Jan. 11, 2026

Yellowstone National Park Employee Reveals Shocking Bigfoot Encounter!

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WARNING: This episode contains strong language. Join Jeremiah Byron on this gripping episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast as he interviews Iggy, a former Yellowstone National Park employee, about his first-hand encounter with what he believes to be Bigfoot. Iggy details his harrowing experience from the summer of 2021, including unsettling encounters with mysterious sounds, sensations, and ultimately, a sighting of the elusive creature. Iggy also shares his journey through dense wildlife areas of the park, the mystifying behaviors of the local fauna, and the emotional impact of the sighting which led him to quit his job shortly thereafter. This eye-opening account is sure to leave listeners with more questions than answers about what truly resides deep in America's national parks.

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Listener discretion is advise this episode contains strong language that

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might not be suitable for all audiences. You're listening to

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Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show,

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we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first

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hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible.

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From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms

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and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each

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one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are

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the 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, Bigfoot Society, thanks for coming back. We've got

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an interview with a very interesting individual today. His name

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is Iggy. Welcome to the show, Iggy. How are you

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doing today, sir?

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All right, good afternoon. Thanks for having me. I appreciate

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your time absolutely.

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Iggy reached out to me through email. He's got a

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very interesting story. This is really the first time that

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you've shared this account? Correct, Iggy?

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Yes, any any detailed account? Yeah, first time sharing it publicly?

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Absolutely, so a little background about Iggy and Iggy will

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go in more into this in a few minutes, but

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Iggy was contracted as a park employee in twenty twenty

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one in Yellowstone National Park and during your time there,

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you had a very interesting encounter with with what we

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believe to be a bigfoot. So you've got a fascinating story,

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and Iggy, is there anything else that the audience would

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need to know about your background before we get into it.

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At the time, you know, I was a college student

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and I was looking for an adventurous type of job

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and I had found that there's companies out there that

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sponsor students and people looking for work in national parks

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across the country. So found that interesting and I went

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for it and I got the job. So I think

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that's important to realize that almost anyone in this country,

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if they have no criminal background, can go apply for

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these federal sponsored jobs and get access to the parks.

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Absolutely. Are you able to share anything about what your

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normal day to day was like working at the park?

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Yeah, So we worked depending on where the company, which

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I won't name, it's one, so if you really wanted

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to find it, you could, But in terms of where

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they assigned you it was random, so you showed up

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to the West entrance. I believe it's the Roosevelt Entrance.

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Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on the exact name.

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But there you meet at a type of a warehouse

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type of location. It's very almost militarized kind of vibe.

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You almost show up and they depending on what your

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job is, right, there's people that do laundry, there's people

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that work in the hotel. Everything. You can imagine. You're

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kind of thrown into a group of people that are

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also doing that, and they kind of become your friends

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and you start merging like minded ideas. I don't know,

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just anywhere you start a job kind of. And from there,

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I was assigned to Mammoth Springs, which is one of

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the earlier points in the park. It's right by the

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main entrance. We say right by, but it's like fifteen miles.

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The next one would be I think it's the Lake Cabin,

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or no, the Roosevelt Cabin, which is a very beautiful cabin.

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It's out in middle of nowhere. It used to be

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President Roosevelt's kind of horse stables or something like this.

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And then it goes on and on from the Lake Cabin,

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which is very famous with the geyser, and then all

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the way up. So in terms of where and how

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I can access the park, as long as I wasn't

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clocked in working, I could go anywhere and I didn't

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have to pay or anything. I had a sticker and

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passes on my vehicle that showed I was a park employee,

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so I was left alone most of the time. Rangers

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never gave me trouble. They did give other people trouble

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in the sense of like we usually had people I

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don't know who would do it. I wouldn't now that

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I had this experience, but people would sleep in their

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cars in the park to not have to wait in

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line or go in the next day, and that's illegal

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if anyone didn't know. It's also highly not advised since

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there's bears and lots of things that could potentially kill you.

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When I was there, I don't like to get conspiracle,

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especially starting a new job. I never really thought of

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bringing up sasquatch while at work, but three people died

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while I was in Yellowstone. One girl was dragged out

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of her tent, supposedly because of an undiscarded tampon that

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she didn't throw away, didn't take it out of her pack,

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left it in her pack, and they set a bear

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dragged her out. Another guy was dismembered by the river.

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He was supposedly fishing down wind of the river, came

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across a goose carcass. And these are all anecdotes that

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can be verified or not verified. But I think the

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audience needs to take into account that I was in

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a town called Gardener, Montana. It's the only town by

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that entrance. I don't know what the population is, but

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it's no more than I wouldn't even say five thousand

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people when there isn't let's say a peak time in

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the in the season. So in terms of that, that's

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that's the areas I had access to in the areas

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that I started at when I got there.

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Just to clarify a few things. So the second you're

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saying that an individual was down by a river and

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was dismembered by something by a moose carcass, correct, Yeah.

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Ok, yes, he was actually a fly fishing guide for

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one of the companies that worked in Gardener. Oh my goodness.

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Okay, And then you said there was a total of

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three things that were reported.

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Yes, and the third one, I don't recall anyone dying,

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but I do remember they were saying there's bears and

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someone had to leave the area. But the first two

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I do recall vividly because I asked, I said, well,

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how did the girl pass away? I believe this was

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during our first day training, Like the first day you arrive,

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there's a guy who basically threatens you. Is like if

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anyone has anything that is federally basically prohibited because it

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is a federal park. We got to remember this. They

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were kind of patting us down and along with this

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type of vetting because they drug tested us and they

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did background checks as well. Before you get hired. The

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bigger part was the bear training. So this gentleman taught

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us like, if you do encounter a bear, because we

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are in the park, we're not outside, you know basics,

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you put your hands like this behind your neck and

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you try to throw your backpack over the back of

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your neck type of stuff, so you know, the bear

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doesn't necessarily kill you. At that point, i'd call it

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a quits, but that was why I asked, I said, well,

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why did this girl pass away? And he said, oh,

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you know, she did everything right. To put her food

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and stuff in the tree. But turns out they searched

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the ten and she had a women's product that wasn't

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disposed of that she had apparently used. And that's what

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the bear got a sent on. From my understanding, I'm

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sure since you've come across people across this country. I mean,

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I've been told bears can smell a drop of blood

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on eight thousand feet mountain. So that was a big

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wake up call for me, especially since I fish. So

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like when I would have my free time, I would

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clock out, I would get in my truck, I'd put

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the fly fishing route in the truck, and I literally

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drive up or down until I felt like, oh, you know,

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today I'm feeling you know, chill. I just want to

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fish close to where I work and go home. Or

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then other days I'd go, you know what, screw it,

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I'm going to drive all the way to the Eagle

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River or the Yellowstone River and drive through Lamar Valley,

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you know, all the way up in there, a good

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twenty thirty miles. And I was very naive. I thought

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of the John Wayne movies. I thought of the you know,

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the wild the Wild West people, and I'm like, oh,

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I'm good. You know, I'm not bothering anybody. I'm doing

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my own thing. So that's that's basically the liberty I

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had there.

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Absolutely, Okay. Another thing I do want to point out

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really quickly is that Iggy was nice enough when asked

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to do so, or he may have. You may have

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done it without me asking. I can't remember. But end

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of the day, you have provided evidence that you were

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employed doing what you said you were doing, which thank

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you for doing so. So I have checked that employment history,

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which should lend some credence to this interview as well,

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and as this is a very very big deal for

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you to come on record like this, as we were

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talking about before. Another question is when you were working

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in the park or around the park, did you ever

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hear any any reports or sightings of Bigfoot besides what

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you encountered yourself.

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Well, my my INQUI not inquisition, but my curiosity was

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always peak. I don't know, I don't know how to

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say it, but I'll just say it how I would

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say to a friend whenever we would go out to

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like a bar, or we would go to little towns

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along the highway. I'm not sure if you I'm sure.

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A lot of your listeners have heard of a festival

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called Sturges Motorcycle Festival, and I'm not part of that

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type of community. They're good guys, so cool guys, but

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very intimidating people. And along the highway where we were at,

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there's lots of bars that these bicers stop at, so

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we'd stop and go drink and talk to the people there.

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And in one instance, in on the bare Tooth Highway,

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I can send you the name of the bar. I

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have a picture in front of it. I don't recall

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it now. I just remember they had a big grateful

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dead logo on the top of the bar, and there's

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a beautiful mountain behind it. But I was speaking to

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a man there and I brought up, hey, you know,

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do you guys you know, believe in Bigfoot up here?

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Because there, if where I was was isolated, these people

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are living in middle of nowhere, like there's one road

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that goes through it. You know, they got one general store. Honestly,

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I would never not recommend to anyone in our country

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to not experience a fourth of July up in you know,

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this high high country, or God's Country as they call it.

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There it's very beautiful. But I remember this gentleman saying

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to me, oh, you mean the hairy man. And when

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he referenced it in a more i guess, not domesticated,

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but in a more like Joey Lee like daily occurrence,

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like oh, yeah, we see them all the time. They

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run through a yard. My wife's seen him, and anyone can.

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A lot of my coworkers that were with me, All

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these guys are you know, just mound, crazy, booney people.

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And I'm like, I don't know why this gentleman would

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have any reason to lie about this. I mean, one

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thing is scaring off tourists or you know, wanting to

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come off like, oh I'm a big mountain man. But

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the way this gentleman had said it to me was

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pretty straightforward and pretty like it's it's here, and it's

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there and you just have to be aware. Other than that,

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it wasn't like, yeah, we saw one last week or

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we saw one last month. But he did reference it

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as the hairy man. And that's the first time in

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my life I had met someone that isn't online or

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just you know, in the in the field of sasquatch

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that referenced it like that. It's it's like if I

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met a random guy at a bar and said, hey, man,

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what'd you see? Oh yeah, this and that that shocked me.

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It took me back, gotcha? Okay, very interesting, Iggy. I'd

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say now as a good time as any, feel free

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to share what happened to you that day when you

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had your encounter in Yellowstone.

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So it went like this along the mountain side. I

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think it's called mountain electric or I don't know what

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the mountain is because there's so many mountains. But a

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lot of the co workers at the company I was

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working at, just like any social instance, there's groups that

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create to come up out of you know, working together

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every day. And there was an age range of people

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being maybe on the older side of their early fifties,

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even some people into their early sixties. You know, they

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were older people, maybe harder on their times, trying to

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you know, get their room and board paid for. And

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at the same time, there was a lot of people

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below the age of twenty five, and you know, people

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who are younger, we like to party and do fun stuff.

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And they would have these get togethers in parts of

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the park that the employees would deem or consider where

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the cool kids or like the cool guys, would go

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hang out away from the tourist, away from the trails,

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away from the trailheads, mainly on logging roads or parts

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of the park that had been shut down by previous fires,

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and you know, stuff only they know about. So when

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I got the invitation to go to one of these

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get togethers, I you know, I said, I'm not going

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to say no, because I've been here three four weeks

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and I've noticed that at night, when everyone's off, the

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normal thing to do was like, okay, we have an

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employee canteena where we can go and drink and eat.

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And it's not where the guests are and people hang

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out there. It's very much so like a rec center.

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It felt like a summer camp. You know. It was

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like they had a big gym area like a summer

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camp like you'd see in the in the movies from

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the eighties, you know, like I don't know, like cafeteria

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style food. It's just very Americana. And for these cool kids,

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it wasn't enough, right, So we went out and I'm

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in a ninety six f one point fifty. I still

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have her beautiful truck. I love it. It got me

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out of there. But in terms of going to this

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party or get together, whatever you want to call it,

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I was I think invited, mainly because my truck had

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enough space to take more people. I don't know, but

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we went up there for a good hour. We left

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out of Garden Air, we went down, left the park,

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went into Gardener which is in Wyoming, not Montana, and

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in Wyoming. I could not tell anyone. I sent you

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guys a geographical pinpoint, but I don't know which way

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or how we got up there. I was with people

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who were instructing me, who knew the area, so getting

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up was fine. We had gone up to about around

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eight thousand feet. This is after I wasn't looking at

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elevation when we were going up, but we were that

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high up and we had spent about an hour or

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so together. We were cowboy camping for anyone who doesn't

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know that he's just leaping under the stars. No nothing,

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just bag on the ground. And maybe thirty forty minutes

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into the get together itself, I had a little disagreement

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with some of my co workers. We had a disagreement

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about some tobacco that we had purchased and agreed to

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use as a group on the get together, and one

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thing led to another, and I was shorted my cut

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of the tobacco, and in terms of me being a

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prideful person, I was upset and in a mindset I'm

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a city guy, I'm from Los Angeles, and you screw

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me over like that. You piss me off, and I'm

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getting out. So I decide to leave, and that's my

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first mistake of the night. Because we're on a mountain.

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There's no lights. I mean, I'm not going to be

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ignorant and say like I'm expecting there to be lights

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on every road in Montana or Wyoming, but we were

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high up enough up there that without proper instruction you

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can get lost. I vividly remember looking at Brady and

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going like, how the hell do I get off this mountain?

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And I'm talking to some stoner kid from Colorado. I

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should have known better as well to ask him for

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how to get off the mountain, and I remember him

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telling me hang lefts until you just hang lefts until

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you get back onto the highway. I leave angrily, and

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I don't recall orienting myself before leaving. It was kind

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of a thing of just getting the car and start driving.

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I do that. I go down one, two, three roads,

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and everything's fine. I feel okay. Maybe after the fourth

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or fifth turn, and I start realizing, like, okay, you know,

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now they're turning into more roads, and now it's like

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a little log road, and there's more trees closer to

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the truck, like I could stick my hand out and

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not even extend it, and there's a tree on the

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truck scraping my vehicle. I'm not a survival guy, like

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we spoke on earlier before we got onto this call.

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I have no experience in the woods. I'm not here

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to say I'm a woodsman or I can survive or

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anything like this. But my instincts told me, you know,

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it's dark, it's a ninety six, one fifty. The lights

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only go so far. I should stop my car and

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I should wait for a day. And then the next

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day when you know, I might miss work, I might

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get in trouble, but I'm not going to drive off

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the mountain. I'm not going to get lost. I did

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have in the back of the truck, as most people

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do who work in the park, you have to have gasoline,

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so I had about nine gallons of gasoline and a

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jerry can, and I looked at my little gas monitor

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thing and it was maybe at a quarter of a thing,

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and I sat there. I just sat there in the darkness.

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And as I said in my email to you, I'm

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not afraid to say it. I don't think it makes

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me look less. But I listened to ASMR. A lot

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of people do nowadays, and I have videos that I

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save on my phone when I fly. Whenever i'm, you know,

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in a space that I'm nervous, I'll play it and

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I'll just calm down. So I did that. I parked

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the car in the middle of a dried creek bed

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or what I thought was a road but later turned

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out to be a little creek bed, and I said,

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I'm going to play these ASMR videos. And it's a

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single cab truck and I'm a big guy, so there's

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no laying down like you're like this. And maybe an

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hour into doing that, I thought to myself, what are

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you doing. You're ridiculous. You're listening to ASMR on a

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mountain and you're loft because you got angry of some tobacco.

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And it was just around then when I started getting

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a sensation of being watched of being preyed upon. In

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a way, I'm a pretty spiritual person. I believe in Jesus.

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I believe in the bad stuff as well, So naturally

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my first thing I think this, you know, in the

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name of Jesus. You know, I trust myself, I trust

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God and all this jazz. But it got to a

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point where I started feeling and hearing like pebbles and

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little things ticking off the back of the bed of

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the truck. It's an completely steel body vehicle, so when

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you hear it get hit, it's like an older It

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sounds like like those war movies when when a helicopter

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is getting hit by machine gun is tap tap. And

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when I started hearing that, I'm like, what the hell

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is that? Like, I can't I can't make a connection

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to it. I lower my windows on my truck, and

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I get the sensation that something's not good. I don't

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hear a single thing. This is the middle of June

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in Montana and Wyoming. So I remember specifically too, when

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I was fly fishing, all these people coming and going, oh, yeah,

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we're here for the salmon run. Because the salmon flies

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and these big insects they spawn at a certain part

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of the year and they're pretty big. You can hear

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them like this, and they're jump on the water and

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the fish will go for them. And I remember that

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hearing it all day, all night, every day because it's

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summer hot and it's humid, and it's you know, it's nature.

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And there was nothing it was. There was no noise.

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There was not even an owl hooting or anything. I

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remember looking at the trees and I could see them swaying,

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and as I say in my email, the moment I

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take my eyes off of the tree line with the truck,

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I see the silhouette and the figure of this large,

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just tremendous thing just standing there like arms like this shoulders.

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I don't know. If it's because it's shoulders are broader,

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I don't know. But it didn't feel like it had

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a neck like I'm doing here, like its necks are

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up here and its head takes over here. No facial

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details that I could make out of. All I could

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see was black silhouette, and this was a black that

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was blacker than the tree line. There wasn't a cloud

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in the night. It was a clear, crisp night. And

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after that, I just sat there in my truck and said,

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what the hell am I looking at? Maybe thirty forty

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minutes into just contemplating, like what the hell is that.

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I start getting a sensation of remorse and dread, like

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you need to leave. Part of me was like should

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I get out and put gas in the truck. And

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a moment I started hearing more pebbles, I put that

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truck and start I drive maybe two hundred three hundred yards,

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and I start doing the same thing this time around.

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When I'm part I'm part more in a downward slope,

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so I can make out that I'm going down off

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the mountain. And as I put in my email, that's

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when I really started hearing the pebbles and the stuff

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hitting my vehicle. In terms of other people that I've

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seen on these podcasts, I thank god this thing didn't

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make a noise. I think, God, this thing didn't look

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into my rear view. Oh. One thing that I do

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remember very vividly is when I specifically put the truck

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in reverse or not reverse, in drive, and I put

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my foot on the brake and I you know, when

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you put your foot on the brake and those the

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rear lights turn on when you're in the middle of nowhere,

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and there's no other light pollution. Those lights are bright.

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And when I hit that brake light, I could not

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just make out the figure, but I could see the

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dark balls right here, all right right here. And the

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thing was, it was just humongous. And when I saw that,

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I put the truck in drive and I hauled ass.

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I don't think this thing ran after me. I did

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not take the time to look back, but I started

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driving in a way where I'm like, I go off,

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I go off and maybe thirty I know it's maybe

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not as eventful as some of the other anecdotes you

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guys have had, but to me, it was the scariest

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moment in my life. I mean, I didn't know what

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I was going to do. I did not have a firearm.

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I had maybe a can and a bare spray. But

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to kind of take the anecdote to its end, I

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eventually drive down the mountain. I veer off into an

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opening or a clearing, and I see a big barn

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maybe fifteen hundred yards away from the tree line opening up,

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and I this is anyone's gonna laugh. I think it's ridiculous,

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but I turned my flashes on. I was honking like

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a maniac. I'm yelling out the window. I'm going like, hey, anybody,

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I see this man come out. And it's almost laughable

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how Hollywood it looked, because this gentleman is out in

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his like I call him, like wild West pajamas, like

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all in all one color white. He's got a shotgun

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in his hand. He's like, what the hell are you

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doing on my land? And all I could say was, sir, sir,

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please please look at my license plate. Look at my

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license plate. I'm lost, I was. I'm not going to

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tell this guy, Oh yeah, I just saw him a

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sasquatch three hundred yards away from your house up on

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the mountain, up that creek. I was trying to tell him, like,

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how the hell do I get out of here? And

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I remember him looking at him. He calmed down once

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he saw I was from California. He goes, son, how

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far are you? Where are you staying? And I said, sir,

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I'm staying in Gardener. He goes, you know how far

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away you are from Gardener? I go, no, sir, He

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goes fifty miles fifty. When he said fifty, I go

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what I was? Then I said, oh my gosh, I

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was disoriented by this thing. I was confused by this thing.

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I was, I don't know, manipulated or something. But the

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whole hour and a half where I'm driving and stopping pebbles,

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I see this thing. I don't know what it was.

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I got to finish the story before I tell you

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how my anecdotal feeling about it. But I got off

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the mountain and I went back to work, and maybe

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a week later after this experience, I was just in

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not there. I was distraught. This is during COVID in

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twenty twenty one, and with my luck, I had an

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employee who was a coworker who was exposed to COVID,

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and they locked us all down in camp like parts

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of the camp that weren't for guests. And can you

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imagine for two weeks sitting in a cabin thinking and remembering.

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And I didn't even last two weeks. Eight days into it,

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I quit the job and I got in my truck

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and I left. I was telling my mom and dad.

459
00:25:34.400 --> 00:25:36.359
I was like, I couldn't tell my mom because she's

460
00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:39.960
very Christian, and if she ever watched this, I'm sure

461
00:25:39.960 --> 00:25:42.720
she'll say something like, oh, it was maybe a bad

462
00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:45.319
demon or a spiritual thing. But I know what I

463
00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:50.599
saw and I know what I felt. That's no spiritual thing.

464
00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:55.720
This thing was large, this thing was imposing itself. The

465
00:25:55.799 --> 00:25:59.400
one thing I take away, though, is that within that confusion,

466
00:25:59.519 --> 00:26:02.279
within driving off, I don't know if I encountered the

467
00:26:02.319 --> 00:26:06.759
same one all along the same time. And other people

468
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:10.160
I've spoken to along the years, not like yourself. But

469
00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:12.039
when I would drive back to school I went to

470
00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:16.319
school in Oklahoma, I would drive through Navajo Land or

471
00:26:16.400 --> 00:26:19.920
the sue A Sioux Tribe land in Arizona, and anytime

472
00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:22.559
i'd stop, I'd try to talk to some people about it,

473
00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:25.480
because they were the only people that would listen to me.

474
00:26:26.400 --> 00:26:28.640
I still remember to this day. There's a gentleman in

475
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:32.559
to kaman Chi or to Kumban. I can't say the

476
00:26:32.599 --> 00:26:34.640
word rite in New Mexico, but it's a very small

477
00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:38.599
town to Kumban Kanchi something like this outside of Albuquerque.

478
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:41.160
And he would tell me about skinwalkers and how not

479
00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:44.880
to whistle at night, and how even to this day,

480
00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.960
if you report a sasquatch or whatever the tribe calls them,

481
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.200
the shaman police, the tribal police will go out and

482
00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:55.720
they will verify and they'll do what they need to

483
00:26:55.759 --> 00:27:02.400
do to, you know, for their own anecdotal sense. But yeah,

484
00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:05.799
that was that was basically what I experienced. I quit

485
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:10.359
my job after eight days of that, and I couldn't.

486
00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:13.279
I just couldn't be there. I didn't I didn't want

487
00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:15.200
to think about it. I didn't want to be anywhere.

488
00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:18.200
It was. It was. It was very sad because when

489
00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:20.640
I got there, I was awestruck. I was like, oh

490
00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:23.720
my gosh, look at this river, look at this mountain.

491
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:26.960
I want to go up this this hill and climate.

492
00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:29.680
And then it turned into like, yeah, no, we're not

493
00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:32.759
doing that, Like we're staying within the peripheral of like

494
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:36.240
if I don't see a National park's logo on a

495
00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:41.880
little you know, sign or whatever, like whenever you arrive

496
00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:45.559
at one of these little pinpoints in the park, you'll

497
00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:48.240
always see a sign that says the name of where

498
00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:51.559
you're at. So I don't want to go too fast.

499
00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:56.079
But my experience was wasn't something that lasted six seven hours.

500
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:58.680
It was maybe two three hours up on that mountain,

501
00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:02.960
driving down and up, and the last thing, and not

502
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.319
the last thing, but the last thing I want to

503
00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:08.759
leave an anecdotal to that is that I strongly believe

504
00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:14.119
that I think one of them wasn't bad that was

505
00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.039
trying to get me off the mountain, if that makes sense,

506
00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:20.400
because there's people don't just get off those mountains. That's

507
00:28:20.440 --> 00:28:22.960
what really stays with me is it's like you see

508
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:25.799
all these people in the Missing one hundred or whatever

509
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:29.400
that thing is, and it's like, these guys are avid

510
00:28:29.480 --> 00:28:32.640
hunts or hunters, and they go missing and what stopped

511
00:28:32.640 --> 00:28:34.960
my fat, fat ass excuse me for saying it that

512
00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:38.200
way from not dying. That's something that really stays with me,

513
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:40.480
Like I don't know how to explain that. I guess

514
00:28:40.559 --> 00:28:43.920
it was God or my intuition telling me just keep going.

515
00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.599
But I don't want to think of these things negatively,

516
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:50.000
so I do consider the potential idea that, hey, maybe

517
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.799
one of these things was trying to scare the shit

518
00:28:51.880 --> 00:28:54.160
out of me, because there was another one that was

519
00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:57.160
actually trying to hurt me. And that's when I left.

520
00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:00.480
So that was my experience in Yellowstone.

521
00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:03.720
As some wild wild stuff. Am I gonna thank you

522
00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:08.480
for sharing what happened to you that night, Iggy and

523
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:12.000
the location, So you did provide the location to me.

524
00:29:12.200 --> 00:29:15.759
Is that something that we are not putting out there

525
00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:17.160
or how do you feel about that?

526
00:29:17.720 --> 00:29:20.279
You know that is something I would want you to share.

527
00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.279
I think I left it out of my story, but

528
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:26.720
thank you for bringing that up. In the moment of

529
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:29.359
looking at the ASMR video or just being on my phone,

530
00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:31.480
I had no reception. There's nothing I could do on

531
00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:34.599
that phone. But my good friend, he's the type of

532
00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:36.960
guy who does off roading. Him and his father would

533
00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.279
go into like Death Valley here in California and they

534
00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:43.279
would camp and like abandoned mining camps, like those type

535
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:45.880
of guys, so they know what they're talking about. And

536
00:29:45.920 --> 00:29:48.119
he told me, he said, yeah, if you go up there, man,

537
00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:51.599
you should download this app, which I recommend everyone should download.

538
00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:54.440
It's called on x Road. You can cut that out

539
00:29:54.519 --> 00:29:56.559
if you don't do sponsorships. I don't know if they

540
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.519
sponsor here, but I wish they would. Yeah, but I

541
00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:03.359
didn't pay for any subscription or anything crazy. I just

542
00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:06.799
downloaded the basic app. And when I was having that sensation,

543
00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:10.640
I'm like, I'm not going to be one of those

544
00:30:10.680 --> 00:30:14.519
guys who dies lost, Like at least if they f

545
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:16.839
and find something, it's going to be my phone with

546
00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:20.440
a geographical pinpoint or something. So I remember I picked

547
00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:23.720
up this exact phone. I opened the on X off

548
00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.640
road and it had no connection. So the only option

549
00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:28.759
you had was like put a point where you are,

550
00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:32.000
and I hit that. I hit the Thank god I did,

551
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.119
so I knew where I was and it shows exactly

552
00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:38.319
where I stopped and I was listening to the ASMR

553
00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.559
and contemplating to go up or down. So if you

554
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:44.039
do end up sharing it and people do look at it,

555
00:30:44.440 --> 00:30:48.920
please you tell me. The only information I've found was that,

556
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:51.440
and it scared the crap out of me too. Was

557
00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:56.599
on the bfo's website when you put in like the

558
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.920
areas of Montana and Wyoming, and you put it in

559
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:03.119
by region and by locality and like the really really

560
00:31:03.200 --> 00:31:07.400
nitty gritty stuff. When I put in my stuff, there

561
00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:12.000
had only been two other sightings, one in twenty ten

562
00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.000
and one in nineteen ninety one, so pretty distant in space,

563
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.720
but they were all within four to five days, within

564
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.759
the day that I saw it. That scared the shit

565
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:24.440
out of me. Wow, oh yeah. When I saw that,

566
00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:26.359
it was like I saw it on the twenty first

567
00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:28.440
or the twenty second, and then the guy in ninety

568
00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:30.640
one saw it on the sixteenth, and the guy in

569
00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.279
twenty ten saw it on like the twenty sixth to

570
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.480
twenty seventh. I'm thinking, I don't know if I saw

571
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:41.160
the same one. They were all sightings that were I

572
00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:43.480
don't know what the legalities are, but I know the

573
00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:46.960
b AFO off follows a certain protocol to what isn't

574
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:50.400
level A, B or C level siding. And they were

575
00:31:50.400 --> 00:31:55.400
all a yeah, they were all like really like detailed encounters.

576
00:31:55.440 --> 00:31:58.880
So I sent mine in to kind of credit give

577
00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:01.680
myself credibility in my mind that okay, I followed. I did.

578
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:04.200
If no one wants to believe me, that's fine, But

579
00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.559
I did what the what the community is expecting, which

580
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.960
is to report a credible encounter and to at least

581
00:32:10.960 --> 00:32:13.880
try to document something that could help someone down the

582
00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:17.599
line understand their experience. Like I've said, I've watched your

583
00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:20.480
videos and I've seen the people and and how some

584
00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:23.359
can't live with themselves or some people move away, and

585
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:26.240
I can't I can't relate to that.

586
00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:31.839
It's it's it's fascinating and looking at the area, I mean,

587
00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:34.240
it lines up with the story. It looks like it's

588
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.519
in it's south of Hayden Valley almost on the border

589
00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.559
of the park. But if you look at the coordinates

590
00:32:41.599 --> 00:32:46.440
you gave, it's right next to what looks like a

591
00:32:46.519 --> 00:32:49.519
service road or some kind of trail that you probably

592
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:55.000
would have followed with with the vehicle. I believe that's

593
00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:56.880
what I'm looking at, and it is right at it

594
00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.200
just over eight thousand feet, So yeah, I mean, and

595
00:33:01.440 --> 00:33:06.920
without going super detailed, it lines up with what you

596
00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.799
are you're sharing now, maybe a few questions, and I

597
00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:13.759
don't know if you were able to notice any of this,

598
00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:18.359
but could you get a feeling as to how far

599
00:33:18.759 --> 00:33:23.160
behind you the silhouette was that you were looking at?

600
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:26.759
Twenty feet thirty feet? I mean, you got to remember that.

601
00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:29.720
I mean, when I don't know how if I'll ever

602
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.279
in my life, I think i'd have the balls to

603
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:36.680
go up again and see it specifically that area, because

604
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:39.440
I want to. I don't want my mind to tell

605
00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:40.720
me things that aren't I want to go see it

606
00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:43.400
again because I remember when I turned and I opened

607
00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.400
my window, I would extend my arm and I couldn't

608
00:33:46.519 --> 00:33:49.839
fully extend my arm without hitting a sapling or hitting

609
00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:53.079
a tree, or touching something that was vegetation. So I

610
00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:57.319
was like, whatever I saw was darker than the trees

611
00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:59.839
that were right in front of my car. And I

612
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:01.480
don't know how to explain it in a way that

613
00:34:01.559 --> 00:34:04.640
makes sense, but think of like a clear night. It's dark,

614
00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:07.079
but the light is still bright, like you can make

615
00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:09.440
out whatever the hell is you know, right in front

616
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:12.280
of you. I could see, okay, tree, tree, and then

617
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.320
the trail whatever you're talking about was clear enough for

618
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:17.679
me to be like, Okay, I can squiggle through here.

619
00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:21.800
I'll stop until either the truck can't fit or I

620
00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.800
got to either walk out. So yeah, I mean I

621
00:34:24.840 --> 00:34:27.280
could tell this thing was twenty thirty forty feet away

622
00:34:27.320 --> 00:34:29.639
from me the first time I saw it, maybe closer

623
00:34:29.639 --> 00:34:33.800
to one hundred feet. It wasn't as like close because

624
00:34:33.800 --> 00:34:36.760
I would have trust me, I'm a scaredy cat. Like

625
00:34:36.840 --> 00:34:39.079
if I would have made it out like the first time,

626
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:40.599
if I would have saw it twenty thirty feet, I

627
00:34:40.639 --> 00:34:44.679
wouldn't have stoped driving. I'm Jeremiah. I mean, there was

628
00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:48.239
no like I'm just to give a more background, I'm

629
00:34:48.280 --> 00:34:51.880
part chlaying right in South America, we don't really have

630
00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:55.960
this type of story unless you go really, really really

631
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.159
south into Patagonia, so where I live, Well, you got

632
00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:01.719
to be worried about it, huma. Maybe, and for me

633
00:35:01.800 --> 00:35:04.280
to think or contemplate that there's something out there that

634
00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:06.920
I'm a big dude. I'm six one, three hundred and

635
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:10.679
thirty pounds, so like, I mean, I get it, like

636
00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:12.920
a bear can still kill you and all this jazz,

637
00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.400
but like, hey, I can you know I'm I'm I'm

638
00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:19.079
intimidating to people. Maybe an animal will be freaked that. Now,

639
00:35:19.880 --> 00:35:24.280
no way this thing was holding its ground. I don't

640
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:26.039
know if if it's true or not, but if you

641
00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.920
look at the satellite maps of where I was, I've

642
00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.519
noticed that there's all these trees that are just downed.

643
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:34.400
They're all like they're all it's all trees that are

644
00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:36.039
down And I don't I don't think I was in

645
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:39.320
an area where these things eat or sleep. But I

646
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:41.440
do think I was in an area where they transition

647
00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:44.760
and walk through. Because over the years, not sharing with anyone,

648
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:47.360
your mind eats at you and you start looking at

649
00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:50.480
things and you look at like not just where you were,

650
00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:52.719
but you start scrolling down and you're like, oh my gosh,

651
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.239
like I'm in a valley, like this thing is going

652
00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:57.440
from this side of the valley on the mountain that

653
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:02.039
I'm on, maybe across to wherever or if you because

654
00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:06.119
where this guy lived that I pulled out into his barn.

655
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.199
It was beautiful. It was. There was a river running

656
00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:12.360
through it. There was vast grass like this guy. I

657
00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:15.280
guess he grew out fulfa or something for cattle. It was.

658
00:36:15.400 --> 00:36:19.400
It was very pish, piss picturesque, if that's the word.

659
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:22.239
But no, on top of that mountain it felt like hell.

660
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.159
I felt like a scene from the Lion King, like

661
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:26.920
when I was a kid, like when the Simba gets

662
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.320
hunted by the hyenas. It was terrible. It was. It was.

663
00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:31.800
It was not a fun experience.

664
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:44.079
So it sounds like after this happened, did you get

665
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.639
to talk to any of the individuals you were out

666
00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:50.519
there with before you got separated about what happened or No.

667
00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.320
I didn't speak to anyone about that. But one thing

668
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.239
I did do I since I stayed eight days after

669
00:36:57.400 --> 00:36:59.159
I saw I had that experience, and I saw what

670
00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:02.119
I saw. Me and my friends try to like my buddy.

671
00:37:02.199 --> 00:37:06.400
I remember he was older, so he was from Mississippi.

672
00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.079
He went to what's that Mississippi state? Very proud Southern guy,

673
00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:12.679
and I remember him very well because we would go

674
00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:14.840
out into the mountains and we would listen. He was

675
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:17.639
an older guy, so we'd listen to like eighties WWE

676
00:37:17.719 --> 00:37:21.719
music like Macho Man Holgen. We'd listen to the intro

677
00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:24.840
songs all the way up, just pumping ourselves up and

678
00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:29.519
enjoying the day. And on one end, one situation. And

679
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.519
this is what really cemented in my mind that I

680
00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:34.440
think I encountered a sasquatch, was that we were in

681
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.760
the Lamar Valley driving back from the bars and I'm

682
00:37:37.800 --> 00:37:40.079
looking to the left of my shoulder to the riders.

683
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:42.039
I don't know. I'm looking out the window and I

684
00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.079
see this mountain and I see about one hundred and

685
00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.760
I have the video too, I'll send it to you.

686
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:48.679
I have about one hundred and fifty or one hundred

687
00:37:48.679 --> 00:37:51.800
bison are just running down the mountain. And I don't

688
00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:54.199
know if I was just people that don't watch nature

689
00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:56.719
shows or I don't know. I'm not an outdoorsman, but

690
00:37:56.800 --> 00:38:00.480
I know nature, and I'm like stop, justin stop. It's like,

691
00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:02.800
why why do we guys. I'm like, dude, these things

692
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:06.480
are running from something like they don't just run like

693
00:38:06.920 --> 00:38:09.400
it's not it's not like a movie. And it turns

694
00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:11.599
out it was being they were being hunted by some

695
00:38:11.639 --> 00:38:15.639
wolves and I saw it live and I filmed it.

696
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:18.599
I was yelling and screaming because my emotions are it

697
00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:21.519
was it's when somebody, when you see something in nature

698
00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:25.119
that you see on TV, is so different than like

699
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:27.559
seeing it on the television, like the I don't know

700
00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:30.280
how to explain it, but you get euphoria. You get

701
00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:33.519
you get like a primal feeling like oh my god,

702
00:38:33.639 --> 00:38:35.880
like that thing is killing that thing, and you know,

703
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:37.719
if we wanted to, we could go scare it off

704
00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:40.559
and take the bison type of thing, the very caveman

705
00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:42.519
vibe that I felt like. I was, I'll send you

706
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:44.440
the video. I was yelling at what the F is

707
00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:47.760
that because it was shocking. But the moral of the

708
00:38:47.800 --> 00:38:50.280
story and what I thought sealed the deal for me

709
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.159
on the Sasquatch was that I went back to the

710
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.119
park and we're sitting at the employee cantena that I

711
00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:58.840
was telling you guys about earlier, and these rangers. The

712
00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:01.920
rangers are like they're the cool, cool guys, like they're

713
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.480
the ones that they're They're like they're the ones that

714
00:39:04.480 --> 00:39:06.440
they say, oh, yeah, I'm a federal employee. I'm a

715
00:39:06.760 --> 00:39:09.800
I'm a park ranger with the US Park Ranger Service.

716
00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:11.719
You know. They wear their fancy boots and the high

717
00:39:11.760 --> 00:39:15.480
socks and all that jazz. And I showed them. I said, hey,

718
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:17.519
you know, I just wanted to show you this because

719
00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:20.920
I thought it was cool. And Jeremiah, this guy looks

720
00:39:20.920 --> 00:39:22.880
at me. This old guy, sixty years old, looks at me.

721
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:26.000
He goes, Son, I've worked in this park thirty years.

722
00:39:26.559 --> 00:39:29.960
Thirty years. I've never seen a wolf in the Lamar

723
00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:33.480
Valley on my own, let alone a wolf going after

724
00:39:33.599 --> 00:39:36.400
bison in the Lamar Valley. And we were right by.

725
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:38.880
It was pretty cool. We were right by a National

726
00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:42.239
Geographic camp where they set up camp and they work

727
00:39:42.320 --> 00:39:45.000
on documentaries and all that. And I told the rangers there,

728
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.440
I said, yeah, I saw this. I showed them the

729
00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:48.840
video that I'll send to you. And that's what he

730
00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:51.320
said to me. He said, I've worked here thirty years.

731
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:54.000
I've never seen a wolf in the valley, let alone

732
00:39:54.159 --> 00:39:58.679
a wolf going after bison alone, you know, in the

733
00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.920
middle of the day or in towards the evening. I

734
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:03.239
think it was so that in my mind told me,

735
00:40:03.280 --> 00:40:08.079
I'm like, Okay, if this ranger guy who literally is

736
00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:11.639
life passion is to go after these things and find them,

737
00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:14.840
told me this, there's a very good chance I maybe

738
00:40:14.920 --> 00:40:16.960
encountered a sasquatch. Even though I didn't want to tell

739
00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.320
myself that, Like every time I would say it, I'd

740
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:21.920
get a gut feeling and I'd get chicken skin. But

741
00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:24.519
now I feel comfortable about it because I truly don't

742
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:28.000
believe they're bad or I don't know if that sounds

743
00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:31.840
immature to say, but I just think that there. You know,

744
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:35.320
people take different perspectives, but it could easily be a

745
00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.960
homo erectus that didn't get wiped out after the ice

746
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.559
age or crossed over from the ice bridge itself and

747
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:43.360
could sustain itself in that type of environment. I try

748
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.679
to look at it reasonably and logically, so I don't

749
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:50.119
go insane. But that's something I thought I should say

750
00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.559
because that ranger really, you know, slapped me across the

751
00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:55.119
face when he said that, because I was like, Wow,

752
00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:57.079
if this guy's been here thirty years, he's never seen

753
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.320
a wolf. There's a good chance that in the three

754
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:01.360
months that I've been here, I did see what I

755
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:04.119
saw because I saw the wolf, So why why why

756
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:05.800
couldn't I have seen the sasquatch?

757
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:11.559
No, I agree with that. I mean, there are there

758
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:15.239
are places in that park where just people don't go

759
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:16.400
stuff can live.

760
00:41:16.760 --> 00:41:17.039
It is.

761
00:41:17.679 --> 00:41:21.320
It is super, super remote, and there are stories of

762
00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:28.119
even park rangers that have had sightings and experiences from

763
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.239
back in the day long ago. But it is just

764
00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:36.639
such a privilege to talk to yourself, iggy, and to

765
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:45.039
hear what you experienced. And I hope that this maybe

766
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:50.119
encourages people that are listening that have also had an

767
00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:54.800
experience that worked in a national park or something similar,

768
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:58.199
to be able to come forward and to share what

769
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:03.880
they've experienced. I mean, yeah, you're putting yourself literally on

770
00:42:04.440 --> 00:42:07.079
camera to share this. It's a very big deal.

771
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:09.719
You know. Before we go, I do want to say,

772
00:42:09.760 --> 00:42:13.360
you know, I could care less if it affects me

773
00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:16.199
or my persona, because I know what I saw, I

774
00:42:16.239 --> 00:42:20.880
know what I experienced. I've noticed that on these Bigfoot

775
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:24.280
podcasts or these I don't want to say shows, because

776
00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:25.960
I don't think there's shows. It's not a show when

777
00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:29.360
someone share something that's so personal to them. But on

778
00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:31.920
these anecdotal reports, if you want to call them that.

779
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:35.079
They usually are older people or people that I think

780
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:38.920
feel more like happier complete with their life in terms

781
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:42.800
of these types of experiences, because I can't imagine being

782
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.000
a person that has a generational type of issue where

783
00:42:46.360 --> 00:42:49.000
their family sees that they see it and all these

784
00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:51.519
types of things. So if I could say anything, I

785
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.199
know that there's lots of employees that maybe encountered something.

786
00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:56.880
I know that there's people that have worked in the

787
00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:59.840
parks in the winter season when it's even less people

788
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:02.880
when it's all closed. And I encourage you to share

789
00:43:02.920 --> 00:43:06.280
your anecdotes because, like if I'm speaking to them, if

790
00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:08.400
you're watching and you work for the National Park, you

791
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:13.239
know how they're how they operate. It's a very like

792
00:43:14.119 --> 00:43:15.800
cut off your head's world. I'm not gonna I'm not

793
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:17.360
going to sugarcoat. If they want to get rid of you,

794
00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:19.679
they get rid of you like the first day you're there,

795
00:43:19.840 --> 00:43:22.480
and I'll leave it with this. They tell you, they're like,

796
00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:26.159
just to remind you, we have a courthouse. They do.

797
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:29.159
They have a courthouse in Yellowstone with a judge who

798
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:32.840
lives there full time, who's ready to prosecute anyone for anything.

799
00:43:33.280 --> 00:43:37.559
Let it be park vandalization, let it be anything that

800
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:41.679
is basically a federal crime. So in terms of going

801
00:43:41.719 --> 00:43:45.679
out there, don't be afraid. I'm not. I mean, you know,

802
00:43:45.800 --> 00:43:48.880
I like to think of it as I risked myself

803
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.599
to go work out there for them, and I encountered

804
00:43:51.880 --> 00:43:55.559
something that is in I don't know. I mean, I'm

805
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:58.039
a taxpayer. You're a taxpayer. We pay for those parks

806
00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.880
to be maintained. We should well know what the hell

807
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:03.000
is in them. So I thank you for your time

808
00:44:03.039 --> 00:44:05.360
in consideration and listening to me and what I had

809
00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:06.639
to say about my experience.

810
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:10.199
Thank you, Iggy, And if anyone would like to reach out,

811
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.239
they can contact me directly at email address Bigfoot Society

812
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.880
at gmail dot com. Thanks again, Iggy, Thank you. Have

813
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:21.639
you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge,

814
00:44:21.679 --> 00:44:24.679
Oregon and you think to yourself, man, I would love

815
00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:27.719
to get out in those woods and experience it for myself.

816
00:44:28.480 --> 00:44:32.599
Well guess what this year you can. If this is

817
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.039
interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch

818
00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:41.039
Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh,

819
00:44:41.280 --> 00:44:44.800
twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than

820
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:48.199
the previous year's. Reason number one, I'll be one of

821
00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:52.960
the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this.

822
00:44:54.719 --> 00:44:57.960
There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because

823
00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:03.119
let's just say sometime it's uh, well, you just got

824
00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:05.480
to be there. We'll leave it that more about looking

825
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.000
for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out.

826
00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:13.920
You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching

827
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:18.239
for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go

828
00:45:18.320 --> 00:45:22.519
to the festival, but you can also sign up for

829
00:45:25.000 --> 00:45:29.559
a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge

830
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:34.519
with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot.

831
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:38.719
There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes,

832
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:42.440
this will also be filmed for the next chapter in

833
00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:45.880
his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is

834
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:48.480
a once in a lifetime deal. It's just it's going

835
00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:53.320
to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket,

836
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:57.719
head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners

837
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:02.559
can use the code b s he Like Bigfoot Society

838
00:46:02.639 --> 00:46:05.679
podcast in order to get a two day pass for

839
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:09.559
the price of a one day pass. So thanks to

840
00:46:09.599 --> 00:46:14.760
Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys

841
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:20.159
can can get a little help with the cost there.

842
00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:24.039
Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the

843
00:46:24.079 --> 00:46:28.159
booth in Oakridge this year. We can talk about your encounter.

844
00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.760
Was able to talk to so many people last year

845
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.039
and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're

846
00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:36.800
not going to want to miss it, and I'll see

847
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:41.159
you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to

848
00:46:41.159 --> 00:46:44.440
say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.

849
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:48.400
If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and

850
00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:51.360
if you've seen something that no one can explain, or

851
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.480
if you're a National park ranger or forestreet worker who's

852
00:46:54.519 --> 00:46:57.360
been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot

853
00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:00.920
who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if

854
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.519
you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence

855
00:47:04.719 --> 00:47:07.760
and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about.

856
00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:10.960
And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue

857
00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:14.920
responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense,

858
00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:19.239
if you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,

859
00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:22.400
or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something

860
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:25.920
happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're

861
00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:29.800
a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under

862
00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:33.199
contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.

863
00:47:33.719 --> 00:47:36.199
If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a

864
00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:39.719
spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,

865
00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:43.519
or if you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or

866
00:47:43.559 --> 00:47:46.920
anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,

867
00:47:48.280 --> 00:47:51.719
then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous.

868
00:47:53.519 --> 00:47:57.079
You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.

869
00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.639
The world needs to hear what you've been forced to alone,

870
00:48:01.960 --> 00:48:06.679
and you're not alone. You've got the story, We've got

871
00:48:06.679 --> 00:48:10.360
the mic. See you in the woods. Thank you for

872
00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:13.320
listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every

873
00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:15.920
encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger

874
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:18.800
and stranger than we think, and that the truth is

875
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.960
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893
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:18.760
Keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop

894
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895
00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:21.519
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