March 31, 2025

Silver Star Bigfoot! | Washington

Join us as we delve into an incredible encounter with Randee, the individual who captured the Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot photos in Gifford Pinchot National Forest on November 17, 2005. In this episode, Randy recounts his journey to Silver Star...

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Season 1

Join us as we delve into an incredible encounter with Randee, the individual who captured the Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot photos in Gifford Pinchot National Forest on November 17, 2005. In this episode, Randy recounts his journey to Silver Star Mountain, the eerie feelings he experienced, and his unforgettable sighting of a mysterious black figure. He also shares other intriguing encounters and discoveries from various locations like Indian Heaven, Mount St. Helens and Wizard Falls. This is a compelling narrative for anyone captivated by Bigfoot mysteries and wilderness adventures.

Resources:

BFRO writeup - https://www.bfro.net/news/silver_star_mountain.asp

BFRO report - https://www.bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=13115

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All right, Bigfoot Society, You've got the privilege of talking

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to an individual today we got connected. His name is Randy.

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He's the individual that took the Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot

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photos in Gifford Pinchot National Forest on November seventeenth, two

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thousand and five. So it's privileged to talk to him

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about his experience with that and finally get his side

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of the story out there in his word. So, Brandy,

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welcome to the show. How are you doing.

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Today, sir, Great thank you for having me on.

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Absolutely, you know, I feel like we've got a lot

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of ground to cover. I would I would love it

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if if first, if you wouldn't mind taking us back

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to that day what you had to do to get

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to that point where you took these photos that probably

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most Bigfoot enthusiasts have seen at one point in the

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other and just feel free to tell your story from

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your side of things, please, Okay.

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Well it happened on in November. On November seventeenth, two

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thousand and five, I decided I was going to go

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up to hike a Silver Star Mountain. A friend of

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mine was going to go with me, but he had

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to cancel, and so I knew i'd hit snow and

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I'm always prepared when I go out, so I had

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all my gear that I needed to go up, so

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you drive up. I came out of the battleground up

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to Copper Creek area and was taking the edge trail

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and when I got to the parking lot, it it

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was lightly snow there. There wasn't that much the road

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to get up there now is it's almost last time

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was really almost possible to get up, And then I

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parked and got ready to go up, and I'm going

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and then the snow started getting deeper, you know, from

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from like three or four inches to a foot and

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they get higher and higher. So I'm heading up Edge Trail,

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which is on the on the east side of the

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Silver Star Ridge, and I'm hiking along and there's this

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arch there that you it's a rock arch, and you

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walk through that, and the snow is getting pretty deep.

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And at certain points they're like like the cartoons where

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you you're walking along and I mean the snowball starts

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and gets bigger and bigger, white goes down. That was happening,

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and so I got to this one little it's like

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a small in cave or like cave, but it's not

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huge or anything. So I sat in there and would

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decide whether I should keep going up Ed's Trail or

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not because it was getting really snow and I didn't

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want to slide down because it's almost cliff that part area,

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And so I decided to turn around and I went

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back through the arch, and then I started zigzagging climbing

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the the ridge up and it took a while. It's

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usually about a two hour hike to get up there.

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Well by the time I got there's like four hours,

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so I'm still zig zagging a long, and I go up.

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I get on the top of the ridge and I'm

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walking along. This area has Indian pits and stuff, and

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you can see all over the place. There's a beautiful

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good of day. I could see all the mountains and stuff.

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So then I walk and I get to I always

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go into the area of Silver Star Mountain is like

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a saddle. It has the north peak is higher and

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the south peak is lower, so there's a little saddle there.

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So I came up into the middle of the saddle

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and I started heading up north to the higher elevation

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peak where there's it used to be a lookout tower.

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And so I must have walked twenty to forty feet

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our yards wasn't that far. And all of a sudden,

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I got this eerie like my whole body electrified. It

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was just like ah, And I didn't know what I thought.

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I didn't know what it was or anything, but I

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thought maybe a cougar or something because or bear. But

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I didn't know, all right, if it not, But I

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just I'm not scared to be out there. But that

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was the first time I had that experience and so

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I kind of waited for a little bit, like two

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or three minutes, and then I started heading farther up.

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And it was a real windy day. I mean real windy.

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The winds were coming from the east, just blowing like crazy.

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And so I get it to the top and I

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always look up look at the mountains. I always look

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at Mount Saint Helens, Mount Rainier, Mount Adams, and came

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around to Mount Hood and as soon as I looked

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at Mount Hood, I saw this black object. It looked

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like a big black rock down there on the side

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other peak of Silver Star, and so I go, whoa,

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and I got I put my backpack down, took out

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my camera, and I stayed myself because of the winds

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and everything. And it's just straight on my left. It

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was a straight down drop there. Just it just really dropped.

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And and now I'm at I'm at forty three hundred

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feet up. That's how high the highest peak is. And

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so I take the camera out and I snapped the

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picture and then it stood up like a whoa, and

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so so then I took another picture, and then I

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took turned and took a picture of the Columbia River.

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And then I took the other picture and walked down

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the hill after that. Now I didn't know what it

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was at the time, because it was just weird to

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see something like that, you know, And I'm standing in snow.

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I've been in the snow all day, and I'm up

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to my knees in snow and I'm pretty cold, so

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I kind of I didn't know what that was. And

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I just glad I got a picture of after all

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this time, and I wish I would have went down

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and explored it more, but I didn't. I didn't have

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the time. I had to walk back to my car,

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and so I got my stuff gathered up and I

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headed back down. And that's pretty much happened.

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That is absolutely fascinating from what you could see in

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your viewpoint. How tall would you estimate what you saw was?

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Oh, I I don't know it was it was it was.

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It was big. It was big and black, and but

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I know that later Cliff Barrocklan went down there with me,

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or went up there with me, and he estimated between

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six and eight feet tall. But but be it. It

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was on the other side of the little ridge there

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and I'm standing in snow and I'm up to my

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knees in snow. It could be taller, it could have

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been smaller, because you don't know what's on the other side.

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Was it kind of on a rock or was it

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daped down like I was, because it's for sure really

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a heavy animal.

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Absolutely. I'm sure that you've looked at these photos hundreds

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of times over the years. I know I would. I

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would look at them every day. Are there any details

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that you've noticed about looking at these photos that you

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always go back to that you're like, wow, Okay, yeah,

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it definitely was a big foot. Just look at this

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one thing in the photo.

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The thing is, I look at it that they're blown

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up now, and I can tell you a story about

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that whole thing there. But I noticed there's tracks in

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the blow up. I at that time didn't even think

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about going down and looking down there. I just decided

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I had to get out back out because I didn't

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want to get stuck up there because of the snow

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and everything. But what happened was when this I guess

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I could keep going on that. What happened was is

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that on Thanksgiving I was going to my son's house

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and I started showing everybody that the pictures of the

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that I ha took for that day. And so I'm

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going through and showing the pictures and then those pictures

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came up and somebody goes, Bob, what is that. I go,

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I don't know. I took those pictures last week or

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was because it was on Thanksgiving, and my son's a

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computer whiz, and so he got on there and started

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blowing them up. And then they go because you can

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see the arms down down to the knees and stuff,

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and it's hunched over and stuff. And somebody goes, that

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looks like a bigfoot, and I go, are you kidding me?

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So then so then I got on the I started

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I called the paper, Columbia Paper, and I called the

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news channels around the Portland area, and only one person

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was interested and it was channeled to news. But then

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when we were going to do the interview, they decided

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that it wasn't that important at the time, and there

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was some sort of dog thing going on in Hillsbury,

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in Hillsboro, and so that ever happened. But so then

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I also got on on the internet started looking around

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and I saw the bfr OL Bigfoot Research Organization, and

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I text our emailed them and I said Hey, I

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have some big pictures that you might be interested in.

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And this guy text me, emailed me back, and his

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name is John Challenger, I mean Calendar, John Calendar. And

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he says, can I come down and look at those pictures?

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And I go, sure, come on down, and so we

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set up a date. He came down like the next

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day or two days later. I can't remember what day

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that was, and he didn't. He looked at it and

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he goes, Wow, those are awesome pictures. And so then

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he did a story of me, which you can see

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on the BFR page if you look up Scamminia County

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Bigfoot of that year. Another thing about that. After I

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got done, I also looked on when I found the BFR,

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I looked on that web page and there was a

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father and son in that area in the nineteen seventy

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or seventy one that they're hiking up there and there's

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this big black thing chuck and rocks at them. So

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I thought that was kind of strange. It kind of

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makes my pictures even better because there's other people. And

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over the years I've noticed people right and that they've

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been up there and they've been hearing the sound of

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the Bigfoot, you know, the howling, and so basically that's it.

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I'm that sorry now.

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That that's that is really cool, especially that they were

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able to get someone there that quickly. I mean, if

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you look at the site, I believe it was November

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twenty fifth that John was there with you, which is

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just over a week after this happened. Very very interesting stuff.

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Have you ever had any other professional analysis or anything

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done to the photos?

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No, I haven't. I know that the BFR did some

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stuff on it, and one person compared it to the

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Patty film pictures, you know, the film because of the

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cone head and things like that. And the other one

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person was Daniel Perez that does the big Foot times.

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He contacted me. He wanted me to take them up there.

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I took them up there. And the other the next

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person was Cliff Rockman, and he's the one that got

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me into doing the Finding Bigfoot TV show.

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Yeah, I would cansider both of them a friend of

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the show. When you took so you took Daniel up there,

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and you also took Cliff up there at different times.

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Correct different times, And there was another time it took

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Cliff Matt Prewitt, Tyler bounds and I think there was

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another person, I'm not sure. And we went up there

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around the same time. And when we were coming back

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down it was at nighttime and the blood moon was out,

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and that was pretty.

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Cool, big for society. Who will be right back after

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these messages? Well that that must have been just beautiful looking.

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Did anything happen out of the ordinary on any other

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those trips when you took those individuals.

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Up No, only the the only thing that happened different

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was when Daniel Perez and I were up there. Uh,

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we happened to be up on the top talking and

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this this couple came up and they were teachers from

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Portland and we asked them or Daniel, why why are

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you up here? And they was explaining that they wanted

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to go hiking and they saw the picture of the

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big Foot, my picture and and Daniel goes, well, this guy,

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here's the guy that took it, and so they wanted

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to take a picture of me and and ask questions

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and stuff. So that was kind of interesting. And then

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when we were hiking back down and I've never seen

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this before, but there was we were in some snow

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at the time Daniel and I were up there and

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there was these ants. They were and then the snow

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is like a foot to the yard deep in this

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one area. But there ants on top of snow making holes.

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You know, they're coming from the ground up to get this.

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I've never seen anything like that. That was pretty weird,

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that's what you're asking about. But otherwise I hadn't seen

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anything as a bigfoot thing going on up there at

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that time.

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That's that's pretty weird. I've never heard of snow ants before.

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That's really really interesting someting to think about. Have you

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gone up there by yourself since that time?

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I hiked by myself all the time. As matter of fact,

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I just posted on Facebook that this year is the

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twenty years since I did it the last okay, one

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of the last times I went. I went ten years

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after the pictures that I took, and I went out

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there by myself and literally I took a video of

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it and some pictures and it was like a monsoon rainstorm.

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It was so terrible. And this time I posted that

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it's twenty years since I took the pictures, and I

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want to know if anybody wants to go up and

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we could start planning to go up there. And so

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far I only got one person that was is thinking

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about it. But I also need to know what if

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I take people up there, they have to be able

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to hike connect the conditions there. They're not irregular. I'm

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trying to do the same trail I did last time,

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and it's not for the light harder that it's not,

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you know, So it's a long hike to get up there.

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So just throwing it out.

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There, there you go. It definitely sounds like it is

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not for the beginner. In multiple hours to get where

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you were going, you need to be ready. I mean,

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it sounds like you had drop offs right right to

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the side of you as you were up there. You've

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got to not be a beginner outdoors man or hiker

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if you're gonna even consider this, right.

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I mean, it's a great hike in the spring, and

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I mean the summertime through fall it's beautiful. I mean

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the flowers are out during the springtime, summer, it's beautiful.

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You can see for miles up there, all the way

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to Mount Rainier, all the way down. You can see

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the Sisters, you can see to the coast, you can

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see Saddle Mountain in Oregon. It's literally a beautiful place

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to go.

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Is this the main experience you feel that you've had

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with sasquatch over the years.

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Well, my very first time was when I was a

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kid in the seventh in nineteen seventy and we were

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heading to my grandma's house. But we stopped off in

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a little town, couch Cashmere. It's between Manatchi and Leavenworth.

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And it was in the morning and everybody's still sleeping.

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I had told my asked my brother, Aye, Russ, you

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wanted to go out and walk around the woods. And

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he said, yeah, let's go. So we went up and

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we were up on top of this mountain, this ridge,

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and over there on the east side, the trees are

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pine trees mostly, and you can see farther. It's not

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as dense as it is here except soulber Star that's

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wide open. But we were on this one ridge and

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all of a sudden we looked over to this other

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ridge and we see this thing, huge, big brown thing

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laying back and forth and stuff. And I asked my brother,

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what do you think that is? What is that? He goes,

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I don't know. He goes, it's not a bear. Hey,

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let's go check it out. So we had to go

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down into the to this camp through this canyon and

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came back up. And by the time you got up there,

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it was gone, of course. And and the reason I

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figured now the reason was going back and forth, walking

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back and doing like I think it smelt us or

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something or whatever. So but when we got up there,

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it reeked so bad. It was I never smelt something

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that bad in my life. And so then we got

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to my grandma's house where we're going in Elk City, Idaho,

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and first thing out of her mouth was when we

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told her about the story. First out of her mouth was,

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you saw a Sasquatch. And then she started to telling

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us all these stories of the loggers and miners in

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Idaho in that area that they were, and road construction

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people of the Sasquatch, all the stories that she told us.

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It was. It was an amazing thing. But after that

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I hadn't really uh. I did find an article on

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in the Seattle Times back in the Saturdaies about it,

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but after that, I hadn't really thought about it. And

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then there was Menica. I had have had encounters after

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the Silver Star incidt and I'm still having encounters that

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are amazing. That just amazing. I found I found a

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footprint the other day, well, a couple of them. They

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went out into the swamp. I took a picture of that.

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But I'm I'm seeing this stuff. I'm hearing tree knocking,

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which I never would have thought of this stuff in

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still until I started hanging out with the other people

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that know this stuff. Like in Portland once a month,

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this guy called right, I'm having a brave Heart, Guy

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Edwards was doing this thing called Hopsquatch And every month

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in Portland they'd have Hopsquatch there and people from the

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show of Fannie big For there. Certain times you never

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know who would be different. And Bob Gimley was there,

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the guy that did the Chewi costume, he was there.

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There were so many people, Bobo Renee, all those people

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were there. It was really fun. So the more I

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learned about this the Bigfoot, I learned more stuff that, hey,

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i'm out in the woods that might be a big

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foot or might not. You just don't know. Different sounds

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that goes on.

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How long ago was that happening? Which one the Hopsquatch?

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Is that a current day event?

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No, okay, it's been gone. I'm gonna guess twenty years

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to stop. They used to have it once a month

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and it was so many. Some people said pictures. There's

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like I have a picture that was there and you

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can see some of the people that you knew in there.

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It was Greaty was that the Lucky Labrador or something

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like that, a pizza, sandwich place beer? It was really great.

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So are you saying it's the Was it the individual

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that made the Chewbacca costume or the individual that wore it.

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I'm just curious.

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The guy that made it, and he was there to

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talk about the Patterson film and saying that that there

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was no way that that could be faked because they

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didn't have the technology in the sixty seven when that

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when Bob Gimley and the Patterson guy took the pictures

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the video and he said there's no way and stuff,

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and it was. It was a really good discussion. I

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can't I don't want to butcher what he said because

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it's been so long.

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That's that's extremely interesting.

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If you talk to the Cliff or talk to Guy Edwards,

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he might have some video that I'm not sure.

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Now you'd mentioned that you are current day experiencing things

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when you go out and finding tracks and things like that.

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Yeah, I've had encounters. There's one encounter that I had

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that an area called Indian Heaven. I was up there

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by myself. I was I was going to go camping.

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I hand me camp okay, So I got my stuff

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ready and I was hiking up to it's called Indian

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Horse Track Indian Heaven, and I was going up there,

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and I was almost two. I actually got to the

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lake where I was going to camp, but I met

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these two guys. I knew they were handy campers and

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they were heading back where I had just come from

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the parking lot and I had already walked probably two

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three miles in. I asked them what they were doing.

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They goes, well, we're going to go to these lakes.

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And I go, hey, I've never been there, and I've

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been all hiked all that area before. I just this

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is one of the areas I hadn't been, so I said, hey,

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do you mind me going with you? And they said, sure,

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come on back. So we ended up getting going back

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and then it was getting a little bit later, so

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they go, we're going to go back down to the

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parking lot and make dinner and then we'll head up there.

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I said, okay, So we have dinner, we make dinner

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and everything, and it's getting later. It's probably around and

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this isn't this isn't the fall time, so it's probably

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four o'clock or four point thirty. And then they did,

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those two guys decided that they weren't going to go,

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and I said, well, how do I get up there?

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Because I want to go up there in the area.

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So they told me how to get there. They said,

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the trail's probably really overgrown and stuff like that, but

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if you fall the creek that it will go up

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to the first lake, and there's a bunch of lakes

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up there. And so I hike up there, and there's

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trees blown over and until the trail is kind of

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you kind of lose the trail, and then you gain

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the trail and keep going and it's getting darker and darker,

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and so I get up. I said that I get

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to this place, I think it's a good place to

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set up. I'm tired by this time. I've hiked probably

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two miles in or three miles, and I and I

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set up my handmache. I ate some fix up dinner

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and stuff, and I said, okay, it's time to, you know,

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go sleep. So I'm laying my hammy and I'm just

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about ready to doze off, and all of a sudden,

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snack something hit this tree and it's like twenty to

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forty yards away, and then all of a sudden, it went,

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like I said, it was smack, and it sounded like

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it went. Everybody like that got up and this went

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on for about a minute minute thirty or a half

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or whatever, and I just got tired of it and

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I just wasn't the Houston it or something like that,

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and I took out my gun and shot it up

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in the air and it shut up. So then I

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got up next morning and I go and I'm only

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like like one hundred yards or so from the first say,

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so I kind of explore that area. And then when

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I got home, I looked up that area because I

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had to research where I went and stuff. Same thing

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I did with the Silver Star thing. Well on this

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one here I found out and they used to have

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these guys that cleaned the trails. They're rangers, and they

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were up in that area where the lakes are at,

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and they had any they had an incident up there

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where they had their pack horses or mules, and they

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know their horses started getting a little chill skittish. They

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got a little skittish, and then one of the guys

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looked over and he saw this big black thing that

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it wasn't a bear, and they said, I camera exactly

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what he said. But it was a big black thing.

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It was scaring their horses and stuff and all that.

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And you can look it up on internet if I

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tell you it's had. But these lakes were all named

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for the wives of the rangers that were up there

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and working the trails and cleaning the trails. So I

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thought that was really interesting. And that was a pretty

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fun incident that I had. I'll tell you. So, I

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was down in the gorge, that's the gorgeous between on

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the Columbia River between Washington, Oregon, and I was on

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the Washington side, and I'm in an area I call

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Wizard Falls. I won't say the name of the place

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because now I heard it's all closed off for environmental thing.

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But I was hiking up in that area and zig

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zagging up these cliffs of stuff to get up, and

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all of a sudden I found I found two left

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feet footprints. I could the right foot every time it

456
00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.640
would land in the solid rock. So these things were

457
00:29:55.680 --> 00:30:01.319
and I got pictures of this, of the footprints, and

458
00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:05.839
these things were about seventeen inches to eighteen inches long,

459
00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:10.839
the footprints. So I took that and then I kept zigzagging.

460
00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:13.599
I kept going up. About forty five minutes later, I

461
00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:16.880
was way up at the top of this area and

462
00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:22.359
I'm walking along and like I said, I'm at the top,

463
00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.240
so there's there's not there's no cliffs or anything like that.

464
00:30:25.880 --> 00:30:29.680
And I'm walking along and about twenty feet from me,

465
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.240
a big rock the size of a microwave drops right

466
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:40.079
by me. I stopped. I look around, and I go, uh, okay,

467
00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:44.839
I know that whatever they are. At first I thought, okay,

468
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.359
At first I thought, did this thing drop out of

469
00:30:47.359 --> 00:30:51.400
a tree? But if the trees aren't windy or anything

470
00:30:51.440 --> 00:30:53.400
like that, and it just that was just kind of

471
00:30:53.440 --> 00:30:55.240
a weird thing. But that's the first thing out in

472
00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:57.559
my mind. Could this drop out of the tree? And

473
00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:59.640
I looked around and stuff. I couldn't see that that,

474
00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:05.759
I could hear nothing, but I think that basically whatever

475
00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:07.880
it was was warning to get out of that area.

476
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:11.039
You know. It's the same with the silver Star thing

477
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:17.920
that when my body got electric electrified. I found out

478
00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:21.839
later that the Bigfoot will send out like a bad signal,

479
00:31:22.279 --> 00:31:26.759
you know, sign a high pitch something that's telling you

480
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:27.880
to get out of their area.

481
00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:31.759
Big for society will be right back after these messages.

482
00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:50.839
Now, like I said, just learning all this stuff back

483
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:55.359
in the day. So that's one of the things that

484
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:58.079
happened to me. And I remember this other time. I

485
00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:02.240
was up at eight k by eight caves on not

486
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.279
Saint Ellen's and I used to hike with these guys

487
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:10.920
that are we did night hikes and we were doing

488
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.880
the only cave which a lot of the only the

489
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:19.200
locals really know about this cave at that time. And

490
00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:23.680
so we're getting back to the car. It's about three

491
00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:27.519
in the morning and the guy we're getting up to

492
00:32:27.559 --> 00:32:31.960
his car and he clicks his for his alarm on

493
00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:35.640
this key thing and they went beep beep like that,

494
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:40.640
and all of a sudden, this ungodly uh screeched yelled

495
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:44.240
out and it ran it away from us. The ground

496
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:50.240
shook and it was pounding and busting branches and trees

497
00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:54.440
getting away from us. And we both were the two

498
00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:59.319
of the three of us go what was that I

499
00:32:59.359 --> 00:33:02.039
don't know about that really shook the ground. I don't

500
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:06.480
know what that was, but it was big, and yeah,

501
00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:11.039
that was that was. And so I think it was

502
00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:17.160
like a month or three later that I heard on

503
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.039
some TV show about bigfoot. It made that screeching sound

504
00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:24.920
or something, and that's what I figured that was a bigfoot.

505
00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:29.119
Now again I don't know, because of course, it's just

506
00:33:29.119 --> 00:33:33.319
something that happened, and it's the weird thing that these

507
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:37.240
things happened to me. And I mean to find footprints

508
00:33:37.319 --> 00:33:40.480
side tree knocking. The first time I heard tree knocking

509
00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:43.720
was I was camping at Frog Lake down in the

510
00:33:43.759 --> 00:33:48.039
south part of Mount Hood at about four point thirty

511
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:50.279
the morning. I'm out hiking around and all of a

512
00:33:50.319 --> 00:33:54.720
sudden I hear the tree knocking. I get a log

513
00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:57.640
and I hit the hit it that the tree that

514
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:00.680
kind of like see what would happened? And then it

515
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:03.759
answered me back, and this went back and forth a

516
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:06.400
little bit of time, and then it just stopped talking.

517
00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:08.679
I might have not hit the tree that many times

518
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:12.599
for that, but okay, I should not.

519
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:22.840
Randy, this is some incredible things in some really incredible

520
00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:25.320
places that you hear about, some of which I mean

521
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.239
people that don't go people that go out by themselves.

522
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:34.360
I'm thinking of like Indian Heaven. There's a lot of

523
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:39.880
missing persons cases out there. But has there ever been

524
00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:44.199
a time when you've been out, you know, doing some

525
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.559
hiking or exploring and something has happened and you've been like,

526
00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:50.800
you know, this is a little bit too much for me.

527
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.519
I'd rather not be here, but I've got to deal

528
00:34:54.559 --> 00:34:54.840
with this.

529
00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.000
I was hiking in the gorge on the Organ side,

530
00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:03.119
and I was doing night hike by myself. I've done

531
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:07.239
a lot of those during around New Year's and stuff.

532
00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:09.679
I like that coming in the years. And I was

533
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:12.920
out there on this trail. I wish I could mend

534
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:14.559
which the trail was. I have to think about it.

535
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:19.440
But all of a sudden I hear somebody behind or

536
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.960
down the trail coming up the trail, and I just

537
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.760
dove off the trail and and I thought that was weird.

538
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.840
But I did ever see anybody. It was just the

539
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:35.679
noising walking up through the trail. I thought that was weird,

540
00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:42.400
and and did I. I did turn around and go

541
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.400
back at that time, because that was kind of spooky

542
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:45.679
to me.

543
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:49.800
So were you able to hear the steps go by

544
00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.360
you and there was nothing there.

545
00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:57.199
Visually, yeah, it was. You can feel it. Oh, that's

546
00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.440
I just remember. Okay. So I was up in the

547
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:05.320
up on this one place that I parked, and it's

548
00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:11.519
up called Lookout Mountain. It's above large mountain in the

549
00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:16.119
area of Silver Star, and I plan on hiking around

550
00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:19.079
the mountain all the way around it. It's called Lookout Mountain.

551
00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:24.000
There's a lookout up there radio there's actually a radio

552
00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:28.800
tower up there now. And so I parked my car,

553
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:34.039
got myself riding, and I'm hiking down and then I

554
00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:36.199
knew I was going all the way around the mountain.

555
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:40.119
Never did this before. The trail disappears. I'm going down

556
00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:46.639
this cliff and stuff, and I ended up somehow, and

557
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:49.440
I've never been in this area. Somehow, when I was

558
00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:52.599
climbing down the cliff or walking and scooting down the cliff,

559
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:57.440
I hit a hornet's nest or bee hive or something

560
00:36:57.440 --> 00:37:00.239
like that, and it started attacking me. So I I

561
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:04.079
actually literally jumped and leaked and bound and got down

562
00:37:04.119 --> 00:37:07.679
out of that area. And so later probably about another

563
00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:11.320
half hour forty five minutes, I'm down in this canyon

564
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:15.480
and there's no trail like I said, I'm just I

565
00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:19.360
kind of got a homing device on my mind of

566
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.679
I know where I'm at or whatever for some reasons,

567
00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:25.440
because I don't carry a compass, I don't carry GPS

568
00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:30.079
system or nothing like that. So then I walking down

569
00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:35.000
in this one area, I'm way down. I just cross

570
00:37:35.119 --> 00:37:42.960
this creek, and right next to me, probably about probably

571
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:47.960
five yards to ten yards away from me, some come

572
00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:55.280
through the trees and big heavy weight. I could feel it.

573
00:37:55.679 --> 00:37:58.559
But at the and I'm gonna still say this because

574
00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:00.519
I don't know because I didn't see it, but I

575
00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:03.360
heard it, and it's going I was thinking there was elk

576
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:05.599
and they didn't know I was there or whatever it

577
00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.360
was didn't know I was there. And it was like

578
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:11.199
three or four of them went right by me up

579
00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:13.320
but they, like I said, it was like five to

580
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.960
ten yards away, and they just went right up the

581
00:38:17.039 --> 00:38:22.079
hill past me. And I thought, well that that was

582
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.320
just weird and so and then eventually.

583
00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:29.719
I got up and finally found the road on the

584
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:33.280
other side, the main road, and hiked my car, and

585
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:36.039
that probably was about I'm going to say seven or

586
00:38:36.079 --> 00:38:37.159
eight miles I walked.

587
00:38:39.760 --> 00:38:41.880
I call it bushwhacking, Okay.

588
00:38:41.880 --> 00:38:47.280
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's uh, I've done

589
00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:50.400
that with us is back. I mean I used to

590
00:38:50.440 --> 00:38:54.719
do a lot of East Coast hiking in uh well,

591
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:57.760
it was like a high school some nineties. But yeah,

592
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:01.480
you do some bushwhacking, you gotta definitely have your skills

593
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:05.440
and tools with you just in case you never know.

594
00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:08.920
There was another time I was walking out when we

595
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:12.280
lived in Squim, Washington for a little bit, and I

596
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:16.280
took a hike out. I still can't remember that name

597
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:20.320
of the huge gigantic forest park that they got there,

598
00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:25.960
but I'm walking along and some catches my eye and

599
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:28.239
I took pictures. I got my phone out and took

600
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:40.000
pictures of it. And that was weird because that I

601
00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:43.360
took pictures of it. And then right after that, I

602
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.159
saw this leaf that looked like a face that was

603
00:39:47.199 --> 00:39:48.639
on there, and I go, what the heck is that

604
00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:52.000
sasquatches tell you? But this thing looked like this thing

605
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.400
was a sasquatch I saw, and I showed it to

606
00:39:55.480 --> 00:40:00.360
what is his name, I'm gonna say Todd something does.

607
00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.119
He lives up in Agnew Washington, which is by Squinn,

608
00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:10.280
and he does bigfoots the strange days He does, and

609
00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:16.760
oh was that to his he showed me it's told

610
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.880
that's right, not both. And I just met him last

611
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:26.880
two years ago at the Bigfoot convention here in Longview,

612
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:32.079
and I showed him the pictures and he showed that

613
00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:35.440
to his wife and they she goes, that's the same

614
00:40:35.480 --> 00:40:39.519
thing I saw in the same area, and we both

615
00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:43.360
call it. She called the green Man because it looks

616
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.800
like it looks like a big, green, mossy bigfoot thing.

617
00:40:46.920 --> 00:40:49.599
It was. And I just took two pictures. You see,

618
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:52.599
you can see the face, you can see the pecks

619
00:40:53.079 --> 00:40:55.519
and everything like that, but it ran off. I got

620
00:40:55.519 --> 00:41:00.400
two pictures of that. And then later about a week later,

621
00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:03.440
I was up on the Dungeon Nass River in Squim

622
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:10.159
area and I found a friend of mine that I

623
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.320
forgot his name, but we went up there and looking

624
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:18.519
for stuff, and we found bigfoot coming out of the

625
00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:22.280
Dungeons River and you can there's this big rock and

626
00:41:22.320 --> 00:41:24.840
it smashed the rock. I got pictures of that too,

627
00:41:25.400 --> 00:41:27.159
coming out of the river and went up the hill

628
00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.519
and this thing went right up the hill and I

629
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:34.199
couldn't even climb. It was just just almost eighty degree

630
00:41:34.960 --> 00:41:38.679
eighty degrees embankment. You know, straight up it was crazy.

631
00:41:40.679 --> 00:41:44.159
That's extremely interesting. I mean those sound like photos that

632
00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:47.119
would be incredible to see. I don't know if those

633
00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:52.400
are any that you feel comfortable sharing with with myself

634
00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:56.079
or listeners. I'll let you think about that for a while.

635
00:41:56.360 --> 00:41:59.800
The whole Olympic Peninsula. You talk to people over by forks,

636
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:05.000
and there's always sightings that are occurring over there. The

637
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:11.559
whole rainforest extremely extremely wild stuff. You've had more than

638
00:42:11.599 --> 00:42:16.400
a few sightings, and so you've probably thought about that

639
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.719
for a while about what you saw. Do you have

640
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:25.519
any thoughts about what you think Bigfoot is exactly?

641
00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:35.920
I believe he's a creature. I mean it walks like

642
00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.559
a man, but not like a man. The way his

643
00:42:39.719 --> 00:42:43.000
legs move and the feet, the way his feet at

644
00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:48.719
the ground, it's almost like a gorilla. But it's not

645
00:42:48.840 --> 00:42:57.559
a gorilla. It's not I I don't know if it's interdimensial.

646
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:03.679
I've heard that before. I don't know. It's just they

647
00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:07.000
know the woods, they're out there, and mean the big

648
00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:10.039
thing is people go, well, why we haven't found any

649
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:13.119
body or anything, And I go, well, have you ever

650
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:16.000
been in the woods. There's thousands of elk in this

651
00:43:16.119 --> 00:43:19.559
area right there I live in now, and you might

652
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:23.079
find a couple bones or whatever, but you don't find

653
00:43:23.119 --> 00:43:25.840
a lot of them, and there's thousands of elk. Care

654
00:43:27.840 --> 00:43:29.480
if you ever been out in the woods and found

655
00:43:29.480 --> 00:43:35.480
a porcupine bones, probably not. The nature takes care of itself.

656
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:42.079
So you know, they start, the body starts deteriorating fast,

657
00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:50.079
and you got all these ants. You've got rats, mice, possums, raccoons,

658
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:53.599
you name it. We got it that they're going to

659
00:43:56.280 --> 00:44:01.119
to make that body disappear and thes and branches and

660
00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:08.000
falling down and naturally decomposed, decomposed. Uh you know what

661
00:44:08.039 --> 00:44:08.480
I'm saying.

662
00:44:08.960 --> 00:44:13.199
Oh no, absolutely, I mean that's that is the best

663
00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:16.079
way to give an answer to that question. That's a question.

664
00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:19.159
You do get a lot. But you know, Randy has

665
00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.920
been a really enjoyable conversation with you. Before we do

666
00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:25.199
start to end out, I just want to make sure

667
00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:28.239
were there any other things that you wanted to make

668
00:44:28.280 --> 00:44:30.039
sure that you had shared in this interview.

669
00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:33.920
I'll say one thing about the silver Star thing. If

670
00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:36.519
I would have known now, because the whole thing was

671
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.800
people said, well, why didn't you zoom in on it?

672
00:44:40.159 --> 00:44:43.239
Why didn't you do this? Why didn't you do that? Well,

673
00:44:43.280 --> 00:44:46.920
my camera was very small, it wasn't professional camera. I'm

674
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:49.960
lucky you had a camera. Time they go, why didn't

675
00:44:49.960 --> 00:44:52.000
you go and look at for a footprints it? And

676
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.320
I already said that it was cold. I was getting cold.

677
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:58.559
I needed to get back to the back to my car.

678
00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:07.280
And there's so many things that happen, and I'm not

679
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.559
afraid to talk about it because a lot of people

680
00:45:09.559 --> 00:45:13.400
are afraid about talking about this stuff that happens. Because

681
00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:18.599
I feel things happen in me all the time, like

682
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:20.719
this being out in the woods, and I'm out in

683
00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.800
the woods most of the time whenever I can be.

684
00:45:23.960 --> 00:45:27.920
So I just want people to when they go out

685
00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:31.000
to enjoy yourself, but leave it as it as you

686
00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:36.159
had found it. Don't trash it. Okay, that's all I think.

687
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:39.800
That's great advice. Thank you for coming on the show today, Randy.

688
00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.519
That has been a really fun time chatting with you.

689
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.719
I do have a few more questions for you after this,

690
00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:48.039
but thank you so much.

691
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:50.840
Thank you for having me on here, Jeremiah.

692
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:53.880
I just wanted to take a few minutes to say

693
00:45:53.920 --> 00:45:57.800
thank you to you. Hollman listeners, for listening to the podcast.

694
00:45:58.679 --> 00:46:01.440
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you're subscribed share the show with a friend. Really, it's

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all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've

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had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following or know

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someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot

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Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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Here's the list. The Subtle Lake area of Oregon, Rainbow, Oregon,

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McKinsey Bridge area, Sweet Home, pretty much that entire area,

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the north part. If you get what I mean, I'll

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see you back next time. Listeners. SASA Summerfest this year

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July eleventh through the twelfth. It's going to be fantastic.

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July eleventh through twelfth in Greenwaters Park and Oakridge, Oregon,

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and listeners, if you're going to go, you can get

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a two day ticket for the cost of one if

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you use the code b F S like Bigfoot Society

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but BFS and it'll get used. Some off your cost.

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Priscilla wasn't nice enough to provide that for my listeners.

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So there you go. I look forward to seeing you there,

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so make sure you head over to www Dot Sasquatch

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Summerfest dot com and pick up your tickets today