The Boy Scouts and the Bigfoot (Member's Only)

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Welcome to big for Society. Today, We've got a special members only episode

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for you. I talked to Kurt
from the patreon about his bigfoot encounter in

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the Fort Worth area back when he
was a boy scout, and some interesting

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things that happened to him when he
was on a remote bear hunting trip up

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in Alaska. You're not going to
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bigfest Society. We got the privilege
of talking to Kurt today. As I've

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said before, when people join the
Patreon, I will I'll ask them,

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I'll say, hey, welcome to
the patreon, But you got any stories

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to share and Kurt right away had
some really interesting ones to share, and

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I invited him to come on the
podcast to share them. I'm glad that

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Kurt said yes. But how's it
going tonight, sir? It's going great.

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I'm in West Texas and it's really
hot, fantastic sounds like Iowa up

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here. But Kurt, let's get
right into it. I'm going to have

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you go ahead and take the reins, and I might ask you some questions

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along the way, but feel free
to go right ahead. Okay. Well,

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like I said, I live in
West Texas and I'm a geologist.

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I'm sixty five, and I have
a couple of stories. My first one

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is something interesting happened to be when
I was about sport team I'm guessing in

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south of Fort Worth, Texas.
There have been I looked it up.

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There's quite quite a few encounters mentioned
around Benbrook Lake and that's where I was

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and from the seventies all the way
up until now. And ben Brook Lake

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is southwest of Forworth, not too
far, but back in the seventies it

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was way out in the country,
and today it's all developed and quite a

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bit developed, way more than back
in the seventies. It was practically way

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out in the country back then,
and I, for some reason I decided

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to join the Boy Scouts and I
joined, and all I can remember is

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right off the bat, we had
a camp out, and we didn't really

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know each other. No one really
knew anyone. We were just all put

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together and we went to this camp
out. And I remember all day when

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you got there, we were preparing
camp and cutting wood, and eventually we

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set our tents up and prepared for
the evening meal. I don't remember much

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else going on, but it's been
too long ago. But the tents were

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arranged about twenty yards apart, just
spread out across there, and I was

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on the very very southern end of
the camp and so I'm on the very

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southern end and it's you know,
it's isolated. It may be over one

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hundred yards to the other end.
There were probably thirty five tents or something

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like that. But really what happened
is it the ground is covered in what

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West Texas we called Layman's Love grass. I don't know what it was called

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there, but it's gray clumps of
grass, very long strands of grass to

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grow and then fall down to the
sides. It's very dry and crunchy,

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very bad substrate to try and sleep
on them. And I remember we were

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in a two men pup tent except
two men. I was only fourteen,

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but it was almost six tall.
Then you barely could get two people in

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those things. I mean they're so
small. And basically, it was about

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two or three in the morning.
We had gone to bed, and I

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couldn't sleep. It was extraordinarily uncomfortable
and all I could think about. So

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I wish I was home because I
wasn't enjoying this at all. Plus it

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was hot. It's always hot in
Texas. And so when I was lying

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in this tent, my feet stuck
out the end of the tent. There

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was just no two ways about it. There just wasn't enough room, and

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my whole foot at least stuck out
the tent. And I had one of

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those old cloth type sleeping bags with
red plaid on the inside and tan brown

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on the outside. People might be
familiar with those kind of old bags,

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and very thick, really thick.
And so I'm lying there, I can't

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sleep, and all of a sudden
something grabbed my foot. Just an idea.

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Speaking of enormous animals, you yourself
have been involved with some enormous animals

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up in Alaska. Correct, Yeah, two thousand and one. There,

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three weeks after nine to eleven,
I went to Alaska to hunt the giant

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grizzlies some people call them Kodiak grizzlies
or I was on the just across the

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shell across straits from two in the
Alaska Peninsula, the very southwestern corner of

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Alaska. And you have to really
look hard how far that goes before it

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turns into the Aleutian Islands. But
it goes a long way. I think

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it's six hundred and fifty miles southwest
of Anchorage, just way down there.

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And I was a big enough This
was in two thousand and one. I

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was a big enough bigfoot enthusiasts.
When we left Anchorage and we're flying down

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the cook Inlant I made it a
point. On the left is the Keen

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Eye Peninsula. On the right is
mainland Alaska, the main part. So

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I looked at the end of the
Keen Eye Peninsula and we got down to

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the end, just because I wanted
to see Port Chatham. I wanted to

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say I saw I saw it from
twelve thousand feet, but I still saw

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it. And if everybody's familiar with
those stories. But I made it a

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point. So we were flew to
col Bay, and Colbay you land,

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and it's a really long run.
I think it's twelve thousand feet. I'm

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not sure why it's so long.
It's just emergency landing part of airport for

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planes traveling to Asia and so forth
and back. And Mount Frosty is sitting

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out there and it's a perfect strado
cone volcano and it's perfectly shaped and like

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Mount Food or a teepee, I
mean just perfect and snow white, just

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glistening white, and it was flat
around it. It's because it's just a

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volcano just there all by itself,
and it's just really something to look at.

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But so we stayed in Colba there
a while and then packed up on

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a little super cub and they had
to tape my when on tape, a

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bungee corted my rifle to the wing. Because of all our gear and everything,

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this was at least a week long
hunt. I'm not sure if it

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was ten days or how long it
was. But you had to have everything

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you needed, plus you need to
have an extra of everything you needed because

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if something broke or something you weren't
going to get another one, that's for

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sure. And we flew from Colba
for about forty five minutes in this little

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plane, and we landed in a
sand pit. And I'm telling you,

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the runway wasn't twenty yards. It
just popped down and stopped. It's just

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I had I've been to last a
couple other times and been in creeks and

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taking off straight at a straight up
wall, and you just hope the plane's

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going to take off because they're heading
straight for a wall, and somehow it

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does. And those bush planes are
kind of scary, that's for sure.

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So we, uh, we land
in that and carry our gear to this

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little shack. They had built one
room, a little bad place on one

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side, little bad place on the
other side, and an little tiny stove

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and about a about an eight inch
square little window that looked out the side,

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a little tiny window. And I
got there and uh, he said,

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oh, well, you you're here
an hour ago a nine foot or

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walk right by here, and uh
you realize, you know, you realize

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you're you're not going to hunt over
there over by that mountain. You're in

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the middle of where these bears are, I mean, right there. I

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Society. I'll see you there and
again, thanks for listening. Her and

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I can get it on her.
We can tell our stories. Maybe there's

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somebody else out there listening it's too
afraid to tell their story. Maybe this

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will give them the courage to come
out. And now it feels so bad

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about it. Who cares what anybody's
thinks. I know what I saw,

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I know what's out there. That's
all I care. Please let people know,

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Please let them know. If you
ever see one of these things,

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you need to tell, because if
you don't, then shame on you,

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you know, shame on you,