Speaker 1: Wamen starts.
Speaker 2: Name name name, the name.
Speaker 3: Didn't what you're putting.
Speaker 4: We got some water or nothing probing out here. I
Speaker 4: can't go, but I know I did. My vendor light
Speaker 4: came on and I did that. But they went and
Speaker 4: the thing running across the yard. Not a good fight
Speaker 4: man or something I look like the man.
Speaker 1: I don't know what if?
Speaker 3: What if?
Speaker 4: The right across the yard.
Speaker 1: It seems to be a big foot leaning against a
Speaker 1: tree in a wooded area. I have seen plenty of
Speaker 1: people with big feet, but not bigfoot tree minks and rush.
Speaker 1: He sees about a seven and seven and a half
Speaker 1: foot tall fast watch looking back at him, and.
Speaker 3: That kind of looks like a wolf, but not like
Speaker 3: a neighborhood dog.
Speaker 1: Pick these stores for what they are and hopes that
Speaker 1: maybe if it's out there, then show me yeah, and
Speaker 1: says he might have caught the mythical chup of cabra
Speaker 1: creature terrorizing.
Speaker 4: His chickens like a grunt and a knock like a
Speaker 4: w I think there's kind of a cultural tendency for
Speaker 4: people to want to make big Foot a quote unquote monster.
Speaker 1: Welcome to ecb ro O Bigfoot Radio. Hey guys, it's
Speaker 1: your host Janie bin Wan. Tonight we bring you another
Speaker 1: special guest that's joining us today right here in Virginia,
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk some big quot today. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about some encounters and experience this individual
Speaker 1: has shared. But I want to welcome everybody. Uh well,
Speaker 1: first I want to welcome uh miss April April. How
Speaker 1: are you doing.
Speaker 5: I'm good. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I am doing great. Now let me ask you,
Speaker 1: is this the first time you've ever been on a
Speaker 1: podcast or anything like this?
Speaker 5: Really very first time?
Speaker 1: Okay, hey, well this is great, This is good, This
Speaker 1: is good stuff. So now, aypl me and you. We've
Speaker 1: known each other for some years now, we kind of
Speaker 1: go back. I don't forgive me for not remembering timeframes,
Speaker 1: but it's been a long time. I know that much.
Speaker 1: So I think.
Speaker 5: Back in twenty twenty thirteen is when we first met.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, so yeah, that has been a good while.
Speaker 1: That's been twenty thirteen. That's been I can't think of
Speaker 1: the top of my head. I'm a little slow right now.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's been a good while. Good deal. Now,
Speaker 1: I do recall Well, first of all, let me ask
Speaker 1: you before we get into anything further big the subject
Speaker 1: depict with has something has that kind of been an
Speaker 1: interest to you or is that something kind of fell into.
Speaker 6: I've always been interested in vixit Like some people why,
Speaker 6: I don't believe in it, but I believe.
Speaker 1: Nice. No, have you had experience you will? I recall
Speaker 1: you shared an experience with me a long time ago. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things you shared with me, you said
Speaker 1: you had a sighting at a young age. Is that correct? Yes, okay.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if you could kind of kind of
Speaker 1: give us a background or backstory on that and like
Speaker 1: when that happened, what you know, what led up to it,
Speaker 1: where you were and all that good stuff.
Speaker 6: I was up on Peak Mountain, actually I was at
Speaker 6: like he's like a stepbrother to me. We were at
Speaker 6: his place and we were dear hunting him, riding four
Speaker 6: wheelers and me and my brother was riding a four
Speaker 6: wheeler up and down the driveway and through the woods,
Speaker 6: and out of nowhere one came out and started actually
Speaker 6: chasing this one formula Oh.
Speaker 1: Wow, and then oh go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, And then we end up actually shooting a
Speaker 6: deer the same night, and when we went to go
Speaker 6: get it. We seem were dropped, and we went in
Speaker 6: the house to get the big spotlight, and once we
Speaker 6: come out, the deer was nowhere to be found. No
Speaker 6: blood tracks, no nothing.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. You know it's funny that you mentioned that,
Speaker 1: because I've heard that happening here in Virginia a couple
Speaker 1: of different times from other hunters where they've actually seen
Speaker 1: the deer was in their sight and they dropped the deer,
Speaker 1: and even though the deer was at a little bit
Speaker 1: of a distance, by the time they worked their way
Speaker 1: up to where the deer was dropped, the deer was
Speaker 1: nowhere in sight. But now you said Peaks Mountain? Is
Speaker 1: that is that here in Virginia?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right out pier on thirty three west and
Speaker 6: Rocking Him County.
Speaker 1: Okay, is that? Would you say? Is that over towards
Speaker 1: the Burkeen area that you mentioned and talked about before? No? Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: But how far west on thirty three would you say that? Is?
Speaker 5: Like you're going towards Fox Run.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's going out that way, but it's before so
Speaker 1: it's before Falks Run.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Like you can take Peak Mountain right and.
Speaker 5: Off of thirty three.
Speaker 6: You saw a Peak Mountain all the way down and
Speaker 6: you could actually go into Fox Run that way off
Speaker 6: of Peak Mountains.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, okay, very cool. Now did know you when
Speaker 1: when the big foo came out and you said it
Speaker 1: started chasing you, did you get a good look at it,
Speaker 1: like any kind of description or like, how would you
Speaker 1: describe it? I don't know.
Speaker 5: I was young and I was scared.
Speaker 7: I didn't look back once I've seen it was chasing inside,
Speaker 7: and looked back. I buried my head and my brother's back.
Speaker 1: Wow, all you know? So, but there was still daylight
Speaker 1: like it was. It wasn't dark yet though, right. No? Wow,
Speaker 1: So since then you're thinking much about that? Or I mean, like,
Speaker 1: did that affect you in any way since then? As
Speaker 1: far as going into the woods, Nope.
Speaker 5: I also go in the woods. I love being outdoors.
Speaker 5: That didn't stop me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I know a lot of people. It
Speaker 1: drives people to keep going and wanting to be in
Speaker 1: the woods be so they appreciate nature. But I've heard
Speaker 1: stories from others who have seen them. Some people say
Speaker 1: it took them a while to get back in the
Speaker 1: woods after having any kind of encounter.
Speaker 5: I was in the back of the woods next day.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, that's awesome. That would be me because you know,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't let much scare me. It really doesn't.
Speaker 1: I mean I've had my shares of experiences with both
Speaker 1: wildlife and the unknown, and it doesn't stop me. It
Speaker 1: just keeps me going. So I'll see. I know, since that,
Speaker 1: have you had any other experiences since then? Or what
Speaker 1: was the next experience was when I met up with
Speaker 1: you when you guys are camping out there by Elcorn.
Speaker 6: That's the next experience I had was when we were
Speaker 6: camping at Elcorn when I have rock staring over my head.
Speaker 2: M M.
Speaker 1: Now I know I got the interview. I got the
Speaker 1: interview on camera. It was of course I had. That
Speaker 1: was my That was some years ago, and I had
Speaker 1: a cheap cameraphone, which I did. I think it was
Speaker 1: a cameraphone or was it my I can't remember. I
Speaker 1: mean it was either my cheap cameraphone or it was
Speaker 1: one of my old little quarters. I know I had
Speaker 1: my daughter with me, but I do have that quarter
Speaker 1: you had. It was okay, That's what I'm starting to
Speaker 1: think because I know a lot of times I did
Speaker 1: a lot of recording with my old camera phone and
Speaker 1: it was a low quality film. Uh, but yeah, was it?
Speaker 1: Could you recall it? Was? It was? It? Was it
Speaker 1: just one night when the rocks started were thrown at you?
Speaker 1: Or did it happen a couple of nights or I mean,
Speaker 1: what could you recall about that that night or the
Speaker 1: whole situation?
Speaker 6: It was just that one night, like we came back
Speaker 6: from coming from Harrisonburg and we just said that, well,
Speaker 6: I did said down to eat dinner, and and at
Speaker 6: the time was doing something and next thing I know,
Speaker 6: I had rocks starting over my head. And then he's
Speaker 6: seen the rocks from over my head, and then he's like,
Speaker 6: I'm going to knock three times. Was a piece of
Speaker 6: you know, a stick, So he knocked three times on
Speaker 6: a tree, and a bout that time we heard three
Speaker 6: knocks back, and then then again bout that time again,
Speaker 6: I done had a bigger rock thrown in my head
Speaker 6: and I just felt just the hair of it touched
Speaker 6: the top of my head. And about that time it
Speaker 6: scared me so bad that I threw my food into
Speaker 6: the fire and my dog almost went into the fire
Speaker 6: because she was on my lap also because she was scared,
Speaker 6: and no one once I felt the rock like taking
Speaker 6: just a hair of it touched the top of my head.
Speaker 6: I ran and jumped in the car and I told
Speaker 6: him I was leaving, and I even locked the doors
Speaker 6: on him so he couldn't even get in the car
Speaker 6: in the.
Speaker 5: Car, and that's when we left from there that night.
Speaker 1: Wow man, Uh yeah, because I think it was the
Speaker 1: next morning you guys you would contacted me and was it?
Speaker 1: Was it the same day? Did I come out that
Speaker 1: same day or I think they did?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you did.
Speaker 1: Now, a couple of things I recall. We we did
Speaker 1: some exploring. We did a little investigating up behind your
Speaker 1: camp and you know the I know, the creakers right
Speaker 1: behind the campsite, and we went we went just beyond
Speaker 1: the creek where we were able to cross the creek,
Speaker 1: and uh, I do recall, and I I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: I still have pictures, but there was what appeared to
Speaker 1: be some very u fairly sized flat impressions and some
Speaker 1: grass up behind it that we did come across. Another
Speaker 1: thing too, I think it was just me and Ed.
Speaker 1: Ed took me to another spot where you guys were
Speaker 1: camping at and he me the location of that camp
Speaker 1: site and part of the creek or the stream that
Speaker 1: ran up behind that camp, uh, which was this was
Speaker 1: probably almost a good two miles from where you guys
Speaker 1: were set up where I first met you guys at,
Speaker 1: and he said something very similar happened there where there
Speaker 1: was rocks being thrown across that stream, which that stream
Speaker 1: was a little it was a little wider, but yeah,
Speaker 1: he told me there were some rocks that were being
Speaker 1: thrown from the opposite side over there as well. I
Speaker 1: don't know, do you recall anything about that location.
Speaker 6: I don't remember that. Of course, I probably asleep when
Speaker 6: that happened at him mm hmm, can tell me about it,
Speaker 6: but yeah, I don't recall it happened and when I
Speaker 6: was awake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Because what's what's interesting about that second location, there's
Speaker 1: a trail if you follow the trail that branches from
Speaker 1: that that camp spot, which is bird along the river,
Speaker 1: on that trail all the way through it will lead
Speaker 1: you up behind where I camp at, where the main
Speaker 1: one of the main spots where I know on the
Speaker 1: camp at, and uh, yeah, there's been some experiences there
Speaker 1: and up across from where I've camped at. Because if
Speaker 1: you know the location of the Elkhorn Lake or the
Speaker 1: entrance that leads into the lake. Yeah, right, yeah, right
Speaker 1: outside of that entrance, there's a there's a big camp
Speaker 1: spot right out on the outside where, Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: group of us that camp there. And I believe I
Speaker 1: actually got pictures. I think that was back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1: We did a group picture. I knew you and Ed
Speaker 1: came out there to visit for a little while and
Speaker 1: if you guys were in the you guys are in
Speaker 1: the group picture we took. Yeah, but that location there,
Speaker 1: we had a few things, interesting things that happened there
Speaker 1: because my father camped out with me that week and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and while we were sitting around that campfire one of
Speaker 1: the nights we were out there, Dad had just gone
Speaker 1: down into his tent and lay down. He was tired.
Speaker 1: It was kind of to me it was early, but
Speaker 1: Dad was tired, and you know, because the medication he
Speaker 1: was taking at the time made him you know, it
Speaker 1: was a blood threader for his heart, and he had
Speaker 1: he had just gone down to lay down in his
Speaker 1: tent and the rest of us were sitting around the campfire. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were kind of shooting the shit, talking here and there,
Speaker 1: But then it was dead quiet, and from out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: right across from camp, we had this powerful wood on wood,
Speaker 1: powerful tree knock bang. And what was actually kind of
Speaker 1: funny about it, Dad was scurry. Dad wasn't asleep, apparently
Speaker 1: he was laying awake listening to everything. But when we
Speaker 1: all heard that tree knock, we were pretty much on
Speaker 1: our feet. Dad came scurrying out of his tent. Soon
Speaker 1: as Dad jumps out of his tent and he's like,
Speaker 1: I heard that, and I'm actually I'm kind of almost
Speaker 1: like laughing, but I'm not, but I'm like pointing in
Speaker 1: the direction where it came from. And when he stepped down,
Speaker 1: I was like, Dad, I told you, you know, I've
Speaker 1: been telling him about what goes on around there, you know,
Speaker 1: the activity that we normally get, and I'm just glad
Speaker 1: that he was able to get that little bit of
Speaker 1: you know, experience. You know, that tree snock really had
Speaker 1: he'd had us on our feet, but that particular night,
Speaker 1: we were actually, you know, we started hearing things even
Speaker 1: after that tree knock took place. Some moments later, I
Speaker 1: know Greg that was with us. He did a couple
Speaker 1: of vocalizations. We had. We got some responses from his vocalization,
Speaker 1: some that almost sounded very similar in response. But after
Speaker 1: hearing a couple of vocals here and there, we started
Speaker 1: to hear a movement on the outskirts of our camp,
Speaker 1: like through the bushes in this forest, and it sounded
Speaker 1: like something walking around us, like we were being circle,
Speaker 1: you know. Now, we never saw anything, but that's what
Speaker 1: we heard, and we started, you know, looking around. We
Speaker 1: actually end up walking up behind camps see if we
Speaker 1: can see it, which we never did. But of course
Speaker 1: perhaps we should have gone walking to where we heard
Speaker 1: that big tree knock, which was on the opposite side.
Speaker 1: But so that was one thing I could recall because
Speaker 1: I've had some of the other experiences there, you know,
Speaker 1: in just a few years prior to all that. But
Speaker 1: Elkhorn Lake has been very interesting because there's been a
Speaker 1: lot of interesting things that's happened over there before I
Speaker 1: ever had an encounter. I've had stories from people I
Speaker 1: used to work with that told me about what they've
Speaker 1: seen across the road in front of them. And these
Speaker 1: are for people that never knew nothing about me, and
Speaker 1: they just came out and told me their stories, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So have you have you just I'm just curious. Have
Speaker 1: you had anything ever since that last moment?
Speaker 5: I haven't.
Speaker 6: It's been a while since I've been out there again.
Speaker 6: I need to go back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Now you you came out and canceled us
Speaker 1: a few days. It was about a couple of days
Speaker 1: or so, back in October of this this previous year. Now,
Speaker 1: one of the things that happened at that camp site,
Speaker 1: Now I wasn't there because it was towards the end
Speaker 1: of the campsite where some of us had to pack
Speaker 1: up and leave. We were talking about this on a
Speaker 1: previous podcast because one of the couples that came down
Speaker 1: there was a couple. There was a couple that end
Speaker 1: up coming down from Pennsylvania, a husband and wife. And
Speaker 1: you know, I mind you the wife, she doesn't know
Speaker 1: much about wild life. She doesn't she doesn't get to
Speaker 1: experience that, she doesn't see anything. She doesn't know how
Speaker 1: they behave and what they do. But her and her
Speaker 1: husband had gone down and drove down to the gate
Speaker 1: at the lake. And what was funny was as her
Speaker 1: husband was parking, she was in the passenger seat looking
Speaker 1: over her shoulder towards the gate and she seen what
Speaker 1: she claimed to see. She claimed it to be a
Speaker 1: bear and she's looking over there. She said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: there's a bear over there, you know. But there's details
Speaker 1: that she didn't share until after she got back to camp.
Speaker 1: But her husband was telling her he don't worry about bears, bear,
Speaker 1: you know. She she's like, I got my side arm.
Speaker 1: Bears ain't gonna bother us. We're protected anyway, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: So they went about their hike and this and that,
Speaker 1: and later on after they got back, Melissa and my
Speaker 1: friends Melissa and David were still at camp. They were
Speaker 1: backing up getting ready to leave where they started bringing
Speaker 1: it up again. And keep in mind, there's a details
Speaker 1: of her husband did not know. But she started talking
Speaker 1: about what she saw again she thinks it's a bear.
Speaker 1: But her story was when she looked over, she saw
Speaker 1: it standing on two feet at the edge of the gate,
Speaker 1: behind the behind some of the trees and bushes, and
Speaker 1: it was it was standing there for a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, real fast, it started
Speaker 1: taking off on two feet and it ran across that
Speaker 1: little uh that roadway by the gate and went across
Speaker 1: into the woods. And it stayed on two feet, running
Speaker 1: like lightning, And and of course everybody would starting to
Speaker 1: listen to her story, they're like, wait a minute, you
Speaker 1: said you saw a bear and it was running real
Speaker 1: fast on two feet, And they're like, no, that wasn't
Speaker 1: a bear. Bears might walk and stumble a little bit
Speaker 1: on two feet at a short distance and have short steps,
Speaker 1: but they will not run on two feet. And how tall? Yeah,
Speaker 1: she she said it was almost around six week tall
Speaker 1: is what she estimated. So after sharing the details, they're like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you didn't see a bear. That was
Speaker 1: not a bear. So yeah, from what she described and
Speaker 1: what she said she saw and how.
Speaker 8: It moved and behaved, yeah, we believe she may have
Speaker 8: seen a young sasquatch, which is not surprising because I've
Speaker 8: heard so many stories from that general area out near.
Speaker 1: Around falk Run in the other areas. Some years ago,
Speaker 1: when I was over by Elkhorn Lake, back when I
Speaker 1: had my other Blazer, you know, the a group of
Speaker 1: young guys that were driving up. I was parked up
Speaker 1: by the bathouse that leads into the Elkhorn Lake. These
Speaker 1: guys on my vehicle and they thought, hey, wait, let's
Speaker 1: stop and talk to this guy. They started talking to me.
Speaker 1: I keep in mind they were kind of young guys
Speaker 1: on a small pickup truck. They pull out their phone
Speaker 1: and showed me a picture that they had captured on
Speaker 1: their phone. And the picture was some tracks and some snow.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to tell you, like I've told the
Speaker 1: others before, when I've seen this picture, it was probably
Speaker 1: the best looking pictures of tracks I've seen. And it
Speaker 1: was on a side road or a backcountry road, and
Speaker 1: I thought they would showing me something that they captured
Speaker 1: from this general area up around Elkorn, But no, it
Speaker 1: wasn't from Elkcorn. These large, clear humanoid tracks in about
Speaker 1: a couple inches of snow, a whole long trackway off.
Speaker 1: I said, where was this at? Over up my folks
Speaker 1: run going on the outskirts of the hog Fin area,
Speaker 1: and I was like, my job, I drop. I was like, really,
Speaker 1: you know I at this point, I had just learned
Speaker 1: of that location out there from a friend of mine
Speaker 1: I used to work with who lived in Singers Glenn,
Speaker 1: and he's told me some stories that he's experienced weird
Speaker 1: things out there when he was younger. But so you know,
Speaker 1: this is just one story. I've heard stories from bear
Speaker 1: hunters that claimed to have mean big foot sasquatch peeking
Speaker 1: out behind trees out there on them, and uh, those
Speaker 1: stories I find to be incredible because bear hunters know
Speaker 1: what bears look like. They hunt bears all the time,
Speaker 1: and there was no mistaken that they knew this wasn't
Speaker 1: a bear that was watching them, you know. So yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the folks run the Hogpin area. Yeah, I mean there's
Speaker 1: reports of stories from this location that you won't hear
Speaker 1: or see you or find on the b f R database.
Speaker 1: So yeah, these these people have seen things out there,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people, there's a lot more than
Speaker 1: probably witnesses, observe things out there. But you know, these
Speaker 1: are country folks. A lot of them don't come forward
Speaker 1: that easily. So you know, a lot of people like
Speaker 1: to keep stuff to themselves. A lot of mountain folks
Speaker 1: are quiet of things. But at the same time, once
Speaker 1: they get to know you, get familiar with you, feel comfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't mind sharing stories like that, you know, as
Speaker 1: long as they feel like they could trust you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely so, But you don't I got a question for you.
Speaker 1: I ask a lot of a lot of people this,
Speaker 1: you know, and as far as I'm concerned, there's no
Speaker 1: wrong answer. Everybody has their own belief or whatever reason.
Speaker 1: But my question to you is what do you what
Speaker 1: do you feel? Well, what do you think Bigfoot might be?
Speaker 5: I mean I've heard a lot of stories.
Speaker 7: I mean, I've heard people say that they're just like
Speaker 7: one of us, half.
Speaker 5: Human and like half eight but you never know what
Speaker 5: to believe.
Speaker 7: But I mean my opinion, I mean, the way you know,
Speaker 7: they walk on two feet, just like we do.
Speaker 5: They're just like one of us.
Speaker 1: Right, So so you believe that they could be some
Speaker 1: type of human.
Speaker 5: I'm they could, but I mean I'm really I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's always one of that.
Speaker 1: Right, hmm. Yeah. I mean I do a lot of
Speaker 1: research and studies on based off of you know, like
Speaker 1: reports and history, because there's a lot of history with
Speaker 1: Bigfoot that dates hundreds and hundreds of years ago when
Speaker 1: it comes to sightings, but you know, more of it
Speaker 1: more more of it came to light back in the
Speaker 1: fifties and sixties. You know, out in the Pacific Northwest,
Speaker 1: like California and the Washington and Oregon states where Bigfoot
Speaker 1: has been become very popular out there, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean for those who don't know. I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of people do know, but there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that are not familiar with the nineteen sixty seven
Speaker 1: Roger Pattinson and Bob Gimmelin footage that happened October twentieth,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties seven. Now, yeah, there's two guys are on
Speaker 1: horseback exploring out in nature in Bluff Creek, California, which
Speaker 1: is part of Northern California. And yeah, yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a coincidence because they were actually on a mission to
Speaker 1: go find and film bigfoot, and it just so happens
Speaker 1: that they just so happened to stumble across what appears
Speaker 1: to be a big foot. So and they filmed it.
Speaker 1: There was it was probably just barely under a minute long,
Speaker 1: the total footage. And so some people look at that
Speaker 1: as a red flag, like, Okay, they were looking for
Speaker 1: bigfoot and they got lucky and found a bigfoot and
Speaker 1: filmed it. And so there's been red flags about that,
Speaker 1: you know, or concerns about that. I should say, yeah,
Speaker 1: but here's there's more to it than that. Because Hollywood
Speaker 1: and Disney, they both when they when they learned of
Speaker 1: this footage. They're like they both came forward like we
Speaker 1: don't have the technology to have anything to look that good,
Speaker 1: you know, Roger Patterson, Bob Gimblin, they did not have
Speaker 1: a budget. You know, nobody, you know, everybody that was
Speaker 1: reputable that you know, they had a reputation. Like like
Speaker 1: I said, for Disney and Hollywood, none of them have
Speaker 1: connections with Bob Gimblan and you know Roger Patterson. And
Speaker 1: again they themselves didn't have the have anything that looked
Speaker 1: that good. You know what the best thing they had
Speaker 1: back then during that time was the original Planet of
Speaker 1: the Eighth, the planet Other that didn't come out till
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, Yeah, a whole year later after the footage,
Speaker 1: and they were like monkey faces and that's what they
Speaker 1: had for costumes, you know. And there was nothing, nothing
Speaker 1: they had that were compared to what Bob Gimmelin and
Speaker 1: Roger Patterson filmed, you know, using a sixteen millimeter camera.
Speaker 1: So I mean, till this day, that video footage had
Speaker 1: been dissected, you know, left and right, and science and
Speaker 1: other mainstream people graphic and analysis, you know, people that
Speaker 1: were involved with analyzing film, and they can't point towards it,
Speaker 1: they can't debunk it. Everything so far leads that this
Speaker 1: was the real deal. I mean, there was bigfoot tracks
Speaker 1: that were found at that film site, and they were
Speaker 1: cast and analyzed and studied. Nothing point towards it being
Speaker 1: fake because you know, there's professionals that can debunk and
Speaker 1: find proof that tracks were fake. Nothing was proved to
Speaker 1: be otherwise, and which adds a lot of credibility to
Speaker 1: all that. So but again that was out in California,
Speaker 1: northern California, and yeah, and again the Pacific Northwest has
Speaker 1: a big reputation for big But you know, over the years,
Speaker 1: people don't realize what we have here on the East Coast.
Speaker 1: It's it's highly underestimated that we do have the here.
Speaker 1: We have a lot of forces that people don't realize.
Speaker 1: There's so many thick, dense forests where yeah, we we
Speaker 1: get out and explore here and are we hike here
Speaker 1: and air There's hikers that get out. There's people that
Speaker 1: run up and down the Appalachian Trails. So that's another
Speaker 1: story because they people that have seen things along the
Speaker 1: Appalachian Trail. But just here in Virginia alone, I mean
Speaker 1: the Appalatier trail does run through Virginia, you know, and
Speaker 1: then you've got the Alleghany run. Oh yeah, then you've
Speaker 1: got the Alleghany Mountains that run the border Virginia and
Speaker 1: run right through West Virginia and so forth. So, but
Speaker 1: the National force that we have here, there's i know,
Speaker 1: the George Washington National Force alone has over one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty thousand plus acres that connects into other national
Speaker 1: state forest you know, the Jefferson National Forests, and also
Speaker 1: you got West Virginia State Forest. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of terrain in in uh deep woods out here that
Speaker 1: people have no clue what's out here. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: the authorities will deny it, some individuals will deny it.
Speaker 1: But we got mountain lions here, you know, and almost
Speaker 1: every game. Yeah, what do you do? You know anything
Speaker 1: about mountain lions here in Virginia? No? Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Well I've heard people talk about them, but I've never
Speaker 5: seen them.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean they're not common. But then again, yeah,
Speaker 1: they are seeing here. I mean I've had eyewitnesses respond
Speaker 1: to my blogs, and so there is actually another public
Speaker 1: blog if you look up mountain lions in Augusta and
Speaker 1: Rockingham County, and there's tons of reports that people have
Speaker 1: seen seen them out here, Singers, Glen False Run, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a that's a that's a particular location. Those
Speaker 1: locations have a lot of sightings. U Farmers have seen
Speaker 1: them on their properties. And you know, I witnessed one
Speaker 1: in the George Washington National Forest. You know, so that
Speaker 1: was back in twenty fifteen, So I know they are here.
Speaker 1: You know, Shoot, we got wolves here in Virginia exactly
Speaker 1: do I mean there's evidence of that. I mean, I
Speaker 1: got a I got a picture of a gentleman just east,
Speaker 1: going over on the east side of the mountains. He
Speaker 1: has I have a picture of him holding one up.
Speaker 1: He shot it and killed it because it was getting
Speaker 1: to his livestock. Yeah, well it was a red Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a red wolf. And red wolves they only
Speaker 1: get about eighty two pounds, which that's pretty that's a
Speaker 1: decent size. So you know, wolf red wolves are probably
Speaker 1: considered probably the smallerst of our most wolf species, but
Speaker 1: eighty two pounds, that's still pretty big though.
Speaker 7: That is I love wolves, Like if I've always wanted
Speaker 7: a pet wolve.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny say that I have thought of
Speaker 1: that too. I really have because you know, there are
Speaker 1: wolf hybrids that they whis been on certain canine shows
Speaker 1: and uh festivals here in Virginia, and I never got
Speaker 1: to see them, but I've always wanted to go check
Speaker 1: them out. But yeah, there are people you can't get
Speaker 1: wolves for pets. You know, they may again they may
Speaker 1: not be pure bad, but some of these hybrids are.
Speaker 1: I've seen pictures of them. They are pretty large. Uh
Speaker 1: some of these will depends on the species of wolf. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they get very large. So absolutely, I wanted to, Uh,
Speaker 1: there was something else I wanted to ask you here,
Speaker 1: I had it written down here. H let's see, Well
Speaker 1: that you've attended my event, the e C. B r
Speaker 1: O Virginia big Foot Conference, and have you ever been
Speaker 1: attended to any other events by any chance? No?
Speaker 5: I haven't, but I would love to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, I mean you know.
Speaker 5: Actually planning on going of your events this year?
Speaker 1: Well good, I hope so, because yeah, because I need
Speaker 1: to talk to Brianna about that. For though he's wondering
Speaker 1: who Brian is my daughter? Remember, Yeah, I need to
Speaker 1: talk to her because I know it's going to be
Speaker 1: much bigger this year. And we got the Medieval Renaissance
Speaker 1: performing there this year. So it's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot more going on this year, so I'll definitely need
Speaker 1: all the help I could get up. Absolutely. Uh. There's
Speaker 1: an event too I want to talk about I'm putting
Speaker 1: on next month in February. It's actually down in Lexington, Virginia.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a very simple, laid back event. It's
Speaker 1: all the Bigfoot and lunch and it's being held at
Speaker 1: the there's a cafe diner downtown Lexington, Virginia, and it's
Speaker 1: called Legendary Eats, which I love talking about this because
Speaker 1: you know, I've never been there before and it's only
Speaker 1: about an hour south of me, and it's everything on
Speaker 1: their menu it's bigfoot of crypto theme items. And I've
Speaker 1: seen some pictures of their food. Yeah, their food looks amazing.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds good and it looks good. So
Speaker 1: but Bigfoot and Lunch, what we plan on doing there
Speaker 1: is just get together, you know, having some lunch together
Speaker 1: talk bigfoot. And I promoted this, you know, I shared
Speaker 1: it around in different different Bigfoot groups and stuff or
Speaker 1: local groups, I should say, uh here in Virginia hopefully
Speaker 1: that people might be willing to come out of the
Speaker 1: woodwork if they have an an experience or a sighting
Speaker 1: that they're willing to share with us. So we're hoping
Speaker 1: for that, and that way we could make notes of
Speaker 1: that and document uh gives us other areas to look
Speaker 1: into and research and investigate. So mm hm So I
Speaker 1: know there's other places a little bit further self, I
Speaker 1: have I have plans to investigate as well. There was
Speaker 1: a set of vocalizations that that a girl shared with
Speaker 1: me probably a few months ago, a couple of months,
Speaker 1: two or three months ago, and I was very intrigued
Speaker 1: by these vocalizations from what I heard, and especially when
Speaker 1: I found out the location where she lives. I know
Speaker 1: the location, it's about a good almost a two hours
Speaker 1: south from here, and she does. She did give me
Speaker 1: permission to bring a few people down there to even
Speaker 1: camp out on the property. So when time permits, I
Speaker 1: definitely want to do that. It would probably be like
Speaker 1: a week in camp out. We would be you know,
Speaker 1: a little search to property and see if we could
Speaker 1: find anything and maybe record something ourselves, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah absolutely so hm hm. So I mean, have
Speaker 1: you given big Foot much thought since all all your
Speaker 1: experiences as far as what I mean, if there's anything
Speaker 1: that you would like to do more with bigfoot or
Speaker 1: or how do you feel about bigfoot? What would you
Speaker 1: want to do with big foot in your life?
Speaker 7: I like to explore it more, and like you know,
Speaker 7: you know, I've been to your conferences and you know,
Speaker 7: stuff like you do in words cave, and like you know,
Speaker 7: I like to get out and explore more, you know,
Speaker 7: and learn more, even more about Bigfoot that I've already know.
Speaker 5: You know what I mean right.
Speaker 1: Now, if you're out in the woods exploring with you know,
Speaker 1: with anybody or myself food, and you started big foot.
Speaker 1: I know sometimes this is easier said that, but how
Speaker 1: would you feel if you encountered big Foot face to face? Hm? Hmm.
Speaker 5: I ain't gonna lie as I was face to taste
Speaker 5: the big Foot Right now, I'm probably in a pe
Speaker 5: of my pants.
Speaker 1: Which.
Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, it probably scared me to death where I
Speaker 9: do pee my pants, especially being face to take let
Speaker 9: somebody taller than me because I'm sure I'm very short.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, with that being said, I got to
Speaker 1: say that. I mean, I can't say it was bigfoot.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I've been out the woods
Speaker 1: by myself, late at night camping, you know, in areas
Speaker 1: that I weren't really familiar with it. I've heard things
Speaker 1: surrounding my camp. Yeah, I wasn't able to identify what
Speaker 1: it could have been, what it could have been coming from.
Speaker 1: And when you're by yourself, it's it is a very
Speaker 1: different situation. You're very you feel you're you're very vulnerable,
Speaker 1: especially at night when you're in a location you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with and it's so dark, and and especially when
Speaker 1: you're down below a set of power lines deep out
Speaker 1: in the mountains and that area becomes so foggy where
Speaker 1: that cool mountain air comes in, the settles in and
Speaker 1: you start hearing these trip like hard tree cracks and
Speaker 1: snaps and bangs, and like, you know, like what the
Speaker 1: heck is that you know, and it's getting real close
Speaker 1: to you. You know, you don't know what to think.
Speaker 1: You just again, you're in a vulable, vulnerable situation, you know.
Speaker 1: But now at the same time, with that being said,
Speaker 1: I've been with other people, but by twenty fourteen times
Speaker 1: there was five other people with me. You know, not
Speaker 1: once did I ever feel scared or threatened. So it's
Speaker 1: it's totally different when you're by yourself versus when you're
Speaker 1: with other people. It is you have that sense of comfort,
Speaker 1: you know, for whatever reason. But you know, like I said,
Speaker 1: I've been by myself camping and even up by Elk
Speaker 1: Corner Lake. I mean, I've had things walk away from
Speaker 1: me real close that we're very large and heavy and bipedle.
Speaker 1: Even though I didn't see things, sometimes I've heard what
Speaker 1: I've heard, and I know that whatever that was was
Speaker 1: not a known speeches of the animal. I've been very
Speaker 1: close with bears. I know they don't leave when they
Speaker 1: step and walk, they don't leave. They don't make a loud,
Speaker 1: heavy thump and crunch, you know when they walk away
Speaker 1: because they're on all fours. You know, I've heard loud,
Speaker 1: heavy bipedle steps to walk away from me real close,
Speaker 1: you know, just inside the tree line across my camp,
Speaker 1: and that's put me on edge, you know. But so yeah,
Speaker 1: I've been in a situation quite a few times where
Speaker 1: it's had me on edge, you know. And I'm not
Speaker 1: afraid to admit that. Yeah, I was scared because I
Speaker 1: was by myself and I didn't know what to expect.
Speaker 1: But thank god, I never had anything bad happen to
Speaker 1: be out in those woods. You know, some people think
Speaker 1: I'm crazy for me. Yeah. Absolutely, a lot of people
Speaker 1: think I'm crazy for being out there, and it was
Speaker 1: as much as I am by myself. But I like
Speaker 1: going by myself because I don't have to worry about Okay,
Speaker 1: oh so, and so they're lagging behind, I got to
Speaker 1: stop and wait for them. Not that I go walking
Speaker 1: and try to get away from everybody. I do walk
Speaker 1: at my own pace. I like to. I do like
Speaker 1: to stop and listen because the way I observe and
Speaker 1: listen to things is different than others, you know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so yeah, it's easier to just to go on foot
Speaker 1: by myself and do everything at my own pace. And
Speaker 1: I don't have to worry about who's with me. So
Speaker 1: there's another reason I go by myself alive, you know.
Speaker 1: But oh but but yeah, I want to jump back
Speaker 1: a little bit. I want to back up a couple
Speaker 1: of things we were talking about to start off with
Speaker 1: with your experiences. Yeah, you said the one the one
Speaker 1: situation that had you go in the car because you guys,
Speaker 1: I guess you said you basically got scared, right.
Speaker 5: Yes, I did.
Speaker 1: Now, what what do you think about when that was happening.
Speaker 1: Did you think sasquatch or you or was sasquatch on
Speaker 1: you even on your mind? Even though you guys didn't
Speaker 1: see nothing, you had those rocks being thrown at you.
Speaker 1: What was running through your mind during the whole.
Speaker 7: Thing, Like, I'll take the truth, I really don't know,
Speaker 7: but it was a sasquatch in my mind, like I
Speaker 7: was in my own little days anyway when that was happening,
Speaker 7: mm hmm. But I never thought it would actually be
Speaker 7: sasquatched on rocks over my head.
Speaker 1: Which you know, it's funny because you know, for those
Speaker 1: who get familiar with bigfoot sasquatch behavior, rock throwing is
Speaker 1: very common with them. So I remember you told.
Speaker 7: Me about that when you came out there that day.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because another I know, to get out of his territory.
Speaker 1: Then next time, right now, here's the question for you.
Speaker 1: Were you guys being loud and voiterous or were you
Speaker 1: guys Were you guys pretty much quiet on the most
Speaker 1: part or was there a lot of noise going on?
Speaker 7: It was over getting far Wood, a little ways away
Speaker 7: from me, and I'm just sitting there in the lawn
Speaker 7: chair when it was happening.
Speaker 5: Why didn't be actually eating my dinner? I remember eating
Speaker 5: chili that night.
Speaker 1: Huh. That's interesting because in most cases, you know, rock throwing,
Speaker 1: a lot of rock throwing usually curves wearing. People are
Speaker 1: on the move or venturing into a certain location where
Speaker 1: the rock thrown. When that starts their curves usually, in
Speaker 1: my honest opinion, it's it's it's a science saying hey,
Speaker 1: you need to get out of here. You know, you're
Speaker 1: not wanted here, you know. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: like you also mentioned it, it started off with smaller rocks,
Speaker 1: you know, I felt like that could have been them
Speaker 1: just playing games with you. You know. Yeah, at the
Speaker 1: same time, it's like you guys weren't bothering nothing. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, here's another thing to think about too. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's said that they put believe you know, it's believed
Speaker 1: that Bigfoot knows people's intentions and they feel people's vibe,
Speaker 1: you know, like perhaps that maybe because of the company
Speaker 1: that was there, that none of you guys became welcome,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, these are the things that I'm
Speaker 1: just thrown up there. I'm not saying these are factually
Speaker 1: reasons but these are these could be possibilities as well
Speaker 1: that you know, like, yeah, he just didn't feel like
Speaker 1: you guys should be there, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they He definitely did not want to there, that's
Speaker 5: for sure. Here's too.
Speaker 1: Bigfoot might have been like saying, I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: you understand, April, you're with the wrong people. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be here with these people? Yeah, so yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, if if it maybe if it was just you,
Speaker 1: maybe you hey, he would have showed himself or or
Speaker 1: he would have just like just stayed watching you and
Speaker 1: left you alone. You know. But oh, so are you
Speaker 1: eating a chicken sandwich right now? Oh? I think we
Speaker 1: lost our guests. No, she's still there. She don't hear me.
Speaker 5: Though, my son.
Speaker 1: Oh, your Audia is going out. I see you. You're
Speaker 1: still on with us, but I don't see you. I
Speaker 1: don't hear you.
Speaker 5: The sorry, Yeah, my phone was crazy.
Speaker 6: Oh, my dad's hungry, so I'm buying him a sandwich.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay, because I heard something about a chicken sandwich. No,
Speaker 1: you're fine, No, it's okay, No, it's all good. I
Speaker 1: thought that was kind of funny. Is like, I heard
Speaker 1: something about a chicken sandwich in your audio one.
Speaker 5: Uh my phone crappy, I need and I just got
Speaker 5: the phone.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh man, but uh yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: I love talking Bigfoot. You know I love hearing about
Speaker 1: these experiences. I know the listeners love hearing about all
Speaker 1: these different experiences. So the again, for those who may
Speaker 1: have quite I know we kind of clarified earlier, but
Speaker 1: when you were younger. How old were you with your
Speaker 1: first experience? We were about twelve, you stay or somewhere
Speaker 1: around there. I was like this team maybe okay, around
Speaker 1: fifteen okay, and again that was around Peaks right off
Speaker 1: right off of Route thirty three West in Virginia.
Speaker 5: Yep, Peak.
Speaker 1: Okay, A good deal. Huh Well, I wanted to ask you,
Speaker 1: is there anything that you would like to talk about
Speaker 1: or share before we come to a close?
Speaker 5: Not really, I can't think of nothing else.
Speaker 1: Well, I will say this were I will get you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to get you back out in those woods
Speaker 1: because you know, I'm going to tell you this is
Speaker 1: something too fresh on the off of my mind. I
Speaker 1: think it's important that we need to have females out
Speaker 1: in the woods when it comes to big pudding. One,
Speaker 1: because you know, I could tell you some stories either
Speaker 1: having my daughter out in the woods with me, I've
Speaker 1: had some very strange and interesting experiences and years ago,
Speaker 1: I've had girlfriends out in the woods with me where
Speaker 1: the most coolest things ever happened. And it seems like
Speaker 1: if there's long, if there's a female present with you,
Speaker 1: there seems to be something They're like they're drawn into females,
Speaker 1: females and children. You know, I've had some crazy experiences
Speaker 1: having both females with me, and especially when Brianna, when
Speaker 1: Brianna was just a young teenage girl, There's one particular
Speaker 1: location I used to bring her into. It's over in
Speaker 1: the Elkhorn Lake area, and there's a certain area I
Speaker 1: used to go into all the time. Yeah, I used
Speaker 1: to come on across and find some really cool stuff.
Speaker 1: But not once have I ever heard any kind of vocalizations.
Speaker 1: But the one time I do recall bring her into
Speaker 1: this particular location, it was in the middle of the daytime,
Speaker 1: and I can't recall the time of year it was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't cold, but it was I guess mild temperatures.
Speaker 1: And after we got so far in the keep in
Speaker 1: mind this particular location. It was a small ridge on
Speaker 1: the one side of us, and there's an old game
Speaker 1: trailer we follow the game shows further back, and we
Speaker 1: just started hiking in there, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we started hearing these gone awful crazy vocals, you know,
Speaker 1: screams and whoops and hollers and all this weird stuff.
Speaker 1: And Brianna asked me, she said, Daddy, are those coyotes? No,
Speaker 1: those are not coyotes. Because you know, anyone who's ever
Speaker 1: been to a zoo and walked into a crazy primate
Speaker 1: exhibit area, I mean, it sounded like a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy primeates just sounding off like all at once. And
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I've been in this area
Speaker 1: several times by myself, not once I've ever heard anything
Speaker 1: like that. But the day I brought her in there, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like there was a major sound off. And I'll
Speaker 1: never forget that. I mean, I thought it was interesting,
Speaker 1: you know, But then again, like I said, there's other
Speaker 1: situations where I've had females with me, where we've had
Speaker 1: tree knocks real close to us in the middle of
Speaker 1: the daytime. We've had rock I've had a football sized
Speaker 1: stone thrown at me when I was with the one
Speaker 1: particular girl. Again, this was years ago in a different
Speaker 1: part of the national force, you know. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard stories from other people saying that, you know,
Speaker 1: have females always sparked some type of activity. I know
Speaker 1: there's female Bigfoot groups that go out where it's just
Speaker 1: all female else they tend to have activity. But so yeah,
Speaker 1: I always encourage and welcome females with our explorations and
Speaker 1: everything in between, you know, because it does draw them in,
Speaker 1: because I honestly believe that they are drawn and some
Speaker 1: curiosity of the females and children that might be present.
Speaker 1: Oh right, So yeah, it's it's pretty cool.
Speaker 6: I'll be I'm ready to get back out in the woods,
Speaker 6: trust me, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get you out there. Don't worry about that.
Speaker 1: I promise you we will get you out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because uh, as soon as this winter's over and we
Speaker 1: get some decent weather break. I mean, even though my
Speaker 1: next group camp out was in May, but I plan
Speaker 1: on getting out there before then if everything continues to
Speaker 1: work out. I have some personal situations I'm working on
Speaker 1: right now. I'm trying to conquer and get established and
Speaker 1: fixed and everything in between. But as soon as I
Speaker 1: can get that take care of it can put me
Speaker 1: on more of a schedule, I'll know what I could
Speaker 1: work with, you know. But you know we have there
Speaker 1: is a lot going on for the twenty twenty five year,
Speaker 1: because there's events I got going on that I'll be
Speaker 1: speaking at out of state West Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: And there's a new one I got presented with that
Speaker 1: I might it's not it's not confirmed yet, but there's
Speaker 1: a possibility I might speak in North Carolina this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know yet. I'm waiting to hear back because
Speaker 1: they reach out to me on something and wanted to
Speaker 1: know if I'll be interested. So they're basically interviewing different
Speaker 1: people right now on who they might want to decide
Speaker 1: on who's going to speak in that particular event. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's a lot going on in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: camping probably camping events, speaking engagements. There's some filming projects
Speaker 1: with my new film series I'm working on that's coming
Speaker 1: about this year, and so absolutely, but tell you what,
Speaker 1: we're coming to a close and I April, I want
Speaker 1: to thank you very much for you being on here
Speaker 1: and sharing everything you did, and we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: have you on here because I do roundtable discussions where
Speaker 1: we just talk about Yeah, we discussed and talk about
Speaker 1: kinds of random topics. Anyone who's listening know that we've
Speaker 1: done this a couple of times already. Uh. Some of
Speaker 1: the discussions go from bigfoot to weird random conspiracy theories
Speaker 1: and everything in between. So we don't limit our discussions
Speaker 1: on just bickfoot, but we bigfo it's our main topic.
Speaker 1: Of course, we will discuss other cryptids and you know,
Speaker 1: whatever else it comes about. So but yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have you on again soon. And before we go,
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Speaker 1: It's not the Renaissance Fair. However, it's going to be
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Speaker 1: I have organized that will be attending the event, they
Speaker 1: have They will have two booths on the inside set
Speaker 1: up for information and a few things on display, but
Speaker 1: they will be performing battles and demos outside in the
Speaker 1: grass field by the outside vendors. So we're going to
Speaker 1: have a very exciting time at this year's event. I
Speaker 1: really encourage everybody to come out and check this out
Speaker 1: and have fun. There's going to be rides for kids,
Speaker 1: There's gonna be contests for kids. We might even include
Speaker 1: we might even make something for the adults to come
Speaker 1: out and do a little contest too, because we love
Speaker 1: getting the kids involved. Doing the big Foot calling contest,
Speaker 1: We've had adults do it before, so we're considering bringing
Speaker 1: that back as well. One thing we might do entering
Speaker 1: it because I've some of the other events I attend
Speaker 1: and speak at every year, especially down in South Carolina,
Speaker 1: they do the Squatchiest Looking contest if and usually it's
Speaker 1: the adults that come out and if you've got a big, long,
Speaker 1: hairy beard, long hair, if it looks hairy, if you
Speaker 1: look like you might be ab the pass as a Bigfoot,
Speaker 1: which I think that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We may end up doing something like that as well.
Speaker 1: And my my real good friend mister Ron House, he's
Speaker 1: an Air Force veteran. Uh. He lives in Pennsylvania. He's
Speaker 1: my uh. He's been my event to MC for the
Speaker 1: last few years, which he'll be there this year. For
Speaker 1: those who don't know him, he's also known as Biker Bigfoot.
Speaker 1: Dresses up as Bigfoot but wearing his leather chaps because
Speaker 1: he does drive a Harley, so uh, there may be
Speaker 1: some extra activities with him involved in it. So we
Speaker 1: also have we'll have a couple of different bigfoots roaming
Speaker 1: are event this year because I got some good friends
Speaker 1: of mine from upstate New York who hold the Rochester
Speaker 1: Paranormal event. The one who organizes and puts that on
Speaker 1: him and his partner will be coming down. He dresses
Speaker 1: up as Bigfoot. You'll see him because I know last
Speaker 1: year and no it wasn't last year. He wasn't able
Speaker 1: to make it last year, but the year before uh,
Speaker 1: he was in his Bigfoot costume with a big tea shirt.
Speaker 1: He said, three hugs, sou they are returning this year.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna have a couple of big bigfoots on
Speaker 1: on on on the grounds attending the event. And also
Speaker 1: I can't completely confirm it, but they said they will
Speaker 1: be there for anyone that knows about the Wall Crawler
Speaker 1: also known as Spider Man that roams the city of Stanton, Virginia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I reached out to him, he had no idea
Speaker 1: about the event. He was so about this, he says,
Speaker 1: he says, I'll be there. So so ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: you may be able to get your picture taken and
Speaker 1: see Spider Man. Yeah, I mean so between Bigfoot, the
Speaker 1: Renaissance groups and they're retire and Spider Man. So we
Speaker 1: got a little bit of cosplay going on here this year.
Speaker 1: So if you want to come out and participate in
Speaker 1: your own attire, if you're a Cause player, we will
Speaker 1: love for you to come out. We really encourage cosplay.
Speaker 1: If you want to make yourselves known that you're going
Speaker 1: to be there, reach out to us at ECB R
Speaker 1: O ninety eight at gmail dot com. Because we love
Speaker 1: our Cause players, We love people dressing up as to
Speaker 1: the entertainment and it could also be educational based off
Speaker 1: of what you're dressed up as. I know. One of
Speaker 1: the things we considered if we had people that confirmed
Speaker 1: that they were going to be there, is possible Bigfoot
Speaker 1: encrypted theme cosplays we can maybe do contests with. I
Speaker 1: know other events here in Virginia that friends of mine
Speaker 1: had put on in the past had contests. If that's
Speaker 1: something we can get enough of enough attendee to want
Speaker 1: to cosplay to dress up as a crypted that would
Speaker 1: be great. We could form a contest on that. But
Speaker 1: this year's twenty twenty five ECBRO Virginia Biffer Conference is
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun. So and yeah, April,
Speaker 1: I definitely need you to be there. I know, I
Speaker 1: know Brianna, hopefully she will make the way to be
Speaker 1: there because I don't need all of g'all's help, So y'all,
Speaker 1: we'll be there absolutely. And also we have I do
Speaker 1: have my part of my resource team that helps volunteer
Speaker 1: with the vendors and everything. So we have around twenty
Speaker 1: vendors signed up already, and so we still have indoor
Speaker 1: space room. So if you want to sign up as
Speaker 1: a vendor and be inside, you better jump on board
Speaker 1: now because we're going to be filling up the outside
Speaker 1: very soon, and we do have a few food trucks
Speaker 1: signed up with us already. We have room for more,
Speaker 1: so we encourage everybody to get on board, jump on board,
Speaker 1: and reach out to us again. The email is ECB
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Speaker 1: that are listening and tuning into this. So we appreciate
Speaker 1: what you guys do. We're glad that you're listening. But
Speaker 1: if you're a traveler, we love to have you out
Speaker 1: at our event. We are a growing organization. Our event's
Speaker 1: been held for over six years and they're getting They're
Speaker 1: getting bigger and better every year, so we encourage you
Speaker 1: to come out and check them out. So, yeah, April,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of fun this year. We've
Speaker 1: got some stuff going on. I know, I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: sure you get included in a lot of this and.
Speaker 5: That's when you miss the Spider Man.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, Mike. Well see, I've only been learning
Speaker 1: about the Spider Man for the last few months or
Speaker 1: so because I mean, I've heard Brianna mentioned it, because
Speaker 1: this guy walked around town looking like a spider Man
Speaker 1: and a spider Man constant.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, pictures of him on a light pull up
Speaker 5: and state and I don't know if he's seen that
Speaker 5: or not.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think I've seen that. I'm
Speaker 1: not really sure, but yeah, I mean in one of
Speaker 1: the local Facebook groups, the Stanton, Virginia Facebook group, I
Speaker 1: hear people bring him up and talk and mentioned him
Speaker 1: quite a bit. So I was like, when I started
Speaker 1: hearing more and more, I was like, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: So I left the comment in one of the groups
Speaker 1: or on the one of these posts, like Hey, how
Speaker 1: could I get in contact with him? I said, I
Speaker 1: think he would be great to have at my event.
Speaker 1: So I was able to reach out to him, like
Speaker 1: he did respond to me, and I was waiting on
Speaker 1: some further confirmation. But you know, I wanted some pictures
Speaker 1: because I want to promote it in the the event
Speaker 1: page on Facebook. But but as far as I know,
Speaker 1: he said he'll be there. But once I get some
Speaker 1: more confirmation, I will promote that more. I want to
Speaker 1: include something for everybody. I want to you know, you know,
Speaker 1: because the biggest event that usually goes on in the
Speaker 1: Shenandoa Valley is normally around October, which is the Day
Speaker 1: and Days Event, which is a huge event. From from
Speaker 1: my understanding, I've never been there.
Speaker 5: Yes, But then.
Speaker 1: Well here's a couple of things. Their vendor costs are
Speaker 1: highly expensive. And the thing is I've had I have
Speaker 1: repetitive vendors. I have a lot of the same vendors
Speaker 1: come back every year. Because the one thing I want
Speaker 1: people to know is that my vendors sell out of
Speaker 1: their products. So and we don't charge everything that the
Speaker 1: Date and the Days event charges. They charge two or
Speaker 1: three hundred dollars for vendor feeds, three to four hundred
Speaker 1: dollars for a food vendor. No, we're not that expensive.
Speaker 1: We started off cheap, but I had it up to
Speaker 1: prices because my venue costs have gone up. So yeah,
Speaker 1: for inside space where a ten by ten is one
Speaker 1: hundred bucks, but it covers you for both days outdoor events.
Speaker 1: I mean outdoor vendors are seventy five dollars. We do
Speaker 1: have double we did have double spaces, which our double
Speaker 1: space spots are sold for the inside. But yeah, we
Speaker 1: still have some regular ten by ten spaces available and
Speaker 1: as far as outdoor space, we have tons of space
Speaker 1: for the outside, so we encourage you to jump on
Speaker 1: board and definitely take advantage of that. But so i'll
Speaker 1: tell you what we're gonna call this, uh call this
Speaker 1: a night. And again, I can't thank you enough for
Speaker 1: being here, and oh absolutely absolutely, and I'll be in
Speaker 1: touch with you after we jump off here and I'll
Speaker 1: jump in my car, come bine and get some tacos
Speaker 1: and all right, hey, you have a good night. So
Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, well I'll take a chicken sandwich
Speaker 1: like you get your father.
Speaker 8: I got you, all right, done deal, done deal sounds good.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah you keep it, keep it squatchy and
Speaker 1: U until next time. All right, you too, name.
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