# Sasquatch Experiences - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 9/20/26

An episode of [The Best of Coast to Coast AM](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1206175991), 21 Sep 2026, 15 min.

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Guest Host Richard Syrett and Author Arla Collett Williams discuss Arla's various interactions with Sasquatch. She shares a story about having pranks played on her by young Sasquatches. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
[0:04] Speaker 2: Arla Colette Williams stays with us, the author of My
[0:07] Speaker 2: Life with the Hairy People, 70 years of encounters and
[0:12] Speaker 2: relationships with Sasquatch or hairy people. And have you been
[0:18] Speaker 2: interacting with the same Sasquatch families across generations?
[0:27] Speaker 3: You know, I never... thought about that. It's possible that
[0:33] Speaker 3: that could have been. I've never asked them. I never
[0:37] Speaker 3: asked my grandmother that. It just wasn't something I thought about.
[0:45] Speaker 3: You know, my life was pretty normal as far as
[0:49] Speaker 3: them being a part of my life. So it wasn't
[0:55] Speaker 3: like I had all these driving questions of where did
[1:01] Speaker 3: they come from, you know, or any of that. It
[1:07] Speaker 3: just never occurred to me. I just lived my life,
[1:12] Speaker 3: like I said, in a normal way.
[1:16] Speaker 2: But after 70 years and you have relationships with these,
[1:19] Speaker 2: you see the hairy kids grow up to be hairy
[1:23] Speaker 2: people and presumably have– offspring of their own. So, I mean,
[1:28] Speaker 2: what I'm saying is you must have seen that multiple
[1:31] Speaker 2: generations of these individuals, or sorry, of these hairy people.
[1:38] Speaker 2: You must have seen, you know, many generations of them.
[1:41] Speaker 3: Yes, that I have. And the particular family that I've
[1:51] Speaker 3: interacted with, and this is not a habituation site. That
[1:59] Speaker 3: has never entered into anything. If anyone's been changed, which
[2:07] Speaker 3: is what a habituation is, is changing someone else. I'm
[2:15] Speaker 3: the one that's changed. I'm the one that went deeper
[2:21] Speaker 3: into understanding who I really am. And that is actually
[2:27] Speaker 3: something that they help us with as well. There are
[2:32] Speaker 3: many indigenous stories about them helping humans and guiding us
[2:44] Speaker 3: into living in a better way and being more respectful, actually.
[2:50] Speaker 2: The adults, right? adult males, for example, of the Sasquatch
[2:56] Speaker 2: in Oklahoma, how tall are they?
[3:00] Speaker 3: Well, they're different heights. You know, I would say probably
[3:04] Speaker 3: an average of maybe 10 foot. Wow.
[3:10] Speaker 2: 10 feet tall.
[3:13] Speaker 3: Yes, I know that sounds kind of crazy, but, um,
[3:19] Speaker 3: In the Commish Mountains here, I spend a lot of
[3:22] Speaker 3: time in the mountains. And the tallest one I've ever seen,
[3:28] Speaker 3: I did not see alone. There was someone else who
[3:33] Speaker 3: saw him. He was 14 feet tall. Now, how I
[3:35] Speaker 3: know he was 14 feet tall is I had walked
[3:38] Speaker 3: down to the meadow and And I was walking, and
[3:51] Speaker 3: I looked over to my side into the tree line,
[3:55] Speaker 3: and there he was. He was walking parallel to me,
[4:02] Speaker 3: and he went under a big limb on a tree.
[4:07] Speaker 3: And so I was standing there looking at him, and
[4:14] Speaker 3: one of the other people that was with us was
[4:18] Speaker 3: coming to the meadow and they were hollering at me
[4:22] Speaker 3: that I needed to come back up to the cabin.
[4:26] Speaker 3: And so I turned to look again and he was gone.
[4:32] Speaker 3: But I went back up to the cabin and one
[4:36] Speaker 3: of the other people that was at the cabin was
[4:40] Speaker 3: upstairs out on a little balcony. And there was a
[4:46] Speaker 3: big opening in those trees where this particular one was.
[4:55] Speaker 3: And the other person that saw him as well said
[5:01] Speaker 3: to me, do you know what was paralleling you? What
[5:05] Speaker 3: was walking just inside the tree line? And I said, well, yes,
[5:11] Speaker 3: I saw him. and I said he went under this
[5:18] Speaker 3: big limb, and he stood there for a little bit,
[5:22] Speaker 3: and then he was gone when the other person, you know,
[5:25] Speaker 3: came down to the meadow. And so what we did
[5:32] Speaker 3: was we went down to that tree, and we measured
[5:37] Speaker 3: how far it was from the ground up to that limb,
[5:42] Speaker 3: And it was 14 feet.
[5:45] Speaker 2: Wow, 14 feet. Have you ever been close enough to
[5:48] Speaker 2: physically touch one?
[5:50] Speaker 3: I've been touched many times through the years. The little
[5:56] Speaker 3: ones are really good at doing that. And, you know,
[6:02] Speaker 3: if they're comfortable with you, they'll be up around you. Now,
[6:06] Speaker 3: the interesting thing is I'm not the only one that
[6:10] Speaker 3: has seen them. either. And some of my family have
[6:17] Speaker 3: seen them, but other people have seen them as well. Uh,
[6:24] Speaker 3: so it's not like, you know, I'm seeing something in
[6:29] Speaker 3: my mind that's there. No, they're there in the physical.
[6:34] Speaker 3: They don't have to be in the physical either.
[6:37] Speaker 2: But, um, What does that mean? They don't have to
[6:43] Speaker 2: be there in the physical. Are you saying that they're interdimensional?
[6:46] Speaker 3: Oh, definitely. I've known that since I was little, that
[6:51] Speaker 3: they could just be there and not be there.
[7:00] Speaker 2: You've seen that. You've seen them fit in and out
[7:02] Speaker 2: of our reality.
[7:04] Speaker 3: Yes. And it's actually not out of our reality. They're
[7:08] Speaker 3: still there. You just don't see them. There's a vibrational
[7:13] Speaker 3: change that goes on. And in that vibrational change, you
[7:19] Speaker 3: can't see.
[7:25] Speaker 2: Them. Do they recognize you? I mean, and do they
[7:29] Speaker 2: communicate with you? Do they call you by name? What
[7:32] Speaker 2: do they say to you?
[7:34] Speaker 3: The only one that has ever called me by my
[7:38] Speaker 3: name would have been Indigo, the young male. You know,
[7:43] Speaker 3: it's not like you go out and have this conversation
[7:49] Speaker 3: like we're having. Now, I can have that if I
[7:54] Speaker 3: so choose. But the majority of the time, it's just
[8:00] Speaker 3: an honoring or a connection that that each other is there.
[8:06] Speaker 3: I know, I think it was last summer, I spend
[8:10] Speaker 3: a good amount of my time in a tent in
[8:15] Speaker 3: the woods because I'd love to. Not because I'm going
[8:19] Speaker 3: to go see them. I just do it because I'd
[8:22] Speaker 3: love to be in the woods. And I was laying
[8:27] Speaker 3: in my tent on my cot. I had all the
[8:31] Speaker 3: windows open around it. You know, the netting was still
[8:37] Speaker 3: on it at that time. But my foot was touching
[8:42] Speaker 3: the netting of the big window. And I'm laying there
[8:49] Speaker 3: just in a still, quiet place. And I feel something,
[8:57] Speaker 3: a finger push my toe on the end of my
[9:02] Speaker 3: toe and you know I smiled and then I look
[9:11] Speaker 3: just took my head and kind of looked and I
[9:14] Speaker 3: got another push on my toe and at that point
[9:19] Speaker 3: I put myself up on my elbows and looked and
[9:24] Speaker 3: there were two little figures there One bigger than the other.
[9:28] Speaker 3: And when I did that, they turned around and scooted off.
[9:33] Speaker 2: They were playing a prank on you.
[9:36] Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh. The hairy kids have pranked me so
[9:39] Speaker 3: many times in my life. There's no way I could
[9:42] Speaker 3: out-prank them, even if I tried.
[9:48] Speaker 2: You speak about an ancient Sasquatch named Kashima. Who is Kashima?
[9:53] Speaker 3: Kashima is... He would be like a grandfather to... not
[10:01] Speaker 3: a blood grandfather, but a grandfather in feeling. That's how
[10:08] Speaker 3: I feel. His energy is very grandfatherly. He has taught
[10:15] Speaker 3: me a lot about them. as well. And he has
[10:24] Speaker 3: helped me get through this whole thing of 17 years
[10:29] Speaker 3: ago when I began to speak about them in public.
[10:35] Speaker 3: And there were a lot of people who didn't like
[10:37] Speaker 3: what I had to say. They were purely ape And
[10:44] Speaker 3: it wasn't going to be any other way. And here
[10:48] Speaker 3: I come into this. Nobody knows who I am. I
[10:51] Speaker 3: don't know anybody else. And I began to share my
[10:56] Speaker 3: stories from my life. And they didn't like it, basically.
[11:02] Speaker 3: I was called everything you can imagine. But that didn't
[11:07] Speaker 3: matter to me. You know, I... don't measure myself from
[11:12] Speaker 3: anyone else. And what people think about me is purely
[11:17] Speaker 3: their perception and actually has nothing to do with who
[11:22] Speaker 3: I see myself as.
[11:24] Speaker 2: So in other words, 17 years ago, when you start
[11:27] Speaker 2: talking publicly about Sasquatch, you're talking about them being interdimensional
[11:33] Speaker 2: with the ability to communicate telepathically. and most people in the,
[11:39] Speaker 2: let's call it the Bigfoot community, weren't prepared for that.
[11:42] Speaker 2: They were still thinking these are some kind of previously
[11:48] Speaker 2: unknown or undiscovered mammal, some kind of an ape. So
[11:53] Speaker 2: you're just coming at them like from left field. They
[11:57] Speaker 2: weren't ready for that.
[11:59] Speaker 3: No, they weren't at all. And, you know, that was
[12:04] Speaker 3: okay too. Everybody has a right to what they believe.
[12:08] Speaker 3: And I'm not about to tell anyone what they should believe.
[12:13] Speaker 3: I'm just, I'm going to share my life. I've never
[12:17] Speaker 3: been about proving them. When I found out that there
[12:22] Speaker 3: was a Bigfoot research group of people, I thought the
[12:29] Speaker 3: person who told me about it was teasing me. And
[12:33] Speaker 3: I had no idea it existed. And then I found out,
[12:39] Speaker 3: of course, it did exist. But, you know, I'd known
[12:43] Speaker 3: them all my life. So it wasn't even about proving them.
[12:52] Speaker 3: It's not my place to prove them.
[12:57] Speaker 2: I want to get back to, if I could get
[12:58] Speaker 2: back to, sorry to interrupt. I just wanted to get
[13:00] Speaker 2: back to Kashima. this ancient Sasquatch, how did you first
[13:04] Speaker 2: encounter him and how did you know his name?
[13:08] Speaker 3: Okay. Um, that's a long story.
[13:13] Speaker 2: So I'll just tell you.
[13:16] Speaker 1: Yeah.
[13:16] Speaker 2: Give me the short version.
[13:17] Speaker 3: Okay. Um, I, when I found out that I would
[13:24] Speaker 3: be talking in public about them, um, I just couldn't,
[13:31] Speaker 3: you know, that was hard for me to grasp. But
[13:34] Speaker 3: I took it that that's what I was supposed to do.
[13:38] Speaker 3: And so on a Thursday, I was sitting out in
[13:42] Speaker 3: the back in my swing, and I was playing my
[13:47] Speaker 3: drum and just kind of in prayer. And I had
[13:51] Speaker 3: bowed my head. in prayer and was just sitting there
[13:59] Speaker 3: in a meditative way, very quietly. And I heard someone
[14:06] Speaker 3: walk up. And when I opened my eyes, he was
[14:12] Speaker 3: standing there in front of me. And he looked at
[14:17] Speaker 3: me and said, I am Kashima. And at that point,
[14:23] Speaker 3: I was just overwhelmed with, with this sense of loving energy.
[14:33] Speaker 3: And so I dropped my head once again, and I
[14:37] Speaker 3: heard him walk off. And then he began to talk
[14:44] Speaker 3: to me, sometimes in the physical and sometimes telepathically. And
[14:53] Speaker 3: it's been that way ever since then.
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