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Today, I've got a story,
one story that is fascinating to me.

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And after the story, we're going
to talk to the man who wrote the

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story, the author. You're going
to get to hear the story in more

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details about this event in his own
words. So we've got a narrated story

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that he sent, we've got an
interview, and I want to I just

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wanted to tell the man who wrote
this, he's going to be referred to

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as Tea in this video, how
much I appreciate him. Not every bit

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of the conversation is going to be
about Bigfoot, but he's just an interesting

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man. He lives in Alaska,
his encounter happened in Oregon fifty years ago,

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and he's got great insights on these
things. And I hope you enjoy

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this video. So let's get rolling, all right, here we go.

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This story is titled three mics.
I will tell you of this memory with

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my hand planning firmly across my mouth. Is not a scream in terror.

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Fifty years later, neither man nor
beast under the sun, moon and stars

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has left me this shaken. There's
nothing I fear as greatly as this vivid

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memory. I have spent thirty five
years in the wiles of Alaska, traveling

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the seas and hiking in the deep, pungent woods. I've experienced Alaskan wilderness

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so vast, so remote and untouched
by humans. In all my travels,

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There's nothing that I fear as deeply
as this memory some fifty years ago.

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And it didn't even happen here.
It was in Oregon, close to the

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town of Malala. To this day
it is a hotspot for cryptid sightings.

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But this event happened over fifty years
ago. The memory is still crystal clear

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to me in that time of unparalleled
unknowns in my life. The life of

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a foster child sometimes comes with great
amounts of work. I had livestock to

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tend to in daily chores around the
farm. The barn was built on a

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small rise. Behind it, there
was a loafing shed. There was also

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an old wire fence. There was
a problem with the wire fence. It

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was constantly being pushed down. You
could pull the wire up taut, but

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within a few days it was crinkled
again. Remnants of dark brownish hair hung

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on the bent wire fence. I
surmised that it was tall hairs from one

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of my many cows. I fed, but why would an old cow venture

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over there? A trail ran down
behind that fence to a huge growth of

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blackberries. It must have been a
quarter of a mile long and fifty feet

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wide. It was made up of
scrub oak, poison oak, and BlackBerry

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vines. It covered a small stream
of those sidewalls that eroded down at least

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four feet. There was a hole
in the BlackBerry covering over the stream.

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When I rode the old school bus
in the morning, I would always look

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up this little creek where it passed
under the road. When you looked upstream,

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it was a dark tunnel with long, dead, thorny vines hanging down.

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It was a place I never wanted
to go, but never say never.

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The cows had calved, the fruit
trees, berries and buttercups were blossoming.

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My work on the farm was slowing
down. It seemed like a time

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was ripe for a walk in search
of peace and wonderment. The morning mist

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would soon be rising. It would
be gone from the open fields, but

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deep in the woods. The damp
steam lingered over the old moss covered trail,

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and the trail ran to the east. The old road was thick,

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every kind of fern, Oregon grape, BlackBerry, and scrub oat grew beside

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it. The brush was so thick
in places that you would have to crawl

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on your belly if you got off
the old road. It was impassable,

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to say the least. On the
north side of the old road. There

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was a small trickle of water that
led down to the side of the old

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road. It is where the little
creek began. It then ran down on

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the north side, about twenty five
to thirty feet, running under the road

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in an old moss covered stone culvert. But it ran into the BlackBerry patch

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that ran nearly a quarter of a
mile back to the main road. Only

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its opposite sides were hay fields.
It had an unknown interior due to the

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thorny nature of the blackberries. On
the north side of the road, the

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sword firms reached over my head,
and the Oregon grape was at least three

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feet tall. And then I heard
two men talking. I had not seen

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a truck or heard any horses.
Why were they so close? Were they

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following me? I stepped up the
small edge of the old road the mossy

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gate, and the old road was
about fifty feet away. I laid down

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in the ferns and Oregon grape.
The men were close now, although I

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could not see them. One of
the two said, he's here somewhere.

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The other man said, do you
hear that over there? And then they

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headed deeper down in the brush,
not twenty five feet away down the hill

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to my left. To my right, the old sheep fence was all grown

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up. I knew that I could
not climb it without them seeing or hearing

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me, so I crawled further into
the brush with the fence to my right.

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Just as I began to crawl,
I moved my head to the left

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to see if the men were there. When my head moved, there was

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a head right next to me.
But it wasn't a man. It was

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almost as big as a Herford cowhead. It was right next to me on

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the ground, crawling next to me. I was close enough to see its

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silvery gray facial hair, and I
was looking directly into its brown eyes.

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I was also close enough to see
the white of those eyes as well.

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Instantly I looked back down. Panic
gripped me. A chaotic fear left me

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absolutely terrified. I could not returned
my gaze towards him. Just then I

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felt a hand on my left shoulder, pushing me at least six inches to

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my right towards the old fence.
Then I turned towards him. He stood

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up and put his hand on the
tree. His hand was huge. He

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was huge. His nails were long
and sharp. He wasn't just big,

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he was huge. He dropped back
down in the ferns and grapevines. I

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knew instantly what he meant. I
crawled to the fence and down to the

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moss covered gate, where the splattering
creek ran along the edge of the road.

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I crawled into it, still so
fearful that I could hardly breathe.

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If I continued to crawl down the
road, I would meet the very voices

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I had heard earlier. The only
place I could crawl was into the old

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stone covered It was dark and scary
in the culvert, but nothing compared to

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the terror I had just been through. I splashed the creek's cool water on

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my face. It was like a
mother's voice, soothing my fears. The

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tiny sparks rolling around in my sight
vanished, but I could still not scream.

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I crawled to the other end of
the culvert and saw the beginning of

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the BlackBerry vines hidden by the vines. I made my way by crawling alongside

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the berry vines next to the hay
field. I noticed a large opening in

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them. On the back side there
was an opening to the stream. It

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had changed from a babbling brook to
a drainage ditch across the field, but

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the blackberries covered it. The walls
of the creek were about three feet tall,

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and the creek had turned into a
muddy hole. I crawled into it

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anyway. As I walked in the
water up to my waist, the light

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beams that broke through the berry leaves
were giving me streaks of light and thorny

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vines grabbing my clothing. The old, dead vines hung down like deadly fingers,

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trying to snag me with their thorns, and they did scratch and callall

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my clothes. When I was moving, the dust particles would dance in the

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light beams, but I kept finding
my way through them. At one point

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the water got over my belt.
Then it got shallower. It seemed to

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begin to shallow up, and the
blackberries pushed me back to crawling, and

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then I saw clear light to my
right. When I got to it,

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I was right behind our barn with
a trail going up to the fence that

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I had been trying to fix.
As I stumbled up the small rise and

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climbed over the fence, I ran
to the barn and I cried, all

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scratched up and bleeding and wet.
When I walked to the house, my

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foster mother started raising her voice at
me about my wet, dirty and torn

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clothes. Never mind me, I
said. I went over to the fence

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looking for a cow, and then
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and fell in the creek. Someone
needed to fix the fence, and I

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think it's way beyond me. I
was warned not to lose a cow or

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there would be trouble. I took
a hot bath, put on clean clothes,

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and put bag bomb on my scratches, and never mentioned this story to

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any one for over fifty years.
But I learned a three MIC's name.

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But that is a whole other story. The Richardson brothers that came to remove

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the colors from my sight, well
we met again when I was a man.

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One of them walks with a permanent
lamp. Now the other he died,

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no doubt, begging the Lord in
a dump of a shanty while enduring

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a long sickness and ravage by cancer. All alone. I went to Alaska

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and named my second son after that
little thorny Creek Garrett. And when I

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take a look at Google Earth now
I see they have redone the old logging

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road. I think three Mics must
have passed now. He was old and

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silver back then. If you walk
that road and a rock has tossed your

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way, take it from me,
don't throw it back. He would be

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your best friend. He means you
no harm. Three Mics in t Thank

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you for your kindness. Hey,
everybody, that story that you just heard,

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I have the man who wrote it
on the phone right now, and

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he's going to tell us, give
us more details, and tell us the

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rest of the story. As Paul
Harvey used to say, So I've got

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tea on the phone. Tea,
how are you doing? Man? Fine?

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Thank you for thank you for being
willing to do this. We were

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talking before, you know, we
hit this record button, and you were

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telling me a little bit about where
you live. And tell us what the

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weather's like there right now. Tell
us where you're at. Well, right

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now, I'm in the Teni Peninsula
of Alaska, and I live out in

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the middle of nowhere, really,
I mean it, And there's about foot

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and a half two foot of snow
snows still on the ground. It's about

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forty degrees during the day. The
snows to him to milt. But hey,

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it's it's a great place to be. I love Alaska. That's that's

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kind of the life up there.
You just have snow on the ground,

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what six or eight months out of
the y about six seven months for us.

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Now, you were telling me a
minute ago, and this is a

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little bit off topic, but you're
you're prepared for these kind of things that

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we're going through right now with this
virus scare. Tell everybody what you what

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you've done or prepare and things like
that. Well, my wife and I

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we've been preppered since back in the
ninety I had three children in Alaska that

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they wanted to live in the big
cities, and they do in the lower

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forty eight. They're crying now.
They wish they were out here with mom

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and dad. My closest neighbor is
about a half mile away. I got

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enough food to run a couple of
years. It necessaria. I got moose

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walked through my yard, and I'm
a quarter of a mile from one of

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the best fly fishing rivers in the
world. The it's called an Anchor River.

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There's halibut right out on the edge
by the inlet. Iliaga Mountain is

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across the way. We've got everything
here, their walls, it's all here.

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Wow, that's great, man.
I've never seen I've seen some of

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the rocky mountains in the United States, but I've never and I tell you,

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I went up Pike's Peak one time. We got up to fourteen thousand

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feet and I got sick. I
don't know how well I would do in

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higher elevations. But you guys that
live out in these wilderness areas, you're

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acclimated to it, and it's I'm
always impressed by the way the way you

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guys live. So that's cool.
Well, we I just narrated your story

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about three mics. I'm not going
to ask you any questions on it.

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I'm just gonna let you tell us
what you want us to know about that

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first though, you've never relayed that
story really to anyone, probably other than

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friends, in fifty years, is
that right? No, not even my

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own way, man, She answered
the phone. Does she know now?

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She knows about it, right?
Yeah? Does? She typed the story

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out for me. I showed her
on Google Earth where it originally was from

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where the creek was that I crawled
down through. The name of that creek

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was Garrett. And my second son's
name is Garrett, and that's how I

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named that boy. I have to
ask. You're not catching any flack from

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her over finally confiding in her with
a bigfoot story, are you? Oh?

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No, My wife knows me.
We've been married forty five years.

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When she hears the story from me, she's not surprised. I don't know

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why the Good Lord loves me,
but he's taking care of me all my

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life because there's been a lot of
closes. As an old woman told me

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here, I asked. My mother
in law was in a nursing home,

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and I got to know some of
the she passed. She's passed away now,

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but I got to know some of
the women and on her wing,

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and I asked us one woman,
I said, how do you how do

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you attribute a hundred years given you
know, living a hundred years? And

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she said, well, I guess
the Good Lord just put me together right

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on the front end, So I
guess he just puts you together, right,

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didn't he? Well I guess he
did, because you know, I'm

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sixty five years old. I hadn't
been to a doctor in twenty five years.

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Man, that's awesome. Okay,
well let's go to the story.

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Now. Everyone just heard a brief
story, and your wife wrote it really

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well. By the way, I
was reading it and thinking, this reminds

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me of I was trying to think
of the writer that I read. It

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was a book I read maybe four
or five years ago, and he wrote

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real direct and short sentences, and
I loved it. I absolutely loved it.

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But I can't remember his name.
But anyway, tell her for us.

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She did a great job. But
tell us more, tell us a

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little bit more about the story.
Tell us anything you want us to know.

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Well, I was a fostered child
when I was a kid, and

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I was then I was a thirteen
years old, and I wasn't summery yet.

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Really, it was in the spring. You know, foster kids always

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don't have the easiest life. I'll
put it that way. I had a

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lot. These people had a lot
of cattle. That's what I did,

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was steed the cattle and stuff each
day, a lot of them. But

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every once in a while I get
to get away, and there was a

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bit of woods back up on the
top of the hill behind this place.

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So I would walk up there,
and I'm bennounced to me. These people,

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I don't have anything to do with
them anymore. I believe that they

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had some insurance money on me.
That's a whole that's a whole different thing.

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But anyway, I would walk back
up there because it was a place

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where just I could be away from
everybody, cows and all that. And

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I should have suspected something when my
whole hound dog canook, I got close

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with woods, and that sucker turn
around and let me ran all the way

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home. So I used to walk
up there in those trees, and you

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know, you would hear rocks being
tossed and stuff, but he didn't really

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three mics, never threw one at
me. I would hear a rock,

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you know, and it was just
it was just kind of a fluke.

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I had these two men that were
I could hear him talk and coming through

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the woods, and if they had
just been talk and I would have just

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pretty much stayed there. That they
said, did you see which way went?

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And when they did that, I
stepped off that old road that was

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up there, into that brush and
laid down inside the burns. When I

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heard him getting closer and talking,
I started to crawl deeper into the brush

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and the ferns and all that.
And that's when I felt something pushed these

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sideways just to my ride a little
And when I looked, I thought these

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men had found me. And when
I moved my eyes turned my head a

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little bit to see there was an
eye as big as a Purford's eye looking

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at me and moving past like he
was a freight train. He was so

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huge. People cannot believe how big
a sasquatch is until you see one.

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They are huge. And that guy
must have pushed me. Now, he

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could have snapped my neck, He
could have slugged me, he could have

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done all those things. But he
didn't. He pushed me to the right.

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So I went to the right,
and I crawled up by an old

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fenc there, an old sheep fence
that was all grown over, and I

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knew I couldn't crawl over that fence
without alerting those two men to where I

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was at. When he pushed me
like that, it scared me to where

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I was speechless. I didn't know
what to do. So as I made

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that you turn went by that kids, I crawled back down the hill inside

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the brush they're a little bit and
dropped into that creek, so it would

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be almost like I was backtracking on
those men. And I crawled down in

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that little creek and it was just
a little babbling brook, but it went

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down to a handstone culvert from the
old days about I don't know, twenty

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thirty feet from there, and I
crawled inside that culvert and I still didn't

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make any noise. I think I
was too scared to even scream. But

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when I got in that covert,
into the water that was in the culvert

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splashed on my face. It removed
those little starlights that are moving around in

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your eyes. All back out of
that and that was where the ferry vines,

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the old BlackBerry vines first started.
Then I crawled out and there was

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a hole going down into them,
and that creek ran through them, and

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it's like a canopy cover and you
crawl inside there and there was water,

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but what spoop to be wass?
I was crawling down that creek because I

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had nowhere to go. I could
either go back where Three Knights was I

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could go tell the two men that
were trying to hunt me, or I

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could run across an open grass field. So that creek was the only place

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I could go. And I crawled
down into that creek, and those berry

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vines looked pretty from the outside,
but on the inside they hang down like

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long fingers and grab hold of your
shirt and light coming through them. I'm

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telling me, I thought it was
the end of me. Really, I

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did when I was at age,
and I crawled out when I saw the

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light, a big opening in it
with a trail. And to this day,

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I believe Big Mike was probably using
that same trail, because whenever we

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cleaned whenever we cleaned out the chicken
coop of broosters, we'd throw him outside

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of the coop, alive and well, and it wouldn't be long and they'd

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be gone. So I believe that
he came down to the farms at night

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looking to feed on stuff. So
as I went on there. When I

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got back out of there, the
people they told me I'd better not lose

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cows, so I would have to
walk up there near those woods. I

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knew what was up in there,
so I would not go up inside those

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trees he made a gurgling noise,
a deep guttural noise, and then he

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said Mike, Mike, Mike,
and then it sounded like an elp googling.

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After he said those two things,
and I didn't pay attention at first.

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I thought it was one of some
kids that I went to school with,

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or something played in a game on
me. The second time he said

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it to me, I said tea. And the reason I said tea was

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of my name, So I said
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To my surprise, he responded to
me as tea, so I knew

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his name after that was three mikes, Mike, Mike, Mike, and

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he would call me tea from inside
the brush. But I would never go

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into brush looking for it. He
made it clear that that was his territory.

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I was going to ask after the
first after he kind of pushed you

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down in that brush and pushed you
away, you never saw him again.

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I never got close to him,
but I knew he was right there because

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he would toss a rock to me
where he would say tea. I'll tell

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you what he would do. That
was an open field. Is Soon as

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soon as I entered those woods.
I wouldn't hear a tea go. He

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could only say one syllable words.
And when he crawled past me. He

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was old. He wasn't young.
You can tell by looking at him,

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the lines in his face. He
had a brave face on him, gray

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hair, so he had been there
a long time. I just hope that

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he's still alive somewhere, because I
seriously believe you saved my life. That

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is such a cool story. But
now the event scared you to death.

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I mean you say in the first
the first two or three paragraphs that it

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was just sheer terror, but after
terror, right, But after that,

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now that you've thought about it for
fifty years, I know it still scares

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you that moment. But what's your
assessment of what he was doing. I

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know you've said he just didn't want
you in his territory, But did you

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glean anything else from your encounter with
him or your interactions with him? Well,

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that was his story in itself.
We had a big, old wooden

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barn. If I crawled all the
way to the top of it, where

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a turnbuckle went through, I can
look down back there by those woods,

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and occasionally I would see him down
in the woods, you know, but

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but not close enough you could really
make him out. I kind of went

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by. He lived out there and
mind his own business. Kind of he

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lived his life. We lived our
sort of situation there. I didn't notice.

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Chickens were gone once in a while, if they were put outside the

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fence, they were gone. You
know. I noticed that my dogs would

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not go out to those woods.
It was just a place where I really

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didn't go into his woods. That
was his territory. And we seem to

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get along, okay. But right
there in Oregon, you've got creek,

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You've got Abblequa Creek, You've got
all kinds of old settlements. So there

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was old pear trees, plum trees, old apple trees, there's oaks,

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there's there. It wouldn't have been
anything to have kept a large cryptid like

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that go and he would have ate
like a king just off the woods.

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The family you were living with.
Were there other kids there, Yeah,

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but they wouldn't come out of the
house. It wouldn't there a job to

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do the work. Go get the
foster kid. You know, you were

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like the Cinderella of the bunch,
weren't you. Yeah, I don't.

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I don't have anything to do with
them today. I don't even use their

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name. Neither does my kids.
I teased my kids and tell them,

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you know, hey, you better
be nicer. I'll tell them where you're

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at. But I guess what I
was getting at. Did the foster,

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your foster parents, or any other
kids ever talk about this, seeing anything

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or dealing with anything I did.
There was a kid that was on the

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school bus when going down the road, and the rest of the kids laughed.

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He looked at me and he goes, you ever seen at Sads squash?

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He's supposed to live on tear of
those woods right there. And I

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says, uh, no, I
haven't seen him. He goes, I'll

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bet you have. So nobody in
the nobody in the family ever ever said

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anything about it. That's that's fascinating. I was. I was thinking,

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maybe your foster father would do work
out in those areas, especially if y'all

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were running cattle and other live style. No, literally, this guy was

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a bump literally, and it wouldn't
It didn't include bars, being gone from

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home and stuff he would in it
is What is it about foster homes?

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I never hear good stories about foster
homes. I know there's good foster parents

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out there, though there have to
be, there is, there is some

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wonderful foster parents. I've met some
friends in mine night. I always tell

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them, you know, hey,
you know, if they need anything.

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You know, I'm not a rich
man, but I'm well enough to do,

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and I always tell them, hey, didn't kids they need, you

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know, they need money for baseball, gloves, school, whatever they need.

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You let me know. If they
don't have it, now, I'll

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take care of it. You get
paid by the state to take care of

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foster children, and sometimes it's a
chunk of change. Foster kids they need

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some place to live, you know. In my case, it was an

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accident that happened that put me in
the orphanage when I was just a baby.

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So I think the people that took
care of me because at least I

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did have some symbolance to life,
never mind my trust fund that they cleaned

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up by the time I was sixteen. So but you don't ever show that.

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You don't invite them over for Sunday
dinner, do you. No.

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No, In fact, I've warned
them more than once not to come around

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my house and just just stroubled.
My wife and I were both workers.

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I was a tradesman. They like
to draw a welfare. I don't have

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any problem with somebody to having welfare. That's got to come, and I

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have no problem with it. If
you're old, or you're a child,

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or you're a mom that's working trying
to I don't have any problem with it.

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But if your only reason for drawing
welfare is because you don't have to

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work, I don't have time for
it. It's not for me to judge.

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I just don't have time for you. That's interesting. I really admire

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you for apparently you've raised a good
family. And though all your kids sound

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like they're doing well, unable to
be productive members of society, and you

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you didn't learn that from your fault. You didn't have any role models,

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and I think it's a great compliment
and achievement for you to be able to

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raise a family. I bet your
wife had a lot to do with that

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too, though, Oh yeah,
she's a sweetheart. She's she's I jokingly

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tease her because she's been married to
me forty five almost we're headed up on

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fifty years. I always say she's
either as saint or she's crazy, because

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she should have killed thee years ago. You got a great sense of hear

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or two. I love it.
Well, now you live in Alaska.

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Now I'm curious, do you see
any or hear any stories up and you're

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you're part of the state there about
cryptids? Well, you do hear cryptid

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stories. Here's a I think gets
port Orford or something here. There's a

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town that the natives and the people
that lived there abandoned the town because of

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them, And that's quite a story. I'll look into that for you.

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Cam. It's here you get more
a native stories of them where they're stuck

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in the ground and stuff. There's
this is a huge land and you just

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don't you can't really see everything all
the time. My biggest problem is is

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you know, Cam, you grun
onto a brown bearer here after dark walking

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past your house? Oh, I
would I would pass out. I don't.

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I've thought about that before. I
would just I don't know how I

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would even be able to move.
Well, you ever had you ever had

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a dog snap his teeth at ship? Yeah? Yeah, Well I was

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in a boat one time in a
place called Story the Inland, trying to

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get out of there because we knew
he was there, and we got that

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boat movement, and that sucker come
out of the brush about fifty feet from

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that beach and ran out and slid
on the sand and went into that water

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up to about his belly, stopped
about fifteen feet from me and snapped his

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teeth at me like a dog.
And believe me, I got out of

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there. Man. I have two
little, sweet little pit bowls, but

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one of them like she'll snap it
flies when flies are flying around her face

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and her teeth are just set perfect, and whenever she snaps, it's this

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big clunk, clunk, clunk,
And I think to myself, Man,

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I hope she never bites me.
So, yeah, I know what that

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sounds like. I can't imagine what
it sounds like coming from a brown bear.

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It must be terrifying. Yeah,
they have him come into town.

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They destroy them, so they kind
of stay away from town. You know,

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you just never know when you're gonna
find one. Here. I live

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right across the bay from me is
cat my Mashing, a wilderness by water.

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It's only fifty sixty miles from here
and cat Mice where all the brown

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bears, remember the browns the bear
guy people get killed over there. I

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don't go looking for bears in Alaska
because they're just trouble. I don't hunt

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them. I don't go looking for
him. If there's one around, I

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go the other way. And I've
been in Alaska thirty five years and I've

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lost friends bears. Man, Yeah, that would big predator. That's why

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I tell people. People ask me, though, like why don't you carry

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a sidearm when you walk around?
Like I walk these woods and stuff every

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day every day, and they're like, why don't you carry a sidearm.

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I'm like, because there's nothing here
that's gonna hurt me. I mean,

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there might be some some feral dogs
or card dogs running around. They'll pack

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up, but usually they run away
from you. But there's nothing, no,

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no predators that will hurt a human
in these woods. And we're getting

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black bears down here. But a
black bear is generally gonna run. And

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I've never same one, and they're
not you know, if one wanders in,

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it's just a fluke. But to
walk out your door and know that

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there's a how much those bears wait, what six seven hundred pounds, well

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probably about a thousand pounds, seriously, full full sized brown bear, it's

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the same thing as a goodiac there, this isdiac they give him the name

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there. Yeah, they got stories
about him, and it's not the old

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days. They're pretty new stories.
You know. There's some huge one Soldotna.

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They had him David and Goliath.
They shot him on a guy's back

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porch after he'd been coming through town
and they'd heard that he was there,

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and the city policeman got down there
and had his shotgun, went around the

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house. Thank goodness, he shot
him in the first shot, killed him

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because he weighed a thousand and fifty
pounds. They had to use a bobcat

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to lift him off this guy's porch. And I understand if you just cripple

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him, but it just makes them
mad. It just makes them furious.

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But in Alaska, you're not top
of the food chain. Your number six,

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that's right. Better manners when you're
out there, you may not make

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it home. Well, um,
I really appreciate you spending time with us.

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Do you have anything any other information
or anything you want to share with

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the audience. I'll tell you something. When you get close to a Sasquatch

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he is people say they throw rocks, They will throw rocks, but three

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mics would toss a rock out there
to you, letting you know that there's

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somebody back here. Well, the
closer you came to his woods, the

436
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bigger the rock was, and the
faster it went. And I got really

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close to his woods one time,
and that big boy threw a rock about

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the size of a good canal and
it went past me. It sounded like

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one of those balls out of a
pitching machine. It had to have been

440
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doing almost one hundred miles an hour. Had he hit me with that,

441
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he had killed me. WHOA,
that's unbelievable. As unbelievable any other encounters

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that come to mind with three mics
that you want to share with us before

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we wind up. You know,
I believe that that crypt had saved my

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life. So I can tell you
in that area, Like I said,

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there's ut Creek, There's Abble clawl
Creek, There's Silver Creek. It's right

446
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at the edge of the Cascade Mountains. If you run on to one up

447
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there where you think it is,
it might be in the woods. Try

448
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saying three mics, Mike, Mike, Mike, and he might answer you,

449
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Wow, that is a great advice, great advice. Well, all

450
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right, well we're at about thirty
minutes and your story is going to take

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up about twenty minutes, so it's
gonna put us about forty five minutes on

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this video. And this is the
first time I've ever done this, but

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he sounded so interesting to me.
I asked him to send me his phone

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number, and he was so nice
to agree to talk to us on this

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topic, and I just I just
appreciate it so much, and I wanted

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to thank you for coming on.
Thank you all right, guys, that's

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gonna wind up this video. I
really appreciate you listening this far. Wasn't

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this wasn't he an interesting person to
hear? And I know the whole topic

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wasn't on Bigfoot, but he's just
one of those guys I could sit and

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probably on the front porch and talk
to all day long. I don't know.

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I guess that I wind it up. Thank you guys for listening,

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and I we will see you on
the next video. Thanks