WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.600 Today, I want to tell you about a journey that 2 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:03.879 I've been on for most of my life. Ever since 3 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:05.799 I was a kid, I've heard tales of bigfoot and 4 00:00:05.839 --> 00:00:08.320 wild men while spending time with my friends and family. 5 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.439 As I grew older and read more about the paranormal, 6 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:14.679 my interest in encryptids and other things strange only deepened. 7 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.160 That's why I'm so excited to share with you what 8 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:21.640 I've personally become involved with the Untold Radio Network. The 9 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:25.280 Untold Radio Network is a live streaming podcast network that 10 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.359 airs a new show every day across all podcast platforms, YouTube, 11 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:32.119 and more. 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It's free to subscribe. 21 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.400 So what are you waiting for visit www dot untold 22 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:06.560 radionetwork dot com today. 23 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.680 Now, what are your reporting? I got a screen going 24 00:01:09.719 --> 00:01:12.120 on here. Something just kid with my dog. Something to 25 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:15.280 kill your dog? My dog. We're flying through there, over 26 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.439 the tree. I don't know how it did it? Okay, 27 00:01:19.840 --> 00:01:22.120 damn it. I'm really confused. All I saw was my 28 00:01:22.159 --> 00:01:24.200 dog coming over the fence, and they would dead once 29 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.200 you hit the grill. I didn't see any cars. All 30 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:44.680 I saw was my dog coming over the fence. Happen? 31 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:48.000 What are you reporting? We got some wonder or something 32 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:58.640 crawling around out here? Did you see what it was? 33 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:00.920 It was enough out here. Look, I'm new to the 34 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:02.760 window now and I don't need anything. I don't want 35 00:02:02.799 --> 00:02:11.479 to go outside. Fright. Hello, hit the fundy out here. 36 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:14.319 Quote on Melter. I thought of a bitch about tech 37 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:15.159 foot nine. 38 00:02:15.240 --> 00:02:16.680 I don't know, Sam Melter. 39 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:19.039 Yeah, I'm walking right, heady ah r. 40 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:20.800 Folks want to welcome my guest to the show. It 41 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:25.240 is the cryptid huntress herself, Miss Jessica Jones. Welcome to 42 00:02:25.280 --> 00:02:25.479 the show. 43 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:25.840 Jessica. 44 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:27.159 How are you hey? 45 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:29.840 Thanks Ryan, I'm excellent. Thank you for having me here. 46 00:02:30.280 --> 00:02:32.280 I have been looking forward to this conversation. We were 47 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:34.479 just talking before we hit the button to go live here. 48 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:37.319 We have so many friends in common. We run in 49 00:02:37.360 --> 00:02:39.520 the same circles, we talk to the same people, and 50 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:42.120 do basically the same thing, but we've never met in 51 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:44.479 person until right now. I am glad to have you. 52 00:02:44.439 --> 00:02:44.759 On the show. 53 00:02:44.759 --> 00:02:46.599 I've been looking forward to this, so let's get right 54 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:48.719 into it. Let's talk about this bigfoot thing. What guy 55 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:51.479 you interested in the subject of bigfoot encryptids in the 56 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:52.039 first place. 57 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:56.240 I had actually been really interested in bigfoot all my life. 58 00:02:56.360 --> 00:02:59.879 I had been really into the paranormal. When I was 59 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:02.759 I was seeing ghosts. I used to always go outside 60 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:04.840 and sit on my front lawn. I grew up on 61 00:03:04.879 --> 00:03:07.599 a farm mountain, Georgia in the middle of nowhere, and 62 00:03:07.599 --> 00:03:09.719 so we had this beautiful sky at night with all 63 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:12.840 the stars, and I would take my little napman outside 64 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.439 from kindergarten and I would go lay on it and 65 00:03:15.439 --> 00:03:18.000 look for UFOs at night. And so I always had 66 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:21.039 this just affinity for everything that was weird, and I 67 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:24.479 was into, like even looking into fortune tellers and stuff too. Okay, 68 00:03:24.919 --> 00:03:27.120 I was just a weird kid, but I guess growing 69 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.240 up seeing the ghosts and stuff like that. I figured, well, 70 00:03:30.439 --> 00:03:33.960 if what I'm seeing and experiencing is real, why would 71 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.240 Bigfoot not be real. I put that on the back burner. 72 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:40.280 I wasn't ever doing anything with the paranormal aspect of life. 73 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.960 I was a regular kid, you know, went to college 74 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.680 and started working for the government during college. Guess when 75 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:47.960 I was in the thirties. I don't ever give my 76 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:52.080 age publicly, but people can guess. Around twenty eleven, I 77 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.960 was just minding my own business. My mom was going 78 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:59.120 to these weekly meetup meetings with her friends every Wednesday night. 79 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.680 They would re in somebody that had a different specialty, 80 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:08.039 like psychics, cryptid hunters, magicians, people that sold silver and gold, 81 00:04:08.240 --> 00:04:12.039 just variety stuff, and and my mom was like, Hey, Jessica, 82 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:16.480 we've got some Bigfoot field researchers coming to mister Sam's house, 83 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.480 and I think you would be really interested in this. 84 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:21.879 Maybe you should come join me on Wednesday night. And 85 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:24.879 I thought, Man, if anybody's gonna have proof of Bigfoot, 86 00:04:24.959 --> 00:04:27.319 probably be these guys. So I went, I'm going to 87 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.600 tell you that is exactly how I got into the Bigfoot. 88 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:32.319 Build was going to that meeting that night, and it 89 00:04:32.360 --> 00:04:35.519 was totally random, totally out of the blue. I wasn't 90 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:38.800 expecting to ever be on a bigfoot research team. I 91 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:41.439 wasn't even expecting to ever see a bigfoot. I didn't know. 92 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:43.040 I just went to this meeting and I thought, man, 93 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:45.079 let's go see what these guys have to say that 94 00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.759 It turned out to be some gentlemen from North Georgia. 95 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.720 They had a really interesting approach to bigfoot. It wasn't 96 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.079 just they're tracking bigfoot down and they're looking for tracks. 97 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.680 It's a primate in the woods or something. That's what 98 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:02.079 I was expecting when I got there. Their presentation turned 99 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:04.480 out to be more of like a we know bigfoots real, 100 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.920 we've been tracking them for decades, we know they're out there, 101 00:05:08.959 --> 00:05:11.360 we have a spot that we go to, we've been 102 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.959 going for a long time. We're actually to the point 103 00:05:13.959 --> 00:05:17.040 of communicating with them at this point. And they said 104 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:20.360 it's a more of a mind body spirit connection they 105 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.279 were working on with the bigfoots. It was mind blowing, 106 00:05:23.720 --> 00:05:26.519 right because it wasn't like we're just searching for them 107 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.000 and we haven't seen them, but we found some tracks. 108 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:29.920 It was we have established it. They're out there and 109 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:33.439 we're on to the next level. So it did help 110 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:35.680 that those guys actually are I'll get into this in 111 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:39.240 just a minute, but we were military guys. Most of 112 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.000 them are retired. One of them actually did what you 113 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.519 call remote viewing with the military at some point. That's 114 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:48.839 going to play into the story here in just a minute. 115 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.279 So I go to this meeting, I'm looking at all 116 00:05:52.279 --> 00:05:54.959 this wonderful evidence they have. They're showing the tracks, they're 117 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:58.120 showing casts, they're going over all the basics if you 118 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:01.480 were to go to like your normal library meeting where 119 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:03.079 they have the meetups. I just did one of those 120 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.439 down in Molino, Georgia, by the way, where we had 121 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.120 the community that came in and we talked about our 122 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:10.360 bigfoot research. So it's like that. But after it was over, 123 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:12.600 I raised my hand because they asked if anybody had 124 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.480 any questions, and I had a bunch of questions and said, 125 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.800 why have y'all never found a body? Okay, now, why 126 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.800 is there no poop? Where's the poop? And I was 127 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.040 being serious because I was just very curious about it. 128 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.480 And this, like I said, it was in twenty eleven. 129 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.759 This was before people had bigfoot stickers on the back 130 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.000 of their cars. This is before they had TV shows 131 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.600 about bigfoot. This is before all that. It wasn't a 132 00:06:37.720 --> 00:06:42.000 popular subject and it wasn't widely accepted by a lot 133 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.839 of people back then. To be a bigfoot field researcher. 134 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.839 I really enjoyed this presentation. I really enjoyed them. I 135 00:06:48.879 --> 00:06:51.079 was asking questions. They had answers for just about everything. 136 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:52.879 At least one of the guys had been to the 137 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:56.759 body farm in Tennessee. Because we were talking about the 138 00:06:56.800 --> 00:06:59.360 decomposition of bodies and why the body's not been found. 139 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.079 It was really interesting. They saw that I was really interested, 140 00:07:02.160 --> 00:07:05.839 so they actually invited me onto an expedition. I thought, Man, 141 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:07.920 what better way to find out a big Foot's rill 142 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:09.319 than to go in the woods with a bunch of 143 00:07:09.319 --> 00:07:13.319 strange dudes by myself. Go hang out with some strange men, 144 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:16.040 Go chase a big old monkey in the woods. How 145 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:18.399 you So, I was like, Yeah, put me on your 146 00:07:18.439 --> 00:07:21.360 email list, let me know when, where, what I need, 147 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:23.920 and I'll plan to be there. I was living in 148 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:26.279 downtown Atlanta at the time and working for the State 149 00:07:26.319 --> 00:07:29.759 of Georgia, and all my girlfriends and everybody were like, oh, Jessica, 150 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:33.120 that's weird. What are you thinking. I was like, y'all 151 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:35.720 know me, I'm down. I'm gonna be fine. The list 152 00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:37.279 they sent me I got on their email list. They 153 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.199 sent me this long list of stuff like tents and 154 00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:42.480 everything you need to go camping. I didn't have anything, 155 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.560 so I had to go buy a bunch of stuff. 156 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.480 I was so nervous that I went and I set 157 00:07:47.560 --> 00:07:49.639 up my tent and my best friend's backyard with her. 158 00:07:49.720 --> 00:07:51.800 Her husband helped me because I didn't want to look 159 00:07:51.839 --> 00:07:54.759 stupid when I got there, so I had everything ready 160 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:57.319 to go set. I was consulting with my cousin all 161 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:58.720 kind of hiking boots to get and all that kind 162 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:01.079 of stuff. I was just ready, no intention of ever 163 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.279 being a big foot Field reason. It never clicked that 164 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.639 they might actually want me on their team. One day, ever, 165 00:08:06.319 --> 00:08:08.560 I was driving a Volkswagen passat at the time. I 166 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:10.319 never forget this because I went up to the North 167 00:08:10.319 --> 00:08:13.160 Georgia Mountains and I didn't even think about maybe needing 168 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:16.360 fourbele drives and needing like a truck, and I went 169 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:18.439 down these roads. I have no idea how I made 170 00:08:18.439 --> 00:08:20.920 it to that spot. I fished tiled the entire way. 171 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.399 I was a race car driver growing up, so I 172 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.040 knew how to handle a car. But it was weird. 173 00:08:26.040 --> 00:08:28.360 But that's besides the point. I got up there, me 174 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.560 and my little city. But even though I was a 175 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:32.879 country girl too, I got up there. I had the 176 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.559 most I don't know, if I can say, the balls 177 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.960 to the walls bigfoot experiences. While I was out there 178 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.879 for that weekend. It was shocking. It was absolutely shocking 179 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:45.759 the things that happened to me and that happened to 180 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:47.840 our team. And I say our team because they did 181 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:49.840 ask me to join their team after that weekend was over. 182 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.279 The things that happened. I looked back on it today 183 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:57.000 and I see that I had so much activity out there, 184 00:08:57.279 --> 00:08:58.919 and it wasn't just bigfoot. I think I had so 185 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:00.879 much to reel me in because this was, like, I 186 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.200 want to say, my destiny. This was like what I 187 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.000 was supposed to do with my life. And I had 188 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.159 no idea at the time that it would ever be 189 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:10.919 like that. So I got out there, I met some 190 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:13.840 it's actually some big names in the bigfooting community today 191 00:09:13.840 --> 00:09:15.960 and I didn't know who they were. I say that 192 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:18.440 now I have a show about bigfoot. They've all been 193 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:20.759 on my shows and stuff. But back then they were 194 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:22.159 a stranger. I didn't know who they were, and I 195 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:23.600 do there are people that like to go out and 196 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.120 look for bigfoot. We got out there and I spent 197 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:28.679 I think it was two or three nights, might have 198 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:31.000 been three nights. I was out there. The team had 199 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:32.960 been out there for about a week, but I got 200 00:09:32.960 --> 00:09:34.879 out there. From the very first night that I went 201 00:09:34.919 --> 00:09:37.080 out there, I had some weird activity that went down 202 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:41.360 where I told them I didn't get all this stuff. 203 00:09:42.120 --> 00:09:45.519 I didn't buy all this equipment. I didn't put on 204 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:47.879 my big girl pants and come out here for nothing. 205 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.679 I want to see a bigfoot, okay, and if there's 206 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.080 a bigfoot out here, I want to go out on 207 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.879 the black Ops teams put me out there. I'll be 208 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:01.039 bait whatever I need to do to have an experience, 209 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:04.120 but not to put my life in danger. But I'm 210 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:07.639 willing to put myself out there because they'd been joking 211 00:10:07.639 --> 00:10:11.879 around about big foots liking women children, maybe being more 212 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:15.039 attracted to women. I don't mean attracted in a weird way, 213 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.399 but just being more prone to coming out If a 214 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:20.600 woman's out there, and there were a couple of other 215 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:23.240 women out there with this SI weekend. But I was like, 216 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:26.639 I volunteer to be bait. Okay, whatever y'all need. I 217 00:10:26.679 --> 00:10:28.679 gotta admit I was pretty brave to begin with. I 218 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:33.080 was a kickboxer back then, and nothing scared me. Okay nothing, 219 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:34.879 So I'd beat up people if I had to. I didn't, 220 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:37.480 but I would, and I thought I can protect myself. 221 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.559 Maybe I didn't know. I really didn't know what I 222 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.279 was getting myself into, and so the first night, I'll 223 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:46.320 just get into it. The first night I was out there, 224 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.639 we brought off into small teams because there were a 225 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.919 bunch of people out there. This was an expedition with 226 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.679 the Enigma Research Group. There's a core group of four men, 227 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:58.960 seasoned researchers, and they had invited friends, other researchers and 228 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.000 people interested in going out there and see if they 229 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.320 wanted to bring more people on their team. I went 230 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:06.679 with two of the original members and a bunch of 231 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:09.559 other guys, the guy from Wisconsin, and Craig was one 232 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.000 of the guys, and JT's one of the guys. There's 233 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:14.639 just a few people out there. I didn't really know. 234 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:17.159 We went to this one field, so there's a big team. 235 00:11:17.200 --> 00:11:19.279 We broke off into little teams, and we went to 236 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:21.200 this one particular field where they had gotten a bunch 237 00:11:21.200 --> 00:11:22.799 of activity before. And we're up in the middle of 238 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:27.960 the woods, deep forest, thick vegetation. They have these certain 239 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.720 fields where they would just go and sit and they'd 240 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:32.639 observe sometimes when they'd go out there, and they would 241 00:11:32.720 --> 00:11:35.440 have just whatever would happen would happen. A lot of 242 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:38.720 times they would have bigfoot activity out there. Even other 243 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:41.840 kind of weird stuff would happen, even like paranormal stuf 244 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:44.159 would happen. They'd see things in the sky like UFOs. 245 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.320 And back then this field was not called the Ufo field, 246 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:49.799 but today we called the Cufo field because of what 247 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:53.159 happened that weekend. And so when we got there, we 248 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:56.200 all got our chairs out of the vehicles and we 249 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:57.759 were going to go sit in this field and just 250 00:11:57.759 --> 00:11:59.320 hang out. We're gonna put the chair down at the 251 00:11:59.320 --> 00:12:01.759 bottom of the hill and there's an open field and 252 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:04.279 a big tree line all around it, and we're just 253 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:06.720 gonna chill and hang out. I didn't know what to expect. 254 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:09.480 It was dark. One of the guys goes, hey, Jessica, 255 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:14.080 I dare to walk by yourself up to that tree 256 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:17.360 line up there, see what happened. And I gotta tell you, 257 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:20.399 it was like one hundred yards. It was a long way. 258 00:12:21.080 --> 00:12:22.799 It was a pretty long way from the bottom of 259 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:26.120 that hill up this tree line. And the guys said 260 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:28.720 they all had flear, they had fleered, they had a 261 00:12:28.960 --> 00:12:31.720 night vision thermals, and they said they would sit down there, 262 00:12:31.720 --> 00:12:34.440 they'd all watch me. And so I thought, man, that's cool. 263 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:37.399 As long as people can see what happens to me, 264 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:39.480 they can at least tell my mom what got me 265 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.320 if something happened to me. And so I decided, I 266 00:12:42.360 --> 00:12:44.519 was like, all right, cool. So I put on my backpack. 267 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:46.080 I didn't have a radio back then. I didn't have 268 00:12:46.120 --> 00:12:49.759 anything we carried like Bao pungs, the CBE radios and stuff. Now, 269 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:51.639 back then, I had nothing. I didn't have night vision, 270 00:12:51.799 --> 00:12:53.879 I didn't have thermal flear. I had nothing. It was 271 00:12:53.919 --> 00:12:57.080 just me in the field in a backpack. I don't 272 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:58.759 even know what was in my backpack, probably not a 273 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:01.559 whole lot. But I was just like, okay, I'll start walking. 274 00:13:02.080 --> 00:13:04.240 So I did and never watching me. Because I got 275 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:07.200 about halfway up this field, one of those guys came 276 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:10.240 running up behind me. He was running like full speed. 277 00:13:10.919 --> 00:13:13.480 I could hear him. I was already nervous. I was 278 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.879 trying to keep my cool. He said, look, if anything happened, 279 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.080 you throw your arms up in the air. That's the 280 00:13:19.159 --> 00:13:20.960 distress call. And I was like, all right, I'm not 281 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:22.879 throwing my arms up in the air no matter what. 282 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:24.639 So I got like I said. I was halfway up 283 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.360 the hill. I heard all of these guys running up 284 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.000 behind me. I thought, dang, that's so unprofessional, Like, why 285 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:31.759 would those guys do this to me. I played rugby 286 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:34.039 for my college. I know how to take a hit. 287 00:13:34.600 --> 00:13:36.080 I thought, there's no either going to hit me, but 288 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.759 they're probably just gonna grab me or something. They got 289 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:40.720 closer and I heard it as they got right up 290 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:43.000 to me. I braced for impact because I didn't turn around. 291 00:13:43.480 --> 00:13:45.159 I heard him as he got really close to me, 292 00:13:45.279 --> 00:13:48.320 and I braced. I stopped walking because I was ready 293 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.200 to get hit. He knocked my legs out from underneath me. 294 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.320 My legs got swept from behind, and he kept running. Hey, 295 00:13:55.399 --> 00:13:57.480 in my mind, it is a he right. So I 296 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.399 felt the wind, I felt my legs get hit and 297 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:03.559 I looked over and there was nobody there. I went 298 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:05.360 behind me. There was nobody there. I was like, what 299 00:14:05.399 --> 00:14:08.320 the heck just happened? That was really weird. I was like, 300 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:10.919 there's nobody there, but I just heard this guy run 301 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.399 up behind me, and and it not me off balance. 302 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:16.200 Apparently my arms went up a little bit, not all 303 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.240 the way, but just a little bit. I looked around 304 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:19.879 on the ground and I was trying to find a 305 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:22.000 log or sticks or something that I could have tripped 306 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:24.679 over or hit, because I was trying to rationalize what happened. 307 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:27.039 There was no rationalizing really, so I was like, that 308 00:14:27.159 --> 00:14:29.080 was weird. So I just decided to keep on going, 309 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:30.919 all right. So I'm just going to keep going because 310 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.279 that was weird, and maybe my mind's just playing tricks 311 00:14:33.279 --> 00:14:35.559 on me. Maybe I'm just scared. I'm nervous. I went 312 00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:37.639 up to that tree line, and I know I was shaken. 313 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.840 I know it was. But one of the guys, I 314 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:43.559 did hear somebody walking behind me. Eventually when I got 315 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.480 almost that tree line, and it was Craig, one of 316 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.799 the guys from the team. He's, hey, are you okay? 317 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:50.919 We saw you jump. We always just wonder what happened. 318 00:14:50.960 --> 00:14:52.519 I was like, well, did you not see somebody run 319 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:56.000 behind me, and he said, no, we didn't see anything. 320 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.039 So we went back down to try to figure out 321 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.240 what had happened. So we went back down to that spot, 322 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.960 the exact spot where I had that little experience, and 323 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:07.039 he turned on his flashlight. We looked. There were no limbs, 324 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:09.559 there were no logs, there was nothing near. He started 325 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.840 talking to me about cloak bigfoot and stuff, and I 326 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:15.480 was like, what, I never heard of a cloak bigfoot before. 327 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:17.000 I didn't know they could do that. I was still 328 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:19.559 looking for a big monkey in the woods. He just 329 00:15:19.559 --> 00:15:21.240 started telling me about all sorts of stuff. He knew 330 00:15:21.279 --> 00:15:24.080 I was nervous, so he got into a story about 331 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:26.679 how he had been investigating the green swamp down in Florida. 332 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.279 Something happened, he did something stupid and it made a 333 00:15:30.279 --> 00:15:33.039 bigfoot mad, so he got screamed out of there. So 334 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:34.799 he was telling me about that and was making me laugh. 335 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.840 We walked back up to that tree line as we 336 00:15:36.840 --> 00:15:39.879 were talking, and something just pulled me over to the 337 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:42.759 far right corner of that tree line. And as I'm 338 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:44.399 standing I don't know what it was. I don't know 339 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:46.399 why I got pulled over there, but I was just 340 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:49.480 standing there looking into the trees, and the guys down 341 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:51.960 at the bottom of the hill were watching through their 342 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.279 fleer night vision and they watched as a bigfoot peeked 343 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:58.480 his head out from around the tree and stared at me. 344 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:01.360 We're making in front of me. I'm talking about feet 345 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:03.639 in front of me. And I didn't see it. I 346 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:05.559 didn't know it. I just knew that I was being 347 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:09.399 drawn over there to that location. And they watched as 348 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.879 that happened. And remember I still I don't have a radio. 349 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:14.120 I still don't know what's happening. But that was my 350 00:16:14.159 --> 00:16:18.600 first night ever going bigfooting. Ever. Of course, the next 351 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:21.519 day we had to go back to that field. We 352 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:23.600 had to because there was a weird stuff that was 353 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:26.960 a high strangeness to the max. We got a game 354 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.360 plan together. The guys got the plan. I told him, 355 00:16:30.440 --> 00:16:33.039 don't not include me. Okay, whatever y'all do, I want 356 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.519 to do it too. They were like, okay, let's get you. 357 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:38.440 And one of the guys, JT. Who's the guys who 358 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.360 saw the bigfoot peek its head around the tree the 359 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.559 night before that, y'all too go would call it a 360 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:46.159 spidy hole. We could make a spi hill in the woods. 361 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:49.120 Around three o'clock in the afternoon. Actually, okay, so we 362 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:52.600 went early in the afternoon, gilly suits, camo, all that stuff. 363 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:54.240 We were going to go and blend into the environment. 364 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.360 There's a big game trail right there on the corner 365 00:16:56.639 --> 00:16:58.519 of that field where that bigfoot had peekedet set around 366 00:16:58.559 --> 00:17:00.559 the tree right in front of me, and so we 367 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:03.279 were going to go post up by that tree, one 368 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:04.960 of those trees, and we were going to try to 369 00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:07.599 blend into the environment. We're gonna sit there until about 370 00:17:07.799 --> 00:17:10.000 nine ten o'clock at night. It was a long night, 371 00:17:10.200 --> 00:17:12.640 long day. Then the whole team was going to come 372 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:14.200 out and put their chairs in a circle in the 373 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:15.960 middle of that field and make a bunch of noise. 374 00:17:16.440 --> 00:17:19.960 It was in hopes that the bigfoot or bigfoots would 375 00:17:20.039 --> 00:17:22.599 come down that big game trail right there and step 376 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:25.359 on us and I'd get to see my bigfoot. So 377 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.000 that was a plan. It was a good plan. It 378 00:17:28.079 --> 00:17:30.079 was really good plan with thought. So that's what we did. 379 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:31.799 And we sat out there and I you know, I 380 00:17:31.799 --> 00:17:33.640 don't take a whole lot of equipment with me even 381 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:36.200 today when I'm out there doing my research. I like 382 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.920 to go bare minimum. I used to take a recorder. 383 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:41.680 I've got a K two meter, a lot of stuff 384 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:43.480 that people take ghost hunting and stuff. We take that 385 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.839 out there to the field. But I just took a 386 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:47.920 few things with me that day, and one of them 387 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.119 was a voice recorder, and it was a good thing 388 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:52.519 I did, because we got some weird stuff on those 389 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:55.039 voice requorders. I have to starting to slaw by saying, 390 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:56.839 I don't think there was a lot of Bigfoot activity 391 00:17:56.880 --> 00:17:58.799 out there. And I'm not going to get into the 392 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.119 whole details of a store because it's a long story, 393 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:04.079 but let's just say at some point light started showing 394 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:05.480 up on the side of the mountain while we were 395 00:18:05.480 --> 00:18:08.880 sitting there. It's all on my voice recorder where we 396 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.319 noticed these lights, like a big orb was like floating 397 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.039 over the trees. This is prime Bigfoot country too, So 398 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.160 we're sitting there and know this light shows up over 399 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:20.839 this tree line across from where we were sitting, and 400 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.839 on my voice recorder, I'm pegging up and I don't 401 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.839