June 15, 2026

“Something Crawled Outside Her Tent” | Mary Ann Ziebell | Northern Missouri

“Something Crawled Outside Her Tent” | Mary Ann Ziebell | Northern Missouri
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Season 1

A remote property in northern Missouri became the center of one of the strangest BFRO expeditions Mary Ann Ziebell has ever experienced.


Researchers spread across the land reported knocks in the darkness, shadow movement near the tree line, unexplained footsteps following investigators, thermal sightings deep in a ravine, and deer suddenly fleeing through the field.


Then, during a thunderstorm after midnight, something began hitting the side of Mary Ann’s tent over and over again.


As the team scrambled outside, a massive figure was spotted moving near the barn and eye shine flashed in the darkness before disappearing into the woods.


This episode dives deep into firsthand testimony, coordinated field investigation, and the unsettling activity surrounding a northern Missouri property with decades of Bigfoot history.


Listen now to hear the full encounter.

Resources:

Mary Ann's show
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnPjIMf3ScxUsOLN8lov1_A


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all right, Big for Society, Welcome back to another episode.

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We've got the privilege of talking to Mary Ann Zabelle today.

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We've talked to her once already on the show and

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that was a fun, fun time, and then I was

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over on her show as well. Mary Ann, welcome back.

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We are excited to talk to you today about a

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recent BFRO expedition in northern Missouri. But how are you

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doing today?

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Man, I'm great, Thanks for having me back.

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Absolutely when I heard you told me a little bit

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about it in how LEVI had quite the experience too,

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and I just was telling you beforehand I just talked

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to Levi on the show, so his episode is going

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to be out before years, and he was.

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Telling me what happened.

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I was like, man, I got to talk to mary

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Anne for sure because she went through the ringer on

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this one, so.

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A little bit.

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Yeah, yeah, is there anything else?

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Let's say, if there's a listener where it's it's the

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first Maryanne episode, anything else about yourself that that listeners

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would want to know before we get going.

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Well, you know, I've always been interested in Bigfoot and cryptis,

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you know, the weird whatever outside the norm. You know,

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ever since I was a kid, it was Bigfoot and

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lotnest monster, that kind of stuff. And in twenty nineteen,

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on my very first BFRORO expedition I ever attended, had

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a class A siding, which just kind of threw me

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into everything. I mean, I had been the armchair researcher

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up until that point. At that point, I'm like eyeball

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deep because now I want to know more, which we

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started to do expeditions I don't do as in go

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and then after one I came back and said, you

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know what, Missouri needs a conference because we have all

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these things going on here in Missouri that people just

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don't realize, right, So I started the Ozart Mountain Bigfoot

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Conference and we do that in October and we'll be

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releasing information on that coming up very soon. Which also

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in the last year, I've started my own podcast and

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by the time this airs, it's all going to be

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under Bigfoot case Files and you can find that on YouTube.

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And it's also been launched on all the major platforms

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anything with iHeartRadio and I'm going to be a I'm

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a BFRO investigator and I currently lead the expeditions for

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the BFRO in the state of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and

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in September we will be doing our first one in Illinois.

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That's awesome.

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Yeah, man, Illinois O cana worms, because you could go

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all over the place. But we want to make sure

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that we chat about this Northern Missouri expedition that just happened.

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I mean weeks ago, right.

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A week. We got home a week ago Sunday, so

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a little over a week.

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Okay, So we're talking about excuse me, like May seventeenth, eighteenth,

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twenty twenty six around there, correct, Yeah, for future listeners.

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Set the stage force what you know, if people aren't

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used to be RO interviews. We can't really go into

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specifics about where it was. We can say pretty much

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the state, and that's because sometimes it's private property where

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we don't want to give a person's house away. Yes,

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maybe it's a place that's being actively researched by the organization,

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so we might not have super details, but we might

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have a few details.

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And that's just kind of.

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How it rolls for these But Marion, what can you

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tell us about this area that you went into.

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Well, it is northern Missouri, and we had been on

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this property before because this person had reached out to

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the BFRORO and the email was sent on to me

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that he had activity, and so I took a few

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people we went up there last year and just privately

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went to check it out, camp on this property and

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see what we could find. And we had a little

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bit of activity, caught some audio that was interesting, you know.

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So you know, places like that, you just kind of

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keep those, you know, to yourself because it's it's always

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a good place to use for expeditions. And so I'd

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reached out to him and he was like, absolutely, come

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up stay, you know, so we did. It is private

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property and this gentleman has been on the property for

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over twenty five years. At this point, he's had three

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Class A sidings himself on his own property. They hear

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things and you know, just the incidental things that happen

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that people get to the point where it happens to

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him on a regular basis and they kind of stop

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noticing it because it becomes the norm. I will tell

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you the one thing that we noticed on this trip

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and we laughed about it later. So this house, when

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you roll into the property, you drive past it and

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when you get behind it, it's a two story house

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with eight foot windows on both floors, and the homeowners

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have curtains, but they never close them. And they're night outs.

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I mean they're up till like four in the morning.

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So when you're sitting back on the property looking back

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at the house, it's like it's your own TV right there, okay,

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because they're up, they're moving. You know, they have animals

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in the house, you know, their dogs, their cats, several

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people in the house, so it's constant activity. So it

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makes a lot of sense why they are having this

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stuff go on, because they're entertaining the big foots.

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Yeah, no, absolutely, and that really lines up with a

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few different reports I've heard. So how close are they

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getting to the house.

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There, I'm trying to think probably twenty five yards. Wow,

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and they've seen them at twenty five yards. Now, there's

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no telling what they're doing when they aren't out there.

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You know, they've been outside and seeing them, not just

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through the window, they've been outside and seeing them, you know,

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walking through their property because they have a large water

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source there, and you know, I think they're coming into

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that and they're just you know, nobody's bothered them on

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that property. Those people don't bother them. They're not out

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there harassing or anything. So they've become pretty comfortable on

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that property.

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I would say what I picked up from Levi's side

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is that the owners of this property, they're not like

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big foot researchers.

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No, They're just they're just.

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Chilling out and have been thrown into We live in

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this situation and we kind of have stuff happening on happening,

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and we're trying to figure out what's going on.

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But and they're not really freaked out about it.

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Yeah, you know, they just kind of go with the flow,

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and I think that's the best way to be I

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mean they're not having aggressive activity. It's not anything like that.

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And what we had happened it wasn't aggressive. But if

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you're not prepared, it will scare you.

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Yeah, absolutely absolutely.

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I can only imagine maybe one of these days I'll

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be able to have that happen. But I gotta get

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a few other things taken care of first before I

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can get out there again. So walk me through what

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happened when you first got on the property. It sounds

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like Levi was the first one to hit the ground.

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Yeah. Levi sometimes goes in a day or two early,

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depending on where we're at and the situation. And so

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Levi I got in there on Thursday and got set up,

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and he puts this recording equipment out, that kind of stuff,

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and he was, you know, picking up some sounds and things,

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you know, that kind of thing out there, and he's

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getting used to it because, you know, a new place,

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when you roll in like that, all the sounds are different.

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You know, you just kind of have to to figure

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it out. We roll in on Wednesday, my husband and

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I because we set up because we feed people. You know,

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we're getting base camp all ready to go. So we

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rolled in there on Wednesday, and we had camped up

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by this gentleman has and it's an older horse barn,

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and we were kind of up by it because we

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had electric there and we put out you know, like

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I said, we put up our cooked tent and we

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cook and take care of these people. So we're up

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away from the majority of the camping because of this,

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but that's where base camp's at. We've got a fire

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ring there, that's where everybody's going to come and congregate.

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And so we were sitting around the fire Wednesday night

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and Levi has these two long lights and when he's

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walking through the woods, they actually look like lightsabers. And

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he takes off and he was walking and doing some

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filming across the little pond that's there, and you can

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see him over there because you can see those lights.

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I mean, they really put out the light. And he's

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walking in and he stops and he came back and

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we were laughing. He's like, yeah, I got about halfway

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through that wooded area over there, and he was like,

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all of a sudden, it was like, nope, I'm not

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going any farther. He's like the whole feeling changed, and

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there was a there's a graveled road that goes around

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the water and back over into that area where this

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gentleman has kind of set up camping. And where the

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road's at there's a ravine, not real deep, but fifteen

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twenty feet but it's heavily wooded and a lot of

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undergrowth and you just can't see through there. And when

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he was walking back, he was hearing movement in there

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type stuff, you know, and he was He's like, I

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don't know what it was, but it was movement, you know.

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So there was just some little things that night, you know,

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things in the distance. Uh, not a lot that night.

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But then we weren't out tramps and around over the

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property either. We just stayed at base camp by the fire.

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And so Thursday that's the day that everybody rolls in

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and you know, we're getting everybody situated, getting them, you know,

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where they need to camp, that type stuff. And usually

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Thursday afternoon Levi teaches a tech class, you know, showing

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everybody what we're going to be using, you know, and

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if they have questions about what they have, he shows

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them how to do whatever it is, you know that

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needs to be taken care of. So we had dinner

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at six and then we always, depending on the weather,

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the time of year, that kind of stuff. You know,

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we usually roll out about nine o'clock. And I know

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some people would say that's pretty early, but in some

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areas it's really not, because you've got activity going on.

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But what we decided to do on Thursday night was

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we divided up. I think there was about three groups,

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and we didn't want to push too far out into

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the property. We were just kind of like letting them know,

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you know, here we are, this is what we're doing.

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Thursday night, it was you know, incidental things going on,

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not a whole lot noises, you know, things like that movement.

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You know. So then when Friday night rolled around, we

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did things a little bit different. We're trying to go

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back and take old techniques that you know, some of

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the early researchers used to do and kind of mix

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some in with some of the new stuff to see

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if we can't get So what we had done there

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is some of the groups had gone out at nine

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o'clock and then we told them, you know, we'd also

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set up where we were going to go back out

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at midnight. So we got two groups, you know, two

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different times going out. So the nine o'clock group. What

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we did we divided them up in two groups of

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two and sent them to different parts of the property,

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so that we had people all over the property and

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that if the bigfoots came in they had to they

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would have had to pass somebody right where we were

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all at. And then we had a group of about

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five or six who sat up on an area where

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they could see most everybody from their vantage point, and

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we cleared base camp out. We didn't let anybody stay

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in base camp. We just let the fire go. Robert

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and I were the closest ones to base camp, but

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nobody was in base camp. So where we were sitting

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was up on a little you know, just a little knoll,

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but we could see out over the fields. We were

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just thurming and watching. And I told everybody at nine

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o'clock to come back out and come back. Well, no,

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we went in at nine. Sorry, we went in at nine,

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and I told them to come out at eleven. And

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so a couple of minutes before eleven, the first two

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guys come. We didn't even see them yet, but it's

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a couple of minutes to eleven, and we get two

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knocks right next to where Robert and I are sitting now.

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They're not like the Louisville Slugger. They're just a couple

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of soft knocks. And almost immediately we see these guys'

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red lights. I was like, oh, okay, that was interesting.

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Do you think that was them or you know, we're

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discussing this. So we watched them walk across the field. Well,

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a couple one hundred yards down was where the next

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group was at of two, and same thing happens, but

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it's only one knock this time. And then these two

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come out of the woods and I said, okay, we're

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going to sit here watch for a while because we're

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getting knocks as these people are getting up and starting

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to move. So they had came out and then just stopped,

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you know, and we're watching them, and then they went

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on to camp, and all the other groups, you know,

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kind of came back into camp. So when we got

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back into camp, we're questioned him the first two guys,

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did you guys do knocks before you came out? They

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said no, we didn't. We said did you hear those?

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They didn't hear the knocks. So those knocks were closer

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to where Robert and I were at, so that second group,

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now it was a husband and wife and where they

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were sitting they could see the house and the light

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that was on the house. There was a big pole

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light and it kind of shone toward where they were at,

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and so the wife saw a shadowy movement in front

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of them that looks like that spider crawl, except very large,

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very large spider crawl, which that just kind of blew

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her mind. Well, the husband was getting a shadow that

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was blocking that light behind him. Now that wouldn't have

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been anybody at the house. It had to be closer

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to them, and he said the shadow that was blocking

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that out was substantially larger than him. So they were

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having this shadowy movement around it. She was getting it

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in front of her, he was getting it behind him.

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So that's going on. They were not knocking when they

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came out, so we've got, you know, two groups knocks.

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It wasn't the people, it was something else. So the

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group that we had that was observing everybody when they

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walked back in on the chat road, and as they're

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getting to the base camp, we see them walking and

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one of the ladies is substantially farther. She's probably seventy

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five feet ahead of the group, and I heard her

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say something and turn around, and then she just she

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kept come walking because who's she talking to. Nobody's right

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there with her. She gets into camp and they're all

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kind of standing there, and she said, I swear one

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of the other girls was walking right next to me.

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She turns to say something to her, and there's nobody there.

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The group isn't even remotely close to her. She said,

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I could hear footsteps right next to me, and the

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group thought there was somebody behind them because they could

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hear footsteps on the road behind them. So we had

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that going on. Well, at this point time, we still

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have one group of two guys way out as far

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out in this on this guy's property as they can be,

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and they're just sitting. They're going to stay back there,

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they're going to sit and watch. So everybody's back at

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base camp. So we told him, we said, okay, we're

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getting ready to do our next you know, next wave.

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Anybody that doesn't want to do it, please go back

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to your tents get situated, because we don't want to

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have anybody, you know. So we waited a few minutes.

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People left, They went back to their tents. So the

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group that was left, we split those into two and

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one of them stayed at the base camp and the

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other one went back where Robert and I were at

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and they watched the field and Levi this whole time,

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he was like patrolling. He goes into his black Ninja mode.

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He's black at the toe, he's got He had picked

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up lights because we had put lights out in the field.

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He put them on blue, and he had the lights

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because that was part of the part of the experiment too,

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was you know, you hear they're very attracted to blue.

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So he had put his lightsabers out there, put them

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on the blue spectrum, and he was seeing things with

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the group that was sitting out there. He thought he

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was seeing something and when and I'm sure he explains

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it a lot better. It was a bush and a

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tree and the combination of him one of them looked

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a lot darker and looked like there was a tunnel

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type thing going on out there. And one of the

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ladies out there, she also theirmed they'd been watching deer

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that had just kind of been grazing in this field,

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and then all of a sudden, the deer come running

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like something's after him, you know. So there were some

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odd things like that going on, but not you know,

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not a lot of stuff. So at this point, our

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group that's the farthest back has started to kind of

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make their way back in toward us. And he's texting me,

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talking to me about the fire at base camp and

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there's like it's just a little bitty fire. And he's like,

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what are you guys doing? You know, have you you

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kill a deer? You're roasting it, you know, because he's

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talking about this huge fire, and I am like, this

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guy has lost his mind? What is wrong with him?

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We'll come to find out. The landowner had a brush

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pile back there on the hill and it had been

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smoldering for a couple of days. Well it had reignited

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because it had been windy, okay, And so when he

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gets up there, he's like, oh my god, this thing's

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on fire. You probably need to go tell them, you know.

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So one in the morning, you know, I'm up here

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at the door. Hey, So I'm telling them. Well, they

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all come tearing out the house, jumping vehicles and drive

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back there and I'm thinking, well, that's just screwed up

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anything that we've had nowhere, right, yep. So at this

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point I called the group back in, and you know,

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I'm like, hey, this is what's going on. There's fire,

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there's all this activity, you know. And so we're standing

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there talking to him and one of the ladies said, hey,

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who was walking in the field out there? They said, nobody,

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You stood right here while we sent area back to

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the tent, and like they would have been facing this

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way and the camp was, you know, over further, so

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she wouldn't have been thrming anybody in the camp and

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she couldn't see the field below camp because there was

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too many trees. The field that they were therming is

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a completely different field. And I'm like, there wasn't it. Yeah,

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I saw somebody, And I'm like, no, you didn't see somebody,

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you know. Finally, it took going through this about three

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times and she went I thurned something. I said, apparently,

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you know, she didn't record it because she thought it

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was somebody.

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Oh man, oh yeah.

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And so she's like lesson, learned, lesson. I said, record everything.

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I don't care what it is. Record it all. Let

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us look at it, you know. And so she's like okay,

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and she felt bad. I mean, she felt bad but

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you know, that's how you learn, right. So at that point,

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you know, it's two in the morning, we're finally like, okay,

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we're done, we're done, we've had enough. At this point,

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you know, everybody goes to bed. So at this point,

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we're Saturday morning, we're up, we've had breakfast, and we

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do what we call a deep briefing and we go

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over what all the groups that night before had happened.

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And so we took the lady that thermed and we

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went back to the area where she was at and

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we put someone in the field and this gentleman has

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a pole that has measurements on it and he's got

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a ball on the top of it so we can

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raise it up and get to the areas. And what

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she was seeing was about seven feet tall. Wow. The

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area that it was in was that ravine where we'd

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been hearing movement. It was the very outer edge of

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that in the bushes that she was getting the heat

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signature in there. So that to us was like, Okay,

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that's just confirming what we've been hearing and seeing. The

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landowner had dogs and they would be in and out.

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They kind of kept them in while we were there,

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so that the dogs weren't bothering us at night and

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the evening before, Levi had went in to change his

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clothes and he kind of got overheated. He wasn't feeling good.

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When he came out, he hears this commotion and one

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of the dogs comes shooting out of the tree line.

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Scared him to death, right, And when he sees the dog,

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and the dog is like making a beeline for the

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house like he is running from something, and Levi hollers

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at him, calls his name, and the dog comes over

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to him, and so Levi's petty, and Levi said, he

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hears this commotion in the tree line and he thinks

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another dog's coming out, because that's what it sounds like.

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Nothing came out of the tree line. So yeah, So

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then back to Saturday morning, we do the reenactment. You know,

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this thing's about seven feet tall and it's in the area.

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So at this point we kind of know, you know,

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we're formulating what we want to do that evening and

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what we're going to do. So on Saturday, they're calling

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for rain, so we were kind of like just kind

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of having to ride this one out because we weren't

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for sure the landowners were very nice and wanted to

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provide dinner for us that night. So we went up

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there and what was really funny is all of us

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went into the house. Levi's outside. He's kind of messing

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around and he was getting some faint whoops now this

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it wasn't even dark, and some knocks some things like that.

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After we'd all gone in the house, you know, it's like, okay,

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they're all in the house, let's act up a little bit,

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you know. So we came back out. We're watching the radar,

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and at this point we move everybody into this big

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horse barn that is right where Robert and I have

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the tent, because we had our canopies and stuff. But

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it was it was lightning, you know, and it was like, okay,

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let's sit in here. Let's see if this storm. Because

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the radar at that point was showing this that about

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nine point thirty it should have been moved through it.

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So we're like, let's just sit it out, you know,

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if it's not bad, we'll go out afterwards. And the

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only reason, like the rain wouldn't normally deter us, but

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there was a lot of lightning with this, you know,

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if it was just a little rain shower that we'd

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just still been out doing things, but it was lightning substantially,

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so you know, at that point you kind of have

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to call it, you know. But so we sat in

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there and nine o'clock rolls around, and this thing it

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just keeps building. There's no it's not going to dissipate

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at this point. So a lot of the people are like,

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you know what, we're going to go back to our

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tents if this finally, you know, dies off later. If

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you guys decide you want to do something, message us

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or come get us or whatever. Right, it's like, okay,

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So at this point there's four of us left, and

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we sit around about till about ten o'clock or so,

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and we watch leave I move Its struck for thirty minutes.

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That's awesome.

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Well, he's got this little maverick that has he has

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put the pop up tent on the back of it, right, ok. Yeah,

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where he had been there was a very large tree

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and the wind was starting to pick up, and you know,

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it's storming and he just doesn't want the truck.

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Yeah yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.

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He's trying to find a spot. Well, we're semi on

459
00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:20.680
this hill. And you know, it's wherever he's parking. This

460
00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:23.799
is not it's not level. We sat there and laughed.

461
00:26:23.839 --> 00:26:26.160
We watched he'd park here, and then he'd get out,

462
00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:28.599
and then he'd park here, and we were just laughing

463
00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:30.920
at him, you know. He finally finds a spot and

464
00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:32.839
he's like, okay, this is where we're staying. I'm staying.

465
00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:35.839
We're like, okay, whatever, we're laughing at him. So at

466
00:26:35.880 --> 00:26:41.039
this point everybody disperses and goes back to their tents.

467
00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.640
And so Robert and I get in the tent and

468
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:51.359
Robert's head hits cod and he is asleep. I'm like, okay,

469
00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:54.400
I didn't have I was going to stay up because

470
00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:57.519
there were some warnings that were in effect till about

471
00:26:57.519 --> 00:26:58.319
eleven o'clock.

472
00:26:58.640 --> 00:26:59.039
Oh sure.

473
00:26:59.119 --> 00:27:03.880
So I'm like in my cot and my cot is

474
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:08.839
right against the side of the tent, and we had

475
00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:13.400
bought a new tent, and our tent has got sewn

476
00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:16.039
in pockets. They're about two feet up, and so you've

477
00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:20.640
got these pockets now, right. So I'm sitting in my cot,

478
00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:23.559
I'm on my phone. I'm flipping between the radar and

479
00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:27.920
a game. I have no sound, you know, and I'm

480
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:29.880
just messing because I'm going to stay out and watch this.

481
00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:32.000
I keep watching the radar and it looks like we're

482
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:34.400
just going to get these glancing blows. But I'm going

483
00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:37.920
to stay up till after the warnings are done type stuff.

484
00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.960
And the warnings are all going to be done at

485
00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.160
eleven o'clock. So I'm just sitting there messing on my phone.

486
00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:47.319
Now it's still raining, it's still lightning, and the wind

487
00:27:47.440 --> 00:27:52.279
a little bit but not bad. So eleven o'clock rolls around,

488
00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:55.319
the warnings all go away. There's not any new stuff.

489
00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:00.079
I keep looking playing the radar type stuff, and it's like,

490
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:03.359
like I said, glancing blows, right, thought, okay, I'm gonna

491
00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:05.160
try to lay down sleep for a while. This is

492
00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.000
gonna stop after a while and maybe we can all

493
00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:13.240
get up and go again. So shut my phone down,

494
00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:15.519
slide it in the pocket. Well, when I did, it's

495
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:18.079
still facing inside, so it's lit the whole tent up,

496
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:20.160
and I'm like, yeah, that's not gonna work. So I

497
00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:22.640
take it out. I turn around and face it out.

498
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:28.680
Yeah, yeah, I'm on over.

499
00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:32.640
I set myself up, ye, not even thinking about it

500
00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.240
right now. The light from the house their polite. It

501
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:39.599
was shining on Robert's side, but my side of the

502
00:28:39.640 --> 00:28:42.480
tent is the dark side of the tent. There's no

503
00:28:42.680 --> 00:28:47.880
light anywhere because it's that barn and the woods that

504
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:49.759
are next to the barn and all that kind of stuff.

505
00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:54.799
So I'm laying there and I'm just looking at the

506
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:56.480
top of the tent. At this point, like I said,

507
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:01.920
it's lightning, it's lightly raining, you know, and I don't

508
00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:04.440
know how long because I didn't have my phone, you know,

509
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.400
it was in the pocket. I'm laying there and all

510
00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:12.200
of a sudden, the pocket comes in like six inches

511
00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:20.359
over me, and I'm like, what the hell. I didn't jump,

512
00:29:20.440 --> 00:29:26.680
I didn't move. I'm just like what. My brain's like what,

513
00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:29.759
and it immediately goes to that was some wild wind,

514
00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:35.240
and I'm I'm looking at the top of the tent,

515
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:38.559
but it's not moving. I mean, it's it's the pocket.

516
00:29:40.440 --> 00:29:43.400
I lay there and I'm trying to process this, but

517
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:45.880
my brain just keeps going. Now it's a wild wind,

518
00:29:46.359 --> 00:29:50.119
you know. So I'm laying there, not gone anywhere, nothing

519
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:54.519
a little bit. That pocket comes over my body again

520
00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:59.079
and I'm just looking at it. It was like my

521
00:29:59.240 --> 00:30:04.119
brain wouldn't go there. It just wouldn't go there. Even

522
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:08.319
though I've seen these things at a distance, I've heard it.

523
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:14.279
I've heard all kinds of stuff. The brain wouldn't go there. Yeah,

524
00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.240
So I'm still laying there. I'm not moving, you know,

525
00:30:19.400 --> 00:30:23.759
I'm not going anywhere. The third time that it did,

526
00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:28.359
it was that was it. I'm out of the cot.

527
00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:31.079
I'm all the way across the tent and I am.

528
00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.359
I hit Robert's cot so hard. I'm surprised I didn't

529
00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:38.599
wake him up. So here I sit. We've got a

530
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:40.960
rug that we put down. I'm sitting on the rug

531
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.640
against his cot, knees to my chest. At this point,

532
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:50.519
I'm like, what the hell is going on? When it

533
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:55.400
would lightning, there's no shadows, so there's nothing standing over

534
00:30:55.480 --> 00:31:01.400
my tent. So from I'm I'm going to say, roughly

535
00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:07.759
eleven thirty till twelve fifteen, I sat and watched this

536
00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:12.720
go on. The longer it went on, the higher I

537
00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:16.039
could feel my heart it was about to beat out

538
00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:18.640
of my chest. I every time it hit the side

539
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:21.039
of the tent, I about jumped out of my skin

540
00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.279
because at this point it's like, Okay, that's not the wind.

541
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:29.079
Because when it's just the pocket coming in, it's not

542
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:34.599
the wind. So finally, because and I didn't want I

543
00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:37.079
think part of the reason my brain wasn't letting me

544
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:39.440
go there, and I didn't want to be that person

545
00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:43.519
that you know, cries wolf, oh it's the wind. And

546
00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:46.160
I've had my you know, been scared by the wind.

547
00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:46.480
Right.

548
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.279
So I wake Robert up at like twelve fifteen and

549
00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:57.599
he's like fighting you like, stop stop. He's like, what

550
00:31:58.000 --> 00:32:00.000
I said, there's something outside of the tent. He's like,

551
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:06.640
what I said, just watch my side of the tent. Okay,

552
00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:10.519
Well it does it again a couple more times, and

553
00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:15.440
he's like, have you called LEVI? And you know, it's

554
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:18.279
like it's funny because the tent's dark, but it was

555
00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:19.880
one of the I turned out, looked at him. I said,

556
00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:23.759
where the hell do you think the phone's at? The

557
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:26.759
phones in the pocket? Yeah, He's like, and I know

558
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:30.400
the look on his face was like what you know,

559
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:35.519
a married couple, you know, the you know. So I

560
00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:37.319
sat there for a couple of minutes and now I

561
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:42.279
have to do this crawl across the tent to the

562
00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.160
pocket that has been jetting across the tent at me,

563
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:49.599
and all I can think is please don't come shooting

564
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:53.160
across at me. Please don't don't do this while I'm

565
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:56.359
trying to sneak over here and get this, because at

566
00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:59.039
that point I probably would have squealed like a girl

567
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.200
that I did not want, you know, not wanting to

568
00:33:02.200 --> 00:33:07.359
do this. So I was able to and I was

569
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:10.839
trying to move really quiet, so I'm not giving you know,

570
00:33:11.079 --> 00:33:14.160
I mean, I don't know. There's probably no logic to

571
00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:16.839
it at this point, but I was trying to be

572
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:20.279
very quiet. I was able to acquire the phone and

573
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:24.000
shot back across the tent, right, So I text Levi

574
00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:28.279
he's not answering, and it's happened again, you know, after

575
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:30.359
I got the phone, get back over in text It's

576
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:33.680
happened again. So at this point, Robert's like, call him

577
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:37.039
because Levi has positioned himself. When I was telling you

578
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:42.440
earlier that he's moving, he's positioned himself differently, so he

579
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:46.200
doesn't have a view of our tent like he did before.

580
00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:49.519
Robert was just going to have him turn the lights

581
00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:51.920
on and lighted up to see what he could see. Right,

582
00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:56.559
he forgot that he wasn't in the same position. So

583
00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:58.720
I called him and he's like well, you know, you

584
00:33:58.759 --> 00:34:02.200
can tell I've woke him up, yep. And I'm like, okay,

585
00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:04.680
I'm telling them what's going on. And he's like, what

586
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:07.839
what you know, he's same thing with us. The brain's

587
00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:14.000
just not computing. And so he described this on another

588
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:16.280
podcast or that he goes, I had a Philly cheese

589
00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:24.079
seak sized hole I could see like of all things.

590
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.320
So I'm talking to him and he's looking out this

591
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:31.800
hole and he can see something in front of the

592
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:37.360
barn because the barn was open on this the one

593
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:40.519
the side this door, they were open these very large doors,

594
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:42.639
and you could see all the way in there and

595
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:47.760
the home land the landowner. They use it for storage.

596
00:34:47.960 --> 00:34:51.239
It's not a like animal barn anymore. It's just a storage.

597
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:53.880
And in the very back of it, he has a

598
00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.880
China cabinet that's somewhere between six and seven feet tall.

599
00:34:57.519 --> 00:35:00.480
And the china cabinet had a mirrored back because we

600
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:03.320
had caught ourselves the movement, you know, like when we

601
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:05.840
were out doing stuff. You catch that movement, you turn

602
00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:09.079
to look, well, it's that stupid China cabinet. And Levi

603
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:12.280
had said he could see the light reflecting, you know,

604
00:35:12.360 --> 00:35:15.840
from the house in it at night. So he's looking.

605
00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:19.400
He goes, I can't see that light anymore. Whatever it

606
00:35:19.519 --> 00:35:22.239
was was big enough to completely block out a very

607
00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:26.960
large china cabinet back there, so he's watching. At this point,

608
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.519
we decide at this point that I'm calling another gentleman

609
00:35:30.599 --> 00:35:35.719
that's camped over. He's retired military, he's been going on

610
00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:38.480
a lot of these expeditions with us. So I call him,

611
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:41.840
tell him what's going on, and he's headed over. So

612
00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:47.599
then Levi uh calls me back and he's like screaming,

613
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:48.639
it's in the.

614
00:35:48.719 --> 00:35:52.239
Eff and field, right, that's what he said.

615
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.480
Yeah.

616
00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:58.000
So at this point, this is still going on this

617
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.440
whole time, you know, and it's like the tent is

618
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:07.039
being smacked, you know. So we're talking and Levi he's

619
00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:13.360
trying to do things and it smacks the tent and

620
00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:16.880
then swipes the whole front of it. I went, that's it.

621
00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:20.960
I've had enough. I'm like, get out of the damn tent, Levi.

622
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:25.840
So at that point, he unzips his tent and hits

623
00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:30.199
the truck to automatically start it, and the lights come on,

624
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:33.559
and he said the second he hit the automatic start,

625
00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:38.360
the thing runs and shoots down the side of the barn,

626
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:41.719
and he caught the eyeshine as it turned because it

627
00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:45.960
was then in you know, in the headlights. It was

628
00:36:46.039 --> 00:36:51.880
catching the the headlights. So at that point it's running

629
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:55.760
down the side of the barn. Well, if we go

630
00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:58.719
back a little bit, LEVI and I neither one were prepared.

631
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.559
And that's not like us normally. When I'm into my

632
00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:05.119
tent at night, I've got pajamas on. All I have

633
00:37:05.159 --> 00:37:06.840
to do is put my feet in the shoes that

634
00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:11.199
are there, and I'm out. I'm ready to go. I

635
00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:13.159
was sitting in there in a T shirt and underwear.

636
00:37:14.239 --> 00:37:18.800
I was not prepared. I didn't have anything leave. I

637
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:21.440
had kind of done the same thing. He didn't have

638
00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:24.639
a thermal up there. He didn't even have a flashlight

639
00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:28.400
with him. He's like he had went up, went to bed,

640
00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:32.920
got completely undressed. You know, he had pulled his ladder

641
00:37:33.039 --> 00:37:38.239
up the whole nine yards. We were so unprepared for

642
00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:43.119
what happened. I think that's part of the reason it happened, right,

643
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:45.519
you know, And that's what I've had a couple of

644
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.280
people tell me, They're like, oh, they know you, they

645
00:37:47.320 --> 00:37:48.360
knew you weren't prepared.

646
00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:50.280
So, yeah, did.

647
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:59.519
The question for you because you're inside the tent, so

648
00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:06.639
you could actually hear and see something hit your tent

649
00:38:06.760 --> 00:38:07.599
on the outside.

650
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:13.280
Correct, Well, you're not necessarily seeing, you're seeing that pocket.

651
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:21.079
I'm jutting in okay every time. And we've ran this,

652
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.880
my husband and I, you know, and he's, like I said,

653
00:38:25.199 --> 00:38:29.760
our resident skeptic. And we came home and we had

654
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.000
to go to a graduation and we're sitting there as

655
00:38:32.039 --> 00:38:35.239
the people are filing into this gymnasium, and we both

656
00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.440
looked at each other. He goes, I can't stop thinking

657
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.760
about that, you know, and I'm like mm hmm, me too.

658
00:38:41.440 --> 00:38:43.679
And the more we thought about it, it was just that,

659
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:49.719
I mean, the pocket's like this big, right. I have

660
00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.880
come to the conclusion that there were actually two out there.

661
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:58.559
I think that one of them had crawled up and

662
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.239
was laying there and smacking that pocket with the back

663
00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:06.639
of its hand, okay, and I think the other one

664
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:13.079
was standing watch. That's what LEVI saw. Wow, Because if

665
00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:17.039
that thing was crawling over there smacking it and then

666
00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.320
crawling back at some point, you would have had to

667
00:39:20.360 --> 00:39:25.039
have heard something. I mean that many times because it

668
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:31.599
in that hour span that we did this, it probably

669
00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:37.400
hit the tent twenty to twenty five times, so you

670
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.760
would have thought the up and down, up and down,

671
00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:41.960
up and down. At some point you would have caught

672
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:46.679
the shadow the lightning would have hit just right or

673
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:50.000
heard it or whatever. I think the damn thing crawled

674
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.039
up there and just laid there.

675
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:57.000
Yeah, So it sounds like at no time there was

676
00:39:57.039 --> 00:40:00.920
a point where you could see like the ending of

677
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:05.079
fingers or anything intel tent, which makes it so much weirder.

678
00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:06.960
It really makes it weirder.

679
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:11.280
Well, and you know when we were out later, Jeremiah,

680
00:40:11.320 --> 00:40:14.840
because the gentleman that we called, he came up and

681
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:19.199
so what we decide. We looked. We couldn't see any tracks. Wow,

682
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.559
but the ground was so this was an area that

683
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:25.360
had been worked recently with a lot of heavy equipment,

684
00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:30.840
so it's tamped down and they have equipment and now

685
00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.920
of the barn all the time. So this area there's

686
00:40:33.119 --> 00:40:37.559
you know, it's just not conducive to tracks. Because we looked,

687
00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:42.639
now we think we found where the other one was at,

688
00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:47.519
maybe in the bushes. The grass was kind of matted down,

689
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:54.000
no tracks or anything. But I think when we were

690
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:57.400
standing there looking at my tent, you could tell there

691
00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:02.639
was a slightly darker spot where that pocket was, so

692
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:04.840
at one point there would have been a lit up

693
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:09.920
cell phone in a darker pocket it could, you know,

694
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:12.400
and there was still stuff in it. After I took

695
00:41:12.440 --> 00:41:14.880
my phone out, there was still a thermal tucked in

696
00:41:14.920 --> 00:41:19.880
that pocket. There was like glasses, chapstick, you know, there

697
00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:22.239
was still some things in there. So I don't know

698
00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:26.280
if it still could see those shadows and it just

699
00:41:26.400 --> 00:41:28.039
kept smacking it.

700
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:32.079
It would be such a really cool, easy to replicate

701
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:36.960
experiment for someone to do, because literally all you have

702
00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:38.280
to do is.

703
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.199
But every tent comes with one of those pockets.

704
00:41:42.239 --> 00:41:43.800
Now, yeah, the news.

705
00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:49.519
Yeah, see if someone can put their phone in the

706
00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:55.239
pocket facing out towards the outside and see if it

707
00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:57.960
gets activity two percent itself.

708
00:41:58.000 --> 00:41:59.480
I mean, that would be really cool.

709
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.639
Next time I go out, I'll probably try it. It's

710
00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:07.920
just it's a really cool idea, and man, you might,

711
00:42:09.440 --> 00:42:11.960
you might, you might get more than you asked for.

712
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:15.519
It reminds me of there's a gentleman who told me

713
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.599
that what he does that gets activity every time is

714
00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:25.360
he will he will do like a cold camp, but

715
00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:31.599
he'll have one of those it's like it's like a candle,

716
00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:34.360
but like a little tea candle, and it's inside a

717
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:38.000
metal thing and you can hang it. And so he's like,

718
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.000
whenever I set one of those up in my camp,

719
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:43.840
so it's just a little thing of light, He's like,

720
00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:46.400
it brings it him in every time, way more than

721
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:49.719
a campfire, because it's so curious, and I think that

722
00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:53.440
might that could be kind of what was going on there.

723
00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:57.599
They were just like, curious, what is this light, Let's

724
00:42:57.599 --> 00:42:59.119
get the light, let's play with it.

725
00:42:59.239 --> 00:42:59.719
Who knows?

726
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:02.360
I mean, yeah, well, and it's like I've told a

727
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.320
couple of people, I said, I don't think it was

728
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:09.199
anything aggressive, because if that had been the case, they

729
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:11.320
had just ripped the side of the tent, often we'd

730
00:43:11.400 --> 00:43:14.440
be done. You know. I think this was more of

731
00:43:14.599 --> 00:43:17.039
they were messing with us, you know, trying to figure

732
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:20.119
out what that was. And we've decided that that's something

733
00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:23.079
that we are going to try to replicate. You know.

734
00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:26.239
I've heard people in the past talk about setting up

735
00:43:27.119 --> 00:43:30.440
a decoy camp, you know, so that's kind of like

736
00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:32.760
what we're thinking of doing next time, is you know,

737
00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:35.199
taking a couple of tents and putting them out there

738
00:43:35.800 --> 00:43:38.559
and maybe going as far as you know, have people

739
00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:41.719
go in and out of them during the day, you know,

740
00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.440
and then at night having some kind of light, you know,

741
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:50.519
maybe even if it's just glow sticks, you know, and

742
00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:54.239
setting a camera up on it far away to see

743
00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:57.519
if we can get anything again, because you know, I

744
00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:02.719
think we created the perfect storm unknowingly that night because

745
00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:05.039
we hadn't been in the barn. That was the first

746
00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:08.599
night we'd been in the barn, you know, and and

747
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:11.719
all these things. You know, we just did things completely different.

748
00:44:11.880 --> 00:44:14.559
So I think we just kind of caused the perfect

749
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:15.360
storm that night.

750
00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:22.039
Yeah, absolutely so. So then you've got all this these

751
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:27.199
these things going on. You've got it running around. Levi's yelling.

752
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:30.639
He's like, Gus crazy, How here?

753
00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:34.559
He said, How does that all play out after that?

754
00:44:34.599 --> 00:44:34.920
For you?

755
00:44:35.559 --> 00:44:39.559
So the four of us are out and it's still raining,

756
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:43.760
still lightning a little bit. You know, it's calmed down substantially,

757
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.880
but you know, we still got this going on. We

758
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:49.519
checked the tent, We check around, Like I said, we

759
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:52.559
found this one spot where we think the one could

760
00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:56.599
have been standing at one point. The gentleman that I

761
00:44:56.639 --> 00:45:00.679
was telling you about, the retired military he decided to

762
00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:03.639
post up in the opening of the barn because we

763
00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:06.920
still had chairs in there. And you know, we were like,

764
00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:10.880
sit back two or three feet, you know, Robert and

765
00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:13.679
I were going to get back in the tent. Levi

766
00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:16.239
I kind of was patrolling it, but he was headed

767
00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:19.760
to get back in his camper too, or his tent,

768
00:45:20.360 --> 00:45:22.320
and we thought if we just put this guy back,

769
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:26.800
they might come back in, right. And while we're out

770
00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:31.320
there discussing all this, Robert, here's a whoop in the distance,

771
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:35.599
you know, and we were like, okay, So we get

772
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.800
back in the tent and I grabbed my cot and

773
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:41.039
I drag it all the way across the tent over

774
00:45:41.159 --> 00:45:42.920
next to him, and he's like, you know, we can't

775
00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:44.440
get out of the tent. I said, I don't care.

776
00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:48.039
I'm not sleeping next to the side of the tent again.

777
00:45:49.760 --> 00:45:53.360
And he's laughing at me, you know, and he's like, okay, fine,

778
00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:57.000
you know. So we get back in the tent and

779
00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:57.679
nothing happened.

780
00:45:57.719 --> 00:45:59.679
The rest of the evening. They were done, They didn't

781
00:45:59.679 --> 00:46:04.559
come back. They didn't make any more noise because Trey

782
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:06.880
sat there until four or four thirty in the morning,

783
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:11.159
and they didn't come back up now. We had a

784
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:13.360
couple other people wake up and they were up and

785
00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:18.320
walking around at like two thirty something like that, you know,

786
00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:20.639
so there were some people moving around, but we didn't

787
00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:24.440
have any more activity after that. That was kind of

788
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:26.920
I don't know if we scared them bad enough by

789
00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:30.039
turning everything on and jumping out, you know, but they

790
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:36.079
had scared us pretty bad at that point, so that's wild.

791
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:37.960
It sounds like you guys are going to try to

792
00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:40.280
go back maybe.

793
00:46:39.679 --> 00:46:44.199
At some point, I think so, yeah, you know, and

794
00:46:44.239 --> 00:46:46.199
that will definitely be the place where we, you know,

795
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:50.800
we will try the whole light thing again, because up

796
00:46:50.840 --> 00:46:55.440
there they don't seem to be I've been in places

797
00:46:55.480 --> 00:46:58.280
where they're pretty timid. You know, you're lucky to get

798
00:46:58.280 --> 00:47:02.599
any activity, and up there, you know, I think they're

799
00:47:02.639 --> 00:47:05.079
just so used to those people being out and doing

800
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:09.199
stuff that I don't know that people scare them that bad.

801
00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:12.920
You know, they're just not real timid there. So yeah,

802
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:15.239
we'll definitely be going. If that place was closer to me,

803
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.960
i'd be up there all the time, you know, But

804
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:22.280
I'm a little far to be making that Johnt on

805
00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:23.519
a regular basis.

806
00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:28.079
Yeah, yeah, sure, sure did you mention, So they do

807
00:47:28.159 --> 00:47:30.159
they actually have horses on that property.

808
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:33.599
They have no animals other than their dogs and their cats.

809
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:38.840
Ma, can you imagine if they had horses, they're holy mackerel. Yeah,

810
00:47:38.920 --> 00:47:41.800
they probably be ramped up like crazy.

811
00:47:42.280 --> 00:47:47.559
Yeah. Yeah, Now the neighbor has cattle and things like that,

812
00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:53.119
but this property, no, they don't have any any outside livestock.

813
00:47:53.800 --> 00:47:59.280
Okay, any any knowledge if the neighbor has stuff going

814
00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.320
on to Well, it's really funny.

815
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:03.159
One of the neighbors down the road has a big

816
00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:05.480
cut out in his yard right, Well there you go,

817
00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:07.960
you know, I mean, you know as well as I do.

818
00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:11.000
Usually people like that they're either have had something or

819
00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:14.760
they're they're interested or both, you know. So it's it

820
00:48:14.840 --> 00:48:18.000
was kind of funny to see that, you know, when

821
00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.440
you're driving along and it's like, okay, which I believe.

822
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:24.159
He told me that the neighbor had told him a

823
00:48:24.199 --> 00:48:27.760
story at one point in time about something that had happened. So,

824
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.599
you know, it's like when you get when you finally

825
00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:33.679
get the people to start talking, they all usually have

826
00:48:33.719 --> 00:48:34.679
a story.

827
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:36.519
Around Oh yeah, absolutely.

828
00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:39.280
I mean northern Missouri has so much going on, and

829
00:48:39.480 --> 00:48:42.559
it's not that far away from southern Iowa, which in

830
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:47.400
certain corners is where all the action happens. I'll see

831
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.719
that maybe not give away everything, but people can figure

832
00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:53.039
that out.

833
00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:58.559
But it's just it's it's weird. It's just weird.

834
00:48:58.559 --> 00:49:01.480
As I'll get out and I haven't been down to

835
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:04.159
southern Missouri yet. Someday I'll get down there. But I

836
00:49:04.199 --> 00:49:08.440
know that northern Missouri is is wild and the right

837
00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:12.800
area for bigfoot as well. Marian, do you mind taking

838
00:49:12.840 --> 00:49:18.920
a few minutes talking about your conference is in is October?

839
00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.880
Yes, it's October the third, Yeah, and that's the Ozart

840
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:26.440
Mountain Bigfoot Conference, and we're having to change venues this year.

841
00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:31.360
We'll be in Nixon, Missouri. There is a event center

842
00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:35.360
that we'll be holding that out And my conference is

843
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:37.840
a little bit different because we do a full day

844
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:41.320
of conference with speakers and then we take a small

845
00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:45.239
amount of people out and we go camp. Afterwards. We

846
00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:48.800
go out onto private property that has activity. We try

847
00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:50.880
not to go out there too much during the year

848
00:49:50.960 --> 00:49:54.280
because we like to kind of make ourselves, you know,

849
00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:58.400
a target, which is not necessarily you know, an attract

850
00:49:58.480 --> 00:50:00.960
at maybe let's say we make a ourselvesn't attract it

851
00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:04.440
and they will come in to that property and watch

852
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:06.679
and do little things.

853
00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:07.159
You know.

854
00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:11.119
The first time we ever camp there, they actually, after

855
00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:14.400
a storm, walked through the camp, walked all the way

856
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.920
around the camp. So there's I'm telling you the storms

857
00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:20.880
have something to do. Because this year alone, we went

858
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:25.159
onto private property in Oklahoma and one of the gentlemen

859
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:28.880
he had his truck bumped three or four times and

860
00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:32.519
he was asleep in the driver's seat and it's bumping

861
00:50:32.599 --> 00:50:36.880
the driver door. And the next morning because we wake

862
00:50:36.960 --> 00:50:39.239
up he because he's got all his lights on, it's

863
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:43.719
before daylight, and we get out to go to the bathroom.

864
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.320
We go back to bed, and no big deal. Right,

865
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:48.400
we get up later he's telling me something was bump

866
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:52.679
in his truck, and then we find a track that's

867
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:56.480
almost caddy corner across, you know, like they cut right

868
00:50:56.519 --> 00:50:59.719
through the middle of camp and went down this ravine

869
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:02.280
and there there's a track right on the edge there

870
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.519
was a log that had this pretty orange fungus growing

871
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:10.559
on it. Right that log is broke and it had

872
00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:15.239
not been broke. Okay, so that was after a storm.

873
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:21.599
That's why was a storm? Yeah, yeah, thank goodness.

874
00:51:22.239 --> 00:51:25.679
Do you have any of the speakers lined up yet

875
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:27.079
or is that a work in progress.

876
00:51:27.440 --> 00:51:30.679
It's a work in progress. I have had to kind

877
00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:33.800
of redo that. I'll be announcing that here around the

878
00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:36.719
first of June because I want to make sure I've

879
00:51:36.760 --> 00:51:39.760
got everything locked in because we had to change. So

880
00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:43.920
first of June we'll be announcing our speakers, and like

881
00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:46.440
I said, also in September, we're going to be doing

882
00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:52.400
our first ever for me BFRO expedition in southern Illinois.

883
00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:55.239
So if anybody's interested in that, go over to the

884
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:57.480
BFRO dot net and you can sign up for that.

885
00:51:58.719 --> 00:52:03.880
And we'll be doing another BFRO expedition in Missouri in October.

886
00:52:04.039 --> 00:52:06.119
It's probably going to be the third week, it's not

887
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:10.760
up yet. And then also the conference, and if you

888
00:52:10.800 --> 00:52:13.960
go to Ozart Mountain Bigfoot Conference, you can get all

889
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:17.679
the details there when they become available. And then of

890
00:52:17.719 --> 00:52:20.719
course everybody go over and listen to the Bigfoot case

891
00:52:20.800 --> 00:52:25.920
Files because that's the YouTube channel and that is the

892
00:52:26.079 --> 00:52:30.039
podcast on all the major platforms.

893
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:31.800
It's a good one, it's a fun one. It's on

894
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:33.480
my list to listen to.

895
00:52:33.719 --> 00:52:41.039
And with your Bigfoot outing after the conference, you are

896
00:52:41.199 --> 00:52:45.199
it's not like you're vetting the people that get to

897
00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:48.840
go into the So if there's listeners that are concerned, like,

898
00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:51.920
oh is this like any Joe Shmoke can now like

899
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:54.960
Marian's going to make sure that all the people are cool,

900
00:52:55.599 --> 00:52:58.079
and that's a really important deal. And so you can

901
00:52:58.079 --> 00:52:59.320
have peace of mind about that.

902
00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:02.800
We had a great group last year. We had a

903
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:05.559
young man he was I think he was like eight

904
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:09.800
years old, but he was incredible. He would come out

905
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:12.320
all geared up with all this stuff, you know, and

906
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:15.920
I mean he wasn't scared. He was out there to

907
00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:19.119
find bigfoot, you know. And he was a very intelligent

908
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:22.960
young man. And he was out there with his aunt

909
00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:28.159
and uncle and so well behaved and just participated and

910
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:32.360
wanted to learn. And you know, because we normally we're

911
00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:35.000
not you know, sometimes kids like that they get scared.

912
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.280
I mean that's understandable, you know, because we do a

913
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:40.320
lot of stuff at night. Nope, that little boy, at

914
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.079
one point they found him. They were in a field, dermon,

915
00:53:43.480 --> 00:53:45.280
he got tired, he laid down the grass when he

916
00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:50.360
was going to go sleep. He was just unconcerned, you know.

917
00:53:51.079 --> 00:53:54.159
So yeah, we had a great group of people last year,

918
00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:56.480
and that whole area we divide up and kind of

919
00:53:56.639 --> 00:53:59.519
are all over that property. But sometimes all you have

920
00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:01.079
to do is to sit out there and build a

921
00:54:01.079 --> 00:54:04.000
fire and listen, right, So.

922
00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:05.840
Yep, exactly, that's what I do.

923
00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:08.559
That's what I do when I go out in Iowa

924
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:09.519
to the area.

925
00:54:10.480 --> 00:54:12.840
It's pretty much all you have to do. It's pretty crazy.

926
00:54:13.159 --> 00:54:14.760
Yeah, just make yourself unattracted.

927
00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:16.159
Yep. Absolutely.

928
00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:20.800
Marian has been great to have you on the show again,

929
00:54:21.000 --> 00:54:23.159
and and thank you so much for spending some of

930
00:54:23.199 --> 00:54:28.199
your afternoon with us sharing all the the wild stuff

931
00:54:28.199 --> 00:54:31.360
that happened in Missouri. And maybe maybe people have something

932
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:34.760
new to try on their next Bigfoot expedition.

933
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:37.239
If you do try it, reach out to me. I'd

934
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:37.920
love to hear.

935
00:54:37.800 --> 00:54:42.440
If it actually causes you to have activity that'd be interesting.

936
00:54:42.480 --> 00:54:43.480
You can do me an email.

937
00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:46.440
So absolutely we want to hear all that stuff.

938
00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:49.960
Absolutely, But you know, I will have all the links

939
00:54:50.079 --> 00:54:53.599
that Marianne talked about in the show notes and the

940
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:56.639
description of this episode, so make sure you're subscribed to

941
00:54:56.840 --> 00:54:59.519
her podcast and check all that good stuff.

942
00:54:59.519 --> 00:54:59.800
But that's o.

943
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.920
An Illinois expedition is gonna be really special. I just

944
00:55:02.920 --> 00:55:06.559
got a feeling that area is so wild and there's

945
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:10.079
a lot of really cool potential down there to go

946
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:12.639
on expedition. But thank you so much for coming on

947
00:55:12.679 --> 00:55:14.079
the show, Marian, I appreciate it.

948
00:55:14.239 --> 00:55:15.440
Thank you so much for having me.

949
00:55:16.840 --> 00:55:19.840
Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity

950
00:55:19.920 --> 00:55:23.119
around Oakridge, Oregon and you think to yourself, Man, I

951
00:55:23.119 --> 00:55:26.000
would love to get out in those woods and experience

952
00:55:26.039 --> 00:55:30.559
it for myself. Well, guess what, this year you can.

953
00:55:31.239 --> 00:55:34.159
If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's

954
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:39.159
pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July tenth

955
00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:42.840
through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be

956
00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:47.000
even better than the previous year's. Reason number one, I'll

957
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:49.719
be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll

958
00:55:49.760 --> 00:55:55.239
probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't

959
00:55:55.280 --> 00:56:01.480
heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's uh, well,

960
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:03.599
you just got to be there. We'll leave at that.

961
00:56:03.760 --> 00:56:06.440
More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now

962
00:56:06.519 --> 00:56:11.639
check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his

963
00:56:11.719 --> 00:56:16.599
documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can

964
00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:19.719
not only go to the festival, but you can also

965
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:27.360
sign up for a track Deep in the Wild forest

966
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:32.119
outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots

967
00:56:32.519 --> 00:56:36.079
to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign

968
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.760
up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed

969
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:43.000
for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is

970
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:46.159
Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal.

971
00:56:46.320 --> 00:56:49.400
It's just trust it's going to be a wild, wild experience.

972
00:56:51.039 --> 00:56:54.480
To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest

973
00:56:54.559 --> 00:56:59.119
dot com and listeners can use the code b sp

974
00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:03.880
like Bigfoot Society Podcast in order to get a two

975
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.800
day pass for the price of a one day pass.

976
00:57:07.360 --> 00:57:12.000
So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so

977
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:18.519
that you guys can can get a little help with

978
00:57:18.559 --> 00:57:21.840
the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see

979
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:26.119
you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can

980
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:28.440
talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so

981
00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:32.119
many people last year and the year before. It is

982
00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:35.079
an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it,

983
00:57:35.360 --> 00:57:39.800
and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode,

984
00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:42.480
I want to say something directly to a very specific

985
00:57:42.480 --> 00:57:46.000
group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch

986
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:49.000
or forces, and if you've seen something that no one

987
00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:52.239
can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or

988
00:57:52.360 --> 00:57:55.880
forestryt worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're

989
00:57:55.920 --> 00:57:59.320
a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground,

990
00:57:59.679 --> 00:58:02.519
or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or

991
00:58:02.559 --> 00:58:06.079
working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed

992
00:58:06.119 --> 00:58:09.159
to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or

993
00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:12.800
search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks

994
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.960
that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry

995
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:19.800
on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government

996
00:58:19.880 --> 00:58:23.519
contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told

997
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:27.159
a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist,

998
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.719
or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence

999
00:58:30.840 --> 00:58:34.480
you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary,

1000
00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:37.760
or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something

1001
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.320
that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA,

1002
00:58:42.519 --> 00:58:46.280
or anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

1003
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:50.800
then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous.

1004
00:58:52.599 --> 00:58:56.119
You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

1005
00:58:56.559 --> 00:58:59.000
The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

1006
00:58:59.039 --> 00:59:04.800
carry alone. And you're not alone. You've got the story,

1007
00:59:05.320 --> 00:59:09.199
We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

1008
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:12.079
you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast.

1009
00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:14.559
Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is

1010
00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.719
bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth

1011
00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:20.639
is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you

1012
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1019
00:59:42.119 --> 00:59:44.480
if you or someone you know has had a Bigfoot sighting,

1020
00:59:44.920 --> 00:59:47.440
please I'd love to hear from you, so email me

1021
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:50.920
at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com and let's start

1022
00:59:50.960 --> 00:59:53.760
the conversation. If you haven't gotten a chance yet, check

1023
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1024
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1027
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people that are into the Bigfoot subject as much as

1028
01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:13.679
you are. Thanks again for following along with the Bigfoot

1029
01:00:13.719 --> 01:00:17.159
Society until next time. Keep your eyes open, trust your gut,

1030
01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.440
and never stop asking what else might be out there?

1031
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:20.599
And see you in the woods.