Something in the Woods Did not Want Us There.

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and now let's get on with the

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show. The following interview is myself
talking to Lauren Smith from Night Callers about

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what happened this prior weekend June second, twenty twenty four. Took my son

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on an overnight and we had some
events happen that I'm still processing through.

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I think it's important for listeners to
hear this interview and to know that I

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do understand you all in a much
different way now, and I'm very thankful

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for that. So, without further
ado, here's the interview. Of what

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happened this past weekend. Thank you
for listening. Okay, So, and

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just just to start this off,
this is not going to be like a

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normal episode. So I have Lauren
Smith here from Night Callers, and she

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is going to listen to me then
about what happened this weekend or I don't

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know, maybe some people call it
trauma dump. I really don't know.

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And then if she has any questions
along the way, she can definitely ask.

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But how do you want me to
start? Lauren? Just tell me

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you know whereabouts you were and who
you were where of the kind of what

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you had planned for the weekend.
That way, when we get to what

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happened you know, So have you
seen Tate's documentaries? Yes, okay,

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you know the two where it's the
Iowa one. Okay, so it's the

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same area, which is a place
that's in Iowa. We just can't really

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say where it is, right.
And so my kid is old enough now

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that it was I asked him at
the begend of the year, Hey,

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if you want to do an adventure
in Iowa, what do you want to

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do? And he was like,
Hey, let's go on a big foot

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adventure. I was like, oh, that's awesome. I'll totally take him

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to the spot, right because it
just would work out fine. It's not

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too wild. That's all I can
really say about that. So this weekend,

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we left Saturday morning, got to
the place, and then it was

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going to be in only a one
day thing and it turned out to be

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an overnight thing, so you know, tent camping, all that good stuff.

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So that's kind of the background of
what was going on. So what

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transpired, Okay, So I get
how people get nervous about saying everything.

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Now. I really get that a
lot because there's a lot of there's some

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stuff in this where I might so
I'm just going to say it all.

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Yeah, just take a deep breath
and tell your truth as you experienced it,

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because unless somebody was there, they
can't they can't know what you went

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through. So let's just all right
here what you went through. So,

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and I'm not saying like all this
is right here. So I've heard a

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lot of stuff when I've interviewed people, and sometimes I'm like, oh,

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well, maybe I'll just try that
and see what happens. Right, So

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we're we're on the way to the
area. This is before we get to

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the area, and I said,
okay, I've heard a few people talk

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about mind speak in my interviews,
so why don't I just try to reach

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out see what happens? Right,
So I say ask them, hey,

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can you show yourselves to myself or
my son? And we have no negative

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intentions. Okay, so pretty straightforward. We get to the place. When

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we get there, and this is
it's a long ways to get inside the

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remote wooded area, let's just say. And so we get in there and

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there's there's dogs barking everywhere in the
woods, and so we I'm like,

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I don't remember dogs being this close
to this area, which is kind of

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weird because I was just here last
year. There's a gentleman. So we're

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in a camping area, primitive camping
area. But you have to like put

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in a registration in a way,
and usually when you do this, the

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forestry workers show up really quick to
check it. There's already a gentleman parked

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in a truck in that corner and
he had a big metal cage in the

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back of his truck. So me
and my son, you know, you

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want to like show you know,
hey, this is how you treat people

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nicely and talk to him and stuff
like that. So we fill out the

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thing, put the money in there
with it, and then I'm like,

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hey, man, how's it going. So we go over and talk to

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the guy. I'm like, hey, you work in the area today,

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and he says, no, actually
i'm and I can't even do the guys

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the way he talked. He was
from deep South Missouri, and he's I'm

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here. I'm here for the dog
hunt. And I'm like, a dog

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hunt? What's with that? And
then it's started starting to click. He's

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like, well, there's this big
dog hunt going on where there are these

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hounds. There's about thirty hounds loose
in the area right now, and so

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they're going to be everywhere and the
hunters are going to be coming through to

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try to track them down and to
get the hounds back. We're like,

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okay, this is kind of interesting. So we're trying to set up camp.

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All of a sudden, like hounds
are running all over the place,

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running through camp, like these big
hounds with like spray painted numbers on the

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side, and I'm like, oh
my goodness, get in the car.

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So we I was more concerned about
him. I was like jumping the car,

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so like the hounds aren't going to
hurt anything, but we're like watching

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them from inside the car, and
like all of a sudden, they start

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fighting each other. I'm like,
oh my goodness. So we're jumping in

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and out of the car meeting me. I would have just been like,

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I came out here to find Bigfoot, and this is the exact right,

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like perfect storm of what you would
think would drive big Foot out of the

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area, and like really not make
for a conducive night of researching. If

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you're recording audio or anything listening for
sounds like, you're not going to hear

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anything over baying hounds exactly. You
and I had different reactions. That's been

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quite just you would have been out
of there. So yeah, So eventually

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the hunters start showing up. They're
beeping their horns like crazy on their trucks,

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try to get their dogs back for
like hours. About after two or

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three hours, they finally are out
of the area and we're like, okay,

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so we have camp set up,
we have the tent set up,

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all that good stuff. We start
looking around the camp checking stuff out.

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We have to pick up sticks for
the fire, all that good stuff.

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And I'm going to say we start
finding what some individuals would say is evidence,

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but I kind of say it could
be misconstrued bigfoot evidence because I didn't

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want to be, you know,
the type of person where it's just jump

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directly, like you have to analyze
that stuff. Yeah, like Mike in

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does and like you do and stuff. So yeah, potential footprint. It

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was not a footprint. It was
the heel of a horse shoe stuff like

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that. But it was like,
if you looked at it a certain way,

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it was like seventeen eighteen inches long, all that stuff. And it's

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like ben over sampling on the side
of the camp that had like a tree

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break or like it was broke off
and then it would bode over stuff like

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that. So that was kind of
like I was. I was showing him,

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Hey, this is how certain people
in the community will look at it

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this way. We're probably not going
to view this as evidence just because it's

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there's not other stuff around it.
So this is like twelve thirty and I'm

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like, hey, maybe we should
start playing, you know, let's play

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some sounds. Let's see what happens, right, So I'd played like the

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Ohio howl and the Sierra sounds on
a bluetooth speaker I have, and there's

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a bathroom area on the edge of
the camp site. So I'm I'm in

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the bathroom and while I'm in there, I'm like, oh, man,

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if i hear my son outside say
something like hey, what's that, I'm

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going to go crazy and kick down
the door and stop missing four and one

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to happen. Like thirty seconds after
that, I hear my son say,

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hey, that's weird. And I
was like, oh, my goodness,

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it's actually happening. And so jump
outside the bathroom and he's like looking across

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the cleared area fifty feet and pointing. I said, what's up, dude,

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and he's I just saw something peak
behind a tree. I was like,

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okay, well what did you see? And he's like a brownish black

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color, had a hairy head.
And I was like, well, do

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you know what the shape of the
head is? And he didn't use words

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like because he doesn't know the vocabulary, you know, like he doesn't listen

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to a podcast. He's eight,
right, but he made the shape of

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a conical figure with his finger and
I was like, oh, okay,

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great, And I was like,
how high up on the tree was it?

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And he was like, well,
he kind of pointed towards it,

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and we went over and it was
like eight to ten feet and I was

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like, well, what did it
look like a person or it looked like

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an ape? And he was like, kind of looked like both. And

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then as we talked more, he
was like, well, I mean I

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was maybe I was just imagining it. And so at the end of it

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he was like, I think I
was just imagining it, but he was

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kind of like you could tell he
was weirded out by something. Yeah,

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So we walked and that could have
been like first bigfoot experience, right,

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I don't know, but we walked
twenty feet into the woods from the tree

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line to that tree, which I
was like, this is this is a

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really bad idea, but we did
it anyways, and we went to the

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tree, looked around. Didn't see
anything around the immediate tree, but we

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did see like an area in the
leaves where it looked like something been scrounging

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around. Other people would say that's
a footprint. I'm going to say,

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it's probably something scrounging around. Even
though there was an area about sixty seven

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feet away something else had been scrounging
around too, right, right, because

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what kind of critters do you guys
have there? Do you have hogs?

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Armadillos? Have to be a little
bit careful, No, I mean in

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the general vicinity of okay, So
like here we have hogs and armadillos,

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and so if you keep scrounging around
you basically think armadillos, hogs, possums,

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squirrel demon will get you know,
looking for nuts, they'll leave little

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yeah you know. So that's why
I didn't jump to like, oh,

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it's there, it is, No, it could be something scrounging. Okay.

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So then we went for a hike
in the woods for about an hour

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or so, one to two miles
a lot of trees across the path because

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the tornado winds from recent no tree
breaks, no stretchers. We get back

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to camp, it's early afternoon,
start doing tree knocks. I was doing

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groups of three at one point,
so I hear a response knock of two

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from a far distance away. We
didn't have the talk where it was like

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if you hear something, don't freak
out. And he freaked out. He

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was like, whoa, what is
that? I was like, did you

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hear that too? And he said
yeah, there was some knocks over there

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after you did that on the tree, and I was like, oh,

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oh boy, okay. And it's
the same area where the year before I

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had heard whoops from in my tent. There are normal bird sounds in the

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forest at this time, it wasn't
super quiet, so dusk kicked in around

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six thirty to seven. It is
something weird about dusk there because it gets

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really dark really quick, and the
whole mood changes very quick, right,

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So yeah, it starts to get
a little interesting again. So I'd been

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talking to other people at the same
time, and now I was talking to

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you. Around this time, I
was talking to some other people. This

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one guy that I talked to,
he has suggested that a gentleman has suggested

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to him that there's a phrase you
can say that is cherokee, and it's

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I think it's oeo sitanga, which
is hello, great forest elder. You

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beat your chest over your head heart
three times, and you raise both your

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hands. So I don't know.
That was the first time I ever heard

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that. I was like, hey, why not, I guess you heard

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that from Darryl Denton. It was
a guy named Harley. So after I

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did that, I was like,
okay, feel great, feel cool,

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and this is awesome in control.
However, five to ten minutes later after

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that, my heart started racing like
really bad, and I was got like

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extremely scared of this situation, and
I was like, we're in the middle

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of nowhere. It feels like I
have to call someone, you know,

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And I was like, I need, I need to sit down and try

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to calm down. I wasn't even
thinking of infra sound. I was just

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like really freaked out in the moment
by what was happening to my like how

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I was feeling right so at the
time, then my son started getting excited,

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moving around quickly, stuff like that
normal kid stuff. So then I

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got up out of my chair to
go over to him to see what was

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going on. As I did,
started to have the heart racing stuff again,

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and I was like, Okay,
this is really weird. So I

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sat down in my chair again to
try to calm down. And at that

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point it like things got really weird. It was a mixture of feeling like

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we were being watched or something's about
to happen, but you're very out of

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the situation. You're like, I
don't really care what happens right now.

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If something's gonna I'm not going to
try to stop anything. If it's if

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you've seen nature documentaries, it's like
the deer in the headlights, or like

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when someone's frog hunting and they shine
the flashlight on the frog and the is

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just there. Right. It kind
of felt like that, So then we

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like you felt, did you feel
so whenever you had the horror racing?

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It's just going to jump in so
that I can, because you know,

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I've been a victim of it for
sound many times, more times than I

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can count. Did you feel a
pressure on your chest, like on your

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breastbone? Was there kind of it? Was it anxiety or was it more

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just absolute fear? It was kind
of both, and I used to have

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really bad anxieties. It wasn't fully
anxiety, but it was like a mixture,

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and there was definitely a fear,
and there's kind of an anger because

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like I've been in this situation,
and when I was with the other guys,

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it was like, it's always fun, it's great, And now when

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I'm in this situation, I'm like, I don't want to I don't want

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to be here. I feel like
this is terrible. We're going to get

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hurt. I am afraid. It
just it totally changed the whole thing.

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I was like, if this is
what people are feeling when I'm talking to

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them, Like what they're like,
this is this is insanity? You know,

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like it definitely adds another layer to
when you're interviewing people. You know,

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when you go through it, you
kind of you get another layer added

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to how you're interviewed because you realize
you have a responsibility to these people.

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They're sharing the possibly the worst moment
of their lives with you. Absolutely,

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and yeah, yeah that was like
I just need to talk to someone from

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here on out, Like, if
someone needs to talk, I don't care

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what. And I've never been like
this, but I know some people are

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like it has to be a certain
type of situation. I don't care.

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It can be yeah they saw Bigfoot
at the circus if they are like freaked

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out and they just need someone to
talk to who won't which I've tried to

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always be that right, right,
I get that because it's I just felt

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the whole morning this morning, until
we drove away from the place I felt

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terrible. I was like, like, impact, it's very impactful. It's

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when you were when you got to
the point, you know, during the

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headlight and my experience, what I've
had is, you know, I've had

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the fight or flight. Oh my
gosh, showing my heart's racing, I'm

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terrified, Let's get out of here, let's set out here, Let's get

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out of here. And then it's
it morphs into this extreme lethargy, like

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just I don't care if it eats
me. I'm just like, I don't

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even want to run, I don't
even care, Like I'm still scared,

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and I know I should be scared, but and it's almost I've wondered in

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the past if if it is a
bigfoot creature or some predator like that,

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if it's something that they can do
to get their prey to be still,

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which is utterly terrifying when you're in
that situation, they have that thought.

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Yeah, but you know that's what
I'm thinking, Lauren, because it's and

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the other thing I had in the
back of my mind is, Okay,

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these creatures had dogs perhaps chasing them
through their territory for hours, and now

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they are just ripped. They are
they could be mad, and we're at

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this point, Lauren, and I
can't tell you. I'll tell you how

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big this area is off the air, but we're the only campers in this

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entire area. We're it. So
you guys had to catch the fallout of

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those hounds because even if let's say
the hogs are hogs dogs, I'm not

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sure the dogs would chase the big
Foot because usually dogs are pretty smart about

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I'm not going to chase a predator
that could rip me to shreds, you

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know. But what if they were
chasing the prey out of that area and

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it might have upset the big Foot
because I could see that. Oh that's

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that. I didn't even think of
that, Lauren. That's really good because

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they're, yeah, there's deer everywhere
in there, and what we're what if

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they were chasing the deer away and
that would get them met because they're like,

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I got to work more for dinner
now. Yeah. So, yeah,

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the way you explained it where it
was like you get like very relaxed

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hard stuff and then you get relaxed. That's exactly how it happened. That's

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a great way to put it.
It's exactly like that. Yeah, so

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you were relaxed and basically a buffet
at that point. So what happened then?

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Yeah, so it's about it's between
eight to eight thirty, and my

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kid goes to bed early, so
he's okay, time for bed, all

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right, I don't care. Yeah, let's so fine. So we get

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things already. I'm still kind of
dealing with not really caring a lot,

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but trying to care because I'm in
charge of It's a weird dicho on me,

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right, I still am wanting to
protect my son, but it's like

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there's the whole I don't know if
I really it's just weird and so yeah,

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then we get in the tent and
it's eight thirty, and you know,

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just he goes to sleep right away. I'm up until two forty five.

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Cannot get to sleep and I don't
I don't have caffeine or coffee or

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anything. I'm just like I can't
get to sleep. And you know,

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owls all over the place, coyotes
all over the place, normal normal stuff

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for this area. I didn't hear
any basic you know, bigfoot sounds you

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would hear at night. The only
weird stuff that happened is the tent broke,

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so like, you know, how
do you have the big poles that

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go across, like the tension on
one of the poles snapped it. And

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so this was at like one in
the morning. I was like, oh,

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this is it. We're done.
Something's I just freaked out and I

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was like, whoa, easy,
it's just the pool. It's fine.

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The other thing is is there was
a point where we got and I don't

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know. I'm going to say it's
probably off of the oak tree that was

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above us. There was some oak
trees, but it was like something was

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thrown really hard at the area where
the entrance of the tent is like maybe

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acorn sized, but I can't prove
it right, Like it could have been

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something falling off a tree, but
it was like the way it was it

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hit the side of the tenets,
that's kind of hard for it to do

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if it's falling off a tree.
I don't know. I'm either way on

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that. And then I mean I
haven't gone through audio, but I finally

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just passed out at two forty five
probably, and then we got up.

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I mean we were up like when
the sun got up, when the sun

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rose, I was like, we
just got to go and we were out

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of that. We were probably packed
up by seven seven thirty. I was

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like, I want to get out
of here. I don't know if I

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want to if I ever want to
come back, like I was in a

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bad place. So right, talking
all this out is really helping because I

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want to go back, right,
It's very whenever the go back, Yeah,

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absolutely, when the fear recedes a
little bit and the adrenaline, then

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you're going to have this. You're
going to have this feeling, maybe most

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most Bigfoot researchers, this is why
we do what we do, right,

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We're actually adrenaline junkie inside, and
you're going to have this regret of I

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wish I had stayed later. I
wish I'd gone and looked at this.

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I wish I had, you know, gone into the woods and seeing what

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was breaking sticks or whatever. So
that's, you know, something that you

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might feel. Just be prepared for
that feeling, and if you feel it,

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you know that you can go back
and safely try again. Or if

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you don't feel like you can safely
do that, that's up to you.

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I was going to ask the tent
pole, Yeah, so is it a

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newer kint? No, it's well, it's I got it from well,

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it was an older model from ARII
outlet, and I'd gotten it for the

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when did I get it. I
got it last year for when we went

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to the same area, So not
really old. Yeah, because those those

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eyberglass poles, you can break them
with tension, but usually it takes a

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pretty good They either have to be
old and dried out to snap, or

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there has to be some pretty good
tension put on them. My mother had

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an experience where she had gone to
town, she left her tent and they

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had gone to today were having a
really active weekend there with you know,

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activity of the sasquay variety, and
she came back and it looked like something

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had grabbed on either side of her
top of her tent poles and just snapped

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them, and the whole tent was
just dilapidated at that point. And so

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I don't want to scare you,
but is you know how hard would it

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have been for something to reach over
and just and then you wake up and

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it's already gone, or it's just
standing there waiting or something like that,

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or do you really do something to
think about I don't know. Yeah,

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it would be interesting too on your
recording at that point of where it's now

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to see what you hear before and
after, to see if it you know,

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also the you know whatever hitting your
tent. That would be interesting.

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And then you mentioned when you were
texting me about stick brakes, you heard

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something walking and there were stick breaks
also, yeah, we heard a total

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oh yeah, yeah, the total
of two. And there was the one

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that was in the same direction that
the two knocks, and then there was

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one that was behind us at a
later time to the southeast of us.

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Actually, that would have been the
same area where my kid said. It

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would have been the same area as
that tree. Okay, yeah, I

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think about it. It's weird.
I don't know. And it's always interesting

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to have someone else there to corroborate
the what you see are here. And

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when it's a child, you know, a lot of people may not take

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what a child says, you know, they'll take it with a grain of

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salt because you know. But to
me, this is something that I say

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in my presentation all the time.
Right, Children notice things that we do

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not. We go into the woods
and we're thinking about our dentist appointment we

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have coming up, the laundry.
We didn't finish starting the fire when we

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get back so we can roast hot
dogs. Kids are like, that's a

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cool flower. I like that rock. Look, there's something looking at me

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behind a tree. Oh hey,
I'm going to go down this path.

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They have no worries except what they're
seeing, and so they can notice things

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that we would never notice. And
also, because kids are not threatning,

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they usually attract the attention of these
creatures because they're not threatening. And honestly,

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I don't know if if bigfoot knows
this, but who's going to believe

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them? If they say it's all
a big foot? Who's going to believe

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them? They're not they're not as
threatening as mankind obviously. So the fact

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that your your child does not listen
to your show, does he not know

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whose dat is onion? Really?
But the fact that your child does not

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listen to the show really does not
really know about the bigfoot? You know,

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stuff like that. You know,
that's something to jot down, and

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I would have him, honestly,
try to draw it. Get him some

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crayons and paper, have him draw
what he saw the human brain above the

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age of seven. Whenever we see
something outside the norm, we try to

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talk ourselves down a bit and not
too long after, and so encourage him

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to draw what he saw him.
You know, nothing if it's weird.

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Draw it. It's not work matter, you know, just draw what you

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saw. I want to see what
you saw exactly how you saw it.

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It's not a big deal. If
you don't remember, it's okay. If

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it looks funny, it's okay.
Just can I see what you saw and

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see what he comes up with?
Yeah, I'm going to do that,

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definitely. Yeah, Yeah, I
will be very interested to hear what you

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got on your recorder. And I'm
hoping that your recorder worked. Could the

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entire night also, I really hope. So yeah, I won't be surprised

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if it died. But that's the
curse of the big sult researcher. If

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you pull up to a place,
there will be a noise as soon as

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you get out of the car because
you didn't have your recorder going. We

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did do that. We did record
it because Chris Spencer is like, you

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need to do that every time,
like, yeah, you just start recording.

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Yes, this really and this yeps
so much and as annoying as all

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the dogs barking and everything is,
be sure to listen in between the dogs

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barking. You never know what you
might catch in between all that chaos,

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because it could might be a good
time for them to be on the move

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because those the chaos of all the
dogs is covering it up, so it's

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gonna do. Yeah. Well,
I'm sorry that you had kind of a

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weird wonky experience, but I do
appreciate you sharing it with me, And

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selfishly, I'm really excited that you
had that experience because you know, I

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know that you've been doing this for
a while now, and I feel like

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it not that you need a validation
for what you do, but I'm happy

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that you have some validation on what
you talked to everybody about. And then

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also, like I said earlier,
podcaster to podcaster, it will bring another

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layer to your interviewing. Yeah,
I think I needed it to get almost

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a swift kick, to be like, hey, dude, this is this

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is real and like the people,
this can mess with people, and you

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need to be aware of that,
and you need to be aware of what

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you're getting into, because yeah,
this isn't going to be the craziest thing

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that I get into. This is
going to be like the least tamist.

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So yeah, thank you Lauren so
much for for hanging out a little bit.

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I really appreciate it absolutely, and
I can't wait to hear when you

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go back or what audio you get. I can't wait to hear the follow

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up to that. Absolutely, all
right, I'm going to stop recording.

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All right. Again, a special
thank you to Lauren for coming on the

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show and facilitating that interview with myself. I did ask my son after this

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interview took place. I asked him, why do you think you imagined what

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you saw? And he did say
because it is so rare to see something

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like that during the daytime, which
puts an entirely new spin on that whole

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situation. As always, thank you
for listening. We'll see you next time.

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I'm going to use this space this
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the Sasquatch Summer Fest and Oakridge,
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presenting or anything, but I'll be
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had bigfoot counters. If you're from
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you've had a Bigfoot experience, please
contact me directly Bigfoot Society at gmail dot

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com. Also, Priscilla was nice
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Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and use code
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off the cost of your tickets,
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Bigfoot Society to get fifty percent off
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out the podcast as well. A
special thank you to all the Bigfoot Society

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Patreon and YouTube channel members. It's
your support that helps keep the show going

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and I extremely appreciate it. Here
at big for Society, we're headed to

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the moon and here's a current update
about going full time, So here we

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go. As of five twenty two, you're now at two hundred and two

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patrons out of eight hundred and twenty
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to one percent, almost a quarter
of the way there, guys, brings

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us down to six hundred and twenty
two left to join the patroon. So

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a huge thank you to Barbara,
Gregory, Dana Craig, Jeff Steve,

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Ricky, Dee, Norm, Meghan, Dan, Daddy, Chatty, Joe

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Eber, Iike Jewels, Josh,
Ryan Todd, Nathan, Gabe, Bill

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Lucky, Meghan William, Bobby,
Joe, and Inger for joining recently.

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If you want to join in the
fun, you can join over at patreon

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dot com forward slash the big Foot
Society. I'll see you there and again,

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thanks for listening. Her and I
can get out here, we can

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tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody
else out there listening it's too afraid to

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tell their story. Maybe this will
give them the courage to come out.

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And I feel so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks. I

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know what I saw, I know
what's out there. That's all I care.

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Please let people not Please let them
know. If you ever see one

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of these things, you need to
tell because if you don't, then shame

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on you you know, shame on
you.