WEBVTT 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.