June 6, 2025

The Turkey Hunter and the Sasquatch | Washington

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Season 1

Join host Jeremiah Byron in this gripping episode of Bigfoot Society as Henry recounts multiple harrowing encounters with Bigfoot in the wilderness of Washington state. Starting with a spine-tingling experience during a spring turkey hunt near Mount Adams in 2016, Henry describes the unnerving sightings and eerie behaviors of these elusive creatures. Over the years, Henry has gathered numerous experiences, including encounters near his own home and during family hunting trips. With fascinating details about the locations, behaviors, and physical descriptions of the Bigfoots, this episode offers a deep dive into one man's journey of fear, curiosity, and the drive to discover the truth. Don't miss these incredible stories and be prepared to reconsider what you know about the wilderness of Washington.

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All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking

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to Henry. Henry's an individual that reached out to me

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about a few interesting things he's experienced over the years

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out there in the state of Washington. So welcome to

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the show, Henry.

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How's it going, Oh, pretty good? Awesome, Yeah, glad to

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be on.

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Yeah, we've we've talked a little bit beforehand. It was

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a great conversation and uh, you know, we want to

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let's make the best use of our time, because I

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know you've got a ton to share. And I say,

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you know, Henry, go ahead, take us back to when

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this first started happening for you and uh, and we'll

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have a good time.

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Okay. I'm just gonna start with my my first encounter.

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I grew up in south central Washington, around the Mount

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Adams area.

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I've lived here all.

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My life, hunted around here all my life, on my

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grandma and grandpa. They everybody just lived around here. So

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and let's see, Yeah, two thousand and eight, the spring

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of twenty sixteen, it was the spring turkey hunt, and

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I had some private property to hunt on and some

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friends of mine they owned some cabins. It's pretty high

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up on the mountain, but yeah, so I got permission

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to go up there, and it's gated community. There's only

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one road in, there's only one road out. There's nobody

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that can get in there. And I happen to have

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the key, and I knew I was by myself. But

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the week prior to the turkey hunt that came up,

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I had went up there to this area that had

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been logged off and I was down kind of over

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the north side of the logging area. There's a creek

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that runs down through there with a pretty good meadow,

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and we've always known that the turkey's like to hang

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out in there.

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It's just I don't know why, but they always just

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hung out in that area.

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So I went up there by myself the week prior,

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and I had made a blind about ten yards into

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the tree line of this l shaped meadow. And i'll

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explain that more to you here in a minute, But

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the right side of this blind was up against a tree,

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and I just took baling wire and sidecutters, and I

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just took sticks and limbs and anyway, I built this blind.

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It actually looked like a one set out house.

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And the door opened from the back, and I had

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a five be on bucket with a board that I

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would set on, and I had a little shooting port

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in the front that faced the middle of course, and

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I didn't have to, but I had put a top

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on the blind. I had extra sticks, and said, well,

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I just put him up there. I didn't need to,

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but I didn't tie him down or anything. I just

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laid him up there. So anyway, yeah, I got done,

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and I backed out of the area and went home

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and waited for the next weekend, and so the next

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weekend came around, and uh, you know, Saturday morning, I

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was a little anxious to get up.

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There, so I took off a little early.

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It was it was dark when I got there.

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So I decided, well, I'm just going to walk up.

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They're getting the blunt anyway, even though it was dark,

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it didn't really have a light with me, and I

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had a light with me, but I didn't use it

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had a little red pin light that you could barely.

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See the ground with.

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But when I got out of my pickup, well, when

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I came up the hill, I'm about we were from

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five to seven miles.

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From the gate up on the mountain, and I came

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to the first landing.

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It was a logged off section of about two hundred

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and fifty acres off to my left hand side, and

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there was two landing sites. There was the first one

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that I came to, and then about three quarters of

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the mile up the road was.

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The second landing.

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And right after that it would drop down the hill

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across the creek, and there was a road that went

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up on the hill just a little raised and stopped

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well up on the right hand side of that was

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this flat area and there was an L shaped meadow

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up in there. So and in between these two landings

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there was an intersection that turned and went up the

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hill two miles from that intersection. Up on the hill,

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we have some friends that have two cabins up there,

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and then we have access to We can go there

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anytime we want.

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And it's right on the creek too. So when I

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got there, I thought, I was just anxious to get.

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Going, so I thought, well, I'll just load up and

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start walking up there to the blind. So I got

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out of the truck. And this kind of plays in

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later on. But I got out of the truck and

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I'd seen my shotgun the night before when I was

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loaded up my shotgun and you're only supposed to put

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three rounds in it, and I noticed that I put

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four in there, and I thought, oh, dang it, So

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I put my fifth.

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Round in it.

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I realized I forgot my plug, so I was like, well, shoot,

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you know, if I.

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Get caught, I'm gonna get a ticket. So just loaded up.

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So I did. I put six rounds in three inch.

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I used three inch double lot or Magnum double lot back,

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and that's what I like to shoot out in this

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area because it's a lot more wide open than it

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is over in the you know, in the Gifford Pinchhot

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that's more of your jungle coulpical stuff.

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But so anyway, I got everything ready and I took.

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Off walking up the road and then, like I said,

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I was gonna drop off this second landing and go

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down across the creek. But at the last second, I thought,

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wait a minute, I'm just gonna cut up. When I

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hit the intersection, I just took a right and I

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went up the road, headed towards the cabins, and I

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walked up there, I don't know, one hundred and maybe

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two hundred yards, and then I cut into the left

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and I walked down to the creek. And I got

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down to the creek across the creek and it wasn't

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real big. It wasn't small, but it's not real big.

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It was pretty easy to cross, and it was real quiet.

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It was all wet out, super quiet going in. And

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so I go up the other side, and it's about

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forty yards from the creek to the blind but I

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was above it and I had to turn and walk

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down to it, and it was still fairly dark out,

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but it was. It was just starting to kind of

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get light enough. Whore I could, you know, just barely

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see the ground. So when I got to my blind,

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I had noticed that the top had been taken off

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the blind, like the whole roof had just been like

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taken off, and it was it was laying in front

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of the door. All these sticks were laying in front

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of the door. So I couldn't I couldn't even open

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the door. And I was just looking at this, like

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how did these sticks ball? I know, the wind didn't

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do it, you know, I was just kind.

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Of looking around.

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So I thought, okay, well whatever, So I just I

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just picked the sticks back up and I quietly just

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put them back up there.

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I don't even why I put them up there, but

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I did. So I went in. I opened the door.

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I went in, and I was sitting in the blind.

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I put my shotgun on the right hand side of

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the blanks in right hand and I put my backpack

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on the left side and.

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Shut the door. And I was just sitting there waiting

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for it to.

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Get light out, and it was starting to get fairly

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lighter and lighter. So I kept hearing stuff that I

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didn't really pay attention too much about what was going on.

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I mean, just normal forest sounds, I guess. So anyway,

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I'm sitting there and it's getting lighter and lighter, and

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I'm thinking about getting my stuff out and getting ready

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to go. But I should tell you about this meadow first,

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that I was facing west. I was looking right at

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Mount Adams. This meadow was about sixty yards long. The

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right hand side was about sixty yards long, and the

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left hand side was about forty and I'm about ten

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yards inside the tree line and this so I'm about

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fifty yards to that shortest corner, and then the meadow

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would it made an L shaped turn and it went

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towards the creek about I would say thirty yards maybe,

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and there was just still throw at trees between that

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meadow and the creek, and then it dropped down into there.

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So anyway, I'm sitting there waiting, waiting, and I'm getting

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ready to go, and these turkeys they would they would

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roost up. And it was a pretty good sized hillside.

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It went up to the top of the mountain was

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probably about three miles I would say, So it was

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a pretty good hillside, but it wasn't real steep and

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these turkeys they would come out of roost and they

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would always walk across this meadow, and we've done pretty

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well in their turkey on but they would cross and

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they go down and get their water and then go

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whichever direction they went.

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But so I was just getting ready to get.

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My stuff, and then it's it's kind of a flat

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light situation where it's just kind of between daylight and dark,

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and all of a sudden, that noise that I was hearing,

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it sounds like it sounded like I could hear somebody talking.

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And the more I listened to it, the more it

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sounded more and more like people talking. I don't know

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if you've ever been in a situation where you hear

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people talking and they're just like right on the edge

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of your hearing, you can't make out what they're saying.

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That's what it sounded like to me. So I was

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looking around.

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I could see through the walls of the blind, it

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just sticks, you had a little gaps in there. And

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I was looking every direction time to figure out where

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this was coming from. I even opened up the back door,

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and I just I couldn't hear it where it's coming from.

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So I got up and I stuck my head out

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the blind and was just listening, and then I figured

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out that the talking was coming from the front of

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me to the left. So I sit down and I'm

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listening to them talk, and I got kind of I

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got kind of passed about this because I'm like, you know,

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I put all this time and effort into it, and

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now there's people up here hunting. And then I got

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to thinking, like, there's no there's absolutely no way somebody

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would have walked up here because they couldn't have got

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through the gate because nobody had a key but me.

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I'm ten miles from any house in any direction. To

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the north of me is the yacht of my Indian reservation,

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so I know nobody came off there.

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So I thought, oh, dang it. Man. So I was

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just getting ready to go out the blind.

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I was going to go over there and tell these

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guys get your stuff and get out of here.

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You're not supposed to be here. Get out.

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I mean, I wasn't even going to take my shotgun

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with me. I was just gonna walk over there and

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just tell them just get out. So so at this

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point I sat there for just a few more minutes,

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and it got a little lighter and a little lighter,

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and yeah, I mean it was getting.

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Fairly light really.

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So I was just getting ready to get out, and

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I looked over to my left and I noticed movement

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coming from my left side. It was coming to the

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right out towards this meadow, and I thought, well, you know,

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what's going on here? Is one of the hunters coming

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out to sit in the meadow right there or what

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you know. So I was just sitting there watching to

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see what they were going to do. And then a few,

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you know, a few seconds went by where I didn't

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see any movement, and then probably about I don't know,

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five yards from the end of that meadow. But we

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have a lot of low like pine trees and oak trees.

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It's like low scrub stuff. It's not like the Gifford

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pinch elvers. Really like a jungle really, so it's a

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lot more open. But so I seen movement coming out

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underneath this tree and it was bent over at the waist.

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It was like a ninety degree band, you know, like

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at the waist it has been over ducking down under

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these tree lambs. And when this thing came out, it

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stood straight up, just straight up about two feet out

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of the trees and it stopped.

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And it took me a minute to figure out what

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I was like. I was like no, and I was

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like okay, gilly suit and I was like no.

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Then I was like, well, that looks like a bear

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and I was like no, that's that's not a bear.

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And then all of a sudden it dawned on me.

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I knew exactly what this was.

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I was like because my grandpa and Grandpa's would talk

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about these things bogging and stuff. So then I started

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to panic. A million things went through my mind at

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that point, and I really started to panic. So I

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reached over for my shotgun. I was going to grab it,

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and I thought, no, don't don't panic, don't panic. Yeah,

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I was starting to I was really starting to panic

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at this point, so I thought, don't panic, just don't panic.

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Just just stay here, stay here, stay here, don't move,

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don't move. Well, this thing was facing north and I

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was looking west and and and I had the wind

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in my face, so I didn't I didn't think about

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this so later on.

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But so this thing was just standing.

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It never moved and never looked at me, and never

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looked in any direction. It just stood there, still about

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two feet out from the trees, looking north up on

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this hillside, and then it made us stand.

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It yelled.

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I guess that's what you would call it, but it

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sounded like it said murr, with a sharp chirp on

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the end of it.

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Like a real low loud like a murder, you know,

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like a bird chirp.

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Big for society will be right back after these messages.

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I can't do what it did, and I'm not even

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gonna try, because it sound like an idiot when I do.

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But anyway, and I think this whole experience lasted. I

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know I've said ten minutes before, but actually kind of

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looking back and counting it, I think it was more

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around seven minutes. So anyway, this thing yelled up on

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the hillside three times, and it stood there for to

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do anything.

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It just stood there.

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So after about a minute, it slowly backed up. It

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bent over again and went under the tree limb that

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it came out from, and it.

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Disappeared in the trees. So all of a sudden, I.

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See movement going from right to left where it came from.

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And then I thought, man, I'm gonna run. I'm out

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of here, and I just don't do this.

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Just stay here, just don't move, because I wasn't sure

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what was it, where it went or and I knew

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how that meadow worked, how the ground laid out and everything,

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and I was just like, just stay here for a

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few minutes and let's just see what happens. You know,

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it's not coming towards you.

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Just stay here.

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So I'm sitting there and about I don't know, I

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think a minute or so goes by, or two minutes,

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I'm not really sure. But anyway, I was kind of

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in a panic mode at this point. But anyway, I

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see movement come.

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Out again, and it did the same thing.

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It duck underneath this tree limbs, and it came out

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and it stood straight up again in the same spot,

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about two feet out from the trees, and it was

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still looking north. It never looked at me and never

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looked any direction, and never did anything.

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It was just totally steal And it did the same thing.

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It hollered three more times up on the hillside, but

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that same it was like a mirror with a sharp

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turf on the end of it. And it stood there

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for about another minute, maybe two at the most, and

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then well, anyway, I was starting to panic again, and

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I remembered, you know, hey, I got six rounds in

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that shotgun, you know, and I had two in my pocket.

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So yeah.

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So so at this point I'm watching it and it

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flicked its wrist. It never moved the whole arm. It

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just flicked its wrist like a couple.

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Of times, just I could see it moving.

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And this one, yeah, it was black, but it looked silver,

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and it was about I think it was about seven

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and a half feet tall. And when it flicked its wrist,

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I seem to another. I see movement again, coming out

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from the left to the right through these trees, and

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I thought, there's another one.

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You no home.

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And I was really starting to lose it at this point,

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and I just kept yelling in my brain, just don't move, man,

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just don't move.

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Work through it, work through it. Just just keep it together.

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So this other one, it did the same thing it

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has been over, but I don't think it knew it

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had as much. It didn't have room to stand behind

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the first one. So when it came out, it was

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kind of at a forty five degree angle and it

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came out to the left shoulder of the one that

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was standing there, and it was facing like the northwest.

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It was about a forty five degree angle to the

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one that was standing there, and it was black, but

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it looked sober too.

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By now, it's starting to get fairly light out.

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And I'm just I'm wanting to run, you know, But

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I just just kept telling myself, just don't move, man,

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just don't move. So this one that came out was

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about six and a half feet tall. It was about

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a foot shorter. I'm six foot three. This one was

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about six and a half. It was about a foot

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shorter than the first.

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One that came out. But this one it.

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Looked black, but it looked gray. I noticed on this

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one that it had two horizontal black stripes on it

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on its side, one under the armpit and one by

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the hip bone right here, and I thought, well, that's

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kind of weird. But about that time, it moved just

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a little bit to the right. Were not completely ninety

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degrees to me, but it moved enough. And it stood

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there for just a few seconds, and it moved just

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slightly again. I could tell this was a female because

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I could see the right breast and then the hands

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were more in front of it were the first one.

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The hands were just hanging down to the sides, but

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this one had its hands in front of it. I

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could just see from the shoulder to the elbow. And

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then as I'm looking at it, I noticed it well.

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I realized that not only is this a female, but

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I think she's holding an infant because I could see

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over her right breast, I could see just a little

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bit of a head sticking out. It was like right

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between her her tubes. I could just see just the

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back of the head. I mean, I'm not one hundred

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percent sure, but I'm about ninety eight point five percent

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sure that's what she was doing. She was holding holding

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it by the rear end, and the stripes going around her

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side was the arms and legs holding on to her

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like it was like bear hugging her. So anyway, they

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stood there for about a minute, and this one did

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the same thing as the first one.

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They were just looking up on the hillside. They never I.

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Don't honestly think they even knew I was even there,

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And I'll kind of explain that here later from what

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I think happened. But so they stood there for about

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another minute and then he either drunned or huffed. He

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just went whoa and As soon as he did that,

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they turned, and thank god, they walked to the west.

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They walked across the meadow away from me, and they went.

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She fell right in lockstep with him. It was like

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they were marking when they moved the left leg, right leg, left.

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He was like.

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So she followed him across the meadow, hit the tree line,

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and went up into the trees and they disappeared.

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So I sat there for about five.

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Minutes in like panic mode, trying to just calm down.

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And I was looking around the whole time because I

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was like, you know, I was thinking, why is he

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what's he hollering for? You know, I think it was

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more of a rendezvous or they were trying to meet

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up with others like him. I don't that's my theory

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on this. So after about five minutes, I got my

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stuff and I stepped out the back door, and I

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was looking around. It was pretty well daylight by then,

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and I was looking around because I was like, I

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don't want to run into anymore of these. So I

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really looked all around me and I went. I kept

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the blind between me and them, and I went straight

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up the hill. I don't know, I said, stealthily, but

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before it. What I mean by that is I didn't

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break nothing, I didn't touch nothing. I didn't make any

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sounds at all going back up that hill, and I

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didn't take any time.

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I mean, I wasn't horsing around with this one. I

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wasn't running, but I wasn't horse around.

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And I went up about where I crossed, and then

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I crossed back over the creek and I hit the

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road and I came down and got my truck and

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I left. So yeah, so anyway I get home.

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Yeah, it took me about three months to get over there.

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I quit hunting because of this until about it was

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twenty sixteen, you know, about about twenty nineteen, I started

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hunting again because it really got me and it affected

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me bad because I've always hunted by myself, and I just.

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Never ran into anything like that, you know.

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And the year people say, you know, I've been hunting

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this area for forty years, well you know what you know?

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And they say I'd never seen anything. I say, well,

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you know what, I did the same thing until that day.

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The color of their hair, you know how I said

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that they looked black, but they look great. I didn't

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figure this out until about five months later, and this

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is my theory on this. Me and a buddy went

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out bear hunting that September. I guess I did go hunt,

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but I went with a buddy and he.

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Ended up getting a bear.

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But from a distance it looked brown, but when we

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walked up on it, it was blonde.

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And I wait, a minute, is this the right bear?

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So I went back a little wais and looked at

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it looked brown, but when I walked up on it, it

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was blonde. I got to looking at the fur, and

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the very quarter inch of the tips of the fur

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were brown, but the rest of the hair was blonde.

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So at a distance it looked brown, but when you

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got right up on it, and it looked blonde. So

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I think what happened was that they had silver tips

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on their hairs. That's what I think happened. That's how

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they look black. I think the main hair was black,

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but they had silver tips on their hair, so they

462
00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:53.839
looked like a two tone color. And I'm not really

463
00:23:53.880 --> 00:23:57.240
sure why that would be, but I've heard people saying

464
00:23:57.240 --> 00:23:57.799
the same thing.

465
00:23:57.880 --> 00:23:59.920
They look black, but they look gray.

466
00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:00.680
Yeah, exactly.

467
00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:08.240
Yeah, So I think this is well the area that

468
00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.079
I was in, I think it's a migration route through there.

469
00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.319
Because it's on the east side of Mount Adams. There's like,

470
00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.000
I don't know, a million acres of Yakama Indian nation

471
00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:20.559
land out there that nobody's in.

472
00:24:21.519 --> 00:24:23.480
I mean, there's a river, a major river that runs

473
00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:25.279
right up through there. Nobody goes there.

474
00:24:25.359 --> 00:24:27.039
So matter of fact, the area I was in was

475
00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:35.160
the east side Elk Calvin grounds for Mount Adams. So yeah,

476
00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:39.160
and then since then, I've had four other people tell

477
00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:43.880
me of encounters in the same area. These two guys

478
00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:45.960
told me one time that they were in the same area.

479
00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:49.839
They were about a mile actually about two miles west

480
00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:51.519
of where I was at, and they come up over

481
00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:53.559
a hill and there was a pretty deep ravine right there,

482
00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:56.160
and they were kind of going down into that ravine

483
00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:57.519
and all of a sudden they looked up into the

484
00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.960
ravine and both of them witnesses. They seem one one

485
00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:05.119
of them walking, one bigfoot walking down that draw and

486
00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.240
they watched it walk about a mile down this draw

487
00:25:07.319 --> 00:25:09.279
until it disappeared, and they turned around and ran out

488
00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:11.039
of there and got out and it never went back.

489
00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:15.000
So that was that was one encounter.

490
00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:16.839
That I've I've been told of since then and then

491
00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:20.359
another one was with another turkey hunter. Him and his

492
00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:23.599
son was out there. They were about two miles south

493
00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.160
of me, though they were little ways further down the

494
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:29.839
mountain than I was at an old, uh abandoned farmhouse,

495
00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:30.920
and I was hiving.

496
00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:31.200
His son.

497
00:25:31.279 --> 00:25:34.599
He just his son had just got his hunter hunter

498
00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:39.079
safety hard and they had the turkey decoy set up

499
00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:40.720
in this meadow. They were kind of like me, and

500
00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:42.880
they went in the week before and they built a blind,

501
00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.680
but it was just a U shaped blind where they

502
00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.559
just put limbs and.

503
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:48.359
Stuff up to about the you know, when they're sitting

504
00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:50.039
on a chair. They could just see over it.

505
00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:55.519
But he said, he started calling, and uh, after about

506
00:25:55.519 --> 00:25:57.480
ten minutes of calling, he looked down to the right

507
00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:00.319
hand side of this meadow and he seen what he

508
00:26:00.359 --> 00:26:02.079
what he thought was the guy in a gilly suit

509
00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:05.599
was running from oak tree clumps to oak tree clumps,

510
00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.160
kind of moving up on him on the right hand side.

511
00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:10.920
And he said, it got within.

512
00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:12.960
About twenty five yards of him, and he thought, man,

513
00:26:14.079 --> 00:26:16.200
I don't want this guy shooting, and he's turkeys thinking,

514
00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:18.599
you know. So when he got within twenty five yards,

515
00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:21.640
this thing went bounding between these clumps, and he stood

516
00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:22.720
up and said, hey, you know.

517
00:26:22.839 --> 00:26:25.160
We're over here. Don't shoot. He said, this thing stopped

518
00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:28.079
and then it stood full up, and then he knew

519
00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:29.440
he wasn't dealing with the human.

520
00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.319
He said, this ain't had a look of surprise like

521
00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:33.720
you wouldn't believe on it. He said, his eyeballs were big,

522
00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:35.880
his mouth was wide open, and he said, this thing

523
00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:38.599
spun around and took off running the way it came

524
00:26:38.640 --> 00:26:40.279
in there and just disappeared in the trees.

525
00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:42.160
So that was.

526
00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.079
Another sighting that happened in the same area, just a

527
00:26:46.119 --> 00:26:49.960
few miles south of where I was at.

528
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:52.240
Because there was one more sighting. What was it, I

529
00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:55.759
can't remember now, but.

530
00:26:55.759 --> 00:27:00.359
Anyway, so at this point, you know, I thought about

531
00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:04.000
this for about three months. I just could not get

532
00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:07.119
this out of my mind. But you know, at the time,

533
00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:09.920
I didn't know who, you know, anybody to tell this to,

534
00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:12.920
so I just kept it quiet. I never told anybody

535
00:27:12.960 --> 00:27:17.240
for eight years until May of twenty twenty three. I'll

536
00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:23.079
get to that here in this minute. But so, yeah,

537
00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:24.880
I didn't know anything about I don't know if they

538
00:27:24.880 --> 00:27:28.160
even had big foot podcasts back then, or if I

539
00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:31.039
know they had researchers, but I didn't know anything about

540
00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:36.359
that stuff at that time. But another sighting, my wife

541
00:27:36.359 --> 00:27:41.480
had one in twenty eighteen. We live about fifteen miles

542
00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:45.079
east of the site where I had mine, my first one,

543
00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:49.400
and my wife was home sick one day. Well, we

544
00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:52.920
have ten acres on another it's a little river. It's

545
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.079
not a big river, it's a little river. And our

546
00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.079
back we have ten acres and our back fence parallels

547
00:27:59.119 --> 00:28:02.400
this river. And from the back fence to the tree

548
00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:04.640
line there was a row of trees there. It's about

549
00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:06.680
thirty feet between the trees and the fence and then

550
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:07.720
right past its head.

551
00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:09.839
Row of trees or the rivers right there.

552
00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:14.079
So my wife was home sick one day from work

553
00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:17.920
and anyway, I walked I got home from work and

554
00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:19.319
I walked in and she was just all in the

555
00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:21.359
camping state of mind. And I was like, what's wrong

556
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.920
with you. She's like, you're not gonna believe what I

557
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:24.400
seen the day. And I was like, what did you see?

558
00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.279
She was a bigfoot.

559
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:28.799
And I was like, huh a bigfoot? Huh?

560
00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.200
Really we're at She goes out out by the back

561
00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:33.839
fence and I said, well, what happened well, she was

562
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:35.680
laying in bed sick, and she got up to get

563
00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:36.559
something to drink and.

564
00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:41.640
You know, get some hydration. And as she was.

565
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:43.880
Walking back to bed, she looked out the dining room

566
00:28:43.920 --> 00:28:46.759
window at the back fence and she's seen this bigfoot

567
00:28:46.839 --> 00:28:50.200
walk out of the hedge row of trees. It would

568
00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:53.720
have taken the left and walked north along the fence.

569
00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:55.839
It was about a hundred I don't know, about one

570
00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:58.200
hundred yards or so up this fence line, and then

571
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:01.119
it went kind of down the hill and back through

572
00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:02.359
the trees down to the creek.

573
00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:06.319
Thought, huh really, so it scared her, scared her to dash.

574
00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:10.920
She she uh went and jumped back in bed and

575
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:13.000
put the covers over her face.

576
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:15.000
Until I got home.

577
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:19.039
So anyway, she she just thought for sure it was

578
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:21.640
going to come through the door. So anyway, I went

579
00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.720
out there and looked, and sure enough, you can actually

580
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:27.480
see where something had had went through the summer.

581
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:31.000
Fallow big for society would be right back after these messages.

582
00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.880
Well i'll take grass, we call it that girls in

583
00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:52.119
the summertime that dies off it. Anyway, you could actually

584
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:54.480
see where something that had walked down through there, and

585
00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:56.559
then where it went down through the trees, but.

586
00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:58.519
I didn't see anything.

587
00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:02.640
So so anyway, I got back told her, I said, yeah,

588
00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.799
it looks like something walked through there, but you can't

589
00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:07.240
really see me footprints. You need to see the grass

590
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:10.200
smash down and stuff like that. And she's like, well,

591
00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:12.880
you actually act like you believe me, and I said, yeah,

592
00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:14.799
I do, you know, but I didn't. I wanted to

593
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.240
tell her at that point, but I just didn't. So

594
00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:21.519
that was two thousand and eighteen.

595
00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:22.519
Yeah, so.

596
00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:31.680
Anyway, nothing really happened until twenty twenty two. In July

597
00:30:31.759 --> 00:30:34.400
of twenty twenty two, my son was home from the

598
00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.279
army on leave and he'd brought two of his army

599
00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:39.039
buddies with him.

600
00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:43.759
And the landowner's son owns the cabins. I'll call him Cal.

601
00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:46.640
He's a pretty good kid. Him and my son have

602
00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:52.559
been buddy since first grade. And anyway, so it was

603
00:30:52.599 --> 00:30:55.200
fourth of July and we had went up to the cabins,

604
00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:59.599
and we were going to do fourth of July to Cabins,

605
00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:02.880
but I didn't get up there until about nine thirty.

606
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.519
The cabins, they're about two miles away, straight up the

607
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:11.599
hill from where I had my first sighting. So yeah,

608
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.599
so I got up there, it was just just about

609
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:15.640
dark and there's a gate.

610
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:16.720
You gotta go another gate.

611
00:31:16.799 --> 00:31:19.160
So I went through the gate and as you go

612
00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.880
through the gate, it's about one hundred yards up to

613
00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:23.279
the creek and you got to cross the creek and

614
00:31:23.359 --> 00:31:25.440
it's not a very big one, but anyway, so me,

615
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:29.519
after you cross the creek, you take a right and

616
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:32.440
go up to the cabin and it's about forty yards

617
00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:33.160
up to the cabin.

618
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:35.440
So anyway, when I got.

619
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:39.359
There, I had just bought a couple of a GM

620
00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:43.319
Rattler sick forties their thermals, and then Cal he had

621
00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:49.400
just purchased a pretty high end ir Nod. So the

622
00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:51.440
boys that they wanted to go play with them and stuff.

623
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:53.319
So I was like, all right, go ahead, you know.

624
00:31:53.519 --> 00:31:56.359
So I was in the cabin trying to get the

625
00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:02.119
fire and stuff going, and they were down down by

626
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:04.920
the creek and they were looking through the thermals and stuff,

627
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:06.519
and yeah, like I said, I was trying to get

628
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:07.920
the fire going, and all of a sudden the door

629
00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.160
blasts open. Here comes my son and col In there,

630
00:32:12.200 --> 00:32:14.680
and they were just talking a mile a minute. And

631
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:16.799
as a matter of fact, they scared me coming through

632
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:18.720
the door. I don't think they even opened the door knob.

633
00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:22.480
I think he just pushed the whole door in. But anyway,

634
00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:24.920
they were kind of panicking and all excited, and I

635
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:27.079
was like, hey, wait, you know, slow down, man, what

636
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:29.440
are you guys talking about? And he goes and goes, hey, Dad,

637
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:31.400
there was there was something down there barking at us,

638
00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:33.960
like a dog, but it didn't sound like a dog.

639
00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:36.240
It was too deep and it just didn't sound right.

640
00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:41.400
And I was like, okay, and then he said, all

641
00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.480
of a sudden, it started growling at us, like, but

642
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.680
it wasn't the dog. It was just way too deep

643
00:32:46.720 --> 00:32:48.480
for a dog. And then then it kind of started

644
00:32:48.480 --> 00:32:50.359
clicking in my mind. I was like, why didn't I.

645
00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.640
Why do we go? Why do we got to do

646
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:53.640
this right now? You know?

647
00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:57.200
So I said, just just stay in the stay in

648
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.759
the cabin, give me one of those give me the thermal.

649
00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.599
And I I had my shotgun with me, but it's

650
00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:05.559
not a hunting shotgun. It's going to riot. But so

651
00:33:05.599 --> 00:33:07.640
I grabbed my shotgun. I said just stay here, I'm

652
00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:09.400
gonna go down there and look around. So I went

653
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:11.839
down there and I was kind of nervous about it.

654
00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:14.119
But I went down there and I looked all around.

655
00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:16.359
I had a really good high beating flashlight and had

656
00:33:16.359 --> 00:33:17.319
the throm alon, you know.

657
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:19.079
I was just looking around. So I crossed the creek

658
00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:21.759
and there was a hedgerow on the other side of

659
00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:22.880
the creek going up past the.

660
00:33:22.799 --> 00:33:25.200
Cabin of trees, and I kind of walked up in

661
00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.480
their ways and was looking around.

662
00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:27.440
I didn't see anything.

663
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.480
So I went back to the cabin and I told him,

664
00:33:32.480 --> 00:33:33.920
I said, I didn't see nothing, man.

665
00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:35.319
So probably whatever it was was gone.

666
00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:36.640
I kind of had in the back in my mind

667
00:33:36.839 --> 00:33:40.720
was what was happening, But I didn't tell him anything.

668
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:43.000
So I just told him, you know, just stick around

669
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:45.079
the cabin for a while, you know, don't don't go

670
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:45.759
outside for a bit.

671
00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:50.759
So anyway, off off the east side of the cabin,

672
00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:53.440
and they have a port right there and it's in closed.

673
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.160
You can't get off of it. It's about ten feet

674
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:58.000
to the ground. And then the creek runs right by

675
00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.160
the port right there. But across the creek there's a

676
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:01.240
bank there and anybody.

677
00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:03.839
The boys decided to get out their their rifles and

678
00:34:03.880 --> 00:34:06.480
pistols and they went.

679
00:34:06.359 --> 00:34:07.400
Out there and shot up the.

680
00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:11.239
Dirt for about twenty minutes, you know, just pretty much

681
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:14.119
wasting ammo and having a good old time. But so

682
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:18.159
they got all done with that and went back into

683
00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:21.320
the house or the cabin there, and so I thought, well,

684
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.599
I'd like to reload two twenty three brass and stuff.

685
00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:27.000
And so while they were in there having a good

686
00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.519
time party and stuff, I just went outside. You have

687
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.559
to go through the cabin through the door and come

688
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:32.559
around the outside.

689
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:34.480
And you know, I was picking up brass.

690
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.920
And I was out there for about five minutes picking

691
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:41.360
up brass, and I mean, did this yell from the

692
00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:45.159
east to me? This thing yelled like I have never

693
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:48.000
in my life hurt. I could feel the ground shaking,

694
00:34:48.079 --> 00:34:50.320
I could feel my lungs vibrating. This is how loud

695
00:34:50.320 --> 00:34:51.760
this thing yelled at us. And I think it was

696
00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.400
about one hundred and fifty yards away.

697
00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:54.920
Man.

698
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:56.920
I stood straight up and looked at it, and I

699
00:34:56.960 --> 00:35:01.079
remember saying, what is that. I'd never heard anything like

700
00:35:01.159 --> 00:35:02.840
that before, and I thought, man, it's time to get

701
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:03.519
back in the cabin.

702
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:05.599
So I went back in the cabin and the boys

703
00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:07.639
were like, what was that? I said, I don't know, man,

704
00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:09.360
I don't know what that was.

705
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:13.239
So I said, just turn the music off, let's just

706
00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.159
sit here for ten minutes, and let's just see what happens,

707
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:16.400
you know.

708
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:16.960
So we did.

709
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:19.679
We waited around for about ten minutes, and nothing happened.

710
00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:24.440
We were all quiet and sitting there. So I said, well,

711
00:35:25.079 --> 00:35:26.920
I guess I said, well, whatever it was, I don't

712
00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:30.639
know what that was, but let's just do whatever we

713
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.960
were doing. So they started mill around talking, turn the

714
00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.159
music back up and stuff.

715
00:35:34.199 --> 00:35:35.800
So I sat there for.

716
00:35:35.719 --> 00:35:38.119
About five minutes and I thought, well, it's probably gone.

717
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.000
So I went back out the cabin door and went

718
00:35:41.119 --> 00:35:42.440
back around and I was I was.

719
00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:44.559
Looking at the flashlight. I didn't see anything. I didn't

720
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:47.440
have no weapons on me or nothing. And so I

721
00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:48.559
went back to picking.

722
00:35:48.360 --> 00:35:50.239
Up shell casinges and.

723
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:54.199
I was doing it for about five minutes, and to

724
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:56.519
the north of us this thing. We went from the east,

725
00:35:56.519 --> 00:35:58.519
it went up the hill and it was just north

726
00:35:58.519 --> 00:35:59.760
of us, and I think it was only about a

727
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:01.960
hundred yards and this thing did it again. I mean

728
00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:05.719
this thing was vibrating the windows. Man and I took

729
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:07.880
off running for the cabin door right and I had

730
00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:08.639
to go all the way.

731
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.519
Around and get in.

732
00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:14.280
So and I said, man, did you guys hear that?

733
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:15.800
And they're like, yeah, what was that? I said, I

734
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.039
don't know, man, I don't know what that is.

735
00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:18.719
And he goes man.

736
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.599
My son goes, man, I could feel my lungs vibrating down.

737
00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:24.880
I said, I know, I was outside.

738
00:36:26.920 --> 00:36:32.760
So anyway, we sat there for about ten minutes and

739
00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:33.679
nothing happened.

740
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:34.599
Nothing happened.

741
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.599
That was kind of nervous, and I went out on

742
00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:40.480
the front porch where you come in the door, and

743
00:36:40.519 --> 00:36:42.239
there's a ports there too, So I went out on

744
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:42.760
the front porch.

745
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:44.360
I was just kind of looking around up on the

746
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.519
hillside with the thermal and stuff. I didn't see anything.

747
00:36:48.760 --> 00:36:53.360
So about five minutes went by, this thing had came down.

748
00:36:53.480 --> 00:36:56.199
It was on the east side of that cabin. And

749
00:36:56.280 --> 00:37:00.079
it did it again. I mean it flat rattle of

750
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:02.840
the freaking door knobs on this thing, you know, And

751
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:04.880
I'm like, all right, all right, I've had it nough.

752
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:08.079
This really pissed me off this time. I went back

753
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:10.119
in the cabin and I grabbed my shot.

754
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.039
And a thermal and a light, and I said, I'm

755
00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.199
going to find this thing. Who's going with me? I

756
00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:16.079
was just going to kill it.

757
00:37:16.079 --> 00:37:19.199
I didn't care at that point, and my son goes,

758
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:20.679
I'll go with you, and then one of his army

759
00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:22.360
buddy goes, i'll go with you too. The other two

760
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:24.320
wouldn't leave. They're like, I ain't going out there. I said,

761
00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:27.000
I don't care who's not going. I'm going out there.

762
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:31.519
So anyway, they grabbed their rifles and I and he goes, now,

763
00:37:31.559 --> 00:37:33.280
where you thinking's that? I said, I think it's on

764
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:35.400
the other side of the slash pile. Well, about one

765
00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.480
hundred yards from the cabin. On the east side, there's

766
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.480
a big they had it thinned and logged off in there.

767
00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.079
There was a big slash pile right there, and then

768
00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:45.440
about fifty yards passed.

769
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:46.760
Out there was another creek that went down.

770
00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:49.519
And I said, I think it's between that slash pile

771
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:50.480
and that creek right there.

772
00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:52.480
And I said, let's go. So I did.

773
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.960
I went charging right out there man and and well,

774
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:58.920
we got within about twenty five yards of the slash pile,

775
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:01.000
and I said, he gets right on the other side

776
00:38:01.000 --> 00:38:03.280
of the slash pile, man, so get ready to go.

777
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.599
So my son he started getting scared. He's like, yeah,

778
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:09.559
I don't want to do this, man said.

779
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:10.880
I don't care if you want to do it or not, man,

780
00:38:11.079 --> 00:38:13.239
but we're gonna go out here. We're gonna find the

781
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:16.519
same And he goes, I'm not going any further, and

782
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:18.679
then his his buddy goes, I don't want to do

783
00:38:18.760 --> 00:38:21.079
this either, you know, So they started getting scared. I said,

784
00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:23.760
I ain't going out here by myself, you know. He said, well,

785
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:25.320
you better go back to the cab. And I was like,

786
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:27.679
this is the worst crap man here. You guys are

787
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:29.239
in the freaking army, and you guys are scared to

788
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:31.239
go out out here and see what this is. But anyway,

789
00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:34.199
I was kind of a right about that. But anyway,

790
00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:35.719
I'm kind of glad we didn't do it now.

791
00:38:35.840 --> 00:38:40.920
But so anyway, that was our That was our second

792
00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:45.960
experience up there. We had one.

793
00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:50.639
More that that. Yeah, we had one more we out

794
00:38:50.679 --> 00:38:53.119
count up there too. So it was me and my

795
00:38:53.239 --> 00:38:57.679
daughter and the coworker. We had something. I was putting

796
00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:01.360
my daughter on a stand and I moved my co

797
00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:03.559
worker about one hundred yards down the ridge from her,

798
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:05.360
and I went back up to her and I said,

799
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.000
you know, I'm gonna go down in this valley, and

800
00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.039
you know they usually run up through here and you

801
00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:12.239
see anything with horns, you know, it's just hair tag

802
00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:16.559
and our county. So anything any elk with hair, you

803
00:39:16.599 --> 00:39:19.280
can shoot. So I said, if you see hair just

804
00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:20.800
on an elk, just start shooting.

805
00:39:21.679 --> 00:39:24.679
Just make sure you get down well right behind her.

806
00:39:25.559 --> 00:39:27.880
I mean it was fifty yards behind her. Now something

807
00:39:28.840 --> 00:39:31.000
you know, I'm sure you know what wood knocks are.

808
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:34.960
This thing, man, this thing sounded like it was a

809
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.000
ten inch log. It smacked this tree three times so

810
00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:41.639
hard to sound like lightning. Matter of fact, my daughter said,

811
00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:43.840
what was that? And I was looking over her right

812
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:45.280
shoulder back there, and I said.

813
00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:49.039
I think it's time to go. So I didn't tell

814
00:39:49.039 --> 00:39:49.760
her what it was.

815
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.400
But anyway, we turned around and left and got out

816
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:56.760
of there because I just didn't want to deal.

817
00:39:56.800 --> 00:39:58.639
I didn't want to leave my daughter there alone.

818
00:39:58.360 --> 00:40:00.880
And a co worker he was kind of literally anyway,

819
00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:03.199
I just didn't want to leave them there alone.

820
00:40:03.239 --> 00:40:04.480
So I said, let's just go.

821
00:40:04.840 --> 00:40:06.920
Let's just get back to the cap and we'll go

822
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.400
out another direction later on.

823
00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:10.039
So and that's what we did.

824
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:13.400
So that was our third encounter up there, and I

825
00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:20.400
haven't really been back there since. Yeah, it's just crazy.

826
00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:23.079
I've tried and tried to get people to go up there,

827
00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.960
but up until this point, I didn't really know who

828
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:31.639
to contact or it's never been touched by any.

829
00:40:31.440 --> 00:40:35.239
Researchers in that area. So oh, really, I think it's

830
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.519
a pretty prime spot in there. Oh yeah, and there's

831
00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:39.079
an old.

832
00:40:38.960 --> 00:40:42.920
Campground in there that I have. Yeah, I have access

833
00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.679
to this whole thing. And the creek actually runs right

834
00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.679
beside the campground. It's pretty nice in there, really, but

835
00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:52.199
it's on private property and I've got the key to

836
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.280
that campground, so it would be we would be probably

837
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:58.119
five miles from no.

838
00:40:57.199 --> 00:40:58.119
Nobody can get in there.

839
00:40:58.159 --> 00:41:01.719
I mean, once I show the gate, that's it. And

840
00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:05.960
there's a gate on the campground too, so.

841
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:05.880
That's that's wild.

842
00:41:05.960 --> 00:41:08.280
So yeah, it's it's just an interesting area.

843
00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:12.280
Have you ever reached out to anyone, like anyone from

844
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:17.199
the BFR or anyone about the area or they don't

845
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:17.679
want to go.

846
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:24.440
Well, that's that's kind of another story in itself.

847
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:24.800
Really.

848
00:41:28.400 --> 00:41:36.440
I see April of twenty three, I was kind of

849
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:38.840
flipping through my computer and I happened to just run

850
00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.400
across the BFRORO website. It's just ironic how this whole

851
00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:45.719
thing happened. But and I got to looking at and

852
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:48.239
I was like, wow, you know that it showed you know,

853
00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:53.280
you know, not Rainier Mount Saint Helen's Mount Adams. And

854
00:41:53.639 --> 00:41:55.320
I got to reading through it and looking at it,

855
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:57.519
and then I realized, wow, you can go on expeditions.

856
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:01.440
I didn't know they even had expeditions for for people,

857
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:03.880
you know, just like me to go on. You know,

858
00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.119
I thought it was all these you know, academics and

859
00:42:07.239 --> 00:42:09.960
serious people that always went on the expeditions and stuff.

860
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.639
But you know, I found out that it wasn't. So

861
00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:15.719
I went in and I asked my wife. I said, hey,

862
00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:17.639
you want to go on a Bigfoot expedition? And she

863
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.440
looked at me like I like I.

864
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:23.079
Just jumped off a cliff. I said, no, serious, do

865
00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:26.599
you want to go on one? And she's like sure,

866
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:29.800
no she was. I don't think she was taking me

867
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.760
real serious.

868
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:30.960
On this one.

869
00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.440
But anyway, I got a hold of the BFRO and

870
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:40.800
and I signed this both up and anyway, they send

871
00:42:40.880 --> 00:42:44.679
us to papers and we paid our fees, and you know,

872
00:42:45.239 --> 00:42:47.039
we were both pretty nervous on this one. But it

873
00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:51.400
happened to be up at at the Olympic Project. The

874
00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:55.079
BFRORO and the Olympic Project in August of twenty twenty three.

875
00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.360
That's where we ended up going. But before we went,

876
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:00.679
we got.

877
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:05.639
Interviewed by one of the lead researchers and one of

878
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:08.679
his questions was he asked my wife. He goes, have

879
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.119
you ever had experience? And she said yeah, and she

880
00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:13.039
told her the story that.

881
00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:15.159
She had.

882
00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.960
Well, I'd never told my wife, I never told anybody

883
00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.880
this story before, and I thought, you know what, if

884
00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:23.559
you asked me, I'm going to tell him the truth.

885
00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:25.840
And sure enough, he asked me, have you ever had

886
00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:27.360
an experience? And I said yes, I have.

887
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:30.360
And he goes, do you mind telling me it? I

888
00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:32.840
said nope, I sure don't. I'll tell you. So I

889
00:43:32.960 --> 00:43:34.280
ended up telling him the story.

890
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:36.599
Well, about three quarters the way through this story that

891
00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.960
I just told you guys, I look over my wife

892
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.960
and she has this look on her face like what

893
00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:46.440
are you talking about? You know, like that befuddled look,

894
00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:50.920
you know, like that bewildered like what you never told

895
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:51.159
me this?

896
00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:55.079
You know? Come to that look, you know. So anyway,

897
00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:57.440
when I was done, I was shaken so bad. When

898
00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:58.119
I got down with.

899
00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:59.679
That story, I had to hand the phone to my

900
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.400
wife and I had to get up and walk around,

901
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:04.679
and she even told the investigator, man, he's shaking bad

902
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:06.800
right now. I don't know, it just it just kind

903
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:11.400
of took me back to that day. But so anyway,

904
00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:13.840
we ended up going up there to the Olympic Project.

905
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:17.719
We had a sight in the first night I was

906
00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:20.119
with Scott. I was on Scott Taylor's team. We had

907
00:44:20.159 --> 00:44:22.599
one walk out in front of me, about thirty yards away.

908
00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:25.320
It was downhill on the trail. There was three of

909
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:29.639
us that were looking at that one and it ended

910
00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.840
up squatting down and doing the peekaboo up over the

911
00:44:32.840 --> 00:44:35.159
bush and around the trees, and then it crawled off.

912
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:37.239
It laid down on his stomach and it crawled off

913
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:43.239
into the trees. So that next morning we found through

914
00:44:43.239 --> 00:44:45.760
the twelve or fifteen footprints right behind our camp. It

915
00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:48.079
was only like one hundred and fifty feet behind our camp.

916
00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.119
They casted. It was either six or eight of them

917
00:44:51.119 --> 00:44:56.480
they casted. That was our That was my second go

918
00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:02.599
around with that, And then this last year we were

919
00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:07.039
up on the west side of Mount Adams on another

920
00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:08.079
BFRO trip.

921
00:45:08.719 --> 00:45:11.039
And I've really.

922
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:14.159
Been into drones and stuff, helicopter remote control airplanes when

923
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:16.480
I was a kid and kind of went to helicopter's night.

924
00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:17.960
I got into the drones and stuff.

925
00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:21.639
Well, I went and bought a thermal drone, so I

926
00:45:21.719 --> 00:45:25.239
was out there flying that around. And the first first

927
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:28.199
night out was kind of uneventful. We've seen something coming

928
00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:29.519
up the hill towards camp.

929
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.719
Big for society, who will be right back after these messages.

930
00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:51.440
It was pretty good size, but I just couldn't do

931
00:45:51.599 --> 00:45:53.360
the thick brush and stuff.

932
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:54.599
I just couldn't make out what it was.

933
00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:58.079
But the second night out I ended up having a

934
00:45:58.119 --> 00:46:01.719
pretty good encounter where I got this one on videotape.

935
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.559
I got it on thermal.

936
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:05.920
And it appears to be I don't know if I

937
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:09.280
did I send those pictures to you.

938
00:46:09.280 --> 00:46:15.199
You know, I don't. I don't think I got everything

939
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:18.679
from you last time that we talked. We talked a

940
00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:20.599
lot about it, but I don't think I ever got

941
00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:21.280
it in the email.

942
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:24.159
Oh you didn't, Okay, well shoot, I'll have to get

943
00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:27.000
that to you. But anyway, the second night out, I

944
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:28.920
was following the East team out and there was some

945
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:31.599
ponds down in that area and I was about down

946
00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:33.400
to my last ten minutes of flight time. I was

947
00:46:33.400 --> 00:46:34.760
about a mile and a half out, so I was

948
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.719
flying back and our South team was starting to have

949
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:42.400
some activity and they were right behind us, and we

950
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.199
had kind of one hundred but there was a hill

951
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:47.400
behind us. It was fairly steep and not that steep.

952
00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:49.880
Went up about one hundred yards then I leveled out

953
00:46:49.880 --> 00:46:53.599
pretty good. But so coming back, I noticed these two

954
00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:56.000
figures that were standing in the trees. There was three

955
00:46:56.039 --> 00:47:00.400
meadows right in a row, and in this first meadow

956
00:47:01.880 --> 00:47:04.400
in the tree line, we noticed two figures. There was

957
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.119
four of us looking at this on the screen that

958
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.320
was and I was a white hot settings there was

959
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:10.840
four or there's four of.

960
00:47:10.880 --> 00:47:11.480
Us watching it.

961
00:47:11.519 --> 00:47:15.280
There was two individuals in the trees, and as I

962
00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:19.079
got closer and closer, they walked out of the trees

963
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.280
in the middle of this meadow, and I started flying.

964
00:47:21.960 --> 00:47:22.440
Down on them.

965
00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:25.039
I was like, wow, look at that, you know. And

966
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.519
then but for some reason I wasn't recording at that time.

967
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:29.159
I don't know.

968
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.239
I was just so mesmized. I guess, I don't know

969
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:34.599
what I was thinking on this one. But so as

970
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.920
I was flying down to them, they stopped and they

971
00:47:37.960 --> 00:47:40.920
both sneeled down in the middle of the meadow, so

972
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:43.400
I hit record because one was bigger than the other.

973
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.000
So I got them on white hot for about two minutes,

974
00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:50.519
and then I switched over to heat seek, which it

975
00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:52.840
kind of dances around the body. The hottest part of

976
00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.440
the body it'll pick up so that the heat's always moving.

977
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:57.480
As it moves it, it picks up that.

978
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:01.760
So I probably about a minute and a half of that,

979
00:48:02.880 --> 00:48:07.519
and then yeah, I was about out of battery time.

980
00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:09.679
So I thought, well, I should have stayed on station

981
00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:11.760
and just ran it right down, even if I had

982
00:48:11.760 --> 00:48:13.199
to land it somewhere and go get it.

983
00:48:13.800 --> 00:48:15.239
I should have just stayed right there.

984
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.000
But I thought, well, I'll just sneak back here, put

985
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.440
a battery in it, and I'll fly right back there

986
00:48:20.440 --> 00:48:24.519
and get him again. And my drones have about a

987
00:48:24.519 --> 00:48:27.320
forty minute flight time, so I would have had plenty

988
00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:27.639
of time.

989
00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.239
I could have stayed there for at least thirty minutes filming.

990
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:37.599
But so I did a NASCAR battery swap like man

991
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:40.400
del Ernerhart would have been proud of this one man,

992
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:42.000
because this thing didn't even hard to hit the ground.

993
00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:43.480
I had the battery out and the battery in and

994
00:48:43.519 --> 00:48:46.280
started up and I didn't think the prop stopped on

995
00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:47.360
this saying, so.

996
00:48:47.840 --> 00:48:49.280
I had it back in the air and I went

997
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:51.519
up there and they were gone. So I think as

998
00:48:51.519 --> 00:48:54.760
soon as that drone left, they took off. But I

999
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:57.440
looked around for oh, I don't know, over an hour.

1000
00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:58.840
I just flew up.

1001
00:48:58.840 --> 00:49:02.800
Around those three meadows and just never seen him again.

1002
00:49:03.559 --> 00:49:06.000
So I guess hindsight's fifty to fifty, I guess. But

1003
00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:10.639
so the next day we went and did a recreation

1004
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:12.519
of this with Scott Taylor. So he went up there

1005
00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:15.599
and he found that exact spot, and Scott Taylor was

1006
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.559
about the size. Oh the two individuals that we seen,

1007
00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:24.559
one looks like a female holding an infant with a

1008
00:49:24.679 --> 00:49:26.039
juvenile off to.

1009
00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:27.039
Her right side.

1010
00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.199
And so when Starn took a picture of him, you know,

1011
00:49:32.239 --> 00:49:34.880
in the same meadow, kind of recreated the whole thing.

1012
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:39.400
He's about the same size as the juvenile is. So

1013
00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:43.480
we're thinking this female is around an eight foot she's

1014
00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:49.199
about eight foot tall. And we also found some foot

1015
00:49:49.199 --> 00:49:51.559
tracks up there from the female. But the best one

1016
00:49:51.599 --> 00:49:54.400
we found was fifteen inches long and it was seven

1017
00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:56.519
inches wide and you can see.

1018
00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.000
All the toes. You can see, it's just a perfect footprint.

1019
00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:02.519
It's a left foot print, is what it is.

1020
00:50:02.719 --> 00:50:06.639
But and then we got three or four of the

1021
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:11.880
juvenile that were fairly good. I don't know, you can

1022
00:50:11.920 --> 00:50:13.800
definitely see the foot and a.

1023
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:16.039
Couple of them the toes weren't real pronounced. I don't

1024
00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:16.400
know why.

1025
00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:21.800
But so anyway, yeah, that's pretty much the extent of

1026
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:24.679
my big foot outings. We have three more coming up

1027
00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:26.440
this year that we're gonna go. We're gonna go up

1028
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:30.719
into the Blues on one and you know, a couple

1029
00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:36.039
up in the between now Saint Helen's and Mount Adams. Again,

1030
00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:38.840
we got a couple I think coming up in there.

1031
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:43.800
So it'll be south central Washington somewhere.

1032
00:50:44.199 --> 00:50:45.840
I'm not really sure where they're gonna be. I'm just

1033
00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:46.480
kind of guessing.

1034
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:51.360
But anyway, so that's about the extent of my Bigfoot Man.

1035
00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:54.239
That's some wild so far. That's some wild stuff.

1036
00:50:54.800 --> 00:50:55.199
Henry.

1037
00:50:56.800 --> 00:51:02.639
Uh that that video that that you took, is is

1038
00:51:02.719 --> 00:51:07.000
that available to see anywhere on the internet yet?

1039
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:11.519
Or well? No, because I don't know. I don't know

1040
00:51:11.559 --> 00:51:15.159
how to do that. I don't I don't I don't

1041
00:51:15.199 --> 00:51:16.000
know how to put it on.

1042
00:51:16.559 --> 00:51:18.480
I don't I don't know you put it on a

1043
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.280
bigfoot podcast somewhere or like.

1044
00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.039
I wasn't sure if you had it like on a

1045
00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:24.800
YouTube channel or anything.

1046
00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:28.119
I thought, No, I don't. I don't.

1047
00:51:28.360 --> 00:51:36.800
Well, okay, hmm. The first sighting that you had during

1048
00:51:36.880 --> 00:51:41.559
the turkey hunting, it sounds like you had a really

1049
00:51:41.599 --> 00:51:45.719
good view of what was going on or or of

1050
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:53.000
the of them of them themselves. Would you categorize what

1051
00:51:53.039 --> 00:51:55.800
you saw? Are you even able to categorize what you saw?

1052
00:51:55.880 --> 00:51:58.880
Was it more ape like or was it more human like?

1053
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:04.960
Or something canmpletely different than those two.

1054
00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:08.599
You know, man, I have thought about that and thought

1055
00:52:08.639 --> 00:52:10.719
about it, and I've had so many people ask me

1056
00:52:10.760 --> 00:52:15.480
that question, and I'm just like, I don't. They didn't

1057
00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.199
have a cone head. Neither one of them had a

1058
00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:19.519
cone head. They were round, they looked around to me.

1059
00:52:20.079 --> 00:52:23.280
But on the other hand, I wasn't there observing a

1060
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:25.079
beauty contest either, you know what I mean.

1061
00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:28.280
I was just watching them to see. I was pretty scared. Man.

1062
00:52:30.039 --> 00:52:33.159
I spent seven and a half years in the Army infantry,

1063
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:36.599
and I don't think I've been ever that scared in

1064
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:39.840
the Army. I mean, this one scared me, man. So

1065
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.280
I was like, this could be life ending and they

1066
00:52:42.280 --> 00:52:45.519
find out I'm here. I honestly don't think they even

1067
00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:50.440
knew I was there, because what I think happened. I

1068
00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:52.760
think when I got out of the truck in the dark,

1069
00:52:52.880 --> 00:52:55.559
I think they were coming down the creek, and when

1070
00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:58.000
I turned and went up that intersection instead of going

1071
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:00.880
if I would have went to that second landing where

1072
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.719
I was gonna go and drop down the creek and

1073
00:53:02.760 --> 00:53:05.559
go up to my I would have ran face I

1074
00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.840
would have ran straight into him. There was there was

1075
00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:10.719
no doubt in my mind. I had have been face

1076
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:14.360
to face with him because they were right where I

1077
00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:20.519
was going to go through. So that's one thing that

1078
00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:24.400
kind of I don't know something saved me on that one.

1079
00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:26.599
But at the last minute when I turned and went

1080
00:53:26.679 --> 00:53:30.440
up that intersection, I actually think that they were coming

1081
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:33.119
down the creek and I think we passed each other,

1082
00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:35.840
and when I crossed over behind him, I had to

1083
00:53:35.880 --> 00:53:39.880
win in my face for one. And I think probably

1084
00:53:39.920 --> 00:53:43.880
the male seen that seen that blind and walked over

1085
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:45.920
to it, and I think that's how the sticks ended

1086
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:47.639
up on the ground behind the door. I think he

1087
00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:50.519
reached up there and grabbed him and looked inside and

1088
00:53:50.519 --> 00:53:52.920
seeing it was empty, and just dropped those sticks right there.

1089
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:59.480
That's what I think happened. So and then they walked down.

1090
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:06.920
Yeah, so I think they already kind of figured that

1091
00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:09.920
they had their backs already cleared, you know, like they've

1092
00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:12.280
already cleared the way, like everything is safe. They were

1093
00:54:12.320 --> 00:54:15.480
just kind of looking down the creeking up.

1094
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:16.639
On the side of the hills and stuff.

1095
00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:19.760
But I honestly think they were migrating back to Mount

1096
00:54:19.800 --> 00:54:25.400
Anams myself. I mean, it was springtime. I guess it

1097
00:54:25.400 --> 00:54:27.599
would be a good day. Elk had moved out. They

1098
00:54:27.599 --> 00:54:31.599
were moving out, going hidden back, so I think they

1099
00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:34.599
were just kind of moving along with them or wherever

1100
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:37.920
they were going. And I think he was hollering out

1101
00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:40.960
till more like him like a rendezvous point or something,

1102
00:54:41.039 --> 00:54:43.440
or seeing where everybody else was at or I have

1103
00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:45.599
no idea what he was doing.

1104
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:49.760
But the whole area is just is so wild and

1105
00:54:49.920 --> 00:54:55.880
it's come up, you know, a few different episodes over

1106
00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:00.159
the last months. I believe there's been some individuals on

1107
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:05.920
that have shared about BFROO expeditions west of Mount Adams

1108
00:55:08.239 --> 00:55:13.559
over by well, we'll just say west of Mount Adams, Henry.

1109
00:55:13.920 --> 00:55:17.039
I hope that I hope that somedays someone takes you

1110
00:55:17.159 --> 00:55:22.800
up on checking out that area by Mount Adams though.

1111
00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:28.880
That sounds like a very cool place to try to

1112
00:55:28.920 --> 00:55:33.239
get some people to research with you in, you know,

1113
00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:37.800
maybe some some researchers that you have connections with through

1114
00:55:38.119 --> 00:55:39.559
BFRO or something like that.

1115
00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:46.840
Oh yeah, well I've learned a lot. I have learned.

1116
00:55:48.119 --> 00:55:51.000
It's been a pretty steep learning curve since August of

1117
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:55.840
twenty three on how how these how it all works,

1118
00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:58.360
you know, on the expeditions.

1119
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.400
And I've met a lot of interesting people.

1120
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:04.599
We've been to quite a few conferences that we just

1121
00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:06.440
got back from. The one from Longview just a couple

1122
00:56:06.440 --> 00:56:09.960
of weeks ago, the squash Fest in Longview, which was

1123
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:14.639
really good. I mean, the guys from Flash and Beauty

1124
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:17.679
they were up there. I talked to them. I was interested.

1125
00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:19.239
Shane Corson was up there.

1126
00:56:21.400 --> 00:56:23.920
Yeah, it was. It's just been pretty interesting. You know.

1127
00:56:23.960 --> 00:56:25.960
The one thing that kind of disappoints me about this

1128
00:56:25.960 --> 00:56:26.559
whole thing.

1129
00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:31.239
Is I've learned it the Bigfoot society they eat their

1130
00:56:31.280 --> 00:56:34.519
own man, I mean they really do.

1131
00:56:34.760 --> 00:56:41.159
Maybe maybe we could say Bigfoot community. I would hope

1132
00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:42.000
that you know that.

1133
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.719
Well, yeah, the Bigfoot Community.

1134
00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:48.440
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the big my podcast. But no, I

1135
00:56:48.719 --> 00:56:52.400
totally get it. It is it can be a very.

1136
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:54.119
Oh yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, you're good.

1137
00:56:55.960 --> 00:56:58.559
But uh yeah, it can get it can get one.

1138
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:00.880
I didn't even think about that now you get.

1139
00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:06.719
Yeah, it's uh, it can be. It can be dogg

1140
00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:10.039
eat dog. And there's not a lot of people working together,

1141
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:10.760
you know what I mean.

1142
00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:17.239
No, And that's what I kind of that's kind of

1143
00:57:17.239 --> 00:57:19.679
a disappointment. When I got into all this, I thought, man,

1144
00:57:19.719 --> 00:57:20.800
you know, this is gonna be really cool.

1145
00:57:20.840 --> 00:57:23.599
But it's like this group is on their own. That

1146
00:57:23.639 --> 00:57:24.639
group's on their own.

1147
00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:27.119
And if this group gets evidence and then this group

1148
00:57:27.159 --> 00:57:30.039
attacks him and all that's just fake. And you know,

1149
00:57:30.119 --> 00:57:32.360
then this group gets it and it's just like this

1150
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:35.119
vicious circle and it's like a constant seems like it's

1151
00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:38.320
just a I don't know, it just seems like it's

1152
00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:39.239
a constant fight.

1153
00:57:39.400 --> 00:57:43.679
You know. Yeah, you know, I agree with it's just different.

1154
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:45.880
It's a lot different. I thought it. Yeah.

1155
00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:50.480
I think if we're going to get to where where

1156
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:55.559
where stuff is actually gonna you know, things are gonna

1157
00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:59.559
start to come out. I think certain groups will have

1158
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:04.320
to start working together. And the tricky thing is is

1159
00:58:04.360 --> 00:58:07.320
that there's a lot of egos in the field. So

1160
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.400
you've got some people where they're like, you know, I

1161
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:15.840
don't want to share information, and then it's it's just interesting,

1162
00:58:15.920 --> 00:58:18.920
you know, because sometimes you do have to keep places

1163
00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:22.320
you know, not really talked about so that you know,

1164
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:26.079
it doesn't get flooded by like a thousand people, and

1165
00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:29.280
then you know, blows the chance where you could be

1166
00:58:29.960 --> 00:58:32.760
you know, observing, right, you know, So that is a

1167
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:34.800
tricky it's a tricky back and forth, you know what

1168
00:58:34.840 --> 00:58:37.239
I mean. But I think there needs to be more

1169
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:40.519
working between groups absolutely.

1170
00:58:41.039 --> 00:58:44.440
So oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1171
00:58:44.480 --> 00:58:47.480
Its just totally caught me off guard on how that

1172
00:58:47.559 --> 00:58:50.800
whole thing kind of works and comes together.

1173
00:58:50.920 --> 00:58:52.840
But I guess it is what it is. I'm kind

1174
00:58:52.840 --> 00:58:54.400
of in my own private group now.

1175
00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:58.159
I mean, we do the BFRO expeditions too, but we

1176
00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:00.559
have kind of formed our own little of a group

1177
00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:04.480
and yeah, we'll see what happens this year.

1178
00:59:05.920 --> 00:59:06.960
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.

1179
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.719
I mean I learned a lot last year too, so

1180
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:16.039
in twenty four so and now I've got two thermal drones.

1181
00:59:15.719 --> 00:59:20.880
Now, so oh nice, that's awesome. Yeah, you know, before

1182
00:59:21.079 --> 00:59:25.119
before I let you go. Would you ever want to

1183
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:32.800
have a citing experience like you had during that Turkey

1184
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:35.559
hunt again? Would you ever want to experience that again?

1185
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:37.880
Or was that too much?

1186
00:59:41.000 --> 00:59:45.039
Well at that time, you know what, actually, yes I

1187
00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:49.159
would because at the time I wasn't expecting it. That

1188
00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.760
wasn't even Bigfoot, wasn't even on my freaking radar at

1189
00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:56.519
that point, you know, I had no that wasn't even

1190
00:59:56.519 --> 01:00:00.119
in my outer banks, and my memory thought, you know, so,

1191
01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:04.119
you know, I just wanted to kill them, you know,

1192
01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:05.760
I mean, if they were going to come at me,

1193
01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:07.960
I was just going to start shooting. You know, I

1194
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:09.960
wasn't going to mess around.

1195
01:00:09.880 --> 01:00:12.639
Big for society, who will be right back after these messages?

1196
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:34.400
Sure, But now that I know, you know, it's just

1197
01:00:34.440 --> 01:00:36.519
like at the cabin, you know, in twenty two, I

1198
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:39.679
didn't really know much about these things that I figured

1199
01:00:39.719 --> 01:00:41.760
we were about to get attacked, and I'd rather attack

1200
01:00:41.840 --> 01:00:43.840
than be attacked. So I thought, well, let's just go

1201
01:00:43.880 --> 01:00:45.719
get it, you know, let's get it over with. But

1202
01:00:48.599 --> 01:00:51.280
now that I know what I know on how these

1203
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:53.719
things work, you know, after going to expeditions and talking

1204
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:55.840
to these people, and you know, when they holler like that,

1205
01:00:57.840 --> 01:00:59.960
you know, they're just mad about something. And I think

1206
01:01:00.239 --> 01:01:03.000
what happened was I think it was down there by

1207
01:01:03.000 --> 01:01:05.000
the creek watching the boys, and I think it got

1208
01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:06.920
a little too close to the boys got a little

1209
01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:09.960
too close to it, so I think it started barking

1210
01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:12.039
at him like a dog to get them to back up,

1211
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:15.599
and they didn't, and that's when it growled at him,

1212
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:16.719
and that's when they took off.

1213
01:01:18.679 --> 01:01:19.719
And when I went down.

1214
01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:21.440
There, I think it went up the hill a little

1215
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:25.119
ways by the cabin and was kind of observant, and

1216
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:27.039
then the boys stepped out of the cabin with their

1217
01:01:27.480 --> 01:01:29.800
ars and rifles and started shooting into that bank, and

1218
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.519
I think that that's what made it mad, you know,

1219
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:37.639
looking back on it, so I think it was just

1220
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:40.119
mad because yeah, they were out there making that noise

1221
01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:42.360
and kind of shooting at it, I guess. I mean,

1222
01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:44.000
they weren't shooting at it, they were just shooting into

1223
01:01:44.079 --> 01:01:45.960
a bank, but it was they were shooting in the

1224
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:48.960
general area, So I think it made it mad, really,

1225
01:01:50.800 --> 01:01:56.119
but not realizing that at the time, but now now

1226
01:01:56.159 --> 01:01:59.320
I do kind of realize what happened. I would never

1227
01:01:59.360 --> 01:02:02.719
shoot one now, I mean the absolutely not you know

1228
01:02:03.039 --> 01:02:05.679
no one when I know, talking to the researchers and

1229
01:02:06.320 --> 01:02:09.239
other people's experiences and what happens when they do this

1230
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:13.039
and that, and I don't think they're here to hurt anybody.

1231
01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:15.159
I've never really heard of an attack. I've only heard

1232
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:19.920
of one attack that was up by Cougar Washington. Okay,

1233
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:26.960
so where Hunter was killed. But I think he shot

1234
01:02:27.000 --> 01:02:32.280
it shot a bigfoot and it killed him. So yeah,

1235
01:02:32.480 --> 01:02:34.719
and that was on I heard that on I think

1236
01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:37.679
the Lynn Smith Show, and that was the sheriff out

1237
01:02:37.679 --> 01:02:39.760
of Skamaanean County had to deal with that one.

1238
01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:40.559
So gotcha.

1239
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:44.360
That was back in the I don't know if you've

1240
01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:46.559
ever heard that one or not, but I haven't.

1241
01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:48.800
I'm gonna have to look and see if I can

1242
01:02:48.840 --> 01:02:51.559
track that one down. I know of that show, but

1243
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:54.760
I just I've never heard that particular one. That's that's

1244
01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:59.360
very interesting. But Henry, it sounds like, you know, you're

1245
01:02:59.400 --> 01:03:03.400
you're definitely getting into the thick of things and you're

1246
01:03:03.400 --> 01:03:06.519
starting to figure some stuff out. I mean, you've got,

1247
01:03:06.679 --> 01:03:09.840
you know, three expeditions you're going on this year, which

1248
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:14.679
that's amazing, and I would say, you know, uh, definitely,

1249
01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:18.599
keep keep me up to date and in the loop

1250
01:03:18.679 --> 01:03:22.840
with what you know, continue to learn as you continue

1251
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:26.000
to go down this road. You're getting into some cool stuff.

1252
01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:31.039
Yeah. And I'll see you down at Oakridge.

1253
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:33.400
Oh will Yeah, that's awesome.

1254
01:03:33.440 --> 01:03:34.519
Are you hitting down there this year?

1255
01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:35.519
Yeah, dude, I'll be there.

1256
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:35.840
Yeah.

1257
01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:38.440
Oh yeah, that's great.

1258
01:03:38.559 --> 01:03:38.760
Yeah.

1259
01:03:38.760 --> 01:03:41.639
I wanted to go last year, but work constraints I

1260
01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:43.239
ended up not being able to go.

1261
01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:46.280
But I'm going this year. I don't care. I'm going

1262
01:03:46.280 --> 01:03:47.280
down Oakridge this year.

1263
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:49.519
That's one of the one of the festivals I really

1264
01:03:49.599 --> 01:03:50.119
want to go to.

1265
01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:53.599
It's such it's such a good time. It's it's an

1266
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:56.880
incredible experience and there's a lot of really really cool

1267
01:03:56.920 --> 01:04:00.360
people that I met, is it. Oakridge is awesome. So,

1268
01:04:00.719 --> 01:04:03.280
and it's outside of fire season this year. It's a

1269
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:07.320
little bit earlier, so that's that'll be nice too. But yeah, no,

1270
01:04:07.679 --> 01:04:10.599
I'll I'm looking forward to meeting you there, Henry. It'll

1271
01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:14.920
be a good time. And yeah, just I appreciate you

1272
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.840
coming on the show and sharing what you've experienced over

1273
01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:19.239
the years.

1274
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:23.639
Man, Okay, well thanks for having me on. I really

1275
01:04:23.679 --> 01:04:27.039
appreciate that. Yeah, it's pretty good to get that experience

1276
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:32.840
out there and yeah so yeah, so anyway.

1277
01:04:33.639 --> 01:04:35.400
Just want to take a few minutes to say thank

1278
01:04:35.440 --> 01:04:39.519
you to you all my listeners for listening to the podcast.

1279
01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:42.760
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01:05:03.719 --> 01:05:06.599
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1287
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:10.880
someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot

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01:05:10.880 --> 01:05:14.360
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01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:19.960
Here's a list the Subtle Lake area of Oregon, Rainbow Oregon,

1290
01:05:20.320 --> 01:05:25.639
McKinsey Bridge area, Sweet Home, pretty much that entire area,

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01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:29.480
the north part. If you get what I mean, I'll

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01:05:29.480 --> 01:05:32.960
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