There's Something in those South Missouri Woods (Member's Only)

0:00 Welcome to big Foot Society. What follows is a special teaser of a member's only episode that'll be releasing today, a conversation with Tracy about his multiple about forty years of big foot encounters in southern Missouri. There's some really wild stuff in here. You'll be hearing that teaser in a bit, but before we do, I want to do a quick shout out to a few people that have sent some coffees my way. Special thank you to Big Spoom for buying me a coffee, he says, great job, man, Thank you. Special thank you to Dan for buying a coffee as well. He says, Hello from Dan, the guy you interviewed that followed the Knox before until he found a pod sasquatch. Thank you Dan. If you'd like to help Bigfoot Society one time, you can buy me a coffee over at buying Me a Coffee dot com forward slash. Bigfoot Society helps with the upcoming air travel and traveling around to get interviews helps me get some to drink or eat along the way. I appreciate that. If you want to hear the full interview, which is almost two hours long, you can go over to Patreon dot com Fort Slash the Big for Society. Become a supporting member there where you can become a YouTube channel member as well. Hear the whole interview there. Enjoy this preview of today's members only episode, and let's get on with the show.

1:21 So we're back to tom Sawk Mountain again. May of two thousand and seven. I decided to do a solo camp, so I set up in that same campsite from the previous year September two thousand and six, but I'm by myself this time, and I get there, I set up camp. There's no one else in the campsite. I see a tent set up, but there's no car there, and I kind of like walk by and look and the doors open. There's nobody in the tent. I don't really know what's going on. I don't as far as I know, nobody ever even showed up to the tent, which I didn't think was super unusual because that was our trail goes not too far right behind that. There will be people that hike that and then come in set up their tent in the campground and you know, maybe do like some other hikes and come back to it or whatever. Uh, so I never ended up figuring out what happened with that.

2:28 There's just a tent with nobody in it. But otherwise there's nobody in the whole campground. I'm the only one there. So I remember, like I was going to sleep on an air mattress and I forgot the inflator, so I had to blow that thing up with, you know, by hand with my mouth. And usually I pick up like the sticks and start a fire, but like after doing that, I didn't even feel like it. Generally, I clean up my campground of all the twigs to start the fire with, and that's important for later. That took up so much daylight that I'm kind of having to use a lantern to cook at night, and I ended up burning. I tried to make some kind of macaroni and cheese, and I end up burning it, and so I only get about half of it, and the other half is stuck to this bowl, this metal bowl that I cooked it in. So by the time I get that eat, I'm ready to go to bed, and I just I knew I was gonna get marauded by raccoons. You do every time, But I left all that stuff out and I was just like, if they wake me up, no big deal. So sure enough, about midnight, the raccoons come by.

3:45 They grabbed that bowl cheese is just rattling around for ten minutes or whatever. You know, that burned macaroni and cheese really puts out a stink, so I'm sure everything in the wood can smell it. Once all that's done, I go back to sleep. Well about four o'clock in the morning, I wake up too. I don't know how to explain it any other different than like sounds like a person walking. It's like bipedal footsteps. And once they get close to my tent, they started twigs start snapping, you know the ones I didn't pick up to make a fire with. So these twigs start snapping, and I'm like, what is going on? So it just gets closer and closer, and then I feel my tent just kind of come up off of the ground, like it kicked my tent at the corner and not super hard, but like enough to pull the steak out. And I was at that point I was just like, oh boy, what we got here?

4:56 So there was silence. I can always maintain my silence, and there's just silence, kind of a little pause of about five seconds, and then I hear the footsteps can start coming around, and I'm like, if it comes to the front of my tent, I have a gun. I was like, if this thing is whatever, it is, a person, whatever, starts messing with me, you know it's going to be bad for him. Stops again. I may have made a little bit of a noise. Stops again for a little bit. Then I hear it going over and start messing with that bowl and like other utensils I left out, and I was like, this isn't Everything runs through your mind what could this be? Its like, is this another raccoon? And I was like, there's no way this is a raccoon. Snap and all these twigs, you know, walking on two feet or anything like that. So I'm up the rest of the night until daylight and I get a up and I thought my cooler would have been gone through and everything wasn't. And so in thinking about that afterwards, I was like, why wouldn't whatever this was, you know, raid my cooler. Well, I think it smelled the burnt macaroni and cheese and it just went for that. What I do with my coolers is usually I don't do anything with them after I go camping and they get a little nasty,

6:29 so I bleach them out and real good, use a lot disinfected on them. And I don't know, maybe it couldn't smell food in it because of that. I would think, if you know, if it just knows what a cooler is by sight, it would do that. But I don't guess this one did or whatever. But yeah, I'm pretty sure it was it was a bigfoot because the next morning I got up, I intended to do a hike, about a five mile hike, and I just felt I was like followed the whole way, at least down off of the mountain. I didn't feel like it followed me back up, but it went down into the valley that I went down into with me. I'm pretty sure because I just had that sneaky you know, something's watching me feeling that whole time, and then not the way back. So that was a pretty intense thing to get your tent kicked. Oh yeah, I don't know how I would, man, I don't think I could. That would be hard to deal with, Like you're inside the tent, it gets kicked enough so that the steak starts to come out, dude, that's yeah, yeah, yeah, I checked that the next morning. The steak was like up out of the ground.

7:43 Did you see any footprints around or anything like that. No. The way they do their camp sites there is they bring in a lot of sand and like a chipped up rock gravel and so no, not really, And it was kind of for May, it was kind of dry. It did rain that morning, like my whole hike was drizzled on, but that's kind of after the fat but it really didn't rain enough to soften the ground for footprints anyway. But anyway, in two November of two thousand, I'm back in Holle County to the property again. So for a couple of years, I'm just going Tomshaw Mountain, Howle County is where I'm having my stuff. We actually had footprints. Like I was working a job at the time, so I was only going on weekend. So I'd went the first weekend and I was I would talk about bigfoot like I didn't really care. I'd get some guff over it, but like I would talk about it. Well, anyway, I come back the second weekend and they're like, hey, one of the guys, this is one of my other cousins is like, he found four footprints. Over there's this little pond in the middle of the woods.

9:09 There's like a little clay dam that somebody built and created this little pond. It's not big, maybe twenty feet across, twenty five feet across, something like that. And that year one of my cousins worked for US Forestry actually, and he said that we were in a fifty year drought in that area at that time. So that made sense to me that a big foot would come up to that little pond. Because those rivers, both the rivers there are what's called and here we're getting into the little geology here are what's called losing streams, which means they're in limestone. And the basically the rock under the river is so cavernous that unless there's enough flow to fill all of that up, it doesn't flow on the surface. So you have to have a pretty good rainfall at that point in the river. Now on downstream on the eleven point, there's some big, fairly good sized springs that keep it flowing constantly, but there you'll end up it's dry bed a lot of the time.

10:20 So there, you know, the animals aren't getting their water out of the rivers. In times like that, there's little seep springs around, you know, they'll just create like a little five foot pool or something. But anyway, we had we had footprints on this this pond just up in the middle of the woods because that's where things were coming for their water. And so they told me that, and I was like, I was excited about it. So I was like, I'll go over there tonight. So it's probably like ten at night. I grab a flashlight, I go over there. I had no idea what to expect. I didn't have the right tool. Found out the next day I had to have a rake to break the leaves off. The leaves had like fallen in that week between the two weekends.

11:09 And but I go over there the night before and it's pretty close to the driveway of my other coven cousin's cabin, and I'm walking down the gravel road and as soon as I step off into the leaves, I hear something start to move, just you know, maybe fifty feet away from me. So all I've got is like a little petzel headlamp, not particularly bright, and it's not even one of these It wasn't even one of these newer ones with the uh you know, it's one of the old bulb kind. So I'm like, I wonder what that is, you know, I'm thinking maybe dear or something. So I kept I take a few more cautious steps, and every step I took, it took a step back away from me.

12:00 And so I would advance a little bit, and then I would like retreat a little bit, and it would do the same thing. It would. If I move forward, it would move back, and then if I move back, it would move forward again. Please take a minute to help out the show by subscribing on YouTube, making sure you hit the bell so you don't miss any notifications, and share the episode on YouTube with a friend. Also, if you're listening to us on a podcast, thank you so much, make sure that you're subscribed share the show with a friend. Really, it's all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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15:28 too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And I feel so bad about it. Who cares what anybody's thinks. I know what I saw, I know what's out there. That's all I care. Please let people know, Please let them know. If you ever see one of these things, you need to tell because if you don't, then shame on you, you know, shame on you. Wait there's more. Monsterfest two is coming up soon and beautiful Canton, Ohio,

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17:44 Not many. New this year are the live workshops. I'm excited about this, extremely excited. How to cast a footprint, how to collect DNA in the woods, ghost hunting tools one oh one, how to do research. Also, there's going to be food trucks outside this year and new guests, new speakers, people you won't I mean, the coolest thing about last year is that I got to meet people I was not expecting to be there, people like less Odell, John Hickinbottom, really cool, big people that I never would have thought that I would have met before and Seth Breedlove made it happen by making this incredible place for the community to get together. Monsterfest in kant Ohio June twenty eighth through twenty ninth. Guys, do not miss this year. If you missed last year, don't miss this year. Head on over right now to Smalltown Monsters dot com. I hope to see you there.