# Top 10 Episodes of 2025!

An episode of [Bigfoot Society](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1453429066), 1 Jan 2026, 1 h 52 min.

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2025 was one of the biggest years ever for Bigfoot Society, and in this special episode, I’m looking back at the Top 10 most-viewed episodes of 2025 on YouTube. Rather than retelling the stories, this episode features original clips pulled directly from the episodes YOU watched the most, giving you a powerful highlight reel of the encounters, voices, and moments that made 2025 unforgettable. These rankings are based purely on YouTube views, making this a true reflection of what resonated most with listeners and viewers throughout the year. From quiet woods to remote backroads, these clips capture the tension, emotion, and mystery that define firsthand Bigfoot encounters. If you’re new to the channel, this episode is a perfect way to experience the range of real eyewitness accountsfeatured on Bigfoot Society. And if you’ve been here for a while, you may recognize moments that stuck with you — or discover why certain episodes rose to the top. 🎧 No spoilers. 🎙️ No summaries. 👣 Just the moments that made 2025 one of the most watched years in the history of the show. Listen closely — some of these encounters still raise more questions than answers. Sasquatch Summerfest 2026 is July 10th through the 11th. It's going to be fantastic and this year, I'll be a speaker!!! Listeners, if you're going to go, you can get a two day ticket for the cost of one by using code "BSP" like Bigfoot society podcast at ticket checkout. Priscilla was a nice enough to provide that for my listeners. So there you go. I look forward to seeing you there. So make sure you head over to https://www.sasquatchsummerfest.com and pick up your tickets today. 🗣️ Share Your Story Had a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience? Send it to bigfootsociety@gmail.com – your story might be featured on the show! 🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube 🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube 💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts! 📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed) 👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share 🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist 🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters 💥 Support the Show & Get Perks ✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member ✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here 📱 Let’s Connect • Instagram: @bigfootsociety • Twitter: @bigfoot_society • TikTok: @bigfoot.society 🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links) These help support the show at no extra cost to you: • Beam (Better Sleep): Try Beam • Wildgrain (Better Bread): Join Here • Seed (Probiotics): Get Seed • Medi-Share (Healthcare): Learn More • LMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNT • Organic and non-GMO groceries delivered for less http://thrv.me/uarEhS 🎙️ Podcasting Tools: • Repurpose.io: Try It • Descript: Sign Up • Streamyard: Start Recording • Riverside.fm: Try Riverside 🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon ☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here 🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy 📬 Mailing Address: Bigfoot Society 125 E 1st St. #233 Earlham, IA 50072

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In
[0:03] Speaker 1: this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring
[0:05] Speaker 1: you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen
[0:08] Speaker 1: something impossible. From backwoods trails in remote mountain haulers to
[0:12] Speaker 1: quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,
[0:16] Speaker 1: and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.
[0:20] Speaker 1: These are the voices of the people who've lived it.
[0:24] Speaker 1: To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that
[0:27] Speaker 1: just might change the way you see the woods forever.
[0:30] Speaker 1: So stay with us. Twenty twenty five, What a year.
[0:33] Speaker 1: So much happened, so many incredible adventures for Bigfoot Society.
[0:39] Speaker 1: Got to go out to Oregon again, went out to
[0:42] Speaker 1: the Nebraska big Foot Conference, and also one on a
[0:46] Speaker 1: private expedition in Iowa that was awesome. This being the
[0:50] Speaker 1: first day of twenty twenty six, I've decided to look
[0:55] Speaker 1: back at the top ten viewed episodes for twenty twenty five,
[1:02] Speaker 1: and these are ones that released in twenty twenty five
[1:06] Speaker 1: over on the YouTube platform. It's a great way to
[1:09] Speaker 1: see which ones you guys really liked. So let's start
[1:14] Speaker 1: off with number ten when cops see Bigfoot. And this
[1:21] Speaker 1: is a really fun episode from some friends down in
[1:26] Speaker 1: Northern Georgia, Scott and Shila Granger from Squatch Fishing Outfitters
[1:31] Speaker 1: down there in l J, Georgia. These guys are great,
[1:35] Speaker 1: So let's hang out with Scott and Shiela again as
[1:38] Speaker 1: they share some of the encounters they've had down there
[1:42] Speaker 1: in Northern Georgia that one weekend.
[1:45] Speaker 2: You know, we heard several things. Just if I had
[1:49] Speaker 2: not been there and heard it with my own ears,
[1:52] Speaker 2: somebody could have told me that, I would have thought, man,
[1:54] Speaker 2: you're nuts, you're crazy, or whatever. And you know, I
[1:58] Speaker 2: wanted to believe so bad, I'm so excited about it.
[2:01] Speaker 2: But I kept telling Scott, you know, I'm just I'm
[2:03] Speaker 2: not going to say there's such thing as big until
[2:07] Speaker 2: I see it with my own eyes. And I'm a
[2:08] Speaker 2: one hundred ten percent sure that, you know. That's when
[2:11] Speaker 2: I all admit it, and lo and behold. It was
[2:14] Speaker 2: a few months later. I got the opportunity during the day,
[2:18] Speaker 2: at two o'clock that afternoon, about twenty five yards away,
[2:22] Speaker 2: I saw a bigka And from that point on, I
[2:25] Speaker 2: went from being a believer to a knower. One hundred
[2:27] Speaker 2: and ten percent.
[2:28] Speaker 1: Oh man, it's okay. So there's a lot of stuff
[2:31] Speaker 1: that happened to you guys pretty quick. I want to
[2:35] Speaker 1: I want to hear what kind of vocals you guys
[2:38] Speaker 1: heard on that expedition, Like what kind of things were
[2:40] Speaker 1: you running into?
[2:41] Speaker 3: First?
[2:44] Speaker 2: Do you want to tell him?
[2:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, what happened.
[2:48] Speaker 4: We have a friend that was on this outing whether
[2:51] Speaker 4: us that we had met a good bit prior to
[2:53] Speaker 4: this outing and the night before the actual expedition and started.
[3:01] Speaker 4: We all load up in my truck and we take
[3:04] Speaker 4: off of the woods day. He's want to show us
[3:05] Speaker 4: a couple of different areas. So we're heading up there
[3:09] Speaker 4: and she'll see something go across the road in front
[3:12] Speaker 4: of her, in front of us. Well, when she saw
[3:15] Speaker 4: that go across the road in front of us, you know,
[3:17] Speaker 4: I got on the brakes, stopped, and we all bail
[3:20] Speaker 4: out of my truck. And it's a full At that time,
[3:23] Speaker 4: we had a full size ram, So we had five
[3:25] Speaker 4: people in there, and I'm standing right in front of
[3:30] Speaker 4: the truck and Shela and our friend. He goes on
[3:34] Speaker 4: on up ahead. We're whatever cross the road up there,
[3:37] Speaker 4: we're standing there, we're talking amongst ourselves, and the prettiest
[3:41] Speaker 4: whoop you ever wanted to hear come from less than
[3:45] Speaker 4: fifteen yards away from us, right to the left of us. Well,
[3:49] Speaker 4: we're in an area that we had never been in.
[3:53] Speaker 4: And and I say that telling you about that ram,
[3:56] Speaker 4: because a ram has a good, really good set of
[3:59] Speaker 4: headline on it that shine the way out to the sides.
[4:04] Speaker 4: And I'm looking over there where the swoop come from.
[4:06] Speaker 4: And I looked back at another young lady that's standing
[4:10] Speaker 4: out there beside me. In her eyes are about as
[4:12] Speaker 4: big as saucers, And she said, did.
[4:14] Speaker 5: You hear that?
[4:17] Speaker 3: And I said, of course.
[4:20] Speaker 4: So we're we're looking for it, and uh, never did
[4:22] Speaker 4: see anything, but I mean we got to hear it.
[4:26] Speaker 4: And she and our friend, you know, they're up there.
[4:29] Speaker 4: They're looking for whatever it was crossed the road, and
[4:31] Speaker 4: some limbs are still wiggling in the in the way.
[4:35] Speaker 3: There where it had crossed. After that.
[4:40] Speaker 4: Our buddy, he said, he told us, he said, you know,
[4:44] Speaker 4: he said, these things are up here, pretty pretty thick.
[4:47] Speaker 4: And he says, they they're real good to mimic things. Now,
[4:51] Speaker 4: what I'm fixing to tell you, if there had to
[4:54] Speaker 4: have been five other you know, five of us up
[4:56] Speaker 4: there to witnessed this, I would never tell it.
[5:00] Speaker 2: And if I hadn't hurt myself, I wouldn't have believed it.
[5:03] Speaker 3: See, he gets two rocks.
[5:06] Speaker 4: And he class them together flies and right down from us,
[5:11] Speaker 4: probably not thirty thirty five yards, there's a small stream
[5:14] Speaker 4: running something flax two rocks back twice, and he eggles
[5:22] Speaker 4: a little bit, and he clacks some rocks again two
[5:24] Speaker 4: more times, and right off the bat something down there
[5:28] Speaker 4: clacks those rocks flights.
[5:31] Speaker 3: So he's playing with that a little bit.
[5:33] Speaker 4: And he said, I wonder so he's done the shaven
[5:37] Speaker 4: a haircut deal.
[5:38] Speaker 6: You know that.
[5:39] Speaker 4: Don't don't it, don't don't don't don't clax with those rocks,
[5:44] Speaker 4: And we're all sitting there and this whatever it is,
[5:47] Speaker 4: mimics that back with rock clacks, and at this point
[5:52] Speaker 4: we're all, you know, like an amazement and everything. We
[5:56] Speaker 4: are up here in the middle of absolutely nowhere in
[5:58] Speaker 4: these mountains. There is no other person up here where
[6:01] Speaker 4: we're at the you know, do anything like this back
[6:04] Speaker 4: at us. And then we're all talking and he says,
[6:09] Speaker 4: he tells he's telling us. He says, you know, these
[6:11] Speaker 4: things are extremely over c D about things, and he
[6:15] Speaker 4: does the don't don't, don't, don't, and he doesn't do
[6:19] Speaker 4: it anymore. And down at the creek it goes clack clack.
[6:23] Speaker 3: It finished it, It finished it way yeah.
[6:27] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[6:28] Speaker 4: And I'm telling you, if there happened been as many
[6:31] Speaker 4: people standing there that all heard and witness this, I
[6:34] Speaker 4: would never tell that story.
[6:36] Speaker 2: Yeah. And it's still kind of like people are not
[6:38] Speaker 2: gonna believe this, and I wouldn't believe. I wouldn't blame
[6:41] Speaker 2: them at all.
[6:42] Speaker 4: No, not at all. I mean because if somebody told
[6:44] Speaker 4: me that, you know, right off the bat, my first
[6:45] Speaker 4: thing was saying, he said, I believe your cheese is
[6:48] Speaker 4: just about slipped off your cracker use. But you know
[6:54] Speaker 4: that happened, and uh, we were there to witness that.
[6:57] Speaker 4: And then we go on up the you have to
[7:01] Speaker 4: kind of picture some of these mountain off the way roads.
[7:06] Speaker 4: We get to the top of it and there's kind
[7:08] Speaker 4: of like a cold to sack area there.
[7:10] Speaker 2: Dead end into just nothing but woods.
[7:12] Speaker 4: Yeah, and we get my truck turned around be where
[7:16] Speaker 4: we're pointed out. In the event something does happen, for anything,
[7:19] Speaker 4: we need to get out of there quick. And then
[7:23] Speaker 4: she listening out behind my truck, probably twenty yards away
[7:26] Speaker 4: from my truck and our friend a couple of people
[7:30] Speaker 4: they go on down a little trail. Well we can
[7:34] Speaker 4: see their red head lamps in their thing as they're
[7:36] Speaker 4: going down the trail. As they get on down the
[7:39] Speaker 4: trail out of sight, we noticed this area up here
[7:43] Speaker 4: has like a like a next level down off the
[7:48] Speaker 4: edge of it, something extremely heavy starts walking around this terrace.
[7:54] Speaker 5: Of the stock.
[7:54] Speaker 2: You can feel the percussion and hear it boom boom.
[7:58] Speaker 4: And as this walking, you know, you ain't like something
[8:02] Speaker 4: it's stomping. It was walking so hard, and it gets
[8:05] Speaker 4: around toward the front of our truck, and uh, you
[8:08] Speaker 4: could hear it walk up toward us a little bit.
[8:11] Speaker 4: And I told she lovet that time. I said it's
[8:13] Speaker 4: seize on towards the truck and she was like why,
[8:18] Speaker 4: and I said, well, I don't want whatever this is
[8:22] Speaker 4: to get between us and our vehicles. So we started
[8:26] Speaker 4: easing towards the truck, and uh, our buddy had to
[8:29] Speaker 4: laid his cell phone on record on the hood of
[8:33] Speaker 4: my truck, and as we're easing to the truck, that
[8:36] Speaker 4: phone lights up, and which I didn't think a whole
[8:40] Speaker 4: lot about that at that point in time. It you know,
[8:44] Speaker 4: it wasn't nothing either way to me. But we get
[8:48] Speaker 4: up there and when they get back, I tell him that,
[8:52] Speaker 4: you know, you must have missed a text or something.
[8:53] Speaker 4: You know, your phone lit up. Well he looked, he
[8:58] Speaker 4: looks at the phone. He says, that phone doesn't light
[9:01] Speaker 4: up unless you touch it. And U and he showed
[9:06] Speaker 4: me that that phone doesn't light up, you know, unless
[9:08] Speaker 4: it gets touched, and which was pretty unique, you know,
[9:14] Speaker 4: to say the least. About that point right there, the rest.
[9:18] Speaker 3: Of the weekend went off.
[9:19] Speaker 4: You know, small things happened, and not a whole whole lot.
[9:23] Speaker 2: Well, we had we were this is our first camping,
[9:26] Speaker 2: real big camping. We were brand new to it. But
[9:29] Speaker 2: later that night we were in our tent and heard
[9:36] Speaker 2: I heard something he did to walking across the river
[9:39] Speaker 2: towards our campsite. And you know, I'm like Scott, Scott,
[9:42] Speaker 2: he says, I hear it. I hear it, and it
[9:45] Speaker 2: comes to the little table we had it there. We
[9:47] Speaker 2: had been cooking bacon earlier in the evening, you know,
[9:51] Speaker 2: and you could hear it. You could hear it, and
[9:54] Speaker 2: I'm kind of freaking out over there. And this is
[9:56] Speaker 2: no joke because we had no idea what to spec
[9:59] Speaker 2: I heard outreach over there and unsnap his you know, holster,
[10:03] Speaker 2: which that wouldn't have done any good, I assure you.
[10:06] Speaker 2: And this thing is right beside the tent and it
[10:08] Speaker 2: lets out this bigger like exasperation kind of thing, you know,
[10:12] Speaker 2: and just turned around and started walking off, and again
[10:15] Speaker 2: you could hear the boom boom. Let me tell you something.
[10:18] Speaker 2: I was so scared had that thing touched that tent,
[10:20] Speaker 2: I would have jumped up and ran with tint and everything,
[10:23] Speaker 2: probably laid myself out with a tree. But I was terrified.
[10:28] Speaker 4: But that, you know, that kind of sets up the
[10:30] Speaker 4: tone here. That was our first outing with this.
[10:33] Speaker 2: And they say, you know, once you start down that,
[10:36] Speaker 2: I'm gona tell everybody, if you start down this rabbit hole,
[10:38] Speaker 2: be prepared for more questions you will ever have answers
[10:41] Speaker 2: to either you're going to be addicted to it like
[10:45] Speaker 2: we are, or you're probably never gonna go in the
[10:48] Speaker 2: woods again.
[10:49] Speaker 1: Absolutely yeah, I agree, one hundred percent. Makingness Wow. So
[10:54] Speaker 1: from what you guys had, the way you've been talking,
[10:57] Speaker 1: it sounds like this is this is more of like
[10:59] Speaker 1: a prime of it expedition.
[11:03] Speaker 4: That one was it was and that we went on
[11:07] Speaker 4: and we wound up after that helping that group out a.
[11:14] Speaker 2: Good bit and just going out with friends we'd made
[11:16] Speaker 2: from that group.
[11:18] Speaker 4: And the more we helped out with that group and everything,
[11:22] Speaker 4: the more we've seen how things were going in that group.
[11:26] Speaker 4: And it's a big group and uh, very costly, and
[11:34] Speaker 4: actually had done that for a pretty good while. We
[11:38] Speaker 4: would always have people when people would find out that
[11:40] Speaker 4: we had went on these things and had been on
[11:43] Speaker 4: them things that a lot of folks had a lot
[11:47] Speaker 4: of interest in it and really wanted to go, but
[11:49] Speaker 4: they weren't willing to drop that kind of money on
[11:52] Speaker 4: doing that. And we sit back and we thought about
[11:57] Speaker 4: it for a lot and said, you know what, what
[11:58] Speaker 4: would we actually do when at least four for people
[12:02] Speaker 4: and make it where there's mode as many people there
[12:08] Speaker 4: and you get away with money wise and at least
[12:11] Speaker 4: break even. So we did that and that's how squatch
[12:16] Speaker 4: Fish and Outfitters got more.
[12:17] Speaker 2: It took a while to go over a year and
[12:19] Speaker 2: a half to get everything we needed to give, but
[12:21] Speaker 2: it's pretty much our life now.
[12:23] Speaker 1: Wow, such a fun conversation with Scott and Shila. Those
[12:25] Speaker 1: guys are great. If you want to go out on
[12:29] Speaker 1: an expedition in northern Georgia, reach out to Squatch Fishing Outfitters.
[12:34] Speaker 1: They will treat you right. That's episode seven forty six.
[12:38] Speaker 1: By the way, you're going to want to listen to
[12:40] Speaker 1: the full episode for many, many more encounter stories. Let's
[12:44] Speaker 1: move on to number nine. They're underneath the cabin now.
[12:49] Speaker 1: This is from a good friend, Brian, who currently has
[12:55] Speaker 1: a cabin way out in the woods of Indiana, and
[12:59] Speaker 1: there's a lot, a lot of things that have happened
[13:01] Speaker 1: there over the years. So get ready to hear a
[13:06] Speaker 1: little bit from Brian. And there underneath the cabin episode
[13:12] Speaker 1: number seven thirty.
[13:14] Speaker 7: So I got the living room and Peyton come in there,
[13:17] Speaker 7: and we had, like I said, we had the little
[13:20] Speaker 7: Yorky and they've been tormenting that poor dog.
[13:22] Speaker 5: I mean they would pack on the windows, the doors,
[13:25] Speaker 5: the deck.
[13:26] Speaker 7: The dog was so scared that he slept under my bed.
[13:28] Speaker 7: He used to sleep on the bed with me, and
[13:30] Speaker 7: then he started sleeping under my bed. He wouldn't he
[13:32] Speaker 7: wouldn't come out unless I got up to leave. The
[13:34] Speaker 7: night's when he would come out from under the bed.
[13:36] Speaker 5: Well. I was in the living room.
[13:37] Speaker 7: I was gonna feed him, but he was standing under
[13:40] Speaker 7: the coffee table. He wouldn't he wouldn't come out from
[13:42] Speaker 7: under it, and he kept walking around all stiff leg
[13:45] Speaker 7: and he was like moving his head reeled down real slow,
[13:48] Speaker 7: sniffing the floor, and he would raise his head back
[13:52] Speaker 7: up and the Peyton come in. I said, hey, no,
[13:53] Speaker 7: there's something wrong with Easton here. He's not watching me.
[13:56] Speaker 7: And Peyton tried to get him come up to him,
[13:58] Speaker 7: and he wouldn't. He wouldn't leave the coffee table. And
[14:01] Speaker 7: I told Peyt and I said, well, just shut the door,
[14:03] Speaker 7: because you know the patio door. I said, maybe some's
[14:07] Speaker 7: out there. He's sensing something. He might be smelling because
[14:09] Speaker 7: he knew they were there. Like I got videos of
[14:12] Speaker 7: him looking out the window and barking and growling, and
[14:15] Speaker 7: there's nothing out there that we could see.
[14:17] Speaker 5: Peyton got it up. He went to go slide the
[14:18] Speaker 5: patio door shut, and then all.
[14:20] Speaker 7: Of a sudden, we heard this loud, screeching scream from
[14:23] Speaker 7: under our cabin. Because, like I said, our cabin's up
[14:26] Speaker 7: off the ground and it's all open down there, but
[14:29] Speaker 7: we heard this loud screech, like scream, roar all together.
[14:34] Speaker 7: And once they just did it and it lasted for
[14:36] Speaker 7: about three seconds, and Peyton went out and he shut
[14:40] Speaker 7: the door. You know that he kind of scared him.
[14:42] Speaker 7: Him and me both we're like, what was that? And
[14:45] Speaker 7: then it scared Easton so bad that he stood there
[14:47] Speaker 7: and proved himself.
[14:49] Speaker 5: And I felt really bad.
[14:50] Speaker 7: I only had Easton for a week, so we cleaned
[14:53] Speaker 7: him up and I told hey, I had to get
[14:56] Speaker 7: him away to somebody.
[14:57] Speaker 5: So I called a friend and she took him. Peyton
[14:59] Speaker 5: left and Paston there.
[15:01] Speaker 7: And then when Peyton got back, he come in said,
[15:04] Speaker 7: I've been there's a really bad smell outside.
[15:07] Speaker 5: I said, yeah, I know, I've been smelling too.
[15:08] Speaker 7: I don't know if it's ser or what it is,
[15:11] Speaker 7: and we've never smelled it before. And the smell after
[15:14] Speaker 7: Peyton said that, the smell was gone within probably ten minutes.
[15:18] Speaker 7: That was the only time we've ever smelled them was
[15:21] Speaker 7: that one time, and that's because they were right up
[15:23] Speaker 7: under the house. After we got rid of Instant, the
[15:25] Speaker 7: activity at the house stopped as far as them hitting
[15:28] Speaker 7: the house or trying to scare us.
[15:32] Speaker 5: I don't know if they were.
[15:33] Speaker 7: Somebody said they were trying to intimidate us to see
[15:35] Speaker 7: what we would do if we would come out shooting
[15:38] Speaker 7: or you know, move or whatever. But we didn't really
[15:42] Speaker 7: ignore them. We just we just what can you do?
[15:45] Speaker 8: You know?
[15:47] Speaker 7: But I would hear laughing, like I've got recordings of
[15:51] Speaker 7: laughing like a baby laughing and rock clacking in these
[15:56] Speaker 7: woo sounds, you know, kind of whispery woo sounds down
[16:00] Speaker 7: the down the creek. I think that I think the
[16:02] Speaker 7: only reason they made another reason why they made their stuff.
[16:05] Speaker 5: No one, like I said it was because I was
[16:06] Speaker 5: doing all the shooting.
[16:13] Speaker 7: See, like then the BFR come out, not the BFR
[16:16] Speaker 7: OL they came out later, but the Indiana BFRL came out.
[16:20] Speaker 7: And we walked the woods and stuff, and we found prints.
[16:22] Speaker 7: They casted two of them, and we've seen a really
[16:26] Speaker 7: nice one. But it only looked like a maybe a
[16:28] Speaker 7: juvenile size, about twelve inches, but it was real wide,
[16:32] Speaker 7: but it wasn't deep enough to cast. But he noticed
[16:35] Speaker 7: these structures that I didn't even notice. I mean, he
[16:39] Speaker 7: was telling me, yeah, this land didn't come you know,
[16:41] Speaker 7: it's been forced here, you know, on the grounded up
[16:43] Speaker 7: on the tree. You can see where it scratched the
[16:45] Speaker 7: tree where they forced it down, and we found other
[16:48] Speaker 7: structures back in the woods that I didn't know was there.
[16:54] Speaker 7: So they He did his little podcast that evening and
[16:57] Speaker 7: he was like really happy about what he's seen. And
[17:00] Speaker 7: then we had another group come out in September. It
[17:05] Speaker 7: had a be a far old member and a lot
[17:08] Speaker 7: of other researchers that he invited from different states and
[17:11] Speaker 7: they all came out and camped.
[17:12] Speaker 5: We had a ssydecheick out there.
[17:14] Speaker 7: They camped for four days and or four nights, and
[17:18] Speaker 7: the last night we had a bonfire and we were
[17:21] Speaker 7: all just sitting out there talking. Baiton had some friends over,
[17:24] Speaker 7: you know, we were all just out there talking and
[17:26] Speaker 7: telling them stories. And I kept hearing something behind me,
[17:29] Speaker 7: and one of the researchers, you know, he was hearing
[17:31] Speaker 7: it too, and so I would take my phone and
[17:35] Speaker 7: see if I could scan the area and get a
[17:36] Speaker 7: picture or but I couldn't see anything on one video,
[17:40] Speaker 7: and so I put it on photo my iPhone fifteen,
[17:43] Speaker 7: and it was I don't know how, but it seasoned
[17:45] Speaker 7: the dark and it picked up this portal and nobody
[17:49] Speaker 7: you couldn't see it with your own eyes. It picked
[17:52] Speaker 7: up a portal and something walking through it, and I
[17:54] Speaker 7: took a picture of it, and well, I showed it
[17:58] Speaker 7: everybody and they were like, amazing, where'd you take this picture?
[18:01] Speaker 7: And it's you know, thirty yards from us, right there
[18:03] Speaker 7: by the trail, and so they all were happy to
[18:08] Speaker 7: see that. And they end up, you know, leaving after
[18:13] Speaker 7: about five days of being there. And then I started
[18:18] Speaker 7: noticing these things in the trees, these lights, and they
[18:23] Speaker 7: had a metal some kind of metal top with a
[18:28] Speaker 7: red light and they're stuck real high up in the tree,
[18:31] Speaker 7: about thirty forty feet up in the tree.
[18:34] Speaker 5: And I would when I noticed it, I would take
[18:36] Speaker 5: a picture of it, and.
[18:37] Speaker 7: Then I would live. You know, my friend want of
[18:39] Speaker 7: them the research as lugs. I've been in contact with
[18:41] Speaker 7: him ever since they've been out there, and I would
[18:43] Speaker 7: send in the pictures. He's like, go out and take
[18:45] Speaker 7: another one. So I go out the next ding and
[18:47] Speaker 7: take another one that's gone. But I did this like
[18:49] Speaker 7: four times, and four different times. It's four different lights
[18:52] Speaker 7: in different trees, but they were all the same light,
[18:55] Speaker 7: just different positions. And then I started notsing these other
[19:00] Speaker 7: things when I would walk the trail and come back.
[19:03] Speaker 7: I would notice a new nest. They're like, they build
[19:06] Speaker 7: this great, big, massive, long nest out of tree tops,
[19:09] Speaker 7: and they had these lights or not lights but camera
[19:13] Speaker 7: looking things strapped to the trees. There literally be straps
[19:16] Speaker 7: on them. They'll be like four or five of them
[19:17] Speaker 7: out there circling the nest, and I thought, man, what
[19:21] Speaker 7: is that. That's that's nothing I put up, and that's
[19:23] Speaker 7: never been here before. But once I every time I
[19:26] Speaker 7: notice them, the next day they're gone. I wouldn't see
[19:29] Speaker 7: them again. I still see the technology every now and again.
[19:32] Speaker 7: They I get pictures of them, and the bigfoots are
[19:36] Speaker 7: holding some kind of white cube with a black line
[19:41] Speaker 7: going through the middle of it. Sometimes they'll be I've
[19:43] Speaker 7: seen one have a round one and it looks like
[19:45] Speaker 7: a round security camera. It just a round white ball
[19:50] Speaker 7: with a black lens in it, and they would hold
[19:52] Speaker 7: it in their hand and hold it towards me, and
[19:55] Speaker 7: they would look down their arm like kind of like
[19:57] Speaker 7: in trying to stay in line of sight while they're
[20:00] Speaker 7: holding it towards me as I'm taking their picture. I
[20:02] Speaker 7: don't know if that's something they're using to distort my
[20:06] Speaker 7: camera or on my phone, or or if they're looking
[20:09] Speaker 7: at me closer to that.
[20:10] Speaker 5: I have no idea what it's for, but I've.
[20:13] Speaker 7: Seen a lot of them have that, and every time
[20:17] Speaker 7: I go to take a picture, I might get one
[20:20] Speaker 7: picture of them without holding that thing, but the second
[20:22] Speaker 7: picture they're holding a debt like they're just they're like
[20:26] Speaker 7: they're gonna try to zap my phone or something. Because
[20:28] Speaker 7: they have that. My androids so much that I can't.
[20:30] Speaker 7: I couldn't even use it anymore. It would literally just
[20:33] Speaker 7: switch pages or tabs. It would just swipe like on
[20:38] Speaker 7: its own side to side or that it would glit
[20:40] Speaker 7: you out and have lines going all through it.
[20:43] Speaker 5: So I end up just not using that head to
[20:45] Speaker 5: buy the iPhone like right now.
[20:50] Speaker 7: They they don't even make an effort in hiding. I
[20:54] Speaker 7: see them every day, especially when I burn trash. I
[20:58] Speaker 7: go out there and they just they they'll raise up
[21:00] Speaker 7: out of their nests and look at me. There's some
[21:03] Speaker 7: nests out count you know, and you were from ten
[21:05] Speaker 7: to fifteen of them. But I've got over a dozen
[21:08] Speaker 7: nests out there in my woods, and I had it logged.
[21:12] Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
[21:12] Speaker 7: Right before June the twentieth, before I seen the first one.
[21:16] Speaker 5: They I just had it logged.
[21:20] Speaker 7: I take that back as after June the twentieth, Right
[21:22] Speaker 7: after June twentieth, I had it logged, and that's when
[21:26] Speaker 7: they got all the tree tops. They start dragging these
[21:28] Speaker 7: tree tops into the clearing of the woods there and
[21:32] Speaker 7: make these huge giant nests.
[21:33] Speaker 5: Out of them.
[21:35] Speaker 7: There's like little ditches, they're kind of like rain runoffs,
[21:40] Speaker 7: like groove down into the ground, like I call them
[21:43] Speaker 7: drained ditches, but it's natural from the water run down
[21:46] Speaker 7: the hill towards the creek.
[21:48] Speaker 5: But they would build a nest right over top of those.
[21:50] Speaker 5: It's just kind of to me.
[21:51] Speaker 7: I think they dig them out even deeper and they
[21:55] Speaker 7: just lived there. But they're building like they build a
[21:58] Speaker 7: new nest today that I've seen this morning. It's just
[22:01] Speaker 7: crazy on how many of their building and I've counted
[22:04] Speaker 7: probably over one hundred of them there at one time
[22:06] Speaker 7: during Deer season last year. I think ever since I
[22:11] Speaker 7: told them they were safe there, they got the word
[22:13] Speaker 7: out there every other one.
[22:15] Speaker 1: Brian's story is incredible. It makes me want to go
[22:17] Speaker 1: and listen to the whole episode right now, But I'm
[22:19] Speaker 1: not gonna up because we got we got more to
[22:22] Speaker 1: go through for the top ten, but you guys can
[22:24] Speaker 1: check it out. It's it's number seven thirty, and I
[22:27] Speaker 1: would recommend you do because in that YouTube version of
[22:33] Speaker 1: seven thirty there's a ton of photos and videos from
[22:36] Speaker 1: Brian at the end of the episode that you're not
[22:38] Speaker 1: going to want to miss, So definitely go check that out.
[22:41] Speaker 1: Let's continue with number eight forty years of Bigfoot in Missouri,
[22:46] Speaker 1: number six forty four. In this episode, we hear from Tracy,
[22:52] Speaker 1: who's a lifelong outdoorsman down there in southern Missouri around
[22:56] Speaker 1: the Rawla, Missouri area, Montak State Park, Tomsock Mountain, Howell County.
[23:03] Speaker 1: There's a ton of stuff in this one. If you're
[23:05] Speaker 1: into Missouri bigfoot encounters, you're not going to want to
[23:08] Speaker 1: miss it. And a lot of people loved it. So
[23:10] Speaker 1: let's hear a little clip from number six forty four,
[23:16] Speaker 1: forty years of Bigfoot in Missouri.
[23:18] Speaker 9: I would have been like fourteen fifteen years old at
[23:21] Speaker 9: the time, probably maybe sixteen. We had a pond right
[23:25] Speaker 9: beside our house. I'd say it was probably a quarter
[23:29] Speaker 9: to a half acre pond, and it wasn't on our property,
[23:34] Speaker 9: but we used it all the time. There's absentee owners
[23:37] Speaker 9: or whatever. And where we approached it on our property
[23:41] Speaker 9: was just like our yard, which was semi wooded, but
[23:45] Speaker 9: about half of it was like very thickly covered, like
[23:49] Speaker 9: with cedar trees and the dense brush. You couldn't really
[23:52] Speaker 9: see through that. And there was a house over on
[23:56] Speaker 9: that side, but it was real thick woods through there,
[23:58] Speaker 9: maybe about fifty yards cards and that behind that pond
[24:04] Speaker 9: was the general area I think that roor had come from.
[24:07] Speaker 9: And then behind it there's maybe a six seven foot
[24:11] Speaker 9: dam on that pond, like earth and dam. Then behind
[24:15] Speaker 9: it was like about a five acre lake. And I
[24:20] Speaker 9: had gone through there quite a bit, but after we
[24:23] Speaker 9: had heard that roar, I hadn't gone through there anymore
[24:26] Speaker 9: because I figured that's where that roar had come from.
[24:30] Speaker 9: And I don't know, I was feeling cocky on this
[24:33] Speaker 9: particular day or something, and I decided I would go
[24:36] Speaker 9: back there. And I had a twenty two pistol with
[24:39] Speaker 9: me in my hand. I was always hunting rabbits or something.
[24:45] Speaker 9: And while I was walking through there, I got about halfway.
[24:51] Speaker 9: I never saw anything. I never heard anything. I just
[24:54] Speaker 9: became paralyzed with fear. It was like my lizard brain
[25:00] Speaker 9: just shut my body off. And I've heard people talk
[25:04] Speaker 9: about getting hit with infrasound and a lot of times
[25:08] Speaker 9: and not paralyzing you, but a lot of times it
[25:11] Speaker 9: comes with stomach cramps or something. I never felt in
[25:13] Speaker 9: you that I just couldn't move. And I don't know how.
[25:20] Speaker 10: Long that went on for.
[25:22] Speaker 9: I don't have any kind of estimate, but it got
[25:27] Speaker 9: more intense, and I felt like it was coming from
[25:30] Speaker 9: behind me. Something was coming from behind me, and I
[25:36] Speaker 9: just heard this voice that said, shoot the gun. And
[25:41] Speaker 9: I was able to click the safety off and pull
[25:43] Speaker 9: the trigger, and the gun went off, and pretty much
[25:51] Speaker 9: immediately all that dissipated the fear. I was able to
[25:55] Speaker 9: clear my head and move again. But I was mad
[25:58] Speaker 9: at myself because I had I wasn't even able to
[26:01] Speaker 9: look down to see if I was going to shoot
[26:03] Speaker 9: myself in the foot or not. That's like how intense
[26:06] Speaker 9: that paralyzation was. It's like I was really good on
[26:12] Speaker 9: the firearm safety into things, but like I felt that
[26:15] Speaker 9: I needed to do something and I just didn't have
[26:20] Speaker 9: the ability to do it like what I would consider safely.
[26:24] Speaker 9: But the firing of the gun made all that dissipate,
[26:28] Speaker 9: and in thinking about that later, I felt like something
[26:33] Speaker 9: was doing that to me. And once I fired the gun,
[26:37] Speaker 9: it scared it off because it was like.
[26:39] Speaker 6: An immediate dissipation of what was going on.
[26:43] Speaker 9: And I hurried up and got out of there and
[26:45] Speaker 9: never went back there again. But I always thought the
[26:49] Speaker 9: psychology of want hampen there was interesting because I was
[26:53] Speaker 9: very logical minded, even by the teenager. And for your
[26:57] Speaker 9: brain to tell you don't move, which is the signal
[27:03] Speaker 9: I was getting don't move or it'll see you when
[27:06] Speaker 9: you're completely out in the open, like anything can see you,
[27:11] Speaker 9: is weird to me, but that was what was going on.
[27:14] Speaker 9: My brain was saying, don't move or it'll see you.
[27:18] Speaker 9: But I'm like not obscured in any way. That almost
[27:21] Speaker 9: tells me that these things have some sort of and
[27:24] Speaker 9: I don't know if it's infra sound, but I almost
[27:26] Speaker 9: theorize they have some sort of other ability, like a
[27:29] Speaker 9: mental energy prediction or something like that that they can do.
[27:34] Speaker 9: And I've got more on that later, but that's the
[27:37] Speaker 9: end of what I had for that location. We had
[27:41] Speaker 9: moved in closer to town and I didn't really have
[27:45] Speaker 9: any more experiences like that.
[27:48] Speaker 8: Until about two thousand and six.
[27:50] Speaker 1: Talk about those childhood years for a little bit longer.
[27:55] Speaker 1: There's some really interesting things to happen in those years.
[27:58] Speaker 1: For sure. To did they tell you how big that
[28:01] Speaker 1: footprint was that they saw right outside the window?
[28:06] Speaker 9: I they were just going for memory, but I did ask.
[28:11] Speaker 9: I said what. I was like, did it have boots on?
[28:14] Speaker 9: Was it like a guy? And then they said no,
[28:16] Speaker 9: it was barefooted. I asked how many toes? And my
[28:20] Speaker 9: sister was just like, I guess five. So it really
[28:24] Speaker 9: wasn't like really set in the memory. It was just
[28:27] Speaker 9: the general. But I was like, was it big? And
[28:31] Speaker 9: she was like, oh yeah. She said my dad had
[28:34] Speaker 9: gone out and put his foot in it, and it
[28:35] Speaker 9: was like pretty much dwarfed it. And it wasn't like
[28:39] Speaker 9: it was an old print.
[28:40] Speaker 8: It had to have happened overnight.
[28:42] Speaker 9: And I then asked, I was like, do you think
[28:46] Speaker 9: I was like, the snow wasn't that deep, But I
[28:48] Speaker 9: was like, do you think it could have been somebody
[28:50] Speaker 9: with snowshoes on? Or when snowshoes aren't really worn down
[28:54] Speaker 9: here in Missouri, we don't really ever get that deep
[28:56] Speaker 9: a snow really, right, And so I was trying to
[28:59] Speaker 9: like at least get rid of all the possibilities, but
[29:04] Speaker 9: it sounded like, who's got a really big foot? Run
[29:07] Speaker 9: around barefooted in snow in the winter.
[29:10] Speaker 1: Absolutely, that is so strange, Especially back then you didn't
[29:14] Speaker 1: have to worry about people that were wearing like those
[29:17] Speaker 1: vibrum shoes that it makes you look clear right barefooted. Right,
[29:22] Speaker 1: they were not around, I believe at that time in history.
[29:25] Speaker 1: Do you still keep up to date with the area
[29:27] Speaker 1: that house was in?
[29:29] Speaker 5: No, I don't have.
[29:30] Speaker 9: When we're in the area, go buy it occasionally just
[29:34] Speaker 9: for old times sake memories. When my older sister lives
[29:37] Speaker 9: in Pennsylvania now and when she comes back, we might
[29:40] Speaker 9: go buy it. But now we live far away from it,
[29:43] Speaker 9: so we've gone by it a few times over the years,
[29:47] Speaker 9: but don't really know anything about what's going on, other
[29:51] Speaker 9: than the fact that a lot of people have moved in,
[29:53] Speaker 9: so it's not nearly as it's less sparsely.
[29:57] Speaker 6: Populated than it used to be.
[29:58] Speaker 9: Okay, that kind of makes me that there's as much
[30:01] Speaker 9: activity as there used to be.
[30:02] Speaker 1: The stories that Tracy shared in that episode about southern
[30:05] Speaker 1: Missouri are incredible. You're not going to want to miss it.
[30:09] Speaker 1: It's pretty wild. There's almost two hours long. Let's head
[30:13] Speaker 1: on to our next episode down the line, We're going
[30:16] Speaker 1: all the way to number one. Next up is number seven,
[30:20] Speaker 1: The Rangers Confession. This is episode number eight fifty three.
[30:24] Speaker 1: I talked to John, who was a former PG and
[30:28] Speaker 1: E affiliated ranger who spent three summers in the remote
[30:32] Speaker 1: Blue Lakes region of northern California. And what John encountered
[30:36] Speaker 1: during these summers are pretty wild. So let's check it out.
[30:42] Speaker 8: In the summer of eighty two, eighty three, and eighty four,
[30:47] Speaker 8: I worked for a company called Multiple Use Management, and
[30:50] Speaker 8: we were basically campground rangers for PG and E campgrounds.
[30:54] Speaker 8: So they would start me off in northern California at
[30:57] Speaker 8: Lake Spaulding at the five thousand foot elevation, and I
[31:00] Speaker 8: would stay there and open up that campground, and then
[31:03] Speaker 8: when the snow melted, they would move me up to
[31:05] Speaker 8: Blue Lakes at eight thousand feet elevation. And so this
[31:10] Speaker 8: is dealing with the Blue Lakes area, which is a
[31:15] Speaker 8: four lake complex on four wheel drive roads that go
[31:20] Speaker 8: each direction of it. And I guess I'll start with
[31:25] Speaker 8: I believe it would be the summer of eighty three
[31:30] Speaker 8: and again. At this time, I didn't believe that big
[31:33] Speaker 8: foot were here. But I'm a curious guy and I've
[31:36] Speaker 8: always had an interest in the topic, and I interviewed
[31:39] Speaker 8: everybody about it because I was fishing for information, trying
[31:43] Speaker 8: to fill in the dots. So I got a lot
[31:46] Speaker 8: of information over the three years, talking to so many
[31:49] Speaker 8: people on a daily basis. But I was fishing. One morning,
[31:52] Speaker 8: I got out before daybreak because I wanted to float
[31:57] Speaker 8: a nightcrawler on top and catch me a big brown
[32:00] Speaker 8: up in upper blue. And the road goes right alongside
[32:03] Speaker 8: the lake, and it's a fairly decent sized lake. It
[32:06] Speaker 8: was a really calm morning, not a ripple on the water.
[32:09] Speaker 8: You could hear, you could hear a noise would travel
[32:13] Speaker 8: a mile. You could hear small noises really well. But
[32:17] Speaker 8: as the light started getting a little bit lighter and lighter,
[32:21] Speaker 8: I had noticed a figure on the opposite side of
[32:23] Speaker 8: the lake. And there's quite a bit of distance involved,
[32:27] Speaker 8: but the figure was all black from head to toe,
[32:31] Speaker 8: and I figured it was just a guy in a
[32:33] Speaker 8: hoodie that it was fishing on the opposite side of
[32:36] Speaker 8: the lake. Again, I didn't really believe that bigfoot were
[32:40] Speaker 8: part of the of this area.
[32:43] Speaker 5: I figured they were.
[32:44] Speaker 8: All up north, further up, you know, above Mount Shasta,
[32:46] Speaker 8: in the coastal area. Anyway, so I sit there and
[32:51] Speaker 8: watched the thing a little bit. I wasn't really focusing
[32:54] Speaker 8: on it too much because I thought it was just
[32:55] Speaker 8: another fisherman. But I watched it for the whole event
[33:00] Speaker 8: was probably forty forty five minutes. And what it was,
[33:05] Speaker 8: it almost looked like it was mimicking a fisherman. And again,
[33:09] Speaker 8: you know, it looked like it had a stick in
[33:11] Speaker 8: his hand, and you could see enough detail. You couldn't
[33:15] Speaker 8: see facial details, but you could see the body outlined fine,
[33:19] Speaker 8: and it looked like it was waving a stick and
[33:22] Speaker 8: playing in the water with it. And I thought maybe
[33:24] Speaker 8: it was just a fisherman that had gotten his line stuck,
[33:28] Speaker 8: you know, I was trying to get the lure out
[33:29] Speaker 8: of the roots or trees. But it almost looked like
[33:32] Speaker 8: for a while there. But then what was weird was
[33:35] Speaker 8: about twenty nine degrees that morning, and I had a
[33:38] Speaker 8: north faced gore text parka on and a down jacket
[33:42] Speaker 8: underneath that, and I was sitting on an ice chest
[33:45] Speaker 8: and my butt was freezing and the ground was slightly
[33:47] Speaker 8: damp all around the lake from the morning dew, and
[33:51] Speaker 8: this thing had laid on its belly and was running
[33:56] Speaker 8: the stick around in the water or fishing pole if
[33:58] Speaker 8: it was a fisherman. And this went on for maybe
[34:03] Speaker 8: five ten minutes, and I couldn't see how. I go, man,
[34:05] Speaker 8: that guy's freaking I don't know how he's doing it,
[34:07] Speaker 8: because I was freezing my butt off, just sitting on
[34:09] Speaker 8: a small, little igloo ice chest. And I really didn't
[34:15] Speaker 8: think much about it, didn't even you know, it didn't
[34:18] Speaker 8: even question my mind that this even could be a bigfoot.
[34:22] Speaker 8: And then the weirdest thing happened while I was watching it.
[34:26] Speaker 8: It got in a crab position where it was on
[34:29] Speaker 8: its back and then it had its you know, its
[34:33] Speaker 8: knees and its hands down below, like in a crab walk,
[34:36] Speaker 8: and it moved across this boulder in one fluid move
[34:41] Speaker 8: in the crab position and moved across the top.
[34:43] Speaker 3: Of the rock.
[34:44] Speaker 8: And this was a huge rock and it, I mean,
[34:47] Speaker 8: it was just so smooth and houzzle. Holy crap, that's
[34:51] Speaker 8: not even human. And I go, well, if I ever
[34:54] Speaker 8: find out there's bigfoot in this area of California, that's
[34:57] Speaker 8: a bigfoot, because it sure wasn't human. Thought more about
[35:00] Speaker 8: it again, and so I'd beaten every other fisherman out
[35:05] Speaker 8: in the lake this morning, and on the far side
[35:08] Speaker 8: of the lake about a mile away. Maybe if that
[35:11] Speaker 8: I don't know, it sounds about right. But you could
[35:14] Speaker 8: hear the two old men coming down to get in
[35:17] Speaker 8: their little trolling a luninin boat and start trolling, and
[35:22] Speaker 8: you could hear them. It was so calm out. You
[35:24] Speaker 8: could hear the fishing poles laying in the bottom of
[35:26] Speaker 8: the luniman boat and you could hear us they set
[35:29] Speaker 8: their ice chest in it, you know, because the sound
[35:32] Speaker 8: was just being carried across the lake with no breeze
[35:34] Speaker 8: or anything. And you could hear them as they tried
[35:39] Speaker 8: to start the motor. And the second that motor fired up,
[35:42] Speaker 8: this thing was gone in the bushes and had disappeared.
[35:47] Speaker 8: And so that pretty much covers That was the strangeness
[35:51] Speaker 8: of it was how this was, you know, only about
[35:55] Speaker 8: a half an hour into daylight. So it was just
[36:00] Speaker 8: kind of weird. The way the crab walking position was
[36:04] Speaker 8: definitely not something I was very physically fit. I was
[36:07] Speaker 8: running five to ten miles a day at eight thousand
[36:11] Speaker 8: feet and training for boxing and the movement it did.
[36:16] Speaker 8: And I'm kind of a tall, lanky, wiry guy, and
[36:20] Speaker 8: the movement it did was not something I could ever
[36:22] Speaker 8: achieve or even come close to. So I again, I
[36:27] Speaker 8: never thought it was a sasquatch up until later years,
[36:30] Speaker 8: and then I saw a I believe it was Russ
[36:34] Speaker 8: Jones talking about an incident where the girls that had
[36:39] Speaker 8: dropped the earring and the thing bent over backwards in
[36:43] Speaker 8: that crab position, and that's when I decided to give
[36:46] Speaker 8: you a call and share what I viewed that morning.
[36:50] Speaker 8: That money. Now, there's a lot of different things. Over
[36:54] Speaker 8: the three years, I probably talked to nine different people
[36:57] Speaker 8: that didn't know each other and all had different stories.
[37:01] Speaker 8: So there was as you come into lower Blue on
[37:04] Speaker 8: the left, there was a little pond, it's called frog pond.
[37:07] Speaker 5: I did have.
[37:08] Speaker 8: One of the campers had told me that, yeah, yeah,
[37:11] Speaker 8: they knew somebody that had saw one cross the road
[37:14] Speaker 8: right there. Again, I never took it seriously or but
[37:18] Speaker 8: it was just information I put in my cap. There
[37:21] Speaker 8: was also we had my dad worked for PGN and
[37:24] Speaker 8: he was the lake tender there and he got me
[37:26] Speaker 8: the job camping there. So we knew. We talked all
[37:29] Speaker 8: the PG and E guys, and one of the helicopter
[37:32] Speaker 8: pilots that would fly in we were talking to him
[37:36] Speaker 8: and he said one winter, and he didn't tell me
[37:40] Speaker 8: what the date was or what year or anything like that,
[37:43] Speaker 8: but he said he flew in there when the snow
[37:45] Speaker 8: is thirty feet deep, which is probably about five feet
[37:49] Speaker 8: over the chimney stack of the highest cabin that was there,
[37:56] Speaker 8: so the cabins were completely submerged in snow. And he
[37:59] Speaker 8: said that he had flown in there one time and
[38:02] Speaker 8: he had landed, and that there were tracks and the
[38:06] Speaker 8: tracks went down almost five feet into the snow and
[38:09] Speaker 8: you could see and he said you could see bare
[38:12] Speaker 8: footprints in the bottom with a fairly large stride. And
[38:18] Speaker 8: he said he had no idea what it was or anything,
[38:21] Speaker 8: but that was an interesting note that he had come
[38:26] Speaker 8: up with. So I had also worked with another campground
[38:31] Speaker 8: attendant there. It was just me and him who took
[38:33] Speaker 8: care of these the whole campground complex. And this guy
[38:39] Speaker 8: was Chico's state's number two runner in the early eighties.
[38:45] Speaker 8: So this was a guy that's as fast as you're
[38:47] Speaker 8: going to find a young fella. This guy I was
[38:51] Speaker 8: running five to ten miles and he could leave me
[38:53] Speaker 8: at any time. I was doing it recreational. This guy
[38:56] Speaker 8: was good, so he could literally haul butt and he
[38:59] Speaker 8: would often do ten fifteen miles a couple times a week.
[39:05] Speaker 8: He came back one day and he'd come walking up
[39:09] Speaker 8: the driveway and from a distance of twenty yards, I
[39:12] Speaker 8: mean literally sixty feet away, I could he was a
[39:15] Speaker 8: white as a ghost. You could see he was shaken up.
[39:18] Speaker 8: And I asked him, Hey, what's going on? You know,
[39:21] Speaker 8: what's the matter. I don't want to talk about it.
[39:22] Speaker 8: I don't want to talk about it. And I grilled
[39:25] Speaker 8: him as he came up the steps.
[39:26] Speaker 9: Again.
[39:26] Speaker 8: He wouldn't talk about it, and I couldn't get anything
[39:29] Speaker 8: out of him. But you could see that this guy
[39:31] Speaker 8: was shaken up. I mean it was visible from a
[39:33] Speaker 8: long distance away. So I let him take a shower.
[39:37] Speaker 8: He had a couple of beers for dinner, and he
[39:38] Speaker 8: sat down to dinner, and you know, I go, come on, man,
[39:42] Speaker 8: you know ken he was I ain't I'm not talking
[39:44] Speaker 8: about it. The guy was just animate about not and
[39:48] Speaker 8: I'm somebody I won't let it go. So I kept
[39:51] Speaker 8: after him a little bit, but without being too much
[39:54] Speaker 8: of a pain in the butt. But I said, come on,
[39:57] Speaker 8: was it a mountain lion? Was it a coyote? Is
[40:00] Speaker 8: it a bear? What's you know? What's got y'all shaken up?
[40:04] Speaker 8: He goes, it wasn't any of those, and he wouldn't
[40:08] Speaker 8: come out and say what it was, but but I
[40:10] Speaker 8: got it out of him.
[40:11] Speaker 1: Oh man, that's a good one to hear what that
[40:14] Speaker 1: individual actually saw. You're gonna have to go over to
[40:18] Speaker 1: episode eight fifty three and check it out for yourself,
[40:20] Speaker 1: but trust me, is gonna be worth it. Number six
[40:25] Speaker 1: Oregon Hunters Experiences number seven oh one. This is one
[40:31] Speaker 1: of my favorites. It's a conversation with an individual. His
[40:34] Speaker 1: name is Lyle. He's a lifelong hunter in one of
[40:38] Speaker 1: my most favorite areas of Oregon, which is the Malala
[40:42] Speaker 1: Colton Estacada area. The things that Lyle share are intense,
[40:49] Speaker 1: to say the least. Let's check it out.
[40:53] Speaker 11: It's called will White Road and there was a spot
[40:56] Speaker 11: that I used to love to hunt up there. It
[41:00] Speaker 11: always kind of gave me the creepy feeling. It's super big,
[41:05] Speaker 11: tall old growth uh fir trees. I don't know why
[41:13] Speaker 11: why it does, but every time I go in there,
[41:15] Speaker 11: I just kind of felt creepy. But I love to
[41:17] Speaker 11: hunt it because there was lots of elk and lots
[41:20] Speaker 11: of deer in there all the time. Well, I went
[41:23] Speaker 11: up there one day by myself. It was deer season,
[41:28] Speaker 11: and I was sneaking up through the old growth fur.
[41:34] Speaker 11: And in the underneath this old growth fur, there's it's
[41:37] Speaker 11: just a sea of ferns and the ferns are probably
[41:41] Speaker 11: three foot tall. And I was walking uphill. And as
[41:48] Speaker 11: I was walking uphill, I was looking at the ground
[41:52] Speaker 11: and looking for, you know, sign seeing if the if
[41:55] Speaker 11: the deer had been moving through there, if they elk
[41:57] Speaker 11: had been moving through there. And this little bowl shaped
[42:02] Speaker 11: area it's probably i'd say a hundred by a hundred yards,
[42:10] Speaker 11: and I could see the whole face of the hillside
[42:15] Speaker 11: all the way around me. Well, as I'm walking through
[42:19] Speaker 11: the ferns, I'm looking down the ground and I just
[42:24] Speaker 11: start to pick my head up, and in the corner
[42:26] Speaker 11: of my eye I catch movement and as I start
[42:30] Speaker 11: to turn my head, look what I saw was I
[42:35] Speaker 11: thought what I saw was a bear And it was
[42:40] Speaker 11: by this big fir tree. And if you ever seen
[42:43] Speaker 11: a bear coming down out of a tree. When it
[42:47] Speaker 11: just right, when it touches the ground, its rear legs
[42:50] Speaker 11: are on the ground and its front legs are up
[42:53] Speaker 11: above its head still hanging under the tree.
[42:57] Speaker 10: Well, that's the position it was in when I first
[42:59] Speaker 10: seen it.
[43:01] Speaker 11: And right when I my eyes looked at it, that
[43:07] Speaker 11: was my first thought was bear. And I whipped my
[43:09] Speaker 11: rifle off, and I had a bear tag. I've always
[43:14] Speaker 11: had a bear. I always have a bear tag, and
[43:15] Speaker 11: that the season runs during deer season. And so I
[43:23] Speaker 11: ripped my rifle off. And as I'm ripping my rifle
[43:26] Speaker 11: off and swinging to shoot this bear, it comes down
[43:32] Speaker 11: off of the tree. And as it's coming off the
[43:34] Speaker 11: tree is when it looks at me. And I could
[43:39] Speaker 11: see that it had hands and it had a face,
[43:44] Speaker 11: and it went from bear to holy you know what,
[43:50] Speaker 11: it's bigfoot.
[43:51] Speaker 10: And this thing is only fifty yards from me.
[43:55] Speaker 11: And it went down onto all fours and it went
[43:59] Speaker 11: behind uh this uh tall ferns. And I had my
[44:05] Speaker 11: gun up and in my mind, I'm gonna do I
[44:08] Speaker 11: shoot it?
[44:08] Speaker 10: Do I shoot it? What do I do?
[44:11] Speaker 11: And I'm like, Okay, this thing's gonna come out somewhere.
[44:16] Speaker 11: I'll be able to see it because I could see
[44:18] Speaker 11: the whole hillside and there was there was no place
[44:20] Speaker 11: for it to go other than on this hill side.
[44:23] Speaker 10: It had to it had to leave.
[44:27] Speaker 11: Well, the ferns moved just for a split second when
[44:29] Speaker 11: it went behind the ferns. And I'm sitting there, you know,
[44:35] Speaker 11: my eyes are just like scanning, like where is this thing?
[44:39] Speaker 11: And I'm looking for it, and I never see anything
[44:43] Speaker 11: come out. And so I start slowly creeping up to
[44:48] Speaker 11: my left and I'm going to try to get above
[44:51] Speaker 11: it where I can look down onto it. And as
[44:56] Speaker 11: I'm sneaking around, I got I mean, my my eyes
[44:59] Speaker 11: are like all over the place, just seeing if this
[45:02] Speaker 11: thing's going to escape anywhere, and I don't see anything.
[45:07] Speaker 10: And I make it all the way.
[45:10] Speaker 11: Around three hundred and sixty degrees, all the way around
[45:13] Speaker 11: where this thing went behind this these ferns, and I
[45:16] Speaker 11: never saw anything. And so I finally got the courage
[45:22] Speaker 11: up and I started sneaking up to where it actually was,
[45:26] Speaker 11: and there was nothing there. It just like it just
[45:30] Speaker 11: like vanished. But it was so crystal clear when I
[45:36] Speaker 11: seen it. And when it came down, it went to
[45:39] Speaker 11: all fours and it went behind that those ferns. I mean,
[45:43] Speaker 11: I could still to this day see it in my
[45:44] Speaker 11: in my head, and I don't know what the heck
[45:48] Speaker 11: would happened? Where'd it goet? You know, I don't know
[45:50] Speaker 11: where it went to this day I could, I couldn't
[45:53] Speaker 11: tell you. And as big as it was, you would
[45:58] Speaker 11: have seen the ferns move, you would have seen it
[46:01] Speaker 11: come out on the hillside. I had a wide open
[46:04] Speaker 11: hillside that it had. The only other way would have
[46:08] Speaker 11: been right past me. And it never came past me.
[46:15] Speaker 11: And that's why I don't ever talk about it, because
[46:18] Speaker 11: it sounds so far fetched that I think everybody's like
[46:23] Speaker 11: got that mindset like, oh yeah, what were you smoking?
[46:27] Speaker 11: What were you drinking? You know, It's just so I
[46:33] Speaker 11: just never talked about it. But that was my second siding,
[46:36] Speaker 11: and that's the one that it was a reddish color.
[46:40] Speaker 11: It looked kind of like a rang a tang color
[46:43] Speaker 11: the hair, but the face looked like that Todd Standing's
[46:48] Speaker 11: Jane that he calls her. I think it had that
[46:52] Speaker 11: kind of down syndrome me look to its face. That's
[46:58] Speaker 11: my second sighting. The other thing I forgot to mention
[47:03] Speaker 11: was as my eyes were coming up and actually visually
[47:07] Speaker 11: seeing this thing. It there was like a tree knock,
[47:12] Speaker 11: and it sounded like it came from that that that thing,
[47:17] Speaker 11: that bigfoot, But there was nothing in its hand as
[47:21] Speaker 11: far as like a stick or anything. So which kind
[47:25] Speaker 11: of leads me to think that there are these tree
[47:28] Speaker 11: knocks that people talk about. I think they're doing it
[47:32] Speaker 11: with their mouth or something. Because it was so loud
[47:37] Speaker 11: that knock when it happened. It had to have been
[47:42] Speaker 11: that one right there, you know. It had to been
[47:44] Speaker 11: that that animal there that made the noise. Is it
[47:51] Speaker 11: was so loud.
[47:51] Speaker 10: It was just like.
[47:52] Speaker 11: Right there when it happened. And but as as I
[47:57] Speaker 11: heard that is when I was seeing it, but nothing
[48:00] Speaker 11: fell out of its hands, like it was like it
[48:03] Speaker 11: would have hit something with a stick, you know, if
[48:05] Speaker 11: it wou out a stick, I would have thought that
[48:07] Speaker 11: I would see like a stick, you know, flying out
[48:10] Speaker 11: of its hands or falling out of the hans.
[48:13] Speaker 1: I love those interviews where the individual is not a
[48:17] Speaker 1: bigfoot researcher's just a hunter or an outdoors man, but
[48:21] Speaker 1: the things they notice are incredible when they have that sighting.
[48:25] Speaker 1: So there's much much more in that episode. Definitely worth
[48:31] Speaker 1: checking it out. That's number seven oh one Oregon Hunter's Experiences.
[48:36] Speaker 1: Let's head on now to number five, which is a
[48:38] Speaker 1: North Georgia habituation, Part one, episode six point fifty nine.
[48:46] Speaker 1: This is my first part of a two part episode
[48:50] Speaker 1: with Neil from Bigfoot Talk dot Com. He's got some
[48:53] Speaker 1: wild things going on in his property area down there
[48:56] Speaker 1: in Northern Georgia. The things that he shares are incredible.
[49:01] Speaker 1: We're just going to play a little clip from it
[49:03] Speaker 1: so you can get a taste for it, but definitely
[49:06] Speaker 1: listen to the two part series from Neil from Bigfoot
[49:11] Speaker 1: Talk dot Com starts on episode six fifty nine. Let's
[49:15] Speaker 1: get after it.
[49:16] Speaker 3: So let me call this bigfoot expert that I know
[49:19] Speaker 3: that's in North Georgia. Now, honestly, I don't believe anybody
[49:23] Speaker 3: is an expert, true expert, because nobody really knows exactly
[49:28] Speaker 3: what they are. But if there is one, he would
[49:31] Speaker 3: be the closest to it. Then I called him because
[49:36] Speaker 3: I wanted to find out the person that wrote that report,
[49:39] Speaker 3: because it was a bfr BF or own report. I
[49:43] Speaker 3: wanted to talk to them and see if I could
[49:44] Speaker 3: find the location. That was my goal of calling him. Well,
[49:49] Speaker 3: when I get him on the phone. Then I realized
[49:52] Speaker 3: he was in the BFRO and when I tell him
[49:54] Speaker 3: the person's name and said, no, we don't know where
[49:56] Speaker 3: that person is. And so well you really, you know,
[50:01] Speaker 3: that really would help. But can I ask you some questions?
[50:04] Speaker 3: I said yes, sure, he said, okay, tell you a
[50:08] Speaker 3: little bit. So I was telling them about some of
[50:10] Speaker 3: the things I'd seen and that made no sense, and
[50:15] Speaker 3: then he said okay. He said, do you have a
[50:20] Speaker 3: lot of animals on the property. And then that's when
[50:23] Speaker 3: I started telling them about the deer should be a
[50:25] Speaker 3: deer haven. There wasn't that many deer, so I had
[50:27] Speaker 3: to start putting food out for them, and deer, you know,
[50:31] Speaker 3: feeders with supplemental food and all kind of fed the
[50:34] Speaker 3: birds and everything else. He goes, oh, in case you
[50:36] Speaker 3: put food out for the animal. Yes, I put food
[50:40] Speaker 3: out for the animal. He goes, what do you hunt?
[50:43] Speaker 3: I said, no, I don't hunt. I used to hunt
[50:45] Speaker 3: as a kid, but I don't hunt anymore because my
[50:48] Speaker 3: dad always said, if you're gonna shoot something, you better
[50:52] Speaker 3: do it to get something to eat. And my wife
[50:55] Speaker 3: would never beat a deer or another animal like that,
[51:00] Speaker 3: much less cook it. So I'm not going to just
[51:02] Speaker 3: go and shoot something to kill it. I'm just not
[51:05] Speaker 3: going to do it. I love to watch to hear
[51:07] Speaker 3: another animal, So no, we don't hunt. And then he said, well,
[51:13] Speaker 3: do you have any fruit trees? I said, yeah, I
[51:16] Speaker 3: planted a bunch of fruit trees. And I told them
[51:18] Speaker 3: about all the ones I planted and stuff, and he goes, well,
[51:22] Speaker 3: do you ever have any of your fruit missing? And
[51:25] Speaker 3: I said, well, when I planted on they were just
[51:27] Speaker 3: real young. The only one that's made something is the peaches.
[51:31] Speaker 3: But it's really weird because I have nating around it
[51:34] Speaker 3: and on the ground and fabric on the ground, and
[51:37] Speaker 3: every time for two years we've had some peaches on it.
[51:42] Speaker 3: And during the week when they're getting right, I'll tell
[51:45] Speaker 3: the family, Hey, the peaches are getting ripe. So this
[51:48] Speaker 3: weekend we're going to go pick some and make the
[51:50] Speaker 3: peach cobbler. Come Saturday, every peach is gone, no seeds,
[51:58] Speaker 3: none on the ground. And these were eight to ten
[52:01] Speaker 3: foot tull and plus we have an inating around which
[52:04] Speaker 3: was away from it, cried away since six foot high,
[52:08] Speaker 3: and nobody where the house is. You can't see us
[52:11] Speaker 3: from the road. We said, way back in the wood,
[52:15] Speaker 3: so he said okay. He said, you have any other
[52:18] Speaker 3: fruit go missing? I said, yeah, our figs. I like
[52:21] Speaker 3: to make fig preserves. I said, there'll be a bunch
[52:24] Speaker 3: of figs getting ripe, and I'll go out there and
[52:27] Speaker 3: they'll all be gone except for one or two. That's
[52:29] Speaker 3: half right, I said. Our per Simon trees would make
[52:34] Speaker 3: per simmons right off. So they must have the way
[52:37] Speaker 3: they did the plants, I said, And they they go
[52:40] Speaker 3: missing and the deer aren't a getting them because the
[52:42] Speaker 3: deer can't get to them because of the deer nating
[52:45] Speaker 3: around it. He said, okay, he said, so you feed
[52:50] Speaker 3: the animals. You've had this stuff happened. You've got fruit
[52:54] Speaker 3: going missing, You've got fruit teas. You're feeding animals, you're
[52:56] Speaker 3: not doing them. He said, I got a good idea
[52:59] Speaker 3: of what's going on. I said, okay, what's going on?
[53:05] Speaker 3: He said, you know what's going on. That's why you
[53:07] Speaker 3: called me. You have a big foot. I said, I've
[53:11] Speaker 3: got a big foot and he said, yeah, you have
[53:13] Speaker 3: a big food. I said, well, well, what are they
[53:17] Speaker 3: trying to say? What are they trying to do? He said,
[53:22] Speaker 3: they're letting you know there there and want to cohabitate
[53:27] Speaker 3: and live with you, coesists with you there at where
[53:33] Speaker 3: you're at now, that blew my mind. I'm like, you know,
[53:37] Speaker 3: I'd like to watch the stuff that. I really didn't
[53:40] Speaker 3: know anything about big food at the time, and I
[53:43] Speaker 3: was like, really, I said, how do you know that?
[53:48] Speaker 3: He said, okay, Well, let me ask you some more questions.
[53:50] Speaker 3: I said, okay. He said, on your road, do you
[53:55] Speaker 3: find trees pushed down across it a lot? I said,
[53:59] Speaker 3: We've never had a tree push down across the road.
[54:02] Speaker 3: Said okay. He said, have you ever had anything run
[54:05] Speaker 3: by your house in the middle of the night hit
[54:06] Speaker 3: it two or three times? No, we've never had that happen.
[54:11] Speaker 3: Have you ever heard growls from the woods around your
[54:14] Speaker 3: house when you're outside at night. No, we've never heard
[54:19] Speaker 3: growls outside. Have you ever heard rocks or steaks or
[54:23] Speaker 3: something being thrown on your roof at your house round
[54:28] Speaker 3: the barn nearby? No, never heard it. He said, if
[54:33] Speaker 3: they didn't want you there, that's what they would be doing.
[54:37] Speaker 3: He said, they're just letting you know that they're there.
[54:41] Speaker 3: They evidently have been watching you and see that you're
[54:45] Speaker 3: friendly to the animals, you're nice people. Because of all
[54:49] Speaker 3: the stuff that you're doing, and so they want to
[54:53] Speaker 3: coexist with you. Well that kind of blew my mind,
[54:56] Speaker 3: unlike okay, and then we kind of ended the conversation,
[55:02] Speaker 3: and I'm like, all right, so I'm tired for a
[55:08] Speaker 3: person that goes by the motto trust but verify. I
[55:12] Speaker 3: trusted what he said, but I wanted to verify what
[55:15] Speaker 3: he said. So after a little bit of thinking, I
[55:19] Speaker 3: was like, this is after a while, after a few weeks,
[55:23] Speaker 3: I was like, what can I do to try to
[55:27] Speaker 3: find out they're really here? So what I decided to
[55:31] Speaker 3: do is one big trayal that they had walked on
[55:33] Speaker 3: and smushed everything down. I was going to go put
[55:37] Speaker 3: two headless nails in a tree and stick red apples
[55:41] Speaker 3: on it. I'll just stick them up as high as
[55:43] Speaker 3: I could and find a tree that really didn't have
[55:46] Speaker 3: any limbs on it for other things to get to it.
[55:50] Speaker 8: So what a the end is?
[55:51] Speaker 3: I stuck a red delicious apple on each one of adults.
[55:56] Speaker 3: Then I raked off underneath it that now the leaves
[56:02] Speaker 3: and all were so thick that it didn't get to
[56:05] Speaker 3: the dirk, but it got to the soft leave, soft
[56:08] Speaker 3: wet leaves underneath it, which compress easy. So I go
[56:14] Speaker 3: down there. The next time I go down there, and
[56:17] Speaker 3: I believe it was the next day, but it could
[56:18] Speaker 3: have been two days later. The apples were gone. That's good.
[56:25] Speaker 3: I looked in there. It was in that in the
[56:29] Speaker 3: in the leaves there was an impression of one that
[56:35] Speaker 3: of a human like foot sixteen to sixteen and a
[56:38] Speaker 3: half inches long. And I have my answer. So we
[56:44] Speaker 3: do how Bigfoot? Bigfoot is here. So at the time,
[56:50] Speaker 3: I thought the Bigfoot, like most people think, Bigfoot's just
[56:54] Speaker 3: a normal, everyday animal. So I decided, Okay, well, I'm
[56:58] Speaker 3: going to try to this is unique. I'm going to
[57:02] Speaker 3: try to find out how we should communicate and learn
[57:06] Speaker 3: about them, because nobody really does. And if I can
[57:09] Speaker 3: earn their trust and let them know that I'm willing,
[57:15] Speaker 3: maybe I can learn more about them and everything to
[57:19] Speaker 3: find out, you know, all about them, find out as
[57:23] Speaker 3: much as I can. So I kept putting apples out there,
[57:28] Speaker 3: and they kept disappearing, and so I was trying to think,
[57:32] Speaker 3: I need them to interact with me. So down there
[57:36] Speaker 3: near where I was putting the apples out, I had
[57:39] Speaker 3: a stump feeder. Now the stumb feeder was level and
[57:42] Speaker 3: on the top it had the rings, and I said,
[57:46] Speaker 3: I'm going to give them some blue marbles. I saw
[57:49] Speaker 3: the show one time where they were talking about them
[57:51] Speaker 3: liking blue marbles. So I'm going to put some blue
[57:54] Speaker 3: marbles up there to kill them as a gill. And
[57:58] Speaker 3: it's with then probably fifteen twenty yards off where open
[58:03] Speaker 3: the apples. So I put the blue marbles up there.
[58:07] Speaker 3: That was on a Sunday, and I think the next
[58:11] Speaker 3: Saturday when I went down there, the marbles were gone.
[58:15] Speaker 3: I'm like, this is great. They're not on the ground,
[58:17] Speaker 3: They're all gone. So I went and told my wife.
[58:23] Speaker 3: She wanted to see it. So we drive down there.
[58:25] Speaker 3: Sure enough, they're gone. Now to go down there, it
[58:29] Speaker 3: makes a big u by just kind of the way
[58:31] Speaker 3: that the streams and everything. My wife does all the mow,
[58:38] Speaker 3: and thank goodness, I got her a real nice and
[58:41] Speaker 3: zero turn so she can do the mowing. It relaxes her.
[58:44] Speaker 3: She loves to mow. So we're going around that u
[58:48] Speaker 3: and when we get to start going up on the
[58:52] Speaker 3: northernmost side, there is a huge river rock on the
[58:57] Speaker 3: left hand side of the trail. This seems got a
[59:00] Speaker 3: way one hundred pills and there's another one that weighs
[59:03] Speaker 3: about sixty devy pails on the right side of the trail,
[59:06] Speaker 3: right next to it. My wife stops and looks at
[59:09] Speaker 3: him as she goes, where did these come from? I said,
[59:13] Speaker 3: I have no idea where those getting from. You know,
[59:17] Speaker 3: they're they're huge.
[59:19] Speaker 1: Neil has definitely gotten more than he bargained for with
[59:21] Speaker 1: that property, and the stuff is still going on. That
[59:26] Speaker 1: was number five North Georgia Habituation, Part one, episode six
[59:30] Speaker 1: fifty nine. Let's continue to number four Stuck on the
[59:34] Speaker 1: Island with Sasquatch, which is episode seven fourteen. This episode
[59:39] Speaker 1: is another outdoorsman from Oregon. His name's Joey, and he
[59:44] Speaker 1: shares some really interesting things in areas that are extremely active.
[59:51] Speaker 1: Silver Creek Falls State Park, Detroit Lake, Waldo Lake Wilderness.
[59:56] Speaker 1: Some really cool encounters shared in this one. It's actually
[59:59] Speaker 1: one of my favorites. I will tell you it's a
[1:00:02] Speaker 1: privilege to hear encounters from Detroit Lake area. I actually
[1:00:06] Speaker 1: tried to stop there. I did stop there in July
[1:00:09] Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five. And people don't really like being
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: asked about bigfoot or sharing stories to an outsider. At
[1:00:19] Speaker 1: least they didn't to me, so whenever I get someone
[1:00:22] Speaker 1: on the show, it's a huge privilege from that area.
[1:00:26] Speaker 1: Enjoy this clip from episode seven fourteen, Stuck on the
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: Island with Sasquatch. You guys made it number four out
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: of ten for twenty twenty five.
[1:00:40] Speaker 12: It was at Detroit Lake in nineteen ninety five on
[1:00:44] Speaker 12: the second of July. My birthday's fourth of July, and
[1:00:49] Speaker 12: it was on the island at Detroit Lake, Piety Island,
[1:00:52] Speaker 12: at the boat camp there me I was there with
[1:00:56] Speaker 12: my friend Steve and his girlfriend were in my camp.
[1:01:00] Speaker 12: We had taken a campsite to furthest up the hill
[1:01:03] Speaker 12: away from other people that had come out there. It
[1:01:05] Speaker 12: was about a dozen of us that had come out
[1:01:07] Speaker 12: to boat camp. I had a jet ski and we'd
[1:01:11] Speaker 12: done this several times right there. And they do the
[1:01:13] Speaker 12: fireworks at Detroit Lake on the third So it was
[1:01:16] Speaker 12: always fun to celebrate my birthday and to see the
[1:01:20] Speaker 12: fireworks there swimming and.
[1:01:21] Speaker 5: Fishing and whatnot.
[1:01:23] Speaker 12: So on the second of July, I had just finished
[1:01:28] Speaker 12: of partying and hanging out in a campground down on
[1:01:31] Speaker 12: the beach with my friend Sean and his girlfriend several others.
[1:01:35] Speaker 12: That was kind of the meeting place for everybody on
[1:01:37] Speaker 12: that trip. And my friend Steve and I and his
[1:01:40] Speaker 12: girlfriend Nancy returned to our camp site. It was pretty late,
[1:01:45] Speaker 12: I'm not really sure what time, maybe eleven twelve, I
[1:01:49] Speaker 12: don't know.
[1:01:49] Speaker 5: They went right to bed.
[1:01:50] Speaker 12: Our tents were set up next to each other. They
[1:01:53] Speaker 12: went to bed. I wanted to wind down a little bit.
[1:02:01] Speaker 12: I'd build up the fire and our fire pit had
[1:02:04] Speaker 12: an established fire pit there cement with a you know,
[1:02:07] Speaker 12: the metal swinging grill, and I had my sleeping.
[1:02:11] Speaker 5: Pad laid out by the fire.
[1:02:13] Speaker 12: Didn't have a camp chair, so I'm laying there with
[1:02:16] Speaker 12: my you know, head on my in my hand up
[1:02:19] Speaker 12: on my elbow, on my side, watching the fire.
[1:02:22] Speaker 5: And I had my my.
[1:02:23] Speaker 12: Friend Steve's dog, Susha, a big old chocolate lab, laying
[1:02:29] Speaker 12: by me. I was kind of using her kind of
[1:02:31] Speaker 12: like a pillow. Very cool dog. All I want to
[1:02:34] Speaker 12: add right now that this dog, whether it loved deer
[1:02:39] Speaker 12: or hated deer, I'm not sure, but if a deer
[1:02:42] Speaker 12: was anywhere around our camp, whenever we went camp and
[1:02:45] Speaker 12: she was out of there chasing it, it was almost
[1:02:48] Speaker 12: a problem because sometimes she'd be gone an hour or two.
[1:02:52] Speaker 12: We always wondered if she was going to come back,
[1:02:54] Speaker 12: and she wouldn't bark or anything. She'd just be laying
[1:02:57] Speaker 12: there one minute and the next second just take off
[1:03:00] Speaker 12: like a rocket.
[1:03:01] Speaker 6: We knew what she was after, right, So she's.
[1:03:04] Speaker 12: Laying there by me and my fire's my fire was
[1:03:08] Speaker 12: dying down, so there wasn't much flame left, but there
[1:03:12] Speaker 12: was plenty of smoke coming up off the fire. And
[1:03:16] Speaker 12: that was one of the advantages of laying on that pad.
[1:03:19] Speaker 12: If it blew my way, it kind of just went
[1:03:21] Speaker 12: over the top of me and didn't get in my eyes.
[1:03:23] Speaker 12: So anyway, I'm laying there and Susha's at my head,
[1:03:27] Speaker 12: like I said, and she lets out a little.
[1:03:29] Speaker 5: Growl, kind of a low, low growl, and it's and
[1:03:36] Speaker 5: goes on alert.
[1:03:37] Speaker 12: So she's sitting up now and kind of looking off
[1:03:41] Speaker 12: up the hill from me, and I was checking her
[1:03:44] Speaker 12: out to see where she was looking at, but she
[1:03:46] Speaker 12: hasn't taken off, and I was wondering, if it's a deer,
[1:03:50] Speaker 12: how come you're not chasing it already. And I hear
[1:03:53] Speaker 12: I hear a stick break, big stick break, and very
[1:03:57] Speaker 12: close to camp, and it made a crack. I mean,
[1:04:00] Speaker 12: it sounded like a big stick you would put over
[1:04:03] Speaker 12: your knee or stomp on to break it. But it
[1:04:08] Speaker 12: it got my attention, and now Susha's very worried and
[1:04:13] Speaker 12: whining a little bit about it. And though I have
[1:04:18] Speaker 12: a pen light on my tee chain in my pocket,
[1:04:21] Speaker 12: one of those little flashlights you screw flows to make
[1:04:24] Speaker 12: the light come on. So I get that out and
[1:04:27] Speaker 12: I turn on the light and the battery and it's
[1:04:29] Speaker 12: real crappy, but it's still making some kind of light.
[1:04:33] Speaker 12: And I kind of get up on my knees and
[1:04:35] Speaker 12: I'm shining it through the smoke and up the hill
[1:04:40] Speaker 12: above my camp there see if I can see anything
[1:04:45] Speaker 12: kind of at ground level where you might see a deer.
[1:04:49] Speaker 12: And something catches my eye. And what I see is
[1:04:53] Speaker 12: I raise my flashlight up and from behind the tree
[1:04:57] Speaker 12: behind camp, maybe ten feet behind the fire ra, I
[1:05:00] Speaker 12: see one glowing eye. I don't know if it was
[1:05:05] Speaker 12: red or yet, I think it must have been. I
[1:05:07] Speaker 12: remember being a yellow glow, but big, this eye peering
[1:05:13] Speaker 12: out from me behind the tree. And you know, my
[1:05:18] Speaker 12: mind's going nuts right now. I can't figure out what
[1:05:21] Speaker 12: it is. So I stand up, and I wasn't really
[1:05:25] Speaker 12: afraid yet I had to figure out what this was.
[1:05:27] Speaker 12: I wanted to figure out what this was. So for
[1:05:31] Speaker 12: whatever reason, I stepped right across the fire, right across
[1:05:36] Speaker 12: the grate, through the smoke, towards this thing so I
[1:05:41] Speaker 12: can get a better view of it, so the smoke
[1:05:43] Speaker 12: isn't in my way. And as soon as I get
[1:05:46] Speaker 12: across it, it goes behind the tree and comes out
[1:05:50] Speaker 12: on the other side. Now I see both eyes looking
[1:05:52] Speaker 12: at me, and it's big, and I know.
[1:06:00] Speaker 5: What this is.
[1:06:01] Speaker 12: Now I can see the outline it's facing me. I
[1:06:05] Speaker 12: can see the outline of its left side. It's not
[1:06:07] Speaker 12: all the way out from the tree, but I can
[1:06:09] Speaker 12: see it plainly that I'm standing right in front of
[1:06:13] Speaker 12: a big foot. And as soon as it's blinking at
[1:06:15] Speaker 12: me too, and as soon as I see it in
[1:06:19] Speaker 12: full view, it squats down, like you know, it's getting
[1:06:25] Speaker 12: like the call of nature. It squats down and puts
[1:06:28] Speaker 12: its hands out in front of me or out in
[1:06:30] Speaker 12: front of it on the ground. And I've still got
[1:06:33] Speaker 12: my light and my arm extended completely out in front
[1:06:36] Speaker 12: of me, and I'm shining my light right on its
[1:06:37] Speaker 12: eyeballs and I can see it and it's massive, you know.
[1:06:42] Speaker 12: I don't know how tall it was. I never measured it,
[1:06:45] Speaker 12: but it was a good nine to ten foot tall,
[1:06:48] Speaker 12: sauce bigfoot huge, seemed like it was even bigger than
[1:06:52] Speaker 12: the one I'd seen in nineteen seventy nine. And it's
[1:06:56] Speaker 12: squatted down, it's completely broads, it's just massive. And a
[1:07:02] Speaker 12: couple seconds later and I'm just frozen there with my flashlight.
[1:07:06] Speaker 12: A couple seconds later, it starts moving away from me
[1:07:09] Speaker 12: down the hill towards the beach, and Susha has taken off.
[1:07:13] Speaker 12: She's nowhere to be seen. She didn't bark, or she
[1:07:19] Speaker 12: decided she didn't want any part of this thing. And
[1:07:22] Speaker 12: it moves away from me. And while it's moving away,
[1:07:25] Speaker 12: it's standing up and squatting, standing up and squatting, going
[1:07:29] Speaker 12: up and down, up and down, and it kept its
[1:07:32] Speaker 12: eyes on me the whole time. And it got down
[1:07:35] Speaker 12: the hill from me thirty or forty feet, still looking
[1:07:38] Speaker 12: at me, and I'm now all I can see is
[1:07:40] Speaker 12: the eye shine. And it got to a point where
[1:07:43] Speaker 12: it was the angle of the hill, it was going
[1:07:47] Speaker 12: to disappear, and I got the creeps like I became.
[1:07:52] Speaker 12: Now I'm ready to act, And I went from my
[1:07:55] Speaker 12: fire pit to my tent. In about a half a second,
[1:07:58] Speaker 12: I just dove into my tent, breathing heavily. I was
[1:08:03] Speaker 12: I was petrified at what I'd just seen. Susha's nowhere
[1:08:07] Speaker 12: to incite. I jumped in my tent and grabbed my
[1:08:10] Speaker 12: sleeping bag and put it over my head, like a
[1:08:12] Speaker 12: like a child hiding from a monster in his bedroom.
[1:08:15] Speaker 6: You know.
[1:08:17] Speaker 12: That was that was my protection, was that thin walled tent,
[1:08:21] Speaker 12: my sleeping bag. And I'm on my hands and knees
[1:08:24] Speaker 12: with my bag over my head. And I don't know
[1:08:26] Speaker 12: how long I stayed like that, just hoping that whatever happened,
[1:08:30] Speaker 12: that it didn't come back and you know, kill me.
[1:08:34] Speaker 12: I felt like when it moved away from me, it
[1:08:36] Speaker 12: might be trying to come around behind me, which is
[1:08:39] Speaker 12: why I acted and ran to my tent. So strangely enough,
[1:08:45] Speaker 12: after all of that, I fell asleep and woke up
[1:08:50] Speaker 12: kind of panicky and sat up in my tent, thinking,
[1:08:54] Speaker 12: you know that what I saw was that a dream?
[1:08:57] Speaker 10: You know.
[1:08:57] Speaker 12: No poked my head out the tent and Susha had
[1:09:00] Speaker 12: come back to camp and was walking around in front
[1:09:04] Speaker 12: of my tent a little bit. I called her into
[1:09:06] Speaker 12: my tent and zipped it up and went back to
[1:09:11] Speaker 12: sleep with her. I got up real early. I didn't
[1:09:13] Speaker 12: sleep much, got up real early, got my fire going
[1:09:17] Speaker 12: and some coffee. My friend Sean saw me doing that
[1:09:21] Speaker 12: from the camp down by the beach, and he came
[1:09:23] Speaker 12: up the hill with his coffee cup to to get
[1:09:27] Speaker 12: some coffee from me, and I told him what had happened,
[1:09:31] Speaker 12: and he was blown away. He started looking around on
[1:09:34] Speaker 12: the tree again. The forest floor was there was not
[1:09:38] Speaker 12: a conducive for leaving any tracks, so there weren't any
[1:09:41] Speaker 12: tracks or anything. Later in the day, I followed abandoned
[1:09:45] Speaker 12: fire road or whatever that wound around the back side
[1:09:48] Speaker 12: of the island to the top to see if I
[1:09:52] Speaker 12: could find any more signs or tracks.
[1:09:55] Speaker 5: I did not.
[1:09:56] Speaker 12: On top of Piety Island, there's a slash pile of
[1:10:01] Speaker 12: abandoned timber, quite a sizable pile that was never harvested,
[1:10:06] Speaker 12: but is still there, moss covered and weathered. And when
[1:10:10] Speaker 12: I got up to the top and saw that there
[1:10:12] Speaker 12: were some real dark holes inside this pile of logs,
[1:10:16] Speaker 12: that made the you know, a very creepy feeling standing
[1:10:20] Speaker 12: there looking like there was something in there looking back
[1:10:23] Speaker 12: at me. And I didn't stick around long and went
[1:10:25] Speaker 12: back down to camp. By the time I got back down,
[1:10:30] Speaker 12: there was another family that was camping with us with
[1:10:32] Speaker 12: their with their kids that had come out in a
[1:10:36] Speaker 12: ski boat, and my friend Sean had told him what
[1:10:39] Speaker 12: I had seen. And this this fellow shared with me
[1:10:43] Speaker 12: that while he was at a boy scout camp pretty
[1:10:46] Speaker 12: close to fur Lake when he was a kid, that
[1:10:51] Speaker 12: their their scout master had seen a bigfoot while he
[1:10:54] Speaker 12: had gotten up in the night and there was one
[1:10:56] Speaker 12: in their camp at the scout camp and made everybody
[1:10:59] Speaker 12: clear out the following day. He said it was a
[1:11:02] Speaker 12: surreal experience because he not only did he had never
[1:11:05] Speaker 12: heard one before, but you know, to actually have to
[1:11:08] Speaker 12: leave the camp because of one. So he took he
[1:11:11] Speaker 12: packed up his kids and everything and took off that day.
[1:11:14] Speaker 12: On the on the third of July, he didn't even
[1:11:17] Speaker 12: stay for the fireworks. He was like, he felt like
[1:11:20] Speaker 12: he was in danger if we had one right there
[1:11:22] Speaker 12: on the island. I stayed two more nights and I
[1:11:27] Speaker 12: didn't worry about it. On you know, the third of July,
[1:11:30] Speaker 12: there was fireworks going off. It sounds like a war
[1:11:33] Speaker 12: zone there. I didn't I didn't think about it that
[1:11:36] Speaker 12: night and then stayed the night of my birthday on
[1:11:39] Speaker 12: the fourth and went home the fifth. And it didn't
[1:11:42] Speaker 12: really didn't really bother me, I guess, thinking back, you
[1:11:46] Speaker 12: know again I was I was ten feet from it
[1:11:51] Speaker 12: or closer when it was squatting down, and I was
[1:11:54] Speaker 12: standing there with my little light. You know, I could
[1:11:56] Speaker 12: hear it breathing, and he could have reached out and
[1:11:59] Speaker 12: snapped me like a twig, and he didn't. He just
[1:12:03] Speaker 12: checked me out for a second, maybe maybe five or
[1:12:06] Speaker 12: ten seconds. It was squatted down before it started moving
[1:12:09] Speaker 12: down the hill. But the way it moved down that
[1:12:12] Speaker 12: hill was very strange. How it stood all the way
[1:12:16] Speaker 12: up and went down almost to the ground, up and
[1:12:19] Speaker 12: down three or four times before you know, I high
[1:12:22] Speaker 12: tailed it and jumped into my tent.
[1:12:24] Speaker 4: Man.
[1:12:24] Speaker 1: That is one of my favorite episodes. Such a good
[1:12:28] Speaker 1: chat with Joey again. That's episode seven fourteen. Let's head
[1:12:32] Speaker 1: on now to number three out of ten. This is
[1:12:35] Speaker 1: episode seven ninety nine. Wildlife Biologist comes forward in Pennsylvania.
[1:12:40] Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this one is wild. Matt Carter is
[1:12:44] Speaker 1: a former wildlife biologist from southwest Pennsylvania, was on the show.
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: His family has this secluded twenty acre property. Matt is
[1:12:53] Speaker 1: really getting a ton of data and having some intense
[1:12:56] Speaker 1: experiences on this property, everything from bizarre howls to weird smells,
[1:13:04] Speaker 1: unidentified bird calls. And Matt is a gentleman who has
[1:13:08] Speaker 1: authored his own bird book, Birds of the West Virginia
[1:13:12] Speaker 1: Northern Panhandle too. He is the author of that book,
[1:13:15] Speaker 1: so he knows his stuff as a wildlife biologist. Check
[1:13:20] Speaker 1: out this clip of episode number three out of ten,
[1:13:25] Speaker 1: This whole episode is just awesome.
[1:13:26] Speaker 6: I stood up and I walked over and I was
[1:13:28] Speaker 6: staying there, just looking, and then all of a sudden,
[1:13:30] Speaker 6: I hear, like plain as day, a wood knock and
[1:13:33] Speaker 6: I was like, oh, that's weird. And my mom said,
[1:13:36] Speaker 6: what I said, You didn't hear that. I said, that
[1:13:39] Speaker 6: sounded like somebody like took it like a stick or
[1:13:42] Speaker 6: you know, fall aback something, just smack the tree. And
[1:13:46] Speaker 6: she said, are you kidding? I said, Mom, I would
[1:13:47] Speaker 6: never joke about wildlife stuff. And she said, well, what
[1:13:51] Speaker 6: would do that? What kind of animal? I said, well,
[1:13:53] Speaker 6: you would need hands to actually pick something up and
[1:13:56] Speaker 6: smack something like that. And then we heard a second
[1:13:59] Speaker 6: one and she heard it this time, and now the
[1:14:02] Speaker 6: dogs moved from where they were to between me and
[1:14:05] Speaker 6: the and like you know where you can't see from
[1:14:08] Speaker 6: the campfire, and then we heard another one answer it
[1:14:12] Speaker 6: back further up in the woods. That was when I'm like, okay,
[1:14:16] Speaker 6: time to take the dogs in. And it was very
[1:14:18] Speaker 6: hard to get them inside that night, like they really
[1:14:22] Speaker 6: did not want to leave, like where they were, like
[1:14:24] Speaker 6: they were really freaked out even walk over towards that
[1:14:27] Speaker 6: part of the property because we kind of had to
[1:14:29] Speaker 6: walk that directionally get back to the house. So that
[1:14:34] Speaker 6: was like the first like real weird thing out here
[1:14:38] Speaker 6: wildlife wise, and I'm like, Okay, something's in that woods
[1:14:41] Speaker 6: making noises that I don't know what it is. And
[1:14:43] Speaker 6: that's a problem because I've been doing this, you know,
[1:14:46] Speaker 6: for a better part of a decade at that point,
[1:14:49] Speaker 6: and I've spent thousands of hours, like I worked on
[1:14:51] Speaker 6: like the breeding bird atlasts from Western Virginia. I was
[1:14:54] Speaker 6: doing one hundred hours a week in the woods and
[1:14:56] Speaker 6: all these other projects. So I'm very aware of what's
[1:14:59] Speaker 6: in this whole area. So that was kind of it
[1:15:04] Speaker 6: until that fall, so like a few months later, so
[1:15:08] Speaker 6: that was by June, so around September October, it was
[1:15:12] Speaker 6: like four in the morning because I'm a bit of
[1:15:14] Speaker 6: a night out, so I was just sitting here on
[1:15:16] Speaker 6: my computer and then I started to hear what sounded
[1:15:19] Speaker 6: like a hyena and I know it's not a coyote
[1:15:22] Speaker 6: because I've since found a video from the US Fish
[1:15:25] Speaker 6: and Wildlife Service which I can send you a link
[1:15:27] Speaker 6: to that they're actually talking about these vocalizations that they caught,
[1:15:32] Speaker 6: and they're talking about sasquatch and like how they can't
[1:15:35] Speaker 6: figure out, like, is that what this is because none
[1:15:38] Speaker 6: of them knew what these exact sounds I heard were.
[1:15:43] Speaker 6: And what was weird about it was I went over
[1:15:45] Speaker 6: to the window and I was just listening, and as
[1:15:47] Speaker 6: it kind of like it got closer, I wasn't able
[1:15:50] Speaker 6: to move. It was like this wave of fear hit me,
[1:15:55] Speaker 6: and it's probably the scariness I've ever been And it's
[1:15:58] Speaker 6: crazy because I was on the second story of my
[1:16:01] Speaker 6: house inside, but I couldn't almost physically move until eventually
[1:16:07] Speaker 6: it got to the point where I was almost crying.
[1:16:08] Speaker 6: I was so scared, and then the noise just went
[1:16:12] Speaker 6: away and then I could start to move, which makes
[1:16:15] Speaker 6: me wonder if that was some form of infra sound.
[1:16:18] Speaker 6: That hit me because it was very weird that I
[1:16:20] Speaker 6: couldn't move. So after that, though, is really when things
[1:16:25] Speaker 6: started to pick up. So now we start getting like
[1:16:29] Speaker 6: odd bird calls at night. So what I mean is
[1:16:32] Speaker 6: throw the owls calling, but they're not owls. The voice
[1:16:35] Speaker 6: is too deep and the cadence and the rhythm is wrong.
[1:16:39] Speaker 6: So typically, like you know, like the great horn, Now
[1:16:42] Speaker 6: you'll get like one long or one short, and then
[1:16:44] Speaker 6: a couple more after that. This isn't even doing the
[1:16:47] Speaker 6: right amount of notes, let alone. The voice is too
[1:16:50] Speaker 6: deep to be an owl, And at times we'll go
[1:16:53] Speaker 6: to an alternate like real deep at the end, so
[1:16:58] Speaker 6: that's clearly not an owl doing that. And we'll get
[1:17:02] Speaker 6: like other weird animal calls like geese and other things
[1:17:06] Speaker 6: coming from the woods, and like there's no there's not
[1:17:08] Speaker 6: going to be a random goose living up in the woods.
[1:17:12] Speaker 6: And this kind of goes on until like early June
[1:17:15] Speaker 6: of twenty twenty four. So I've been trying to get
[1:17:19] Speaker 6: back into shape just because I'm trying to be healthier.
[1:17:21] Speaker 6: And our property, like I said, it's a twenty acre.
[1:17:24] Speaker 6: It's mainly a like an open field, and in the
[1:17:29] Speaker 6: back left corner of that field, there's like a little
[1:17:32] Speaker 6: stand of woods before you hit the actual woods, like
[1:17:34] Speaker 6: there's a little like stretch of like clearing between it,
[1:17:38] Speaker 6: so it kind of goes It has a grade too,
[1:17:41] Speaker 6: like it kind of goes up into that corner. But
[1:17:43] Speaker 6: then as you go up to the right hand back corner,
[1:17:46] Speaker 6: it's really steep. So it's a nice workout, like you
[1:17:49] Speaker 6: get this gradual grade and then you come back down
[1:17:52] Speaker 6: on like the right side and you just do a
[1:17:54] Speaker 6: circle and I think altogether it's like a quarter mile
[1:17:57] Speaker 6: or a half a mile. It gets a teco lock.
[1:18:00] Speaker 6: So what happened was I was walking back towards that corner,
[1:18:03] Speaker 6: towards where that pond is, and I noticed everything went
[1:18:07] Speaker 6: dead silent, and I mean dead silent. No birds, no bugs, nothing,
[1:18:13] Speaker 6: And that's really weird for that to be happening in
[1:18:17] Speaker 6: like early summer, late spring. You know when everything should
[1:18:20] Speaker 6: be going crazy or something should be doing an alarm call,
[1:18:23] Speaker 6: you know, some kind of you know, there's a whole
[1:18:27] Speaker 6: bunch of different species like blue jays. You know, there's
[1:18:32] Speaker 6: a tough to tit myself, and something should be alarming
[1:18:34] Speaker 6: to me coming back there, but nothing, So I thought
[1:18:39] Speaker 6: that was weird to go, like quieter and quieter the
[1:18:41] Speaker 6: closer I got through that pond. So I just sat
[1:18:45] Speaker 6: there for at the pond for a second, I'm like,
[1:18:47] Speaker 6: this is it just fell off? And then that's when
[1:18:51] Speaker 6: I heard it sounded like I was convinced it was
[1:18:54] Speaker 6: a person, but everything was so grown in at that time.
[1:18:57] Speaker 6: I couldn't see, you know, what was walking around, but
[1:19:01] Speaker 6: it was clearly two legs because it sounded just like
[1:19:04] Speaker 6: a huge person walking And it kind of freaked me
[1:19:07] Speaker 6: out because nobody should be back there. All of our
[1:19:11] Speaker 6: dogs are like essentially like guard dogs, so everyone knows
[1:19:15] Speaker 6: just don't come up here. I mean, we've got guns.
[1:19:17] Speaker 6: I mean Southwest Pa. So no one should be back
[1:19:21] Speaker 6: there messing around. And it started to bother me because
[1:19:25] Speaker 6: I said hello and there was no answer. So then
[1:19:29] Speaker 6: I'm like, Okay, what do I do now, because I'm
[1:19:33] Speaker 6: convinced this is a person, and I'm like, they're not answering,
[1:19:37] Speaker 6: and you know, normally if there's someone out in the
[1:19:39] Speaker 6: woods with you and they're not answering back, they don't
[1:19:41] Speaker 6: have good intentions. So I said, just so you know,
[1:19:45] Speaker 6: I can hear you, I said, I can't see you.
[1:19:48] Speaker 6: But I can tell, like the general area where you're at.
[1:19:50] Speaker 6: I said, Look, I live in that house over there,
[1:19:53] Speaker 6: I said, So I'm not far. Someone will come looking
[1:19:55] Speaker 6: for me, I said. And the second thing is, I'm
[1:19:58] Speaker 6: not back here like the car problems, I said, I'm
[1:20:01] Speaker 6: just going for a nature walk and I'm going to
[1:20:03] Speaker 6: walk up to the other to the opposite corner. Back here,
[1:20:06] Speaker 6: there's a game cam that a family friend has. I'm
[1:20:09] Speaker 6: gonna put the s ME card back in it that
[1:20:11] Speaker 6: I got yesterday, because that was what was weird was
[1:20:14] Speaker 6: the day before. Everything was fine when I was back there.
[1:20:18] Speaker 6: So it's still nothing, no one, no one's saying anything.
[1:20:21] Speaker 6: There was no smells though, so I didn't smell anything
[1:20:24] Speaker 6: this time, but there was something like you could tell
[1:20:27] Speaker 6: it was over there because I could hear it moving around.
[1:20:30] Speaker 6: So I said, okay, I'm gonna walk up here now. Still,
[1:20:33] Speaker 6: you know, no nothing's talking back to me. So I
[1:20:37] Speaker 6: start to walk up like the woodline, and I noticed though,
[1:20:40] Speaker 6: even though nobody's talking, it's paralleling me. So I'm like, okay,
[1:20:45] Speaker 6: I don't like this because now not only is it
[1:20:47] Speaker 6: somebody you know in my mind at this time not talking,
[1:20:50] Speaker 6: but they're paralleling me, so it's like they're stalking me.
[1:20:55] Speaker 6: So I keep walking up and as I get closer
[1:20:59] Speaker 6: to where there's like this little watering hole that they
[1:21:02] Speaker 6: actually dug with a with a I think like a
[1:21:05] Speaker 6: bacco or something, and they put the game camera up there,
[1:21:08] Speaker 6: you know, to see like what would come up there.
[1:21:11] Speaker 6: So the closer I get to it now, I start
[1:21:14] Speaker 6: to hear it's like a you know, almost like someone
[1:21:16] Speaker 6: smacking its chest, not like a rough grouse, because that's
[1:21:19] Speaker 6: a very anyone that's hurt those they know exactly what
[1:21:22] Speaker 6: that sounds like. This actually sounds like what I was
[1:21:24] Speaker 6: just doing, like that, like someone's smacking the chest and
[1:21:27] Speaker 6: it was huge. And then the like the bush starts shaking,
[1:21:32] Speaker 6: and that's when I start to hear you know, almost
[1:21:35] Speaker 6: like the Sierra sounds, but without like words to it.
[1:21:39] Speaker 6: So all this together is really confusing me because I'm like, what,
[1:21:43] Speaker 6: you know, what is I don't even know what's happening
[1:21:46] Speaker 6: right now, because as a wildlife biologist, I'm trying to
[1:21:49] Speaker 6: rationalize this because you know, it's like, well, that could
[1:21:52] Speaker 6: be you know, in my mind, I'm still thinking that
[1:21:53] Speaker 6: could be rough to grouse. But then what's gonna shake.
[1:21:57] Speaker 6: What's gonna shake the you know, that's a huge bush
[1:22:01] Speaker 6: that it's shaking. And I'm like, I don't know what's
[1:22:04] Speaker 6: going on now, And I was terrified because I'm like,
[1:22:08] Speaker 6: there's something here that's enormous, and you know, I did
[1:22:12] Speaker 6: the dumbest thing I've probably ever done in my life.
[1:22:14] Speaker 6: Jeremiah and anyone listening, dear God, don't ever do this.
[1:22:18] Speaker 6: You know. I'm like, haha, you know, oh, you know,
[1:22:21] Speaker 6: maybe it's sasquatch. Well, that was dumb that like to
[1:22:25] Speaker 6: even like take this as like not anything serious or
[1:22:27] Speaker 6: that I was in a bad situation.
[1:22:30] Speaker 5: So what did I do?
[1:22:33] Speaker 6: I just laughed because this is so stupid, Like, even
[1:22:35] Speaker 6: if you don't know what the animal is, you should
[1:22:38] Speaker 6: never like push to see. Oh am, I gonna you know,
[1:22:42] Speaker 6: instigated to do something doing something. I barred my teeth
[1:22:46] Speaker 6: like a chimp wood and then I did the back
[1:22:49] Speaker 6: to it with you know, smacking my chest. That's what
[1:22:52] Speaker 6: that noise is. That was the biggest mistake I've ever made.
[1:22:56] Speaker 6: Whatever that was barreled through there then, and it almost
[1:23:01] Speaker 6: I almost got the way I could see it, and
[1:23:03] Speaker 6: I was like, nope. I started to back up then
[1:23:06] Speaker 6: I kept my eyes facing towards the woodline and I
[1:23:10] Speaker 6: just walked slowly back and I just kept watching because
[1:23:13] Speaker 6: I'm like, I'm convinced at this point I'm gonna die.
[1:23:16] Speaker 6: Whatever that was was crashing through there, and I could
[1:23:19] Speaker 6: tell now this is no joke, Like things are real serious,
[1:23:23] Speaker 6: real quick, and I just felt like, whatever's here, if
[1:23:27] Speaker 6: it wants to, I'm dead. There's nothing I'm gonna do
[1:23:31] Speaker 6: because I know people say they've seen bear, but none
[1:23:34] Speaker 6: of this fits a bear, like the smiling, the shaking,
[1:23:37] Speaker 6: the thing I don't. I've heard there do weird noises,
[1:23:41] Speaker 6: but none of it like.
[1:23:42] Speaker 1: This wild stuff going on with that one in southwest Pennsylvania.
[1:23:47] Speaker 1: Definitely check it out, guys. Whole episode. It is episode seven.
[1:23:52] Speaker 1: Let's head on now to number two, the number two
[1:23:57] Speaker 1: most viewed episode of Big for Society on the YouTube
[1:24:01] Speaker 1: platform for twenty twenty five. Here it is episode number
[1:24:07] Speaker 1: seven fifty six. They found that Hunter torn apart. This
[1:24:14] Speaker 1: episode is an extremely intense conversation with Mark Plowboy Green
[1:24:22] Speaker 1: from down there in the foothills of Alabama, who had
[1:24:25] Speaker 1: some really incredible encounters down there by Creepy Mountain. This
[1:24:32] Speaker 1: is one that you really do not want to miss anything.
[1:24:37] Speaker 1: Any conversation with Mark Green is incredible, and you guys
[1:24:42] Speaker 1: loved this chat on the channel. So let's go ahead.
[1:24:45] Speaker 1: We're gonna play a clip of this.
[1:24:48] Speaker 5: You can check it out.
[1:24:50] Speaker 13: I had found me a big wide oak tree, very
[1:24:55] Speaker 13: big wide oak tree, and that's what I had, you know,
[1:24:58] Speaker 13: sitting down against and facing out into the green field
[1:25:01] Speaker 13: where I could see anything you know that would enter
[1:25:03] Speaker 13: the green field.
[1:25:04] Speaker 5: And behind me was a big swamp.
[1:25:07] Speaker 13: I was sitting there listening to beaver splash the water
[1:25:10] Speaker 13: and you know, and I could tell the water wasn't
[1:25:13] Speaker 13: too far behind me, maybe one hundred yards maybe something
[1:25:16] Speaker 13: like that. Well, about three point thirty that afternoon, two
[1:25:22] Speaker 13: doves entered into the field. They came from behind me
[1:25:26] Speaker 13: where the swamp was, and they went to feeding out
[1:25:29] Speaker 13: in the field. Of course, that got my hopes up
[1:25:32] Speaker 13: that later on, you know, a buck might be trailing them.
[1:25:38] Speaker 5: So, you know, I knew that.
[1:25:39] Speaker 13: Was a good thing by those two dogs coming in there,
[1:25:41] Speaker 13: that you know, they might.
[1:25:42] Speaker 5: Draw a buck.
[1:25:43] Speaker 13: And I so probably for a good thirty minutes or so,
[1:25:48] Speaker 13: the doors just feeding around, they'd raise their head, look
[1:25:51] Speaker 13: up a little bit and they'd go back to feeding.
[1:25:53] Speaker 13: Everything was going good, and probably sometime a little at four,
[1:26:00] Speaker 13: I said, I did not look at my watch. I
[1:26:02] Speaker 13: just knew it was getting late afternoon, probably around four fifteen.
[1:26:06] Speaker 13: Somewhere in that neck of the woods, I heard a
[1:26:09] Speaker 13: little commotion in the woods behind me. Of course, my
[1:26:13] Speaker 13: thoughts went to, here he comes, here comes the buck.
[1:26:16] Speaker 13: Of course the doves look straight up and look back.
[1:26:19] Speaker 13: They'd stare wild, and then they'd get relaxed again and
[1:26:23] Speaker 13: go back to eating. Well, this went on a couple
[1:26:25] Speaker 13: of times, and this probably done got to you know,
[1:26:29] Speaker 13: four point thirty somewhere in that neighborhood, and all of
[1:26:32] Speaker 13: a sudden, these two doors just throw their tails up
[1:26:36] Speaker 13: and blow and run out the opposite end of that
[1:26:39] Speaker 13: field fast as they could go. Well, of course, I'm thinking, oh, yeah,
[1:26:43] Speaker 13: that's a buck. He's fishing to bust out in this field,
[1:26:47] Speaker 13: and I'm gonna get a shot at him. But I
[1:26:50] Speaker 13: noticed he didn't come on you know, you know, this
[1:26:54] Speaker 13: is what I'm thinking in my head. He started kind
[1:26:57] Speaker 13: of moving in behind me slowly, and of course I'm
[1:27:01] Speaker 13: still thinking, well, maybe he winded me, you know, maybe
[1:27:04] Speaker 13: he got a with you know, wh of me, and
[1:27:07] Speaker 13: he's trying to get behind me to see if he
[1:27:09] Speaker 13: can get a better smell of me and see where
[1:27:11] Speaker 13: I'm at before, you know, because buck deer, they are
[1:27:15] Speaker 13: very cautious. This went on probably for another ten minutes
[1:27:21] Speaker 13: or so, and I could hear that subtle movement in
[1:27:24] Speaker 13: behind me, and I could tell it it's getting a
[1:27:25] Speaker 13: little closer to me, and my curiosity finally just got
[1:27:31] Speaker 13: the best of me, so I started easing up the
[1:27:35] Speaker 13: side of that tree. Of course, this tree was big
[1:27:38] Speaker 13: enough to conceal me. I don't know how many inches
[1:27:41] Speaker 13: around it was at least a forty eight fifty two
[1:27:44] Speaker 13: inch tree, so you know, it's pretty big. So he's
[1:27:50] Speaker 13: up and stand still for a minute or so, and
[1:27:53] Speaker 13: then I kind of peeped my head out from around
[1:27:55] Speaker 13: that tree, looking back into that swamp.
[1:27:59] Speaker 5: Didn't see nothing something for a minute or two.
[1:28:01] Speaker 13: Or what seemed like a minute or two, and all
[1:28:03] Speaker 13: of a sudden, I caught movement maybe sixty seventy feet
[1:28:08] Speaker 13: from me, and I got to looking, and I couldn't
[1:28:15] Speaker 13: really tell what I was looking at for a second
[1:28:16] Speaker 13: when I first flew it, but I knew.
[1:28:18] Speaker 5: Something was there.
[1:28:20] Speaker 13: And then first I thought I was looking at another
[1:28:23] Speaker 13: human because when it peeped out from around the tree,
[1:28:27] Speaker 13: it had a you know, human sort of shape to it,
[1:28:30] Speaker 13: and I could see the shoulders. But what struck me
[1:28:33] Speaker 13: out about this was it didn't have no orange on.
[1:28:37] Speaker 13: And of course I'm in my mind, I'm thinking, yes,
[1:28:40] Speaker 13: somebody that stuck up behind me, that I messed.
[1:28:42] Speaker 3: Up my hunting.
[1:28:44] Speaker 5: But also.
[1:28:46] Speaker 13: I didn't really quite you know, feel right about it
[1:28:49] Speaker 13: because I was looking at something I didn't have orange on.
[1:28:51] Speaker 13: So that day I had left my binocers at home.
[1:28:55] Speaker 13: I didn't bring them with me, so I'd done something
[1:28:57] Speaker 13: I shouldn't have. I pulled up my rifle, even though
[1:29:01] Speaker 13: that was just sixty seventy feet away. This place is
[1:29:05] Speaker 13: very full of palmettos about waist high. It's real thick
[1:29:09] Speaker 13: behind me, so you know, it was hard to judge
[1:29:13] Speaker 13: what I was really looking at. I just knew it might,
[1:29:15] Speaker 13: you know, kind of looked like I had a human
[1:29:16] Speaker 13: form to it. But I did put up my rifle,
[1:29:20] Speaker 13: looked down the scope, and of course that's when it
[1:29:24] Speaker 13: really poured it in, And that's when I could see
[1:29:28] Speaker 13: what looked like a shoulder with a hair on it,
[1:29:32] Speaker 13: part of the chest, stomach, airy, part of the leg
[1:29:35] Speaker 13: very hairy. And that's when I ended up bringing the
[1:29:39] Speaker 13: gun up to the you know, the scope up to
[1:29:41] Speaker 13: the head, and that's when I pretty much realized I
[1:29:47] Speaker 13: really wasn't looking at a human.
[1:29:50] Speaker 5: Could not see its face.
[1:29:54] Speaker 13: And then how I describe it is it's kind of
[1:29:57] Speaker 13: like the younger teenagers that wear the hair air where
[1:30:00] Speaker 13: it flips over in front of their face.
[1:30:02] Speaker 5: This is basically what it was, you know how it was.
[1:30:05] Speaker 13: It had its hair kind of hanging in its face
[1:30:07] Speaker 13: where I couldnot see facial features. This probably lasted maybe
[1:30:13] Speaker 13: ten or fifteen seconds that the.
[1:30:15] Speaker 5: Most I think.
[1:30:20] Speaker 13: When I raised a rifle, probably it thought I was
[1:30:24] Speaker 13: probably fixing to shoot it, because what it did was
[1:30:27] Speaker 13: it went down on all fours and shot out there
[1:30:30] Speaker 13: back into that into that swamp behind me. The first
[1:30:36] Speaker 13: thing I noticed is when it left how fast it was.
[1:30:39] Speaker 13: That this could catch a deer if it wanted to.
[1:30:41] Speaker 13: This moved a lot faster than the deer. I mean,
[1:30:45] Speaker 13: I had never seen anything move that fast when it left,
[1:30:49] Speaker 13: and of course it went on all fours, so I
[1:30:51] Speaker 13: wouldn't never to see it as good because it got
[1:30:54] Speaker 13: down kind of even with the palmettos. Of course, it's
[1:31:00] Speaker 13: eating on close to dark. Fear came into you know,
[1:31:05] Speaker 13: came you know, struck me because I knew then I
[1:31:09] Speaker 13: didn't see you know whatn't a human I was looking at, so, uh,
[1:31:14] Speaker 13: you know, I started getting scared, getting dark, so I
[1:31:16] Speaker 13: decided to come on out of there. I started walking
[1:31:21] Speaker 13: up the field, and I was looking back behind.
[1:31:23] Speaker 5: Me a good bit too.
[1:31:26] Speaker 13: Got up to about where my friend was in the
[1:31:28] Speaker 13: middle and hollered his name out. He come on out
[1:31:31] Speaker 13: of the woods, and I asked him if he you know,
[1:31:35] Speaker 13: seeing anything, hurt anything. He said, now, it's been he said,
[1:31:38] Speaker 13: it's just been definitely quiet in here. I said, we
[1:31:40] Speaker 13: did you see anybody or anything? He said now, I said, what,
[1:31:43] Speaker 13: I've seen something, and he didn't say much back when
[1:31:48] Speaker 13: we just kept on walking. We got up at the
[1:31:51] Speaker 13: end of the field and realized her other friend had
[1:31:53] Speaker 13: done come out went to the truck.
[1:31:55] Speaker 8: Uh.
[1:31:56] Speaker 13: So we got onto the truck and we were, you know,
[1:31:59] Speaker 13: of course, getting ready to put her stuff up, and
[1:32:02] Speaker 13: mother friend looked at me and said, Mark, what's wrong?
[1:32:06] Speaker 13: And I said, wait a minute. He said, well, you
[1:32:09] Speaker 13: white as a sheep. I said, well, I've just seen
[1:32:12] Speaker 13: something down there in that swamp down there, and he
[1:32:16] Speaker 13: and we kind of left it at that.
[1:32:17] Speaker 5: I didn't say nothing else about it.
[1:32:19] Speaker 13: We drove home, we didn't talk about it. I didn't
[1:32:21] Speaker 13: bring it back up. The next day, he gives me
[1:32:26] Speaker 13: a call and he said, you seen the big foot yesterday,
[1:32:33] Speaker 13: didn't he? I said, how you know? I said, well,
[1:32:37] Speaker 13: that's what I think it is. I said, well, how
[1:32:39] Speaker 13: you know? He said, because I've done seen them before myself,
[1:32:42] Speaker 13: and come to find out that he'd seen them on.
[1:32:44] Speaker 5: His property right here where we live at.
[1:32:47] Speaker 13: So that's my first sighting and encounter that I know
[1:32:55] Speaker 13: of that where I actually physically, you know, laid eyes
[1:32:58] Speaker 13: on one. It was probably in the twenty to six
[1:33:05] Speaker 13: and seven foot range. Kind of a brownish color, not
[1:33:12] Speaker 13: real dark brown, but i'd say a lot brown color.
[1:33:17] Speaker 13: And what I could tell out of it, you know,
[1:33:19] Speaker 13: what little bit I could really tell, you know, it
[1:33:23] Speaker 13: was a real bulky, beefed up.
[1:33:26] Speaker 5: You know, it was more like you looking what I
[1:33:28] Speaker 5: was looking at.
[1:33:31] Speaker 1: I'm gonna go listen to the episode right now, but
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[1:33:50] Speaker 1: was not expecting it. You weren't expecting it. But man,
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[1:34:04] Speaker 1: episode though. I mean, Bill had some great things to
[1:34:08] Speaker 1: share his encounter near Jubilee College State Park in Peoria,
[1:34:12] Speaker 1: and people love to hear encounters that are happening in
[1:34:15] Speaker 1: this area of central Illinois. It's wild. It blew me away.
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[1:34:32] Speaker 5: Well, i'll tell.
[1:34:33] Speaker 14: You, Jeremiah, as I say, I'll tell you, I was
[1:34:36] Speaker 14: a skeptic until two thousand and eleven May fifth, to
[1:34:40] Speaker 14: be exact, twenty eleven, I had my first experience here
[1:34:44] Speaker 14: in puer Tony, excuse me, and I was out morell
[1:34:50] Speaker 14: mushroom honeing on private property and not too far, probably
[1:34:56] Speaker 14: approximately about five miles from Jubilee College State Art I'm
[1:35:02] Speaker 14: very aware of the property. I've hunted there for years.
[1:35:07] Speaker 14: There hunted, turkey hunted, squirrel hunted, you name it, I've
[1:35:10] Speaker 14: done it. Just that one day, I took my lab uh.
[1:35:16] Speaker 14: She was a female dogab a door retriever I took
[1:35:19] Speaker 14: care of with me, very obedient, and I decided to
[1:35:23] Speaker 14: go out to a spot that I've always hunted for years,
[1:35:26] Speaker 14: probably a dozen years in or you know, prior to
[1:35:30] Speaker 14: this incident. As I was walking through it, got out
[1:35:34] Speaker 14: of my pickup truck. It was a nice sunny day.
[1:35:37] Speaker 14: It wasn't no cloud cover or anything. And as I
[1:35:41] Speaker 14: got in there started walking through, my dog went ahead
[1:35:44] Speaker 14: of me as it normally did, and she started walking away.
[1:35:49] Speaker 14: And the next thing you know, I'm looking around. I'm
[1:35:52] Speaker 14: starting to pick up my shrooms, and I hear a
[1:35:56] Speaker 14: noise off to my lap. And when I mean noise
[1:36:00] Speaker 14: is as trees cracking. I heard the lees brushing, you know,
[1:36:04] Speaker 14: if someone had been walking. And first thing come to
[1:36:08] Speaker 14: my mind is maybe it's either someone in turkey hunting
[1:36:11] Speaker 14: or or a deer running to you know, running through
[1:36:14] Speaker 14: the timber, running through the brush. I stopped, but I
[1:36:20] Speaker 14: knew something was watching me. I had that eary feeling
[1:36:23] Speaker 14: something was watching me. Most hunters will tell you when
[1:36:27] Speaker 14: you're in the woods, uh, you know, out in no Tember,
[1:36:30] Speaker 14: if you're hunting, most animals, squirrels, birds, when they see it,
[1:36:35] Speaker 14: they'll stop. They'll go dead silent. That day, it was
[1:36:42] Speaker 14: so quiet you could hear a pin drop. And as
[1:36:46] Speaker 14: I looked over to my left, I thought I had
[1:36:49] Speaker 14: seen something, some movement. I wasn't for sure, so I
[1:36:55] Speaker 14: act like I was pretending I still knew something was there.
[1:36:58] Speaker 14: I act like I was still going to pick up mushrooms.
[1:37:02] Speaker 14: So when I kneeled down, there's an old deer trail there,
[1:37:06] Speaker 14: and I kneeled down, and as I kneeled down, I
[1:37:09] Speaker 14: was looking around, trying to scout the area, like where
[1:37:11] Speaker 14: you at?
[1:37:12] Speaker 6: Who is it?
[1:37:14] Speaker 14: All of a sudden, I hear a big yell. I yelled,
[1:37:17] Speaker 14: and I've never heard in my life. When it yelled,
[1:37:23] Speaker 14: I kind of like, oh, you know, what's just the
[1:37:26] Speaker 14: same O Kyle and the Center. Now I ain't no
[1:37:29] Speaker 14: human being, And I just pretended like I was going to,
[1:37:34] Speaker 14: you know, pick up mushrooms again. And in my mind,
[1:37:40] Speaker 14: I'm thinking that wasn't.
[1:37:41] Speaker 10: Nobody, no man.
[1:37:42] Speaker 14: He couldn't yell that loud and deepness of it, and
[1:37:46] Speaker 14: it scared me. I was scared. Then again, about maybe
[1:37:51] Speaker 14: ten seconds later, I heard another one, and then I
[1:37:53] Speaker 14: could hear trees breaking, branch is breaking off, and I
[1:37:57] Speaker 14: could hear the you know, the footsteps, so I knew
[1:38:00] Speaker 14: it wasn't a deer. And the second thing had come
[1:38:03] Speaker 14: on my mind is maybe somebody's out here turkey hunting
[1:38:07] Speaker 14: and they're running through the woods and I spooked them
[1:38:10] Speaker 14: or something, you know. And it ended up it wasn't
[1:38:13] Speaker 14: fat either. As I went on hounting the mushrooms, I
[1:38:19] Speaker 14: stopped up. I took a few steps. I could hear
[1:38:21] Speaker 14: the brushing in the trees cracking off to my left,
[1:38:27] Speaker 14: and when I would say probimately maybe, I would say
[1:38:31] Speaker 14: forty feet maybe if that. All of a sudden, here
[1:38:36] Speaker 14: comes my dog running back to me with her hitting
[1:38:38] Speaker 14: her tail between her legs all the way up to
[1:38:41] Speaker 14: her belly, and her hair up from her neck all
[1:38:45] Speaker 14: the way down to her back, and she had her
[1:38:48] Speaker 14: head down in a submission, and she was grown and
[1:38:51] Speaker 14: looking off to where I had heard the sounds, and
[1:38:55] Speaker 14: I said, oh, my dog scared something over there. She
[1:38:58] Speaker 14: wouldn't be doing that. The dog came running towards me
[1:39:02] Speaker 14: and it laid down in front of me on my feet,
[1:39:06] Speaker 14: and I told her to stay, and she was turning
[1:39:09] Speaker 14: off round towards where I was hearing the trees break,
[1:39:12] Speaker 14: and I.
[1:39:12] Speaker 6: Heard the yell.
[1:39:15] Speaker 14: And again I heard another yell, and the dog started.
[1:39:17] Speaker 6: To bar.
[1:39:19] Speaker 14: And all, and it scared me to the point where
[1:39:24] Speaker 14: I just sat still for a few seconds, and I said,
[1:39:26] Speaker 14: it's going to get me. It's got me now, I
[1:39:29] Speaker 14: have nothing on me and my dog. I grabbed the
[1:39:34] Speaker 14: dog by the collar and I walked backwards. I jumped
[1:39:38] Speaker 14: into the put her into the passenger side pickup that
[1:39:42] Speaker 14: I was driving, and I was pulled on this side
[1:39:46] Speaker 14: of the beanfield. There's a little area where the tractors
[1:39:49] Speaker 14: go up along the fields to do the corn fields
[1:39:52] Speaker 14: and the beanfields, and I was parked there, so I
[1:39:56] Speaker 14: backed up. I went probably it was the only I
[1:40:00] Speaker 14: mean maybe fifty feet from where I was parked at.
[1:40:05] Speaker 14: So I back up, got the dog in the truck,
[1:40:08] Speaker 14: and I went to go around. I thought, if this
[1:40:09] Speaker 14: thing's gonna get me, it's gonna get me now. I
[1:40:13] Speaker 14: hurried up, got the truck and I got out of
[1:40:16] Speaker 14: there as fast as I could have. Backed the truck
[1:40:18] Speaker 14: up in reverse, got all the way over into the
[1:40:20] Speaker 14: other end. I back up about three blocks, turned and
[1:40:24] Speaker 14: went down the road and I went down on the
[1:40:27] Speaker 14: property approximately about a mile and a half from where
[1:40:30] Speaker 14: I was at, on.
[1:40:31] Speaker 6: The opposite side of the timber.
[1:40:34] Speaker 14: So I thought I was safe, and I was trying
[1:40:36] Speaker 14: to get my mind like what did I just hear
[1:40:38] Speaker 14: and see it?
[1:40:39] Speaker 6: Wow?
[1:40:39] Speaker 14: You know, And my dog wouldn't even get out of
[1:40:42] Speaker 14: the truck. It was that scare. And anybody that knows
[1:40:47] Speaker 14: Poya County or the state, you can look at up
[1:40:50] Speaker 14: or google it. Pickle Pool Creeks got tribertaries off of that,
[1:40:55] Speaker 14: and it's not far from the property. It's on the
[1:40:57] Speaker 14: property of joining property I was on, but there's tributaries
[1:41:02] Speaker 14: that go off onto this property.
[1:41:03] Speaker 6: Also.
[1:41:04] Speaker 14: It's not real deep, probably a few inches, but it's
[1:41:07] Speaker 14: always flown and we used to keep cattle on that side.
[1:41:13] Speaker 14: And I went in over on that side, I think,
[1:41:16] Speaker 14: and I would be okay. And I walked down into
[1:41:19] Speaker 14: an area heavy and thorns and brushed temple. When I
[1:41:24] Speaker 14: get down there, I see a bunch of footprints tracks
[1:41:29] Speaker 14: and it goes across the creek and up a thirty
[1:41:32] Speaker 14: foot in the bank, and it was a about a
[1:41:36] Speaker 14: four inch tree sticking out of the side of the hill,
[1:41:40] Speaker 14: and it was broke freshly off, and the track looked
[1:41:43] Speaker 14: like it took four feet across one foot. You could
[1:41:47] Speaker 14: see where it went up the hill and broke the tree,
[1:41:50] Speaker 14: and then it was gone.
[1:41:51] Speaker 10: It was that was it.
[1:41:54] Speaker 14: I went ahead. I just went decided to go back
[1:41:57] Speaker 14: to the farmhouse. And I get out and I go
[1:42:01] Speaker 14: to the woman that owns the property, and she was
[1:42:04] Speaker 14: in her mid eighties. She was out in the lawn
[1:42:08] Speaker 14: and she was messing with the garden, and she they
[1:42:11] Speaker 14: my nickname was called Elmer, h cause I'm sure and
[1:42:15] Speaker 14: that's my nickname. And the lady there goes, hey, Almer,
[1:42:20] Speaker 14: what have you been doing with my horses out here?
[1:42:24] Speaker 14: She said, somebody's been coming out here all week and
[1:42:27] Speaker 14: my horses have been jumping like you're in a rodeo.
[1:42:31] Speaker 14: And her name's Mildred. And I said, well, Mildred, I
[1:42:33] Speaker 14: don't come out here at two thirty in the morning
[1:42:35] Speaker 14: or twelve o'clock at night or anything else. I said,
[1:42:38] Speaker 14: that wasn't me. And I said, what do you mean
[1:42:41] Speaker 14: they're acting up? And she said, yeah, one jump the fence.
[1:42:44] Speaker 14: She said, something's been spooking them all week. And my
[1:42:49] Speaker 14: brother in law who was a well known tracker and hunter.
[1:42:52] Speaker 14: His name was William. He was a caretaker there also
[1:42:58] Speaker 14: like a handyman on him all alive, and he pulled
[1:43:04] Speaker 14: up and he goes, hey, what's going on? He heard
[1:43:06] Speaker 14: her asking me about the horses. Then he goes, well,
[1:43:11] Speaker 14: I told him what had happened, and I said, no,
[1:43:15] Speaker 14: horses have been acting up, and she thought that was me.
[1:43:17] Speaker 14: I said, but I want to tell you what just
[1:43:19] Speaker 14: happened to me. He looked at me plenty and goes home.
[1:43:22] Speaker 14: He goes, you know, that's strange. These horses had been
[1:43:24] Speaker 14: acting up. I wonder if they didn't, you know, something
[1:43:28] Speaker 14: they didn't censor. And where I found the traps at Jeremiah,
[1:43:33] Speaker 14: we're right below where the horses walk out of the barn.
[1:43:37] Speaker 6: It's like a.
[1:43:37] Speaker 14: Little pasture area that goes down into the creek. And
[1:43:43] Speaker 14: that was in twenty eleven. They filed two eleven in
[1:43:47] Speaker 14: the Big Back. I'll never forget that day.
[1:43:50] Speaker 1: Congrats, Bill, you got the number one viewed episode of
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[1:44:04] Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and the conversations that I have had
[1:44:08] Speaker 1: are incredible, and I'm so thankful to each and every
[1:44:11] Speaker 1: one of you for coming forward with your account, going
[1:44:18] Speaker 1: through the potential ridicule and the people making fun of you.
[1:44:24] Speaker 1: But this isn't stopping people. They're reaching out to me
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[1:44:32] Speaker 1: to keep up with the emails, inviting people to the show.
[1:44:40] Speaker 1: An episode by episode, we are getting the truth out
[1:44:43] Speaker 1: there about what people are experiencing. And maybe twenty twenty
[1:44:49] Speaker 1: six will be the year where who knows Bigfoot disclosure
[1:44:55] Speaker 1: it's coming out there. Will the government say, hey, yeah,
[1:44:59] Speaker 1: Bigfoot's real. Well ups are real. Guess what so is Bigfoot?
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: It could happen, guys, it really could. We just have
[1:45:05] Speaker 1: to keep pushing the more content that is released on
[1:45:09] Speaker 1: the internet about Bigfoot. I think it's like putting water
[1:45:12] Speaker 1: in a bathtub. Eventually it will overflow and it can't
[1:45:17] Speaker 1: be held back anymore. So episodes on my show, any
[1:45:22] Speaker 1: other of the Bigfoot podcasts that you know and love,
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: reach out to. If not me, reach out to anyone
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[1:46:00] Speaker 1: It's a great example of the best episodes of the show,
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[1:46:13] Speaker 1: help out me in a way that doesn't cost you anything,
[1:46:16] Speaker 1: it's super easy to do. Just take this episode, take
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[1:46:26] Speaker 1: interested in hearing it. And again, thank you so much
[1:46:30] Speaker 1: everyone who's listening to the show, sharing it, reaching out
[1:46:34] Speaker 1: to me. I appreciate you guys more than you could
[1:46:37] Speaker 1: ever know. Thanks for listening. Have you ever heard all
[1:46:41] Speaker 1: the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon and you
[1:46:45] Speaker 1: think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out
[1:46:48] Speaker 1: in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess
[1:46:51] Speaker 1: what this year you can If this is interesting to you,
[1:46:56] Speaker 1: stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summaryfest is coming
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[1:47:05] Speaker 1: gonna be even better than the previous year's reason number one,
[1:47:10] Speaker 1: I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild.
[1:47:12] Speaker 1: I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you
[1:47:18] Speaker 1: haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well,
[1:47:24] Speaker 1: you just gotta be there. We'll leave at that. More
[1:47:27] Speaker 1: about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check
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[1:47:56] Speaker 1: look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up
[1:47:59] Speaker 1: for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for
[1:48:03] Speaker 1: the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching
[1:48:06] Speaker 1: for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal.
[1:48:09] Speaker 1: It's just trust it's going to be a wild Wild Experience.
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[1:48:30] Speaker 1: So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so
[1:48:35] Speaker 1: that you guys can can get a little help with
[1:48:41] Speaker 1: the costs there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see
[1:48:45] Speaker 1: you at the booth in Oakridge this year. We can
[1:48:49] Speaker 1: talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so
[1:48:51] Speaker 1: many people last year and the year before. It is
[1:48:55] Speaker 1: an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it,
[1:48:58] Speaker 1: and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode,
[1:49:03] Speaker 1: I want to say something directly to a very specific
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch
[1:49:09] Speaker 1: or forces, and if you've seen something that no one
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or
[1:49:15] Speaker 1: forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if
[1:49:19] Speaker 1: you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground,
[1:49:23] Speaker 1: or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or
[1:49:25] Speaker 1: working intelligence and you've stumbled upon something you're not allowed
[1:49:29] Speaker 1: to talk about, and if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or
[1:49:32] Speaker 1: search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks
[1:49:36] Speaker 1: that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry
[1:49:40] Speaker 1: on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government
[1:49:43] Speaker 1: contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told
[1:49:46] Speaker 1: a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist,
[1:49:50] Speaker 1: or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence
[1:49:54] Speaker 1: you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary,
[1:49:58] Speaker 1: or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something
[1:50:01] Speaker 1: that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA,
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: NSA or anything with clearance and you've seen what the
[1:50:08] Speaker 1: public hasn't, then I want to talk to you, even
[1:50:13] Speaker 1: if it's anonymous. You can reach me at Bigfoot Society
[1:50:18] Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. The world needs to hear what
[1:50:21] Speaker 1: you've been forced to carry alone, and you're not alone.
[1:50:26] Speaker 1: You've got the story, We've got the mic. See you
[1:50:31] Speaker 1: in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode
[1:50:33] Speaker 1: of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds
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[1:51:38] Speaker 1: Keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop
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[1:51:43] Speaker 1: in the woods.

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