Sasquatch Summer Fest Encounter Stories from Oakridge, Oregon!

0:00 Welcome to Big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode. And if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Big for Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more Big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes. Head on over to patreon dot com. Forward slash the Big for Society, and now let's get on with the show. I've got Slaya from Montana originally from Washington State. Awesome and Slay's Patreon member, so it is awesome to hang out with her. We have also Jersey here. Jersey is from Oklahoma. Are you really original?

1:01 I thought you were from. From New Jersey, but it's most of my life in Oklahoma. I live in Seattle right now. My husband's in the military, so we moved around a lot. Okay, cool, that's good, and no, I didn't know you had Oklahoma background. That's really cool. Let's take a few minutes. This is the last day of the festival. It's Sunday morning, and we are in Greenwaters Park and there, let's see, there's multiple tent setups in back of us where the weekend campers I've been hanging out so Slaying Jersey have a sweet tent setup and table and chairs, and then there's vendors over there and the Amphitheater where the speaking has been going on. But say, what are some cool things that you experienced during the festival the last few days.

1:47 I really enjoyed walking around and just recognizing people that I've never met in person or talked to in person and been able to just walk up to them and start a conversation or ask them questions that I've always wanted to ask, and I had them one on one, So there was a lot of time to just talk to people without a big crowd. Just seeing all the homemade gifts and things that people were selling here that was really fun. I think we both Jersey and I've both purchased some things. And there's one tent that I really loved. They have a bunch of leather raw leather, and then they have a bunch of the things that you can pound into the leather, like letters and pictures, and you can make your own or you can purchase theirs.

2:37 And so that was a fun place to go because it was like a do it yourself the speakers every day at the Amphitheater. I've learned so much. I've learned so much in the last couple days that I didn't know and so that made it really fun and interesting. And everybody's just chill and easy to hang out with. That's awesome. Did you have any thoughts of stuff that you thought was cool from the festival? Jersey? Yes, absolutely, because I'm new to all this, so I have learned a whole lot and it's made me a believer. And I didn't realize paranormal kind of came into this as well, because I've had some paranormal experiences as well. But now I really want to go sasquatch hunting because of this.

3:21 Yeah, totally. It has been a really eye opening weekend. We have a ton of different speakers. You got everyone from Cliff Berrickman to Todd Nice. We got Jason Kenzie who's a great individual. Chad Datma also from Searching for Sasquatch, Gwendolyn Guthrie, Tobe Johnson. I heard most of his and that was really fun. Doctor j Robert Alli, we shared a bunk bed in the airbnb. He's an incredibly smart individual. And Chrissy Sanders was there too, individual that is so smart when it comes to Bigfoot, and a lot of people might not have heard the name before, and more people need to. Yeah, last night, this sounds how you happened across the river. That was cool. It was intense, like they had speakers out in the forest and there was seer sounds. But there's a lot of people having fun, also taking pictures, lighting and Jason was making sure people could take cool pictures. But just across the river, that's the forest of Oakridge, and there are multiple sightings that have actually happened over there that I've been talking to it to residents about over the last five months. So it's a paved path, but like you still have to be careful, it's still stuff out there.

4:38 I've always believed my entire life, I've always believed the Sasquatch a real just because I've always lived in the Pacific Northwest, always heard of people hearing certain things or seeing something, and in my heart I felt like they they exist, so I don't need proof. But I still enjoy hearing everybody else his encounters and research and I'm learning so much. And I knew eventually I would meet everybody that I follow on Instagram or listen to in podcasts, and so this is my first festival and I'm just checking off who I've met, and I can't wait for the next festival.

5:18 Honestly, absolutely, I mean for first festival. Like they've been doing a really good job. I hope they do this again. The town seems to be really behind it and super excited, as this is byt least an hour outside of Eugene the will Lamme Att National Forest. But were you able to hear any encounters? Todd talked about his encounter, and I know everybody has heard that. Tob talked about their happenings at album Lab, his in person experiences, and I think, yeah, when she talked about the cryptid that she saw the dog man, which freaked me out that I think they probably all shared their encounters. Cliff did touch on the thermal cam, that's right, So I think they all touched on it.

6:08 I didn't hear all the speakers. I didn't get to listen to them from beginning to end. But yeah, I have been asking people if they've had encounters also so I can hear them in person. That's awesome. How has the food been here? Can you talk about the food selects at the vessel, but what have you experienced food wise in Oakridge? So I attended the pizza little tent over there and we got a pepperoni and that was good. And then there was a hot dog vendor over there as well, and I got the hot dogs. We saw the shaved ice, but we haven't made it over there yet, but today we definitely will. But that's all I've experienced. But the hot dogs were good, the pizza was great. Check back in about the icies thinking about putting some rum in it.

7:01 That's awesome. It's easier for me. There's stuff that I want to talk about personally. But I came over one to hang out with you guys, but too, like it'll be easier to have people present to share while I talked about stuff. So what I ended up doing was at my booth the map of the area. I went to the bike shop and they gave me a really detailed map front and backs of two copies, and I put it at the booth and had people start to mark the area of Oakridge and it's filled up considerably and there's been some really interesting things that have come in. Yesterday first day wasn't really any locals. Yesterday a ton of locals came in and marking spots where they've had visual sightings. Weird things happen in the I think it's called Middle Fork Ranger District. That is what the map says.

7:53 But it's some weird things that I want to share with you guys. Just there's so one thing as a gentleman and the town came in. We're going to talk more later, but he's been into this and track casting since the nineties and he used to work at the Chevron in town. In This Native American gentleman would come in annually once to the gas station to get to gas up in his way through out to Summit Lake, and he had a big foot sticker on his car, and so this gentleman that was pumping gas for him would be like, hey, so have you seen the big guy? Just being funny and nice, and the Native American gentleman would be like, actually, we head out to Summit Lake as a group to summon the three Sasquatch. And that brought up a lot of questions for me that this individual did not have the answers to just because he was pumping gas and it was a very quick interaction.

8:49 But he had this interaction multiple times over the years, and there was one year in particular where he asked, Hey, how's the summoning of the Sasquatch going? And he said, this year not so good because they were pretty aggressive. And so it's one of those stories where you don't hear all the details, but you're like, what's happening over there? A lot of stuff on a lot of times on the podcast, people calling about Spirit Lake, and I found out that area actually has more than sasquatch sightings going on. It's over by Waldoll Wilderness and every night about dusky way it gets dark, all the sticks go to the middle of the lake and then start they make a circle and they start going around in a circle. And I've had multiple hunters from the area that I've been hunting there in that area or hiking that can confirm that, yes, they've seen this happen. So now we've got things like not even sasquatch, but also high strangest things. And I've made a joke a few times. It's kind of has a gravity falls feeling to it. But there's an anonymous report that I want to share with you, you both that has really it's very strange. There's an individual that was hanging around the booth and his friend had pretty much forced him to come over. There's been a lot of that, and so he was just not really saying a lot, and he said that there's an area in the Oakridge area, out in the woods in the service roads.

10:18 There's a lake out there where his buddy was hunting elk out there and looking through his scope high power rifle, and he saw a family of sasquatch. The sasquatch noticed him pointing a gun at them with a scope, and they got out of there. It's not too long afterwards, he noticed loud noises coming towards him through the tree line on either side of where he was at right. So at that point he got very freaked out and he immediately left using his truck. He left his gun there, his high powered rifle there, his backpack, everything went back to town. Told his buddies, what's going on. I need help get your guns. We're going back. I need to get my gun. It was worth a lot of money.

11:10 When they get back to the area, the gun is on the ground. The scope looks like a huge hand has gone around it and just crushed it in a way so that the glass on either side of the scope is popped out and broken. The rifle barrel is bent, yeah, in a way, and it's almost like so the rifle barrel was bent, and then it feels like, from what he said, it was like something tried to discharge it and the rest of the gun just kind of blew apart because the rifle was bent, and then they it just exploded. But the thing is is that there was blood on certain parts of the gun, right, so they He's like, I think they hurt themselves. So this individual, his buddy took the gun and always backpack was shredded, just everything torn apart. So they he takes the gun, keeps it in a plastic bag in his house for years.

12:12 He decides somehow he gets a connection with the Smithsonian and tells them about what's going on and says, I would love to send this to you. For you guys to test it, and so they set up a way for them to send it in and the gun supposedly never makes it there. And if I had heard that account by myself, it's one of the most intense accounts I've ever heard. And the things is that an individual that I had been really involved with over the last few days with the festival immediately came over and said, did he tell you that all is true? And then another individual came over that is involved with the town said did that guy talk to you yet? And I was said, yeah, I mean I I don't even know what his I didn't even ask for his name, and he was like, I'm not going to give it, and I respect that, but yeah, multiple people Hunter's previous law enforcement have verified that, Yeah, that is an actual true story, and I want to be I don't know if I had believed it unless I had taken it personally, So that is I don't do what do you think about?

13:23 What do you think about that? I don't think he would have given that encounter unless you were here in person, So I'm really glad you're traveling now. But also I can only imagine the amount of DNA that was left on that gun, especially if he sorted it in a bag. And as soon as you said they had a contact with the Smithsonian, I knew they arrest that story. It was going to end up missing. And it's just it's a tragedy because if it had happened in current day, they could have easily sent it off to Darby orcut with North Carolina State and done a no cost DNA study. But this was years ago, and this is before Darby stepped forward and started that study. So it's unfortunate. But the amount of There's a gentleman that was camping for the festival way out in the woods on service roads. Very cool guy. I believe his name is Kent, and he was sharing with me how the same day, yesterday, seven oh seven am, he woke up and was immediately there knocks around his campsite and then the sound of rock clacking and he's like, yeah, I was like, what is going on? And then another local guy July thirteenth, which is like a week or so ago, he was like, I was on mile marker forty two driving out of Oakridge on fifty eight and I look over and there is there's a guardrail above a culvert and there's a sasquatch that just like has both his hands on the guardrail and I see his back, but he's like holding onto the guardrail and as I

14:55 drive by, he just launches himself up the side of the mountain. That was a very interesting encounter. Did I tell you about the campers and Diamond Peak Wilderness? Okay, there's this guy. There's this guy and his wife who were tent camping and they wake up the next morning and that their tent had been ripped to shreds while they were in it, and the tent wake up well, and it gets weirder because they said the tent was covered with urine and there's a court of urine on the top of the tent, and so he sees it, his partner sees it, and they're like immediately like we're out here. They were way out in this wilderness area.

15:37 So that was crazy. There's another gentleman who was up north of that and he was working at a resort. There's an evacuation, so the company asked, can you stay with the resort make sure no one loots it. So he's there all alone and then he says what he and this is not a bigfoot guy, just a local guy. He's like, I heard what I can only say sounded like an elk bugle that then transitioned into Gibberish language. And then later that night, I was trying to go to sleep and there was a ground hit that sounded like someone took a two thousand pound wrecking ball and just smashed it into the ground. And immediately he's like, I'm I'm gone, I'm just out of here. Those the map is I'm going to take time to really analyze.

16:29 There's probably a good thirty thirty of things over there, and people have been coming over and talking, and it's really I think every festival I go to from here on out, I will be doing that because it really allows people from the area you're in to figure out, yeah, there's stuff going on in this area and big for society who will be right back after these messages. I would say a good ninety five percent of the things on the map are not like we were saying earlier.

17:14 They're not on BFRO, they're not on any of the websites. People in Oakridge just do not talk about their big foot encounters unless it's a face to face thing, and they I think there's a feeling of trust there. They're not going to just call up an organization and be like, yeah, we got weird stuff going on. I don't know. Yeah, yeah, they probably don't need the Yeah they know it's here and it's going to keep going on. They probably don't want big crowds. Or yeah, Jersey, do you have any thoughts about the bigfoot activity you've heard around this area and things like that. I mean, it's crazy.

17:58 Pretty much. I just I want to experience it, but I don't want to be I don't want to be in a situation where they're aggressive. I just want to I want to hang out with them. But it's crazy all these stories that people have. And when I was going to bed at night here, knowing that these people experience this stuff, I just would listen closely out in the woods. Just to hear. And also what I think is really weird. And I don't know if y'all don't think this is weird that we're out in the middle of nowhere in nature. Why am I not hearing a lot of birds in wildlife?

18:39 That's what's weird to me. Are they that close by? I don't know. Yeah, that's a good point. There are times like I've been able to go in the woods a little bit here, and there are times when is gotten extremely quiet to the point where I've never experienced it before, and just every a lot of witnesses will say that to me, and I've experienced it, and it's just like nothing. It's just dead quiet to the point where it's like you can't hear yourself, like you can hear yourself think, but it feels weird to have that kind of silence, and you're just like, I don't like this. I want to hear a bird. And then you start hearing a bird chirp, but it's half a bird chirp, and it's what Dwayne and Ronnie would hear, because it was the same area that Dwayne and Ronnie were and we started hearing that chirp and yeah, have you talked about your tongue? I haven't.

19:34 I don't think I have. Yeah. So Dwayne and Ronnie took me up to their spot from when I interviewed them, and it was really interesting. There was a group that went up the day before and had an actual visual on the side of the meadow where one jumped out of the tree like they think it's a younger juvenile and then the actually the group was chased out of the area. Dwayne tells me that multiple times there a large what he says is a large alpha that will run out of the woods towards people that are in that area. On the way up is a lot of service roads that you have to switchbacks, and it takes forever to get up there. And they're individuals that actually when they were driving up there, they saw a large sasquatch just running down the side of the mountain. There's a lot that's happened in the last few days. There was a group that went out just looking for moss and there was a sighting of three individuals and individuals sasquatch in the area and it was a thing where they were just looking for moss. Of course, they didn't have the equipment set up to record, and that's usually how it works, right. But so Dwayne and Ronnie want to take me to the area. They're like, you need to experience this since you have talked to us and you need to see what's going on. So we go out them with Dwayne, Ronnie myself. They take us to an area. Take me to an area outside fifty yards outside of the meadow area where they had been camping, and they're like, let's go into the woods. I want

21:04 to show you the area where this creature usually rushes out. And then, okay, this sounds like a really terrible idea, that is what I was thinking. I was like, this is it? No cell service? Say yeah, that's why we have life insurance. We go in there, and Duane is such a good individual. We start we just start looking around because we're in there. We went in a little bit off the road and there was a how tall do you think this is? Like a few feet off the ground. Two feet off the ground there was a twisted off tree like something had gripped it and twisted it and broken it, and it's about, I would say, the length of your thumb diameter across, so a few inches.

21:45 And I started looking around in there were multiple twist broken trees in the same area, like five to six and they weren't rubbed on deer or an elk might do, so that was really interesting. And they took us over to the meadow and I had known there had been one on that jumped down in the meadow than the day before, so I was like, I'm going to walk across the meadow, which I was very apprehensive about in the tree line, and I was like, there's probably a track over there, or I hope there is. And I found like when I go out in Iowa and it was me and my kid, like, there is a lot of like things where I was like, Eh, I don't know, it's probably just because I'm like, I'm here for Bigfoot.

22:26 But what I saw there was a fifteen to sixteen inch track with like toes in the exact spot where it would have jumped down from the tree. And I was like, oh, man, no, the way that it was, the material it was in, it would not have been castable. We were on a trail on the other side of the meadow and it was a trail a steep incline. We actually saw a track on the side of that incline which is uncastable too, but you could see the toes and so there's that. And then we were the first ones back. Sorry. The group before the day before had left an apple, orange and banana impaled on sticks on the side of a pine tree in an area where Ronnie had left fruit before. Like the whole the cobbler in the tree from the interview, so we checked that out. The apple is on the ground untouched. The orange that was impaled on a stick, the stick had been broken off and it was on the ground uneaten, and the banana was taken off the tree and the peel was on the ground and so it was appealed banana.

23:31 Something had peeled it and eaten the banana inside, which to me just really freaked me out. And there were for a few days after that. I'm still trying to work through it. And it's like for something to peel that has to have hands and fingers and thumb and like what you know, I've been talking to people about Bigfoot for years, but like when I started experiencing this in real life out in Oregon, it's like this is a different this. Now I'm involved with things and it's very it's wild. Because right after that we had we were coming starting to come back to try to help put up tents for the festival. So I had my recording stuff away, and then Ronnie was like, I want to play another song for them, because that's how he connects to them up there as he takes his guitar and he plays he's really good, and so he's starting to play his guitar, and a minute into it, we hear this like loud roar from the woods, and it was that that messed me up, like all the blood from my head rushed down fell into my feet. And I only heard half the roar because when the blood rushed down my head, my ears turned off, which is weird, but it happened. I only heard half of it. I looked over at Dwayne, and Dwayne was like pale, pale face, and he's like, dude, it's happening again. And I was like, oh man, this is and so I was like wow, man, like where I was feeling guilty because we need to help and Bigfoot was it was getting weird, and I was like, well, maybe it's time to go because I was just like fight or flight and then Ronnie's like, nope,

25:03 they need one more Beatles song. So a minute into it, after Ronnie starts playing, we hear a roar from the woods that transitions into a scream, and I looked out over to Dwayne and his daughter Denise is there too, who was in the interview. She's doing the bird chirp mimic sound back and forth to the Sasquatch because whenever she's there, stuff goes off too. It's really weird. But the scream and at that point we're like, man, it's time to go. And so it just like things started to turn and we're like, oh man, so that's me being able to talk about what happened when not Wednesday, but Thursday and the day before that.

25:45 Yeah. So I know you've interviewed Ronnie a couple times and I have heard where he has gone and played his guitar. Was it the same location? Sorry, that's a great point. When they took me to the area, I thought they were just taking me to certain areas in the woods. They and they made sure I realized this when we were there. They're like, you realize, this is the same exact spot where we camped out and we almost died that night. And when I realized this, and this is before the vocalizations happened and everything, I was like, oh no, this is a terrible idea, Like we're going to die today. And it's a thing where you know, Jason Kenzie and Chad, his manager, they are going to stay overnight in a tent and they're going to interview Ronnie and Dwayne in that same area after the festival, and they're going to stay overnight in a tent.

26:37 And I'm like, guys, have you heard my interview? And they're like, now, but we'll get the story. And I'm like, guys, you need to really be prepared for what is probably going to happen. They're going to yeah, they're going to rush up the mountain. They're going to sound like large ravens and coyotes and the You need to be prepared for the insanity that these guys experienced. So, yeah, that's a great question. And I realized that halfway through that, Yeah, this is the same exact area, and it's weird. When it gets quiet out there, it's really intense. So now I have a much better understanding of when someone says they're in the woods and just things start shutting down and they start hearing aggressive sounds and what it does to them physically as a person. Yeah, that's a good question.

27:23 Oh, I was kidding, but I said, if they had told you that was the same spot that he had spoken about before, would you have actually gone? I would have. I just would have been really nervous on the ride. But it was really cool because they showed me all the different spots they've had things happen at over the years, and they actually allowed me to record our entire conversation for about five to six hours. Is there some really interesting things that will come from that in the future And we'll see how that is used after I get back home and analyze through everything. But yeah, this whole, this whole experience has been wild, I hope, do you wonder? But the cool thing about this is there's people just hanging out in Tob Johnson from the al Moon Lab and Flash of Beauty has ridden his bike over you comfortable with talking for the podcast? Top cool? All right?

28:15 So how have things been for you guys at the festival? Tobe, thanks for noticing the bike. I just bought this awesome bike for forty dollars down the road as I love riding a bike. I haven't had one for years. What a perfect way to research too, as you just roll along those old loggin rows with a GoPro. So for me, this is a homecoming. Jeremiah, I was born and raised about a half hour down the road. Oakward was like where it all became apparently real to me as far as witnesses describing the truth instead of just really cool campfire stories. And so in and around this area here are extraordinary claims that have extraordinary evidence. And one of those areas is over here off of Highway nineteen, a section of Desolate Highway that goes from Highway fifty eight to one twenty six. So Scucum Creek is there, Hell Hole is there. Then you have Baboon Creek nearby.

29:15 So all these. Areas here is where the connection for sasquatch and the supernatural was just too profound that I couldn't ignore it. And so I chased it down from Oak Ridge all the way to the town of Rainbow. And did what you did. That was the first thing I did, is I want to talk to people that's seen it, that nowhere it is, that have been changed by it. And so I started to put them in a little local bar called Ike's Pizza, and once a month we'd do Bigfoot and Beer, and everyone would show up from all over Highway one twenty six and tell their incredible stories over pepperoni shaped bigfoot pizza and really bad cocainey beer. Yeah, in the little town of Lieberg, Oregon.

30:03 Yeah. And so this is like their first conference here, and it's about downtime because everybody loves the subject matter for the most part. Priscilla brought up the fact that it actually strikes anger and a lot of people sometimes when you bring it up, especially alpha males Hunters in particular. But I heard an incredible story about it hunter. While I was here. A gal came up to me. She goes, my brother's such a skeptic about the subject matter and makes me feel like I'm just a complete koop. She goes, he was up the road near where Adam Davies had his experience in southern Oregon. He has no idea about the story, and so as he's driving along with his wife in a remote area there, I believe they were looking for a house, and he said, hey, turn around, I saw a huge statue of Bigfoot. I want to take a picture for my sister. And so the wife turned around and they didn't see a statue, and the guy said, wait a.

31:01 Second, big for Society will be right back after these messages. So he got out of the car, looked all around the field for this really realistic statue of sasquatch and it was gone. And so these are kind of really quick moments, right that change these alpha males lives. And there are alpha women too, Like I've met plenty of alpha women just like. They get extremely emotionally angry about it because it shatters their worldview and they just aren't comfortable with a gray area. And Sasquatch is like primarily a giant gray area of ability of location, a behavior of culture or origin, and the future. We know nothing except what they give a little glimpses of telling us.

32:02 But personally I see them as a land spirit. So they're in between the layers of being, not only flesh and bud, but a spirit being of some kind that is attached and perfectly. As Sonya Zohar says, they're one with nature. They're the ultimate nature spirit. They're the green men of old right of like Nordic and English traditions. You see the relief of the man with the purse lips, with the foliage around him that dates back to the Celts, also known as pan and so that is a nature spirit. You go to the Cystine. Chapel, you see the wild man hiding underneath the crucifix of Christ of Calvary, and there are two Sasquatch in the caves and the Sistine Chapel, so all of these things just I don't know how they look past that stuff except to say they don't know about it. But if you do know about it, how do you ignore that.

32:56 There's an area that I've gotten a lot of reports from around here, and I'm curious just because you have been in this area. We have a ton of bigfoot things happening in this area, but are there also have you seen high strangeness related things things like those sticks in this lake in the Waldo Wilderness area where they're just starting to move in a circle by themselves. Have you ever heard anything like that? So as earlier as I was describing Highway nineteen, there's what's known as the Box Canyon guard station right off the side of the road. I think it's closed off due to wildfires, but if you can get up there, pasted it as an old logging road that goes up to a horse camp where you tie off the horses.

33:42 And that really was one of the places that changed me forever. We were out there with some extended experiencers, some Sasquatch contact ees, habituator types actually ron Moorehead's daughter, Ronda Morehead. Her boyfriend Todd Bailey was sitting in as jeep with me and his cousin John Bull, both experienced bigfooters, and we saw what looked like a little headlamp as the sun was setting, and so the headlamp was on the other side. Of the elkfield. It glided through the tree line as the sun set. We had a cannon, a rebel cannon camera with us, and we got extraordinary photos that evening of what looked like Christmas lights like we had ear in the amphitheater, filling up the trees, red lights, green lights, blue lights all within like I could throw a frisbee and hit him, and so to capture photos. It doesn't change anybody's mind really, just given the fact of where we are with AI and being able.

34:42 To photoshop stuff. However, it let me know I was chasing after something really incredible that had this connective tissue to it, which is the paranormal on Bigfoot. Because as those lights. Came in on us, it was abundantly clear that sasquatch are nearby. They threw rocks at the tree. I had a flash of light spark over the top of my brim and my baseball hat as a rock struck the side of my car. And so this is the connective tissue that keeps happening. One of the stories that happened at the Almon Lab was never told, and it was by a bowhunter that is in the Dock part one, Mark Parker, and he didn't tell what happened when he came to the al Moonlab. My buddy Daryl got to know him, and he was totally a flesh and blood guy, totally flesh and blood. Like it's hard enough for an alpha male bowhunter to see this, let alone to see something crazy.

35:42 And so he came to the. Al Moon Lab and by the end of the night he was a little bit shaken up to the point of like getting a little bit misty in the eyes because it was so profound. Left his camp chair, had a manic episode, and so I was talking him down as Hill. But what he'd described what happened with Daryl is as they were looking in the ravine at the al Moon Lab, they saw a red light about fifty feet up and he had a fleer monoscope without a record button, unfortunately, and. So he's watching this light. What is that, so as it glides through the forest, only about twenty yards away comes a ten foot tall sasquatch walking at them. It was so big, so close that it was obviously super frightening at eleven o'clock at night in the woods to have a sasquatch come at you, let alone. What's the connection with this giant red light?

36:34 Is that a distraction? Was that it? If you watch flash of Beauty sasquatch or the lights like the box of yellow light? Five different witnesses have told me in connection to their event, are these boxes of yellow light that streak off but are also sasquatch. There's been multiple people from the town that have noticed the name Baboon Creek and they've made why would this be called Baboon Creek? I never got that. Do you know any stories about that area that are related to sasquatch or maybe that could shine a light on why it's called that. Henry Franzoni wrote the book Valley That not Valley is Skukum.

37:16 But I can't remember the name of Henry's first book. It'll come to me, but he describes place names as being an important thing, and so Baboon Creek Skukum Creek, Spirit Lake, Devil Mountain, Booger Road. All these things have a reason for the name. So Baboon Creek. I heard about it based upon two gold miners that were prospecting, and so they're getting ready to wrap up there. They had a field dredge because it's pretty remote down to get in there, you got to really hike down in there. From what they said, I've never been. And as they were packing up their stuff, they had two sasquatch noticing the pans getting clinked together, if I remember correctly. And as they're walking up the ridge, one of the guys know not the sasquatch. The other guy didn't, and he didn't want to say anything because he's just like super freaked out, and I think he had noticed weird stuff throughout the day as their gold mining. And so as they were leaving, the sasquatch were jumping up the ridge like tigger at them. And I've heard this time and time again that they have. Even Wes and Witty describe almost a trampoline effect that these things have, like jelly legs, like they're just springing around. That just really struck a chord at me. The fact that they were approaching these two guys, but they were jumping up the hill without the use of really any inertia, just picture like Superman or Clark Kent. Oh, this gravity means nothing to me.

38:41 And so when we found the knee impressions circa two thousand and eight, they were in a clay deposit off the side of the road, incredibly fresh right plus or minus fourteen hundred pounds in weigh. Anomalous hair is attached to the kneecaps. All those tests done through a Boeing engineer and Cindy Doson from the Olympic Price Regardless, after Cindy did the analysis on the hair, she goes, did you look in the trees? And I said, why would I look in the trees? She goes, when they leave the impressions their mid spring, she goes, go back and look in this tree for hair, and we found red clay and hair about seven feet up on the ridge of that tree, as though something had sprung from the clay deposit on the old road and then jumped up just like the guys described in Babin Creek.

39:29 Thank you for providing that background. That's amazing. Have you yourself gone out into the surrounding woods of Oakridge, and had any encounters yourself gone out on a forest road and these forty minutes out crazy areas. Has that happened to you? Yeah? Is that anything that you'd be able to share? Lights were the first thing that happened near this Box Canyon guard station. The second thing that happened was the lights beyond the line. It was an old trail, and I thought, well, I kind of want to repeat what Ron did and have a remote camp site that I can get into with my.

40:09 Son and a few friends. Yeah. Ron more ahead of the Sierra sounds. And so I carried a fifty gallon drum and empty fifty gallon drum and buried it in the woods with all my camp supplies water knives, tent tarps, whatever, so I'd never have to hike it. I only had to do it once. And so we built a giant teepee. Structure, like a fifteen foot tall teepee, twenty foot tall teepee, and then we had our little tiny semi fir ring for the winter, and we knew we'd only have access to it for a little while, but on a couple occasions, as soon as we would turn off the lights. We would have trees tossed around us. Now everybody describes tree toss as being something intimidating, But when you're at camp in the dark and something throwing trees, it's like, well, I love God, I've I worship Jesus right now, please help me God. No one's an atheist at that moment, right, Yeah, so we all became saved in a minute, like, oh God, no matter how big and tough you are, to throw a tree, or to hear a tree even get pushed down and hear the full weight of the earth move the trunk of that tree, and then the slapping of a giant dug fur and then the thud. Well, there were no trees that ever fell. There was no trees that were down. There was no trees to be found that were uprooted. This is a thing, right and bumping lake people describe trees getting knocked down. Bob Gimlin last

41:40 year with Kevin Carney and Sandy Nelson, as he was leaving camp, a tree fell down. They actually found that tree. Previous to that, in an area called Twilight Zone, they heard a giant, huge dug fur get drugged up the road by hand. There was no tree to be found, no scrape on the logging road. Graves researcher from Anachi has a recording of what must be I don't know, one hundred and fifty foot tall old growth falling through the Wenatchie forest. There's no tree that he ever found. These earth sounds like I tried to tell people as much as I can about these really weird sounds and do it in a way they can understand, especially like the new people that are.

42:26 Getting into it. But sounds like that are hard to get over. They have no explanation. It's obviously like an intimidation thing. We just were up in the Macaw Reservation in Nia Bay with Kevin Karney and Sandy Nelson and a Macaw elder and his wife. This was two weeks ago. Now they've been on this property for ten years and they have activity. But when we walked out of the woods, it sounded like someone picked up a frigidaire, like a giant old frigidaire refrigerator and hucked it through the trees. And this was like twelve o'clock in the afternoon. It waited for us to walk out of the tree line to get maybe a safe distance, and they said they hadn't ever heard anything like that in ten years, and they have all this stuff happen. So would we have gone back into the Mosquitoy woods and found a tree. Maybe, but sometimes you don't and you should.

43:26 Told it's been a pleasure being able to chat with you again. I'd our first interview is one of my favorites, but I do want to make sure before we head out. How have things been here for the Flash of Beauty crew, and are there so maybe interviews you guys have been able to do so that we can expect to see in the future. Any teasers about that? So sure? Yeah, we got two interviews. One I guess was really spectacular. We interviewed Jerry Hine. If you haven't had a chance to meet the living Jack Sparrow of California, which is Jerry Hine, go see him over in the Green Tent. So they got two extra interviews. But someone showed up from Flash of Beauty. Jack. Jack's the one that saw the white deer shape shift.

44:07 I never met Jack, and Jack's to me a rock star. He's total. He has nothing to do with the community, and I'm like begging him, Please, Jack, come to a conference with me, get on stage and tell your story because he's so cool. So I got to meet him. But so next month we're going into the Voice of the Wilderness for seven days. And I've never been up to the Sierras ever, let alone Ron's old camp, and I've never ridden a horse. So this is going to be like really funny on camera for people, and we're going to talk to people that never gone on the record about what really happened up there beyond what Ron knows.

44:47 And so it's a very multi layered story. It's probably the most important Bigfoot story never told. And the way Brett shoots, it's going to be spectacular to watch because the way he shoots. It's twenty twenty five Flash of Beauty, Voice in the Wilders Man. Thank you for that toad real quick? How can if people want to reach out to you or make sure that they can check out Flash of Beauty, are there any places that they should be aware of where to go? So our next function is going to be something that we call the Olympic Strange Days. It's a thirty I think there's thirty people coming. That's sold out on two days, not many people, So that's September twenty sixth through twenty ninth in the Olympic Peninsula. We'll have doctor Simeon Hine of Dark Matter Monsters teaching remote viewing. This is a super squatchy area we're going to, Like my girlfriend was hit in the face with a light from a UFO in this area, and so Jill and Brett are going to be there, Mike's going to be there, Rich Drama, Barb Shoop, myself, maybe a guy from Skinwalker Ranch that works with Flear that lives in town, and then maybe a guy from blind Frog Ranch is going to pop in Ryan's skin. That's what we got going and look forward to hanging out with you again, dude, and maybe we'll have something happen.

46:08 Thank you to Pleasure to have you bike over to the campsite and and chat with us. Thank you so much and have fun. And thank you to Slaya in Jersey for letting me invade your campsite and do a podcast. It's our pleasures. Special thank you to Slaya in Jersey for allowing me to hang out with them at their campsite during the Sasquatch Summer Fest. And also special thank you to Toab Johnson for biking over on his new bike and hanging out with us for a little bit. Big for Society will be right back after these messages. Up next is another campground interview, one of the early mornings with someone whose voice you may have heard before, but special thank you to Josh for allowing me to interview him about what he experienced that weekend. It is currently recording. All right, guys, you've probably heard Josh before in the Hatcher pass Alaska episode.

47:37 And then I talked to him about his things that have happened just south of Portland. He is actually here at the Sasquatch Summerfest festival. There's this prize to meet him. When I heard his voice, I immediately knew who he was. But he wants to share a few things that have happened recently. Josh, how's it going this morning? Oh? It's both terrifying and wonderful. I would say that much. So we let's set the scene where we are. You are camping out here over by the river, which is beautiful. There's a bridge where you can walk across the river. There's actually I mean it's a quite fast, fast flowing one. You walk across the bridge, there's beautiful moss covered trees, and you've got a great tent here, small, one person it looks like, but it's a special tent. Correct you were mentioning that it's actually a tent that we may have heard mentioned before.

48:28 It was actually the tint I used in Hatcher and Montana Creek when I had the encounters along the roadside, and I usually take it hunting with me. And the thing about the tent is real tight, real tight, and if something's coming up to sniff you or say anything at all, you're going to hear it, and it's gonna be real up close and personal. I'm I'm looking at it. I imagine if I was in there by myself. There's not a lot of room. And it does add a lot to the story to know that if there's something on the other side, it is extremely close to you. Yeah, extremely like inches away from your face. And I look around at the other tense. There is that false sense of security in like a bigger, like three person tent or a six person tent where it just looks bigger, and so whatever animal might be coming up to you, be a squad or bear, whatever, they're not gonna be as like close to your face. But in this one, it's like a coffin. It's nice, it can get into tight spots, but it's just very up close and personal.

49:39 If something figures out where you are and it wants to just check you out, and it's been an intense at times. I didn't want to mention that myself, but I agree with you. It probably does have the feeling of almost being in like a mummy sleeping bag of coffin, or even a maybe a sarcophagus. It's yes, it's very close quarters. But so you said that even around this area, there may have been some things you've noticed. Yeah. When I first got here, I asked around from some of the locals, and I checked out across the bridge. I walked across the bridge and I just like slowly walked and just kept my ears open like a hunter, like a good hunter does, and I'm just like listening to the deep brush. I'm like, I got my feelers out, and I'm just like walking along. And then I hear little footsteps, like bounding footsteps, and about two different pairs, So then I knew that they were in there. So I turned around and on the other side of the bridge there's this rock out cropping. I went out and stood on top of the rock and just let them see me. And what happened was the two sets were coming.

50:52 One was coming up from up higher on the ridge and the one was coming directly to my left hand side, and they were closing in. And then another one was up in the cliff side way up high, coming at me. And I just stood there just for about two minutes, just to let them see me. And that night the festival went on most of the day, and that night last night they as the movie. They had a movie playing, and I got real tired, so I decided to come back to my tent to put things away before it got too dark. And in my truck and I've set up my sleeping bag and everything, and I get inside and I'm just laying there listening because I'm always listening, and I hear the deep thud of a big pair of feet, like thud approaching in the trail just behind me that like hugs the river the river bank, and it stops at my tent and then it and I start hearing it like move through the grass. I don't know if it's found a bug or if it's just coming to check me out directly. So then it gets close and I can hear it, probably like maybe it's five or six feet from my tent, and I can hear it just give a and then like it starts milling around and like I hear it going back and forth, and I finally decide I don't I can't sleep with this going on right next to my tent. I get out,

52:23 I go immediately go to my truck and I sit in the truck and I have a blanket. I'm ready to sleep in the truck. Because real quick, sar, can you explain how far away your truck is from the tent? Oh, it's about thirty feet. And I get get to go through the past the other tents to my truck. I get into the truck and I sit down, and for after about fifteen seconds of sitting in my truck, I look up on the ridge line in the darkness, because the sun had completely gone down and it was extremely dark, I saw a pair of glowing eyes rip across the ridge line through the trees and a straight line.

53:11 I would I would say, within like one hundred feet in about two and a half seconds. Yeah, And then then uh third, then I then I see it. I get out, I see a couple of campers going down to their tent, and I tell them, hey, I just saw some pair of eyes go up there, pass up over on the ridge line, just to let them know so they're not at least give them a little tell them what's going on, because I'm like just standing out there staring at their tent. So I didn't want to be a creeper, but you know the feeling where you're just like something innocen's happening, but it looks bad. But I let them know. And I get back in the in my truck and I just start trying to take pictures and I'm looking around. All of a sudden, I see another pair of eyes dart from along the bank to their tent, that the people that I just talked to.

54:13 And it stopped, and then I can't see it, but I can hear something moving through the brush working its way around to the backside my truck. And then like maybe a few seconds later, the back corner of my truck just like drops. Somebody had just jumped on the bumper or something, and the whole truck shook. And then I put the phone down and I just put the blanket on, laid down, and I could hear a hand put its digits right on top of my truck. Here it pressed down and then it just disappeared. And two policemen actually came walking pass right at that moment. Really yeah, it just and they were like either patrolling the campground or whatever, but they happened to just like pass by when that happened, And like then I didn't have any more problems for the night, but I was definitely not sleeping great. I was like like a menagerie of nightmares all night long.

55:22 Absolutely, that's that is wild to hear that has been just the first night that's happened. Did you notice did you look at your truck afterwards and notice like any like fingerprints or handprints or anything of the out of the ordinary like that around I did. I did notice that since the fires are going here, there's a lot of ash in the air. And I did see one handprint, but I can't prove if it wasn't my own, so I'm up in the air about it. But I didn't see any like real big, like out of the ordinary prints. And I looked at the top of my roof. I looked all around the truck and I couldn't find any spots where they had grabbed, thinking then maybe they grab the liner bit and just like push my truck down.

56:06 Absolutely, thank you for sharing that. Do you have any thoughts about how the festival has gone so far? Just as an attendee, I think Friday Fridays are usually a little There was like a few people, but in high spirits. I such a great crowd, so positive, like just a good positive energy with the people camping here. Every is so nice. Everybody's willing to chat, and there's been a lot of stories like passed around. There's just been a great atmosphere. I think this would probably be a good like family activity if you were ever thinking about it. My experience aside, like if you're not, if you stay in your lane, you're not going to get too much action for the kids. But I think it's it is a little exciting to just have the magic of like nature is still like alive and well and like you can experience it if you just go out and touch it.

56:52 I agree, it's such a I mean being in the park and being in a group of like minded people, plus being in such close proximity to just to elaborate on what Josh was explaining earlier. We're close to the river. There's a bridge that goes across, and if you talk to people from the town, which I've been doing for a few months, most of the sightings in the town actually happened across that bridge in that forest area. Dwayne was telling me. Across that bridge, the wilderness actually comes right up to the river. So you're looking across that's the forest wilderness of Oakridge and it is extremely close to where this festival is happening. Most people don't realize that right now, so I.

57:34 Didn't know that. I thought maybe there was going to be much more campsites down the trail, but it's pretty it's looking pretty raw. There's some old growth trees out here, rugged, but I just had no idea. Absolutely, so, not just what Josh has experienced, but for years there have been documented sightings in that forest area just across the bridge, so which is pretty amazing to hear that, not just in past years, but current day as well. But thanks Josh again, it's a pleasure to meet you in person and you chat with you for a little bit about what you've experienced recently. Yeah, the whole reason I came out here is because you mentioned this festival existed and I looked it up and I was like, oh, this looks great. I got it, I got I'm coming, I gotta go. And yeah, it's been aside from last night, it's been pretty pretty good event awesome.

58:25 We'll see what happens in the next few days. But thanks for chatting, Josh. Oh yeah, thank you. What you're about to hear are a few interviews that I actually did at the booth itself, so you will hear a lot of background noise, but these are pretty special, all right. So I've got Veronica here at the Sasquatch Summerfest. She came up to the booth and she's got some very interesting things to share. She said that it's taken about twenty years to share that. So Veronica, thank you for coming over. Go ahead, Low. I went hunting and I had a three eight rifle in my hands and we went on up Windberry Creek Road and that's an organ and Windberry Creek it's when. Yeah, it's just Winberry Creek area. And we were going hunting up there, and we decided we had a big four wheel drive truck, big one that was lifted and all the roads had been chained off, and we went around the chain and drove up this one. It looked like an abandoned road that nobody had gone up for a long time. And we went up there, probably about five to ten miles. We went way up there, and it looked like something out of a story book. It was this beautiful field, all these flowers, you know, wild flowers and stuff. And then right in the tree line, I hear and I smell something. First I smell something, and it smelled horrible. It smelled like sweat and dirty, just

59:56 like dirty, sweaty, stinky animal. They kind of sweat and if there's even I don't know how to describe it, but it's not really bad. And then I heard this wrestling round and stuff, and I looked forward and there was something that must have been at least ten feet tall, at least ten feet tall, and I could tell that only when it stood up and it ran away, and it was like from here to right there from me, and it screamed bloody murder right in my face. And I had a three eight, so you think i'd feel pretty comfortable, but I was frozen. I couldn't move. The people I was with couldn't move. None of us could move, And it took us so long just to conceive what we were seeing and what was screaming at us. And it was not a man. It was not some feral drug addicts in the woods acting like he's some kind of mad man or somebody in a costume. It moved different, its mannerisms were different.

1:00:54 Big for society. Who will be right back after these messages? The face was real set back. How would you put it? The forehead was different than like a person, and it was like the cheeks or different. I mean, the whole face wasn't like a person at all. I mean it was different shape than like a human face. Nothing. I can't even put into words what it is that I saw, because I still don't know what I saw, but I know it was huge and it scared me and I just couldn't move. And when it ran away, it screamed first, and I was like, and then it ran away, and then when I walked back in the bushes or whatever, I saw how crunched everything was. It was huge and this thing was huge. I mean it was wide and it was huge, and I mean it must have, I'd say, where I stand it just the torso here must have come up to about here on me easily, if not more. Yeah, does that make sense. I'm not good with height for audio.

1:02:09 Let's see. I'm like five seven, maybe right six, something like that, and it was way I mean I was looking up at it when it was yeah, I was looking at wow. Yeah, And it was enough to scare the heck out of me. Later I found out there's other people that had seen things up there. I had people with me when this happened, and so it wasn't just me that witnessed it. But they didn't talk about it for twenty years too. None of us could talk about it till this guy came through Eugene asking for bigfoot stories and we finally talked about it. We had told our parents about it years ago, but it took five ten years just to tell our parents. So we were that scared. And that's about it.

1:02:54 So if you're looking at the face, sometimes people can try to categorize it as different things. Would you say, maybe something that is more manlike, ape like neanderthal, or just something completely different. To me, it looked neanderthal. Honestly. It didn't look like a feral man or anything, or like a man with a lot of beard. It had more of a divine chiseled kind of I mean, real, how would you put it? Really, the facial points of the face were really defined, more so than with our persons is round. This is more chiseled. Look, do you remember any details about the mouth at all? Gosh, I don't really. I was just scared to death and just in shock. I was in shock. But when it screamed, I had never heard a scream like that in my life. It was a bloody, murder, you're gonna die kind of scream, and it scared the heck out of me.

1:03:47 I appreciate you talking your habit so this is I usually do this over the phone, and you're definitely having a very visceral reaction from your memories right now. And I appreciate you actually being able to go back to that time. And I don't want to. I don't want to have you back in that time anymore. Let's get back to the current time. Good time. So, yeah, it. Was really just a life changing experience for me, because you know, I just everything just seemed a little different after that. But yeah, I kept it to myself because but I appreciate what you guys are doing. So you make people like me that have had those experiences feel like we can come out and talk about it. Thank you so much. All right, guys, we got Donna and Dave here first, people at the booth that Sasquatch Summerfest, and they have an encounter they would like to share.

1:04:33 So I'm going to go ahead and give it over to them. Donna, Dave. Great to meet you today. Nice to meet you. And Dave. I can have you move a little bit closer, all right, go on ahead, guys, go ahead, you go. Okay. This was about maybe three years ago or so, and we were going down Highway thirty four towards the coast and we went to camp at Horton Ponds and there's somewhere near High Pass, Low Pass Road or wherever. And they we got the tent ready and everything. I had my cats with me. There was my cat with little kittens, and we got the tent set up and we started.

1:05:16 No not then. It wasn't that not raining. They were screaming, there was hollering, and it was dark and I heard there was a bunch of to me, it sounded like a bunch of guys set by a campfire, and I don't know, it was just eerie. My cats were scared. I finally got brave enough to go outside and get my put my black cat in the car. He went under the car seat and stayed there until we were the next day and miles away from there. They were just freaking out, and Dave kept looking and thinking. He goes, he goes, no, I don't think it's a group of me, and I don't think it's guy. I don't think it's people. And I go, what kind of ann mom would be doing that? And he just listened and listened, and then we went outside and he stood there and all of a sudden he let off this really loud noise. Say what you did?

1:06:10 Look at you like that? And all of a sudden it sound. We just started running for the tent because it sounded like someone was coming or something. And then it went who like that and landed right outside the tent and didn't say anything. Hold on, So Dave just said, he beat you guys to the tent, yeah or something. He beat us to the tent. And I don't know. I thought I heard it go land outside by the tent or something, just there on a rock or something. We went out and looked for Prince and didn't find anything. And I just couldn't screeched.

1:06:51 Still. I never heard nothing screeched all out in my life. Bid g norly growl. Behind it the sound he made for him though he didn't like that. He didn't. He wasn't a fan of the Beatles. One thing, we go back there. Have you heard of other things happening in the same area, guys some. Yeah, I don't know. That's the only thing I know about. Oh well, that's that's something different I know up to you guys. That's that's huge. That is out Blue River. No, it wasn't there. I was coming back from the planet falls and we started the salt Water waterfall, all right, talk Creek waterfall. And then I took a picture of him.

1:07:38 And then when I got home in the friend of mine. Blew it up. You can see half of the sasquatch in his picture blowing up. Really, yeah, really? How tall? Could you get a feel for how tall they were or anything? Different different sizes? And one was standing right down by the bottom of the waterfall, nig old Beard, and I could't see him up there when I took a picture. Wow, thank you guys for sharing what you've experienced. The first people at the Boots, so I appreciate you guys coming over. Stay tuned for a special sneak peek of this week's members only episode, Encounter Polluca five, where it's about an hour of different encounters I recorded for the members only section. You can get access to the whole episode by becoming a YouTube channel member in the big Foot Posse Tier two or above, or becoming a Patreon member over at patreon dot com. Forward Slash the Bigfoot Society Enjoy.

1:08:35 He wakes me out of a dead sleep, literally grabs me by my arm pits and pulls me up, and he does get outside. Now that screaming thing. Is back, and I'm still like, I'm still by half asleep, and I don't think anything. I just I grab of a flashlight. I'm outside with him. I'm shirtless, in my underwear and in my gym shorts. I did think enough to grab some house shoe. But so I go. Out and I'm looking around and I'm just like, what, What's what's going on? Why'd you get me on here? And he goes I heard the scream and I said, what are you talking about? He goes, remember that time back?

1:09:15 He told me I heard that low bellow and we sat out here all night and wait and we didn't hear nothing. I'm like, yeah, he goes, it's back. And I said, okay, so what do you want to do? What do you think we should do right now? And he goes, let's all let's get uh dress, let's all get scored away, Let's grab some weapons, and let's go see if we can find this thing. I'm like, what do you what are we gonna Are we gonna hunt it? Are we gonna hunt it? He goes, no, if anything, we're just gonna scare it off. And I was like, so what do you think it is? He goes, I don't want to admit this, but I feel like it might be a sasquatch or a bigfoot. And I'm like, okay, if that's what you want to do, let's get dressed, let's go. So we get dressed, we have a side by side and loads it off with the trailer. We get it gassed up, have our weapons just for self defense, go out there, spotlight and just looking around the distinct thing. I do remember is the fact that that back of your neck someone's watching you type feeling where your hair stands up. So that type of feeling happened whenever we got near where where my stand was, where we had moved from the previous location like they had the first stand set up, and then where I'd moved it since I started seeing more deer, I just left it all there. And after all the time of waiting and waiting, so we got to the new the quote unquote newer spot where my stand was and looked around looking and I just had this feeling of, man,

1:10:46 someone is watching me right now. I didn't say nothing, but at first I was looking around and something is watching me, something is staring me down. I get just shining around and looking and he doesn't have the spotlight that's hooked into the side by side. He has a big almost magnum Pias style flashlight, one of the long one takes the big D batteries. He's shining around and. He lets out this blood curling scream at the top of his lungs. Freaked me out, made me drop the spotlight, which somehow turned it off. And when I looked over towards him to see. Why is he screaming? He goes, I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. And I'm like what.

1:11:29 I'm like, what, what did you see? He goes the blur, It's just the blur. I don't I just and I'm like, okay, calm down, you got to catch yourself. Tell me what happened. And he said, I see the blur? What just seeing on the camera? I was like, what did it look like? He goes some type of. Weird man thing, and I say, okay, it was it a guy? Is it a guy running out here? Is he poaching the deer? And he goes, no, it's not a guy because he didn't have any clothes on. So was it a bigfoot? Was it a sasquatch? And his hand is shaking, his whole body is shaking, but I can remember distinctly his hand that was holding the light was shaking so bad. And I looked in the area where he's seen it. He said he's seen it, and I don't see anything. I'm looking around and I don't see anything. And I can't really see quite that great with the light in the trees because.

1:12:29 He's shaking so much. So I grabbed the light from his hand, make him sit down the side by side, and I'm just scanning, looking over the tree line, looking near where the bushes are, and I don't see anything. And I'm like, okay, let's get you back to the house, to the cabin. Let's get you back there and get you calm down, and let's think about this and see if we need to call somebody, talk to a park ranger or call a game warden and see what they think is going on. So we get back to the cabin. It's one of those I don't know what to say, tight drives. It's only like a five minute drive to my stand. It's only maybe a quarter mile from not even a quarter mile from the cabin to where I got everything set up in my spot. We'll we get back to the cabin.

1:13:19 I help walk him up, send him on the bed. He's just shaking up really bad, very scared. Is obvious that this man has seen something as shook him to the core. I'm trying to make sense of all this. I don't want to believe that we actually or he actually just seen a sasquatch in an area where I've never heard any bigfoot stories. But if you think about it, Why wouldn't that be the perfect spot? You know what I'm saying. If there are no stories or you don't really know of any stories of these creatures in this deep thicket wood, with all these trees and all this somewhat on charted land of national forests and private property small towns, why wouldn't it be a good spot for them to be traveling through or for one to be hanging out. So I try to get some sleep. Obviously, between cat naps, I don't get hardly any sleep. Next morning, it's my alarm goes off at I think it was five AM something like that, like an like a thirty or forty minutes before daylight.

1:14:27 I get up. I go wake him up, and he's I'm not going in the woods. So I say, okay, you want to stay here. Fine. And the crazy thing about it is, whenever I walked out the door to put my stuff in this side of beside, I'm heck with it. I came out here to hunt. I'm gonna hunt myself. There's not too many things in the woods that will scare me off. I want you to remember that I said that there's not too many things in this woods that will scare me off. So as I'm starting to leave, I hear him lock the door behind me. That's how terrified he is. So I'm just okay, whatever, let's go sleep it off.

1:15:08 I don't care. So I go drive to my stand. I've parked a side by side some waist back. I go climb up in my stand and relatively not much activity that first opening morning. I seen one little dough that had a fun whether let her pass. This is about twenty thirty min hit a day light. Nothing crazy. I like to sleep till about or excuse me, like to stay till about nine thirty ten o'clock if I don't see anything. If I see a lot of deer moving, I'll stay till about eleven or twelve. It all just depends on what I see. So I see if you deer here and there, I see a couple of small bucks that are too small to take and sitting here listening to the birds chirping. Okay, despite this creature being seen, it seems like the wildlife is back. Awesome, great, fantastic cool, and that's virtually it. I get down from my stand, I get back in the side by side. I go back, take a quick little nap get something to eat. I'm going back out for my evening hunt, and I ask him, do you want to go with me? He said, like I said, I'm not going out in those woods. I will leave with you whenever we go home Sunday night, but other than that, I am staying right here.

1:16:26 Okay, fine, I respect that. Go ahead. So this is the evening hunt of this Saturday. I go in, I sit, I don't see anything, and then about twenty minutes before dark, whenever we like to call prime time, like whenever it's just about to be dark. In my experience, the biggest bucks I've ever shot, the most deer I've ever shot, is right after daylight or right before it gets dark, and I to call it primetime for that reason. Twenty minutes so for dark, my target walks out, and I'm like, holy crap, I don't even I'm not even remembering about the creature at this point.

1:17:08 That's gone from my mind. As crazy as that sounds, it's gone. So I see the buck come out, and I grab my bow and I stand up from my stand. I get my arrow at loard, have my arrow knocked. I get my release knocked on the back of my string right, rock and roll, I get it pointed up. I'm about to draw back on him, and I hear what sounds like an elephant come crashing through the brush, probably ten to fifteen yards behind me. And when I hear this, I freeze. Now.

1:17:48 Initially, in my experience, if there's two bucks in brut and if one sees another, and if he's really riled up, he will tear through helen back to fight this buck. It's just what deer doing a rut. But it's not time for the rut yet. So the first couple of seconds, I'm like, dang, is that a bigger buck? Joe chased them out. Wait a minute, they're not in rut yet. What is that a big old hog? What is that going on? And where my dear stand is set up is like my back is towards tree line. There's an opening and then there's it's almost like a skylight amongst the trees. There's a little circle. That's been cut out naturally from the trees, opening with the oak trees and everything else. And that's where I plant on my food plot, my corn.

1:18:33 So I don't see what's going on, and my hunter's instinct is kicking in. Hey, don't turn quickly. If it's something you're gonna want to take, then leave it be or try to be still with it. So I'm looking, I can't see, but I hear this thing crashing through the forest. And at this. Point, when it's crashing and crashing through, my target buck runs off and I'm like, dang, there goes my target buck. And this thing. Runs out perfectly in the dead center of my food plot and stops. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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1:21:11 Her and I can get on here. We can tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there listening that's. Too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will. Give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody's thinks. I know what I saw, I know what's out there. That's all I care about. Please let people know, Please let them know. If you've ever seen one of these. Things, you need you tell, because if you don't, you're shame on you.

1:21:54 You have shame on you.