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Head on over to patreon dot com forward 12 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:37.240 slash the Big for Society and now let's get on 13 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.719 with the show, all right, Big for Society. We've got 14 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:43.960 the privilege of talking to Austin today. Austin's an individual 15 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:46.759 that reached out to me through TikTok. He had made 16 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:51.000 a comment on one of my recent Illinois videos, and 17 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:53.719 so I reached out to Austin about what he'd shared, 18 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.880 and he was good enough to reach back out. And 19 00:00:59.200 --> 00:01:02.840 he's got an introesting thing to share about an experience 20 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:06.680 that happened in the Peoria area. But I will let 21 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:09.239 him fill in the details about that. But how's it 22 00:01:09.280 --> 00:01:10.200 going today, Austin. 23 00:01:11.640 --> 00:01:14.159 Pretty good? Cooling off here in Florida. 24 00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.680 Finally, fantastic. Yeah, he sounds good to me. We're definitely 25 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:21.280 cooling off up here in Iowa, but different way. We 26 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:22.280 just got snow today. 27 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:25.519 Oh yeah, No, I still seeing alligators down here, all right. 28 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.920 If we start to see those, then we're having we're 29 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:33.159 having issues up here, but we're in trouble. But it's 30 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:35.400 it's a pleasure to have you on the show. I 31 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.640 can't wait to hear about all that you experienced out 32 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:40.840 there in the farm, little noise. I'm just going to 33 00:01:40.879 --> 00:01:42.879 go ahead and give it right over to you, man, 34 00:01:43.239 --> 00:01:45.799 take us back to what we need to know and 35 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:46.840 what you experience. 36 00:01:47.519 --> 00:01:49.760 And I'm not completely sure if it was a bigfoot 37 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:56.760 or something another type of what is that word for them. 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:02:00.519 Like yeah, okay, yeah yeah, But so in other people 39 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:04.439 in the area have actually talked about similar One of 40 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:07.000 my cousins did, and a few of her friends, and even. 41 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.360 A guy I used to play darts and drink beer with. 42 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:14.319 I think he even mentioned a similar sighting. So it's 43 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:18.080 been spotted by other people and myself on like the 44 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:20.800 dirt back roads because Farmington's like on the edge of 45 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:24.199 the Peoria metro area. It's about a good five to 46 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:27.719 ten miles away from the main city area, so it's 47 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:29.960 a lot of cornfields, a lot of back roads and 48 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.439 things like that when you go west and southwest of 49 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:37.800 Farmington for sure. So it was October two thousand and eight. 50 00:02:38.639 --> 00:02:41.599 I was on mid tour leave from Iraq because I 51 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:45.400 was in the Army at the time, and I went 52 00:02:45.439 --> 00:02:47.919 back to Illinois to visit family and friends and hang out. 53 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:50.560 And one thing I just liked to do was the 54 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:53.120 freedom to just drive around. It was nice to just 55 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:56.479 go out at night on long drives through the cornfields 56 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.919 and stuff. It was still like a late harvest season. 57 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:01.599 I think that year, I can't remember, but I definitely 58 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:04.599 could see dry corn up and down both sides of 59 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.879 the road at the time, so it was probably early October, 60 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.479 not sure about the exact day. So I'm driving through Farmington, 61 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:16.759 going through the main drag, going through main Street, I 62 00:03:16.800 --> 00:03:20.919 think one sixteen or something, and when I go towards 63 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:23.080 the back roads, there's a couple of back roads that 64 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:26.120 go towards like Bushnell, Illinois, another town over to the 65 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:31.719 west southwest, I think, and I'm driving down the cornfield 66 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.960 and I got music going. I think I'm listening to 67 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:39.840 No Effects at the time, and I see this like 68 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:43.919 figure had it been like first, I thought it was 69 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.919 like a piece of metal waving in the wind that 70 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.560 got stuck on a tree or something. But it was 71 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.599 definitely like humanoid shaped once I got closer. It was 72 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:56.960 walking parallel to the road in the cornfield, but its 73 00:03:57.000 --> 00:04:01.680 skin was like shiny and kind of jet black. It 74 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:06.879 was tall, jet black, shiny, and I just I couldn't 75 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.360 believe my eyes what I was seeing. It was very strange. 76 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.439 I was like, it's like frail like it I could 77 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:16.399 I remember seeing like long fingers trailing down its side. 78 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:18.879 I didn't get a good look at the head or anything. 79 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.000 The main parts I could really see were like the 80 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:27.399 elbow down, the lower arm, and then the legs. And 81 00:04:27.600 --> 00:04:29.959 I don't know if it was bigfoot or an alien 82 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:34.920 or what. I've had other people. They'll say I've seen 83 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:38.639 the same thing out on those back roads out that 84 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:43.360 passed Farmington and can't figure out what it is. But 85 00:04:43.480 --> 00:04:46.519 other people in the area have definitely mentioned it and 86 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.399 talked about it from time to time. And I have 87 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.160 a couple theories about what that could be, but I'm 88 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:58.040 not completely sure. I'd be really curious to talk to 89 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:03.560 that guy that saw the bigfoot creature re in the area. 90 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.240 I'm yeah, to see the height and just because it 91 00:05:08.319 --> 00:05:12.240 was definitely probably seven pm, I'm thinking it was definitely 92 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:17.800 dark out in October for that time, and I was 93 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.079 driving a rental car. I can't even remember what kind 94 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:24.000 of car I was driving. Would have been like just 95 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:27.639 one of your basic, average four door Sedan's, I'm sure. 96 00:05:28.920 --> 00:05:30.920 And yeah, I was going down the gravel road and 97 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.000 it was just what the heck is that? And I 98 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:38.519 just kept going, and I'm like, I wanted to turn 99 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:40.879 around the loose gravel and dirt, and I was very 100 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:43.560 safety conscious. I didn't want to get in trouble with 101 00:05:43.600 --> 00:05:45.040 the Army if I got in a car wreck while 102 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.319 I was away on leave, that's for sure. But yeah, 103 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.759 I looked and I remember talking to my cousin about 104 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:56.600 that and she said, oh, yeah, I've got friends that've 105 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.279 seen that too, And it was crazy. Not even a 106 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.000 week later, when I'm in Illinois, it was like the 107 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:04.720 end of my time there. I was at a hotel 108 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:08.040 party with some friends and someone shows up white as 109 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:13.160 a ghost. Dude, I saw this like alien bigfoot creature, 110 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:15.800 don't know what it was. It was all jet black, 111 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:20.839 like jet black shiny skin. And the only place I've 112 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:23.439 ever heard another story about that was from a guy 113 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:27.120 in Utah up at someplace called Lightning Ridge, where he 114 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.920 had seen something with long fingers shiny black skin as well. 115 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.959 This is very unique. I think this is a first 116 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:44.519 time I've heard of a sighting where jet black shiny skin. 117 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.639 When you say long fingers, could you see the actual 118 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:52.399 fingers or was it just that its arms wereholed or 119 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.399 were really low. 120 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.920 It felt like it was looking like fingers, like they 121 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.439 almost I would say, like the thickness of a grown 122 00:06:58.519 --> 00:07:01.480 man's two fingers together, and they went down to almost 123 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:05.720 a point, looked like loose or something like maybe it 124 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:11.439 was wearing some sort of overcoat or shedding skin or 125 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:15.759 something like that. I couldn't quite It was very brief 126 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.639 and it was very sudden, and I was like, what 127 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.639 the heck was I seeing? And I spooked me out, 128 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:23.600 and I didn't really bother turn it around to go 129 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:24.199 back there. 130 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:26.079 Yeah, I don't. 131 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:29.079 Yeah, I wish I took it in more at the time, 132 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:32.399 but I don't even think anybody really had a smartphone 133 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.720 at the time phones took pictures. It was like two 134 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.439 thousand and eight. People were still using the razor phone 135 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.800 or something, So it wasn't really you didn't have cameras 136 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:41.720 a great quality, and I wouldn't have even thought to 137 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:43.040 take a picture at that time. 138 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:47.759 Oh yeah, exactly it was. That was a different time. 139 00:07:48.639 --> 00:07:51.480 You had to flip phones, and you're exactly right, you 140 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:55.199 wouldn't really want to take pictures with those phones. That 141 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:58.519 usually didn't end up being a good time. The shiny skin, 142 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:02.639 the jet black, so it sounds like, what how about this? 143 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.879 How much of it was covered with hair or was 144 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:08.639 it not really covered with hair at all? 145 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:13.439 I didn't see hair. It was tall and shiny. The head, 146 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:17.360 like what I could see of the head just looked 147 00:08:17.519 --> 00:08:21.879 like came up. I wouldn't say a cone, but larger 148 00:08:21.879 --> 00:08:26.399 than a human head for sure, almost like slightly conish, 149 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:30.000 but more dome like. I wish I could draw it out, 150 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:32.279 but I'm a terrible artist. 151 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:36.200 Now, you probably only saw it for a few seconds, 152 00:08:36.200 --> 00:08:36.960 I'm guessing. 153 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:41.240 Right, yeah, And I'm guessing I was probably driving, since 154 00:08:41.240 --> 00:08:43.080 I was driving a rental car and it's a gravel road. 155 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:46.159 I was probably going slower than normal. I would say 156 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:51.000 maybe forty miles an hour at the very most, probably 157 00:08:51.039 --> 00:08:54.879 thirty thirty five, so I'm not going terribly fast. 158 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:59.679 Could you see anything that looked like ears on it? 159 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:04.200 I could. I did not recall seeing anything that looked 160 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:04.840 like ears. 161 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:08.279 No, okay, a color to its eyes at all. 162 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:12.320 Didn't see the front of the face, just the back 163 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.600 in like the side of the arms and leg. 164 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:17.559 Anything weird. 165 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:20.360 It was way too tall to be a person. 166 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.840 Gotcha, and remind me what you would estimate the height 167 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:28.320 to be of it again, like eight. 168 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:32.200 To nine feet. It was definitely above what there was 169 00:09:32.279 --> 00:09:35.559 dead corn I remember, on both sides of the road, 170 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.799 and it was standing up above that. That's why, from 171 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.360 a distance I thought it was like a piece of 172 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.480 metal from like a barn, or something that got loose 173 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:47.039 in a storm, like hanging from a tree nearby or something. 174 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:49.200 I couldn't quite make out what I was looking at 175 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:51.320 from a distance. Once I got closer, whoa, who is 176 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:51.919 what is that? 177 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.200 Okay, but you're actually seeing it move though, correct? 178 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:58.960 Yeah? It was walking like at a slow like just 179 00:09:59.080 --> 00:09:59.960 general steady. 180 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:06.320 Yeah, anything weird about the legs Oh, those feel like 181 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:10.799 they're backwards or the way that they're put together just 182 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.279 was weird to me. Anything like that, not that. 183 00:10:15.240 --> 00:10:17.559 I can recall, I think the most, like the parts 184 00:10:17.559 --> 00:10:20.200 that stood out the most were like the long fingers, 185 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.759 wide fingers, and I don't think there were five. It 186 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:26.799 was like almost like I could see maybe three in 187 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:31.200 like a thumb appendage type thing. But it was definitely 188 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.600 like the fingers. And when I say jet black, I 189 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:37.120 would say the skin now that I think about it more, 190 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.279 the skin kind of had a textured to like elephant's skin, 191 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.440 but it was jet black and shiny. If that, if 192 00:10:42.440 --> 00:10:43.840 you can picture that. 193 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:51.919 It's really weird. Did you experience anything that made you think, oh, 194 00:10:52.039 --> 00:10:54.679 that is like a dog didn't have a tail or anything. 195 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.919 No, it didn't give me any animal. I really thought 196 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:04.000 it was like either one a hallucination, two an alien 197 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.840 three like a form of Bigfoot or sasquatch or something. 198 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.360 But I just didn't really I didn't really draw the 199 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.960 line to Bigfoot until I saw your TikTok video about 200 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:17.879 that other guy that saw something near there. Uh, there's 201 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:21.440 a few paranormal abnormalities that do happen in that area. 202 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:24.919 There's a little bridge on one of the backwards between 203 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:29.679 Farmington and Canton called cry Baby Bridge, and it's you know, 204 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:32.399 people will go out there at night and they'll hear 205 00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:36.480 voices and there's no one there, stuff like that. And 206 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.120 when I took I took down some notes of thoughts 207 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:42.039 I had. You remember those UFO hearings recently about the 208 00:11:42.240 --> 00:11:46.399 UAPs where they're talking about interdimensional beings. That keyword interdimensional 209 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:51.360 absolutely see. That's one thing I was thinking of is 210 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:56.639 perhaps there's some sort of hiccup where alternate realities overlap 211 00:11:56.720 --> 00:11:59.440 with ours, and maybe they're only viewable by certain people. 212 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:03.240 It makes sense why they're so rare. You'd think more 213 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:07.159 people would see these things as urbanized and as spread 214 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.080 out as people are all over these days compared to 215 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.840 a hundred years ago and whatnot. 216 00:12:13.240 --> 00:12:18.679 And something that has lately is there are certain areas 217 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:24.840 of the country that seem to have just more strangeness 218 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:29.279 than others. And you've got maybe there's an area like 219 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:32.240 this in this area in Illinois too. 220 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:34.840 Like a hot spot like lay lines or something or 221 00:12:34.840 --> 00:12:36.799 some type. I was thinking maybe you had something to 222 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:40.759 do with maybe the Earth's magnetism or mineral deposits and things, 223 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:45.919 because when you look at western Illinois, specifically from Farmington 224 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:52.000 to Canton to Macombe to Nauvoo, Carthage, Quincy, those kind 225 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.879 of sections of Illinois, there's a lot of like tributaries 226 00:12:56.879 --> 00:12:59.399 that flow into Illinois or Mississippi River out there. There's 227 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.759 a little more like branches of forest and woods and such, 228 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.240 like the Spoon River is a pretty popular one I 229 00:13:06.240 --> 00:13:09.440 can think of in Fulton County. You got the Kickapoo 230 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.279 Creek that runs through Peoria County, and then I remember 231 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:17.639 the Copperas Creek also runs a little bit south of 232 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:21.200 Peoria down towards Mapleton and Banner and it empties out 233 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:24.840 into the Illinois River. And you know, these are I 234 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:30.919 think it's old glacial deposits from the last Ice Age 235 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.840 in some parts too, because if you look around Farmington, 236 00:13:35.480 --> 00:13:37.440 if you ever look on a satellite map, you see 237 00:13:37.480 --> 00:13:40.559 a lot of coal like strip coal mines from like 238 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:43.080 the old days. That's not the type of coal that's 239 00:13:43.159 --> 00:13:45.799 useful to us anymore, so they don't really mine it 240 00:13:45.919 --> 00:13:49.759 these days. But a lot of these towns like Hannah City, Peoria, 241 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.080 and a lot of those towns near Farmington where he 242 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.399 founded on coal originally. So I'm curious if there's some 243 00:13:55.440 --> 00:14:01.440 type of electromagnetic mineral something that might trigger these type 244 00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:04.799 of events, especially when you think about Bigfoot. In the 245 00:14:04.879 --> 00:14:06.840 Rocky Mountains, you have a lot of iron deposits in 246 00:14:06.879 --> 00:14:11.639 the Rockies, whereas Illinois it's a different You got a 247 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:15.519 lot of limestone. I've heard of people finding mammoth teeth 248 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:19.360 in a lot of the tributaries and creeks around Peak 249 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:22.360 and Peoria areas. For sure. 250 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:27.360 Do you have any pink granite in that area? 251 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:31.639 You know what that's actually? I think I don't know 252 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.039 if it's pink granite, but there So, there's a cemetery 253 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:38.120 called the Smithville Cemetery nearby, and they have a monument 254 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:42.320 in there on the north side called like It says McNaughton, 255 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:44.440 and there's a little placard on it saying it was 256 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:48.240 found on the McNaughton farm outside of Hannah City in 257 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.200 some year in the eighteen hundreds, and the grant it 258 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.320 looks like a granite stone. It's like an orangish pinkish color. 259 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:59.600 Oh, that's cool, okay, interesting, And it's a large boulder. 260 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.639 It's at least up to between my knees and my 261 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:05.919 waist and I'm about six foot even. You don't see 262 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:07.799 a whole lot of boulders and rocks out there, but 263 00:15:07.840 --> 00:15:10.279 you'll definitely see a few, like in the deeper cuts 264 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:13.879 on the edges of hillsides and tributaries and such here 265 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:14.360 and there. 266 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:19.399 Yeah, I just interviewed a rock climber and it's not 267 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:23.759 out yet, but he was sharing how what he's found 268 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:28.200 is that in areas with pink granite, there would usually 269 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:32.440 be a lot of potential sightings of Bigfoot and other things. 270 00:15:32.480 --> 00:15:37.159 And if I'm not mistaken, sometimes I think granite might 271 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.200 contain traces of like uranium or other radioactive materials, if 272 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.080 I'm not mistaken, something like that. 273 00:15:44.240 --> 00:15:50.799 Another lesson say theory is have you ever seen have 274 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:56.759 you ever seen pictures of animals when they have mange? Yeah, 275 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:01.759 they lose all their hair and how different they look? Yeah, yeah, 276 00:16:01.840 --> 00:16:05.480 I wonder if that ever happens with Let's say, if 277 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:09.639 Bigfoot is a physical creature, if they ever had the 278 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:12.879 same thing that happen where if they were to lose 279 00:16:13.080 --> 00:16:15.279 all their hair, what would they look like? 280 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:21.039 Oh yeah, lose their hair, maybe get sick injuries because 281 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.000 you were oh yeah, you know what have you ever 282 00:16:23.039 --> 00:16:25.399 seen those pictures of the bears that, Yeah, so like 283 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.759 victims of wildfires. When I really think about that, it's 284 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.320 almost like that. But we don't have black bears in Illinois. 285 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.279 We've had some vagrant ones spotted here and there, but 286 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:38.240 they're in like way north tip of Illinois that I've 287 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:41.399 passed through from Wisconsin once or twice, and it was 288 00:16:41.440 --> 00:16:44.000 way too tall and thin to be a bear, for sure. 289 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.799 But yeah, but I can't think that. I never really 290 00:16:49.799 --> 00:16:52.879 smelled any smoke or any signs of wildfire. Nothing. Sometimes 291 00:16:52.919 --> 00:16:55.200 there'll be a big grass brush fire, but usually in 292 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:57.600 my experience in western Illinois, that was always in the 293 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:00.879 spring when people and farmers are burning off dead grass 294 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:03.720 on the edges of their cornfields things like that for 295 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.559 pastures and such. 296 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:11.960 Now, you said that you knew an individual that played 297 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.559 darts that also had a sighting of this too. 298 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:18.079 Yeah, there's this one older man. There's a bar in Farmington, 299 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:20.400 and the bar doesn't even exist anymore. I can't remember 300 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:24.160 the name of it, but yeah, I played darts of 301 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:28.680 this older gentleman every now and then, and I can't 302 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.680 think of his name. It's been probably since I haven't 303 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:34.720 talked to him since twenty twelve, But yeah, I remember 304 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:38.319 him telling me he's seen a lot of either a 305 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:43.200 Bigfoot creature or an alien or something north of Farmington. 306 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:47.960 So I'm thinking there's got to be something going on 307 00:17:48.440 --> 00:17:51.559 that could be looked into a little more between the 308 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:55.079 Farmington and Canton area, because Farmington's only five or six 309 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:58.319 miles just north of Canton. If there was a paved trail, 310 00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.920 I could walk to Canton almost. 311 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.920 There's so many just people don't realize. They think all 312 00:18:03.960 --> 00:18:07.359 the Bigfoot are out there in Washington and Oregon, and 313 00:18:07.680 --> 00:18:09.960 there's a lot of them out there, But there's also 314 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.640 weird stuff that happens in the Midwest. There's your Illinois stuff. 315 00:18:13.680 --> 00:18:16.920 But like even though, yeah, right now there's all these 316 00:18:16.960 --> 00:18:20.680 reports coming out about how there's been all these sightings 317 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.079 in the middle of Omaha, Nebraska for the last twenty 318 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:26.680 years and they're just now being released in the public, 319 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:29.799 and it's as long as they have a food source 320 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:33.680 and water nearby. What would be the food source in 321 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:36.359 this area? Are there a lot of deer in the area. 322 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.240 There's definitely a lot of deer. One time I was 323 00:18:39.319 --> 00:18:43.680 driving the back roads between Canton and I'd say from 324 00:18:43.799 --> 00:18:50.640 Canton to Hannah City. Been between there, I probably counted 325 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:53.559 like thirty deer once jumping out of a cornfield. At 326 00:18:53.640 --> 00:18:56.359 least A lot of people will tell their kids and 327 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.519 teenagers to slow down driving on those back roads because 328 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:01.519 deer can They could just pop right out in front 329 00:19:01.519 --> 00:19:04.799 of you any second, So it's definitely something you gotta 330 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.799 be more careful and cognizant of. Depending on the time 331 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.599 of year as well. But yeah, I would say deer 332 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:17.599 if they feed on that. There's definitely squirrels, raccoons, possums, 333 00:19:17.799 --> 00:19:22.039 plenty of possums. I see possums everywhere on the back roads, 334 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:27.400 and definitely every now and then, livestock definitely get out 335 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.720 and have gone missing. I think I haven't heard of 336 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:33.200 any exact reports, but I knew of somebody that had 337 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:35.480 a pig farm and their pigs were always getting loose. 338 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:43.480 What's the is it Peoria County that Farmington's in. 339 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:48.039 No, it's actually right on the edge of Peoria and 340 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:51.839 Fulton County, so it's on the northeast corner of Fulton County. 341 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.039 Like part of the city I think extends into Puria County. 342 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:58.400 Maybe the school or a couple of businesses or something 343 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:03.880 Farmington Propers in Fulton County. 344 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:09.400 Interesting. There's another fun website and if you've never looked 345 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:13.839 into it, you really should not. A lot of people 346 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:17.839 I think know about it. But it's Stan there used 347 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:19.960 to be there's I think he's still around. There's an 348 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.759 investigator named Stan Courtney for Illinois. So if you go 349 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:27.880 to Stan Courtney dot com you can really see a 350 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.119 ton of there's a ton of reports for Fulton County 351 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:35.599 from the bf ro O Bigfoot Encounters. G C b 352 00:20:35.799 --> 00:20:40.559 r O is another good one. So there's definitely over 353 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:45.400 the years, Ben some solid activity. 354 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.839 And you said you're from Iowa, right. 355 00:20:47.759 --> 00:20:51.920 Yes, I'm from Central Iowa just a little bit. 356 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:54.519 Well okay, yeah, because there's a I'm sure you've heard 357 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:56.359 of the band Slipknot. 358 00:20:56.440 --> 00:20:58.920 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. 359 00:20:58.960 --> 00:21:00.960 Corey Taylor. I haven't read the book yet that he 360 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:03.480 has a book where he talks about his encounters with 361 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.359 the paranormal and the unusual. Really believe I can't remember 362 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:09.559 the name. Yeah, I think it's called like a Funny 363 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.000 Thing Happened on the Way to Heaven or something like that. 364 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:16.000 He talks about his like spiritual and paranormal encounters and 365 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:21.599 he definitely asserts that there's something out there okay with 366 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:24.799 all these things, but he's he's a pretty vocal, like atheist, 367 00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:27.200 non religious type of person, but he's there's still an 368 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:29.799 element of things that we do not understand out there 369 00:21:29.880 --> 00:21:31.680 yet that science can't yet explain. 370 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:37.319 So I just ide to check into that. Yeah, thank you. 371 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:40.480 I've never really checked into Corey Taylor, I know who 372 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:40.839 he is. 373 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.000 But yeah, so the band mud Vein if you've heard 374 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:47.400 of them as well. They're from Peoria. My mom went 375 00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:50.839 to high school with the guitar player Greg Tribbett from 376 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:53.680 the band Okay. She remembered him as he was just 377 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.240 a normal guy, but and she had friends and had 378 00:21:56.279 --> 00:21:58.440 a cousin. I think that was good friends with members 379 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:00.759 of that band and stuff. I remember were like friends 380 00:22:00.759 --> 00:22:04.640 and I we'd drive around Farmington looking for ghosts and things. 381 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:08.960 The bigfoot thing really reignited with that recent sighting that 382 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:12.039 made media. 383 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:16.440 And it's crazy. You're not the only person that I 384 00:22:16.599 --> 00:22:20.319 have been talking to from that area. I just interviewed 385 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.400 a older couple from you know, I can't even really 386 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.720 say specific it's around that area, I pretty much have 387 00:22:29.799 --> 00:22:33.079 to say, but there's just some people where they do 388 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.359 not they don't even want to have their exact area. 389 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:41.160 They're just okay with generalities. But yeah, it's that area 390 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:44.160 the central Illinois. I think there's more to it. But 391 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:48.440 if you had to think about what you saw and 392 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:51.920 in retrospect, how would you classify it? Would you say 393 00:22:51.920 --> 00:22:54.079 bigfoot or would you maybe say something else? 394 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:58.000 I kind of there's so there is one area I 395 00:22:58.039 --> 00:23:00.720 can I'll hint thatt to you, but I don't like 396 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:02.920 to talk about it because I think it's very bad juju, 397 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:06.279 very bad luck. And it is goes back to some 398 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:11.359 Native American legends about things that can run as fast 399 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:16.559 as you run, as fast as a car, and they 400 00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:19.960 can take the form of animals. I don't say the 401 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.200