Feb. 22, 2026

Spider Crawl Bigfoot in the Backyard!

Spider Crawl Bigfoot in the Backyard!
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Season 1

In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary experiences of Mike, whose encounters span from the rugged wildfire zones of Southern Oregon to the wooded creek lines of Southern Maine. Growing up near one of the most well-known Bigfoot locations in the Pacific Northwest, Mike never gave the subject much thought—until a grueling 2011 fire season placed him deep in remote wilderness where he discovered a series of massive barefoot tracks pressed into thick redwood duff, miles from the nearest structure.


Years later, after relocating across the country, activity began unfolding behind his own home in Maine. What started as subtle disturbances soon escalated into whistling from the treeline, objects striking the house with force, unexplained silence in the surrounding woods, and an encounter involving glowing eyes that left a lasting impact. Multiple witnesses were present during key events, adding weight to what was experienced.


Mike’s background as a hunter and wildland firefighter gives his account a grounded, practical perspective shaped by years spent in unforgiving terrain. From firelines in the Emerald Triangle to quiet New England backyards, this episode explores how encounters can follow patterns across geography, terrain, and time.


Join us as we navigate Mike’s compelling journey and examine the presence that revealed itself in some of the most unexpected places.

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You're listening to BIGFLA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In

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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring

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you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen

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something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to

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quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us, all right, Big for Society. We

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got the privilege of talking to Mike today. Mike is

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an individual I got connected to over through Instagram, I believe,

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and Mike's got some interesting things to share, some experiences.

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We'll be going over into Oregon for a bit with

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some interesting things that happened to Mike out in the

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woods and he's going to share more about that in

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a bit. But welcome to the show, Mike. How are

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you doing today, sir?

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Just good Man, thanks for having me.

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Appreciate it absolutely. We were just chatting a bit before

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we hit record, and this is going to be kind

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of a kind of a wild one to be an

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interesting one. The way we're going to do tonight is

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we'll probably chat as we go along, which might be

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a little different than some listeners are used to, but hey,

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that's what we're going to do with this one, so

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it's all good. Feel free to lead us where you

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want this to start out at, and we'll kind of

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chat as we go along.

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Okay, yeah, sure. So I grew up in southern Orgon,

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and just twenty minutes from my hometown there's a trivial

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Bigfoot live trap that is a big tourist hot spot.

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People go and check it out. Grew up with all

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that bigfoot stickers everywhere, kind of before the big boom

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across the country seem when everybody's back in their cars

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now and whatnot. It's always kind of been that way there,

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Northern California, southern organ It's very well for Sasquatch. Never

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really paid any mind to it. I was going to

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do the ROTC route, joined the Army after high school.

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That didn't pan out for me, thankful for that now,

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but I ended up getting in wildland firefighting, and my

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first season out I was on a This was my

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third fire with a company based off southern Oregon. Gray

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Back is the name of that company, and we were

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on what was the nation's biggest fire at the time,

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and the intensity at fire was so much so that

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trees were exploding from the heat and causing fires to

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start up to a mile and a half away from

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these exploding chunks of tree, and so we were doing

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a process called greeting the green, so we wanted to

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make sure that wasn't fired and started behind us so

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we wouldn't get burnt over. And so we're chopping through thick, thick,

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thick stuff that you know, there's I think the closest

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man made structure where we were at on that fire

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was seventy five miles away and it was a lightning

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lookout tower, so not even a town close by or

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anything like that. We're in the thick of it, eating MRI's,

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you know, stinking, sweating, working hard and well. We had

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been greening the green for about two and a half hours,

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and I was greenhorn back then, but I had been

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hunting for a number of years at that point, learned

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to hunt for really good people, and so my tracking

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skills are probably better than your average bear. Not that

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I'm yeah in maths or anything like that, but I

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had to relieve myself, and so I hauler down the

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line because we all walk in the line about twenty

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feet apart, and we just look for, you know, any

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amber's smoke coming up, because when it goes up, it

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goes as quick. You don't want to get caught in

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between it. So I yelled this big country bumpkin guy

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named Jesse about six foot five, two eighty massive man, Hey, Jesse,

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I gotta take a dump, Dude. I go on this

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big redwood tree. It says okay, okay, and it says go.

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So I'm doing my thing. And if you're not aware

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of redwoods, they have duff, right, and so deaf is

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leaf litter that accumulates underneath the tree. And what it's

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unique about redwood trees is they can get like three

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feet of dof and so it's almost like a foam

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sponginess under these trees in some circumstances, especially when they're

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like an older tree. Right. So I'm burying my stuff

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back up and putting my backpack on, and I look

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on the ground and I noticed, I said, oh my godness,

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are those foot tracks and I'm going up and I

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wear a size eleven and a half boot and I

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go to the first one and I was like, wow,

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family's like toes. And I'm looking at it and it's

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in this duff mind you, so it's not super it's

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not super like pronounced toes right per se. On the

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first one, I noticed, and then I see a lion.

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I'm like, oh man, there's more, and I'm following and

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then I noticed there's big tracks and little tracks, and

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like I said, we're out in the middle of nowhere.

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And it was about on track number seven that I

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saw a perfect, I mean perfect footprint and I'm just

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jaw drop looking at this thing and I'm like, oh man,

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And I got my boot next to it. Eleven and

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a half boot measures out about a football. It was

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right about that footmark, but it was wider than my

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boot and you could specifically see each toe and I'm like, whoa,

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you know. That was my first different counter. I saw

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nine tracks, mom and babe babe tracks, and it's just

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out in the middle of nowhere. It was the fire

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was too crazy. There's people, houses and stuff on the

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edge of the fire farther away where we were getting

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burnt down and nobody's putting on fake sasquat shoes and

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stopping around in the woods right in that circumstance. So

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that was what got me.

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That was really wild.

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Mike.

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So this is you said, within like thirty miles of Applegate, Oregon. Yeah, yeah,

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that's where the trap is. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. And

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so the tracks that you saw, how far apart were

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the tracks from each other?

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So it looked to me it looked like a like

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something that if I was doing a big lunch, as

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far as the bigger tracks I could, I could accomplish.

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But then again, you got to think if it was

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a mother and a baby, she's not going to be

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at full pace, right, She's got to keep up with

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her young and her mother. If the baby's walking with her,

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if it's too big for her to carry or whatever

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it was walking side by side with her. Right. There

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was only two of the smaller tracks that that were

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noticeably like, yeah, this is definitely a footprint. And it

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was a little bit bigger than half of her the

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females what I'm assuming to be the female's track, And

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so I would say the gate was probably three and

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a half maybe, and it was pretty good, pretty good.

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Gate gotcha the way could you tell the way it

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seemed to be walking where the tracks lined up one

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in front of the other or side by side, or.

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You know. I was in such awe and right kind

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of disbelief at the moment. I had a to bring

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you back in time. I have a razor two at

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the time, and I was going to take a picture

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of it. And before I took a picture of it,

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the one perfect track, I called that country bunk and

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digested Jesse get over here? What comes running over and

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say slow down? Slow down? He's running and he ends

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up stepping on a stick that's like nine feet away

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and ends up blowing under the duff. It rises up

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and blows all the toes out of the one perfect track,

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and I'm like, I'm losing my mind at him. I

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was like, do you see these these are foot planting

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student He's like, I guess you know, I mean, this

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guy eats grands. He's not he's not right, And I'm

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like and I'm just losing my mind over and I'm like,

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I can't believe you just blew out the one. So yeah,

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I would say they seemed to be I do recall

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that it was there wasn't any station. As far as

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the tracks were very linear. I do remember that that

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they were close together and it wasn't like turning or anything.

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They knew exactly where they're going and they were heading

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that way, and it seemed now that yeah, it probably

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was more in line than yeah, side by side.

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Okay, a few more questions. It's a few more about

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this one. So can you provide the approximate year? And

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you told me the name of the fire, but can

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you say that again? And also are there any other

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location descriptors for the area that you were in?

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Yeah, so this was the this was two thousand and eleven,

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summer of twenty eleven, I'd say probably mid June. Spent

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a lot of time. But and so what I remember

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is this was it's like the third day of fire

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that we're on. We ha had a hike sixteen miles

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in off the forestry road to get to our where

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we base camped out. And then we had a we're

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hiking about sixteen miles every day, not including the work,

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just to get to the fire from our camp where

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we could get food. Hello dropped in. So I remember, gosh, man,

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I wasn't at a point where I was running. I

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guess I was in charge of really knowing where we

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were at or anything. I was just figuring out the ropes,

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you know, I was eighteen years old. I do recall

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that there was this area right before, right before we

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got there, there was this big area of large granite boulders,

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granite quartz boulders, like seven eight feet tall and kind

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of like quite a bit without any exposed mountain side,

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Like we're in the mountains and it's steep as hell,

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but it's like these big kind of rocks like almost

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seemed mythical, and it was like, weird, Wow, this is

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beautiful and weird. It's just in the middle of nowhere.

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And then we went down a valley across the little

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creek and then it was all these big old growths

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and that's kind of where it happened. Okay, I don't

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really have any specifics more than that, but yeah, in

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the in the heart of the southern Oregon.

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Gotcha. And what was the name of the fire again?

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That was the was that the very rock or the

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very point very okay, very point fire, I believe.

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Gotcha, Okay, thank you. Yeah. So so then you have

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that experience where you see these large tracks and that

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kind of that affects you definitely, and then after that

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do you start looking into things or how did what

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kind of path does that aide you on? After that?

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Yeah, definitely, that definitely got the cogs movement. I had

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had my first word experience at fourteen with my family

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in the middle of the Lake UFO experience, and that's

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kind of got me down that path. And then so

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I was kind of already introjectory on that, but I

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didn't even think Bigfoot was real or had you know,

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I just thought it was a kooky hitnie thing. So yeah,

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after that, I definitely started looking into it. But podcasts

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weren't really around back then, at least to the point

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where it's on your phone and stuff, So I didn't

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really start hearing other encounters from other people or doing

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serious digging probably until I would say probably after I

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had a couple other UFO experiences. I just started digging

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into the whole topic as a whole and just kind

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of found correlations and then started getting into Bigfoot. And

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then you know, I got an iPhone that I can

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pull up a podcast song, and then I just kind

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of delved into it from there. So I'm not very

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tech savvy, as you know, So it's it's not something

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that I would jump on my desktop at home and

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go research after school. I was I was shooting squirrels

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and Cosmo Rucus you know, gotcha? Yeah?

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Cool? Cool? So what what would you think? The next

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thing that you had some sort of experience that that

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related to sasquatch.

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Was for sure? So, and this is something that we

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were talking about earlier that I and I didn't find

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this correlation until later listening to podcasts where I'm not

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sure if you're familiar with the h I couldn't tell

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you that researchers. Have you seen that the researchers who

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they claimed to have via thermal videotaped a portal with

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sasquatches and all this stuff, and then someone picking up

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on thermal and then the old two old dudes going

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there they both died cancer like three months later. I'm

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talking about. I think Tony Merphle did something about that.

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Oh yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah yeah yeah, do you know.

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What I'm talking about? Yep. So it was that that

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documentary that it clicked for me, where they had talked

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about in these supposed portals or whatever opened up, or

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I'd heard it on I think a West Grimmer podcast too,

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where someone said they saw a orb and then a

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sasquatch and they're hearing these like loud, almost crunching, metallic,

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crazy sounds, but very metallic sounding. I definitely heard that

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out there in the woods, probably five or six times,

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fighting fire, thinking it was a piece of machinery. I mean,

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use machinery and stuff out there, but you usually hear

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the machinery. It was just that alone standing alone and

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doing well, that's weird, but there's just so much chaos

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and pandemonium and making sure you're not getting purked by fire,

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so it's not really on the forefront of your mind

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at the time, but that is. That's really the only

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other sasquatch encounters that I have that I can tie

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anything too.

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Can you describe a little bit more about what the

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metallic sounds were like that you were hearing those five

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or six times.

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Yeah, man, it was all very similar each time. And

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the weird thing about it was it just it was

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so it was so loud. It was just so loud,

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and so it almost sounded like a car crash where

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it's metal and metal. It almost sounded like I think

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of a panel of the door just like crumbling in

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on itself, really fast and violent, like like whoa like sharp,

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definitely tabic sounding, but just unworldly, like very just kind

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of And I remember one circumstance where we were all

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talking to our boss and it was kind of giving

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us the plan for what's next, and then we heard

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that sound pretty close, probably three four hundred yards away,

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and three quarters of the crew snapped their neck and

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looked into the woods and were like, what is that?

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And they just wrote it off there. It was just

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you know, because a lot of a lot of men,

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if they don't know, they just write things off, especially scary,

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you know what I mean.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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So we all tend to do that sometimes.

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Right, Yeah, logically, our I think our minds tried to

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do that to save ourselves somehow write it off. Is

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this also in Southwest Oregon and around the same time period.

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Yeah, so I thought far six years out there. All

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all the big foot encounters or metallic sounds and those

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footprints all took place in either southern Oregon or in California,

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But really in that Emerald Triangle in the thick gold woods.

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That's where it was happening at.

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So gotcha. Yeah, okay, did any did Bigfoot ever come

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up in conversation between you and any other fire firefighters

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on your crew?

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Yeah? Yeah, so I I after the footprints, oh man,

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because I was the young buck out there too, And oh,

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I just got hammered by everybody. And like I said,

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that first company I was working for, as great and

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grandioso as they are, they're not They're not very freethinkers,

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very redneck and setting their ways. You know, old dogs.

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You're not going to teach a new trick too. So yeah,

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I just got berated and you know, they're you're crazy.

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You know, I'm not talking to you guys ever about

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this again. So yeah, that was that. But then the

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other five years. I ended up leaving that company because

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I just didn't get along with those guys too well.

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And I went to another company, and I had had

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talks with some of those guys, but never experienced anything

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really with that company. We weren't in the think of

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it as much as my first company.

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Absolutely, so that the new company was more understanding about

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what you'd gone through or were they also like, oh, yeah,

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we've had stuff happen out here.

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Oh, definitely, definitely. Yeah, plenty of other people who have

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had encounters that I've met over the years, especially men

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who spent their time in the woods that much, for sure.

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Gotcha were they were they talking about like, oh, yeah,

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we've seen something or more we've heard something and we've

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seen tracks stuff like that.

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So this is actually I tracks I've met probably from

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the firefighting community out there, probably five or six guys

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who have seen tracks at some point in time. Probably

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another handful of guys who have liked seen like something

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jumped from bush to bush or tree to treat and

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they're like, what was that? That wasn't a bear? Most

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of these guys are avid hunters, know their way around

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the land. Know white animals are out there, aren't you know,

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most of them that killed a bear, they're not. They're

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not too worried about anything out there, you know, and

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it's scares you. You know, you're not especially when you

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don't know what it is. So yeah, but yeah, they

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were much more understanding that company, for sure.

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But yeah, I uh, I the this is a little

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a little off topic, but the speaking of other people's encounters,

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I was I was living in Washington.

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Uh. I was doing custom fireplaces and I had a

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I was listening to a Sasquatch Chronicles and had a

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customer asking me what I was listening to. And I

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was like kind of embarrassed, as like a Sasquatch Chronicles.

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And they're like, oh, is that a podcast? And I

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was like, yeah, yeah it is. And and then the

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wife's like, you gotta tell him. You got to tell

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him your encounter. And I was like, oh, what, And

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so he told me there were him and his prior

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and while we're going hunting and juvenile sasquatch there out

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in the middle of nowhere, while they're setting up their fire,

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just and other and another ones building a tent, a

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sasquatch came. A young sasquatch came screaming, waving its arms

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over tent through the middle of their camp, pushed the

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old and into the fire, and they just ran straight through,

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screamed in the whole way. They said they left their

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guns their tent. They jumped in the truck and damped

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and I was like, did you ever get your stuff back?

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He's like, yeah, we came back three days later with

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a bunch of guns and a bunch of people and

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our stuff and I was like.

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Oh yeah, so I pushed them right in the fire.

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Can you share the I'm sure you can't share the

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exact location, but the region is this like Olympic Peninsula

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or oh.

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You know, uh uh, yeah, it was around that area.

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I forgot about. I did have another encounter out a

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national forest with my daughter and my wife. Yeah, I

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forgot my dogs. I forgot about that one too. That one.

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We can get to that one too, I guess while

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we're on the West coast next. Yeah. This was actually

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probably about six months after I had heard that story.

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Living outside Seattle for like three years and just trying

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to get away from the city. We went out Olimpia

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and did some camping no cell service, and I thought

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it'd be a good idea with my daughter to walk

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around the campsite. There was only us in one other family.

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It was kind of in the middle of summer, but

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it was I guess it was. It was before fourth

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of July, so it wasn't very busy, and there was

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us and the camp hosts, and then another young family

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who had two boys, and I had my daughter who

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was looking six at the time, and the kids are

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kind of playing whatever, and then we settled down eat dinner.

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I was like, hey, you want to go for a

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walk before dinner or before by time. She was like, yeah,

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sure walk and I was like, you want to you

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some you want to do some Sasquatch hoots and she's like,

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gosh sure. So we're doing like big old bard owl hoots.

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And I haven't I haven't been drinking for a couple

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number of years now, but back then I still was

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drinking and I probably had good five beers or so.

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I was feeling pretty good. I was sleeping on dirt. No,

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I was going to sleep good, you know what I mean.

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So I passed out and I wake at that like

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two thirty three in the morning to what sounds like

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an eight hundred pound owl on top of my head,

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sol loud like.

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I shot up out of bed. I grabbed my forty

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four magnat I cracked that thing back and I'm looking

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and I'm like, my heart's just like oh, I'm sweating

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cold sweats, and I'm like, what's going on. I'm like,

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it's okay, it's okay. My tent's not shaking, it's not moving,

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but it's just sounds like, it's right on top of me.

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And then the next morning, after breakfast, I go out

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and I asked the I was, okay, did you hear

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anything last night to my name? To the guy who's

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closest to us, he's eight hundred yards away or whatever

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with his two boys, He's like, yeah, I think I

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had an owl on top of my trailer. I was like,

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it's actually coming from over that way. I heard exactly

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where it's coming from because I'm in a tent. No,

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it was too loud. It had to be on top

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of my camp. And I was like, dude, I'm telling you,

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I think it was a sasquatch. And then he didn't

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let his kids play with my kid anymore for the

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next two days and I was like, oh, dude, that

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but but it scared him. He like to put his

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kids inside the trailer. Right after that, he's like, we

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need to like well, I mean rightfully, so we'reund minn't

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know where, no cell service and kids kind of.

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Freaking what sorry, before did you say what forest that was?

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Or was it a certain state forest.

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Or oh with the with the yeah, that was the

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Olympia National Park. I should ask my wife. I it

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was in Olympian National Park. I bet she noticed the campsite. Dude.

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Uh, she is good at the sich no properthdays and names.

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Dude, just over here scratching away.

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Somewhere on the Olympic Peninsula. It sounds like, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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it was.

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It was. It wasn't right on the coast, it was.

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It was more in line. It was a like, I

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pay for a campground that's maintained and stuff, but it's

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just wilderness out there. There's no showers, portal pot They

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did have portal and they did have port potties. They

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had two portal bodies, but just nothing. Okay, Wood's beautiful woods, so.

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Okay, gotcha.

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Yeah, yeah that was interesting.

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So now would you say those are the main encounters

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then that you had where you experienced something and you're

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like out in the woods and something happened.

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No, okay, No, that's like that's like the little stuff

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happened out west. Surprisingly. I don't know what's going on

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with this jinky charger though I might have to go.

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I'm I know it was working. I just don't want

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to know. I don't know what's going on with this thing.

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It's not okay, it's charging right now. I just don't

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want it to die. I'm going to try to, Okay.

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I like the nervous sweats going through all this right now,

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stinking and stuff. Dude, Laria, I'm not just okay. So

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next I guess is out east. So we moved from Seattle.

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We moved out to me. We got our first house.

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We live in southern May. I was telling you before

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you started up the recording. I had a lady tell me.

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She was like, oh, do you know this creek out

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out in this area? And I was like, yeah, that's

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right in my backyard. She grabbed me by the collar

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and she says, it's haunted. What are you doing there?

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It's like, I got a house right there and I'm

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not moving. This is after a couple of encounters and

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experiences and anyway, Yeah, she got to talk to me

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because I'm my wife and I own a food trailer

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as well, and I have a sasquatch dig around there.

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And most people just you know whatever. But anybody who

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has seen something or whatever, they usually are like they

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want to tell you because people think you're crazy. So

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but yeah, my first encounter out here was I had

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gone to go get some lobster rolls, which are big

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out here totally with my girls and ice cream and

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my sister. She moved out east with us too, from

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the West Coast. She had gotten divorced and she just

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wanted a fresh start. At this point, it had been

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six seven months since we'd been here in Maine, and

457
00:27:42.880 --> 00:27:46.480
she had herself a boyfriend and they kind of had

458
00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.799
just first started dating at this point in time. They

459
00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:51.920
were we have a bonfire in our backyard fire pit,

460
00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:56.839
and they're having a bonfire back there, and it's it's springtime.

461
00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:00.279
So I got to preface this. The encounters, all the

462
00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:04.799
encounters that I've had in my behind my house have

463
00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:09.799
been spring or fall. So that's just when it's happened

464
00:28:10.640 --> 00:28:14.440
over the spanning two years. Oh, I've been here three

465
00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:19.920
but over the span of two years, it's been four

466
00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:22.640
serious encounters. Some other ones where I'm like, is that

467
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:25.200
something jumping from that tree to that tree kind of thing?

468
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:29.920
Not jumping from tree to tree, but like dashing from build,

469
00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:34.880
you know, basswood to oak tree. Or there's a couple

470
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:37.680
of old growths back there that have enough cover for

471
00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:39.759
you know, you couldn't see me if I was hiding

472
00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:42.400
behind it. Definitely not something big if it was sideways, right,

473
00:28:43.240 --> 00:28:48.039
So anyway, and go ahead and feel free to cut

474
00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:51.559
me off, because I I'm a chatty cafey sometimes. So

475
00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:59.319
we get home and they're out there and they're having

476
00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:05.480
some drinks hanging out, and I go down. I said, hey, Sis,

477
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:07.880
what's going on? She's kind of wide eyed and she's

478
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:10.720
looking at me kind of crazy, and I'm thinking, is

479
00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:12.920
this guy being weird to you? Like I'd only met

480
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:16.160
him once or twice, and I'm like, I'm like, are

481
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:19.480
you okay? And she's like, I don't know, and I like,

482
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:21.759
look at him. I'm like angry. She's like it's not him,

483
00:29:21.799 --> 00:29:24.440
and I'm like, what's going on? And he's and then

484
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.359
I look at him and he's like down at the

485
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.279
fire and he looks up and he's a wide eyed too,

486
00:29:28.279 --> 00:29:32.000
and I was like, what's going on? Guys like grabbing, like, hey,

487
00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.240
I always have gun on my gun. I was like,

488
00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:36.960
what's going on, guys? It's like, what's going on. He's

489
00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:39.279
like there's something in the woods, and I was like,

490
00:29:39.400 --> 00:29:41.160
someone's in the woods. And he's like, you, I think

491
00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:43.640
there's something in the woods. I was like, is it

492
00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:47.400
a bear? Like what is it. I don't know. Maybe

493
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:51.960
it's a bear, okay, and he's from the area, so

494
00:29:52.640 --> 00:29:54.240
you know, we have it. We do have a fisher

495
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:57.720
cat in her backyard that goes across. I don't know

496
00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.319
if you're familiar with that, but it's just a big

497
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:03.640
inning weasel. But they make crazy screaming. The sounds they

498
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.440
don't they don't make They're not humanoid on two feet,

499
00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:15.799
you know what I mean. But yeah, so this is uh,

500
00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:21.599
the only time I have experienced the spider crawl, I said,

501
00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.519
I said, so, what's going on? What's going on? He's like,

502
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.279
I don't know. Things have been whistling at us and

503
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:31.319
throwing things at us. I said, what and not that

504
00:30:31.480 --> 00:30:33.200
this is kind of weird to throw in there, But

505
00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:37.759
I do think it has a correlation. My younger sister

506
00:30:37.880 --> 00:30:41.359
was it was her time a month at that point

507
00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:46.759
of time, and there was a lot there was like

508
00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:53.480
there was a lot of activity that spring especially, and

509
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.319
that first encounter seemed like there was two different maybe

510
00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:02.599
juvenile males is what I the mass, but there was

511
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.200
definitely one. As I'm looking in my backyard across the creek,

512
00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:09.279
there's one off to the left, and then there's one

513
00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:11.680
off to the right on our side of the creek, but.

514
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:17.000
You can actually see them, well you see silhouettes.

515
00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.839
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's not like in the light of

516
00:31:19.880 --> 00:31:22.480
the the outside of the light of the fire. But

517
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:24.599
the one that was on our side of the creek,

518
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:28.799
the spider crawl. I thought this is when I went side,

519
00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:31.920
I was like, no, it's just not for me, because

520
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:34.599
it was like from bush to bush and I was like,

521
00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:38.559
what is that. You know, I'm going inside, and I

522
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:43.160
had seen the one, and oddly enough, there's big basswood tree.

523
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:48.880
It's similar to oak seems to be. It's the biggest

524
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.759
tree in the area. And that is where I've seen

525
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:55.799
every time either.

526
00:31:57.880 --> 00:31:58.039
Where.

527
00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:02.440
I've seen it numerous times. Peek out m right, I'm like,

528
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.119
just because it's the biggest vegetation there, That's what I'm nice.

529
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:10.960
But so before we go inside and I'll call it quits,

530
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:13.440
I'm like, okay, this is weird. And before we called

531
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.480
it quits, we're up on now, up on my back deck,

532
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:17.960
which is about thirty feet away from my fire. Fire

533
00:32:18.000 --> 00:32:21.799
is still ripping and we're having and then I hear

534
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.079
a whistle. I think it's a human. I grab my

535
00:32:24.160 --> 00:32:28.079
mag light, which is like twelve hundred lumens. It's waterproof.

536
00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:33.880
It's super nice, and I like a cop pistol and magline.

537
00:32:33.880 --> 00:32:35.720
I'm like, boom, Like what is is? Do I got

538
00:32:35.759 --> 00:32:39.599
someone in my backyard being weird, you know, because we

539
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:46.440
have some property and this charter's being walky again. Oh

540
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.759
my goodness. Anyway, I should probably just go get my

541
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:55.400
stinking charger and yeah, so I mag lighted it and

542
00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:58.000
that's when I saw the spider thing and I was

543
00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:00.839
like oh. And then from the left, I had like

544
00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:07.240
like a MLB picture fastball and acorn about an inch

545
00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.519
from my head and blew up on the side of

546
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:12.440
my house. I was thrown so hard an acorn. I

547
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:13.880
was like oh. And then I was like, I mean,

548
00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.440
we were saying a lot of other words, and then

549
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.920
my little sister started crying. She was like and she

550
00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:21.000
just went inside. And Dan's like, can I stay here tonight?

551
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:24.119
And I was like, yeah, dude, that's funny. Like so,

552
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:26.319
because you know, they were hanging out. He had had

553
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:27.839
a couple of beers and he didn't want to drive,

554
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:31.519
but everybody was pretty shook up. So that was the

555
00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:32.559
first experience here in me.

556
00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.559
Oh wow, Okay, So yeah, when you saw spider crawl,

557
00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:39.079
how quickly was it moving?

558
00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:44.160
Oh it's creepy, dude, was so creepy. It was trying

559
00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:46.000
to be quiet. The only reason I picked up on

560
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.440
it since I heard a teeny little stick break and

561
00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:52.519
I was like canned over and that's when I had

562
00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:55.440
the bag light and it was just like like a flash,

563
00:33:55.559 --> 00:34:01.160
like a furry flash into this thick it's like a

564
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.400
bunch of fern and it was that other plant, brushy

565
00:34:06.480 --> 00:34:09.239
plant and very thick. Can't see through it with the flashlight,

566
00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:12.079
but yeah, it was just maybe a three foot gap

567
00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:15.159
in between those where it was like, oh what was that?

568
00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:18.000
So I didn't even get like really colored definition on it.

569
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:24.519
But for whatever reason, like actually gray stands out to me,

570
00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:26.960
but I you know, I don't know. It was all

571
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.599
within a milliseconds, So it just was weird. So that

572
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.840
was that was the first encounter. I'm sure you have

573
00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:41.199
heard the theory that just like any large predator, they

574
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:49.599
use waterways as highways. Yeah, so that's not anything new

575
00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.079
on my book as far as being a hunter and

576
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:56.559
stuff like that. But so it makes sense springtime, fall

577
00:34:56.639 --> 00:35:01.599
time use it as a highway, gotcha? I covered in

578
00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:02.639
nervous sweats right now.

579
00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.800
Dude, Oh, I don't blame you. I mean that man,

580
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.920
if I was through something like that, that would be

581
00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:13.159
with me for probably forever. So you were having multiple

582
00:35:13.360 --> 00:35:15.719
experiences at this one property.

583
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.880
Yeah, yeah, so it kind of ramped up a little bit.

584
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:23.199
Uh not as far as like there. That's the only

585
00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:26.800
time where I was definitely sure there was more than one.

586
00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.480
But I almost had the feeling like one of those

587
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:40.239
adolescents had a look, had an interest in my little sister.

588
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.679
She's she's a beautiful young woman, you know, but she

589
00:35:44.039 --> 00:35:46.079
I remember coming home a couple of times where she's like,

590
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.920
and you know, my wife was out doing something with

591
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.400
my daughter or whatever, and it was later or whatever,

592
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:56.440
and it was just her and she's like, I don't

593
00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:58.880
want to take the dogs out. It's weird out there.

594
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:04.239
And here's the other thing, the how people talk about

595
00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:09.280
it just being dead quiet, like unnaturally quiet during these events.

596
00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:13.159
I've experienced that every single time something weird' spin back here,

597
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:18.880
Like no cicadas, no grasshoppers, we got millions of frogs,

598
00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:21.440
like in the springtime that come out of that creek.

599
00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:28.719
No frogs, no nothing going on. So that's definitely noteworthy

600
00:36:28.760 --> 00:36:36.400
as well. But yeah, the I guess the second encounter

601
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:40.159
after that, So yeah, she said numerous times, two three

602
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:42.639
times where she was like, can you take the dogs out?

603
00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:44.920
It's it's weird out there, and I'm like, yeah, sure,

604
00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:53.920
dogs whatever, no mind, you know, except for I guess

605
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:57.320
that'd probably be the next time. So this next experience,

606
00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:05.960
same place, same house on that now, I went out

607
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:07.760
to take my dogs out. It's probably about ten o'clock

608
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:11.360
at night on a Tuesday. I have a pit bowl

609
00:37:11.719 --> 00:37:14.320
and a red nose pit named Waffles. And she's a

610
00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:17.960
sweet and she's real dumb, and she barks at the mailman.

611
00:37:18.039 --> 00:37:20.599
She doesn't know what's going on. My other dog though,

612
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.599
she doesn't mark at anybody. And she's very smart. She's

613
00:37:23.639 --> 00:37:26.320
shepherd and pitt and lab. I don't know. She's a

614
00:37:26.440 --> 00:37:30.440
very good dog. She's very smart too, and tough. And

615
00:37:32.079 --> 00:37:35.760
I was being impatient and didn't even really notice until

616
00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.039
it was kind of too late. She had her tail

617
00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:40.400
tucked touch in her stomach, which this is the only

618
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:42.199
time I've ever seen that dog do that. I've seen

619
00:37:42.199 --> 00:37:45.440
her stare down a mast it and win you know

620
00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:47.679
who was trying to bite me, and he was like, oh,

621
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:53.400
never mind and ran the other way. She's tough, and

622
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:56.159
so I'm like having to drag her off the deck.

623
00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:59.239
I was like, well, go tee in the back and

624
00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:02.119
she's like not wanting to even step on the grass.

625
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:03.920
She's on my driveway. She doesn't want to go in

626
00:38:03.960 --> 00:38:11.480
the backyard. And I'm like, well, what's going on? And yeah,

627
00:38:11.480 --> 00:38:14.320
I literally was dragging Waffles downstairs. What's going on with

628
00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:19.079
these dogs? Waffles peek of the driveway. Like I said,

629
00:38:19.079 --> 00:38:21.840
she's not very smart, So I was like, whatever, dumb dog,

630
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:24.039
go inside. And then Willow wasn't going on the durt

631
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:25.400
and I was like, okay, that's kind of what I

632
00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:26.920
was like. And then I noticed the tail and I

633
00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:32.159
was like, okay, what's going on? And so me and

634
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:38.800
my neighbors have big I don't know, it's probably thirty

635
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:45.079
feet deep of untouched woods that divides our properties, and

636
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:47.960
it was in between that finger that separates our property,

637
00:38:48.840 --> 00:38:51.440
and it was about halfway up into my like maintained

638
00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:54.800
part of my backyard. So we have three quarters of

639
00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:56.800
an acre back there, and then it ties into it.

640
00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:00.599
Then it's the power companies for like acre, and then

641
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:04.199
it's a forty acre horse farm, and then it's wilderness,

642
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.360
so it's there's not any houses or anything in that area.

643
00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:12.440
I just figure I put that in there. But yeah,

644
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:17.199
in between this finger, I look up and I see

645
00:39:17.199 --> 00:39:20.800
a pair of glowing red eyes, not eyeshine. I've heard

646
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.679
the glowing thing, and I always thought it was BS

647
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.199
because I've heard about it before this experience on other podcasts,

648
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:32.119
and I was just kind of like maybe suckers were good.

649
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:35.800
And they were like in the moment, they seemed like

650
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.400
they were the size of golf balls, I mean huge,

651
00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:42.519
like really really big and really really far apart, like

652
00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:47.000
not Andre the giant, I don't know would do a justice,

653
00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:56.159
like really far apart. And it was a overwhelming sense

654
00:39:56.199 --> 00:40:05.159
of fear. I've I've had all sorts of animals from

655
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:10.960
hunting or firefighting. I've been ten feet from a charging moose.

656
00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:17.280
I've had you know, I've killed five bear. I've you know,

657
00:40:18.159 --> 00:40:21.119
been able to smack an elk on the butt, you know,

658
00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.159
like I've been up on stuff, dogs, rattlesnakes. I couldn't

659
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.920
tell you how many times. This wasn't anything like that.

660
00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:32.039
This made me feel like a child, very scared to

661
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.480
my core, and I was kind of sick afterwards too.

662
00:40:38.360 --> 00:40:41.639
I wasn't throwing up, but I was like shaky and

663
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:47.679
sweaty and like just kind of very distraught for a

664
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:52.360
couple hours. I didn't really sleep that night, and so

665
00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:55.480
I wonder if infrasound was a thing, or if that's

666
00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:58.719
even a thing. I don't know. I didn't have any

667
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:01.079
sort of major long term or anything like that, but

668
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:04.960
I definitely was shook up. Uh So I look up

669
00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:11.920
at these eyes and yeah, man, I yelled at this thing.

670
00:41:12.239 --> 00:41:16.239
And I don't I don't. I don't think that the

671
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:18.719
words I chose were my own. I feel like I

672
00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:21.239
had some help from the big man upstairs or something,

673
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:25.639
because when I yelled at this thing, I didn't even

674
00:41:25.679 --> 00:41:28.559
think about it. I literally looked at it and shaking

675
00:41:28.840 --> 00:41:30.840
like a leaf. I yelled at this thing and.

676
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:34.840
Yelled, Jesus Christ is king like that, and I like

677
00:41:35.039 --> 00:41:37.920
ran inside or right before I know, I was like

678
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:39.400
this and then and I was kind of like this

679
00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:42.000
and it and then I heard it say it back,

680
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.119
and I don't know if that was in my head,

681
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.679
but it was slow and it was a weird.

682
00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:51.639
Almost robotic cadence to the to the speech and that's

683
00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.760
all it was. And then I went inside and it was,

684
00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.159
you know, a mess. It was a mess inside, and

685
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:03.599
I was like, okay. And since that point, I've only

686
00:42:03.639 --> 00:42:06.599
had one other encounter, and it was two weeks after

687
00:42:06.639 --> 00:42:13.079
the point. I got a food trailer and I was

688
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.440
doing inventory at the end of the night. It's like

689
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:21.039
eleven o'clock or something on a Saturday, and so I

690
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:23.199
was I was doing inventory and I walked out and

691
00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:28.079
this thing was like five feet behind me and I

692
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.800
didn't see it. But as soon as I went to

693
00:42:31.800 --> 00:42:34.000
step down out of my trailer onto my step stool

694
00:42:34.199 --> 00:42:37.639
to get to them my driveway, it shifted its weight

695
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:41.000
intentionally and I could hear it and it may in

696
00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:43.559
the air while I'm stepping to the ground, which is

697
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:47.400
only six seven inches or maybe a foot right. It

698
00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:49.920
scared me so bad, and that split second in the air,

699
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:54.400
I rolled my ankle so hard. I'm fit. I'm agile. Dude.

700
00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:58.239
I butchered my like, and I was like, because it

701
00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.119
was like I just heard it in the weight of

702
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:03.760
it just shifting its foot just sounded so massive, and

703
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.679
he just scared me. Dude. I literally ran inside that time.

704
00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:11.480
So that's that's what I got, man, that's those are

705
00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:16.199
those are my sasquatch, bigfoot, whatever you want to call him.

706
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:18.719
We call him frogman back here because we got all

707
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:21.159
these frogs. And for the first year and a half

708
00:43:21.199 --> 00:43:24.719
we had all these frogs, and then after the what

709
00:43:24.840 --> 00:43:27.280
I believed to be the two encounter, we haven't had

710
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.599
any frogs since. I'm like, maybe just eat all the frogs.

711
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:34.679
What was the approximate a year, time of year that

712
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:40.559
you had your last event happenait fall of last year? Okay,

713
00:43:40.639 --> 00:43:41.519
fall twenty five?

714
00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:44.920
Yeah, wow, fall twenty five. So there's two encounters. Fall

715
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:52.800
twenty five, there was the first so we moved in

716
00:43:52.840 --> 00:43:58.360
the summer of twenty four was our first year here,

717
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:02.000
so it's the spring of twenty five, and then the

718
00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:07.519
fall of twenty five. Were those two other encounters?

719
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:13.400
So okay, yeah, have you talked to your neighbor at all,

720
00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:15.960
any of your neighbors to see if they're having things

721
00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:18.119
happen or is it you're just dealing with it yourself.

722
00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:23.400
Yeah. I don't think a lot of people here and

723
00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:25.840
so then may have a mental capacity to be able

724
00:44:25.880 --> 00:44:30.360
to even entertain that. Not that they're not intelligent. I

725
00:44:30.440 --> 00:44:33.239
just think a lot of people can't even think about

726
00:44:33.239 --> 00:44:36.800
that with just everything going on in the world, and

727
00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:39.880
it's kind of one of those things, unfortunately, unfortunately that

728
00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:43.719
I feel like your eyes have been open to something

729
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:48.840
because you've experienced something, you kind of pick up on

730
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:51.400
those things a little bit quicker than your average Joe.

731
00:44:51.719 --> 00:44:53.480
I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that I've missed

732
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.519
fighting fire through the years that probably now would have

733
00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:00.559
been like, oh my goodness, what is the you know,

734
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:03.280
but when it's right in your face, it's hard to deny, right,

735
00:45:04.239 --> 00:45:09.679
So yeah, I I did ask one of my neighbors

736
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:14.000
about it. He's a good, good old marine devil dog,

737
00:45:14.719 --> 00:45:21.679
but he's he's like, what, like, never mind. And then

738
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:23.960
I'm not going to ask my other neighbor because she's

739
00:45:24.000 --> 00:45:26.079
got a bunch of young teenage girls and I don't.

740
00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:30.039
Want them getting freaked out. So yeah, and then yeah,

741
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:35.800
so it's it's just it's just, uh, it's interesting. But yeah,

742
00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:38.000
I think the thing that helped me the most through

743
00:45:38.039 --> 00:45:41.679
this whole thing was having the my little sister and

744
00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:46.000
Dan in that one experience, because finally it's like, Okay,

745
00:45:46.079 --> 00:45:51.400
everybody's seeing this, everybody's experiencing this. We're having acorns thrown

746
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:53.800
at us from deep in the woods, like ninety miles

747
00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:56.159
an hour, blowing up on my side, and you know

748
00:45:56.199 --> 00:45:58.079
they could hit us, but they're coming to this close.

749
00:45:58.920 --> 00:46:02.480
You're like, where's this cut? I mean front flashlighting, nothing,

750
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:06.119
you know, And if it was a human messing around,

751
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:10.559
they would know better around these parts. So because if

752
00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:13.000
if they're not going to get shot by me being

753
00:46:13.199 --> 00:46:15.960
weirdo in my backyard, mister would happily oblige.

754
00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:20.280
Oh yeah, I mean out there in New England. You're

755
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.199
not messing around on people's property. That's not a smart idea.

756
00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:25.239
You're gonna get taken out.

757
00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:26.280
Yeah.

758
00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:32.880
Yeah, so you'd kind of mentioned this before we start recording.

759
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.119
Are you having stuff going on then inside the house

760
00:46:36.159 --> 00:46:36.599
as well?

761
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:37.920
No?

762
00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:46.039
No, okay, okay, thank god, that's good. Yeah yeah yeah, no,

763
00:46:46.039 --> 00:46:48.440
no weird spiritual activity, man.

764
00:46:48.519 --> 00:46:54.519
I nothing like that. Although I saw some dark stuff

765
00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:56.679
in the streets of Seattle, but that's neither here nor

766
00:46:56.679 --> 00:47:00.239
there or a big right But okay, yeah, no know

767
00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:03.440
what do they call that the hitchhiker effect? None of that,

768
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:12.559
None of that going on. Yeah, just just very uh,

769
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.679
very jarring man, because I don't know how you would.

770
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:19.719
I don't know how you would deal with something like that.

771
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:21.760
And as far as like physically if you needed to.

772
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.760
I got some big guns, but I don't know if

773
00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:27.960
I'm quick enough or have enough bullets to put one

774
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.719
of those things down, you know what I mean. If

775
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:33.360
not that that's my end all goal, I would rather

776
00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:35.880
than just leave me alone. But it did come to

777
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:37.760
a point where I was worried about it because it

778
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:40.960
seemed like one was very interested in my little sister,

779
00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:43.400
because every time she would go out and take her

780
00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:47.119
dog out at night, she would say, I'm getting whistled

781
00:47:47.119 --> 00:47:49.599
at in the woods or whatever. And I thought, there

782
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.159
are a couple of times I literally threw one boots

783
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:56.039
and rushed out, slam it across the creek with gun

784
00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:58.519
in hand, lighting handed, being like, I'm in a find

785
00:47:58.719 --> 00:48:04.159
some weird back here. I did that two three times.

786
00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:07.840
Have you have you heard the whistle yourself?

787
00:48:08.119 --> 00:48:09.119
Oh? Yeah?

788
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:09.599
Can you?

789
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:10.000
Yeah?

790
00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:12.199
Are you able to replicate that?

791
00:48:13.280 --> 00:48:15.440
Whistling over the clones is probably not not that good?

792
00:48:16.119 --> 00:48:19.280
It wasn't. It wasn't any sort of It was just

793
00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:26.519
one pitch now the time where there was two. This

794
00:48:26.559 --> 00:48:28.719
is the whistles What made me for sure there was

795
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.760
two because we heard a whistle off the left heard

796
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:33.800
a whistle off the right within twenty seconds of each other.

797
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:38.119
All right, So whether you're telling hey, you know this

798
00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:40.320
or that, I don't know. You know, I've heard the

799
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:43.000
rock click in someplaces, the tree slap in some places,

800
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:47.199
the whistle in some places, and then the animals, you know, Like,

801
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:49.039
I don't have answers for that.

802
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:54.480
Was it like, was it like, yeah, it was kind of.

803
00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:56.199
It was kind of like that. Yeah, it was just

804
00:48:56.199 --> 00:49:02.199
a short yeah, yeah, okay. Yeah.

805
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:05.280
So I go out to this place in Oregon near Oakridge,

806
00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.679
and the first year I went out there, we're like

807
00:49:09.719 --> 00:49:12.119
thirty miles out in the woods in this one area

808
00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:20.239
and when this when there's this one young lady out

809
00:49:20.280 --> 00:49:26.760
there with us this one time and other times, something

810
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:30.639
will start whistling at her from the woods. And what

811
00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:34.880
I saw happened was that whistle came out from the

812
00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.920
woods and then but then she would do it back

813
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.320
to it, and like for a minute, it was like

814
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:43.119
back and forth, back and forth, but then it started

815
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:46.920
moving away like it was trying to get lower to

816
00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:49.280
follow it away. And it was the freakiest thing I've

817
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.960
ever seen in my life. It was so weird, dude,

818
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:54.880
but it was. It was that same exact whistle, so yeah.

819
00:49:54.719 --> 00:49:56.840
It was it almost sounds like a human whistle, like

820
00:49:56.840 --> 00:50:00.800
a hey career, Hey yep. It was some drawn out

821
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:03.960
thing or like weird pitch or anything. It sounded very like.

822
00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:07.199
That's where I was like, Okay, are there some crazy crackheads.

823
00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:09.639
There's not crackheads here, and dang, they'll freeze to death

824
00:50:09.639 --> 00:50:12.760
in the winter. You know, it's not the West Coast, So.

825
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:15.400
Yeah, I don't I don't know.

826
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.599
I don't know mayor Oh no, she's she's out of

827
00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:23.360
here now. I'm actually right now, so I guess. So yeah,

828
00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:29.199
it's a but yeah, definitely felt that that tension there,

829
00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:32.679
like it was interesting on her and she was, like

830
00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:34.360
I said, she was freaked out a number of times

831
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:36.760
where she's like, can you take her dog Daisy? She's like,

832
00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:38.400
can you take the easy out tonight? I just don't

833
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:41.639
want to go outside. I'm freaked out, and I'm like okay,

834
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:44.639
Like I was like, you can grab the twelve gage

835
00:50:44.639 --> 00:50:48.000
if you want. She's like, no, you can grab any

836
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.440
of the other ones. But she's like no, okay, So

837
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.159
I don't know. You know, and you've heard you've heard

838
00:50:55.159 --> 00:50:57.480
the stories, whether I don't know, maybe I'm sure you

839
00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:05.559
have of them, the ancient ancient, the like native stories

840
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:07.880
of people saying you don't take your women, will take

841
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:11.559
your kids and stuff. And one thing that I find

842
00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:15.440
interesting is in these stories de vlidity of them, I

843
00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:19.039
don't know. But with there's a story I heard from

844
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:21.960
a minor that says he got swooped up by one

845
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:24.719
in the early nineteen hundreds. And then there's another one

846
00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:27.960
from a Native American gal who when she was a

847
00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:29.800
young girl got swooped up to and they both said

848
00:51:29.800 --> 00:51:32.960
that they had pine tar smeared over their eyes when

849
00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:36.960
they were taken into the woods. And interesting, yeah, which

850
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:41.559
is interesting. And then in both of these accounts that

851
00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:44.760
I'm referring to, I think I heard one of them

852
00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:47.599
along with Grimmer. I can't recall another one. I think

853
00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.800
it was that this is like an old old like

854
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:57.280
prospers like guy prospecting for gold. Yeah. And the other

855
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:00.440
one was a Native gal and she they both said

856
00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:02.440
pine tart. But and they both in both these accounts.

857
00:52:02.519 --> 00:52:04.760
The reason they stick out my brain is because they

858
00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:09.639
both said they conceive children with the Sasquatch. Yeah, and

859
00:52:09.719 --> 00:52:14.079
so the guy he that's where it was. It was

860
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:20.519
the it's the inuite guy from Alaska. Who do you

861
00:52:20.559 --> 00:52:26.519
know what I'm talking about? Uh, I'm going crazy Sasquatch stories.

862
00:52:26.719 --> 00:52:30.480
This guy told this story and he does tours and

863
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:34.599
stuff like that. And yeah, he's uh, he lived in

864
00:52:34.639 --> 00:52:39.159
the woods, he's been on West Grammer. I believe he's

865
00:52:39.519 --> 00:52:42.000
he's kind of a crazy Indian guy, but he's got

866
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:47.400
some wild stories. But yeah, anyway, both did these accounts

867
00:52:47.400 --> 00:52:49.519
that people said they had kids with sasquatch, and they

868
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:53.000
both reported that they were half hairy, half smooth, and

869
00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:56.760
it's like weird. And then on both of these are cases.

870
00:52:57.159 --> 00:52:59.800
The validity I don't know, but there these old accounts.

871
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:05.559
They both managed to escape and in turn, the Sasquatch

872
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:09.559
brutally killed their offspringing in front of them as they

873
00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:11.880
were escaping, one guy on canoe in the other gal

874
00:53:11.960 --> 00:53:15.599
while she was crossing the river or something of that nature.

875
00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:18.039
I was like, whoa dude. And so I've heard of

876
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:22.800
people saying they've seen sasquatch skin of deer with their thumbnails,

877
00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.840
like literally skin one. That's what the minerds said that

878
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:32.039
it did to their He was I don't know, dude,

879
00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:37.159
It's just it's some weird stuff. Do you Are you

880
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:41.559
familiar with the account of in eastern Europe where they

881
00:53:41.679 --> 00:53:48.639
had a young sasquatch chained down sixteen forty or whatever

882
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:53.599
it was, right, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I don't know.

883
00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:57.920
Man, some weird stuff out there, man, definitely. I want

884
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.440
to make sure Mike that you were able to to

885
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:03.440
share everything that you were wanting to talk about on

886
00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:04.360
the show today.

887
00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.760
Yeah. Yeah, okay, just take a shower. I'm covered in

888
00:54:08.320 --> 00:54:11.599
the stinky adrenaline sweat right now reliving that stuff.

889
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:17.559
Yeahre thank you for taking the time to come on

890
00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:20.239
the show and to share what you experience out there

891
00:54:20.280 --> 00:54:23.800
in Oregon and in southern Maine. I do appreciate it.

892
00:54:23.840 --> 00:54:26.000
We don't hear a lot from New England, so anything

893
00:54:26.199 --> 00:54:31.119
we can hear from there is definitely important. But thank

894
00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:33.159
you so much for coming on. Man. Have you ever

895
00:54:33.199 --> 00:54:37.079
heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon?

896
00:54:37.519 --> 00:54:40.079
And you think to yourself, Man, I would love to

897
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:42.679
get out in those woods and experience it for myself.

898
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:47.559
Well guess what this year you can If this is

899
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:51.960
interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch

900
00:54:52.000 --> 00:54:55.960
Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh,

901
00:54:56.239 --> 00:54:59.679
twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than

902
00:54:59.679 --> 00:55:03.119
the pre previous years. Reason number one, I'll be one

903
00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:07.519
of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll

904
00:55:07.519 --> 00:55:12.280
say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else,

905
00:55:12.480 --> 00:55:18.079
because let's just say sometimes it's well, you just got

906
00:55:18.079 --> 00:55:20.440
to be there. We'll leave it that more about looking

907
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:22.960
for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out.

908
00:55:23.639 --> 00:55:28.880
You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching

909
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:33.159
for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go

910
00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:37.480
to the festival, but you can also sign up for

911
00:55:39.960 --> 00:55:44.519
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912
00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:49.480
with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot.

913
00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:53.679
There's only eight spots to sign up for this. And yes,

914
00:55:54.360 --> 00:55:57.400
this will also be filmed for the next chapter in

915
00:55:57.400 --> 00:56:00.840
his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is

916
00:56:00.840 --> 00:56:03.360
a once in a lifetime deal. It's just trust it's

917
00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:08.280
going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket,

918
00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:12.639
head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest Dot com and listeners

919
00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:18.199
can use the code b SP like Bigfoot Society Podcast

920
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in order to get a two day pass for the

921
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922
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923
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:35.119
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924
00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:39.000
Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the

925
00:56:39.039 --> 00:56:43.119
booth in Oakridge this year we can talk about your encounter.

926
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Was able to talk to so many people last year

927
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and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're

928
00:56:50.000 --> 00:56:51.719
not going to want to miss it, and I'll see

929
00:56:51.760 --> 00:56:56.119
you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to

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say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.

931
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If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and

932
00:57:03.400 --> 00:57:06.320
if you've seen something that no one can explain, or

933
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:09.440
if you're a National Park ranger or forestry worker who's

934
00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:12.320
been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot

935
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.880
who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if

936
00:57:15.920 --> 00:57:19.480
you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence

937
00:57:19.679 --> 00:57:22.679
and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about.

938
00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.920
And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue

939
00:57:25.920 --> 00:57:29.840
responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense.

940
00:57:30.360 --> 00:57:34.199
If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

941
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:37.360
or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

942
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:40.840
happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

943
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:44.760
a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

944
00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:48.079
contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.

945
00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:51.159
If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

946
00:57:51.199 --> 00:57:54.679
spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

947
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:58.480
or if you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or

948
00:57:58.519 --> 00:58:01.880
anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

949
00:58:03.239 --> 00:58:06.719
then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous.

950
00:58:08.480 --> 00:58:12.000
You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

951
00:58:12.440 --> 00:58:14.880
The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

952
00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:20.840
carry alone. And you're not alone. You've got the story,

953
00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:25.079
We've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank

954
00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:27.960
you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

955
00:58:28.039 --> 00:58:30.440
Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is

956
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:33.639
bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth

957
00:58:33.679 --> 00:58:36.519
is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you

958
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:39.360
enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the

959
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channel on YouTube, hit the bell so you don't miss

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the next episode, and share this with a friend who's

961
00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:47.960
into mysteries, monsters or the unexplained. And if you're listening

962
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.960
to us on Spotify or Apple Podcast, please follow the

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show there and leave us a five star positive review

964
00:58:53.760 --> 00:58:58.000
because all that helps more people discover the show. And remember,

965
00:58:58.000 --> 00:58:59.960
if you or someone you know has had a bigfoote

966
00:59:00.840 --> 00:59:03.400
please I'd love to hear from you, so email me

967
00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:06.840
at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com and let's start

968
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:09.679
the conversation. If you haven't gotten a chance yet, check

969
00:59:09.679 --> 00:59:13.480
out our membership community over at www dot Bigfoot Society

970
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.519
podcast dot com and that's where you can hear tomorrow's

971
00:59:16.599 --> 00:59:20.440
episode today early in ad free and members only episodes

972
00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:24.280
every week. Also, it's a place to connect with other

973
00:59:24.320 --> 00:59:26.800
people that are into the Bigfoot subject as much as

974
00:59:26.840 --> 00:59:29.559
you are. Thanks again for following along with the Bigfoot

975
00:59:29.599 --> 00:59:33.039
Society until next time, keep your eyes open, trust your gut,

976
00:59:33.079 --> 00:59:35.360
and never stop asking what else might be out there?

977
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:36.480
And see you in the woods.