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Oct. 11, 2026

Texas Bowhunter Takes Aim—Then an 8-Foot Figure Runs Out

Texas Bowhunter Takes Aim—Then an 8-Foot Figure Runs Out
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Season 1

An eight-foot figure ran into a Texas bowhunter’s clearing just as he prepared to draw on his target buck. The deer fled. The figure stopped, snorted, lifted its nose, and ran in the same direction. The hunter says he has never returned.


In Bigfoot Society Episode 1217, Marlon shares his 2019 encounter near Kennard, Texas, close to Davy Crockett National Forest. His account begins with disappearing wildlife sightings, repeated trail-camera alerts, and an unexplained nighttime bellow. When his hunting partner sees something that leaves him shaking, Marlon heads into the woods alone—and experiences a sighting that ends their trip.


Plus, Jax recounts a family camping experience near Ariel, Washington, where something reportedly ran behind their tent for ten minutes, screamed, and shook the ground. Daylight revealed broken branches and enormous impressions in the dirt. On Washington’s Larch Mountain, another witness describes coming face-to-face with a massive figure on a snowy logging road, then finding tracks that ended in an open clearing.


Three witness accounts. Unexplained sounds, close encounters, and questions that linger long after leaving the woods.



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You're listening to Bigfoot 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 firsthand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible.

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From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms

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and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each

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one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are

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the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle

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in because today you'll hear another account that just might

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change the way you see the woods forever. So stay

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with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he

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continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his

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medical journey, please go to the CaringBridge link in the

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show notes. Thank you. Let's see if Jax is available.

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That sounds very interesting. here hey jacks this is jeremiah

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from bigfoot society sounds like you had some interesting things

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happen in aerial washington.

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Yeah so we were living up um on one of

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the reservoirs like lake reservoirs up there and we had

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decided to go camping in our backyard um which was

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on about 20 acres um backed up to national forest

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area so not not a lot of people out there

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um and we were camping with both our little kids

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and we had a couple of dogs down by the

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lake and woke up at about four o'clock in the

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morning to something running back and forth behind our tent. Um,

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we were on a flat area of the pasture and

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it had some like immature trees that were probably about,

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you know, 10, 15 feet tall behind us. Um, And

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whatever was running behind us, because we would see elk

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and bear and deer all the time. We knew what

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they sounded like. Very familiar with all the critters that

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were out around there. You know, mountain lions screaming. And

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whatever this was that woke us up was... running on

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two feet, which is a very distinctive sound from something

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running on four. Um, you know, usually when wild animals

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are running by, they're running in a, you know, they

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run past you, they don't go back and forth. And

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whatever this was, was running back and forth behind our

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tent on two feet and hard enough that it was

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shaking the entire ground.

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The walls of our tent.

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Were shaking and it was screaming in a sound that

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I had never heard before. And I've heard it since

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then on other people's audio recordings of, you know, alleged

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Bigfoot recordings, very similar to what I've heard in those audios.

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Both of our dogs, you know, they've been known to

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chase all sorts of wild critters. Both of them were

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cowering at the end of the bed, you know, not

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interested in going outside and chasing whatever it was out there.

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And this thing was running back and forth and screaming

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behind our tent for a good solid 10 minutes. Um, my,

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my husband and I, we were both wide awake.

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Our kids are crying.

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Um, and we heard it run, finally kind of gave it,

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things were getting thrown at the tent, uh, little rocks, uh, branches.

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And I'm, I'm about ready to pee my pants. I

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thought we were going to die. I didn't know what

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it was, but I thought we were going to die.

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And I'm sitting there and I'm telling my husband, I

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was like, where's the gun?

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Where's the gun?

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And he's like, well, it's in the truck, which is

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about 50 feet away. And he wasn't willing to go

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outside and get it. So we sat there and finally

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we heard it kind of run off down this canyon

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off to the side of us a little ways. And

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we could hear it crashing through the brush as it

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went away. And, you know, the sun's already starting to

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come up about this time because it was right about

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this time of year is end of August. So, you know,

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it was just starting to get a little bit light out.

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And we went outside after the sun came all the

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way up. And the branches on the trees that were

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behind us where we were camping, where this thing had

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been running back and forth, the brushes all trampled down

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and the trees were broken off. the branches were broken

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off the trees up to about 10 feet in the air.

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So whatever this was was tall, and it was definitely

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running on two feet. We didn't see any solid footprints

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where we were because it was grass, but when we

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followed the trail kind of down to where it had

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dropped down into the canyon where there was some more

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underbrush and more dirt, we could see imprints in the

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dirt that were about 18 inches long And about eight

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inches wide, um, that had a foot span of about

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eight feet. And my husband is still not a believer

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to this day. He says that he doesn't know what

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it was. It wasn't anything that he's familiar with.

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It wasn't a bear. It wasn't an elk.

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It wasn't a mountain lion, but he doesn't believe in Bigfoot. Um,

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I didn't believe in it until then, but I believe now. Um,

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and we never went camping on our property again.

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Wow.

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That is incredible. Have you heard of any other things

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happening around that area as well besides what you experienced?

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Yes.

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So we are actually, that is on the south side

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of Mount St. Helens, which is right next to the

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Mount Adams Wilderness Area, which is kind of a known hotspot.

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All of our neighbors have had experiences, whether it's sightings

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or or, you know, hearing sounds, screams are not uncommon. Um,

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you know, this area is a real big hotspot for

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Bigfoot activity, quote unquote. Um, and we're only about 45

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miles as the crow flies from a pretty big hotspot for,

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you know, alien sightings and Bigfoot sightings. So it's, it's

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not super uncommon. The little town that's closest to Ariel, um,

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You know, they sell Bigfoot paraphernalia all over the place

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because it's pretty common for people to have some sort

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of weird experience out there with it. And, you know,

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it was always just kind of a fun, weird, you know,

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little kooky back town thing for us until we had

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that experience. And that was enough to turn me into

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a believer because I didn't see it.

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For sure.

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But I've never, you know, I grew up in these woods.

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I grew up out here and I've never, I don't

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know any other wild animal that would do that.

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I mean, it is, there's nothing else that, that, that

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could really do that. Um, are any of your neighbors

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having stuff happen current day?

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You know, we moved off of that property a couple

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of years ago and I don't stay in touch with them.

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I know that we had one other neighbor that had, um,

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something big through a rock through their window. Um, And

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they lived past us at the end of a private road.

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You've got to go seven miles almost in on this

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private road. And nobody goes down this road unless you

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have to because it's the kind of area where you

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get shot if you get caught wandering around when you're

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not supposed to. And something threw a rock through their

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window at 2 o'clock in the morning, and it was

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standing outside in their yard screaming.

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No way.

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Seriously.

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And that was the same summer. So they were kind of, um,

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you know, we were talking to him about that cause

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they came up and we were telling him what happened

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and they're like, Oh my gosh, we just had, you know,

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this happened. And that's, they were actually coming to tell

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us about that to kind of put us on warning

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that like, Hey, did you see anybody down this way?

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And we're like, no, we didn't see anybody, but we

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had something really weird happened when we were camping a

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couple of weeks ago. So, um, and that was probably

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only a couple of hundred, yards from their house that

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this happened, the way that the properties kind of sit.

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So no other.

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Issues up there that I can think of off the.

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Top of my hand.

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Lots of maybe sightings, but nothing for sure. But those

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are the two that really stood out from when we

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were up there.

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Wow.

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Thank you for sharing that. And if you have contact

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with any of these neighbors still, you feel free to

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pass on my, uh, emails, bigfootsocietyatgmail.com. But, um, yeah, this is, that's,

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that's incredible. Thank you for, for sharing Jax.

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Happy to. So it's always interesting hearing other people's experiences

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and then hearing other people's stories. The first time that

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I heard an audio, all the hair on my body

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went up. So I was like, Oh my God, that

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was it.

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That was what I heard.

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So, all right.

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Well, thank you for what you do.

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You got it.

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Bye.

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Let's see if Marlon's available.

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Hello? Hey, Marlon.

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This is Jeremiah from Bigfoot Society.

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Can you hear me okay?

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Oh, how's it going, man? Oh, yeah, you sound great.

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What's going on? It's going good. It's going good. Actually,

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probably about six or seven months ago, I found your podcast.

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I'm very interested in the Bigfoot world and really just

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the adventurous nature of Bigfoot hunting and why we can't really...

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Figure out more information about these creatures, why they're so mysterious.

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And I found your podcast. I found your TikTok. I'm

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a big fan. And I really appreciate the dedication of it.

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I really do. So, yeah, if you're interested, I can

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tell you a story. it's the first parts of it

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are not all that descriptive it's only probably about two

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months in total but because of the reoccurring events that's

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happening me constantly going back to this place and hunting

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almost every single day it's kind of what makes the

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story more interesting because of how much activity happens so

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often Yeah, go ahead. Okay. So I have a friend

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of mine that has property that butts up pretty close

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to Davy Crockett National Forest near Kennard, Texas. It's a

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real little bitty community. It's not that big at all.

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I don't even know if you consider it a city

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or a town. I think maybe a thousand people live

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in it. And we had been going hunting in this

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place for years.

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I mean.

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It's really one of those, if you don't know where

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it's at, you'll drive past it type places. There's not

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a whole lot of stories about these mysterious sightings or

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mysterious creatures or anything of that matter in this town.

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These are all a bunch of fishermen and hunters that

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are out in the wilderness all the time, constantly. So

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there's never any real stories that come up, or at

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least if there are any stories, no one talks about it.

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Because they don't want to be seen as this crazy nut.

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So we put game cameras out probably about two months

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or so before this deer season. This was back in 2019.

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And we got a couple of pictures of some deer.

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Nothing too crazy. Got one buck that looks really nice.

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And.

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As time goes on, as the days go on, the

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deer sightings for not just my camera on my stand,

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but the stands that my friend is using, it just

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slowly declines more and more and more and more. And

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like sometimes in the beginning, there was 10 or 12,

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like a whole big herd of deer. And then as

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time goes on, as the days go on, there'd be

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one or two less deer. And then the next day

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or next night, one or two less deer. So over

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a course of, I'd say, about three weeks, it gets

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to the point to where instead of seeing anywhere from

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10 to 20 deer within a 24-hour period, we'd be

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lucky to see one. Now, this happens. I'm sure people

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driving around looking for spots that's near the National Forest.

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People spook the deer out. We've seen this before. It's

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not really all that crazy of an occurrence, but it

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is interesting as to how quickly it's happening this time.

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So we keep putting feed out and... That's another sign

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that we're seeing is the corn and the mineral stuff

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that we're putting out is not getting eaten, at least

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not by deer. Sure, we see some raccoons and some

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pigs come by, but no real deer. So we don't

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think really much nothing of it. Maybe it's just a

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dry spell, time goes on. And then it gets to

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the point to where not even, we don't even see

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any raccoons, no pigs, not even hardly any squirrels in

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this 20 to 25 acre flat that we're hunting. And

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it just almost as if everything disappears. And we're sitting

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here scratching our heads like what in the world is

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going on? Why are all these animals and why is

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the deer population just disappearing? And then we're like, okay,

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let's move some spots. Let's go to the other back

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30 plot behind the house and let's see if they've

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moved over there for whatever reason. We're trying to figure

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these things out, trying to put two and two together.

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trying to see exactly what in the world is causing

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all these animals to just, for lack of better terms,

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magically disappear. So we take down our stands, we move

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them over, grab the feeders, move them over to this

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far side behind the house, and still same thing. A

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couple days goes by, absolutely nothing. Just nothing. It's almost

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like all the animals in this whole area all just poof.

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And then one day, There is a big oak tree

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that's right smack dab in the middle of this new

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spot where I have my camera set up. I got

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this food plot planted, got some corn spread out. There's

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a big tree right in the middle of it, probably

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about 15 yards from the camera, straight down the middle

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of it. And I finally get a notice. I have

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one of the cameras at this point to where it

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sends notifications on my phone. And I get a notification

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on my phone that something's walked in front of the camera.

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I look at the picture and I see nothing. And

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there was just this weird blur behind the tree that

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happens when the wind blows. Sure happens when the wind blows,

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maybe a limb, maybe a bird flew by or maybe

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something was running, you know, whatever. I think nothing of it.

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And then another 20, 30 minutes goes by and I

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get another notification on my phone that The same thing,

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except this big, now more predominant, splotchy blur seems to be,

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if it is something running, going the opposite direction. And

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I get this image, and I look deep into it,

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and I'm zooming in. I get it on my computer.

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I'm blowing it up. I'm looking all around, and I'm

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just like, what is this blur? And again, I don't

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think that much of it. And when I show these

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game camera pictures to my buddy, I'm like, hey, look

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at this. What is this? And he goes, man, I've

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heard stories about bears being in deep east Texas. Maybe

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it's just a bear. Okay, we're just going to chop

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it off as it's a bear or it's some type

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of weird limb. You know, it just, whatever. Who cares?

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Let's just go about our day, keep trying to find

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these deer. We think absolutely nothing of it again. That night,

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I kid you not, about 1 a.m., My phone is

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going absolutely crazy from game camera picture notifications. Normally, I

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turn my notifications off, my phone on silent when I

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go to bed. For whatever reason this night, I'm actually

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kind of glad I didn't. Now, I'm not going to

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sit here and tell you that I got a perfect

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picture of a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot in my camera.

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But I will say that I had about 10 to

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15 pictures of what looked to be a splotchy, brownish,

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blackish figure constantly running back and forth across my camera. Really.

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So.

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And I could never get a still picture of it.

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I don't know if it's coincidence or if it was

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intentional or if this thing or creature was. Was intentionally

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recognized that was a camera. I don't know if it

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was smart enough. Because I don't think it was a human.

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Because I feel like eventually. If you've seen a person

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running by. That. You know you'd catch. You'd be able

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to see it.

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If it's somebody.

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Even if it's in a big brown jacket. You'd be

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able to see. Oh that's somebody running in front of

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a camera. Or they're trying to dodge it. Or I

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feel like if it was a person. You would be

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able to depict it eventually. And every single time. This

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was just a flash or a blur. And like I

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said I have. I say 20, more like 10 to

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15 pictures of the same image running back and forth

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and back and forth. And I have these photos, and

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I'm looking through, and I still cannot depict what it is. Well,

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as I'm downloading all these pictures, it comes up to

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about now 215, 220. The Wi-Fi and Internet's really slow

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in this area, about 215, 220-ish range. And I hear

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what I think is coyotes hollering. And I'm like, oh,

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there's coyotes hollering. And then this really deep, low bellow

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that I can only describe almost as if like a

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moose call. Now, there are no moose in deep east

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Texas that I know of. And when I hear this,

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I'm like, okay, that's not a coyote. That's not a dog,

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or I don't think it's a wolf. I mean, I've

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heard old folks tell stories about East Texas timber wolves,

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but I've never seen one. That was just a low bellow.

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I can only describe it as like a moose call.

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And at this point, you know, it's in the middle

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of the night. From the previous time looking at the pictures,

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my buddy's asleep. So I wake him up and I'm like, man,

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we got to get outside or something crazy happening outside

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or something's screwing with my cameras and something made a

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low bellow. He thinks that I'm dreaming, and I shake him,

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and I bring him over to my computer, and I'm like,

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look at these pictures I just downloaded. Look at them.

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And then I also tell him about this little bellow,

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and he's like, man, somebody's out there messing with us.

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I'm like, no, it is not a human. It is

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not a person. I am telling you, it is not

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a human. It is something else. So we sit outside

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on the back porch of this house. This is an

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old cabin. This is like his grandparents' cabin that we

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stay in when we go hunting out there. We're sitting

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on the back porch. We're listening. We turn the porch

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lights off. We're trying to make it as dark as possible.

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It's about a half moon, so you can kind of

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see the open grounds a little bit. We're sitting, we're listening,

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nothing else happens that night. We even wait until it's

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about 6.15, 6.20 in the morning when the sun's creeping up.

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We don't hear anything weird besides some birds chirping, you know,

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nothing out of the ordinary. So that happens all the

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night and with the cameras and the bella screen and

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then just like a light switch goes off all of

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a sudden the following day we're starting to get a

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couple of more pictures of deer coming by and it's

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like hey the deer are finally back and we start

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to get a couple of pictures, and I found out

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that my buck that I really wanted to try to

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take that season came back, and then we're starting to

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see more and more, almost as if, hey, maybe they

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made some type of real long trip, some long couple-week

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trek or something, and then came back, and everything's, hey,

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back to normal, seems like. So about a week and

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a half goes by. It's getting close to dove season

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in September in Texas. We've still got about A few

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weeks before bow season happens. And we're out shooting dove.

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We're still getting game camera pictures of deer. So everything

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is alright and normal. And then I'm not even kidding

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you whenever I tell you the weekend of bow season.

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Like we go back on a Thursday and then that

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Saturday is going to be the opening of bow season.

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So that Thursday night... whenever we're unpacking the truck, getting

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all of our supplies out ready to go. At this point,

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it had been almost a month's worth of days since

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that bellow, probably a little over three weeks since that happened.

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And we're unloading the truck. We're getting everything ready to

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rock and roll. We're getting our broadheads on, getting our

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clothes washed down in that dead down wind detergent. You

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make sure we got the boots, make sure we got

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all of our supplies ready. And it comes to about

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1030 at night whenever I'm finally getting worn down, the

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excitement of the new deer season. And I finally get

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worn down, go to sleep. My buddy stays up. He's

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listening to the radio, local country station, playing on his

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phone a little bit. And I don't know, maybe an

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hour of me being asleep. I think it was close

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to 1140 ish, something like that. when I looked on

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my phone, but he woke me up out of a

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dead sleep. And he goes, Marlon, get up. That screaming

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thing is back. And I said, what? I said, what?

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He wakes me out of a dead sleep, literally grabs

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me by my armpits and pulls me up. And he goes,

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get outside now. That screaming thing is back. And I'm,

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I'm still like, I'm still kind of like half asleep

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and I don't think anything. I just, I grab a,

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of a flashlight. I'm outside with him. I'm, I'm shirtless

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in my, in my underwear and in my gym shorts.

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I did think enough to grab some house shoes, but, um,

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so I go out and I'm looking around and I'm

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just like, what, what, what, what's going on? What, why'd

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you get me on here? And he goes, I heard

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the scream. And I said, what are you talking about?

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He goes, remember that time back you told me you

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heard that low bellow and we sat out here all

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night and waited, we didn't hear nothing? I'm like, yeah.

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He goes, it's back. And I said, okay, so what

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do you want to do? What do you think we

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should do right now? And he goes, let's all, let's get... uh, dress.

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Let's all get scored away. Let's grab some weapons and

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let's go see if we can find this thing. I'm like,

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what are we going to, are we going to hunt it?

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Are we going to hunt it? He goes, no, if anything,

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we're just going to scare it off. And I was like,

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so what do you think it is? He goes, I

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don't want to admit this, but I feel like it

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might be a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot. And I'm like, okay, well,

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if that's what you want to do, Let's get dressed.

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Let's go. So we get dressed. We have a side-by-side.

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He unloads it off of the trailer. We get it

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gassed up. Have our weapons, just for self-defense, go out there, spotlighting,

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just looking around. The distinct thing I do remember is

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the fact that, you know that back of your neck,

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someone's watching you type feeling when your hair stands up?

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So that type of feeling happened whenever we got near where...

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where my stand was, where we had moved from the

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previous location, like they had the first stand set up

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and then where I moved it since I started seeing

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more deer, I just left it all there. And after

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all the time of waiting and waiting, so we got

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to the new, the quote unquote newer spot where my

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stand was and looked around looking. And I just had

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this feeling of, man, someone is watching me right now.

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I didn't say nothing, but at first I was looking

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around and some, something is watching me. Something is, It's

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staring me down. I get shining around, looking and looking.

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And he doesn't have the spotlight that's hooked into the side-by-side.

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He has a big, like, almost Magnum P.I. style flashlight,

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one of the long ones that takes the big D batteries.

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He's shining around. And he lets out this blood-curling scream

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at the top of his lungs. Freaked me out. Made

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me drop the spotlight, which somehow turned it off. And

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when I looked over towards him to see why is

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he screaming, he goes, I saw it. I saw it.

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I saw it. And I'm like, what? I'm like, what?

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What did you see? He goes, the blur. It's just

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the blur. And I'm like, okay, calm down. You got

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to catch yourself. Tell me what happened. And he said,

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I seen the blur that you seen on the camera.

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I was like, what did it look like? He goes,

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some type of weird man thing. And I was like, okay,

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was it a guy? Is it a guy running out here?

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Is he poaching the deer? And he goes, no, it's

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not a guy because he didn't have any clothes on.

455
00:25:49.420 --> 00:25:53.940
I was like, so was it a bigfoot? Was it

456
00:25:53.980 --> 00:25:58.039
a Sasquatch? And his hand is shaking. His whole body

457
00:25:58.099 --> 00:26:01.380
is shaking, but I can remember distinctly his hand that

458
00:26:01.400 --> 00:26:05.519
was holding the light was shaking so bad. And I

459
00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.940
looked in the area where he's seen it. He said

460
00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:10.599
he's seen it. And I don't see anything. I'm looking

461
00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:13.819
around and I don't see anything. And I can't really

462
00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:16.859
see quite that great with the light in the trees

463
00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:18.960
because he's shaking so much. So I grabbed the light

464
00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:21.440
from his hand, make him sit down the side by side.

465
00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:24.839
I'm just scanning, looking over the tree line, looking near

466
00:26:24.859 --> 00:26:28.440
where the bushes are and I don't see anything. And

467
00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:31.849
I'm like, okay, let's get you back to the house

468
00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:34.190
or the cabin. Let's get you back there, get you

469
00:26:34.230 --> 00:26:38.470
calmed down, and let's think about this and see if

470
00:26:38.509 --> 00:26:41.799
we need to call somebody, talk to a park ranger,

471
00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:44.779
or call a game warden and see what they think

472
00:26:44.839 --> 00:26:49.200
is going on. So we get back to the cabin.

473
00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:52.369
It's one of those I don't know what to say

474
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.869
type drives. I mean, it's only like a a five

475
00:26:56.910 --> 00:26:59.960
minute drive to my stand. It's, it's only maybe a

476
00:27:00.619 --> 00:27:04.220
quarter mile from not even a quarter mile from the

477
00:27:04.259 --> 00:27:07.039
cabin to where I got everything set up in my spot.

478
00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:11.059
But we get back to the cabin. I helped walk

479
00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:13.210
him up, send him on the bed. He's just shaken

480
00:27:13.269 --> 00:27:17.569
up really bad. Very, very scared. It's obvious that this

481
00:27:17.670 --> 00:27:21.109
man has seen something as shook him to the core.

482
00:27:22.130 --> 00:27:25.559
So I'm trying to make sense of all this. I

483
00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:29.220
don't want to believe that we actually, or he actually,

484
00:27:29.339 --> 00:27:33.579
just seen a Sasquatch in an area where I've never

485
00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.460
heard any Bigfoot stories. But if you think about it,

486
00:27:38.619 --> 00:27:41.980
why wouldn't that be the perfect spot? You know what

487
00:27:42.029 --> 00:27:46.250
I'm saying? If there are no stories, or you don't

488
00:27:46.289 --> 00:27:50.190
really know of any stories, of these creatures in this

489
00:27:50.410 --> 00:27:53.450
deep thicket wood with all these trees and all this

490
00:27:54.089 --> 00:27:59.430
somewhat uncharted land of national forest and private property, small towns.

491
00:27:59.490 --> 00:28:02.150
I mean, why wouldn't it be a good spot for

492
00:28:02.190 --> 00:28:04.259
them to be traveling through or for one to be

493
00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:09.059
hanging out? So I try to get some sleep. Obviously,

494
00:28:09.180 --> 00:28:13.819
between cat naps, I don't get hardly any sleep. Next morning,

495
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.470
my alarm goes off at I think it was 5 a.m.,

496
00:28:18.509 --> 00:28:21.529
something like that, like 30 or 40 minutes before daylight.

497
00:28:22.309 --> 00:28:24.650
I get up. I go wake him up, and he's like,

498
00:28:24.710 --> 00:28:27.650
I'm not going in them woods. So I say, okay,

499
00:28:28.190 --> 00:28:31.650
you want to stay here? Fine. And the crazy thing

500
00:28:31.710 --> 00:28:35.839
about it is whenever I walked out the door to

501
00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:40.059
put my stuff in this side of the side, you know,

502
00:28:40.099 --> 00:28:41.519
heck with it. I came out here to hunt. I'm

503
00:28:41.539 --> 00:28:43.680
going to hunt myself. There's not too many things in

504
00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:47.029
the woods that will scare me off. I want you

505
00:28:47.049 --> 00:28:50.400
to remember that I said that. There's not too many

506
00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:53.420
things in this woods that will scare me off. So

507
00:28:53.700 --> 00:28:56.960
as I'm starting to leave, I hear him lock the

508
00:28:56.980 --> 00:29:01.680
door behind me. Like, that's how terrified he is. So

509
00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:05.009
I'm just, okay, whatever. Let's go sleep it off. I

510
00:29:05.029 --> 00:29:07.450
don't care. So I go drive to my stand. I

511
00:29:07.470 --> 00:29:10.509
parked side by side some ways back. I go climb

512
00:29:10.569 --> 00:29:17.049
up in my stand. And relatively... not much activity that

513
00:29:17.089 --> 00:29:20.809
first opening morning. I've seen one little doe that had

514
00:29:20.849 --> 00:29:23.630
a fawn with her, let her pass. This is about 20,

515
00:29:23.609 --> 00:29:27.000
30 minutes of daylight, nothing crazy. I like to sleep

516
00:29:27.059 --> 00:29:29.579
to about, or excuse me, I like to stay till

517
00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:32.960
about 9.30, 10 o'clock if I don't see anything. If

518
00:29:33.029 --> 00:29:35.390
I see a lot of deer moving, I'll stay till

519
00:29:35.430 --> 00:29:38.150
about 11 or 12. It all just depends on what

520
00:29:38.190 --> 00:29:40.400
I see. So I see a few deer here, and there.

521
00:29:40.420 --> 00:29:42.960
I see a couple of small bucks that are too

522
00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:50.089
small to take. And sitting here, listening to the birds chirping, okay,

523
00:29:50.150 --> 00:29:53.990
despite this creature being seen, it seems like the wildlife

524
00:29:54.089 --> 00:29:55.349
is back. Awesome.

525
00:29:55.450 --> 00:29:55.750
Great.

526
00:29:55.809 --> 00:30:01.680
Fantastic. Cool. And That's virtually it. I get down from

527
00:30:01.700 --> 00:30:03.940
my stand. I get back in the side by side.

528
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:07.339
I go back, take a quick little nap, get something

529
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.660
to eat. I'm going back out for my evening hunt.

530
00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.839
And I asked him, do you want to go with me?

531
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:14.880
He said, like I said, I'm not going out in

532
00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:19.180
those woods. I will leave with you whenever we go

533
00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:22.700
home Sunday night. But other than that, I am staying

534
00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:28.059
right here. Okay, fine. I respect that. Go ahead. So

535
00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:30.960
this is the evening hunt of the Saturday. I go in.

536
00:30:30.980 --> 00:30:34.849
I sit. I don't see anything. And then about 20

537
00:30:34.849 --> 00:30:39.730
minutes before dark, right whenever we like to call prime time,

538
00:30:40.529 --> 00:30:44.130
like whenever it's just about to be dark, in my experience,

539
00:30:44.430 --> 00:30:46.599
the biggest bucks I've ever shot, the most deer I've

540
00:30:46.670 --> 00:30:50.660
ever shot, is right after daylight or right before it

541
00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:54.200
gets dark. And I like to call it prime time

542
00:30:54.220 --> 00:30:56.759
for that reason. So 20 minutes or so before dark.

543
00:30:57.420 --> 00:31:03.450
My target buck walks out, and I'm like, holy crap.

544
00:31:03.609 --> 00:31:06.809
I'm not even remembering about the creature at this point.

545
00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:10.250
That's gone from my mind. As crazy as that sounds,

546
00:31:10.569 --> 00:31:15.680
it's gone. So I see the buck come out, and

547
00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:18.019
I grab my bow, and I stand up from my stand.

548
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:20.960
I get my arrow. I have my arrow knocked. I

549
00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:24.259
get my release knocked on the back of my string.

550
00:31:24.279 --> 00:31:26.759
I'm ready to rock and roll. I get it pointed up.

551
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.700
I'm about to draw back on him. And I hear

552
00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:37.400
what sounds like an elephant come crashing through the brush

553
00:31:38.529 --> 00:31:44.430
probably 10 to 15 yards behind me. And when I

554
00:31:44.529 --> 00:31:51.680
hear this, I freeze. Now, initially, in my experience... If

555
00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:55.079
there's two bucks in rut and if one sees another

556
00:31:55.180 --> 00:31:58.140
and if he's really riled up, he will tear through

557
00:31:58.200 --> 00:32:00.880
hell and back to fight this buck. It's just what

558
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.000
deer do in a rut. But it's not time for

559
00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:05.859
the rut yet. So the first couple of seconds, I'm like, dang,

560
00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:07.259
is that a bigger buck trying to chase him up?

561
00:32:07.299 --> 00:32:10.200
Wait a minute. They're not in rut yet. What is that?

562
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:13.880
A big old hog? What is that going on? And

563
00:32:14.359 --> 00:32:17.259
where my deer stand is set up is like my

564
00:32:17.319 --> 00:32:21.099
back is towards tree line. There's an opening. And then there's...

565
00:32:22.470 --> 00:32:25.170
it's almost like a skylight amongst the trees. There's a

566
00:32:25.190 --> 00:32:29.049
little circle that's been cut out naturally from the trees,

567
00:32:29.190 --> 00:32:31.269
opening with the oak trees and everything else, and that's

568
00:32:31.289 --> 00:32:33.670
where I planted my food plot, my corn. So I

569
00:32:33.930 --> 00:32:36.339
don't see what's going on, and my hunter's instinct is

570
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.619
kicking in, like, hey, don't turn quickly. If it's something

571
00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:42.180
you're going to want to take, then leave it be,

572
00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:45.500
or try to be still with it. So I'm looking,

573
00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:47.519
I'm looking, I can't see, but I hear this thing

574
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.720
crashing through the forest, and At this point, when it's

575
00:32:51.779 --> 00:32:55.019
crashing and crashing through, my target buck runs off. And

576
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.359
I'm like, well, dang, there goes my target buck. And

577
00:32:59.400 --> 00:33:09.539
this thing runs out perfectly in the dead center of

578
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:18.269
my food plot and stops. And I'm like, what was that?

579
00:33:19.890 --> 00:33:22.920
And I look, and the best way I can describe

580
00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.180
it to you is about an eight-foot monkey man.

581
00:33:26.359 --> 00:33:26.799
Whoa.

582
00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:32.529
Stops and looks in the direction that the deer was running,

583
00:33:34.109 --> 00:33:38.450
does this little snort, lifts his nose up in the air,

584
00:33:39.210 --> 00:33:42.049
and then takes off in the same direction the deer does.

585
00:33:44.569 --> 00:33:47.480
Thank God it did not see me. At least I

586
00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:51.440
don't think it did. It never turned its head towards me. Now,

587
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:55.869
when it ran off, it did not run with the

588
00:33:55.950 --> 00:33:59.930
same intensity as when it initially came through, at least

589
00:33:59.970 --> 00:34:02.410
not to me. It didn't seem like it was barreling

590
00:34:02.430 --> 00:34:05.440
through the brush quite as much. So I don't know.

591
00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:08.039
It did sprint away, but I don't know if it

592
00:34:08.079 --> 00:34:10.219
was trying to chase the deer down and not let

593
00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:12.480
the deer know that it was right behind it or

594
00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:16.199
if it was a territorial thing or what. At that point,

595
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:20.550
I put my bow down. I climb out of the stand.

596
00:34:20.670 --> 00:34:23.510
I get in the side-by-side. I drive to the cabin.

597
00:34:24.010 --> 00:34:27.769
We load everything up. I have not gone back since.

598
00:34:30.360 --> 00:34:32.579
Oh, my goodness. How long ago was this again?

599
00:34:32.820 --> 00:34:36.199
So, 2019. Okay. Yeah, that's what I thought.

600
00:34:37.380 --> 00:34:37.840
Wow.

601
00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:39.199
Oh, my goodness.

602
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:42.110
That is insane, man.

603
00:34:42.570 --> 00:34:46.469
Yeah. And the thing about it is, as I tell

604
00:34:46.530 --> 00:34:49.630
people that, I tell his parents that. I tell his

605
00:34:49.650 --> 00:34:52.449
grandparents that. I even called the game warden and said,

606
00:34:52.469 --> 00:34:54.050
you need to go out there and figure out what's

607
00:34:54.070 --> 00:34:57.210
going on. There's a Bigfoot out there. And it got

608
00:34:57.309 --> 00:34:59.929
so close, too close for comfort. And they laugh at me.

609
00:35:00.309 --> 00:35:03.619
They're like, okay, you guys have been out there getting drunk.

610
00:35:04.219 --> 00:35:08.260
I was like, no, no. My buddy doesn't drink. He

611
00:35:08.300 --> 00:35:12.320
can tell you. And when I try to get him

612
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:16.380
on the phone, for the sake of not sounding crazy...

613
00:35:17.619 --> 00:35:20.610
I have to forcibly make him talk about it if

614
00:35:20.670 --> 00:35:22.730
I want him to tell the story. If not, I

615
00:35:22.769 --> 00:35:24.250
have to be the one to tell the story. He

616
00:35:24.289 --> 00:35:27.530
sits there quietly. Like he will not talk about it.

617
00:35:27.849 --> 00:35:31.280
And the only reason I like telling people that story

618
00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:34.119
is because of the fact that obviously at that point

619
00:35:34.139 --> 00:35:36.579
that made me a Bigfoot believer. I mean, what more

620
00:35:36.659 --> 00:35:39.880
proof do I need? I mean, the proof just fell there.

621
00:35:40.500 --> 00:35:42.559
right in front of my lap, right in front of me.

622
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:44.500
I mean, I could have shot it with my bow

623
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:45.920
if I really wanted to. Don't know if I would

624
00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:48.139
have hurt it or not, but I'm not saying I would,

625
00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:53.070
but that's how legitimately how close it get. And I

626
00:35:53.090 --> 00:35:57.289
haven't been back since. I tell the grandparents almost every

627
00:35:57.309 --> 00:35:59.909
single year, the grandparents will call me back. Hey, you

628
00:35:59.929 --> 00:36:02.590
want to go hunt our place in Kennard? And I'm like, no.

629
00:36:03.130 --> 00:36:04.489
And they're like, are you going to be scared of

630
00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:08.409
that place forever? And I'm like, Look, whatever that thing was,

631
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:12.000
obviously I'm in his territory, not he's in mine. So

632
00:36:12.019 --> 00:36:14.739
I'm going to leave it be. And the crazy, even

633
00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:17.940
crazier than that is that people go out there. His

634
00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:20.340
family members go out there. They go dove hunting. They

635
00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:24.300
go duck hunting. Sometimes they dug them a pond out

636
00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:26.300
there and went started going duck hunting there the last

637
00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:28.980
couple of years. They go deer hunting and they never

638
00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:31.409
tell me any stories or they don't say any stories

639
00:36:31.469 --> 00:36:34.469
out loud of them seeing this creature. So I don't

640
00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:37.829
know if it ran off. or if somebody's seen it,

641
00:36:38.130 --> 00:36:40.710
or if it finally passed along its way, or if

642
00:36:40.769 --> 00:36:43.690
it's still there, and with all the activity, it got

643
00:36:43.730 --> 00:36:47.090
better at hiding, or with all the activity of lots

644
00:36:47.150 --> 00:36:49.130
more people going out there and hunting and things of

645
00:36:49.150 --> 00:36:51.929
that matter, that it just decided to scamper off. Because

646
00:36:52.110 --> 00:36:54.750
no one has said anything or had any more game

647
00:36:54.789 --> 00:36:59.909
camera pictures passed once I told them about that in

648
00:36:59.949 --> 00:37:02.539
the last hunting trip we went out there in 2019.

649
00:37:02.539 --> 00:37:05.360
No one has said a word or came forward saying, hey,

650
00:37:05.869 --> 00:37:08.329
I got the same type of game camera pictures. I

651
00:37:08.349 --> 00:37:10.449
had this. I heard that. Nobody.

652
00:37:12.949 --> 00:37:15.409
Wow, I can understand how you haven't been back in

653
00:37:16.110 --> 00:37:16.949
almost six years.

654
00:37:17.429 --> 00:37:17.650
Yeah.

655
00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:26.239
Does this party you ever want to go back out

656
00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:27.860
there or not a chance?

657
00:37:28.539 --> 00:37:36.110
So because of how successful our hunts were, When we

658
00:37:36.150 --> 00:37:40.090
deer hunted there regularly, yes. But at the same time,

659
00:37:40.510 --> 00:37:43.909
just the thought of me getting back in that tree

660
00:37:43.949 --> 00:37:47.590
stand and the slight chance that that thing could walk

661
00:37:47.659 --> 00:37:50.940
up underneath me and actually see me this time scares

662
00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:55.420
me so much that even whenever I'm in the woods nowadays...

663
00:37:56.210 --> 00:38:00.329
And I'm– it's like there's no Bigfoots here. I'm a hunter.

664
00:38:00.789 --> 00:38:05.250
I'm a thousand miles away. I'm hunting the devil's backbone

665
00:38:05.289 --> 00:38:07.889
in New Mexico going after elk. There's no reason that

666
00:38:07.949 --> 00:38:10.969
that creature would be from deep east Texas would follow

667
00:38:11.010 --> 00:38:15.150
me there. But there could be a chance. So I

668
00:38:15.190 --> 00:38:17.809
always had that in the back of my mind. And–

669
00:38:20.329 --> 00:38:21.840
And I'm not saying it scares me out of the

670
00:38:21.860 --> 00:38:24.320
woods completely, but I do keep my head on a

671
00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:26.619
swivel every time I'm in any kind of woods, any

672
00:38:26.659 --> 00:38:30.760
kind of mountains nowadays. Especially me reading stories and seeing

673
00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:34.719
them virtually almost all over the whole U.S. now. Almost

674
00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:37.360
all over the entire U.S. it seems like. In any

675
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:41.969
wooded area, even some bigger towns in Colorado right outside

676
00:38:42.010 --> 00:38:44.829
of them. I mean, I'm just like, holy crap. With

677
00:38:45.070 --> 00:38:48.730
us expanding our villages and our cities, we're getting right

678
00:38:48.750 --> 00:38:49.650
into their backyards.

679
00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:54.340
So um you said it looked like a monkey man

680
00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.559
do you do you think of a certain monkey when

681
00:38:58.579 --> 00:38:59.980
you remember what you saw.

682
00:38:59.760 --> 00:39:13.429
A dramatically bigger it just an eight foot tall human

683
00:39:13.489 --> 00:39:16.690
that was dramatically hairy but it had the features of

684
00:39:16.750 --> 00:39:18.769
like a gorilla it didn't have the It didn't have

685
00:39:18.809 --> 00:39:21.889
the head of a gorilla, but it had the arms

686
00:39:22.030 --> 00:39:24.050
and the legs, and it was kind of bowed over

687
00:39:24.090 --> 00:39:25.849
a little bit like you'd see a gorilla when it

688
00:39:25.869 --> 00:39:28.329
stands on its back legs. But it didn't have the

689
00:39:28.389 --> 00:39:31.309
head of it. It had the head of almost... human-esque-like.

690
00:39:32.809 --> 00:39:34.639
The reason I say monkey man is because I was like,

691
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.969
holy crap, is that an eight-foot-tall gorilla? No, that doesn't

692
00:39:38.989 --> 00:39:44.239
have the head. So that's what I say by monkey man.

693
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:48.219
I mean, the appendages looked ape-esque-like.

694
00:39:50.230 --> 00:39:55.150
Wow, that's a really, really intense story. Thank you for

695
00:39:55.530 --> 00:40:00.510
getting on and sharing that. Oh, yeah, you're welcome. If

696
00:40:00.550 --> 00:40:03.929
you ever do go back there or you ever hear anything,

697
00:40:04.730 --> 00:40:07.130
please feel free to reach out. You can email me

698
00:40:07.190 --> 00:40:09.250
at bigfootsociety at gmail.com.

699
00:40:09.829 --> 00:40:10.329
Absolutely.

700
00:40:10.929 --> 00:40:14.050
It looks like that town, when they last did their census,

701
00:40:14.750 --> 00:40:16.269
was only a few hundred people.

702
00:40:16.789 --> 00:40:18.010
Yeah, makes sense.

703
00:40:19.440 --> 00:40:20.909
Did it have a weird smell at all?

704
00:40:22.969 --> 00:40:27.389
You know, honestly, I was in such fear that if

705
00:40:27.469 --> 00:40:28.949
it did have a smell, I couldn't tell you what

706
00:40:28.989 --> 00:40:31.739
it was. I mean, I was just so in shock.

707
00:40:32.710 --> 00:40:35.030
I mean, maybe if I think hard enough, I can

708
00:40:35.150 --> 00:40:36.989
try to come up with a smell, but I'd be

709
00:40:37.050 --> 00:40:39.550
lying to you. I mean, I don't remember. I just

710
00:40:39.590 --> 00:40:42.780
remember the noise of it coming out, crashing through the woods,

711
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:47.920
it eventually stepping out. The snort thing, that was the

712
00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:50.440
other thing when I say like a monkey man, because

713
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:53.699
it almost had like a grunt like a silverback does,

714
00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:59.469
but not quite as low. But the snort. And then

715
00:40:59.510 --> 00:41:02.380
it running the same direction the deer ran. I don't

716
00:41:02.420 --> 00:41:04.460
remember any kind of smell. I think I was just

717
00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:07.300
so in shock and in fear that I might not

718
00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:08.960
have been breathing at all, to be honest with you.

719
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:13.260
No, I totally get it. I've heard vocalizations, and that

720
00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:16.500
alone kind of shocked me. So I can't imagine a visual. But,

721
00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:20.800
I mean, it'd be interesting if there were game cams

722
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.780
put up in that area, but that's a lot to

723
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:25.860
ask for someone to go back there when they've had

724
00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:26.719
a visual like that.

725
00:41:26.739 --> 00:41:27.900
Yeah. Yeah.

726
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:34.059
But thank you for coming on up. And you know

727
00:41:34.099 --> 00:41:36.539
my email, so you can always reach out if you'd

728
00:41:36.579 --> 00:41:37.380
like to.

729
00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:39.469
Absolutely. I appreciate it.

730
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:41.219
I don't know.

731
00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:44.690
As far as going back, I mean, thinking about it nowadays,

732
00:41:44.750 --> 00:41:48.230
I'm like, man, I don't want to sit here and

733
00:41:48.289 --> 00:41:50.090
say I still see it in my head every night.

734
00:41:50.250 --> 00:41:52.409
I don't. I mean, I have a normal life now.

735
00:41:52.829 --> 00:41:56.489
I have a job. I'm very successful with my normal life.

736
00:41:56.650 --> 00:41:59.139
I have a wife and I have kids. And I

737
00:41:59.780 --> 00:42:02.500
love teaching them about outdoors. I love teaching them about

738
00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:06.219
fishing and camping and everything of that matter. And with

739
00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.920
my daughter, she seems interested in it. With my son,

740
00:42:08.980 --> 00:42:10.820
who's still a newborn, I want to be able to

741
00:42:11.449 --> 00:42:14.650
show him, you know, the wilderness is a beautiful place

742
00:42:14.710 --> 00:42:17.690
and what we have left of it. Let's enjoy it

743
00:42:17.769 --> 00:42:19.710
while we can because you never know what's going to happen,

744
00:42:20.250 --> 00:42:22.429
you know, 20, 30 years from now, what happens to

745
00:42:22.449 --> 00:42:25.010
these parks. So I want to be able to show

746
00:42:25.070 --> 00:42:28.469
them the beauties of nature and what it has to

747
00:42:28.610 --> 00:42:31.949
offer away from the big city life or away from

748
00:42:32.010 --> 00:42:37.469
the cul-de-sac life. But as far as that specific place,

749
00:42:37.489 --> 00:42:41.989
it's just one of those like I have a hard

750
00:42:42.050 --> 00:42:44.429
time telling my wife about it. And I tell my

751
00:42:44.449 --> 00:42:46.929
wife everything. I still have a hard time telling her

752
00:42:47.010 --> 00:42:49.820
about it. And I don't even fully remember if I've

753
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.539
told her the entire full story and we've been together

754
00:42:52.579 --> 00:42:53.559
almost eight years now.

755
00:42:54.090 --> 00:42:59.030
So, wow. I get it, but thank you. Thank you

756
00:42:59.070 --> 00:43:01.769
for sharing it here. I appreciate you doing that.

757
00:43:02.230 --> 00:43:04.969
Oh, you're welcome. I felt, I felt very comfortable sharing

758
00:43:05.030 --> 00:43:08.849
it with, uh, with this, this type of society, you know, that,

759
00:43:08.949 --> 00:43:12.610
that understands and gets it, you know? Absolutely.

760
00:43:12.889 --> 00:43:17.409
Absolutely. Well, man, um, I'm going to go ahead and

761
00:43:17.449 --> 00:43:19.829
let you go, but thanks for coming on up.

762
00:43:20.710 --> 00:43:21.909
Oh, you're very welcome. Thank you.

763
00:43:27.019 --> 00:43:31.380
All right. Thank you, Marlon. That was incredible. Incredible sighting

764
00:43:31.440 --> 00:43:36.500
down in the Canard, Texas area. Let's see here. We're

765
00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:44.570
going to bring Imagine It up on stage here. Hey there.

766
00:43:44.630 --> 00:43:45.510
This is Jeremiah.

767
00:43:45.550 --> 00:43:46.230
How's it going today?

768
00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:49.239
Oh, it's going really good. I'm glad I get an

769
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.199
opportunity to share.

770
00:43:50.219 --> 00:43:52.280
Yeah, go right ahead.

771
00:43:53.219 --> 00:43:57.360
So this was in, I'm in Washington State, and this

772
00:43:57.530 --> 00:43:59.550
was up in the logging roads. A friend of mine

773
00:43:59.610 --> 00:44:03.429
worked for the forestry department, so we had the keys

774
00:44:03.469 --> 00:44:06.190
to the green gates, you know. up in the logging

775
00:44:06.269 --> 00:44:13.550
roads up on Larch Mountain here in Washington State. And

776
00:44:13.710 --> 00:44:17.150
we were up. Now, mind you, my four-wheel drive was

777
00:44:17.250 --> 00:44:21.199
a Toyota 4Runner, but it had a 16-inch lift kit

778
00:44:21.409 --> 00:44:24.000
and a 6-inch body lift just to give you a height.

779
00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:26.949
So I came around the corner. My boyfriend and I,

780
00:44:26.980 --> 00:44:29.219
we were just slowly because there was probably two feet

781
00:44:29.260 --> 00:44:32.710
of snow on the ground. and it's a logging road,

782
00:44:32.730 --> 00:44:34.730
so you got the cliff on one side, on the

783
00:44:34.769 --> 00:44:37.550
left side, and then just a little bit of a

784
00:44:38.030 --> 00:44:44.289
mound on the right-hand side, not real high, probably the

785
00:44:44.409 --> 00:44:48.530
full height of my truck. And as I came around

786
00:44:48.570 --> 00:44:54.369
the corner, it literally stepped up right onto the road,

787
00:44:55.250 --> 00:44:58.469
literally right in front of me, so it was probably

788
00:44:58.610 --> 00:45:02.579
my face to his face, was probably 10 feet.

789
00:45:02.599 --> 00:45:03.880
Oh, wow.

790
00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:08.460
And literally came to a stop. So it took, it

791
00:45:08.500 --> 00:45:11.039
took the first step up. I stopped cause I was

792
00:45:11.079 --> 00:45:13.920
going really slow anyway. And, you know, I just kind

793
00:45:13.940 --> 00:45:16.059
of came to a stop. It just kind of glanced

794
00:45:16.179 --> 00:45:21.230
at me, took one more step, um, to get to

795
00:45:21.289 --> 00:45:25.130
fully cross the road, which, um, my boyfriend was six,

796
00:45:25.190 --> 00:45:29.599
three and, And the stride was about three inches shorter

797
00:45:29.659 --> 00:45:33.420
than him. He laid down just because we stopped and

798
00:45:33.440 --> 00:45:39.000
got out afterwards. So it took the first step onto

799
00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:43.070
the road. Then the next step was on the other

800
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:45.630
side of, you know, like right in front of the

801
00:45:45.690 --> 00:45:51.449
passenger seat. And then one more step up to the

802
00:45:51.510 --> 00:45:54.010
top of the little hill. And it probably took me

803
00:45:55.059 --> 00:45:58.219
four steps to go up at my boyfriend, probably three

804
00:45:58.280 --> 00:46:01.639
steps to go up that little hill. And then it

805
00:46:01.679 --> 00:46:07.610
was a big clearing. And, um, but it literally just

806
00:46:07.710 --> 00:46:12.070
glanced over at us and it was the most beautiful

807
00:46:12.550 --> 00:46:17.949
creature I have ever seen in my entire life. And

808
00:46:18.150 --> 00:46:23.179
it was massive. And I mean, I was literally eye

809
00:46:23.219 --> 00:46:30.130
to eye with it. And we stopped, we parked and

810
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.059
we got out and we wanted to go see it,

811
00:46:33.210 --> 00:46:36.190
you know, because he didn't respond badly. You know, it

812
00:46:36.489 --> 00:46:37.650
was a it.

813
00:46:37.670 --> 00:46:39.360
Was so it was so peaceful.

814
00:46:39.739 --> 00:46:43.619
I don't I have no way to describe the peace

815
00:46:44.320 --> 00:46:48.639
that we both felt. It was like this instant calming. Like,

816
00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:52.619
you know, most people have kind of horror stories about theirs.

817
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:58.289
But this was different. This was like. Oh, but the smell.

818
00:46:58.449 --> 00:47:02.519
Oh my gosh, the smell was so bad. But literally

819
00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:11.739
it was probably 400 pounds. And like I said, the

820
00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:16.489
stride was probably six feet from one step to the other.

821
00:47:17.050 --> 00:47:21.150
But then at the top, now mind you, there's probably

822
00:47:21.269 --> 00:47:25.349
a hundred foot clearing up there somewhere. Kind of a,

823
00:47:25.550 --> 00:47:28.099
you know, like where there's not tall trees, you know,

824
00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:30.159
because there's two or three feet of snow on the ground.

825
00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:35.179
And literally there were only two more footprints to the

826
00:47:35.260 --> 00:47:38.940
middle of this field and it was gone. And there

827
00:47:38.980 --> 00:47:40.480
was nowhere, there was nowhere.

828
00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:41.019
For it to go.

829
00:47:41.260 --> 00:47:44.860
You know, there's like, it would have had to step

830
00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:49.860
somewhere and it was just gone. Literally just gone. No

831
00:47:49.889 --> 00:47:53.460
more footsteps, no more. There wasn't trees that it could

832
00:47:53.500 --> 00:47:55.820
have gone into. There wasn't.

833
00:47:56.900 --> 00:47:57.219
Nothing.

834
00:47:57.239 --> 00:48:05.210
It was just gone. But the features on his face

835
00:48:05.309 --> 00:48:12.840
were so... It had really long, really dark hair, really

836
00:48:12.860 --> 00:48:18.800
dark brown hair. But like on his chest, like a

837
00:48:18.940 --> 00:48:21.860
lot of men, you know, like right above the breast

838
00:48:21.960 --> 00:48:25.659
is kind of– there's not a lot of hair. You know,

839
00:48:25.699 --> 00:48:28.070
like right on the breast and like right at the

840
00:48:28.170 --> 00:48:34.829
belly and like right on the– you know, underneath– what's

841
00:48:34.889 --> 00:48:36.909
the part of your arm I'm thinking of? You know,

842
00:48:36.949 --> 00:48:39.090
the top part of your arm like above your hands.

843
00:48:39.590 --> 00:48:39.860
Right.

844
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:43.900
His hands were bare. Yeah, so, like, you know, the

845
00:48:43.940 --> 00:48:47.079
same places that a man's skin would be bare, it

846
00:48:48.139 --> 00:48:51.159
was like his were. You know, so, like, right above

847
00:48:51.179 --> 00:48:58.150
the breast, the brow was, like, really smooth. A really

848
00:48:58.269 --> 00:49:09.190
tall brow. Really pronounced cheekbones. Really dark eyes. I couldn't

849
00:49:09.230 --> 00:49:15.699
tell about the ears. The hair was down over his ears.

850
00:49:15.940 --> 00:49:20.639
His arms were extremely long, like almost down to his

851
00:49:20.739 --> 00:49:26.719
knees long. But just this really smooth gait, because literally

852
00:49:26.860 --> 00:49:30.679
it took, you know, three steps and it was, you know,

853
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:34.349
the first step on. And I swear to God, it

854
00:49:34.409 --> 00:49:36.610
like calmed us to stop us, you know, so that

855
00:49:36.630 --> 00:49:39.400
we didn't hit him, you know, kind of thing. It

856
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:43.539
was almost like he was just helping– because there was

857
00:49:43.579 --> 00:49:47.699
a giant cliff on the one side and kind of

858
00:49:47.719 --> 00:49:50.239
a– if you've ever been up on logging roads in

859
00:49:50.260 --> 00:49:53.360
the wintertime, you know how there's like a drain that

860
00:49:53.380 --> 00:49:56.820
goes along your– the non-cliff side, you'll have like a

861
00:49:56.889 --> 00:50:01.170
drain where water comes down. So it kind of dips

862
00:50:01.230 --> 00:50:04.590
down before it goes up. And so if we were

863
00:50:04.630 --> 00:50:07.389
to have panicked, you know, it could have either gone

864
00:50:07.710 --> 00:50:10.789
off the cliff or into the ditch, you know, into

865
00:50:10.809 --> 00:50:15.250
that little ditch. But literally it was one step onto

866
00:50:15.269 --> 00:50:18.190
the road. Then the next step, which was right about

867
00:50:18.230 --> 00:50:23.119
where my boyfriend was passenger wise. And then, and then

868
00:50:24.179 --> 00:50:30.460
one step, um, mid, you know, midway, um, kind of

869
00:50:30.539 --> 00:50:33.650
just above the ditch, um, one more above and then

870
00:50:33.730 --> 00:50:36.449
only two more footsteps and it was just gone it.

871
00:50:37.989 --> 00:50:40.780
Was just it was like where the hell did this

872
00:50:40.800 --> 00:50:46.639
thing go but it was it was the most beautiful

873
00:50:46.820 --> 00:50:50.550
larger than i would have ever expected it being you

874
00:50:51.769 --> 00:50:55.349
know because literally my my forerunner was you know but

875
00:50:56.480 --> 00:51:00.440
I was five seven and my, my door handle was

876
00:51:00.500 --> 00:51:03.099
right at my eyes to give you a height reference,

877
00:51:03.300 --> 00:51:05.340
you know, door handle of my truck.

878
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:10.730
And so literally as I'm looking at it, I'm literally

879
00:51:10.750 --> 00:51:12.949
eye to eye with it. And it just kind of

880
00:51:13.090 --> 00:51:17.869
just glanced at us and then, and just didn't even

881
00:51:17.909 --> 00:51:22.780
really break stride and just kept going. The most beautiful

882
00:51:23.159 --> 00:51:23.739
creature ever.

883
00:51:24.869 --> 00:51:25.130
Ever.

884
00:51:25.409 --> 00:51:27.969
I mean, it, that could have gone really bad, you know,

885
00:51:29.090 --> 00:51:33.559
but it didn't, it didn't panic. We didn't panic. And

886
00:51:33.579 --> 00:51:38.239
it was just the most, we probably sat there for,

887
00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:42.340
I don't know, an hour, you know, looking around and

888
00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.619
like measuring it. Cause I could put two of my

889
00:51:45.699 --> 00:51:48.380
feet in and I, and I wear like a seven

890
00:51:48.420 --> 00:51:51.099
and a half. So I was able to put, Two

891
00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:55.079
of my feet in almost, almost get them width wise

892
00:51:55.460 --> 00:51:58.860
in its footprint in its foot track. So almost two

893
00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:02.469
of my shoes in the, in like the, the bigger

894
00:52:02.530 --> 00:52:06.269
part of your footprint. And then my boyfriend, he had

895
00:52:06.269 --> 00:52:09.309
13 and a half shoes and they were about three

896
00:52:09.429 --> 00:52:12.929
inches longer. So I don't know what size feet that

897
00:52:12.949 --> 00:52:15.909
would make it. We didn't have a measuring tape or anything,

898
00:52:16.010 --> 00:52:19.670
but I don't, I don't know how you measure foot size.

899
00:52:20.909 --> 00:52:23.369
But his shoes were 13 and a half, and we

900
00:52:23.469 --> 00:52:30.010
estimated it was about three inches longer than his 13

901
00:52:30.010 --> 00:52:31.869
and a half foot shoe.

902
00:52:31.889 --> 00:52:33.730
Wow.

903
00:52:34.190 --> 00:52:42.280
And the stride was literally less than a hand. So

904
00:52:42.340 --> 00:52:45.880
I was able to put just barely... my hand over

905
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:48.480
the top of his head. Cause he laid down first.

906
00:52:48.519 --> 00:52:51.340
He tried jumping. My boyfriend tried jumping to see if

907
00:52:51.380 --> 00:52:54.739
he could match his stride, you know, cause he's six, three. And,

908
00:52:54.840 --> 00:52:56.789
you know, he thought, well, you know, see how wide

909
00:52:57.570 --> 00:53:01.010
this stride really was. And it was literally about three

910
00:53:01.170 --> 00:53:05.030
inches taller than he was, you know, longer than he

911
00:53:05.090 --> 00:53:05.769
was tall.

912
00:53:05.789 --> 00:53:07.949
He had to have easily 400 pounds.

913
00:53:07.969 --> 00:53:15.039
It was so muscular. You know, his upper body and

914
00:53:15.079 --> 00:53:16.699
his thighs and his.

915
00:53:18.119 --> 00:53:22.139
The calf, like behind the calf, there wasn't much hair.

916
00:53:22.260 --> 00:53:24.840
It was like kind of smooth. Like it was kind

917
00:53:24.900 --> 00:53:27.090
of smooth a little bit on the top of his

918
00:53:27.250 --> 00:53:31.670
thighs and like the top part of his arm and

919
00:53:31.750 --> 00:53:38.530
the underside of his hands were real smooth, real brown.

920
00:53:39.670 --> 00:53:40.289
You know, a real....

921
00:53:42.389 --> 00:53:46.389
Not like you see like gorillas are black you know

922
00:53:46.699 --> 00:53:53.840
this was a real brown eyes were almost almost the

923
00:53:53.860 --> 00:54:01.420
same color you know just a really dark brown very

924
00:54:01.559 --> 00:54:04.800
thick pupils I.

925
00:54:04.780 --> 00:54:06.659
Was actually going to ask about the eyes were there

926
00:54:06.780 --> 00:54:09.119
any whites to them at all or was it all.

927
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:13.219
A no no white at all None at all. That

928
00:54:13.260 --> 00:54:18.699
was really, I found that really, and the pupils had

929
00:54:18.739 --> 00:54:25.389
to have been very large. The actual pupils, because there

930
00:54:25.409 --> 00:54:28.329
was only a little bit of color, you know, in

931
00:54:28.369 --> 00:54:31.909
that the rest of it was almost the exact same color.

932
00:54:31.929 --> 00:54:36.570
So his hair was a real, real black, like my

933
00:54:36.610 --> 00:54:39.269
hair is black, and his hair was probably the same

934
00:54:39.469 --> 00:54:45.889
color as mine. but his skin was a, was a, um,

935
00:54:50.050 --> 00:54:55.150
just a real deep Brown, you know, but really smooth.

936
00:54:55.269 --> 00:54:59.989
I was surprised at how, how little facial hair.

937
00:55:01.699 --> 00:55:02.139
There was.

938
00:55:04.440 --> 00:55:09.820
Um, and how, like how, how, um, how, how tall

939
00:55:09.880 --> 00:55:14.320
his brow was. It was actually really tall, but really

940
00:55:14.400 --> 00:55:19.510
pronounced cheekbones, but really looked like a man. But, you know,

941
00:55:19.550 --> 00:55:23.090
I mean, there's just it wasn't in any way, shape

942
00:55:23.150 --> 00:55:26.710
or form a man. But the build was so I mean,

943
00:55:27.389 --> 00:55:29.809
this was not a monkey. This was not an ape.

944
00:55:29.869 --> 00:55:33.070
This was not anything other than a Bigfoot, you know,

945
00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:39.090
for it to just disappear like it did. There was no,

946
00:55:39.690 --> 00:55:42.190
it could have gone, you know, it's a middle of

947
00:55:42.230 --> 00:55:45.809
a clearing and there was only two more steps after

948
00:55:45.849 --> 00:55:55.199
the top. So literally one, two, three, four, five footsteps total.

949
00:55:56.679 --> 00:56:00.719
And it was just gone. No flashing light.

950
00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:01.079
No.

951
00:56:02.119 --> 00:56:05.539
No, no, anything. It was just gone. No more footsteps.

952
00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:08.079
And there was, there was no, it had to have gone,

953
00:56:08.300 --> 00:56:11.139
you know, one of three directions. Cause one direction would

954
00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:14.019
have been coming right back at us. And the other

955
00:56:14.099 --> 00:56:22.010
three directions was probably, you know, 75 feet. You know, of, of, um,

956
00:56:22.469 --> 00:56:25.090
of snow, which I imagine there was underbrush, you know,

957
00:56:25.469 --> 00:56:27.989
underneath of it, but at two feet, it was pretty

958
00:56:28.769 --> 00:56:33.099
smooth looking and then trees. but the footsteps were just gone.

959
00:56:33.119 --> 00:56:38.610
It's like, where'd it go? But the smell, the smell

960
00:56:39.590 --> 00:56:43.750
was so bad. We actually smelled it first, which is

961
00:56:43.809 --> 00:56:45.889
kind of a good thing. Cause it had me. And

962
00:56:45.969 --> 00:56:48.610
when we were kind of going around a blind corner anyway,

963
00:56:48.690 --> 00:56:49.989
so it was, you know, it was kind of a

964
00:56:50.070 --> 00:56:58.469
really tight switchback turn, you know? So, um, So I

965
00:56:58.550 --> 00:57:02.019
didn't even see it before it stepped up. You know,

966
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:04.840
the first thing I saw was that first step onto

967
00:57:04.900 --> 00:57:05.360
the road.

968
00:57:06.340 --> 00:57:07.039
Literally, I.

969
00:57:08.980 --> 00:57:13.320
Think it was less than five feet from my truck. So,

970
00:57:13.400 --> 00:57:15.929
I mean, it was just 10 feet from me, but

971
00:57:16.260 --> 00:57:20.730
five feet or so, you know, from the front of

972
00:57:20.809 --> 00:57:26.719
my actual truck. It was just, we were just, flabbergasted

973
00:57:26.840 --> 00:57:29.239
and you know i i used to spend a lot

974
00:57:29.300 --> 00:57:31.800
of time up there because that was my favorite pastime

975
00:57:31.840 --> 00:57:35.050
was going up there and you know four-wheeling up there

976
00:57:35.070 --> 00:57:38.789
in the mountains and just wandering around and getting lost

977
00:57:38.809 --> 00:57:40.730
because i usually like i would never be able to

978
00:57:40.769 --> 00:57:43.530
find it again i even tried several times but i

979
00:57:43.550 --> 00:57:48.469
always get lost yeah i have no directional beacon whatsoever

980
00:57:48.489 --> 00:57:53.250
but You know, it was just, it's a pretty short

981
00:57:53.349 --> 00:57:55.369
story and that's, you know, kind of really all there

982
00:57:55.409 --> 00:57:59.059
was to it. But it was just, for me, probably

983
00:57:59.099 --> 00:58:02.280
because there was no screeching, because we were in our vehicle,

984
00:58:02.300 --> 00:58:07.070
you know. And it just, I swear to God, it

985
00:58:07.280 --> 00:58:12.769
had to have put, did something to calm us. Because

986
00:58:12.809 --> 00:58:16.030
we were both, because we had been laughing and joking

987
00:58:16.130 --> 00:58:18.989
and And talking, and then we were just all of

988
00:58:19.030 --> 00:58:22.849
a sudden just silent and stopped and watching this thing.

989
00:58:22.869 --> 00:58:28.760
Oh, I know they can definitely affect humans and animals.

990
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:33.340
That's for sure. Yeah.

991
00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:35.139
Wow.

992
00:58:35.360 --> 00:58:37.849
What a sighting, though, even though... You said it's a

993
00:58:38.269 --> 00:58:41.050
quick one. It's still a very, very cool one. And

994
00:58:41.110 --> 00:58:42.530
thank you for sharing that.

995
00:58:42.570 --> 00:58:45.670
Yeah, especially being so close. And broad daylight. It was

996
00:58:45.710 --> 00:58:49.969
probably 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Wow. You just couldn't

997
00:58:50.010 --> 00:58:51.349
have asked for a better.

998
00:58:51.369 --> 00:58:52.550
I just wish.

999
00:58:52.849 --> 00:58:56.030
Back in 96, we had the flip phones, but they

1000
00:58:56.070 --> 00:58:59.949
didn't have very good cameras. And it kind of happened

1001
00:59:00.010 --> 00:59:02.550
too fast, even though it wasn't moving fast.

1002
00:59:03.860 --> 00:59:04.159
Yeah, absolutely.

1003
00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:04.760
You know what I mean?

1004
00:59:05.590 --> 00:59:09.650
It was just like this slow, just a step and

1005
00:59:09.690 --> 00:59:13.420
then another. step and then another step and that you

1006
00:59:13.440 --> 00:59:19.030
know it was that that slow and graceful.

1007
00:59:20.429 --> 00:59:24.050
Very graceful i hear that a lot where it's it's

1008
00:59:24.130 --> 00:59:27.530
extremely graceful the way it moves yeah pretty cool to

1009
00:59:27.550 --> 00:59:29.820
think about but Yeah.

1010
00:59:30.139 --> 00:59:32.019
So thank you for letting me share. Cause that was

1011
00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:35.280
a really, like one of the, I would say it's

1012
00:59:35.570 --> 00:59:38.659
rated up there and some of my best experiences ever.

1013
00:59:38.679 --> 00:59:42.730
Oh, I'm sure it's for me, that'd be number one.

1014
00:59:43.429 --> 00:59:47.570
Oh yeah. It's every big foot hunters dream, you know,

1015
00:59:47.590 --> 00:59:50.789
is to get that close, you know, and to have

1016
00:59:50.869 --> 00:59:54.550
that of a perfect sighting where there is no doubt,

1017
00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:58.230
there is no question that, There is no, is it,

1018
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:02.480
was it, could it have been because it was literally,

1019
01:00:02.500 --> 01:00:08.139
you know, right there, you know, just eye to eye.

1020
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:10.980
And it literally looked over at us, you know, at Glant,

1021
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:14.989
it literally turned its head, looked at us and then

1022
01:00:15.030 --> 01:00:17.309
just kind of turned its head and just kept on moving.

1023
01:00:17.329 --> 01:00:19.949
And then the fact that it disappeared, it's like, where

1024
01:00:19.969 --> 01:00:23.610
did it go? Wild stuff.

1025
01:00:24.019 --> 01:00:26.639
Well, thank you so much for sharing. I really appreciate it.

1026
01:00:26.980 --> 01:00:28.880
Thank you for letting me come up. Have a great one.

1027
01:00:29.579 --> 01:00:32.349
You too. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter of your own,

1028
01:00:32.570 --> 01:00:34.250
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1029
01:00:34.269 --> 01:00:39.469
me an email with your encounter at bigfootsociety at gmail.com.

1030
01:00:39.530 --> 01:00:42.639
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1031
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1032
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1033
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