Jan. 3, 2025

The Skeptic vs the Sasquatch (A Collection of Interviews) | Mt. Rainier

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Season 1

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Join host Jeremiah Byron with the Bigfoot Society Podcast as we hear chilling encounters from various individuals who claim to have witnessed Bigfoot in different regions - Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Hillsborough County, Florida; Mount Rainier, Washington; and Michoacán, Mexico. From eerie late-night sightings to inexplicable roars in broad daylight, these firsthand accounts are bound to leave you questioning the unknown.

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Forward slash the Big for Society and now let's get

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on with the show, and thanks for coming up.

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Hey, how are you doing doing well?

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Do you have feel free to share what you experienced

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in for Greg?

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So? Years and years ago, I was in the Army

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and a group of me and I'd say like three

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four other soldiers took off from our base camp, you know,

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which is like a city, our barracks where we lived,

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to go out further into the woods to go and

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camp and fish. And I always felt like something was

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watching me every time we would go out, and I

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just assumed that it could be other soldiers, you know,

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potentially in the area, but I always knew that I

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wasn't alone. So over the course of a couple of months,

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we would go out and we would bass fish. It

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was a great place to catch large mouth bass. And

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one afternoon, it was just about dark, I happened to

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look out over the lake and I seen what I

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can only describe to be as a very large, hairy

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creature between three and four hundred pounds, you know, seven

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foot tall, just gigantic, standing there looking at me from

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across the lake. And I asked my battle buddy, I'm like, hey, girl,

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I'm like, look, do you see what I see?

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Like, what was that?

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At seven o'clock? And she looked out, she's seen it too.

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The guys that were with us, you know, they thought

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that we were just a couple of scared girls out

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in the dark in the woods. But my friend she

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seen what I seen, And yeah, that's my story.

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Do you remember any details of the face that you

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saw or was it too far away to see that?

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It was too far away to really make out a face.

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I just remember it being like a reddish brown, hairy man,

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you know, just like humongous, like I said, you know,

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like way bigger than us, like just iganic and covered

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and hair, and it just stood there and was literally

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watching us being.

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At that area. Would you hear any other people talk

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about having similar sightings in the same area.

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Yeah, I've heard a couple of guys on you know,

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podcasts say that when they were also stationed at Fort Bragg,

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that they've seen creatures out there.

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Yeah.

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I've heard of others have seen the same thing.

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Did that sighting affect you in any way?

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Yeah?

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I used to be an avid hiker, hiked all over

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the Appalachian Trail. I grew up in South Georgia, in

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the middle of nowhere in the woods myself and I

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don't want to be alone, you know, Like before I

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would just walk to my mom's house from a couple

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of miles away. But I wouldn't do that again, because, yeah,

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we're not alone here. They're definitely observers of us.

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Is that a thing? Where did you when you got

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back to the base area. Did you end up telling

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a lot of people or did you try to keep

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it quiet?

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You know, they made fun of me. They didn't believe me,

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you know, they said, you know, we were probably out drinking,

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but I mean, I know what I've seen. I looked

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right at it. You get all the hairs on the

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back of your neck, stand it up, and you know

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you're not alone. That's them.

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So you could feel that before you focused in on

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Oh there's something actually over there. Oh yeah, thank you

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for coming up and for sharing that. That is I

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that You're my first person to talk to from that area,

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So I appreciate you coming up.

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You're welcome. It's good to get my story out there.

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Hopefully it sparks something with somebody else that's seen something

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in that area.

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Yes, ma'am, thank.

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You, you're welcome.

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Good night, Chantelle. How's it going great?

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Good?

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Thanks for coming up. Feel free to share what you

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saw down in Florida.

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I used to live in Hillsboro County, Florida, and I

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used to go walking in these woods that grew that

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grew along the Alafaya River down there, and me and

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a friend of mine we went in there. And the

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cool thing about those woods, there's Indian burial maul there.

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I mean, it's it's a really cool place to go.

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A lot of people don't know about it. But while

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we were back there one day, we kept getting the

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sense of something was in there with us. We couldn't

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see it. We did get a whiff of something awful.

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I guess the closest thing I could think of would

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be almost like rotting flesh.

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And wet dog.

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It's the closest thing that I could think of me.

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It was awful, and we we just kind of, you know, said, well,

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maybe you know, I mean, these woods they're they're pretty deep,

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so maybe there's a dead animal close by. I mean,

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that's the only thing we could think of. But we

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stayed back there probably for a couple of hours, and

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it started getting darker outside, you know, getting closer to twilight,

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and you know, we were teenager at the time, so

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I needed to get home. And as we were walking out,

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I happened out of the corner of my eye to

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see what I thought was an uprooted tree that had

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like Spanish moss hanging from it. But then I stopped

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and like, wait, I know this trail like the back

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of my hand, I do not remember a tree ever

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being there. So I happened to look, and I stop

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because what I thought was Spanish moss was something that

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was kind of hunched down in the pal meadows, and

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it was just staring at me, just still as a statue,

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just being hunched over. I would say was about maybe

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six to seven foot tall. If I'm gonna just go

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and say sasquatsch Ifeo would have stood up at his

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fullest heighth, the pop would have been a good eight

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to nine be ten foot tall, and he was the

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color of Spanish moss. I don't know if maybe depending

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on the area where they live, they could blend in

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better with that the surrounding area, because the farther south

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in Florida you go, the more Spanish moss there is.

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And but for something being as big as big as

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it was, for it to stand as still as could

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be and not even make a noise, I think I'm

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gonna say the most noise we heard whenever we kept

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feeling like something was back there, if you could think

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maybe a deer or like a rabbit or something kind

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of walking, you know, because we didn't see anything, and

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we could smell something. But whenever I saw this, I

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just stood there and my friend he kept walking ahead

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of me, you know, still talking thinking, didn't even realize

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as I stopped, and I told him very calmly. I said,

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I need you to stop and turn around, and I

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want you to look where I'm looking. I want you

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to tell me what you see, because I need to

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know I'm not seeing things. And when he kind of looked,

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you know, he had looked in his face, like what

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are you talking about? He looked, followed where I was looking,

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and when he finally saw what I saw, his face

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went ghost white. We stood there probably for a good

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two minutes, just kind of having a stare down with this.

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Going by the size, I'm gonna say it was a hymn,

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because I mean it was huge. His shoulders were massive,

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his arms were gigantic. I mean, he could clearly if

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he wanted to, you know, pull a tree straight out

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of the ground, no props whatsoever. But I didn't get

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the feeling that it was wanting to harm either one

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of us. I don't know if it was curious. I

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don't know if it was you know, just trying to

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check us out, seeing if we were a threat to it.

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But finally he found his words and he asked me

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like very quiet, He's like, well, what do we do?

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And I told him I was just like, well, let's

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just keep walking. Just act like everything's normal and just

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leave it at that, because, I mean, with the size

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of this thing, I'm not wanting to excuse my language.

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I'm not wanting to piss it off. And you knows,

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he just kinda agrees with me.

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So we start walking.

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But the first chance we got, once we felt like

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we were safe enough to do so and got closer

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to the exit of the woods, we just we ran.

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And I told my dad about it whenever I got home,

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and he was telling me that he used to go

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back there lot when he was younger too, and he

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used to find these trees, good sized trees. I'm gonna say,

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maybe about I don't know, a good six to eight

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inches wide, and it there be about you know, cluster

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them that'd be twisted together, and it wasn't anything that

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was naturally grown that way, because whenever he found them,

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he said, it looks like something just grabbed a bunch

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of trees, twisted them all together. The bark was split,

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and he said he doesn't know if it was, you know,

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because whenever he went back there he'd got he would

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smell something like what I explained, you know, kind of

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like mixture of a skunk or a which you know

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in Florida. I get you've heard about the you know,

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legend of the skunk ape down there, the same things

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as sasquatch, But from what I saw, it didn't really

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remind me anything about sightings of a skunkate. My dad

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he'd saw a few of them while down there. He

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said the one that he saw, one of the ones

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he saw was was more of a red, but it

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was more than the northern parts of Florida because he

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lives Tampa whence Tampa still had a good bit of

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swamp left there. And he said the ones he saw

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were also silver, like Spanish moss. And he said, you know,

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he even mentioned that one of them came walking up

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on him and his friends, and he said, you know,

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he turned out because he heard something walking, but he's expecting

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to see something small. He just looks up and him

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and his friends, you know, they panicked and ran and

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you're not expecting something that big to be so quiet.

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And but that's the best story I have the sighting.

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You know, I was fourteen when it happened. I'm thirty

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three now, and I've also I'm in Alabama now, and

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Alabama has you know, a lot of stories too. I've

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heard things that I couldn't explain that sound like could

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very possibly. I don't really know what they sound like.

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I've never personally heard one, but the things I've heard,

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I don't know if maybe it's one of them, because

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I mean, I live more in the mountains here.

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So but.

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It was a really amazing experience. At granted, I mean

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it scared me at the time. Like I said, I

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was fourteen. I didn't know what to think. But after,

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you know, the older I got, the more I realize,

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you know, there's so many people out there that would

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love to see something like that, and actually getting the

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chance to see them and everything, and not feeling like

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he wanted to do any harm. It was just it

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was amazing and I wish I could see one again.

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But I think it's up to them whether or not

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if they want you to see them or not, you know,

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because I could have just kept walking past, like, you know,

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like it was nothing. But just that whole day, me

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and him are just like, I feel like something's in

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here with us, but we didn't see anything.

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We just kept smelling something.

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you know. But it was. It was an awesome experience,

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and I'm hoping that I guess I experience something like

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that again one day, and hopefully it's something that you know,

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because I've heard of some people see them and them

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being kind of aggressive, but I've also heard where yeah,

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they might be aggressive, but I don't think they've ever

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harmed anybody.

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I don't believe that.

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If I've always wanted to tell my story, I've told

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few people before, but whenever I came up on your Life,

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I'm like, oh, yeah, I want to share this.

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So I'm glad they came up and shared. Are are

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you buy Talladega or No? Yeah, Talladega or Bankhead in Alabama.

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I'm close to Talladega and I have been to Bankhead,

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Alabama and bank k National Fores is one of my

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most favorite places to go. But yeah, I'm close to Talladega.

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Okay, I would say both of those areas are your

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best bets or trying to have an interaction in Alabama

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from you know, just people I've talked to that are

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in that area, especially the southern part of Talladega National Forest.

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Well, I'm I'm very close to Mount Chiha. I'm only

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about thirty minutes away from Mount Chiaha.

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There you go. Yeah, big for society. Who will be

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right back after these messages?

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Like I said, I've heard I've heard things and I've

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seen trees moving, huge trees moving. But it was like,

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what I'm gonna see that from a distance? I foo

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investigate that's a huge tree and whatever moving it. I

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don't think I wanna, you know, but there's been other

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I mean, there's there's a lot of things that people

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have witness sing in the in these mountains and everything

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that you know, like they have a white thing. That's

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something that people have witnessing. I mean even in the

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area I live in, people have talked about seeing something

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that's very tall and white and you know, it is

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there one second and gone, and it gives you like

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a feeling of like it scares people. But from what

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I've heard, it's just there. They see it and then

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it's like go on. So wow, yeah, very very strange,

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cryptid stories about that one. So by neat all the same,

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I love that you.

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I mean, if you keep going out to that area,

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Mount Chieha and all that stuff, you're going to eventually

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have some stuff happen. I just the stories I hear

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down there are wild, so I mean always feel free

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to if you ever want to reach out. My email's

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up there if you want to make a note of it.

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If you ever have anything else happened in the future,

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I would love to hear from you. Cool.

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I want to go do more exploring, especially Bankhead and

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Mount Chiha, but I want to go to where there's

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not as many tourists, you know, guys, Okay, the farther.

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I mean, I don't want to be out in the

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middle of absolute nowhere, but you know.

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What I mean, right, Yeah, yeah, No.

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If I ever have any body tell me about sightings

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they've had or experienced these experiences they've had, whether it's

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THEE album, White Thing or Sasquatch, I will definitely email you.

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Awesome good stuff. Well, thanks for coming up, Chantell you sin,

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thanks for coming up.

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Hey, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

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What brings you up? Man?

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Yeah, it's legitimately my favorite story to tell. And I

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just want to preface this. I'm not what I guess

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you would call not a believer. Okay, so before we

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get into all that, and that's that matters, because I

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want to tell the story the same way I tell

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it to my friends or my family, like the same

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way I always tell the story. Sure, so at some

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point you'll hear me mention that during the story that

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I'm not a believer. And that's why I want to

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get it out of the way right now. And I

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grew up in Appalachia, you know a lot of folklore,

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a lot of a lot of weird stuff that we

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believe in. And you know, your Mamma and everybody raised

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you with and so to say I'm not a believer,

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can you you can kind of laugh it off because

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I believe in a lot of other silly, weird things.

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To the outside, people who aren't part of that, you know,

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they would see a lot of the weird things that

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I am creeped out by, or just have a general

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hesitation to do things.

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You know.

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To say that I don't believe in Bigfoot or Taskwatch

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is just silly when you stack it up with all

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the other things that I actually believe. Anyway, that's I'm

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gonna tell it the exact same way I always tell it.

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I was living in Florida in Orlando area for a

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few years and met a girl. We began dating. She

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wanted to go into travel nursing and asked me to

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come with her. I left my corporate job to go

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travel with her for a bit, started off on the

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West Coast and Oregon. I'm a big camp I'm an

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outdoorsman my entire life. I've been hunting and camping and

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everything my entire life. And I like to say that, no,

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I haven't seen every creature out in the forest, but

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I can ballpark it if I hear it. It's a

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that's a bird, or that's a that's a bleat from

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an elk or deer or something. I'm a very experienced outdoorsman.

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So when the traveling travel nursing thing that my my

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ex was doing at the time took us to Washington State,

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I think it was twenty sixteen. Twenty sixteen, she had

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a assignment there at the Washington University, and I'm just

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going along with the flow. We were only going to

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do this for a given amount of time, so I'm

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just finding little odds and ends jobs as we go,

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because typically an assignment is only three months and she

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can choose to extend it or whatever. Any nurses in here,

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any travel nurses, you guys know that you know the deal.

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But she had a trip planned with a mutual friend

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of ours out to Amsterdam and Iceland for about a week.

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So I took it upon myself that I'm going to

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go camping around Mount Rainier. At the time, that was

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my big plan and it was the first time that

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I had ever tried my hand at dispersed camping. You know,

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you see the Instagram posts of these beautiful pictures of

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these outdoors, the people that are camping out in the

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middle of nowhere, and you wonder where they got these

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pictures from. And yeah, you can pay a fifty two

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dollars fee to the national parks and kind of do

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that thing. But like, these people are always camping out

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and wherever turns out that is considered dispersed camping, And

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in a national forest, you're free to camp wherever you like.

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Typically national forests are right outside of a national park.

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And for those of you who aren't who are watching,

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we got one hundred and seventy two people in here

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who aren't really aware of like the bigfoot Sasquatch thing,

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the sasquatch that you think of if you're not part

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of a region that has their own skunk Cape or

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like Chantelle was in here recently. The Deep South has

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the Skunk Cape. Different parts of the world all over

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have various accounts of these bigfoot like weeak creatures, but

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the one that you think of that your head goes

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to is Bigfoot. In the Pacific Northwest. That's where most

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of us have our idea of sasquatch and Bigfoot, and

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I feel like that lends more credence to my story

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because now I'm in the Pacific Northwest and Washington State

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and I'm out in the middle of nowhere. I wanted

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to try the disperse camping for the first time. I'm

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doing my research. I call the state park or the

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National Park office and speak to a ranger and just

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want to make sure I'm not doing anything Lee, I'm

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not going to be hassled by where I try to

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go post up and camp. And they were very helpful.

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Gave me a recommendation for the scenic byway leading up

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to Mount Rainier National Park that takes you through Mount

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Rainier National Forest, and she basically told me that, yeah, basically,

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anywhere off that road is the national forest and you

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can pick any kind of spot you'll find spots that

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are already pre camped and have overgrown fire pits that

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people have used over the years. Blah blahlah blah, and

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it's just me and my dog. I wanted. I got

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all my ducks in a row, and I set off

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this day to go find a place. I knew I

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was going to just hunt down a camping spot, so

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I left early in the morning and made great time.

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Got down there a beautiful day. Do you think of

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Washington and Oregon all being cloudy and glaming all No,

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this was a beautifully lit day, no clouds. And I

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got into the area right around noon, so plenty of daylight,

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left plenty of time on my hands. I'm just going

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down the byway and just kind of investigating those little

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overgrown paths that you see off the road and by

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the way, for anybody who's interested, Nine times out of

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ten you see those little turnouts off of a scenic

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byway or an old route that looks like somebody used

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to go in the woods right there, poke your head

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through the tree line right there, and nine times out

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of ten you actually find that people do camp out there,

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and there's an overgrown fire pit that has been used

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over the years. Anyway, I found this little turnoff of

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dirt road that my goal was. At the time, I'd

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really gotten into some photography and I was having a

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blast with my nikon and I wanted to try hand

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at astro photography nighttime star photography, you know, get a

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great picture of the star. These are exposure shots where

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the lens stays open for you know, twenty seconds a time,

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and it can take in a lot more light than

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what you can see and therefore these great star pictures

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show up in the photo. And this is my very

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first time that I was going to try this out

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in the middle of nowhere by myself, and I was

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I was really excited for it, and I wanted to

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find a spot that has a direct line of site

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to Mount Rainier itself at night with the stars and

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everything above it. I picked a terrible day because it

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was a full moon, the sky was too whitewashed, and

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I didn't have all the stars. Anyway, found this turn off.

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This is dirt road that kind of ran off the

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scenic byway there and there was it was so narrow,

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and so I had no business going up this road

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because it was overgrown and narrow. There's nowhere to turn around.

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I had to go up at least at least three miles,

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let's say, before I could even find a turnaround point

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with enough room for me to like do a little

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three point turnaround to even get back down the mountain.

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But came to a beautiful clearing where I am at

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least at two thousand feet up from where I was

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down on the main road on the scenic byway, and

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had a perfect, beautiful line of site to Mount Rainier with.

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I think I was in between two other little small

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not mountains, but I guess you'd go them hills or

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oh here, they'd be mountains out here in Malaysia. Anyways,

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beautiful spot, perfect vision, perfect line of site. I'm like,

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this will be great come nightfall. I'll be able to

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get great shots of this. And there was just enough

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room for me to turn off and get off the

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actual path. And there was an overgrown firepit there that

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had been used at some point in the last fifteen

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years or sometime, but the bugs were insane. And this

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is by this time, it's not two o'clock in the afternoon,

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it's broad daylight. There's no fear of anything at this point, right,

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I know what I'm doing. But you've got to be

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cautious anyway, and to an extent and realize that you're

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isolated and with no protection. I don't I'm not traveling

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with any firearms or anything. And I forgot my machete

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that I would use to cut down brush and stuff

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just to make any clearing whenever I would go camping.

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So I have nothing and my dog is not much

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protection at all at the time. But the bugs were terrible.

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So the second I get pulled off and get a

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feel for it, I'm like, let me build a fire

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real fast just to help keep the bugs away, throw

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up a tent, keep the dog out of it. And

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got all that done within about fifteen minutes. And again,

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I'm an outdoorsman. I've been hunting and camping my entire life.

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I don't know every creature out there in the wilderness,

459
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.480
but I can ballpark it. If I hear something, if

460
00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.680
it makes a call, if it makes a noise, I got.

461
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.920
I'm a ninety nine percent success rate type deal. Right

462
00:28:28.680 --> 00:28:31.839
now in my head, I know sasquatch is not real.

463
00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.960
This is why I mentioned this in the beginning. I'm

464
00:28:34.000 --> 00:28:36.079
not a believer, but I'm telling it the same way

465
00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:38.920
I tell it to everybody I know. Sasquatch is real.

466
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:43.680
That's not a concern of mine. When I'm assessing my

467
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:50.559
danger level out in the middle of nowhere, I'm pretty confident.

468
00:28:50.559 --> 00:28:53.720
I'm pretty self sufficient. I can do the thing. But

469
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:59.920
broad daylight, two o'clock in the afternoon, on a beautiful day,

470
00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.920
fire going, beautiful view of Mount Rainier right in front

471
00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:09.440
of me, elevated position up on some whatever mountain I

472
00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:13.680
was on, off the scenic byeway, and somebody of the

473
00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.680
one hundred and two hundred people we got in here,

474
00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:18.880
maybe somebody's from that area. You know what road I'm

475
00:29:18.880 --> 00:29:22.319
talking about, that's the main byeway going up to Mount

476
00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:31.720
Rainier National Park. All of a sudden, I hear what

477
00:29:31.799 --> 00:29:37.119
I can only describe as a blood curdling turkey screen.

478
00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:43.039
You put a gun to my head, and there's no

479
00:29:43.160 --> 00:29:47.440
way I could tell you what this creature.

480
00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:50.319
Was I have.

481
00:29:51.720 --> 00:29:54.839
This has baffled me where I guess that was almost

482
00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:58.759
ten years ago. Now it's baffled me to this day.

483
00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:04.559
I it sent chills down my spine immediately, And on

484
00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:06.400
top of that, I look down at my dog. This

485
00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.880
little pit bull terrier makes forty five pounds. It looks

486
00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:14.240
like a giant jack Russell's. She was a forty five

487
00:30:14.279 --> 00:30:18.559
pound Jack russell pit. She's frozen solid and the hairs

488
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:21.519
on the back of her neck are just straight up,

489
00:30:22.640 --> 00:30:25.960
straight up. Now, because of our elevated position and being

490
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:33.480
out there in mountainous area, it's really difficult to gauge

491
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:35.920
the distance, you know, if it's if something's not within

492
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:38.559
fifty feet of you know, there's a lot of eck.

493
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:41.720
Big for society who will be right back after these messages.

494
00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:02.319
There's a lot of sound travel. But I can confidently

495
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:07.640
say whatever it was was within two hundred yards easily.

496
00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:17.279
That's being cautious about it. But I was dumbfounded. Again.

497
00:31:17.319 --> 00:31:20.039
This isn't like a spooky nighttime scenario or anything. This

498
00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:25.200
is broad daylight. I did have the thought before this happened,

499
00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:28.759
maybe moments before at least, or maybe on the way up,

500
00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:31.599
because I can only go like five ten miles an

501
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:34.920
hour max on the way up this overground grown path

502
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:37.240
that I had no business going up in the first place.

503
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:40.279
There just wasn't anywhere to turn around before I found

504
00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:42.920
this wonderful place to stop and set up camp and

505
00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:46.599
hopefully you get some great night shots in the sky

506
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:54.799
at the time, but broad daylight two o'clock and I

507
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:56.359
looked down and see the dog hair on the back

508
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:01.359
round next standing up, and maybe five seconds had passed

509
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:04.960
where I'm just kind of processing what I just heard

510
00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.400
and what I just seen. That's all the time it took.

511
00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.559
I immediately didn't even take apart my tent. I kind

512
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.759
of like grabbed it up and just like bunched it

513
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:18.400
all together and threw it back out to the back

514
00:32:18.440 --> 00:32:21.279
of our suparu, grabbed the dog through the dog in

515
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:23.759
the back. I'm like, I don't know what that was,

516
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:28.240
but I'm not sticking around to find out. And all

517
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:33.680
that did a really sketchy three point turnaround to get

518
00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:36.400
back down this path that I'd come up. You can't

519
00:32:36.440 --> 00:32:38.759
go that fast on that dawn. I'm only doing five

520
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:42.640
to ten miles an hour so the entire time, which

521
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:44.920
took me a good twenty minutes or so to get

522
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:47.920
back down, because again we're about three miles up, there

523
00:32:48.000 --> 00:32:50.200
was nowhere to turn around. I just kept going up

524
00:32:50.240 --> 00:32:53.599
because there was nowhere to turn around. So I'm doing

525
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:56.880
this slow paced thing down the mountain. The whole time

526
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:00.640
I'm looking around gripping the white knuckling the steering well

527
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:03.559
like looking out of every window and looking in the

528
00:33:03.599 --> 00:33:05.960
rear view like it's something following, something going to come

529
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:06.319
after me.

530
00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:06.759
I was.

531
00:33:08.039 --> 00:33:13.240
I was shook to my core from this when I

532
00:33:13.279 --> 00:33:15.240
when I keep mentioning the fact that I'm an outdoorsman,

533
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:17.359
that I'm in a hunter and I can't, you know,

534
00:33:17.400 --> 00:33:22.039
I can't. I go camping in the most remote places

535
00:33:22.039 --> 00:33:26.759
that I can find at least fifteen times a year,

536
00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:33.279
and I'm very comfortable being outside, being outdoors and being

537
00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:37.920
in these situations. This shook me to my core. This

538
00:33:39.400 --> 00:33:46.839
unidentifiable definitely came from an animal, came from some kind

539
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:49.319
of creature. I did not see this thing. I didn't

540
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:51.359
have big big Foot in front of me or anything

541
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:55.119
like that. But the fact that I'm in the Pacific North,

542
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.799
I'm where the origin story of the bigfoot that we

543
00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:05.319
recognized came from. And I couldn't dismiss it. I couldn't

544
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:08.800
just shake that off and say that's not a real thing.

545
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:14.480
I mean, there's a reason that for millennia, multiple many

546
00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:19.039
cultures around the world have very similar stories of, you know,

547
00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:27.440
a bigfoot type creature, and that is my time experiencing Bigfoot.

548
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:29.440
That's how I explained it to everybody. That's how I

549
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.119
tell the story, is that that's when I ran into Bigfoot.

550
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:39.079
That's awesome. I mean, you said yourself, you're not a believer,

551
00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:42.079
but it lines up with so many accounts I've heard

552
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.519
over the years. That's an incredible account. Thank you for sharing.

553
00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:50.440
I appreciate that. That feels validating because that means again,

554
00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:52.880
even when I tell the story, and I love telling

555
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:54.559
the story because I tell it the exact same way

556
00:34:54.599 --> 00:35:01.039
every time, but it's it's still bad me to this day.

557
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:09.320
And I couldn't pretend like I could even round about

558
00:35:09.719 --> 00:35:14.239
what that thing was. I call it blood curdling turkey

559
00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:19.119
scream because it was so loud and ear jarring, and

560
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:22.760
it seemed directed. I don't know if it was directed

561
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.800
at me, but it seemed directed, if that makes sense. Sure,

562
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.119
maybe maybe it was directed towards me, maybe it was

563
00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:33.079
directed to something else, but it felt like it was

564
00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:38.199
a call to something, not just a random call or

565
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:42.000
bleat or anything like elk and deer and such too.

566
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:48.599
This was weird. This was a thing. And all the

567
00:35:48.639 --> 00:35:51.320
Bigfoot documentaries and stuff that which, by the way, I

568
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.679
love I am a big folklore person. I love all that.

569
00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:58.440
It doesn't it didn't line up with any of the

570
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.039
you know, let's call it out what it is. A

571
00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:04.360
lot of those shows and everything, they're just goofy there,

572
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:09.440
get the viewers, get the paycheck real quick, and they

573
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:13.920
put these weird calls that some farmer Joe from next

574
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.639
door put together and they feel like that's going to

575
00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:19.960
draw out bigfoot from their cornfield or their soy field

576
00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:23.239
from wherever they got their tree stands set up. Wasn't

577
00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:28.119
quite anything like that, but it was absolutely abnormal. It

578
00:36:28.239 --> 00:36:33.960
was not a thing that you would recognize on any

579
00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:40.840
level any outdoors any nature lover. If I can't do it,

580
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:43.400
if I can't even ballpark it, if I can't round it,

581
00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:48.480
the average person certainly is not going to have any

582
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:56.199
kind of valid explanation for this. It was absolutely jarring.

583
00:36:59.239 --> 00:37:02.880
That's that's in a wild account. And thank you for

584
00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:05.000
sharing to Ethan. I appreciate you coming up.

585
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:08.119
Thank you, I appreciate it.

586
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:12.480
I love doing with Thank you Ethan for hanging out man.

587
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:16.360
This has been a wild wild nice and Kara's got

588
00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.559
a great comment here. I was camping on Mount Saint

589
00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:23.239
Helen's flat tire. Three big animals surround, roaring, closing in.

590
00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:26.639
I ran away. I'm going to reach out to Kara

591
00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:34.280
to see if she is able to come up. Some

592
00:37:34.360 --> 00:37:36.960
good stuff going on, but thank you, thank you. Man.

593
00:37:44.280 --> 00:37:47.079
All right, we got a guest request. Let's see, let's

594
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:53.760
see what happens here. It's a Jimbo Kong. Hello, Hey, Jimbo,

595
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:54.440
how's it going.

596
00:37:55.880 --> 00:37:58.320
I'm doing pretty good? And you happy? Thanksgiving?

597
00:37:58.400 --> 00:37:58.719
Y'all?

598
00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:02.559
Thanksgiving? What brings you up?

599
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:08.840
Okay, So there are a couple of years ago I

600
00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.480
went to Mexico to visit, you know, my stepdad's family.

601
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:17.239
And by the way, this was in one state called Miteacan, Mexico.

602
00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:22.840
So we're and the place, you know where visit our

603
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:23.880
stepdad's family.

604
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:26.440
You know, it's for forest Pinewood Forest.

605
00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:29.760
You know. And you know, during late and I was

606
00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:33.920
with my brother, with my little brothers and sisters, and

607
00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:38.480
we were in this car and you know, it was

608
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:43.840
getting laos already about like eleven eleven fifty pm.

609
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.679
It was nice and you know, there's no like there's

610
00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:47.639
barely any light.

611
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:50.480
And so.

612
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:56.960
And well we start hearing hearing this house and I

613
00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:58.719
think to myself, no, problem. You know, it might be

614
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.320
some coyotes, I mean animals, you know, But then it

615
00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:06.800
turns out I see I don't know if it's I

616
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:08.760
don't know if you consider it big food because they

617
00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:14.880
had white fur. But I see a giant figure, very

618
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:20.119
human like figure with glowing red eyes. It had sort

619
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:26.480
of like a white, whitish grayish fur, right, and it

620
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:29.800
got to me and it was like right the front,

621
00:39:29.880 --> 00:39:34.000
right beside me, like right beside the car door, looking

622
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:34.280
at me.

623
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.280
And that dude, that thing was big though.

624
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:40.800
It got all the way like around my shoulders and

625
00:39:40.800 --> 00:39:43.800
I'm six foot one, by the way.

626
00:39:47.159 --> 00:39:49.400
So yeah, that's that's my story to it.

627
00:39:49.599 --> 00:39:53.559
So I told my step grandma about it, and I

628
00:39:53.719 --> 00:39:56.400
told my step about it, and they said that, you know,

629
00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:59.440
it's not the first time seeing something like that. And

630
00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:01.679
I keep thinking to myself, could there be a big

631
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:09.199
foot in Mexico or so like a subspecies of bigfoot?

632
00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:12.800
That's that's extremely interesting.

633
00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:13.960
I have heard.

634
00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.719
A few sightings from down in Mexico, but I'll ben

635
00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:22.039
you're one of the first that I've had reach out

636
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:26.519
and and share. So that is dreams cool that you

637
00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:28.840
were able to come up. Thank you, Jimbo are you

638
00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:30.719
able to get a good look at the face of

639
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:31.719
what you saw Jimbo?

640
00:40:34.719 --> 00:40:38.199
Not really because then again, you know it was well,

641
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.079
it was dark and there was there wasn't like any light.

642
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:45.840
I don't think it's normal, you know, a big, massive

643
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:51.199
figure with red eyes looking at you.

644
00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:56.000
No, no, definitely, that's that's definitely a rare thing. And

645
00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:59.039
you said it was white as well, right, white hair,

646
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:07.880
white gray for not true? Could you get a view

647
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:11.679
as to the silhouette how how different parts of it

648
00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:13.800
looked like even though it was dark?

649
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:18.880
Well, yeah, I mean I did see the silhouette. Well

650
00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:19.519
how do I say?

651
00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:20.000
You know?

652
00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:21.280
It had how.

653
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:27.159
The head it was like, you know, it was elongated,

654
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:35.960
and it had very strong shoulders, a very strong yeah,

655
00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:42.239
a very big, strong, you know, uh figure, so like

656
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.280
most gorillas that you see, you.

657
00:41:45.239 --> 00:41:45.760
Know on TV.

658
00:41:47.599 --> 00:41:48.159
Absolutely.

659
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:51.320
Could you see the arms at all?

660
00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:58.320
Well, I did see some of it. I think I

661
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:01.320
have seen the hand and zoo back.

662
00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:08.760
They're back. They're nasty.

663
00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:14.360
It's kind of pretty here or an actual dark color.

664
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:16.519
Like an actual dark there.

665
00:42:18.800 --> 00:42:23.400
Okay, okay, all right, well Jimbo, thank you for coming

666
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:26.880
up and for sharing what you saw there. You're at

667
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:30.239
Bigfoot society art goal is to provide a platform for

668
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.360
those that have encountered Bigfoot to share their encounter in

669
00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.880
a safe and respected environment. But we need to hear

670
00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:42.079
your story. If you've experienced something that you just can't explain,

671
00:42:42.400 --> 00:42:47.360
please send me an email at Bigfoot Society at gmail

672
00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:50.679
dot com. Then we can start the conversation. And I

673
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:54.559
know a lot of you have not shared your encounter

674
00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:58.760
at all. It's been twenty years and it's time that

675
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.519
you get this off your chat and then you can

676
00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:03.760
get some well deserved for rest, because I know you

677
00:43:03.800 --> 00:43:07.800
haven't been sleeping. I understand what you're going through, and

678
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:09.239
I appreciate every one.

679
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:13.880
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Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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Here's the list. These are all in Oregon by the way, Oakridge,

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Dexter Fall Creek, to Shoot National Forest Area, Cultist Lake,

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Spirit Lake, Stuttle Lake, Mackenzie River Area, Sweet Home Area,

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the area west of Crater Lake, east of two thirty

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West Diamond Lake Highway and north of sixty two Crater

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Lake Highway. You can use email Bigfoot Society at gmail

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dot com. A special thank you to all the big

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for Society, Patreon and YouTube channel member. It's your support

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that helps keep the show going and I extremely appreciate it.

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If you want to join in the fun, you can

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join over at patreon dot com. Forward slash the big

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