We weren't alone at Grandpa's Cabin (Archive Episode)

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Welcome to Bigfoot Society. I've got
an episode from the archives for you.

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Today we talked to Megan Moonchild from
northern Alberta about her many bigfoot encounters on

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her grandfather's farm. If you've had
big foot encounters in the same area or

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and let's get on with the show. All right, big Society. I've

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got the privilege of talking to a
new friend tonight, Miss Megan Moonchild from

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Alberta, Canada. I ran across
Meghan's bigfoot story that she shared in a

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Facebook group online and approached her and
asked if she would ever be up to

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sharing her story on a podcas cast, and thankfully she did say yes.

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So, Megan, how's it going
tonight? It's going good. Thank you

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for having me on your show.
It's an honor, honestly, thank you.

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That's great. That's great. And
how are things up in Alberta right

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now? Currently? It's nice at
the moment where I'm at anyway, but

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it depends on which part of Alberta
you live, so right now it's kind

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of springy, and I'm happy for
it, honestly, I just want the

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snow gone already. Do you live
in a pretty heavily wooded, forested part

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of Alberta then, oh, yes, absolutely, yeah. Yeah. The

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town I live in is called Rocky
Mountain House, and we're like, literally

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we have a view of the Rocky
Mountains from Main Street. It's amazing,

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and like surrounding us is like a
glacial river and just heavy, heavy woods,

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Like you could easily get lost out
there in this wilderness problem, honestly,

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but it's so beautiful. Have you
always lived in the area in Alberta

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up there? I actually lived further
north originally in Slave Lake. Also grew

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up in high Prairie, but like
not in the town, more like on

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a quarter section. Just nice,
little heavily wooded but beautiful farm and lots

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of grazing fields and thick woods,
so it was heaven. But there was

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definitely some odd things that happened on
that land here and there when I was

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growing up. So, oh,
really, what kind of weird things did

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you experience? Feelings of being watched? At times, I'd get like a

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really creeped out kind of feeling,
like I wouldn't see anything, but I

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just have this feeling like something's watching
me. And like my grandfather would be

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they're working in the field or with
the you know, with the cattle,

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or in the garden or something like. Everybody had their jobs, so we

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all kept busy, but just when
I'd be like helping to feed the cows

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or working in the garden, I'd
get a weird vibe in them sometimes,

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like a just a weird feeling up
my spine. And sometimes there were lights

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in the woods, like in the
distance every now and then. They were

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usually like white or like light colored. Weird sounds like sometimes like sounds that

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sounded like I don't know, like
you'd think like you were in the jungle

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or something out like where there's eight
like monkeys or chimps or something like.

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I don't know. It was just
sometimes you'd see eyes shine every now and

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then, but like I only just
thought it was like, you know,

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the cows or horses or something.
But every time, I don't know,

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like there's just weird things happened.
Thankfully. My grandfather he was smart,

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like the way that he had the
farm all set up, like there were

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absolutely no woods near any of the
windows. Like he had all the woods

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back away from the trailers, so
it's like nothing could just come up and

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you know, just look, you
know, like, yeah, he was

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smart. And he had all these
these lights everywhere that lit up the place

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so you could see it really well
at night, and he always just said

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it was good so we wouldn't trip
or something because it would get pretty dark

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out there. So do you think
your grandfather had experiences that led him to

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that point where everything was you know, the heavy lights, the not being

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near the woodline, things of that
nature. Yeah, Like he didn't even

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tell me about any of his experiences
until I approached him on the day that

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I ended up seeing. Ah,
I mean, I guess a sasquatch or

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whatever you want to call it.
Sorry, I'm a little that's all right,

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that's all right, As you did
share something with me before I or

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any view that was very interesting.
And do you feel comfortable sharing a little

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bit about your heritage. I think
that really helps provide some context maybe to

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the stories you're about to share.
Oh, of course, I'm part Cree

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Indigenous on my father's side. I
didn't know a whole lot about my culture

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until much later in my life.
I only just recently last year I got

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to finally meet my blood grandmother on
my father's side. But currently we're all

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working towards getting our actual official treaty, like a certificate or whatever you call

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it. So I'm excited for that. But right now I'm just kind of

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been on this spiritual journey. It
seems like my whole life, but for

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some odd reason, like I saw
strange things growing up and sometimes had odd

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experiences I couldn't quite explain, such
as seeing that particular being on the back

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of my grandfather's property. Yeah.
Uh, my grandmother on my father's side,

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she's considered an elder and she's actually
quite respected and I adore her.

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She's such a sweet lady, and
I've asked her questions concerning my experience,

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Like I told her my story and
Mike what happened, and she said that

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she thinks that it's like a guardian
there, like can be spirit guardians,

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I guess, or guardians of the
forest, but also like there are good

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spirits and bad spirits. So I
learned that, yeah, sometimes these things

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they don't even mean to appear to
us. Sometimes people just have like a

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site like they just one day are
just mining their business and they just see

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it and it's like all shock,
Like you see me, even though like

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maybe it thought it was in like
its own little dimension or it was like

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somehow hiding from us, like doing
that predator thing it does where it tries

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to, you know, like blend
in with everything and conceal itself. It's

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so weird, the cloaking. But
yeah, my experience happened at like ten

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thirty in the morning, you know, it was pretty early, well not

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really, I guess, but basically, my grandmother she asked me if I

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would be willing to go and just
pick some wild berries and just fill this

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you know, just ice cream pail, you know, and I was like

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yeah, because she was going to
make homemade pie and I absolutely loved her

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erry crumble. It was so good, and so yeah, I was totally

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down for that. And I had
my dog with me. He was a

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Border Collie. He was the sweetest
Dog's name was King. He was the

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best dog I ever had. I
loved that dog. He was a good

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protector, and he was with me
the whole time. So I didn't feel

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concerned because I was only walking like
fifteen minutes down the uh the cut because

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like my grandfather, there were these
cut lines that went down and he'd keep

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them nice and cut short because he'd
let the cattle in there so we'd have

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some extra pasture so they could have
new grazing ground, and the cows weren't

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there at the time. So I'm
like, heck, yeah, I'm gonna

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go get these berries. I was
only twelve years old. It was nineteen

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ninety nine, and it was like
the end of August, like end of

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summer, like when everything is in
bloom and everything like love that time of

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year. But anyway, so I'm
walking Kings with me, and I'm about

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to take a turn to the right, and as I take the turn,

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I see King. He just basically
freezes in front of me. And of

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course I'm usually more like looking at
the ground. I was, you know,

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looking at the flowers, and then
I see my dog all of a

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sudden, he freezes, you know, basically in front of me, and

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I'm like, what's up, boy, Like, what's got you scared or

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whatever? And then like I look
ahead as about twenty twenty five feet not

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too far, and I see this
black figure, like you know, it

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was Harry. I thought it was
a BlackBerry, honestly, like just my

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mind could not compute what I was
looking at because at this time, I

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had no idea what a sasquatch was, Like, I mean, I didn't

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even watch Harry and the HENDERSONSTI I
was probably fourteen, so that's probably one

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of the first times I even learned
about what a sasquatch was. But when

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it stood up on two legs,
it was massive. I mean, I

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have never ever seen a person that
big before. I mean I've gone to

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like a wrestle like ww wrestling,
and I saw the Big Show. I've

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seen the Undertaker. They're big guys, but they looked small compared to this

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guy. And so my dog he
backed up like right up against my leg,

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just tight against me, and he
was just kind of low to the

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ground, almost frozen in place,
but like he didn't run away, thankfully.

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I probably I don't know what would
have happened. I just felt like,

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thank you to my dog, you
know, for not leaving me behind.

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Its standing there looking at me,
and its hair is reminds me of

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human hair. Like looked like human
hair. Uh, it was long,

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looked kind of still key, actually
nice. Mostly he didn't he doesn't.

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He didn't look like, uh really, how would I describe sorry, he

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looked so human. It's just really
it's just really jarring thinking back to it.

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So the first look that he had
on his face that I noticed,

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like emotional, was kind of like
mine. It felt like we were both

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like like he almost had this look
like you see me, like a very

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surprised for a moment look, and
then all of a sudden, his face

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just went completely like neutral, like
from surprise big eye to like just straight

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face. He didn't look aggressive.
He didn't show his teeth or growl or

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anything. You know, he was
just very quiet. He didn't have any

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leaves or anything in his hair.
I mean, his hair was nice.

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So this madden in a couple of
spots, but like for the most part,

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you know, like he didn't look
like really old. He kind of

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to me seemed more like maybe middle
aged or maybe a little younger in his

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prime, just from the sense that
I got. Honestly, his eyes were

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so piercing, because like they were
like a gold amber kind of color,

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and they were the most they were
so big, like they were huge,

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Like this thing must have been at
least eight to nine feet tall, like

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though I mean I was twelve,
right, and it's literally a giant so

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anything would probably look giant, But
to me, he looked pretty big.

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But like I feel like in my
mind after all these years, trying to

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attempt to calculate kind of later on
down the line, when I was like

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sixteen, I tried to use a
measuring tape and try and figure out like

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the relative height just from that tree
that he was standing near. I mean,

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he was there picking berries when I
walked up on him, and he

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looks really happy and content until I
came along. So that is a fascinating

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description of what you saw. Do
you remember anything particular about how the head,

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maybe the shape of the head looked
or anything like that. Yeah,

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kind of like a sort of cone
shape but not completely more normal looking head,

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but just overall just bigger, just
a bigger head, like a massive

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head, like just it's insane,
Like I can't believe how massive he was,

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like his hands, his feet is
freaking everything and his damn I don't

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even want to talk about the other
thing that was just dangling there, like

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dude, but like what can you
do? I mean, it's not like

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you expect them to have clothes on
or anything. But he was very calm,

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honestly, when he and I were
we were like in having eye contact.

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I was scared, but I was
also kind of curious because I'd literally

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never seen anything like that in my
life, and I'd always believed as a

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kid, you know, that maybe
fairies did exist, you know, maybe

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these other mythological creatures once existed,
and we just don't know for sure,

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and you know, some things are
never certain until proved other wise. So

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and I always just kind of,
I suppose, was a whimsical child in

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that way. And so seeing this
big, hairy wild man, this giant,

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literal giant, you know, standing
there so close. My grandfather taught

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me as a child, like from
a very young age, because I used

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to love hunting and fishing and being
outdoors with him, and he was like,

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if you ever come across a bear
or cougar, just stay very calm,

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do not rear back to them,
back away slowly, do not run,

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whatever you do, right, So
that was kind of what was going

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through my head, is this looks
like a human and yet he looks like

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sort of animal like, just because
the hair all over his body and his

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smell too. I mean, at
first I smelled it a little bit as

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I was chain, but I just
thought that was cows like genuinely I didn't.

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It was just musky and smelled like
like wet dog a bit, and

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just earthy smells. I guess,
yeah, like just a wild animal smells

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how I would describe it. But
it wasn't over like overbearing, like even

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when I was standing there, like
I could only I could smell. I'm

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a smidge in bit, but not
very much. It's weird because like where

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I saw him, So I got
this back part of the property of the

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farm, there's a river. There's
like a fifteen twenty foot drop off and

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then there's the river and that's like
literally the end the end cut of the

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property, right and there's like a
birch forest, just all these beautiful white

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birch trees everywhere at this one part. It's incredible I used to love playing

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there because I called it this,
you know, forests of ghosts and whatever

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as a kid, And like sometimes
I'd find weird things, like I'd find

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trees very high up just snapped off, you know, like trees that are

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not little trees. Some of them
were even still young trees, like not

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even like dead, and they didn't
look like they should have been dead,

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you know. They It was weird. And I found sometimes like formations with

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rocks, I guess, like I
even found some bones at one point,

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like a carcass of a deer,
some other bones, like like it looked

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kind of like like a little animal
graveyard a bit. But my grandpa also

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said that he sometimes would take like
parts of animals that he had butchered or

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whatever, and he'd just throw the
scraps out there, you know, out

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there in the forest. Why would
he give back nature? Okay, okay,

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yeah, in his mind it well
okay, at first I didn't understand

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it either, but then he told
me later on that he did it because

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it seemed to keep them away from
us, Like he felt like if I

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just give them some portions from the
garden, you know, food that's like

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overly ripe or whatever, and just
you know, whatever's left of whatever I

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butchered it, I'll just put it
like throw it away, you know,

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really far away from us out there
in the woods, there was a spot

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and he said that he felt like
they had it was like an understanding,

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like they wouldn't come into our space, and they never did, Like I

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never saw them ever enter the yard
or nothing like. I never saw the

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eyeshine come any closer than from the
woods. So thank goodness, I never

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felt like I was being washed in
in my own home. That was nice.

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That's back to your grandfather a little
later. But I also want to

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make sure that we give your encounter
the full time as well. And I

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just have some questions for you.
So, you know, you're looking at

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the face. You're looking at in
the face, and it's always interesting how

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some people will describe what they see, and I'm just curious, what did

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you notice about the features of the
face when you're actually looking at it.

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He looked, he reminded me of
like I've seen some pictures that were all

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black and white photos of some Native
American chieftains from back in the day,

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and he just reminds me of like
very native American looking in the face,

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I guess his nose was pretty was
quite wide, his lips were, you

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know, quite wide, like his
just whole face was just so big.

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So his hair was like swept back
out of his face. It didn't look

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messy or anything. He had kind
of a beard sort of going on,

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didn't look really all too messy.
Of course, it had been raining that

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morning, so you never know,
maybe he got a shower. But his

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eyes were very human to me.
They were actually they stood out quite a

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bit. His hair was very black, but it had a bit of a

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reddish tinge to it, and like
I've heard people say that they can look

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really really dark, like a shadow
dark, but he didn't look that dark

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to me. He looked just like
a really like a nice just black hair

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basically that's it, with some red
cue to it. In the light.

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I mean we were literally standing there
in the lights, and I could see

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his features quite well because it was
sunny and there was no cloud in the

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sky, which to me makes it
even more insane, just because like these

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beings seemed to be so cautious,
so the fact that he was very comfortable

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just you know, they're crouched eating
away happily, like no deal. You

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know. It was just kind of
funny to me when I look back and

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think about it. Would you say
that the actions it was doing as it

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was picking the berries, would you
say they were more human like or more

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maybe ape like, or maybe a
mixture of the two. Mm. Honestly,

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it reminded me more of like I
suppose, how a human might just

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be their crouch just eating. But
I mean it could have been maybe a

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little bit of a mix of the
two. But I felt like he was

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just sitting there like a normal like
any person would, just chowing down and

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enjoying himself. Basically, that was
just kind of the feeling I got.

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I just got the sense like I
was interrupting him maybe, like I just

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came along and like these beings though, they seemed so in touch with their

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environment, So I'm like surprised that
I was able to even like come across

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him at all, to be honest, especially when he had that really surprised

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look on his face, you know, when he turned and looked at me.

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But yeah, I remember also being
very quiet, just standing there us

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looking at each other. I felt
this weird feeling come over me. At

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one point I curiosity. I lifted
my hand very slowly and just gave a

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little wave with my fingers and is
kind of like like just to see what

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he would do. I was kind
of curious, I don't know, childish

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whatever. I was scared, but
I was also like are you a person?

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Like I'm literally thinking to myself,
like are you a person or are

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you like a wild animal? Like? So anyway, he gave he gave

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like a grunt basically at me.
He just gave a grunt, just one

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grunt. It was a deep kind
of grunt, and I felt like this

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weird sensation in my body. It
was very odd, like a numbing tingling.

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I even had like this weird ringing
in my ear at one point,

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which is odd. And uh yeah, he just turned. It was like

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when he turned his whole upper body
turn. You know. He had a

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very thick neck. I will say
this right now, Like physically he was

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wow built, Like I mean,
he looked like he could take down a

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buffalo or something. He was so
built, Like his traps were massive,

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his shoulders. He didn't have much
of a neck, but like he had

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a neck, but it was like
super thick and it's just his traps they

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were just so frickin massive, Like
it's ridiculous. It almost reminds me of

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a bowl or something like. And
he looked healthy. He didn't look sickly

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or anything like that. His skin
was kind of a gray color. I

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describe it as like a gray color. That's interesting. So the actual skin

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tone was kind of gray. You're
saying, yeah, yeah, he was

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like gray with like black, nice
black hair. It was kind of like

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wavy, like you know if you
if a woman or a person has like

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long, wavy, silky hair.
It kind of looked like that. Like

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on his arms and his legs it
would be about, you know, four

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to six inches long hair, sometimes
two inches long, you know, like

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on his face chest it had not
as much hair, which is surprising,

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but it was kind of like a
little bit thinner on his chest and his

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stomach. He had hair down there, but it didn't hide much. I'm

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afraid. Also, you know,
he had the thickest thighs and arms,

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like holy prep bodybuilder, like even
I don't even know, maybe more than

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a bodybuilder, because like that was
just crazy. How like Eddie Hall one

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of the strongest men in the world, and he made him look like small

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and that's crazy. He's like a
heavyweight champion or bodybuilder or whatever. So

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did notice any specific details about the
hands or the feet. Yes, so

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he looked like he had human hands
and feet. But he definitely had like

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hair on his hands and feet,
but not much like he had some hair

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on top of his hands, some
on top of his feet, but like,

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for the most part I could see
that was just like a lot of

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dark skin and like dark gray skin. His hands and feet looked a little

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bit rougher, like understandably, they're
probably using their hands and feet, you

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know, for everything obviously hunting and
everything else, so I'm sure, but

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like that's probably the one part on
his body that looked the more worn or

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rough. Like. His nails were
kind of like they didn't they weren't sharp,

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they looked like normal human nails,
and they were kind of maybe a

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little cracked some of them. But
yeah, like his hands and feet looked

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pretty human to me, honestly,
I didn't know. It's really anything differently

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other than his fingernails and toes seemed
to be like more dark, like almost

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black or something. It's kind of
weird, but that is very weird.

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Actually, the same number of fingers
and toes as a human would have.

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Yeah, five fingers, five toes, Yeah just massive, right, Yeah,

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a lot bigger than we're going to
have obviously, So you're saying the

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individual he turned and then started to
walk away. Then, Yeah, when

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he turned, his whole upper body
turned. It's like it's not like with

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a person I could just turn your
neck and then turn your body. It

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was like a whole turns and then
he just walks into the white birch forest

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and it's literally like ten steps.
I can hear the movement of the trees,

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you know, some cracks of wood, and then absolute silence, like

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absolute nothing, and it was And
that is the thing I noticed, too,

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is when he and I were apart
from each other, everything was so

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quiet. I couldn't hear nothing.
I could hear my dog whimper occasionally,

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and I certainly felt like whimpering,
but I tried my best not to do

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so. I just didn't get a
sense like he was going to hurt me.

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I felt like if he really wanted
to, he could literally have reached

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me and no problem and snatched my
little twelve year old butt up and taken

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me. I do not think my
dog could have done anything to stop him

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though that I think that's just me. I mean, my dog he literally

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fended the farm against bear, cougar, coyotes, all kinds of creatures over

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the years. But this was very
different. I could tell because my dog

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was shaking, just he seemed a
little shaking, like literally and I'm shaking

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just talking about it, because I
feel like I could feel like my dog's

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fear. And I also was like, just stay calm, just stay calm,

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Everything's going to be okay. I
didn't get a sense of danger.

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I just but I know like after
that experience, that made me think I

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could have been the end of me, Like I could have become a missing

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for one one or something and that
would be the end of me. And

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I'm so glad that didn't happen.
When you're watching the sasquatch walk away from

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you towards the birch forest, did
you notice anything in particular about, you

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know, how there's the way a
person will walk is gate. Did you

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notice anything about the gate of the
sasquatch as it walked away from you?

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Actually, yeah, okay, so
like it seems almost like their ankle is

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It seemed like it wasn't quite in
the normal place that like a human ankle

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would be each pardon me, it
seemed almost like lower or something, and

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maybe it was really odd, like
the way he talked, like the way

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he walked. Sorry, it was
very smooth, like I couldn't I could

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barely like I could barely even hear
him moving like he it was. It's

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crazy how quiet it was, because
after he was gone, like everything in

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the forest returned to normal and all
the noises came back. But it was

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like for that moment when he and
I were there together interacting, for that

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moment, it felt like almost like
time stopped and like everything like around me.

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I was really uh, to be
honest, I feel almost comforted,

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kind of weirdly enough, like I
feel scared, but at the same time,

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I don't feel maybe I should be
more scared. But I've also been

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kind of curious about a lot of
things like supernatural or cryptid related for a

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long lot of years, since I
was a kid. But the fact that

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it even happened to me was just
I was just a normal person until until

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that. And then and then of
course like a couple of weeks later and

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seeing him again and really, yeah, I saw the big guy again.

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He was not alone either. He
was actually with like a female and a

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little one. And this is this
is crazy, Like I mean the first

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the first sight, the first time
I saw him, you know, after

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everything returning normal, I'm like,
I got to run back home. I

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got to tell my grandpa what I
saw like. And yeah, I can

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definitely tell you what he told me. If you'd liked, feel comfortable sharing

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anything, you feel comfortable, great, Okay, Well, so my grandfather

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was always a very practical man,
a very hard working, down to earth

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person. He was my hero and
I miss him terribly. And he was

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always such a someone you could always
turn to that would think calm, you

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know, when things were kind of
crazy. And when I got home,

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he was like, where have you
been? We were starting to get worried.

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It's been like, you know,
almost an hour. And I'm like,

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well, I got to tell you
something, and I wanted to talk

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to him alone. So I took
a little walk and I explained that I

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had grandpa. Grandpa. I saw
a big hairy man. He was black

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colored like his hair, you know. I was like, he looked like

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like some kind of wild man or
something like he was just as really giant

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hairy man on the back end of
your property down where you know, all

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the saskatoon berries are and the strawberries
and everything, because we had loads of

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raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, saskatoons
like you name it, while rhubarb,

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I mean where we lived, we
had a lot of really yummy natural foods

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that just grew on the land.
So we were very lucky. And I

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feel like maybe that was part of
the reason why they probably liked my grandpa's

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property, and I think that's why
they always kind of lingered on the edges,

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and yeah, I don't know,
that's just kind of my thoughts.

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And plus he did sort of start
giving them, you know, leftovers and

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whatever now and then It's just my
grandfather always felt like it's important to give

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back to nature. That it's important
to you know, if you have extra

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anything, you know, make sure
you can give to the community and give

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it back to nature, give back
to animals so that they can eat,

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because you know, sometimes animals struggle
and they go through a lot during the

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winter. So like we were always
kind of like that. I don't know.

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He was always a very a very
good gentleman with tough as nailes,

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that's for sure, but it's just
I guess before I was born. He

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said that sometimes things in the garden
would go missing, you know, during

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the night, he'd find stuff gone, you know, like the we had

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squashes that would go missing. You
know, we'd have all kinds of greens

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that would go missing. I'm not
one hundred percent sure on everything, per

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se, because you never really went
into that detail. But he said that

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it got on his nerves and he
was like, screw it, I'm just

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gonna build a garden for these whatever
they are, all the way over way

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the way and just hope that that
they'll get the hint and just go there

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and not take from our garden,
because he felt like that scaling and they're

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being passed. He did not feel
comfortable with the notion of because here in

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Canada we don't exactly have a lot
for guns, like I mean, we

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have like the occasional, you know, we have rifles and stuff for hunting,

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and he just did not feel like
it would be wise to pull guns

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out, especially a rifle like a
twenty two or anything else. He just

409
00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:42.159
did not feel like any of these
guns would do a whole heck of a

410
00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:46.280
lot. He didn't have like big
game hunting guns at the time, so

411
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:52.199
in his opinion, he felt like
if I do something, what if it

412
00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:58.920
angers these creatures and they start doing
things that make it really hard to live

413
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.599
there peacefully. So he just kind
of decided, I hope that this is

414
00:37:02.719 --> 00:37:06.639
enough that they'll just recognize, hey, this is for you guys, stay

415
00:37:06.679 --> 00:37:10.800
over there, basically, and they
did, like they never they never came

416
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.800
in the yard. Nothing went missing
again from the garden. Everything was fine,

417
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:19.559
and sometimes when there was extra crap, you just go and give it

418
00:37:19.599 --> 00:37:22.840
to the cows and you know,
the pigs and the goats and all that

419
00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:27.519
anyway, like so it didn't really
matter. Like in his mind, he's

420
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:31.000
like, these creatures are going to
come and take the food from my animals,

421
00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:37.519
or I can just leave you know, some out there for them and

422
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.039
hopefully they won't steal from my animals
because like everything always happened at night while

423
00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:49.760
we're asleep. So my grandfather,
his parents were Norwegian, like he's a

424
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.519
Norwegian descendant. He grew up in
Canada, but he grew up with a

425
00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:59.639
lot of stories about you know,
giants and like a lot of Norse kind

426
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:07.280
of storyes, and he believed that
there were things that existed that maybe were

427
00:38:08.159 --> 00:38:16.679
beyond our ability to understand or fully
comprehend, you know, even spiritual things,

428
00:38:16.800 --> 00:38:22.760
and so like for him, he
just kind of felt like, I

429
00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.960
don't want war with these things,
whatever they are. He genuinely just wanted

430
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:34.519
to live his life out there peacefully
because my grandma and grant a great grandmother.

431
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:38.119
They were the sweetest ladies, but
they could be a little sometimes they

432
00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:42.880
could get a little bit like anxiety, and he just did not think that

433
00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:49.480
they would be able to handle knowing
that information and did his absolute best to

434
00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:53.360
keep it just to himself, like
he carried this by himself for so long,

435
00:38:53.480 --> 00:39:00.119
you know. And then I tell
him my experience and I'll all of

436
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.519
a sudden he's like, well,
you've seen the big guy, so I

437
00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:07.400
might as well tell you some things
and kind of explain to you why I

438
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:13.840
didn't want you go into certain parts
of the property, like where certain parts

439
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:19.360
of the forest are. And he
I didn't really know how I felt about

440
00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.800
you going out there to pick those
berries, to be honest, even though

441
00:39:22.800 --> 00:39:27.239
it's not far, I still had
a feeling like, you know, something

442
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:30.480
was off, like especially because I
was gone a little bit longer than expected

443
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:35.679
because they literally told me, you
know, your only can be gone for

444
00:39:35.840 --> 00:39:38.760
so long and then we expect you
back type feel. So so I was

445
00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:42.880
twelve, so like I knew the
property really well. But I was definitely

446
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:45.280
the kind of kid that was rambunctious
and like to run off into the woods

447
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:52.000
and play and play per tend with
my animals. It's such a nerd like

448
00:39:52.039 --> 00:39:54.719
that. But yeah, I was
very close with nature, like I always

449
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.519
love nature. I always loved running
around barefoot, except for in the cowfield.

450
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:02.920
Nope, right, yeah, I
could call it. But yeah,

451
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.920
like I yeah, I loved it
like I was. I loved it because

452
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:13.880
we had a giant family rock.
There's actually that's hilarious, Like, not

453
00:40:14.079 --> 00:40:16.079
far from the garden there was a
rock, a giant rock, and it

454
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:21.159
was painted with flowers on it.
It was so cute and I loved it

455
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:25.199
and it was like a family project
that my mom and grandma did together.

456
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:32.280
And it's funny because there were sometimes
were things that were on that rock,

457
00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:38.760
things that would be wrapped up in
like leaves with I don't know, some

458
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:46.119
sort of I'm not exactly sure how
to describe it. It's like sometimes there

459
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:54.440
was a pretty rock, sometimes there
was some pretty flowers. Sometimes these flowers

460
00:40:54.519 --> 00:41:01.280
had medicinal properties I guess, like
like wild lavender or sage or whatever.

461
00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.159
It was interesting. I don't know. I don't know. Sometimes like there'd

462
00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:08.840
be little things, like little trinkets
on there, and my grandpa would just

463
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:13.079
take them, and I'd be like, I just wouldn't think about it,

464
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:15.119
really I was. He'd be like, Oh, it's just a gift from

465
00:41:15.159 --> 00:41:20.119
the fairies. But in reality,
now I think I know maybe where those

466
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:24.599
things are coming from. It's very
interesting. I never quite understood it myself,

467
00:41:24.760 --> 00:41:32.239
but that is a fantastic detailed.
Yeah, it sounds like the entire

468
00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:39.679
interactions that your grandfather had were very
peaceful though with the preachers. Mm hmm.

469
00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:45.239
Yeah. Yeah. He never felt
threatened by them, but he did

470
00:41:45.320 --> 00:41:50.159
say that that didn't mean that they
weren't capable of becoming threatening, so he

471
00:41:50.400 --> 00:41:53.679
was. I don't He was very
cautious man, honestly. That was one

472
00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:57.599
of the things I always respected about
him is he was never a fool.

473
00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:02.920
He always thought things through very very
clearly before he did anything. And I

474
00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:08.039
loved that about him because somehow he
managed to make it work, and it

475
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.599
was kept a secret for so long, and I kept it a secret,

476
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.039
like I couldn't talk to anybody but
him. I talked to my mom eventually

477
00:42:16.119 --> 00:42:21.519
about it, but it took me
years before I finally opened up to her

478
00:42:21.559 --> 00:42:27.320
about it. I mean, and
then my second experience happened, and that

479
00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:32.440
was crazy because I was with my
grandfather when it happened. So before we

480
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:39.079
get into that, a few more
questions for context this area. How close

481
00:42:39.159 --> 00:42:45.679
is your nearest neighbor in this area? Would you say about a mile mile

482
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:50.679
and a half away. Oh,
I'm about twenty twenty twenty thirty minutes away

483
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:55.079
from the town High Prairie. That's
about how far it was. We're out

484
00:42:55.119 --> 00:43:04.599
there pretty far, gotcha. He
spread out. It's either a lot of

485
00:43:04.679 --> 00:43:09.239
farming land or a lot of forest. So I am very interested to hear

486
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:15.840
how you and your grandfather actually had
a sighting together, which is very poetic

487
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:20.840
in a way, really, that
you both were able to experience the family

488
00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:25.599
together. I agree, Yeah,
I never really thought of it that way,

489
00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:29.440
but no, that's true. Actually, yeah, I mean it's something

490
00:43:29.440 --> 00:43:35.679
we ended up sharing together a lot. Actually, it definitely brought us closer

491
00:43:37.159 --> 00:43:44.760
Okay, I'll be happy to tell
you what happened. It was a couple

492
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:51.119
of weeks after I saw the Big
Guy the first time. So it's like

493
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:57.400
nine thirty in the morning, and
we're in my grandfather's old beat up four

494
00:43:57.519 --> 00:44:04.559
truck, just one of those old
fashioned farm trucks you can take out there

495
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:10.719
and have fun and whatever. And
we're just driving down the cut and we're

496
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:15.280
going to the back cut of the
property and we're driving along the river.

497
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:21.280
We went to go check on the
cows because they were off in this backfield,

498
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:27.679
and we're just talking and enjoying the
morning sun. It was a beautiful

499
00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:32.679
day, I mean, just perfect. Honestly. I can still remember having

500
00:44:32.679 --> 00:44:37.519
the window world down. And so
after we check on the cows, you

501
00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:42.840
wanted to check on the caves,
make sure everything was going good, like

502
00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:51.119
the younger cows. Anyway, excuse
me. So he turns around. We're

503
00:44:51.199 --> 00:44:54.280
driving back and we're going to go
back home. So we're going very slow.

504
00:44:54.639 --> 00:45:00.440
We're just casually enjoying, chatting whatever. And then and and I'm looking

505
00:45:00.480 --> 00:45:07.800
down at the river off the drop, you know, and uh, well,

506
00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:14.360
basically we I ended up seeing the
big guy down there on the other

507
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:22.159
side of the river, off the
drop like, and he wasn't alone.

508
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:30.960
He was standing there with his hands
in the water, and he had another

509
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:37.639
with him. He had a little
one as well. The one that was

510
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:44.239
bigger with him was a female.
She was She looked thick. I'm not

511
00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.880
gonna lie like. She looked like
a like broad shoulders, just so thick,

512
00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:52.840
kind of like patty looking sort of, but she didn't look like in

513
00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:58.519
my opinion, she didn't look that
old. And she was like a red

514
00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:06.519
brown color, very actually kind of
a nice color. And the little one

515
00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:10.400
was like in the water and she
picked it up. She leaned down,

516
00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:15.719
picked it up in her arms and
just held it and it wrapped its arms

517
00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:21.360
around her neck and shoulders. And
they were literally just stopping doing what they

518
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.400
were doing. And they were just
looking up at me and looking up at

519
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:30.199
the truck. And again I'm just
seeing them standing there, and uh,

520
00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:37.039
I'm like what Grandpa, grandpa,
And I'm like leaning over and I'm like

521
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.079
patting him on the arm, like, Grandpa, you need to stop the

522
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:43.880
truck. The big guy's down there, he's with his family. He's not

523
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:47.039
alone. Like I'm like, please, Grandpa, stop, we need to

524
00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:52.760
I need to show you so you
know that I'm not lying, like see,

525
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:55.400
and he's just not stopping, and
he's like, Megan, it's okay,

526
00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.119
take a deep breath. I could
see him as we're passing. I'm

527
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:08.639
like, well, he's like,
I know he's there, and I yeah,

528
00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:12.599
I guess he's showing us his family. I don't like, he just

529
00:47:12.639 --> 00:47:15.480
didn't quite understand it himself. He
just thought, oh, well, they're

530
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:22.119
probably fishing or something. And I'm
just kind of like he's has a family.

531
00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:29.360
I mean, he has this little
fluffy he almost looked like almost grill

532
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:34.960
like sort of but not quite just
like just really fluffy looking the little guy.

533
00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:39.840
And he had dark hair like his
dad. He looked a lot like

534
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.719
his dad. He had, you
know, like kind of like a brownish

535
00:47:44.800 --> 00:47:50.000
face, though more like his mom, but he had like reddish, dark

536
00:47:50.239 --> 00:47:54.000
brown black hair. It was very
interesting. And they were just standing there

537
00:47:54.159 --> 00:47:58.320
next to each other and the baby
in her arms, just looking up at

538
00:47:58.440 --> 00:48:06.119
us as we're driving by, and
so like my grandpa decides, he's like,

539
00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:08.679
okay, Megan, look, I
think when you're a little older,

540
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:15.519
I will tell you more about the
big guy and his family. He's like,

541
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:20.480
I just want you to know that
nothing is going to happen as long

542
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:24.480
as you stay you know, stay
home or you know you're with somebody.

543
00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:29.760
Just be smart, basically, just
don't go out in the woods anymore on

544
00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:32.480
your own if you don't feel safe
or comfortable. Basically, you know,

545
00:48:32.559 --> 00:48:37.440
he's like, just be smart about
it. And he's like, these things

546
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:42.239
have been here longer than us.
Like he's like, I have a feeling

547
00:48:43.079 --> 00:48:49.639
that when I moved here, you
know, we settled here, maybe they

548
00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:54.760
had been here or maybe they had
come through this area before. And he's

549
00:48:54.880 --> 00:49:00.159
like, we are here, this
is their domain. This is the wilderness,

550
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:05.480
you know, even though we have
these fields and everything, at the

551
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:08.960
end of the day, they live
out in the wild, off the land.

552
00:49:09.920 --> 00:49:15.480
And he's like, they're very quiet
and private for the most part.

553
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.360
I've never seen them really ever.
He's like, I've only seen them a

554
00:49:19.400 --> 00:49:23.760
couple of times, but like it
was never for very long. And he

555
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:30.519
never had any violent experiences either.
But he did say that the big guy,

556
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:38.000
like he felt as though he could
be very dangerous if he did anything

557
00:49:38.079 --> 00:49:44.559
at all that he might think was
aggressive, so he just did his absolute

558
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:49.960
best. Like my grandpa, he
even like looked up some information on chimps

559
00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.760
or gorilla, so he's kind of
wanting to try and understand what the heck

560
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.599
he was even looking at because he
himself like he just thought, oh,

561
00:49:57.639 --> 00:50:00.039
it's a giant. Giants are real
or like, you know, and then

562
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:07.800
it's like, maybe there's just like
some kind of ancient human that is extremely

563
00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:13.440
prop it it has only thing to
do with people, like maybe they're an

564
00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:17.480
ancestor, like maybe they're an alien
who knows, Like he personally thought that

565
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:23.519
maybe they were like kind of partially
spiritual being and partially physical, and I

566
00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:27.320
think I kind of agree with him, but I'm not one hundred percent on

567
00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:37.559
that. But yeah, there was
this one night. This was really actually

568
00:50:37.639 --> 00:50:45.960
one of the creepiest, weirdest things
that I remember happening. This was probably

569
00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:52.480
like a year later, but it
was nighttime and we would have coyotes that

570
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:58.360
would come on the property. Sometimes
we'd even see wolves occasionally, like we

571
00:50:58.360 --> 00:51:02.559
were. My grandfa farm was near
an area called Swan Hills, Like it

572
00:51:04.079 --> 00:51:09.400
it was very wild there's hills,
you know, miles upon miles upon miles

573
00:51:09.440 --> 00:51:14.199
of wilderness. Like it's insane how
thick and dense it is out there,

574
00:51:14.960 --> 00:51:21.679
and there's just so much that you
can live off of the land, you

575
00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:27.320
know. Here Honestly, Canada has
so much diversity when it comes to plants

576
00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.199
and animals. I really believe that
these creatures were living out here for the

577
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:36.079
most part just fine. But I
can tell from looking at Big Guy that

578
00:51:36.199 --> 00:51:39.880
I have a feeling their lives are
probably pretty difficult or pretty harsh, just

579
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:49.119
just just the thought, but I'm
not sure. Yea, you know what

580
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:54.039
I've heard about your area, it
seems like a very wild and the winters

581
00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:58.880
can be very hard up there,
for sure, very brutal. Actually,

582
00:51:58.920 --> 00:52:02.239
that's one of the things that my
grandfather specifically told me, is because winters

583
00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:07.400
here can be so brutal, especially
where he was living, because he is

584
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:09.440
pretty much out in the middle of
nowhere. Like he had to like,

585
00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:15.320
you know, hire somebody to come
out with a grater to do the roads

586
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.280
and stuff, because our entire road
going up to our house, you know,

587
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:23.719
would just get snowed at, snowed
so much, and we definitely did

588
00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:27.800
not want to get stuck out there, because that could easily have happened if

589
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:31.679
we weren't smart. Thank goodness,
he was a very prepared man for winter.

590
00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:37.360
But yeah, there were some very
brutal winters that I even remember as

591
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:45.039
a kid. And he said that
sometimes winters were so brutal that he would

592
00:52:45.119 --> 00:52:49.400
hear almost like a sound of a
gunshot going off in the woods, but

593
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:53.920
he was like, no, it's
just a tree breaking, because sometimes if

594
00:52:54.000 --> 00:53:00.199
it gets so cold, sometimes like
little trees or whatever orches will snap off

595
00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:05.159
every now and then just because it's
so cold. And he felt like,

596
00:53:05.920 --> 00:53:09.760
I guess kind of sorry for a
lot of the animals, especially these beings.

597
00:53:09.840 --> 00:53:14.320
For whatever reason, he just kind
of felt like, we have plenty,

598
00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:17.119
we have more than enough. We
have so much in fact, that

599
00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.760
it's we're gonna end up throwing stuff
away and it's going to be a waste.

600
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:24.000
So he was kind of like,
screw it. I'll just go and

601
00:53:24.719 --> 00:53:29.679
leave all this crap way far out
in the woods, away from home and

602
00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:32.719
kind of as almost maybe an offering
to the land even and just kind of

603
00:53:32.760 --> 00:53:37.000
be like, here, this is
our portion we're given back kind of to

604
00:53:37.159 --> 00:53:40.719
nature. I hope this will do
kind of thing. Like he even told

605
00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:45.119
me, sometimes he'd just talk like
like he'd be like, I don't know

606
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:51.599
if there's anyone here, but just
in case this is for you, guys,

607
00:53:51.800 --> 00:53:54.719
please do not come to our home, okay, Like it's so funny,

608
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:59.480
like he would. It creeped him
the heck out, Like he he

609
00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:04.039
definitely believed that things could be possible, but for him, even seeing something

610
00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:07.960
like that was very jarring. He
just never really talked about it much.

611
00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:15.679
He just felt like it's something beyond
his comprehension because he, you know,

612
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:22.639
was very very old fool old school
excuse me, sorry, he was very

613
00:54:22.679 --> 00:54:28.440
old school like. He was just
a very hard working person, very you

614
00:54:28.480 --> 00:54:34.559
know, not the type to be
dreaming like me, like how I was

615
00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:38.760
when I was younger. He sounds
like a guy who the world needs a

616
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:44.519
lot more people like him, you
know that respect the land and just a

617
00:54:44.519 --> 00:54:49.639
hardworking, good guy. You're very
lucky to have a grandpa like him,

618
00:54:49.679 --> 00:54:52.840
for sure. I was very lucky
too, actually very lucky. If it

619
00:54:53.000 --> 00:54:58.559
wasn't for him, I wouldn't know
the difference between deer dung and bear dung

620
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:06.800
and like just other hunting or fishing
like activities like he was. Uh.

621
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.519
He just always felt like nature will
heal you, and it'll help you get

622
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:14.679
in touch with your true self and
make like bring out the best in you,

623
00:55:14.760 --> 00:55:20.159
because like you have to push yourself
in nature to survive or to eat,

624
00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.400
you know. So he was always
kind of like, don't ever kill

625
00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:27.039
anything you don't intend to eat,
don't ever waste like he was very much

626
00:55:27.039 --> 00:55:32.719
against wastefulness. Megan, there was
a few minutes ago where you had started

627
00:55:32.719 --> 00:55:38.119
to bring up that there was one
night where something very unsettling happened. Oh,

628
00:55:38.199 --> 00:55:42.280
yes, do your mind? Do
you do you remember? Do you

629
00:55:42.320 --> 00:55:45.760
mind sharing that? Yes? I
would love to thank you, thank you.

630
00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:55.000
So what happened was there were very
large packs of coyotes. There still

631
00:55:55.079 --> 00:56:00.079
are here in Alberta, in Canada. They can be a real problem for

632
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:07.119
livestock. And so at this time, this was a year later, it

633
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:10.840
was a nighttime, probably around I'm
gonna say ten thirty eleven thirty at night,

634
00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:16.199
very very dark out the lights are
on in the yard, but beyond

635
00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:21.599
that point, page black, and
I could hear all the coyotes just you

636
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:25.239
know, howling, what a doing, normal coyote you know sounds. And

637
00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:30.079
I could hear the dogs, you
know, they'd go out there to make

638
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.599
sure the perimeter was guarded and that
the coyotes knew that they weren't welcome.

639
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:40.760
Well, the coyotes were just making
so much racket like. It went from

640
00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:45.360
being kind of normal sounds like coyotes
to all of a sudden sounding almost like

641
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:51.320
just way more racket like. It
was just weird. It was almost like

642
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:57.400
alarmed sounds or something. And I
felt, Okay, this is what's weird

643
00:56:57.639 --> 00:57:02.840
is there was this loud like raw
like this all of a sudden and then

644
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:08.519
just absolute silence, and I'm like
what I was Literally, I was just

645
00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:14.239
had the window open and I'm sitting
in the bedroom watching a movie and I

646
00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:20.199
heard this raw and then silence and
no more coyotes sounds. And I see

647
00:57:20.239 --> 00:57:22.679
the dogs come running back in the
yard and they just go and hide in

648
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:27.360
the doghouse. The other one goes
and hides under the trailer, and I'm

649
00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:34.000
like, okay, it was weird. Years later, I was just I've

650
00:57:34.000 --> 00:57:37.800
been kind of thinking about it,
and I was like, maybe he was

651
00:57:37.920 --> 00:57:42.880
just sick and tired of all the
racket I have no idea. Well,

652
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:46.639
that was not me, It wasn't
my grandpa. That did not sound like

653
00:57:46.639 --> 00:57:52.880
like an animal to me that I've
ever heard. I've never, in a

654
00:57:52.880 --> 00:57:58.480
million years heard something just such a
loud bellowing raw. It wasn't like a

655
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:06.840
roar though, but it was like
a loud scream, willy wild. It

656
00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:10.119
was like a really deep voice.
It was so loud it was crazy.

657
00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:16.760
Scared the crap out of me that
time that you had heard sounds like that

658
00:58:16.920 --> 00:58:22.559
from the woods that you didn't recognize
to be other animals or mmm, other

659
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:29.199
than like tree knocks. Occasionally I
would hear like loud loud snapping sounds or

660
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.679
loud like sometimes like a tree was
getting pushed over sometimes and sometimes it would

661
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:38.840
sound like a bat was being hit
against another like a tree or something.

662
00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:44.400
It would just echo every now and
then, and but like mostly it was

663
00:58:44.599 --> 00:58:50.719
just sometimes just the weird feeling of
being watched. Sometimes I'd see lights out

664
00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:53.320
way out in the distance. I
was just like, hey, what the

665
00:58:53.400 --> 00:58:58.159
road is over here, and this
is only one rode that comes in and

666
00:58:58.199 --> 00:59:02.039
out of this place. That's it. This is literally one singular road.

667
00:59:02.159 --> 00:59:08.119
So why would anybody be out there
in the woods on the very back part

668
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:14.760
of the property, Like why were
there lights out there? And it was

669
00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:19.480
and I'm like, better not be
people creeping, Like my grandpa told me

670
00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:22.559
that every now and then he'd see
these weird lights sometimes and they wouldn't be

671
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:28.719
around much, but like every now
and then he'd see like these weird little

672
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:32.840
orbs I guess, like one was
big and look kind of like the size

673
00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:37.360
of oh, I don't know,
like a grapefruit maybe, but like mostly

674
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:42.039
yeah, they just they were just
always really far away. But he always

675
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.639
said that it was weird how they
were just kind of moving along through the

676
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:51.880
woods and then they'd just be gone, you know. And he also said

677
00:59:51.920 --> 01:00:00.559
that just just the eyeshine was creepy, and I agreed with him because it

678
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:05.400
was. I wouldn't see it happened
very often, but I definitely saw it

679
01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.800
at least three different occasions. I
saw, like, I saw a pair

680
01:00:08.880 --> 01:00:13.880
of green glowing eyes. They were
pretty frigging high up. And then I

681
01:00:13.920 --> 01:00:21.960
saw another pair which were the kind
of yellow blowing. Yeah, And that's

682
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:28.920
about all I can recall for that
is seeing, yeah, that color of

683
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:31.199
eyes sometimes. So I didn't know
if it was a cow or what,

684
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:36.760
but like it was situated in a
weird part of the woods, since the

685
01:00:36.800 --> 01:00:44.440
cows in the field would always be
over like in one section, and the

686
01:00:44.599 --> 01:00:51.440
where the eyeshine was was situated pretty
much right across from my grandparents trailer,

687
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:55.679
right across the road, all the
way into the tree line. Like so

688
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:00.679
it's like they could see every thing
that was happening, you know, like

689
01:01:00.719 --> 01:01:04.920
the entirety of like the whole side
of the trailer, in the whole yard.

690
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:07.400
It's I just feel like maybe sometimes
I don't know, maybe they were

691
01:01:07.440 --> 01:01:10.599
just watching because they were bored.
I have no idea why they do what

692
01:01:10.639 --> 01:01:15.800
they do. I'm just glad they
never came in the yard because that would

693
01:01:15.800 --> 01:01:20.360
have been so freaking scary seeing one
of the night, but scary enough seeing

694
01:01:20.400 --> 01:01:23.719
him during the day. I mean, I don't know. It's just really

695
01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:30.119
jarring. It's so it's just,
man, you never think that something that

696
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:37.039
looks human, and this just seems
so human, like that massive, that

697
01:01:37.280 --> 01:01:45.039
powerful, that mysterious could exist out
there, and it's and the fact that

698
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:52.400
it keeps itself hidden and it's so
intelligent and it obviously knows it's environment better

699
01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:57.119
than we do now. Like humanity
used to be in touch more with the

700
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:00.480
land. We used to have,
you know, more respect for the balance

701
01:02:00.519 --> 01:02:05.440
of things and be closer, and
maybe we were closer with some of these

702
01:02:05.440 --> 01:02:12.079
beings because like I've heard stories you
know of some native tribes having them as

703
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:15.719
kind of like wood like neighbors of
the woods, and most of the time

704
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:20.639
they just kept to themselves, but
like they were recognized as like another tribe,

705
01:02:20.960 --> 01:02:24.679
you know, of people just kind
of wild people, people that preferred

706
01:02:24.719 --> 01:02:30.000
to live in the old ways and
did not want anything to do with us,

707
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:32.840
because I don't know, maybe they
just saw the way we treated each

708
01:02:32.880 --> 01:02:37.679
other over this thousands of years.
Who knows, you know, maybe we

709
01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:43.360
went to war with them thousands of
years ago. And because I've heard,

710
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:46.639
like you know, tales of that
as well, that you and definitely people

711
01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:51.519
have had some very nasty run ins
with these creatures, and I could believe

712
01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:57.760
it. These beings seemed very peaceful. They seemed more human than ape or

713
01:02:57.840 --> 01:03:00.760
animal. To me, they really
did. But I've also heard stories of

714
01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:07.159
creatures that are genuinely terrifying, that
look like well, like an experiment gone

715
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:14.360
wrong, like a monster. And
I've been told that there are evil ones

716
01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:16.400
and good ones, just like there
are people that are good and evil,

717
01:03:16.760 --> 01:03:25.239
and these beings, somehow can they
can tell what you're like, what your

718
01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:29.599
interest is in them? I guess, like I don't know if it's true

719
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:34.079
if they can read your mind or
but I mean, I've certainly heard tales

720
01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:39.039
of mind speak and anything as possible. I certainly felt some sort of weird

721
01:03:39.079 --> 01:03:47.280
connection with the one that I saw
the big male and years later being told,

722
01:03:47.719 --> 01:03:52.719
you know, even by a medicine
woman that I just met randomly.

723
01:03:54.360 --> 01:03:59.400
She approached me and she told me
that in a past life you were a

724
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:03.280
medicine women and these being there like
you have the site to be able to

725
01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:09.880
see things that I'm like, okay, well, it's nice to meet younger

726
01:04:09.960 --> 01:04:13.559
I just met. But she was
like, I'm a medicine woman. I

727
01:04:13.639 --> 01:04:15.880
just wanted you to know. But
I see that there's something you know,

728
01:04:15.960 --> 01:04:20.119
that you have some kind of sight
or something or some kind of connection.

729
01:04:20.320 --> 01:04:24.639
And I'm like okay, and you
know, it's just at the time,

730
01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:28.360
like I mean, I've studied a
lot of a lot of things when it

731
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:33.880
comes to spirituality, religion, history, I like, you know, biology,

732
01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:39.320
archaeology, paleontology, all of all
that stuff. I think it's amazing,

733
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.800
you know, and it's good to
learn about our history. And I

734
01:04:42.840 --> 01:04:47.280
feel like we're doomed to repeat the
same mistakes if we don't learn about history.

735
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:51.320
And I feel like, these beings
are a part of our history,

736
01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:57.239
and I don't feel like it's quite
right that's so much about them is kept

737
01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:03.840
a secret or hidden by certain government
branches. But I get it. I

738
01:05:03.880 --> 01:05:14.000
think a lot of people might not
be prepared or ready quite yet to accept

739
01:05:14.039 --> 01:05:19.760
fully the notion that there are other
beings that could potentially be more intelligent than

740
01:05:19.840 --> 01:05:24.760
us in some ways. We as
humanity, we've evolved amazingly in a lot

741
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:29.639
of ways, and we can dominate
almost any area of our planet, but

742
01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:33.159
there are still some parts of it
that we can't. And these beings they

743
01:05:33.199 --> 01:05:41.480
know how to at least coexist with
the planet, and I'm trying my best

744
01:05:41.519 --> 01:05:44.760
to kind of, I suppose follow
that example. Like my whole life,

745
01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:47.159
I've definitely, I mean, I've
seen weird things, like I've seen some

746
01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:54.920
shadow beings before, you know.
I've had a dark entity that messed with

747
01:05:54.960 --> 01:06:00.440
me once. It was really scary
actually because it literally tried to like possess

748
01:06:00.559 --> 01:06:04.679
me, and that really terrified me. And I was very lucky, thank

749
01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:12.360
goodness, Like I had some help
praying actually to God and Jesus really did,

750
01:06:12.440 --> 01:06:16.000
Like I feel like that really did
save me, because for I was

751
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:20.920
just getting involved in a lot of
stuff I shouldn't have, like witchcraft,

752
01:06:20.960 --> 01:06:26.880
and I just wanted to understand these
things. But then I came to realize

753
01:06:26.920 --> 01:06:30.840
all I need is God, All
I need is Jesus. All I need

754
01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:33.760
is to have some faith and to
try my best to be a decent person

755
01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:38.360
and live in the moment and be
grateful, you know, for what I

756
01:06:38.440 --> 01:06:44.159
have. So like, that's basically, yeah, I'm at peace, and

757
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:46.440
I feel that more than I've ever
felt. But for a lot of years

758
01:06:46.519 --> 01:06:51.280
I searched for answers. I wanted
to understand why is it that I ended

759
01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:56.360
up meeting a being like this and
then seeing his family, and you know

760
01:06:56.440 --> 01:06:59.199
what, I kind of feel like
maybe that was a show of trust,

761
01:06:59.559 --> 01:07:03.519
or maybe it was just a random
act and I just randomly saw them there

762
01:07:03.519 --> 01:07:08.760
and they're just minding their own business
fishing. Who knows? Have you heard?

763
01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:15.400
I'm just very curious about the area
that you're I'm sure have you ever

764
01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.119
heard? Have you ever talked to
neighbors and have they told you stories about

765
01:07:18.119 --> 01:07:23.360
how they've seen things too? Or
is this very like it's kept inside your

766
01:07:23.400 --> 01:07:28.559
family and it does not get talked
about. It was kept inside the family

767
01:07:29.039 --> 01:07:33.079
I actually wish that my grandfather could
have asked our neighbors. That would have

768
01:07:33.119 --> 01:07:36.440
been nice, But I don't know
if he ever did. If he ever

769
01:07:36.519 --> 01:07:45.480
did, he never mentioned it to
me. Sure does the does the homestead

770
01:07:45.840 --> 01:07:50.840
still? Is it still owned by
your family or has it been passed on

771
01:07:50.880 --> 01:07:57.559
to someone else? It's been sold? Unfortunately. Actually that's that's what's weird

772
01:07:57.599 --> 01:08:03.360
too, is the place has changed
a lot. And yeah, I don't

773
01:08:03.400 --> 01:08:08.960
know. I don't know if they've
seen anything or experienced anything there, but

774
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:14.760
last I saw the place was very
much changed and ever since my grandfather left,

775
01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:18.960
so who knows. It's quite isolated
though, that's for sure, So

776
01:08:19.039 --> 01:08:25.640
if they had any experiences, I
just hope that they're happy for the floodlights

777
01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:30.920
that my grandpa still left in the
yard, and I hope that they're doing

778
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:38.760
okay and that they're not having any
unwanted visitors or any issues because my grandfather,

779
01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:44.439
in his way of coexisting with things, I feel, in the end,

780
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:46.840
really did work out. But it
doesn't always work out for other people.

781
01:08:47.359 --> 01:08:55.319
Because I know that, oh,
he little kitty. Sometimes sometimes these

782
01:08:55.359 --> 01:09:00.199
beings are not always friendly, and
sometimes in fact, they don't have much

783
01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:06.199
going on and they seem to be
decide to come into people's lives and torment

784
01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:13.079
them or watch them they're in their
homes through their windows and beat creepers,

785
01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:17.560
and that sucks when that happens.
And I feel great sympathy for people that

786
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:21.880
have had those experiences, that have
had the daylights scared out of them by

787
01:09:21.920 --> 01:09:29.800
these beings, and I would like
to believe that there are still good ones.

788
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:31.520
I want to believe that. I
don't know, maybe it's because I

789
01:09:31.520 --> 01:09:35.079
want to believe they're still good in
people. And I really believe that I

790
01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:40.760
have nothing, but I have mostly
just faith that in the end, good

791
01:09:40.800 --> 01:09:43.840
will prevail, that we're going to
be okay as long as we all,

792
01:09:44.479 --> 01:09:48.800
you know, actually come together and
recognize how blessed we are, because we

793
01:09:48.920 --> 01:09:55.680
really live in an age where,
you know, less disease, less poverty,

794
01:09:55.840 --> 01:10:00.600
less everything than it was prior centuries. And I just kind of feel

795
01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:05.920
like we shouldn't take for granted,
you know, the blessings we've been given

796
01:10:06.039 --> 01:10:10.920
in this beautiful world that we live
like. I don't want to be afraid

797
01:10:10.960 --> 01:10:13.479
of nature. I don't want to
be afraid of going out in the woods

798
01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:16.560
when I go camping. I definitely
sometimes get a little anxious before going.

799
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.840
But that's also because I'm like,
I just hope one day I don't come

800
01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:27.000
across another one and it's not a
nice one, like That's that's kind of

801
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.039
where I think now, is like
I do not want to come across any

802
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:34.800
of these especial entities or beings that
might be demonic, like if it's a

803
01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:38.800
dog man or something, I do
not want to see them. And I

804
01:10:38.920 --> 01:10:42.680
know they're up here in Canada,
just like when they goes all kinds of

805
01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:51.319
cryptis. Aren't we lucky? But
that's like exactly, Megan, I would

806
01:10:51.359 --> 01:10:57.680
be remiss not to ask you,
of course, just because I'm curious,

807
01:10:59.199 --> 01:11:06.399
have you experienced anything else besides bigfoot
in that area or is it just been

808
01:11:08.279 --> 01:11:20.920
the sasquatch creature that you've experienced other
than me seeing some shadow beings. At

809
01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:26.840
this one house that I went to, the people that lived there said that

810
01:11:26.920 --> 01:11:31.119
the it always had a very rank, kind of rotten smell in the basement,

811
01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:39.159
and they said that their house was
haunted. And they were just like

812
01:11:39.359 --> 01:11:44.039
a friend of a family, you
know, And we went there and I

813
01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.279
just out of curiosity, I went
down the basement and it smelled really really

814
01:11:47.319 --> 01:11:53.000
bad. And next thing I know, I see this black shadow figure literally

815
01:11:53.079 --> 01:11:56.000
moving from one side of the room
to the other right in front of me,

816
01:11:56.199 --> 01:12:00.199
and that scared of the crap out
of me too. And also I've

817
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seen little orbs, you know,
here and there as well. In my

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life. Sometimes I'll see like a
weird aura above people's heads, but I

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don't know what that is. Sometimes
it's just like a color, like an

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energy. Sometimes like this one woman
who had an accident, she ended up

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drowning, and I saw this dark
shadow hovering above her head and behind her,

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and that was, you know,
really weird. And then next thing

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I know, you know, she's
like in the river, drowned, and

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I'm like, oh crap, And
it's just weird. Sometimes I see these

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01:12:39.119 --> 01:12:44.039
weird things and I don't understand it. This has been happening my whole life

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for the most part, thankfully,
especially these past years. It's been very

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peaceful and normal, thank goodness.
But I do live in town. I

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really don't want to live on a
farm again. Really, I just I

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don't know. It's just kind of
a creepy idea or notion that these things

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could be out there and I wouldn't
know, or I would know, because

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sometimes they seem to reveal themselves to
me for whatever reason. At least back

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01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:21.159
then, I haven't seen any sense, thankfully, but who knows. I'm

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still young, I'm only in my
prime. I still have more camping trips

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to go on. But you have
some amazing, amazing stories, and I'm

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so thankful that you were able to
share them with me and my audience.

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I mean, I'm just blown away
by the family history that you have.

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And thank you so much. Well, thank you so much for coming on

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Megan, and thank you all for
listening. Please take a minute to help

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much. Make sure that you're subscribed, share the show with a friend.

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Really, it's all about sharing the
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a bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know someone who has, please

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reach out to me at Bigfoot Society
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email. Here's the list. All
right, I'm going to use this space

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this week to announce that I'll be
at the Sasquatch Summerfest and Oakridge organ as

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an atender. I won't be presenting
or anything, but I'll be hanging out

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trying to interview people that have had
bigfoot encounters. If you're from the Oakridge,

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Oregon area or surrounding and you've had
a Bigfoot experience, please contact me

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directly Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Also, Priscilla was nice enough that

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if you get your tickets through Sasquatch
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thank you to all the Big for
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your support that helps keep the show
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had a listener comment, Hey,
what's a current update with the road to

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getting to full time? Well,
here's the deal. The push, as

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if you've seen on social media is
well now I've kind of tweeted it a

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little bit so amount of calculations.
Once we get eight hundred and twenty four

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people in the Patreon, we should
be good to go. So what I

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did is we're going to do it
a little bit differently. It's now adding

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the current amount plus the amount that
are joining, and there's tons of people

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joining every day. It's wild,
guys. So right now, where one

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hundred and seventy six members are in
there ready to go out of the eight

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and twenty four that are needed in
order for us to go full time,

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that puts us at about twenty two
percent. So if you've been putting around

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back and forth the idea of joining
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time. I'm telling you it's time
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month starts fifteen dollars a month as
well, but seven dollars a month is

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a great place to start. Patreon
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And if you can't swing that,
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friends and make sure you're subscribed on
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But thanks again so much for listening, guys. Her and I can

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get out here, we can tell
our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out

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01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:38.720
there listening. It's too afraid to
tell their story. Maybe this will give

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01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.279
them the courage to come out.
And I feel so bad about it.

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Who cares what anybody thinks. I
know what I saw, I know what's

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01:17:45.359 --> 01:18:06.239
out there. That's all I care. Please let people know, Please let

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01:18:06.399 --> 01:18:11.199
them know. If you ever see
one of these things, you need to

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01:18:11.439 --> 01:18:15.119
tell because if you don't, then
shame on you, you know, shame

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on you. M