Nov. 15, 2025

West Virginia Bigfoot Investigator Reveals Shocking Encounters | Greg Lambert

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Season 1

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, host Jeremiah Byron interviews Greg Lambert, a veteran BFRO (Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization) investigator from West Virginia with over 11 years of experience tracking Bigfoot sightings across Appalachia.



Greg shares his first encounter as a teenager, terrifying moments from BFRO and East Coast Expeditions, and eyewitness accounts that have baffled investigators for decades. From eye glow and wood knocks to rock throws and thermal imaging sightings, this episode dives deep into the real evidence and eyewitness reports that define the Bigfoot mystery in the mountains of West Virginia and Kentucky.



Hear exclusive stories of encounters near Monongahela National Forest, Dolly Sods, and Blackwater Falls.

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

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this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring

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

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something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to

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

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and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.

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These are the.

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Voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in,

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because today you'll hear another account that just might change

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the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us,

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all right, bigf the Society. You've got the privilege of

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talking to mister Greg Lambert today.

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Greg is an.

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Individual that has had some really interesting Bigfoot experiences over

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the years, and he is on the show to talk

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about those today. He's from the great state of West

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Virginia and he's also been a BFRO investigator for about

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eleven years now. So welcome to the show.

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Greg. How are you doing today.

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Sir, I'm doing well. Thanks for having me.

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Absolutely whenever I have an individual like yourself where you

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have more than a few years of expertise about the subject,

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I always like to start with what was it that

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first got you into the Bigfoot subjects?

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To begin with, when I was around thirteen years old,

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my father and I had gone to scout our deer

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stand locations. Excuse me, we rented a property at the time,

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we were actually living there, and there was about one

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hundred acres and it was also a Christmas tree farm,

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and we went up above the Christmas tree area. There

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were roads all over the mountains, so we had roads

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we could walk, and hadn't gotten daylight yet. We went

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up and I hadn't dressed warm enough, so I got

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cold and I told my dad. I said, I'm going

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back to the house. I'm freezing. So I started back

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down the road and we were probably probably half a

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mile up the mountain. And as I walked, I would

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stop and listen, and off to my left on the ridge,

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I heard footsteps and the leaves. Of course, it was

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November and all the leaves were down. I couldn't really

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see anything, but I didn't make too much of it.

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It stopped when I stopped, so I continued walking and

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stopped again and heard footsteps just a few, but then

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when I stopped, it would stop. And this continued on

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until I got really scared and ran for the house,

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and then I could hear it coming through the brush

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as I was running, just breaking branches and the normal

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sounds that some would make. That was big, running through

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the woods and the leaves, and got to the house

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that never saw anything. My dad came down later and

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never had any incident at all, never saw anything. When

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we lived at this property, we had some strange goings

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on and we just attributed it to maybe the place

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was haunted or we didn't know. Strange sounds, strange things

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happened from time to time. We had a root cellar

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that was full of potato bends that the door had

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swollen on it and you had to really jerk hard

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on the door to get it open. And I had

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been in there previously, and that the evening before got

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the next morning the door was open, and I knew

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I had shut it and latched it and couldn't tell

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if there were potatoes missing. Of course, there were hundreds

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of potatoes in there, but just strange things like that

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got me thinking. And then later on, as when the

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Internet came out and people were talking about this stuff,

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I was reading accounts other people had where they had

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been paralleled out of the woods in the same fashion

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I had. And I've talked to other witnesses as well

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who have had that experience, and I'm like, co, okay,

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so I had a bigfoot experience. That's what really got

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me interested.

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And was it a thing where after you had this experience,

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then you were really interested in it the rest of

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your life or did you take a little time off

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and then maybe get back into it in later years.

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I continually was interested in the subject. At first, I

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thought these things are just in the Northwest, And after

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the Patterson Gimmlin film came out and I never even

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dreamed that Bigfoot was all over the country, much less

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in West Virginia. And then the Legend of Balgi Creek

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came out in seventy two and saw that at the

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drive in and I'm like, when that hand came through

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the window, that just really freaked me out. But I thought,

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that is not in the Northwest, so what's up with that?

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Then do a little more research on the subject, and

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everything I could find, every article I could find, and

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books would read then in search of was really cool

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something you know that Leonard Bimoy had done like that

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that got me even more interested in the subject, and

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then lo and behold. In twenty twelve, I had found

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the BFRO website and discovered they were having an expedition

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in West Virginia. Went to the expedition. We had a

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class A sighting by not just one, but probably five

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or six individuals on a thermal camera, and that just

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really lit the fire. After that.

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Gotcha, I could definitely see how that would How close

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was what they had seen through the thermal to.

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Them, They were thinking it was probably thirty yards away

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or so, And then when they went back in the

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daytime and did a recreation, this thing had belly crawled

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up on them and was more like fifteen ten or

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fifteen yards away, much closer than they had thought before.

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Their thermal camera did not record. Our group was on

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up the mountain from them, but on the same trail,

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and they called us on the radio and said, can

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you all get back down here? We think we have something.

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We scatthered up our things we had just settled down,

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started back down the mountain and there was a wood

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knock and Russ Jones was actually leading my group, and

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he said, did you hear that? It'll be gone when

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they get there? They know we're coming, and sure enough,

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it was like a minute or so later they called

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us on the radio and said, never mind, it's gone.

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We continued on down and talk to them though to

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see what they had experienced, and of course everybody was

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pretty excited.

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So yeah, wow, I can only imagine that after that

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then things probably really amped up for you. Were you

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at the point then where you're starting to go out

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on expeditions that are maybe outside the BFO, maybe private things,

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or maybe going out by yourself.

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Yeah, I've been out. It's spooky to go out and

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by yourself. I've been out with other individuals. Monongahila for one.

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I don't know if you know who he is, but

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he does a lot of our sound analysis, right, I've

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been out with him, but his top secret location that

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was also in West Virginia. But we have a group

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called East Coast Expeditions and that's run by Charles Kimbro

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and we we're all BFRO investigators. But there it's just

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a private group and we can just invite anybody, friends

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or family along whoever. That's like a non paid type thing.

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We do that on the side because a lot of

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times they're not just enough expeditions going around that you

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can get to or they're quite a distance away.

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Okay, so that's really interesting. Have you had any significant

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things happen on any of the East Coast as East

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Coast expeditions?

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You've been on.

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General things, calls, we've gotten answered, wood knocks, stuff like that.

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I think the I don't remember if it's there. They

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kind of all run together after time. I don't remember.

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It was the East Coast or BFRO expedition. I had

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a rock thrown at us. We were the two groups.

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One was on an opposite trail, but these two trails

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converged into one trail, and myself and two other individuals

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got to this intersection where we're to meet, and we

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sat down, turned our lights off, and then I sat

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there and thurmed around a little bit and we played

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with the bard al back and forth, called it in.

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One of the gentlemen had a harmonica, so I told

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him to police harmonica out and play a little to

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see if we could attract some attention. And after he stopped,

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we got a rock thrown in from behind us up

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on the ridge and hit the tree in front of us,

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just cracked like a shot, and that really got our attention.

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I turned up the heel but couldn't see anything. But

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that was the first really eerie, startling interaction that I've had.

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Have you ever been fortunate enough to have a class

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A visual sighting yourself during any of these.

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I have not to this point. I'm hoping. I'm really hoping.

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Now I've seen eyeshine or eyeglow. That's really strange. I

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can't explain it. You know what mammals would have the

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ability of bioluminescence. I have seen that something that I

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could not explain, But as far as a class A, no,

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haven't gotten that fortunate to this point. But I'm still.

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Hopeful, absolutely, and I'm right there with you. So eyeglow, though,

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is such an interesting thing because it is a thing

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where I feel like it's maybe I'm just starting to

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hear more of it on my show over the last year.

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But did you notice a certain color to the eyeglow

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that you were able to see?

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It's actually varied from like an oranges color to like

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a blue white light. I was in Kentucky on an

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expedition and Charles Kimbro and I were together leaving camp.

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Everyone else was out of camp except for the two

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people who were actually staying in camp, and as we

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hiked out, we saw down near campsite it looked like

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somebody standing looking down at a table with a headlamp on.

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The light was actually shining down like they were looking

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at something on their table or looking for something in

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their campsite. So we called back on the radio to

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see if anyone was still there, and they said no,

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everyone was gone, so we're like, what are we seeing.

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We theirmed it couldn't see anything because it was kind

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of like behind brush, didn't really get a hot spot

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and peach signature, but we definitely saw the light, so yeah,

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that's it's kind of weird. I've had it happen directly

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behind me when I was looking the other direction and

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the person said, now turn around, there's eye shine on

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the hill right behind you. And it slowly turned and

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they said, oh, it's gone before I got turned around

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to see it. So that's happened a couple of times.

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I haven't been in Kentucky. I was with Nate Moyer

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and I thought he was going to pass out on me,

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and I said, what's wrong? I thought, the Lord, there's

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a squatch ten feet behind us or something. And he said,

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I shine, I shine, But as soon as I turned

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around it it was gone again. But yeah, it's varied

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as far as the light color goes.

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Absolutely, when you had seen that eye glow, John Kentucky,

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were you able to tell roughly how high off the

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ground level it was?

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No, couldn't really tell. It was definitely not down on

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the ground. It would have definitely been if it was

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not a squatch, but it would have been something up

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in a tree, but too far apart for like an

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owl something like that. So it definitely wasn't deer eyeshine

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or just unexplained. So you have to go with what's

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the probability? What are we out here looking for? Oh?

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Absolutely, and you're more than likely going into spots where

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there have been multiple things experienced and so.

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Their previod spots.

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And that actually was a follow up question I was

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going to ask you, was how how far apart would

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could you approximate that those different eye glow spheres were

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or the different the two eyes that you had seen.

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Sometimes with a distance, it's hard to judge, but probably

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around ten inches apart.

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Wow, that's definitely more than a normal humans would be

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for sure. Exactly when you are when you've been out

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in these expeditions, have you ever experienced any vocalizations or

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sounds that would be hard to explain?

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Yeah, definitely. We were on an expedition in Kentucky and

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Monongahela and Charles Kimbro and I had hiked down to

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a lake steep trail. There were some people there who

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were camping. I think they were I believe there were

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two tenths maybe there. These people were out, they were

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sound asleep, nobody else was around, and they had me

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do a whoop and a knock and on the other

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side of the lake we got a response. We did

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another whoop, and it was coming closer around the lake,

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So I said, what do we do if it comes

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over here. We didn't really think this through, but then

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it got to a point. I don't know if we

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could see us, if it winded us, whatever, but it

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stopped and there was no more interaction after that. But

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to get a call, to get a response to I've

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call you done is great, and then it actually starts

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coming towards you is really exciting.

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Oh yeah, that has to be just a thing that

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that really gets you amped up. Has there ever been

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a time when you've experienced what could be considered infrasound

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in the field.

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I have never experienced that. Now we've had people on

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the next edition that experience that while the expedition was

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going on. I believe that happened to Ron Bowles once

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on an expedition we were on. Trying to think that

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was Kentucky. Possibly, I think it was Kentucky. Like I say,

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they'll run together at at some point. But yeah, I've

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never experienced that. Now I have experienced the feeling of

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being watched. And this was in broad daylight. This is

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where we lived where I had something follow me out

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of the woods. I had a little Honda XL one hundred.

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When I was like fourteen, I sold grit newspapers mode

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grass bought this motorcycle. And like I said, there were

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roads all over this mountain. So I had ridden way

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out along the ridge that I'd never been to before

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and just stopped. It was a bright sunny afternoon and

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put to kickstand down, sit there and listen and enjoyed

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the scenery, and just all of a sudden got that

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fight or flight feeling the hair on my next stood

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up and the woods had just gone dead quiet, and

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I just freaked and thought, I got to get out

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of here right now, and I started that bike up

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as fast as I could and just bolted. I've never

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had that feeling since then, even on an expedition, and

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it was strange. It was the middle of the day,

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perfectly clear, calm, and just freaked out.

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That is really strange, just to double check, so it

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sounds like that is the one time that you could

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consider that you may have felt that you're in a

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situation where I'd rather not be here, and I would

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if I could get out of here right now. I

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would definitely get out of here right now.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't never experienced the infrasound, but definitely

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got that feeling of being watched and that the fight

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or flight got to go.

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Besides, so let's see, the eye glow is definitely one

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of those weird things. Have there ever been any other

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things you've experienced while on an expedition that were hard

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for you to explain, but that might not be necessarily

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related to bigfoot.

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Lights orbs. People see those from time to time. I

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spoke to a man that used to be a federal

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game organ and ask him if he'd ever seen anything

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in the woods that he couldn't explain. I was searching

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for maybe a possible bigfoot sighting and he said, other

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than lights, he'd never experienced that. I think in Kentucky

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on the one expedition we were on, there were people

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seeing lights, and yet that's just straining. That's kind of

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hard to explain.

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Absolutely, Is that something where you do that often? Try

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to talk to individuals that are maybe involved with forestry

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or wildlife or law enforcement to see if they have

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any things to report.

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Yeah, from time to time, a lot of times they're

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reluctant to say anything for fear of their jobs. I

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know Manonga heel Of, he uses that name to protect

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himself on the line of work that he does. I

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think he's starting to come out a little bit more

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and more, and possibly he is going to do a

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book here in the future. And he actually did a

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chapter in Charles Kimber's book, Squatching one on one. But yeah,

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most of the time people are just reluctant to say much.

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Yeah, I definitely agree with that. It's I have not

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had much luck myself with those conversations. But have you

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found that there's a way to try to start those

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conversations with individuals in those fields. That works better than

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maybe other ways.

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Usually I'll just start out with have you ever seen

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anything strange that you can't really explain? Something like that.

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I know I had an individual that I don't know

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and highly respect. I actually go to church with who

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saw a squatch last spring as he was going to

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pick up his son from ball practice, and ask him

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if he would like to do report, and he said,

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I don't really want my name associated with this forever,

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and I'm gonna a year it's totally anonymous. We won't

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reveal your name. People are just reluctant to He told

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me about the whole situation, but people were just reluctant

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to file report. Many times I'll have people tell me

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things I will file report, But generally I'll try to

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start out law saying have you ever seen anything that

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you couldn't really explain or something that wasn't supposed to

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be there?

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I think that sounds like a good way to try

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to handle it. Sometimes if you jump right into the

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hey you've seen bigfoot people catches them off guard. Let's

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just say in a way that you're yours would be

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a little bit easier to get into it. Do you

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have a certain leaning towards what you think Bigfoot is

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at this point.

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I think they're flesh and blood, probably a descendant of

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jog Antipithecus Blackie. That's my belief. I know a lot

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of people think they're interdimensional creatures. The Native Americans excuse me,

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thought they had some kind of spiritual power a lot

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of times, but that just could be because they didn't

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really understand. But if they're leaving tracks, they're making sounds

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you find scat, if they're doing wood knocks, tree twists,

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breaking branches, I think they're a flesh and blood creature.

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Obviously we've got the Patterson Gimman film and that's still

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some of the best evidence out there. They're a physical creature,

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and I think they're a Grade eight of some sort.

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Gotcha.

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The way I look at it is very similar in

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that it's some kind of physical creature. Because as you said, yeah,

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I can leave tracks and all that good stuff. I

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think there's probably some weird stuff that sciences has to

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catch up with in that that kind of could explain

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away the reports you get where it's seen doing weird stuff.

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But I would say I'm pretty close to what you're

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seeing as well. Do you have any reports that you've

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taken over the years that really stand out for interesting

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encounters in your area of West Virginia.

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There was one gentleman who saw one when he was fishing,

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and it was crossing the creek and it was using

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a lat It was using a large walking stick. That

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was unusual that you would see this thing crossing a

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creek with a walking stick, like it needed the stick

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to get across the creek, or was it carrying the

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stick to use for tree knocks. That just unusual. There

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was one incident of preacher who told us about two

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squatches in his garden digging potatoes, and one of them

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was blonde, And he said, I didn't really want to

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tell anyone because people you tell people you've seen a

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bigfoot and they think you're crazy. But to tell someone

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I saw too and one of them was blonde, he said,

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I just didn't want to go there. But that one

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really stood out too, as far as I hadn't heard

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that much about the color variations. The wide range of

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color variations, and the fact that they were stealing food

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out of a.

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Garden, that is some really really unique stuff. I've taken

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a few reports from West Virginia over the years, and

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you just you get some really specific details that you

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don't really get from other parts of the country. And

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for example, what you just said where he was using

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a walking stick, that's pretty cool. It reminds me of

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a report that I took from the Whites Run Road

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area over by Seneca Rock, and the truck driver reported

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that it had so it also had glowing eyes like

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you were saying, so eye glow yellow glowing eyes, but

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also had a vine across its chest too, which is

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very strange stuff. Also, have you gotten any reports from

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your area of people that have all of a sudden

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become paralyzed or can't move when they're in the same

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area of Bigfoot.

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No, I haven't really heard that from anyone. I'm sure

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that that would breathe you and peralize you in fear

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if you're not expecting to see something like that, especially

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with the size of the creature. The individual I was

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telling you about that saw one as he was on

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his way to pick up his son from ball practice.

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Told me he said it disappeared. I said, you mean

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it stepped into the woods, it went down over the bank.

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He said, no, it just disappeared. I said, okay, I'm

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not one to believe in portals and things like that,

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so I thought, what could this possibly mean. I was

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chatting with Russ Jones about it, and his theory was,

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and I agreed with him. Your mind is seeing something

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that's not supposed to be there and it just blocks

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it out. You're seeing something that say, Okay, this doesn't exist.

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Is this what I'm really seeing? And you it's almost

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like a lost time thing. Your mind just goes blank

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and said, Okay, this is not real. That's like the

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same thing about people frozen in fear. Your mind does

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funny things under stress situations.

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It's it is very strange how the mind works. And

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sometimes we forget things because if we remember. I think

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if we remember them, we probably would have a hard

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time dealing with reality. And I think sometimes, like you said,

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this plays into the whole subject. But I also have

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gotten a weird report. Do you know where Pocahontas County is?

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Oh? Yeah, yeah.

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There was a guy I talked to where a black

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He saw a black fog like form crossing the road,

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which then turned into a sasquatch. And I've gotten that.

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I've gotten the opposite of that out in the mount

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Hood area of Oregon near a zig Zag where it

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was it actually turned into a black fog and then

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went across the creek as a fog cloud would do.

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But that very strange stuff. That's a thing where you know,

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I listen to people's stories and make sure they're documented,

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but we're not at the point yet where we have

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a specimen, and so we're not able to really fully

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study what they can actually do. And I think maybe

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if we ever get to that point, then we will

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be able to see, Okay, what is what is something

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that can be replicated if there are some that we

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can study, like Jane Goodall was studying in her lifetime,

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not Bigfoot, but also like chimpanzees. But in this area

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that you're based out of in West Virginia, are you

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also encountering other things or other accounts from people that

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are like, I haven't seen a Bigfoot, but I have

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encountered this other weird thing, which I have no idea

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what it was.

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I don't get that so much. I know lesser Dale

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has on some wow reports of things. I think one

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of them was up in Canaane Valley. But yeah, I

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don't really get that much from people. I pretty much

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stay with the bigfoot stuff other than people saying maybe

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a ghost or something like that. But no, as far

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as that, no other cryptige really gotcha.

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Do you have any advice for individuals that you know

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are interested in the bigfoot subject and they're wanting to

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go out and try to see if they can find

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things themselves or start to do research. Do you have

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any advice regarding that.

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I do gifting for We have a gap year program

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here where students come and spend a year and they

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study the Bible and they earn college credits. It's a

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beautiful location, but most of these students will come to

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our church and our usually find one or two individuals

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in the group who are interested in bigfoot, and I'll

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when they graduate this program, I'll buy them a copy

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of Charles Kimbro's book Squatching one oh one, and they say,

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here you go. If you're interested in starting some bigfoot research,

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start out with reading Charles's book and that'll help point

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in the right direction.

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I think that's good advice, definitely too. Maybe not start

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from scratch yourself, but to figure out what are some

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good people out there like Squatching one on one where

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you mentioned where you can you don't have to start

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from the absolute beginning. You can get a foundation and

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maybe you can also look at it in a critical eye.

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You don't have to take everything from it, but you

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can learn a whole ton from it. Now, these students

468
00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:57.319
are they from other countries or from over all over

469
00:30:57.400 --> 00:30:58.319
the US.

470
00:30:58.079 --> 00:31:02.039
Or they're from around the US? Yeah, okay, cool, cool,

471
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:06.440
And I'll get a few stories out of people there

472
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:07.559
once in a while as well.

473
00:31:07.839 --> 00:31:10.920
Oh that's cool. So once they find out you're probably

474
00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:12.720
the bigfoot guy in the church.

475
00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:15.440
I would imagine, yeah, that's me.

476
00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:20.839
Yeah, I get that. People find out pretty quick. And

477
00:31:21.079 --> 00:31:25.000
so have you heard any interesting things from other states?

478
00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:25.240
Then?

479
00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.440
As part of you meeting these students from around the US.

480
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:35.200
Yeah, a few things. One of them actually worked with

481
00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:40.200
a tribe and would tell they would tell stories of

482
00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:44.000
Native Americans. They would tell stories to these kids. But

483
00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:47.200
actually I was at a doctor's appointment. This is a

484
00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:53.000
funny story, and my doctor is originally from Ohio, and

485
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.319
I was talking. Sometimes I'll bring up bigfoot in the

486
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:58.680
conversation or they say what do you do for hobby?

487
00:31:58.799 --> 00:32:03.319
And he said, let me tell you a story. I said, Okay,

488
00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:07.440
here we go. His father had actually seen a bigfoot

489
00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:10.960
while he was deer hunting and didn't want to say

490
00:32:11.000 --> 00:32:14.480
anything really when he got back to camp, but every

491
00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:19.160
by school thing, I'm crazy. And so he finally confided

492
00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:23.519
in another individual who was running near him as well,

493
00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:28.200
and he said, I saw it too. So that was

494
00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:32.400
funny that he had a bigfoot story.

495
00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.480
That is pretty cool.

496
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:36.279
And sometimes you just have to put it out there

497
00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:39.200
and you will be surprised at what you do find.

498
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:41.519
And I know some people they do that even just

499
00:32:41.559 --> 00:32:43.640
by having like a sticker on the back of your car,

500
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:47.799
and that can that can leave some really interesting conversations

501
00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:52.960
in itself. Yeah, going off of you're into this for

502
00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.839
about eleven years, so you've probably heard a lot and

503
00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:01.079
you've seen a lot. What do you feel that the

504
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:07.400
best evidence for bigfoot existing in West Virginia is?

505
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:16.319
Oh, gosh, I would say probably the many eyewitness reports.

506
00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:20.079
I know. I was out around the blackwater Falls area

507
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:24.400
one time and I had on probably had on one

508
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.599
of my big foot hats of one of many, and

509
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:30.440
we were in a piece of joint and I had

510
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:34.000
a gentleman walk up to me and say, hey, I

511
00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.200
believe it exists. He said, we saw tracks going up

512
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:41.119
over the bank when we were kayaking, and I said, oh,

513
00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:43.400
you should file report, and he's like, nah, he said,

514
00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:45.359
but if you're looking for him, he said, you should

515
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:47.400
go out to the dump. He said, people see him

516
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:51.160
there all the time. So I said, yeah, I think

517
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:55.400
just eyewitness reports, you can't say that these people are

518
00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.240
not seeing this creature all around the state.

519
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.880
I agree with you one hundred percent, which is why

520
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.960
I have spent years doing this show. I think it's

521
00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:13.639
very important that stuff that is seen is documented. Like yourself,

522
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.639
it's also important to try to get documentation through different

523
00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:21.639
places like the BFRO, so there can be actual investigators

524
00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:25.280
that go that go out and look. Have there been

525
00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:29.480
any interesting investigations that you've been a part of over

526
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:33.239
the last few years with the BFRO that come to mind?

527
00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:41.239
There was. There have been some that haven't been reported

528
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:44.320
that I've tried to get reported, such as the individual

529
00:34:44.360 --> 00:34:47.360
I was telling about. I had a state trooper told

530
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.559
me a story from up on Dalis Sades. He and

531
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:54.800
several other troopers were camping up there and they could

532
00:34:55.559 --> 00:35:01.480
feel and hear something stomping around there camp and he

533
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:04.199
said they all had their guns out and their flashlights out,

534
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:07.480
looking and calling out whatever was out there, and never

535
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.559
would come in where they could see it. But they

536
00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:14.400
were pretty shook up about the whole situation. But and

537
00:35:14.519 --> 00:35:19.079
again didn't want to file a report. It's hard at times.

538
00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:23.000
I don't know why people if they just don't want to.

539
00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:28.079
They're still afraid they're going to be ridiculed or somebody's

540
00:35:28.119 --> 00:35:31.079
going to find out and might cost them their job

541
00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:34.760
if somebody thinks they're mentally unstable. But it's just it's

542
00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:36.960
hard to get people to file reports. And I've talked

543
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:44.079
to many individuals who've had incidents and they just don't

544
00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:44.960
want to file a report.

545
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:54.840
Why do you think it's important for individuals to get

546
00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:59.079
past that fear and to be able to file what

547
00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:02.960
happened something like the BFROO or even report it to

548
00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:05.039
podcasts like the one we're on now.

549
00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:09.440
We want to prove these things exist so we can

550
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:11.920
I don't know if they really need our protection. They're

551
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:14.480
doing pretty well on their own, but so we can

552
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:20.039
get them protected. But it develops patterns. If people are

553
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:25.079
seeing and experiencing the same things all across the country

554
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:30.239
over and over again, that helps document that. Plus the

555
00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:34.400
more we document these experiences, the more we can learn

556
00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:38.480
about these things and how they live, how they survive

557
00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:44.440
as humans. We're curious as well. They're curious too, but

558
00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:47.360
we want to know more and more about these things,

559
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:52.360
and as people file reports, that helps us to learn

560
00:36:52.400 --> 00:36:57.480
more about them. And I think a lot of I

561
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:00.760
think the government really has bodies. I've heard too many

562
00:37:00.800 --> 00:37:05.639
stories about them being killed on military bases and whatnot,

563
00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:08.599
and all of a sudden somebody shows up and the

564
00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:12.119
bodies are disappear or whatever. But I think the land

565
00:37:12.199 --> 00:37:16.480
usage is more probably the main reason that the government

566
00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:19.519
won't say they exist because of what it would do

567
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:25.000
to land usage. With Darby or cuts DNA study that's

568
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:28.840
going on, maybe that will shed more light into it.

569
00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:34.760
We'll get some answers. But then what do you compare

570
00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:38.840
the DNA to is it I've seen it listed as

571
00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:43.920
part human other things, say a known prime eate. We

572
00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:44.920
have to compare it.

573
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:49.360
To absolutely, and I'm right there with it. And it's

574
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:54.519
almost like you need to get that evidence where an

575
00:37:54.519 --> 00:37:59.639
individual can say, Okay, we saw it, and we saw

576
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.599
it leave do something that would have left the hair

577
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.559
on a fence post and then I went over to

578
00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:10.559
the fence post and I got the hair, and so

579
00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:13.239
that you can say, yes, I saw and then these

580
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:17.400
this hair or whatever evidence you have is directly from

581
00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:20.400
the creature. I think that would be a great thing

582
00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.119
to do. Besides, you know, I don't know if we're

583
00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:25.679
at the point where we need to have an actual

584
00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:30.400
body on the slab. If we have gotten to the

585
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:36.360
point where people like Darby have really amazing skills for

586
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:41.199
doing DNA testing and they're really going after it, it

587
00:38:41.239 --> 00:38:43.320
would be cool if we could prove it without that.

588
00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.440
And I've also heard stories, and I've had people that

589
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:49.440
have talked to me off record and hey, we saw

590
00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:51.559
this on the side of the road in Oregon and

591
00:38:51.599 --> 00:38:55.639
then it disappeared when we went back there and there

592
00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.760
were like black SUVs. And you hear a variant of

593
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:02.920
that story every once in a while. But it's just

594
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.760
it's very interesting. There's a lot of things going on

595
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:11.599
behind the background that hopefully we'll come to late soon enough,

596
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.320
we'll see. In your years of talking to people that

597
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:16.800
have had sightings through the BFRO.

598
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:18.320
Do you have.

599
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:25.239
Do you remember a conversation where the witness got a

600
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.320
really good look at what they were seeing, and they

601
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:33.960
were able to convey what that looked like to you

602
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:36.920
in a way that was very impressive.

603
00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:44.639
Most of the individuals that I've had reports come to me,

604
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:48.480
they didn't really get an up close look like some

605
00:39:48.599 --> 00:39:52.320
of the hunters looking through a scope. I know there's

606
00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:55.559
a lot of those on the BFRO. When that comes

607
00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:58.719
to mind, was I believe in Tucker County where a

608
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.519
guy was looking at through the scope and the general

609
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:07.599
consensus when this happens is it looked too human. I

610
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:10.079
was afraid to pull the trigger. It just looked human,

611
00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:13.800
and I thought, what if it's someone in a suit,

612
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.800
and then am I going to be charged with murder?

613
00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:20.679
Or what is this thing? I don't Is it fart human?

614
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:24.920
Is it a wild human? And so they wouldn't shoot it.

615
00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:29.360
But most of the individuals that I've get reports from

616
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:30.960
and they saw it at a distance or it was

617
00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:33.679
a road crossing and they didn't really get a good

618
00:40:33.719 --> 00:40:34.559
look at the face.

619
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:41.159
Yeah, I would agree the conversations you hear with hunters

620
00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:45.480
where they are able to look through a scope and

621
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.800
a man. I'm thinking of one specifically with Actually it

622
00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:51.119
was on Russ Jones's show that he used to do.

623
00:40:51.960 --> 00:40:56.599
And it was with Darryl Collier from down southeast Oklahoma

624
00:40:56.639 --> 00:41:00.000
and area X, And it was the same type of conversation,

625
00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:03.800
like Darryl had it in its sights through the scope

626
00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:07.360
and he wasn't able to squeeze the trigger because at

627
00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:09.920
the end of the day he didn't know if it

628
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.599
was a human and he didn't want to be charged

629
00:41:12.599 --> 00:41:15.880
for something. Yeah, I think that story gets repeated over

630
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:16.840
and over again.

631
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:21.559
But yeah, that's an area I would absolutely love to

632
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:25.840
go to sometime. They get so much stuff there, it's

633
00:41:26.039 --> 00:41:31.239
just wild. I was thinking that maybe that's if they

634
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.320
were going to harvest a bigfoot, that would probably be

635
00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:38.480
where it would come from. But I think some of

636
00:41:38.480 --> 00:41:41.719
them have changed their opinion on that as well. There.

637
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.239
Yeah, if you're going off of the book that came

638
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:49.360
out a few years ago, because like that was their

639
00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.079
thing for years as they were trying to get a

640
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:56.119
specimen right, and they had the whole protocol like, Okay,

641
00:41:56.159 --> 00:41:58.840
if we get one, what do we do and are

642
00:41:58.880 --> 00:42:01.159
we just are taking the whole thing? Are we taking parts?

643
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.360
And how do we get out of here safely without

644
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.840
being taken out by other ones? But then I think

645
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:12.519
they switched over to trying to just get like photos,

646
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.480
but that I think that was actually before they had

647
00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:17.440
the split in the group.

648
00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:18.320
So who knows.

649
00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:20.480
There's not a lot of information that's come out from

650
00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:22.800
the group after that split. Who knows what we've got

651
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.960
going on now down there. But Greg, this has been

652
00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:29.760
a really interesting conversation. I've learned a lot more about

653
00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:32.519
West Virginia and what's going on with bigfoot in there.

654
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:33.960
We don't get to talk to a lot of guys

655
00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:37.440
from West Virginia, but I do appreciate you you coming

656
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:40.440
on the show, and I want to make sure that

657
00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:43.159
you were able to share everything that you had come

658
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.639
to the show with. Today.

659
00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:50.840
I just wanted to mention about doctor Meldrum. I bought

660
00:42:50.920 --> 00:42:53.159
a huge hole that just kind of leaves in that

661
00:42:54.320 --> 00:42:57.920
the bigfoot community. And I spoke with him this past

662
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.440
year at West Rodinia Bigfoot Festival. He had been there

663
00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:03.920
for several years and he was just a great guy

664
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:08.599
to talk to and so much knowledge. Just a fantastic guy,

665
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:11.840
just a really nice man. And we stood and talked

666
00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:17.199
about the DNA study and could you get DNA from hair?

667
00:43:17.480 --> 00:43:20.800
And I questioned him about legend meat science and when

668
00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.519
that was going to come out and we chatted about

669
00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:26.239
that and he was really looking forward to that coming

670
00:43:26.239 --> 00:43:29.840
out soon. And yeah, just my condolence is still to

671
00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:32.280
his family and it's just a huge loss to the

672
00:43:32.280 --> 00:43:33.239
Bigfoot community.

673
00:43:34.280 --> 00:43:35.679
I agree one hundred percent.

674
00:43:35.960 --> 00:43:41.199
And there have been so many individuals that have been

675
00:43:41.239 --> 00:43:46.559
actually lost in this community over the last few months

676
00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:51.280
in twenty twenty five. It's just a lot to deal

677
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.280
with it. It reminds me of there's been certain conversations

678
00:43:54.320 --> 00:43:56.000
I've had over the years where it's like, what are

679
00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:59.079
we going to do when certain people, when we lose

680
00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:01.960
certain people who are going to be what we do

681
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.480
when it's that time to step up and to make

682
00:44:04.519 --> 00:44:07.920
sure things keep moving in the community. And like, guys,

683
00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:11.079
it's right now, like it is at bat like right now,

684
00:44:11.199 --> 00:44:16.400
there's so many people that have moved on that wear it.

685
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:19.159
Make sure you're doing the right type of research, that

686
00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:23.960
you're documenting things the right way, that you are talking

687
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:28.360
to the right people, and that the information gets out there,

688
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:33.039
and you know when disclosure and does come about, that

689
00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:37.599
we are prepared to do the right things regarding conservation

690
00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:40.320
or things of that nature. There's going to have to

691
00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:43.199
be a ton of people that step up for sure.

692
00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:47.440
I'm on the same mindset of Russ Jones and Brad Tennon.

693
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:50.079
I want to be there when they sit. They said,

694
00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.039
we want to be right there in the front row, saying,

695
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:53.119
I'll told you.

696
00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.159
That that would be something.

697
00:44:55.679 --> 00:44:59.079
Good stuff I told you all these years.

698
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:02.159
Yeah, oh yeah, I hear you. But Greg, is there

699
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:05.760
a way that, let's say, if people want to report

700
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:09.880
something about the areas that we've been talking about today

701
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:13.199
in West Virginia, how would you recommend that they go

702
00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:13.960
about doing that?

703
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:20.719
They can go to BFRO dot net and file report

704
00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.119
and just put my name down for an investigator. They

705
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:29.280
can contact me on Facebook under Gregory Lambert and I

706
00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:32.840
will respond to that as well. But the more reports

707
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:38.199
we get the documentation on the BFRO, that just helps

708
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:39.000
build our case.

709
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:44.079
Absolutely. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Greg.

710
00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:46.159
It's been a pleasure talking to you, and I hope

711
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:47.599
you have a great rest of your day.

712
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:51.559
Thanks Jerrem, I appreciate you having me on. You do

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the same as well.

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Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something

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directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're

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in the Middle military, any branch or forces, and if

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you've seen something that no one can explain, or if

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you're a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been

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told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's

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seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're

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with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and

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you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about.

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And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue

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responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense.

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If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

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or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

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happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

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a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

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contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.

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If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

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spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

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or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or

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anything with clearance seen what the public hasn't, then I

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want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous. You

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can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

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The world needs to hear what you've been forced to

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carry alone, and you're not alone. You've got the story,

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We've got the mic.

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See you in the woods.

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Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot

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Society Podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the

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world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that

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the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line.

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If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe

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don't miss the next episode, and share this with a

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follow the show there and leave us a five star

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And remember, if you or someone you know has had

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a Bigfoot sighting, please I'd love to hear from you,

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so email me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com

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and let's start the conversation. If you haven't gotten a

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chance yet, check out our membership community over at www

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dot Bigfoot Society podcast dot com and that's where you

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can hear tomorrow's episode today early in ad free and

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members only, episodes every week. Also, it's a place to

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connect with other people that are into the Bigfoot subject

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as much as you are. Thanks again for following along

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with the Bigfoot Society until next time. Keep your eyes open,

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trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might

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be out there?

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And see you in the woods.