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

0:06 Welcome to big for Society. Today, We've got a special members only episode for you. I talked to Kurt from the patreon about his bigfoot encounter in the Fort Worth area back when he was a boy scout, and some interesting things that happened to him when he was on a remote bear hunting trip up in Alaska. You're not going to want to miss this. A special thank you to all of the supporting members on YouTube and on Patreon, all of you that are part of Bigfoot Society. You're helping making this happen. Thank you. What follows is a teaser clip of this member's only episode. If you'd like to hear the whole thing, you can head over to patreon dot com ford slash the Bigfoot Society to become a supporting member, or you can click the join button on the YouTube channel for Bigfoot Society and join the Bigfoot Posse or above tier. Let's get on with the teaser, all right, bigfest Society. We got the privilege of talking to Kurt today. As I've said before, when people join the Patreon, I will I'll ask them, I'll say, hey, welcome to the patreon, But you got any stories to share and Kurt right away had some really interesting ones to share, and I invited him to come on the podcast to share them. I'm glad that Kurt said yes. But how's it going tonight, sir? It's going great.

1:23 I'm in West Texas and it's really hot, fantastic sounds like Iowa up here. But Kurt, let's get right into it. I'm going to have you go ahead and take the reins, and I might ask you some questions along the way, but feel free to go right ahead. Okay. Well, like I said, I live in West Texas and I'm a geologist. I'm sixty five, and I have a couple of stories. My first one is something interesting happened to be when I was about sport team I'm guessing in south of Fort Worth, Texas. There have been I looked it up.

2:13 There's quite quite a few encounters mentioned around Benbrook Lake and that's where I was and from the seventies all the way up until now. And ben Brook Lake is southwest of Forworth, not too far, but back in the seventies it was way out in the country, and today it's all developed and quite a bit developed, way more than back in the seventies. It was practically way out in the country back then, and I, for some reason I decided to join the Boy Scouts and I joined, and all I can remember is right off the bat, we had a camp out, and we didn't really know each other. No one really knew anyone. We were just all put together and we went to this camp out. And I remember all day when you got there, we were preparing camp and cutting wood, and eventually we set our tents up and prepared for the evening meal. I don't remember much else going on, but it's been too long ago. But the tents were

3:44 arranged about twenty yards apart, just spread out across there, and I was on the very very southern end of the camp and so I'm on the very southern end and it's you know, it's isolated. It may be over one hundred yards to the other end. There were probably thirty five tents or something like that. But really what happened is it the ground is covered in what West Texas we called Layman's Love grass. I don't know what it was called there, but it's gray clumps of grass, very long strands of grass to grow and then fall down to the sides. It's very dry and crunchy, very bad substrate to try and sleep on them. And I remember we were in a two men pup tent except two men. I was only fourteen, but it was almost six tall. Then you barely could get two people in those things. I mean they're so small. And basically, it was about two or three in the morning. We had gone to bed, and I

5:15 couldn't sleep. It was extraordinarily uncomfortable and all I could think about. So I wish I was home because I wasn't enjoying this at all. Plus it was hot. It's always hot in Texas. And so when I was lying in this tent, my feet stuck out the end of the tent. There was just no two ways about it. There just wasn't enough room, and my whole foot at least stuck out the tent. And I had one of those old cloth type sleeping bags with red plaid on the inside and tan brown on the outside. People might be familiar with those kind of old bags, and very thick, really thick. And so I'm lying there, I can't sleep, and all of a sudden something grabbed my foot. Just an idea.

6:23 Speaking of enormous animals, you yourself have been involved with some enormous animals up in Alaska. Correct, Yeah, two thousand and one. There, three weeks after nine to eleven, I went to Alaska to hunt the giant grizzlies some people call them Kodiak grizzlies or I was on the just across the shell across straits from two in the Alaska Peninsula, the very southwestern corner of Alaska. And you have to really look hard how far that goes before it turns into the Aleutian Islands. But it goes a long way. I think it's six hundred and fifty miles southwest of Anchorage, just way down there.

7:25 And I was a big enough This was in two thousand and one. I was a big enough bigfoot enthusiasts. When we left Anchorage and we're flying down the cook Inlant I made it a point. On the left is the Keen Eye Peninsula. On the right is mainland Alaska, the main part. So I looked at the end of the Keen Eye Peninsula and we got down to the end, just because I wanted to see Port Chatham. I wanted to say I saw I saw it from twelve thousand feet, but I still saw it. And if everybody's familiar with those stories. But I made it a point. So we were flew to col Bay, and Colbay you land, and it's a really long run. I think it's twelve thousand feet. I'm not sure why it's so long. It's just emergency landing part of airport for planes traveling to Asia and so forth and back. And Mount Frosty is sitting out there and it's a perfect strado cone volcano and it's perfectly shaped and like Mount Food or a teepee, I mean just perfect and snow white, just

8:58 glistening white, and it was flat around it. It's because it's just a volcano just there all by itself, and it's just really something to look at. But so we stayed in Colba there a while and then packed up on a little super cub and they had to tape my when on tape, a bungee corted my rifle to the wing. Because of all our gear and everything, this was at least a week long hunt. I'm not sure if it was ten days or how long it was. But you had to have everything you needed, plus you need to have an extra of everything you needed because if something broke or something you weren't going to get another one, that's for sure. And we flew from Colba for about forty five minutes in this little plane, and we landed in a sand pit. And I'm telling you, the runway wasn't twenty yards. It just popped down and stopped. It's just I had I've been to last a couple other times and been in creeks and taking off straight at a straight up wall, and you just hope the plane's

10:31 going to take off because they're heading straight for a wall, and somehow it does. And those bush planes are kind of scary, that's for sure. So we, uh, we land in that and carry our gear to this little shack. They had built one room, a little bad place on one side, little bad place on the other side, and an little tiny stove and about a about an eight inch square little window that looked out the side, a little tiny window. And I got there and uh, he said, oh, well, you you're here an hour ago a nine foot or walk right by here, and uh you realize, you know, you realize you're you're not going to hunt over there over by that mountain. You're in the middle of where these bears are, I mean, right there. I mean they're They're anywhere and everywhere at all times. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that you're subscribed share the show with a friend.

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15:33 Please let them know. If you ever see one of these things, you need to tell, because if you don't, then shame on you, you know, shame on you,