Speaker 1: You're listening to Bigla Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In
this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring
you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen
something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to
quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere,
and each one leaves us with more questions than answers.
These are the voices of the people who've lived it.
To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that
just might change the way you see the woods forever.
So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers
as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates
about his medical journey, please go to the carring Bridge
link in the show notes. Thank you. You've got the
privilege of talking to ar La Collette Williams tonight. She's
an individual that has known Bigfoot for the last seventy years.
She's got a lot to share about that time that
she's been one that has known Bigfoot, and I'm excited
to talk to you today. Arla, your name has come
up in a few conversations, but it's great to finally
be able to get you on the phone, and how
are you doing tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm doing good. I love to talk about my life.
And you know, I came into this several years ago.
I got dropped down into the research community and I
just started sharing. I'm not a researcher at all. I
don't research. I've you know, known him or almost all
my life, so I don't research. I do document, you know,
some things, but I don't need to research to prove anything. Actually,
I'm not about proving anything anyway. I just share my experiences.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. And you're from the great state of Oklahoma, correct,
I am very cool, very cool. I bet you that
lends itself to some really interesting interactions dound there. But Arla,
how far back do we want to go? Do we
want to go all the way back to the beginning
of when when you think you had your your first
interaction you said, it's it's maybe a little hard to remember,
but your your mom has told you about that that
time period.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I had my first What I remember as
an experience was I was sick, and I was at
my grandmother's and I was outside sitting on the ground
playing in the dirt with sticks and flowers and rocks,
and I love to do that. And so I was
sitting there playing and I heard some one walk up
and I thought it was my grandmother. And when I
looked up, it wasn't my grandmother. It was what I've
come to call a hairy kid, which was a young
juvenile male, and he probably, you know, I just have
to guess it how far, but I know he wasn't
very far from me, maybe ten or fifteen feet, you know,
from me. We looked at each other for a little while,
you know, and I think that's a hairy kid, because
that was my only reference that what this was. I
knew that, you know, he looked kind of human, but
that was in my mind. So after a little while,
he turned around and walked back off into the wood,
and I jumped up and went in and told my
grandmother what i'd seen, and she said, you know, I
asked her, I said, what was that, Granny? And she said,
what do you think it was? And so she let
me think about it for a little while, and then
she started to teach me about them because she knew
also and had known her whole life as well. The
actual encounter that I was talking about, I was free,
and I was sitting on the bed in my mom
and dad's bedroom and the back window was open, and
my dad was taking a bath. Mom was in the
closet getting clothes ready for the next day, and she
heard me talking to someone, and so she came out
of the closet and she looked at the window and
she screamed for my dad and she said, Arla's talking
to a dirty, hairy man. Well, Mom and I were
talking several years ago, and she asked me, she said, Arlet,
do you remember that time, and she went through the
story and I said, yes, Mom, I do, because I remember,
you know, you screaming, and I remember Dad coming out
of the bathroom and he went to the kitchen and
he got a butcher knife and ran out the door.
And she looked at me and she said, do you
think that was a bigfoot? And I said, well, Mom,
what do you think? And she said I saw bigfoot?
And I said, yes, Mom, I think you did, so
that you know at that time, at three, I talked
to everything. It's just always been what I've done ever
since I was little. I started running off to the woods.
When I could walk really good and get away. I
would just take off and so it you know, at three,
of course I didn't have it in my mind what
a bigfoot would be. But at six I knew that,
you know, this was a hairy kid, and I'd never
seen a hairy kid before like this. And then of
course my grandmothers then a little later, began to teach
me about them.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's that's fascinating. What area of Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: Was this in? It is? Well, it was about probably
forty five miles from Tulsa, Oklahoma, which would be kind
of in the eastern part of the state. I live
in the southeastern part of the state now, but that
was it's probably where that happened, maybe fifty miles as
the crow flies from where I live now.
Speaker 1: Is that a Would that be in a certain county?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be in Okmoggie County.
Speaker 1: Actually interesting, I think it's it's incredibly interesting how your
grandmother seems to be really, really familiar with the bigfoot,
but yet your mom like that's her introduction to them.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, my mom was afraid of everything when she
was lit. She just you know, as to whether my
grandmother would have ever taught me about them, you know,
like she did if I hadn't had that encounter. I
don't know if she would or not. After that, of course,
it opened my whole world to them. One of the
things we didn't do when I was young and growing
up fan For many years, we didn't talk about them
in public or I mean, we might have friends or
something that we would talk with, but we just didn't
talk about talk about them at all.
Speaker 1: Why do you think that that was that they weren't
talked about.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure there were probably a lot of reasons,
part of that being people would think you're crazy, but
it was more than that. You know, you had a
lot of people that just you just didn't talk about it.
They were special and not everybody saw them. And so,
you know, it's only been probably i would say, in
the last ten years, maybe fifteen, this whole topic has exploded,
and before that you just you just didn't hear much
about it, other than maybe in a magazine or you
know whatever. Of course, the Patterson Gimlin film that was
in sixty seven it opened up talk about it, but
we still didn't, you know, talk openly about it.
Speaker 1: You mentioned that your grandmother taught you a lot of
things regarding this topic. Do you remember any things that
she taught you that really stand out in your mind
after all these years.
Speaker 2: Everything she taught me was important. One of the things
that she said is they are are neighbors, and as
our neighbors, we are to be respectful. And you know,
she'd say, you know, sometimes you see your neighbors and
sometimes you don't, and sometimes times you'd talk to your
neighbors and sometimes you don't. So she taught me respect.
But she taught me respect of everything. Everything in the woods.
I was never taught to fear anything, regardless of what
it was. You know, from the time I was little,
I saw things and did things, and I was never
told I couldn't do those things or I couldn't say
those things. I could say anything to her, and if
I needed to talk about it, I get to ask
her about it. So you know, that basis there was
important because she always also said, they're like us in
ways and they're not like us in ways, and so
you know, that foundation of respect of them was laid
very early in my life. So that was just that
was how it was.
Speaker 1: After the interaction at age six, did you regularly have
interactions after that or was there a period of time
where maybe a few years and then you had something
happen again.
Speaker 2: Well, they were always around, whether or not there was
any kind of interaction. It just happened when it happened,
and I didn't go out to find them. In other words,
I didn't set out and say I'm going to go
out and find them, because I was taught that was
disrespectful as well. But I was in the woods all
the time, so if they were around, I may know
that they were around, and I may not. It just
it goes back to that there are neighbors, you know,
and your neighbors. If you have neighbors and they're busy
doing something, you're not going to go bother your neighbors.
It's just, you know how I was taught. Now, through
the years, I did see them from time to time.
There was a period of time when I was raising
my children and going through that part of my life,
I would see them from time to time. We hiked
a lot with the kids, and camped a lot and
did those kinds of things. Now, I never taught my
children when they were young about them because there was
no reason for me to do that, and so it
just didn't happened. If one of them would have had
an experience, then I would have taught them about them,
but it was it wasn't necessary at that time for
me to do that at all.
Speaker 1: A question I usually ask people that I talked to,
what do you feel that the Bigfoot actually is?
Speaker 2: Well, they were here before we were, and they came
here from someplace else, and so they are flesh and
blood as sure as we are flesh and blood. But
they also can do things. You know, people talk all
the time about now you see them and now you don't.
How did that happen? You know? So they have those abilities.
I believe we have those abilities, but we walked away
from those at some point. Many people still hold those abilities.
I've seen elders do things that a lot of people
say can't be done. One of the stories I tell
is when I was a teenager, there was an in
demand that lived in the town that I grew up in.
He never had had a car and he lived way
out in the country, so he always walked. He'd seem
walking downtown and if he was going home, he would
be walking down towards the end of town and go
out in the country. Well, one day after school, some
kids and I were dragged Maine, and he was down
at the end and was turning to go towards his home.
And I said to the kids, I said, I'm going
to stop and pick him up. And they started, no, no,
he's got medicine. You can't do that. No, no. And
what that meant was that there were things he did
that they didn't consider something that they wanted to be
a part of. And actually they were definitely afraid. But
I said, okay. But I drove past him and went
on the road out to his house. And that old
road you had to drive in the middle of it.
I mean, this was a long time ago, and it
was several miles out to where he lived. I drove
in the middle of the road all the way out there.
No car passed me from behind, no car met me,
and we drove all the way out. When we got
to his house, he was walking up on the porch. Now,
how did he do that? He remembered how to do
those things. One of our grandmothers of the International Council
of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, who are grandmothers from around the
world who had made a difference, we were at a
gather and there was a very very bad storm coming
and it was headed right towards us. And she walked
out and she put her hands up and she said
some things. We weren't close enough to hear her. But
when she put her hands up, that cloud moved, and
there were several of us saw that cloud move and
change its direction. Now, how did she do that? She
remembered the connection. So you know, people nowadays you hear
of all kinds of things that people are doing that.
So many have said, you know, you can't do those things,
but you can do them if you remember the connection.
Speaker 1: So you actually you saw that individual have that connection
with the cloud in person.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did. I wasn't the only one there either.
Speaker 1: Do you have Native American heritage?
Speaker 2: I have Cherokee blood? My grandmother told me from the
time I was little enough to understand that I carried
Cherokee blood, but I carry a lot of other blood
as well. And what she told me was, if I
dishonor any blood, then I've dishonored all the blood that
I carried. I don't have a CDIB, so I'm not
a registered tribal member and I wasn't taught by her
in the Cherokee way. I was taught by her own
experiences of a photo. Several people have seen it. It's
my grandmother. She couldn't remember exactly what year it was.
She was giving me some photos, probably a couple of
years before she died, and we were looking through them,
and there was this one photo that she was all
stretched out walking and it's the Bigfoot walk and I
think we figured it's somewhere early fifties. I don't know
for sure, but I said, Gran, what were you doing?
And she said, I was doing the walk. And that's
what that picture is is of her demonstrating how the
big Foot walk and she has this grin on her face.
So and my grandfather, I think she said, took that photo.
So it wasn't a photo I ever saw in my
whole life. And I was always going through her photos
and when some of us kids would get together, we'd
get the picture box out and go through all the
old photos. But I never saw it until that couple
of years before she passed when she was giving me
some photos. So I don't know where she had it.
I didn't ask her. I didn't think to ask her,
you know, where she had had that.
Speaker 1: But so when you say that she's doing the bigfoot
walk in the photo. Can you kind of describe what
she was doing?
Speaker 2: Well, she's got that one arm stretch to the front.
The others gone back in her faith and were a
long way apart. You could definitely tell what it is
when you look at it. So if that was in
the early fifties, the Patterson Gimlin hadn't even been filmed yet,
Jerry Cruz, that whole thing right, which was fifteen Yeah,
hadn't happened yet, and yet she knew.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating. You mentioned something where it's almost like people
forget their connections to things, and some people have still
have those connections. And I've talked to a lot of
people over the last five years, and I had some
really interesting things happen in Oregon. But do you think
there's there's kind of a theory that I have where
I don't know if it's it's crazy or not, but
being in close proximity or being around the same area
that these big foot are could help people remember or
unlock certain things I do. Do you know what I mean?
Does it sound kind of weird or no?
Speaker 2: Not my life it's weird. It's interesting with them and
you know, through the years, I've talked to a lot
of indigenous people from around the world, not just Native
Americans here, but other elders as well, and a lot
of them have talked about, you know, about this are
walking away from it. In the case of the thirteen
Indigenous grandmothers, they did many things that you know, I
is able to witness hundreds of people witness not just
me that you know, you go, wow, that happened. That
happen and it's just amazing that connecting back into those things.
And it's as simple as shifting your paradigm, opening your
mind and shift that paradigm, that belief system that you have,
and then open your heart, and it's amazing what all
comes to you. It's one of the easiest things in
the world to have an encounter. And you know, people
tell me all the time, I've been trying for years,
you know, and it's like, what are you doing, you know,
what are you doing to try to have this encounter?
And you know, they are, well, I'm going out in
the woods and I'm looking, and I'm knocking on trees,
and I'm doing food and I'm doing all this stuff.
And if that's what you want and if that's the
interaction that you want, that's fine. But if you want
to know more, you know, And I don't know how
many people through the years that I've talked with who
then shifted their paradigm went at this a totally different
way and had an encounter. I was been working with
a couple of people, just helping them. I don't tell
people what they have to do. We just talk and
I listen to you know, what they're saying and how
they're seeing it, and so they'll begin to grasp that.
You know, this is as simple as going in anywhere,
whether you're going into the woods or whatever, and you're
being very respectful, you've opened that heart, you've shifted your paradigm,
and you just beat go have fun. Don't go thinking
I'm going to go out there and I'm going to
see something. Go be in the woods and enjoy yourself
and love it and become a part of that. And
people all the time have those encounters. It's you know,
I talked to people all the time who've had an encounter.
They had been trying for years to have an encounter
or to have anything, and it just wasn't happening for them.
And when they changed their approach, things began to happen.
Maybe in the beginning, all they heard were whoops, or
maybe they heard what sounds like knocking on trees. Maybe
they saw a structure that looked strange to them, like
it couldn't have been naturally formed, or they saw footprints.
All of these things are part of that beginning understanding
for a lot of people. But you take it one
step more. You're there, and I always tell people if
you feel uncomfortable, if you feel like you're being watched,
or you just have that feeling like maybe I shouldn't
be here, that you start talking. Tell them who you are,
and I do it out loud. You know, whether you
see them or not, just start talking. Tell them who
you are, tell them why you're there. And talking to
them like that, whether you see them or not, puts
in your mind that this is a being that understands you,
and they do understand you. And so now you're trying
to get to know someone that you'd like to know,
and it's respectful to introduce yourself and why are you there?
And I also tell them if you can't get past
your fear or your uneasiness at that point, it's very simple.
Turn around and just leave. Don't push well, because that
fear is going to block everything, or you're going to
have an encounter that you feel is a fearful encounter.
So it is that simple. And I've seen it happen
so many times in my life in this bigfoot world
of people, that those things do happen.
Speaker 1: That's very, very good advice. I've actually talked to more
than a few people lately where they have done that verbally,
out loud communication. And then an interesting thing that's common
between all of them is that usually right after they'll
say something, there'll be something that will happen in the
physical world as a response. Yeah, is that something you've
experienced as well?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know I tell people too, don't negate
something that happens that you're not sure about. Don't just
negate it and talk it away, because that's a very
easy thing to talk it away. No I didn't hear that,
or no I didn't see that, and just let it
be what it was and just continue, you know, doing
what you're doing. I know I've spoke at conferences over
the last several years across the United States and into
British Colt, Columbia. And one of the things that I
always tell people when I'm speaking, the first thing is
you don't have to believe the thing I'm going to say.
I'm not trying to prove anything to you. I'm going
to share my experiences. The one thing that I do
ask of you is don't just throw it out. If
I say things that you think that there's no way
it can be that way, don't throw it out. Just
file it away somewhere and then if you have something happened,
or maybe you have a friend that you trust has
something happen, then you've got something to go back and
look at. So it you know, we tend to want
to well, I don't believe that, so you know, I'm
not going to think about it anymore.
Speaker 1: That's really interesting. Do you feel that you're actively communicating
with any bigfoot in recent years?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah. In my one book, My Life with the
Harry People, it chronicles several years of my being a
part of their lives. And it's interesting because I've always
known of what people call the paranormal aspect of them.
I've always known that about them. That was just part
of it, part of my teaching, part of my understandings
and part of my experiences. So I don't have a
problem with that part that a lot of my experience
has been in the flesh and blood communication and interaction.
I don't know. I'm sure you probably do know Rick Taylor.
Do you know that name? The man that had the
experience with seeing the family.
Speaker 1: I have never talked to him, but I have heard
of his story, which is really incredible. I'm the arla
he was with exactly.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and I've had a lot of other people
who have seen them and very well seeing them. That
doesn't mean that I had anything to do with that,
because I'm not in charge of who they show themselves
to or not. They choose to do that, and I
would never ask them to show themselves to anybody. I
just would not do it. That would be disrespect for me,
and it was, you know, part of my teachings as well.
They do as they choose. And I know I have
people ask me all the time, well will you show
me the Bigfoot? I'm sorry, I can't. I'm not going
to ask them to do anything. You know. I hear
people say, well I'll go out and call them up
or whatever. Oh no, that's I'm not going to do that.
They're going to choose what it is they want to do.
Al Caller is what I call him, is the bigfoot
in the Rick Taylor story that did the al call.
He's interacted with a couple of other people through the years.
It wasn't anything I expected at all, but that was
his choice to do. Blue is one of the family.
He's a young or an older juvenile male. Now, I
had a friend here who was staying with me. My
dog was really sick, and we were sitting outside and
I heard the hairy kids is what I call them.
They were moving around. I could you know, you could
hear them, and then all of a sudden, we got
this horrible older Oh my gosh, it was awful. And
I looked off out towards where I heard the noise
and stuff going on, and there was Blue, and we said,
you know, oh, that's a awful stop it. Well, that
odor went immediately away, and we'd go back to talking,
and then he would do it again and we were like,
stop it, that's horrible, and then he'd stop, and then
later on he would do it again. There's other people
who have experienced Blue as well. I have a photo blue.
There were five of us who were just hiking and
we all saw him and one of the girls said,
I'm going to take a picture, and he knew exactly
what we were doing. He didn't get up and leave.
He just sat there and watched us. He was there's
on the ridge in that area. There are these old
places where it's kind of a drop off, and and
get back on the down side of that and stick,
you know, a big part of your body over that
and still, you know, dug down in a hurry, you know,
if you want to. So you know, I'm not the
only one that's seen down. Do I see them more
than other people will? Yes, But like I said, I
don't go looking for them either. If they're there, they are,
and if they're not, well, they aren't.
Speaker 1: When you are talking to them verbally, do they ever
talk back to you in a way that you can hear?
Speaker 2: I actually have audio. I have one audio that was
taken a long time. There was a male, young male
that was around and he was like a bulldozer when
he would come through the woods. He didn't try to
be quiet at all. And so once July it was hot,
I went off hiking and got back in the woods
and setting there and I harding coming and I thought,
I'm just going to ask him who he is, so
out loud, I said, who are you? What's your name?
And he said through telepathy through Jestna, and I said
it again and he said it again through Justna. Well,
I didn't want to forget that, so I put it
on my phone. And in October of the same year,
I had been recording and I kicked back in my
recliner and got my coffee and I'm listening to my
recorder and I hear this boy say Rugsna. And I
was like, oh, I know that tame, I know that name.
And I listened to the video. I mean, it's on
Facebook that a girlfriend of mine did a video or
put it all together for me with that audio and
marked where they're talking. And he says Rugusina, and then
after a biddy says, approach slowly and if you're thinking
about Regusina, he never went anywhere quietly or slowly, And
then there are other things on it, and then at
the end of it he says, we're going and that's
the end of it now too, through Jesna telling me
his name. I was in the Woods, spending the night
my tent, and I am laying there and I here
walking up and I just greet them. If I'm out
wherever I'm at, in any part of the United States
or Canada, wherever I always you say hi guys. And
so I heard him and I just said hi, guys,
and he did the funniest hell that sounded like he
was saying hello. And I laughed at him. And there
was someone who heard that, and they asked me, could
they do that spectral analysis of it? And I said,
I don't care if you want to, And so it
came back within that range that people have assigned to
Bigfoot on the analysis. You know, at the spectral analysis
really didn't matter to me. I knew who did it, so,
but it was just interesting to see that and where
that was. You know, I've got other videos to and
audios of them playing with the kyotes and you can
hear them in the mix, and one of them, Indigo,
who is a young male now who I've interacted with
the most. The coyotes are going crazy and then you
can hear them mixed in a little bit, and then
you hear this in silence. So you know, through the
years I audioed a lot. I rarely do that anymore.
I just don't. But it's a physical part of my life.
But more than that, because that paranormal for me is normal.
It's not, you know, just something that people say that
this is outside the normal. For me, it's normal.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely fascinating. I would say for most people that
are going out into the field and trying to have
some sort of interaction, their goal is probably to be
able to prove that Bigfoot is a real creature. It
sounds like this is not your probably goal with this
at all. What did you say your goal is through
all this interaction that you have with bigfoot?
Speaker 2: Why I came into this in twenty ten. I was
introduced to the world of bigfoot research through some people
that I had met. I thought they were teasing me
when they said, oh, yeah, there are people out there
research and trying to prove them and I'm like, why
are they doing that? And you know, it was still like, yeah,
you guys are you guys are teasing me? There's no
bigfoot research world. Well I found out very quickly that
there was, and I had met someone they had a podcast.
They asked me, would you come on the podcast and talk. Well,
all I knew to do was to share my experiences,
to tell the truth, and for the most part at
that time, that didn't go over very well, but that
was okay, you know. So I came into this to
help people, to help those who had an encounter that
they didn't understand, that they thought was something evil or whatever.
I also gave a lot of people a safe space
to talk and to share. It became known that, you know,
I could be trusted, you could come and talk to
me about anything, and I wouldn't, you know, tell anybody.
And I'd never made fun of anybody, no matter what
their experiences were. And so I just I wanted to
help people understand that these are not the evil beings
that so many people paint them as. And so all
I knew to do was to share my experiences, and
I shared the paranormal right along with their anything else.
And I actually attained the title of the Immaculate Mother
of who very early on me was funny. I mean,
it didn't bother me. And I'm not disrespectful to anyone,
no matter what they say to me or about me,
or you know, anything else. It's purely their perception of
who they think I am. So through the years, you know,
I dealt with a lot of that stop me from talking.
It didn't stop me from Sharon, and you know, I
still haven't stopped I guess so. But I wanted, I
really wanted to help people to get past their fear
and to understand this on a totally different level.
Speaker 1: What was it that people were experiencing that they thought
that these that these bigfoot were something evil.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'll I have another looking story that I
use as illustration. I was at a camp out down
into commishy mountains and there were people there from a
lot of different places. There was a young man who
had just gotten out of the military actually, and he
grew up in Washington State, but hadn't you know, been
there in quite a while. And we were talking during
the day and he told me he didn't know what
they were, and he was a little afraid, you know,
of them, because he didn't know, you know, what they were.
And I talked to him, and you know, but he
still had that huge fear. Yet he wanted to know too,
you know, he wanted to have an encounter. Well, that
night we were sitting around the fire, is about midnight,
and as I often do, I got up from the
fire and went to go walking. And when I got
up and walked over to the little about a one
lane road back into the mountains, he said, Miss Harlae,
can I go with you? And I said, sure, come on. Well,
we're walking down the road, you know, and we're talking
and then we hear heavy bipedal footsteps and they're coming
towards us. Now, you know, the sides of the road
are cedars and pines, and so it's really thick to
try to see in anywhere. And we're walking in the
dark too, because I don't normally carry a flashlight. If
I'm especially if I'm on a road that I'm not
familiar with, I usually stay on the road and don't
vnch your off. But we heard the heavy bipedal footsteps
coming towards us, and they were getting closer and closer,
and they got up parallel to us inside the brush
and stopped, and he grabbed my arm and he said
are you afraid? And I said no, I'm not afraid.
I said are you afraid? And he grabbed me with
his other arm and literally pulled me to him and said, yes,
I don't know what he's going to do to me,
And so I tried to talk to him and getting
calmed down, but I couldn't, so I said, let's just
go back to the fire. So we walked back to
the fire. Now, if you took a report on that,
my report would have been got up from the fire,
walked down the road, heard heavy bipedal footsteps coming towards
us as they stopped right inside the tree line and brushed.
His would have been he got up from the fire,
went walking down the road, and then you know, he
was afraid. He was afraid it was going to hurt him.
He didn't know what it was going to do to
him too. Totally different reports on this the very same encounter.
But he had already said during the day he was
afraid of them because he didn't know what they were
or what they would do. So that was the encounter
he had because he didn't know their nature and he
carried that fear. And that's what happens when people have
a lot of these encounters that they think are bad.
It's because you misunderstand their nature. They are big, they
are hairy, and they are loud, and you can literally
feel their energy from them. If they're very close to you.
Speaker 1: What does that mean when you say you can literally
feel their energy from them?
Speaker 2: You can feel it. It's sometimes it's just a tangle.
Sometimes it's like shields, you know, or goose bumps or whatever.
You know. People call it. That's not a bad thing,
that's just energy. But people don't understand it, and so
they automatically think, well, that's a bad thing. I shouldn't
be feeling like this, I shouldn't be here, And that's
not usually the case.
Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced along in that same category where
a person was unable to move for a certain period
of time.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've seen that. Yeah, I've seen that. I've seen
people who they call it zapping or sizzling, you know,
different terms, but they feel that that's that's an energy
thing too as well. And if you don't understand it,
you will freeze yourself. Now, I'm not going to tell
you they can't do that too, because I know they can.
But you can scare yourself enough to where you can't move.
We were at a camp out in the Willow Creek
area where the Patterson Gimlin was filmed. We were thirty
miles from the nearest town that was just a little
town with a ranger station and I think one little
station that had some things foods and stuff in it.
And one of the girls had jelways put her tent
out of way, which is what I usually to wait
for everybody else, and she they had been around her
tent a lot, and she had start got out and
she was just literally frozen, and she started calling Tom
for help, and of course he got up and went
out there, and there was a bear, I believe it
was a bear very close. And so I have seen
them literally freeze people like that for protection, and that's
really hard for a lot of people, you know, to grasp.
I've had that. They've never frozen me like that, but
they have let me know that there was something in
the area. Now, I'm not quiet in the woods. I'm
not going to scare any of the big foot people
off by me talking or singing or whatever. But if
there's a bear around or anything else, they're going to
hear me long before I ever get very close to them.
So I don't really fear anything like that. You know,
I'm careful and I'm aware of what's going on around me.
I'm responsible for myself, but I know that they do
watch out after me. And I've talked to hundreds of
people that'll tell you the same thing.
Speaker 1: That's very interesting to know that that background for sure.
Have they ever communicated to you to ask you to
come to a certain area or location or to do
a certain thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah. Now they will let me know that
they're going to be around. And it's funny because years ago,
years ago, I was sleeping in my tent and they
like for me to sleep in my tent. I mean
a lot of stuff happens when I'm in my tent
and has over the years. And one night I'd been
told that, you know, we want you to come out
to the tent. And it doesn't mean I'm going to
walk out there and I'm gonna shake their hand and
sit down and talk with them. It's not like that
at all. It's just that I know they're there and
they know I'm there. Well, something happened and I didn't
get to go sleep in my tent because I had
to walk quite a ways to get to my tent.
And the next morning on my porch was this asterisk symbol.
I had one cedar pole and then I had another
that was a tree that I had cut the branches off,
leaving enough out where I could prop it up and
hang things on it. And then there was I think
a walking staff that I had that were not together
at all and certainly weren't on my porch, but they
put that into an asterisk, which is it's a connection symbol.
And they were telling me, basically, you were out there
last night. And so when I finally did go, I
walked back to the tent that day and they had
there was an old blue tarp under my tent. They
had pulled a strand of that tarp out, a long strand,
and they had put an X, which they have used
that with me for friendship, thank you family. That type
of thing and how they use it depends on the
context of the situation. But they had decorated that X
with that long piece of tarp and they had wove
it all around that AX, and it was so pretty.
I just started laughing when I saw it. And so
that night I did go out and spend the night
in the tent. And a lot of times it's no
more than just hearing them out there running around or
doing things. I have had them come up to the
tent and touch me. I had a young one not
long ago come up. I sleep on a cot in
my tent and I sleep with it open. It opens
on four sides and that's how asleep. And my feet
were by the door, and I felt this finger push
or touch the tip of my big toe and then
put pressure on it. And I was just laying there
with my eyes closed, just being quiet. And when I
felt it, I opened my eyes and I looked up
and all I could see was two shadowy figures that
had figured out that I was awake, and they turned
around and food at all. So you know, it's not
like I'm going down there and we're all setting in
a circle or whatever. They're doing whatever it is they do,
and I'm staying in my tent in the woods, which
I absolutely love and do a big part of the year.
Speaker 1: Wow, And no fear at all during that time.
Speaker 2: It sounds like, no, Well, I've never had a fear
of them. I was never taught to be afraid of them.
I ought to be respectful. I don't have fear of anything.
I've seen dog men before and I wasn't afraid. So
I just don't have that fear. And you know, my
grandmother I wasn't taught to fear anything. She always told me,
you know, talk to something that you don't know what
it is, find out what it is, you know. But
I was that little girl who was in her bed
at night and she heard something under her bed, or
she didn't cover her head up. She leaned over her
bed and looked under her bed and see what was
making the noise. So I just I didn't have fear,
you know. And I've told people for years, if you
have a problem and you're afraid, you know, I don't
have a problem with going and being there and seeing,
you know, what's going on, because I just I don't
have a fear. I'd love to go to Skinwalk a ranch.
That'd be really awesome. But I've seen a lot of
things too, so you know, it's just one of those things.
I'd like to go there.
Speaker 1: It's such a really cool way to look at things
that I really appreciate how you're laying everything out. Let's
say there's a listener and they're like, yeah, you know,
I kind of want to just go to an area
and kind of try this this out, maybe a little
differently than I've done before, where I'm knocking on trees
and making howls and stuff, And it sounds kind of
similar to how I've talked to Tom Cantrell about things
before too. If you were to break it down very
simply of what how what a person would do to
try to to put themselves into a situation where they
can connect with them. Is that something that you've ever
tried to do, where you break it down very simply.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've worked with people for years helping them get
past their fear, and I've been working with one particular
person now for about a month. They are past that
knocking and hooping and all of that. They want more.
They don't want to stop there. They want more, and
so you know, I would tell them go to an area.
I mean, if you want to look up on the
web and find out where all of the sightings are
or whatever, do that. But the first thing you need
to do is go to these woods. Pick your woods
you're going to go to, Go and just walk through
the woods. Get familiar with where you're at. Note things.
I mean, if you want to take pictures of interesting
things in the wood, as far as something that might
look like a structure or something like that, do it.
You know, document that and then just be open to
whatever be in a respectful way and just go with
your heart open and let happen what happened. But the
number one thing is just go and enjoy being there
and then go back again. Know your woods that way.
You know when things are different, maybe you just have
a feeling, well this doesn't feel like it did the
other day, or you see something you took a picture
of and you go, whoa, wait a minute, that's changed
and you look at it. But always when you're out,
just tell them, you know, hello, I say hi guys,
you know, have a conversation with them. People ask me
do I have to do it through mind speak or
to let thee Now usually when I'm talking to them,
I talk out loud, and but you do what makes
you comfortable. But just talk to them, tell them who
you are, why you're there, and just like you would
anybody that you wanted, that you wanted to meet or
you wanted to get to know better, and just open
up your heart and shift your paradigm. And this person
that I've been working with over this last little bit,
they had go out like I don't know, three or
four times, but now they're already having things and have
had a visual So them changing up what they were
doing gave them what they were asking for. They wanted
to know more. They didn't just want to hear a
knock or see a footprint or a hoop or whatever.
And I mean all those things are kind of fun
when you hear because I still like to hear them
whoop and whatever. But it depends on what you want,
you know, and if you're willing to just go and let.
Speaker 1: It happen, I'd say that is great advice. And Arla,
thank you for coming on the show tonight and for
sharing some things from your heart about what you've experienced
through your life so far. Do you have any final
closing thoughts? Slash? How are ways that people can keep
up to date with what you're doing currently when it
comes to Bigfoot.
Speaker 2: I have a YouTube channel. Now you're going to see
a little bit of everything on that YouTube channel. I
started it in twenty fifteen and then I had a
big change in my life for several years, but I've
gone back and I am posting things on it. It's
Arla Williams is what my YouTube channel is. I am
on Facebook. If you're looking for me on Facebook, it'll
be Arla calliout Colette, so you'll see Arla Collette. And
if you're going to send me a friend request, send
me a message too, because I get all kinds of
friend requesd west that I can't see their page, and
unless I know somebody's going to friend me, or I
have a friend that says yes, this person is you know, okay,
then I'm probably not going to friend you. If I
can see your page and you know, see what you're about,
then then I don't have a problem with doing that.
And it doesn't matter to me what you believe they are,
or your political affiliation or anything else. That's not my
criteria for letting people on my Facebook page. You can
search my name Arle Williams or Arliclette on YouTube. I've
done tons of podcasts. I actually have a podcast I
do now with Michael Harrell and it is on The
Poor Convene Show, which is a group on Facebook. It's
a public group, so anybody can come there. But then
we do them live every other Thursday, and then they
go on Michael Harold's YouTube channel. So I'm out there
if you want to listen, you know too more and
probably hear a whole lot more of the paranormal aspect
of you know what goes on in my life too
as well.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. We will definitely make sure that all that is
linked in the show note description. And Haarley, just thank
you again for coming on the show. It has been
a real pleasure chatting with you tonight.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for asking me. And I do have
two books. I have My Life with the Hairy Peeople
and Respecting the Water. That's a children's book with a Bigfoot.
Of course, you can get them on Amazon or you
can get them for me, And thank you so much
for asking me. I really appreciate that.
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