June 25, 2025

Screaming Through the Trees: What She Saw in the Marble Mountains

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Season 1

What happens when an 18-year-old woman steps into the forest to relieve herself — and locks eyes with a towering red-furred creature hiding behind a tree?

In this terrifying and emotional episode, we sit down with Tamara Bond, a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Chippewa, as she recounts her unforgettable Bigfoot encounter deep in California’s Marble Mountains. What began as a routine day with the California Conservation Corps turned into a moment that would haunt her dreams for decades.

Tamara describes the chilling moment when a red-haired Sasquatch peered around a tree at her — again and again — before she fled screaming “Monster!”. We’ll talk about what she saw in that face, why red Sasquatches are considered dangerous, and how that one moment eventually turned fear into fascination.

You’ll also hear about recent activity near Shasta Lake, rocks thrown from cliffs, and the spiritual sensitivity Tamara has lived with her whole life — including her ability to see spirits of the dead. This is a raw, vulnerable, and gripping account you won’t forget.

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You're listening to a big for Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron.

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Tonight's story doesn't come from a hunter or a hiker.

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It comes from an eighteen year old woman in the

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mountains of California who had no weapon and nowhere to run.

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Something peered at her from behind the trees. And that

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was just the beginning. Because for Tamara, what she saw

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that day still haunts her sleep, and now she's looking

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for it. This is a story of the Sasquatch that

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peered from behind the tree. So stay with us. I

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think for Society got the privilege of talking to Tamara

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Bond today. Tamara Bond's Chippewa from the Grand Traverse Band,

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and Tamara reached out to me about some interesting things

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that she experienced back in the nineteen eighties. I believe.

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So welcome to the show, Tamara. How's it going today?

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Wonderful? How about you.

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It's a great day out here in Iowa. We're starting

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to get some good weather and I cannot complain. I

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get to talk to someone about Bigfoot, and that's one

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of my favorite things. This is an area that a

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lot of people are going to be familiar with, and

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it's great to hear another account that comes from this area.

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It's a pretty famous area in the Bigfoot community. So

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it's Hamra. I'm going to go ahead and pass things

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over to you. Feel free to take us back to

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that time. You know where you were, what you were doing,

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and how this all happened for you.

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Okay, Well, it was sometime in the eighties.

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I was only like eighteen or nineteen, and I had

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joined the California Conservation Corps and was getting trained to

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work for the California Department of Forestry. And when you're

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in the CCC, you do roadside brushing, and you go

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up in the mountains and you plant trees and stuff

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like that. Well, we were planting trees and I had

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to go use a little girl's room, and basically I

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was the only female there, so I had a walk

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quite a distance away to use the little girl room

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and I went behind a tree to be hidden from everybody.

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And as I'm sitting there, I heard this crunching noise

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and I looked up and I saw this.

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Tall creature.

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At the time, I didn't know what it was, and

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with red red fur, red hair, and I'm going, what

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did I just see? I'm sitting there and wondering, and

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it peeped back at me again behind the tree, and

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I pro I did it like three times, and around

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the third time it stood there and looked at me,

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and I just freaked out.

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I sit up, start.

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Running with my pants down because I'm so scared, and

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I'm falling to the ground and I'm running and I'm

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running and I'm falling down, still trying to get my

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pants out, screaming monster, monster, monster. And I got to

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the crew and they're like, tell me, what's wrong with you.

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I'm all, there's a monster back there. And they're all laughing,

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there's what a monster? And I'm like, yes, there's a monster.

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I saw. I swear to you. I saw.

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He looked almost human and they're like, what are you

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talking about? I said, I saw a monster and they're like,

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you're crazy. But basically that's my story. I basically saw Bigfoot.

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Back in those days, I didn't know what he was,

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and now I know who he is, and I saw Bigfoot.

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That is an extremely unique account. I don't think we've

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ever had one like that on the show yet. Are

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you able to share the area that this happened in?

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If I I just remember it was way up in

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the Bigfoot, way up in the Marble Mountains. It was

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on the logger roads, the logging roads and the Forestry

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Department their roads, and of course the CCCS would drive

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and do their roadside brushing and we would plant trees.

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So somewhere up there in the Marble Mountains, I can't

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tell you exactly.

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Where, so absolutely and a lot of listeners will know

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about the Marble Mountains from the video that's pretty famous

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of the Bigfoot that's walking up on the ridge that

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was taken in two thousand and one by the youth

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group that was on the camping trip. So this is

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actually a little more than ten years prior to that video.

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Maybe not in the same exact area, but in the

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same region at least if it's also in the Marble Mountains. So,

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you know, maybe a few questions for you about what

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you experienced that day. How tall would you say that

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it was the creature that you saw.

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Well, when you're squatting, everything looks bigger, sure, so I

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would have to say, hmm, let me look at a

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tree night.

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Now.

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You was probably about eight eight and a half feet tall,

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pretty big, large, very large, very scary. Yeah, even think

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talking about it right now kind of gives me the

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livy duties.

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Absolutely, It's just to experience that in a time where

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I mean, you're you're really, you know, kind of defenseless

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when you're in that situation, I mean to put it bluntly, right,

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and just to be just freaked out. You said you

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were scared. What were the main things about what you

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saw that made you scared in that situation?

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Never seeing anything like that in my life, and seeing

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a face that was, you know, covered partial with fur

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and partial look like human skin, and just wondering what

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the heck this is? You know, I'm only eighteen, nineteen

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years old, and you know, you're.

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I'm just thinking, what the heck? What was that?

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You know? And I had nightmares about it for a

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long time, and I still have nightmares about it.

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I have nightmares about just.

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Them one day deciding to come down and attack our

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attack human beings.

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That they're all one day going to get together and

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just come down from the forest.

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And you know, because there's a lot of them, there's

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more out there than what we know.

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I agree as well, there's definitely more than people think.

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I believe. It sounds like you got a pretty good

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look at the face during that time. Have you ever

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seen anything else that looks like what you saw that day?

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I would consider.

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A gorilla, but its face was more white, not so black.

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It was more of a white light brown. His fur

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was red, and I was told that the red ones

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are the mean ones. So luckily I got out of there.

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People have said the red ones are pretty mean.

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I've heard that as well. I've heard you know red

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or I've also heard you know, if it has four toes,

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you better watch out. That could be an issue as well.

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Did you notice a certain parts of the face that

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made you think like, oh, this kind of has more

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of a human look to it.

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It had big black eyes. It just the features. His

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nose was flat.

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He uh yeah, I mean because like I said, about

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three or four times he kept deepen around that around

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that tree, and here I am like scared in My

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eyes are as big as saucers. So I saw clearly

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what I saw, you know, because I'm like, what the heck?

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What is this?

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So it, you know, had its lips were kind of thin,

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like I said, it had big, big, big eyes, big

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round eyes. I didn't I don't remember seeing any whites

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in them again. Yeah, I don't remember seeing any whites.

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All I remember was big, big black eyes peering around

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the tree at me, and me being really scared.

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Was it showing any teeth at all or any motion

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to its face.

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No, it kept just peering around the corner and then

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go back behind the tree and then do it again.

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And I saw its hands.

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The hands were not much fur on the hands. No,

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not much fur on the hands at all. In fact,

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they look kind of like the face. Not a lot

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of fur on the face and not a lot of

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fur on the hands, but its body hat for all

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over it the red.

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Okay, so yeah, you're definitely seeing the head when it

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peaks around. You're seeing the hand, probably on the side

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of the tree as it peaks around, I'm guessing, right, yes, Okay,

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are you also seeing any legs as it peeks around

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or anything like that, or just the head in the hands.

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Just the head in the hands. That is all I remember.

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And I ran so fast I didn't even turn around

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and look I was.

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I was too scared. Never seen anything like that.

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Now I like to see it again, right now, I'm

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more interested, I know, I'm like, well, you know, I

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went out and bought all the equipment so I can

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start digging foot hitting, and I bought a night vision

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boggles and now I'm really into it.

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I find that very interesting, and I think we're going

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to talk about that more in a bit, but I

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want to make sure that you know, we go over

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a little bit more for the sighting itself. Did you

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notice it it had a certain shape to its head

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at all?

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You know what?

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Not? Really, all I remember is looking straight at its

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face and then seeing its hands. I don't remember the

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head shape. I'm sorry, I do not remember ahead of shape.

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I just remember looking straight at its eyes and just

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like I mean, we were like eye the eye contacts

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and just me being really scared. Even thinking about it

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is kind of makes my stomach upset because I was

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just a young girl.

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Absolutely. Yeah, before you had the actual sighting, did you

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notice anything weird about the sounds of the area, or

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the smells or anything that seemed out of place?

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You know what? I smelled a bad odor, but I

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didn't think anything of it. I thought maybe because the

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other people would come over there and do their duty.

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So I thought maybe that's what I was smelling.

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Oh okay, so that's interesting. So the area that you

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were using was an area that was commonly used by

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the Conservation Corps for that.

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Right right to go and restroom.

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That really makes you wonder, doesn't it.

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Right?

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Yeah, if that's.

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Why was he watched and everybody doing the planting the

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trees and he was just curious or I don't know, hmmm.

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Oh man, there's yeah, there's a lot of different ways

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you could be, like, are they waiting until you know?

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It's people are at a point where they're not able

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to really protect themselves, or they're very curious and this

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is one of the weirder things that that humans can

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be watched doing. I mean, we don't know, right. So

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right now, when you got back to the group, it

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sounds like you told the story, everyone was pretty much

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making fun of you.

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Yeah right right, yeah, yeah, and then they they would

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make fun of me constantly even after that moments. Yeah,

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that's terrible, but I just yeah, I don't know, what

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can I say.

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I just kind of ignored it. I know what I saw.

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Absolutely amount of people out there who see them, and

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people just like okay whatever, you know, no one wants

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to believe, but they're out there.

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I mean, there's there's hundreds and maybe even thousands of

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accounts now of people having sightings and experiencing weird things.

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It's just it's incredible. But you know, what was it

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that made you want to switch from being, you know,

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a person that had been scared by this, but into

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now you're actively going to go see if you can

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find it in getting gear and things like that.

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Because I'm older now and I just it just really

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intrigued me. You know, the older I got, the more

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interest that I got into it. And now it's like

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six foot in the bigsuach community. It's become really popular,

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and now I'm just really interested. I've never heard of

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anybody getting murdered from one of them, not yet at least.

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So I'm just just real curious now.

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So, like I said, I went out and spent quite

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a bit of money so I can go out.

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And start looking.

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And I'm in the right area I live. I only

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live like five miles from Shasta Lake, so I'm in

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the right area and we're not too far from the

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Marble Mountains.

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But yeah, that is a really interesting area, the Shasta

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Lake because that's right kind of outside of Shasta Trinity

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National Forest raight.

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Right right, We take our pontoon boat out there a lot.

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I mean, I had another incident where rocks were thrown.

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Didn't see anything this time, but rocks were being thrown.

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You can hear them coming down, you know the side

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of the cliff and you can hear them. I looked,

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but maybe it was just rocks falling from the cliff.

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But I highly doubt it, not the way they were

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getting thrown. But I didn't see anything.

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And how recent was that, I would.

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Say, pie about a month ago. Yeah, would like to

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go out there when it's quiet.

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Yes, I bet that is an absolutely beautiful area. How

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big were the rocks that were being thrown at you?

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Were you able to estimate how big they were?

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No, I'm sorry I couldn't. Like I said, we were

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pawn too, but we were probably about, oh, let's pie,

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about five tar lances away. Maybe we were in the

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lake on the boat. We just saw him getting thrown

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and they'd hit the side down at the bottom because

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it was a cliff and it would like just it

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wouldn't hit the water, it would just come out and

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hit the side.

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And roll down.

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Wow, that is wild.

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You know.

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I'm sure that you have shared your story a few

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times over the years in the area. Has there been

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a time where you've shared that story and someone has

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been like, you know, I had something similar happen, or

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I also had something weird happen in that area up.

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At Shasta Lake. Yeah.

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I spoke to an older gentleman and he's all, you know,

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I'd love to talk to you about my experience, but

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I've actually seen him up at the Shafta Lake. I'm all, really,

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I'm interested in hearing your story. So hopefully him and

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I can get together and talk and discuss this if

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I see him again at the lake.

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M Yeah, that and that would be an incredible conversation.

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Have you ever run into anyone else that has had

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a thing happened things happen in the Marble Mountains area?

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No?

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Uh huh, No never.

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I told my story on the Bigfoot site that I'm

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on on Facebook, and there's quite a few people who

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know where the Marble Mountains are.

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Oh yeah, it's it's very very well known in the community.

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Or sure.

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You mentioned that after your sighting you start to have

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nightmares and how how soon after the sighting did those start.

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Probe? Two days later or a day after?

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Okay, wow, So yeah, right right away. And you know,

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talking about dreams like this can be a little tricky

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because there's a lot of emotions, you know, with them,

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and they can get pretty rough. But were they like

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normal dreams that you would have or sometimes people will

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report that the dreams they start to have after these

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big Foot encounters are kind of different.

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Mine were always violent. My dreams are violent all the time.

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When when I dream.

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Of Bigfoot, it's like I said, it's like I feel like.

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I've had dreams of millions of them coming running down

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from the hills because, like I said, only live five

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miles from Shasta Lake and I and we live pretty

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much in the woods, and I'm like thinking, one day,

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you know, in my dreams, I'm like they're coming out,

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hundreds of them, chasing killing people.

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Wow. It's just it's very interesting. So it almost feels like,

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you know, you you've been able to get a handle

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on things and to go from having dreams like that

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to want to actively, you know, go out and look

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for whatever it is out there.

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Yes, well, okay, I was eighteen back then. I'm fifty

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nine now, so that's a long time and I haven't

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seen mine yet again since that incident. So and then,

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like I said, the big food community has grown immensely,

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and I've just gotten older and wiser, and I'm just

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really interested now. You know, sometimes you know, you'll something

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get you and then you want to just turn around

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and Okay, well what was it?

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What did I actually see?

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I need to go and find it now, from being

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scared to wanting to find it now because it's curiosity. Yeah,

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it's more curiosity. I don't know what I would do

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if I saw one again. I think I'd probably run again.

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Right after you had this encounter, did anything else of

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the ordinary start happening besides the dreams?

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Not really, huh huh.

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Just the nightmares and getting made fun of. That's about all.

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But being a Native American, they say that.

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More things are closer to a Native than most other nationality.

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There's other things I've seen. You know, I have the

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ability of us.

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See I am I see ghosts.

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Basically, I'm able to see dead people. And I've always

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had that ability since I was a little girl.

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That's extremely interesting. So that happened before the encounter, So

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you just see them like randomly walking around in certain areas.

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Then of seeing ghosts.

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Yeah, well, I could be driving down the freeway and

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I've proven it.

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To my fiance.

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In the town that my dad lived in, Shandon, I

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kept seeing this Asian lady and this Asian boy and

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they were all bloody and this arms half off and

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she's all gross out and bloody, and and Nick saw,

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I don't see anything, you know, And so he ended

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up googling things and found out there was an Asian

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lady and her son that were in a car accident

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and died. I see things like that. I'm able to

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see spirits.

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Okay, so this isn't like you're, you know, not to

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to say anything like taking it lightly, but it's not

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like you're seeing a person who's wearing a white bed sheet,

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like a person going people messed up.

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That had passed away, or yeah.

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Well I don't know if I could handle that, you know.

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Just that's happening anywhere.

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People say it's a gift. I think it's a curse

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because I see I see it a lot. I can

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be driving down the freeway and I'll know exactly where

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there was a horrific car accident.

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Wow, okay, so that did that happen when you were,

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you know, doing work with the conservation corps at all

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where you would randomly, you know, see things out in

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the woods.

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Or I've never seen any spirits out in the woods. No,

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but I've had this gift since I was like four

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years old.

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I don't call it a gift. I call it a curse.

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Sure has did anyone else in your family have that

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as well?

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Or just my mother did?

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Okay, yes, my mother had it too, and she didn't

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like to talk about it. And I shouldn't even brought

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it up to you because it's like, oh, you know,

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people just think it's crazy when you talk like that.

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But I'm not crazy. I see what I see. I've

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proven it. You know. My fiance look at it up

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on Google. He's all, look at this. I know.

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I'm not crazy. That's just something that I was born with.

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My mother was born with.

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Absolutely, And I think some individuals are more sensitive to things,

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which is why you know, you can see things like

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that or maybe even you know that's how you see

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things like bigfoot. You are you're more sensitive to it.

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I mean, there's a lot we don't know that science

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can't really you know, I can't really analyze things like this,

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but it is so so extremely interesting have you ever

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thought of maybe there is a way that you can

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use that as a as a gift in some way.

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I could probably maybe help people, you know, with their

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loved ones.

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I don't know.

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I feel that maybe I'm supposed to like leave these

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people that have passed, maybe to let them go somewhere

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else instead of sitting here on earth. But I'm I'm

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too frightened to do it. I don't want to be attached.

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I don't want things following, you know what I mean.

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I just half the time I just ignore it and

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just live my life all you know. I've taken walks

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and I've.

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Seen things, and it's like I just to ignore it

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kind of. You know, I don't like it. It's it's

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not a gift to me.

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It's yeah, how do I know?

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I don't.

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I don't like it at all. Yeah, sorry, it's not

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it's not hunting it.

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You're good, And I think then it's important what you're

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doing where you're trying to get, you know, control of

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the situation, at least on the big foot side, where

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you know, hey, I'm going to actively look for it

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and not have to be, you know, be scared of

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the situation. But it is. Uh, it's a very very

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interesting thing. I'd say, thank you so much for for

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sharing what you experienced. It sounds like you know, through

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your life you've experienced not just this bigfoot encounter, but

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also you've you've seen other things as well. Uh and uh,

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you know, I hope that if that's what your your

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goal is, and it's it's what you want, that hopefully

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you are able to, you know, see another bigfoot again someday.

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You're in the right area, that's for sure. I mean,

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you could drive up to Mount Shasta. I don't know

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if you've ever been up in that area, but h

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there's a lot up there too.

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So yes, they've got caverns underneath the Shasta Mount Shasta,

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so yeah, I've been that there too, m but I

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have I haven't seen anything, I like you, But like

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I said, I've bought all the tools to start looking

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thinking about maybe joining one of the groups around here

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that they would accept me.

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Start looking.

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Well there you go. Well, I hope that hopefully you're

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able to make some connections. But Tamara, thank you so

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much for coming on the show and for sharing what

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you've experienced. I appreciate you being open enough to share

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a time that is very unique, and definitely feel free

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to reach out to us if you ever have any

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other things happen in the future after you start going

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out more.

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Yeah, okay, well, thank you and thank you for believing me.

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Yes, ma'am him.

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My name's Pete from New Hampshire, Grafton. Anyhow, I had

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an encounter about five or six years ago. I just

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started watching your program and said you had a New

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Hampshire encounter. I went on a jeep ride with my

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buddy and our daughters. My little girl was about four

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years old and I think his daughter was about thirteen,

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and we went up on a Class six road between

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where I live in Grafton, in a town called Wilmot.

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There's an old settlement called Fowler Town, which is basically

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just a bunch of gravestones and cellar holes now hasn't

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been occupied in one hundred and fifty years. Anyhow, there's

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a mud bog up there that on the weekends you

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can see a lot of jeeps going up there. It's

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very popular. So this ride we took was in early fall,

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and we went up with the girls and we stopped

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the jeep and we got out, and I remember it

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was a very beautiful day at sunshine and just gorgeous.

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And as I look back, there was no birds, no crickets,

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no sounds, but not in a bad way. And the

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most insane roar slash scream came from across the bog.

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It was thirty forty seconds long. It was very long,

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very loud. It actually moved the air. I play guitar

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and heavy metal music, and amplifiers tend to move air.

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It's a feeling when something is very loud, and this

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actually moved.

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I just wanted to take aim out to say thank

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you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast.

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Tamra story is one of those unforgettable encounters, not just

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because of what she saw in the Marble Mountains, but

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because of how deeply impacted her, from the terrifying moment

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behind the tree, to years of nightmares, and finally to

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curiosity and courage to remind her that fear doesn't always

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