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Berrickman and James Bubo Fay. Hello Cliff, Hello Bobo. How are you
doing today, sir? Pretty good? Pretty good? What's happening? Just
uh, I don't know, work and stuff and you know, I just
got back in town from Kentucky. I was at a cryptid con. Oh
yeah, great event. I really enjoyed myself. A lot of good people
out there. I saw Tom Shay. Tom Shay is of course a national
treasure in every single way international pretty much pretty much. Yeah. He passed
on a couple of casts for the NABC. One is a gift to the
NABC, which is a fantastic cast from Trimble County in twenty eighteen. The
cast is from an individual named Goliath that we've been tracking over the last few
years. There's some dramaticallypics on it that maybe came from the Sasquatch, maybe
came from introduction or being tainted somehow, you know, like maybe Tom touched
the foot print before his cast. Not really sure. I actually I'm working
with a forensic expert who is an expert in dramaticlyphics and ballistics of all things,
and he has some questions about the cast. So I was talking to
Tom about that, and of course Tom has nothing to hide. He wants
everybody to look at these things with a really close eye and just get to
the bottom of everything, get to the truth of all this. So I
was talking to Tom about this cast and about the concerns this one gentleman had.
He's a police officer in Georgia. And Tom says, well, I'll
tell you what, I'll just give you the cast for the NABC. I'll
just donate the cast to you and then you can make a higher quality mold
than what you have and then send it off to him. Which is really
a fantastic thing and so generous and really speaks volumes to Tom Shay's character that
he he just wants qualified people to closely examine the evidence and get to the
truth. So I got that one back at home, and also while while
he was bringing a cast, I specifically asked him, you know, now,
there are two fantastic handprints that Tom cast in twenty sixteen, not that
real big one that you got to hold in person. But there's these two
other ones, right, and it's the same hand that the fingers are curled
in one and protruding to the ground, and the other well, apparently there
were there was a footprint associated with it. Tom sent me a photograph of
the two hand casts and a footprint. I go, Tom, there's a
footprint. He goes, yeah, I never told you that. I said,
no, he never told me that. So well, hey, and
so like a year goes by or eight months go by, and I figured
out, I'm going to see Tom at Cryptidcon and I'm revamping my presentations for
this coming season. I think I'm going to do something on handprints. I
did something at handprints a number of years ago, but so many more have
been uncovered since then, and so much new information has come out. I
want to revisit that topic for this coming season, and you know of conferences.
So anyway, I said, Tom, would you mind lending me that
that footprint because I want to use it and see if there's any correlation hand
size and foot size and all this other stuff. He goes, oh,
yeah, no problem. So I see Tom, and he goes, hey,
I got that cast for you, And I unwrapped the bubble wrap and
there's a half cast there. I go, Tom, this isn't the one
you show me. He goes, oh, no, I couldn't find that
one that I showed you. But this was also in the trackway. Huh,
said Tom? There were two? There were two? What else are
you hiding from me? You know, not that he's hiding anything, of
course, but you know what I mean, it's like, oh my god.
So that a really interesting half cast. And then there's still that other
footprint that he's not quite sure where it is because he's got tubs of these
things, right, He's been collecting these prints since the eighties. So you
know, I can't hold it against them. I'm rather disorganized as well,
you know. Yeah. Anyway, so the Crypto Con was great in that
sort of way, and I don't know that that's pretty much it, really,
although I did come home to a very very sick dog. Fortunately,
Yeah, so she's not I mean, she's doing better now, but you
know, I mean she understandably has separation anxiety issues and has a lot of
baggage from you know, being tied to a tree in the woods alone as
a puppy, and then you know, we stumbled upon her and saved her
life basically. You know, so she's got some baggage, but then she's
used to like Melissa being home when I'm gone, But this time Melissa came
with me because she later drove out to Pittsburgh after the event to surprise her
mother for her seventieth birthday party. So happy birthday to mom of course out
there. Yeah. So, so she kind of freaked out while we're gone,
got in the trash ate some stuff and then stopped eating anything. Then
she wasn't pooping and all that other you know, dog issues and stuff.
She's slowly rebounding and the stress is going away. I'm literally looking at her
right now. So but yeah, things are getting better for her. But
they don't like having a sick dog. You know how that is, Bubbs.
Oh god, yeah, it's because you're like, talk to me,
Talk to me, you know what's going on? Just tell me what's wrong.
Yeah, but that's me, man. What's up with you? Getting
ready for Bart to come up tomorrow night, tomorrow night, Thanksgiving Eve.
Well, he's gonna he's gonna take off and then he'll probably won't get here
until Friday morning, and then uh, we're gonna do our annual squatching and
gambling football watching it. We'll be out. We're not gonna go too far
out like, well, we'll have to keep it close where we can come
in and watch games and be in internet range. So get his bets in.
Well, very good. I wish you good luck on both counts,
big footing and gambling. Yeah. Nice. Nice. He's just gonna go
to the local spots basically, Yeah, then we're gonna go. Polly Pizza
has gotta he's got. He lives out out behind like like between Fieldbrook and
Mckinneyville, come out in Mount's on those those coastal hills like just south of
Trinidad, and I get a lot of reports out of there, and I've
and I should spend more time there because it's so close, but I kind
of it's just, uh, there's there's house. I mean, there's you
know, there's a couple of thousand people live in that valley, and so
I try to stay away from like anywhere likely it could be like overlap,
like because there's so you can get so far out there around here, you
know, like where there's no houses at all. I try to go to
those places, but there's reports coming consistently through there. So we're gonna check
that out and see what we can find. Oh that's cool, you know.
That reminded me of something that's super big. Aggrig aggravation. By the
way, I was at the museum today. It's it's Wednesday tomorrow, Thanksgiving
for the people listening, that's when we record these things. So I was
at the museum today for a few hours or whatever. I only took a
I only worked for a little over a half day because of my dog.
Of course, I want to come and make sure she wasn't gonna crap all
over the bottom floor of the house like she did when I was gone.
And then uh, but so before I left, I like, well,
oh, there's a message on the machine. I'm just gonna double check this
or erase it if it's old. And it was a woman's voice. I'm
not going to say the name or anything says yeah, my name is so
and so, and uh, I don't know if this is the number I'm
supposed to call. But I saw something and I don't mean it might have
been a bigfoot and I got it on the video on my phone. A
couple of us did, A couple of my friends, and is this the
number for that? My name is so and so, and you can call
me back my numbers five oh three click, and then it hung up.
It hung up, and then of course, you know, I what and
I fumbled back through the incoming calls. You know, on the store phone.
This is the store's phone, and the number that came in at the
time she called this was yesterday. By the way, the number she came
at the time she called was a number form like six oh one area code
or something like that. So I called back, and then I called Nico
the manager, and said, oh yeah, that came that yesterday. I
called her back to and anyway, that was yesterday. So somebody here in
the Portland area, at least someone who has a Portland phone number. She
and her friends apparently possibly saw a sasquatch. Release think they did, to
the point where they called the Bigfoot Museum to tell them about it, and
has video. So so that's making me pull my eyeballs out. Yeah,
it might have been yesterday, might have been the day before. Oh man,
as I rained that hard since I got home. There's probably prints in
the ground because it's all soft and muddy and video. But man, such
as the life of a big Footer. It's like, oh, Cliff,
there's no Murphy's Laws, just a blah blah blah up here. There clearly
is Murphy's Law guaranteed guaranteed. Yeah, anybody who says that hasn't been big
footing very long. I think we got some good stuff caught up today.
Fantastic. Yeah, of course are our guests today. And I may get
the name wrong, Like, it's just so funny. I've known of these
people and what seems like forever forever actually, and I've kind of known them
emailed here and there and stuff, and then lo and behold once a year
so they start wandering into the museum and I'm greeting them and they and I
remember last year it was like, hey, Cliff, I'm so and so,
oh my god, I know you are. And then this year the
other half came in. I said, what, why haven't you been on
our podcast yet? So yeah, I believe the name of the thing and
correct me if I'm wrong. Of course. I think it's the Michigan Recording
Project and the two folks that headed are so deeply involved they might as well
head it are here with This is Jim and Stacy Flowers for our old for
like old folks like you and I Bobs. That's a name out of the
past, all right, So Jim and Stacy Flowers, welcome to Bigfoot and
Beyond with me and that guy. Thank you nic here, Yeah, thank
you so much for setting aside a little time. We made this arrangement a
couple of weeks ago. I mean, Stacy was in the museum I think
like last month or two months ago, I don't know, and Jim was
in last year if I remember correctly, although I do have a pretty lastic
sense of time. But how fortuitous to run across y'all, and now to
have you on the podcast and your perfect guests, because I think that you're
best known for the vocalizations that have been recorded off one particular property, although
again I'm wrong about a lot of stuff, so maybe I'm wrong about that
too. That's right, we've been on that property for since two thousand and
five. Since two thousand and five, that seems like forever ago. But
how long before that were you big footing? Oh? Well, me only
a couple of years. Jim, he was actually eight when he had his
probable sighting and started chasing reports and newspaper articles and that kind of thing.
Eight years old, So, Jim, I wasn't even where you had a
sighting. Why don't you tell us about that? To get us going here.
Basically, my grandma lived on the edge of an apple orchard at Athens,
Michigan. One day I was out playing in the yard, saw a
huge thing walk through just the inside corner of the field and the orchard there.
It just disappeared. Scared the hell out of me. I ran back
inside and didn't go back out the rest of the day, probably about wasn't
A week later, there was an article in the newspaper about another bigfoot sighting
had a track find in the area, and I just kind of like,
you know, my I was in mind put two and two together, and
I just started reading everything I could and finding every newspaper article I could,
and everything just kind of snowball from there. So how did you get back
in? This is back in the day. I'm assuming that you know what
you're like. I imagine you're about my age, and I turned fifty three
next week, so I'm assuming that you're about my age close. Yeah,
I'm just a little bit older than you then. Yeah, yeah, so
this is back back, pre internet and whatnot. So your only real sources
of information were books, which I still advocate as being the primary source of
information for all of our listeners, even beyond podcasts and television and stuff,
and also newspaper articles. What did you do? Did you collect them and
put them in a scrap book or something, or did you just read them
and take notes or did you just read? What did you do it?
Back then? At the time they had a scrap book? I cut them
out and stuck them with tape on an old photograph book that my grandma had
and just kept going from there. Unfortunately, she also thought that with the
interest in Bigfoot, that I wanted everything from the National Inquirer. So I
had a scrap book full of everything from whoever had the Bigfoot's baby to the
latest flavor of the week from the local newspaper, some of the national ones
when they picked up the story. Well that's sweet, though, that's,
however misguided that might be. That's very very sweet of her, you got
to admit, So, do you still have this footo? Album. I
don't think I do. My mom may have it somewhere, but my grandma
passed away several years ago when I was stationed in the maybe and a lot
of her stuff that was there just kind of disappeared. The house she lived
in and got sold. So even the apple orchard is now a small subdivision.
Sure, sure they had they put up a parking lot, so to
speak. Yeah, well, gosh, So so you started around eight Were
you doing field investigations? Man like, did you ride your bike over like,
you know, like a stranger thing sort of thing and I doing a
field or it was just collecting information at that point at that point, collecting
information. I think I actually as well as I could investigated the first report,
I was probably about thirteen. I don't remember the details of it.
It was a local kid who thought he saw something in the words too,
so we just kind of like compared notes and went from there. I don't
even remember his name. It was so long ago. That's cool. That's
really neat now, Stacy, Yeah, how did you get involved in this
whole subject here? Well, my interest goes back to when I was eleven
or twelve, way back to the mid seventies, when it was all kind
of first blew up. In the first place, there was a movie coming
out in the theaters and I can't remember the name of it, may have
been Sasquatched something or other, but there was a commercial would come on the
television back in the day when you had to get up and change the antenna
and the channel on your big console TV. And in the commercial it played
this vocalization as long howl. And the first time I heard that, it
freaked me out so bad. And I don't know why. I almost had
like a physical visceral reaction to it, you know. So here's this kid
getting scared of this commercial, and every time it would come on and have
to get up and change a channel real quick before that sound would happen.
And from then on, as a kid and growing up, Bigfoot was like
my boogeyman. That was the thing I was afraid of in the dark.
It was a thing that freaked me out when the family would go camping,
you know, and I always just felt like something was out there, but
I never really I kind of I didn't really lose interest, but there was
nothing to keep my interest for a long long time, many years. And
when I first got online. One day, I was thinking around just kind
of learning how to use the internet and the computer and all of that,
and I said, Hi, what if people are still talking about pickfoot?
And I did a search, and god, you know, when all was
out there, tons of stuff. This is This is in the day when
there were only like discussion forums and individual websites and things. And I was
shocked by how many people were still talking about this and making claims. And
the more I read the it sounded like there's maybe really something to this.
And before I knew it, I was just hoping the subject. And so
I spent a brief time in the BFRO back in two thousand and three,
I believe, and then the group that we camp with got together in two
thousand and four, the large group that got together that had met quote unquote
met on the Bigfoot forums way back in its early days, and we had
a weekend camping trip, and you know, people of similar mindsets kind of
split off into different groups and things, and that led to us getting together
and doing our thing, and then we started on this property in two thousand
and five. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo,
we'll be right back after these messages. How did you find the property?
Well, there was a BFO investigator named Casey Carnes who Paul Wilson and I
were you had you talked to him? Okay, so just Paul and I
had talked to him each separately online a couple of times, and he was
supposed to join us in our original spot one evening and he was going to
bring out a guy. He said, that got a guy I'm going to
bring out. He's got some stories, he's got some things happening on his
property. I'm going to bring him out with me and you guys can meet
him and talk to him and stuff. So Casey Lauda not coming because his
mother was sick, but this guy with her, I should say, convoluted
instructions and way back on dirt two tracks managed to find us after dark and
the landowner, he came out by himself, spent the night and we talked
and talked and talked, and he liked us. We liked him, so
he invited us out to the property and we went later that summer for the
first time. So it was a BFR report basically, what now? What
was in more? You know, have to tell me everything, of course,
or we don't use your discretion because there are a couple people listen to
this. What was in that report? Was it just a siting, was
a track find? Was it ongoing stuff? I mean, what how aware
of the situation were you going into this? I can answer that one because
I've seen a newspaper article for it. Well, there was a newspaper article.
There were actually two. One dates back to the seventies where basically his
grandmother had a incident where it came through, left giant footprints and was picking
pea pods. And I guess the local paper came out and kind of investigated
to the best of their ability, but didn't find anything. The other one
was in the uh there was an instant with several boys. I used to
run a hont how he used to run a hound house, and several boys
had basically saw a bigfoot. So the local you know, kids, one
tells the other, the next one tells the next one next week. You
know, all the newspapers out there with reporters or a reporter from the local
paper doing interview and checking out in the incident, and that showed up in
the local paper. And I think That's basically what the BVFR or report was
actually entailing when that came out too. But it turns out that Casey and
this guy had known each other years before. Neither one was familiar with the
other's interest in or background until this article came out in the newspaper. Was
the reporter had promised he wouldn't use his family's name, and he did.
Anyway, Casey happened to see the paper and called our guy and said,
hey, guess what, so that you know the property being worked in investigated
kind of came out of that too, basically what they call Class C reports.
It wasn't even a direct observation or anything. It was just like,
hey, this is happening in this general area. Now that the property owner
was he aware of this previous activity? Oh yeah, he's lived on or
near the property. It's family property, but his awareness of these things goes
back to the seventies also, And was that because sightings or footprints or weird
things or all of it? Okay, okay, how big of an area
are we talking about? Do you think? I mean not just the property.
I mean the property could be two acres and still have a ton of
stuff going on. But how big it is this green belt or like pocket
of woods that these things are frequenting. Well, some of us been sold
off because we actually bought some of it six hundred anchors at one point,
maybe just a little bit more. But it's also basically right on the edge
of the Manistee National Forest, within my easy walking distance. Now, what
what sort of things do you think before we get into vocalizations and your individual
experiences, what sort of things does this particular property and the locality of where
people are and where you're finding these things go on? What sort of things
are here that you think might be drawing the sasquatches in repeatedly. Well,
it's right on a river, a very windy river. It feeds into the
most major river system I think in the state pretty much. Yeah, we're
very we're very close to the Muskegon River. That would probably be the big
thing. There is a lot of farmland, but to the north and to
the east of where we are specifically, there's just miles and miles and miles
and miles of woods, Okay, and that farmland, what do they grow
on it? Do you know? The most common crop? Is it corn?
Or is it alfalfa or is it corn alfalfa? Oh, varies because
toy beams. It varies because of the when they do it, they rotate
the cross for the nitrogen content, so it's not the same crop every year.
Apparently I'm not a farmer, but I grew up in farm country,
and apparently that also of nitrogen content and the soil or something. I was
thinking because you said corn and then alfalfa, of course, and so all
of those things are deer magnets, which is what I was kind of thinking
about, Like what's drawing in the prey species here, and maybe those farms
have something to do. There's a lot of fruit trees, naturally wild apple
trees, a lot of berry bushes, blackberries, raspberries, red raspberries,
blueberries, mushrooms. Pretty much that in the river is a designated trout stream.
So there's a huge bunch of food there, plus crayfish if you're if
they're really wanted something that small or hard to eat. So when you first
started investigating the property in its vicinity, what were some of the clues that
you might have gotten, either things you heard or found or saw that kind
of indicated you were on the right track. And you found a good area.
Honestly, the first time that I, well, Paul and I went
first, and it was just a day trip and driving in, you know,
you're looking at that north south road and there's there's houses and there's cabins
and farmland, and I'm thinking, okay, there is no way, but
at least it's a nice day for a drive and walk in the woods.
So I wasn't expecting anything. And we really once we got back to the
woods and I saw, you know, the actual layout of the land later
land, it was like, Okay, we've got we've got nice water here,
We've got tons of woods. I guess it's possible. And it was
I think our first big overnight trip there that we got our one and only
vocalization of that year, which wasn't convincing. You know, I think we
were still leaning towards okay, that's somebody messing around with us, and we
kind of were for the first couple of years, not neces necessarily thinking we
were being hoaxed, but always keeping that thought in the forefront, just in
case. How far a part of the homesteads spread in this area is that
everybody have like five acres or something or is it just ridiculously large because you
mentioned six hundred acres a little while ago. Is that the standard? No,
I don't think so. It just depends. There are some people who
you know, have a house just on like four or five acres. There's
some farms that are hundreds of acres, dairy farms too, cattle and some
of those are big. Yeah. There's also a lot of seasonal cabins that
aren't occupied year round. So for you know, five months out a year,
nobody is there. Okay, So you start going onto this property a
little bit, you hear a vocalization, but nothing you can take to the
bank. It sounds like, but you've devoted so much of your time to
this one location and it can't just be convenience. What really turned your head
around and say, wow, we need to focus all of our efforts here.
What was that the first few years, the first couple of years we
were there, you know, we didn't hear anything for the rest of that
year. That was two thousand and five. In two thousand and six we
started hearing them much more regularly, and six and seven it was we could
almost time it to within five minutes or so of about eleven thirty at night,
we'd start hearing these screams from across the river. If they came a
little bit earlier, they were coming from the south. If they came later,
they were coming from the north. So good almost. You know pattern
this travel you know this north south travel route. They were taking the turning
point for us. Where we were like, okay, this is the real
deal. Was that our landowner had gotten a video clip and we went up
one day just expecting to see a vague image of you know, a dark
thing moving through the woods. We expect blurry and you know, completely inconclusive,
and it blew our socks off. Did the video did? He'd been
our guy, and we've seen his boxes and videotapes. He his whole life
has had video cameras and has gone out and just videotape wildlife, miscellaneous,
frogs, deer, you know everything. And he'd been out there sitting to
the east of directly to the east of where our camp site is is a
field and he was sitting at what we call the north Woods. He was
sitting on the north wood line and a couple of cement blocks he had sitting
out there, and he heard a couple of what he thought some like pig
storms. He thought it was a bear, and he turned the camera over
that way, and in this video you could see a couple of pine trees
and he's kind of panning back and forth. You see what we thought were
trunks. You see a couple of those trunks start moving. And as you
watch, this figure comes out from behind those trees and was walking north,
drops down into like a little gully there. You can you're only seeing it
maybe from what knees up. Maybe, yeah, you could see the buttet.
I don't think we could. I don't think we would really see the
knees at that point anyway. And it was just like you know in the
yeah, the Patterson film where you can see like the muscle contraction like in
the deltoids. It's a shoulders swinging back, you know, you can see
the muscle movement in the back. You could see that clearly, clearly,
and it keeps going. It drops it down into this gully where you can't
see it at all. So he takes off running further into the north woods,
thinking if it's going to follow that gully. It sort of loops around
to the right and comes up excuse me near a hunting blinds. It's been
up there for years. That was up there for years. I don't think
it's up there now. And yeah, and you see from a really long
distance, not really long distance, but you just kind of very vaguely see
some movement between the trees, and then it comes up back out of the
gully near that hunting blind and takes off and continues moving right along the edge
of that gully off to like the east northeast. And yeah, it was
really like, even just thinking about it now, we we were just speechless,
just speechless. I didn't realize we were watching Jim had taken a knee
on the floor. He'd gone, and he'd gone in the house. He
had a big screen like projector TV in there. Had taken a knee on
the floor, and I had a hand on his shoulder, and I didn't
realize I was squeezing his shoulder so hard just watching this. I yeah,
it was. The video has since degraded to the point where you just can't
see anything on it, which is sad. Yeah, I was. I
always advocate for the digitization of all magnetic tapes and v vhs is and all
that stuff, and because that's exactly what happens. You play it, and
it just over time that wears a way. I even showed him exactly how
to do it, gave him the equipment to do it. But he is
not what I would call the most technologically adept. He's even worse than I
am. So the difference, I guess I don't tend to procrastinate as much
as he does. But well, I often wonder how many good pieces of
footage are out there that are gonna start cascading upon us after discovery. There's
got to be more. There have to be more. Oh, certainly,
I would, I would think. So I've heard about some, I've just
never seen it. So so you saw this and you holy smokestar here,
I've heard them a couple of times here. I don't know if you ever
found any footprints or anything. But there was enough indication at this location to
start devoting some resources and time. Oh yeah, yeah, very good.
And what was what? What was the perhaps the procedure, what became standard
operating procedure for trying to work this property? What would you really focus on
and how would it get done? Actually has changed and now we're just in
it to experience what we can experience, but initially when we're trying to get
data, trying to get video, trying to you know, we've run the
recorders from day one basically, but you know, some one of the guys
or some of the guys would go out in the early evening and set up
in a tree, stand quietly and wait for things to happen. Going across
the field where you guys are making a noise camp and sitting there by myself.
Yeah, yeah, there's that there. What else walking during the day,
trying to find footprints and any piece of viable soil there is. We
found some, but it's we've had a lot touch on castable because of the
sand and everything else, or they've been in water, or they've been in
water. Found the one in the river bank. Tried to cast that that
did not go well. Good God, Check for hair samples. There's a
lot of barbed wire all over the place, so it's a constant to just
walking down the fence line looking for where anything may have come through. I
think we found deer, raccoons, squirrel bear, nothing that anybody thought to
actually, you know, was worth collecting. Pet Gal who used to be
part of our group did send one sample someplace one time and it turned out
to be I think deer, wasn't it? Or cow? Cattle are out?
I think it was. I think it was cow too. Yeah,
So you didn't really have a routine necessarily at the time. Plus back then
I was pretty much working seven days a week. I have a lot of
it. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo. We'll
be right back after these messages. Did either of you ever put eyes on
one of these things while on the property? Yes? Yes, yeah,
Jim and I had gone up. There was another another brief video that one
of his kids had taped his bottom his rabbit hutch over but of one walking
along the woodline east to west into the late afternoon sun. And I thought
at first that's a mask because it looked so distorted and ridiculous and why and
shiny and then you see a blink. But after and we figured that distorted
look was because of the sun reflecting off at oily skin. But after that,
we spent some time going up and just sitting there's a large oak tree
at the top of a hill the edge of the field, and just scanning,
scanning, that north woodline for hours, and there was one night that
vocals from across the river and from two different locations across the river, and
we were hearing a bunch a bunch of sounds in the river, loud splashing
like little plunging noises. And then we got a couple of grunts and one
came from the north, the other one came from the west, down what
we call the slot. And as Jim is looking. By this point,
we've moved off the hill and toward the fire, which was down to just
embers at that point, and Jim's looking down the slot with the night vision.
He's aid, is, take a look at this and tell me if
you see what I see. And I didn't do it because I was freaked
out. This was a new thing. I will do it now, and
I kicked myself from not looking now, but at that time, this was
a new thing and I was kind of scared. I didn't look. But
he well, you can just write what you saw. Basically, it was,
I guess, like a imagine Shaquille O'Neill walking down a trail towards you,
but he's actually bigger than he actually has, with wider shoulders and then
as you see him, he just turns and basically walks quietly down a forty
foot embankment and you're just sitting there, going somebody else, please look at
this and make sure I'm not crazy, very steep embankment, and at that
point it was just like a recovered ran up to a look to see if
I could still see it, and it was just gone. Whether there's a
trail that runs kind of like, uh north northeast to west southwesternly right along
the river bank, so I'm assuming it went one direction or the other along
the trail. Do you find prints, Well, yeah, yeah, we
found lots and lots of tracks. Trackways. Again, they're in sand.
Basically you get a little detail here and there. The big giveaway that is
the step length and the stridelings. You know, you're getting fifty to fifty
two inch steps. The thing is to a lot of that, you're not
getting tracks on at the ground so hard most of the time that even like
a you know, four thousand pounds tractor doesn't even leave tread marks. Yeah,
it's either it's either compacted down so hard like that or it's just sand
and it fills back in. But uh, back to the visuals. The
first well, my son and I had a night where we saw something at
the edge of the field and he had said to me, walk over this
way with me to the cars. I got a pee, so I said,
okay, I want to walk with you. And so he's around the
corner. We trade places. I get around the corner and he said,
Mom, look up there, so I think it is And it looked like
a person standing there with you sideways to us with a hoodie up. And
we used to have to go up to the top of the hill to get
the cell phone signal. And I said, no, that's just our landowner
with the hoodie up. He's like, Mom, I don't think so,
that's way too big. At this point, he's like nineteen years old,
in the size of a sasquatch. But my you know, mama bear thing
is kicking in and I'm like, nope, keep calm, that's just our
landowner making a phone call. There's no light or anything. So we go
back to the fire, grab the night vision and walk back over there and
our landowner. Everybody's accounted for, and he comes walking from the opposite direction
from the north Woods with Paul. Yeah. Whatever had been standing there was
gone, but it was only silla wet that we saw. There was no
detail whatsoever. The following year though, Fourth of July, that's one of
our guys had literally in the headlights full on, no question about it,
sighting. And it was fourth of July weekend, which is historically been a
very very active weekend for us, and there were just vocal after vocal after
vocal after vocal, and we could hear the sound travels so well out there,
we could hear a mile away in one of the cabins, somebody was
having a party, and so Mike took his car out just to see like
where the party was so we would know. And on the way back in
he turned a corner, came up over this little rise and crossing the east
west road there, going from north to south, there was one right in
the road and when his headlights hit it, he had just enough time to
register what it was and watch it finish crossing the road. And that was
our first no question about it. Citing now you mentioned the sound quality of
the area, like the I'm not even sure what they call it, but
how how well sound travels in this particular area. But the vocalizations i've heard
from you seem to be very very close, and not all of them,
of course, not all of them, but some of them seem to be
fairly close. Would you say the vast majority of vocalizations before we start listening
to these are from a good distance or where you focus on the really close
stuff, because you had a strategy that managed to make it work out.
They most of the vocalizations come from right across the river. We're the campus
at the top of a high river bank, and then most of the vocalizations
come from across the river. We've gotten them from the north Woods and a
lot of them from the south Woods too, but most of what we record
is within I don't know quarter of my own about that sounds where Yeah,
I mean, I mean they come in close. Do you think they're they're
reacting to your presence, which is why they're vocalizing, or like, do
they see you? You think across the river hear you perhaps, or do
you think they're doing this activity anyway? I think we're in the way from
where they want to go. It's a little perturbed with you guys. And
that's always been my impression, at least because that trail there was before we
started camping there. Basically that would be a trail, the easy, you
know, most direct route from coming across the river at Wanda shallows points to
get to the north Woods. And now we're there on occasion, so we're
in the way. Yeah, I see, that's interesting. That's very interesting.
Of course it's a it's an assumption, and I realized that. But
I mean, what else do we have at this point. Yeah, the
more you know, the more you don't. Yeah, I said, though,
we haven't gotten really distant vocals in a long time, but we used
to those early years, you know, well, we would hear them for
what sounded like a mile away, you know, here and there, so
and in that case it wasn't because of us. No, I don't know
if they're locator calls or what they are, but I saw them. Figured
it out. It's been twenty years almost at the same location. I'm still
trying to figure it out. So, well, let's take a listen to
a couple of these things I'm looking at. We have kind of limited time,
and do you have so many recordings? Our producer Matt Prutt, who's
of course on the line with us, he's taken the opportunity to go and
kind of weed them down to four four representative clips. That great to share,
And of course we're even running out of time here, so whatever we
don't get to now, we'll bump that over to our members section and our
members can hear the rest of the vocalizations. Okay, So why don't we
start out with this July two thousand and seven, Combo vocals. What you
want to tell us what was going on when this happened here before we listen
to it? Or should we just jump right into it? Go ahead and
jump right into it. Okay, So we have a two different vocalizers.
Do you think it's the same vocalizer? There? Two different, two different
And when I labeled at combo vocals, it was because that was the first
time that we'd heard two different types at the same time. Yeah, I
would say that the first one might be described as a whoop of some sort
and the second one, what would you describe that as almost like a crow
call or something. I'm not sure. We've always called that the ae scream
the awe scream. I gain, that makes sense, That totally makes sense.
And were there knocks in there as well? I couldn't is that everybody's
hearing something else. I don't remember. I think there may have been,
but yeah, we'd put up a tree stand, put probably twenty five feet
in a tree on our side of the river early in the year, like
in April, to let it just kind of become part of the landscape there.
And earlier in the year, Paul, who was in the tree stand
that night, watched as Jim and I came back from the other side of
the river. We'd gone over to sit in a ground blind and just see
if anything happened by Nothing did, but Paul watched us through night vision come
back through that section across the river. The night before this, Jim had
been up there and five minutes after he got back down, we got a
whooper turf from across the river. So this night this happened with that whoop
the o scream, that's all we heard from camp. Paul came back and
let us know that from where he was sitting right there, he could hear
these kind of brunts and huffs and low, low sounds, and he could
also hear something else doing it a little bit further north on the river.
But he also watched something and he just described as dark and massive, just
kind of rise up and move off behind the trees right there. And it
was right where Jim and I had walked. He had walked, watched us
walk from that area and across the river. He said, it was just
compared to us, just massive. Those are some cool vocalizations. And you
think these are just a few hundred yards away or something. Yeah, yeah,
just just across the river. The woops cameifty yards. Yeah, probably
the oscreen. The roops were down closer to the river, so a little
closer. I'm uh. There was such a high quality recording. First of
all, congratulations on that great job. But having done my fair share of
Sasquatch recordings over the years, I think Bobo would attest to this with how
good a quality recording you just played for us? It must have been phenomenal
in person, because recordings pale in comparison to what you actually hear with your
own ears. They do volume wise, Yeah, I also pick up a
lot of stuff that we don't hear with our own years too. Oh a
good point. So how did that, like, did he any did this
can activity that particular night in the two thousand and seven did it continue all
night? Long, and because I know this is a small snippet of what
you actually recorded, it was extraordinarily active night all night long? Or do
they come and go and like it went dead after a while, it went
dead after and typically most of the time that's what happens. It's kind of
like, you know, they show their beds and then they take off and
that's it. Yeah, four hours work for fifteen minutes of fun, right,
say twenty years of work for like three hours and a couple of sidings,
right, time well spent well For me. The broadside is a kind
of made me think that maybe they are real, because I'd always wondered when
I was a kid, I did I really see what I saw? It's
like doing really existed. I've been wasting a lot of time. But when
I saw the one now it's like, oh, hey, okay, don't
waste of time. Just thirty years for that to happen. But okay,
yeah, thirty years. You have a few more thirty years left, and
you good stay tuned for more Bigfoot and Beyond with Cliff and Bogo. We'll
be right back after these messages. Well, why don't we go chronologically?
Okay, and we can jump over to the next recording, which is labeled
July two thousand and eight. Display mister Matt Prue, why don't you que
that up for us? Oh? That was interesting. I clearly started out
with a human like sound, but you know what, sasquatches sound like big
dudes in the woods, So I mean, that's not a concern for me
necessarily. And then of course the coyotes jumped in, so our listeners,
you know, clearly coyotes were present. And then at the end I caught
some sort of like like that kind of thing. Was that dud? Do
you feel that that was in response to the coyotes or was it a separate
individual or what did you hear with your own ears there? I know,
Clue, I don't know what it was. Sponsor that was the first time
we ever heard that kind of sam what they kind of call now samurai chatter.
That was the first time you ever heard any of that. So what
was the prequel, like, what was the set up the context of this
particular vocalization, what led to that? Let me see, I've gotten my
notes. I've gotten my notes right here. You know what, By the
way, there's nothing to be embarrassed about with that you sound like I think
that was a nervous laugh. But the best investigators take notes. In fact,
everybody on the audience please take note of this. They are consulting their
notes, which is the power of notes. You think you're never going to
forget such a thing because of such an earth moving sort of situation, when
you encounter a sasquatch nonsense, you will forget. Everyone should take notes.
So thank you very much for demonstrating that, even though it sound like you're
a little nervous about it. So I'm just alarmed for the ride. That's
cool, nothing wrong with that. I keep up camp basically these days.
Oh nice, excellent nerd. So it was Fast of July weekend. Typically
that's our biggest has been our biggest attendance weekend. Our two smaller kids we
were always with us for the summer, so they were there every year.
It's a holiday weekend. So our people who come from we had Pat and
Joe who came from the Toronto area. We had Jeff and Diane Simon who
drove up all the way from Indianapolis and for them it's like a seven hour
drive and they were bringing their kids or kid at the time, so it
was. It was a it was a big group in camp. And earlier
that night we had at twelve ten, we had had like some of those
O screams across the river. I thought it was done and over with.
Everybody went to bed about twelve forty five, But everybody was still awake when
this started happening. And that's about Yeah, that's about the context of the
whole thing. You know, did you, guys ever do calls yourselves like
to elicit or do you just record? We just we've tried a couple of
times. It's been it's been several years since we've even tried that. I
never really got a response to it. We found that every time we have
responded ourselves, it cuts everything off short. We've tried a couple of times
to have like me having the female voice answer, to see if we could
start kind of training them to okay, to think, if I yell,
somebody's going to talk back, so maybe they'll, you know, if we
talk first, maybe we can get them to yell back at us. But
you know, a couple of times we've done that and say, hey,
you know, talking softly soft female voice, hello, you know we hear
you that it just stops it dead as tracks, So you don't in general,
if they're going off, you just stay quiet and enjoy it. There's
no response on your part that does anything except for drives them away. Right.
Yep, you said this was on July fourth. It wouldn't happen to
be the same July fourth. That sighting that you mentioned occurred on what it
let me see the citing Mike's from the car. Yes, yeah, two
thousand and nine, so it was the following year, following year. Okay,
And do you you said that July fourth is a really good day,
like that's the best time? Like does it peak at that time of year?
And if so, is it? Are they do? They seem to
be present at all times a year. We're all that we don't know.
Our activity has always followed like a bell curve. It starts in the spring,
sometimes early spring, It ramps up in the middle of the summer,
and then it starts dying back down again. We have heard them into November,
I believe, yeah, right about the start of hunting season, because
we don't really go up there during hunting season. No, there's too many
rednecks, too many gone right soon as soon as especially like gun season starts.
Uh, it just it just stops. It just stops. There was
one person who lived across there's a road, that Northwest road or that north
South road. One person who lived across the road claims to have watched one
and I don't know what time of the year it was, but it was
snowy walk up his sideyard and cross the road going like towards the river.
But we've never seen or heard anything. We're not up there as much either,
But even the landowner doesn't really see or hear much of anything. Is
it a topic of conversation amongst the residents that area, Like did they see
each other at the market? Goes? You hear that last night? You
know that kind of stuff that I don't know that. There's a couple of
people, the residents are aware. Some of them will talk about it.
Some of them, you know, we've never talked to. So there's the
one kid that actually lives across said he saw the wine because he found the
crinch in the snow. That's all I was just talking about. Oh that's
the same person. Okay, Well, you know I wanted to know about
the year round activity because you've been working this spot with twenty years or more
and more or right around twenty years, and that quantity of data is of
value. I know that out where I am, and it also it seems
and can Tucky and in Washington at a location, and even in California at
another location. The data that's coming in strongly indicates that they don't move very
far. And I'm curious if that's in all areas of the country or if
it's just the areas that I happen to be involved with slightly, because the
data seems squarely in the corner of these things. More or less they put
in a particular area. Now people say, oh, well, then you
post cameras up in that area. The area's like ten miles by ten miles
or more, you know. I mean, it's huge at the end of
the day, but not really that big for a large terrestrial animal to be
moving around in a fairly localized sort of place. And of course, this
is based on very little data because of all the quote unquote researchers out there,
there's not a lot of data coming in. Honestly, there's a lot
of stories and I heard knocks and Grandma's holler that kind of stuff, But
there's not a lot of actual data and information and documentation coming in, so
we don't really know yet, but it sounds like you've been collecting good notes
for quite a long time. It might be really interesting to check into that.
I mean, obviously, sightings and activity in general will peak at certain
times a year, but you also have to include the human factor. You
said so yourself, we don't really go out there that time here there is
a big human factor involved. But I'd be very interesting. I would be
very interested to learn about some of the seasonal behavior in that sort of way,
or if there's any evidence like footprints that might be attributable to a certain
individual in the area in the snow or something like that. What's your gut
feeling or what is the data in your area point to do these things move
very far? I don't think so. I don't think so, And we
theorize. Of course, we don't know for sure, but our best guess
is that there are a lot of cedar swamps in the area, and we
think they've probably moved deep into those cedar swamps. Literally, that was my
next question is like wintertime, how many cedar swamps are in the vicinity?
Literally? Yeah, because Cedar swamps I think are the key to this thing.
There's also the uh what the heck's name of it by Houton Lake,
oh dead Stream Stream slump there that's basically right in the middle of the state
over there as you head towards like gray Lean Air Base and stuff, and
except for an occasional military patrol, there's really not much it goes on out
there, especially in the winter. It's I mean, I figured for a
Sasquatch, it's only like less than fifty miles away, so they could probably
make that in a day. But if there's some in your neck of the
wood, they wouldn't have to go anywhere. Yeah, they wouldn't. I
don't just some of the walks I've taken around the area, and there's there's
a great area of the south of us that's I mean, there aren't any
even really any houses there. They could hide there easily. But even getting
back there, we went for a walk, me and another friend of ours
went for a walk. Was it last yeah, last year or maybe even
earlier this year. My memory is so bad. If I didn't remember things,
i'd forget things. Which waves here there for probably about three miles,
but it took us like six hours to do it. So anything that got
back in there, you're not going to find it if it doesn't want to
be found. And of course, the winners of Michigan or legendary, you
know, I mean there's they're ridiculous. I can't imagine why anyone lives there.
Nothing personal, of course, I mean you're much hardier folk than me.
It's a stablishing. I mean, five ten feet of snow, imagine
on occasions. You know, Moneymaker once told me that he found the spot
that he felt that the sasquatch had dug through the snow down to the ground
level and was using that to dis increase the temperature a few degrees for its
own use. Of course, I think I might have mentioned to you maybe
in the museum or maybe blabbing about it on the podcast. I think Cedar
swamps for a big key to their survival during the winter time. Do you
have any idea what these local Sasquatches in your area are doing to accommodate themselves
during the winter. I think they're using vacated bear dams or sometimes even maybe
coyote dems if they want to dig down a little bit farther, because I've
actually stuck my head into a couple of bear dems and some of them are
have maybe ten feet back and eight feet high. Wow, that one that's
on the river bank that you're not supposed to know that we stuck our heads
in. Yeah, I mean you could easily stand up in there, if
you squat down. I mean you could actually sleep in there. I mean
there's nothing in there, not even the bear, which is probably a good
thing. But that's really interesting because everybody's heard, of course, about the
Olympic Project nest site, and most people are aware that there was a second
nest site found just a ridge or so over from the initial nest site.
And I was privy to that location just probably a week or two after it
was found. And what we determined by our on site investigation is that that
particular sasquatch, and we're confident it was the sasquatch, by the way,
was repurposing a bear den that was underneath the log. All the all the
nesting material was piled out in front of this little hole and I say little,
It was probably about two and a half maybe three feet wide or something
like that, and inside whatever it was brought the nesting material inside there as
well, and was digging out the hole to make it larger. We retrieved
a couple bare hair, I believe from from the nesting material. Well inside
the inside the den area, there were scrapes on the wall. Inside this
little den was underneath a log, a fairly large log, so it kind
of dug it. A bear apparently had dug out this small den, but
a sasquatch came along later and was repurposing it. And of course some people
out there, if we have I hope we have skeptical listeners. I always
welcome skeptics as long as they're they're polite and kind and ask good questions.
And not just jerks, but our skeptics out there might be saying, well,
how do you know this this wasn't a bear thing like bears brought in
all this nesting material. Well, there's a couple of reasons. Number one
is outside the hole that was the initial bear den. I interpreted the area
as having been dug out because there was a pile of dirt outside. It's
a few feet outside like tailings basically, so something was going scooping up dirt
and piling it out in front of the hole to make it larger, and
in that pile of dirt and the tailings or whatever you want to call it
was a handprint, not a paw print, but a hand print. And
then we've also in the area. Todd Hale was there, Shane Corson was
there. After a period of time had gone by and we were confident that
the sasquatch was not going to be returning to the location. We didn't want
to disturb any behaviors or you know, for it and whils. We didn't
want to lose any opportunities of knowing where one was going, of course,
But after we were confident that the thing wasn't going to come back anymore,
we started collecting some of the nesting material and that trip yielded three foot print
casts that I personally took, and I think two actually two of those casts.
The footprints were underneath the nesting material, which of course gives us a
time period, a timeline here. Those footprints were laid down before the nesting
material was put down there. So with those clues, I'm confident enough to
say that that was a sasquatch situation, and it seems to me it was
actually repurposing a bare den. So you bringing that up is really really interesting
to me. So much has been going on, and apparently it's going on
to this present day as well, or pretty close to this present day,
I guess, I mean here with us now, you don't know what's going
on there. But having said that, we're kind of running out of time.
On the initial podcast, I thought we're going to jump into vocalizations and
mostly talk about that, but there was so much more information to share.
So would you mind sticking around for our member section and we can listen to
the last few vocalization recordings that we can and learn a little bit more about
the situation and bring it up to the present day. Yees, sure,
that would be fantastic. I would really really appreciate that. So yeah,
people listening out there, there's gonna be more over our member section. I
think it's released every Thursday, if remember right, five bucks a month.
If you want to join us, it's great, I mean that's what I
hear at least. So, Bob, do you have anything else to add
before we split and do the member stuff? No? All right, very
good? Then why don't you dig us out of here? Then? Jim
and Stacy, thanks a lot for coming on the show with us today and
I appreciate you're going to stick around for the members section and tell you out
there listening. Thank you for joining us, and until next time, y'all,
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