WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.559 Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.599 another episode of my big Foot sighting. All right, then 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:10.800 let's do this. 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.759 Seen a bunch of rundown no horse towns where the 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:19.079 church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:24.480 fasting melodies coove in with the bomb man rose with 7 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:28.160 the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the busy 8 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.840 streets with the songs of the South of su Then. 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.880 When I hear the promp porch picking down home rhythm 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.000 bringing out I Don't Run from Banjung music. 11 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:53.759 Yeah, if you've had a Bigfoot sighting, I would like 12 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.479 to be a guest. Please go to my Bigfoot Sighting 13 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:58.119 dot com and let me know. 14 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:04.840 Big Foot sightings over the years have caused me to 15 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:09.319 create the Main Bigfoot Foundation as a co founder. And 16 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:14.120 Main Bigfoot Foundation is a nonprofit here in the state 17 00:01:14.159 --> 00:01:19.079 of Maine. We actually do outings. Our goal when we 18 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:21.120 started our foundation. 19 00:01:20.959 --> 00:01:21.319 Was to. 20 00:01:23.079 --> 00:01:27.319 Get folks back out into the wilderness to learn about nature, 21 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:32.319 to learn about Bigfoot, and you know, get a camaraderie 22 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:39.280 going with all the people around. Our biggest thing was 23 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:45.200 that we myself and the other co founder, her name 24 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:52.599 is Janelle Graff. We had some encounters over the years, 25 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:55.159 and hers was at you know, like ten years old. 26 00:01:55.879 --> 00:02:00.400 She had a encounter that her father had had had 27 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:02.640 things thrown at He was a logger and had some 28 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:06.959 rocks and logs thrown at his skitterer by a one 29 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.080 and the dad told the kids to stay out of 30 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:12.919 the woods, and they didn't, and next thing, you know, 31 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:19.520 she's out there with her her cousins and she was 32 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.360 ten years old and she they went and they found 33 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:27.520 a structure in the woods and it smelt bad, and 34 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:32.120 they decided that it was probably good to run back 35 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:34.000 to the house. And they turned to run back to 36 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.680 the house and Janelle dropped something on the ground. She 37 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.120 turned around to pick it up, said I'll catch up. 38 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.080 As she picked it up, turned around, there's this creature 39 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.319 in front of her, you know, eight nine feet tall, 40 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:49.199 and it's looking down at her and it's just massive. 41 00:02:50.360 --> 00:02:52.960 Scared of living with Jesus out of her, she ran 42 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:56.599 you know, past it, going to the house. It ran 43 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:01.120 in the other direction, and you know, she had that experience. 44 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:07.120 She tried to share that experience with other investigation you 45 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:14.400 know investigators, and she didn't get no real good vibes. 46 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:16.639 Out of the folks that you know, she was talking with, 47 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:22.199 you know, some listened, some didn't listen. So I had 48 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:25.479 the same kind of experience when I got chased out 49 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:29.879 of the woods in twenty ten, I had an encounter 50 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.360 with these creatures over about a month and a half. 51 00:03:35.719 --> 00:03:40.199 I had always believed in the bigfoot and sasquatch, say 52 00:03:40.439 --> 00:03:47.919 whatever you want to name it. I had been out 53 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:51.599 hunting in an expanded autry zone here in Maine, and 54 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:53.879 you know, my interest had always been there, but I 55 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.639 never really dove into it. But I did have an 56 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:02.000 uncle who had been into it. Married my aunt. It 57 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:04.879 was her second marriage, and I met him and he 58 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.639 tried to get me into helping him investigate bigfoots because 59 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:11.639 he had done it over the years. And you know, 60 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:15.759 at that time he was probably thirty thirty two years 61 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:21.680 into it or thirty four years into it, and that 62 00:04:21.800 --> 00:04:23.959 was in the early nineties when they got married, and 63 00:04:24.600 --> 00:04:27.160 you know, when he hit forty five years doing it 64 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.800 and his age was getting up there. He kept trying 65 00:04:29.839 --> 00:04:32.000 to get me to go, and I ended up hunting 66 00:04:32.519 --> 00:04:35.240 in that expanded archery zone and I had a day 67 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:41.000 that I climbed into my tree stand and I heard 68 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:43.240 noise to my left and I looked and saw this 69 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:47.120 creature in the tree or this person. I thought it 70 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.480 was a person at the time. It was up in 71 00:04:49.560 --> 00:04:53.639 the you know, the y of the tree, about twenty 72 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:56.120 feet up, and I was thinking, why would somebody put 73 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.680 their tree stand there? And you know, I kind of 74 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.680 wrote it off because the deer trails ran behind this 75 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:05.399 person and I just I sat there and I was 76 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:08.399 getting dark, and you know, every now and then this 77 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.680 person would move and you know, it'd make like a 78 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.160 scraping noise in a tree. And yeah, I was like, okay, 79 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:16.639 you know, i'll talk to them after we go out 80 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:19.160 of the woods, because you know, I was here obviously 81 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.600 for us and it's land with permission only, so I'll 82 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:25.480 just talk with them and you know, see if they 83 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.240 can move. And just it was getting dark, I heard 84 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.720 noises off to the right and went to look for 85 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:37.920 it and nothing. I wasn't seeing it yet. It was coming. 86 00:05:38.079 --> 00:05:40.680 It was coming down the trail and all of a sudden, 87 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.480 I hear a thud to the left and I look 88 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.560 and this person's walking off, and you know, I was like, holy, 89 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.000 that's a top tall person, man, you know, But it 90 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:51.839 didn't have The person didn't have a bow and arrow. 91 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:55.680 They didn't have any kind of hunting gear on. You know, 92 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:59.199 it looked like a gilly type suit that you would 93 00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:05.360 you would see on the market, or a soldier ware, long, strangly, 94 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:10.959 scraggly type, you know, vegetation. It looked like hanging off 95 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:15.240 it or hair and I wasn't quite sure what it was. 96 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:17.879 And I watched this person walk away from me and 97 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.680 into a thicket, and I decided to try to catch 98 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:25.560 up to him. And I took the shortest route out 99 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.279 to the vehicles where the vehicles would be packed if 100 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:33.120 you or hunting that area. And nothing. So I drove 101 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:37.079 up and down the road, didn't really notice anything, couldn't 102 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.560 find this person. So I went back the next day. 103 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:42.199 I said, I'll look at the tag that's on his 104 00:06:42.279 --> 00:06:44.040 tree stand, so I know who he is, so I 105 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:46.720 can report it to the owner and the owner can 106 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.439 contact him. And I went back the next day. There 107 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:53.399 was no tree stand. There was no marks from any 108 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:56.319 tree stands or anything else. So, you know, I just 109 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.199 at that time my curiosity peeked a little bit. I 110 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:04.519 was set to hunt, and you know I had you know, 111 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:08.680 I'd done some bigfoot research before, so yeah, I kind 112 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.279 of knew different things at that point, and you know, 113 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:15.759 my uncle had taught me a few things, but I 114 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:20.160 was just really you know, into the hunt. It was 115 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.839 into the hunt. And I climbed back up that next 116 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.920 day into the tree stand. You know, when I noticed 117 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.759 they were gone, they moved, so I'm good. And I 118 00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:32.959 was sitting in a tree and I'd been there probably 119 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:38.079 about two hours, and all of a sudden, I heard 120 00:07:38.439 --> 00:07:41.959 a branch snapped behind me, and it was a heavy branch, 121 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.040 and I could I could hear it. This is a 122 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:49.240 branch that ended up. I heard it flying through the 123 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.360 air all of a sudden. It kind of made me 124 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:55.959 go into a little bit of a shock, like what 125 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:59.759 the heck is going on? And I turned just as 126 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:03.360 I know, because I heard the branch getting closer and 127 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.600 I felt it hit the base of my tree and 128 00:08:06.680 --> 00:08:09.519 I looked down the hiss. This branch is probably four 129 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:14.600 inches in diameter, and yeah, it's close to ten to 130 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.480 fifteen feet long, and it, you know, it had flown 131 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:20.680 through the woods. So I'm looking around to see where 132 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:22.720 it is, you know, where that could have came from. 133 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.279 You know, figure maybe it broke off up high or whatnot. 134 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:29.160 And as I turned and I'm looking and scanning the 135 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:34.159 whole area, I noticed a creature about fifty yards behind me. 136 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.399 The first day it was only twenty yards from me. 137 00:08:37.519 --> 00:08:40.399 But the second day, this creature was big. This thing 138 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:44.360 was had to be, you know, at least eight and 139 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:47.200 a half feet tall, if not taller. I mean, but 140 00:08:47.240 --> 00:08:50.120 I'm up in the tree stands. I couldn't tell. And 141 00:08:52.759 --> 00:08:56.960 I got at that point it was what in the 142 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:00.679 heck is that? And I watched this creature move. It 143 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:04.519 would take a step, turn its body and look in 144 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:08.440 one direction, scan around, moving its body at the waist 145 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:12.360 until it was looking you know, down the direction of 146 00:09:12.360 --> 00:09:14.960 my tree standing. Then it would look up and it 147 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:18.799 was it was. It was shocking to me at that time, 148 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:24.360 you know, because I wasn't really into the whole deep 149 00:09:24.519 --> 00:09:31.879 dive down the rabbit hole bigfoot thing. You know. I 150 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:34.440 I'd go out and look, you know, hey, maybe I'll 151 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:37.039 find a footprint. But more it was more when I 152 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:39.320 was out there before, it was like, I'm walking in 153 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:42.320 the woods. I mean, it's it's peaceful time, you know, 154 00:09:42.480 --> 00:09:46.440 I'm out there in the woods. If I find a footprint, great, hey, yeah, 155 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:51.480 did I know about structures at the time. I'd heard things, 156 00:09:51.559 --> 00:09:57.679 but it's about it and you know, smells. I'd heard things, 157 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:04.399 and I'd experienced things that you know, kind of related 158 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:09.480 me to that smell. And I really wasn't real deep 159 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:13.960 into it. So when I saw this thing walk, I 160 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.360 you know, I was five to ten minutes, and I 161 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:19.039 mean it would take that one step, and then it 162 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:22.759 would turn and look uphill and turn it the ways 163 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:25.200 in front of it, and then turn it a ways 164 00:10:25.240 --> 00:10:29.279 to look down towards me and then put its head 165 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:31.519 back with tilt its head backwards like it was looking 166 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:34.759 up at me. Once they got out of you, I 167 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:39.720 decided that day that I was out of there. I 168 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.919 climbed right down and I grabbed my tree stand, packed 169 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:47.919 it all up, ran like the dickens, get out of there, 170 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:52.200 and I called. Of course, I called my uncle because 171 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:55.480 we weren't it wasn't even near Doc yet, so I 172 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:57.399 called him, explained to him what was going on. He, 173 00:10:57.879 --> 00:11:00.559 you know, he kind of calmly said, you know, it 174 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:05.480 does not want you there for some reason. And of 175 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:09.480 course I had talked to many people about my experience 176 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.399 there already, and you know, experiences as far as smells 177 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:21.759 and sounds that I'd heard and other hunters. And after 178 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:24.519 I packed up, I wasn't going to go back there, 179 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:27.720 but my uncle convinced me. He said, go back. You know, 180 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:32.279 you bought a license that cost you extra money to 181 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:35.399 go and hunt. You love hunting. Go out there. You 182 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:38.360 know you'll be safe. Just go on further in on 183 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.039 the property. So that's what I did. And on that 184 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:44.600 day when I went in, I met another hunter on 185 00:11:44.639 --> 00:11:47.279 the corner of a corn field in there, and I 186 00:11:47.360 --> 00:11:49.559 talked to him briefly, and then I went out and 187 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:52.480 around the corn onto the back side of the field. 188 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:54.919 There's two snowmveil trails that come out, and I knew 189 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:58.440 from scouting that the second trail, if I went into it, 190 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:01.799 there was an area that was clear that I could 191 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:03.840 set up a hunting blind. And that's what I had, 192 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:09.200 a hunting blind and you know, chair on my back 193 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:12.960 and just me and my bow and arrow, and I 194 00:12:13.080 --> 00:12:16.679 was out there, and you know, I set up the 195 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:19.720 blind and I was watching the trail. The deer come 196 00:12:19.759 --> 00:12:22.840 out through the snowmobile trail and through that clearing that 197 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.200 I was in to go out to the mainfield where 198 00:12:25.200 --> 00:12:27.320 the corn was and I was set up and I 199 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:33.799 was good so being there during the afternoon, I heard 200 00:12:34.200 --> 00:12:38.360 different noises and I kind of attributed it to you know, 201 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:41.679 of course, it was September, so I was attributing it 202 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.960 to a buck racking his horns on a tree, trying 203 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.399 to get the velvet off, you know. And I just 204 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.080 let it be and I listened to it. It started 205 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:55.639 to my southeast and went to my northeast. Over the 206 00:12:55.639 --> 00:12:59.480 course of the day, I didn't hear any animals. Nothing 207 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:02.320 was moving in the woods. I didn't see no deer, 208 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.960 never thought anything out about it. Packed up. It's dark. 209 00:13:07.039 --> 00:13:09.919 I turn on my head lamp. I'm headed out of 210 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:14.240 the woods and I get between the first snowmobile trail 211 00:13:14.279 --> 00:13:18.159 and the second snowmobile trail. I had something come flying 212 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.399 by my face and it was a rock, probably about 213 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:27.200 the size of a you know, a dodgeball, volleyball, whatever 214 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:29.440 you want to call them. I went flying by my 215 00:13:29.559 --> 00:13:34.679 face and I turned, and you know, I yelled into 216 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:36.919 the woods that you know, if it hit me, it 217 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:40.679 would have probably killed me. And I said, don't do 218 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:44.399 that again, or I'll be forced to defend myself. And 219 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:48.279 no sooner did I say that. Another rock came by. 220 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:51.399 I mean, the first one was probably about an inch 221 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:54.080 or two off of my face, great at you know, 222 00:13:54.159 --> 00:13:57.519 eyeball level. The second one came by, and it literally 223 00:13:57.559 --> 00:14:01.919 scunned my nose. Same size rock, same area came out 224 00:14:01.919 --> 00:14:05.440 of I said, okay, I'm gonna have to defend myself, 225 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:10.360 and I knocked an arrow to defend myself because that's 226 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:15.039 the only way I could defend myself at that point. 227 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:17.080 And all of a sudden, a growl came out of 228 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:19.840 the woods. A tree that was, you know, forty five 229 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:24.320 feet tall and you know, twelve inches fourteen inches in diameter, 230 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:29.240 just starts rocking back and forth. You know. The growl 231 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:32.720 hit me, vibrated through my body, and that's when I 232 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:34.639 looked at my arrow, and that why I was gone. 233 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.720 I ran. It followed me all the way to my vehicle, 234 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:41.759 and when I got to my vehicle, I'm at my 235 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:47.960 vehicle and I'm literally you know, I heard it running 236 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:50.639 the whole way, well, I was running, it was walking. 237 00:14:51.080 --> 00:14:54.720 I heard it walking alongside me the whole way, including 238 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:57.759 where it went across a fifteen foot wide screen with 239 00:14:57.879 --> 00:15:03.000 only one stride hitting the stream. I'm at my vehicle, 240 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.600 I'm looking for my keys. I've tossed my blind and 241 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:10.159 my chair in the back of the truck, and I 242 00:15:10.200 --> 00:15:12.600 got my belly against the bet of the pickup truck 243 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.759 and I look in literally only a foot and a 244 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:16.399 half off the other side of the bed of the 245 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.159 pickup truck. Here's this thing that's nine foot tall, sides 246 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:23.919 of glowing. It looks like three football players put together, legs, 247 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:26.840 you know, as big around as my body. I was 248 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:32.679 just I was stunned, scared and everything else at the time, 249 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.840 and you know, I kind of got out of there, 250 00:15:37.080 --> 00:15:40.320 called my uncle. Didn't go back there again for a 251 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:43.360 couple of years. But over the you know, over the 252 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:48.480 time before I went back, I got with my uncle 253 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:52.320 and I learned more things. And in that period of time, 254 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:54.480 I met the other co founder of the main big 255 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:58.120 Foot Foundation. Her name was Janelle Krapp, and she told 256 00:15:58.120 --> 00:16:02.159 me her experience. And we had had two separate Facebook 257 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:07.080 groups that were small, and we combined them together to 258 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:14.360 make one group. And it wasn't long, probably a little bit, 259 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:18.200 maybe a year. We had had the group, and we 260 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:25.360 contacted by somebody to go and they had questions about 261 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.200 Bigfoot mountain lions running together and we went to the property, 262 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.000 met this lady. She's two and a half miles off 263 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:35.519 of grid in the middle of the woods on an 264 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:43.440 old town road from the eighteen hundreds, virtually no nobody 265 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:47.600 else around, and she kind of told us the story, 266 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:55.000 and she had contacted some other folks and they never 267 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:58.120 really believed her or came out to see what was 268 00:16:58.159 --> 00:17:01.720 going on or anything. And that day we went out, 269 00:17:02.279 --> 00:17:06.319 three of us, and during the course of that day 270 00:17:06.480 --> 00:17:11.559 we found some footprints that were like a small child footprint, 271 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:18.160 but only wider and you know, almost looked like an 272 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:24.640 adolescent individual, you know, getting nine ten years old type. 273 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:29.160 But this was in October of that year, late in 274 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:32.720 October almost into November, right on the edge of a stream, 275 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.759 and there's nobody else living around there, so you know, 276 00:17:37.880 --> 00:17:42.119 to figure out how young child's footprints going to go 277 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:46.319 into a stream that's you know, thirty two degrees and 278 00:17:47.400 --> 00:17:51.079 just walking around barefoot, you know, it kind of struck 279 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.480 us a little bit as odd. And we heard some 280 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.839 kids' voices while we were there, which we were told 281 00:17:56.880 --> 00:18:00.759 that they had heard this before, but every time they 282 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.440 went to look where the kids to see which kids 283 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:05.799 were down there, who was down there? There was never 284 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:09.519 anybody there. We heard it that day, and then we 285 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:21.119 ended up seeing three separate times that day another individually lodger, sasquatch, bigfoot, 286 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.400 whatever you want to give it for a name. I mean, 287 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:29.920 we saw this thing when we were investigating the footprints 288 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:33.400 along the stream bed. We were able to look across 289 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.559 and see this thing crouched behind a very large tree 290 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:40.599 that had blown over, and of course we could see 291 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:44.720 its movements, couldn't see it fully until I made a 292 00:18:44.759 --> 00:18:48.359 move to go up and around. There was a bridge 293 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:50.920 up above, and we went. I went up to the 294 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.519 bridge to cross over to the other side of the stream, 295 00:18:54.720 --> 00:18:58.839 and when I did, this thing took off, and Janelle 296 00:18:58.839 --> 00:19:02.640 and the other gentleman that was with us, they physically 297 00:19:02.680 --> 00:19:06.680 saw it stand up and run directly behind the blowdown. 298 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.319 So of course we did that whole investigation. We got 299 00:19:10.319 --> 00:19:14.880 this lady. We calculated everything because she was scared of 300 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:18.720 the bigfoot, in the bigfoot and the mountain lion running together, 301 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.720 and she had a cat that was missing that you know. 302 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:27.200 Once before she called us. And the reason she was 303 00:19:27.240 --> 00:19:32.440 concerned was that when the cat had been missing two weeks, 304 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:36.480 she went to leave to go out to a doctor's appointment. 305 00:19:36.680 --> 00:19:40.319 As she turned onto a road as an uphill, and 306 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:45.000 on that uphill there was this creature. She said. It 307 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.039 looked just like a man, but only much bigger. It 308 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:52.519 stepped out into the road about seventy yardds in front 309 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:56.640 of her and turned and looked at her like it 310 00:19:56.680 --> 00:20:00.440 had a sad face. She said, it looked like kind 311 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:03.799 of like, as she described it, a monkey, but a 312 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:10.079 human at the same time. And it bent down. It 313 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.720 had its arms out in the cradle type position, and 314 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:17.519 it bent down and laid something on the ground and 315 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:21.839 then stood back up, looking down at her, And she said, 316 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:25.559 I could almost she said, I could see the sadness 317 00:20:25.599 --> 00:20:27.920 in its face, but it looked like it was crying. 318 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.359 She left it at that, you know, she pulled up 319 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.799 the road once it was gone. You know, it took her, 320 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:39.160 she said, five to ten minutes to get herself together 321 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:40.880 to be able to go up there and see what 322 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.680 it was. And the creature had literally brought out her 323 00:20:44.880 --> 00:20:48.880 pet cat and laid it in the road. And you know, 324 00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:51.599 that's why she was concerned whether the mountain lion the 325 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.519 bigfoot running together. We did find evidence. We saw a 326 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:59.920 bigfoot three times that day we found the jew of 327 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:05.400 no prints alongside the stream. We found larger sixteen and 328 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:10.079 seventeen inch footprints up on the hillside, so we knew 329 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:14.440 the activity was there. Looked around for activity on the 330 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:17.400 mountain lion. We made we were on the other side 331 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:19.759 of the stream. We found a path that went down 332 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:23.640 to the bottom of the waterfall that's part of the 333 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.680 stream right there, and we made our way down to 334 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:30.079 the bottom and we were going across the bottom and 335 00:21:30.799 --> 00:21:35.960 we found activity of a cat. But in talking to 336 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:41.119 this lady previously, she had grown up in this same 337 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:45.680 set of woods. There's a swamp there and it's two 338 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.319 miles across the swamp and she was on the other 339 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:52.680 side of the same swamp, and you know, she never 340 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:57.799 felt the presence of being watched until the point of 341 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:02.000 seeing the mountain lion the first time. And when we 342 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:07.039 confirmed the mountain lion tracks, we got physical tracks out 343 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.359 of the air of a mountain lion. Found the scratching 344 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:14.079 posts mocked in the corner of their territory. The you know, 345 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:17.799 dug up sand on the bottom where the cat had 346 00:22:17.960 --> 00:22:20.319 urinated in it, so we knew there was a mountain 347 00:22:20.400 --> 00:22:26.039 lion there. So we kind of talked to her and 348 00:22:27.240 --> 00:22:31.039 you know, putting one in one together to make that 349 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:36.319 two and come up with an answer. We were able 350 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:39.680 to give her a little comfort, you know, she had. 351 00:22:39.759 --> 00:22:42.319 We asked her a bunch of questions when we called 352 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:45.640 her back and asked her, you know, had you ever 353 00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:51.160 heard calls? And we played some bigfoot calls, including the 354 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:54.920 Sierra sounds to her when and we asked her, have 355 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:56.960 you ever heard these before? And she says, yeah, I 356 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:58.759 used to hear them all the time when I was 357 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:02.119 growing up on the other side of the swamp. And 358 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:04.519 I said, well, you know, two miles across the swamp 359 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:06.799 is not very far from one of these creatures, you know, 360 00:23:06.880 --> 00:23:09.519 and you know, get talking to her, and I says, 361 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:13.160 you know, perhaps when you moved into this property over 362 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:18.839 here when you were grown, it recognized you as maybe 363 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.839 it was an young individual when you were young, and 364 00:23:25.279 --> 00:23:30.079 that you know, you grew up around it. Didn't know 365 00:23:30.160 --> 00:23:32.480 you grew up around it, And now you're over on 366 00:23:32.519 --> 00:23:34.519 this side, and all of a sudden there's a danger, 367 00:23:34.799 --> 00:23:37.200 and it knows there's a danger with a mountain lion. 368 00:23:38.039 --> 00:23:41.559 So you know, you're calling for your cat, you know, 369 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:44.000 looking for your cat, and you know, you know, it 370 00:23:44.119 --> 00:23:46.359 knows there's a mountain lion that it grew up around you. 371 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.880 It's gonna more than likely it you know, it knows you, 372 00:23:49.960 --> 00:23:53.480 and it's going to try to protect you. And that 373 00:23:53.920 --> 00:23:57.680 calmed her fears a lot. And that's the point that 374 00:23:57.759 --> 00:24:01.759 we decided to go ahead and make a nonprofit. You know, 375 00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:05.359 I was sitting in a deer stand the next month 376 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:09.400 and I said, I wrote to Janelle on Messenger and 377 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:12.039 I said, hey, you know, you know, if we're going 378 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:17.799 to go do investigations, why don't we do investigations at 379 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:21.440 no charge. You know, let's be a let's be a nonprofit. 380 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:25.599 Let's be able to take you know, if somebody donates money, 381 00:24:25.680 --> 00:24:30.119 we buy equipment, and you know, let's make this into 382 00:24:30.200 --> 00:24:34.079 something that's more educational. And that's what we did. And 383 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:38.680 it was at that point that after being chased out 384 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:42.279 of the woods, after making my own Facebook after page 385 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:47.519 about Bigfoot, after getting with Janel and then combining our 386 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:50.799 pages and you know, going out and doing this investigation, 387 00:24:50.920 --> 00:24:55.920 it kind of, you know, pushed us to the point of, 388 00:24:56.680 --> 00:24:59.240 you know, we know there's organizations out there that do 389 00:24:59.359 --> 00:25:02.240 the investigatations, that go out and do all these kind 390 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:09.480 of things and that you know, it's a quick you're 391 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:13.559 gathering the data points, you're gathering the different things, and 392 00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:16.880 you're putting it online and then you know the contact 393 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:22.720 is that's pretty much where it ends. And you might 394 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:25.759 do a talk here or there at a different festival 395 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:32.839 or something, but you kind of go with Okay, I'm 396 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:36.160 done with this area. You know, this person's given me 397 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:40.559 the information, and then you know that's where the person 398 00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:45.039 kind of goes on the wayside. I've had experiences like that, 399 00:25:45.400 --> 00:25:49.039 you know, I've done interviews with other investigators that came 400 00:25:49.079 --> 00:25:51.119 over and heard my story of where I got chased 401 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:54.279