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You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In
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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring
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you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen
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something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to
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quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,
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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.
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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.
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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that
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just might change the way you see the woods forever.
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So stay with us.
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I pick for the Society. You've got the privilege of
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talking to Jason Cowan today. Jason is an individual that
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I got connected to that has some things to share
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from down there in the Oklahoma area. We'll go over
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that a little bit more to come, But about Jason specifically,
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he has a background in public school education and also
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in Christian ministry, specifically as a youth pastor. Correct Jason,
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that's correct, awesome And is there anything else that the
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listeners might want to know before we get going into
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what you've experienced over the years.
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Uh, that's pretty much yet, Other than I mean you know,
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part of my religious beliefs this the things I've experienced
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should never have happened. And once you experience it, you
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have a paradigm shift and you have just a few
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seconds to decide, Hey, your your thoughts and your beliefs
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have to change and can kind of make you dizzy
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when that happens.
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Man, That's that's a great place to start. I actually
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want to talk about that for a minute. So are
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you cool with saying the area that this happened into
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in Oklahoma?
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Absolutely absolutely. I'm you know, quite certain that others have
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had experiences in that area, the Native Americans. You know,
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we were part of a ministry that, you know, besides
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youth ministry, I got into mission work, and that the
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home that we live in there served as a mission
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base for many years where volunteer teams would come from
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all of the country and they would bunk there and
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have their meals and their devotions, and they would go
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and serve the Cherokee Nation people at their public schools
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and then their local churches. And so we got to
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know the Native American fellowship there quite well. And we've
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heard stories that go way back where they you know,
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hunted with Bigfoot, and I would trade with Bigfoot for
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protection and to protect from the bears and the wolves
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and the Kai, and I'm pretty sure maybe from Bigfoot himself. Right. Absolutely,
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here's some food they speak highly of and of course
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very reverently of Bigfoot, absolutely very special to them.
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So this is we're going to be in an area
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that's near the Cherokee Nation, specifically in the area of
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like Kansas, Oklahoma.
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Correct, that's correct, the town of Kansas. Now probably the
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biggest town would be Talliquah on the Oklahoma side. And
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then we have Salomon Springs, Arkansas, about thirteen miles from us.
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Fantastic. Before we get into it right off to that,
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I think the first statement that you made is extremely
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interesting because so I am also I'm a Christian myself,
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and I know exactly actly what you're talking about when
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you're saying that there are certain parts of Christianity where
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they don't really want to dig into this and deal
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with this at all. And can you, in your words,
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can you go into what you mean by by what
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you said during those statements.
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So uh, I think it's you know, in the scriptures
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that we have available to us in the Bible, it
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mentions many things that is really never touched on in
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sermons and in services that I've been involved in. It's
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like a nozone, an area that they can't really explain.
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And yet you know, if you look at other historical
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texts and you combine all of those things, it begins
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to make sense. You know, they talk about the giants
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and and the the fires in the sky and the wheels,
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you know, many things that indicate that we are not
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you know, the human race is not the only uh
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species that exists. And two to avoid that I think
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is doing a huge disadvantage to Christians and non Christians alike.
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We are, I believe, special in the creation the order
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of things in that we have the likeness of our
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Creator and his spirit in us. I'm not saying that
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all others don't, but I believe that there was something
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special about us that we we kind of never touch
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on when we ignore the fact that there are other
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aspects of creation that, in particular the Bigfoot where they're
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finding the DNA is very similar to ours with a
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few exceptions. And so you know, who's to say that
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they don't have the same type of relationship with the Creator,
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if not, maybe even a closer one because they didn't
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allow for certain things to change their spirituality, if you
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will that. I mean, I'll get on later on into
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into the discussion about some things that make me believe
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that that case that they are spiritual as well. And so, yeah,
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that's my pastor. He he's deceased now, but he was
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a rare breed in the sense that he spoke about
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the possibilities of our creation being of a extraterrestrial being,
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and spoke of UFOs being very likely impossible, and and
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so you know that kept my mind opened a little bit,
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if you would, in that regard. He never really mentioned
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Bigfoot or you know, the other creatures of the night
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that the dog man and and so forth. And I
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M it's very likely that the encounters I've had involved both,
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if not the skin walker guy. I don't think uh
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as as been something that I've experienced, But you know,
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there's lots of the cryptids that we hear about that
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I now today, after my experiences, there's no reason that
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I should doubt those who have spoken of their experiences
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in all of those areas. Absolutely, it's just too many
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to say, hey, that's not right or it's not true.
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I mean, I can't imagine being in a state like
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Oklahoma and being in ministry and the things you must
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run into. It's got to be intense. I mean, there's
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just so many stories I've heard over the years of
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everything from Bigfoot to dog Man and all sorts of weirdness.
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So you must be really up against it all the time.
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I would imagine, yeah.
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Yeah, well it's you know, I don't speak about it
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to everyone, but you know, I'm getting to the point,
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you know, I really don't care what anyone thinks about me,
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particularly you know, I'm a kind person. I'm good to people.
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I follow the word of the Lord as far as
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how I treat people, and and but if they want
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to think I'm crazy because of some experiences I've had,
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so be it. It's not going to change anything that
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I believe. And and it's certainly not going to take
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away the experiences that I've had, and and most of
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the encounters have been it's sometimes fearful, but never did
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I feel like I was in danger. Okay, so you know,
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I don't believe that Bigfoot is evil and or a demon,
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and some of those Christian circles that would acknowledge the
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existence would say that, and I just don't believe that
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at all.
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Yeah, I would say, I mean most of the interviews
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were the individual is in Christianity the I would say
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a great amount of them. It usually comes over to
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Bigfoot is some type of nephilim or perhaps demon. And
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so I think this will be a really interesting interview
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because it's going to be a viewpoint that's not really
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talked about a lot. And before we get into it
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more for my context, do you associate more with a
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certain denomination within Christianity or so it's.
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A non denomination, uh, you know, simbly of God. I've
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got that in a Baptist background, a little bit of
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Pentecostal and so. But my primary area was in a
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non denominational church and spirit field as they called it.
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Okay, that's not anything more special, Okay, I would say,
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but certainly an area that I was raised up in
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and I got to experience a lot of the different denominations,
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but that's the one that kind of.
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Stuck with me, gotcha.
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Yeah, Okay, Okay, that's good to know. I think that
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helps out, That helps out a lot for context for
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some listeners. Well, Jason, I think that's a great kind
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of intro into things. But you feel free to take
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us back to when things started kicking off for you,
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when you started to maybe notice what was going on.
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Sure, So when it comes to just bigfoot in general,
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my first introduction as a child to bigfoot maybe even
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for a lot of people my age. I was born
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in nineteen seventy seven, and so there was a time
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when I was young that this movie came out called
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Harry and the Hendersons, and before that I'd never heard
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of My parents didn't speak about bigfoot, you know, it
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wasn't stories that we heard growing up, and so my
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impression of a bigfoot. Of course, at that time, we
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wanted to believe he was real, and so me and
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my siblings would talk about it and talk about one
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day seeing a bigfoot because we believed he would be
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like the one on Harry and the Henderson's real, funny
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and caring and and jolly at times, and and harmless.
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And but there was nothing really that, you know, solidified
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our belief, my belief in particular at that time, just
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the curiosity was aroused by by that, and growing up
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it was just something in the back of my head
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at times, and then we would. I would see documentaries,
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you know, on TV, and one in particular was the
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first where I began to become more seriously interested. Was
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hearing about the muddy, boggy creature and and but that
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wasn't that was more of a frightening tale, and that
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he was dangerous, and and that wasn't you know something
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that that I stuck with. My first introduction was, like
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I said, Harry from Harry and the Henderson's, and I
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wanted to believe if he was real, he would be
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more like that. And so but my belief really became solidified,
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and it wasn't even an encounter with Bigfoot necessarily. My
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mother and I were standing on her porch outside, and
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I happened to notice because at the time I was
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living in the city and when I would go to
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the country, I could see the stars a lot. Here
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they're much brighter and more vivid. And I pointed out
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to her, I said, look how bright and brilliant everything is.
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And I saw amongst the stars, way way up there,
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this what appeared to be a star. I mean, from
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that distance, it looked like a star, but it went
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from one point and zigzagged back and forth on a
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dime what must have been thousands of miles an hour,
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and then shot off like like I mean, it just disappeared,
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you could. I saw it go a certain direction, but
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then it vanished. And immediately everything I believed, everything I
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was taught, came into question. And it's like an instant
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where all of your beliefs suddenly you have no option
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but to you change what you believed. And I became
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warm and kind of dizzy. It's like the that paradigm
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shift where you just have no choice but to call
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into question now and have certain things where you acknowledge
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I've got to start looking into some things. And I
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looked at my mother and I said, did you see that?
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And she says, you tell me what you saw. Neither
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one of us what we wanted to see. Hey, did
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you see what I saw? And we both saw it.
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And it was at that moment I realized that everything
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that I've heard about, all these other sightings from Bigfoot
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to the Luckless Monster and all of these cryptids that
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I now. It was like it solidified my belief in
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those and they had to be real. If this was real,
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then all of these people can't be wrong and we'll
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get to now the Bigfoot encounter. This began shortly so
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where we live. Like I said, it was part of
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the Cherokee Nation. They owned this land and then they
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sold it to a developer I think in the seventies.
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And so there are a lot of you know, from
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arrowheads and different artifacts that I was finding just below
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the surface our land there. And so I began to
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excavate the property from time to time and it would
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carry on until the evenings about nine ten o'clock and
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I'd have these very bright lights on. And before that,
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we didn't stay at the property. We had multiple base
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locations around the country and in Puerto Rico and in
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Cuba where we would take teams of volunteers, and so
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these properties they weren't lived in all the time, and
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so there's maybe three months out of the year where
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it was used. Well, we were now staying there full time,
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and we had neighbors behind us, but that was kind
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of their camp house. They were hardly there maybe twice
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a year, and so it was really a zone where
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people weren't around much of the time. And so I
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believe that that is why when we moved in full
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time and I begin to do some work on the
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grounds and it would carry on to the night that
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it created a disturbance, you know, for big And at
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this moment, I had no inkling that they were around,