Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and welcome to another Sasquatch Theory podcast tonight.
I'm joined by Tony from California's Bay Area. Tony enjoys
spending time outdoors, but a series of strange encounters left
him questioning what was really out there. From an overwhelming
odor that many witnesses describe and hearing something violently hitting
a shed while he was working, to glowing red eyes
near Montera Mountain, and another unexplained experience off of Highway
one oh one. Tony shares the details of what he
witnessed and I hope you guys enjoy this interview. If
you have a bigfoot encounter that you would like to
share here on Sasquatch Theory, feel free to get in
touch with me sometime at Sasquatch Theory at outlook dot com.
With all that being said, let's dive straight into Tony's
strange experiences from the state of California. Tony, Welcome to
Sasquatch Theory. How are you doing today, sir?
Speaker 2: Doing great? Yourself? How you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm doing excellent. Thank you so much for asking Tony
if you would tell me a little bit about yourself,
where you're from, and your experiences from the very beginning. Please.
Speaker 2: All right, So from California, kind of in the Bay Area.
I work in the Bay Area.
Speaker 3: I've done a lot of outdoor activities since I was
a kid, hunting quite a bit, especially out in the valley,
out in the foothills. I work in the industry of telecommunications,
so I'm out at remote sites in particular more like
like like cellular communications, you know, So.
Speaker 2: I go out to a lot of different remote.
Speaker 3: Sites throughout the area more and then outside of the
Bay Area as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, I appreciate you for sharing that with me, and
if you would walk me through your first experience and
what unfolded.
Speaker 3: So my first experience, and I'll spell out where I
was at. As a matter of fact, it didn't even
click what it was until years later when I started
reading more about the whole topic. But my first experience,
I was out in Salmonteo County, of all places, and.
Speaker 2: There's used to be some compsites.
Speaker 3: They since moved it because the location has done quite
a bit of revamping.
Speaker 2: And this was about two thousand and five, two thousand
and six.
Speaker 3: And I was out at I don't know if you're
familiar with with California or the Bay Area. But up
on top of ninety two there's a cemetery called Skylawn Cemetery,
and back in five six oh seven, the back part
of the cemetery was just all kind of like overgrown,
just as natural. Right, it's right up against the San
Francisco Watershed, which is a keepout area, and I've been
doing COMMS work up there since the early two thousands.
And on this particular day, it was a super super
fog day, Like it's one of those days.
Speaker 2: It's just the fog is just so thick.
Speaker 3: It's rolling through windy and there's just fog you can
just rolling through well.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So that experience is kind of mild. But as
I was working in the shelter at the com shelter, when.
Speaker 3: I got out, I experienced the thickest, muskiest smell ever.
And I've been hunting, I've been around animals, I've been
around livestock as well, and this smell just like overpowered
every it was so thick. I thought maybe it was
in the thought in the in the fog, right, And
I didn't really think twice about it. I'd go outside,
you know, to use the bathroom. Real quick, you know,
just kind of relieve myself, go back inside and work
on the radio equipment, and then go back outside.
Speaker 2: And that smell was still there, was just real thick everywhere.
Speaker 3: When I was inside, I kept hearing like things hitting
the shelter, and I kept thinking that it was like
trees or something like that, you know, like because it's windy.
So I kept thinking, all right, there's trees and all that.
And then I go outside, you know, to you know,
use the head real quick, just out on the bush,
and I kept hearing like something moving around. My first
thought was, you know, I want and if it's a
mountain lion, it's definitely not deer, and it in my
head I kind of picture like a mountain lion that's
kind of like uh like.
Speaker 2: Like like like uh, you know.
Speaker 3: The way cats jump, right, yeah, And just it looked
like it sounded like it was jumping kind of around me,
almost like a.
Speaker 2: Like a horseshoe from my right, boom boom booming around,
boom boom booming around.
Speaker 3: And that smell was still real thick, real thick, real
thick smell, just real musky is nasty in the air.
Speaker 2: That spoofed me so I get back in the shelter.
Speaker 3: I actually didn't walk out of the shelter until until
the fog had rolled out. By the time the fog
rolled out, there was no more smell.
Speaker 2: There was nothing.
Speaker 3: It was sunny outside, and uh, when I looked around,
I realized there's no trees where I'm at. It's just
all this big like bush that grows here in the
Bay area. So, you know, I didn't think much of it.
I didn't, you know, anything, And I didn't start thinking
about it until years later when I'm reading about the
bigfoot of it, you know, all things, and I come
across the smell in some some book that I was
reading or maybe something online, and it.
Speaker 2: Brought back that memory, like, oh shit, you know what,
you know, it was kind of weird. What was that?
You know, it was just this real thick, thick smell.
Speaker 3: So, you know, as simple as it is that that
that was like my first experience.
Speaker 2: It was just kind of weird.
Speaker 3: H I don't know what was what was knocking on
the on the shelter because the shelter was really not
surrounded by anything. For some reason, right away, I thought
of trees, you know. But so a few months after
that there's actually another site called Montera Mountain, and uh,
you have to go through the watershed to get there.
And we were up in that site real late, and
we were coming back down the road on a fire
road that brings you back down to where the skyline
is at and about two miles from the the gate
to get to where the skyline site is at, and
we're coming back through the watershed.
Speaker 2: Up in the trees, I saw two red eyes.
Speaker 3: Right, and it was really weird because it wasn't like
the normal kind of orange red eyes.
Speaker 2: It was just.
Speaker 3: Like like red, very similar to do you remember them
old alarm clocks, the old digital alarm clocks. Yeah, you
know the red that you get from the from the
from the from the number in there.
Speaker 2: That's what it looked like.
Speaker 3: And it was just two red eyes about thirty feet
up in a tree, pretty far apart. My estimation would
be there six or seven inches apart. I was driving
with another guy. He was driving. I was a passenger,
and I don't know, I just I felt schepid, I guess.
I didn't say anything to him and we just kept driving.
It wasn't until later when I was watching a TV
a documentary online online, and I think the documentary was
Chasing j or Finding Jay, and some part in that
video he shows a depiction of red eyes that he
seen and it was identical to what I saw that night,
you know, So as simple as those are the two
experiences I saw there, But.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize anything.
Speaker 3: Or even put two and two together until years later,
after I was reading about the subject and I was
got more informed. That's a certain thing. I thought, maybe
it's a possibility, you know, I don't know. So I
started talking to the watershed workers, a couple of guys.
Speaker 2: That I know. One of them actually he doesn't work
there anymore.
Speaker 3: And it's like every time that we'd start talking about
weird things that happened out here, they would get into it,
and then little by little they would kind of just
you know, cut it off and you know, change the subject.
It was really weird in the way that they would
change the subject. They didn't want to talk about it anymore.
They'd start kind of joking like it was chuppuck eybra
or something like that, and just change your subject completely,
you know. But one of these guys that worked there
had told me to go talk to an old guy
that lives in Pescadero.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna say this guy's name.
Speaker 3: He's actually passed away since this is now about twenty
fourteen and maybe twenty sixteen at latest. And this guy
was talking like like like it was no big deal
that what I saw was the what he referred to it,
like the big fellow. And supposedly it was a bigfoot
that migrates certain times of the year between the Santa
Cruz Mountains and up into the San Francisco Watershed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting. And what could you compare the smell to.
Was it like a skunk or like rotten flesh, garbage?
What would you say?
Speaker 3: No, it wasn't a skunk. I wouldn't quite say rotten flesh.
I guess more like garbage musky. I think the biggest
thing was was the thickness of it. It was just
like everywhere, like like it was so thick. I actually
thought it was in the fog.
Speaker 1: You know, so musky as in like a wet dog,
like an animal smell.
Speaker 3: Kind of like an animal smell, but just like like
ten times worse than a wet dog, you know, just
like it because the wet dog you have to get
in the ear and you're like, oh, man.
Speaker 2: Stink, you know you gotta walk. You know, we're gonna
shower you. This was just like it was like in
the air.
Speaker 3: It was like just all over the place, like like completely,
almost like picture if I had a color and let's
say it was like a green fog, and I was
like stuck in that green fog, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the eyes that you encountered, was there a
source of light reflecting on the eyes, like tail lights
or your head lights anything like that.
Speaker 2: The only source of light would be the headlights.
Speaker 3: As we were approaching that tree, and the eyes were
probably about thirty feet up in the tree, so it's
really dark up in there, and all I saw was
these red eyes.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, that's scary.
Speaker 2: Definitely does it's funny right away. I didn't even think
big for anything like that.
Speaker 3: I thought like, at first, I thought like it was
like maybe a like it looked artificial, so I thought
it was like a game came or something like that,
and it was like a light off of a game cam.
And then I'm thinking, you know, why the hell is
it all the way up thirty feet up in the air.
Speaker 2: And then you know there's two of them.
Speaker 3: So then I was that's kind of weird, not that
an owl, but you know, it's just I'm just trying
to like put two and two together, like, you know, what, what,
what the heck is this?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And I was actually driving with my coworker and I
was going to say something to him, and I was
just like, ah, well, fuck, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 2: Say nothing, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so he didn't see it.
Speaker 2: He didn't see it.
Speaker 1: No, oh man, Yeah, can I can't imagine how you felt.
And it was probably an isolating feeling knowing you experienced
something like that and the other person didn't see it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We were just chit chat and driving the whole time.
I look up. I go, oh man, what's in my head?
What is that? I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at it, and then we just pass it
and it kind of like almost like it was looking down,
because it was kind of like looking down. And then
if you pass it, I look back in the rearview
mirror and it's just nothing but black.
Speaker 2: So I didn't see anything, you know, behind us.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and off air, you said, this is pretty close
to Andrews's encounter. Who's on my podcast? Off of what
is It? Highway one fifty two, I think it is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that is probably about a good forty miles south,
So it's beyond the Peninsula down pass San Jose, over
at the Pacheco Pass. As a matter of fact, on
that podcast, he actually mentioned Samontel County like he's surprised
that no one's experienced anything in Samtail County and being
out how much vast lander is here, even though Sanmontail
County on the Bay side is a lot of city,
but on the other side it's just a bunch of
like redwoods and all that.
Speaker 2: It's continuation pretty much of the Santa Crieze Mountains.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've never been to California, But in your opinion,
could something like Bigfoot exists in an area like that
and remain elusive without people being able to figure out
that they're in the area.
Speaker 3: You know, for many years I would have said no,
just because the population here. But after seeing how vast
you know, and then working in different sites and how
a lot of the property up there is watershed property
and people aren't even a lot of go there, and
just how much land there is out there, I'd say
that it's it's probably possible. You know, if anything does
like live like in the Santa Crize Mountains and you know,
periodically one or two you know, travel through to get
to the the U to the watershed, I wouldn't doubt it,
would I say that no one knows about it.
Speaker 2: I doubt that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I wonder if it's possible if these things
are migrating from like British Columbia down towards like Bluff Creek,
Willow Creek area and all the way down into the
area where you had the encounter with the red Eyes.
Speaker 3: That could be you know, I mean, I would almost
feel that if if if there's something that's living down there,
it's not coming from that far. It's probably living in
the Santa Cruz Mountains and up in the area over
there by one fifty two. Yeah, coming down from British Columbia,
it's quite a bit, quite a bit of land.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a lot of land must be coming from
like the Redwood Forest or areas like that around the
San Francisco Bay area.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So you know, that's as corny as it is.
Speaker 2: That's all I got.
Speaker 3: I guess the intriguing party is the location where I
saw this, And you know, it could be anything to
you know, It's just I've never smelled anything like that,
and I've never again seen any eyes like that again,
that color of red. Yeah, that big, big round eyes
that far apart.
Speaker 1: No, that definitely makes sense. I get a lot of
reports on the channel of people encountering red eyes. Are
there any local legends of giant skeletons being found in
the area of skinwalkers, burial mounds, anything like that.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: The only local legend I know is when I was
speaking to the old guy that lived in Pescadero and
supposedly there was a a sasquatch that would migrate through
and actually, as a matter of fact, he always referred
to it as being white, like like they had white
hair or grayish hair, and it.
Speaker 2: Would migrate between.
Speaker 3: From the Santa Cruz Mountain area through up to the peninsula.
And he talked about it like it was no big deal,
like it was something he's known since he was a kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very interesting. And I asked that because of the
island off of California where I supposedly they found a
bunch of giant skeletons, I think it's like Catalina Island
or something.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a bit further south than us.
Speaker 3: But that's over in off of the southern California, in
La Catalina.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I've heard about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it makes me wonder if there's a connection
with all that. But the Red Eyes.
Speaker 3: Oh there's one other thing that happened during that time,
and I completely forgot about it. I'll tell you right now.
So I was I was driving on one on one
getting off of one O one in Redwood City at
the This was around that same time. I can't tell
you exactly what it was, but it was around that
same time. And I got off a whipple going towards
Reword City and at the stop at the stop light
there there was a like a small little toyota and
it was all decked out with like bigfoot Sasquatch adventure
or sciences something like that.
Speaker 2: And it was a guy that was in.
Speaker 3: There, and he had like he had kind of like
the he was like like a white dude with like
a beard, but had like the native look, like he
had feathers in his hair and all that stuff, right,
And I kind of hanked at him when he was
there at the lights, and I said, you know, what
are you doing here? And he said that there was
a report of a bigfoot seen in La Honda, in
Mo Honda's town in the woods, just south of where
of where I was at. And that's another thing that
happened during that time that I completely forgot about. I
didn't even remember about my encounter. This is when I
ran into this guy. And the timeline kind of tracks though,
because I looked it up years later that same guy
and the Saniniteo Journal had done a little story about
him on how he was researching some kind of encounter
that happened over in the Honda where a reporting bigfoot
was stilling rocks at the at the front of a
of a house at the front door, and the timeline
kind of tracks. The report in the newspaper says it
was two thousand and seven. My memory serves as what
I saw was two thousand and five, two thousand and six,
probably about two thousand and six. So it's just kind
of funny that there was a big foot researcher on
the peninsula just after what I had seen or experienced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so other people were reporting strange, mysterious things and
the same timeframe that you had your experiences. Yes, Wow,
And what do you think these things are? If you
did experience bigfoot activity, what do you think it is?
Speaker 2: You know? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I used to think different things like I used to think,
you know, like when I was younger, reading about it
like it was kind of like a missing link or
something like that, and then reading other reports, you know,
and people talking about the the the the primate attributes
that that, you know, like like it acts kind of
like an eight kind of you know, and then also
other reports of people saying that it's like, you know,
not something that's really flesh and blood.
Speaker 2: I have no idea what it is, you know.
Speaker 3: What I do know is that what I experienced was
something odd and something I've never experienced again, never experienced
that smell again, and I've never seen eyes of that
color ever again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, makes me wonder what kind of crip that it was,
because there's reports of other things other than bigfoot that
have red glowing eyes as well.
Speaker 2: But exactly, Yeah, from.
Speaker 1: What you described hitting the shed, the smell, it does
sound like bigfoot activity though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, that was weird too, And it wasn't until
later I started thinking Uh, what I was picturing at
the moment of a of a mountain lion kind of
jumping in a U shape around me, you know. And
this is me thinking it's it's it's nothing concrete, but
could that have been something that's bipedal that's taking bigger
steps and you know, and it's kind of doing a
half circle around me.
Speaker 2: And it did it repeatedly, you know. I did it
about three.
Speaker 3: Times around me, once back over, and then it started
coming back around the other side. And that's when I
jetted right back into the into the the calm shelter
and started continued working, continued working.
Speaker 1: Was the shelter in a wilderness area or more of
an industrial area.
Speaker 2: So it's up on a hill.
Speaker 3: Where it was located is actually a cemetery now, So
the cemetery was on the bottom part of the hill,
and this was on the back part of the hill,
which was still kind of just like overgrown shrubs.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what kind.
Speaker 3: Of shows they are, but there are a shrub that
grows locally off the coast here that can get up
to about I don't know, maybe eight feet high at most,
and then beyond that is into the like it's kind
of like.
Speaker 2: A Redwood area. That's the whole SF watershed.
Speaker 1: No, okay, I got you. I wonder if there's been
paranormal activity at that cemetery, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I wouldn't doubt it.
Speaker 3: There's an old house that they for some reason when
they built and expanded the cemetery.
Speaker 2: On the other.
Speaker 3: Side of the hill, there's an old like two story
house that supposedly used to be like a commune back
in the sixties, I believe.
Speaker 2: And they didn't destroy the house. The house is still there,
you know.
Speaker 3: I thought they would have torn that down and just
continued putting plots everywhere, but they didn't.
Speaker 2: I can actually email you kind of like uh.
Speaker 3: Google Earth shots to kind of give you a description
of where I'm talking about if you'd like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I'm curious as to where your experiences took place,
and maybe I can get a better picture of where
they were coming from. Of course, it's all theory, but yeah,
i'd like to see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's all theory, you know. And the only reason
that really intrigued me to hit you up and and
and and call you was the interview you did with Andrew.
Being that it was so close to home or so
close to where because home for me is a little
a little farther away, but it was just so close
to where I experienced what I experienced, and then him
saying that he's surprised that no one has had more
reports in San Mateo County and Salmon Tail County was
exactly where I experienced my experience.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I'm sure Andrew will be happy to hear
your experience. And later on down the road, maybe years later,
we start getting more and more reports from the same
area and we can start to build a better picture
as to where these things are going to and from
and where their territory is.
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, you know, you know, but I hope I
wasn't wasting your time. That's all I got.
Speaker 3: It's nothing like like I saw bigfoot running across the
road or anything like that.
Speaker 2: It was just those two experiences.
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, it could have been any cryptid
or any other animal as well too, you know, But
it's just they were too odd, and there were things
that I've never experienced again ever, you know, And I've
been I've been out in the in the Sequoia Redwoods,
I've been out at the all kinds of places and
I've never smelled anything like that ever.
Speaker 1: Again, well before, Well, I'm glad you contacted me, and
it definitely does help with the research, so I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'll send those those screen captures of the
location so you have a better idea. And I think
on Google Earth too, I can kind of pinpoint the
years so you can see the difference in development, because
if you were looking at today, it just looks like
a cemetery. But I'll try to get like some old
Google Earth aerial views that show you what the terrain
look like at the time.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that sounds excellent. And I appreciate everything you
did today and I definitely believe you you experienced something
strange and out of the norm and that's why you
contacted the channel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it too. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Do you enjoy your weekend and I'll talk with you later.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds great, Take care bye.
Speaker 1: All right, Thank you Tony for coming on and sharing
your experiences from California. Whether you believe these encounters point
towards sasquatch unusual behaviors something unknown, stories like this remind
us there are still places that leave us with more
questions than answers, and from what Tony described, it definitely
does sound like a bigfoot possibly and the red eyes.
That always gets me because I instantly think like when
to go or dog man. But there has been many
reports in the past where people have seen the sasquatch
and they said it had red glowing eyes, so that's
most likely what it was. And he listened to my
other podcast from California that I did with Andrew off
of I Believe Highway one point fifty two I think
it is, and he really wanted to contact me to
share his experience, to let Andrew know that he is
not alone, and that really means a lot. I tell
my guests when they share their stories that we want
to share these stories because it might prompt other people
to share their experiences from the same locations, and it'll
make you feel not so alone, knowing that there's other
people out there who have experienced strange things. And in
this case, that's exactly what happened, and that's what I
want to see. I can't tell you guys how good
I felt after I had my bigfoot encounters and I
got on the BFRO and saw other reports five minutes
down the road. It made me feel really good and
I knew I wasn't alone, and later on there were
more reports in that area. I don't know who made
the reports in Missouri, but I know that the Sasquatch
are using the waterways and the creeks that connect to
them and traveling through these areas, and it's not so
far fetched to believe that a cryptic creature wouldn't be
able to live in an area with a population that
still has forests around and remain undetected. If you have
a bigfoot encounter you would like to share, feel free
to get in touch with me sometime and until the
next one, you guys, be safe out in the woods.