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Speaker 1: with the show, all right, Big for Society. We've got
Speaker 1: the privilege of talking to Austin today. Austin's an individual
Speaker 1: that reached out to me through TikTok. He had made
Speaker 1: a comment on one of my recent Illinois videos, and
Speaker 1: so I reached out to Austin about what he'd shared,
Speaker 1: and he was good enough to reach back out. And
Speaker 1: he's got an introesting thing to share about an experience
Speaker 1: that happened in the Peoria area. But I will let
Speaker 1: him fill in the details about that. But how's it
Speaker 1: going today, Austin.
Speaker 2: Pretty good? Cooling off here in Florida.
Speaker 1: Finally, fantastic. Yeah, he sounds good to me. We're definitely
Speaker 1: cooling off up here in Iowa, but different way. We
Speaker 1: just got snow today.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, I still seeing alligators down here, all right.
Speaker 1: If we start to see those, then we're having we're
Speaker 1: having issues up here, but we're in trouble. But it's
Speaker 1: it's a pleasure to have you on the show. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to hear about all that you experienced out
Speaker 1: there in the farm, little noise. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: go ahead and give it right over to you, man,
Speaker 1: take us back to what we need to know and
Speaker 1: what you experience.
Speaker 2: And I'm not completely sure if it was a bigfoot
Speaker 2: or something another type of what is that word for them.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, okay, yeah yeah, But so in other people
Speaker 3: in the area have actually talked about similar One of
Speaker 3: my cousins did, and a few of her friends, and even.
Speaker 2: A guy I used to play darts and drink beer with.
Speaker 2: I think he even mentioned a similar sighting. So it's
Speaker 2: been spotted by other people and myself on like the
Speaker 2: dirt back roads because Farmington's like on the edge of
Speaker 2: the Peoria metro area. It's about a good five to
Speaker 2: ten miles away from the main city area, so it's
Speaker 2: a lot of cornfields, a lot of back roads and
Speaker 2: things like that when you go west and southwest of
Speaker 2: Farmington for sure. So it was October two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: I was on mid tour leave from Iraq because I
Speaker 2: was in the Army at the time, and I went
Speaker 2: back to Illinois to visit family and friends and hang out.
Speaker 2: And one thing I just liked to do was the
Speaker 2: freedom to just drive around. It was nice to just
Speaker 2: go out at night on long drives through the cornfields
Speaker 2: and stuff. It was still like a late harvest season.
Speaker 2: I think that year, I can't remember, but I definitely
Speaker 2: could see dry corn up and down both sides of
Speaker 2: the road at the time, so it was probably early October,
Speaker 2: not sure about the exact day. So I'm driving through Farmington,
Speaker 2: going through the main drag, going through main Street, I
Speaker 2: think one sixteen or something, and when I go towards
Speaker 2: the back roads, there's a couple of back roads that
Speaker 2: go towards like Bushnell, Illinois, another town over to the
Speaker 2: west southwest, I think, and I'm driving down the cornfield
Speaker 2: and I got music going. I think I'm listening to
Speaker 2: No Effects at the time, and I see this like
Speaker 2: figure had it been like first, I thought it was
Speaker 2: like a piece of metal waving in the wind that
Speaker 2: got stuck on a tree or something. But it was
Speaker 2: definitely like humanoid shaped once I got closer. It was
Speaker 2: walking parallel to the road in the cornfield, but its
Speaker 2: skin was like shiny and kind of jet black. It
Speaker 2: was tall, jet black, shiny, and I just I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe my eyes what I was seeing. It was very strange.
Speaker 2: I was like, it's like frail like it I could
Speaker 2: I remember seeing like long fingers trailing down its side.
Speaker 2: I didn't get a good look at the head or anything.
Speaker 2: The main parts I could really see were like the
Speaker 2: elbow down, the lower arm, and then the legs. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was bigfoot or an alien
Speaker 2: or what. I've had other people. They'll say I've seen
Speaker 2: the same thing out on those back roads out that
Speaker 2: passed Farmington and can't figure out what it is. But
Speaker 2: other people in the area have definitely mentioned it and
Speaker 2: talked about it from time to time. And I have
Speaker 2: a couple theories about what that could be, but I'm
Speaker 2: not completely sure. I'd be really curious to talk to
Speaker 2: that guy that saw the bigfoot creature re in the area.
Speaker 2: I'm yeah, to see the height and just because it
Speaker 2: was definitely probably seven pm, I'm thinking it was definitely
Speaker 2: dark out in October for that time, and I was
Speaker 2: driving a rental car. I can't even remember what kind
Speaker 2: of car I was driving. Would have been like just
Speaker 2: one of your basic, average four door Sedan's, I'm sure.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I was going down the gravel road and
Speaker 2: it was just what the heck is that? And I
Speaker 2: just kept going, and I'm like, I wanted to turn
Speaker 2: around the loose gravel and dirt, and I was very
Speaker 2: safety conscious. I didn't want to get in trouble with
Speaker 2: the Army if I got in a car wreck while
Speaker 2: I was away on leave, that's for sure. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I looked and I remember talking to my cousin about
Speaker 2: that and she said, oh, yeah, I've got friends that've
Speaker 2: seen that too, And it was crazy. Not even a
Speaker 2: week later, when I'm in Illinois, it was like the
Speaker 2: end of my time there. I was at a hotel
Speaker 2: party with some friends and someone shows up white as
Speaker 2: a ghost. Dude, I saw this like alien bigfoot creature,
Speaker 2: don't know what it was. It was all jet black,
Speaker 2: like jet black shiny skin. And the only place I've
Speaker 2: ever heard another story about that was from a guy
Speaker 2: in Utah up at someplace called Lightning Ridge, where he
Speaker 2: had seen something with long fingers shiny black skin as well.
Speaker 1: This is very unique. I think this is a first
Speaker 1: time I've heard of a sighting where jet black shiny skin.
Speaker 1: When you say long fingers, could you see the actual
Speaker 1: fingers or was it just that its arms wereholed or
Speaker 1: were really low.
Speaker 2: It felt like it was looking like fingers, like they
Speaker 2: almost I would say, like the thickness of a grown
Speaker 2: man's two fingers together, and they went down to almost
Speaker 2: a point, looked like loose or something like maybe it
Speaker 2: was wearing some sort of overcoat or shedding skin or
Speaker 2: something like that. I couldn't quite It was very brief
Speaker 2: and it was very sudden, and I was like, what
Speaker 2: the heck was I seeing? And I spooked me out,
Speaker 2: and I didn't really bother turn it around to go
Speaker 2: back there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wish I took it in more at the time,
Speaker 2: but I don't even think anybody really had a smartphone
Speaker 2: at the time phones took pictures. It was like two
Speaker 2: thousand and eight. People were still using the razor phone
Speaker 2: or something, So it wasn't really you didn't have cameras
Speaker 2: a great quality, and I wouldn't have even thought to
Speaker 2: take a picture at that time.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, exactly it was. That was a different time.
Speaker 1: You had to flip phones, and you're exactly right, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't really want to take pictures with those phones. That
Speaker 1: usually didn't end up being a good time. The shiny skin,
Speaker 1: the jet black, so it sounds like, what how about this?
Speaker 1: How much of it was covered with hair or was
Speaker 1: it not really covered with hair at all?
Speaker 2: I didn't see hair. It was tall and shiny. The head,
Speaker 2: like what I could see of the head just looked
Speaker 2: like came up. I wouldn't say a cone, but larger
Speaker 2: than a human head for sure, almost like slightly conish,
Speaker 2: but more dome like. I wish I could draw it out,
Speaker 2: but I'm a terrible artist.
Speaker 1: Now, you probably only saw it for a few seconds,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, And I'm guessing I was probably driving, since
Speaker 2: I was driving a rental car and it's a gravel road.
Speaker 2: I was probably going slower than normal. I would say
Speaker 2: maybe forty miles an hour at the very most, probably
Speaker 2: thirty thirty five, so I'm not going terribly fast.
Speaker 1: Could you see anything that looked like ears on it?
Speaker 2: I could. I did not recall seeing anything that looked
Speaker 2: like ears.
Speaker 1: No, okay, a color to its eyes at all.
Speaker 2: Didn't see the front of the face, just the back
Speaker 2: in like the side of the arms and leg.
Speaker 1: Anything weird.
Speaker 2: It was way too tall to be a person.
Speaker 1: Gotcha, and remind me what you would estimate the height
Speaker 1: to be of it again, like eight.
Speaker 2: To nine feet. It was definitely above what there was
Speaker 2: dead corn I remember, on both sides of the road,
Speaker 2: and it was standing up above that. That's why, from
Speaker 2: a distance I thought it was like a piece of
Speaker 2: metal from like a barn, or something that got loose
Speaker 2: in a storm, like hanging from a tree nearby or something.
Speaker 2: I couldn't quite make out what I was looking at
Speaker 2: from a distance. Once I got closer, whoa, who is
Speaker 2: what is that?
Speaker 1: Okay, but you're actually seeing it move though, correct?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It was walking like at a slow like just
Speaker 2: general steady.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anything weird about the legs Oh, those feel like
Speaker 1: they're backwards or the way that they're put together just
Speaker 1: was weird to me. Anything like that, not that.
Speaker 2: I can recall, I think the most, like the parts
Speaker 2: that stood out the most were like the long fingers,
Speaker 2: wide fingers, and I don't think there were five. It
Speaker 2: was like almost like I could see maybe three in
Speaker 2: like a thumb appendage type thing. But it was definitely
Speaker 2: like the fingers. And when I say jet black, I
Speaker 2: would say the skin now that I think about it more,
Speaker 2: the skin kind of had a textured to like elephant's skin,
Speaker 2: but it was jet black and shiny. If that, if
Speaker 2: you can picture that.
Speaker 1: It's really weird. Did you experience anything that made you think, oh,
Speaker 1: that is like a dog didn't have a tail or anything.
Speaker 2: No, it didn't give me any animal. I really thought
Speaker 2: it was like either one a hallucination, two an alien
Speaker 2: three like a form of Bigfoot or sasquatch or something.
Speaker 2: But I just didn't really I didn't really draw the
Speaker 2: line to Bigfoot until I saw your TikTok video about
Speaker 2: that other guy that saw something near there. Uh, there's
Speaker 2: a few paranormal abnormalities that do happen in that area.
Speaker 2: There's a little bridge on one of the backwards between
Speaker 2: Farmington and Canton called cry Baby Bridge, and it's you know,
Speaker 2: people will go out there at night and they'll hear
Speaker 2: voices and there's no one there, stuff like that. And
Speaker 2: when I took I took down some notes of thoughts
Speaker 2: I had. You remember those UFO hearings recently about the
Speaker 2: UAPs where they're talking about interdimensional beings. That keyword interdimensional
Speaker 2: absolutely see. That's one thing I was thinking of is
Speaker 2: perhaps there's some sort of hiccup where alternate realities overlap
Speaker 2: with ours, and maybe they're only viewable by certain people.
Speaker 2: It makes sense why they're so rare. You'd think more
Speaker 2: people would see these things as urbanized and as spread
Speaker 2: out as people are all over these days compared to
Speaker 2: a hundred years ago and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And something that has lately is there are certain areas
Speaker 1: of the country that seem to have just more strangeness
Speaker 1: than others. And you've got maybe there's an area like
Speaker 1: this in this area in Illinois too.
Speaker 2: Like a hot spot like lay lines or something or
Speaker 2: some type. I was thinking maybe you had something to
Speaker 2: do with maybe the Earth's magnetism or mineral deposits and things,
Speaker 2: because when you look at western Illinois, specifically from Farmington
Speaker 2: to Canton to Macombe to Nauvoo, Carthage, Quincy, those kind
Speaker 2: of sections of Illinois, there's a lot of like tributaries
Speaker 2: that flow into Illinois or Mississippi River out there. There's
Speaker 2: a little more like branches of forest and woods and such,
Speaker 2: like the Spoon River is a pretty popular one I
Speaker 2: can think of in Fulton County. You got the Kickapoo
Speaker 2: Creek that runs through Peoria County, and then I remember
Speaker 2: the Copperas Creek also runs a little bit south of
Speaker 2: Peoria down towards Mapleton and Banner and it empties out
Speaker 2: into the Illinois River. And you know, these are I
Speaker 2: think it's old glacial deposits from the last Ice Age
Speaker 2: in some parts too, because if you look around Farmington,
Speaker 2: if you ever look on a satellite map, you see
Speaker 2: a lot of coal like strip coal mines from like
Speaker 2: the old days. That's not the type of coal that's
Speaker 2: useful to us anymore, so they don't really mine it
Speaker 2: these days. But a lot of these towns like Hannah City, Peoria,
Speaker 2: and a lot of those towns near Farmington where he
Speaker 2: founded on coal originally. So I'm curious if there's some
Speaker 2: type of electromagnetic mineral something that might trigger these type
Speaker 2: of events, especially when you think about Bigfoot. In the
Speaker 2: Rocky Mountains, you have a lot of iron deposits in
Speaker 2: the Rockies, whereas Illinois it's a different You got a
Speaker 2: lot of limestone. I've heard of people finding mammoth teeth
Speaker 2: in a lot of the tributaries and creeks around Peak
Speaker 2: and Peoria areas. For sure.
Speaker 1: Do you have any pink granite in that area?
Speaker 2: You know what that's actually? I think I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's pink granite, but there So, there's a cemetery
Speaker 2: called the Smithville Cemetery nearby, and they have a monument
Speaker 2: in there on the north side called like It says McNaughton,
Speaker 2: and there's a little placard on it saying it was
Speaker 2: found on the McNaughton farm outside of Hannah City in
Speaker 2: some year in the eighteen hundreds, and the grant it
Speaker 2: looks like a granite stone. It's like an orangish pinkish color.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool, okay, interesting, And it's a large boulder.
Speaker 2: It's at least up to between my knees and my
Speaker 2: waist and I'm about six foot even. You don't see
Speaker 2: a whole lot of boulders and rocks out there, but
Speaker 2: you'll definitely see a few, like in the deeper cuts
Speaker 2: on the edges of hillsides and tributaries and such here
Speaker 2: and there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just interviewed a rock climber and it's not
Speaker 1: out yet, but he was sharing how what he's found
Speaker 1: is that in areas with pink granite, there would usually
Speaker 1: be a lot of potential sightings of Bigfoot and other things.
Speaker 2: And if I'm not mistaken, sometimes I think granite might
Speaker 2: contain traces of like uranium or other radioactive materials, if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, something like that.
Speaker 1: Another lesson say theory is have you ever seen have
Speaker 1: you ever seen pictures of animals when they have mange? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they lose all their hair and how different they look? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I wonder if that ever happens with Let's say, if
Speaker 1: Bigfoot is a physical creature, if they ever had the
Speaker 1: same thing that happen where if they were to lose
Speaker 1: all their hair, what would they look like?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, lose their hair, maybe get sick injuries because
Speaker 2: you were oh yeah, you know what have you ever
Speaker 2: seen those pictures of the bears that, Yeah, so like
Speaker 2: victims of wildfires. When I really think about that, it's
Speaker 2: almost like that. But we don't have black bears in Illinois.
Speaker 2: We've had some vagrant ones spotted here and there, but
Speaker 2: they're in like way north tip of Illinois that I've
Speaker 2: passed through from Wisconsin once or twice, and it was
Speaker 2: way too tall and thin to be a bear, for sure.
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I can't think that. I never really
Speaker 2: smelled any smoke or any signs of wildfire. Nothing. Sometimes
Speaker 2: there'll be a big grass brush fire, but usually in
Speaker 2: my experience in western Illinois, that was always in the
Speaker 2: spring when people and farmers are burning off dead grass
Speaker 2: on the edges of their cornfields things like that for
Speaker 2: pastures and such.
Speaker 1: Now, you said that you knew an individual that played
Speaker 1: darts that also had a sighting of this too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's this one older man. There's a bar in Farmington,
Speaker 2: and the bar doesn't even exist anymore. I can't remember
Speaker 2: the name of it, but yeah, I played darts of
Speaker 2: this older gentleman every now and then, and I can't
Speaker 2: think of his name. It's been probably since I haven't
Speaker 2: talked to him since twenty twelve, But yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: him telling me he's seen a lot of either a
Speaker 2: Bigfoot creature or an alien or something north of Farmington.
Speaker 2: So I'm thinking there's got to be something going on
Speaker 2: that could be looked into a little more between the
Speaker 2: Farmington and Canton area, because Farmington's only five or six
Speaker 2: miles just north of Canton. If there was a paved trail,
Speaker 2: I could walk to Canton almost.
Speaker 1: There's so many just people don't realize. They think all
Speaker 1: the Bigfoot are out there in Washington and Oregon, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them out there, But there's also
Speaker 1: weird stuff that happens in the Midwest. There's your Illinois stuff.
Speaker 1: But like even though, yeah, right now there's all these
Speaker 1: reports coming out about how there's been all these sightings
Speaker 1: in the middle of Omaha, Nebraska for the last twenty
Speaker 1: years and they're just now being released in the public,
Speaker 1: and it's as long as they have a food source
Speaker 1: and water nearby. What would be the food source in
Speaker 1: this area? Are there a lot of deer in the area.
Speaker 2: There's definitely a lot of deer. One time I was
Speaker 2: driving the back roads between Canton and I'd say from
Speaker 2: Canton to Hannah City. Been between there, I probably counted
Speaker 2: like thirty deer once jumping out of a cornfield. At
Speaker 2: least A lot of people will tell their kids and
Speaker 2: teenagers to slow down driving on those back roads because
Speaker 2: deer can They could just pop right out in front
Speaker 2: of you any second, So it's definitely something you gotta
Speaker 2: be more careful and cognizant of. Depending on the time
Speaker 2: of year as well. But yeah, I would say deer
Speaker 2: if they feed on that. There's definitely squirrels, raccoons, possums,
Speaker 2: plenty of possums. I see possums everywhere on the back roads,
Speaker 2: and definitely every now and then, livestock definitely get out
Speaker 2: and have gone missing. I think I haven't heard of
Speaker 2: any exact reports, but I knew of somebody that had
Speaker 2: a pig farm and their pigs were always getting loose.
Speaker 1: What's the is it Peoria County that Farmington's in.
Speaker 2: No, it's actually right on the edge of Peoria and
Speaker 2: Fulton County, so it's on the northeast corner of Fulton County.
Speaker 2: Like part of the city I think extends into Puria County.
Speaker 2: Maybe the school or a couple of businesses or something
Speaker 2: Farmington Propers in Fulton County.
Speaker 1: Interesting. There's another fun website and if you've never looked
Speaker 1: into it, you really should not. A lot of people
Speaker 1: I think know about it. But it's Stan there used
Speaker 1: to be there's I think he's still around. There's an
Speaker 1: investigator named Stan Courtney for Illinois. So if you go
Speaker 1: to Stan Courtney dot com you can really see a
Speaker 1: ton of there's a ton of reports for Fulton County
Speaker 1: from the bf ro O Bigfoot Encounters. G C b
Speaker 1: r O is another good one. So there's definitely over
Speaker 1: the years, Ben some solid activity.
Speaker 2: And you said you're from Iowa, right.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm from Central Iowa just a little bit.
Speaker 2: Well okay, yeah, because there's a I'm sure you've heard
Speaker 2: of the band Slipknot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Corey Taylor. I haven't read the book yet that he
Speaker 2: has a book where he talks about his encounters with
Speaker 2: the paranormal and the unusual. Really believe I can't remember
Speaker 2: the name. Yeah, I think it's called like a Funny
Speaker 2: Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven or something like that.
Speaker 2: He talks about his like spiritual and paranormal encounters and
Speaker 2: he definitely asserts that there's something out there okay with
Speaker 2: all these things, but he's he's a pretty vocal, like atheist,
Speaker 2: non religious type of person, but he's there's still an
Speaker 2: element of things that we do not understand out there
Speaker 2: yet that science can't yet explain.
Speaker 1: So I just ide to check into that. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: I've never really checked into Corey Taylor, I know who
Speaker 1: he is.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so the band mud Vein if you've heard
Speaker 2: of them as well. They're from Peoria. My mom went
Speaker 2: to high school with the guitar player Greg Tribbett from
Speaker 2: the band Okay. She remembered him as he was just
Speaker 2: a normal guy, but and she had friends and had
Speaker 2: a cousin. I think that was good friends with members
Speaker 2: of that band and stuff. I remember were like friends
Speaker 2: and I we'd drive around Farmington looking for ghosts and things.
Speaker 2: The bigfoot thing really reignited with that recent sighting that
Speaker 2: made media.
Speaker 1: And it's crazy. You're not the only person that I
Speaker 1: have been talking to from that area. I just interviewed
Speaker 1: a older couple from you know, I can't even really
Speaker 1: say specific it's around that area, I pretty much have
Speaker 1: to say, but there's just some people where they do
Speaker 1: not they don't even want to have their exact area.
Speaker 1: They're just okay with generalities. But yeah, it's that area
Speaker 1: the central Illinois. I think there's more to it. But
Speaker 1: if you had to think about what you saw and
Speaker 1: in retrospect, how would you classify it? Would you say
Speaker 1: bigfoot or would you maybe say something else?
Speaker 2: I kind of there's so there is one area I
Speaker 2: can I'll hint thatt to you, but I don't like
Speaker 2: to talk about it because I think it's very bad juju,
Speaker 2: very bad luck. And it is goes back to some
Speaker 2: Native American legends about things that can run as fast
Speaker 2: as you run, as fast as a car, and they
Speaker 2: can take the form of animals. I don't say the
Speaker 2: word of them because I don't like to invoke anything
Speaker 2: strange because I told someone about it when I was
Speaker 2: in Iraq, and I kid you not, within an hour,
Speaker 2: everybody on my base got sick as heck, like we
Speaker 2: were all projectile, vomiting and just ill. We all just
Speaker 2: came down to this sickness. Yeah, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: mess with that, but I would say there may be
Speaker 2: some old legends and lore worth looking into that may
Speaker 2: hint at something specifically. I think the lore that I'm
Speaker 2: alluding to takes place in southern Utah northern Arizona areas.
Speaker 2: But I don't know of any legends and things in
Speaker 2: the Midwest that maybe Native Americans may have stories and
Speaker 2: Laura about out.
Speaker 1: You know what. I want to bring something to your
Speaker 1: attention that I just found on that site. It seems
Speaker 1: that in July of sixty seven, just west of Farmington,
Speaker 1: there's an account you can read and it's a link
Speaker 1: to Bigfoot encounters dot com where someone had seen a
Speaker 1: large creature that they say it was just a black
Speaker 1: mass in the massive tan colored reads by the side
Speaker 1: of a lake.
Speaker 2: Yeah. That there's a lot of strip Mine lakes out
Speaker 2: by Farmington. That Yeah, that's a good description. That's yeah,
Speaker 2: massive black and that's all I saw at first.
Speaker 1: And I feel like there might be I think you
Speaker 1: sharing what you experienced in two thousand and eight might
Speaker 1: be the start to who knows what might come out
Speaker 1: about this this Farmington area. I'm just glad that you came.
Speaker 2: It's a small town, I think, to three thousand people.
Speaker 2: I haven't really been there in years. I went to
Speaker 2: like high school there for six months and then I
Speaker 2: moved to Utah as a teenager, and I'd come back
Speaker 2: and visit because I got cousins and stuff out there,
Speaker 2: and nieces and nephews and whatnot. I've been all over
Speaker 2: the world really, actually even lived in Oregon for a while,
Speaker 2: and I lived up in the mountains where you definitely
Speaker 2: heard things and you're like, it's not a coyote, that's
Speaker 2: not a mountain lion. I don't know what I just heard,
Speaker 2: but I'm going to go back inside.
Speaker 1: Austin, thank you for coming on the show and for sharing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you're welcome.
Speaker 1: It's an experience that or an encounter that is is
Speaker 1: very I'm not sure how to classify it myself, and
Speaker 1: be interesting to see where this conversation leads with people
Speaker 1: sharing if they've seen things that look like this. If
Speaker 1: you ever find out anything else, any other information, feel
Speaker 1: free to reach out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you'll get more more callers or something down
Speaker 2: the line here from this interview. Maybe someone's oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I used to live there too, and I saw this.
Speaker 1: You never know, I think. So it's been a pleasure
Speaker 1: chatting with you. Austin. Thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on the show tonight.
Speaker 2: Hey, you're very welcome. You have a wonderful evening.
Speaker 1: You as well. Thank you. You're at Bigfoot Society. Our
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