heard,

1146
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:34.719
is maybe that was like the mother Bigfoot, either yelling

1147
01:07:35.360 --> 01:07:40.800
for the kids or yelling to her mate and one

1148
01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:43.519
of the kids. Because there was three, I could distinctly

1149
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:48.559
hear three different sets of walking, and like hurriedly walking

1150
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:52.079
and then stopping all along the woods. And it wasn't

1151
01:07:52.119 --> 01:07:54.440
like it went here and then scooted up to here

1152
01:07:54.519 --> 01:07:56.400
and then scooted over to there. It was like you

1153
01:07:56.440 --> 01:07:58.719
had this going on. Then I'm hearing it over here too,

1154
01:07:58.920 --> 01:08:02.679
and in the middle, and all ways for them to

1155
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:05.519
get up there, they could go through woods and not

1156
01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:08.280
be seen. At some point. The one that was over

1157
01:08:08.320 --> 01:08:10.000
in that field across the road would have had to

1158
01:08:10.079 --> 01:08:12.559
have crossed the road to get to those woods, but

1159
01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.119
it could have came right up undetected. And the fact

1160
01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:17.239
that it was foggy as could be, I couldn't see

1161
01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:19.840
the woods. I knew they were there, but I couldn't

1162
01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:22.600
see the Woods. So that was wild.

1163
01:08:22.840 --> 01:08:24.439
That was within the last two weeks.

1164
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.000
You're saying, yeah, yeah, that's two thing years ago on

1165
01:08:27.039 --> 01:08:30.960
November twenty third, about six o'clock at night.

1166
01:08:32.960 --> 01:08:36.760
Do you have audio recorders set up out there at all?

1167
01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:41.079
We have two that we have bought and they should

1168
01:08:41.079 --> 01:08:43.159
be here soon and I'm going to get them set

1169
01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:43.880
up out there.

1170
01:08:44.479 --> 01:08:47.000
Oh good, I would yeah, I'd recommend that.

1171
01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:50.880
Yeah, because wow, yeah, Because I mean, like I lived

1172
01:08:50.880 --> 01:08:52.960
out on the far most of my life. My dad's

1173
01:08:53.000 --> 01:08:56.319
been out there for basically his whole life, except for

1174
01:08:56.359 --> 01:08:59.840
a little bit of time in the seventies. And we

1175
01:08:59.920 --> 01:09:05.159
know what regular nighttime animals sounds sound like. And then

1176
01:09:05.520 --> 01:09:09.159
we're hearing this stuff now and because you know, thanks

1177
01:09:09.159 --> 01:09:12.359
to Joe, dad knows what to listen for now. And

1178
01:09:12.520 --> 01:09:14.880
you know, I learned a lot from Joe too on things,

1179
01:09:15.760 --> 01:09:21.479
so I'm listening for certain things as well. It's yeah,

1180
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:24.640
it's we're gonna be getting a lot. But there's already

1181
01:09:24.640 --> 01:09:28.319
we've there's already several trail cams out there, but we're

1182
01:09:28.319 --> 01:09:31.880
gonna get the audio recorders too. And like I was

1183
01:09:31.920 --> 01:09:35.159
thinking back to whenever I was a kid, you know,

1184
01:09:36.119 --> 01:09:39.680
the whole family was alive back then and lived out there,

1185
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.560
and my grandparents they lived on the main road. Well,

1186
01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:47.079
instead of walking up the country road and then going

1187
01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:50.239
to the main road, I just cut the field and

1188
01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:52.800
walked through there. And there was a spot of woods

1189
01:09:52.840 --> 01:09:56.039
right there too. And I remember as a kid always

1190
01:09:56.079 --> 01:10:00.640
hearing what sounded like a farmer build in a barn

1191
01:10:00.760 --> 01:10:03.039
or something, or you know, working on a fence or

1192
01:10:03.039 --> 01:10:07.960
something like that. Looking back on it, there was no

1193
01:10:08.039 --> 01:10:13.000
new barns ever built. Could have been you know, fixing fences.

1194
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:16.720
But now knowing what's out there, I'm wondering if it

1195
01:10:16.760 --> 01:10:21.680
wasn't wood Knox I was hearing as a kid. Yeah,

1196
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:24.479
but like I've never had a other than you know,

1197
01:10:24.680 --> 01:10:30.439
hearing that scream. That just startled me. But even then,

1198
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:33.279
I don't think it was like screaming at us. I

1199
01:10:33.319 --> 01:10:38.600
think it was just screaming for the others. So I

1200
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:43.119
don't know. But yeah, And like anytime I go out,

1201
01:10:43.279 --> 01:10:46.039
I'm never armed. I don't do that because whenever I

1202
01:10:46.079 --> 01:10:48.079
do the Native American thing, I always say, I come

1203
01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:51.560
in peace and you know I mean you no harm. Well,

1204
01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:53.760
if I go out there with a shotgun or a

1205
01:10:54.520 --> 01:10:56.880
you know, a machete or something like that that's gonna

1206
01:10:56.880 --> 01:10:59.560
send the wrong message.

1207
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:04.840
Yeah, uh, I totally get that. The first time that

1208
01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:10.840
you you did that verbal that you said that, you know, hey,

1209
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:16.119
you kind of were were taking the initiative and uh

1210
01:11:16.239 --> 01:11:22.560
and talking to them. Did you notice Uh, I don't know.

1211
01:11:22.600 --> 01:11:25.439
It's it's it's such an interesting thing because it feels like,

1212
01:11:25.960 --> 01:11:30.319
not only are you talking to him, but it's kind

1213
01:11:30.319 --> 01:11:34.560
of like an invitation as well. Yeah, like, yeah, that's

1214
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:36.800
that's what I picked up from it. And do you

1215
01:11:36.880 --> 01:11:41.479
feel like stuff picked up after that or was it

1216
01:11:41.600 --> 01:11:42.359
kind of the same.

1217
01:11:42.600 --> 01:11:46.600
Well as far as things that I was discovering hearing

1218
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:51.520
myself my dad talking about an uptaking him hearing things,

1219
01:11:52.479 --> 01:11:57.439
I believe. So I believe that you know, they understood me. However,

1220
01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:01.720
that's possible. And you know, because like I said, like

1221
01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:05.279
we used to have back whenever we farmed it, which

1222
01:12:05.279 --> 01:12:08.479
I say we was my grandpa and his brother. There

1223
01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:12.479
was livestock out there, you know, cows before I was born.

1224
01:12:13.359 --> 01:12:16.479
They used to have chickens and pigs out there too,

1225
01:12:16.479 --> 01:12:21.840
I believe, and maybe some goats. And never had an

1226
01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:26.479
issue with you know, livestock being massacred or anything like that.

1227
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:33.199
So it's been a I mean, it's been a peaceful

1228
01:12:33.600 --> 01:12:35.680
time with them, you know what I mean. And like

1229
01:12:35.720 --> 01:12:38.560
if grandma saw one back in nineteen sixty three, that's

1230
01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:45.039
at least sixty years, if not more, And an interesting

1231
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:49.000
history lesson about the land itself. See, the farm's been

1232
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:54.079
in our family since the eighteen sixties, and before that,

1233
01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:57.800
there used to be in the field where I have

1234
01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:01.479
my sighting, there used to be a Native American settlement there.

1235
01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:04.600
You don't say, yeah, I was going to ask you.

1236
01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:08.680
I was like, there's something there, absolutely Yeah.

1237
01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:12.720
On top of that, in the field across the road

1238
01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.199
where the pond is and everything where Dad always hears

1239
01:13:16.199 --> 01:13:20.520
the vocalizations from. I'm not exactly sure where're at in

1240
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:25.479
the field, Dad knows, and my grandma's brother remembered seeing

1241
01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:28.560
the remnants of it when they were younger. There used

1242
01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:32.079
to be a fort there. And whenever I did a

1243
01:13:32.119 --> 01:13:34.159
little research on the fort, I'm not going to give

1244
01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:36.760
the forced name because then somebody get to the point

1245
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:40.319
right where it is. When I did a little research

1246
01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:43.159
on it, I found out that that fort was one

1247
01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:46.560
of the first ones built in America's expansion westward of

1248
01:13:46.560 --> 01:13:52.840
the Ohio River. So you know there was some clashing going.

1249
01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:56.800
On, oh big time. Yeah, Oh my goodness. I can

1250
01:13:56.880 --> 01:13:58.479
only imagine the stuff that happened.

1251
01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:02.760
Oh yeah, I mean either, I mean it's wild. I

1252
01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:07.720
wonder if maybe because I took that approach, the Native

1253
01:14:07.720 --> 01:14:10.960
American approach to doing it, if maybe they were there

1254
01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:16.039
then could be don't know, I know, at least sixty years.

1255
01:14:17.239 --> 01:14:22.920
And I bet there's some kind of burial site on

1256
01:14:23.039 --> 01:14:25.920
that property too, and you might not even know about it.

1257
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:29.119
Yeah, I mean there's the little hills that I've wondered

1258
01:14:29.159 --> 01:14:30.479
if they could be burial now.

1259
01:14:31.359 --> 01:14:32.680
Yeah, absolutely, dude.

1260
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:36.319
Wow, and especially thinking about after that pipeline went through

1261
01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:40.119
back there, because they went through some small hills. So

1262
01:14:41.319 --> 01:14:46.439
who's to say, dude. So here's what I've been thinking

1263
01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:50.239
the whole time. You need to have some connection with

1264
01:14:50.439 --> 01:14:56.880
someone on the mining company's side and be like, Okay,

1265
01:14:57.239 --> 01:15:01.000
what have you guys experience, because you know they've probably.

1266
01:15:02.239 --> 01:15:04.920
I would guess they've had some stuff happen when they've

1267
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:05.680
been doing stuff.

1268
01:15:05.920 --> 01:15:08.960
Yeah. I know. I've got a couple of friends I

1269
01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:13.239
went to high school with that their bosses at the mind.

1270
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:16.600
But I don't know if if they're like bosses down

1271
01:15:16.600 --> 01:15:19.159
there in the mine or if they're above ground or what.

1272
01:15:19.199 --> 01:15:21.000
But I could talk to them and just see if

1273
01:15:21.039 --> 01:15:22.760
anybody's ever reported anything.

1274
01:15:24.039 --> 01:15:27.039
Yeah, you can always throw out the whole like, hey, guys,

1275
01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:29.920
ever run into anything weird when you're doing your mind

1276
01:15:30.000 --> 01:15:33.560
stuff over there? And you know, unless you want to

1277
01:15:33.640 --> 01:15:36.560
jump right into the bigfoot thing. I mean, that's it's

1278
01:15:36.600 --> 01:15:38.560
all all what your comfort level is.

1279
01:15:38.680 --> 01:15:40.720
Yeah, you know, they know me, they know they know

1280
01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:43.720
how I am. No, you know, okay, they're they're like,

1281
01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:47.000
you know, I'm that guy in the friend group.

1282
01:15:48.520 --> 01:15:52.159
That's cool. That's cool. So you can jump right to that. Yeah, wow,

1283
01:15:52.640 --> 01:15:55.880
Bryce is I mean, man, I'm thinking real quick. And

1284
01:15:56.119 --> 01:15:59.920
this is probably I would say, from what I've heard,

1285
01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:05.600
it's probably the most active area of current day for

1286
01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:10.159
Illinois that I've heard. I mean, you hear all the

1287
01:16:10.239 --> 01:16:14.319
Peoria sightings and stuff, but like this is very concentrated

1288
01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:17.479
and I mean going back to the sixties, like this

1289
01:16:17.560 --> 01:16:22.680
is is a very very special thing. When is Joe's

1290
01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:25.119
documentary going to be out.

1291
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.680
I'm not sure. He said that it's pretty well finished.

1292
01:16:30.640 --> 01:16:33.560
He's just in contact with all the different streaming service

1293
01:16:33.600 --> 01:16:37.479
companies and getting all that stuff set up. And he

1294
01:16:37.560 --> 01:16:40.560
said that He's like, this documentary is gonna blow your

1295
01:16:40.560 --> 01:16:43.680
doors off. He's like, it's awesome. I haven't seen it yet,

1296
01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:47.479
but from everything he told me, he's very excited about it.

1297
01:16:49.520 --> 01:16:52.600
He does a great job. The wildest thing, though, is

1298
01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:57.159
that stuff is happening like all the time. Yeah, it's

1299
01:16:57.239 --> 01:16:59.760
just like it just keeps going and going and going

1300
01:16:59.760 --> 01:17:04.680
and going, and that to me is very very exciting stuff.

1301
01:17:05.079 --> 01:17:07.159
Are you keeping a journal of everything that's happening.

1302
01:17:07.319 --> 01:17:09.920
Yeah, I just keep writing it down on my notes,

1303
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:15.600
And like anytime I get anything, if I talk to

1304
01:17:15.680 --> 01:17:17.720
Dad he tells me something new, I'll make a note.

1305
01:17:17.840 --> 01:17:19.640
I'll write the date and all that stuff, as long

1306
01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:25.800
as I can remember the date. And yeah, I see.

1307
01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:28.600
My whole thought was, well, since it kicked off in May,

1308
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:32.760
they must migrate. But here, you know, it was really cold,

1309
01:17:32.920 --> 01:17:38.680
it's cold now. It just snowed last night. It's and

1310
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:42.800
they're still there. So I'm thinking that they just they

1311
01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:46.039
make their home there and they're just good at staying

1312
01:17:46.119 --> 01:17:48.920
hidden for the most part. But like after I gave

1313
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:51.880
the invitation and welcomed them and everything and told them, hey,

1314
01:17:51.880 --> 01:17:54.520
it's okay for you guys to be here now there

1315
01:17:54.800 --> 01:17:58.119
seem to be more comfortable making their presence now at.

1316
01:17:58.039 --> 01:18:03.720
Times exactly, It'll be interesting to see if I don't know,

1317
01:18:03.720 --> 01:18:05.520
if you guys are going to get in Iowa, we're

1318
01:18:05.520 --> 01:18:10.760
going to get the polar vortex and that Thursday the fourth,

1319
01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:14.239
and i'd be interesting to see if that hits you

1320
01:18:14.279 --> 01:18:17.840
guys down there, and if that does anything like kind

1321
01:18:17.880 --> 01:18:19.640
of drives them out, like oh, we got to get

1322
01:18:19.640 --> 01:18:23.520
further south, or maybe they're just maybe they just find

1323
01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:25.560
someplace to get warm. Who knows.

1324
01:18:25.640 --> 01:18:28.680
But yeah, there's there. I mean with the coal mining

1325
01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:31.439
and all that, I would assume there's caves out there.

1326
01:18:31.520 --> 01:18:35.720
I know, Jim, east of our property, there's an old

1327
01:18:35.840 --> 01:18:38.960
mine that, like, I mean we're talking like long time

1328
01:18:39.000 --> 01:18:43.359
ago mine that some people I knew back when I

1329
01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:48.079
was younger. They went in there and they were like, man,

1330
01:18:48.119 --> 01:18:50.640
we got chased out by something big dude. I was

1331
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.560
like what and they're like, yeah, man, it was big

1332
01:18:52.600 --> 01:18:56.560
and hairy. Really really really did not like us being there,

1333
01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:00.079
but they didn't. I mean, we were teenagers then, and

1334
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:04.479
I don't know that they knew about Bigfoot, And I

1335
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:07.800
mean I knew about Bigfoot, but never here, you know,

1336
01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:15.119
So I wonder about that, and you know, because that

1337
01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:17.359
would be a good spot for them to go and

1338
01:19:17.520 --> 01:19:22.119
hold up for the winter. And I mean because that

1339
01:19:22.359 --> 01:19:26.079
you know, old old mind shaft that like the opening's

1340
01:19:26.159 --> 01:19:27.960
right there on the ground, you know, you can just

1341
01:19:28.000 --> 01:19:33.039
walk right into it. Since then though there's a gate now.

1342
01:19:33.239 --> 01:19:35.159
Used to you could just pull right in and go

1343
01:19:35.239 --> 01:19:37.279
to it, but now there's a gate, but the opening

1344
01:19:37.359 --> 01:19:38.119
is still open.

1345
01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:47.000
So interesting. Yeah, my goodness. Yeah, Brce, this you've got

1346
01:19:47.000 --> 01:19:53.760
some's some wild stuff going on. There's it's very very

1347
01:19:53.880 --> 01:20:01.279
very unique. Uh, I would say it you you probably

1348
01:20:01.279 --> 01:20:03.199
are going to have more settings in the future. I

1349
01:20:03.239 --> 01:20:04.760
would guess I.

1350
01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:08.199
Want to see the thing that would Yeah, that would

1351
01:20:08.199 --> 01:20:08.520
be wild.

1352
01:20:08.840 --> 01:20:11.479
Thank you so much for for coming on, for for

1353
01:20:11.600 --> 01:20:16.199
sharing what you've experienced so far, and I mean, I'm

1354
01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:20.439
going to be definitely keeping an eye on on this

1355
01:20:20.520 --> 01:20:26.239
one because it is changing week to week, which is

1356
01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:28.520
pretty pretty wild stuff.

1357
01:20:29.760 --> 01:20:29.960
You know.

1358
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:36.000
Keep is there a way that you've been sharing.

1359
01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:44.279
All occasionally post stuff in groups, but most of the

1360
01:20:44.279 --> 01:20:50.039
time I just reach out to people on Messenger and

1361
01:20:50.199 --> 01:20:53.760
just talk to people you know or you know like

1362
01:20:53.760 --> 01:20:56.359
like say like other podcasters will reach out to me

1363
01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:00.159
hearing like either the writer documentary on Joe's channel, or

1364
01:21:00.079 --> 01:21:02.119
or just have heard about my story and just want

1365
01:21:02.159 --> 01:21:05.159
to hear it from me on their show or something.

1366
01:21:07.000 --> 01:21:09.880
I have no problem talking to anybody about it, you know.

1367
01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:12.399
I mean, I'm not trying to hide nothing from anybody.

1368
01:21:12.960 --> 01:21:16.800
I think it's awesome, you know, because it's southern Illinois

1369
01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:20.119
and the last time anybody heard about Bigfoot here was

1370
01:21:20.119 --> 01:21:22.880
the Big Money Monster back in like seventy two.

1371
01:21:23.399 --> 01:21:27.399
It was a big one. Yeah, absolutely, that was the

1372
01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:27.840
big one.

1373
01:21:28.159 --> 01:21:28.399
Man.

1374
01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:32.640
My goodness, people can probably best reach out to you.

1375
01:21:32.920 --> 01:21:34.399
I'm guessing on Facebook.

1376
01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:38.000
Yeah, this Bryce Edwards on Facebook. My pro walk pictures

1377
01:21:38.000 --> 01:21:39.600
me and my wife.

1378
01:21:39.880 --> 01:21:43.720
Awesome, good stuff. Well, dude, I appreciate you coming on

1379
01:21:44.239 --> 01:21:49.119
tonight and sharing what you've experienced so far. We'll definitely

1380
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:53.239
keep in touch and keep an eye out for what

1381
01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:57.760
happens to you guys out there with the Pine Creek

1382
01:21:57.960 --> 01:22:02.119
Monster next. But thanks so much for coming on the show, dude.

1383
01:22:02.239 --> 01:22:04.000
Oh, thank you so much for having man, it's been

1384
01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:05.039
a pleasure and an honor.

1385
01:22:06.600 --> 01:22:08.920
Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something

1386
01:22:08.960 --> 01:22:12.159
directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're

1387
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:15.960
in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've

1388
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:18.840
seen something that no one can explain, or if you're

1389
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:22.079
a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been told

1390
01:22:22.119 --> 01:22:25.119
to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen

1391
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:28.439
something strange down on the ground, or if you're with

1392
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:32.159
the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you've

1393
01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:35.279
stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And

1394
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if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder

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who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense.

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If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

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or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

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happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

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a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

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contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to reap.

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If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

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spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

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or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or

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anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

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then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous,

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you can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

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The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

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carry alone, and you're not alone. You've got the story,

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We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

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you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast.

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Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is

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bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth

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is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you

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enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the

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the next episode, and share this with a friend who's

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into mysteries, monsters, or the unexplained. And if you're listen

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listening to us on Spotify or Apple Podcast, please follow

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review because all that helps more people discover the show.

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And remember, if you or someone you know has had

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a Bigfoot sighting, please I'd love to hear from you,

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so email me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com

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and let's start the conversation. If you haven't gotten a

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chance yet, check out our membership community over at www

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dot Bigfoot Society podcast dot com and that's where you

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can hear tomorrow's episode today early in ad free and

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members only episodes every week. Also, it's a place to

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connect with other people that are into the Bigfoot subject

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as much as you are. Thanks again for following along

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with the Bigfoot Society until next time, Keep your eyes open,

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trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might

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be out there? And see you in the woods.