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Forward 12 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.240 slash the Big for Society, and now let's get on 13 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.679 with the show. All right, Big for Society. We've got 14 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:44.399 the privilege of talking to a listener today who reached out. 15 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:48.640 His name is Brent Joins Easy Musician. But he's going 16 00:00:48.679 --> 00:00:52.039 to be sharing a interesting thing that happened on a 17 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:54.240 camping trip and I'm going to leave it at there 18 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.159 and let Brent fill in all the details for us. 19 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:58.280 But how's it going today, Brent? 20 00:00:59.479 --> 00:01:03.679 Good? Trying to stay warm out here in Oklahoma City, 21 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.079 So I really appreciate you let me be on the show. 22 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:07.040 Share my story. 23 00:01:07.159 --> 00:01:11.760 I have one main encounter and then have some like 24 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:17.359 some things really unusual things that like happened throughout my life, 25 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:19.920 just things that I couldn't really explain. But I'd like 26 00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.640 to first start off by saying that I've always kind 27 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.799 of had like an interest in like Bigfoot and just 28 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:28.920 things that were really unusual when I was like really young, 29 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.560 Like I was always really kind of drawn to like 30 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:36.359 you know, books that were like anything it was, you know, Bigfoot, Ufo, 31 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:40.480 you know, Lutinus Monster, Like it was just it was 32 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:43.439 really cool to me, Like those like Choose your Own 33 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:46.480 Adventure books were just like always just they were just 34 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:48.519 so cool to me, Like I just I would just 35 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:52.280 I was just really like enamored by that stuff and 36 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:53.680 it kind of stuck. 37 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:54.439 In my mind. 38 00:01:55.040 --> 00:01:58.200 Like but I never thought like anything could be like 39 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:03.159 you know, could really like we could really experience anything 40 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.760 like unusual that like that I really can't explain today, 41 00:02:06.799 --> 00:02:09.840 but I had we used to have when I was 42 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:14.599 really young, Like in like elementary school, I lived like 43 00:02:15.039 --> 00:02:18.360 basically like our school was like pretty much like like 44 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:21.400 a like the field that was behind the school was 45 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:24.759 like my house was like basically up against that and 46 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.960 We had this like this huge like feel that was 47 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.159 called like the ditch, and it was like just this 48 00:02:31.240 --> 00:02:35.960 big like sewage like basically basically they took like the 49 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.159 it was just like this open like waterway for all 50 00:02:40.199 --> 00:02:42.680 like the sewage from like the neighborhood like to just 51 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:45.520 drain out and it would make this this huge hill 52 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:49.080 and we would just play there, you know, like just 53 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:51.759 every day and it was just like super fun. We 54 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:54.919 just we just we thought we were like playing like 55 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:57.159 Dungeons and Dragons, but we didn't know. 56 00:02:57.280 --> 00:02:58.879 We just knew it was like a popular game. We 57 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.520 didn't know what we were doing, like we were just 58 00:03:01.360 --> 00:03:04.719 you know, we just play out there. But anyway, one 59 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.879 day like towards like it was really so. 60 00:03:07.800 --> 00:03:10.520 There's a lot of things about this like that was 61 00:03:10.520 --> 00:03:14.719 really unusual to me and really like it still makes 62 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.520 me to this day. I'm still like, I just it 63 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.000 was really just so weird and so like. But basically 64 00:03:21.039 --> 00:03:25.000 we found footprints, like big, huge footprints. I don't know 65 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.159 what size they were, but they were like like footprints 66 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:32.039 all the way like on the back of it was 67 00:03:32.080 --> 00:03:33.639 on the back it was literally like there was like 68 00:03:33.639 --> 00:03:38.840 a a little like a just a little spot of footprints, 69 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:45.039 but one big, like defined footprint, like huge, and we 70 00:03:45.120 --> 00:03:47.599 just thought that it was so odd because and it 71 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:50.759 was facing like directly to the back of the house 72 00:03:50.919 --> 00:03:53.800 of where there was a house, like someone was like 73 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.560 maybe like looking over a fence or something. But what 74 00:03:56.599 --> 00:04:01.199 was so weird about it was that the the muddy 75 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:04.960 they just kind of built that other side. My house 76 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.840 was like on the opposite side, but like where that 77 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:10.800 house was built, that whole area was like still getting 78 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:13.759 build And this is like in terms of time frame, 79 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.839 this was probably I mean I was like probably like 80 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.040 nine or ten, so it was like it was really 81 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.519 there was not much like development back there, like there was, 82 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.199 but it was I mean, it was really open. But anyway, 83 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.240 what was so odd about this footprint though, it was 84 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:33.800 and we actually thought that it was like like bigfoot, 85 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:35.079 Like we're like this, this. 86 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.040 Got to be bigfoot. 87 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:38.680 But then we didn't do anything. We didn't know, we 88 00:04:38.680 --> 00:04:40.000 didn't know what to do. We were just like, this 89 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:42.759 is just really cool. But what was so weird is 90 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:47.879 that that area where it was at was so the 91 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.959 time of year it was cold, but it was muddy 92 00:04:51.160 --> 00:04:56.920 and like rainy, and the mud had like there was 93 00:04:56.959 --> 00:04:59.079 just no telling what like we we would never go 94 00:04:59.160 --> 00:05:01.959 out there like walk barefoot, like you just would not 95 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:04.800 do that. Like it was there's so many things that 96 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:07.759 could like we would have stepped on like. 97 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:09.680 We were just we just knew better, like you just 98 00:05:09.720 --> 00:05:10.399 didn't do that. 99 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.040 But there was like pieces of chunks of like cement 100 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:17.839 and like broken glass and like just things that like 101 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:20.439 it looked just look like you know, like construction crews 102 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:22.480 just kind of like the aftermath. They just left it there, 103 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:24.959 and I don't know, it was just it was just 104 00:05:25.079 --> 00:05:28.360 very strange. And what was really odd though, is that 105 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:31.519 I mean there's not a lot of like foliage around 106 00:05:31.639 --> 00:05:33.680 from like because the whole back half of that was 107 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:41.079 basically like an open like farm like field, like just 108 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.399 just crops and stuff that would just they would grow. 109 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:45.920 And at that time it was completely empty, like it 110 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.160 was there was nothing out there. But yeah, we just 111 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:52.000 stumbled upon that and it was just really odd, and 112 00:05:53.480 --> 00:05:55.000 I just I've always thought about it. 113 00:05:55.120 --> 00:05:56.279 I went, I went on the. 114 00:05:56.240 --> 00:06:00.439 DFRO website like years later, and I just was really 115 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:02.959 curious to see if anybody has had any because it's 116 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.920 so it's in Corpus Christie, like call Allen kind of 117 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.079 like this is like way down like. 118 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:11.399 In Texas, where I should have mentioned that first. 119 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:15.000 But it's it's it's just not I don't know, it's 120 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:19.040 just it seems like it would just be too like 121 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.920 have like there's just you know, too many people around, 122 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:25.519 and like where would it there's nothing to really cover. 123 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.079 It, you know. But anyway I read I just went 124 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:29.000 on the site and. 125 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:32.600 Just just read that there's people had actually had like 126 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:35.600 some encounters or not like her. I think there was 127 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:38.199 like a lady had saw something like by her her 128 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:40.920 trash cans, and like an area that was very like 129 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:43.240 kind of similar to where we were at, Like it 130 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:47.879 was very open and like there's just no trees or nothing, 131 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:52.360 and you know you hear about you know them being 132 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:55.240 in like areas like Arizona where there's not a lot 133 00:06:55.240 --> 00:06:56.360 of like coverage there either. 134 00:06:57.439 --> 00:07:00.279 So I don't know, but anyway, that was something something 135 00:07:00.279 --> 00:07:03.199 I've always thought about. It's just it's it was something 136 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:04.639 so weird to us. 137 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:07.360 I mean, it could have been you know, a grown 138 00:07:07.399 --> 00:07:11.360 adults foot, but it was definitely it was just so odd. 139 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.680 The time, it seemed pretty fresh, so like it was 140 00:07:14.759 --> 00:07:17.680 like it happened kind of recently, and it just didn't 141 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:20.199 there was nothing else out there, Like there was no 142 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:22.519 other like trash or nothing, or to breath. It didn't 143 00:07:22.519 --> 00:07:25.279 look like no one was like throwing anything else out 144 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.720 there like, so I don't know, it was just very. 145 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:36.040 Unusual. And so anyway, moving forward, so I became a skateboarder. 146 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.199 I got into like skateboarding. It was just like an 147 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.920 interest in mine and I through my. 148 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.480 Adult like early adult years, I would just kind of 149 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:46.600 start to get in trouble and I ended up having 150 00:07:46.639 --> 00:07:47.720 to like join the military. 151 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.639 And I never had anything. 152 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:53.560 Happen while I was there, but when I drove out 153 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:56.120 to my unit, that was definitely I don't know, it 154 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:00.839 was just this very surreal experience. It's kind of crazy 155 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:04.199 that I just I just that I never had anything 156 00:08:04.279 --> 00:08:07.079 experienced out there. But but yeah, I spent a lot 157 00:08:07.120 --> 00:08:10.120 of time in the woods, and I felt like I 158 00:08:10.199 --> 00:08:13.399 was very in tune with what was going on around me. 159 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:15.439 So I don't know, I think. 160 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.199 That that was that was very odd, But I felt 161 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:21.160 like that kind of like prepared me for like wanting 162 00:08:21.160 --> 00:08:24.079 to be out in the just spend more time out 163 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:26.519 Like I just I really kind of we would spend 164 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:28.439 so much time training and the feeld, like it made 165 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:32.000 me want to like be out, like just spend as 166 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:33.519 much time as I could out in the woods. 167 00:08:33.559 --> 00:08:38.159 But anyway, so I ended up I'm in the service. 168 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:39.600 I get out. I ended up. 169 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.080 Deciding to get out. I was I had to get 170 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:46.000 out for basically medical reasons. And I ended up getting 171 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.679 a job in the skateboard industry as a sales rep. 172 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:52.840 And I was doing really good for myself, and. 173 00:08:52.799 --> 00:08:55.559 I was making I was making really good money, and 174 00:08:55.919 --> 00:08:59.799 I was just moving up really fast. And then basically 175 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:02.279 the economy and just like hit all at once, like 176 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:07.519 it just completely crashed. And at the same time, a 177 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.000 lot of like just really horrible things were happening in 178 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.240 my life. Like I mean, it was just a friend 179 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:16.000 of mine is you know, he got hit by a 180 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:18.799 where he was in a motorcycle accident and died. My 181 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.240 aunt uncle died of cancer. This this guy that I 182 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:28.000 had known known from church years ago, like apparently had 183 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.600 been getting into like really bad drugs and did some 184 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:33.879 really like seriously horrible. 185 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:35.840 Stuff and ended up going to prison. 186 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.000 And it was just really shocking all this stuff was 187 00:09:39.039 --> 00:09:41.559 happening and I'm losing my business. Everything was kind of 188 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:45.360 like coming to like a very just a very like 189 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:47.360 intense point in my life, and I was it was 190 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:51.759 really getting tough to deal with and I ended up 191 00:09:51.799 --> 00:09:55.879 getting let go from my job, and it was just 192 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:58.840 it was just a very intense tough time for me. 193 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:03.960 And I decided, like I just I ended up. I 194 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:07.279 had like a severance, a big severance from the company, 195 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:10.320 and I decided, hey, I'm just I'm just gonna get 196 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.840 in my car and drive up the Yellowstone. 197 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:14.440 And this is around. 198 00:10:14.639 --> 00:10:18.279 This is what it isn't twenty eleven is when I 199 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:21.080 when I grow up there and I'm done other trips 200 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:23.799 I've made other trips, like I take like photographs and 201 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:27.360 I try to like I have all these ideas of 202 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.919 like making like like. 203 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:31.639 Like these short movies or stuff. 204 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:33.919 Just it's just I don't know, just things that I 205 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:38.679 just like to do, aside from making music and claudas. Anyway, 206 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:42.279 I decide I'm just gonna get I I know that 207 00:10:42.360 --> 00:10:44.519 things are really going to be bad, like I'm basically 208 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:47.639 on the verge of losing my home and everything. Because 209 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:49.840 there was no way to really kind of make up. 210 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.039 I mean, they called me. It was really kind of 211 00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:55.120 it was just really it was just I was losing 212 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:57.759 shops like left and right, Like I would lose like 213 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:00.679 twelve shops in a year, and they were expecting us 214 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:04.440 to like it, maintain and still like make profits with 215 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:04.960 our stores. 216 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:06.440 And there was just no way I could have done that. 217 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:11.000 So I just got my car. I just decided to 218 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:13.759 take you know, live on whatever severance I had, and 219 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:18.639 just get in my car and drive and you know, 220 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:21.919 take photos and document it. I and you know, I 221 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:25.559 just thought, you know, maybe I'll experience something, maybe something 222 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:28.679 will happen. You know, I don't know, I just did. 223 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:30.799 I really didn't know what to expect. I thought I 224 00:11:30.799 --> 00:11:32.639 felt like if I really just got in my car 225 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:36.360 and just drove, you know, I just could live off 226 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.519 like whatever like negative feelings I was feeling, I could 227 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:42.759 just kind of just get past. 228 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:45.200 It because I was in a really bad like mentally. 229 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.919 I was in a very kind of like suicidal like 230 00:11:49.320 --> 00:11:52.799 kind of mind you know, mindset, you know, just because 231 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.799 it was so intense dealing with all that. And anyway 232 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.600 I make my way up to like New Mexico, nothing 233 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:03.799 really happens. I'm not really I'm just like, ah, like 234 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:06.399 I just kind of had a weird felt like a 235 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:09.039 weird vibe like I would just I just kind of 236 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:12.320 would go places and then just just feel like I'm 237 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.000 just gonna keep driving, you know, I just want to 238 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:18.039 get to get the Yellowstone or whatever. And I did 239 00:12:18.039 --> 00:12:22.600 stop in Durango, which is like Andrews It's actually Andrew's 240 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:28.720 Lake Trail, and that was there was kind of weird. 241 00:12:28.840 --> 00:12:32.399 Nothing. I didn't see anything, but I had like I 242 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.159 literally got like a mile down the trail and I 243 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:36.799 was like, I can't. 244 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:38.720 I was like, I don't think I should go any further, 245 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:40.960 Like I just got a weird feeling. But like right 246 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:44.039 when I pulled up, I saw somebody coming down from 247 00:12:44.039 --> 00:12:46.600 the trail and they just looked kind of they just 248 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.000 looked really like like they were just really booking it 249 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:52.759 and kind of scared and nervous. And I was like, well, 250 00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:54.960 you know, it could be anything. Maybe they could be 251 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.679 nervous about me. You know, I don't know, like I 252 00:12:57.799 --> 00:12:59.759 just you know, I didn't really know what to think 253 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:04.440 of it. But anyway, I get into I basically decided 254 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.000 to turn around and I just had this very like 255 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:08.759 just just. 256 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:12.879 I don't know, weird feeling again. And anyway, so I 257 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:14.480 didn't book anything. 258 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:17.919 Throughout this whole trip, like I basically just like I 259 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:21.159 didn't like make any reservations or anything like I just 260 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:24.519 I just would try to get a hotel wherever I could, 261 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:26.600 like it just didn't I would end up having to 262 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:29.279 pay like stupid money for it, which is but I 263 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:31.080 was just like I didn't know what to do. I 264 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:32.440 was just like I just want to try to see 265 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:34.840 if I can get up there, and then I don't know, 266 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:38.000 see what happens, you know, I don't know, like I 267 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:42.399 you know, so I end up I leave Colorado and 268 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:47.279 I started making my way up to Yellowstone and I 269 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:49.480 just started getting closer, and I mean, the place is just. 270 00:13:49.519 --> 00:13:52.360 I was just like, wow, this place is just so beautiful. 271 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:59.840 And so I finally arrive and I get there and 272 00:14:00.039 --> 00:14:04.799 the park rangers are just checking people like crazy, like 273 00:14:04.840 --> 00:14:08.679 they're I mean, it was like this was July of 274 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.759 twenty eleven, and I was like it was basically it 275 00:14:12.799 --> 00:14:16.039 was not the Headquarters Lodge cabin a Flags ranch, but 276 00:14:16.080 --> 00:14:19.360 it was like the it was like the station that 277 00:14:19.519 --> 00:14:21.799 was before that that I that I first got to, 278 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:25.480 and they were just checking people like crazy. I was 279 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:27.759 just like it made me, it really made me like 280 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.000 it went. I went from being like, oh, I'm relaxed 281 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.799 and now I'm like living all this stuff of this 282 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:38.080 off to being like kind of like really in it, 283 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:41.440 like oh wow, like this is this is really serious. 284 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:44.759 I need to be kind of on on an alert. 285 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.480 And I found out later on that a. 286 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.120 Couple a couple was walking They're only like a mile 287 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.559 or two down like one of these trails, like kind 288 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:57.639 of mirror it was I was. It was about like 289 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:00.679 I guess, like I guess, like three or four miles 290 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:03.639 like up before or like north of where I was at. 291 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:08.200 But basically there was a couple, an elderly couple, and 292 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:10.320 they were just walking on the trail, and I guess 293 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:14.519 there was a mother grizzly and her cubs, and it 294 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:18.080 killed the man and then the woman she like crawled 295 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.720 up in a ball apparently, and it just picked up 296 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:22.559 the backpack I guess and dropped her. 297 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:24.399 Is what I read. 298 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:27.799 Big for society, who will be right back after these messages. 299 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.000 But anyway, I didn't really know why they were doing. 300 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:47.559 I just I was like, all right, well, check my 301 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:49.879 car and then let me go. So I make my 302 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:54.240 way up north to the headquarters lodge. I'm like all right, 303 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:55.240 I made it. 304 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:55.679 I'm here. 305 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.960 Let's I want to I'm just gonna stay here for 306 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:06.679 the night. This place is beautiful, like like I'm good, and. 307 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:09.720 I uh so I go I go to get I 308 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:12.200 go get some food and I. 309 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.360 Get like a six pack of this Moose roll beer 310 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:20.279 and I go back to my I got I rent 311 00:16:20.360 --> 00:16:23.320 like a camping area and they put me like basically 312 00:16:23.440 --> 00:16:27.120 like on the far corner and like I'm right next 313 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.879 to the road, like literally like you could I could 314 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.399 even during the day. I could literally even see through 315 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.960 the trees. You could see the road from where I 316 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.759 was at. And so I said, on my camp, just 317 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.879 try to get you know, just this it's about to 318 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.720 get dark. And I try to set that up. I 319 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.320 get my camp or my tent, you know, set up where, and. 320 00:16:52.320 --> 00:16:54.960 There's people there. There's people around me, There's there's people 321 00:16:55.039 --> 00:16:55.480 next to me. 322 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:58.200 I would say, it seemed like they're kind of like 323 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:02.440 it probably about like sixty percent capacity or something. I mean, 324 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:04.200 it seemed like they had there's a decent amount of 325 00:17:04.200 --> 00:17:08.079 people there for sure. But anyway, I so I finished 326 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:13.039 doing that and I was like, I want to I 327 00:17:13.039 --> 00:17:15.880 want to get some more photos and just kind of 328 00:17:16.200 --> 00:17:17.799 just like look around a little bit more. 329 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:19.160 And I thought maybe I could go back. 330 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:21.279 To that the first Ranger station and get like a 331 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.960 I don't know, maybe just get some information or just 332 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:27.920 just I don't know, just see what else I could find, 333 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:31.119 you know, just before I just go back and try 334 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:34.200 to like relax and go to sleep whatever. And I 335 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.599 saw him driving back and there's like a moose in 336 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.720 the road. It's like not a it's it looked like 337 00:17:40.799 --> 00:17:43.400 I guess, I don't know what you would say, like 338 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.880 i'd say maybe like a juvenile to like it wasn't 339 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:50.480 like really small, but it was not. It wasn't like 340 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.200 a baby though, either, but it was just in the 341 00:17:54.400 --> 00:17:58.279 road and just looking like scared, like just looking terrified. 342 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:02.759 And I'm like, okay, you know, I don't want to 343 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.759 I don't want to mess with you, but I'm just 344 00:18:05.799 --> 00:18:08.440 like I'm just I'm just stopped. I have my head lights, 345 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:08.880 I'm just. 346 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.799 Looking at it and just just just sit there and 347 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:13.839 I'm like, okay, this thing is not going to move. 348 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:17.359 And I was probably there for like, I. 349 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.279 Don't know, maybe ten minutes, and I was just like, 350 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.039 all right, this is I'm kind of bored now. And 351 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:25.119 I'm not it's not moving and I can't go around it. 352 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.640 I don't want to, Like, I just didn't want to 353 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:29.680 mess with it. So I'm like, so I started to 354 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.319 turn around, I start backing up, and I start to 355 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:36.960 kind of maneuver, so I'm gonna I can lead, and it. 356 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:39.559 Darts over to towards the water. 357 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.519 There's like a lake right there, and it darts like 358 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.640 like right over there and like starts hiding like and 359 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:51.799 like behind these bushes, and I'm like like, okay, I'm like, sorry, dude, 360 00:18:51.960 --> 00:18:52.920 I hope I didn't, you know. 361 00:18:54.519 --> 00:18:58.519 So I make my way back to my to my 362 00:18:58.519 --> 00:19:02.960 my camp. So I'm just there. I'm drinking my beer. 363 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:04.799 I think I had like probably like three or four 364 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:08.880 of them, and they had and this is really stupid. 365 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.640 I will admit this is not was not smart to me. 366 00:19:13.160 --> 00:19:15.000 I was also kind of in a really bad state 367 00:19:15.000 --> 00:19:17.720 of mind. I mean I was kind of I was 368 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.039 really kind of sad of suicidal. I mean there was 369 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:23.000 a part of me that felt that, like, and so 370 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:26.319 I think that subconsciously I was like, I didn't care 371 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:29.480 to leave out the beer cans, but I left them out. 372 00:19:29.559 --> 00:19:31.640 I left them just sitting out and they had like 373 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:35.000 these They had like these I don't know, these little 374 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.720 contained metal containers where you put your trash and I 375 00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:38.519 didn't do that. 376 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:41.799 But anyway, so. 377 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.680 I drink my beer, I have a fire going, and 378 00:19:44.720 --> 00:19:46.880 the people next to me, directly next to. 379 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:48.559 Me or like, they're pretty loud. 380 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.079 They're being like they're just they're actually being really like 381 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:55.119 obnaxiously loud like and just it was kind of annoying. 382 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.720 It was kind of starting to like bother me. 383 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.119 I was getting kind of like, all right, this kind 384 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:01.640 of sucks because it was going on like they didn't 385 00:20:01.640 --> 00:20:05.319 they wouldn't stop, and I was like, I don't know, 386 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:07.240 maybe I should say something, but I was like, no, 387 00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:10.799 I'm not gonna say nothing. But I get out of 388 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.759 my tent. I don't know if I I don't know 389 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:15.119 if I had to take a piss or what. But 390 00:20:15.759 --> 00:20:17.519 I get out of my tent and it's just I 391 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:18.799 mean it's black. 392 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:21.640 I mean it's pitch black. You cannot see anything. I 393 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:26.119 took it. I take one photo. I just take one photo. 394 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:28.039 Like directly above the sky because I was like I 395 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:31.680 have to document this because it's just so dark. Something 396 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:34.559 is just eerily dark. And we had when I was 397 00:20:34.559 --> 00:20:37.440 in the military. We caught like zero illumination. We because 398 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:40.519 when we were using our night vision goggles, you know, 399 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.599 that was just like it was just you couldn't even see. 400 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:45.559 It was kind of like they're useless when you have 401 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:47.000