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<v Speaker 1>Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in.

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<v Speaker 2>You're ready for another episode of my big Foot Sighting.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, then let's do this.

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<v Speaker 3>Seen a bunch of run down, no horse towns where

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<v Speaker 3>the church at the backbone, laws and the bow and

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<v Speaker 3>the fasting melodies coove in with the bomb man rose

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<v Speaker 3>with the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the

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<v Speaker 3>busy streets with the songs of the South of su

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<v Speaker 3>Then when I hear the promp porch picking down home

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<v Speaker 3>rhythm bringing out I Don't Run from Banjung music.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if you've had a Bigfoot sighting and would like

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<v Speaker 2>My food sidings began in twenty twenty three in Northern Idaho. Hello,

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<v Speaker 2>my name is Trish and I am from Idaho. I

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<v Speaker 2>live in the Northern Panhandle and I'm sixty two. I

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<v Speaker 2>am certified in massage therapy and license in Human, Equine

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<v Speaker 2>and Canine and I came to Idaho sixteen years ago

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<v Speaker 2>from Colorado, moving from the Midwest, and through a series

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<v Speaker 2>of events, I ended up in Northern Idaho. And because

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<v Speaker 2>my career was sort of abruptly ended, through the COVID

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<v Speaker 2>event that we had. I had to make some quick

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<v Speaker 2>career changes and maneuverings and put an ad online for

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<v Speaker 2>caretaking because I'd done that in Colorado, and thank Heavens,

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<v Speaker 2>gentlemen actually from Colorado and out of town gentlemen answered

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<v Speaker 2>it and happened to have a property in northern Idaho,

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<v Speaker 2>and one thing led to the next, and I ended

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<v Speaker 2>up there caretaking and what ended up to be five years.

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<v Speaker 2>But during those five years I had not only some

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<v Speaker 2>wonderful experiences with wildlife there, but some really unique interesting

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<v Speaker 2>things happened with something else. And it took me a

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<v Speaker 2>while to put some stuff together, but they started out slowly,

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<v Speaker 2>and I guess the first event and backing up and

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<v Speaker 2>thinking about how it all began was one usual evening.

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<v Speaker 2>I loved being at that place because it was so

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<v Speaker 2>peaceful and quiet, and I had all the amenities that I,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, could want in a place. And Uh, most evenings,

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<v Speaker 2>I would just fix dinner and go back on the

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<v Speaker 2>back part of the cabin home, which was the sunken

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<v Speaker 2>in the living room, and this gentleman had everything, UH

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<v Speaker 2>set up, all the conveniences. He had dish network, and

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<v Speaker 2>I could go back there and just you know, find

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<v Speaker 2>a movie and uh so I would go back and

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<v Speaker 2>sit on the couch and have dinner and or uh

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<v Speaker 2>just get comfortable, and uh it we got to be

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<v Speaker 2>just a little bit later, eight thirty maybe nine o'clock,

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<v Speaker 2>I heard a creek. And this place is extremely quiet.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, if the thousand foot gravel driveway, you can

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<v Speaker 2>hear somebody coming in, but the only thing otherwise you

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<v Speaker 2>hear would be the frogs creaking out there, and they'd

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<v Speaker 2>get loud sometimes. And there was a little man made

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<v Speaker 2>rock pond about twenty feet from the back deck, and

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<v Speaker 2>so that made quite the ecosystem out there. But I

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<v Speaker 2>turn I remember turning my head thinking, you hear a creek,

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<v Speaker 2>and when you are very familiar with your home and

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<v Speaker 2>you know the regular sounds, but you also know when

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<v Speaker 2>somebody's on your back deck too, especially where you know

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<v Speaker 2>this is an older place, and probably the most solid

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<v Speaker 2>part of this place was that that back deck. And

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<v Speaker 2>but there was something really heavy, because I'd never heard

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<v Speaker 2>the creaking of this thing ever before like that, and

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<v Speaker 2>it was continual, and as I listened, it progressed. Because

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<v Speaker 2>this deck in the back wasn't huge but it it

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<v Speaker 2>was had four steps up to it had about ten

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<v Speaker 2>by fifteen area deck, and then there were four steps

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<v Speaker 2>down and you walked about ten feet and then you

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<v Speaker 2>would on the corner of as it wrapped around, you'd

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<v Speaker 2>walk up four or five more steps, and then it

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<v Speaker 2>would would wrap around the back of the cabin home.

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<v Speaker 2>And as I listened, I was like, e e, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, holy cow, you know the heck is that?

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<v Speaker 2>And because it was clearly steps, and it made the

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<v Speaker 2>hair on the back of my neck go up, and

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<v Speaker 2>I immediately thought firearm. When I went upstairs and got

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<v Speaker 2>my sigtar, I wasn't messing around. I would figure, well,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're coming in, you're gonna be missing some neecaps, buddy,

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<v Speaker 2>because you know, so I came down asked, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>I had my weapon off safety. I mean, it wigged

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<v Speaker 2>me out. That was the very first time in two

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<v Speaker 2>years I'd heard something like that, and it was very slow,

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<v Speaker 2>and something just told me this is not normal. And

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<v Speaker 2>so as I listened and I followed the sound around,

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<v Speaker 2>I got back on the side steps, you know, kind

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<v Speaker 2>of backing away from that flimsy screen door that was

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<v Speaker 2>held with an eye hook. Oh my god. And then

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<v Speaker 2>that was the outer screen door, and then the inner

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<v Speaker 2>door was a would frame glass door with a slide

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<v Speaker 2>block which anybody could kick in if they wanted. But

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<v Speaker 2>in the fall season I would wrap that with very,

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<v Speaker 2>very thick plastic because the wind would come in so forcefully,

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<v Speaker 2>I learned the first winter there, the snow would just

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<v Speaker 2>beat in and it would just drift up, and so

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<v Speaker 2>I started wrapping it like a you know, a gift,

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<v Speaker 2>and which helped quite a bit. It was a good

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<v Speaker 2>wind block. But the next thing I heard was what

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<v Speaker 2>I could only imagine was a was somebody's arm going

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<v Speaker 2>up and down the plastic. And you know, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>my eyes got big, and I'm thinking, mutton the heck

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<v Speaker 2>is that? And I just listened, and you know, my

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<v Speaker 2>I had not felt this kind of oh my god,

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<v Speaker 2>what am I going to do feeling? So I stood

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<v Speaker 2>there and I listened, and pretty soon everything just calmed down. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>the next morning, I thought, Okay, nobody's coming up this

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<v Speaker 2>back deck, and so I barricaded the four steps up

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<v Speaker 2>with the big garbage can that was back there, like

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<v Speaker 2>an obvious do not come up this way. And then

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<v Speaker 2>there was a large what used to be a cable

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<v Speaker 2>spool that they used for giant cable and this guy

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<v Speaker 2>had this owner had one of those using it as

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<v Speaker 2>a table, and I dragged that thing over to the

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<v Speaker 2>other side to block the other end. So I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what I was trying to prevent, but anyway, the

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<v Speaker 2>following morning I found on the stairs a palm size

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<v Speaker 2>piece of amethyst. I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>nobody comes there, and who would put a stone there.

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<v Speaker 2>I felt like it was a gift, like, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>we were just looking and we didn't mean you any harm.

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<v Speaker 2>And that was kind of the impression I got, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it was, but it was it was beautiful, and that,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I contemplated that because I hadn't met anybody

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not close to, nor do I talk to any

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<v Speaker 2>of the neighbors, and nobody comes there, so why would

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<v Speaker 2>a piece of amethyst be on the second stair of

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<v Speaker 2>those five stairs. So well, whatever message I sent, whatever

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<v Speaker 2>you know was there, got it, I guess, and maybe

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<v Speaker 2>that was the response. That's kind of how I took it.

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<v Speaker 2>But it was just a very unusual thing. And I

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<v Speaker 2>still have that amethyst stone and I got it out

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<v Speaker 2>the other day and just kind of reminisced about it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I couldn't find it for the longest time, but

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<v Speaker 2>I remember when I packed up other things that I had,

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<v Speaker 2>I finally found it. But that was the first experience

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<v Speaker 2>and later on and they were kind of spread out,

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<v Speaker 2>So it's not like I was being inundated by visits

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<v Speaker 2>or anything or what I but things happened there that

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<v Speaker 2>I'm now putting together that could have been something else

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<v Speaker 2>my assumption of because things like two grouse being flinging

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<v Speaker 2>themselves or they either flung themselves into the back bay

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<v Speaker 2>kitchen window that was part of the back deck. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>it scared the tar out of me, because again I

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<v Speaker 2>was in that living room and I heard this bang,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went up to the kitchen where the sound

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<v Speaker 2>seemed to come from and looked out the window, and

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<v Speaker 2>sure enough, there were two grouse who apparently committed suicize

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<v Speaker 2>in my windows. Thinking wow, you guys either chasing each

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<v Speaker 2>other or flying together into the reflection of the window.

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<v Speaker 2>But I thought, well, I wonder later if those were

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<v Speaker 2>just thrown at it. I don't know, maybe there were gifts.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but I'm thinking, oh my god, because

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<v Speaker 2>it just seemed like weird stuff like that was happening.

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<v Speaker 2>I would hear what I thought were big limbs fall

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<v Speaker 2>on the roof, and a couple of times at least

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<v Speaker 2>two rocks. They had to be rocks, and I would

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<v Speaker 2>go out there, and I can go out onto the

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<v Speaker 2>roof if I want to. I've been out there many

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<v Speaker 2>times kind of checking out to see where bats could

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<v Speaker 2>possibly get in and stuff, but never really noticed a

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<v Speaker 2>huge rock. And you know Idaho's you know, the Gem State,

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<v Speaker 2>there's oh goodness, heavens, if you want to plow a field,

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<v Speaker 2>you're gonna have to clear it with rocks. But there's

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<v Speaker 2>never a shortage. And so I just didn't really kind

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<v Speaker 2>of put those things together because they were so spread out.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think the the second more prominent one, and

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<v Speaker 2>the time in between. As I'm piecing these experiences together,

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<v Speaker 2>that skunk problem I'm wondering, you know, because it was

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<v Speaker 2>so intense, and I'm thinking, what are they doing just

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<v Speaker 2>coming up here and spraying around the house or what.

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<v Speaker 2>Because I've heard other stories of other people talking about

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<v Speaker 2>their experiences and how they would smell these intense, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>smelly skunk smells, and I'm thinking, well, Now that I

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<v Speaker 2>think back, I'm thinking, Wow, maybe they maybe it was them.

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<v Speaker 2>And well, my answer to what I thought was the

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<v Speaker 2>skunk problem was to go out there on that back

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<v Speaker 2>deck and grab this huge stump that I had taken

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<v Speaker 2>from the woodshed. It was about twelve inches in diameter

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<v Speaker 2>and about eighteen inches long. And I picked that thing

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<v Speaker 2>up and I throw it up in the air and

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<v Speaker 2>I let it fall on this back deck with the

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<v Speaker 2>biggest crack that you ever heard, and it'd echo over

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<v Speaker 2>the little valley and I'd just make the biggest vicious,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, sounds I could make from a five foot small,

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<v Speaker 2>fifteen pound woman, and you know, I have my dad's volume,

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<v Speaker 2>and I could, I could. It sounded like some crazy

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<v Speaker 2>woman was just losing her mind over on that back deck.

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<v Speaker 2>And I would do it like ten or fifteen times

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<v Speaker 2>because I was not having those skunks set up shop

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<v Speaker 2>underneath the deck again. I'd already had to, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>peel them out of there and pile a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>rocks under there, and the deck was like, I don't know,

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<v Speaker 2>two feet high, and I had to crawl under there.

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<v Speaker 2>So I was not having that again. So it was

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<v Speaker 2>dark when they start skulking and coming out, and the

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<v Speaker 2>rodent expert told me they like, you know, creeping around

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<v Speaker 2>buildings and stuff and seeing if there's a hole in

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<v Speaker 2>a building they can get into. And so anyway, this

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<v Speaker 2>was the image I had my mind. It was the skunks,

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<v Speaker 2>and I was not having it. And it was on

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<v Speaker 2>and so every time I'd sit there, having a nice

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<v Speaker 2>evening on the couch watching TV and get this whiff

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<v Speaker 2>of skunks. So I thought, so I'd go out there

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<v Speaker 2>and start that big ruckus, and I didn't care if

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<v Speaker 2>the neighbors heard me or not.

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<v Speaker 4>And come to realize, I'm wondering if they were standing

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<v Speaker 4>out there at the other edge of the trees watching me, thinking,

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<v Speaker 4>you know, and I kind of imagine, thought.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's see what she does. Let's this is weird o

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<v Speaker 2>little human and she makes a big fit.

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<v Speaker 5>You know.

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<v Speaker 2>I could just see him sitting over there watching me

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<v Speaker 2>what we're increasing. And then you know, other things that

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<v Speaker 2>the other thing Idaho is known for, you know, a

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<v Speaker 2>But I would go out and I would set an attention,

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<v Speaker 2>who's traveling? And I would you know, because I've read that,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, telepathy, and yeah that they could. They can.

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<v Speaker 2>They're so advanced they can hear you. Anyway, I was

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<v Speaker 2>blackerniesa spades, and but I, you know, I had to.

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<v Speaker 2>next to the doors. It was so dark. But I

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<v Speaker 2>amazed because within five minutes, you know, what looked to

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<v Speaker 2>be stars just took off. They took off in tandem.

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<v Speaker 2>They took off one at a time, two at a time,

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<v Speaker 2>in two different directions, and it would go on all

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<v Speaker 2>night and I would count them. Thirty thirty to fifty

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<v Speaker 2>of these things would just it's all night long. I

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<v Speaker 2>could follow them all the way across the sky and

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<v Speaker 2>then it'd be thirty seconds a minute or two and boom.

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<v Speaker 2>thank you and gratitude, the more it happened. But you know,

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<v Speaker 2>take my pictures and whatnot, and then I would start

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<v Speaker 2>the third experience was I never really I know, there's

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of hoot owls and a lot of different

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<v Speaker 2>you know, night goings on, uh, nocturnal animals, and there's

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm pretty good at mimicking, you know, from from

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<v Speaker 2>at eight years old of my horse, and so why

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<v Speaker 2>I was really good at mimicking you know, different sounds,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I started it's kind of weirdo. Hood owl

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<v Speaker 2>sounds started coming from the edge of the trees in

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<v Speaker 2>the back of the apple tree, and it's about a

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<v Speaker 2>sixty foot from the back deck to the edge of

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<v Speaker 2>the line of the trees, and there's the deck the

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<v Speaker 2>man made rock pond, and then there's another thirty five

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<v Speaker 2>listened closely. It sounded like a hoot owl, but there

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<v Speaker 2>were two of them. And then on the other side

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<v Speaker 2>of the house one would answer, and I'm thinking, so

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<v Speaker 2>I started, you know, the two at the back tree

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<v Speaker 2>line started you know, hooting and for lack of a

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<v Speaker 2>better term, and then an answer would come from the

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<v Speaker 2>opposite side of the front of the place where there's

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<v Speaker 2>a circle drive in a shed, and it would keep

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<v Speaker 2>going back and forth. Well, I kind of, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>played around with it and interceded and I kind of

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<v Speaker 2>added my hoot, and all of a sudden, there were silence.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like it was like, well, who was that. So

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<v Speaker 2>they'd do it again and then I'd answer and there

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<v Speaker 2>was silence, and then they'd hoot, and I'd do it

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<v Speaker 2>again and there was silence, and I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>was going on over the other side of the shed,

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<v Speaker 2>but it kind of started to be a game. And

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<v Speaker 2>then they Yeah, I felt like they were kind of

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<v Speaker 2>playing with me. So that happened a couple of times,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was kind of entertaining. But there I could

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<v Speaker 2>tell there was movement, so you know, I thought, well,

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<v Speaker 2>they're either flying around or there's some hoodels, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>playing with the territory because they're supposed to be very territorial.

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<v Speaker 2>But well, you know, the next experience was kind of

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<v Speaker 2>after that, and I was going out on the deck

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<v Speaker 2>to to you know, to do some star gazing and sit,

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<v Speaker 2>and I went out there and took a double take

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<v Speaker 2>because out beyond the apple tree where two giant flat

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<v Speaker 2>two pair of giant flashlight eyes. And I just stood

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<v Speaker 2>there and looked. I'm thinking, you know, your mind, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>rampages through your compartments and memory to find some sort

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<v Speaker 2>of reference of what you're looking at. And I wouldn't

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<v Speaker 2>find anything. It was just like question marks. It's not

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<v Speaker 2>a deer. Deer are not that tall. They can't stand

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<v Speaker 2>on their hind lights like that, and they can't see

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<v Speaker 2>the apples anyway, so it's an it can't be a deer.

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<v Speaker 2>Those are the biggest freaking flashlight eyeballs I've ever seen,

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<v Speaker 2>and they were wide apart, and one was at least

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<v Speaker 2>ten feet tall, because the next morning I went out

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<v Speaker 2>and looked, I'm thinking, holy cow, and the other one

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<v Speaker 2>was like eight feet tall. So there were two of them,

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<v Speaker 2>and I didn't feel any fear. I'm looking at them,

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<v Speaker 2>think I assumed they were what I thought they were,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, and of course I had to start

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<v Speaker 2>babbling my ad and they stood there like you know.

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<v Speaker 2>When I thought about it later, I'm thinking, it's like

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<v Speaker 2>it's like they were thinking if we don't move. You

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<v Speaker 2>can't see It's just like, dude, youryballs or flashlights, I

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<v Speaker 2>can see you so uh so, but I just started rambling,

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<v Speaker 2>I you know, hi, you can have all the apples

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<v Speaker 2>you want. I can't reach them anyway. All the good

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<v Speaker 2>ones are at the top in the middle, and you know,

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<v Speaker 2>you can shake the crap out of if you want,

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<v Speaker 2>but you know they're all yours. Do you know you

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<v Speaker 2>can have as many as you want. And I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what else I babbled about, but I sort of

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<v Speaker 2>just kind of, you know, gracefully backed myself back into

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<v Speaker 2>that screen door. But they were there, and nobody's going

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<v Speaker 2>to tell me that that wasn't what I thought they were.

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<v Speaker 2>And the next experience that that in reference to the

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<v Speaker 2>height of the big one, was really early in the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>and and it was one of the last days that

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<v Speaker 2>the owner and his assistant were leaving. They'd been there

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<v Speaker 2>about five days, and he'd only come up a couple

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<v Speaker 2>times a year, but this was they had talked to,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, the evening before that they were going to

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<v Speaker 2>get up and leave early. So I it was the

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<v Speaker 2>time of the year, it was really hot, and the

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<v Speaker 2>ac in that place never reached upstairs. So during the summer,

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<v Speaker 2>I'd sleep on the couch in the living room because

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<v Speaker 2>it was much cooler, and so i'd gotten up. My

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<v Speaker 2>normal early rising was somewhere between three thirty and four

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<v Speaker 2>in the morning, because I go to bed early, and

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to get up to you know, get dressed

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<v Speaker 2>and be ready for whatever whenever they decided to get

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<v Speaker 2>up and get going. And I happened to get up

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<v Speaker 2>and I was starting to go up those stairs and

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<v Speaker 2>happened to glance out the front corner of the cabin window,

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<v Speaker 2>which were three stupid, skinny windows. I don't know whose

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<v Speaker 2>big fat idea it was to put windows like that

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<v Speaker 2>in a beautiful, you know, picturesque landscape place, but tiny

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<v Speaker 2>and skinny. Well you couldn't even escape out those things.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know what. But I happened to glance out

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<v Speaker 2>there and saw movement, and so I went over there

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<v Speaker 2>because at first I thought it was George, the assistant,

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<v Speaker 2>and he was running, or I thought it was him,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm thinking, holy God, that that ain't George. It's stupid.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was big and tall and black, and my

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<v Speaker 2>mind was racing through some sort of you know, reference

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<v Speaker 2>to what the heck was it? Well, uh, George is

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<v Speaker 2>a short guy. This was not a short guy. The

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<v Speaker 2>crotch of this thing was at the top rail. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's almost five feet tall. I'm thinking in three strides, one, two,

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<v Speaker 2>three and a half. And he was gone behind the shed.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, oh my god, what did I just see?

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<v Speaker 2>That was him and my mind he went to the

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<v Speaker 2>tall flashlight eyeballs from the back of the apple tree,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm thinking, oh my god, that was it. I'm

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<v Speaker 2>one of those now I'm a big footzier I'm thinking

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<v Speaker 2>of I really did. I couldn't believe it. It was

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<v Speaker 2>huge and black, and there were no shoes, no gloves,

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<v Speaker 2>there was no coverallt it was just light enough to

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<v Speaker 2>see color. And you know, the sun hadn't come up,

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<v Speaker 2>but there was a bright and que and so that

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<v Speaker 2>was the visual siding, you know, of early morning. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, oh my goodness. So I was so excited

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<v Speaker 2>and I wanted to share it, but I couldn't because

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<v Speaker 2>you know, he would have never believed me. He just

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<v Speaker 2>they wanted didn't believe in such things, and he already

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<v Speaker 2>thought I was a couple of bubbles off anyway, So

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<v Speaker 2>I guess, you know. I would try to tell him

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<v Speaker 2>about some of the UFO stuff out there. So I

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<v Speaker 2>knew that he was not you know, you know, open

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<v Speaker 2>to that kind of stuff, and so I didn't want

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<v Speaker 2>to open myself up to ridic you, and so I

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<v Speaker 2>kept it to myself. But I was so excited because

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<v Speaker 2>I wanted to, i don't know, meet them, I wanted

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<v Speaker 2>to interact with them, and I felt compelled. I wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>afraid I had a weirdo. I've always had a weirdo

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<v Speaker 2>thing with animals anyway, and not that I think they're

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<v Speaker 2>an animal, but things in the woods and creatures, and

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<v Speaker 2>I'm always rescuing something. I rehabbed a lot of animals,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, growing up and throughout my life, and they

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<v Speaker 2>just seemed to come to me. And I don't care

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<v Speaker 2>what it is. It's you know, snakes and spiders, and

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<v Speaker 2>I had a thing with spiders. I don't know what

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<v Speaker 2>it is, but I've always been like that, you know.

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<v Speaker 2>I worked at a zoo. I was fascinated with everything

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<v Speaker 2>since I was like two. My parents would tell me,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, you were always handling something. We always had to,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, tell you to put that down. And but

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<v Speaker 2>I was fascinated with living things, with creatures, and just

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<v Speaker 2>just absolutely fascinated that they already knew what to do.

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<v Speaker 2>They you know, they all symbiotically lived together in an ecosystem.

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<v Speaker 2>And I wrote children's books about experiences I had and

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<v Speaker 2>rescued things and raised them, and you know, and but

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<v Speaker 2>these experiences kept happening as I, you know, continued to

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<v Speaker 2>live there. And the next one was after the this shop,

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<v Speaker 2>that this owner had built a new, a newer, big

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of construction and what should it took, you know,

416
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:14.240
<v Speaker 2>six or eight weeks? Took nine months, good heavens. And

417
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.960
<v Speaker 2>during the construction they pile up a lot of the

418
00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:23.240
<v Speaker 2>debris in the back, took out a few trees, and

419
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:25.839
<v Speaker 2>it was quite the big mess. The owner wasn't all

420
00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:29.319
<v Speaker 2>that happy, but they graded a lot of the back

421
00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.640
<v Speaker 2>area of the yard, which you know, was quite muddy,

422
00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:35.720
<v Speaker 2>and so I would walk back there and kind of

423
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:39.559
<v Speaker 2>explore to see if anything had gotten scraped up, you know, rocks,

424
00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:43.200
<v Speaker 2>you know, I was looking for some shiny thing. So

425
00:28:43.640 --> 00:28:48.200
<v Speaker 2>I went back there and odd things. As I said,

426
00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:53.599
<v Speaker 2>what happened. I was always seeing white animals. There was

427
00:28:53.640 --> 00:28:57.599
<v Speaker 2>an albino turkey with a flock that would come around

428
00:28:57.880 --> 00:29:01.880
<v Speaker 2>and really big, really big one, and I've got you know,

429
00:29:02.039 --> 00:29:05.640
<v Speaker 2>video and photos of that. But this day there was

430
00:29:05.680 --> 00:29:08.960
<v Speaker 2>a ferret somebody. I don't know whether it's somebody's pet

431
00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:13.319
<v Speaker 2>or what, but I glanced out there and this this

432
00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:19.680
<v Speaker 2>place had a lot of very very old farms machinery

433
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:23.880
<v Speaker 2>in the yard. In the backyard, some of them were

434
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:27.240
<v Speaker 2>in the trees. There was an old old car, I

435
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:31.880
<v Speaker 2>don't know, nineteen forty something. It had the suicide doors

436
00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:35.119
<v Speaker 2>on it, and it was you know, rusted to smitherines

437
00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:36.559
<v Speaker 2>and it had a tree grown out of it, and

438
00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:38.880
<v Speaker 2>it was in the woods. So that's how old all

439
00:29:38.880 --> 00:29:43.400
<v Speaker 2>this machinery was. This thing I think wasn't a really

440
00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:47.440
<v Speaker 2>old baalor you know, it had cogs and chains hanging

441
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:50.519
<v Speaker 2>off of it, and there were little windows in this

442
00:29:50.599 --> 00:29:55.160
<v Speaker 2>contraption in this little white ferret was you know, popping

443
00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:57.240
<v Speaker 2>around in and out of it, and then in and

444
00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.759
<v Speaker 2>out of the debris woodpile. And so I went back

445
00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:05.200
<v Speaker 2>in and got my phone and I took a video

446
00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:08.200
<v Speaker 2>of it, and took out some walnuts and fed it.

447
00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:12.559
<v Speaker 2>But while I was out there walking around, I happened

448
00:30:12.559 --> 00:30:18.200
<v Speaker 2>to glance down, and there on the perfectly smooth mud

449
00:30:18.920 --> 00:30:24.720
<v Speaker 2>was the most beautiful big foot print I'd ever seen.

450
00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:30.440
<v Speaker 2>It's just perfect, perfect, It's like at least fourteen fifteen inches,

451
00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:34.359
<v Speaker 2>and I'm thinking, oh my god, but it was just one.

452
00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:36.880
<v Speaker 2>And I'm thinking, it's like, look, we're going to put

453
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.440
<v Speaker 2>one footprint in here so she knows we're here. It

454
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:43.279
<v Speaker 2>was just it was beautiful. I'm thinking, oh my god,

455
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:50.799
<v Speaker 2>you're really here. And I felt honored. I felt, you know, privileged,

456
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:59.119
<v Speaker 2>and excited and protective. I felt very protective of them,

457
00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.680
<v Speaker 2>and I didn't want anybody coming up and you know,

458
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.000
<v Speaker 2>snooping around and going and looking for them, and you know,

459
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:12.640
<v Speaker 2>especially with any guns, and because there were some yahoos

460
00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:17.839
<v Speaker 2>around the area. But I was just really solidified by

461
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:25.039
<v Speaker 2>my firm belief that, you know, they were there. And

462
00:31:25.079 --> 00:31:29.240
<v Speaker 2>it wasn't long after that. It was within a few

463
00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:32.799
<v Speaker 2>months that the owner decided to retire, and that was coming.

464
00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:35.480
<v Speaker 2>He talked about it, you know, a year and a

465
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:41.200
<v Speaker 2>half during visits and and I was always prepared. I

466
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:45.559
<v Speaker 2>had never unpacked a lot, so it didn't take me long.

467
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:49.279
<v Speaker 2>But I think the next I think the next encounter

468
00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:53.160
<v Speaker 2>would have been, you know, physical interaction. I would have started.

469
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:55.319
<v Speaker 2>You know, I think seeing them during the day, and

470
00:31:55.599 --> 00:31:59.160
<v Speaker 2>I think it's a gradual thing as they acclimate themselves

471
00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:02.240
<v Speaker 2>to an area or to people. At least that's my

472
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.400
<v Speaker 2>feeling and from different stories that I've heard other people

473
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:09.640
<v Speaker 2>talk about and then relating them to my own. It

474
00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.839
<v Speaker 2>was a slow progression and to not feel threatened to,

475
00:32:15.599 --> 00:32:19.519
<v Speaker 2>and I think they do since people's intentions and there,

476
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:22.440
<v Speaker 2>I think you are watched. I think we are watched.

477
00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:25.880
<v Speaker 2>I think I was watched for a long time because

478
00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:27.720
<v Speaker 2>I would go out by the pond, I would sit,

479
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:32.440
<v Speaker 2>I would take photography, I would oh and out by

480
00:32:32.440 --> 00:32:36.279
<v Speaker 2>the pond there scared of the jeebers out of me.

481
00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:39.880
<v Speaker 2>The first time I was there. When I got there,

482
00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:48.559
<v Speaker 2>somebody had had made an actual female Bigfoot statue, which

483
00:32:48.559 --> 00:32:51.319
<v Speaker 2>scared me to death. When I first saw it, I

484
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:56.519
<v Speaker 2>thought it was actually one of them, and thinking, and

485
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:59.559
<v Speaker 2>you know, I was a little wired anyway, because you know,

486
00:33:00.440 --> 00:33:07.519
<v Speaker 2>events through COVID and through you know, I had worked

487
00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:14.240
<v Speaker 2>the massage therapy circuit as a therapist, you know, all

488
00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:18.880
<v Speaker 2>over Idaho and bounced around quite a bit, and so

489
00:33:18.960 --> 00:33:21.799
<v Speaker 2>my nerves were, you know, a little bit on edge,

490
00:33:21.799 --> 00:33:25.880
<v Speaker 2>and I was easily startled. I had been through a lot,

491
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:34.160
<v Speaker 2>and so it's like, are you kidding? So it just,

492
00:33:34.839 --> 00:33:36.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, that's why I would take time to explore

493
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.599
<v Speaker 2>that place, because there was always something, you know, different

494
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:43.680
<v Speaker 2>that I would see. And in addition to you know,

495
00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:47.720
<v Speaker 2>these intermittent and progressive experiences I haven't had, there is

496
00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:55.279
<v Speaker 2>a Native American gentleman, very very old, like eighty nine ninety.

497
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:57.640
<v Speaker 2>He recently passed away last year. I think he was

498
00:33:57.640 --> 00:34:04.160
<v Speaker 2>like ninety three, white hair, but he had a huge

499
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:07.440
<v Speaker 2>German shepherd and we called her the Wooly Mammoth. She

500
00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:12.440
<v Speaker 2>was just gigantic, long haired, and she would come over

501
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.320
<v Speaker 2>and visit me frequently, and she knew how to open

502
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:20.039
<v Speaker 2>up the backsliding door, which was a wood slide. She

503
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.199
<v Speaker 2>knew how to open that up. And the one morning

504
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:25.679
<v Speaker 2>I was sitting on in the living room in the

505
00:34:25.719 --> 00:34:27.679
<v Speaker 2>suck and living in the back of it, she had

506
00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:32.119
<v Speaker 2>opened that door and come in and slithered down those stairs,

507
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:35.679
<v Speaker 2>and I nearly had a heart attack because you know,

508
00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.519
<v Speaker 2>I watched, you know, I listened to the dog man thing.

509
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:41.679
<v Speaker 2>It's like, I mean, I almost really had a heart

510
00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:45.239
<v Speaker 2>attack because she's big and he was just she slithered

511
00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:49.920
<v Speaker 2>down there, and she's a very dark plant black tan

512
00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:54.079
<v Speaker 2>and sable. And she looked at me and she realized

513
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:56.079
<v Speaker 2>that she scared the bejeebers out of me, and she

514
00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:58.920
<v Speaker 2>felt so bad that she groveled on the floor. And

515
00:34:59.679 --> 00:35:05.760
<v Speaker 2>but it's like so but anyway, she would come over

516
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:07.840
<v Speaker 2>and she would get me to go for a walk

517
00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:09.360
<v Speaker 2>up in the timber, and she would go with me.

518
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.239
<v Speaker 2>And that's really the only time I would go by myself.

519
00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:16.320
<v Speaker 2>You know, I never liked going hiking by myself, and

520
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:20.440
<v Speaker 2>I never went unarmed. So we would go back up

521
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:23.280
<v Speaker 2>in there, and she'd go about twenty five thirty feet

522
00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:25.519
<v Speaker 2>ahead of me and you know, sniff stuff and come back.

523
00:35:25.559 --> 00:35:28.639
<v Speaker 2>And then she'd run up thirty maybe sixty feet ahead

524
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.199
<v Speaker 2>of me and come back. And it's an incline as

525
00:35:32.239 --> 00:35:36.360
<v Speaker 2>you go up the foothills, and so she went up

526
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:38.679
<v Speaker 2>around the bend and then she came barreling back one

527
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:40.719
<v Speaker 2>day and she just gently grabbed me by the hand

528
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.480
<v Speaker 2>and turned me around. And you know, I didn't argue

529
00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:46.480
<v Speaker 2>with her because I just trust animals and there was

530
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:49.320
<v Speaker 2>a reason. So I just assumed that it was, you know,

531
00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:53.159
<v Speaker 2>the coyote couple, or maybe it was the pack or something.

532
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.639
<v Speaker 2>Was very quiet, but you know, I looked at her

533
00:35:57.639 --> 00:36:00.039
<v Speaker 2>and she was coming at a dead run, and I

534
00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:02.159
<v Speaker 2>kind of stepped to the side, and she skidded to

535
00:36:03.000 --> 00:36:04.519
<v Speaker 2>a stop right in front of me, and then she

536
00:36:04.639 --> 00:36:07.760
<v Speaker 2>just took my hand turned me around. I said, Okay,

537
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:12.039
<v Speaker 2>I guess we're going back now. But you know, I'm

538
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:15.119
<v Speaker 2>very sensitive to I don't argue a whole lot. You know,

539
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:19.360
<v Speaker 2>there's there's reason animals do stuff, and I just go

540
00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:22.280
<v Speaker 2>with it. And that's kind of the way I was

541
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.000
<v Speaker 2>with my horses and everything else. And so we went down.

542
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:31.119
<v Speaker 2>I never really questioned it, and maybe I wasn't paying

543
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:37.159
<v Speaker 2>enough attention, but you know, I've had other experiences, and

544
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:40.880
<v Speaker 2>one was in Colorado and I was put them on

545
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:45.960
<v Speaker 2>a camping trip with a boyfriend at the time and

546
00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:52.039
<v Speaker 2>another couple and we were running back towards the campers

547
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:56.079
<v Speaker 2>for some reason, and I got dropped by a rock.

548
00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.320
<v Speaker 2>As I was running. There was a rock that my

549
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:03.840
<v Speaker 2>right leg was coming up and it nailed me and

550
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:07.280
<v Speaker 2>dropped me to the ground. And we still don't know

551
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:11.280
<v Speaker 2>where the rock came from, but you know, I often

552
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:16.760
<v Speaker 2>wonder somebody was throwing rocks, and boy, I'll tell you what,

553
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:19.400
<v Speaker 2>that could have been me in the head and probably

554
00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:23.000
<v Speaker 2>killed me. I don't know, but there were weird things

555
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.599
<v Speaker 2>like that that that happened that I just didn't put

556
00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:28.880
<v Speaker 2>two and two together at the time. And but at

557
00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:33.400
<v Speaker 2>that place for five years in northern Idaho were just

558
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:37.400
<v Speaker 2>bliss for me. It was a healing time and I

559
00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:41.360
<v Speaker 2>miss it terribly. I think of them often, and if

560
00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:45.679
<v Speaker 2>there is telepathic communication and they can hear you, you know,

561
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:49.280
<v Speaker 2>I talk to them in my uh in my mind,

562
00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.000
<v Speaker 2>and I tell them I miss them. I would have

563
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:59.000
<v Speaker 2>liked to have interacted with them. And but you know,

564
00:37:59.039 --> 00:38:03.119
<v Speaker 2>there were a lot of big rocks that hit the roof.

565
00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:07.840
<v Speaker 2>I always, you know, blew them off. I thought one

566
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:11.119
<v Speaker 2>sounded like a big part of a tree, because you

567
00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:16.119
<v Speaker 2>know there's there were aspen in a huge blue spruce,

568
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:20.920
<v Speaker 2>a couple of those, and all around the cabin. And

569
00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:23.320
<v Speaker 2>you know, we have a lot of windstorms. We've had

570
00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:27.800
<v Speaker 2>some horrible sudden windstorm sixty million an hour blow the

571
00:38:27.840 --> 00:38:30.679
<v Speaker 2>crap out of the trees, and you look out in

572
00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:33.760
<v Speaker 2>the in the yard and there's just limbs everywhere, but

573
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:36.880
<v Speaker 2>on this day it wasn't. And but I would hear

574
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:43.960
<v Speaker 2>big bangs and pieces of limbs, and I often wonder

575
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:47.920
<v Speaker 2>if if they weren't trying to get my attention. But

576
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:54.840
<v Speaker 2>there were three of these grouse because I don't I

577
00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.719
<v Speaker 2>don't know, if you know, I often wonder. I often

578
00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.239
<v Speaker 2>wonder if they were trying to give me a gift

579
00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:06.039
<v Speaker 2>of maybe they felt sorry for me. I don't know,

580
00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:08.320
<v Speaker 2>because I was by myself for a very long time,

581
00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:12.639
<v Speaker 2>and I'm a small woman, and I I would walk

582
00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:16.639
<v Speaker 2>around there, and I'm very fine by myself and secluded.

583
00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:21.239
<v Speaker 2>I've always I've been like that as a young kid,

584
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:26.159
<v Speaker 2>and you know, a lot of family stuff going on.

585
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:28.880
<v Speaker 2>So I would use the horses as an excuse, and

586
00:39:29.639 --> 00:39:33.360
<v Speaker 2>I'd be up early first to feed them, and then

587
00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:36.159
<v Speaker 2>later saddle up and go riding off, and my mom

588
00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:37.920
<v Speaker 2>would have to call me back with a big bell

589
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:41.400
<v Speaker 2>we had on the back deck, the back patio out

590
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.559
<v Speaker 2>in the country where we lived, and this was back

591
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.960
<v Speaker 2>in the Midwest. But I was always like that. I

592
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:52.280
<v Speaker 2>was fine by myself. I was never afraid. I would

593
00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:54.840
<v Speaker 2>still have weird experiences as a kid, and one of

594
00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.760
<v Speaker 2>those was on my horse Flicka. And my dad always

595
00:40:00.079 --> 00:40:02.880
<v Speaker 2>said that I looked like a little peel on a basketball,

596
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:05.960
<v Speaker 2>but you know, I could make those twelve hundred pounds

597
00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:10.039
<v Speaker 2>horses work wherever I wanted them. And we went on

598
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:11.960
<v Speaker 2>on one of our rides back in the timber. We

599
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.119
<v Speaker 2>had fifteen acres and half of it was wooded and

600
00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:19.159
<v Speaker 2>the other half was a beautiful meadow up a foothill

601
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.760
<v Speaker 2>and a wonderful creek in between, and that was my playground.

602
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:27.840
<v Speaker 2>And we went back there and getting ready to cross

603
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.000
<v Speaker 2>the creek, and it had been a couple of days previous,

604
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:38.760
<v Speaker 2>you know, had rained, and that Illinois Creek mud was

605
00:40:38.920 --> 00:40:42.159
<v Speaker 2>like clay. And if anybody's watched the animal planets where

606
00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:44.920
<v Speaker 2>they have horse rescues, because course horses get stuck in

607
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:48.840
<v Speaker 2>that mud, this is what happened. Because we were one two,

608
00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:51.079
<v Speaker 2>three step and she sunk in right up to her

609
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:56.119
<v Speaker 2>chest and here I am, shorty pants. I stepped off

610
00:40:56.119 --> 00:40:59.920
<v Speaker 2>of her, and the panic just overcame me, and I

611
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:02.800
<v Speaker 2>grabbed a bridle and tried to pull, and I'm thinking

612
00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:07.599
<v Speaker 2>of it. Instantly knew that wasn't gonna do anything. And I,

613
00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:11.480
<v Speaker 2>you know, as children. We were pure until we're messed

614
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:15.519
<v Speaker 2>up by adults telling us that that's not true and

615
00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:18.320
<v Speaker 2>that's not real. But I looked up to the sky

616
00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:19.840
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know who I was speaking to, but

617
00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:22.679
<v Speaker 2>I screamed from the bottom of my toes hell per

618
00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:27.400
<v Speaker 2>and wasn't done with that sentence, and I heard a

619
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:34.119
<v Speaker 2>sucking sound like and her whole front end came out.

620
00:41:34.440 --> 00:41:36.800
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how she you know, it just was

621
00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:42.760
<v Speaker 2>plucked out. And as soon as her front end, her

622
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:47.760
<v Speaker 2>back end engine kicked yourself back up onto the harder ground.

623
00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:52.599
<v Speaker 2>And I have absolutely zero recollection of anything after that. Zero.

624
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.199
<v Speaker 2>I have no memory of any of that after that.

625
00:41:55.800 --> 00:41:58.280
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how I got home. I don't remember

626
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:01.119
<v Speaker 2>any of it. So I I often wonder what the

627
00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:04.760
<v Speaker 2>heck happened. And I don't know if I was one

628
00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:13.079
<v Speaker 2>of those kids. But that was the the end of

629
00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:16.000
<v Speaker 2>of what I can remember about that. But it was

630
00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:25.840
<v Speaker 2>it was an immediate response, and I so that was

631
00:42:26.880 --> 00:42:36.000
<v Speaker 2>just another occasion. But I've had complete confidence, no fear,

632
00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.840
<v Speaker 2>and being by myself in the woods all the time,

633
00:42:39.079 --> 00:42:43.679
<v Speaker 2>and I it just became very familiar with animal life

634
00:42:43.719 --> 00:42:49.280
<v Speaker 2>and tracks, and I would I would see things I

635
00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:54.039
<v Speaker 2>would see, you know, huge bucks we'd run right into.

636
00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:59.159
<v Speaker 2>My horse was more afraid than I was. And you know,

637
00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.039
<v Speaker 2>the horses had that big snorting sound. You know that

638
00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:04.840
<v Speaker 2>I suck an air through that huge, you know, nasal

639
00:43:04.880 --> 00:43:10.000
<v Speaker 2>cavity and you know, and the breathe that out, and

640
00:43:10.039 --> 00:43:13.599
<v Speaker 2>that's what happened on one of my occasions, and ran

641
00:43:13.719 --> 00:43:16.760
<v Speaker 2>into a big thing. And I just had to explain

642
00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:18.960
<v Speaker 2>to her, now, ear fines, just a deer. He's not

643
00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:22.519
<v Speaker 2>gonna hurt you. And but you know, she'd never seen

644
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:28.599
<v Speaker 2>one before. So but these were I don't want to

645
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:32.079
<v Speaker 2>say that I was a loner, but I re energized

646
00:43:32.119 --> 00:43:37.000
<v Speaker 2>and I I loved seclusion and solitude in the woods.

647
00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.239
<v Speaker 2>And you know, later I got into boat hunting, and

648
00:43:40.320 --> 00:43:42.360
<v Speaker 2>thank god I didn't kill anything, because I don't think

649
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.639
<v Speaker 2>I could live with it. But you know, I I

650
00:43:45.880 --> 00:43:50.079
<v Speaker 2>had I had occasions out in the woods in Indiana

651
00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:56.920
<v Speaker 2>hunting with the with the boyfriend then, and strange things

652
00:43:56.960 --> 00:44:01.000
<v Speaker 2>happened out there with that, and I'm, uh, well, I'm

653
00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:02.840
<v Speaker 2>not sure that there were things out there I wasn't

654
00:44:02.880 --> 00:44:06.239
<v Speaker 2>aware of because we never did find the deer that

655
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:11.159
<v Speaker 2>he hit, except the stomach contents there was nothing left.

656
00:44:11.559 --> 00:44:15.360
<v Speaker 2>Something had picked that thing up and taken off with it.

657
00:44:15.400 --> 00:44:19.920
<v Speaker 2>But it was thirty two degree below windchill, which was

658
00:44:19.960 --> 00:44:24.079
<v Speaker 2>the dumbest thing. I didn't know it, but I had

659
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:30.679
<v Speaker 2>probably fourth level hypothermia, and I couldn't feel my hands

660
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:35.320
<v Speaker 2>from my elbows down, and I almost popped a four

661
00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:40.320
<v Speaker 2>corn fifteen feet up in a tree and prematurely hit

662
00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:42.639
<v Speaker 2>the release and it went over his shoulder and popped

663
00:44:42.679 --> 00:44:45.960
<v Speaker 2>into a dead tree in back of him, and he

664
00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:48.559
<v Speaker 2>crouched down, not knowing where that came from, and then

665
00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:54.000
<v Speaker 2>gradually started browsing again. But to heck with that, because

666
00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:57.400
<v Speaker 2>I just decided this was stupid, and it took me

667
00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:00.559
<v Speaker 2>twenty minutes to crawl down out of that tree, and

668
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:04.840
<v Speaker 2>then I ended up crawling down right in front of

669
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:09.719
<v Speaker 2>three huge does. I don't think I've ever seen does

670
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:12.239
<v Speaker 2>that big, and I'm not even sure really they were dozed,

671
00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:16.599
<v Speaker 2>and you know, maybe I was seeing things, but I

672
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:18.880
<v Speaker 2>was all cameoed out and everything, and I was small,

673
00:45:19.039 --> 00:45:21.079
<v Speaker 2>so I don't think they could figure if you know,

674
00:45:21.079 --> 00:45:23.280
<v Speaker 2>they weren't intimidated one bit, because they both say all

675
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:27.280
<v Speaker 2>three stood there. It was like a Calvin and Hobbs cartoon.

676
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:31.039
<v Speaker 2>It's like I could just look. They were like talking

677
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:32.880
<v Speaker 2>to each other. It's like, I don't know, is it

678
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:34.679
<v Speaker 2>a limb or what. I can't tell. I mean, it's

679
00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.480
<v Speaker 2>like and their tails were they couldn't decide whether it

680
00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:39.800
<v Speaker 2>was something to raise their tail or not. They kept

681
00:45:39.800 --> 00:45:42.159
<v Speaker 2>going up and down. And I looked at him after

682
00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:44.239
<v Speaker 2>I got down. I cannot remember if I had my

683
00:45:44.320 --> 00:45:48.440
<v Speaker 2>bow or not. I was, you know, your mind plays

684
00:45:48.480 --> 00:45:51.440
<v Speaker 2>games with you in hypothermia. And I looked at him

685
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:54.000
<v Speaker 2>asid I'm out of here, and I made a beeline

686
00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.320
<v Speaker 2>and I, you know, I had half a mile to

687
00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:04.559
<v Speaker 2>walk out through cornfields, and you know, the only thing

688
00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:07.519
<v Speaker 2>that I remember was trying to track the deer that

689
00:46:08.159 --> 00:46:10.559
<v Speaker 2>my boyfriend had caught, and we couldn't find it. And

690
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:13.840
<v Speaker 2>I kept picking up the blood trail and it went

691
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:17.079
<v Speaker 2>down and up to the next ravine and we got

692
00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:18.679
<v Speaker 2>up there and the only thing we found where the

693
00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:21.199
<v Speaker 2>stomach contents. There wasn't a bit left, and I don't

694
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:24.320
<v Speaker 2>know what could have carried it off, But you know,

695
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:26.679
<v Speaker 2>I'm kind of thinking something else was out there. And

696
00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:30.599
<v Speaker 2>that was a way before the time of ever knowing

697
00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:36.360
<v Speaker 2>about dog Man or you know, the thinking about bigfoot

698
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.360
<v Speaker 2>or anything like that. But you know the occasions of

699
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:42.400
<v Speaker 2>being in the woods and not knowing about these things.

700
00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:46.960
<v Speaker 2>When I look back on the experiences I had, I'm thinking,

701
00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:54.400
<v Speaker 2>Holy cow, you know. But being in northern Idaho, it's

702
00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:56.679
<v Speaker 2>a different place. And the place that I was living

703
00:46:56.760 --> 00:47:01.320
<v Speaker 2>for those past five years was just utterly magical. And uh,

704
00:47:01.599 --> 00:47:05.960
<v Speaker 2>the the video and photography that I got, I mean,

705
00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:12.719
<v Speaker 2>it's something I can, I can keep forever. But I'm

706
00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:18.800
<v Speaker 2>hoping I can find some property up there. My my

707
00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:23.599
<v Speaker 2>father passed away, uh unbelievably a year ago, this this

708
00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:32.519
<v Speaker 2>past January, and uh, you know, I'm I'm hoping with

709
00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:34.639
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of the inheritance I could, I can

710
00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:39.760
<v Speaker 2>buy some akage up there and and continue living in

711
00:47:39.559 --> 00:47:44.039
<v Speaker 2>the peace and solitude. Because I am not a silly

712
00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:46.360
<v Speaker 2>city girl. I can I can function in it. And

713
00:47:46.400 --> 00:47:49.480
<v Speaker 2>I got to, you know, I went to collegiate years

714
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:51.519
<v Speaker 2>and got a couple of degrees and blah blah blah blah,

715
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:54.400
<v Speaker 2>and did all that stuff and and hated every second

716
00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:57.639
<v Speaker 2>of it. But just like that's the thing you're supposed

717
00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:03.159
<v Speaker 2>to do. And but you know, I don't want to

718
00:48:03.199 --> 00:48:06.199
<v Speaker 2>lead this area. I've already left it once and the

719
00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:11.440
<v Speaker 2>compelling to stay up in this place is very strong.

720
00:48:11.599 --> 00:48:19.800
<v Speaker 2>And so when I left the place up north, we

721
00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:24.400
<v Speaker 2>were only thirty miles south of the Canadian border, and

722
00:48:25.320 --> 00:48:29.639
<v Speaker 2>there's a lot of activity that goes on. And in

723
00:48:29.679 --> 00:48:33.719
<v Speaker 2>the town of Bonners Ferry, they have huge bigfoot statues

724
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:40.280
<v Speaker 2>all over the place. Everybody's you know, seeing one somewhere

725
00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:46.840
<v Speaker 2>here and there, and so it's a lot of believers

726
00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:54.199
<v Speaker 2>up there. And but those were those were my experiences.

727
00:48:54.440 --> 00:49:01.320
<v Speaker 2>And you know, I'm one of us. Know you're one

728
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:03.679
<v Speaker 2>of us. You know, if they say an I robot,

729
00:49:03.719 --> 00:49:11.400
<v Speaker 2>you're one of those. So you know, this place was

730
00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:15.960
<v Speaker 2>a beautiful place. It was landscaped and there was a

731
00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:21.079
<v Speaker 2>sprinkler system, and the wildlife that came there sorrow. The

732
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:25.559
<v Speaker 2>Mountain lion would drag her kills. She was notorious for

733
00:49:26.639 --> 00:49:30.039
<v Speaker 2>killing around the area, dragging her bucks and whatnot up

734
00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:33.280
<v Speaker 2>into the yard. And she did that there under the

735
00:49:33.719 --> 00:49:37.480
<v Speaker 2>thicket and the mulberry trees, and stayed there for three days.

736
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:40.000
<v Speaker 2>And needs to say, I didn't go anywhere for three days.

737
00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:42.639
<v Speaker 2>But you know, I've got some great video of her,

738
00:49:42.840 --> 00:49:46.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, and she she was just fascinated with the

739
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:48.039
<v Speaker 2>sprinklers and she would lay out there like a big

740
00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:51.320
<v Speaker 2>house cat and clean herself and sit there and watch

741
00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:54.920
<v Speaker 2>the sprinklers in the evening. And it was it was

742
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:57.840
<v Speaker 2>the most magical place to be and my heart aches

743
00:49:57.920 --> 00:50:02.280
<v Speaker 2>to be there. I wish I was there, and I

744
00:50:02.360 --> 00:50:02.760
<v Speaker 2>miss it.

745
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:05.360
<v Speaker 5>But the.

746
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:09.039
<v Speaker 2>You know, there was a herd of twenty six elk

747
00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:12.119
<v Speaker 2>that would come down into through the pass that was

748
00:50:12.239 --> 00:50:17.199
<v Speaker 2>right near that that back direction, sixty feet from the

749
00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:19.920
<v Speaker 2>apple tree and that that tree line. There was a

750
00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:21.480
<v Speaker 2>pass that went up there and the elk would come

751
00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:25.800
<v Speaker 2>down through there right into the front pasture which was

752
00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:29.039
<v Speaker 2>all grass, and the neighbor across the way would cut

753
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:33.320
<v Speaker 2>that for his cows. And there was you know, it

754
00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:37.679
<v Speaker 2>was just wildlife everywhere. And you know I've documented everything

755
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:46.239
<v Speaker 2>and that yeah, they're there, and I feel, uh, you know,

756
00:50:46.280 --> 00:50:50.519
<v Speaker 2>some of the things that I've watched and heard, I

757
00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.440
<v Speaker 2>don't know if you know, it's I've come to believe

758
00:50:54.920 --> 00:50:57.920
<v Speaker 2>that with what resonates with what I hear. Don't believe

759
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.440
<v Speaker 2>everything that that. I don't think it's good for anybody

760
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:03.440
<v Speaker 2>to believe just whatever they hear. I mean, but but

761
00:51:03.599 --> 00:51:08.039
<v Speaker 2>what resonates with you that combines with your experience. But

762
00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:14.800
<v Speaker 2>there was a medium, a woman that encountered and and

763
00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:20.280
<v Speaker 2>was psychic and could hear them speak to her, and

764
00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:26.280
<v Speaker 2>she I listened to her, and she said they explained

765
00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:28.880
<v Speaker 2>who they were and that they are much like our

766
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:34.320
<v Speaker 2>human race. There is a huge diversity of humans and

767
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.440
<v Speaker 2>in both behaviors and races. And she said that that's

768
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.280
<v Speaker 2>she said, it's a lot like us. We have. We

769
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:45.559
<v Speaker 2>have some we'd like to you know, ask to leave

770
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:49.559
<v Speaker 2>out of the you know group, and good ones and

771
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:53.679
<v Speaker 2>bad ones, badly behaving ones and very family oriented ones

772
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:57.239
<v Speaker 2>and uh. But that that kind of resonated with me,

773
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:01.000
<v Speaker 2>and that's why I felt like I wanted to continue

774
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:04.519
<v Speaker 2>and eventually interact. But you know it got cut short

775
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:11.079
<v Speaker 2>by the owner retiring and coming there. And so you know,

776
00:52:11.159 --> 00:52:16.480
<v Speaker 2>I was going up and visiting next door neighbor who

777
00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:20.960
<v Speaker 2>had lived in the house and had a little cabin

778
00:52:21.239 --> 00:52:24.800
<v Speaker 2>home and had been there many years before the present

779
00:52:24.840 --> 00:52:27.800
<v Speaker 2>owner of who I care took for bought the place

780
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:31.280
<v Speaker 2>and it was his second home. He had a pretty

781
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:35.639
<v Speaker 2>big spread down in Colorado. But this neighbor, you know,

782
00:52:35.679 --> 00:52:38.239
<v Speaker 2>I was going over there and getting spring water, and

783
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:43.519
<v Speaker 2>you know, he had a great place too, and I

784
00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.039
<v Speaker 2>just wish I could just acquire some property up there

785
00:52:46.079 --> 00:52:49.519
<v Speaker 2>so that I could continue interacting with him. But that's

786
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.559
<v Speaker 2>really the you know, the stories that I have, and

787
00:52:55.199 --> 00:52:59.880
<v Speaker 2>I just feel privileged that I got to encounter and

788
00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:04.639
<v Speaker 2>experience those, because you know, we've always heard about him

789
00:53:04.760 --> 00:53:09.039
<v Speaker 2>and since the seventies. And I remember at the boarding

790
00:53:09.079 --> 00:53:11.320
<v Speaker 2>stable before we all got horses and we moved out

791
00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:14.320
<v Speaker 2>on our farm that the big, big food scare was

792
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:16.880
<v Speaker 2>going on around, you know, the legend of Boggy Creek

793
00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:21.159
<v Speaker 2>and blahtah blah. And we were at that boarding stable

794
00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:23.199
<v Speaker 2>and it was dusk and we were still hanging around

795
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:27.000
<v Speaker 2>before we left, and we were kids then, and one

796
00:53:27.000 --> 00:53:30.039
<v Speaker 2>of the horses had a very dark, you know forelock

797
00:53:30.320 --> 00:53:33.239
<v Speaker 2>and a black forelock, and he had his head right

798
00:53:33.320 --> 00:53:35.920
<v Speaker 2>up at the gate and his forelock had fallen through

799
00:53:36.679 --> 00:53:40.119
<v Speaker 2>over the railing of the metal gate and it looked

800
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:41.800
<v Speaker 2>like a great, big, huge block ada and we all

801
00:53:41.800 --> 00:53:47.800
<v Speaker 2>freaked out when screaming. So it was but somebody screamed

802
00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:49.960
<v Speaker 2>bigfoot and we all ran. So, I mean, it was

803
00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:55.320
<v Speaker 2>this way back then. But those are pretty much my

804
00:53:55.320 --> 00:54:00.280
<v Speaker 2>my experiences, and you know, there wasn't anybody there share

805
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:05.599
<v Speaker 2>them with and I didn't feel any fear, and except

806
00:54:05.599 --> 00:54:08.400
<v Speaker 2>for that first time when I couldn't tell who it

807
00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:10.719
<v Speaker 2>was because I wasn't thinking of a bigfoot at the time.

808
00:54:10.760 --> 00:54:14.960
<v Speaker 6>I was thinking of some big I don't know, I

809
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:20.840
<v Speaker 6>don't know what it was, but that was pretty much it.

810
00:54:23.159 --> 00:54:25.519
<v Speaker 7>Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a

811
00:54:25.559 --> 00:54:27.639
<v Speaker 7>big foot siding and would like to be a guest,

812
00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:30.639
<v Speaker 7>please go to my Bigfoot Siding dot com and let

813
00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:34.320
<v Speaker 7>us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night seeing.

814
00:54:34.079 --> 00:54:36.679
<v Speaker 3>A bunch of run down, no host towns where the

815
00:54:36.760 --> 00:54:40.960
<v Speaker 3>church is the backbone, loves and the bow and the

816
00:54:41.000 --> 00:54:46.400
<v Speaker 3>pastoring melodies coove in. But the bomb man rose with

817
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:50.079
<v Speaker 3>the roos, run deep beyond the nose of the busy

818
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:54.320
<v Speaker 3>streets with the songs of the South of su Then

819
00:54:55.880 --> 00:54:58.880
<v Speaker 3>I mean I hate the promp poort picking down home rhythm,

820
00:54:58.880 --> 00:55:08.039
<v Speaker 3>bringing that I don't run from banjung music. Yeah, the

821
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:11.639
<v Speaker 3>sound of a memory brings me back to the bluegrass

822
00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:13.519
<v Speaker 3>playing the Madadi jack.

823
00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:20.559
<v Speaker 8>It's become many been through it, getting through the deal

824
00:55:20.679 --> 00:55:25.400
<v Speaker 8>on scrugs and skaggs, bucking name bales to this Tennessee jams.

825
00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:28.800
<v Speaker 2>There's no other way that I do it.

826
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.079
<v Speaker 3>And I hit the flamboat breaking down on rhythm, ringing out.

827
00:55:34.599 --> 00:55:37.239
<v Speaker 2>I don't run from Ben Jong music.

828
00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:45.360
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, summon dollar backwards backwards and double tip.

829
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:48.039
<v Speaker 10>Faking in the sword and the strumming looking tup stuff.

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<v Speaker 10>There's on the end of strumming out country both living

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<v Speaker 10>and I hit a bumboat picking down rhythm, bringing us

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<v Speaker 10>that all from from men.

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<v Speaker 5>Of music, the city that trust me. While on the

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<v Speaker 5>two music cars rushing by with the pastes on the

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<v Speaker 5>stereos to man.

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<v Speaker 10>When I hear the brown boat picking down home to

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<v Speaker 10>them bringing nuts paddle run from.

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<v Speaker 5>Bang of music.

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double tim picking in

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<v Speaker 10>the sword and the strumming looking tucky star. There's on

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<v Speaker 10>the age and strumming us count your boy living and

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<v Speaker 10>hit a bum boat picking down rhythm, bringing.

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<v Speaker 9>Us battle front of them bestrooms, some ming dona back

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<v Speaker 9>works backwards and double town packing and the soul and.

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<v Speaker 10>The trumming looking takes time because nothing had those trumming

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<v Speaker 10>down because you're.

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<v Speaker 9>Wont live in. And I hear the firm patch picking.

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<v Speaker 10>Double and the bad chicken potchmin Mama's very sweet tea

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<v Speaker 10>kind

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<v Speaker 9>Of sounds that old ruble bedroom music,