# Yellowstone National Park Employee Reveals Shocking Bigfoot Encounter!

An episode of [Bigfoot Society](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1453429066), 12 Jan 2026, 49 min.

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WARNING: This episode contains strong language. Join Jeremiah Byron on this gripping episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast as he interviews Iggy, a former Yellowstone National Park employee, about his first-hand encounter with what he believes to be Bigfoot. Iggy details his harrowing experience from the summer of 2021, including unsettling encounters with mysterious sounds, sensations, and ultimately, a sighting of the elusive creature. Iggy also shares his journey through dense wildlife areas of the park, the mystifying behaviors of the local fauna, and the emotional impact of the sighting which led him to quit his job shortly thereafter. This eye-opening account is sure to leave listeners with more questions than answers about what truly resides deep in America's national parks. 🗣️ 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: Listener discretion is advise this episode contains strong language that
[0:04] Speaker 1: might not be suitable for all audiences. You're listening to
[0:07] Speaker 1: Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show,
[0:10] Speaker 1: we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first
[0:13] Speaker 1: hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible.
[0:17] Speaker 1: From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms
[0:20] Speaker 1: and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each
[0:24] Speaker 1: one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are
[0:28] Speaker 1: the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in,
[0:32] Speaker 1: because today you'll hear another account that just might change
[0:35] Speaker 1: the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us.
[0:38] Speaker 1: All right, Bigfoot Society, thanks for coming back. We've got
[0:41] Speaker 1: an interview with a very interesting individual today. His name
[0:45] Speaker 1: is Iggy. Welcome to the show, Iggy. How are you
[0:47] Speaker 1: doing today, sir?
[0:49] Speaker 2: All right, good afternoon. Thanks for having me. I appreciate
[0:51] Speaker 2: your time absolutely.
[0:53] Speaker 1: Iggy reached out to me through email. He's got a
[0:56] Speaker 1: very interesting story. This is really the first time that
[0:59] Speaker 1: you've shared this account? Correct, Iggy?
[1:02] Speaker 2: Yes, any any detailed account? Yeah, first time sharing it publicly?
[1:07] Speaker 1: Absolutely, so a little background about Iggy and Iggy will
[1:12] Speaker 1: go in more into this in a few minutes, but
[1:14] Speaker 1: Iggy was contracted as a park employee in twenty twenty
[1:17] Speaker 1: one in Yellowstone National Park and during your time there,
[1:22] Speaker 1: you had a very interesting encounter with with what we
[1:28] Speaker 1: believe to be a bigfoot. So you've got a fascinating story,
[1:31] Speaker 1: and Iggy, is there anything else that the audience would
[1:34] Speaker 1: need to know about your background before we get into it.
[1:38] Speaker 2: At the time, you know, I was a college student
[1:41] Speaker 2: and I was looking for an adventurous type of job
[1:44] Speaker 2: and I had found that there's companies out there that
[1:47] Speaker 2: sponsor students and people looking for work in national parks
[1:52] Speaker 2: across the country. So found that interesting and I went
[1:55] Speaker 2: for it and I got the job. So I think
[1:58] Speaker 2: that's important to realize that almost anyone in this country,
[2:01] Speaker 2: if they have no criminal background, can go apply for
[2:04] Speaker 2: these federal sponsored jobs and get access to the parks.
[2:09] Speaker 1: Absolutely. Are you able to share anything about what your
[2:12] Speaker 1: normal day to day was like working at the park?
[2:16] Speaker 2: Yeah, So we worked depending on where the company, which
[2:22] Speaker 2: I won't name, it's one, so if you really wanted
[2:25] Speaker 2: to find it, you could, But in terms of where
[2:28] Speaker 2: they assigned you it was random, so you showed up
[2:31] Speaker 2: to the West entrance. I believe it's the Roosevelt Entrance.
[2:34] Speaker 2: Someone can correct me if I'm wrong on the exact name.
[2:37] Speaker 2: But there you meet at a type of a warehouse
[2:40] Speaker 2: type of location. It's very almost militarized kind of vibe.
[2:45] Speaker 2: You almost show up and they depending on what your
[2:47] Speaker 2: job is, right, there's people that do laundry, there's people
[2:50] Speaker 2: that work in the hotel. Everything. You can imagine. You're
[2:53] Speaker 2: kind of thrown into a group of people that are
[2:56] Speaker 2: also doing that, and they kind of become your friends
[2:59] Speaker 2: and you start merging like minded ideas. I don't know,
[3:03] Speaker 2: just anywhere you start a job kind of. And from there,
[3:07] Speaker 2: I was assigned to Mammoth Springs, which is one of
[3:11] Speaker 2: the earlier points in the park. It's right by the
[3:14] Speaker 2: main entrance. We say right by, but it's like fifteen miles.
[3:19] Speaker 2: The next one would be I think it's the Lake Cabin,
[3:22] Speaker 2: or no, the Roosevelt Cabin, which is a very beautiful cabin.
[3:25] Speaker 2: It's out in middle of nowhere. It used to be
[3:28] Speaker 2: President Roosevelt's kind of horse stables or something like this.
[3:32] Speaker 2: And then it goes on and on from the Lake Cabin,
[3:35] Speaker 2: which is very famous with the geyser, and then all
[3:37] Speaker 2: the way up. So in terms of where and how
[3:40] Speaker 2: I can access the park, as long as I wasn't
[3:43] Speaker 2: clocked in working, I could go anywhere and I didn't
[3:48] Speaker 2: have to pay or anything. I had a sticker and
[3:50] Speaker 2: passes on my vehicle that showed I was a park employee,
[3:54] Speaker 2: so I was left alone most of the time. Rangers
[3:57] Speaker 2: never gave me trouble. They did give other people trouble
[4:00] Speaker 2: in the sense of like we usually had people I
[4:03] Speaker 2: don't know who would do it. I wouldn't now that
[4:06] Speaker 2: I had this experience, but people would sleep in their
[4:10] Speaker 2: cars in the park to not have to wait in
[4:13] Speaker 2: line or go in the next day, and that's illegal
[4:17] Speaker 2: if anyone didn't know. It's also highly not advised since
[4:20] Speaker 2: there's bears and lots of things that could potentially kill you.
[4:25] Speaker 2: When I was there, I don't like to get conspiracle,
[4:28] Speaker 2: especially starting a new job. I never really thought of
[4:32] Speaker 2: bringing up sasquatch while at work, but three people died
[4:36] Speaker 2: while I was in Yellowstone. One girl was dragged out
[4:39] Speaker 2: of her tent, supposedly because of an undiscarded tampon that
[4:45] Speaker 2: she didn't throw away, didn't take it out of her pack,
[4:47] Speaker 2: left it in her pack, and they set a bear
[4:50] Speaker 2: dragged her out. Another guy was dismembered by the river.
[4:55] Speaker 2: He was supposedly fishing down wind of the river, came
[4:59] Speaker 2: across a goose carcass. And these are all anecdotes that
[5:02] Speaker 2: can be verified or not verified. But I think the
[5:06] Speaker 2: audience needs to take into account that I was in
[5:09] Speaker 2: a town called Gardener, Montana. It's the only town by
[5:12] Speaker 2: that entrance. I don't know what the population is, but
[5:15] Speaker 2: it's no more than I wouldn't even say five thousand
[5:18] Speaker 2: people when there isn't let's say a peak time in
[5:22] Speaker 2: the in the season. So in terms of that, that's
[5:26] Speaker 2: that's the areas I had access to in the areas
[5:29] Speaker 2: that I started at when I got there.
[5:33] Speaker 1: Just to clarify a few things. So the second you're
[5:36] Speaker 1: saying that an individual was down by a river and
[5:39] Speaker 1: was dismembered by something by a moose carcass, correct, Yeah.
[5:43] Speaker 2: Ok, yes, he was actually a fly fishing guide for
[5:46] Speaker 2: one of the companies that worked in Gardener. Oh my goodness.
[5:49] Speaker 1: Okay, And then you said there was a total of
[5:53] Speaker 1: three things that were reported.
[5:56] Speaker 2: Yes, and the third one, I don't recall anyone dying,
[5:58] Speaker 2: but I do remember they were saying there's bears and
[6:02] Speaker 2: someone had to leave the area. But the first two
[6:05] Speaker 2: I do recall vividly because I asked, I said, well,
[6:08] Speaker 2: how did the girl pass away? I believe this was
[6:11] Speaker 2: during our first day training, Like the first day you arrive,
[6:15] Speaker 2: there's a guy who basically threatens you. Is like if
[6:19] Speaker 2: anyone has anything that is federally basically prohibited because it
[6:23] Speaker 2: is a federal park. We got to remember this. They
[6:26] Speaker 2: were kind of patting us down and along with this
[6:30] Speaker 2: type of vetting because they drug tested us and they
[6:33] Speaker 2: did background checks as well. Before you get hired. The
[6:37] Speaker 2: bigger part was the bear training. So this gentleman taught
[6:40] Speaker 2: us like, if you do encounter a bear, because we
[6:43] Speaker 2: are in the park, we're not outside, you know basics,
[6:47] Speaker 2: you put your hands like this behind your neck and
[6:50] Speaker 2: you try to throw your backpack over the back of
[6:52] Speaker 2: your neck type of stuff, so you know, the bear
[6:54] Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily kill you. At that point, i'd call it
[6:57] Speaker 2: a quits, but that was why I asked, I said, well,
[7:01] Speaker 2: why did this girl pass away? And he said, oh,
[7:03] Speaker 2: you know, she did everything right. To put her food
[7:06] Speaker 2: and stuff in the tree. But turns out they searched
[7:09] Speaker 2: the ten and she had a women's product that wasn't
[7:13] Speaker 2: disposed of that she had apparently used. And that's what
[7:17] Speaker 2: the bear got a sent on. From my understanding, I'm
[7:21] Speaker 2: sure since you've come across people across this country. I mean,
[7:24] Speaker 2: I've been told bears can smell a drop of blood
[7:27] Speaker 2: on eight thousand feet mountain. So that was a big
[7:32] Speaker 2: wake up call for me, especially since I fish. So
[7:35] Speaker 2: like when I would have my free time, I would
[7:38] Speaker 2: clock out, I would get in my truck, I'd put
[7:40] Speaker 2: the fly fishing route in the truck, and I literally
[7:43] Speaker 2: drive up or down until I felt like, oh, you know,
[7:46] Speaker 2: today I'm feeling you know, chill. I just want to
[7:49] Speaker 2: fish close to where I work and go home. Or
[7:52] Speaker 2: then other days I'd go, you know what, screw it,
[7:54] Speaker 2: I'm going to drive all the way to the Eagle
[7:55] Speaker 2: River or the Yellowstone River and drive through Lamar Valley,
[7:59] Speaker 2: you know, all the way up in there, a good
[8:01] Speaker 2: twenty thirty miles. And I was very naive. I thought
[8:06] Speaker 2: of the John Wayne movies. I thought of the you know,
[8:09] Speaker 2: the wild the Wild West people, and I'm like, oh,
[8:13] Speaker 2: I'm good. You know, I'm not bothering anybody. I'm doing
[8:15] Speaker 2: my own thing. So that's that's basically the liberty I
[8:18] Speaker 2: had there.
[8:19] Speaker 1: Absolutely, Okay. Another thing I do want to point out
[8:24] Speaker 1: really quickly is that Iggy was nice enough when asked
[8:29] Speaker 1: to do so, or he may have. You may have
[8:31] Speaker 1: done it without me asking. I can't remember. But end
[8:34] Speaker 1: of the day, you have provided evidence that you were
[8:39] Speaker 1: employed doing what you said you were doing, which thank
[8:44] Speaker 1: you for doing so. So I have checked that employment history,
[8:49] Speaker 1: which should lend some credence to this interview as well,
[8:53] Speaker 1: and as this is a very very big deal for
[8:59] Speaker 1: you to come on record like this, as we were
[9:00] Speaker 1: talking about before. Another question is when you were working
[9:07] Speaker 1: in the park or around the park, did you ever
[9:10] Speaker 1: hear any any reports or sightings of Bigfoot besides what
[9:18] Speaker 1: you encountered yourself.
[9:20] Speaker 2: Well, my my INQUI not inquisition, but my curiosity was
[9:27] Speaker 2: always peak. I don't know, I don't know how to
[9:29] Speaker 2: say it, but I'll just say it how I would
[9:31] Speaker 2: say to a friend whenever we would go out to
[9:35] Speaker 2: like a bar, or we would go to little towns
[9:38] Speaker 2: along the highway. I'm not sure if you I'm sure.
[9:40] Speaker 2: A lot of your listeners have heard of a festival
[9:43] Speaker 2: called Sturges Motorcycle Festival, and I'm not part of that
[9:48] Speaker 2: type of community. They're good guys, so cool guys, but
[9:51] Speaker 2: very intimidating people. And along the highway where we were at,
[9:54] Speaker 2: there's lots of bars that these bicers stop at, so
[9:56] Speaker 2: we'd stop and go drink and talk to the people there.
[9:59] Speaker 2: And in one instance, in on the bare Tooth Highway,
[10:03] Speaker 2: I can send you the name of the bar. I
[10:05] Speaker 2: have a picture in front of it. I don't recall
[10:07] Speaker 2: it now. I just remember they had a big grateful
[10:10] Speaker 2: dead logo on the top of the bar, and there's
[10:12] Speaker 2: a beautiful mountain behind it. But I was speaking to
[10:14] Speaker 2: a man there and I brought up, hey, you know,
[10:16] Speaker 2: do you guys you know, believe in Bigfoot up here?
[10:19] Speaker 2: Because there, if where I was was isolated, these people
[10:22] Speaker 2: are living in middle of nowhere, like there's one road
[10:26] Speaker 2: that goes through it. You know, they got one general store. Honestly,
[10:31] Speaker 2: I would never not recommend to anyone in our country
[10:35] Speaker 2: to not experience a fourth of July up in you know,
[10:38] Speaker 2: this high high country, or God's Country as they call it.
[10:42] Speaker 2: There it's very beautiful. But I remember this gentleman saying
[10:45] Speaker 2: to me, oh, you mean the hairy man. And when
[10:48] Speaker 2: he referenced it in a more i guess, not domesticated,
[10:54] Speaker 2: but in a more like Joey Lee like daily occurrence,
[10:57] Speaker 2: like oh, yeah, we see them all the time. They
[10:59] Speaker 2: run through a yard. My wife's seen him, and anyone can.
[11:04] Speaker 2: A lot of my coworkers that were with me, All
[11:05] Speaker 2: these guys are you know, just mound, crazy, booney people.
[11:08] Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know why this gentleman would
[11:11] Speaker 2: have any reason to lie about this. I mean, one
[11:14] Speaker 2: thing is scaring off tourists or you know, wanting to
[11:17] Speaker 2: come off like, oh I'm a big mountain man. But
[11:20] Speaker 2: the way this gentleman had said it to me was
[11:22] Speaker 2: pretty straightforward and pretty like it's it's here, and it's
[11:25] Speaker 2: there and you just have to be aware. Other than that,
[11:30] Speaker 2: it wasn't like, yeah, we saw one last week or
[11:32] Speaker 2: we saw one last month. But he did reference it
[11:35] Speaker 2: as the hairy man. And that's the first time in
[11:36] Speaker 2: my life I had met someone that isn't online or
[11:40] Speaker 2: just you know, in the in the field of sasquatch
[11:44] Speaker 2: that referenced it like that. It's it's like if I
[11:45] Speaker 2: met a random guy at a bar and said, hey, man,
[11:47] Speaker 2: what'd you see? Oh yeah, this and that that shocked me.
[11:51] Speaker 1: It took me back, gotcha? Okay, very interesting, Iggy. I'd
[11:57] Speaker 1: say now as a good time as any, feel free
[12:01] Speaker 1: to share what happened to you that day when you
[12:06] Speaker 1: had your encounter in Yellowstone.
[12:08] Speaker 2: So it went like this along the mountain side. I
[12:15] Speaker 2: think it's called mountain electric or I don't know what
[12:17] Speaker 2: the mountain is because there's so many mountains. But a
[12:20] Speaker 2: lot of the co workers at the company I was
[12:22] Speaker 2: working at, just like any social instance, there's groups that
[12:26] Speaker 2: create to come up out of you know, working together
[12:29] Speaker 2: every day. And there was an age range of people
[12:32] Speaker 2: being maybe on the older side of their early fifties,
[12:35] Speaker 2: even some people into their early sixties. You know, they
[12:39] Speaker 2: were older people, maybe harder on their times, trying to
[12:42] Speaker 2: you know, get their room and board paid for. And
[12:44] Speaker 2: at the same time, there was a lot of people
[12:46] Speaker 2: below the age of twenty five, and you know, people
[12:49] Speaker 2: who are younger, we like to party and do fun stuff.
[12:52] Speaker 2: And they would have these get togethers in parts of
[12:57] Speaker 2: the park that the employees would deem or consider where
[13:01] Speaker 2: the cool kids or like the cool guys, would go
[13:03] Speaker 2: hang out away from the tourist, away from the trails,
[13:06] Speaker 2: away from the trailheads, mainly on logging roads or parts
[13:11] Speaker 2: of the park that had been shut down by previous fires,
[13:14] Speaker 2: and you know, stuff only they know about. So when
[13:17] Speaker 2: I got the invitation to go to one of these
[13:19] Speaker 2: get togethers, I you know, I said, I'm not going
[13:21] Speaker 2: to say no, because I've been here three four weeks
[13:24] Speaker 2: and I've noticed that at night, when everyone's off, the
[13:28] Speaker 2: normal thing to do was like, okay, we have an
[13:30] Speaker 2: employee canteena where we can go and drink and eat.
[13:34] Speaker 2: And it's not where the guests are and people hang
[13:37] Speaker 2: out there. It's very much so like a rec center.
[13:39] Speaker 2: It felt like a summer camp. You know. It was
[13:42] Speaker 2: like they had a big gym area like a summer
[13:45] Speaker 2: camp like you'd see in the in the movies from
[13:48] Speaker 2: the eighties, you know, like I don't know, like cafeteria
[13:53] Speaker 2: style food. It's just very Americana. And for these cool kids,
[13:59] Speaker 2: it wasn't enough, right, So we went out and I'm
[14:03] Speaker 2: in a ninety six f one point fifty. I still
[14:05] Speaker 2: have her beautiful truck. I love it. It got me
[14:07] Speaker 2: out of there. But in terms of going to this
[14:10] Speaker 2: party or get together, whatever you want to call it,
[14:13] Speaker 2: I was I think invited, mainly because my truck had
[14:17] Speaker 2: enough space to take more people. I don't know, but
[14:20] Speaker 2: we went up there for a good hour. We left
[14:22] Speaker 2: out of Garden Air, we went down, left the park,
[14:26] Speaker 2: went into Gardener which is in Wyoming, not Montana, and
[14:30] Speaker 2: in Wyoming. I could not tell anyone. I sent you
[14:34] Speaker 2: guys a geographical pinpoint, but I don't know which way
[14:37] Speaker 2: or how we got up there. I was with people
[14:40] Speaker 2: who were instructing me, who knew the area, so getting
[14:43] Speaker 2: up was fine. We had gone up to about around
[14:46] Speaker 2: eight thousand feet. This is after I wasn't looking at
[14:49] Speaker 2: elevation when we were going up, but we were that
[14:53] Speaker 2: high up and we had spent about an hour or
[14:55] Speaker 2: so together. We were cowboy camping for anyone who doesn't
[14:59] Speaker 2: know that he's just leaping under the stars. No nothing,
[15:03] Speaker 2: just bag on the ground. And maybe thirty forty minutes
[15:07] Speaker 2: into the get together itself, I had a little disagreement
[15:10] Speaker 2: with some of my co workers. We had a disagreement
[15:14] Speaker 2: about some tobacco that we had purchased and agreed to
[15:17] Speaker 2: use as a group on the get together, and one
[15:21] Speaker 2: thing led to another, and I was shorted my cut
[15:25] Speaker 2: of the tobacco, and in terms of me being a
[15:28] Speaker 2: prideful person, I was upset and in a mindset I'm
[15:33] Speaker 2: a city guy, I'm from Los Angeles, and you screw
[15:35] Speaker 2: me over like that. You piss me off, and I'm
[15:37] Speaker 2: getting out. So I decide to leave, and that's my
[15:40] Speaker 2: first mistake of the night. Because we're on a mountain.
[15:44] Speaker 2: There's no lights. I mean, I'm not going to be
[15:46] Speaker 2: ignorant and say like I'm expecting there to be lights
[15:48] Speaker 2: on every road in Montana or Wyoming, but we were
[15:51] Speaker 2: high up enough up there that without proper instruction you
[15:54] Speaker 2: can get lost. I vividly remember looking at Brady and
[15:59] Speaker 2: going like, how the hell do I get off this mountain?
[16:02] Speaker 2: And I'm talking to some stoner kid from Colorado. I
[16:04] Speaker 2: should have known better as well to ask him for
[16:06] Speaker 2: how to get off the mountain, and I remember him
[16:09] Speaker 2: telling me hang lefts until you just hang lefts until
[16:12] Speaker 2: you get back onto the highway. I leave angrily, and
[16:17] Speaker 2: I don't recall orienting myself before leaving. It was kind
[16:21] Speaker 2: of a thing of just getting the car and start driving.
[16:24] Speaker 2: I do that. I go down one, two, three roads,
[16:27] Speaker 2: and everything's fine. I feel okay. Maybe after the fourth
[16:31] Speaker 2: or fifth turn, and I start realizing, like, okay, you know,
[16:35] Speaker 2: now they're turning into more roads, and now it's like
[16:38] Speaker 2: a little log road, and there's more trees closer to
[16:41] Speaker 2: the truck, like I could stick my hand out and
[16:43] Speaker 2: not even extend it, and there's a tree on the
[16:45] Speaker 2: truck scraping my vehicle. I'm not a survival guy, like
[16:50] Speaker 2: we spoke on earlier before we got onto this call.
[16:53] Speaker 2: I have no experience in the woods. I'm not here
[16:56] Speaker 2: to say I'm a woodsman or I can survive or
[16:59] Speaker 2: anything like this. But my instincts told me, you know,
[17:03] Speaker 2: it's dark, it's a ninety six, one fifty. The lights
[17:07] Speaker 2: only go so far. I should stop my car and
[17:09] Speaker 2: I should wait for a day. And then the next
[17:11] Speaker 2: day when you know, I might miss work, I might
[17:13] Speaker 2: get in trouble, but I'm not going to drive off
[17:16] Speaker 2: the mountain. I'm not going to get lost. I did
[17:19] Speaker 2: have in the back of the truck, as most people
[17:21] Speaker 2: do who work in the park, you have to have gasoline,
[17:25] Speaker 2: so I had about nine gallons of gasoline and a
[17:28] Speaker 2: jerry can, and I looked at my little gas monitor
[17:31] Speaker 2: thing and it was maybe at a quarter of a thing,
[17:33] Speaker 2: and I sat there. I just sat there in the darkness.
[17:36] Speaker 2: And as I said in my email to you, I'm
[17:40] Speaker 2: not afraid to say it. I don't think it makes
[17:42] Speaker 2: me look less. But I listened to ASMR. A lot
[17:45] Speaker 2: of people do nowadays, and I have videos that I
[17:49] Speaker 2: save on my phone when I fly. Whenever i'm, you know,
[17:54] Speaker 2: in a space that I'm nervous, I'll play it and
[17:56] Speaker 2: I'll just calm down. So I did that. I parked
[17:59] Speaker 2: the car in the middle of a dried creek bed
[18:03] Speaker 2: or what I thought was a road but later turned
[18:05] Speaker 2: out to be a little creek bed, and I said,
[18:07] Speaker 2: I'm going to play these ASMR videos. And it's a
[18:10] Speaker 2: single cab truck and I'm a big guy, so there's
[18:12] Speaker 2: no laying down like you're like this. And maybe an
[18:16] Speaker 2: hour into doing that, I thought to myself, what are
[18:19] Speaker 2: you doing. You're ridiculous. You're listening to ASMR on a
[18:22] Speaker 2: mountain and you're loft because you got angry of some tobacco.
[18:27] Speaker 2: And it was just around then when I started getting
[18:30] Speaker 2: a sensation of being watched of being preyed upon. In
[18:36] Speaker 2: a way, I'm a pretty spiritual person. I believe in Jesus.
[18:40] Speaker 2: I believe in the bad stuff as well, So naturally
[18:45] Speaker 2: my first thing I think this, you know, in the
[18:47] Speaker 2: name of Jesus. You know, I trust myself, I trust
[18:50] Speaker 2: God and all this jazz. But it got to a
[18:52] Speaker 2: point where I started feeling and hearing like pebbles and
[18:57] Speaker 2: little things ticking off the back of the bed of
[18:59] Speaker 2: the truck. It's an completely steel body vehicle, so when
[19:04] Speaker 2: you hear it get hit, it's like an older It
[19:07] Speaker 2: sounds like like those war movies when when a helicopter
[19:10] Speaker 2: is getting hit by machine gun is tap tap. And
[19:14] Speaker 2: when I started hearing that, I'm like, what the hell
[19:17] Speaker 2: is that? Like, I can't I can't make a connection
[19:21] Speaker 2: to it. I lower my windows on my truck, and
[19:24] Speaker 2: I get the sensation that something's not good. I don't
[19:27] Speaker 2: hear a single thing. This is the middle of June
[19:33] Speaker 2: in Montana and Wyoming. So I remember specifically too, when
[19:37] Speaker 2: I was fly fishing, all these people coming and going, oh, yeah,
[19:40] Speaker 2: we're here for the salmon run. Because the salmon flies
[19:44] Speaker 2: and these big insects they spawn at a certain part
[19:48] Speaker 2: of the year and they're pretty big. You can hear
[19:51] Speaker 2: them like this, and they're jump on the water and
[19:54] Speaker 2: the fish will go for them. And I remember that
[19:57] Speaker 2: hearing it all day, all night, every day because it's
[19:59] Speaker 2: summer hot and it's humid, and it's you know, it's nature.
[20:03] Speaker 2: And there was nothing it was. There was no noise.
[20:07] Speaker 2: There was not even an owl hooting or anything. I
[20:10] Speaker 2: remember looking at the trees and I could see them swaying,
[20:14] Speaker 2: and as I say in my email, the moment I
[20:17] Speaker 2: take my eyes off of the tree line with the truck,
[20:21] Speaker 2: I see the silhouette and the figure of this large,
[20:26] Speaker 2: just tremendous thing just standing there like arms like this shoulders.
[20:32] Speaker 2: I don't know. If it's because it's shoulders are broader,
[20:34] Speaker 2: I don't know. But it didn't feel like it had
[20:36] Speaker 2: a neck like I'm doing here, like its necks are
[20:39] Speaker 2: up here and its head takes over here. No facial
[20:44] Speaker 2: details that I could make out of. All I could
[20:47] Speaker 2: see was black silhouette, and this was a black that
[20:51] Speaker 2: was blacker than the tree line. There wasn't a cloud
[20:55] Speaker 2: in the night. It was a clear, crisp night. And
[21:00] Speaker 2: after that, I just sat there in my truck and said,
[21:02] Speaker 2: what the hell am I looking at? Maybe thirty forty
[21:08] Speaker 2: minutes into just contemplating, like what the hell is that.
[21:12] Speaker 2: I start getting a sensation of remorse and dread, like
[21:16] Speaker 2: you need to leave. Part of me was like should
[21:19] Speaker 2: I get out and put gas in the truck. And
[21:21] Speaker 2: a moment I started hearing more pebbles, I put that
[21:23] Speaker 2: truck and start I drive maybe two hundred three hundred yards,
[21:28] Speaker 2: and I start doing the same thing this time around.
[21:31] Speaker 2: When I'm part I'm part more in a downward slope,
[21:35] Speaker 2: so I can make out that I'm going down off
[21:37] Speaker 2: the mountain. And as I put in my email, that's
[21:40] Speaker 2: when I really started hearing the pebbles and the stuff
[21:43] Speaker 2: hitting my vehicle. In terms of other people that I've
[21:47] Speaker 2: seen on these podcasts, I thank god this thing didn't
[21:51] Speaker 2: make a noise. I think, God, this thing didn't look
[21:54] Speaker 2: into my rear view. Oh. One thing that I do
[21:57] Speaker 2: remember very vividly is when I specifically put the truck
[22:02] Speaker 2: in reverse or not reverse, in drive, and I put
[22:06] Speaker 2: my foot on the brake and I you know, when
[22:08] Speaker 2: you put your foot on the brake and those the
[22:10] Speaker 2: rear lights turn on when you're in the middle of nowhere,
[22:14] Speaker 2: and there's no other light pollution. Those lights are bright.
[22:17] Speaker 2: And when I hit that brake light, I could not
[22:19] Speaker 2: just make out the figure, but I could see the
[22:21] Speaker 2: dark balls right here, all right right here. And the
[22:25] Speaker 2: thing was, it was just humongous. And when I saw that,
[22:29] Speaker 2: I put the truck in drive and I hauled ass.
[22:33] Speaker 2: I don't think this thing ran after me. I did
[22:35] Speaker 2: not take the time to look back, but I started
[22:39] Speaker 2: driving in a way where I'm like, I go off,
[22:42] Speaker 2: I go off and maybe thirty I know it's maybe
[22:46] Speaker 2: not as eventful as some of the other anecdotes you
[22:49] Speaker 2: guys have had, but to me, it was the scariest
[22:52] Speaker 2: moment in my life. I mean, I didn't know what
[22:55] Speaker 2: I was going to do. I did not have a firearm.
[22:58] Speaker 2: I had maybe a can and a bare spray. But
[23:01] Speaker 2: to kind of take the anecdote to its end, I
[23:06] Speaker 2: eventually drive down the mountain. I veer off into an
[23:10] Speaker 2: opening or a clearing, and I see a big barn
[23:13] Speaker 2: maybe fifteen hundred yards away from the tree line opening up,
[23:18] Speaker 2: and I this is anyone's gonna laugh. I think it's ridiculous,
[23:21] Speaker 2: but I turned my flashes on. I was honking like
[23:25] Speaker 2: a maniac. I'm yelling out the window. I'm going like, hey, anybody,
[23:30] Speaker 2: I see this man come out. And it's almost laughable
[23:34] Speaker 2: how Hollywood it looked, because this gentleman is out in
[23:37] Speaker 2: his like I call him, like wild West pajamas, like
[23:42] Speaker 2: all in all one color white. He's got a shotgun
[23:46] Speaker 2: in his hand. He's like, what the hell are you
[23:48] Speaker 2: doing on my land? And all I could say was, sir, sir,
[23:52] Speaker 2: please please look at my license plate. Look at my
[23:54] Speaker 2: license plate. I'm lost, I was. I'm not going to
[23:58] Speaker 2: tell this guy, Oh yeah, I just saw him a
[24:00] Speaker 2: sasquatch three hundred yards away from your house up on
[24:03] Speaker 2: the mountain, up that creek. I was trying to tell him, like,
[24:07] Speaker 2: how the hell do I get out of here? And
[24:09] Speaker 2: I remember him looking at him. He calmed down once
[24:11] Speaker 2: he saw I was from California. He goes, son, how
[24:14] Speaker 2: far are you? Where are you staying? And I said, sir,
[24:18] Speaker 2: I'm staying in Gardener. He goes, you know how far
[24:20] Speaker 2: away you are from Gardener? I go, no, sir, He
[24:22] Speaker 2: goes fifty miles fifty. When he said fifty, I go
[24:27] Speaker 2: what I was? Then I said, oh my gosh, I
[24:30] Speaker 2: was disoriented by this thing. I was confused by this thing.
[24:35] Speaker 2: I was, I don't know, manipulated or something. But the
[24:38] Speaker 2: whole hour and a half where I'm driving and stopping pebbles,
[24:41] Speaker 2: I see this thing. I don't know what it was.
[24:47] Speaker 2: I got to finish the story before I tell you
[24:49] Speaker 2: how my anecdotal feeling about it. But I got off
[24:53] Speaker 2: the mountain and I went back to work, and maybe
[24:57] Speaker 2: a week later after this experience, I was just in
[25:00] Speaker 2: not there. I was distraught. This is during COVID in
[25:05] Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and with my luck, I had an
[25:09] Speaker 2: employee who was a coworker who was exposed to COVID,
[25:12] Speaker 2: and they locked us all down in camp like parts
[25:18] Speaker 2: of the camp that weren't for guests. And can you
[25:20] Speaker 2: imagine for two weeks sitting in a cabin thinking and remembering.
[25:25] Speaker 2: And I didn't even last two weeks. Eight days into it,
[25:28] Speaker 2: I quit the job and I got in my truck
[25:30] Speaker 2: and I left. I was telling my mom and dad.
[25:34] Speaker 2: I was like, I couldn't tell my mom because she's
[25:36] Speaker 2: very Christian, and if she ever watched this, I'm sure
[25:39] Speaker 2: she'll say something like, oh, it was maybe a bad
[25:42] Speaker 2: demon or a spiritual thing. But I know what I
[25:45] Speaker 2: saw and I know what I felt. That's no spiritual thing.
[25:50] Speaker 2: This thing was large, this thing was imposing itself. The
[25:55] Speaker 2: one thing I take away, though, is that within that confusion,
[25:59] Speaker 2: within driving off, I don't know if I encountered the
[26:02] Speaker 2: same one all along the same time. And other people
[26:06] Speaker 2: I've spoken to along the years, not like yourself. But
[26:10] Speaker 2: when I would drive back to school I went to
[26:12] Speaker 2: school in Oklahoma, I would drive through Navajo Land or
[26:16] Speaker 2: the sue A Sioux Tribe land in Arizona, and anytime
[26:19] Speaker 2: i'd stop, I'd try to talk to some people about it,
[26:22] Speaker 2: because they were the only people that would listen to me.
[26:26] Speaker 2: I still remember to this day. There's a gentleman in
[26:30] Speaker 2: to kaman Chi or to Kumban. I can't say the
[26:32] Speaker 2: word rite in New Mexico, but it's a very small
[26:34] Speaker 2: town to Kumban Kanchi something like this outside of Albuquerque.
[26:38] Speaker 2: And he would tell me about skinwalkers and how not
[26:41] Speaker 2: to whistle at night, and how even to this day,
[26:44] Speaker 2: if you report a sasquatch or whatever the tribe calls them,
[26:49] Speaker 2: the shaman police, the tribal police will go out and
[26:53] Speaker 2: they will verify and they'll do what they need to
[26:55] Speaker 2: do to, you know, for their own anecdotal sense. But yeah,
[27:02] Speaker 2: that was that was basically what I experienced. I quit
[27:05] Speaker 2: my job after eight days of that, and I couldn't.
[27:10] Speaker 2: I just couldn't be there. I didn't I didn't want
[27:13] Speaker 2: to think about it. I didn't want to be anywhere.
[27:15] Speaker 2: It was. It was. It was very sad because when
[27:18] Speaker 2: I got there, I was awestruck. I was like, oh
[27:20] Speaker 2: my gosh, look at this river, look at this mountain.
[27:23] Speaker 2: I want to go up this this hill and climate.
[27:27] Speaker 2: And then it turned into like, yeah, no, we're not
[27:29] Speaker 2: doing that, Like we're staying within the peripheral of like
[27:32] Speaker 2: if I don't see a National park's logo on a
[27:36] Speaker 2: little you know, sign or whatever, like whenever you arrive
[27:41] Speaker 2: at one of these little pinpoints in the park, you'll
[27:45] Speaker 2: always see a sign that says the name of where
[27:48] Speaker 2: you're at. So I don't want to go too fast.
[27:51] Speaker 2: But my experience was wasn't something that lasted six seven hours.
[27:56] Speaker 2: It was maybe two three hours up on that mountain,
[27:59] Speaker 2: driving down and up, and the last thing, and not
[28:03] Speaker 2: the last thing, but the last thing I want to
[28:05] Speaker 2: leave an anecdotal to that is that I strongly believe
[28:09] Speaker 2: that I think one of them wasn't bad that was
[28:14] Speaker 2: trying to get me off the mountain, if that makes sense,
[28:17] Speaker 2: because there's people don't just get off those mountains. That's
[28:20] Speaker 2: what really stays with me is it's like you see
[28:22] Speaker 2: all these people in the Missing one hundred or whatever
[28:25] Speaker 2: that thing is, and it's like, these guys are avid
[28:29] Speaker 2: hunts or hunters, and they go missing and what stopped
[28:32] Speaker 2: my fat, fat ass excuse me for saying it that
[28:35] Speaker 2: way from not dying. That's something that really stays with me,
[28:38] Speaker 2: Like I don't know how to explain that. I guess
[28:40] Speaker 2: it was God or my intuition telling me just keep going.
[28:44] Speaker 2: But I don't want to think of these things negatively,
[28:46] Speaker 2: so I do consider the potential idea that, hey, maybe
[28:50] Speaker 2: one of these things was trying to scare the shit
[28:51] Speaker 2: out of me, because there was another one that was
[28:54] Speaker 2: actually trying to hurt me. And that's when I left.
[28:57] Speaker 2: So that was my experience in Yellowstone.
[29:00] Speaker 1: As some wild wild stuff. Am I gonna thank you
[29:03] Speaker 1: for sharing what happened to you that night, Iggy and
[29:08] Speaker 1: the location, So you did provide the location to me.
[29:12] Speaker 1: Is that something that we are not putting out there
[29:15] Speaker 1: or how do you feel about that?
[29:17] Speaker 2: You know that is something I would want you to share.
[29:20] Speaker 2: I think I left it out of my story, but
[29:23] Speaker 2: thank you for bringing that up. In the moment of
[29:26] Speaker 2: looking at the ASMR video or just being on my phone,
[29:29] Speaker 2: I had no reception. There's nothing I could do on
[29:31] Speaker 2: that phone. But my good friend, he's the type of
[29:34] Speaker 2: guy who does off roading. Him and his father would
[29:37] Speaker 2: go into like Death Valley here in California and they
[29:40] Speaker 2: would camp and like abandoned mining camps, like those type
[29:43] Speaker 2: of guys, so they know what they're talking about. And
[29:45] Speaker 2: he told me, he said, yeah, if you go up there, man,
[29:48] Speaker 2: you should download this app, which I recommend everyone should download.
[29:51] Speaker 2: It's called on x Road. You can cut that out
[29:54] Speaker 2: if you don't do sponsorships. I don't know if they
[29:56] Speaker 2: sponsor here, but I wish they would. Yeah, but I
[30:00] Speaker 2: didn't pay for any subscription or anything crazy. I just
[30:03] Speaker 2: downloaded the basic app. And when I was having that sensation,
[30:08] Speaker 2: I'm like, I'm not going to be one of those
[30:10] Speaker 2: guys who dies lost, Like at least if they f
[30:14] Speaker 2: and find something, it's going to be my phone with
[30:16] Speaker 2: a geographical pinpoint or something. So I remember I picked
[30:20] Speaker 2: up this exact phone. I opened the on X off
[30:23] Speaker 2: road and it had no connection. So the only option
[30:26] Speaker 2: you had was like put a point where you are,
[30:29] Speaker 2: and I hit that. I hit the Thank god I did,
[30:32] Speaker 2: so I knew where I was and it shows exactly
[30:35] Speaker 2: where I stopped and I was listening to the ASMR
[30:38] Speaker 2: and contemplating to go up or down. So if you
[30:41] Speaker 2: do end up sharing it and people do look at it,
[30:44] Speaker 2: please you tell me. The only information I've found was that,
[30:49] Speaker 2: and it scared the crap out of me too. Was
[30:51] Speaker 2: on the bfo's website when you put in like the
[30:56] Speaker 2: areas of Montana and Wyoming, and you put it in
[31:00] Speaker 2: by region and by locality and like the really really
[31:03] Speaker 2: nitty gritty stuff. When I put in my stuff, there
[31:07] Speaker 2: had only been two other sightings, one in twenty ten
[31:12] Speaker 2: and one in nineteen ninety one, so pretty distant in space,
[31:15] Speaker 2: but they were all within four to five days, within
[31:18] Speaker 2: the day that I saw it. That scared the shit
[31:21] Speaker 2: out of me. Wow, oh yeah. When I saw that,
[31:24] Speaker 2: it was like I saw it on the twenty first
[31:26] Speaker 2: or the twenty second, and then the guy in ninety
[31:28] Speaker 2: one saw it on the sixteenth, and the guy in
[31:30] Speaker 2: twenty ten saw it on like the twenty sixth to
[31:33] Speaker 2: twenty seventh. I'm thinking, I don't know if I saw
[31:36] Speaker 2: the same one. They were all sightings that were I
[31:41] Speaker 2: don't know what the legalities are, but I know the
[31:43] Speaker 2: b AFO off follows a certain protocol to what isn't
[31:47] Speaker 2: level A, B or C level siding. And they were
[31:50] Speaker 2: all a yeah, they were all like really like detailed encounters.
[31:55] Speaker 2: So I sent mine in to kind of credit give
[31:58] Speaker 2: myself credibility in my mind that okay, I followed. I did.
[32:01] Speaker 2: If no one wants to believe me, that's fine, But
[32:04] Speaker 2: I did what the what the community is expecting, which
[32:07] Speaker 2: is to report a credible encounter and to at least
[32:10] Speaker 2: try to document something that could help someone down the
[32:13] Speaker 2: line understand their experience. Like I've said, I've watched your
[32:17] Speaker 2: videos and I've seen the people and and how some
[32:20] Speaker 2: can't live with themselves or some people move away, and
[32:23] Speaker 2: I can't I can't relate to that.
[32:27] Speaker 1: It's it's it's fascinating and looking at the area, I mean,
[32:31] Speaker 1: it lines up with the story. It looks like it's
[32:34] Speaker 1: in it's south of Hayden Valley almost on the border
[32:38] Speaker 1: of the park. But if you look at the coordinates
[32:41] Speaker 1: you gave, it's right next to what looks like a
[32:46] Speaker 1: service road or some kind of trail that you probably
[32:49] Speaker 1: would have followed with with the vehicle. I believe that's
[32:55] Speaker 1: what I'm looking at, and it is right at it
[32:57] Speaker 1: just over eight thousand feet, So yeah, I mean, and
[33:01] Speaker 1: without going super detailed, it lines up with what you
[33:06] Speaker 1: are you're sharing now, maybe a few questions, and I
[33:10] Speaker 1: don't know if you were able to notice any of this,
[33:14] Speaker 1: but could you get a feeling as to how far
[33:18] Speaker 1: behind you the silhouette was that you were looking at?
[33:23] Speaker 2: Twenty feet thirty feet? I mean, you got to remember that.
[33:26] Speaker 2: I mean, when I don't know how if I'll ever
[33:30] Speaker 2: in my life, I think i'd have the balls to
[33:32] Speaker 2: go up again and see it specifically that area, because
[33:37] Speaker 2: I want to. I don't want my mind to tell
[33:39] Speaker 2: me things that aren't I want to go see it
[33:40] Speaker 2: again because I remember when I turned and I opened
[33:43] Speaker 2: my window, I would extend my arm and I couldn't
[33:46] Speaker 2: fully extend my arm without hitting a sapling or hitting
[33:49] Speaker 2: a tree, or touching something that was vegetation. So I
[33:53] Speaker 2: was like, whatever I saw was darker than the trees
[33:57] Speaker 2: that were right in front of my car. And I
[34:00] Speaker 2: don't know how to explain it in a way that
[34:01] Speaker 2: makes sense, but think of like a clear night. It's dark,
[34:04] Speaker 2: but the light is still bright, like you can make
[34:07] Speaker 2: out whatever the hell is you know, right in front
[34:09] Speaker 2: of you. I could see, okay, tree, tree, and then
[34:12] Speaker 2: the trail whatever you're talking about was clear enough for
[34:15] Speaker 2: me to be like, Okay, I can squiggle through here.
[34:18] Speaker 2: I'll stop until either the truck can't fit or I
[34:21] Speaker 2: got to either walk out. So yeah, I mean I
[34:24] Speaker 2: could tell this thing was twenty thirty forty feet away
[34:27] Speaker 2: from me the first time I saw it, maybe closer
[34:29] Speaker 2: to one hundred feet. It wasn't as like close because
[34:33] Speaker 2: I would have trust me, I'm a scaredy cat. Like
[34:36] Speaker 2: if I would have made it out like the first time,
[34:39] Speaker 2: if I would have saw it twenty thirty feet, I
[34:40] Speaker 2: wouldn't have stoped driving. I'm Jeremiah. I mean, there was
[34:44] Speaker 2: no like I'm just to give a more background, I'm
[34:48] Speaker 2: part chlaying right in South America, we don't really have
[34:52] Speaker 2: this type of story unless you go really, really really
[34:56] Speaker 2: south into Patagonia, so where I live, Well, you got
[34:59] Speaker 2: to be worried about it, huma. Maybe, and for me
[35:01] Speaker 2: to think or contemplate that there's something out there that
[35:04] Speaker 2: I'm a big dude. I'm six one, three hundred and
[35:06] Speaker 2: thirty pounds, so like, I mean, I get it, like
[35:10] Speaker 2: a bear can still kill you and all this jazz,
[35:12] Speaker 2: but like, hey, I can you know I'm I'm I'm
[35:15] Speaker 2: intimidating to people. Maybe an animal will be freaked that. Now,
[35:19] Speaker 2: no way this thing was holding its ground. I don't
[35:24] Speaker 2: know if if it's true or not, but if you
[35:26] Speaker 2: look at the satellite maps of where I was, I've
[35:28] Speaker 2: noticed that there's all these trees that are just downed.
[35:32] Speaker 2: They're all like they're all it's all trees that are
[35:34] Speaker 2: down And I don't I don't think I was in
[35:36] Speaker 2: an area where these things eat or sleep. But I
[35:39] Speaker 2: do think I was in an area where they transition
[35:41] Speaker 2: and walk through. Because over the years, not sharing with anyone,
[35:44] Speaker 2: your mind eats at you and you start looking at
[35:47] Speaker 2: things and you look at like not just where you were,
[35:50] Speaker 2: but you start scrolling down and you're like, oh my gosh,
[35:52] Speaker 2: like I'm in a valley, like this thing is going
[35:55] Speaker 2: from this side of the valley on the mountain that
[35:57] Speaker 2: I'm on, maybe across to wherever or if you because
[36:02] Speaker 2: where this guy lived that I pulled out into his barn.
[36:06] Speaker 2: It was beautiful. It was. There was a river running
[36:09] Speaker 2: through it. There was vast grass like this guy. I
[36:12] Speaker 2: guess he grew out fulfa or something for cattle. It was.
[36:15] Speaker 2: It was very pish, piss picturesque, if that's the word.
[36:20] Speaker 2: But no, on top of that mountain it felt like hell.
[36:22] Speaker 2: I felt like a scene from the Lion King, like
[36:25] Speaker 2: when I was a kid, like when the Simba gets
[36:26] Speaker 2: hunted by the hyenas. It was terrible. It was. It was.
[36:30] Speaker 2: It was not a fun experience.
[36:37] Speaker 1: So it sounds like after this happened, did you get
[36:44] Speaker 1: to talk to any of the individuals you were out
[36:46] Speaker 1: there with before you got separated about what happened or No.
[36:51] Speaker 2: I didn't speak to anyone about that. But one thing
[36:53] Speaker 2: I did do I since I stayed eight days after
[36:57] Speaker 2: I saw I had that experience, and I saw what
[36:59] Speaker 2: I saw. Me and my friends try to like my buddy.
[37:02] Speaker 2: I remember he was older, so he was from Mississippi.
[37:06] Speaker 2: He went to what's that Mississippi state? Very proud Southern guy,
[37:10] Speaker 2: and I remember him very well because we would go
[37:12] Speaker 2: out into the mountains and we would listen. He was
[37:14] Speaker 2: an older guy, so we'd listen to like eighties WWE
[37:17] Speaker 2: music like Macho Man Holgen. We'd listen to the intro
[37:21] Speaker 2: songs all the way up, just pumping ourselves up and
[37:24] Speaker 2: enjoying the day. And on one end, one situation. And
[37:29] Speaker 2: this is what really cemented in my mind that I
[37:31] Speaker 2: think I encountered a sasquatch, was that we were in
[37:34] Speaker 2: the Lamar Valley driving back from the bars and I'm
[37:37] Speaker 2: looking to the left of my shoulder to the riders.
[37:40] Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm looking out the window and I
[37:42] Speaker 2: see this mountain and I see about one hundred and
[37:44] Speaker 2: I have the video too, I'll send it to you.
[37:45] Speaker 2: I have about one hundred and fifty or one hundred
[37:48] Speaker 2: bison are just running down the mountain. And I don't
[37:51] Speaker 2: know if I was just people that don't watch nature
[37:54] Speaker 2: shows or I don't know. I'm not an outdoorsman, but
[37:56] Speaker 2: I know nature, and I'm like stop, justin stop. It's like,
[38:00] Speaker 2: why why do we guys. I'm like, dude, these things
[38:02] Speaker 2: are running from something like they don't just run like
[38:06] Speaker 2: it's not it's not like a movie. And it turns
[38:09] Speaker 2: out it was being they were being hunted by some
[38:11] Speaker 2: wolves and I saw it live and I filmed it.
[38:15] Speaker 2: I was yelling and screaming because my emotions are it
[38:18] Speaker 2: was it's when somebody, when you see something in nature
[38:21] Speaker 2: that you see on TV, is so different than like
[38:25] Speaker 2: seeing it on the television, like the I don't know
[38:28] Speaker 2: how to explain it, but you get euphoria. You get
[38:30] Speaker 2: you get like a primal feeling like oh my god,
[38:33] Speaker 2: like that thing is killing that thing, and you know,
[38:35] Speaker 2: if we wanted to, we could go scare it off
[38:37] Speaker 2: and take the bison type of thing, the very caveman
[38:40] Speaker 2: vibe that I felt like. I was, I'll send you
[38:42] Speaker 2: the video. I was yelling at what the F is
[38:44] Speaker 2: that because it was shocking. But the moral of the
[38:47] Speaker 2: story and what I thought sealed the deal for me
[38:50] Speaker 2: on the Sasquatch was that I went back to the
[38:52] Speaker 2: park and we're sitting at the employee cantena that I
[38:55] Speaker 2: was telling you guys about earlier, and these rangers. The
[38:58] Speaker 2: rangers are like they're the cool, cool guys, like they're
[39:01] Speaker 2: the ones that they're They're like they're the ones that
[39:04] Speaker 2: they say, oh, yeah, I'm a federal employee. I'm a
[39:06] Speaker 2: I'm a park ranger with the US Park Ranger Service.
[39:09] Speaker 2: You know. They wear their fancy boots and the high
[39:11] Speaker 2: socks and all that jazz. And I showed them. I said, hey,
[39:15] Speaker 2: you know, I just wanted to show you this because
[39:17] Speaker 2: I thought it was cool. And Jeremiah, this guy looks
[39:20] Speaker 2: at me. This old guy, sixty years old, looks at me.
[39:22] Speaker 2: He goes, Son, I've worked in this park thirty years.
[39:26] Speaker 2: Thirty years. I've never seen a wolf in the Lamar
[39:30] Speaker 2: Valley on my own, let alone a wolf going after
[39:33] Speaker 2: bison in the Lamar Valley. And we were right by.
[39:36] Speaker 2: It was pretty cool. We were right by a National
[39:38] Speaker 2: Geographic camp where they set up camp and they work
[39:42] Speaker 2: on documentaries and all that. And I told the rangers there,
[39:45] Speaker 2: I said, yeah, I saw this. I showed them the
[39:46] Speaker 2: video that I'll send to you. And that's what he
[39:48] Speaker 2: said to me. He said, I've worked here thirty years.
[39:51] Speaker 2: I've never seen a wolf in the valley, let alone
[39:54] Speaker 2: a wolf going after bison alone, you know, in the
[39:58] Speaker 2: middle of the day or in towards the evening. I
[40:00] Speaker 2: think it was so that in my mind told me,
[40:03] Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, if this ranger guy who literally is
[40:08] Speaker 2: life passion is to go after these things and find them,
[40:12] Speaker 2: told me this, there's a very good chance I maybe
[40:14] Speaker 2: encountered a sasquatch. Even though I didn't want to tell
[40:17] Speaker 2: myself that, Like every time I would say it, I'd
[40:19] Speaker 2: get a gut feeling and I'd get chicken skin. But
[40:21] Speaker 2: now I feel comfortable about it because I truly don't
[40:24] Speaker 2: believe they're bad or I don't know if that sounds
[40:28] Speaker 2: immature to say, but I just think that there. You know,
[40:32] Speaker 2: people take different perspectives, but it could easily be a
[40:35] Speaker 2: homo erectus that didn't get wiped out after the ice
[40:38] Speaker 2: age or crossed over from the ice bridge itself and
[40:40] Speaker 2: could sustain itself in that type of environment. I try
[40:43] Speaker 2: to look at it reasonably and logically, so I don't
[40:45] Speaker 2: go insane. But that's something I thought I should say
[40:50] Speaker 2: because that ranger really, you know, slapped me across the
[40:53] Speaker 2: face when he said that, because I was like, Wow,
[40:55] Speaker 2: if this guy's been here thirty years, he's never seen
[40:57] Speaker 2: a wolf. There's a good chance that in the three
[40:59] Speaker 2: months that I've been here, I did see what I
[41:01] Speaker 2: saw because I saw the wolf, So why why why
[41:04] Speaker 2: couldn't I have seen the sasquatch?
[41:06] Speaker 1: No, I agree with that. I mean, there are there
[41:11] Speaker 1: are places in that park where just people don't go
[41:15] Speaker 1: stuff can live.
[41:16] Speaker 2: It is.
[41:17] Speaker 1: It is super, super remote, and there are stories of
[41:22] Speaker 1: even park rangers that have had sightings and experiences from
[41:28] Speaker 1: back in the day long ago. But it is just
[41:33] Speaker 1: such a privilege to talk to yourself, iggy, and to
[41:36] Speaker 1: hear what you experienced. And I hope that this maybe
[41:45] Speaker 1: encourages people that are listening that have also had an
[41:50] Speaker 1: experience that worked in a national park or something similar,
[41:55] Speaker 1: to be able to come forward and to share what
[41:58] Speaker 1: they've experienced. I mean, yeah, you're putting yourself literally on
[42:04] Speaker 1: camera to share this. It's a very big deal.
[42:07] Speaker 2: You know. Before we go, I do want to say,
[42:09] Speaker 2: you know, I could care less if it affects me
[42:13] Speaker 2: or my persona, because I know what I saw, I
[42:16] Speaker 2: know what I experienced. I've noticed that on these Bigfoot
[42:21] Speaker 2: podcasts or these I don't want to say shows, because
[42:24] Speaker 2: I don't think there's shows. It's not a show when
[42:26] Speaker 2: someone share something that's so personal to them. But on
[42:29] Speaker 2: these anecdotal reports, if you want to call them that.
[42:32] Speaker 2: They usually are older people or people that I think
[42:35] Speaker 2: feel more like happier complete with their life in terms
[42:39] Speaker 2: of these types of experiences, because I can't imagine being
[42:42] Speaker 2: a person that has a generational type of issue where
[42:46] Speaker 2: their family sees that they see it and all these
[42:49] Speaker 2: types of things. So if I could say anything, I
[42:51] Speaker 2: know that there's lots of employees that maybe encountered something.
[42:55] Speaker 2: I know that there's people that have worked in the
[42:56] Speaker 2: parks in the winter season when it's even less people
[43:00] Speaker 2: when it's all closed. And I encourage you to share
[43:02] Speaker 2: your anecdotes because, like if I'm speaking to them, if
[43:06] Speaker 2: you're watching and you work for the National Park, you
[43:08] Speaker 2: know how they're how they operate. It's a very like
[43:14] Speaker 2: cut off your head's world. I'm not gonna I'm not
[43:15] Speaker 2: going to sugarcoat. If they want to get rid of you,
[43:17] Speaker 2: they get rid of you like the first day you're there,
[43:19] Speaker 2: and I'll leave it with this. They tell you, they're like,
[43:22] Speaker 2: just to remind you, we have a courthouse. They do.
[43:26] Speaker 2: They have a courthouse in Yellowstone with a judge who
[43:29] Speaker 2: lives there full time, who's ready to prosecute anyone for anything.
[43:33] Speaker 2: Let it be park vandalization, let it be anything that
[43:37] Speaker 2: is basically a federal crime. So in terms of going
[43:41] Speaker 2: out there, don't be afraid. I'm not. I mean, you know,
[43:45] Speaker 2: I like to think of it as I risked myself
[43:48] Speaker 2: to go work out there for them, and I encountered
[43:51] Speaker 2: something that is in I don't know. I mean, I'm
[43:55] Speaker 2: a taxpayer. You're a taxpayer. We pay for those parks
[43:58] Speaker 2: to be maintained. We should well know what the hell
[44:00] Speaker 2: is in them. So I thank you for your time
[44:03] Speaker 2: in consideration and listening to me and what I had
[44:05] Speaker 2: to say about my experience.
[44:07] Speaker 1: Thank you, Iggy, And if anyone would like to reach out,
[44:10] Speaker 1: they can contact me directly at email address Bigfoot Society
[44:14] Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Thanks again, Iggy, Thank you. Have
[44:17] Speaker 1: you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge,
[44:21] Speaker 1: Oregon and you think to yourself, man, I would love
[44:25] Speaker 1: to get out in those woods and experience it for myself.
[44:28] Speaker 1: Well guess what this year you can. If this is
[44:32] Speaker 1: interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch
[44:37] Speaker 1: Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh,
[44:41] Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than
[44:44] Speaker 1: the previous year's. Reason number one, I'll be one of
[44:48] Speaker 1: the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this.
[44:54] Speaker 1: There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because
[44:58] Speaker 1: let's just say sometime it's uh, well, you just got
[45:03] Speaker 1: to be there. We'll leave it that more about looking
[45:05] Speaker 1: for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out.
[45:08] Speaker 1: You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching
[45:13] Speaker 1: for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go
[45:18] Speaker 1: to the festival, but you can also sign up for
[45:25] Speaker 1: a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge
[45:29] Speaker 1: with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot.
[45:34] Speaker 1: There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes,
[45:39] Speaker 1: this will also be filmed for the next chapter in
[45:42] Speaker 1: his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is
[45:45] Speaker 1: a once in a lifetime deal. It's just it's going
[45:48] Speaker 1: to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket,
[45:53] Speaker 1: head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners
[45:57] Speaker 1: can use the code b s he Like Bigfoot Society
[46:02] Speaker 1: podcast in order to get a two day pass for
[46:05] Speaker 1: the price of a one day pass. So thanks to
[46:09] Speaker 1: Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys
[46:14] Speaker 1: can can get a little help with the cost there.
[46:20] Speaker 1: Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the
[46:24] Speaker 1: booth in Oakridge this year. We can talk about your encounter.
[46:28] Speaker 1: Was able to talk to so many people last year
[46:30] Speaker 1: and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're
[46:35] Speaker 1: not going to want to miss it, and I'll see
[46:36] Speaker 1: you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to
[46:41] Speaker 1: say something directly to a very specific group of listeners.
[46:44] Speaker 1: If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and
[46:48] Speaker 1: if you've seen something that no one can explain, or
[46:51] Speaker 1: if you're a National park ranger or forestreet worker who's
[46:54] Speaker 1: been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot
[46:57] Speaker 1: who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if
[47:00] Speaker 1: you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence
[47:04] Speaker 1: and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about.
[47:08] Speaker 1: And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue
[47:11] Speaker 1: responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense,
[47:15] Speaker 1: if you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field,
[47:19] Speaker 1: or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something
[47:22] Speaker 1: happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're
[47:25] Speaker 1: a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under
[47:29] Speaker 1: contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report.
[47:33] Speaker 1: If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a
[47:36] Speaker 1: spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith,
[47:40] Speaker 1: or if you work in the shadows CIA, NSA or
[47:43] Speaker 1: anything with clearance and you've seen what the public hasn't,
[47:48] Speaker 1: then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous.
[47:53] Speaker 1: You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com.
[47:57] Speaker 1: The world needs to hear what you've been forced to alone,
[48:01] Speaker 1: and you're not alone. You've got the story, We've got
[48:06] Speaker 1: the mic. See you in the woods. Thank you for
[48:10] Speaker 1: listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every
[48:13] Speaker 1: encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger
[48:15] Speaker 1: and stranger than we think, and that the truth is
[48:18] Speaker 1: often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed
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[49:16] Speaker 1: Keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop
[49:18] Speaker 1: asking what else might be out there? And see you
[49:21] Speaker 1: in the woods.

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