1 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:10,720 So this is not my story, but my wife's English is a second language 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,960 for her, and I've decided to send you this story on her behalf. 3 00:00:14,839 --> 00:00:18,199 You have our permission to share it on the air, should you choose. 4 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:24,440 I've never had a sizquatch encounter myself. For many many reasons, I maintained 5 00:00:24,519 --> 00:00:31,039 full mental conviction that they most definitely exist within our world. My wife is 6 00:00:31,079 --> 00:00:35,520 Filipina and came to the United States from the Philippine Islands at the age of 7 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:43,280 twenty six in nineteen ninety two. Her paternal grandfather was a provincial legal magistrate 8 00:00:43,399 --> 00:00:49,159 near Cebu. Oftentimes he would be compensated for his legal services in the form 9 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,000 of rural property. Over a career of forty years, he became a very 10 00:00:54,079 --> 00:00:58,960 large landowner. When she was growing up, her parents, as well as 11 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,600 most of her many aunts and uncles, were rural farmers, operating small to 12 00:01:03,679 --> 00:01:10,680 medium sized farms on deeply rural, sparsely populated property. As a child, 13 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:14,840 it was normal for my wife to visit her various aunts and uncles on these 14 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,840 farms, sometimes just to visit and sometimes to help with some of the work. 15 00:01:21,239 --> 00:01:25,680 Once, at the age of ten in nineteen seventy six, when visiting 16 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:30,840 a favorite uncle who lived deep in the Philippine jungle, she had a bigfoot 17 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:37,439 encounter. It took place close to dusk between seven and eight pm. Her 18 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:41,640 uncle lived in a decent sized, fairly nice home built out of a well 19 00:01:41,719 --> 00:01:46,719 constructed napa hut. One evening, after dinner, she went out to the 20 00:01:46,799 --> 00:01:51,319 side porch to sit and relax in the cool evening air while he enjoyed a 21 00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:56,200 cigarette. My wife was sitting inside, but she got bored, so she 22 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,159 went out to the porch to sit with him. As soon as when she 23 00:02:00,239 --> 00:02:04,280 got outside, she noticed a foul odor, similar to a skunk, but 24 00:02:04,439 --> 00:02:09,159 much worse. Being a loud mouth, obnoxious little kid, she harshly complained 25 00:02:09,199 --> 00:02:15,759 about the horrible smell. Her uncle sternly asked her to lower her voice, 26 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,400 and then pointed over to a tree about fifty yards away. High up in 27 00:02:20,439 --> 00:02:25,479 this tree, she saw an enormous orangessh brown hairy man sitting recumbent with his 28 00:02:25,599 --> 00:02:30,000 back against a tree and legs stretched out in front of him, resting on 29 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:36,120 a limb. His legs were crossed at the knees, and he had enormously 30 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:40,280 long feet sticking up in the air. This huge, hairy man had a 31 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:46,240 dry banana leaf rolled up tightly like a giant cigar, and was sitting there 32 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:52,319 calmly smoking it like a wise old man. The incredible size and length of 33 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,960 his feet struck my wife as being hilariously funny, so she started jumping up 34 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,680 and down and pointing at it while squealing loudly with laughter. Quickly, her 35 00:03:01,759 --> 00:03:06,520 uncle jumped up from his chair and lightly wrapped her on the mouth with the 36 00:03:06,560 --> 00:03:09,960 back of his hand, while holding his index finger in front of his mouth. 37 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:13,879 He said, shush, if you're going to make it mad, you're 38 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,479 going to be sorry. She was furious with her uncle for treating her this 39 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:23,960 way, and my wife stormed inside the house. Later she would learn that 40 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:30,000 her uncle saw the creature in the tree on a semiregular basis. When my 41 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,639 wife first came to the United States, she assumed that Americans knew sisquatch were 42 00:03:35,719 --> 00:03:42,000 real. Over some time. Once she figured out that sisquatch were largely considered 43 00:03:42,039 --> 00:03:47,639 strictly mythical by most higher minded Americans, she decided to share her story only 44 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:53,840 with the select few individuals, usually after a beer or three. When asked 45 00:03:53,879 --> 00:03:58,159 to describe the creature, the best way she could. My wife said it 46 00:03:58,199 --> 00:04:01,759 looked like a mixture between a human and an orangutang. It was nine to 47 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,159 ten feet tall, with oranges brown hair similar in color to that of an 48 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:12,960 orangutang, and it had grayish skin. Its feet looked to be twenty four 49 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,079 inches in length. She said. It smoked the exact same way as a 50 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:23,279 human would, taking deep drags and blowing the smoke out. On a side 51 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:29,560 note, there's little doubt that these huge manlike creatures exist. By twenty nineteen, 52 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,759 it seemed quite apparent that our government has gone to great links to not 53 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:39,439 only conceal their existence, but to also create a societal subtext that people who 54 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:45,040 believe in them must be crazy. Not only do we know that sosquatch exists, 55 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:48,319 but there are vast numbers of different breeds, sizes, and temperaments. 56 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:55,560 The question we must ask ourselves why does a government regularly go to such links 57 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:59,920 to keep them out of our mainstream paradigm. It can only be a gain, 58 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,279 yes, but I assert part of the reason is that they don't want 59 00:05:02,319 --> 00:05:08,439 us to become further aware of some of the abilities which sasquatch possess, such 60 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:15,240 as infrasound and psychokinetic influence. They wouldn't want ordinary, lowly people to discover 61 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,680 that maybe we might possess some hidden talents ourselves. Also, there's the further 62 00:05:20,759 --> 00:05:28,480 consideration that if Sasquatch cultures can strongly thrive in the wall for countless generations in 63 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,040 the complete absence of any centralized government or paper money, we can too. 64 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:39,040 The government does not want us to figure out that we all might be able 65 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:46,279 to live relatively free lives. So I'm a Cree Indian born in Saskatchewan, 66 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,480 Canada. When I was three months old, we moved to British Columbia, 67 00:05:50,519 --> 00:05:55,040 where, from an early age of four, my grandfather would pick me up 68 00:05:55,079 --> 00:06:00,240 every day of hunting season and take me with him to get a moose. 69 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,120 It was ninety nine percent road hunting because I was too young to be walking 70 00:06:03,199 --> 00:06:09,680 old log cuts and skidder trails. Regardless, I spent thousands of hours in 71 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:14,720 the bush with my grandfather. As I grew older, my grandfather would pick 72 00:06:14,759 --> 00:06:18,120 me up after school each day to hunt, and on weekends we were in 73 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:23,759 the bush from morning until night. We had our favorite spot and we were 74 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:28,639 successful year after year. When I was seven, I was considered old enough 75 00:06:28,639 --> 00:06:32,360 to be given a thirty two Winchester Special, a gun that I still own 76 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,720 to this day. I've always been a big boy, so I was not 77 00:06:36,879 --> 00:06:42,199 bothered by the recoil. I used it to kill my first bull moose when 78 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,439 I was eight. Once I was old enough to carry a weapon, my 79 00:06:46,519 --> 00:06:50,560 grandfather felt we would be more successful parking the truck and walking for hours into 80 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:57,959 old cuts or hidden swamps. One morning in nineteen seventy nine, the year 81 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,439 I was finally old enough to drive legally, we pulled up to an old 82 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:06,600 skitter trail that we had walked many times. It led to an old logging 83 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:12,399 area that was like a magnet for moose. I dropped Grandpa off there and 84 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:15,319 drove to another spot, and I promised to be back in two hours to 85 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,480 pick him up, and he promised to be waiting on the road When I 86 00:07:18,519 --> 00:07:26,000 got there. At sixteen, I was now carrying a seven millimeter mag My 87 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,839 grandfather had taught me about bears and what to do if they charged. My 88 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:34,279 grandfather was a wise old hunter, and he said if a bear charged, 89 00:07:34,399 --> 00:07:38,720 to drop down on one knee so that I was on the same level as 90 00:07:38,759 --> 00:07:42,439 the bear, and then I would not miss if I had to shoot. 91 00:07:43,439 --> 00:07:46,240 I parked my truck and walked into my spot where it was very quiet, 92 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,199 and there I found a good vantage point and sat for an hour. During 93 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:56,439 that time, I saw only a cow with twins, not being in rut 94 00:07:56,519 --> 00:08:01,360 yet, I doubted any bull would be hanging around. It was time to 95 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:05,000 go back and get Grandpa, so I hiked back out and drove back to 96 00:08:05,079 --> 00:08:09,920 the spot where I knew he would be waiting. My grandfather was always punctual. 97 00:08:09,319 --> 00:08:13,519 If he said he would be in a certain place at a certain time, 98 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:16,240 he would be there. But this time he was nowhere to be seen. 99 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:20,079 I hadn't heard any shots, so I was pretty sure that he wasn't 100 00:08:20,079 --> 00:08:24,959 cleaning a bull. When forty five minutes had passed and he didn't come out 101 00:08:24,959 --> 00:08:30,639 of the woods, I began to worry. Grandpa was diabetic. I started 102 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:35,039 thinking maybe he was in a medical distress, so I decided to drive down 103 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:39,200 the skidter trail to find him. It was only about three quarters of a 104 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:43,600 mile to a clearing that was about five hundred yards wide and eight hundred yards 105 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:48,399 long. Where I parked and got out. The area was dotted with small 106 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:52,879 trees and a few rolling mounds, but I could otherwise see as far as 107 00:08:52,879 --> 00:08:56,759 one hundred and fifty yards around me. I started walking in the direction I 108 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:03,080 thought Grandpa might be myself not to yell out as I went, in case 109 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,919 he might be on to something. Ten minutes into my walk, I noticed 110 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,960 a powerful stench that I couldn't recognize, but I was too concerned about my 111 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:16,279 grandfather to give it much thought. It was a quiet day, and a 112 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:20,879 couple of minutes later I noticed the sound of footsteps running away from me. 113 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:28,200 Somewhere around sixty yards to my left. A mound blocked my line of sight, 114 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:31,519 so I didn't see what it was. After ten seconds, it stopped 115 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:37,039 and I needed to find my grandfather, so I dismissed it. A few 116 00:09:37,039 --> 00:09:41,159 more minutes passed and I found my grandfather. He was sitting on a stump, 117 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:46,200 looking pale. I said, Grandpa, you don't look good. Is 118 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:50,159 it your sugar? He said there was nothing wrong with his sugar, and 119 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,200 then asked if I had walked all the way in or if I drove. 120 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,960 I told him the truck was only about fifteen minutes away, so we started 121 00:09:56,960 --> 00:10:01,960 our walk out. I tried to get him to tell me what was wrong, 122 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:05,320 but he wouldn't say. When I changed the subject by telling him about 123 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:09,399 the horrible stench I had smelled not five minutes from where we were, he 124 00:10:09,519 --> 00:10:13,480 perked up. I described the smell to him, and then I told him 125 00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:18,759 about hearing something running, but that I didn't see what it was. To 126 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:22,720 my surprise, he grabbed my arm and said, beat on alert, but 127 00:10:22,759 --> 00:10:26,960 if you see anything strange, do not shoot at it. And I gave 128 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:31,720 him a startled look, unsure of how to react, and he dropped his 129 00:10:31,799 --> 00:10:35,360 hand, looked down and started moving again, before adding, just keep walking. 130 00:10:37,559 --> 00:10:41,200 Well, this frightened me, and I don't scare easily, neither did 131 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,360 my grandfather, but there was no doubt that something had him worried. We 132 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,639 made it back to the truck and I saw that someone or something had broken 133 00:10:50,639 --> 00:10:56,000 off the antenna in the windshell wipers. Oh, I was furious. I'm 134 00:10:56,039 --> 00:10:58,919 six foot three and two hundred and fifty five pounds and I was forced to 135 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,200 be reckon with when it came to someone causing harm to my family or our 136 00:11:03,279 --> 00:11:07,840 property. I never heard of vehicles, so I assumed that whatever did this 137 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:13,080 was on foot. I took off, running to the main road. Hoping 138 00:11:13,080 --> 00:11:18,000 to catch the culprit before they got away. I didn't get fifty steps before 139 00:11:18,039 --> 00:11:22,039 Grandpa called out to me to stop. Obediently, I went back to him, 140 00:11:22,320 --> 00:11:26,559 and as I did so, I noticed that the road around the truck 141 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,519 was smeared, as if someone was trying to hide their tracks. I pointed 142 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:35,759 this out and asked why he thought that might be. He said he didn't 143 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:37,679 know, and he urged me to get in the truck and get us out 144 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:43,440 of there. Grandpa never spoke a word all the way home, which was 145 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:48,879 completely out of character for him. Our drives home were generally filled with conversation 146 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,840 about the day, what we'd seen or what we had not seen and why. 147 00:11:52,639 --> 00:11:58,360 But that wasn't the case today. It only served to increase my concern. 148 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,879 Later I spoke with my two uncles about Grandpa's behavior. Often hunted with 149 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:09,000 them when I wasn't with Grandpa, and I thought they might have some insight. 150 00:12:09,919 --> 00:12:15,000 I told them everything that happened that day. One uncle said maybe he 151 00:12:15,039 --> 00:12:20,320 saw a sysquatch, and he started laughing. My other uncle was a lot 152 00:12:20,399 --> 00:12:24,320 more attentive, though Instead of laughing, he told me about a terrifying experience 153 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:30,320 Grandpa had in nineteen sixty three, when we first moved to British Columbia. 154 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:35,399 He said. Grandpa was alone in the MacGregor area northeast of Prince George when 155 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:39,600 he was approached by something. He was sitting on the edge of a tree 156 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:43,919 line overlooking a clearing when he heard it coming from about one hundred yards in 157 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,159 the bush and heading straight for him. He thought it might be a grizzly 158 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:54,200 because of the heavy footsteps, but it was walking, not running. My 159 00:12:54,279 --> 00:12:58,799 grandfather held his position with the safety off, until all at once he saw 160 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:03,679 a giant, ten foot tall monster on two feet stepp into his view. 161 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,799 It didn't see him sitting there as still in as quiet as a church mouse. 162 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:16,000 The creature walked into the clearing just fifteen feet from Grandpa, still unaware 163 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:20,080 of him. Then the wind shifted slightly and it turned its head and locked 164 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:26,279 eyes with my grandfather. It started sniffing steadily, and then it dropped down 165 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:31,960 to a crouching position. Grandpa was terrified. He didn't know if it was 166 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,679 preparing to attack him or what it was going to do. In any case, 167 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,600 he was sure that he was about to die. He slowly stood up 168 00:13:39,639 --> 00:13:45,759 from the stump and the monster reared back and roared right into Grandpa's face. 169 00:13:46,720 --> 00:13:50,519 He felt the breath of its roar as it resonated through his body. He 170 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:56,159 knew his two hundred and seventy pounds was no match for this thing. And 171 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,960 then it just stood there, growling at him until he lowered his rifle, 172 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:05,879 and that seemed to settle it a bit. Grandpa didn't know whether to run, 173 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:09,080 walk away, or stay put. After what he was sure had to 174 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:13,080 be ten minutes, he heard something else way back in the trees, making 175 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:18,679 a sound he had never heard. The sasquatch took note of the sounds and 176 00:14:18,759 --> 00:14:22,360 grunted one more time at my grandfather before it went back into the woods in 177 00:14:22,399 --> 00:14:28,519 the direction the sound had come from. Grandpa took the opportunity and ran like 178 00:14:28,559 --> 00:14:35,639 the wind back to his truck. It was a mile away. I understand 179 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:39,879 about the ridicule people experienced from non believers, because when my grandfather would tell 180 00:14:39,919 --> 00:14:45,000 people about what happened, they would all laugh and say he was a nut 181 00:14:45,039 --> 00:14:48,360 and shouldn't be in the bush with a rifle. After a while, he 182 00:14:48,519 --> 00:14:52,559 just quit telling the story. He never spoke of it. I spent a 183 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:56,600 lot of time with my grandfather. I knew his character, and I know 184 00:14:56,759 --> 00:15:03,279 he would not have lied about this. Once I'd heard the story, my 185 00:15:03,399 --> 00:15:07,240 next trip with Grandpa was filled with questions. He didn't want to talk about 186 00:15:07,279 --> 00:15:11,799 it until I said, I believe that you saw what you saw, and 187 00:15:11,879 --> 00:15:13,720 I need to know what you know about these things, so I'll have some 188 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:20,000 idea of what to do if I ever encountered one that seemed to do the 189 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,639 trick. He told me he had never seen or heard or smelled another one 190 00:15:24,759 --> 00:15:28,480 until that day that I found him as white as a ghost, And then 191 00:15:28,519 --> 00:15:31,679 he went on to tell me what had happened that day. He said he'd 192 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:37,679 reached the clearing ten minutes before daylight and almost immediately heard a large tree break. 193 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:41,919 There was no wind, so this puzzled him, but he decided to 194 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,559 walk towards the sound, thinking it might be a big bull scraping his antlers 195 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:52,000 on a tree. Once he figured that he was close enough, he sat 196 00:15:52,039 --> 00:15:58,080 and waited a few more minutes for shooting light. Even after he could see 197 00:15:58,120 --> 00:16:02,320 clearly, he waited for movement because he knew whatever had made the tree break 198 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:07,159 was close. He didn't see anything move, but he was suddenly aware that 199 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:11,600 he was being watched terrified. Now he began to panic as the thought of 200 00:16:11,639 --> 00:16:18,120 his first experience flashed through his mind. He stayed frozen to the stump he 201 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,759 was sitting on, and that's when he was overcome by disgusting odor. Now 202 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:27,679 he was on full alert. Two minutes later, one of these things stood 203 00:16:27,759 --> 00:16:33,879 up fifty feet away from him. It was staring right at him. He 204 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:38,080 could tell it was perturbed that he was there, and it kept looking back 205 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:44,639 towards the tree line. And then Grandpa caught movement to his left as another 206 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:49,360 smaller one stood up. It was only about six feet tall. The big 207 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,840 one beside Grandpa started making weird noises, and the little one answered it, 208 00:16:55,399 --> 00:16:59,360 and then the little one turned and went straight back down the trail Grandpa had 209 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,240 come up. The larger one waited until the juvenile was out of sight, 210 00:17:03,319 --> 00:17:07,880 and then walked right past Grandpa and followed the same trail the little one did. 211 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,880 Grandpa said he was in shock and couldn't get his legs to move. 212 00:17:14,519 --> 00:17:18,359 He tried, but he was frozen to the stump. He was sure they 213 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,119 were still close by when I showed up two and a half hours later. 214 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:27,599 Because of the stench, I smelled. Hunting was my grandfather's way of life. 215 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,440 He said he didn't want to tell me what had happened because he was 216 00:17:30,519 --> 00:17:34,839 worried that I wouldn't want to hunt anymore. He couldn't have been more wrong. 217 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,920 And my passion for hunting is just as strong as his, and I 218 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:45,200 would never let anything stop me from being in the bush. I did eventually 219 00:17:45,279 --> 00:17:48,319 have my own encounters with them. I saw one once, and I've heard 220 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:52,759 them on four other occasions, but those are stories for another time.