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James Boobo Fay greeting's Bobo. Well, Cliff, what's happened to my friend?
Not much, just down out helping the folks down in a sotel.
So down here for a week? Oh wow, Okay, I didn't know
that. Okay, but this might be the most active spring. It's one
of the top three in the last like thirty five years for me in an
amount of reportion, hearing from all over the place, like where what have
you heard? People seeing them and hearing them finding tracks and tho those tracksh
pop open up everywhere. Tell me all about it. Well, you didn't
get any more, did you? I got one yesterday? O way,
I found three potential ones. Now this is an area like there's a lot
of stuff going on all throughout this one particular area. And I've been pushing
into new roads because I've been hitting the same old roads again and again and
they're just not producing, you know, maybe e theiy're onto me or something.
Maybe, who knows. So I've been pushing into new roads. And
when I say new roads, I mean really old, unused roads that hardly
anybody ever touches or goes on anymore. And I found a pretty old print.
Actually I found two on one road, and then one possibly but I
doubt it on another road. But the two that I found on this one
unused road, there's this there's a spring on this road and it kind of
drools water all down it in about four or five hundred yards down past the
spring. It's still pretty moist in that area. I did pull a track
yesterday. I pulled a cast. It's very shallow, but it was and
forest stuff and moss and whatever else. The heel was pretty pronounced, and
there were two or three pretty faint toes. Pretty faint, but I do
believe that there were toes. And you know, if I see toes in
there, I'm probably gonna cast it. So I put plaster in it.
And today at work, I was working on all sorts of projects. I'm
kind of up against the wall and a couple of things. So I asked
Keith, one of the team members there at the NABC to pick at it
and try to get all the duff off it. So he got most of
it off. Tomorrow we're going to burn it out the rest of the organic
material and see if any the toes registered at the cast. So, but
if it is what I think it is, and you know, I don't
know, maybe it's not a print. Maybe it's just something that looks remarkably
like a print. That happens too, you know, probably far more often
than i'd like. But hopefully we had a couple of toes in there.
But if it is a print, it might be the same fourteen inch individual
they've been tracking for a while. So we will see. Last time I
talked to you, last time we were on we were going. The next
morning you go out to the others area to go see oh yeah, yeah,
that turned out to be double stepping ELK prints, which is kind of
a bum out because the pictures that I was sent and a couple of them
looked really weird, but one or two of them looked really good. They're
like, oh are those toes? That's interesting? You know, not quite
sure what's going on. I went out there, but the guys are a
rare and the guys are super cool, like really really nice people that and
just well meaning misidentified. And sure enough when I got there to the sandbar
at the mouth of that little river there, they took me out on their
boat and after the spot where the thing walked across the sandbar and the tide
already claimed it two more times or one more time, I think two more
times since they initially took the pictures by the time I got there and thinking,
man, this does look by petal and they are about the right size.
There are a couple of weird marks in them, and so I followed
the entire trackway over probably three hundred four hundred yards of you know, mud
essentially, and there were some really wonky looking ones and some really okay looking
ones. But at the end of the day, what it really turned out
to be is double stepping elk that you know, where the hoofs are in
front or whatever. A couple of those suggested toes. I mean, the
pictures that they sent. A couple of them looked just too wonky to be
anything in particular, but a couple of them the way that the tide of
the water kind of came in and out of the princes especially where the hoofmarks
were suggested toes. There were hundreds of these tracks, so I had a
great sample set to examine closely, and they were at the end of the
day, there were clearly elk prints. And you know, I don't begrudge
the guys. They did the best job they could. They photographed the best
looking ones and send them to me, and I'll always, you know,
chase something down on the coast. I love the coast, you know,
I don't get out to the coast nearly as much as I would like.
And it was just a great day, you know, just a great day.
The guys were super cool. One of the guys hooked me up with
like a bunch of fresh seafood that he had in his freezer and stuff,
and yeah, I got some crabs and everything was great. You know,
it was a great day and I think it'll make it I'm gonna make a
video for our members at the museum about it, because you know, over
the last few years, I really feel like I've like leveled up as far
as a tracker goes. And again I don't profess to be a great tracker.
They've gotten way better. Well, yeah, that's the whole feel I
just feel like I've made some real progress over the last few years. You
know, what I've really learned the last few years is that context means so
much. Looking at a track is one thing, but you don't look just
look at a track, you look at everything around it. And so I'm
going to make a video, I think for our museum members, because you
know, they get those two videos for being members every single month, and
that's not the podcast members. That's difference museum stuff about context clues, you
know, because that was a big thing and when I was teaching children how
to read, when I was an elementary school teacher, using context clues to
figure out what vocabulary terms mean. And it's really the same thing with tracking.
And it was the context of this situation that really led me down that
they'd be absolute, one hundred percent certain that these were in fact elk tracks
that have been melted out with the tide and all that other stuff. So
it was a great day, good learning experience, particularly for those guys and
stuff. And I've got two more excellent contacts on a very active area on
the coast, so I know that if anything else happens to them, And
dude, this I went to the guy's house. He lives between like two
super active areas. Like he literally lives on the ridge between this river valley
that a ton of stuff comes out of on one side and then the other
side of that same ridge. I've got like four or five reports on that
side of the ridge too. He lives right in between, on like three
or four acres super killer spot. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if that
guy called me at any time. So yeah, super neat. It was
a great day. It was a great day. It was a long day,
but you know, some seafood at the end of it, and made
a couple of good friends and all that other stuff, and so pretty stoked.
Well, okay, with not much else to talk about it, why
don't we go straight to our guest. This is going to be a great
episode. Pretty excited about this. This is the author of Haunted War Tales,
True Military Encounters with the Bizarre, Paranormal and Unexplained. RC. Bramhall,
RC, thank you so much for a little bit of time aside to
come talk to Cliff and the Bobs Man. Really excited about this one.
Thank you for coming on. Thank you so much for having me on I've
been a fan for years. You guys watched the show, of course,
but actually I have enjoyed the podcast more so. I feel like I've gotten
to know you guys, you know, even more so through this medium.
So it's been great. Hey, Arsue, thanks for joining us. I
agreed. I think the podcast has been on the show too. Hopefully it'll
be longer lasting. Can imagine we're doing this for nine years. We have
to have you on two or three times RC if that's the case. Hey,
hey, hey, that's a goal, a personal goal. Now,
speaking of which, is this your first book or is this just a long
one of many? It is my first book. I've been a writer for
years, been in the screenwriting world, so I made this jump into nonfiction.
And I'm also right, you know, horror war is kind of my
brand, so I'm a horror war fiction writer. Also, now you said
you're a screenwriter, you have you done anything that we might have seen or
No? Unfortunately I haven't. Oh, I'm so sorry to bring it up.
I have lots of unproduced scripts. Yeah, you know, I got
paid a few times and adapted a few novels. But yeah, that's you
know, it's a frustrating world. That's why I kind of was tired of
beating my head against the wall there. You know, I've collected these stories
for years being an Army vet and started to realize after some time, like,
wow, I might have enough here to start, you know, putting
a collection together and actually being able to classify all these different stories into kind
of different you know, realms. And of course Bigfoot, as you can
imagine, is a huge one. When and where did you serve? I
served from nineteen eighty eight to ninety two. I was with fifth Infantry Division
most of the time. I was an intelligence sergeant and finished up with twenty
of Special Forces Group in their Military Intelligence Attachment, a couple of years in
the National Guard while I was in college. And did you serve overseas or
did you do it all domestically or yeah, all domestic. I was,
you know, involved in intelligence, especially for Panama. We had a brigade
down there from our fifth Infantry whenever Panama broke loose, so we actually had
a unit in combat down there in nineteen eighty nine. When did you first
realize that there's some sort of cross I'm assuming like a lot of people like
us, like kind of love monsters and the whole Patterson Goodwin background in search
of and all that jazz. That's a big assumption, of course, But
when did you realize there's some sort of crossover between the military aspect of your
life and your love of you know, monsters and unknown weird stuff. For
sure. I don't know if you guys were ever comic kids, but if
you remember, you know, like DC had a line of great war comics
right back in the eighties, and one of their comics was called Weird War
and it literally was like an anthology every month of kind of short stories that
you know, mashed up different time periods, different wars, with horror,
you know, with ghost or zombies or different kind of things going on.
So at a very young age that just I love that mashup, you know,
and just always had that interest, and so join the army. I
kind of always knew that was the first step I was going to make in
life. I had an uncle, not really an uncle, you know,
one of his cousins you call uncle, who was a Green Beret, had
a big influence on me, for sure. But it's just always been interested
in anything strange, right, mysteries unsolved mysteries. And then even being in
intelligence, you know, there was always some rumors and some weird stuff that
would come through from time to time, especially with you know, the whole
psychic warfare programs. You might know a little bit about that stuff. Like
the movie The Men Who Stare At Goats right, was based on that book.
That was kind of a take on it. But a lot of that
stuff, you know, like honestly that like that whole episode of a guy
staring at a goat, you know, and stopping its heart mentally, that
kind of stuff was you know, it was out there in the intelligence world.
There were guys working in that field, so more of that kind of
stuff. And then of course you know aliens, UFOs always you know,
unidentified kind of you know, aircraft or things in the ocean even and you
know, I avoided all that in the book. It's just because I feel
like, you know, so much of that is done already. And my
point with this book is to really when you read it, to find stories
you've never come across before, you know, like that was my goal.
Is to find stuff that's not out there already. And it's kind of been
retread one hundred times, you know, increasingly difficult in the big foux world
that we live in, no doubt. But you know a lot of people
aren't aware of the international aspect, right that you guys are always trying to
push that that this isn't just an American thing. It's not a North American
phenomenon. It's a worldwide phenomenon. And you know, I've got several different
international military reports that involve Harry Hominid's. Yeah, it seems like several chapters
of this book. And this is not like some sort of like light book
either, I mean, what is it. It's probably over two hundred pages,
two hundred fifty pages maybe somewhere in there too, at least two full
chapters or chalk full of this stuff. Although I will say, you know,
you're kind enough to send me a copy of the book. I've not
got into it, but I have had a chance to thumb through it a
bit. And I'll tell you what, I don't think I've ever read a
better title of a chapter than a Nazi and necronomic con the Cannibal Core and
Wandering Souls. Awesome. I've got some confidence on that, thank you.
Yeah, holy smokes, Like, I don't know what this is about.
But I know that I might just read it out of order. Yeah,
and you can do that. That's what's cool. At the book. You
can literally pick it up any almost anywhere and just start reading a page and
hopefully you won't want to put it down, you know. Okay, So
okay, So you're interested in the DC comic the Weird War series, And
by the way, I just google that. There's holy smokes, there's a
lot of stuff. This is rad. Yeah, that's really cool. I
know we have a fair number of comic book nerds that listen to this thing.
I'm looking at you, Brandon and various other folks. There's a good
number of people who love this kind of thing. I had no idea there
was so much of this out there. So that kind of kind of set
the stage a little bit for your future life. And lo and behold,
you enter the army, kind of like fulfilling your own prophecy. When you
were working and he dealt with some of the weirder things and being in intelligence
and all that jazz. Were you stationed on a base where stuff happened like
Fort Lewis or something like that. I mean, was anything happening at any
of the bases where you actually had to work. Well, what's interesting about
that. I was my main you know, most of my time in the
Army was spent at Fort Poke, Louisiana, right considered the arm pit of
the Army. And I was happy because when I got there, you know,
the drinking age was eighteen in Louisiana, so that equaled everything out for
me. That's why I was dog round of course coming down there at Fort
Pole. Well, that's what I was gonna say. So, I don't
know if you're familiar with like tales from the grid Square. It's a guy
who has an Instagram account. I think his name is Nick Worton or that's
the name he uses. But he's a current member of the military. So
he was actually stationed at Fort Poke, and you know, like has a
lot of incidents and things that have happened within his time there. But when
I was there, unfortunately, no nothing I've ever heard of. Now,
of course, you know bigfoot in Louisiana. Yes, you know, outside
of the base, I had heard rumors and different things, especially as you
know, the Texas Louisiana border real hot spot and that's kind of where Fort
Polk is kind of like right on the edge of that. But you have
Fort poke Is. There's a lot of weird stuff happening there now, but
not when I was there. You're good to Fort Lewis. I've never been
there. But that's a big part of the domestic Disturbances chapter, of course,
because you know so many bigfoot reports and just so many interesting rumors,
even of you know, guys who are stationed there, like Ranger Cadre,
you know that run Ranger School, and just some of the reports out of
there, guys saying that. You know, even when you go through trainings,
a lot of times guys will tell you, hey, like I don't
care if you believe in this or not. You know, they're out there,
and if you do come across one, do not engage, you know,
avoid it at all costs. And we've had things happen in the past,
and you know, guys laugh it off and then they go out there
and have some kind of strange experience, you know, and wonder what the
hell is going on if it's like some kind of psychological trick that they're trying
to play on them, where you know, somethings are actually out there following
them around so yeah, Fort lewis probably the hottest area, right, like
when we're talking about Bigfoot sightings. As you can imagine, they officially refer
to one part of the training course now as sub Squatch Alley up there.
Yeah, there's several certain areas of the base that are pretty famous, you
know, like I don't remember the name. If there's a certain pond on
base that's known also as kind of a hot spot. Stay tuned for more
Bigfoot and beyond with Cliff and Bogo. We'll be right back after these messages.
The museums located not too far from there, like maybe hour and a
half two hours, and so we get a fair number of military folks coming
through. And if they tell me their their their station there or were stationed
there, I always ask them one hundred percent of the time, I ask
them, so you ever been blah blah blah, you know you've been told
about these things? And the answer is yes, probably about I'm guessing about
thirty to forty percent of the time. Wow, that's pretty high. Yeah,
it is pretty high considering that these things are aren't real supposedly, right,
but yet there they are. Like most people, you know, like
I said, sixty to seventy percent say no, no, they never really
mentioned it or whatever. And sometimes they say, yeah, well I know
one guy who said he saw one or something like that. But several people
have told me straight out says, oh no, no. Before operations,
we were warned about these things and they said, don't worry about them,
just ignore them. Go you know, nothing to see here sort of thing
exactly that that lake is called Cat Lake. Just so we know Cat Lake.
You know, that's part of the range of training area. It's notorious
for having been the layer of a particular sas squats for several years. Now,
is that in your book? Yes? Very cool. So what other
bases and areas in this country before we go abroad here? Do you mention
and go deep into into the book here? Honestly, I could have picked
any one of them as I did my research. You know, you can
find bigfoot reports on almost every military base. And you know, when you
look at the reasons, I really think you know one of my personal theories,
and I think you guys may have even mentioned this before. When you
think about, you know, if this species is thriving, right, if
this is actually where their numbers are growing, when you look at areas that
are protected, you know, national parks, wilderness management areas, huge sections
of military bases. These areas are hugely undisturbed, right, I mean there,
you know, it is the perfect area if you were an animal that
was looking to hide somewhere that had a liverable habitat that you're not going to
encounter that many people. You know, they're perfect areas. Right When you
look at most military bases, they're huge, but almost every one of them
backs up too, you know, more huge wilderness areas, whether they're national
parks and some kind of designated area or state. So, you know,
just talking about massive amounts of land, you know, like really undisturbed wilderness.
And so when you start looking around, it's like every base has their
own war, you know, basically everywhere but Hawaii. You know, I
got invinted by these guys. He was a range master at a base in
Oklahoma as an artillery I know, they did a lot of artillery training there
was like I talked to him like several times. I never made it out
there, but he had a lot of stories from his days. I know
which we're talking about, but I forget the name. It's the home of
the Artillery. Of course, seal is that in your book? No,
that's not when I included we've got twenty nine palms. The Marine Corps Air
Ground Combat Center in California. That's pretty wild. There's so many encounters there.
They have, like, you know, very a vast range of nicknames,
from the Sierra Highway Devil to the Mohave Sandman to the Yucaman. And
it kind of backs up to the Joshua Tree National Park and that Majave National
Preserve and then even the Armies National Training Center. So you have this huge
area and they've even you know, enough reports almost seem like there's almost a
pattern of their movement between these areas, you know. And something really interesting
too. One of the Native American tribes in the San Bernardino Mountain region called
them talk We's. I think Talkweits. You ever heard of that? Yeah?
Absolutely there. When I was in Boy Scouts, before I was asked
to not be in Boy Scouts any longer by the Boy Scouts, I would
have to go to summer camp up there, and it was I went literally
went to Camp Talkuitz, which you know, that was the camp I went
to, and I guess there's a creek in a valley out there, and
little talk about foreshadowing. I mean, had I known like that was what
it was named after, yeah, yeah, maybe I would have enjoyed Boy
Scouts a little bit more. Yeah. So that's one of the interesting things,
is you know that that like there's a canyon and a water phone named
that and to the local indigenous people, that's where these things kind of originated.
You know, it's one of their favorite haunts. Was that area.
It's kind of Mount San Jacinto, their palm springs. Yeah, kind of
kind of a fair amount of stuff still happens down there in that general vicinity
for southern California. It's a hotspot for sure, Edward's Air Force Base in
California. A lot of stranger, cryptid behavior there, more like almost like
alien stuff or kind of strange monsters, like three toed kind of things.
You know, you're probably I'm sure you're familiar with Doug Trapp. Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I've not interviewed him, but
I although he'd be a good interview, he might be a good person get
on the podcast. Yeah. So I got a lot of stuff from his
research of you know, like looking into desert sasquatches and talking to Air Force
veterans. One of the cool things about that base is I came across like
a newspaper article and it was a reunion of like the Air Force police that
were stationed there. They were called the Desert Rats, and it was like
guys that were stationer between seventy three and seventy nine and you know, being
retired and all these years later. That's what's cool is a lot of these
ex military guys, you know, they're willing to start sharing this stuff when
they're not you know, in danger of being called crazy or losing their rank
or anything. And you know, so I came across this like newspaper report.
It was really cool reading all these guys like basically telling all these you
know, cryptid stories. It just it was a regular newspaper article about the
reunion. So there's a lot of that stuff in there, just you know,
seeing a lot of orbs, strange lights, and then like I say,
some kind of bizarre eight foot time between eight and ten foot creature.
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. That's another hotspot. I go to Fort Carson,
Colorado, Well what are you getting out of? Like I haven't heard
much recently. I mean, it's so think there was a long dead zone,
Like I didn't heard anything out of Penalton from like the early eighties until
like the two thousands. Yeah, the same thing. Most of the stuff
I have as older. It's like from the eighties, and a lot of
these places that you're mentioning recently, Edwards Air Force Base very desert like in
a lot of ways, you know, and some of are straight out desert,
like I think Edward's Air Force Space is literally just desert for the most
part, but there's mountains nearby and also river valleys that go through a lot
of these. I know Bobo and I have both done footprint investigations when we
were in southern California in the Mohave river bed, and what we found,
or at least what i've I think Bobo would be in agreement with this.
Most of the stuff there in those environments happened during the winter time. Did
you maybe I know this wasn't the focus of your book, but or you
know, I think it was for the most part. Did you notice that
they tended to be more in the in the colder time of year. Yeah,
I don't really. I didn't look at that necessarily. I'd have to
go back and look at my reports and see, we don't get break short
reports consistently, like you know, around what other cryptid or what other phenomena
it gets reported, like not just like in like localiz of there's like across
the board, like North America. Well, you know, obviously a lot
of Hank teams, right, Almost all the bases have their own ghost stories,
kind of their own lore. For Leavenworth, it's probably one of the
most haunted bases with the amount of like different stories and encounters going on there.
But yeah, not any necessarily like a cryptid necessarily associated with a particular
base, you know, like a dog man or moth man or anything else
different. Almost all sasquatch. We kind of touched the base on a lot
of the no no pun intended. I guess touch base on a lot of
the local bases here domestically, But you have a lot of stuff from overseas
bases as well, and from places that I personally don't know very much about
the Harry hormonoids in that area, even though I obviously I know that they're
there or I've heard stories, but I've never really looked into them, you
know, just because probably I probably will never go to Afghanistan, but yet
you have a significant part of your chapter deals with the Afghany Harry harmanoids can
tell us a little bit about what's going on out there, Yeah for sure.
So, you know, kind of starting with the Almas, right,
kind of Central Asia's version of some type of you know, almost more human
like Neanderthal rather than a neo giant, kind of like Sasquatch or a Yawi.
So, you know, I talk a lot about that, so many
Russian reports going all the way back to like the Russian Civil War early nineteen
hundreds, all the way up through more modern times. And what I try
to show in there is, you know, to again the skeptic or someone
who doesn't really know much about this, is, you know, the actual
history backing this stuff up. And how when we look at the remnants of
Neanderthal settle and the places we find, you know, like kind of the
last refuges of these Neanderthals are the same areas where these Almas are still being
reported being seen, you know, So is it that far to stretch that
you know, some of these things may have retreated into these most inhospitable places
in the world. When you look across from the Rockies, the Colorado Rockies
all the way to the Hindu Kush or the Premiere in Takistan, or the
all Tea Mountain range in West Mongolia. You know, it's the same type
of environments where these things are seen, right and especially in Russia, you
know the presence of these Neanderthal like settlements, the remnants that these archaeologists find,
it just really backs up. It's always in the same areas that these
things are being seen by locals. And so when we move into Afghanistan,
you know, several encounters our guys had with things that really are unexplainable.
The giants. Yeah, one of the most interesting ones I came across was,
you know, it's kind of a squad was overlooking a village, an
Afghan village overnight, kind of watching for activity, and you know, through
their thermals they spot a heat signature that's across the valley about the same elevation
as they are on the on the mountain across the valley, and it's so
huge of a heat signature that the guy who sponts it figures it's a group
of people. You know, it has to be a group of people that
kind of sitting huddled together. So he wakes up the rest of the squad.
You know, hey, we need to watch this because it seems like
there's a group over there. Let's you know, keep an eye on and
see what they're doing. And so the whole squad has eyes on this thing,
watching it through their thermals and as you know, that means there's something
there, right, regardless of what the belief is, that heat signature is
proving something was there. And as they watch and expecting this kind of group
to break up, they see this heat signature kind of stand up as one
thing and like walk over the crest in the mountain. And then another encounter
guys had they actually saw this thing kind of scaling up the side of a
hill, and you know that actually in daylight, like had a good eye
on it, and the guys thought it was some you know, an ape
or some kind of gorilla. And they said it was moving up the side
of this mountain so fast it was impossible, you know, it was almost
like impossible to understand as they watched it, and you know, one of
the guy's jokes, I did a gorilla like escape a local zoo or what
is this and kind of when they talked to the locals about it, they
were real matter of fact, like, oh, you saw a barman u,
you know, so they call him over there, and you know,
just going into the locals belief. Another really cool thing I came across was
another you know, kind of an interview with the local villager there, and
he just talked so matter of factly about these things. As you know,
his grandparents always knew about them, they saw them as he was growing up
at different times, and even tells the story how he was out one day
and actually saw one with a juvenile like holding hands and yeah, like how
special the moment that was for him. And he basically says, like,
you know, they're mountain people like we are. We leave them alone.
They only come down when times are tough, kind of food scarce, you
know, that's when they'll see them kind of around the settlements. And just
a matter of fact kind of attitude by the locals about these things is what
really gets in what about the Giant of Canada Heart So yeah, that I
included that in the book. You know, I find that story kind of
fantastical. Right, but I had to address it because it's definitely out there
on the Internet and there are several different individuals who claim to have different parts
in that story. So and then I really talk about giants too, because
that's another belief in Afghan culture is the giants are real. I talk about
like an American reporter was kind of embedded with some Afghan soldiers and policemen and
she pointed out that, you know, her interpreter even was college educated,
just to point out that these weren't like you know, bill billies. It
was a group of professional guys, and they like kind of kind of came
across a grave site that was like immensely sized, and she made a comment
like you know, wow, that's kind of crazy, like you know,
who's buried there. And they told her like it was a giant, you
know, and she's like, oh, okay, yeah, sometimes people,
you know, do grow pretty tall, could be seven or eight feet tall.
And they're like, no, you know, like a real giant,
like a separate race. They're not humans like we are. And you know,
they got all mad at her, and like even the interpreter started yelling
at her. It was like, you know, just because you Americans don't
think these things are real, you know, like our grandparents lived and some
of them were still around, you know, like got all in the face
and stuff. So it's very It's part of the Afghan culture over there.
They believe in this stuff. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff
and Bogo will be right back after these messages. I'm glad you brought up
the Neanderthal thing, and it also you you address the prevalence of other hominins.
I think that's really cool. I personally have a footprint cast from that
general area from an Alma. Doctor Meltrium gave it to me and he recently
when I was in Ohio, he showed me a three D scanned print.
Some people went over I think it was Coffin's collection over there, and they
they they scanned it and then they three D printed it when they got back
to the States. And again it's it's Ananderthal basically, is what you're seeing
in Theandertal footprint or it's it's very very similar, I should say. But
we have no information about what about these other hominins. Unfortunately, we don't
know if we have footprints of like homolog LONGI or anything like that. And
a recent news article indicates that those homolonge might actually be Homodenis ovan, which
I think is a fascinating possibility because we have so few Homo denisovan fossils.
So something's going on over there and the answer is somehow related to human evolution.
And I think this is absolutely super cool and fantastic. Definitely. Yeah,
I really Avan Sanderson is getting is getting his due now, you know,
suggesting that there were all these different species all over the planet seemed ridiculous,
of course back in the sixties, but science has proven it. Yeah,
now it's not so much the case that it's ridiculous. And I think
it's really neat that you address all that in the book. So yeah,
and I even I remember from one of your shows, honestly, is it
Patterson? Oh, Gareth Patterson. Gareth Patterson, the author of Secret Beyond
the Secret Elephants, right, uh huh, yeah, I just mentioned him
in the book too. You know, just again that these are respected scientists,
you know, and if you think that they're going to make something up
like that, you know, you're barking up the rong tree. But no,
so we've kind of taken a look at Afghanistan and that general area of
the world. But you have a considerable section on the rock capes of Vietnam,
which which I just love. My father knew a witness. When my
father was alive, he would go to the y and work out in one
of his friends that you know, they just kind of became friends by working
out the why together. He had seen one of these things, and that
really impressed my father. I think, in fact, my dad heard that
story before. A close friend of my father's came out and said that he
had or she had seen a sasquatch, which kind of turned the page on
our relationship a little bit. It's not like we had a bad relationship,
but he always knew his kid was weird, but at some point it kind
of came around. It's like, oh, maybe he clips up to something.
Actually that's pretty cool, I mean and real and instead of just weird.
Right. Yeah, But he knew this rock ape witness back in the
day. I guess he saw one while during a firefight, I guess in
his Vietnam service back in the war. But they were busy not you know,
trying not to get shot, so they didn't pay much attention to it
at the time, how many or did you have a chance at all to
speak to Vietnam vets who observe these during their service or did you get most
of the resource material from other books or articles or other means. Yeah,
that's I got to speak to a couple of vets in person. Yeah,
so that was a really exciting thing. And that's one of the things I'm
proud about in the book because I think I have collected more rock ape stories
than anyone has yet, you know. So it's interesting when you go all
the way back to like French explorers even you know that the indigenous people there,
I think they call them the butt toots or new he run kind of
means for forest people. So you know, there's a long history of these
things being there, and even some French explorers that accounts. There's an eighteen
twenty account from a ship captain. Then there's another one in like nineteen forty
seven a French officer who encountered one, So you know, these things even
before we got there, the lore was kind of around. And again when
you start looking at the areas that we went into in Vietnam were you know,
unexplored areas, Like a lot of those jungles were areas that outside of
the indigenous people living there, no one had really explored or gone into.
And the interesting thing about the RockA phenomenon is their behavior. How they seem
like very angry about being disturbed by humans and almost like you know, very
aggressive in their response to that. And that's why they were called rock apes,
right, because they reportedly threw rocks at the troops a lot whenever they'd
kind of come into their areas, which, as you know, is kind
of a pretty common bigfoot behavior also, right. But yeah, one of
the veterans I got to talk to, his name is Mark, you know,
just on a side note, it's like awesome. One of the things
about doing this book that you know, sometimes you don't even think about this
right when you interview people, and I'm sure you've experienced that, just how
exciting it is for them. You know. He sent me an email when
he got the book, and just seeing his story in there, you know,
almost made me tear up. It was so exciting for this guy and
to know that, you know, his service was going to be remembered.
Him and his family was so happy about that. But it just really cool.
Uh, so many accounts that it's hard to ignore. You know,
it seems like such a bizarre idea that you know, these things were that
aggressive and kind of unafraid of our troops. But it's like report after report
of encounters with these things and them kind of shaking their fists at the soldiers
and you know, throwing things at them or even like charging them sometimes.
But they seem to be a little bit shorter, a little bit smaller than
a big foot. Did you hear you talk to you guys talking about my
My friend's dad was a ranger over there, you know, recount ranger doing
the rolls, and he said he never actually telled them, but his best
friend and from high school that went into the uh ranger of school with him,
was on a different platun that he said that some guys got blown up,
actually that they would grow grenades. They wouldn't know if they or rock
apes or like VC or whatever enemy troops they'd throw and they said that there's
rock ape ended up having to like fold the pins wait two seconds in through
it because the rock as should pick them up and throw them back. Yep,
yep, yep. I got a couple of reports exactly about that.
In fact, there was even certain units that were told like don't throw your
nades, like when you go through this area. Yeah, if these apes
were so aggressive, did people take shots at them and kill some of these
things? And if so, what happened to the bodies exactly? And that's
what I wonder too, because yes, there's a couple of reports of you
know, them finding dead ones, like in the morning, you know,
like something would trip the trip of flair. They think somebody's you know,
trying to probe the wire and light it up. Next day they go out
and find like a shot of you know ape that nobody kind of knows what
the hell it is. You know, where's the pitchers, right, like
where's some part evidence of that kind of stuff. A couple counts too,
of like booby traps that they had set up they kind of went off and
they'd find, you know, bodies of these rock apes have blown up.
There was a special forces team they were kind of laid up waiting in ambush
and they heard like this mysterious kind of like choking and gurgling noise. They
kept hearing for like three days, like three nights, and it couldn't locate
what this thing was, and so that when they moved down on the fourth
day, they actually found this decomposing ape man what they called it, nearly
blown like completely in half by what appeared to be a land mine. But
they said, you know, they've described it. Said it had shorter hair
in its head. I set back an inch and a half from a prominent
brown line, a flat nose, long arms, with large and lengthy fingers.
They said, one hand was still wrapped around the tree bench of his
clutching when it had died, and the teeth were like flat, well form
molders with long pointed canines. Yeah. So you know, are you guys
aware of any recent sightings of new erungs? Me? So that's the other
thing, you know, like, what's happened then, what's happened in our
Vietnam expedition for finding Bigfoot? I don't remember if we had any recent witnesses,
you know, I think they were at least a couple of years old,
or you know, even further than that in the past. And I
know that from my time out in the field, we didn't run across any
of those things or have any you know, noises back at us or anything
like that. But we did run across some people living out there. Apparently
there are I think, Rember, my memory serves. I think there are
thirteen different ethnic linguistic groups living in the jungles of Vietnam, away from society
and cities and all that sort of stuff. And I found a little humorous
actually because where I'm out there doing my big foot stuff, howling and hoopin
and stuff, and I heard similar calls. But it turns out that's exactly
what the local people do who live in the woods, in these little villages.
They go woo does all locate each other. That's how they go about
their lives, locating each other. So none of my tricks, you know,
my bag of tricks was actually was completely useless. You know, out
of the woods, you actually saw a couple you saw some of those forest
people. I did, I did, I did. They're were in like
a knockoff Adidas and stuff like that, right, I mean the Adida shirts
and things. But yeah, totally. I saw some of it at a
distance and they kept their distance too. We saw some of those giant bee
hives at night that are found in the top parts of these huge caves and
whatnot that they have over there, and they were out doing that sort of
stuff. So in other parts of the world, I saw that you devoted
a small chapter or a small sub chapter, I guess, to the Solomon
Islands, which I thought was really interesting because I'm a fan of hominins and
unknown hominoids in general, all throughout Indonesia and Papua New Guinea and the whole
nine, everything from the Ring Pindeck in one corner all the way down to
Well. I knew about a couple of things on Papua New Guinea, but
I didn't know about the Solomon Islands, so that was fascinating. Now,
is there a military base out there or something, or were these things found?
And what are they? This is from World War two and these are
actually Japanese Army accounts Aguadalcanal, you know, one of the famous battles of
World War two that we fought, what nineteen forty two to forty three,
So again interesting. The local indigenous I'll try to pronounce it right. I
think it's the Luna Sudahuri tribe. They've always had stories that these things exist
and they call them the Mumu m you but they're sasquatch like huge creatures,
long black, brown reddish hair. The kids are always told stories, you
know, that they'll abduct you and they're cannibals, so they're kind of scary
to the locals. Now these things are like described as being true giants,
like almost ridiculous, like ten to fifteen feet tall, red eyes, flat
noses. They kind of resemble. There's some similar creatures in Malaysian folklore known
as the Irang mahwas or irang that are said didn't have it like the jungle
jahor in Malaysia. So you know, there's even like some similar creatures on
other islands. But supposedly the Japanese when they infiltrated all the kind of Guadalcanal's
forest, they ran into these things. They said. There's even a report
of like a squad being attacked by one that had like a crew club.
They were reported to like snap thick trees and branches in half to display their
power. They'd scare the Japanese at night with these loud fulish you know,
like whaling, and so the Japanese kind of called them the Solomon giants.
That's what they kind of came to be known. As. And then another
really interesting one from the Japanese the Yuku Islands, which are part of the
Okinawa chain. A very short primate like commented that they found there that they
called the kiji muna ki j i m u n a. But these things
were described as being like the size of a three or four year old human,
to the point where one soldier action kind of went on the beach,
like saw it from behind and thought it was a child, and then when
it turned around, you know, he realized it wasn't. Then it took
off. And they claimed that these things would like, you know, look
for seafood at night on the beach, like you know, looking for crabs,
and in the morning they'd find like these piles of empty shells, and
that was always like a sign of that there was a kijimuna nearby, you
know. They just like our guys in Vietnam. The Japanese soldiers saw these
things return home try to attract some scientific interests and going back and looking into
it, and you know, were laughed at, which I always find interesting,
right, like to be laughed at people who weren't there to tell you
what you experienced, you know, just talking cryptozoology in the Solomon Islands.
Like twenty seventeen, they found a new species. There were always legends about
this, like giant possum like rat that lived in trees and it could crack
open coconuts with its teeth, and it was proven true. They found the
creature in twenty seventeen. It's a new species that they classified. Yeah,
so again, there's lots of new animals to discover out there. Stay tuned
for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo. We'll be right back after
these messages. Coming back to the United States a little bit. Do you
have anything here about sas I'm sure you have some ghost stuff in here.
We'll get to that probably in the bonus episode or whatever. But do you
have any Sasquatch stuff associated with Gettysburg because it's kind of a well known Bigfoot
spot. No, I don't. I wish I had come across that.
Yeah. I think back in the day Moneymaker ran an expedition in the area
or something, and I've heard heard quite a few stories from that general area,
So it's curious if you're going to have that in there. No.
Now, I open the book with my own strange experience there Oh, what
happened to you? Yeah, you know, nothing that exciting, But I
just relate a story that you know, And I've been there many many times
because my stepfather and my mom lived near Gettysburg, so I spent a lot
of time out there and never had anything happen. And then I was passing
through the area and the hotel I stayed out was near like Hanover, the
north side of Hanover Road. The East Calvary Field is what it's called,
and it's, you know, a more remote part of the battlefield that's kind
of even separated that a lot of people don't even know it's there to go
visit. And it's where the big Calvary battle went down between Custer and Jeb
Stewart. They're kind of two of my favorite generals. So I went out
there one morning and got there right when the park was opening, and literally
was like the only person in the park. I was by myself in that
section, so, you know, just kind of moving through and I know
that battle real well. And if you've been to Gettysburg, you know how
it looks exactly the same. You know, it's still it's not that hard
to have to imagine the battle because you can see the geography in front of
you. So I was kind of moving through and stopped at a place,
and you know, I was just really into it, thinking about what it
was like to fight there and what had happened. And I had been sitting
in my car for probably about five minutes, you know, the car was
off, I was in park level ground, had been there, just sitting,
and all of a sudden, you know, my whole car was like
pushed so much that you know, like I physically like moved in my seat
and I thought someone had literally like pulled in and tapped me, you know,
which I was like, what the hell, Like, no one else
is even here? Why did you have to park that close to me?
And when I turned around, nobody, you know, nothing was there.
So I was like, okay, like because I know I felt it,
drove on down further, had a few more you know, got out of
the car and did a few more things, and then the whole time I
was taking photographs throughout the park, and the very last photograph I took,
you know, I never had a photograph like this happened to me. And
it's hard to see in the book. I included the look, but like
you know, black and white, and the way it just printed you can't
really see, but there was a you know, there was a shape there,
and there's like a strange you know, like kind of energy line through
the camera through the photo, and my camera's never done that any other picture
before, so it's just interesting. You know, like that coupled with the
push, it just made me wonder, like, you know, was somebody
else out there with me that they well, they routinely do like ghost trips
or something to Gettysburg, don't they. Yeah, all the time. It's
it's considered to be a huge paranormal hotspot. That's just one of my personal
theories about battlefields, you know, when there's so much emotion expended. I'm
not necessarily someone who believes that hauntings are like an actual spirit, right,
I kind of tend more to the belief that it's like an energy imprint.
You know, when there's that much emotion expended, how much sudden death,
that much just turmoil you could see where you know, that much energy expended,
it could leave a physical impression on that geography forever. And that's kind
of my impression that when we see those things, it's more of like witnessing
a time loop or like a movie that's replaying, and sometimes for some reason
we can perceive that, you know, And so it just makes sense that
battle feels like Gettysburg or even in the book, like a place in Afghanistan
it's called O P Rock Observation Point Rock. That is one of the most
convincing, like haunteens I've ever come across, you know, when you have
numerous eyewitnesses saying the same things happen, that's what always makes me pause.
So I think we're probably going to get into the more paranormal weird stuff during
the bonus episodes here, but I'm kind of keeping an eye on the clock
right now, and I don't want to. I want to make sure that
we don't go too much over here. But think about some of the some
of these stories and some of the witnesses you've had face to faces with,
you know, and then the emotions that they've conveyed to you. So maybe
if you can share maybe one or two stories that really stuck with you,
you know, that really kind of moved you in some sort of way,
and share those with us as kind of a parting thought. I guess we
saw a little bit of time and not rushing out the door or anything.
Do's gonna be wrong? But really, I mean because writing a book like
this about the military and some of these battlefields and dealing with witnesses in general,
it can be imagine a pretty moving experience. What really stuck with you
from the writing process of this book as far as personal stories goes, I
think one of like kind of just kind of brought some fear in to me
because it's one of the theories I've thought about often is whenever, you know,
we think these things, they disappear right like they're even track ways where
people see it, and then like they look and it's gone. One of
my theories is they might you know, be up in trees as we know,
like we as humans rarely look up, you know, we rarely look
up. And I think sometimes that that's what's going on. So I remember
a story is from ap Hill for a ap Hill in Virginia, and it
was some marines. So they were dropped up by helicopter. They're out on
maneuvers. It was three marines pulling guard duty. It's kind of you know,
early morning, like O two hundred oh four hundred. But they said
the woods got real quiet, and he kind of looked up from his seated
position on the ground. He saw this huge shape like standing in the tree
right above him, you know, and it like stood out real clear against
the sky. It was about thirty feet away, and he saw it kind
of holding onto the tree with this long arm and it's you know, he
could tell it was like seven to eight feet tall, but he couldn't see
where its feet ended, so he wasn't even sure how tall it was.
So he watched this thing like just frozen in terror as it kind of moved
real silently from that tree in front of him to the next one, like
just vanished from sight. So kind of the next morning he asked everybody else
in the unit, just you know, not being specific, but like kind
of saying, any guys see something in the trees last night, you know,
And another one of the marines was like affirmative, I did, and
he kind of described the same thing he had seen, this manlike figure that
he watched quietly moving like around the trees around their position, you know.
So they all kind of confirmed they'd seen this bizarre thing and it insertable being
canment just used in those old drove trees kind of as a quiet way to
get around. So that kind of just stuck with me because I think seeing
something like that, you know, it would have been pretty scary kind of
look up and see this man standing in the tree above you. Yeah,
it's definitely a high creep factor. And it's also a reminiscent of the copra,
which is one of the local names in the Philippines for these giant sasquash
like things that they apparently they stand up or hang out up in trees and
or you know, the mythology around them says that they smoke a cigar because
you can see the red embers burning, which it might be like their eye
reflection or something like that. Who knows what's actually going on. Yeah,
it's interesting how there are so many echoes, you know, of other traditions,
you know, from all throughout that general area and all stuff on military
basis down in the Philippines. Super interesting stuff. Well, you know what,
I think, I think it's time to bring this segment of our interview
to a close and everything we can. We can continue on in the members
section and get into the really weird stuff, which is always a lot of
fun, of course, but before we split, Where can people buy Haunted
War Tales, True Military Encounters with the Bizarre paranel when I'm explained by RC
Bramhall, for sure, I mean it's literally available everywhere. But honestly,
I recommend that I really like people to go to their local independent bookstore and
ask for them to order it, and I feel like that helps the local
bookstore and then usually they'll also order another copy right to have on the shelf
once they see if somebody's interested in it. So honestly, that's the way
I like to suggest it. But you can follow me at RC Warrior Poet
on Instagram. You can find me on Facebook. RC bram Hall. But
yeah, I really appreciate the opportunity. So I've been a fanny guy for
here, some friends here with Loud Blackburn, one of your old buddies,
and he actually even helped me a little bit kind of looking over the book
when I was ready to publish. I appreciate him too, And would it
be possible for me to get like maybe a dozen copies that are autographed for
me to sell it at the museum. Definitely, we can work that out
and get them sent to you. I will talk to you about that off
air, but I would love to have some of this stuff. I think
it's a great book, so I look forward to reading the rest of it,
because just just leafing through it, this is a high quality book.
It's totally nonfiction, which I love. Firsthand witnesses directly from the witness's mouth.
In a lot of cases, this is a really cool book. Thank
you, Thank you, Klyn. Appreciate it so much. Thank you for
setting as sight some time from us. Really do appreciate that, of course.
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