Dec. 31, 2025

Top 10 Episodes of 2025!

Top 10 Episodes of 2025!
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Season 1

2025 was one of the biggest years ever for Bigfoot Society, and in this special episode, I’m looking back at the Top 10 most-viewed episodes of 2025 on YouTube.


Rather than retelling the stories, this episode features original clips pulled directly from the episodes YOU watched the most, giving you a powerful highlight reel of the encounters, voices, and moments that made 2025 unforgettable.


These rankings are based purely on YouTube views, making this a true reflection of what resonated most with listeners and viewers throughout the year. From quiet woods to remote backroads, these clips capture the tension, emotion, and mystery that define firsthand Bigfoot encounters.


If you’re new to the channel, this episode is a perfect way to experience the range of real eyewitness accountsfeatured on Bigfoot Society. And if you’ve been here for a while, you may recognize moments that stuck with you — or discover why certain episodes rose to the top.


🎧 No spoilers.
🎙️ No summaries.
👣 Just the moments that made 2025 one of the most watched years in the history of the show.


Listen closely — some of these encounters still raise more questions than answers.

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You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In

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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring

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you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen

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something impossible. From backwoods trails in remote mountain haulers to

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quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the voices of the people who've lived it.

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To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that

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just might change the way you see the woods forever.

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So stay with us. Twenty twenty five, What a year.

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So much happened, so many incredible adventures for Bigfoot Society.

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Got to go out to Oregon again, went out to

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the Nebraska big Foot Conference, and also one on a

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private expedition in Iowa that was awesome. This being the

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first day of twenty twenty six, I've decided to look

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back at the top ten viewed episodes for twenty twenty five,

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and these are ones that released in twenty twenty five

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over on the YouTube platform. It's a great way to

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see which ones you guys really liked. So let's start

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off with number ten when cops see Bigfoot. And this

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is a really fun episode from some friends down in

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Northern Georgia, Scott and Shila Granger from Squatch Fishing Outfitters

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down there in l J, Georgia. These guys are great,

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So let's hang out with Scott and Shiela again as

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they share some of the encounters they've had down there

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in Northern Georgia that one weekend.

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You know, we heard several things. Just if I had

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not been there and heard it with my own ears,

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somebody could have told me that, I would have thought, man,

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you're nuts, you're crazy, or whatever. And you know, I

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wanted to believe so bad, I'm so excited about it.

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But I kept telling Scott, you know, I'm just I'm

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not going to say there's such thing as big until

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I see it with my own eyes. And I'm a

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one hundred ten percent sure that, you know. That's when

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I all admit it, and lo and behold. It was

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a few months later. I got the opportunity during the day,

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at two o'clock that afternoon, about twenty five yards away,

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I saw a bigka And from that point on, I

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went from being a believer to a knower. One hundred

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and ten percent.

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Oh man, it's okay. So there's a lot of stuff

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that happened to you guys pretty quick. I want to

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I want to hear what kind of vocals you guys

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heard on that expedition, Like what kind of things were

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you running into?

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First?

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Do you want to tell him?

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Yeah, what happened.

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We have a friend that was on this outing whether

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us that we had met a good bit prior to

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this outing and the night before the actual expedition and started.

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We all load up in my truck and we take

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off of the woods day. He's want to show us

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a couple of different areas. So we're heading up there

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and she'll see something go across the road in front

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of her, in front of us. Well, when she saw

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that go across the road in front of us, you know,

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I got on the brakes, stopped, and we all bail

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out of my truck. And it's a full At that time,

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we had a full size ram, So we had five

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people in there, and I'm standing right in front of

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the truck and Shela and our friend. He goes on

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on up ahead. We're whatever cross the road up there,

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we're standing there, we're talking amongst ourselves, and the prettiest

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whoop you ever wanted to hear come from less than

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fifteen yards away from us, right to the left of us. Well,

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we're in an area that we had never been in.

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And and I say that telling you about that ram,

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because a ram has a good, really good set of

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headline on it that shine the way out to the sides.

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And I'm looking over there where the swoop come from.

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And I looked back at another young lady that's standing

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out there beside me. In her eyes are about as

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big as saucers, And she said, did.

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You hear that?

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And I said, of course.

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So we're we're looking for it, and uh, never did

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see anything, but I mean we got to hear it.

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They're looking for whatever it was crossed the road, and

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some limbs are still wiggling in the in the way.

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There where it had crossed. After that.

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Our buddy, he said, he told us, he said, you know,

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he said, these things are up here, pretty pretty thick.

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And he says, they they're real good to mimic things. Now,

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what I'm fixing to tell you, if there had to

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have been five other you know, five of us up

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there to witnessed this, I would never tell it.

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And if I hadn't hurt myself, I wouldn't have believed it.

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See, he gets two rocks.

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And he class them together flies and right down from us,

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probably not thirty thirty five yards, there's a small stream

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running something flax two rocks back twice, and he eggles

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a little bit, and he clacks some rocks again two

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more times, and right off the bat something down there

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clacks those rocks flights.

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So he's playing with that a little bit.

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And he said, I wonder so he's done the shaven

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a haircut deal.

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You know that.

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Don't don't it, don't don't don't don't clax with those rocks,

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And we're all sitting there and this whatever it is,

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mimics that back with rock clacks, and at this point

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we're all, you know, like an amazement and everything. We

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are up here in the middle of absolutely nowhere in

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these mountains. There is no other person up here where

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we're at the you know, do anything like this back

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at us. And then we're all talking and he says,

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he tells he's telling us. He says, you know, these

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things are extremely over c D about things, and he

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does the don't don't, don't, don't, and he doesn't do

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it anymore. And down at the creek it goes clack clack.

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It finished it, It finished it way yeah.

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And I'm telling you, if there happened been as many

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people standing there that all heard and witness this, I

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would never tell that story.

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Yeah. And it's still kind of like people are not

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gonna believe this, and I wouldn't believe. I wouldn't blame

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them at all.

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No, not at all. I mean because if somebody told

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me that, you know, right off the bat, my first

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thing was saying, he said, I believe your cheese is

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just about slipped off your cracker use. But you know

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that happened, and uh, we were there to witness that.

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And then we go on up the you have to

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kind of picture some of these mountain off the way roads.

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We get to the top of it and there's kind

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of like a cold to sack area there.

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Dead end into just nothing but woods.

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Yeah, and we get my truck turned around be where

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we're pointed out. In the event something does happen, for anything,

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we need to get out of there quick. And then

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she listening out behind my truck, probably twenty yards away

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from my truck and our friend a couple of people

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they go on down a little trail. Well we can

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see their red head lamps in their thing as they're

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going down the trail. As they get on down the

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trail out of sight, we noticed this area up here

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has like a like a next level down off the

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edge of it, something extremely heavy starts walking around this terrace.

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Of the stock.

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You can feel the percussion and hear it boom boom.

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And as this walking, you know, you ain't like something

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it's stomping. It was walking so hard, and it gets

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around toward the front of our truck, and uh, you

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could hear it walk up toward us a little bit.

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And I told she lovet that time. I said it's

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seize on towards the truck and she was like why,

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and I said, well, I don't want whatever this is

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to get between us and our vehicles. So we started

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easing towards the truck, and uh, our buddy had to

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laid his cell phone on record on the hood of

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my truck, and as we're easing to the truck, that

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phone lights up, and which I didn't think a whole

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lot about that at that point in time. It you know,

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it wasn't nothing either way to me. But we get

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up there and when they get back, I tell him that,

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you know, you must have missed a text or something.

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You know, your phone lit up. Well he looked, he

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looks at the phone. He says, that phone doesn't light

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up unless you touch it. And U and he showed

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me that that phone doesn't light up, you know, unless

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it gets touched, and which was pretty unique, you know,

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to say the least. About that point right there, the rest.

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Of the weekend went off.

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You know, small things happened, and not a whole whole lot.

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Well, we had we were this is our first camping,

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real big camping. We were brand new to it. But

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later that night we were in our tent and heard

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I heard something he did to walking across the river

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towards our campsite. And you know, I'm like Scott, Scott,

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he says, I hear it. I hear it, and it

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comes to the little table we had it there. We

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had been cooking bacon earlier in the evening, you know,

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and you could hear it. You could hear it, and

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I'm kind of freaking out over there. And this is

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no joke because we had no idea what to spec

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I heard outreach over there and unsnap his you know, holster,

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which that wouldn't have done any good, I assure you.

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And this thing is right beside the tent and it

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lets out this bigger like exasperation kind of thing, you know,

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and just turned around and started walking off, and again

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you could hear the boom boom. Let me tell you something.

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I was so scared had that thing touched that tent,

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I would have jumped up and ran with tint and everything,

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probably laid myself out with a tree. But I was terrified.

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But that, you know, that kind of sets up the

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tone here. That was our first outing with this.

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And they say, you know, once you start down that,

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I'm gona tell everybody, if you start down this rabbit hole,

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be prepared for more questions you will ever have answers

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to either you're going to be addicted to it like

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we are, or you're probably never gonna go in the

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woods again.

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Absolutely yeah, I agree, one hundred percent. Makingness Wow. So

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from what you guys had, the way you've been talking,

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it sounds like this is this is more of like

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a prime of it expedition.

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That one was it was and that we went on

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and we wound up after that helping that group out a.

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Good bit and just going out with friends we'd made

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from that group.

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And the more we helped out with that group and everything,

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the more we've seen how things were going in that group.

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And it's a big group and uh, very costly, and

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actually had done that for a pretty good while. We

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would always have people when people would find out that

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we had went on these things and had been on

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them things that a lot of folks had a lot

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of interest in it and really wanted to go, but

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they weren't willing to drop that kind of money on

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doing that. And we sit back and we thought about

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it for a lot and said, you know what, what

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would we actually do when at least four for people

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and make it where there's mode as many people there

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and you get away with money wise and at least

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break even. So we did that and that's how squatch

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It took a while to go over a year and

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a half to get everything we needed to give, but

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it's pretty much our life now.

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Wow, such a fun conversation with Scott and Shila. Those

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guys are great. If you want to go out on

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an expedition in northern Georgia, reach out to Squatch Fishing Outfitters.

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They will treat you right. That's episode seven forty six.

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By the way, you're going to want to listen to

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the full episode for many, many more encounter stories. Let's

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move on to number nine. They're underneath the cabin now.

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This is from a good friend, Brian, who currently has

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a cabin way out in the woods of Indiana, and

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there's a lot, a lot of things that have happened

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there over the years. So get ready to hear a

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little bit from Brian. And there underneath the cabin episode

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number seven thirty.

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So I got the living room and Peyton come in there,

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and we had, like I said, we had the little

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Yorky and they've been tormenting that poor dog.

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I mean they would pack on the windows, the doors,

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the deck.

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The dog was so scared that he slept under my bed.

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He used to sleep on the bed with me, and

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then he started sleeping under my bed. He wouldn't he

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wouldn't come out unless I got up to leave. The

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night's when he would come out from under the bed.

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Well. I was in the living room.

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I was gonna feed him, but he was standing under

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the coffee table. He wouldn't he wouldn't come out from

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under it, and he kept walking around all stiff leg

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and he was like moving his head reeled down real slow,

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sniffing the floor, and he would raise his head back

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up and the Peyton come in. I said, hey, no,

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there's something wrong with Easton here. He's not watching me.

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And Peyton tried to get him come up to him,

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and he wouldn't. He wouldn't leave the coffee table. And

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I told Peyt and I said, well, just shut the door,

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because you know the patio door. I said, maybe some's

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out there. He's sensing something. He might be smelling because

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he knew they were there. Like I got videos of

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him looking out the window and barking and growling, and

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there's nothing out there that we could see.

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Peyton got it up. He went to go slide the

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patio door shut, and then all.

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Of a sudden, we heard this loud, screeching scream from

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under our cabin. Because, like I said, our cabin's up

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off the ground and it's all open down there, but

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we heard this loud screech, like scream, roar all together.

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And once they just did it and it lasted for

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about three seconds, and Peyton went out and he shut

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the door. You know that he kind of scared him.

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Him and me both we're like, what was that? And

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then it scared Easton so bad that he stood there

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and proved himself.

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And I felt really bad.

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I only had Easton for a week, so we cleaned

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him up and I told hey, I had to get

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him away to somebody.

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So I called a friend and she took him. Peyton

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left and Paston there.

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And then when Peyton got back, he come in said,

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I've been there's a really bad smell outside.

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I said, yeah, I know, I've been smelling too.

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I don't know if it's ser or what it is,

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and we've never smelled it before. And the smell after

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Peyton said that, the smell was gone within probably ten minutes.

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That was the only time we've ever smelled them was

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that one time, and that's because they were right up

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under the house. After we got rid of Instant, the

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activity at the house stopped as far as them hitting

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the house or trying to scare us.

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I don't know if they were.

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Somebody said they were trying to intimidate us to see

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what we would do if we would come out shooting

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or you know, move or whatever. But we didn't really

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ignore them. We just we just what can you do?

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You know?

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But I would hear laughing, like I've got recordings of

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laughing like a baby laughing and rock clacking in these

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woo sounds, you know, kind of whispery woo sounds down

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the down the creek. I think that I think the

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only reason they made another reason why they made their stuff.

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No one, like I said it was because I was

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doing all the shooting.

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See, like then the BFR come out, not the BFR

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OL they came out later, but the Indiana BFRL came out.

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And we walked the woods and stuff, and we found prints.

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They casted two of them, and we've seen a really

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nice one. But it only looked like a maybe a

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juvenile size, about twelve inches, but it was real wide,

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but it wasn't deep enough to cast. But he noticed

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these structures that I didn't even notice. I mean, he

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was telling me, yeah, this land didn't come you know,

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it's been forced here, you know, on the grounded up

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on the tree. You can see where it scratched the

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tree where they forced it down, and we found other

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structures back in the woods that I didn't know was there.

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So they He did his little podcast that evening and

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he was like really happy about what he's seen. And

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then we had another group come out in September. It

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had a be a far old member and a lot

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of other researchers that he invited from different states and

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they all came out and camped.

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We had a ssydecheick out there.

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They camped for four days and or four nights, and

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the last night we had a bonfire and we were

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all just sitting out there talking. Baiton had some friends over,

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you know, we were all just out there talking and

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telling them stories. And I kept hearing something behind me,

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and one of the researchers, you know, he was hearing

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it too, and so I would take my phone and

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see if I could scan the area and get a

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picture or but I couldn't see anything on one video,

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and so I put it on photo my iPhone fifteen,

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and it was I don't know how, but it seasoned

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the dark and it picked up this portal and nobody

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you couldn't see it with your own eyes. It picked

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up a portal and something walking through it, and I

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took a picture of it, and well, I showed it

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everybody and they were like, amazing, where'd you take this picture?

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And it's you know, thirty yards from us, right there

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by the trail, and so they all were happy to

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see that. And they end up, you know, leaving after

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about five days of being there. And then I started

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noticing these things in the trees, these lights, and they

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had a metal some kind of metal top with a

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red light and they're stuck real high up in the tree,

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about thirty forty feet up in the tree.

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And I would when I noticed it, I would take

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a picture of it, and.

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Then I would live. You know, my friend want of

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them the research as lugs. I've been in contact with

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him ever since they've been out there, and I would

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send in the pictures. He's like, go out and take

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another one. So I go out the next ding and

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take another one that's gone. But I did this like

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four times, and four different times. It's four different lights

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in different trees, but they were all the same light,

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just different positions. And then I started notsing these other

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things when I would walk the trail and come back.

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I would notice a new nest. They're like, they build

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this great, big, massive, long nest out of tree tops,

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and they had these lights or not lights but camera

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looking things strapped to the trees. There literally be straps

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on them. They'll be like four or five of them

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out there circling the nest, and I thought, man, what

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is that. That's that's nothing I put up, and that's

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never been here before. But once I every time I

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notice them, the next day they're gone. I wouldn't see

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them again. I still see the technology every now and again.

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They I get pictures of them, and the bigfoots are

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holding some kind of white cube with a black line

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going through the middle of it. Sometimes they'll be I've

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seen one have a round one and it looks like

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a round security camera. It just a round white ball

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with a black lens in it, and they would hold

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it in their hand and hold it towards me, and

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they would look down their arm like kind of like

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in trying to stay in line of sight while they're

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holding it towards me as I'm taking their picture. I

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don't know if that's something they're using to distort my

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camera or on my phone, or or if they're looking

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at me closer to that.

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I have no idea what it's for, but I've.

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Seen a lot of them have that, and every time

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I go to take a picture, I might get one

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picture of them without holding that thing, but the second

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picture they're holding a debt like they're just they're like

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they're gonna try to zap my phone or something. Because

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they have that. My androids so much that I can't.

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I couldn't even use it anymore. It would literally just

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switch pages or tabs. It would just swipe like on

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its own side to side or that it would glit

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you out and have lines going all through it.

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So I end up just not using that head to

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buy the iPhone like right now.

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They they don't even make an effort in hiding. I

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see them every day, especially when I burn trash. I

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go out there and they just they they'll raise up

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out of their nests and look at me. There's some

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nests out count you know, and you were from ten

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to fifteen of them. But I've got over a dozen

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nests out there in my woods, and I had it logged.

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I'm sorry.

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Right before June the twentieth, before I seen the first one.

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They I just had it logged.

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I take that back as after June the twentieth, Right

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after June twentieth, I had it logged, and that's when

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they got all the tree tops. They start dragging these

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tree tops into the clearing of the woods there and

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make these huge giant nests.

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Out of them.

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There's like little ditches, they're kind of like rain runoffs,

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like groove down into the ground, like I call them

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drained ditches, but it's natural from the water run down

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the hill towards the creek.

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But they would build a nest right over top of those.

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It's just kind of to me.

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I think they dig them out even deeper and they

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just lived there. But they're building like they build a

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new nest today that I've seen this morning. It's just

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crazy on how many of their building and I've counted

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probably over one hundred of them there at one time

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during Deer season last year. I think ever since I

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told them they were safe there, they got the word

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out there every other one.

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Brian's story is incredible. It makes me want to go

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and listen to the whole episode right now, But I'm

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not gonna up because we got we got more to

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go through for the top ten, but you guys can

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check it out. It's it's number seven thirty, and I

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would recommend you do because in that YouTube version of

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seven thirty there's a ton of photos and videos from

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Brian at the end of the episode that you're not

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going to want to miss, So definitely go check that out.

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Let's continue with number eight forty years of Bigfoot in Missouri,

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number six forty four. In this episode, we hear from Tracy,

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who's a lifelong outdoorsman down there in southern Missouri around

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the Rawla, Missouri area, Montak State Park, Tomsock Mountain, Howell County.

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There's a ton of stuff in this one. If you're

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into Missouri bigfoot encounters, you're not going to want to

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miss it. And a lot of people loved it. So

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let's hear a little clip from number six forty four,

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forty years of Bigfoot in Missouri.

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I would have been like fourteen fifteen years old at

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the time, probably maybe sixteen. We had a pond right

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beside our house. I'd say it was probably a quarter

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to a half acre pond, and it wasn't on our property,

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but we used it all the time. There's absentee owners

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or whatever. And where we approached it on our property

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was just like our yard, which was semi wooded, but

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about half of it was like very thickly covered, like

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with cedar trees and the dense brush. You couldn't really

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see through that. And there was a house over on

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that side, but it was real thick woods through there,

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maybe about fifty yards cards and that behind that pond

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was the general area I think that roor had come from.

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And then behind it there's maybe a six seven foot

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dam on that pond, like earth and dam. Then behind

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it was like about a five acre lake. And I

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had gone through there quite a bit, but after we

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00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:26.319
had heard that roar, I hadn't gone through there anymore

463
00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:30.000
because I figured that's where that roar had come from.

464
00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:33.640
And I don't know, I was feeling cocky on this

465
00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:36.759
particular day or something, and I decided I would go

466
00:24:36.839 --> 00:24:39.799
back there. And I had a twenty two pistol with

467
00:24:39.880 --> 00:24:44.519
me in my hand. I was always hunting rabbits or something.

468
00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:51.240
And while I was walking through there, I got about halfway.

469
00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:54.559
I never saw anything. I never heard anything. I just

470
00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:59.480
became paralyzed with fear. It was like my lizard brain

471
00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:04.559
just shut my body off. And I've heard people talk

472
00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:08.279
about getting hit with infrasound and a lot of times

473
00:25:08.880 --> 00:25:11.000
and not paralyzing you, but a lot of times it

474
00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:13.480
comes with stomach cramps or something. I never felt in

475
00:25:13.559 --> 00:25:20.839
you that I just couldn't move. And I don't know how.

476
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:21.599
Long that went on for.

477
00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:27.160
I don't have any kind of estimate, but it got

478
00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:30.400
more intense, and I felt like it was coming from

479
00:25:30.440 --> 00:25:36.000
behind me. Something was coming from behind me, and I

480
00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:40.599
just heard this voice that said, shoot the gun. And

481
00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:43.759
I was able to click the safety off and pull

482
00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:50.960
the trigger, and the gun went off, and pretty much

483
00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:54.960
immediately all that dissipated the fear. I was able to

484
00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:58.680
clear my head and move again. But I was mad

485
00:25:58.720 --> 00:26:01.400
at myself because I had I wasn't even able to

486
00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:03.039
look down to see if I was going to shoot

487
00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.759
myself in the foot or not. That's like how intense

488
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:12.359
that paralyzation was. It's like I was really good on

489
00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:15.720
the firearm safety into things, but like I felt that

490
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:20.200
I needed to do something and I just didn't have

491
00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:23.759
the ability to do it like what I would consider safely.

492
00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:27.960
But the firing of the gun made all that dissipate,

493
00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:33.000
and in thinking about that later, I felt like something

494
00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.200
was doing that to me. And once I fired the gun,

495
00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:39.759
it scared it off because it was like.

496
00:26:39.720 --> 00:26:42.799
An immediate dissipation of what was going on.

497
00:26:43.480 --> 00:26:45.880
And I hurried up and got out of there and

498
00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:49.079
never went back there again. But I always thought the

499
00:26:49.119 --> 00:26:53.000
psychology of want hampen there was interesting because I was

500
00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:57.680
very logical minded, even by the teenager. And for your

501
00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:03.519
brain to tell you don't move, which is the signal

502
00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:06.440
I was getting don't move or it'll see you when

503
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:10.680
you're completely out in the open, like anything can see you,

504
00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:14.240
is weird to me, but that was what was going on.

505
00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:16.799
My brain was saying, don't move or it'll see you.

506
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.240
But I'm like not obscured in any way. That almost

507
00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:24.519
tells me that these things have some sort of and

508
00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:26.720
I don't know if it's infra sound, but I almost

509
00:27:26.720 --> 00:27:29.680
theorize they have some sort of other ability, like a

510
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:33.799
mental energy prediction or something like that that they can do.

511
00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:37.680
And I've got more on that later, but that's the

512
00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:41.240
end of what I had for that location. We had

513
00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:44.799
moved in closer to town and I didn't really have

514
00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:47.599
any more experiences like that.

515
00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:49.599
Until about two thousand and six.

516
00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:54.920
Talk about those childhood years for a little bit longer.

517
00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:58.079
There's some really interesting things to happen in those years.

518
00:27:58.119 --> 00:28:01.319
For sure. To did they tell you how big that

519
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:03.960
footprint was that they saw right outside the window?

520
00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:11.039
I they were just going for memory, but I did ask.

521
00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:14.079
I said what. I was like, did it have boots on?

522
00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:16.680
Was it like a guy? And then they said no,

523
00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:20.720
it was barefooted. I asked how many toes? And my

524
00:28:20.839 --> 00:28:24.079
sister was just like, I guess five. So it really

525
00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:27.559
wasn't like really set in the memory. It was just

526
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:31.720
the general. But I was like, was it big? And

527
00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:34.079
she was like, oh yeah. She said my dad had

528
00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:35.759
gone out and put his foot in it, and it

529
00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:39.240
was like pretty much dwarfed it. And it wasn't like

530
00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:40.119
it was an old print.

531
00:28:40.160 --> 00:28:41.559
It had to have happened overnight.

532
00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:46.039
And I then asked, I was like, do you think

533
00:28:46.279 --> 00:28:48.680
I was like, the snow wasn't that deep, But I

534
00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:50.599
was like, do you think it could have been somebody

535
00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:54.400
with snowshoes on? Or when snowshoes aren't really worn down

536
00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:56.960
here in Missouri, we don't really ever get that deep

537
00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:59.799
a snow really, right, And so I was trying to

538
00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:04.480
like at least get rid of all the possibilities, but

539
00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.440
it sounded like, who's got a really big foot? Run

540
00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:09.559
around barefooted in snow in the winter.

541
00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:14.200
Absolutely, that is so strange, Especially back then you didn't

542
00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:17.079
have to worry about people that were wearing like those

543
00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:21.400
vibrum shoes that it makes you look clear right barefooted. Right,

544
00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:24.960
they were not around, I believe at that time in history.

545
00:29:25.480 --> 00:29:27.079
Do you still keep up to date with the area

546
00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:27.880
that house was in?

547
00:29:29.559 --> 00:29:30.400
No, I don't have.

548
00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.039
When we're in the area, go buy it occasionally just

549
00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:37.839
for old times sake memories. When my older sister lives

550
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.680
in Pennsylvania now and when she comes back, we might

551
00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.400
go buy it. But now we live far away from it,

552
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:47.440
so we've gone by it a few times over the years,

553
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.400
but don't really know anything about what's going on, other

554
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:53.559
than the fact that a lot of people have moved in,

555
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:57.680
so it's not nearly as it's less sparsely.

556
00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:58.519
Populated than it used to be.

557
00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:01.160
Okay, that kind of makes me that there's as much

558
00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:02.559
activity as there used to be.

559
00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:05.759
The stories that Tracy shared in that episode about southern

560
00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:09.039
Missouri are incredible. You're not going to want to miss it.

561
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.960
It's pretty wild. There's almost two hours long. Let's head

562
00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:16.079
on to our next episode down the line, We're going

563
00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:20.000
all the way to number one. Next up is number seven,

564
00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.880
The Rangers Confession. This is episode number eight fifty three.

565
00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:28.160
I talked to John, who was a former PG and

566
00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:32.599
E affiliated ranger who spent three summers in the remote

567
00:30:32.599 --> 00:30:36.640
Blue Lakes region of northern California. And what John encountered

568
00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:42.079
during these summers are pretty wild. So let's check it out.

569
00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:46.599
In the summer of eighty two, eighty three, and eighty four,

570
00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:50.119
I worked for a company called Multiple Use Management, and

571
00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:54.440
we were basically campground rangers for PG and E campgrounds.

572
00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.359
So they would start me off in northern California at

573
00:30:57.440 --> 00:31:00.240
Lake Spaulding at the five thousand foot elevation, and I

574
00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.200
would stay there and open up that campground, and then

575
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:05.319
when the snow melted, they would move me up to

576
00:31:05.640 --> 00:31:10.680
Blue Lakes at eight thousand feet elevation. And so this

577
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:15.039
is dealing with the Blue Lakes area, which is a

578
00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:19.920
four lake complex on four wheel drive roads that go

579
00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:23.279
each direction of it. And I guess I'll start with

580
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:30.559
I believe it would be the summer of eighty three

581
00:31:30.920 --> 00:31:33.680
and again. At this time, I didn't believe that big

582
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:36.559
foot were here. But I'm a curious guy and I've

583
00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:39.720
always had an interest in the topic, and I interviewed

584
00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:43.920
everybody about it because I was fishing for information, trying

585
00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:46.359
to fill in the dots. So I got a lot

586
00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:49.240
of information over the three years, talking to so many

587
00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.759
people on a daily basis. But I was fishing. One morning,

588
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:57.440
I got out before daybreak because I wanted to float

589
00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:59.799
a nightcrawler on top and catch me a big brown

590
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:03.839
up in upper blue. And the road goes right alongside

591
00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:06.359
the lake, and it's a fairly decent sized lake. It

592
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.960
was a really calm morning, not a ripple on the water.

593
00:32:09.079 --> 00:32:13.519
You could hear, you could hear a noise would travel

594
00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:17.839
a mile. You could hear small noises really well. But

595
00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:21.319
as the light started getting a little bit lighter and lighter,

596
00:32:21.480 --> 00:32:23.880
I had noticed a figure on the opposite side of

597
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:26.799
the lake. And there's quite a bit of distance involved,

598
00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:30.920
but the figure was all black from head to toe,

599
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:33.720
and I figured it was just a guy in a

600
00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:36.960
hoodie that it was fishing on the opposite side of

601
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.359
the lake. Again, I didn't really believe that bigfoot were

602
00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:43.480
part of the of this area.

603
00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.440
I figured they were.

604
00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:46.960
All up north, further up, you know, above Mount Shasta,

605
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:51.359
in the coastal area. Anyway, so I sit there and

606
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:54.279
watched the thing a little bit. I wasn't really focusing

607
00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:55.759
on it too much because I thought it was just

608
00:32:55.799 --> 00:33:00.480
another fisherman. But I watched it for the whole event

609
00:33:00.640 --> 00:33:05.079
was probably forty forty five minutes. And what it was,

610
00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:08.720
it almost looked like it was mimicking a fisherman. And again,

611
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:11.440
you know, it looked like it had a stick in

612
00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:15.400
his hand, and you could see enough detail. You couldn't

613
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:18.480
see facial details, but you could see the body outlined fine,

614
00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:22.079
and it looked like it was waving a stick and

615
00:33:22.119 --> 00:33:24.039
playing in the water with it. And I thought maybe

616
00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:27.359
it was just a fisherman that had gotten his line stuck,

617
00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:29.640
you know, I was trying to get the lure out

618
00:33:29.680 --> 00:33:32.680
of the roots or trees. But it almost looked like

619
00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:35.640
for a while there. But then what was weird was

620
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:38.559
about twenty nine degrees that morning, and I had a

621
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:42.039
north faced gore text parka on and a down jacket

622
00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:45.200
underneath that, and I was sitting on an ice chest

623
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:47.680
and my butt was freezing and the ground was slightly

624
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:51.079
damp all around the lake from the morning dew, and

625
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:56.000
this thing had laid on its belly and was running

626
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.319
the stick around in the water or fishing pole if

627
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:02.960
it was a fisherman. And this went on for maybe

628
00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:05.160
five ten minutes, and I couldn't see how. I go, man,

629
00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:07.079
that guy's freaking I don't know how he's doing it,

630
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.559
because I was freezing my butt off, just sitting on

631
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:15.719
a small, little igloo ice chest. And I really didn't

632
00:34:15.760 --> 00:34:18.559
think much about it, didn't even you know, it didn't

633
00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:22.400
even question my mind that this even could be a bigfoot.

634
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:26.760
And then the weirdest thing happened while I was watching it.

635
00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:29.239
It got in a crab position where it was on

636
00:34:29.400 --> 00:34:33.039
its back and then it had its you know, its

637
00:34:33.119 --> 00:34:35.920
knees and its hands down below, like in a crab walk,

638
00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:41.039
and it moved across this boulder in one fluid move

639
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:44.159
in the crab position and moved across the top.

640
00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:44.480
Of the rock.

641
00:34:44.519 --> 00:34:47.360
And this was a huge rock and it, I mean,

642
00:34:47.360 --> 00:34:51.440
it was just so smooth and houzzle. Holy crap, that's

643
00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:54.400
not even human. And I go, well, if I ever

644
00:34:54.400 --> 00:34:57.199
find out there's bigfoot in this area of California, that's

645
00:34:57.199 --> 00:35:00.920
a bigfoot, because it sure wasn't human. Thought more about

646
00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:05.800
it again, and so I'd beaten every other fisherman out

647
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.199
in the lake this morning, and on the far side

648
00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:11.719
of the lake about a mile away. Maybe if that

649
00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:14.719
I don't know, it sounds about right. But you could

650
00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:17.760
hear the two old men coming down to get in

651
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.480
their little trolling a luninin boat and start trolling, and

652
00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:24.519
you could hear them. It was so calm out. You

653
00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:26.960
could hear the fishing poles laying in the bottom of

654
00:35:26.960 --> 00:35:29.199
the luniman boat and you could hear us they set

655
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:32.199
their ice chest in it, you know, because the sound

656
00:35:32.280 --> 00:35:34.599
was just being carried across the lake with no breeze

657
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:39.480
or anything. And you could hear them as they tried

658
00:35:39.519 --> 00:35:42.480
to start the motor. And the second that motor fired up,

659
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:45.760
this thing was gone in the bushes and had disappeared.

660
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:51.719
And so that pretty much covers That was the strangeness

661
00:35:51.760 --> 00:35:55.599
of it was how this was, you know, only about

662
00:35:55.639 --> 00:36:00.239
a half an hour into daylight. So it was just

663
00:36:00.320 --> 00:36:04.440
kind of weird. The way the crab walking position was

664
00:36:04.480 --> 00:36:07.880
definitely not something I was very physically fit. I was

665
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:11.239
running five to ten miles a day at eight thousand

666
00:36:11.320 --> 00:36:16.559
feet and training for boxing and the movement it did.

667
00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:20.039
And I'm kind of a tall, lanky, wiry guy, and

668
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.840
the movement it did was not something I could ever

669
00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.360
achieve or even come close to. So I again, I

670
00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:30.159
never thought it was a sasquatch up until later years,

671
00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.480
and then I saw a I believe it was Russ

672
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:39.840
Jones talking about an incident where the girls that had

673
00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:43.320
dropped the earring and the thing bent over backwards in

674
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.360
that crab position, and that's when I decided to give

675
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:50.639
you a call and share what I viewed that morning.

676
00:36:50.719 --> 00:36:54.840
That money. Now, there's a lot of different things. Over

677
00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:57.199
the three years, I probably talked to nine different people

678
00:36:57.239 --> 00:37:00.960
that didn't know each other and all had different stories.

679
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.320
So there was as you come into lower Blue on

680
00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.800
the left, there was a little pond, it's called frog pond.

681
00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:07.920
I did have.

682
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.840
One of the campers had told me that, yeah, yeah,

683
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:14.239
they knew somebody that had saw one cross the road

684
00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:18.119
right there. Again, I never took it seriously or but

685
00:37:18.199 --> 00:37:21.360
it was just information I put in my cap. There

686
00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:24.559
was also we had my dad worked for PGN and

687
00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:26.559
he was the lake tender there and he got me

688
00:37:26.599 --> 00:37:29.679
the job camping there. So we knew. We talked all

689
00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:32.079
the PG and E guys, and one of the helicopter

690
00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:36.800
pilots that would fly in we were talking to him

691
00:37:36.840 --> 00:37:40.039
and he said one winter, and he didn't tell me

692
00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:42.800
what the date was or what year or anything like that,

693
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:45.440
but he said he flew in there when the snow

694
00:37:45.559 --> 00:37:49.320
is thirty feet deep, which is probably about five feet

695
00:37:49.360 --> 00:37:54.199
over the chimney stack of the highest cabin that was there,

696
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:59.239
so the cabins were completely submerged in snow. And he

697
00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.639
said that he had flown in there one time and

698
00:38:02.719 --> 00:38:06.239
he had landed, and that there were tracks and the

699
00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:09.519
tracks went down almost five feet into the snow and

700
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:12.920
you could see and he said you could see bare

701
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:18.079
footprints in the bottom with a fairly large stride. And

702
00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:21.639
he said he had no idea what it was or anything,

703
00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:25.920
but that was an interesting note that he had come

704
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:31.480
up with. So I had also worked with another campground

705
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:33.800
attendant there. It was just me and him who took

706
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:39.800
care of these the whole campground complex. And this guy

707
00:38:39.960 --> 00:38:44.800
was Chico's state's number two runner in the early eighties.

708
00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:47.719
So this was a guy that's as fast as you're

709
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:51.119
going to find a young fella. This guy I was

710
00:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.239
running five to ten miles and he could leave me

711
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:55.880
at any time. I was doing it recreational. This guy

712
00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:59.280
was good, so he could literally haul butt and he

713
00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:03.400
would often do ten fifteen miles a couple times a week.

714
00:39:05.480 --> 00:39:08.960
He came back one day and he'd come walking up

715
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:12.760
the driveway and from a distance of twenty yards, I

716
00:39:12.760 --> 00:39:15.360
mean literally sixty feet away, I could he was a

717
00:39:15.440 --> 00:39:17.840
white as a ghost. You could see he was shaken up.

718
00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:21.039
And I asked him, Hey, what's going on? You know,

719
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:22.920
what's the matter. I don't want to talk about it.

720
00:39:22.920 --> 00:39:25.199
I don't want to talk about it. And I grilled

721
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:26.519
him as he came up the steps.

722
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:26.800
Again.

723
00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:29.960
He wouldn't talk about it, and I couldn't get anything

724
00:39:29.960 --> 00:39:31.440
out of him. But you could see that this guy

725
00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:33.559
was shaken up. I mean it was visible from a

726
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:36.760
long distance away. So I let him take a shower.

727
00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:38.679
He had a couple of beers for dinner, and he

728
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:41.840
sat down to dinner, and you know, I go, come on, man,

729
00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:44.360
you know ken he was I ain't I'm not talking

730
00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:47.599
about it. The guy was just animate about not and

731
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.639
I'm somebody I won't let it go. So I kept

732
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:54.159
after him a little bit, but without being too much

733
00:39:54.199 --> 00:39:57.360
of a pain in the butt. But I said, come on,

734
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:00.159
was it a mountain lion? Was it a coyote? Is

735
00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:03.599
it a bear? What's you know? What's got y'all shaken up?

736
00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:08.119
He goes, it wasn't any of those, and he wouldn't

737
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:10.840
come out and say what it was, but but I

738
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:11.719
got it out of him.

739
00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:14.559
Oh man, that's a good one to hear what that

740
00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:18.480
individual actually saw. You're gonna have to go over to

741
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:20.840
episode eight fifty three and check it out for yourself,

742
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:25.159
but trust me, is gonna be worth it. Number six

743
00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:31.840
Oregon Hunters Experiences number seven oh one. This is one

744
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:34.880
of my favorites. It's a conversation with an individual. His

745
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:38.559
name is Lyle. He's a lifelong hunter in one of

746
00:40:38.599 --> 00:40:42.559
my most favorite areas of Oregon, which is the Malala

747
00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:48.960
Colton Estacada area. The things that Lyle share are intense,

748
00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:53.000
to say the least. Let's check it out.

749
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:56.400
It's called will White Road and there was a spot

750
00:40:56.440 --> 00:41:00.840
that I used to love to hunt up there. It

751
00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:05.280
always kind of gave me the creepy feeling. It's super big,

752
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:12.800
tall old growth uh fir trees. I don't know why

753
00:41:13.559 --> 00:41:15.800
why it does, but every time I go in there,

754
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:17.519
I just kind of felt creepy. But I love to

755
00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:19.960
hunt it because there was lots of elk and lots

756
00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:23.280
of deer in there all the time. Well, I went

757
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.519
up there one day by myself. It was deer season,

758
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:33.559
and I was sneaking up through the old growth fur.

759
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.719
And in the underneath this old growth fur, there's it's

760
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:41.480
just a sea of ferns and the ferns are probably

761
00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:48.000
three foot tall. And I was walking uphill. And as

762
00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:50.920
I was walking uphill, I was looking at the ground

763
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.320
and looking for, you know, sign seeing if the if

764
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:57.400
the deer had been moving through there, if they elk

765
00:41:57.400 --> 00:42:02.880
had been moving through there. And this little bowl shaped

766
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:09.880
area it's probably i'd say a hundred by a hundred yards,

767
00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:15.000
and I could see the whole face of the hillside

768
00:42:15.800 --> 00:42:19.519
all the way around me. Well, as I'm walking through

769
00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:24.400
the ferns, I'm looking down the ground and I just

770
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:26.719
start to pick my head up, and in the corner

771
00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:30.599
of my eye I catch movement and as I start

772
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:35.239
to turn my head, look what I saw was I

773
00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:40.519
thought what I saw was a bear And it was

774
00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:43.360
by this big fir tree. And if you ever seen

775
00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.880
a bear coming down out of a tree. When it

776
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:50.639
just right, when it touches the ground, its rear legs

777
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.719
are on the ground and its front legs are up

778
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.880
above its head still hanging under the tree.

779
00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.360
Well, that's the position it was in when I first

780
00:42:59.440 --> 00:42:59.880
seen it.

781
00:43:01.239 --> 00:43:07.079
And right when I my eyes looked at it, that

782
00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:09.559
was my first thought was bear. And I whipped my

783
00:43:09.679 --> 00:43:14.039
rifle off, and I had a bear tag. I've always

784
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:15.920
had a bear. I always have a bear tag, and

785
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:23.119
that the season runs during deer season. And so I

786
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.440
ripped my rifle off. And as I'm ripping my rifle

787
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:32.119
off and swinging to shoot this bear, it comes down

788
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:34.559
off of the tree. And as it's coming off the

789
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:38.760
tree is when it looks at me. And I could

790
00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.719
see that it had hands and it had a face,

791
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:49.199
and it went from bear to holy you know what,

792
00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:51.000
it's bigfoot.

793
00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.679
And this thing is only fifty yards from me.

794
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.280
And it went down onto all fours and it went

795
00:43:59.360 --> 00:44:05.719
behind uh this uh tall ferns. And I had my

796
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:08.199
gun up and in my mind, I'm gonna do I

797
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:08.679
shoot it?

798
00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:10.119
Do I shoot it? What do I do?

799
00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:16.000
And I'm like, Okay, this thing's gonna come out somewhere.

800
00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:17.960
I'll be able to see it because I could see

801
00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:20.519
the whole hillside and there was there was no place

802
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.719
for it to go other than on this hill side.

803
00:44:23.880 --> 00:44:25.239
It had to it had to leave.

804
00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:29.960
Well, the ferns moved just for a split second when

805
00:44:29.960 --> 00:44:35.639
it went behind the ferns. And I'm sitting there, you know,

806
00:44:35.719 --> 00:44:39.000
my eyes are just like scanning, like where is this thing?

807
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:43.039
And I'm looking for it, and I never see anything

808
00:44:43.119 --> 00:44:48.320
come out. And so I start slowly creeping up to

809
00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:51.239
my left and I'm going to try to get above

810
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:56.440
it where I can look down onto it. And as

811
00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.599
I'm sneaking around, I got I mean, my my eyes

812
00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:02.159
are like all over the place, just seeing if this

813
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:05.960
thing's going to escape anywhere, and I don't see anything.

814
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:10.480
And I make it all the way.

815
00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:13.719
Around three hundred and sixty degrees, all the way around

816
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.599
where this thing went behind this these ferns, and I

817
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:21.920
never saw anything. And so I finally got the courage

818
00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.880
up and I started sneaking up to where it actually was,

819
00:45:26.679 --> 00:45:30.559
and there was nothing there. It just like it just

820
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:36.639
like vanished. But it was so crystal clear when I

821
00:45:36.760 --> 00:45:39.280
seen it. And when it came down, it went to

822
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.000
all fours and it went behind that those ferns. I mean,

823
00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:44.719
I could still to this day see it in my

824
00:45:44.920 --> 00:45:48.119
in my head, and I don't know what the heck

825
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:50.480
would happened? Where'd it goet? You know, I don't know

826
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:53.480
where it went to this day I could, I couldn't

827
00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:58.280
tell you. And as big as it was, you would

828
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:01.760
have seen the ferns move, you would have seen it

829
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:04.320
come out on the hillside. I had a wide open

830
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:08.400
hillside that it had. The only other way would have

831
00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:11.519
been right past me. And it never came past me.

832
00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:17.960
And that's why I don't ever talk about it, because

833
00:46:18.159 --> 00:46:23.599
it sounds so far fetched that I think everybody's like

834
00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:27.400
got that mindset like, oh yeah, what were you smoking?

835
00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:33.519
What were you drinking? You know, It's just so I

836
00:46:33.639 --> 00:46:36.320
just never talked about it. But that was my second siding,

837
00:46:36.360 --> 00:46:40.360
and that's the one that it was a reddish color.

838
00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:42.559
It looked kind of like a rang a tang color

839
00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:48.079
the hair, but the face looked like that Todd Standing's

840
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:51.679
Jane that he calls her. I think it had that

841
00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:58.079
kind of down syndrome me look to its face. That's

842
00:46:58.199 --> 00:47:02.280
my second sighting. The other thing I forgot to mention

843
00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:07.599
was as my eyes were coming up and actually visually

844
00:47:07.639 --> 00:47:12.239
seeing this thing. It there was like a tree knock,

845
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:17.239
and it sounded like it came from that that that thing,

846
00:47:17.360 --> 00:47:21.559
that bigfoot, But there was nothing in its hand as

847
00:47:21.599 --> 00:47:25.960
far as like a stick or anything. So which kind

848
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:28.639
of leads me to think that there are these tree

849
00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:32.480
knocks that people talk about. I think they're doing it

850
00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:37.280
with their mouth or something. Because it was so loud

851
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.480
that knock when it happened. It had to have been

852
00:47:42.559 --> 00:47:44.559
that one right there, you know. It had to been

853
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:50.599
that that animal there that made the noise. Is it

854
00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:51.840
was so loud.

855
00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:52.559
It was just like.

856
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:57.519
Right there when it happened. And but as as I

857
00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:00.519
heard that is when I was seeing it, but nothing

858
00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:03.119
fell out of its hands, like it was like it

859
00:48:03.119 --> 00:48:05.599
would have hit something with a stick, you know, if

860
00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:07.760
it wou out a stick, I would have thought that

861
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.800
I would see like a stick, you know, flying out

862
00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:13.119
of its hands or falling out of the hans.

863
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:17.440
I love those interviews where the individual is not a

864
00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:21.559
bigfoot researcher's just a hunter or an outdoors man, but

865
00:48:21.599 --> 00:48:24.639
the things they notice are incredible when they have that sighting.

866
00:48:25.119 --> 00:48:31.039
So there's much much more in that episode. Definitely worth

867
00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.199
checking it out. That's number seven oh one Oregon Hunter's Experiences.

868
00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:38.159
Let's head on now to number five, which is a

869
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:45.880
North Georgia habituation, Part one, episode six point fifty nine.

870
00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:50.079
This is my first part of a two part episode

871
00:48:50.119 --> 00:48:53.320
with Neil from Bigfoot Talk dot Com. He's got some

872
00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:56.400
wild things going on in his property area down there

873
00:48:56.440 --> 00:49:00.559
in Northern Georgia. The things that he shares are incredible.

874
00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:03.840
We're just going to play a little clip from it

875
00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:06.119
so you can get a taste for it, but definitely

876
00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:11.639
listen to the two part series from Neil from Bigfoot

877
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:15.280
Talk dot Com starts on episode six fifty nine. Let's

878
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:15.920
get after it.

879
00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:19.760
So let me call this bigfoot expert that I know

880
00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:23.800
that's in North Georgia. Now, honestly, I don't believe anybody

881
00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:28.559
is an expert, true expert, because nobody really knows exactly

882
00:49:28.679 --> 00:49:31.679
what they are. But if there is one, he would

883
00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:36.599
be the closest to it. Then I called him because

884
00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.000
I wanted to find out the person that wrote that report,

885
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:43.400
because it was a bfr BF or own report. I

886
00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:44.960
wanted to talk to them and see if I could

887
00:49:44.960 --> 00:49:49.280
find the location. That was my goal of calling him. Well,

888
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:52.480
when I get him on the phone. Then I realized

889
00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:54.960
he was in the BFRO and when I tell him

890
00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:56.920
the person's name and said, no, we don't know where

891
00:49:56.920 --> 00:50:01.119
that person is. And so well you really, you know,

892
00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:03.960
that really would help. But can I ask you some questions?

893
00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:08.320
I said yes, sure, he said, okay, tell you a

894
00:50:08.360 --> 00:50:10.159
little bit. So I was telling them about some of

895
00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:15.880
the things I'd seen and that made no sense, and

896
00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:20.800
then he said okay. He said, do you have a

897
00:50:20.840 --> 00:50:23.079
lot of animals on the property. And then that's when

898
00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:25.440
I started telling them about the deer should be a

899
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:27.599
deer haven. There wasn't that many deer, so I had

900
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.960
to start putting food out for them, and deer, you know,

901
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:34.440
feeders with supplemental food and all kind of fed the

902
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:36.880
birds and everything else. He goes, oh, in case you

903
00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.079
put food out for the animal. Yes, I put food

904
00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:42.639
out for the animal. He goes, what do you hunt?

905
00:50:43.199 --> 00:50:45.599
I said, no, I don't hunt. I used to hunt

906
00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:48.440
as a kid, but I don't hunt anymore because my

907
00:50:48.519 --> 00:50:52.679
dad always said, if you're gonna shoot something, you better

908
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.360
do it to get something to eat. And my wife

909
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:59.880
would never beat a deer or another animal like that,

910
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:02.840
much less cook it. So I'm not going to just

911
00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:05.679
go and shoot something to kill it. I'm just not

912
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.760
going to do it. I love to watch to hear

913
00:51:07.760 --> 00:51:13.840
another animal, So no, we don't hunt. And then he said, well,

914
00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:16.760
do you have any fruit trees? I said, yeah, I

915
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.440
planted a bunch of fruit trees. And I told them

916
00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:22.159
about all the ones I planted and stuff, and he goes, well,

917
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:25.239
do you ever have any of your fruit missing? And

918
00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:27.400
I said, well, when I planted on they were just

919
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:31.360
real young. The only one that's made something is the peaches.

920
00:51:31.440 --> 00:51:34.039
But it's really weird because I have nating around it

921
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:37.079
and on the ground and fabric on the ground, and

922
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.000
every time for two years we've had some peaches on it.

923
00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.280
And during the week when they're getting right, I'll tell

924
00:51:45.320 --> 00:51:48.760
the family, Hey, the peaches are getting ripe. So this

925
00:51:48.840 --> 00:51:50.880
weekend we're going to go pick some and make the

926
00:51:50.960 --> 00:51:58.039
peach cobbler. Come Saturday, every peach is gone, no seeds,

927
00:51:58.199 --> 00:52:01.360
none on the ground. And these were eight to ten

928
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:04.480
foot tull and plus we have an inating around which

929
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:08.039
was away from it, cried away since six foot high,

930
00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:11.880
and nobody where the house is. You can't see us

931
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:13.760
from the road. We said, way back in the wood,

932
00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:18.719
so he said okay. He said, you have any other

933
00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:21.519
fruit go missing? I said, yeah, our figs. I like

934
00:52:21.639 --> 00:52:24.480
to make fig preserves. I said, there'll be a bunch

935
00:52:24.519 --> 00:52:27.360
of figs getting ripe, and I'll go out there and

936
00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:29.440
they'll all be gone except for one or two. That's

937
00:52:29.440 --> 00:52:34.000
half right, I said. Our per Simon trees would make

938
00:52:34.159 --> 00:52:37.119
per simmons right off. So they must have the way

939
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.280
they did the plants, I said, And they they go

940
00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:42.719
missing and the deer aren't a getting them because the

941
00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.440
deer can't get to them because of the deer nating

942
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:50.480
around it. He said, okay, he said, so you feed

943
00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:54.039
the animals. You've had this stuff happened. You've got fruit

944
00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:56.880
going missing, You've got fruit teas. You're feeding animals, you're

945
00:52:56.920 --> 00:52:59.480
not doing them. He said, I got a good idea

946
00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:04.199
of what's going on. I said, okay, what's going on?

947
00:53:05.039 --> 00:53:07.079
He said, you know what's going on. That's why you

948
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:11.199
called me. You have a big foot. I said, I've

949
00:53:11.199 --> 00:53:13.320
got a big foot and he said, yeah, you have

950
00:53:13.400 --> 00:53:16.960
a big food. I said, well, well, what are they

951
00:53:17.159 --> 00:53:20.800
trying to say? What are they trying to do? He said,

952
00:53:22.320 --> 00:53:27.679
they're letting you know there there and want to cohabitate

953
00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:33.360
and live with you, coesists with you there at where

954
00:53:33.400 --> 00:53:37.599
you're at now, that blew my mind. I'm like, you know,

955
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.360
I'd like to watch the stuff that. I really didn't

956
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:43.199
know anything about big food at the time, and I

957
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:47.719
was like, really, I said, how do you know that?

958
00:53:48.559 --> 00:53:50.800
He said, okay, Well, let me ask you some more questions.

959
00:53:50.840 --> 00:53:55.119
I said, okay. He said, on your road, do you

960
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:59.239
find trees pushed down across it a lot? I said,

961
00:53:59.320 --> 00:54:01.559
We've never had a tree push down across the road.

962
00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:05.119
Said okay. He said, have you ever had anything run

963
00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:06.840
by your house in the middle of the night hit

964
00:54:06.920 --> 00:54:11.079
it two or three times? No, we've never had that happen.

965
00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:14.760
Have you ever heard growls from the woods around your

966
00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:19.000
house when you're outside at night. No, we've never heard

967
00:54:19.039 --> 00:54:23.679
growls outside. Have you ever heard rocks or steaks or

968
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:28.280
something being thrown on your roof at your house round

969
00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:33.280
the barn nearby? No, never heard it. He said, if

970
00:54:33.320 --> 00:54:36.559
they didn't want you there, that's what they would be doing.

971
00:54:37.719 --> 00:54:40.280
He said, they're just letting you know that they're there.

972
00:54:41.079 --> 00:54:45.360
They evidently have been watching you and see that you're

973
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:49.199
friendly to the animals, you're nice people. Because of all

974
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:53.159
the stuff that you're doing, and so they want to

975
00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:56.440
coexist with you. Well that kind of blew my mind,

976
00:54:56.920 --> 00:55:02.320
unlike okay, and then we kind of ended the conversation,

977
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:08.119
and I'm like, all right, so I'm tired for a

978
00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:12.039
person that goes by the motto trust but verify. I

979
00:55:12.119 --> 00:55:15.079
trusted what he said, but I wanted to verify what

980
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.039
he said. So after a little bit of thinking, I

981
00:55:19.159 --> 00:55:23.079
was like, this is after a while, after a few weeks,

982
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:27.320
I was like, what can I do to try to

983
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:31.280
find out they're really here? So what I decided to

984
00:55:31.320 --> 00:55:33.559
do is one big trayal that they had walked on

985
00:55:33.920 --> 00:55:37.239
and smushed everything down. I was going to go put

986
00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:41.599
two headless nails in a tree and stick red apples

987
00:55:41.599 --> 00:55:43.360
on it. I'll just stick them up as high as

988
00:55:43.360 --> 00:55:46.320
I could and find a tree that really didn't have

989
00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:49.559
any limbs on it for other things to get to it.

990
00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:51.840
So what a the end is?

991
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:55.480
I stuck a red delicious apple on each one of adults.

992
00:55:56.800 --> 00:56:02.280
Then I raked off underneath it that now the leaves

993
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:05.840
and all were so thick that it didn't get to

994
00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:08.760
the dirk, but it got to the soft leave, soft

995
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.719
wet leaves underneath it, which compress easy. So I go

996
00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:17.000
down there. The next time I go down there, and

997
00:56:17.000 --> 00:56:18.840
I believe it was the next day, but it could

998
00:56:18.840 --> 00:56:23.880
have been two days later. The apples were gone. That's good.

999
00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:29.920
I looked in there. It was in that in the

1000
00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:34.719
in the leaves there was an impression of one that

1001
00:56:35.159 --> 00:56:38.360
of a human like foot sixteen to sixteen and a

1002
00:56:38.360 --> 00:56:43.960
half inches long. And I have my answer. So we

1003
00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:50.840
do how Bigfoot? Bigfoot is here. So at the time,

1004
00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.480
I thought the Bigfoot, like most people think, Bigfoot's just

1005
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:58.559
a normal, everyday animal. So I decided, Okay, well, I'm

1006
00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:02.079
going to try to this is unique. I'm going to

1007
00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:05.960
try to find out how we should communicate and learn

1008
00:57:06.000 --> 00:57:09.519
about them, because nobody really does. And if I can

1009
00:57:09.559 --> 00:57:14.440
earn their trust and let them know that I'm willing,

1010
00:57:15.199 --> 00:57:19.400
maybe I can learn more about them and everything to

1011
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:23.440
find out, you know, all about them, find out as

1012
00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:28.760
much as I can. So I kept putting apples out there,

1013
00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:31.559
and they kept disappearing, and so I was trying to think,

1014
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:35.840
I need them to interact with me. So down there

1015
00:57:36.519 --> 00:57:39.880
near where I was putting the apples out, I had

1016
00:57:39.880 --> 00:57:42.599
a stump feeder. Now the stumb feeder was level and

1017
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:45.679
on the top it had the rings, and I said,

1018
00:57:46.119 --> 00:57:49.159
I'm going to give them some blue marbles. I saw

1019
00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:51.320
the show one time where they were talking about them

1020
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:54.280
liking blue marbles. So I'm going to put some blue

1021
00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:58.559
marbles up there to kill them as a gill. And

1022
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:03.039
it's with then probably fifteen twenty yards off where open

1023
00:58:03.159 --> 00:58:06.440
the apples. So I put the blue marbles up there.

1024
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:11.039
That was on a Sunday, and I think the next

1025
00:58:11.079 --> 00:58:14.840
Saturday when I went down there, the marbles were gone.

1026
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.400
I'm like, this is great. They're not on the ground,

1027
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:23.400
They're all gone. So I went and told my wife.

1028
00:58:23.559 --> 00:58:25.440
She wanted to see it. So we drive down there.

1029
00:58:25.880 --> 00:58:29.519
Sure enough, they're gone. Now to go down there, it

1030
00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:31.840
makes a big u by just kind of the way

1031
00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:38.119
that the streams and everything. My wife does all the mow,

1032
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:41.039
and thank goodness, I got her a real nice and

1033
00:58:41.239 --> 00:58:44.199
zero turn so she can do the mowing. It relaxes her.

1034
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:48.000
She loves to mow. So we're going around that u

1035
00:58:48.599 --> 00:58:52.039
and when we get to start going up on the

1036
00:58:52.079 --> 00:58:57.280
northernmost side, there is a huge river rock on the

1037
00:58:57.360 --> 00:59:00.320
left hand side of the trail. This seems got a

1038
00:59:00.320 --> 00:59:03.719
way one hundred pills and there's another one that weighs

1039
00:59:03.760 --> 00:59:06.519
about sixty devy pails on the right side of the trail,

1040
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:09.719
right next to it. My wife stops and looks at

1041
00:59:09.760 --> 00:59:13.639
him as she goes, where did these come from? I said,

1042
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:17.519
I have no idea where those getting from. You know,

1043
00:59:17.599 --> 00:59:18.599
they're they're huge.

1044
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:21.639
Neil has definitely gotten more than he bargained for with

1045
00:59:21.800 --> 00:59:26.519
that property, and the stuff is still going on. That

1046
00:59:26.599 --> 00:59:30.239
was number five North Georgia Habituation, Part one, episode six

1047
00:59:30.360 --> 00:59:34.679
fifty nine. Let's continue to number four Stuck on the

1048
00:59:34.679 --> 00:59:39.679
Island with Sasquatch, which is episode seven fourteen. This episode

1049
00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:44.519
is another outdoorsman from Oregon. His name's Joey, and he

1050
00:59:44.639 --> 00:59:50.360
shares some really interesting things in areas that are extremely active.

1051
00:59:51.039 --> 00:59:56.920
Silver Creek Falls State Park, Detroit Lake, Waldo Lake Wilderness.

1052
00:59:56.960 --> 00:59:59.639
Some really cool encounters shared in this one. It's actually

1053
00:59:59.639 --> 01:00:02.920
one of my favorites. I will tell you it's a

1054
01:00:02.920 --> 01:00:06.320
privilege to hear encounters from Detroit Lake area. I actually

1055
01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:09.320
tried to stop there. I did stop there in July

1056
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:14.960
of twenty twenty five. And people don't really like being

1057
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.519
asked about bigfoot or sharing stories to an outsider. At

1058
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.719
least they didn't to me, so whenever I get someone

1059
01:00:22.840 --> 01:00:26.360
on the show, it's a huge privilege from that area.

1060
01:00:26.840 --> 01:00:32.280
Enjoy this clip from episode seven fourteen, Stuck on the

1061
01:00:32.280 --> 01:00:37.400
Island with Sasquatch. You guys made it number four out

1062
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:39.880
of ten for twenty twenty five.

1063
01:00:40.119 --> 01:00:44.599
It was at Detroit Lake in nineteen ninety five on

1064
01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:48.719
the second of July. My birthday's fourth of July, and

1065
01:00:49.239 --> 01:00:51.880
it was on the island at Detroit Lake, Piety Island,

1066
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:56.559
at the boat camp there me I was there with

1067
01:00:56.800 --> 01:00:59.320
my friend Steve and his girlfriend were in my camp.

1068
01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:03.119
We had taken a campsite to furthest up the hill

1069
01:01:03.239 --> 01:01:05.559
away from other people that had come out there. It

1070
01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:07.960
was about a dozen of us that had come out

1071
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:11.239
to boat camp. I had a jet ski and we'd

1072
01:01:11.320 --> 01:01:13.639
done this several times right there. And they do the

1073
01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:16.599
fireworks at Detroit Lake on the third So it was

1074
01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:20.079
always fun to celebrate my birthday and to see the

1075
01:01:20.079 --> 01:01:21.679
fireworks there swimming and.

1076
01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:22.519
Fishing and whatnot.

1077
01:01:23.639 --> 01:01:27.599
So on the second of July, I had just finished

1078
01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:31.599
of partying and hanging out in a campground down on

1079
01:01:31.639 --> 01:01:35.000
the beach with my friend Sean and his girlfriend several others.

1080
01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:37.719
That was kind of the meeting place for everybody on

1081
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:40.679
that trip. And my friend Steve and I and his

1082
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:45.079
girlfriend Nancy returned to our camp site. It was pretty late,

1083
01:01:45.880 --> 01:01:49.079
I'm not really sure what time, maybe eleven twelve, I

1084
01:01:49.119 --> 01:01:49.440
don't know.

1085
01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:50.920
They went right to bed.

1086
01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:53.440
Our tents were set up next to each other. They

1087
01:01:53.480 --> 01:02:00.519
went to bed. I wanted to wind down a little bit.

1088
01:02:01.280 --> 01:02:04.119
I'd build up the fire and our fire pit had

1089
01:02:04.159 --> 01:02:07.079
an established fire pit there cement with a you know,

1090
01:02:07.159 --> 01:02:11.880
the metal swinging grill, and I had my sleeping.

1091
01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:12.920
Pad laid out by the fire.

1092
01:02:13.760 --> 01:02:16.800
Didn't have a camp chair, so I'm laying there with

1093
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:19.440
my you know, head on my in my hand up

1094
01:02:19.440 --> 01:02:22.000
on my elbow, on my side, watching the fire.

1095
01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:23.800
And I had my my.

1096
01:02:23.719 --> 01:02:29.719
Friend Steve's dog, Susha, a big old chocolate lab, laying

1097
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:31.280
by me. I was kind of using her kind of

1098
01:02:31.280 --> 01:02:34.920
like a pillow. Very cool dog. All I want to

1099
01:02:34.920 --> 01:02:38.840
add right now that this dog, whether it loved deer

1100
01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:42.320
or hated deer, I'm not sure, but if a deer

1101
01:02:42.440 --> 01:02:45.719
was anywhere around our camp, whenever we went camp and

1102
01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:48.960
she was out of there chasing it, it was almost

1103
01:02:48.960 --> 01:02:51.639
a problem because sometimes she'd be gone an hour or two.

1104
01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:54.360
We always wondered if she was going to come back,

1105
01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.840
and she wouldn't bark or anything. She'd just be laying

1106
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.480
there one minute and the next second just take off

1107
01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:01.159
like a rocket.

1108
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:04.719
We knew what she was after, right, So she's.

1109
01:03:04.599 --> 01:03:08.679
Laying there by me and my fire's my fire was

1110
01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:12.280
dying down, so there wasn't much flame left, but there

1111
01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:16.880
was plenty of smoke coming up off the fire. And

1112
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:19.440
that was one of the advantages of laying on that pad.

1113
01:03:19.480 --> 01:03:21.159
If it blew my way, it kind of just went

1114
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:23.000
over the top of me and didn't get in my eyes.

1115
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:27.159
So anyway, I'm laying there and Susha's at my head,

1116
01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:29.960
like I said, and she lets out a little.

1117
01:03:29.719 --> 01:03:36.760
Growl, kind of a low, low growl, and it's and

1118
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:37.679
goes on alert.

1119
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:41.400
So she's sitting up now and kind of looking off

1120
01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:44.519
up the hill from me, and I was checking her

1121
01:03:44.519 --> 01:03:46.559
out to see where she was looking at, but she

1122
01:03:46.639 --> 01:03:50.320
hasn't taken off, and I was wondering, if it's a deer,

1123
01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.599
how come you're not chasing it already. And I hear

1124
01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:57.679
I hear a stick break, big stick break, and very

1125
01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:00.320
close to camp, and it made a crack. I mean,

1126
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:03.719
it sounded like a big stick you would put over

1127
01:04:03.760 --> 01:04:08.800
your knee or stomp on to break it. But it

1128
01:04:08.800 --> 01:04:12.960
it got my attention, and now Susha's very worried and

1129
01:04:13.000 --> 01:04:18.599
whining a little bit about it. And though I have

1130
01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:21.320
a pen light on my tee chain in my pocket,

1131
01:04:21.320 --> 01:04:24.840
one of those little flashlights you screw flows to make

1132
01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:27.239
the light come on. So I get that out and

1133
01:04:27.280 --> 01:04:28.960
I turn on the light and the battery and it's

1134
01:04:29.000 --> 01:04:32.320
real crappy, but it's still making some kind of light.

1135
01:04:33.840 --> 01:04:35.880
And I kind of get up on my knees and

1136
01:04:35.920 --> 01:04:40.000
I'm shining it through the smoke and up the hill

1137
01:04:40.679 --> 01:04:43.960
above my camp there see if I can see anything

1138
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.760
kind of at ground level where you might see a deer.

1139
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:52.800
And something catches my eye. And what I see is

1140
01:04:53.320 --> 01:04:57.480
I raise my flashlight up and from behind the tree

1141
01:04:57.480 --> 01:05:00.639
behind camp, maybe ten feet behind the fire ra, I

1142
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.239
see one glowing eye. I don't know if it was

1143
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:07.559
red or yet, I think it must have been. I

1144
01:05:07.599 --> 01:05:13.119
remember being a yellow glow, but big, this eye peering

1145
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:18.559
out from me behind the tree. And you know, my

1146
01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:21.519
mind's going nuts right now. I can't figure out what

1147
01:05:21.679 --> 01:05:25.440
it is. So I stand up, and I wasn't really

1148
01:05:25.480 --> 01:05:27.880
afraid yet I had to figure out what this was.

1149
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:31.480
I wanted to figure out what this was. So for

1150
01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:36.400
whatever reason, I stepped right across the fire, right across

1151
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:41.199
the grate, through the smoke, towards this thing so I

1152
01:05:41.199 --> 01:05:43.559
can get a better view of it, so the smoke

1153
01:05:43.679 --> 01:05:46.440
isn't in my way. And as soon as I get

1154
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:50.119
across it, it goes behind the tree and comes out

1155
01:05:50.159 --> 01:05:52.360
on the other side. Now I see both eyes looking

1156
01:05:52.400 --> 01:06:00.960
at me, and it's big, and I know.

1157
01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:01.440
What this is.

1158
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:05.119
Now I can see the outline it's facing me. I

1159
01:06:05.159 --> 01:06:07.280
can see the outline of its left side. It's not

1160
01:06:07.440 --> 01:06:09.239
all the way out from the tree, but I can

1161
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:13.039
see it plainly that I'm standing right in front of

1162
01:06:13.079 --> 01:06:15.719
a big foot. And as soon as it's blinking at

1163
01:06:15.760 --> 01:06:19.400
me too, and as soon as I see it in

1164
01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:24.599
full view, it squats down, like you know, it's getting

1165
01:06:25.199 --> 01:06:28.480
like the call of nature. It squats down and puts

1166
01:06:28.480 --> 01:06:30.360
its hands out in front of me or out in

1167
01:06:30.360 --> 01:06:33.239
front of it on the ground. And I've still got

1168
01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:36.079
my light and my arm extended completely out in front

1169
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:37.920
of me, and I'm shining my light right on its

1170
01:06:37.920 --> 01:06:42.199
eyeballs and I can see it and it's massive, you know.

1171
01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:45.440
I don't know how tall it was. I never measured it,

1172
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:48.400
but it was a good nine to ten foot tall,

1173
01:06:48.559 --> 01:06:52.400
sauce bigfoot huge, seemed like it was even bigger than

1174
01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:56.599
the one I'd seen in nineteen seventy nine. And it's

1175
01:06:56.639 --> 01:07:02.519
squatted down, it's completely broads, it's just massive. And a

1176
01:07:02.559 --> 01:07:06.360
couple seconds later and I'm just frozen there with my flashlight.

1177
01:07:06.480 --> 01:07:09.320
A couple seconds later, it starts moving away from me

1178
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:13.880
down the hill towards the beach, and Susha has taken off.

1179
01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:19.199
She's nowhere to be seen. She didn't bark, or she

1180
01:07:19.320 --> 01:07:22.840
decided she didn't want any part of this thing. And

1181
01:07:22.880 --> 01:07:25.280
it moves away from me. And while it's moving away,

1182
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:28.679
it's standing up and squatting, standing up and squatting, going

1183
01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:32.360
up and down, up and down, and it kept its

1184
01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:35.639
eyes on me the whole time. And it got down

1185
01:07:35.639 --> 01:07:37.960
the hill from me thirty or forty feet, still looking

1186
01:07:38.000 --> 01:07:40.320
at me, and I'm now all I can see is

1187
01:07:40.360 --> 01:07:43.840
the eye shine. And it got to a point where

1188
01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:47.159
it was the angle of the hill, it was going

1189
01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:51.039
to disappear, and I got the creeps like I became.

1190
01:07:52.039 --> 01:07:55.360
Now I'm ready to act, And I went from my

1191
01:07:55.440 --> 01:07:58.639
fire pit to my tent. In about a half a second,

1192
01:07:58.679 --> 01:08:02.960
I just dove into my tent, breathing heavily. I was

1193
01:08:03.440 --> 01:08:07.400
I was petrified at what I'd just seen. Susha's nowhere

1194
01:08:07.440 --> 01:08:10.519
to incite. I jumped in my tent and grabbed my

1195
01:08:10.519 --> 01:08:12.400
sleeping bag and put it over my head, like a

1196
01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:15.960
like a child hiding from a monster in his bedroom.

1197
01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:16.159
You know.

1198
01:08:17.199 --> 01:08:21.520
That was that was my protection, was that thin walled tent,

1199
01:08:21.640 --> 01:08:24.359
my sleeping bag. And I'm on my hands and knees

1200
01:08:24.399 --> 01:08:26.000
with my bag over my head. And I don't know

1201
01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:30.479
how long I stayed like that, just hoping that whatever happened,

1202
01:08:30.520 --> 01:08:33.359
that it didn't come back and you know, kill me.

1203
01:08:34.000 --> 01:08:36.439
I felt like when it moved away from me, it

1204
01:08:36.520 --> 01:08:39.239
might be trying to come around behind me, which is

1205
01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:44.279
why I acted and ran to my tent. So strangely enough,

1206
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:49.960
after all of that, I fell asleep and woke up

1207
01:08:50.039 --> 01:08:54.000
kind of panicky and sat up in my tent, thinking,

1208
01:08:54.279 --> 01:08:56.920
you know that what I saw was that a dream?

1209
01:08:57.119 --> 01:08:57.319
You know.

1210
01:08:57.520 --> 01:09:00.880
No poked my head out the tent and Susha had

1211
01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:04.640
come back to camp and was walking around in front

1212
01:09:04.640 --> 01:09:06.319
of my tent a little bit. I called her into

1213
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:11.199
my tent and zipped it up and went back to

1214
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:13.520
sleep with her. I got up real early. I didn't

1215
01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:17.239
sleep much, got up real early, got my fire going

1216
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:21.000
and some coffee. My friend Sean saw me doing that

1217
01:09:21.159 --> 01:09:23.199
from the camp down by the beach, and he came

1218
01:09:23.279 --> 01:09:27.439
up the hill with his coffee cup to to get

1219
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:29.720
some coffee from me, and I told him what had happened,

1220
01:09:31.079 --> 01:09:34.279
and he was blown away. He started looking around on

1221
01:09:34.319 --> 01:09:37.880
the tree again. The forest floor was there was not

1222
01:09:38.159 --> 01:09:41.479
a conducive for leaving any tracks, so there weren't any

1223
01:09:41.520 --> 01:09:45.720
tracks or anything. Later in the day, I followed abandoned

1224
01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:48.880
fire road or whatever that wound around the back side

1225
01:09:48.880 --> 01:09:52.359
of the island to the top to see if I

1226
01:09:52.359 --> 01:09:54.319
could find any more signs or tracks.

1227
01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:56.279
I did not.

1228
01:09:56.600 --> 01:10:00.640
On top of Piety Island, there's a slash pile of

1229
01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:06.079
abandoned timber, quite a sizable pile that was never harvested,

1230
01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:10.359
but is still there, moss covered and weathered. And when

1231
01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:12.239
I got up to the top and saw that there

1232
01:10:12.239 --> 01:10:16.279
were some real dark holes inside this pile of logs,

1233
01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:20.680
that made the you know, a very creepy feeling standing

1234
01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:23.159
there looking like there was something in there looking back

1235
01:10:23.199 --> 01:10:25.880
at me. And I didn't stick around long and went

1236
01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:29.039
back down to camp. By the time I got back down,

1237
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:32.479
there was another family that was camping with us with

1238
01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:36.680
their with their kids that had come out in a

1239
01:10:36.720 --> 01:10:39.760
ski boat, and my friend Sean had told him what

1240
01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:43.439
I had seen. And this this fellow shared with me

1241
01:10:43.520 --> 01:10:46.479
that while he was at a boy scout camp pretty

1242
01:10:46.520 --> 01:10:50.840
close to fur Lake when he was a kid, that

1243
01:10:51.119 --> 01:10:54.880
their their scout master had seen a bigfoot while he

1244
01:10:54.920 --> 01:10:56.399
had gotten up in the night and there was one

1245
01:10:56.439 --> 01:10:59.479
in their camp at the scout camp and made everybody

1246
01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:02.119
clear out the following day. He said it was a

1247
01:11:02.159 --> 01:11:05.560
surreal experience because he not only did he had never

1248
01:11:05.640 --> 01:11:08.039
heard one before, but you know, to actually have to

1249
01:11:08.199 --> 01:11:11.039
leave the camp because of one. So he took he

1250
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:14.560
packed up his kids and everything and took off that day.

1251
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:17.479
On the on the third of July, he didn't even

1252
01:11:17.479 --> 01:11:20.039
stay for the fireworks. He was like, he felt like

1253
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:22.800
he was in danger if we had one right there

1254
01:11:22.800 --> 01:11:27.119
on the island. I stayed two more nights and I

1255
01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:30.479
didn't worry about it. On you know, the third of July,

1256
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:32.960
there was fireworks going off. It sounds like a war

1257
01:11:33.079 --> 01:11:36.079
zone there. I didn't I didn't think about it that

1258
01:11:36.199 --> 01:11:39.560
night and then stayed the night of my birthday on

1259
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:42.760
the fourth and went home the fifth. And it didn't

1260
01:11:42.800 --> 01:11:46.880
really didn't really bother me, I guess, thinking back, you

1261
01:11:46.880 --> 01:11:51.600
know again I was I was ten feet from it

1262
01:11:51.720 --> 01:11:54.560
or closer when it was squatting down, and I was

1263
01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:56.680
standing there with my little light. You know, I could

1264
01:11:56.720 --> 01:11:59.640
hear it breathing, and he could have reached out and

1265
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:03.079
snapped me like a twig, and he didn't. He just

1266
01:12:03.439 --> 01:12:06.600
checked me out for a second, maybe maybe five or

1267
01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:09.159
ten seconds. It was squatted down before it started moving

1268
01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:12.039
down the hill. But the way it moved down that

1269
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.920
hill was very strange. How it stood all the way

1270
01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:19.119
up and went down almost to the ground, up and

1271
01:12:19.199 --> 01:12:22.600
down three or four times before you know, I high

1272
01:12:22.680 --> 01:12:24.199
tailed it and jumped into my tent.

1273
01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:24.840
Man.

1274
01:12:24.920 --> 01:12:27.920
That is one of my favorite episodes. Such a good

1275
01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:32.720
chat with Joey again. That's episode seven fourteen. Let's head

1276
01:12:32.720 --> 01:12:35.760
on now to number three out of ten. This is

1277
01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:40.640
episode seven ninety nine. Wildlife Biologist comes forward in Pennsylvania.

1278
01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:44.920
Oh my goodness, this one is wild. Matt Carter is

1279
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:49.199
a former wildlife biologist from southwest Pennsylvania, was on the show.

1280
01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:53.039
His family has this secluded twenty acre property. Matt is

1281
01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:56.159
really getting a ton of data and having some intense

1282
01:12:56.279 --> 01:13:03.680
experiences on this property, everything from bizarre howls to weird smells,

1283
01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:08.319
unidentified bird calls. And Matt is a gentleman who has

1284
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:12.760
authored his own bird book, Birds of the West Virginia

1285
01:13:12.840 --> 01:13:15.880
Northern Panhandle too. He is the author of that book,

1286
01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:20.680
so he knows his stuff as a wildlife biologist. Check

1287
01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:24.560
out this clip of episode number three out of ten,

1288
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:26.479
This whole episode is just awesome.

1289
01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:28.119
I stood up and I walked over and I was

1290
01:13:28.159 --> 01:13:30.439
staying there, just looking, and then all of a sudden,

1291
01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:33.479
I hear, like plain as day, a wood knock and

1292
01:13:33.520 --> 01:13:36.800
I was like, oh, that's weird. And my mom said,

1293
01:13:36.840 --> 01:13:39.159
what I said, You didn't hear that. I said, that

1294
01:13:39.279 --> 01:13:42.239
sounded like somebody like took it like a stick or

1295
01:13:42.439 --> 01:13:45.960
you know, fall aback something, just smack the tree. And

1296
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:47.960
she said, are you kidding? I said, Mom, I would

1297
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:51.520
never joke about wildlife stuff. And she said, well, what

1298
01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:53.680
would do that? What kind of animal? I said, well,

1299
01:13:53.720 --> 01:13:56.159
you would need hands to actually pick something up and

1300
01:13:56.239 --> 01:13:59.520
smack something like that. And then we heard a second

1301
01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:02.520
one and she heard it this time, and now the

1302
01:14:02.560 --> 01:14:05.439
dogs moved from where they were to between me and

1303
01:14:05.479 --> 01:14:08.000
the and like you know where you can't see from

1304
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:12.520
the campfire, and then we heard another one answer it

1305
01:14:12.600 --> 01:14:16.279
back further up in the woods. That was when I'm like, okay,

1306
01:14:16.359 --> 01:14:18.880
time to take the dogs in. And it was very

1307
01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:22.239
hard to get them inside that night, like they really

1308
01:14:22.279 --> 01:14:24.680
did not want to leave, like where they were, like

1309
01:14:24.680 --> 01:14:27.079
they were really freaked out even walk over towards that

1310
01:14:27.119 --> 01:14:29.640
part of the property because we kind of had to

1311
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:34.199
walk that directionally get back to the house. So that

1312
01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:38.079
was like the first like real weird thing out here

1313
01:14:38.199 --> 01:14:40.920
wildlife wise, and I'm like, Okay, something's in that woods

1314
01:14:41.560 --> 01:14:43.439
making noises that I don't know what it is. And

1315
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.119
that's a problem because I've been doing this, you know,

1316
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:48.159
for a better part of a decade at that point,

1317
01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:51.800
and I've spent thousands of hours, like I worked on

1318
01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:54.000
like the breeding bird atlasts from Western Virginia. I was

1319
01:14:54.000 --> 01:14:56.319
doing one hundred hours a week in the woods and

1320
01:14:56.399 --> 01:14:59.119
all these other projects. So I'm very aware of what's

1321
01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:03.960
in this whole area. So that was kind of it

1322
01:15:04.079 --> 01:15:08.239
until that fall, so like a few months later, so

1323
01:15:08.319 --> 01:15:12.800
that was by June, so around September October, it was

1324
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:14.560
like four in the morning because I'm a bit of

1325
01:15:14.600 --> 01:15:16.640
a night out, so I was just sitting here on

1326
01:15:16.680 --> 01:15:18.960
my computer and then I started to hear what sounded

1327
01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:22.039
like a hyena and I know it's not a coyote

1328
01:15:22.079 --> 01:15:25.720
because I've since found a video from the US Fish

1329
01:15:25.720 --> 01:15:27.840
and Wildlife Service which I can send you a link

1330
01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:32.159
to that they're actually talking about these vocalizations that they caught,

1331
01:15:32.520 --> 01:15:35.600
and they're talking about sasquatch and like how they can't

1332
01:15:35.680 --> 01:15:38.359
figure out, like, is that what this is because none

1333
01:15:38.439 --> 01:15:41.920
of them knew what these exact sounds I heard were.

1334
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:45.159
And what was weird about it was I went over

1335
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:47.800
to the window and I was just listening, and as

1336
01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:50.399
it kind of like it got closer, I wasn't able

1337
01:15:50.399 --> 01:15:55.720
to move. It was like this wave of fear hit me,

1338
01:15:55.920 --> 01:15:58.680
and it's probably the scariness I've ever been And it's

1339
01:15:58.680 --> 01:16:00.880
crazy because I was on the second story of my

1340
01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:06.560
house inside, but I couldn't almost physically move until eventually

1341
01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:08.840
it got to the point where I was almost crying.

1342
01:16:08.920 --> 01:16:12.159
I was so scared, and then the noise just went

1343
01:16:12.199 --> 01:16:15.760
away and then I could start to move, which makes

1344
01:16:15.800 --> 01:16:18.199
me wonder if that was some form of infra sound.

1345
01:16:18.239 --> 01:16:20.920
That hit me because it was very weird that I

1346
01:16:20.920 --> 01:16:25.800
couldn't move. So after that, though, is really when things

1347
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:29.479
started to pick up. So now we start getting like

1348
01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:32.279
odd bird calls at night. So what I mean is

1349
01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:35.880
throw the owls calling, but they're not owls. The voice

1350
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:38.359
is too deep and the cadence and the rhythm is wrong.

1351
01:16:39.199 --> 01:16:42.279
So typically, like you know, like the great horn, Now

1352
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:44.680
you'll get like one long or one short, and then

1353
01:16:44.720 --> 01:16:47.720
a couple more after that. This isn't even doing the

1354
01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:50.359
right amount of notes, let alone. The voice is too

1355
01:16:50.399 --> 01:16:52.800
deep to be an owl, And at times we'll go

1356
01:16:53.079 --> 01:16:57.960
to an alternate like real deep at the end, so

1357
01:16:58.119 --> 01:17:02.199
that's clearly not an owl doing that. And we'll get

1358
01:17:02.239 --> 01:17:06.359
like other weird animal calls like geese and other things

1359
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:08.600
coming from the woods, and like there's no there's not

1360
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:12.119
going to be a random goose living up in the woods.

1361
01:17:12.800 --> 01:17:15.199
And this kind of goes on until like early June

1362
01:17:15.239 --> 01:17:18.960
of twenty twenty four. So I've been trying to get

1363
01:17:19.000 --> 01:17:21.600
back into shape just because I'm trying to be healthier.

1364
01:17:21.880 --> 01:17:24.600
And our property, like I said, it's a twenty acre.

1365
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:29.880
It's mainly a like an open field, and in the

1366
01:17:29.920 --> 01:17:32.159
back left corner of that field, there's like a little

1367
01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:34.520
stand of woods before you hit the actual woods, like

1368
01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:37.039
there's a little like stretch of like clearing between it,

1369
01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:40.920
so it kind of goes It has a grade too,

1370
01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:43.680
like it kind of goes up into that corner. But

1371
01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:45.960
then as you go up to the right hand back corner,

1372
01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:49.399
it's really steep. So it's a nice workout, like you

1373
01:17:49.479 --> 01:17:51.880
get this gradual grade and then you come back down

1374
01:17:52.960 --> 01:17:54.880
on like the right side and you just do a

1375
01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:57.159
circle and I think altogether it's like a quarter mile

1376
01:17:57.319 --> 01:17:59.159
or a half a mile. It gets a teco lock.

1377
01:18:00.359 --> 01:18:03.079
So what happened was I was walking back towards that corner,

1378
01:18:03.119 --> 01:18:07.159
towards where that pond is, and I noticed everything went

1379
01:18:07.319 --> 01:18:13.199
dead silent, and I mean dead silent. No birds, no bugs, nothing,

1380
01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:16.960
And that's really weird for that to be happening in

1381
01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:20.279
like early summer, late spring. You know when everything should

1382
01:18:20.319 --> 01:18:23.880
be going crazy or something should be doing an alarm call,

1383
01:18:23.920 --> 01:18:27.439
you know, some kind of you know, there's a whole

1384
01:18:27.439 --> 01:18:32.159
bunch of different species like blue jays. You know, there's

1385
01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:34.800
a tough to tit myself, and something should be alarming

1386
01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:39.000
to me coming back there, but nothing, So I thought

1387
01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:41.399
that was weird to go, like quieter and quieter the

1388
01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:45.439
closer I got through that pond. So I just sat

1389
01:18:45.479 --> 01:18:47.239
there for at the pond for a second, I'm like,

1390
01:18:47.279 --> 01:18:51.640
this is it just fell off? And then that's when

1391
01:18:51.680 --> 01:18:54.239
I heard it sounded like I was convinced it was

1392
01:18:54.279 --> 01:18:57.600
a person, but everything was so grown in at that time.

1393
01:18:57.680 --> 01:19:01.279
I couldn't see, you know, what was walking around, but

1394
01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:04.199
it was clearly two legs because it sounded just like

1395
01:19:04.239 --> 01:19:07.520
a huge person walking And it kind of freaked me

1396
01:19:07.560 --> 01:19:11.520
out because nobody should be back there. All of our

1397
01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.520
dogs are like essentially like guard dogs, so everyone knows

1398
01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:17.720
just don't come up here. I mean, we've got guns.

1399
01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:21.319
I mean Southwest Pa. So no one should be back

1400
01:19:21.319 --> 01:19:25.439
there messing around. And it started to bother me because

1401
01:19:25.479 --> 01:19:29.399
I said hello and there was no answer. So then

1402
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:33.479
I'm like, Okay, what do I do now, because I'm

1403
01:19:33.520 --> 01:19:36.000
convinced this is a person, and I'm like, they're not answering,

1404
01:19:37.159 --> 01:19:39.920
and you know, normally if there's someone out in the

1405
01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:41.960
woods with you and they're not answering back, they don't

1406
01:19:41.960 --> 01:19:45.159
have good intentions. So I said, just so you know,

1407
01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:48.039
I can hear you, I said, I can't see you.

1408
01:19:48.079 --> 01:19:50.239
But I can tell, like the general area where you're at.

1409
01:19:50.800 --> 01:19:53.079
I said, Look, I live in that house over there,

1410
01:19:53.600 --> 01:19:55.680
I said, So I'm not far. Someone will come looking

1411
01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:58.319
for me, I said. And the second thing is, I'm

1412
01:19:58.359 --> 01:20:01.039
not back here like the car problems, I said, I'm

1413
01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:03.359
just going for a nature walk and I'm going to

1414
01:20:03.479 --> 01:20:06.079
walk up to the other to the opposite corner. Back here,

1415
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:09.560
there's a game cam that a family friend has. I'm

1416
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:11.399
gonna put the s ME card back in it that

1417
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:14.279
I got yesterday, because that was what was weird was

1418
01:20:14.279 --> 01:20:16.680
the day before. Everything was fine when I was back there.

1419
01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:21.319
So it's still nothing, no one, no one's saying anything.

1420
01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:24.800
There was no smells though, so I didn't smell anything

1421
01:20:24.840 --> 01:20:27.560
this time, but there was something like you could tell

1422
01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:29.439
it was over there because I could hear it moving around.

1423
01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:33.600
So I said, okay, I'm gonna walk up here now. Still,

1424
01:20:33.920 --> 01:20:37.079
you know, no nothing's talking back to me. So I

1425
01:20:37.159 --> 01:20:40.319
start to walk up like the woodline, and I noticed though,

1426
01:20:40.640 --> 01:20:45.199
even though nobody's talking, it's paralleling me. So I'm like, okay,

1427
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:47.399
I don't like this because now not only is it

1428
01:20:47.800 --> 01:20:50.680
somebody you know in my mind at this time not talking,

1429
01:20:50.720 --> 01:20:54.640
but they're paralleling me, so it's like they're stalking me.

1430
01:20:55.960 --> 01:20:59.000
So I keep walking up and as I get closer

1431
01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:02.319
to where there's like this little watering hole that they

1432
01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:05.680
actually dug with a with a I think like a

1433
01:21:05.760 --> 01:21:08.319
bacco or something, and they put the game camera up there,

1434
01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:10.119
you know, to see like what would come up there.

1435
01:21:11.119 --> 01:21:14.159
So the closer I get to it now, I start

1436
01:21:14.199 --> 01:21:16.720
to hear it's like a you know, almost like someone

1437
01:21:16.840 --> 01:21:19.840
smacking its chest, not like a rough grouse, because that's

1438
01:21:19.840 --> 01:21:22.560
a very anyone that's hurt those they know exactly what

1439
01:21:22.640 --> 01:21:24.920
that sounds like. This actually sounds like what I was

1440
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:27.600
just doing, like that, like someone's smacking the chest and

1441
01:21:27.640 --> 01:21:32.079
it was huge. And then the like the bush starts shaking,

1442
01:21:32.800 --> 01:21:35.960
and that's when I start to hear you know, almost

1443
01:21:35.960 --> 01:21:39.920
like the Sierra sounds, but without like words to it.

1444
01:21:39.960 --> 01:21:43.119
So all this together is really confusing me because I'm like, what,

1445
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:46.000
you know, what is I don't even know what's happening

1446
01:21:46.079 --> 01:21:49.319
right now, because as a wildlife biologist, I'm trying to

1447
01:21:49.399 --> 01:21:52.000
rationalize this because you know, it's like, well, that could

1448
01:21:52.039 --> 01:21:53.920
be you know, in my mind, I'm still thinking that

1449
01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:57.000
could be rough to grouse. But then what's gonna shake.

1450
01:21:57.640 --> 01:22:01.119
What's gonna shake the you know, that's a huge bush

1451
01:22:01.159 --> 01:22:04.840
that it's shaking. And I'm like, I don't know what's

1452
01:22:04.880 --> 01:22:08.279
going on now, And I was terrified because I'm like,

1453
01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:12.159
there's something here that's enormous, and you know, I did

1454
01:22:12.199 --> 01:22:14.439
the dumbest thing I've probably ever done in my life.

1455
01:22:14.479 --> 01:22:17.720
Jeremiah and anyone listening, dear God, don't ever do this.

1456
01:22:18.840 --> 01:22:21.560
You know. I'm like, haha, you know, oh, you know,

1457
01:22:21.960 --> 01:22:25.079
maybe it's sasquatch. Well, that was dumb that like to

1458
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:27.960
even like take this as like not anything serious or

1459
01:22:27.960 --> 01:22:29.399
that I was in a bad situation.

1460
01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:31.199
So what did I do?

1461
01:22:33.159 --> 01:22:35.880
I just laughed because this is so stupid, Like, even

1462
01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.239
if you don't know what the animal is, you should

1463
01:22:38.279 --> 01:22:41.960
never like push to see. Oh am, I gonna you know,

1464
01:22:42.079 --> 01:22:46.279
instigated to do something doing something. I barred my teeth

1465
01:22:46.399 --> 01:22:49.000
like a chimp wood and then I did the back

1466
01:22:49.039 --> 01:22:52.119
to it with you know, smacking my chest. That's what

1467
01:22:52.159 --> 01:22:56.199
that noise is. That was the biggest mistake I've ever made.

1468
01:22:56.199 --> 01:23:00.880
Whatever that was barreled through there then, and it almost

1469
01:23:01.119 --> 01:23:03.239
I almost got the way I could see it, and

1470
01:23:03.279 --> 01:23:06.359
I was like, nope. I started to back up then

1471
01:23:06.520 --> 01:23:10.520
I kept my eyes facing towards the woodline and I

1472
01:23:10.640 --> 01:23:13.920
just walked slowly back and I just kept watching because

1473
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:16.039
I'm like, I'm convinced at this point I'm gonna die.

1474
01:23:16.479 --> 01:23:19.079
Whatever that was was crashing through there, and I could

1475
01:23:19.079 --> 01:23:23.560
tell now this is no joke, Like things are real serious,

1476
01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:27.079
real quick, and I just felt like, whatever's here, if

1477
01:23:27.119 --> 01:23:29.960
it wants to, I'm dead. There's nothing I'm gonna do

1478
01:23:31.159 --> 01:23:34.079
because I know people say they've seen bear, but none

1479
01:23:34.079 --> 01:23:37.840
of this fits a bear, like the smiling, the shaking,

1480
01:23:37.880 --> 01:23:41.439
the thing I don't. I've heard there do weird noises,

1481
01:23:41.920 --> 01:23:42.880
but none of it like.

1482
01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:47.439
This wild stuff going on with that one in southwest Pennsylvania.

1483
01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:51.920
Definitely check it out, guys. Whole episode. It is episode seven.

1484
01:23:52.960 --> 01:23:57.399
Let's head on now to number two, the number two

1485
01:23:57.920 --> 01:24:01.760
most viewed episode of Big for Society on the YouTube

1486
01:24:01.800 --> 01:24:07.880
platform for twenty twenty five. Here it is episode number

1487
01:24:07.960 --> 01:24:13.920
seven fifty six. They found that Hunter torn apart. This

1488
01:24:14.039 --> 01:24:21.439
episode is an extremely intense conversation with Mark Plowboy Green

1489
01:24:22.359 --> 01:24:25.239
from down there in the foothills of Alabama, who had

1490
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:32.560
some really incredible encounters down there by Creepy Mountain. This

1491
01:24:32.600 --> 01:24:36.960
is one that you really do not want to miss anything.

1492
01:24:37.840 --> 01:24:42.680
Any conversation with Mark Green is incredible, and you guys

1493
01:24:42.920 --> 01:24:45.800
loved this chat on the channel. So let's go ahead.

1494
01:24:45.800 --> 01:24:47.159
We're gonna play a clip of this.

1495
01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:48.760
You can check it out.

1496
01:24:50.720 --> 01:24:55.640
I had found me a big wide oak tree, very

1497
01:24:55.680 --> 01:24:58.239
big wide oak tree, and that's what I had, you know,

1498
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:01.640
sitting down against and facing out into the green field

1499
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:03.920
where I could see anything you know that would enter

1500
01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:04.720
the green field.

1501
01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:06.439
And behind me was a big swamp.

1502
01:25:07.520 --> 01:25:10.600
I was sitting there listening to beaver splash the water

1503
01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:13.520
and you know, and I could tell the water wasn't

1504
01:25:13.520 --> 01:25:16.680
too far behind me, maybe one hundred yards maybe something

1505
01:25:16.840 --> 01:25:22.800
like that. Well, about three point thirty that afternoon, two

1506
01:25:22.840 --> 01:25:26.439
doves entered into the field. They came from behind me

1507
01:25:26.600 --> 01:25:28.960
where the swamp was, and they went to feeding out

1508
01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:32.720
in the field. Of course, that got my hopes up

1509
01:25:32.800 --> 01:25:37.279
that later on, you know, a buck might be trailing them.

1510
01:25:38.119 --> 01:25:39.319
So, you know, I knew that.

1511
01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:41.479
Was a good thing by those two dogs coming in there,

1512
01:25:41.560 --> 01:25:42.640
that you know, they might.

1513
01:25:42.560 --> 01:25:43.119
Draw a buck.

1514
01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:48.039
And I so probably for a good thirty minutes or so,

1515
01:25:48.239 --> 01:25:51.399
the doors just feeding around, they'd raise their head, look

1516
01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:53.239
up a little bit and they'd go back to feeding.

1517
01:25:53.319 --> 01:25:58.840
Everything was going good, and probably sometime a little at four,

1518
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:02.000
I said, I did not look at my watch. I

1519
01:26:02.079 --> 01:26:06.279
just knew it was getting late afternoon, probably around four fifteen.

1520
01:26:06.399 --> 01:26:09.800
Somewhere in that neck of the woods, I heard a

1521
01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:13.720
little commotion in the woods behind me. Of course, my

1522
01:26:13.800 --> 01:26:16.720
thoughts went to, here he comes, here comes the buck.

1523
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:19.359
Of course the doves look straight up and look back.

1524
01:26:19.960 --> 01:26:23.680
They'd stare wild, and then they'd get relaxed again and

1525
01:26:23.720 --> 01:26:25.800
go back to eating. Well, this went on a couple

1526
01:26:25.840 --> 01:26:29.439
of times, and this probably done got to you know,

1527
01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:32.600
four point thirty somewhere in that neighborhood, and all of

1528
01:26:32.600 --> 01:26:36.600
a sudden, these two doors just throw their tails up

1529
01:26:36.880 --> 01:26:39.239
and blow and run out the opposite end of that

1530
01:26:39.319 --> 01:26:43.640
field fast as they could go. Well, of course, I'm thinking, oh, yeah,

1531
01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:47.720
that's a buck. He's fishing to bust out in this field,

1532
01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:50.840
and I'm gonna get a shot at him. But I

1533
01:26:50.920 --> 01:26:54.399
noticed he didn't come on you know, you know, this

1534
01:26:54.479 --> 01:26:57.359
is what I'm thinking in my head. He started kind

1535
01:26:57.399 --> 01:27:01.359
of moving in behind me slowly, and of course I'm

1536
01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:04.680
still thinking, well, maybe he winded me, you know, maybe

1537
01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:07.359
he got a with you know, wh of me, and

1538
01:27:07.439 --> 01:27:09.279
he's trying to get behind me to see if he

1539
01:27:09.319 --> 01:27:11.159
can get a better smell of me and see where

1540
01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:15.079
I'm at before, you know, because buck deer, they are

1541
01:27:15.199 --> 01:27:21.079
very cautious. This went on probably for another ten minutes

1542
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:24.000
or so, and I could hear that subtle movement in

1543
01:27:24.159 --> 01:27:25.720
behind me, and I could tell it it's getting a

1544
01:27:25.720 --> 01:27:31.279
little closer to me, and my curiosity finally just got

1545
01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:34.960
the best of me, so I started easing up the

1546
01:27:35.000 --> 01:27:37.880
side of that tree. Of course, this tree was big

1547
01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:41.760
enough to conceal me. I don't know how many inches

1548
01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:44.079
around it was at least a forty eight fifty two

1549
01:27:44.840 --> 01:27:49.880
inch tree, so you know, it's pretty big. So he's

1550
01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:53.359
up and stand still for a minute or so, and

1551
01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:55.319
then I kind of peeped my head out from around

1552
01:27:55.319 --> 01:27:57.960
that tree, looking back into that swamp.

1553
01:27:59.279 --> 01:28:01.439
Didn't see nothing something for a minute or two.

1554
01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:03.640
Or what seemed like a minute or two, and all

1555
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:08.399
of a sudden, I caught movement maybe sixty seventy feet

1556
01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:15.039
from me, and I got to looking, and I couldn't

1557
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:16.880
really tell what I was looking at for a second

1558
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:19.079
when I first flew it, but I knew.

1559
01:28:18.840 --> 01:28:19.800
Something was there.

1560
01:28:20.520 --> 01:28:23.239
And then first I thought I was looking at another

1561
01:28:23.319 --> 01:28:27.000
human because when it peeped out from around the tree,

1562
01:28:27.359 --> 01:28:30.720
it had a you know, human sort of shape to it,

1563
01:28:30.760 --> 01:28:33.880
and I could see the shoulders. But what struck me

1564
01:28:33.920 --> 01:28:37.600
out about this was it didn't have no orange on.

1565
01:28:37.920 --> 01:28:40.760
And of course I'm in my mind, I'm thinking, yes,

1566
01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:43.039
somebody that stuck up behind me, that I messed.

1567
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:43.439
Up my hunting.

1568
01:28:44.640 --> 01:28:45.479
But also.

1569
01:28:46.840 --> 01:28:49.159
I didn't really quite you know, feel right about it

1570
01:28:49.199 --> 01:28:51.319
because I was looking at something I didn't have orange on.

1571
01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:55.840
So that day I had left my binocers at home.

1572
01:28:55.920 --> 01:28:57.720
I didn't bring them with me, so I'd done something

1573
01:28:57.760 --> 01:29:01.159
I shouldn't have. I pulled up my rifle, even though

1574
01:29:01.159 --> 01:29:05.319
that was just sixty seventy feet away. This place is

1575
01:29:05.439 --> 01:29:09.359
very full of palmettos about waist high. It's real thick

1576
01:29:09.439 --> 01:29:12.960
behind me, so you know, it was hard to judge

1577
01:29:13.039 --> 01:29:15.079
what I was really looking at. I just knew it might,

1578
01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:16.840
you know, kind of looked like I had a human

1579
01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:19.880
form to it. But I did put up my rifle,

1580
01:29:20.640 --> 01:29:24.520
looked down the scope, and of course that's when it

1581
01:29:24.560 --> 01:29:27.560
really poured it in, And that's when I could see

1582
01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:30.359
what looked like a shoulder with a hair on it,

1583
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:35.199
part of the chest, stomach, airy, part of the leg

1584
01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:39.319
very hairy. And that's when I ended up bringing the

1585
01:29:39.359 --> 01:29:41.279
gun up to the you know, the scope up to

1586
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:47.399
the head, and that's when I pretty much realized I

1587
01:29:47.439 --> 01:29:49.000
really wasn't looking at a human.

1588
01:29:50.439 --> 01:29:51.600
Could not see its face.

1589
01:29:54.760 --> 01:29:57.119
And then how I describe it is it's kind of

1590
01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:00.399
like the younger teenagers that wear the hair air where

1591
01:30:00.399 --> 01:30:01.960
it flips over in front of their face.

1592
01:30:02.840 --> 01:30:05.600
This is basically what it was, you know how it was.

1593
01:30:05.720 --> 01:30:07.920
It had its hair kind of hanging in its face

1594
01:30:07.960 --> 01:30:13.840
where I couldnot see facial features. This probably lasted maybe

1595
01:30:13.840 --> 01:30:15.640
ten or fifteen seconds that the.

1596
01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:19.520
Most I think.

1597
01:30:20.960 --> 01:30:24.359
When I raised a rifle, probably it thought I was

1598
01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:27.359
probably fixing to shoot it, because what it did was

1599
01:30:27.439 --> 01:30:30.880
it went down on all fours and shot out there

1600
01:30:30.960 --> 01:30:36.600
back into that into that swamp behind me. The first

1601
01:30:36.640 --> 01:30:39.039
thing I noticed is when it left how fast it was.

1602
01:30:39.079 --> 01:30:41.520
That this could catch a deer if it wanted to.

1603
01:30:41.720 --> 01:30:45.119
This moved a lot faster than the deer. I mean,

1604
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:49.880
I had never seen anything move that fast when it left,

1605
01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:51.680
and of course it went on all fours, so I

1606
01:30:51.720 --> 01:30:54.560
wouldn't never to see it as good because it got

1607
01:30:54.600 --> 01:30:59.920
down kind of even with the palmettos. Of course, it's

1608
01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:05.399
eating on close to dark. Fear came into you know,

1609
01:31:05.600 --> 01:31:08.640
came you know, struck me because I knew then I

1610
01:31:09.600 --> 01:31:13.680
didn't see you know whatn't a human I was looking at, so, uh,

1611
01:31:14.279 --> 01:31:16.680
you know, I started getting scared, getting dark, so I

1612
01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:21.039
decided to come on out of there. I started walking

1613
01:31:21.079 --> 01:31:23.359
up the field, and I was looking back behind.

1614
01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:23.960
Me a good bit too.

1615
01:31:26.000 --> 01:31:28.720
Got up to about where my friend was in the

1616
01:31:28.760 --> 01:31:31.039
middle and hollered his name out. He come on out

1617
01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:35.159
of the woods, and I asked him if he you know,

1618
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:38.079
seeing anything, hurt anything. He said, now, it's been he said,

1619
01:31:38.079 --> 01:31:40.840
it's just been definitely quiet in here. I said, we

1620
01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:43.520
did you see anybody or anything? He said now, I said, what,

1621
01:31:43.600 --> 01:31:48.199
I've seen something, and he didn't say much back when

1622
01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.359
we just kept on walking. We got up at the

1623
01:31:51.439 --> 01:31:53.399
end of the field and realized her other friend had

1624
01:31:53.439 --> 01:31:54.880
done come out went to the truck.

1625
01:31:55.920 --> 01:31:56.079
Uh.

1626
01:31:56.119 --> 01:31:59.319
So we got onto the truck and we were, you know,

1627
01:31:59.359 --> 01:32:01.479
of course, getting ready to put her stuff up, and

1628
01:32:02.359 --> 01:32:05.000
mother friend looked at me and said, Mark, what's wrong?

1629
01:32:06.479 --> 01:32:09.000
And I said, wait a minute. He said, well, you

1630
01:32:09.039 --> 01:32:12.720
white as a sheep. I said, well, I've just seen

1631
01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:15.319
something down there in that swamp down there, and he

1632
01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:17.720
and we kind of left it at that.

1633
01:32:17.840 --> 01:32:19.359
I didn't say nothing else about it.

1634
01:32:19.399 --> 01:32:21.760
We drove home, we didn't talk about it. I didn't

1635
01:32:21.760 --> 01:32:26.840
bring it back up. The next day, he gives me

1636
01:32:26.880 --> 01:32:33.479
a call and he said, you seen the big foot yesterday,

1637
01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:37.239
didn't he? I said, how you know? I said, well,

1638
01:32:37.239 --> 01:32:38.920
that's what I think it is. I said, well, how

1639
01:32:39.000 --> 01:32:41.439
you know? He said, because I've done seen them before myself,

1640
01:32:42.640 --> 01:32:44.840
and come to find out that he'd seen them on.

1641
01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:46.680
His property right here where we live at.

1642
01:32:47.439 --> 01:32:55.319
So that's my first sighting and encounter that I know

1643
01:32:55.479 --> 01:32:58.760
of that where I actually physically, you know, laid eyes

1644
01:32:58.840 --> 01:33:05.520
on one. It was probably in the twenty to six

1645
01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:12.119
and seven foot range. Kind of a brownish color, not

1646
01:33:12.279 --> 01:33:15.680
real dark brown, but i'd say a lot brown color.

1647
01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:19.520
And what I could tell out of it, you know,

1648
01:33:19.600 --> 01:33:23.000
what little bit I could really tell, you know, it

1649
01:33:23.079 --> 01:33:25.479
was a real bulky, beefed up.

1650
01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:28.439
You know, it was more like you looking what I

1651
01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:29.119
was looking at.

1652
01:33:31.239 --> 01:33:32.960
I'm gonna go listen to the episode right now, but

1653
01:33:33.359 --> 01:33:37.439
I'm not because we got one more. We got the

1654
01:33:37.640 --> 01:33:42.920
number one most viewed episode released in twenty twenty five

1655
01:33:42.960 --> 01:33:44.960
for Big for Society on YouTube. Here we go, get

1656
01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:50.279
ready it is Peoria County is full of them. I

1657
01:33:50.319 --> 01:33:53.079
was not expecting it. You weren't expecting it. But man,

1658
01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:58.960
you guys loved that episode. It blew the other numbers

1659
01:33:59.000 --> 01:34:04.880
and stats away by a ton. So it's a great

1660
01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:07.960
episode though. I mean, Bill had some great things to

1661
01:34:08.039 --> 01:34:11.920
share his encounter near Jubilee College State Park in Peoria,

1662
01:34:12.000 --> 01:34:15.760
and people love to hear encounters that are happening in

1663
01:34:15.800 --> 01:34:20.319
this area of central Illinois. It's wild. It blew me away.

1664
01:34:20.439 --> 01:34:23.199
It wasn't an Oregon episode, it wasn't a Washington episode.

1665
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:29.359
It was a Midwest Illinois episode. Check out this clip

1666
01:34:29.600 --> 01:34:31.960
and then listen to it for yourself.

1667
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:33.239
Well, i'll tell.

1668
01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:36.520
You, Jeremiah, as I say, I'll tell you, I was

1669
01:34:36.520 --> 01:34:40.159
a skeptic until two thousand and eleven May fifth, to

1670
01:34:40.199 --> 01:34:44.239
be exact, twenty eleven, I had my first experience here

1671
01:34:44.279 --> 01:34:50.319
in puer Tony, excuse me, and I was out morell

1672
01:34:50.439 --> 01:34:56.760
mushroom honeing on private property and not too far, probably

1673
01:34:56.840 --> 01:35:02.720
approximately about five miles from Jubilee College State Art I'm

1674
01:35:02.840 --> 01:35:07.119
very aware of the property. I've hunted there for years.

1675
01:35:07.159 --> 01:35:10.479
There hunted, turkey hunted, squirrel hunted, you name it, I've

1676
01:35:10.520 --> 01:35:15.640
done it. Just that one day, I took my lab uh.

1677
01:35:16.319 --> 01:35:19.520
She was a female dogab a door retriever I took

1678
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:23.159
care of with me, very obedient, and I decided to

1679
01:35:23.199 --> 01:35:26.359
go out to a spot that I've always hunted for years,

1680
01:35:26.399 --> 01:35:29.960
probably a dozen years in or you know, prior to

1681
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:34.680
this incident. As I was walking through it, got out

1682
01:35:34.720 --> 01:35:36.960
of my pickup truck. It was a nice sunny day.

1683
01:35:37.000 --> 01:35:41.600
It wasn't no cloud cover or anything. And as I

1684
01:35:41.640 --> 01:35:44.399
got in there started walking through, my dog went ahead

1685
01:35:44.399 --> 01:35:49.880
of me as it normally did, and she started walking away.

1686
01:35:49.960 --> 01:35:52.479
And the next thing you know, I'm looking around. I'm

1687
01:35:52.520 --> 01:35:56.840
starting to pick up my shrooms, and I hear a

1688
01:35:56.960 --> 01:36:00.439
noise off to my lap. And when I mean noise

1689
01:36:00.600 --> 01:36:04.479
is as trees cracking. I heard the lees brushing, you know,

1690
01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:08.399
if someone had been walking. And first thing come to

1691
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:11.279
my mind is maybe it's either someone in turkey hunting

1692
01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:14.399
or or a deer running to you know, running through

1693
01:36:14.399 --> 01:36:20.479
the timber, running through the brush. I stopped, but I

1694
01:36:20.560 --> 01:36:23.199
knew something was watching me. I had that eary feeling

1695
01:36:23.319 --> 01:36:27.319
something was watching me. Most hunters will tell you when

1696
01:36:27.359 --> 01:36:30.640
you're in the woods, uh, you know, out in no Tember,

1697
01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:35.640
if you're hunting, most animals, squirrels, birds, when they see it,

1698
01:36:35.640 --> 01:36:41.960
they'll stop. They'll go dead silent. That day, it was

1699
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:45.960
so quiet you could hear a pin drop. And as

1700
01:36:46.039 --> 01:36:49.079
I looked over to my left, I thought I had

1701
01:36:49.119 --> 01:36:55.119
seen something, some movement. I wasn't for sure, so I

1702
01:36:55.159 --> 01:36:58.640
act like I was pretending I still knew something was there.

1703
01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:02.239
I act like I was still going to pick up mushrooms.

1704
01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:06.199
So when I kneeled down, there's an old deer trail there,

1705
01:37:06.239 --> 01:37:09.079
and I kneeled down, and as I kneeled down, I

1706
01:37:09.119 --> 01:37:11.680
was looking around, trying to scout the area, like where

1707
01:37:11.680 --> 01:37:12.079
you at?

1708
01:37:12.159 --> 01:37:12.680
Who is it?

1709
01:37:14.119 --> 01:37:17.359
All of a sudden, I hear a big yell. I yelled,

1710
01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:22.399
and I've never heard in my life. When it yelled,

1711
01:37:23.880 --> 01:37:26.920
I kind of like, oh, you know, what's just the

1712
01:37:26.960 --> 01:37:29.279
same O Kyle and the Center. Now I ain't no

1713
01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:34.439
human being, And I just pretended like I was going to,

1714
01:37:34.800 --> 01:37:40.039
you know, pick up mushrooms again. And in my mind,

1715
01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:41.359
I'm thinking that wasn't.

1716
01:37:41.119 --> 01:37:42.600
Nobody, no man.

1717
01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:46.479
He couldn't yell that loud and deepness of it, and

1718
01:37:46.520 --> 01:37:51.000
it scared me. I was scared. Then again, about maybe

1719
01:37:51.079 --> 01:37:53.760
ten seconds later, I heard another one, and then I

1720
01:37:53.800 --> 01:37:57.439
could hear trees breaking, branch is breaking off, and I

1721
01:37:57.439 --> 01:38:00.760
could hear the you know, the footsteps, so I knew

1722
01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:03.880
it wasn't a deer. And the second thing had come

1723
01:38:03.920 --> 01:38:07.319
on my mind is maybe somebody's out here turkey hunting

1724
01:38:07.359 --> 01:38:10.079
and they're running through the woods and I spooked them

1725
01:38:10.199 --> 01:38:13.800
or something, you know. And it ended up it wasn't

1726
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:19.279
fat either. As I went on hounting the mushrooms, I

1727
01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:21.880
stopped up. I took a few steps. I could hear

1728
01:38:21.880 --> 01:38:26.560
the brushing in the trees cracking off to my left,

1729
01:38:27.079 --> 01:38:31.119
and when I would say probimately maybe, I would say

1730
01:38:31.159 --> 01:38:36.039
forty feet maybe if that. All of a sudden, here

1731
01:38:36.079 --> 01:38:38.600
comes my dog running back to me with her hitting

1732
01:38:38.880 --> 01:38:41.840
her tail between her legs all the way up to

1733
01:38:41.880 --> 01:38:44.960
her belly, and her hair up from her neck all

1734
01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:48.039
the way down to her back, and she had her

1735
01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:51.600
head down in a submission, and she was grown and

1736
01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:55.600
looking off to where I had heard the sounds, and

1737
01:38:55.640 --> 01:38:58.560
I said, oh, my dog scared something over there. She

1738
01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:02.560
wouldn't be doing that. The dog came running towards me

1739
01:39:02.600 --> 01:39:06.359
and it laid down in front of me on my feet,

1740
01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:09.399
and I told her to stay, and she was turning

1741
01:39:09.439 --> 01:39:12.159
off round towards where I was hearing the trees break,

1742
01:39:12.279 --> 01:39:12.720
and I.

1743
01:39:12.640 --> 01:39:13.520
Heard the yell.

1744
01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:18.199
And again I heard another yell, and the dog started.

1745
01:39:17.800 --> 01:39:18.239
To bar.

1746
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:24.520
And all, and it scared me to the point where

1747
01:39:24.520 --> 01:39:26.800
I just sat still for a few seconds, and I said,

1748
01:39:26.880 --> 01:39:29.239
it's going to get me. It's got me now, I

1749
01:39:29.279 --> 01:39:34.800
have nothing on me and my dog. I grabbed the

1750
01:39:34.880 --> 01:39:38.720
dog by the collar and I walked backwards. I jumped

1751
01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:42.800
into the put her into the passenger side pickup that

1752
01:39:42.880 --> 01:39:46.640
I was driving, and I was pulled on this side

1753
01:39:46.640 --> 01:39:49.840
of the beanfield. There's a little area where the tractors

1754
01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:52.920
go up along the fields to do the corn fields

1755
01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:56.680
and the beanfields, and I was parked there, so I

1756
01:39:56.760 --> 01:40:00.079
backed up. I went probably it was the only I

1757
01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:03.960
mean maybe fifty feet from where I was parked at.

1758
01:40:05.279 --> 01:40:08.039
So I back up, got the dog in the truck,

1759
01:40:08.079 --> 01:40:09.760
and I went to go around. I thought, if this

1760
01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:12.960
thing's gonna get me, it's gonna get me now. I

1761
01:40:13.039 --> 01:40:16.640
hurried up, got the truck and I got out of

1762
01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:18.640
there as fast as I could have. Backed the truck

1763
01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:20.920
up in reverse, got all the way over into the

1764
01:40:20.960 --> 01:40:24.680
other end. I back up about three blocks, turned and

1765
01:40:24.760 --> 01:40:27.720
went down the road and I went down on the

1766
01:40:27.720 --> 01:40:30.520
property approximately about a mile and a half from where

1767
01:40:30.560 --> 01:40:31.960
I was at, on.

1768
01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:33.560
The opposite side of the timber.

1769
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:36.159
So I thought I was safe, and I was trying

1770
01:40:36.199 --> 01:40:38.159
to get my mind like what did I just hear

1771
01:40:38.159 --> 01:40:38.760
and see it?

1772
01:40:39.520 --> 01:40:39.800
Wow?

1773
01:40:39.960 --> 01:40:42.560
You know, And my dog wouldn't even get out of

1774
01:40:42.600 --> 01:40:47.840
the truck. It was that scare. And anybody that knows

1775
01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:50.159
Poya County or the state, you can look at up

1776
01:40:50.239 --> 01:40:53.920
or google it. Pickle Pool Creeks got tribertaries off of that,

1777
01:40:55.000 --> 01:40:57.199
and it's not far from the property. It's on the

1778
01:40:57.239 --> 01:41:02.079
property of joining property I was on, but there's tributaries

1779
01:41:02.119 --> 01:41:03.800
that go off onto this property.

1780
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:04.640
Also.

1781
01:41:04.880 --> 01:41:07.920
It's not real deep, probably a few inches, but it's

1782
01:41:07.960 --> 01:41:13.439
always flown and we used to keep cattle on that side.

1783
01:41:13.680 --> 01:41:16.720
And I went in over on that side, I think,

1784
01:41:16.720 --> 01:41:19.439
and I would be okay. And I walked down into

1785
01:41:19.479 --> 01:41:24.399
an area heavy and thorns and brushed temple. When I

1786
01:41:24.439 --> 01:41:28.399
get down there, I see a bunch of footprints tracks

1787
01:41:29.520 --> 01:41:32.199
and it goes across the creek and up a thirty

1788
01:41:32.199 --> 01:41:36.359
foot in the bank, and it was a about a

1789
01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:38.920
four inch tree sticking out of the side of the hill,

1790
01:41:40.359 --> 01:41:43.119
and it was broke freshly off, and the track looked

1791
01:41:43.159 --> 01:41:47.560
like it took four feet across one foot. You could

1792
01:41:47.600 --> 01:41:50.840
see where it went up the hill and broke the tree,

1793
01:41:50.880 --> 01:41:51.880
and then it was gone.

1794
01:41:51.920 --> 01:41:52.800
It was that was it.

1795
01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:57.680
I went ahead. I just went decided to go back

1796
01:41:57.720 --> 01:42:01.159
to the farmhouse. And I get out and I go

1797
01:42:01.279 --> 01:42:04.439
to the woman that owns the property, and she was

1798
01:42:04.479 --> 01:42:08.279
in her mid eighties. She was out in the lawn

1799
01:42:08.520 --> 01:42:11.319
and she was messing with the garden, and she they

1800
01:42:11.479 --> 01:42:15.239
my nickname was called Elmer, h cause I'm sure and

1801
01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:19.880
that's my nickname. And the lady there goes, hey, Almer,

1802
01:42:20.359 --> 01:42:22.720
what have you been doing with my horses out here?

1803
01:42:24.159 --> 01:42:27.560
She said, somebody's been coming out here all week and

1804
01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:29.960
my horses have been jumping like you're in a rodeo.

1805
01:42:31.560 --> 01:42:33.920
And her name's Mildred. And I said, well, Mildred, I

1806
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:35.760
don't come out here at two thirty in the morning

1807
01:42:35.920 --> 01:42:38.920
or twelve o'clock at night or anything else. I said,

1808
01:42:38.920 --> 01:42:41.279
that wasn't me. And I said, what do you mean

1809
01:42:41.279 --> 01:42:44.239
they're acting up? And she said, yeah, one jump the fence.

1810
01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:49.159
She said, something's been spooking them all week. And my

1811
01:42:49.239 --> 01:42:52.479
brother in law who was a well known tracker and hunter.

1812
01:42:52.640 --> 01:42:57.840
His name was William. He was a caretaker there also

1813
01:42:58.119 --> 01:43:04.039
like a handyman on him all alive, and he pulled

1814
01:43:04.119 --> 01:43:06.600
up and he goes, hey, what's going on? He heard

1815
01:43:06.600 --> 01:43:10.560
her asking me about the horses. Then he goes, well,

1816
01:43:11.039 --> 01:43:13.079
I told him what had happened, and I said, no,

1817
01:43:15.319 --> 01:43:17.800
horses have been acting up, and she thought that was me.

1818
01:43:17.880 --> 01:43:19.359
I said, but I want to tell you what just

1819
01:43:19.479 --> 01:43:22.359
happened to me. He looked at me plenty and goes home.

1820
01:43:22.439 --> 01:43:24.720
He goes, you know, that's strange. These horses had been

1821
01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:28.640
acting up. I wonder if they didn't, you know, something

1822
01:43:28.640 --> 01:43:33.479
they didn't censor. And where I found the traps at Jeremiah,

1823
01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:36.960
we're right below where the horses walk out of the barn.

1824
01:43:37.039 --> 01:43:37.720
It's like a.

1825
01:43:37.600 --> 01:43:42.640
Little pasture area that goes down into the creek. And

1826
01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:47.119
that was in twenty eleven. They filed two eleven in

1827
01:43:47.199 --> 01:43:49.319
the Big Back. I'll never forget that day.

1828
01:43:50.399 --> 01:43:54.039
Congrats, Bill, you got the number one viewed episode of

1829
01:43:54.039 --> 01:43:56.800
Big for Society that was recorded in twenty twenty five.

1830
01:43:57.920 --> 01:44:00.359
Pure County is Full of Them episode se an hour

1831
01:44:00.439 --> 01:44:04.760
three good. Check it out, guys. I look back on

1832
01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:08.119
twenty twenty five and the conversations that I have had

1833
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:11.000
are incredible, and I'm so thankful to each and every

1834
01:44:11.000 --> 01:44:18.479
one of you for coming forward with your account, going

1835
01:44:18.560 --> 01:44:23.960
through the potential ridicule and the people making fun of you.

1836
01:44:24.640 --> 01:44:29.079
But this isn't stopping people. They're reaching out to me

1837
01:44:29.319 --> 01:44:32.840
every day, tons of emails daily. I'm doing my best

1838
01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:37.399
to keep up with the emails, inviting people to the show.

1839
01:44:40.199 --> 01:44:43.199
An episode by episode, we are getting the truth out

1840
01:44:43.199 --> 01:44:48.960
there about what people are experiencing. And maybe twenty twenty

1841
01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:54.520
six will be the year where who knows Bigfoot disclosure

1842
01:44:55.159 --> 01:44:59.039
it's coming out there. Will the government say, hey, yeah,

1843
01:44:59.279 --> 01:45:03.000
Bigfoot's real. Well ups are real. Guess what so is Bigfoot?

1844
01:45:03.159 --> 01:45:05.880
It could happen, guys, it really could. We just have

1845
01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:09.880
to keep pushing the more content that is released on

1846
01:45:09.920 --> 01:45:12.880
the internet about Bigfoot. I think it's like putting water

1847
01:45:12.920 --> 01:45:17.479
in a bathtub. Eventually it will overflow and it can't

1848
01:45:17.479 --> 01:45:21.960
be held back anymore. So episodes on my show, any

1849
01:45:22.000 --> 01:45:25.239
other of the Bigfoot podcasts that you know and love,

1850
01:45:26.800 --> 01:45:29.880
reach out to. If not me, reach out to anyone

1851
01:45:29.920 --> 01:45:32.239
else out there. But I would really appreciate it. If

1852
01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:35.199
you reached out to me, send me an email Bigfoot

1853
01:45:35.199 --> 01:45:40.000
societyagmail dot com. Also, if you know a friend or

1854
01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:43.760
a family member, or anyone who's into Bigfoot or weird

1855
01:45:43.800 --> 01:45:48.640
stuff or sasquatch and they've never heard the show, if

1856
01:45:48.640 --> 01:45:51.720
you really, really really want to help us grow in

1857
01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:56.279
twenty twenty six, I hope that you do, because we're

1858
01:45:56.319 --> 01:46:00.680
going take this episode and share this episod with them.

1859
01:46:00.720 --> 01:46:04.960
It's a great example of the best episodes of the show,

1860
01:46:06.079 --> 01:46:09.399
and it'll get them kind of interested and they'll want

1861
01:46:09.439 --> 01:46:13.079
to hopefully hear more. So please, if you want to

1862
01:46:13.119 --> 01:46:15.680
help out me in a way that doesn't cost you anything,

1863
01:46:16.399 --> 01:46:20.239
it's super easy to do. Just take this episode, take

1864
01:46:20.279 --> 01:46:23.159
a link of it and text it to your friend,

1865
01:46:23.439 --> 01:46:26.680
text it to your family member, anyone who would be

1866
01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:30.520
interested in hearing it. And again, thank you so much

1867
01:46:30.640 --> 01:46:34.520
everyone who's listening to the show, sharing it, reaching out

1868
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:37.319
to me. I appreciate you guys more than you could

1869
01:46:37.359 --> 01:46:41.000
ever know. Thanks for listening. Have you ever heard all

1870
01:46:41.039 --> 01:46:45.199
the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon and you

1871
01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:47.960
think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out

1872
01:46:48.000 --> 01:46:51.359
in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess

1873
01:46:51.399 --> 01:46:55.720
what this year you can If this is interesting to you,

1874
01:46:56.439 --> 01:47:01.039
stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summaryfest is coming

1875
01:47:01.119 --> 01:47:05.279
up July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's

1876
01:47:05.319 --> 01:47:09.520
gonna be even better than the previous year's reason number one,

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I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild.

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I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you

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haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well,

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you just gotta be there. We'll leave at that. More

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about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check

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this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary

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series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not

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only go to the festival, but you can also sign

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up for a track deep in the wild forest outside

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of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to

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look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up

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for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for

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the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching

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for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal.

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It's just trust it's going to be a wild Wild Experience.

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To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest

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dot com and listeners can use the code b SP

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like Bigfoot Society Podcast in order to get a two

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day pass for the price of a one day pass.

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So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so

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that you guys can can get a little help with

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the costs there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see

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you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can

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talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so

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many people last year and the year before. It is

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an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it,

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and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode,

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I want to say something directly to a very specific

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group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch

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or forces, and if you've seen something that no one

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can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or

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forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if

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you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground,

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or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or

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working intelligence and you've stumbled upon something you're not allowed

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to talk about, and if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or

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search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks

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that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry

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on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government

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contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told

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a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist,

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or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence

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you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary,

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or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something

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that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA,

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NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen what the

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public hasn't, then I want to talk to you, even

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if it's anonymous. You can reach me at Bigfoot Society

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at gmail dot com. The world needs to hear what

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you've been forced to carry alone, and you're not alone.

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You've got the story, We've got the mic. See you

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in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode

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of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds

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us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think,

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and that the truth is often Hiding just Beyond the

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tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure

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know has had a Bigfoot sighting, please I'd love to

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hear from you, so email me at Bigfoot Society at

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for following along with the Bigfoot Society until next time,

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Keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop

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asking what else might be out there? And see you

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in the woods.