Sasquatch Stands Tall in Oregon – You Won't Believe What Happened

0:00 You're listening in Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron Tonight's story doesn't come from a season Bigfoot hunter or an outdoorsman. It comes from Delanea, a woman who is just living her life in the Cottage Grove, Oregon area, until one fateful morning a massive sad squatch left her breathless with terror. She didn't go looking for Bigfoot, but Bigfoot found her. And this is the story of a sighting that changed her life. So stay with us I Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Delanea today. Delania is a personal trainer that lives out there in Eugene, Oregon. So welcome to the show. How's it going today, Delana? Good? Thanks for having me awesome. You know you had well.

0:42 First off, I just want to see you're from one of my most favorite places in the US, which is Lane County, Oregon. We were just talking about that, especially eastern Lane County. I mean, you guys have all the crazy bigfoot stuff. You got Oakridge and Caught Grove and all that good stuff. So I'm definitely excited to have you on the show today. Thank you for coming on. But you know, Delaney. I want to make sure that we have the time for you to share what it is that you experienced the one day. And this is kind of a definitely a unique encounter. I don't think I've had an interview that was presented to me like this when you reached out. So I'm going to say, go ahead, feel free to take us back to the day when you had this experience, and I'll let you take him from here.

1:37 Okay, thanks. Well. So in two thousand and eight, I was living in College Grove with my boyfriend and I had I should probably prefaced this like I grew up in Breebera in Oregon. So I grew up in a suburb of Portland, and so bigfootle to me was I was pretty gnostic about the whole you know, subject, Like I didn't it, didn't know, it didn't affect my life one one another, you know. So seeing that, like in two thousand and eight, I was living in Cottage Grove and I had an interview at the golf club. Now Cottage Grove is south from Eugene, and I would say the one, you know, major town between Eugene and Cottage Grove is Cresswell, and there I five is this like you know, major highway that runs I think from I don't know the Alaskademam California or something and and so and that goes you know through I mean right along with these towns from Eugene and there.

2:37 But there are parallel roads that can parallel IPI that can get you from Cottage Grove to Cresswell. And I believe it's like the Dale Kuners Road, I think, but I'm not gonna quote me on that, but there's a parallel road that you can take Rowe River from Cottage Grove parallel to I five north and hit Cresswell and so on that road was the golf club, which can just basically like a driving range in nine holes right in a clubhouse. And it was like on the east side of the road. And so I took and the golf club was like across that two lane road, or the parking lot was across the two lane road. It was a gravel parking lot. And so I guess, and you can you can see on that parallel road and here like you can see I five intermitutely, you know, and hear it definitely.

3:25 And so I took that road and drove from like. Yeah, Cottage Grove to the Cold Club and and it was probably like it was late September, like early October. So it's ten three in the morning, and so. There's still kind of like a haze before like it burned off, if you know what I mean. And I pulled into pulled into the gravel parking lot. I'm in a in a range rover, okay, so I and my boyfriend at the time was a hunter, and so it was a you know, have racks on it on the front, on the top. It was a kind of a. Beefed out car. The reason I'm saying this will come in to play in a minute. But and so I pull into this graveled parking lot that's kind of pushed up on the knoll.

4:08 So from the gravel parking lot, which only had a couple of cars, and at that time in the morning, you can kind of look down onto the land that's between the road and I five, and you can't really see I five. From where I was in the parking lot. You could kind of hear it. You could hear it actually, but since it's pushed kind of on a on a knoll the parking lot, you could see people's like plots. Of land, you know, that are gated right, like big yards. And I'm not talking to like a front yard. I'm talking I don't like. Half an acre or maybe the acre yards and houses. And you could see you could see the gate, you know, on a couple of and you could see I would I assume is a creek or some kind of water like stream or something that would go from that road to I assume I five, because there was a tree line that goes that was you know, a bunch of what was like fir trees or you know, big big trees.

4:58 So I assume there's like instant water or there. And then on like the east side, like where the actual clubhouse was, it's like hills that are just trees all the way to Pleasant Valley or a Pleasant hill and then all the way to Oak Ridge. And so so I'm getting out of the it's like ten thirty in the morning, and I'm getting out of the land River, and I have my resume in my hand because I'm going there for a job interview. If I tell you that I'm going to maybe that's also important. And I closed the. Door behind me, and I you know, when you just kind of get out of your car and close the door, and you sweep your eyes to sweep across, you know, as you turn or wherever you're going. Well, I I swept across and there is this fir tree I thought was a fur tree stand up.

5:40 It doubled in size. And if it hadn't done that at that second, I would have never seen it. I would have never seen it because it was so well camouflaged. Would have not And so I remember seeing this thing like stand up like I would say, nine ten feet and it was probably about fifty to seventy yards away from me, and I just. Remember to this moment. I can remember, uh my breath like sucking in, like you know, like just like what is that? That's that's what my mind was thinking, like so Fe's like what is that? Like what the f is that? You know? Because it was so massive, I couldn't under I didn't understand what I was seeing. I didn't get it. And this terror that I felt. I've been in a lot of scary situations in my life, some pretty the life writing like, but nothing compared. I've never felt that before then and ever since then, this gut to the soul tiar of like what is I what is that? It's like I didn't understand. I didn't understand how something can be that big. And as I'm looking in and this is just probably nan I second, I don't even know, but it felt like a little longer leg than that, you know, like I see these arms like on the each side of it, like hanging down pretty low like I would see it. The knees are below maybe, And I remember that the fur on the outer was darker than the fur in the on the face, like the fur like where you're you know, the eyes, and that was more like reddish, like a ranting fur.

7:05 In the fur around that it was seemed darker. I didn't take that, I mean. Because that's as most as I got from the time that I was willing to look at that. So I remember seeing that and just thinking what is that and then feeling at the same time feeling is just terror like terror, and thinking to myself, oh, this land roard was not gonna do this, is not gonna do it, like I dope, and thinking at the same time that thing can get that thing should be here already, like that's how big this thing. This thing can could just go over these fins. I could just walk over and then fight or flight, like booking it, just slamming her and. Booking it across. And it wasn't very far, like across this. Two lane road to the clubhouse, but I booked it. And I'm thinking the whole time I had this feeling of just wrap like, oh, this thing's gonna I know it.

7:51 This thing is probably right behind me. This just d red care of like and and just nothing. It didn't grab me, but I just in my head, I just felt like, oh no, I'm done. I'm done, yep. And I get into this clubhouse and I remember like closing the door and looking around this place and thinking, oh, this is. Not big enough. Yep, this isn't gonna do it, and asking and there's only a couple of employees in there, because it was like ten thirty in the morning. Does anyone have a gun? Now? Never would you hear these words going on in my mouth much less than before an interview, like that's just why would I that's crazy talk? Right? But here I am asking and telling there's something out there. There's something out there, you know. So we go back an employee and I like the person that did my interview, and I went across to the parking lot and there's nothing there, Like there's trees, but not that tree, and I you know, and that's like and I'm trying to tell him, no, there was something.

8:40 There, man, Like I didn't get that job. But I was scared enough to go all. The way to I five and take I five home. And I was scared. And I remember calling my boyfriend telling him this, and he's like, oh, yeah, you saw a bigfoot and he was he was a big hunter. And I'm thinking, what, so bigfoots are like a thing? Like it's a thing, right, Like that's a thing, you know. I thought they like, I mean the way out there. But and he and him and his family were pretty. Nonchalant, like, yeah, they're out there. That's that's the thing. We just co exist, we do. You know, that's it. And and uh and so yeah, that's uh, that's kind of like the my experience. I guess. I mean, I've never I've never felt anything like that after I'm you'll never I mean throughout my life, Like when I reflect on it, I'd think, did I make that up in my head? Like maybe I'm on deep of my head, but I didn't make What keeps me in check is that feeling of terror.

9:33 That was the feeling of terror. Like I don't even understand. I don't even understand that feeling. That was real, you know, So even if I second guess what I saw, which I I really I don't really, but like, but let's say I do that, that'll keep me in check. And yeah, so that's it. I don't know, like that is incredible. Was that your first interaction with a Bigfoot? Do you think? Yeah? And I'm half Sue, so I don't know know if that. I mean, some people like, oh your name you have Native like you know, and I'm like, I don't know if that has anything to do with it. But yeah, that was my first and to my knowledge, only interaction that I have like had that was clear, you know, because there's no mistake than that. Whatever that was, it was huge.

10:14 It was massive, freaking massive. Man, I don't know, I don't understand. You said you were half Native American? Yeah, yeah, do you. Know specifically what tribal background you have? Yeah? Four peck out of Montana. Okay, Yeah, I'm Sue. But I was telling me like a boyfriend the time, and I'm kind of reflecting on it later, he was like, well, you're half native, you know. He's like, I've been hunting with. A lot of need friends, you know, and they seem too like he had a lot more experiences with it like it than I did. But I was so like because to me, it didn't it didn't really rosky, it didn't really like it didn't really. Like affect my life after in the sense of it didn't like I said camping, it doesn't.

10:56 It didn't. I wasn't more scared of being out in nature than I was before, but I was fifty to seventy five yards away from that. If I was closer, I would have probably crapped my pants because I was there was no didn't. I was super scared. I mean, I don't even know scared encompasses what I felt. Oh absolutely. And so it sounds like you were able to have a good look at its face for at least a few seconds, right. Well, I mean I don't know what a good look is. I mean, I yeah, I saw the face. I saw that the fur around the face was darker than the fur in the face, if that makes sense. I mean, like, you know, like the immediate fur like that was behind the eyes or around the eyes, and like the nose in the mouth that was reddish and the fur around that was darker.

11:42 And then it. Was dark almost like I don't I don't even know, like I would. Say super dark brown or possibly you know, dark enoughore. I thought it was a tree right. And with a trunk until it unfolded, you know, so like pretty dark and the arms with yeah, they could you can see the arms because it kind of bull legged from the body, if that makes sense. I don't know if that makes you know. They weren't hand in straight like compressed. They were kind of out and you could see that you could see the hands kind of or whatever. It was go below lake to the second part of the leg. That makes sense. It went down and I remember think it.

12:23 Were you able to see it actually walk away? Then no, I bailed. I bailed way before that. I don't even know what helped. Yeah, I mean I just remember turning seeing the thing unfold, looking at it for a nano second and saying, oh what you know? So saying seeing it unfold is a really really interesting way to put that is, have you used that description because of a certain way it was moving when it stood up. Well, I mean the tree unfolded. I can't. It's not like I don't remember. Seeing it like being nil down and and like you know what I'm saying standing up, But again like I wasn't aware that I had to pay that.

13:06 Much of attention at that moment, you know what I'm saying, Like I just was sweeping around. All I remember is this tree unfolding. Like suddenly one part of the tree extended and became two longer parts of the tree, right it Like It'm like you know what I'm I don't know if I'm describing this right, No, No, you're good. Yeah, And then arms can't I mean as it unfolded, then as I'm looking at it unfolded standing up. Then you can see these you know, the legs and. The arms and then and this will happen like at once, right like boom boom, Like I don't know how long the actual seconds were, but well that and. It's It's the other crazy thing about it is that you're not just parking a car. Your mindset is Okay, it's game time. I'm gonna be interviewed. Here's all the questions they're probably gonna ask me. I'm ready for this, so you're you're not prepared mentally to take in something like this, which is fifty to seventy five feet away, a tree that turned you know, what you think is a tree, but it's actually a sasquatch your yards.

14:11 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, seventy five feet that I don't even know what that would look look like. Absolutely, you know, yeah, I wasn't. That's the thing. That's why I think it's interesting. It's because it's like, I. Mean, I listened to your podcast and I hear, you know, people talk about it sometimes and like some people get really into it, right, and I get that to me, that was so incidental, Like that's what makes it so like like to other people and I tell them, like this didn't turn my life one way or another. It affected me, but like, there's. No way I'm gonna make this up, right, because that's how incidental at that moment before it became something of matter, if that makes sense. You know, I was. There for an interview. I wasn't there for You're right, I wasn't in that mindset. And that's what makes it so odd to me that like I wasn't there to go out and one day on or research and talk about her or you know, I was there for a totally different thing, and that's you know, so yeah, seeing that is like why would that happen?

15:08 Why? Why? Why would that? Obviously it's why would it stand up right then? Like sometimes they questioned that, like why because it it seemed like if it had that much stealf to get there, and I don't know why it was to me, I'm like, are they that close? I five? I mean there's a but didn't I hear different. Theories on this stasquatch new and which means you know that I believe it's a little more plausible than just saying it's a it's a just. A purely physical creature. I don't believe that. But I'm not really I'm not a research or anything either, But I just don't see how. It could be anything but. Uh, you know, supernatural, I guess, or phenomenal, you know, because it doesn't make I mean I didn't smell any smells.

15:54 I didn't. I didn't, I didn't you know here need I mean, I was a listening for wooden or anything. But if something happen, all I. Know is this tree. Yeah, it was unfolded and it was weird because to me, I was like, well, does this have meaning? Is it the post? Maybe? You know, it was the scariest thing I've ever seen them until I live. I don't know if you've seen one, but well, I mean it's not supposed to exist. It's not supposed to. Well, so we're gonna we're gonna actually talk about that right now because I want to clarify another thing that you've you've been saying. So when you first saw it and you're like, that's a fir tree, did it actually look like a tree or is it because you weren't expecting there to be a huge, hairy thing there and your mind was like, oh, it's a tree.

16:44 Here's a see. Since it was late September early October, I kind of saw the rusty League kind of the I guess I feel lead it with the brain, I don't know, camouflaged so well that when my eyes sweep right, I'm not distinguishing anything. I just think of all fir trees. Right. I get out of the car, I close the door. I'm like, oh, yeah, there's a trees down there. As I'm getting my resume in my hands, shutting the door, right, or before something just grabbing it and then sweeping as I shut the door, and then I see this, right, this thing, this fir tree just unfold because it was nestled within fur trees, right that we're going along this line of what I assume is a creek, right, because there was yards and there's sprinkles, a smatter of trees, but this was a clear line of trees, right that came down and I seem go to all the way go to I five. You couldn't see I five, but you could hear it, you know, on the side, and so I just assumed, oh, that's gotta be a.

17:30 Creek or a stream. I mean, I'm not a forestry person. But I you know, because it just sad. Why wouldn't there be large trees anywhere else? Right? But you know, I mean there are smattering of them, but not like how it seems. So maybe they're getting next to water. I don't know, but yeah, I didn't. I assumed it was a tree because it was within this line of trees, you know. So and then when I saw the tree unfold and become twice now again, I'm fifty to seventy five yards away, so I'm looking down on a kind of slight up from a point looking down right, not super up, but like because I'm the parking wants on a noll where I pushed up with a mounted for whatever. So it's kind of looking down on perspective and seeing it three double its size or size and a half of that size.

18:11 And then as it's. Unfolding and standing up, I'm seeing then oh wait, it's got arms on it, you know, And this is like happening instant, like you know, like what is it? What is that? You know? And then seeing the reddish fur and the darker fur which covered its body, but you could see the arms because they were a little bull legged to the body. You know. If that makes any sense, I'm not real. It absolutely does to answer the question that you had earlier. So the one, the one thing that comes close to a visual is when I was in Oak Ridge last July.

18:55 Do you know where Hills Creek Reservoir is down there? Yep? Yeah, So you know how there's that road that's like north of the reservoir and you can drive down it forever. Yeah, So I was driving down there the last night before I flew back, and I was physically i'd had a lot of things happen. I had to go to the hospital for my legs and all that jazz, and so I was like, you know, forget this, I'm just going to get a burger and go out and eat at a boat ramp or whatever and see what's out there. So, as I was driving, a gentleman at the festival had said, hey, if you're wanting to see one, just saying your mind, I'm ready to see one pretty much, right, seems easy.

19:38 So as I'm driving along, I was like, you know what, whatever, and in my mind I said, I'm ready to see one. The second afterwards, I'm driving by a pine tree that has covered with vines on the front of it, and there's, no joke, a silhouette of a seven to eight foot tall sasquatch and that's which is like I can't even I can't even say it without laughing, like laughing because I'm just like it sounds crazy, right, And then all that, like half a second later, it just disappears, like the silhouette disappears and it's just fine. And yeah. So when I heard yours, I was like, oh, that's kind of weird, right, So.

20:22 Right, I me mean, I don't. I have a lot of friends on the oakriage and and then her for oal courage, and I mean a few friends, you know, and they have had their own experiences up there, like you know, I had a friend and she she has her family has a bunch of private land up there, and she and her boyfriend when are camping on the land, like in its private. So there's no one else on there, right, she knows this for a fact. And some bipedal. Thing walked by their tent, and she said, in the stench that she had, she's like, it was just horrific. And we saw this thing walk by and then walk by again and brush up against the tent and and uh she said they were scared craft lids they had guns.

21:02 But she's like, we just. Sat in the tent and freaked it out, and you know, and the wait until daylight and then booked. It out there. She told it, you know, our family about it. I don't happen, you know, But there's a lot of stuff that I understand that happens at no Gridge and. Just around like I mean from here also to the beach, you know, Florence and back there. I think there's some people I don't know. It doesn't look in Pacific Northwest. It's like, I mean, it seems to be a pretty acceptable thing the way, you know, the attitude. That I kind of got it, Like people don't. Think people are are crazy here. It's just yeah, they exist, We co exist with them. You know. I mean, like, I haven't talked to my tribe about this because it's just it just hasn't come up. It's not in the conversations or when I, you know, go there because I don't live there.

21:44 You know, it's just and I should. Bring it up because I don't know what our take is on it. You know, I don't know what the Sioux has on it. And that sounds really horrible. Yeah. I mean if I was in your if I was in your position and having that heritage, I would definitely say yes, go for I'd be so interested, you know, to see what. Yeah, but you know Gradu exactly. So let's get back to to your encounter a little bit. Okay, So you pretty much kicked on the door and you're like, hey, where's the gun. I'm in trouble, what's what's the Well not really I kind of made that a little bit, you know, I can't.

22:25 But that's really literally in my head. Yeah, So what was the reaction of the people that were in there, like, oh, there's another person saw sasquatch and they went crazy or like like where they just freaked out as well. Well, there's like two employson there. I think one was like I think it. Like one was in like the one was like a golfer like, you know, because they were dressing you know, a golf pro like flax and stuff. And the other was it manager because they were interviewing me. So it was in there literally running in there right ten thirty in the morning, so it's not crowded, right, And I'm I don't there's the only two in there, and I'm slam to be I mean, and I'm like there's I'm thinking in my head as I look around, Oh, this is not this place isn't big enough. This is not going to do it, you know, And that's when I yeah, does the wone have a gun? And I'm like, there's something There's something out there because they're looking at me like what I'm like, listen.

23:12 There's there's something huge out there. There's some I saw something out there. There's something out there, and the person that was interviewing me walks with me and said, no, we don't have a gun. I'm like, dude, I wouldn't go back out there alone. I'm like, you have to, I'm not. I'm parked out there, man, I you know, and I'm I'm. Realizing as i'm I realized this before I even asked that, Like this is pre interview, like what what? What? This is ridiculous, like like I sound crazy, Like I sound like I'm crazy person asking if anyone has a gun. You would never hear those words come out of my mouth in general, you know, much less before a job that I want to get, you know. So that's how scared I was. Is I don't think I've ever uttered those words since then? Does an't want to have a gun? I don't think that's ever come out of my. Mouth since then. That's in that that's how scared of I was, and that's I mean, that's the terror I anyway, Yeah, I wasn't.

24:00 I mean, that's not where my go to is. You know, you don't have a gut. I've never been. Put in that situation where I've even had to see that, you know, but here we. Are, right, this is where my mind because we'ren't fighting flight. That's I mean, I never really understood fight and flight until that moment I saw that. When I saw that, di's a gut checked terror. I don't know if you felt it, but there was some kind of terror. That's this dread, you know, like when you get past the what is that is? I don't understand. My mind can't wrap my around what I'm seeing because it's so huge. It's so massive that I can see it from my point of view. It is so big that there's no way you couldn't see it. As in now that I know what it is, you know, like when I saw it unfold, I didn't know a tree like, well, we're at a new heights here, Okay, this is a lot taller great, you know, And it scared me so bad because even when I asked for a gun, like, I don't know what could possibly defend you against that except me, I mean a ball, I don't even know. I didn't even know, Like, I don't think there's a gun that's gonna take something like that down in one shot.

25:07 And I'm not I'm not an territory kind of person. I don't know. Maybe if you did it like I don't know, and I don't I'm not down for that. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that in the aspect of that's how big it is. That's how big it was to me, Like, yeah, this isn't like a this isn't a bear, this is not this far exceed the height of a bear. And the massive I don't I know, I can. I it was massive, and I think that I've only used that term in relative. To boats or chips. Right, that's how big it was. And the people I remember, the people there, they didn't think I was super I mean, the person that interviewed me was like, came with me because that's how freaked out I was out to that parking lot and it wasn't there anymore. And then you know, of course they did the interview, but they I mean, I mean I was in such.

25:49 A state like I wasn't crying or but. I was just in a what I couldn't it wouldn't mattered, you know what I'm saying, Like my mind was in a different like what is that? What was this? So let's let's talk about that hypothetically for a second. So I'm trying to put myself in the owner or the interviewer's shoes someone, and do not take any of this personally. Okay, So someone comes into my establishment and they're like, I saw a bigfoot, get a gun. I'm going to say, get out of my place. I'm calling the police, right, I want you out of here. But they were like they took it seriously, and they're like, okay, let's go look at it. That kind of makes me wonder, oh, do they know something too, and they're like, oh, it's happening again. I don't know, that's kind of a hypothetical.

26:32 But no, yeah, no, I mean okay, So from that standpoint, yeah, I mean the person there were two people. In there, the person that came outy that did in the interview. For me, this isn't like they didn't seem phased by it. I mean they walked, you know, I mean they they didn't say what do you need to call on one? What do you mean? What's out there? You know, like because normally I think people would have said, I'm called the cops. Who this, I don't. Care, you know, just stay in here, right, But they didn't. This person was like, Okay, let's go check it. Out, you know, walking through that. So it seemed rather in a normal like you know when and when I mentioned it to my boyfriend, he was like, oh, yeah, he saw Bigfoot and he hunts like he he at that time, he was a huge hunter and his whole family would take weeks and go in Oregon you know, and go hunt like and I'm like, it was so casual about it, his whole family. I mean that's really like I'm like, oh, you see what this is a thing, like so big fit.

27:18 They're just they're. Here, right because I always thought that they were out there never I mean what you know. And uh And he was like, yeah, yeah, they're here. You know that I've always known it. You know. I don't even know if he added stories of his own. I mean, he had experience of his own. But I don't think that I was any kind of mindset to'll listen to it because I I didn't understand like how this could be such a casual thing, right, but here, like it is a casual thing, you know in the county with Oak Creek. You know, it's a super because I think people believe like they exist, we exist, that's just how we rolled, you know, like we're not trying to mess with them. They're not trying to I mean, my my boyfriend at that time was a huge hunter. He was like, Hey, I'm gonna go bag one of them. That's not where his mindset was. You know. His mindset was like, Yeah, they're there and we're here, and that's how. That's it.

27:59 It's wild. I mean, listeners won't get it unless you go out there and you experienced talking to locals and you're like, Okay, I get it. Like every everyone has had something happen and they're like, what evs. Yeah, yeah, I mean it's uh, you know, I think it's it is. I've had a I mean a lot of people I've talked to here, like I mean that I have friends and they're that I've talked to about it. They're like, yeah, I've said my sighting. You know, it seems to be a lot of sightings maybe. In this area. I don't see why they wouldn't be, you know, especially from here to Florence. You know, there's a lot of signings. There's a lot of I mean, the woods they're deep woods. If you go about Oak Ridge, they're deep woods, you. Know, I mean those those what's going forever. I mean, you could go on forever.

28:41 Tall of out hood and that whole are you know, I mean, And so I mean, I think it was pretty cool, Like I'll never forget. I didn't know it was such a rarity to see one honestly until I you know, I was talking about it. And it wasn't that I didn't talk about it for a long time. It was just pretty incidental in my life, you know, like, hey, I still camp out. I don't. I'm not scared, but it didn't hinder me. Frankly, the four one one missing thing frightens me more being out nature than Bigfoot does. And I don't know if they're correlated or not, you know, but I mean that that is a phenomenon that scares me way more than hiking by myself out there. Then you know, then rolling into Bigfoot. I feel like that bigfoot could have killed me if it wanted to. If it wanted to, it could have.

29:23 It could have got to me in in another second. It would have taken nothing but three or four strides for that thing to get to where I was. I mean, and I often think like did it see me? It had to see me? I saw it, right, there's no way, like, why would it do it at that exact moment it could have I don't know. I don't know, you know, I don't know if there was a meaning behind that, if there wasn't, it's just I just I've never seen anything that huge in my whole entire life. I didn't think think things could get that big alive, you know, I didn't understand. I don't understand how big. I mean, it was probably like nine nine feet tall. And I just don't want to say how I could get that huge, you know, and silent, I guess. I mean, I don't know. You would assume something would make pretty loud noise right to get to. I mean I was sitting in my car for a moment, right, like sitting my resume together, you know, before I.

30:11 Got out of the rover. I mean, I don't know. There's I five by it. That's pretty loud. I don't know, I don't know. You could have been a more round. I just remember I bailed. Exactly based on you know what you saw from the distance away fifty seventy five yards, right, Yeah, could you get a feeling as to if you would say it was something that was more human or like a big something that was more like a big ape standing out there. Could you get any feeling for that? I oh, if it was more human or ape?

30:51 Is that your Yeah? Just it looks alone. Yeah, it had like it had a knee like a look at uh what's the word that it had like a. It looked more human in the face. It looks more human, right, like old school human, you know, like a broader I mean, and can this is just a nanosecond. I mean, I'm just trying to think like the I mean, it's like you could see like it looked like orange fur right on the face. It was lighter than the rest of the fur around it. It just seems orangier, like lighter. And and you could see I could.

31:32 See the like the eyes and the nose and mouth because that was to where I could see it. You know, like, Okay, so the lighter furs around the face, right, because that's what made that the face could be because it was. So huge, I'm like, oh, okay. As I'm defining and this one second, as it unfolds, you can start to see the shape in the arms. They go seeing below the hangs below low and I can't see that if I saw the knees or on I can't. I can't see that because all I remember is that I'm like, those are that hangs low? It kind of like it's almost kind of a slumping floor maybe, but I don't know. Again, we're talking, you know. And then a reddish fur and like I would say it would I mean, I didn't see it. I don't know if I can made it to see, I would say it would be more human if I would, I would have to if I had to choose in the face, and then it would be more human.

32:14 But I mean only because I mean it's just kind of broad. Like the chest was freaking huge, you know. Like freaking massive, like it had to have been three or four feet across that chest. It was huge. I have never seen anything that big. I've never seen anything that's huge in my life. So there's no there's no athlete out there that comes close to. No, absolutely not. Yeah no, And I and I met Shaq in person, okay, because my uncle knows of it anyway. No, no, no. There's no misteaking it's a bearer. There's no mistaking than it for anything other than what it was. And again, at that moment, I didn't go right to oh that's sasquatch.

32:54 I just in my mind at that second one to what is that? That's what I kept asking myself what is that? With a few curse words, you. Know, like what is that? Man? You know what could be? And then just this feeling of dread, of like terror, and like oh yeah, I I it's a fight or flight, And then yeah, I'm it's there's no question. Yeah it's good. It has to be right behind me, you know, because that's how big it is. I mean, that's how fat. It would only take two or three strides for that to get up over those fence lines and up here. I mean you can there's no way that. Yeah, it's that's how big it is. And so I mean I don't understand. I don't know what people that see it, just when people say you saw a bear, because I I have told a couple of friends were like, oh, I bet it was a bear, And that annoys me because I'm like, I'm I've seen both grizzlies and black bears in person, you know, like I I mean, I wasn't shaking hands with them, but you know about nature not on television, right, So like that's no beer that for exceeds any kind of beer. And besides, you can see the lake like the you can it's not a beer body.

33:58 That chest is huge. That's like a massive like that's a chest, you know what I'm saying. That's not like a there's like there's a difference between an abdomen. I feel like in a. Chest it's I don't know, there's no way you cannot have that's it's a person. You know, that's huge. That's what I thought, like as a huge person that like had boldly kind of arms. That was I don't know, it was huge exactly. And it wasn't like it didn't remind me of an ape it right away. It reminded more of a huge, massive, free person. What the f is that, you know? And for some reason things that league. I just got the impression that it saw me. And I don't know why that is, you know, I just I just got an impression that it saw me.

34:42 And I don't know if I. Get it, if I made that up in my mind, maybe I mean that over the years that maybe I would like for the things that it saw me. I don't know, to be honest, you know, but I just that's and I don't tell very many people that honestly, And I don't know why I'm telling you that right now, but I mean, you know, I guess I got the impression that it saw me, not as a morsel or anything, but it just was, you. Know, like I see you. Yeah, I got the person that I see you. And that's the impression I got, you know, was it? It was neutral on it. And you know, I honestly. Can say, like, you're probably the second person that I've ever told that too, And because I think that to me, that goes a little too the crazy side, right, so I just kind of. Tend to stay away from that, you know. But if in all, honestly like.

35:22 That is the impression, and by impression, I mean that is the like not because I'm not hanging out with it, So I don't know, you can't give me like, you know, expressions and give me the impression, right because I'm not. I'm not. I'm not hanging out that long. We're not hanging together, right, this is a split second, I'm out right if that, But that's the impression I got that I see you. And I don't know what that I don't know, I don't know if that makes any sense. No, I think it does. Yeah, yeah, it seemed to Yeah to me, it seemed to want to get it said this is the case. I don't know if that's the case orright. I could be just thinking that, you know, I could just be like, oh, maybe I wanted to have the impres that, don't you know, But I mean it seemed to be the teeth that I got, And that's the second that I see you it saw me, but more you know, if that makes any sense, that's the impression that I got that it saw.

36:12 Me when you said I got a follow up question for you here When you said old school human and not to put words in your mouth, are you saying like kind of Neanderthalt? Okay, that's what I was thinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because that's that's the that's the that's the look that I feel like. That's where I went. Yeah, it wasn't an ape that I saw in the face. It wasn't that it made a bit a fir, But it wasn't that mannerisms on the faith. It were not mannerisms. But you know what I'm saying, like, that wasn't the impression I got. If you were to ask me, Yeah I did in person, but Neanderthal I could because legal, I don't know. I only saw it for a second. But that's the impression I. Got right, and by that, that's a different impression by what I meant before.

36:56 And just in case, just in case you notice details. But you know it was it was very quick and long ways away. But were you able to notice anything like how the eye looked, if it was a full just a black eye, or did it actually have whites around the eye? Were you able to see anything like that? No, I did not visit. I did. I can't tell you that. I yeah, it's a long ways yeah. So yeah, and I'm I'm talking about it. This is more than i've you know, a description that I've given, you know, even I mean like talking to friends, like this is more than a description because I you know, reveal. A little more, you know. But no, U, I've never really thought about it as hot, like you know, like as I am talking to you, because this is not something that I don't not talk about it, but it's not something that I make a point of talking about. Yeah comes up, but you know, yeah, because it's still pretty incidental.

37:47 But I think it's cool now I didn't know, is. This is this area known for anything else weird besides bigfoot, anything that's reported to like town stories or I heard this type stuff. Well two years ago. So we have a we have a we have a Eugene Weekly, which is a suit paper local, you know, pre Gene. It's just kind of like out and about kind of deal. Two years ago, two summers ago, they had a missing for one one in there about all these people that went missing out of the Oak Virgear area back in there near the reservoir and stuff. No, it's nothing, just disappeared. Well, they only mentioned five people in the Eugene Weekly, I believe, and I believe that.

38:27 I mean you could probably look in the archives, you know, or call Eugene Weekly up. Yeah, because it was not this last summer, but the summer before, and it was I believe the title of the article was missing for one one, you know, in like in the Eugene you know. And there was five cases. I believe five cases because I the reason I remember that is because that's when I started getting this he's missing. For one one two summers ago, and that's why. It caught my eye in Eugene Weekly. And I'm like that's like forty minutes away from here, what you know. So and also on top of that, Yeah, I had a friend who works in Lane County. She's still a friend of mine her. Well, let's just say there's a lot of disappearances. Yeah, there's a lot of disappearances in Lank County.

39:09 There was in two thousand and twenty two, there were how much was it there was these I don't remember. It was an enormous but it was an obscene. Amount of disuperan people in Lank County. I don't remember what the figure is, but it was like extremely high. But yeah, there's a lot of people that go missing here between here and the Oakred area. I want a lot of people to go out and like and not because if it's an I five corridor, although I'm sure I had. That some of that has to do with it. But there's a lot of people in. The awkward area and those back hills that have gone missing, curing hikes and so so and other than. The big fut thing. Yeah, yeah, right, And I don't know how much pep. Put at correlates with that, you know, I mean, because it could, right, I don't know, I don't know anything about them really, you know at all?

39:55 I don't know so or it could just be I don't know, if you. Think about a deep I don't know if you've heard about that, but the missing for one, but I find that or if that's the reason people are missing or people taking people, I don't know. But and oh yeah, and three. Months ago they if you look on the news and in the gene three months ago we. Had three orbs uh that went over. Yeah, yep, now it's it's a super weird area. There's also a report that you can find where I'm going to do my best to to recount this. I'll have it linked in the description. Pretty much a guy was on a mountain west of Oakridge and he stumbled I can't remember the mountain name, but he stumbled into what he thinks is an ORB and he started to go through it in like an arm. Uh pretty much reached out and tried to grab him and and said, hey, gotcha.

41:01 Or it was it's a really really weird story. And really, yeah, you got to read it. It's a fun one. But I've been trying to track the guy down for a good half a year. Would not be surprising, I mean, there's so so many weird things going on in the Willamett National Forest and then down by Cottage Grove and I mean Sharp's Creek and durin a lake. Any place you go to there's weird stuff going on. But do you do sort of curiosity? Do you what do you think about that? Missing? For one? One? Like, what do you think about it? Well, I'm not probably as deep into it as as you are, but I have watched the Hunted documentary a while back. Yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff that that you really can't explain, right, I mean the clothes being found folded or you know, I really don't know.

41:59 I don't don't know if you can say it's all Bigfoot related. But I think that the things that are being found and written down and notice noticing the patterns, it's not just something that's happening by itself, that's one hundred percent. I mean there's too many, like, too many weird patterns that come up for it just to be like it's just happening these these older what is the older gentlemen with certain types of heritage are going out in the woods. Yeah, German, Right, it's just so weird. It is really weird. So yeah, yeah, that's weird.

42:40 I don't know, we'll if. You look at that's what's happening around here. Yeah, anyway, I just I mean, I hope maybe are you giving you a sasquatchaus. Yeah. I will be out in Oakridge again this July for the second Sasquat Summerfest and that'll be that'll be a great time. Really looking forward to it. So yeah, it's not poster about it the other day. Oh heck yeah nice. Yeah. Oh well, anyway, I got to go. Is that okay? I gotta go. Yeah, we have, We've definitely had more than a great chat. I appreciate you coming on if your friend. If your friend ever needs to talk to someone, I'm available to talk to her if she needs to just be like, hey, I don't know what happened and I need to talk to someone who who can try to understand. I'm available for that, so just turn on that.

43:30 Well what do you think? Yeah, yeah, I don't understand. I'm just curious real quick, what do you think about I mean, do you think dat's just all human? I mean, not all human, but all flesh and blood Right now, I'm think it's a phenomenon. Right now, I'm at the point where I think it is some kind of flesh and blood thing that can do a lot of stuff that normal science can't can normal science can't explain unless it's like fringe science. But I if I was to see something, I could be easily Like I'm at the point where I am trying to figure out stuff too write. But uh man, if I saw something weird, I could totally change the way that will look at things, no problem.

44:15 So yeah, right, yeah, I think. It's kind of weird than was. I mean, other than I mean that, other than than like that one whatever film, Like I mean, no one's got a really good film, you know. I mean people get good film that it seems like they're pretty elusive. It seems exactly you know, and they're pretty good at it, you know. I mean I get it as well, not a great rate, you know. So I hope that My whole thing is I hope, you know, I just people just let him be, you know, that might have something that they've been. Here for for They've been here longer than we have. They've got some stuff figured out, maybe at a different level than we are. You know. I just I feel like I mean, I feel like either away from a Native perspective, I know that generally speaking, natives just let him be.

45:00 You know, they do their thing. We do our thing, you know, and and uh, you know these are going to do that anyway. You know, they seem to have a higher you know, they seem to have pretty good. Control, a grasp on what's going on. Sure, and I can't do their own thing without you know, messing with us or getting messed with. I don't know, I don't know. I know that the Saint Helen's, you know, when they erupted. I mean I've heard stories about up here Mount Saint Helen's, you know, that they found some bodies, but I don't know if that's true or not. You know, yeah, I would love to talk to the person that there might be some person that's still alive out there, that that had a visual or some something.

45:42 I'd love to talk to them. But you know, it has been such an interesting chat with you. Thank you, Delanne for sharing about your sighting down there just north of Cottage Grove in Creswell area. And uh yeah, keep me up today if anything else you hear anything else weird down that area. And thank you for coming on the show today. No problem, thanks for having me. I just wanted to take a minute to say thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Delaneous encounter is one of those stories that will stick with you not just because of the sighting, but because of the sheer terror that she felt, kind of terror that makes you question everything you thought you knew about the area that you live in. If you enjoy this conversation, please subscribe, share, and hit the bell icon on YouTube so you don't miss any new episodes. And if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and make sure you're following the show. And if you could leave her review, it helps more folks find us.

46:41 Now. If you or anyone you know has had a Bigfoot encounter, especially in organ or near places like Oakridge Cottage, Grover Eugene would love to hear from you, so please drop me a line at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com and don't forget Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July eleven through the twelfth in Oakridge, organ Bigfoot Society listeners can get a two day pass for the price of one day admission with code BFS at checkout. Tickets are now available at www dot Sasquatch Summerfest dot com. Thanks again for being part of the Bigfoot Society. Until next time, keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might be out there, And see you in the woods.