WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.000 Now one of your pudding. I got a string going 2 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:06.120 on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog, 3 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:08.960 My dog. We're flying through the air over the tree. 4 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.640 I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.120 really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over 6 00:00:16.199 --> 00:00:17.800 the fence and he was dead. And once you hit 7 00:00:17.839 --> 00:00:19.679 the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I 8 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:38.320 saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat what 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:42.960 are you putting? We got some wonder or something crawling 10 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:51.759 around out here. Did you see what it was or 11 00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:54.159 was it was? Standing enough. I'm out here looking through 12 00:00:54.159 --> 00:00:55.920 the window now and I don't see anything. I don't 13 00:00:55.960 --> 00:01:03.880 want to go outside, Jesus, Quice, you better hello, hit 14 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:06.439 somebody out here? What quin I'm out there? It's thought 15 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.959 of a bitch about tick forty nine? I don't know 16 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:11.239 easy ann out there? Yeah, I'm walking right. 17 00:01:11.319 --> 00:01:14.959 Hey, all right, folks, real quick, before we get started, 18 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:17.920 I just want to give you a little context. What 19 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.400 you're about to hear are encounter stories from some good 20 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:23.599 friends of mine over at the Sasquatch recon YouTube channel. 21 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:27.519 These guys are boots on the ground researchers. They've got 22 00:01:27.519 --> 00:01:31.200 a ton of great videos first hand encounters and solid 23 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:34.319 field research to back it all up. I've actually been 24 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:36.480 out in the woods with them down in the South Mountains, 25 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.439 so I can vouch for how seriously they take this. Now, 26 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:43.599 just a heads up before we dive in. These interviews 27 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:48.400 were recorded on location outdoors with other people around. I've 28 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.280 done my best to clean up the audio as much 29 00:01:50.319 --> 00:01:53.280 as possible. But if you hear things you normally wouldn't in. 30 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:56.480 A studio setting, that's why. So do me a favor. 31 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:59.040 Click the link in the show notes, head over to 32 00:01:59.079 --> 00:02:01.920 Sasquatch Recon and check out their channel when you get 33 00:02:01.920 --> 00:02:06.359 a chance. But for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy 34 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:08.680 these encounter stories from Sasquatch Recon. 35 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.840 Okay, you just tell us your name and tell us 36 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.120 your story. My name is James Edge. 37 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.319 I'm from Cumberland County area that my family is from 38 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:21.360 Turnbull Bladen County. My dad and my grandpa were deer hunters. 39 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:23.759 I grew up in the woods. They were army guys. 40 00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:26.319 So when we moved into the city, every year we 41 00:02:26.360 --> 00:02:28.639 were going to the beach, and then one year I 42 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.639 told my mom, I said, me and my son, we're 43 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:32.400 not going. We're going to go to the mountains and 44 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:34.919 cool off a little bit, and we started heading last 45 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:39.319 every year. I'd got this love for hiking. My girlfriend 46 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:41.840 and I we'd go out hiking everywhere. And I guess 47 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.400 my experience has started about four years ago. Of course, 48 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:47.759 I was born in seventy one and I watched In 49 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:51.000 Search of Sasquad. I've always been fascinated with it, but 50 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:54.639 looking at it from the primate perspective. 51 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:57.360 Four years ago and my girlfriend I went. 52 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.599 To a dark skyside out poss spoon possible Taga County 53 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:04.879 called Graveyard Fields, and they don't have lights up there 54 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:07.759 so they can use their telescopes. And our idea was 55 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.360 to hike this big blue trail and sit down on 56 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.000 a flat rack by the stream was dark and everything. 57 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.080 We made it out there, it was beautiful, and I 58 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:19.280 heard a growl come from the woods, and it spooked 59 00:03:19.319 --> 00:03:22.080 me that I really couldn't hear the direction it was 60 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:24.919 coming from. I figured, Hey, then there's a bear out there, 61 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:27.680 let's go. But the thing was is, at the time 62 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:29.879 we were taking there, i'd go by myself with a 63 00:03:29.919 --> 00:03:32.840 sixty five liters pack and just walk out into the woods. 64 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:35.240 I really wasn't scared of anything. I just viewed it 65 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.680 as different dangers. Head driving in traffick is dangerous, so 66 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:41.680 I wasn't scared in the woods. I absolutely loved getting 67 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.919 out there. I noticed that feeling of dread. I'd never 68 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.599 really felt that before in my stomach. We didn't think 69 00:03:47.759 --> 00:03:51.639 much of it. We ended up going camping again months later, 70 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:52.719 so it wasn't long. 71 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:55.560 After that we called a hell ride. We would go out. 72 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:58.599 Into the mountains with no plans, no itinerary, just whatever 73 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.840 happened again. And we've pushed out past Boone, North Carolina, 74 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.719 out into the mountains where the roads are windy and 75 00:04:05.800 --> 00:04:08.080 two miles it takes a long time to tick them off. 76 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.360 Like the Highway twenty miles goes by like that. These 77 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.759 mountain roads one mile takes a long time. We ended 78 00:04:14.800 --> 00:04:17.399 up camping at this mountain bike camp out there. I 79 00:04:17.439 --> 00:04:19.399 can't remember what it was called, but it wasn't a 80 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:22.240 popular one, and the only guys out there were working 81 00:04:22.279 --> 00:04:24.000 on mountain bikes, and they were all at the front 82 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:26.839 of the campground. And just we're here at this festival, 83 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:30.079 we're dispersed camping outs, so we like to push out. 84 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:33.120 So my girlfriend and I we found this site away 85 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:35.959 from the other campers and there's nothing out here, man 86 00:04:36.079 --> 00:04:38.800 Like I said. We took this windy road to get 87 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:42.519 out there, crushed run and it was real majestic. We 88 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.800 were seeing chicken of the forest, mushrooms, and the campground 89 00:04:45.800 --> 00:04:48.720 had a waterfall set on this trail head marker. So 90 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:51.360 we take off and saw this beautiful waterfall with this 91 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:53.759 pool and we were like, hey, let's pin it and 92 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:56.759 come back here because we can swim in the summertime, 93 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:58.720 so it was a little colder, and we made it 94 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.439 to the top of us what if and my girlfriend's 95 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:03.120 got her feet in the water, and we're just having 96 00:05:03.160 --> 00:05:08.519 the grandest time. This scrowl happened. It was low and 97 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:10.639 it went on for thirty seconds. 98 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:11.720 Well what got me? 99 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:11.959 Then? 100 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.000 It was not feeling the dread again, but I couldn't 101 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.560 tell where it was coming from. 102 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:17.319 I figure a bear. 103 00:05:17.519 --> 00:05:19.480 I looked at her and I said, hey, we need 104 00:05:19.480 --> 00:05:21.839 to get out of here. She guts telling me to go. 105 00:05:22.040 --> 00:05:25.240 So we made our way down that waterfall and trying 106 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:29.680 to move slow because your mind is telling you be humble, 107 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.600 don't run, don't look back. So we're carefully making our 108 00:05:33.639 --> 00:05:35.720 way down. We make it back to the campsite. We're 109 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:38.480 not able to process really what happened. Again, we're figuring 110 00:05:38.600 --> 00:05:41.040 and other bears running us off. So we make it 111 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.240 back to the camp. We're relaxing, and then that night, 112 00:05:43.560 --> 00:05:46.079 I guess it was about eleven o'clock at night, she 113 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.519 decides to go to bed. 114 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:49.680 Honestly, I'm quite delighted. 115 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:51.839 Because I got my fire, I got cold dreams. I'm 116 00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:55.399 in heaven out there, I have the moving around the 117 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:58.879 steps out there, bipedial stepping right, and I'm like, dude, 118 00:05:58.920 --> 00:06:01.639 something's out there. I'm just sitting here looking out into 119 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:04.199 the darkness. I'm going to see something. And I wasn't 120 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:07.480 thinking big sasquatch. I didn't think I was lucky enough 121 00:06:07.639 --> 00:06:09.560 for anything like that to have that to me. I'm 122 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.079 not worried about winning the lottery. I wasn't worried about 123 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.279 encountering bigfoot, because that's something I thought I would have wondered. 124 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:18.680 I heard a tree snout, and in my mind I'm picturing, Okay, 125 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.680 there's eight ten guys out there with a big strap 126 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:23.600 on a tree and they all work together and pulled 127 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.519 on like this ain't making sense, And I said, it's 128 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:28.079 got to be a bear. So My instinct was get 129 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:30.600 my girlfriend up and get her in the car. I 130 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:32.160 know a bear can come and get you in the car, 131 00:06:32.240 --> 00:06:34.519 but there would have been safety there. The voice in 132 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.079 my head said, buy that car is not going to 133 00:06:37.120 --> 00:06:39.759 protect you from whatever's off there. And I said, okay, 134 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:41.480 if I'm not going to do that, what am I 135 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:42.600 going to do? I said, get her in the car 136 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:46.120 and willed. And that voice said that windy road at night, 137 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:48.519 y'all had to maneuver that thing in the daytime, and 138 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:51.120 whatever this is can get you in that car. And 139 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:55.000 I really wouldn't asking questions, what is it? An instinct, 140 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.240 so telling you that's not a solution. Next thing, my 141 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:01.000 voice told me to put the fire out and got 142 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.160 a bit, which is something I never would have done 143 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:04.160 if there was a bear. 144 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:07.199 I put the fire out. 145 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:08.639 I went in my tent and I laid down. And 146 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.040 when I laid down, I went right to sleep. And 147 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:13.879 we didn't talk about the incidences. The next day. I 148 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:16.040 didn't tell my girlfriend about it. I think I was 149 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:19.079 disassociated because you can't process it. 150 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:21.920 Yea, So it was I think years later. 151 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.519 My son is a big footing fool zip, so we 152 00:07:24.519 --> 00:07:26.560 were breaking all this stuff down I was like, dude, 153 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.000 this is really getting what happened that night, because what 154 00:07:29.079 --> 00:07:30.600 got me was when I went into my tent. 155 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.920 And I'm a rock. 156 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:36.480 Climber, hiker, rafter, I had camp and I know my 157 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:38.800 tent like I grabbed my zipper and my new box. 158 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.000 That night when I went to go get in the tent, 159 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:44.920 I watched myself on zip it. I got in, I 160 00:07:44.959 --> 00:07:47.160 watched myself zip it up, and I know it had 161 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.560 been just like putting keys in your pocket. I wouldn't 162 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.600 have to watch, but I did. And I said that 163 00:07:51.759 --> 00:07:54.079 was so weird. And then I went right to bed. 164 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.879 And I think it's because it affects our primal instincts 165 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:00.000 were so full of fear because logically we cannot process 166 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:02.639 that's what was happening. So that kind of shook me up. 167 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:03.279 I come. 168 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:07.000 I was on the Cape River is Harnett County up 169 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:10.040 Liullington area in there a canoeing adventure spot, and I 170 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:14.360 was by myself going parallel to the river gluver and. 171 00:08:14.360 --> 00:08:14.959 Out in the forest. 172 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:16.720 I like to find places to sit in the woods 173 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:19.439 by myself and kills me. I was out there with 174 00:08:19.519 --> 00:08:22.399 my little chuahah named Toby. This guy's five pounds. He 175 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:24.920 ain't a puppy milk chuabah. He's healthy, like he can 176 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.959 run and all that. And you know what, I didn't 177 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.319 bring water for him. I said, there's a lot of 178 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:32.320 good streams out there's clean water because it's spring water. 179 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:34.159 And I said, I know, let you drink that, buddy. 180 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:36.600 And he's panting because this was but a couple months 181 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:40.519 ago and this is twenty twenty five. I had him 182 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:42.759 with me on a harness and everything, and we got 183 00:08:42.799 --> 00:08:45.080 to the spot by a cold creep and I let 184 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:47.679 him smell that water and he jumped in it. He 185 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.120 drank all that water and he was charged up, and 186 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:52.840 we went walking on. We found a spot and we 187 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:55.399 sat down. So I'm sitting there and I hear this 188 00:08:55.799 --> 00:08:59.600 bipedial stepping again out in the woods, and I'm thinking, 189 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:04.120 there's no way. Because I've been to Washington State, I've 190 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.440 been to the east of the Cascades in Portland, Oregon. 191 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:09.000 I've been to California. 192 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:12.039 Alder these things have to never had experiences, and I 193 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:15.759 did not think Harnett County, lower than the Piedmont, that 194 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:19.039 I would experience bigfoot. So I'm not thinking this at all. 195 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:21.440 But I'm hearing the step and and I do what 196 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:23.519 I smart people do. I sit there and I stare 197 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.200 in the woods like I'm going to see something. 198 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:29.120 My dog, I'd let him off the leash. 199 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:31.919 He took his harness off and was just letting him 200 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:33.879 run around me because he would explore come back to 201 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.559 be protected. As I'm watching this step, and I noticed 202 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:38.600 that he's starting to go back this way. So I 203 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.919 forget about this because I'm not worried about it. And 204 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.480 I'm like, tell you get back here, man, give back here. 205 00:09:44.480 --> 00:09:46.080 And he turns around. He comes and looks at me, 206 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.559 and I said, come here, buddy, and he gave me 207 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:50.240 this look like I'm going to help us out. 208 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.120 Turned and he looked like way. 209 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:55.039 Where the car was part When he got sense the 210 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.440 direction where that car was lost, a gun shot off 211 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:01.120 and he turned into a competition. Weshman, I've stick old 212 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:03.559 course running dog where they go through and he's running 213 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.519 through the creek. Now I'm chasing him because I don't 214 00:10:06.519 --> 00:10:09.399 want to get lost in the woods. I'm leaving my phone, 215 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.919 my keys and everything behind. We're all just stepping hot 216 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:15.399 and I'm just thinking about the dog and I'm running 217 00:10:15.440 --> 00:10:18.200 through the creek I'm getting wet, and I lost him, 218 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.559 and he made it up this hill and he hopped 219 00:10:21.600 --> 00:10:24.279 the jingle his tags so that I could find him. 220 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:27.039 When he saw me coming, he's high telling it to 221 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:29.600 the car. And when I caught up with him, because 222 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:31.080 he got to think five pound shwallah. 223 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:31.919 That was a lot of. 224 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.399 Steps and I'm in full sprint man trying to get him, 225 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.240 and hill got him. Once he hit that hill, he 226 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:40.480 got tired and he's cowered down, and I was like, 227 00:10:40.519 --> 00:10:42.000 come on now, I got to go back to get 228 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:44.919 the phone and the keys, and he's just like he's 229 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:47.840 went in to freeze, like he wasn't scared, he wasn't mad, 230 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:49.840 wasn't I. So I'm just holding him the whole time 231 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:52.000 because his heart's about to beat out of his chest. 232 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.159 He just ran for his life and tried to save me. 233 00:10:54.799 --> 00:10:56.679 I'm not all there. I'm like not, I'm the human 234 00:10:56.759 --> 00:11:00.000 and the mechanical realm. I've leaving science and we're good. 235 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:01.000 Yeah. 236 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.080 So I go back and I pick up the stuff. 237 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.559 And at this point, man, like I said two months ago, 238 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:07.919 it was hot, and I'm like, let's go back to 239 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.600 the car put their condition on home. So we start 240 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:14.960 walking along this creep back to the car. Because I'm walking, 241 00:11:14.960 --> 00:11:17.919 I hear the stepping, so I stopped and I turned 242 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.320 with him, and I'm looking out there in the woods 243 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.200 and I'm starting to see something. I saw the sky 244 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:25.960 running through the woods, and if I told my son, 245 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:29.240 I looks like a guy with black hair and brown skin. 246 00:11:29.919 --> 00:11:30.600 So I thought it was. 247 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:33.799 Somebody out their trail running with the little iPad in 248 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:35.679 And you're a bud out there again, I said, that 249 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:38.320 ain't what it is. And I'm focused and I'm looking 250 00:11:38.320 --> 00:11:41.720 and i'm looking well as I'm staring into the woods, 251 00:11:41.720 --> 00:11:46.000 and this is thirty yards if that now, I have 252 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:49.759 to tell you that when I heard that stepping out there, 253 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:53.519 I started to fill that filling of dread. And I'm 254 00:11:53.600 --> 00:11:57.000 leaving out actually crucial part of the story. When I 255 00:11:57.039 --> 00:12:00.759 started down there, I saw a tree structure right, and 256 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:02.360 I was just like, there's no way. 257 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:02.799 Again. 258 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:07.639 I thought people like us built it for fun. I'm thinking, 259 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:10.519 no way. So I'm walking and as I'm going down 260 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.519 the trail, I see this dog and I don't want 261 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:16.279 my little dog to eat not I'm always ready. I 262 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:18.759 got this tactical harness. I can nank him up and 263 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:22.679 hold them. It was a deer, and two deer walked 264 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:26.000 in front of me. We're just stopped and we're staring 265 00:12:26.039 --> 00:12:28.200 at me. At the time, I'm thinking. At this time, 266 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:30.840 I'm thinking, man, I'm like snow white butterflies are laying 267 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.600 on my finger. I'm seeing deer walk in front of 268 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:35.679 me and they're not scared of me. But it was 269 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:39.399 about six deer moving the lay from what was on 270 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:41.320 the side of the creek. I didn't think nothing of 271 00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.360 it of this time anyway, So that experience with the 272 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.120 deer was something else, because, like I said, I grew 273 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:50.440 up deer hunting and they don't just come up. So 274 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:52.200 he runs back to the car, pick him up or 275 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:55.120 bring him back. I gathered the phone, keys and everything, 276 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.399 and I'm ready to go about getting their conditioned car 277 00:12:57.399 --> 00:12:58.000 and go home. 278 00:12:58.519 --> 00:12:59.840 And we're walking along the creek bed. 279 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.200 Hear that footstepping and I see the booker running around it. 280 00:13:04.240 --> 00:13:04.320 There. 281 00:13:04.320 --> 00:13:06.679 I don't know what to me yet. Thirty yards out 282 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:10.279 and there's a tree, and about ten feet up that tree, 283 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:15.000 I see what I think is an owl because I'm like, 284 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:17.600 what am I looking at? And the hair is coming 285 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:20.399 off of the arms, and I'm focused on because I 286 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:23.279 can't really the way the body was crunched up at 287 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:27.000 the time I'm focused, and he came up like this. 288 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:32.519 I saw this arm with this hair. It wasn't madden 289 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:36.000 and dirty. This guy was beautiful, the hair on the arm. 290 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.879 Once I knew what I was looking at, I looked 291 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:44.480 to the face. Okay, his face, black eyes, there's no 292 00:13:44.559 --> 00:13:45.440 white in these eyes. 293 00:13:45.440 --> 00:13:46.080 They were black. 294 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.000 The face was coal ash like it was black, but 295 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.279 it was like coal ash, and all the lines were 296 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.200 dark black. The nostrils were black, and the pig met 297 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:59.600 under his lips right here, whereas black as the shadows 298 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:04.399 of his nostrils. Seeing him like this, we're talking half 299 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.519 a second, two seconds, but it's like an eternity because 300 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:10.519 I'm like, what am I looking at? 301 00:14:10.679 --> 00:14:12.320 So what? I saw them come up? 302 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.000 I saw the arms and the hair, and as soon 303 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.519 as I focused on the arm, I looked to the face. 304 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:21.559 The hair was like white tan, and it wasn't dark haired, 305 00:14:21.720 --> 00:14:23.840 black skin, light tan hair. 306 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.080 And he wasn't a heavy thought. 307 00:14:26.120 --> 00:14:27.799 I think it might have been a juvenile because he 308 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.440 was probably six seven foot tall, and as soon as 309 00:14:30.440 --> 00:14:34.639 I focused in on his face, he sprung up, having 310 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:38.480 ten feet to hide behind the next tree. Then when 311 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.559 I say spring like even monkeys like us, they get 312 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.320 down and they use their whole to him. It was 313 00:14:44.399 --> 00:14:47.720 like nothing to just spring that way. And that played 314 00:14:47.720 --> 00:14:50.120 with my mind because it showed me how much stronger 315 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.480 this thing was than me. And at that point it 316 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:57.120 really wasn't fear, but it was still that feeling of 317 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.720 something I don't understand and dread. 318 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.279 Stay tuned for more sasquatch out to see. 319 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:04.200 We'll be right back. 320 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:11.039 After these messages, and my voice was saying it's time 321 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.600 to go again. You feel like you don't want to 322 00:15:13.679 --> 00:15:16.679 run out of respect. You don't look back, and we 323 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.559 walk back and I'm just sitting there thinking what the 324 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.200 heck is going on? My son can testify for me. 325 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:26.799 I'm not the kind of person to tell lies. I 326 00:15:26.879 --> 00:15:30.759 trust people and their vibrations and their truthfulness. I came 327 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:33.120 back and I said, we're gonna peak it that the 328 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:35.840 tree structure, because it's on the way back to the 329 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.840 car's stopping. They're gonna look over at it. And when 330 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:42.679 I came back, it was gone and not dismantled. It 331 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.600 was gone. We got back to the car. This guy 332 00:15:47.519 --> 00:15:49.679 he is all excited when he rides in the car, 333 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:51.519 he wants his nose out the window. He wants to 334 00:15:51.519 --> 00:15:53.240 stop at cookout and get a burger. 335 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:53.799 You know what I mean. 336 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:57.679 He's very active. He laid in my lap and who 337 00:15:57.679 --> 00:16:00.279 didn't move. And when I got home, he laid down 338 00:16:00.320 --> 00:16:02.799 and went and do it. And we would call going 339 00:16:02.840 --> 00:16:05.200 out into the woods and adventure, and I say, hey, 340 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:06.879 they you want to go on an adventure, Let's goin 341 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:09.200 to get excited here to talk to Gingu one and everything. 342 00:16:10.120 --> 00:16:12.559 When I say that word now, he licks his lips 343 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:15.440 and puts his heads down and starts shaking. And I 344 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:19.519 say you big first, and he starts shaking. So he 345 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:22.840 was traumatized by it. But I'm here to testify to 346 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.960 you on everything I know and love that I saw 347 00:16:27.360 --> 00:16:30.159 one with my own eyes. And I was a believer 348 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:34.919 pretty much a knower before that time. I bet I'm 349 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:36.240 a full on nowhere. 350 00:16:36.279 --> 00:16:38.399 Now. I know they're out there. 351 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.039 And my understandings and opinion and research is that like 352 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:46.080 a dog knows when they're scared, and they know when 353 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:48.440 you're happy, they know when we're coming out there to 354 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:50.759 harm them. They know what we're going to come out 355 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:52.960 there and tell other people where they're at where to 356 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:55.720 find them, and if you're coming out there without intention, 357 00:16:55.840 --> 00:16:56.759 you're probably not going to. 358 00:16:56.799 --> 00:16:57.480 Have much luck. 359 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:00.759 I agree that if you're coming out there with love 360 00:17:00.879 --> 00:17:04.400 and respect, you may experience something. And if you're there 361 00:17:04.480 --> 00:17:07.440 to respect them, because you know, when I said I 362 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.000 felt scared, I was saying putting it out there, I'm 363 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:11.640 not going to take a picture. I'm not going to 364 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.079 send anybody back here those guns, love camera careers. I'm 365 00:17:15.119 --> 00:17:19.079 just going home. Let me go home. And I think 366 00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:21.759 if you go out there with that intention, though, you 367 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:25.359 might have an experience that isn't scary, but just because 368 00:17:25.359 --> 00:17:28.480 there's something we don't understand, you're still probably gonna want 369 00:17:28.480 --> 00:17:30.240 to get away. 370 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:32.680 To get back to safety. That was about it. 371 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:35.640 But it changed my life, and I was excited to 372 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:38.799 come out here to this festival in Newari and speak 373 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:42.319 with other people that have experienced some of the same. 374 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:43.920 Things we're knowers. 375 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:48.400 Maybe it isn't for everybody, Yeah, because this certainly changed 376 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.319 my view on life and what I want out of 377 00:17:51.400 --> 00:17:53.359 life and what I fear and. 378 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:56.680 What say, there's a whole it's like a shift and 379 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.839 oh my gosh, things aren't exactly like I thought they were. 380 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:04.319 That's right. Yeah, we might not have been told everything. 381 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:09.839 Yeah we were definitely were. Yeah, I've talked to a 382 00:18:09.839 --> 00:18:13.400 lot of people this had that somewhat similar experience that 383 00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:15.279 just changed everything. Yep. 384 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:18.880 So after the Graveyard Fields, my second incidence, I didn't 385 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.759 really call sasquatch experience till later that I was in 386 00:18:22.920 --> 00:18:25.000 on the Blue Ridge Parkway and I hit a trail 387 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:27.599 head and I would like to load my pack up 388 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.480 and just hike west off of the trail and then 389 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:32.880 hang east back. You'll hit the trailer of the road 390 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:36.000 and can find the car easily that I'd parked on 391 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:38.799 the trail head, had my stuff ready, I got started 392 00:18:38.880 --> 00:18:41.359 welcome parallel to the parkway. On the trail, I found 393 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:44.839 a spot I could start picking out, and I hiked 394 00:18:44.839 --> 00:18:46.039 out into the woods. 395 00:18:46.359 --> 00:18:48.640 I got in like this clearing and and it was 396 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.559 just like heaven. Agail. 397 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:52.319 Was one of those moments where I said, Lord, thank 398 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:54.839 you for this able body that I'm able to still 399 00:18:54.839 --> 00:18:58.400 get out here and do this and experience creation. I'm 400 00:18:58.440 --> 00:19:02.279 so full of gratitude. I got the panic of the woods. 401 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.480