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Speaker 2: You're ready for another episode of my big Foot Sighting.
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Speaker 3: Seen a bunch of run down, no horse towns where
Speaker 3: the church at the backbone, laws and the bow and
Speaker 3: the fasting melodies coove in with the bomb man rose
Speaker 3: with the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the
Speaker 3: busy streets with the songs of the South of su
Speaker 3: Then when I hear the promp porch picking down home
Speaker 3: rhythm bringing out I Don't Run from Banjung music.
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Speaker 2: My food sidings began in twenty twenty three in Northern Idaho. Hello,
Speaker 2: my name is Trish and I am from Idaho. I
Speaker 2: live in the Northern Panhandle and I'm sixty two. I
Speaker 2: am certified in massage therapy and license in Human, Equine
Speaker 2: and Canine and I came to Idaho sixteen years ago
Speaker 2: from Colorado, moving from the Midwest, and through a series
Speaker 2: of events, I ended up in Northern Idaho. And because
Speaker 2: my career was sort of abruptly ended, through the COVID
Speaker 2: event that we had. I had to make some quick
Speaker 2: career changes and maneuverings and put an ad online for
Speaker 2: caretaking because I'd done that in Colorado, and thank Heavens,
Speaker 2: gentlemen actually from Colorado and out of town gentlemen answered
Speaker 2: it and happened to have a property in northern Idaho,
Speaker 2: and one thing led to the next, and I ended
Speaker 2: up there caretaking and what ended up to be five years.
Speaker 2: But during those five years I had not only some
Speaker 2: wonderful experiences with wildlife there, but some really unique interesting
Speaker 2: things happened with something else. And it took me a
Speaker 2: while to put some stuff together, but they started out slowly,
Speaker 2: and I guess the first event and backing up and
Speaker 2: thinking about how it all began was one usual evening.
Speaker 2: I loved being at that place because it was so
Speaker 2: peaceful and quiet, and I had all the amenities that I,
Speaker 2: you know, could want in a place. And Uh, most evenings,
Speaker 2: I would just fix dinner and go back on the
Speaker 2: back part of the cabin home, which was the sunken
Speaker 2: in the living room, and this gentleman had everything, UH
Speaker 2: set up, all the conveniences. He had dish network, and
Speaker 2: I could go back there and just you know, find
Speaker 2: a movie and uh so I would go back and
Speaker 2: sit on the couch and have dinner and or uh
Speaker 2: just get comfortable, and uh it we got to be
Speaker 2: just a little bit later, eight thirty maybe nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: I heard a creek. And this place is extremely quiet.
Speaker 2: I mean, if the thousand foot gravel driveway, you can
Speaker 2: hear somebody coming in, but the only thing otherwise you
Speaker 2: hear would be the frogs creaking out there, and they'd
Speaker 2: get loud sometimes. And there was a little man made
Speaker 2: rock pond about twenty feet from the back deck, and
Speaker 2: so that made quite the ecosystem out there. But I
Speaker 2: turn I remember turning my head thinking, you hear a creek,
Speaker 2: and when you are very familiar with your home and
Speaker 2: you know the regular sounds, but you also know when
Speaker 2: somebody's on your back deck too, especially where you know
Speaker 2: this is an older place, and probably the most solid
Speaker 2: part of this place was that that back deck. And
Speaker 2: but there was something really heavy, because I'd never heard
Speaker 2: the creaking of this thing ever before like that, and
Speaker 2: it was continual, and as I listened, it progressed. Because
Speaker 2: this deck in the back wasn't huge but it it
Speaker 2: was had four steps up to it had about ten
Speaker 2: by fifteen area deck, and then there were four steps
Speaker 2: down and you walked about ten feet and then you
Speaker 2: would on the corner of as it wrapped around, you'd
Speaker 2: walk up four or five more steps, and then it
Speaker 2: would would wrap around the back of the cabin home.
Speaker 2: And as I listened, I was like, e e, and
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, holy cow, you know the heck is that?
Speaker 2: And because it was clearly steps, and it made the
Speaker 2: hair on the back of my neck go up, and
Speaker 2: I immediately thought firearm. When I went upstairs and got
Speaker 2: my sigtar, I wasn't messing around. I would figure, well,
Speaker 2: if you're coming in, you're gonna be missing some neecaps, buddy,
Speaker 2: because you know, so I came down asked, you know,
Speaker 2: I had my weapon off safety. I mean, it wigged
Speaker 2: me out. That was the very first time in two
Speaker 2: years I'd heard something like that, and it was very slow,
Speaker 2: and something just told me this is not normal. And
Speaker 2: so as I listened and I followed the sound around,
Speaker 2: I got back on the side steps, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of backing away from that flimsy screen door that was
Speaker 2: held with an eye hook. Oh my god. And then
Speaker 2: that was the outer screen door, and then the inner
Speaker 2: door was a would frame glass door with a slide
Speaker 2: block which anybody could kick in if they wanted. But
Speaker 2: in the fall season I would wrap that with very,
Speaker 2: very thick plastic because the wind would come in so forcefully,
Speaker 2: I learned the first winter there, the snow would just
Speaker 2: beat in and it would just drift up, and so
Speaker 2: I started wrapping it like a you know, a gift,
Speaker 2: and which helped quite a bit. It was a good
Speaker 2: wind block. But the next thing I heard was what
Speaker 2: I could only imagine was a was somebody's arm going
Speaker 2: up and down the plastic. And you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: my eyes got big, and I'm thinking, mutton the heck
Speaker 2: is that? And I just listened, and you know, my
Speaker 2: I had not felt this kind of oh my god,
Speaker 2: what am I going to do feeling? So I stood
Speaker 2: there and I listened, and pretty soon everything just calmed down. Well,
Speaker 2: the next morning, I thought, Okay, nobody's coming up this
Speaker 2: back deck, and so I barricaded the four steps up
Speaker 2: with the big garbage can that was back there, like
Speaker 2: an obvious do not come up this way. And then
Speaker 2: there was a large what used to be a cable
Speaker 2: spool that they used for giant cable and this guy
Speaker 2: had this owner had one of those using it as
Speaker 2: a table, and I dragged that thing over to the
Speaker 2: other side to block the other end. So I don't
Speaker 2: know what I was trying to prevent, but anyway, the
Speaker 2: following morning I found on the stairs a palm size
Speaker 2: piece of amethyst. I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, I mean,
Speaker 2: nobody comes there, and who would put a stone there.
Speaker 2: I felt like it was a gift, like, you know,
Speaker 2: we were just looking and we didn't mean you any harm.
Speaker 2: And that was kind of the impression I got, you know,
Speaker 2: it was, but it was it was beautiful, and that,
Speaker 2: you know, I contemplated that because I hadn't met anybody
Speaker 2: I'm not close to, nor do I talk to any
Speaker 2: of the neighbors, and nobody comes there, so why would
Speaker 2: a piece of amethyst be on the second stair of
Speaker 2: those five stairs. So well, whatever message I sent, whatever
Speaker 2: you know was there, got it, I guess, and maybe
Speaker 2: that was the response. That's kind of how I took it.
Speaker 2: But it was just a very unusual thing. And I
Speaker 2: still have that amethyst stone and I got it out
Speaker 2: the other day and just kind of reminisced about it,
Speaker 2: and I couldn't find it for the longest time, but
Speaker 2: I remember when I packed up other things that I had,
Speaker 2: I finally found it. But that was the first experience
Speaker 2: and later on and they were kind of spread out,
Speaker 2: So it's not like I was being inundated by visits
Speaker 2: or anything or what I but things happened there that
Speaker 2: I'm now putting together that could have been something else
Speaker 2: my assumption of because things like two grouse being flinging
Speaker 2: themselves or they either flung themselves into the back bay
Speaker 2: kitchen window that was part of the back deck. I mean,
Speaker 2: it scared the tar out of me, because again I
Speaker 2: was in that living room and I heard this bang,
Speaker 2: and I went up to the kitchen where the sound
Speaker 2: seemed to come from and looked out the window, and
Speaker 2: sure enough, there were two grouse who apparently committed suicize
Speaker 2: in my windows. Thinking wow, you guys either chasing each
Speaker 2: other or flying together into the reflection of the window.
Speaker 2: But I thought, well, I wonder later if those were
Speaker 2: just thrown at it. I don't know, maybe there were gifts.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm thinking, oh my god, because
Speaker 2: it just seemed like weird stuff like that was happening.
Speaker 2: I would hear what I thought were big limbs fall
Speaker 2: on the roof, and a couple of times at least
Speaker 2: two rocks. They had to be rocks, and I would
Speaker 2: go out there, and I can go out onto the
Speaker 2: roof if I want to. I've been out there many
Speaker 2: times kind of checking out to see where bats could
Speaker 2: possibly get in and stuff, but never really noticed a
Speaker 2: huge rock. And you know Idaho's you know, the Gem State,
Speaker 2: there's oh goodness, heavens, if you want to plow a field,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have to clear it with rocks. But there's
Speaker 2: never a shortage. And so I just didn't really kind
Speaker 2: of put those things together because they were so spread out.
Speaker 2: But I think the the second more prominent one, and
Speaker 2: the time in between. As I'm piecing these experiences together,
Speaker 2: that skunk problem I'm wondering, you know, because it was
Speaker 2: so intense, and I'm thinking, what are they doing just
Speaker 2: coming up here and spraying around the house or what.
Speaker 2: Because I've heard other stories of other people talking about
Speaker 2: their experiences and how they would smell these intense, you know,
Speaker 2: smelly skunk smells, and I'm thinking, well, Now that I
Speaker 2: think back, I'm thinking, Wow, maybe they maybe it was them.
Speaker 2: And well, my answer to what I thought was the
Speaker 2: skunk problem was to go out there on that back
Speaker 2: deck and grab this huge stump that I had taken
Speaker 2: from the woodshed. It was about twelve inches in diameter
Speaker 2: and about eighteen inches long. And I picked that thing
Speaker 2: up and I throw it up in the air and
Speaker 2: I let it fall on this back deck with the
Speaker 2: biggest crack that you ever heard, and it'd echo over
Speaker 2: the little valley and I'd just make the biggest vicious,
Speaker 2: you know, sounds I could make from a five foot small,
Speaker 2: fifteen pound woman, and you know, I have my dad's volume,
Speaker 2: and I could, I could. It sounded like some crazy
Speaker 2: woman was just losing her mind over on that back deck.
Speaker 2: And I would do it like ten or fifteen times
Speaker 2: because I was not having those skunks set up shop
Speaker 2: underneath the deck again. I'd already had to, you know,
Speaker 2: peel them out of there and pile a bunch of
Speaker 2: rocks under there, and the deck was like, I don't know,
Speaker 2: two feet high, and I had to crawl under there.
Speaker 2: So I was not having that again. So it was
Speaker 2: dark when they start skulking and coming out, and the
Speaker 2: rodent expert told me they like, you know, creeping around
Speaker 2: buildings and stuff and seeing if there's a hole in
Speaker 2: a building they can get into. And so anyway, this
Speaker 2: was the image I had my mind. It was the skunks,
Speaker 2: and I was not having it. And it was on
Speaker 2: and so every time I'd sit there, having a nice
Speaker 2: evening on the couch watching TV and get this whiff
Speaker 2: of skunks. So I thought, so I'd go out there
Speaker 2: and start that big ruckus, and I didn't care if
Speaker 2: the neighbors heard me or not.
Speaker 4: And come to realize, I'm wondering if they were standing
Speaker 4: out there at the other edge of the trees watching me, thinking,
Speaker 4: you know, and I kind of imagine, thought.
Speaker 2: Let's see what she does. Let's this is weird o
Speaker 2: little human and she makes a big fit.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I could just see him sitting over there watching me
Speaker 2: and the crazy mountain woman over there making a big
Speaker 2: ruckus and and uh and pretty soon, within maybe I
Speaker 2: don't know, twenty minutes, it would just dissipate, which was
Speaker 2: really weird because you know, if a skunk is you know,
Speaker 2: that stuff stays there if they're spraying, so I'm not
Speaker 2: so sure it was the skunks, because if they're spraying,
Speaker 2: that stuff stays there. And so I'm kind of thinking
Speaker 2: they were visiting me and I didn't realize it, and
Speaker 2: they must have just thought I was just one by
Speaker 2: loney tune. But that happened quite often, and so what
Speaker 2: may have you know, what I thought was, you know,
Speaker 2: the skunk skulking around may have been their visits and
Speaker 2: what we're increasing. And then you know, other things that
Speaker 2: would happen would be like I start gazed a lot
Speaker 2: at night. I wouldn't I would go out and this
Speaker 2: the other thing Idaho is known for, you know, a
Speaker 2: lot of stuff in the sky. I got video and
Speaker 2: I've got photos that are unbelievable. I you know, I
Speaker 2: don't have anybody to show them to, and it's like,
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I mean, you know, there's nobody to tell.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've it's just amazing. I have stayed out
Speaker 2: there for an hour or two and longer in the winter.
Speaker 2: But I would go out and I would set an attention,
Speaker 2: and I would look up and I'd say, who's traveling,
Speaker 2: who's traveling? And I would you know, because I've read that,
Speaker 2: you know, telepathy, and yeah that they could. They can.
Speaker 2: They're so advanced they can hear you. Anyway, I was
Speaker 2: experimenting a lot, and I would go out and I
Speaker 2: did that many, many, many, many times. I'd go out
Speaker 2: and sit in a lawn chair and it was very dark. No,
Speaker 2: there are no you know, street lights out there. It's
Speaker 2: blackerniesa spades, and but I, you know, I had to.
Speaker 2: I had to gather enough nerve to sit out there
Speaker 2: next to the doors. It was so dark. But I
Speaker 2: you know, once I started looking up, I'd get so
Speaker 2: amazed because within five minutes, you know, what looked to
Speaker 2: be stars just took off. They took off in tandem.
Speaker 2: They took off one at a time, two at a time,
Speaker 2: in two different directions, and it would go on all
Speaker 2: night and I would count them. Thirty thirty to fifty
Speaker 2: of these things would just it's all night long. I
Speaker 2: could follow them all the way across the sky and
Speaker 2: then it'd be thirty seconds a minute or two and boom.
Speaker 2: And the more I said, uh, you know, you know,
Speaker 2: thank you and gratitude, the more it happened. But you know,
Speaker 2: I would be out there and you know, I would
Speaker 2: take my pictures and whatnot, and then I would start
Speaker 2: looking out at the edge of the tree line. And
Speaker 2: the third experience was I never really I know, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of hoot owls and a lot of different
Speaker 2: you know, night goings on, uh, nocturnal animals, and there's
Speaker 2: certain birds that you know, I like to listen to.
Speaker 2: And I'm pretty good at mimicking, you know, from from
Speaker 2: a really small kid. I'd be out in the woods
Speaker 2: at eight years old of my horse, and so why
Speaker 2: kids learn how to do stuff early on, and so
Speaker 2: I was really good at mimicking you know, different sounds,
Speaker 2: and so I started it's kind of weirdo. Hood owl
Speaker 2: sounds started coming from the edge of the trees in
Speaker 2: the back of the apple tree, and it's about a
Speaker 2: sixty foot from the back deck to the edge of
Speaker 2: the line of the trees, and there's the deck the
Speaker 2: man made rock pond, and then there's another thirty five
Speaker 2: feet to the edge of the tree line. And I
Speaker 2: listened closely. It sounded like a hoot owl, but there
Speaker 2: were two of them. And then on the other side
Speaker 2: of the house one would answer, and I'm thinking, so
Speaker 2: I started, you know, the two at the back tree
Speaker 2: line started you know, hooting and for lack of a
Speaker 2: better term, and then an answer would come from the
Speaker 2: opposite side of the front of the place where there's
Speaker 2: a circle drive in a shed, and it would keep
Speaker 2: going back and forth. Well, I kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: played around with it and interceded and I kind of
Speaker 2: added my hoot, and all of a sudden, there were silence.
Speaker 2: It's like it was like, well, who was that. So
Speaker 2: they'd do it again and then I'd answer and there
Speaker 2: was silence, and then they'd hoot, and I'd do it
Speaker 2: again and there was silence, and I don't know what
Speaker 2: was going on over the other side of the shed,
Speaker 2: but it kind of started to be a game. And
Speaker 2: then they Yeah, I felt like they were kind of
Speaker 2: playing with me. So that happened a couple of times,
Speaker 2: and it was kind of entertaining. But there I could
Speaker 2: tell there was movement, so you know, I thought, well,
Speaker 2: they're either flying around or there's some hoodels, you know,
Speaker 2: playing with the territory because they're supposed to be very territorial.
Speaker 2: But well, you know, the next experience was kind of
Speaker 2: after that, and I was going out on the deck
Speaker 2: to to you know, to do some star gazing and sit,
Speaker 2: and I went out there and took a double take
Speaker 2: because out beyond the apple tree where two giant flat
Speaker 2: two pair of giant flashlight eyes. And I just stood
Speaker 2: there and looked. I'm thinking, you know, your mind, you know,
Speaker 2: rampages through your compartments and memory to find some sort
Speaker 2: of reference of what you're looking at. And I wouldn't
Speaker 2: find anything. It was just like question marks. It's not
Speaker 2: a deer. Deer are not that tall. They can't stand
Speaker 2: on their hind lights like that, and they can't see
Speaker 2: the apples anyway, so it's an it can't be a deer.
Speaker 2: Those are the biggest freaking flashlight eyeballs I've ever seen,
Speaker 2: and they were wide apart, and one was at least
Speaker 2: ten feet tall, because the next morning I went out
Speaker 2: and looked, I'm thinking, holy cow, and the other one
Speaker 2: was like eight feet tall. So there were two of them,
Speaker 2: and I didn't feel any fear. I'm looking at them,
Speaker 2: think I assumed they were what I thought they were,
Speaker 2: and you know, and of course I had to start
Speaker 2: babbling my ad and they stood there like you know.
Speaker 2: When I thought about it later, I'm thinking, it's like
Speaker 2: it's like they were thinking if we don't move. You
Speaker 2: can't see It's just like, dude, youryballs or flashlights, I
Speaker 2: can see you so uh so, but I just started rambling,
Speaker 2: I you know, hi, you can have all the apples
Speaker 2: you want. I can't reach them anyway. All the good
Speaker 2: ones are at the top in the middle, and you know,
Speaker 2: you can shake the crap out of if you want,
Speaker 2: but you know they're all yours. Do you know you
Speaker 2: can have as many as you want. And I don't
Speaker 2: know what else I babbled about, but I sort of
Speaker 2: just kind of, you know, gracefully backed myself back into
Speaker 2: that screen door. But they were there, and nobody's going
Speaker 2: to tell me that that wasn't what I thought they were.
Speaker 2: And the next experience that that in reference to the
Speaker 2: height of the big one, was really early in the morning,
Speaker 2: and and it was one of the last days that
Speaker 2: the owner and his assistant were leaving. They'd been there
Speaker 2: about five days, and he'd only come up a couple
Speaker 2: times a year, but this was they had talked to,
Speaker 2: you know, the evening before that they were going to
Speaker 2: get up and leave early. So I it was the
Speaker 2: time of the year, it was really hot, and the
Speaker 2: ac in that place never reached upstairs. So during the summer,
Speaker 2: I'd sleep on the couch in the living room because
Speaker 2: it was much cooler, and so i'd gotten up. My
Speaker 2: normal early rising was somewhere between three thirty and four
Speaker 2: in the morning, because I go to bed early, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to get up to you know, get dressed
Speaker 2: and be ready for whatever whenever they decided to get
Speaker 2: up and get going. And I happened to get up
Speaker 2: and I was starting to go up those stairs and
Speaker 2: happened to glance out the front corner of the cabin window,
Speaker 2: which were three stupid, skinny windows. I don't know whose
Speaker 2: big fat idea it was to put windows like that
Speaker 2: in a beautiful, you know, picturesque landscape place, but tiny
Speaker 2: and skinny. Well you couldn't even escape out those things.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. But I happened to glance out
Speaker 2: there and saw movement, and so I went over there
Speaker 2: because at first I thought it was George, the assistant,
Speaker 2: and he was running, or I thought it was him,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, holy God, that that ain't George. It's stupid.
Speaker 2: And it was big and tall and black, and my
Speaker 2: mind was racing through some sort of you know, reference
Speaker 2: to what the heck was it? Well, uh, George is
Speaker 2: a short guy. This was not a short guy. The
Speaker 2: crotch of this thing was at the top rail. But
Speaker 2: that's almost five feet tall. I'm thinking in three strides, one, two,
Speaker 2: three and a half. And he was gone behind the shed.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh my god, what did I just see?
Speaker 2: That was him and my mind he went to the
Speaker 2: tall flashlight eyeballs from the back of the apple tree,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, oh my god, that was it. I'm
Speaker 2: one of those now I'm a big footzier I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of I really did. I couldn't believe it. It was
Speaker 2: huge and black, and there were no shoes, no gloves,
Speaker 2: there was no coverallt it was just light enough to
Speaker 2: see color. And you know, the sun hadn't come up,
Speaker 2: but there was a bright and que and so that
Speaker 2: was the visual siding, you know, of early morning. And
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, oh my goodness. So I was so excited
Speaker 2: and I wanted to share it, but I couldn't because
Speaker 2: you know, he would have never believed me. He just
Speaker 2: they wanted didn't believe in such things, and he already
Speaker 2: thought I was a couple of bubbles off anyway, So
Speaker 2: I guess, you know. I would try to tell him
Speaker 2: about some of the UFO stuff out there. So I
Speaker 2: knew that he was not you know, you know, open
Speaker 2: to that kind of stuff, and so I didn't want
Speaker 2: to open myself up to ridic you, and so I
Speaker 2: kept it to myself. But I was so excited because
Speaker 2: I wanted to, i don't know, meet them, I wanted
Speaker 2: to interact with them, and I felt compelled. I wasn't
Speaker 2: afraid I had a weirdo. I've always had a weirdo
Speaker 2: thing with animals anyway, and not that I think they're
Speaker 2: an animal, but things in the woods and creatures, and
Speaker 2: I'm always rescuing something. I rehabbed a lot of animals,
Speaker 2: you know, growing up and throughout my life, and they
Speaker 2: just seemed to come to me. And I don't care
Speaker 2: what it is. It's you know, snakes and spiders, and
Speaker 2: I had a thing with spiders. I don't know what
Speaker 2: it is, but I've always been like that, you know.
Speaker 2: I worked at a zoo. I was fascinated with everything
Speaker 2: since I was like two. My parents would tell me,
Speaker 2: you know, you were always handling something. We always had to,
Speaker 2: you know, tell you to put that down. And but
Speaker 2: I was fascinated with living things, with creatures, and just
Speaker 2: just absolutely fascinated that they already knew what to do.
Speaker 2: They you know, they all symbiotically lived together in an ecosystem.
Speaker 2: And I wrote children's books about experiences I had and
Speaker 2: rescued things and raised them, and you know, and but
Speaker 2: these experiences kept happening as I, you know, continued to
Speaker 2: live there. And the next one was after the this shop,
Speaker 2: that this owner had built a new, a newer, big
Speaker 2: barn workshop because he had this big idea of bringing
Speaker 2: his antique cars there and redoing them. And they'd done
Speaker 2: a lot of construction and what should it took, you know,
Speaker 2: six or eight weeks? Took nine months, good heavens. And
Speaker 2: during the construction they pile up a lot of the
Speaker 2: debris in the back, took out a few trees, and
Speaker 2: it was quite the big mess. The owner wasn't all
Speaker 2: that happy, but they graded a lot of the back
Speaker 2: area of the yard, which you know, was quite muddy,
Speaker 2: and so I would walk back there and kind of
Speaker 2: explore to see if anything had gotten scraped up, you know, rocks,
Speaker 2: you know, I was looking for some shiny thing. So
Speaker 2: I went back there and odd things. As I said,
Speaker 2: what happened. I was always seeing white animals. There was
Speaker 2: an albino turkey with a flock that would come around
Speaker 2: and really big, really big one, and I've got you know,
Speaker 2: video and photos of that. But this day there was
Speaker 2: a ferret somebody. I don't know whether it's somebody's pet
Speaker 2: or what, but I glanced out there and this this
Speaker 2: place had a lot of very very old farms machinery
Speaker 2: in the yard. In the backyard, some of them were
Speaker 2: in the trees. There was an old old car, I
Speaker 2: don't know, nineteen forty something. It had the suicide doors
Speaker 2: on it, and it was you know, rusted to smitherines
Speaker 2: and it had a tree grown out of it, and
Speaker 2: it was in the woods. So that's how old all
Speaker 2: this machinery was. This thing I think wasn't a really
Speaker 2: old baalor you know, it had cogs and chains hanging
Speaker 2: off of it, and there were little windows in this
Speaker 2: contraption in this little white ferret was you know, popping
Speaker 2: around in and out of it, and then in and
Speaker 2: out of the debris woodpile. And so I went back
Speaker 2: in and got my phone and I took a video
Speaker 2: of it, and took out some walnuts and fed it.
Speaker 2: But while I was out there walking around, I happened
Speaker 2: to glance down, and there on the perfectly smooth mud
Speaker 2: was the most beautiful big foot print I'd ever seen.
Speaker 2: It's just perfect, perfect, It's like at least fourteen fifteen inches,
Speaker 2: and I'm thinking, oh my god, but it was just one.
Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, it's like, look, we're going to put
Speaker 2: one footprint in here so she knows we're here. It
Speaker 2: was just it was beautiful. I'm thinking, oh my god,
Speaker 2: you're really here. And I felt honored. I felt, you know, privileged,
Speaker 2: and excited and protective. I felt very protective of them,
Speaker 2: and I didn't want anybody coming up and you know,
Speaker 2: snooping around and going and looking for them, and you know,
Speaker 2: especially with any guns, and because there were some yahoos
Speaker 2: around the area. But I was just really solidified by
Speaker 2: my firm belief that, you know, they were there. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't long after that. It was within a few
Speaker 2: months that the owner decided to retire, and that was coming.
Speaker 2: He talked about it, you know, a year and a
Speaker 2: half during visits and and I was always prepared. I
Speaker 2: had never unpacked a lot, so it didn't take me long.
Speaker 2: But I think the next I think the next encounter
Speaker 2: would have been, you know, physical interaction. I would have started.
Speaker 2: You know, I think seeing them during the day, and
Speaker 2: I think it's a gradual thing as they acclimate themselves
Speaker 2: to an area or to people. At least that's my
Speaker 2: feeling and from different stories that I've heard other people
Speaker 2: talk about and then relating them to my own. It
Speaker 2: was a slow progression and to not feel threatened to,
Speaker 2: and I think they do since people's intentions and there,
Speaker 2: I think you are watched. I think we are watched.
Speaker 2: I think I was watched for a long time because
Speaker 2: I would go out by the pond, I would sit,
Speaker 2: I would take photography, I would oh and out by
Speaker 2: the pond there scared of the jeebers out of me.
Speaker 2: The first time I was there. When I got there,
Speaker 2: somebody had had made an actual female Bigfoot statue, which
Speaker 2: scared me to death. When I first saw it, I
Speaker 2: thought it was actually one of them, and thinking, and
Speaker 2: you know, I was a little wired anyway, because you know,
Speaker 2: events through COVID and through you know, I had worked
Speaker 2: the massage therapy circuit as a therapist, you know, all
Speaker 2: over Idaho and bounced around quite a bit, and so
Speaker 2: my nerves were, you know, a little bit on edge,
Speaker 2: and I was easily startled. I had been through a lot,
Speaker 2: and so it's like, are you kidding? So it just,
Speaker 2: you know, that's why I would take time to explore
Speaker 2: that place, because there was always something, you know, different
Speaker 2: that I would see. And in addition to you know,
Speaker 2: these intermittent and progressive experiences I haven't had, there is
Speaker 2: a Native American gentleman, very very old, like eighty nine ninety.
Speaker 2: He recently passed away last year. I think he was
Speaker 2: like ninety three, white hair, but he had a huge
Speaker 2: German shepherd and we called her the Wooly Mammoth. She
Speaker 2: was just gigantic, long haired, and she would come over
Speaker 2: and visit me frequently, and she knew how to open
Speaker 2: up the backsliding door, which was a wood slide. She
Speaker 2: knew how to open that up. And the one morning
Speaker 2: I was sitting on in the living room in the
Speaker 2: suck and living in the back of it, she had
Speaker 2: opened that door and come in and slithered down those stairs,
Speaker 2: and I nearly had a heart attack because you know,
Speaker 2: I watched, you know, I listened to the dog man thing.
Speaker 2: It's like, I mean, I almost really had a heart
Speaker 2: attack because she's big and he was just she slithered
Speaker 2: down there, and she's a very dark plant black tan
Speaker 2: and sable. And she looked at me and she realized
Speaker 2: that she scared the bejeebers out of me, and she
Speaker 2: felt so bad that she groveled on the floor. And
Speaker 2: but it's like so but anyway, she would come over
Speaker 2: and she would get me to go for a walk
Speaker 2: up in the timber, and she would go with me.
Speaker 2: And that's really the only time I would go by myself.
Speaker 2: You know, I never liked going hiking by myself, and
Speaker 2: I never went unarmed. So we would go back up
Speaker 2: in there, and she'd go about twenty five thirty feet
Speaker 2: ahead of me and you know, sniff stuff and come back.
Speaker 2: And then she'd run up thirty maybe sixty feet ahead
Speaker 2: of me and come back. And it's an incline as
Speaker 2: you go up the foothills, and so she went up
Speaker 2: around the bend and then she came barreling back one
Speaker 2: day and she just gently grabbed me by the hand
Speaker 2: and turned me around. And you know, I didn't argue
Speaker 2: with her because I just trust animals and there was
Speaker 2: a reason. So I just assumed that it was, you know,
Speaker 2: the coyote couple, or maybe it was the pack or something.
Speaker 2: Was very quiet, but you know, I looked at her
Speaker 2: and she was coming at a dead run, and I
Speaker 2: kind of stepped to the side, and she skidded to
Speaker 2: a stop right in front of me, and then she
Speaker 2: just took my hand turned me around. I said, Okay,
Speaker 2: I guess we're going back now. But you know, I'm
Speaker 2: very sensitive to I don't argue a whole lot. You know,
Speaker 2: there's there's reason animals do stuff, and I just go
Speaker 2: with it. And that's kind of the way I was
Speaker 2: with my horses and everything else. And so we went down.
Speaker 2: I never really questioned it, and maybe I wasn't paying
Speaker 2: enough attention, but you know, I've had other experiences, and
Speaker 2: one was in Colorado and I was put them on
Speaker 2: a camping trip with a boyfriend at the time and
Speaker 2: another couple and we were running back towards the campers
Speaker 2: for some reason, and I got dropped by a rock.
Speaker 2: As I was running. There was a rock that my
Speaker 2: right leg was coming up and it nailed me and
Speaker 2: dropped me to the ground. And we still don't know
Speaker 2: where the rock came from, but you know, I often
Speaker 2: wonder somebody was throwing rocks, and boy, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 2: that could have been me in the head and probably
Speaker 2: killed me. I don't know, but there were weird things
Speaker 2: like that that that happened that I just didn't put
Speaker 2: two and two together at the time. And but at
Speaker 2: that place for five years in northern Idaho were just
Speaker 2: bliss for me. It was a healing time and I
Speaker 2: miss it terribly. I think of them often, and if
Speaker 2: there is telepathic communication and they can hear you, you know,
Speaker 2: I talk to them in my uh in my mind,
Speaker 2: and I tell them I miss them. I would have
Speaker 2: liked to have interacted with them. And but you know,
Speaker 2: there were a lot of big rocks that hit the roof.
Speaker 2: I always, you know, blew them off. I thought one
Speaker 2: sounded like a big part of a tree, because you
Speaker 2: know there's there were aspen in a huge blue spruce,
Speaker 2: a couple of those, and all around the cabin. And
Speaker 2: you know, we have a lot of windstorms. We've had
Speaker 2: some horrible sudden windstorm sixty million an hour blow the
Speaker 2: crap out of the trees, and you look out in
Speaker 2: the in the yard and there's just limbs everywhere, but
Speaker 2: on this day it wasn't. And but I would hear
Speaker 2: big bangs and pieces of limbs, and I often wonder
Speaker 2: if if they weren't trying to get my attention. But
Speaker 2: there were three of these grouse because I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know, if you know, I often wonder. I often
Speaker 2: wonder if they were trying to give me a gift
Speaker 2: of maybe they felt sorry for me. I don't know,
Speaker 2: because I was by myself for a very long time,
Speaker 2: and I'm a small woman, and I I would walk
Speaker 2: around there, and I'm very fine by myself and secluded.
Speaker 2: I've always I've been like that as a young kid,
Speaker 2: and you know, a lot of family stuff going on.
Speaker 2: So I would use the horses as an excuse, and
Speaker 2: I'd be up early first to feed them, and then
Speaker 2: later saddle up and go riding off, and my mom
Speaker 2: would have to call me back with a big bell
Speaker 2: we had on the back deck, the back patio out
Speaker 2: in the country where we lived, and this was back
Speaker 2: in the Midwest. But I was always like that. I
Speaker 2: was fine by myself. I was never afraid. I would
Speaker 2: still have weird experiences as a kid, and one of
Speaker 2: those was on my horse Flicka. And my dad always
Speaker 2: said that I looked like a little peel on a basketball,
Speaker 2: but you know, I could make those twelve hundred pounds
Speaker 2: horses work wherever I wanted them. And we went on
Speaker 2: on one of our rides back in the timber. We
Speaker 2: had fifteen acres and half of it was wooded and
Speaker 2: the other half was a beautiful meadow up a foothill
Speaker 2: and a wonderful creek in between, and that was my playground.
Speaker 2: And we went back there and getting ready to cross
Speaker 2: the creek, and it had been a couple of days previous,
Speaker 2: you know, had rained, and that Illinois Creek mud was
Speaker 2: like clay. And if anybody's watched the animal planets where
Speaker 2: they have horse rescues, because course horses get stuck in
Speaker 2: that mud, this is what happened. Because we were one two,
Speaker 2: three step and she sunk in right up to her
Speaker 2: chest and here I am, shorty pants. I stepped off
Speaker 2: of her, and the panic just overcame me, and I
Speaker 2: grabbed a bridle and tried to pull, and I'm thinking
Speaker 2: of it. Instantly knew that wasn't gonna do anything. And I,
Speaker 2: you know, as children. We were pure until we're messed
Speaker 2: up by adults telling us that that's not true and
Speaker 2: that's not real. But I looked up to the sky
Speaker 2: and I don't know who I was speaking to, but
Speaker 2: I screamed from the bottom of my toes hell per
Speaker 2: and wasn't done with that sentence, and I heard a
Speaker 2: sucking sound like and her whole front end came out.
Speaker 2: I don't know how she you know, it just was
Speaker 2: plucked out. And as soon as her front end, her
Speaker 2: back end engine kicked yourself back up onto the harder ground.
Speaker 2: And I have absolutely zero recollection of anything after that. Zero.
Speaker 2: I have no memory of any of that after that.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I got home. I don't remember
Speaker 2: any of it. So I I often wonder what the
Speaker 2: heck happened. And I don't know if I was one
Speaker 2: of those kids. But that was the the end of
Speaker 2: of what I can remember about that. But it was
Speaker 2: it was an immediate response, and I so that was
Speaker 2: just another occasion. But I've had complete confidence, no fear,
Speaker 2: and being by myself in the woods all the time,
Speaker 2: and I it just became very familiar with animal life
Speaker 2: and tracks, and I would I would see things I
Speaker 2: would see, you know, huge bucks we'd run right into.
Speaker 2: My horse was more afraid than I was. And you know,
Speaker 2: the horses had that big snorting sound. You know that
Speaker 2: I suck an air through that huge, you know, nasal
Speaker 2: cavity and you know, and the breathe that out, and
Speaker 2: that's what happened on one of my occasions, and ran
Speaker 2: into a big thing. And I just had to explain
Speaker 2: to her, now, ear fines, just a deer. He's not
Speaker 2: gonna hurt you. And but you know, she'd never seen
Speaker 2: one before. So but these were I don't want to
Speaker 2: say that I was a loner, but I re energized
Speaker 2: and I I loved seclusion and solitude in the woods.
Speaker 2: And you know, later I got into boat hunting, and
Speaker 2: thank god I didn't kill anything, because I don't think
Speaker 2: I could live with it. But you know, I I
Speaker 2: had I had occasions out in the woods in Indiana
Speaker 2: hunting with the with the boyfriend then, and strange things
Speaker 2: happened out there with that, and I'm, uh, well, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure that there were things out there I wasn't
Speaker 2: aware of because we never did find the deer that
Speaker 2: he hit, except the stomach contents there was nothing left.
Speaker 2: Something had picked that thing up and taken off with it.
Speaker 2: But it was thirty two degree below windchill, which was
Speaker 2: the dumbest thing. I didn't know it, but I had
Speaker 2: probably fourth level hypothermia, and I couldn't feel my hands
Speaker 2: from my elbows down, and I almost popped a four
Speaker 2: corn fifteen feet up in a tree and prematurely hit
Speaker 2: the release and it went over his shoulder and popped
Speaker 2: into a dead tree in back of him, and he
Speaker 2: crouched down, not knowing where that came from, and then
Speaker 2: gradually started browsing again. But to heck with that, because
Speaker 2: I just decided this was stupid, and it took me
Speaker 2: twenty minutes to crawl down out of that tree, and
Speaker 2: then I ended up crawling down right in front of
Speaker 2: three huge does. I don't think I've ever seen does
Speaker 2: that big, and I'm not even sure really they were dozed,
Speaker 2: and you know, maybe I was seeing things, but I
Speaker 2: was all cameoed out and everything, and I was small,
Speaker 2: so I don't think they could figure if you know,
Speaker 2: they weren't intimidated one bit, because they both say all
Speaker 2: three stood there. It was like a Calvin and Hobbs cartoon.
Speaker 2: It's like I could just look. They were like talking
Speaker 2: to each other. It's like, I don't know, is it
Speaker 2: a limb or what. I can't tell. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: like and their tails were they couldn't decide whether it
Speaker 2: was something to raise their tail or not. They kept
Speaker 2: going up and down. And I looked at him after
Speaker 2: I got down. I cannot remember if I had my
Speaker 2: bow or not. I was, you know, your mind plays
Speaker 2: games with you in hypothermia. And I looked at him
Speaker 2: asid I'm out of here, and I made a beeline
Speaker 2: and I, you know, I had half a mile to
Speaker 2: walk out through cornfields, and you know, the only thing
Speaker 2: that I remember was trying to track the deer that
Speaker 2: my boyfriend had caught, and we couldn't find it. And
Speaker 2: I kept picking up the blood trail and it went
Speaker 2: down and up to the next ravine and we got
Speaker 2: up there and the only thing we found where the
Speaker 2: stomach contents. There wasn't a bit left, and I don't
Speaker 2: know what could have carried it off, But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of thinking something else was out there. And
Speaker 2: that was a way before the time of ever knowing
Speaker 2: about dog Man or you know, the thinking about bigfoot
Speaker 2: or anything like that. But you know the occasions of
Speaker 2: being in the woods and not knowing about these things.
Speaker 2: When I look back on the experiences I had, I'm thinking,
Speaker 2: Holy cow, you know. But being in northern Idaho, it's
Speaker 2: a different place. And the place that I was living
Speaker 2: for those past five years was just utterly magical. And uh,
Speaker 2: the the video and photography that I got, I mean,
Speaker 2: it's something I can, I can keep forever. But I'm
Speaker 2: hoping I can find some property up there. My my
Speaker 2: father passed away, uh unbelievably a year ago, this this
Speaker 2: past January, and uh, you know, I'm I'm hoping with
Speaker 2: a little bit of the inheritance I could, I can
Speaker 2: buy some akage up there and and continue living in
Speaker 2: the peace and solitude. Because I am not a silly
Speaker 2: city girl. I can I can function in it. And
Speaker 2: I got to, you know, I went to collegiate years
Speaker 2: and got a couple of degrees and blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 2: and did all that stuff and and hated every second
Speaker 2: of it. But just like that's the thing you're supposed
Speaker 2: to do. And but you know, I don't want to
Speaker 2: lead this area. I've already left it once and the
Speaker 2: compelling to stay up in this place is very strong.
Speaker 2: And so when I left the place up north, we
Speaker 2: were only thirty miles south of the Canadian border, and
Speaker 2: there's a lot of activity that goes on. And in
Speaker 2: the town of Bonners Ferry, they have huge bigfoot statues
Speaker 2: all over the place. Everybody's you know, seeing one somewhere
Speaker 2: here and there, and so it's a lot of believers
Speaker 2: up there. And but those were those were my experiences.
Speaker 2: And you know, I'm one of us. Know you're one
Speaker 2: of us. You know, if they say an I robot,
Speaker 2: you're one of those. So you know, this place was
Speaker 2: a beautiful place. It was landscaped and there was a
Speaker 2: sprinkler system, and the wildlife that came there sorrow. The
Speaker 2: Mountain lion would drag her kills. She was notorious for
Speaker 2: killing around the area, dragging her bucks and whatnot up
Speaker 2: into the yard. And she did that there under the
Speaker 2: thicket and the mulberry trees, and stayed there for three days.
Speaker 2: And needs to say, I didn't go anywhere for three days.
Speaker 2: But you know, I've got some great video of her,
Speaker 2: you know, and she she was just fascinated with the
Speaker 2: sprinklers and she would lay out there like a big
Speaker 2: house cat and clean herself and sit there and watch
Speaker 2: the sprinklers in the evening. And it was it was
Speaker 2: the most magical place to be and my heart aches
Speaker 2: to be there. I wish I was there, and I
Speaker 2: miss it.
Speaker 5: But the.
Speaker 2: You know, there was a herd of twenty six elk
Speaker 2: that would come down into through the pass that was
Speaker 2: right near that that back direction, sixty feet from the
Speaker 2: apple tree and that that tree line. There was a
Speaker 2: pass that went up there and the elk would come
Speaker 2: down through there right into the front pasture which was
Speaker 2: all grass, and the neighbor across the way would cut
Speaker 2: that for his cows. And there was you know, it
Speaker 2: was just wildlife everywhere. And you know I've documented everything
Speaker 2: and that yeah, they're there, and I feel, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: some of the things that I've watched and heard, I
Speaker 2: don't know if you know, it's I've come to believe
Speaker 2: that with what resonates with what I hear. Don't believe
Speaker 2: everything that that. I don't think it's good for anybody
Speaker 2: to believe just whatever they hear. I mean, but but
Speaker 2: what resonates with you that combines with your experience. But
Speaker 2: there was a medium, a woman that encountered and and
Speaker 2: was psychic and could hear them speak to her, and
Speaker 2: she I listened to her, and she said they explained
Speaker 2: who they were and that they are much like our
Speaker 2: human race. There is a huge diversity of humans and
Speaker 2: in both behaviors and races. And she said that that's
Speaker 2: she said, it's a lot like us. We have. We
Speaker 2: have some we'd like to you know, ask to leave
Speaker 2: out of the you know group, and good ones and
Speaker 2: bad ones, badly behaving ones and very family oriented ones
Speaker 2: and uh. But that that kind of resonated with me,
Speaker 2: and that's why I felt like I wanted to continue
Speaker 2: and eventually interact. But you know it got cut short
Speaker 2: by the owner retiring and coming there. And so you know,
Speaker 2: I was going up and visiting next door neighbor who
Speaker 2: had lived in the house and had a little cabin
Speaker 2: home and had been there many years before the present
Speaker 2: owner of who I care took for bought the place
Speaker 2: and it was his second home. He had a pretty
Speaker 2: big spread down in Colorado. But this neighbor, you know,
Speaker 2: I was going over there and getting spring water, and
Speaker 2: you know, he had a great place too, and I
Speaker 2: just wish I could just acquire some property up there
Speaker 2: so that I could continue interacting with him. But that's
Speaker 2: really the you know, the stories that I have, and
Speaker 2: I just feel privileged that I got to encounter and
Speaker 2: experience those, because you know, we've always heard about him
Speaker 2: and since the seventies. And I remember at the boarding
Speaker 2: stable before we all got horses and we moved out
Speaker 2: on our farm that the big, big food scare was
Speaker 2: going on around, you know, the legend of Boggy Creek
Speaker 2: and blahtah blah. And we were at that boarding stable
Speaker 2: and it was dusk and we were still hanging around
Speaker 2: before we left, and we were kids then, and one
Speaker 2: of the horses had a very dark, you know forelock
Speaker 2: and a black forelock, and he had his head right
Speaker 2: up at the gate and his forelock had fallen through
Speaker 2: over the railing of the metal gate and it looked
Speaker 2: like a great, big, huge block ada and we all
Speaker 2: freaked out when screaming. So it was but somebody screamed
Speaker 2: bigfoot and we all ran. So, I mean, it was
Speaker 2: this way back then. But those are pretty much my
Speaker 2: my experiences, and you know, there wasn't anybody there share
Speaker 2: them with and I didn't feel any fear, and except
Speaker 2: for that first time when I couldn't tell who it
Speaker 2: was because I wasn't thinking of a bigfoot at the time.
Speaker 6: I was thinking of some big I don't know, I
Speaker 6: don't know what it was, but that was pretty much it.
Speaker 7: Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
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