The White Sasquatch of Chilliwack River Valley | Members Only Episode A26 PREVIEW

0:00 A Big for Society got a great preview for a members only episode today. We are going all over Canada with this one and the US as well, some really intense encounters that you're about to hear a preview of the episode. If you would like to hear the entire thing, please consider becoming a member by going over to Big for Society Podcasts dot com and click on the members login area or click the join button over on the Big for Society YouTube channel and you'll be able to enjoy the full hour long episode. But enjoy this preview and have a good one. My first encounter with anything, aside from the idea itself, was a footprint in Jhalis, BC that had been marked out in the snow with sticks that was as long as my shin. I then encountered footprints in the snow again, fresh footprints around the same area. And one morning I went to Chilliwac River Valley and I was washing my face in a creek. To get to that creek, you walk by a Douglas fir down a short slope and it's probably about fifteen feet away from the base of the tree, and it's in a campground, so the branches are cut up way high, so you can get an ARV in there easily. It was the winter. It was morning, well lit winter morning in the Fraser Valley of BC.

1:37 I was washing my face and I turned and I looked over my shoulder to where I'd come past the Douglas Fir and the only thing I could the simplest description I could give was Chewbacca's grandfather was standing next to the tree and its head was probably eight I would say, perhaps six inches below the bottom branch on the tree. My best friend's husband was passing away. It was around Thanksgiving, Canadian Thanksgiving, so it's like, I'm gonna say, the fourteenth of October, I was driving down so I'm in Toronto and my best friend moved to New Brunswick. I love driving through the States, so I was like, I'm gonna do it a quicker route. It's only like fifteen hours rather than doing eighteen through Canada. And who wants to drive through Quebec, right, But I was like, why not?

2:30 And I can stop at like all my favorite fast food restaurants. So it was like five thirty in the morning and I'm leaving New Brunswick to come back home and everyone's like telling me, oh, watch out for moose, watch out for moose, and like there's signs and stuff everywhere, and it's like pitch black and it's foggy, and I'm like, all right, all right, I'll watch, and sure enough, it was like an actual bigfoot. And I remember being freaked out because I'm already on edge looking for moose and they have those like cardboard cutouts on the side of the road, so you're like anticipating something, but this is like not what you're thinking. And I stopped so like I'm like maybe ten feet away from it, and it literally stood at the road and like stared at me, and I'm like, is this happening? Like I was so scared, but at the same time it felt like so surreal, but like the energy wasn't like terrifying. It was more like curious, but like you could see like the steam coming from like its breath and it's standing there.

3:32 I think my last one was it was turning down here. You can see this tree tree lining coming out of the sunrise. And I was having a really rough night, so I was outside and I can hear knocking on a tree and then I heard one like maybe a half a mile away knocking like they were knocking to each other, but where I was knocked, the also went to me. There was two different knocks, so I think they were like little ones or something. But we're knocking back and forth. I would knock on a tree and they'd knock back to me, and then I'd knock on the tree and we did it back and forth for a minute, and then I kind of got curious. So I walked up to my neighbor's house and I was sitting on the tree or on her car because we were close friends, so I knew she wouldn't mind. And the noise stopped, but I was like sorry, started walking back to my house because I didn't want to spend too much time by the woods by myself. And when I was walking, it sounded like they picked up a handful of rocks and it landed in the parking lot or like the someone's driveway, like the rocks kind of sprayed onto the ground. And then I looked and I was like, I heard that. So I got into my car and I could drive back there. So I drove back into the old growth. I always thought something was happening back there because there was like structures back there,

5:05 different trees and formations, like just weird out of the ordinary trees. But I drove back there and I sat back there for a little while. I brought all my apples that I had. I had a sun roof, so I sat in the sun roof. I smiled big, I sang them the ABC's, and then I ate an apple to show them that it was edible. Little rocks were coming out of that weird structure that I couldn't see, but there were big blueberry bushes, so I really couldn't see in it, but rocks were hitting my car coming from that area. I just kind of got out, and when you get out, you can see that there's a bunch of cedar trees that was peeled off the tree.

5:49 And so I left the apples right there, and I left about six or seven of them. And then the very next day I went there and the apples were gone, and you can tell there was more cedar peaceled off the tree. Things were messed around with the branches. And that was my That was the initiation of me like feeling like they were close by, you know, they weren't just in the random woods in the mountains. They're like in my backyard. I'm from Florida, and a friend of mine had an experience in English, Florida up near the coast, just up north of Crystal River, and he he said that he had a camera footage of where you could see eighteen inch long footprints with with the toes buried deep down, like it was squatted down on the toes, and he said that it was wrapped. It had its hand wrapped around a palm at a bush and was pulling up on the palm at a bush to get to the We call it swamp cabbage. It's the roots at the bottom, at the bottom of the heart of palm. He doesn't have a footage of it doing it. He had a footage of the aftermath where he found that, and I never seen the footage, but so I didn't believe him.

7:13 He was known to kind of have tails, you know. And so I went out there and I camped with my brother in the area, and we didn't really bring anything special. We just brought the tent a couple of cans of soup. And it was raining that night, so we didn't start a fire, and we were laying there in the tent around about two o'clock in the morning, we started hearing rustling outside of the tent and we would hear something sounded like it slapped the ground, and then it would run probably about twelve to fifteen feet and slap the ground again. And it did that about three or four times, and my brother wanted to go out there. We're just kids, teenagers, and my brother wanted to go out there and see what it was. But all that we had, we didn't have cell phones back then.

8:06 All that we had was just these dull flashlights. I'm First Nation here in Canada and Ontario. I grew up on reserves. Most of my life, traveled to lots of them. As a lot of people know, reserves are really small communities in Canada where First Nation people live. Anyways, I like to say I lived a traditional life, spiritual life throughout my life, and ceremonies, dancing, singing, drumming, all that stuff did on a regular basis. So I got some pretty interesting stories. Well share the one. So where my house was located on the reserve, I was about twenty five minutes on foot from the main village, so every day I would have to walk, you know, twenty five minutes half hour.

9:04 Some nights, oh, by the way. No street lights, barely any traffic, very dark road, very very dark road. There were some nights where I would hear lots of stuff in the forest and this is all old growth forest. Because reserves are so I say it very rule. There's barely anyone around, so it's either animals or something else. So the one night walking home, probably midnight, I give you take one, you know, steady pace walking very very dark.

9:48 Moonlight was out so you can see the road very well, but forest very dark. Anyways, I know everyone gets that feeling when you're being watched and you just know it, and you know, you feel your hairs on your arms. You just know something was watching you. You just feel it deep in down in your heart and. Kind of like a fear pots where you know where something is. And I swear to this day, man, whatever this thing was, man the least you know, eight nine feet tall, maybe bigger.

10:29 This thing was just staring at me on the rock. And you know, walking down the road there was this rock shed and there was a very wide opening where it can stand perfectly still and you could see anything there. My heart dropped. And then something clicked on me where running wasn't an option, but slowly saying I'm friendly, I'm going to continue on my way. I have school tomorrow, and almost like I could see its eyes, and I swear to this day, whatever this thing was, I strongly believe in these bigger spirits, these entities that live in the forest on reserves, and just that night alone was one of the most scariest things ever. The next night rolled into a Saturday, me and my friends walking back, same area, same time, at night.

11:32 Very dark, and the roar. That we heard from that same location, the screen roar was so unique. It drove that same fear straight in all our spines. And none of us ever heard that kind of roar noise, but I do compare to a lot of audio recordings I've heard over the internet and everything. So we all start running