Aug. 11, 2025

When Bigfoot Gets Too Close: Landon’s Shocking Skamania County Story!

When Bigfoot Gets Too Close: Landon’s Shocking Skamania County Story!
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Season 1

What happens when a young man encounters a force of nature he never believed existed? In this chilling episode of Bigfoot Society, we talk to Landon, who recounts his terrifying Bigfoot experiences in the heart of Skamania County, Washington. From rock-throwing encounters to the overwhelming presence of an unseen creature, Landon shares his journey from skeptical hunter to believer.

Landon describes his eerie experience in the woods near Eagle Creek, where massive boulders came flying toward him without warning. This was followed by the unforgettable smell of something not quite animal, and a deep, sickening feeling that left him questioning everything. Along with other close calls and sightings in the region, Landon sheds light on the many dangers lurking in the wilderness—and how his perspective on Bigfoot forever changed.

Join us for a deep dive into the unknown, and hear firsthand accounts from someone who lived through one of the most intense Bigfoot encounters we’ve ever featured.

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

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stories from a young man who went out hunting in

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the dense, mistfilled woods of Scamania County, Washington, a place

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famous for Bigfoot encounters. But what Landon didn't expect was

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that something in the woods would start targeting him. Boulders,

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big ones thrown at him from an unseen force, a sickening,

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pungent smell in the air, and the feeling that something powerful,

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something ancient, was watching his every move. And this is

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an a legend or a myth. It's a first hand

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account from someone who never believed until he had no

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choice but to face the truth. And this is the

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story of Landon who came face to face with a

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force he could never forget. So stay with us. I

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picked the Society got the privilege of talking to Landon tonight.

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Landon's an individual that was forwarded an episode of the

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podcast and then reached out about some interesting things that

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have happened over the years in Schimania County, Washington, and

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so really excited to have Landon on the show. That's

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it's an area of Washington where a lot of interesting

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things have happened over the years regarding Bigfoot. But welcome

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to the show, Landon. How are you doing tonight? I'm

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doing pretty well, fantastic, Yeah, I'm I'm excited to see

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where this interview is going to go. So I'm going

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to go ahead and pass things over to you so

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that you have the time to share what you've experienced

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in what other people you know have experienced as well,

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and we'll be chatting about it along the way. But

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feel free to take it from here Landon and take

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us back as far as we need to go for this,

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all right.

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The first encounter that I believed I've had it was

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two thousand and eighteen. It was right after the Eagle

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Creek fire happened, because Eagle Creek Fire was twenty seventeen,

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I do believe. And it was I think my first

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or second year of hunting. And I was usually with

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my dad through all that stuff, so he always take

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me out and you go explore and see if we

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can find anything and whatnot. But there was a spot

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that we, you know, predetermined to go the morning before

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and this was you know, autumn deer season that fall area,

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and I, me and my dad we went out to

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one of these spots. It's this huge cliff face that

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drops down and you can see these kind of like

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waterline from it just falling. It's just these dugout marks

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and there's little tiny holes, and we don't really know

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what lives in there. It's just kind of like a

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It could be kaya, it could be bobcats, it could

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be foxes. But there's just these little tiny holes all

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over this cliff face. And it's about one hundred and

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twenty feet up, you know, from top to bottom. And

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at the bottom where I was, there's these thirty feet

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by forty feet boulders and below and up like just

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in size, like these triple ton ten ton boulders, and

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they're just kind of scattered everywhere because as it erodes,

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the things tend to fall. And I remember we woke

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up about six we got out there, it was seven

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seven point thirty, and we started hiking, and it was

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just you couldn't see in front of you, like you

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cann't see your hand, You can't see anything. And then

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eventually as you could see the daylight coming through the trees,

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there there was some olk in this clear cut off

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away and they didn't really want anything to do with

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us at that point in time, but it wasn't elk season,

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so we just kind of sat there and watched him

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for a while. At about eight thirty nine, you know,

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that they wandered off and we went our direction and

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we continued up the road towards the cliff face. And

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I remember getting up to the cliff face and I

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had a boulder against my back and a pile of

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small rocks and down trees in front of me, kind

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of like a brush pile to hide. And around this

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time it was that ten, you know, nine thirty ten

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o'clock area, and my dad went a different way. He

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went towards a tree stand which was a little bit

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further down the road. And as soon as he lost

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like as soon as I lost eyesight of him, and

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you know, I couldn't hear him walking no more or

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anything like that, I sat there and it was just

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dead silence, like quiet, eerie, like not a bird that nothing.

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I was like, you know, like the kind of kind

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of off putting. And then all of a sudden, I

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don't know where, the forest erupts just you know, birds everywhere,

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you know, like like something moved, like they forgot that

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we were there or whatever. And then the port that

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really stood out to me was that it happens a

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lot when you're hunting. But there is this chipmunk chipmunk

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squirrel probably twenty feet away from me, up this tree

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about another ten feet and it was just staring at

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me and chirping, barking, and about ten minutes of that,

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I was like, that's really annoying. So I started grabbing rocks,

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a little tiny pebbles and stuff, and I was throwing them

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at the tree, trying to make me be quiet, like

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don't blow my covered types thing. And you know, eventually

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he quiet and wandered away. But as soon as he

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went quiet and I didn't see him no more, the

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forest was so irreally silent, like there was no breeze,

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there was no noise, you could hear your heart like

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you could hear the blood pumping through your ears. Type quiet.

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And then I heard this loud like thud, like wood

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on wood, or like if you were like kick a

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tree real hard or hit it real hard. This like

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this make three really loud thuds behind me, and there's

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that boulder and then a cliff face behind me, and

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I'm like this, there's nothing behind me, So I kind

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of leave my little area and I kind of wander

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up towards the cliff face, trying to figure out like

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what happened, like through the rock fall or something, making

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sure like, you know, there wasn't a slide going to

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happen and be in the middle of it, so I

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didn't find anything unusual. And then I go, I go

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back to my spot around this time it's noon, you know, sorry,

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and it's around noon, and then you just got this

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pungent odor scent, like it was just this awful scent,

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like something died. And I'm like, I was here before,

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I didn't smell that. Now I'm here now, and now

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I smell it, Like did the wind change? And I

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bought out like a little container of chalk like pressing,

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it shoots up in the air so you can tell

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what wind is going. And it just sat still, like

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it slowly moved and faded away, but it just didn't

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move a certain direction and it was just still. And

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I was like, interesting, So I'm sitting there, there's this

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awful smell, there's this this eerily quiet and I'm sitting

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there and I'm waiting for something to pop out or

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a deer or bobcat or cougar or something, you know,

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just something to you know, gaze upon. And as I'm

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sitting there, I just felt awful out of nowhere, like

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this headache, Like it felt like I didn't eat for

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like two days, like that awful stomach feeling a headache.

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And then that happens for about ten twenty minutes, and

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it was like to me, it felt like as fast

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as it came on, it went off. But it was

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about ten minutes and I was sitting there and I'm like,

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did I eat something wrong? Like am I going? Am

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I getting sick or something? And then behind me again

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I hear these three loud wood thumps, and I'm like,

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what is going on? And so I'm sitting there from

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where I was, I'm trying to look over this boulder

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towards the cliff, and all of a sudden, this just

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probably three hundred pound rock just comes flying off the

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cliff and lands right beside me. Scares the daylights out

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of me, and I'm like, what's going on here? Like

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that doesn't happen, Like, yeah, it will fall off the cliff,

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but it doesn't land that far away. It will land

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closer and then roll towards you, and I'm still like

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that startled me, and I'm like, where'd that come from?

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What is going on here? So I'm looking again, and

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I'm like trying to figure out where it came from.

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And a smaller one, probably like ten pounds, just twice

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as fast, twice as far as as soon as I

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saw it, it was past me, and it was like

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dangerously close, and I'm like, okay, I need I need

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to move, I need to do something. Whatever whatever it

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is or whoever it knows where I am, and it's

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trying to tell me to either go away or get

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gone or go away. And I'm like, I slowly, I

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don't turn my back. I'm looking the direction those rocks

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came from, and I'm just slowly walking down the trail

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I came. And then I heard this like low grumble grunt,

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like something that you would imagine like an angry bear

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making like a really low grumble grunt. And the same

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direction those rocks came from, here comes this, you know,

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probably ton boulder, just comes off the hill, slams down

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into the ground, and goes rolling right past three. And

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at that point I turned around and I hauled back

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to the main road, and I called my dad and

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I'm like, I don't know what's going on, but something's

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throwing these huge rocks at me. And I either I'll

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meet you at the end of your trail or you

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can come through there and meet me at the truck.

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And so he goes through, you know, coming back the way,

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because why wouldn't he, you know, like crazy guy. And

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so he's coming back through that trail go in the

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opfice direction. So he's coming back the way he came,

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which is from where I was sitting. He was heading northwest,

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so he's coming back that direction and heading I'm trying

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to think here, but either way, he's coming back from

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the way he came. You know, we're going directions, going

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going the direction we came from. And he smelled that

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awful smell. And instead of it being like a death,

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pungent like awful like rotting smell to him, he explained

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it more of a like skunk weed, like that those

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skunk weed plants, So it wasn't as bad, but it

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was that pungent, not that dead smell, just a pungent,

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awful like skunk smell. And and he was saying it

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as he walked along. He felt ill too, and he

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was feeling awful, like it was like sick to his stomach,

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and he walked on his way out. He didn't have

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anything thrown at him. He just had a smell and

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an awful stomach, like awful feeling, like like a bad

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feeling or something. And that that was the end of

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that accounter.

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That is pretty intense. And you're saying, this is in

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Schimania County.

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Yeah, this was. This was upper Upper Scimenia County. Scmena

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County is pretty big from the Gorge side. If you're

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at the gorge, you kind of go right in the

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middle of the Screena County. It's right around.

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There, gotcha, Because I mean Skamenia County goes forever Man

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all the way up past Mount Saint Helen's right. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.

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Did you ever look to see if anything else had

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been reported in that area for big foot activity?

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I didn't, mainly because I didn't know where to look,

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Like I didn't know if I just go on Google

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or Safari, or if I go like on an app

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or like a certain web page or a forum. I

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didn't know where to go. And for the longest time,

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I just kind of blocked it out of my mind

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after it happened. It was just like one of those

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scary encounters where I kind of blocked it for a

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little bit, and I didn't really think about it that

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often until I started listened to your podcast and I

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was like, that makes a lot of.

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Sense because at this time, you would have been around twelve, right.

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No, yeah, nineteen now and two thousand eight. I was

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twelve thirteen, Yeah, barely had a phone, just starting high school,

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you know, just ending middle school, starting high school. You know,

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it's like because my high schools kind of weird. You know,

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you middle school goes to the high school of seventh grade,

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and then your seventh and eighth grade is in the

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high school, and then you go to freshman. It was

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kind of weird.

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So during this this interaction where the rocks are thrown

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at you, you're like, let's get out of here. Were

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you thinking Bigfoot at that time or is that something

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where you had that realization later.

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At the time, I was just kind of just scared

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out of my mind. It thought it crossed my mind

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in the beginning when I smelt it, you know, when

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I had that awful smell I'm like, oh, that's a skunk,

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and then it just got worse and I was like,

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that's that's not a skunk. And you know, considering that

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I was there beforehand and then I was there afterhand

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and it wasn't there before, but it was thereafter, I

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was like, something changed, there's something new, and there's no noise,

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there's no silence, like it's a predator, like there's something

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big that other things are scared of and they don't

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want to talk, you know. And it crossed my mind

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a couple months after the fact, and then I was like,

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I wonder. I wonder, but I never knew, and I

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listened to your podcast and it kind of opened my

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mind to newer terms or like being zapped. I'd never

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heard of that until I listened to your podcast, and

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I was like I heard a dude explaining to me,

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like explaining on your podcast what that felt like, what

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it was, and I was like, that's crazy, Like that

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felt kind of like how I felt, you know, and

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it was just kind of mind boggling. And then that's

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when I emailed you and I was like, hey, you know, wow.

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That that is wild when you're growing up in this

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area of the Pacific Northwest. Was Bigfoot ever talked about

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or did you hear stories about like Okay, so and

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so just saw something weird or was that part of

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your your childhood?

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Oh yeah, I mean my grandma loves bigfoot like she don't.

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She don't. She says she don't believe in it. But

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she has like wooden statues, she has sweatshirts, she has

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metal portraits like like if you took like a laser

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cutter on a CNC machine and cut out a picture

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Bigfoot like. She has a like a hand sculpted wooden

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statue that's like up to your like knee high, it's

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like three feet tall of one. She has shirts like

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she loves the idea that, but she don't believe in it. Okay,

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she's chasing a rabbit.

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To her, it's it's more just part of the culture

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living out there. It sounds like, yeah, very much, Yeah, gotcha, gotcha.

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The Eskimania County. Is it when you're going out hunting

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in this area or you're going out hiking, are you

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ever apprehensive of things that could happen? Is it pretty

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dangerous to go out in this area? Or you feel

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like you guys have a pretty good handle on things.

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For me and my family. It really really depends on

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where we're going landon.

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So you have this situation happened to you where you

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experience the quiet something getting multiple huge boulders getting thrown

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at you, and then how does this affect you after this?

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Does you know? Sometimes when this happens to people, they

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go down this road of like, Okay, what's bigfoot? I

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have to figure this out? Or did it not really

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affect you a lot?

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Considering the young age I was, I didn't really look

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too deep into it. I just never like from twenty

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eighteen to now, I've probably been back to that spot

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two or three times, and it was never by myself.

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I never had someone leave me, if that makes sense.

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And I never go out in the woods without someone

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with me. I never go by myself, even if I'm hiking,

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like if I'm going off a paved road, like even

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if I know the road like the back of my hand,

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like it could be gravel, it could be a trail.

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I don't go by myself. A lot of hikers around

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here do get lost, they do get themselves in trouble.

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There's a very popular hiking spot out here, it's called

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Beacon Rock, and a lot of people climb to the

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top and they roll their ankle and then fire department

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has to go up their social rescue has to go

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up there and bring them back down because they rolled

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their ankle, they can't walk, or they dissocuated their knee.

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Like a lot of awful things happen very quickly when

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you don't expect it. About twenty twenty area, you know,

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twenty twenty to you know, twenty nineteen to twenty twenty,

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my mom, sister, and my dad's friend's wife, they all

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went out road hunting. And I can imagine, you know,

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you only you know, you just go out a vehicle,

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you go along gravel roads and you see if you

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can find anything. If you find something that you're able

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to hunt, you did it. And they were out there,

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and they were just on a random road in the

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middle of nowhere in Simanea County and are out by

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Carson and they were rolling slow. They were going and

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get all the windows down, they're they're looking they're glass

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and trying to see I they could find anything within

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the trees. And then all of a sudden, out of nowhere,

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they had this awful pungent smell. And you know, when

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you're driving and you smell an awful smell like that,

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it's it's, oh, it's a dead animal, it's a it's

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a skunk. You know, it's something. But when it when

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you smell that smell for the next five miles, like

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when it follows you for the next five miles, you know,

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and then after that nothing that that's that's one of

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the that's one of the less severe incidences that I

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have in my little pocket here. So it's just that

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they had this awful pungent smell and it followed them

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for five miles, and they were swearing up and down

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that they saw bigfoot, and it was bigfoot that was

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following them, trying to see what they were doing, and

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you know, just observing, being curious and stuff.

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So they're saying they actual had a visual sighting during

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that time.

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One person, the driver, says that they saw it, but

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no one else did. So it's just kind of like

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one of those things where it's like here and there,

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like I cannot be for sure that it was I

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wasn't there. Then there's one person saying that that they

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saw one person, and there's two other people saying I

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didn't see it, so it's kind of hard. But they

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all had the same story of they smelt this awful,

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pungent smell and it followed them for five miles and

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then it just disappeared.

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That is cool that they all experienced the smell, but

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did so the driver that that said they had the

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the sighting. Did they say any details about like it

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was by the side of the road or crossing the

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road or anything like that.

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It was I to put myself into her position, and

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she kind of like think of it in my way,

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because she didn't really give a death in it, like,

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you know, it was this many yards away or this

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and that. But from the driver's seat, from her driver's

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side car, she probably could see about, you know, five

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yards from her door to the edge of the road

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is about five yards, and from the edge of the

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road to the tree, she could probably see no other

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ten to fifteen yards, not very far. And all it's

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like it's new growth, so it's just trees and low

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hanging bushes, you know, very low growth. It's not old growth.

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It's all new growth. It's small, it's brand new, it's

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very green. And so the way she described it is

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that she looked over and she just could see this.

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She described it as a bear. It looked like a

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bear that went from a upstanding position to as if

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it was going to fall over on all fours, kind

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of like if you could imagine you standing up and

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then you go to lean forward to run. Is kind

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of how she reenacted it and also explained it. And

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then she could see it past a couple of trees,

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and after a couple of trees, it just disappeared. It

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was just this black, furry blur of something kind of

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in an forward leaning position along the road with them,

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and it disappeared, so.

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Just enough for her to think about that for the

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rest of her life. Definitely, that is that's wild.

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She still talks about it, like when she gets drunk enough,

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she'll talk about it.

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Yeah right, Oh my goodness, man, I would just be

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thinking about that all the time. Oh wow. Okay, So

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that's twenty twenty or twenty nineteen in Carsonaria, Okay.

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And then the most there's another one, but we'll get

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there when I get when we get there, but the

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most recent one would be this one kind of ties

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into two different things. But me and my buddy, we

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were very close. We're very outdoors, and I took him

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hunting for his first time, and he kind of fell

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in love with being outside and the whole entire hunting experience,

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and you know, he wanted to get a hunting license,

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he wanted to get his own rifle, he wanted to

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go do it all. And then he got he got

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the he got bit by the sasquatch bug, or he

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got obsessed with it. He just wanted to go find one.

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He wanted to go, you know, camp out and have

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you know, that type of experience and stuff like that.

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So apparently he watched a whole bunch of podcasts and

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a whole bunch of YouTube videos and he triangulated high

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points of sightings a bigfoot out by Damascus and Sandy, Oregon. Uh,

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somewhere around there kind of by on Alaska is where

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he says. He says he camps out somewhere in the

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outskirts of on Alaska, Oregon, and him and his buddies

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they go out there and they go try to hunt

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for bigfoot. And I'm sitting there and I'm like, you're

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you're crazy, Like you're gonna you're gonna stumble upon something

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you don't want to find. So I'm sitting there and

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me and him are talking about it, and he's trying

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to cource me to go with him, and I'm like, dude,

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I'm good. I've had my fair share. I don't I don't,

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I don't need anymore yet. And so he I would

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ask him about it, because he would go every weekend

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and he would come back and talk to me and

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try to try to convince me. I'm like, I'm still good.

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And then there's a couple of times, a couple of

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stories that he had, but I was like, yeah, I'm

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for sure staying home. But he had a couple of

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encounters where it it was him and his friends out

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someone in middle of on Alaska and they had a

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campground set up next by a little river and then

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there's a bigger river further out, and he was telling

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me that they had something. He didn't really go into

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too much detail, but he said that there was this

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kind of like eerie feeling like they were being watched

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the whole entire time. Dude setting up and after they

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got set up sun set, it like they got dark.

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They started a fire and they went to bed for

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the next morning, and as soon as the fire went out.

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He said that he could hear something heavy come up

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and poke at his tent, like if you could imagine

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like a five foot tent. It was just reaching over,

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like as if something were to reach over and just

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kind of put its paw or hand on top of

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the tent and just kind of see how much it

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would flex, you know, just trying to see how much

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it would bend. And he's inside of it and his

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sleeping bag and he's sitting there and it wakes him up,

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and he goes, who's there. They stopped and you could

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hear it take a step back, and then it almost

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backhanded the back of the tent backhanded, either backhanded or

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swatted at the tent and just kind of brushed up

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against the tent. And that's when he pulled out his

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pistol and put three rounds through the set of the tent,

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and you could hear something run and breaking and just

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barreling through the trees. So he gets out. He wakes

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all of his friends up, and he's like rambling about

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this experience he just had, and I was like, I'm

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staying up all night. I'm going to figure out if

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it ever comes back. So he stayed up all the night.

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He chopped all the wood he could find, kept the

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fire going, and stayed up. He stopped through the day.

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And you're saying that when he went out of the

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tent to go wake everyone up, he could hear it

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crashing through the trees and then you could hear it

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hit this big body of water and it sounded like

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a celle order to do a cannon ball. And so

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the next morning when he woke, you know, the afternoon

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he woke up, him and his buddies went out that

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direction and you can kind of see where this trail

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has been created. It's a very new trail that they

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didn't know if it was whatever it was, but they

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followed it and it led to the stream and you

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could see this It looked like beaver slide marks into

458
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:54.640
the water, like two beaver slide marks, as if you

459
00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:56.480
were running real fast on mud and you went to

460
00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:59.240
go stop and you just kind of slipped. That's what

461
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:05.160
it kind of looked like. And he was like, whatever

462
00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:07.720
it was, it went into the water, like he swears

463
00:31:07.799 --> 00:31:11.000
up and down that it was something big. It was

464
00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:15.119
something huge, like he laid three rounds into it. And

465
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:19.079
they can't find no blood, no nothing, no anything. I'm like,

466
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:24.759
all right, well, you know, just do your thing, be safe,

467
00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:28.119
you know, get flashlights, get like a thermal scope. And

468
00:31:28.160 --> 00:31:29.799
he was like, oh yeah, I didn't think about that one.

469
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:34.440
But they go back out, and the next two weekends,

470
00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:37.839
you know, two weekends after that, they go back out.

471
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.039
They are in the same area and him and his friend,

472
00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:44.359
or him and his two buddies, his other two buddies

473
00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:51.799
are a little little under the bottle and they're walking

474
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.680
up this road looking for a grouse or you know,

475
00:31:55.799 --> 00:32:01.559
a grouse or pheasant, just just something. I don't really

476
00:32:01.599 --> 00:32:04.400
agree with it, so that's not the season for it,

477
00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:07.680
but they're they're they're going for it. They're just looking

478
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:11.200
for something to you know, get down and eat it

479
00:32:11.240 --> 00:32:14.759
for dinner or lunch or whatever. And he said that

480
00:32:14.799 --> 00:32:16.559
they were out there for so long that the sun

481
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:19.720
went down and they got dark, and he had the

482
00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:22.680
flash light and the other two didn't, and they're walking

483
00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:27.039
down this gravel road and he could hear something in

484
00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:30.240
the bushes on the side, and he shined it over

485
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:33.279
and it looked like something just kind of dipped out

486
00:32:33.319 --> 00:32:38.359
of the light. And then there's this awful smell and

487
00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:41.960
he just was like, okay, I want to go back

488
00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.160
to camp. Let's turn around. So he turns around and

489
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:48.839
go and head start back down to camp. And he's

490
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:50.759
walking down and you know, you could you could hear

491
00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:57.119
the two other guys behind him, but he's talking and

492
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.759
he's not getting a response. You can hear the people

493
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:04.359
behind him. And so he's going down this road. He's talking,

494
00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:08.319
they're not talking back, and so he like turns around

495
00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:13.000
to go, like, you guys, okay, and all he sees

496
00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:18.000
are these two figures just dart to either side of

497
00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:23.799
the flashlight. And his friends are two hundred yards up

498
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:28.440
the road at the very top, just sitting there wondering

499
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:32.640
word win. He turns around and his friends are two

500
00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:35.880
hundred yards away and they're wondering where he's at. He's

501
00:33:35.920 --> 00:33:40.039
the only one that flashlight and they're down there, you know,

502
00:33:40.119 --> 00:33:42.759
they're they're they're under the bottle a little. They're all

503
00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:47.599
hanging out, messing around. It's dark out, and he turns

504
00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:50.960
around and they're not behind him, and he sees these

505
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:53.440
two figures jump off the side of the road, like

506
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:58.240
either side of the road, and it scares him so

507
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.799
bad that he lays like a whole entire mag down

508
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.000
the hill the way that they ran, like whatever it

509
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:09.119
went down the hill wherever it went, and he says

510
00:34:09.159 --> 00:34:11.840
he could hear as if it like got hit, like

511
00:34:11.840 --> 00:34:15.360
a little like like a like like a grunt, like

512
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:18.480
like as if it either got hit or something hit it,

513
00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:21.800
whatever it was, but it was just this low rumbling grunt.

514
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:24.760
And he runs back to the other two, tells him

515
00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:27.440
what happens, and drags them all the way back down

516
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.559
to the camp. And he just stayed up all night

517
00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.440
and watched the fire, made sure it was lit. And

518
00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:42.519
that night he swear he could hear like things around

519
00:34:42.639 --> 00:34:48.519
him moving, but it wasn't just like something walking. It

520
00:34:48.639 --> 00:34:50.760
was just kind of like sitting there, like swaying back

521
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.559
and forest. It was like if you were sitting there

522
00:34:53.559 --> 00:34:56.320
in a bush and kind of like sit there and

523
00:34:56.519 --> 00:34:58.360
try to sway with the bush or something that you

524
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:01.679
could just hear a bush rattle. And that's all here

525
00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.719
all night. And he didn't want to go near it.

526
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:05.679
He didn't want to mess with it because he was

527
00:35:05.800 --> 00:35:08.920
only one up. If he couldn't see it, he was okay.

528
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.920
And that that's that's the end of that one.

529
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:22.559
That's that's extremely interesting. Is he still pretty gung ho

530
00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:25.360
into the whole Sasquatch thing after that?

531
00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:29.519
Oh? Yeah, it just feeled the fire for him.

532
00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:36.440
Yeah, absolutely. And you said this was around Sandy on Alaska.

533
00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:40.920
Is that in Washington or Oregon?

534
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:46.280
I think it's an Oregon on Alaska Oregon?

535
00:35:48.119 --> 00:35:51.519
Okay. I was just checked, like I usually try to

536
00:35:51.599 --> 00:35:57.119
follow along with when the individuals talking, and only on

537
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.400
it's O N and then Alaska is how spells?

538
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.199
Right? Yeah?

539
00:36:01.320 --> 00:36:03.199
Yeah, the only one I can find is up in

540
00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:11.159
uh like by Shahlis. But uh, I guess, yeah, maybe

541
00:36:11.159 --> 00:36:14.400
there's some unincorporated thing in Oregon. Off to take a

542
00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:19.159
look closer. Very very interesting, he he.

543
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:21.639
I was like, like, what's the location, Like send me

544
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:23.599
like you know the coordinates or whatever, you know, like

545
00:36:23.639 --> 00:36:25.920
maybe I want to want to go one day, and

546
00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:32.280
he just I can't remember. So he said it was

547
00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:36.519
out by Sandy because him and his family they have

548
00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:39.440
he has some family out by Sandy and Damascus, Oregon.

549
00:36:40.840 --> 00:36:45.639
And he made it sound like, you know, because I

550
00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:49.679
was like, I've never heard of on Alaska, Oregon, nonetheless

551
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:54.679
on Alaska Washington. So he was just like, yeah, it's

552
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:57.639
over by on Alaska. But the two places I do

553
00:36:57.760 --> 00:36:59.960
know of is Damascus and Sandy. And he said that

554
00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.559
it's also near that area, and I was like, all right, man, yeah,

555
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:08.920
somewhere somewhere over by Damascus and Sandy for sure. I

556
00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.880
don't know about the on Alaska part, gotcha?

557
00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:15.920
Which you know, just south of Sandy you get into

558
00:37:15.920 --> 00:37:18.679
some crazy stuff, you go, if you go south south

559
00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:21.760
of Andy or south of Sandy, you're getting into like

560
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.880
Esticada and there's wild stuff down there. I mean that

561
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:26.760
whole area listeners will know.

562
00:37:28.079 --> 00:37:31.559
Sorry is the Nameada? Sorry?

563
00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:36.159
Okay, that makes that makes way way more sense. Yeah,

564
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:42.599
Esdcada is crazy for bigfoot dude, It's it's bonkers. Okay.

565
00:37:42.679 --> 00:37:47.480
So that puts that account in a whole different light. Wow, okay,

566
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.920
very cool, very cool. And he fired fired through the

567
00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:59.159
tent three times. Yeah, Oh that's so weird. I think

568
00:37:59.159 --> 00:38:04.159
that's the first account where someone is actually fired through

569
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:08.199
the tent because I mean it's interesting because like he

570
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:11.280
wasn't able to see what was out there, he's still

571
00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:12.800
fired through the tent. That's wild.

572
00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:17.840
Well, I mean I don't really blame him, you know,

573
00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:20.400
like personally, eyewinners shot through the tent because you don't

574
00:38:20.440 --> 00:38:22.519
know what's on either side, right, you know, it could

575
00:38:22.559 --> 00:38:26.519
have just been a fend fucking with you. But when

576
00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:30.000
you all get you know, just under the bottle, and

577
00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:33.000
everyone passes out in their tents and it's dead quiet,

578
00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.239
and you're going to bed and all you could hear

579
00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.480
the fire cracking, you know, the crackling of fire, and

580
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:39.519
then out of nowhere, just something comes up and you

581
00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:42.039
could hear it walking outside of your tent and starts

582
00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:44.519
playing with your tent. Kind of freaks you out. You're

583
00:38:44.559 --> 00:38:46.599
you're a little underneath the influence at that point in time,

584
00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:49.960
and you know, you just you just do the first

585
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:51.639
thing that comes to your mind, and he puts three

586
00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:52.519
rounds through the tent.

587
00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:55.840
Yeah. No, it definitely definitely makes sense when you think

588
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:59.880
of the whole context. So yeah, Wild Wild Area as

589
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:03.119
kid has got a ton going on. And did you

590
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:05.920
say was that pretty recent?

591
00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:10.519
Then? Yeah, that was within the past two months.

592
00:39:10.639 --> 00:39:17.920
Okay, wow, that is very recent. O goodness, it sounded

593
00:39:17.960 --> 00:39:23.760
like there was. You had one one other account to

594
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:24.800
share as well.

595
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:29.920
Yes, this this one I can say from personal as

596
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:36.880
from like the first one, but in chronological order, from

597
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:41.920
what I can definitely say what it was to what

598
00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.920
I can't definitely say what it was. This last one

599
00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:56.119
is what I don't really know about, gotcha, And yeah,

600
00:39:56.559 --> 00:40:01.480
it's it's that scared the crap out of me.

601
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:04.559
That is a weird whistle out of nowhere, dude.

602
00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:09.320
Right, I'm sitting outside, I'm sitting outside of my driveway

603
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:12.360
because it's the new place that's quiet, and that weird

604
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:14.719
whistle if he's out of nowhere, and I turn around

605
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.000
and I almost put myself But it was just some

606
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:19.360
dude right in the sea on the road.

607
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.480
Oh nice, just a random segue guy. That's cool, all right.

608
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:28.599
Oh, let's get the crap out of me, all right.

609
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:34.079
But the other, the last encounter, this one's going to

610
00:40:34.159 --> 00:40:43.679
be more of a longer one, and it I was

611
00:40:43.719 --> 00:40:47.599
a little I was I know, I want to do

612
00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:49.440
in chronological order, but you got to say the best

613
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:57.039
for last. This was around middle school, you know, beginning

614
00:40:57.039 --> 00:41:00.199
of middle school, middle you know, like the beginning in

615
00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.920
the middle of middle school that time frame, and me

616
00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:08.239
and my good buddy and his dad, we all went

617
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:12.039
out camping. I don't remember where. I don't remember the

618
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.599
camp site, but it was just you know, it was

619
00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:18.440
mainly like a tent tent site, you know, no campers,

620
00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:22.119
no pop up campers, nothing like that. Just tense tense grills,

621
00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:29.159
you know that sort along the river. And me, my

622
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:33.519
friend and his dad. His dad's ex military. My friend

623
00:41:33.599 --> 00:41:37.360
he he's about the same age I am around that time,

624
00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:39.400
maybe a little bit younger, like by a couple, you know,

625
00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:43.079
nothing mad year right, maybe by a year or so.

626
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:49.320
And I remember us setting up, us getting ready, and

627
00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:52.519
this campground is like super popular. It's the middle of summer,

628
00:41:53.159 --> 00:41:58.239
you know, like nice water, middle of summer. It's hot,

629
00:41:58.400 --> 00:42:01.320
it's sunny, it's nice out, clear weather. You know, you

630
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:02.599
just want to go outside. You want to go you

631
00:42:02.639 --> 00:42:05.159
want to go do something, you want to go camp that.

632
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:10.159
It's that, it's that weather, and it's by this river.

633
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:15.440
I wish I remember the locations, but I don't, unfortunately.

634
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:21.880
And I remember we went out, we had a great time,

635
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:23.639
We set up camp, We went out, We had a

636
00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:26.159
great time. We come back and this camp grounds, you know,

637
00:42:26.199 --> 00:42:30.639
full of them. When we arrived and we you know,

638
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:33.320
we relax, we get some wares going, we we go

639
00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:35.760
to we start, you know, getting our way to bed,

640
00:42:35.760 --> 00:42:40.360
and you know, the campground slowly, you know, you know,

641
00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.920
the lights start going out and you get ready for bed,

642
00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:47.239
you know, it gets gets quieter and everything. And so

643
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:50.880
I remember us going to bed. We were in two

644
00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:53.519
different tents one first, Dad had one for me and

645
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:59.760
my buddy, and we're going to bed and we're quiet,

646
00:43:00.239 --> 00:43:03.280
the water running, A couple couple of people are still up,

647
00:43:03.960 --> 00:43:08.400
you know, talking around the campfire. And I remember going

648
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:13.039
to sleep, and then me and my buddy we wake

649
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:19.519
up to a car peeling out and we're like, oh,

650
00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:21.440
someone got drunk and decide to go for a drive

651
00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:25.519
or whatever. And so we wake up and I'm like, okay,

652
00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:27.920
I'll go to the bathroom since I'm up. I get

653
00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:32.159
up and I go outside the tent. I look across

654
00:43:32.159 --> 00:43:38.719
the campground and everyone's gone. It's about probably one am

655
00:43:38.800 --> 00:43:41.159
around this point in time. I get up to go

656
00:43:41.199 --> 00:43:44.719
to the bathroom and everyone is gone. I couldn't tell

657
00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.639
if it was just the people close to us left

658
00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:51.360
or everyone was gone. It was dark, but it looked

659
00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:55.360
like everyone left. And so I was like, that's strange.

660
00:43:57.119 --> 00:43:58.840
And so I wake my buddy up and I'm like, hey,

661
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:03.719
the campground's empty, and he kind of was like taken aback.

662
00:44:03.760 --> 00:44:07.360
At first, you know, he just woke up and he's like, huh,

663
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.880
like what's going on? And I'm like, the campground's empty,

664
00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:14.400
isn't that strange? And he was like, yeah, that's that's weird,

665
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:18.199
but it's probably, you know, nothing big, nothing serious. I

666
00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:21.480
just like a little confused, a little like what's going on?

667
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:28.159
Like what happened? And then I do my business and

668
00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:34.159
I go back to bed and then maybe it didn't

669
00:44:34.199 --> 00:44:36.840
even feel like my eyes closed, but I dosed off.

670
00:44:38.880 --> 00:44:42.679
It was super quiet when I woke up. But I

671
00:44:42.760 --> 00:44:49.320
was woken up by something hitting the tent and it

672
00:44:49.440 --> 00:44:52.480
just sounded like something like if you were to like

673
00:44:53.199 --> 00:44:54.840
you know, when you splash water with the back of

674
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:57.159
your hand and you're like trying to splash water to someone.

675
00:44:58.239 --> 00:45:01.199
It was almost like that, but against a tent instead

676
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:03.079
of water. You're just kind of flicking your fingers at

677
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:05.960
it and trying to push it. And I'll wake my

678
00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:10.039
buddy up and I'm like, dude, what is going on?

679
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:13.800
Like like like is you're dead with us? Is like,

680
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:19.440
what what's happening? And he wakes up and you know

681
00:45:19.519 --> 00:45:25.679
he's taking am back again, you know, and he it

682
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:28.599
rattles him awake pretty quick after he sees it happening.

683
00:45:29.039 --> 00:45:34.239
Something's pushing up against the tent, and then just like

684
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:39.039
the other one with the camp, it almost seemed like

685
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:41.800
if it reached over the tent, grabbed it from the

686
00:45:41.840 --> 00:45:43.320
middle and just kind of lifted it up and put

687
00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:44.960
it back down, lifted it up, put it back down

688
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.719
while we're in it, no lights, no nothing, and we're

689
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:50.199
sitting there trying to whisper, like we don't want to

690
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:52.360
piss whatever's off, you know, if it's outside, we don't

691
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.320
want to piss it off. It obviously can lift up

692
00:45:55.320 --> 00:45:58.800
the tent while we're in it, and it's lifting us.

693
00:45:59.079 --> 00:46:01.760
It's lifting and us up, but not enough to get

694
00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:03.880
off the ground, but just enough as if you were

695
00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:05.920
to feel weight and you put it back down, feel

696
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:13.159
weight and you put it back down. And we're we're

697
00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.000
this sight out of her mind, like what in the

698
00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:18.840
world is going on right now? Like what is out there?

699
00:46:19.599 --> 00:46:23.840
And so we're sitting there and then I remember it

700
00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:28.840
going real good against the tent, and I cannot remember

701
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.400
if I screamed or my friend screamed. One of us screamed,

702
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:38.320
and it stopped. And then as Dad woke up, because

703
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.360
the way that the tints weren't set up. If from

704
00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:44.480
the side it was playing with the tent, if you

705
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:47.320
were to walk backwards about five feet, you would hit

706
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:53.960
his tent. So we screamed, and you could you could

707
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:56.639
kind of hear it, you know how you can, like

708
00:46:56.800 --> 00:46:59.000
if something's really close to you and it fades away,

709
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.519
you can hear more as if something left. It was

710
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:05.280
kind of like that. It sounded like something kind of

711
00:47:05.320 --> 00:47:09.920
backed away, and we could hear the river again. And

712
00:47:09.960 --> 00:47:14.159
then his dad wakes up and he's gung ho out

713
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:17.920
of the tent and he has his flashlight and his gun,

714
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.880
you know, rest over wrist, and he turns his flashlight

715
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:28.320
on and just starts laying into whatever it was. He

716
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:30.760
was right there next to his tent by the time

717
00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.760
he got out of his tent, it was down by

718
00:47:32.760 --> 00:47:36.960
the river, and just flashes lights on and just starts

719
00:47:37.239 --> 00:47:41.920
screaming like bloody murder, like get out of here, go, go, go,

720
00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:44.800
get out here, go, And he starts just laying down

721
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:47.719
rounds towards it as whatever it was was running away,

722
00:47:48.960 --> 00:47:52.840
and it just ran and it never seemed to stop

723
00:47:53.039 --> 00:47:55.960
like it. They never seemed like he ran out of Ammo.

724
00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:58.880
It never looked like it never seemed like he couldn't see.

725
00:47:58.880 --> 00:48:01.559
It was kind of more of a scary part, you know,

726
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:04.480
when you're younger, and then all of a sudden, you know,

727
00:48:04.679 --> 00:48:07.199
just whatever it is, just one of you screaming. Then

728
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:10.760
all of a sudden, within like it felt like two seconds,

729
00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:13.960
a grown man is yelling with a flashlight and a

730
00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:18.000
gun and just yelling while shooting at whatever is outside.

731
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:28.039
And it was quite a awakening per se too. Exactly

732
00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:34.519
how bigfoot, you know, because because his dad was like,

733
00:48:35.239 --> 00:48:38.480
that was a big foot. We packed up that night

734
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:43.199
and we I didn't sleep in the car. I don't remember,

735
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:45.920
but I know I didn't sleep on the whole ride home.

736
00:48:46.320 --> 00:48:49.639
But we left right after that. All we did was

737
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:52.239
the tent and the sleeping bags and put everything in

738
00:48:52.880 --> 00:48:57.079
whatever was left. It wasn't important. And we get in

739
00:48:57.119 --> 00:48:59.960
the car and we leave. I've never been back there,

740
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:02.000
and me and my friends still talk about it every

741
00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:05.639
now and then. His dad does every now and then too.

742
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:09.119
It's nothing like we're trying to be like, well, what

743
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:11.639
you know, like, don't talk about that. That's that's something

744
00:49:11.639 --> 00:49:14.360
we don't talk about. It's like that was crazy, Like

745
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:17.480
we still wonder what it was, But his dad swears

746
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:20.599
up and down, my friend swears up and down that

747
00:49:20.679 --> 00:49:24.119
it was a big foot and it was toying with

748
00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:27.559
the tent and it was messing with the light, like,

749
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:30.239
you know, everything that was outside of the tent. You know,

750
00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:32.480
you leave stuff out of the tent when you're a kid,

751
00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.079
like the lights or you know, like a little lantern

752
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:38.400
light or you know, s'mores or chocolates or whatever. So I,

753
00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:41.000
you know, our first thought was like, oh, it's an animal,

754
00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:44.840
you know, just eating the smores that were left out.

755
00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:49.840
But his dad said that that thing was on two

756
00:49:49.920 --> 00:49:53.519
legs and it was moving like ten fifteen miles an hour,

757
00:49:54.280 --> 00:50:01.440
like it was bolting and it he was saying that

758
00:50:01.480 --> 00:50:07.320
the height of it was about six to seven feet tall,

759
00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.920
broad shoulders and really hairy. It had a head, it

760
00:50:14.960 --> 00:50:18.559
had arms, It had legs. You know, the knees bent

761
00:50:18.679 --> 00:50:21.320
like the human. The arms swayed lucky human, but the

762
00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:26.440
arms are down. If it was standing straight up, it

763
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:28.840
was kind of more of a slouched. The knees were

764
00:50:28.840 --> 00:50:32.000
bent and the hands were by the knees and it

765
00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:35.000
was just sitting there messing with her tent. And when

766
00:50:35.039 --> 00:50:37.639
it took a step back, when we screamed whatever it was,

767
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:40.239
because I still don't know, but you know, these other

768
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:47.159
two are like, oh, speak, I wouldn't doubt it, Like

769
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:49.800
I don't doubt that it was bigfoot, but I didn't

770
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:53.519
see it. I had no idea that, if anything, it was.

771
00:50:54.360 --> 00:51:02.119
And whenever it stepped back, it stepped on the corner

772
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:06.840
of the tent and broke the fiberglass little rods that

773
00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:08.920
held the tenth up. And that's what woke his dad up.

774
00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:13.079
His dad has you know, a seatpath he snores. He

775
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:15.440
you know, he didn't have a seatpap. We were in the

776
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:18.079
middle of nowhere, but he uses a seapap and all

777
00:51:18.119 --> 00:51:20.360
that good stuff, because you know, he's a bad breathing

778
00:51:20.440 --> 00:51:24.840
so you know, he's a heavy, deep sleep sleeper, and

779
00:51:26.440 --> 00:51:31.800
he probably I know it was his forty five millimeter

780
00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:35.119
in probably a fifteen round mag and dumped the whole

781
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.760
entire mag at whatever it was, threw in another mag

782
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:43.519
and he watched the woods and around us as me

783
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:45.960
and my buddy tried to pack everything up. It wasn't mean,

784
00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:49.360
it wasn't pretty, but we just packed everything up into

785
00:51:49.360 --> 00:51:55.239
the back of the car SUV and we never went back,

786
00:51:55.679 --> 00:51:58.119
and we didn't talk about it until the next morning,

787
00:51:59.199 --> 00:52:01.920
and in the next morning, it was just kind of

788
00:52:01.960 --> 00:52:06.679
like a everyone just was a little off. It was.

789
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:09.000
It was one of those experiences that you go through

790
00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:12.239
and you wake up and you just have this weird

791
00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:16.519
feeling like something's different, something's new, something changed, and you're

792
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:18.639
just like you're going through your day to day life,

793
00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:22.800
but you're just a little scared because something changed and

794
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:25.519
you don't know what changed. And it was like that

795
00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.199
for probably a week to two weeks, and then that

796
00:52:29.320 --> 00:52:31.760
kind of feeling of something changed or something new happened

797
00:52:32.239 --> 00:52:32.960
kind of went away.

798
00:52:36.639 --> 00:52:44.239
That's that's extremely extremely intense Land and Man, and it

799
00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:49.440
sounds like you it's hard to remember the specifics of

800
00:52:49.480 --> 00:52:53.920
where it was. We definitely know somewhere in the Pacific Northwest,

801
00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:57.079
do we know maybe if it's more Oregon or Washington.

802
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:03.800
I know that we're It was about an hour to

803
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:10.599
two hour car ride from Woodland, Woodland, Washington. I don't

804
00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:13.599
know what direction, but he was staying in Woodland at

805
00:53:13.599 --> 00:53:15.920
the point in time, and it was an hour to

806
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:20.480
two hour car ride away from Woodland.

807
00:53:21.840 --> 00:53:25.920
Gotcha, Yeah, that's that's a It's a pretty pretty big area. Yeah,

808
00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:29.079
there could be a lot of different directions that you went.

809
00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:32.519
That's extremely interesting. I mean that must have affected you

810
00:53:33.280 --> 00:53:36.480
in was it a long time after that that you

811
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:39.320
started going back into the woods or or how did

812
00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:39.920
that affect you?

813
00:53:41.400 --> 00:53:47.760
I mean yeah, I mean after that. I don't really

814
00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:54.280
after that. I just after that happened, honestly, it just

815
00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:58.280
kind of shocked and rattled you. And when you were

816
00:53:58.320 --> 00:54:01.519
outside by yourself as a kid, you're already scared of

817
00:54:01.599 --> 00:54:05.480
the dark, you know, and that didn't help. So I

818
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:07.400
was if I was in my room and the light

819
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:09.880
was off, I was scared shitless. I was thinking that

820
00:54:09.960 --> 00:54:11.599
whatever it was is going to come knock on my

821
00:54:11.679 --> 00:54:14.880
window and you know, pull me out of my window.

822
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:24.039
And it was definitely an experience that I won't forget it,

823
00:54:24.079 --> 00:54:29.800
and I know the other two won't forget, and it's

824
00:54:30.199 --> 00:54:32.840
something that you'll always keep in the back of your mind,

825
00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:34.639
Like when I'm out in the woods, even when I'm

826
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:39.079
with someone, I still have that like, you know, I

827
00:54:39.159 --> 00:54:41.440
head on a swivel, like if you smell something like

828
00:54:41.519 --> 00:54:43.840
I lost my sense of smell to COVID, so I

829
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:47.079
can't really smell. I can smell it if it's awful

830
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:49.960
awful and I can smell it if it's like super

831
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.679
super sweet. Those are like the two ranges of scent

832
00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:55.639
I have. And that's the main reason why I go

833
00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:58.079
out with someone. And I'm like, hey, if you smell

834
00:54:58.159 --> 00:55:02.039
something and it stinks, if it smells awful, if it

835
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:06.440
doesn't stop, like, let me know, we'll go. Like I'm

836
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:09.239
not gonna sit around and wait for whatever it is

837
00:55:09.280 --> 00:55:17.719
to reveal itself or you know, try to do something well.

838
00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:21.280
Landon. You guys have been through some pretty wild stuff

839
00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:25.280
up there. You and the people that you know. I

840
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:28.519
just want to say, you know, thank you for coming

841
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:32.400
on the show to share what you've experienced. Is it

842
00:55:32.440 --> 00:55:36.800
a thing where you want to keep having experiences when

843
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:40.000
you go out or you could live without any from

844
00:55:40.000 --> 00:55:40.559
here on out.

845
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:52.840
I definitely could live without more experiences. But it at

846
00:55:52.840 --> 00:55:55.280
the same time it interests me, like it scares me,

847
00:55:55.800 --> 00:55:59.599
but it intrigues me, Like it's intriguing like, hey, like

848
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:03.639
this happened. You had an experience like you. I'm not

849
00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:06.840
craving for another experience. I'm not going to go looking

850
00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:08.920
for it, but if it comes finding me, I'm going

851
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:12.599
to be there. You know that That's that's how I

852
00:56:12.599 --> 00:56:14.599
feel about it, Like, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen.

853
00:56:14.679 --> 00:56:16.800
I'm not going to stop it, but I'm not going

854
00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:17.519
to make it happen.

855
00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:23.880
Absolutely. Do you have any advice to people that might

856
00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:27.360
be listening where they're like, they really want something to happen,

857
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:33.039
but they haven't had something happen, Like what happened to

858
00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:33.880
you yet?

859
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:42.480
I mean out here When when you have an experience,

860
00:56:43.199 --> 00:56:45.719
you're going to lose your sense of direction, You're going

861
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:48.440
to lose your sense of reason, You're going to go

862
00:56:48.559 --> 00:56:54.000
into fight or flight mode. Unless if you're genuinely prepared

863
00:56:54.119 --> 00:56:56.679
or you know, if you're ex military, you're going to

864
00:56:56.760 --> 00:56:58.880
be ready for those types of situations. You're going to

865
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:04.119
be ready to confront whatever it is. But if you're

866
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.800
new to the experience, if you never had an experience

867
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:12.199
and you really want one personally, if you're that determined

868
00:57:12.199 --> 00:57:16.239
to find an experience or go looking for it, don't

869
00:57:16.320 --> 00:57:20.280
do it alone. Bring someone with you because if something

870
00:57:20.320 --> 00:57:24.559
goes wrong, it's much better to have something someone with

871
00:57:24.639 --> 00:57:27.159
you that can help you and that can call someone,

872
00:57:27.960 --> 00:57:33.639
like if you like on Bigfoot related like like if

873
00:57:33.880 --> 00:57:36.199
you were to fall and twist your ankle and you

874
00:57:36.239 --> 00:57:38.760
dislocate your ankle, there's someone there that can hold you

875
00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:42.280
and walk you back to camp. Without that person, you're

876
00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:46.199
gonna sit there and there won't be much that you

877
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.039
can do, especially if you don't have a phone, or

878
00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.599
if you lost your phone when you fell, or your

879
00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:58.000
phone cracked when you fell. It's better to have. The

880
00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:59.920
way I like to look at it is less hand

881
00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:03.079
make more or less hand or more hands make less work.

882
00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:06.079
Four feet are better than two, and two eyes are

883
00:58:06.079 --> 00:58:09.039
better than or four eyes are better than two. It's

884
00:58:09.480 --> 00:58:12.719
when you have that extra person. It's more security. The

885
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:16.559
more people that you have with you, the more confident

886
00:58:16.840 --> 00:58:19.800
you will feel about doing whatever you're going to do

887
00:58:20.280 --> 00:58:22.519
and however you're going to approach it. Just don't do

888
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:23.239
it by yourself.

889
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:28.000
I think that that's uh the best great advice for

890
00:58:28.519 --> 00:58:31.159
going out in the woods in general and doing anything

891
00:58:31.360 --> 00:58:34.679
in the outdoors. But you know, Landon, thank you so

892
00:58:34.800 --> 00:58:36.679
much for coming on the show. I want to make

893
00:58:36.679 --> 00:58:39.760
sure that you were able to share everything that you

894
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:42.400
had been wanting to share it today.

895
00:58:44.719 --> 00:58:50.440
Yeah, I mean, and for people who are thinking about

896
00:58:51.039 --> 00:58:57.960
coming on and talking. When I first emailed and I

897
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:00.000
was kind of like, am I really doing this right now?

898
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.119
Like am I? Am? I genuinely going to do this?

899
00:59:03.519 --> 00:59:06.800
And it took me a couple of days to genuinely

900
00:59:06.840 --> 00:59:08.920
set up the date just because I thought about it.

901
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.000
I was like genuinely debating, like what like what is

902
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.400
this going to change? Like what if this does change something?

903
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:18.400
What if this does does something? Like what's going to happen?

904
00:59:18.440 --> 00:59:24.920
Like all these what ifs? Just if it's something that

905
00:59:25.079 --> 00:59:28.840
you feel like you want to share, share it, if

906
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:33.159
it's something that you want to talk about, talk about it,

907
00:59:33.159 --> 00:59:36.079
it's if you don't. If you're listening to this just

908
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:40.639
to hear other people's experiences, you can listen. But when

909
00:59:40.679 --> 00:59:45.039
you're trying to gain that courage and that momentum to

910
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:50.760
go through that email and genuinely reach out and try

911
00:59:50.800 --> 00:59:54.119
to get in contact with the Bigfoot Society and everything

912
00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:58.519
like that, just there's nothing that can happen, like the

913
00:59:58.559 --> 01:00:01.039
worst that can that can happen as you lose cell service,

914
01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:04.159
like your WiFi goes out, the phone call hangs up.

915
01:00:04.199 --> 01:00:08.800
You know, I think that's a great way to put it.

916
01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:13.360
I appreciate you sharing the thoughts you have about that.

917
01:00:13.679 --> 01:00:16.360
I you know, I think that's Yeah, that's a perfect

918
01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:20.079
way to put it. But you know, Landon, thank you

919
01:00:20.119 --> 01:00:23.280
for coming on the show. If anything else does happen

920
01:00:23.320 --> 01:00:26.519
in the future, you're always welcome to you know, reach

921
01:00:26.599 --> 01:00:31.440
out if you need someone to share it with. And yeah,

922
01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:33.440
I just appreciate you coming on tonight.

923
01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:36.239
Yeah, of course, thanks for having me.

924
01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:40.559
Just want to take a minute to say thank you

925
01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:43.360
for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast.

926
01:00:43.519 --> 01:00:45.679
Landon Story is one of those rare encounters that will

927
01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:48.360
stick with you, not just because of the rock throwing sasquatch,

928
01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:50.639
but because of the eerie silence that came before it.

929
01:00:51.480 --> 01:00:54.079
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930
01:00:54.119 --> 01:00:56.000
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931
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If you've had a big Foot encounter, especially in Washington's

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Scamania County, Carson or the surrounding areas, we want to

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hear from you. Please send me an email at Bigfoot

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and thanks again for being part of the Bigfoot Society.

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Until next time, keep your eyes open, trust your gut,

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and never stop asking what else might be out there,

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And see you in the woods.