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We have an amazing guest lined up for you. But as always,
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talk to Mary Ann from Missouri, and she has quite a few interesting encounters
with Sasquatch out there. She's actually a BFRO investigator. She leads expeditions out
there in Missouri and She also organizes the Ozark Mountain Bigfoot Conference and camp out
that Wayne and I will be a part of this year. Wayne and I
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conference and then we're going out to do the camp out after the conference on
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All this left for you to do is sit back, relax and enjoy the
show. I want welcome our guests of the show. It is Mary Ann
from Missouri. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Let's get right into
it. Let's talk about this bigfoot thing. Tell me what got you interested
in the subject to begin with. I was one of those little weird kids
that liked everything that wasn't normal. When I was a little kid and lived
in a very small town. My mom worked in town and the library was
right there across from where she worked. A lot of times I'd go over
to the library and sit on the floor pull out books that had bigfoot or
lockness, monster or anything like that. As a little kid. So I've
always been interested, but didn't get into it until later and live when I
figured out that the BFRORO did bigfoot expeditions, I came out, Oh,
tell my husband, I want to go bigfoot hunting. And he said,
excuse me, you want to do what? I said, Yeah, they
have expeditions, you can go. He told everybody we were camping and that's
all we were doing. He said, she may be bigfooting, I'm camping,
but yeah, that's how we got started in it. I had someone
tell me that the BFRO did expeditions, and from there I started looking and
sure enough they did, and they did them in Missouri, which I don't
know. I was naive. I didn't think we had him here. I
thought it was a with coat thing, right everybody else says. So we
signed up to go, which my kids thought I was crazy for doing this.
So like, you're going into woods with thirty people. You don't know,
hello, mother, what is wrong with you? But we did it.
Anyway. When we're pulling in that the first day, it's okay,
we have no idea if these people are crazy or not or what I mean.
It's really crazy you pull into all these people. But let me tell
you what. I have made some of the best friends because of this,
I really and truly have. It was the first night that we were there.
Basically, you gear upe with whatever it is, you have your night
vision, your lights, whatever, and they take you out in the woods.
And we'd been out there a couple of hours, a couple of different
areas, we met up with the other groups. I think there was a
total of four groups, maybe like ten in each group, something like that.
So around midnight all the groups met back up went to this one area
and everybody get out of the vehicles. Everybody gets back in with their groups
and they all go off in the whatever direction they're going. And our group
went down the road. It was like a it's not a gravel road,
it's like a chip and seal road. It used to be an area that
had been logged a long time ago, but it's grown back up. Walk
down the road. The gentleman that's leading the expedition says, hey, let's
jump off, and hear just go back over here. Maybe let's sit down
because it's a full moon, and you don't see these things on a full
moon, then why are we out on a full moon? But anyway,
I hope we walk off just a little ways into the woods. There's a
nice area and we all sit down. Now there's I believe there was ten
of us total in this group. We all sat down except my husband.
He wasn't going to sit down. He was leaning against a tree. And
we're sitting there and I'm looking over to the left of me and there's this
girl. She's had to toe camo. She sits down, she's got a
hoodie on and she pulls that hoodie over her head. And closes her eyes,
and I'm just sitting there looking at her, thinking, Wow, if
I didn't know she was sitting there, I wouldn't see her. And while
I'm running through this, I'm looking at her looking back. This is my
point of attention at this point, and I can hear the guys to my
right talking about how many of us are there in this group and who's sitting
where, because somebody wants to know who that is sitting over by the bush.
This is the discussion they're having while I'm looking at this girl, thinking,
my god, I can't believe how much I can't see her, even
though I do know she's sitting right there. And about that time they realize
that there's eleven of us sitting here and not ten. At that point,
they jump up move toward this. It basically rolls over this small berm and
takes off. Now I didn't see any of this. I heard it,
didn't see it. At this point, we're all standing facing all of these
gentlemen who are having this discussion of was that a small one? Was it
here? Do we walk in on it? Did it follow us? And
they're having this discussion and we're standing their face and My husband is to my
left and there's a younger girl to my right, and we're standing just watching
the guys. They're all discussing it. And when he start to hear these
noises behind us, and this girl looks at me and her eyes were huge.
I looked at my husband and world is nod and going, yes,
we hear this. It sounded like a large hand flapping like your thigh,
Like stand outside and you're slapping your side trying to get your dog's attention.
I thought this sounded like only larger. At that point, I turned around
and was looking behind us, I don't know, took four or five steps
trying to see what this is, and about that time, it completely stepped
out from behind one of the trees. Not the peaking, This was full
on. You could see the whole thing standing there. Now it's a full
moon, so you don't see the features of the face because all the shadows
from the moon, but you could see just this very large silhouette standing twenty
five yards from us, and it's just standing there. But it made no
It was not trying to be quiet, it was not trying to stay hidden.
It wanted us paying attention to it. I believe and not what had
happened, because it stood there. Then it took a step and it stepped
out from the other side of the tree. The tree was by no means
big enough for it to hide behind, but it was just that was like
the point of reference. It would step out to one side, then step
out to the other side. At this point, my husband hollers at the
guy that is basically leading the group, the expedition leader, and said,
you may want to come over here, And so he comes over and I'm
trying to show him, and he's so excited from what was going on that
he can't see it, even though it's standing like twenty five feet from us.
And at that point then there starts to be movement off to the other
side. At that point he's that's it, We're done, let's go.
They're surrounding us, and I'm like, no, this is what we're here
for. I want to stay. Basically, they let me know that they
were going to drag me out of the woods if I didn't come with them
right now. Oh, begrudgingly, we left the area, and something followed
us out because you could hear it walking behind us. So we get back
out onto the road and we walk back up. One of the groups that
we had been with was standing up the road and someone was thurming down the
road toward us, and as we got closer to them, they're like,
hey, you guys left somebody down there. They're standing in the road.
They counted and went, no, we didn't. There's only ten of us.
We've already had this discussion and they're like, no, there's something down
there in the road. So it had followed us out stood in the road,
watched us walk back up. At that point, somebody decides it's not
in the road. At this point, it's gone. They walk back down
there, they do a comparison. Of course that person is the big guy
in the group, but he's significantly smaller than the thermal image that they had.
So at that point, it followed us out watched us did all this.
So we all went back to camp and they're all telling us that this
never happens on your first expedition, your first night out, you never see
anything. It's like we had a class a sighting first night out. Needless
to say, I'm hooked. I have a been. But we went back
to that area the next day. During the day we found a foot print
in a mudhole. We took pictures of it. I have pictures of it.
A gentleman tried to cast it, but because there's just too much water,
he didn't take the water like try to siphon the water out of the
hole or anything. It just didn't cast well. But we went back to
the same area. We were just looking around and there was a small berm
around about half of this area. When you stood on the and looked where
we had been sitting, this whole area was like matted, packed trampled down.
Because if you turned and looked the other direction, there's all kinds of
little saplings out there all over. The place where we had walked in and
sat down looked like a very large bedding area. We started to go,
do these things sleep here during the day? And we just walked in in
the middle of the night and sat down in their bedroom. We weren't real
sure about that, but there was like, there's water very close to that
area. The deer are thick out there, acorns and there's all kinds of
things to eat. It was deceiving because it really wasn't that far from a
road. A granted it's a country road, it's a road through national forest,
but really and truly, it's not that far off of a road,
so that was interesting that they would be that close to that. So,
yeah, something followed us out because we've got the tracks, we've got them.
After all the people that saw the other one, they've come to the
conclusion that maybe it was a juvenile. Now we don't know if it was
sitting there and we walked past it, or if it came in as we
were sitting down with us and we didn't realize it. There's a total of
ten of us that had this happen, just varying degrees of what each person
experienced. It's not just one person, it's ten. So that's interesting in
that that was the first night of the first expedition I ever went on.
The second night didn't have a sighting to speak of. But we were driving
down another road in the middle of nowhere, just in the middle of nowhere,
there's like a wide spot in the road and they pull off. Okay,
we get out. It was one of those things of I didn't want
to be there, I didn't want to get out of the van. I
didn't like the way it felt, but I wasn't going to say anything because
I won't go back. All these people get back in their vehicle. But
I did not want to be there. And I don't have a problem with
being in the woods at night. I'm a country girl. That's not an
issue for me. It was an issue that night. I didn't like where
we were at. I didn't want to be there. So our group got
out started walking down the road and this was actually a dirt roAP and I
was in the middle of the road as close to people as I could be.
I was about to walk over my husband. Normally I'm like off in
the bloy gagon in the back or I had a feeling something was going to
reach out and grab me, and I did not want to be there.
And we kept walking, and we walked a bit and all of a sudden
it's gone. We walk out of it, and it's okay, that's really
odd. Now. I didn't say anything because, like I said, I
didn't want all these people to get back in the vehicle and leave because I
was having a moment. We went down the road a little farther and yet
again the guy goes, let's go sit off in the wood over here.
Oh crap, Okay, so we do, and we're sitting there. The
leader and this other lady are having a discussion about the light that's coming up.
Come to find out it's the moon coming up. They were having a
whole discussion about that. We're sitting in the woods again. My husband and
I are a little bit away. We're like at the edge of the group,
and we're sitting there and all of a sudden, these two little lights
pop up at my feet. They look like the size of maybe a golf
ball, and they're just like floating around about a foot from us. And
he looked at me like, am I seeing that? And I just nodded
and went yeah. And they just floated around there for a couple of minutes,
and right before we lot ready to leave, they just they were gone.
Now none of the rest of them saw them, because they weren't right
over there where we were at. So we get up, we walk out,
and we walk back into that feeling as we're getting toward the vehicles,
that hair the back year and neck year creaked out. There's something out there.
Feeling is coming back. As soon as we got close to the vehicles,
I was in the vehicle and the door shut. I'm like, I'm
done, let's go. I had at that point, I just wasn't having
any part of it. It just was not a good feeling. And I've
never had it since. And we have had other encounters, but I've never
had anything that felt like that. We've had other things happen. The next
year, we went on another expedition here in Missouri. We actually were in
a small rural campground. We have a little camper. We have a vintage
camper that my husband I have. I knew when I went to sleep that
night there was one pole light in the whole campground and it shined into our
window, so the camper was lit up. I wake up in the midle
of the night and the camper is pitch black, and I'm like, wait
a minute, that's odd. And I'm laying there going why did I wake
up anyway, not hearing anything, What's going on? Lay there for a
couple of minutes, and all of a sudden, the camper's light again.
Something had been in front of the window. So I'm laying there going,
Okay, if I jump up, I'm going to make a lot of noise.
And by the time I jump up and get the door open, this
is on the opposite side. Whatever is going to be gone. So the
next morning when my husband got up, I made him come around to the
back side of the camp or he's about six to two. I got him
back there and he doesn't even come This window's having feet off the ground.
He's what are we doing? And I'm like, there was something standing front
this window left night. I want to know how tall it was. And
he goes the windows seven feet and I said it was blocking all the light
out. He's okay, which the area and the ground's really hard, so
there wasn't you couldn't really wasn't any tracks or anything, but something had been
standing in front of the window. And I think it was the second night
that we were on the expedition that year. We had gone out to an
area and we were one of the teams that was like basically camp. So
we just sat. Everybody split off from us. We were a central location.
They all split off from us, and we didn't really have anything going
on too much. So the team's radiotis and said we're headed back to you.
We said, okay. Right after they had done that, we got
this crisp clear whoop. That wasn't one hundred yards from us, and we
thought it was the expedition leader because it sounded just like him. So when
he got back to us, we're like, why did you stop and do
that? And he said, I couldn't stop coming up that hill in the
truck. I would have had to have rolled all the way back to the
bottom and start again. He goes, that wasn't me, and it was
close to us. We'd never heard anything, we didn't see anything, and
it just let out the clearest whoop right there where we were at. We
don't always have a lot of stuff, but there's something that in this area
that we go, there's always some kind of something that happens. One year
we were out there, there was a real small group of us that stayed
out by this small lake. We started to hear this what sounded like a
real long drawn out whoop. We were trying to figure out because at first
we thought maybe it was something mechanical, and we kept listening to it.
And one of the gentlemen that was with us, he's got dogs that runs
coyotes, so he knows a lot of these noises and different things, like
he goes, first of all, the lung capacity on that because it did
it for a total of thirty minutes. It would just this very long,
drawn out whoop, and it would stop long enough like it was taking a
breath, and it would do it again, and it was running because it
was moving. The salmon was coming from a different direction the whole time.
And we've got it recorded. It's in the background. It's hard to hear.
So he went home and pulled the map up and looked at it,
and he said, the thing in that thirty minute, and it's traveled over
three miles of highly wooded hills and hollows from the time it started till it
stopped. And we don't know if it finally moved out of range to where
we couldn't hear it, or if it finally stopped. That happened to us
one time, one time, we'd all met up, all the groups,
all the vehicles we'd met up. We're trying to decide where we're going to
go. Nobody's really having a whole lot go on, we're discussing it.
All of a sudden, the truck that we had gotten out of there was
a dirt clod that hit the hood square in the middle, big old cloud
of dirt and no vehicle was moving. Everybody was out of their vehicles.
It was like, Okay, where'd that come from? So, you know,
it's like just odd things like that happened. One year we went to
Kentucky for an expedition and it was on private property. We kept hearing cows
and we were talking to the landowner about the cattle, and she said,
there's not any cattle around here. He's so closest cattle are fifteen to twenty
miles the morning, and these things sounded like they were if you were on
top of the hill, they were down in the valley, or if you
were in the valley, they were on top of the It was close.
There's no cows out here anywhere out here. These things were mimicking cows and
doing it all the time. So several people were here in that and that
was the first night that we went there. We were with a group and
this small group split into two groups. We were by like a private Emily
cemetery. So one group took off and started walking the trail. The rest
of us waited a few minutes and started walking it behind him. At the
end of it, we met up and we were standing there talking do you
hear anything, you see anything, that kind of thing. And we try
on to look and there's a light coming down the trail and it looks like
somebody's headlight, and it's bobbing and down like somebody's headlights. So we're waiting
for this person to catch up to us. We know it's not any of
us because we're all accounted for, so we're thinking, Okay, somebody's maybe
had something happen. They're coming to get us. There was a little dip
down before you came up the little hill. To us. This thing dipped
down never comes out, so we go to look and there's nothing there.
There's nobody there, there's no light. We have no idea what that was.
So we're walking back to the base camp and we're walking on a road.
This limb comes flying out of the trees, not falling down, but
flying out. My husband he was closest, and there was a young man
behind him, so they were closer to it when it happened. At the
same time that happened, there was like this sickening sweet smell on my side,
almost like we'd walked into a patch of flowers or something disturbed it.
So the next day when we were driving out. We were looking as we
went out, there's no flowers out there. It had been freshly mowed.
The guy would mow this field. There wasn't anything out there, So it
was like, okay, we get a stick thrown at us and an odds
smell in that area. I don't think that was the next day that we
were out there. We did a day hike down into a new area.
The gentleman told us, I've opened this trail up for you. I've tied
some markers. Just follow that around. So we had gone down and there
we were doing that, I've found what looks like almost a knuckle print.
Now it was just in leaf litter, so it wasn't like anything that we
could really cast. But it's very large and it's hard to see once you
get the picture. It was clear as day when you're standing there looking at
it, but it just didn't translate well in the picture. There's two or
three people were all looking at it, taking pictures of it, and we
continue on down the trail. We get down there, one of the guys
says, hey, I want to do this call. Okay, it wasn't
really a call, it was something that he had that made this like banshee
scream, and I'm like, dude, no, don't do that. Don't
do that. We got to reply to it in the middle of the day
and we're like, okay, yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.
That was probably not a good idea. We got to reply to that.
A couple of wood knocks at that point went okay, all right, this
is where we're going to come back to tonight. So that evening rolled around.
My husband's I don't feel well. He's like, my stomach is bothering
me. I'm not leaving camp. I said, okay, well just stay
a camp. No big deal. So I think it would. There was
six large gentlemen that went back to where we had been. So where I
found the knuckle print, you had to step over a very large log so
big it was like there wasn't any stepping over from. I had to climb
over it. And on the other side of it was where that print was
at. When they got to that log that night, there was a log
shoved in the ground in the middle of the trail. And stay tuned for
more sasquatch out to see we're right back after these messages. So they were
like, that's probably a pretty good indicator we better not go any farther.
So they sat down and they were just discussing what they were going to do
when they started to hear the grouse. They couldn't see anything, so they
thought, okay, we're going to start to walk back. So they started
to walk back slowly. Every time they would stop, it would growl at
them. By the time they got back to camp, they couldn't hardly talk
to us. They were so upset and worked up because it had followed them
out of the woods and every time they stopped it growled at them. So
where my husband and I were camp that night was not really that far from
that area. That's the first time I ever went do you think maybe we
should sleep in the truck tonight? My heels, I think we're okayh yeah,
sure. And of course we hear the cows in the middle of the
night again, right. We had to get up pretty early to start driving
back to Missouri. It wasn't even daylight yet, and there was this crisp,
clear whoot that morning that was just down from our tent a little bit,
and I was like, okay, yeah, this place is like thick
with them. Yeah, I would love to go back there. The incident
that happened here at home. So I had been at work one day,
came home, walked to the house, into the bathroom, which is on
the back side of the house. Now, I have an older home that
has very large windows in it. The way that our house sits, our
backyard gradually declines as you're going through the Now we have a neighbor that is
behind us, but they're quite a ways back. I had came into the
bathroom to use the bathroom, sat down. You can see out the window.
Because of the grade of the yard and everything like that. I've stood
in the backyard before and you can't see in the bathroom window. So I
have no curtains on it because nobody can see in it. My backyard is
pretty, and the neighbor's yard's pretty, so I would like to look at
it. Sit down, look out the window, and I see for a
split second, and the only way that I can describe it is it looks
like that alien predator that shimmer. It's going through the neighbor's backyard. Now,
from what I can see, it's not on the ground. I couldn't
see the feet, but it was high enough up that it almost looked like
it was a couple of feet off the ground. Like I said, I
couldn't see the feet. I wasn't looking at that. It was only split
second. That's the only way I can describe it. Is that shimmering,
that light effect, that glistening. It was just odd and my brain couldn't
process that. I just finished using the bathroom, left shut the door,
came into my living room and just sat down. My brain was trying to
just process what I had seen. I guess I was just sitting in the
living room. The TV wasn't on anything like that for several minutes, and
at the time, my elderly mother came in and said, what are you
doing? And I looked at her funny. It stamped me out of it,
and it was several months before I told anybody because it was just so
ridiculous to me. So one night, we're sitting at the dinner table.
It's a couple of fellow bigfooters, John and Lou and my husband, Robert.
We're all sitting having dinner, and I just blurred the thing out to
them all what I've seen, and my husband is like, what you didn't
tell me about this, and I'm like, nope, this is the first
time I'm telling anybody. It just came out and they all just sat there
and looked at me. They questioned me a little bit. Still can't wrap
my mind around it. I don't know what it was. Does it make
me pause now and wonder if they can cloak or was it something completely different?
I don't know. All I can talk about is what I experienced.
And like I said, it was just for a couple of seconds and that's
all it took to completely fry my brain. This expedition was in Kentucky and
it was twenty twenty one one. Steve Coles was leading this one. We
were there with Charlie Raymond. But we had taken a small group out,
taking a trail off down the side of a hill the whole time. About
halfway down the hill, that feeling started to come in that we're being watched.
How the hairs will stand up on the back of your neck, and
you just get that feeling that you're not alone out there. That started.
So the group was walking down the hill across the small creek at the bottom
of the hill and at which point we started up the other side We got
a little ways up the hill and they decided to stop, and there was
a large log and I had sat down on the log and there were a
couple other people there. I finally had to get up off this log because
the feeling that there was something standing right behind me was so overwhelming. It
wasn't funny. And I got up and I turned around and I looked,
and I mean, there's nothing there. You could see pretty well. It
was another one of those nights with a full moon, and there wasn't anything
there. I sat down again. It almost felt like something was almost breathing
down my neck. That's just how close it felt. It was a very
unnerving feeling. So I finally got up and walked across the trail and stood
on the other side and just watched because that feeling it just bothered me so
badly. That feeling of being watched never left. That evening. We had
some odd lights up on the hillside from us. We also had an aircraft
flying over. It was silent. They came to the conclusion that it was
possibly a drone, but drones aren't supposed to be over National forest state parks.
Whatever we were in, I think we were in a national park.
They're not supposed to fly over that, so we really weren't sure what was
going on with that one. That was just a whole lot of real weird
because we never had any knocks or whoops or anything like that, but it
was just a lot of creepy feeling, and sometimes that's all that happens.
My friend Lou had came down one weekend and we went to a state park
that's close to us here. It was myself, my husband, and Lou.
We went into this area roughly nine o'clock at night, and it had
rained a little bit earlier in the day, so we're the only ones out
there is there's no cars in the parking lot or anything else. We're walking
out through there, and Lou and I had been out during the day and
walked the same trail, so that night we were walking out, all of
a sudden, I'm hit with this just incredible fear of there's a bear.
There's a and that's all I could think. And I had to talk to
myself about not turning around and running back to the truck. And I am
normally not like that. I don't have that fear in the wood. So
I'm having to talk to myself. I'm not telling my husband about it.
I'm not telling Lou. I'm just walking along with them. We're enjoying our
time, they're enjoying their time. Anyway, we walked all the way out
to the creek, nothing really going on now. Every once while we would
stop and Lou thought there were small pebbles being thrown. We came back and
there's a small bridge that goes over the creek. We had to come across
it, and we stopped as we started up the stairs. We stopped at
the top and he believed there was small pebbles being brown. He felt that
was going on. So we came across the bridge and came down and we're
walking back to the parking lot where the truck sat. We were, I
don't know, ten fifteen feet from the truck, and as I turned to
say something to them, my husband hit the lights to unlock the truck.
When he did that, the headlights on the truck pop on across the parking
lot behind a large rock. The rock was about four feet tall. Behind
it was this shadow that had to be every bit of seven feet tall.
And I only thought for a split second because I was turning to say something
to them when it happened, and when I whipped my head back, it
was gone. Of course, neither one saw it because they were behind me
when we were leaving and pull the truck over closer to that area. The
rock is like three and a half four feet tall, and this shadow was
a lot taller than that. I want to say it was probably around seven
feet tall. Saw it for a split second, but it was there.
So last year during the conference, we did a camp out, and this
is on private property. This gentleman has had all kinds of things happened to
him. I think he's lived there maybe five years now. When he first
moved in, they used to throw rocks on the roof of his house.
It was metal. That was the first thing that got him to notice that
there was something going on. A couple of gentlemen that I know, Shane
Carpenter and Randy Harrington, had been out there before. So Shane took me
out to meet this gentleman. He was agreeable to let us camp out there.
We'd been out there a few days and on the last night we had
our conference, we came back and camped. We had a storm that blew
through tore up a couple of tents. So once everybody was settled and back
in their tents and gone back to sleep, one of the girls decided not
to sleep in her tent. She stayed in her car. It was after
three am. She said she kept hearing this tink sound. It woke her
up and she opened her eyes and her car SUV whatever was part next to
my husband and ice tent. She opened her eyes and was looking out the
windshield and could see this one standing behind or right at the corner of my
husband ied tent. So she said, I'm trying to figure out do I
try to take a picture of it? Do I just sit here and watch
it? She'sy. I didn't know what to do because she's not she's a
paranormal investigator, so she wasn't real versed in what she should do, but
she was able. She did look at her phone to see what time it
was. My husband heard it walking around behind the tent. The next morning,
when everybody's up, my husband says, in passing as we're passing to
go to the bathroom, I think I heard something last night. Yeah,
yeah, okay, I got to go to the bathroom. I'll talk to
you later. When I get back over to the tent, people are starting
to talk. These people have seen something walking behind there. This girl heard
this, my husband heard this. It just went on and on. So
we got the guy up that was tracking where like, there looks to be
something out here. He laughed. Later he said, I figured y'all were
full of crap. He said that unfair, there's anything out there. When
he got out there, there were compression tracks all around the outside of the
camp. It had been behind multiple tents. You could track it all the
way down around the whole camping area. It had even gone in because we
had porta potties out there. It had even gone past them. It had
been all over the place. We started to put all the stories together,
and luckily all these people had enough presence of mind to look at a clock
of phone something and we could see where it had came in at roughly three
in the morning and started to investigate and just make its way all around the
camp site. Daniel Perez happened to be there and he documented a lot of
this. He put it in the Bigfoot Times that year. I believe it's
the October edition. He calls it the perfect storm. He's got that all
in there. Pretty much the whole Bigfoo Times that year was all about our
camp out and conference and all the stuff that went on. We're going to
go back to that place this year and camp out again. Let's talk a
little bit about you mentioned the conference. Talk about the conference. What can
people expect when they check that out? What do you guys have going on
this year? We got all kinds of good things going on this year.
So what we normally do, I don't think anybody else does that. Most
of what people do is they just have a conference at a convention center.
You get a hotel room, you see your speakers. That's what it is.
Ours is a little different now. If you're just coming for the conference,
yes you get your speakers and your vendors and that kind of stuff.
But if you choose to go camp with us, then you're going to be
out in an area where there has been bigfoot activity. Now it is primitive
camping. We usually do bring at least quarter potties in, We feed you,
and you're out there for three or four days. You can go out
with us at night if you want to. If you just want to stay
in camp, you can do that too, because we have people that do
both. As time goes on, we're getting more access to the properties in
that area. This is a county in Missouri that is very active. There's
just a lot of bigfoot activity that's going on. This year, we have
moved to a bigger event venue and we have a big name coming with us
this year. Would you like to tell them about that? Brian, I
think you should go ahead and say it. We're going to have the one
and only Brian King Shark from Sasquatch. See that's right, you heard it
here, folks. I'm definitely looking forward to the conference. I'm definitely looking
forward to the camp out. I cannot wait. We will certainly post all
the details and the show notes for you guys to pick up your tickets and
check everything out. I am really excited to go. I do have a
question about some of the stuff that happened earlier on in your story. I
would be remiss if I didn't ask how long did it take after the first
quote camp out for your husband to actually get on board with the whole Sasquatch
and going out and just doing more than camping. Did it take that first
night and having those experiences? Was he converted after those first experiences. No,
he's still a skeptic now. Really, he's still a skeptic now.
He said there's something out there, he just doesn't know what it is.
So, yeah, Keith our resident skeptic, which is good because he's very
logical in his thinking. He's heard things, he has seen some things that
he's I don't know what it was, and I'm not going to say it
was bigfoot because I couldn't tell. I have to give him that. But
he does tell people now that we bigfoot hunt. He's went from telling him
when we're just camping that yeah, we do actually go out and look for
bigfoot, that we do expeditions that kind of thing. So he will admit
that. That is definitely movement in the right direction, I think, Marian,
I really appreciate you coming on and sharing your experiences and talking about the
conference. I cannot wait to hang out with you guys in September. You
guys go and check it out. Like I said, we'll have links in
the show notes for everybody to get more information about it. But I've really
had a blast talking to you. I can't thank you enough for coming on.
Thank you. I appreciate that, and I can't wait for you to
come hang out with us. They say you don't gotta go home, but
you can't stay. I don't want outside steps. Step chart, this chart,
that chart, everything come right back, right back for joy, for
me and the enjoy. Stay right there, you come in right away.
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