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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to Big for Society. If you have bigfoot activity

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<v Speaker 1>slash the Big for Society and now let's get on

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<v Speaker 1>with the show, right Pickfoot Society. You've got the privilege

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<v Speaker 1>of talking to Ed today. Ed's an individual that reached

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<v Speaker 1>out to me after he stumbled upon the Big for

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<v Speaker 1>Society YouTube channel, and he has some interesting things to

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<v Speaker 1>share from his past years. So Ed, welcome to the show.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you, Thanks for having me absolutely.

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<v Speaker 1>You know, we've got some really interesting ground to cover today, Ed,

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<v Speaker 1>and you do actually have a very interesting background as well,

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<v Speaker 1>and you know we were talking about that a little

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<v Speaker 1>bit before the show started. I'd love if you could

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<v Speaker 1>spend a few minutes kind of sharing about that background,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think it plays in very well with the

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<v Speaker 1>other things that you'll be sharing right afterwards.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, Okay, not to go too deep into the weeds,

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<v Speaker 2>but I was right after high school, when I was nineteen,

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<v Speaker 2>I joined the Army. I was in the infantry for

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<v Speaker 2>about eight and a half years. And the reason I

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<v Speaker 2>think that's important is because I'm a United States Government

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<v Speaker 2>trained absorbed I'm a desert storm veteran, and my job

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<v Speaker 2>was to destroy enemy tanks, and so I know how

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<v Speaker 2>to look for things that are trying to hide from

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<v Speaker 2>me very well, either the highs binoculars, normal scopes, all

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<v Speaker 2>that kind of stuff. That's what I did, right and

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<v Speaker 2>a half year is looked for things to shoot. Basically,

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<v Speaker 2>as far as the desert storm thing goes, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have any bigfoot anything happening out there, but I did

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<v Speaker 2>have some uh, some other things that are kind of related.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure it had something new the balls of light.

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<v Speaker 2>After getting out of the Army, I was I returned

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<v Speaker 2>to Hawaii. I was stationed in Hawaii in the Army,

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<v Speaker 2>so I went back over there for other reasons and

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<v Speaker 2>I became a police officer over there, and I was

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<v Speaker 2>a police officer for twenty five and a half years.

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<v Speaker 2>And if anybody is an trained observer in this world,

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<v Speaker 2>it's police officers. They see things that other people will

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<v Speaker 2>never see. Just driving down the road, I tell my wife,

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<v Speaker 2>did you see that? You see that? Guy? You see that?

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<v Speaker 2>And nobody ever sees it. They're like, how do you

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<v Speaker 2>see all this stuff? I was like, you know, it's

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<v Speaker 2>it's you can't unlearn it. And then the last thing

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<v Speaker 2>I like to throw in there, as far as my

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<v Speaker 2>you know, being able to see things. I have a

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<v Speaker 2>licensed private pilot, and you constantly have to look for things.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, you're up in the air. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>I can see big from the air, but you're constantly

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<v Speaker 2>looking for anything and everything. And then if you're playing,

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<v Speaker 2>you got to look on the ground too for places

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<v Speaker 2>of land. Just think takes the plane craps out, So

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<v Speaker 2>they're constantly looking for this kind of stuff. So and

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<v Speaker 2>on top of that, I've been in the woods ever

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<v Speaker 2>since I was a kid. I grew up just south

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<v Speaker 2>of Atlanta, and I retired back in twenty seventeen and

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<v Speaker 2>moved up here to North Georgia. I live in Towns County,

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<v Speaker 2>right outside of a little bitty town called Hiawassee, and

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<v Speaker 2>I live up here on ten acres on the side

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<v Speaker 2>of a mountain. I got like two neighbors, and if

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<v Speaker 2>it's summertime, I can't even see them. So that's that's

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<v Speaker 2>basically my background. I just turned sixty one this month,

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, I get out in the woods as

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<v Speaker 2>much as I can, but I'm not umping down these

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<v Speaker 2>mountains like it would be when I was when I

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<v Speaker 2>was a kid. I'm going to go kind of in

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<v Speaker 2>a reverse chronological order of what has why I'm on

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<v Speaker 2>there here today, and I'm going to go from the

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<v Speaker 2>the latest one back to back in time years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>if that's all right with you, absolutely, okay. So when

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<v Speaker 2>I retired in twenty seventeen and we moved up here

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<v Speaker 2>about a year so maybe twenty eighteen, I took up

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<v Speaker 2>turkey hunting. And for the other guys up here they're listening,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, turkey hunting is one of the hardest that's

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<v Speaker 2>one of the hardest animals there is to kill. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>you got to be to sit there and be completely still,

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<v Speaker 2>and most of the places that I turkey hunt up

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<v Speaker 2>here are within the Chattahoochee National Forest. So the Chattahoochee

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<v Speaker 2>National Forest is of course regulated by the federal government,

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<v Speaker 2>and within the National Forest are things called wildlife Management areas,

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<v Speaker 2>and those are maintained and regulated by the state of Georgia.

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<v Speaker 2>So the main one that I hunt in up here,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's only about five six miles away from my

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<v Speaker 2>house really as a crow flies, it's called the Swallow

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<v Speaker 2>Creek WMA. And I finally killed a turkey this past year,

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty four in right at the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the season, which was I think May so right say,

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<v Speaker 2>May fifteenth, end of the season May sixteenth, they start.

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<v Speaker 2>It's I think it's called a fox and bobcat or

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<v Speaker 2>a fox and hog or something like that. Anyway, for

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<v Speaker 2>the last two weeks of the month you can hunt

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<v Speaker 2>you know, fox and bobcats, and if there's anything in season,

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<v Speaker 2>you can hunt hogs. And I like to hunt hogs.

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<v Speaker 2>So I went back up to this food plot where

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<v Speaker 2>I had killed my turkey. Now this food plot is

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<v Speaker 2>on the end of a road. It's called Mill Creek Road.

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<v Speaker 2>It's one way in and it's one way out. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a gravel road, and it's two miles up to the

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<v Speaker 2>end where I was hunting. And so the reason I

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<v Speaker 2>tell you that is when I drove in, I went

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<v Speaker 2>up there that day to look for pig signs or whatever,

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<v Speaker 2>and there was there was nobody else up there, because

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<v Speaker 2>there's not really anywhere you could hide a vehicle. You

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<v Speaker 2>just you can barely pull off the road at some

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<v Speaker 2>of these little spots they have for you to park

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<v Speaker 2>at the food plots. And there's no other vehicles on

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<v Speaker 2>it road that day. And it was probably, oh, I

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, three four in the afternoon. It was a

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<v Speaker 2>nice day, sunny day, and I went up there and

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<v Speaker 2>I had my AR fifteen just in the case I

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<v Speaker 2>run across the pig and you could drive almost up

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<v Speaker 2>onto this field. It's about one hundred meters one hundred

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<v Speaker 2>yards in the their direction, and this field is in

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<v Speaker 2>between two ridge lines. There's one that's the closest mountaintop

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<v Speaker 2>is maybe an eighth of a mile north of the field,

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<v Speaker 2>and then there's another one about a quarter of a

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<v Speaker 2>mile away, and there's no trails or anything going up

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<v Speaker 2>off of this field. It's I mean, it's thick as

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<v Speaker 2>peanut butter. Up there. I've heard some of your other

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<v Speaker 2>guests on here from North Georgia talk about the Mountain

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<v Speaker 2>Laurel and if you want to get through it, you

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<v Speaker 2>got to crawl under it. Well, they're not lying. That

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<v Speaker 2>stuff is thick. And so I was up there and

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't see any signs of hogs or anything, which

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<v Speaker 2>is another point that I need to come back to later.

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<v Speaker 2>But while I'm standing there from the closest ridge line,

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<v Speaker 2>I hear just out of blue two consecutive wood knocks,

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<v Speaker 2>and the only I can describe it is this somebody

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<v Speaker 2>was up there, had a Louisville Slugger, baseball bat or

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<v Speaker 2>something and just, you know, whack the hardwood tree like

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<v Speaker 2>twice as hard as they could. And I'm just standing

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<v Speaker 2>there in shock, because honestly, all my life I had

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<v Speaker 2>been like on the fence about the whole bigfoot thing.

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<v Speaker 2>And I'm just thinking to myself, oh my god, did

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<v Speaker 2>I just hear what I thought? It hurt? And about

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<v Speaker 2>ten second later, on the other ridge, which I said,

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<v Speaker 2>it's got to be a quarter mile away, I hear

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<v Speaker 2>another knock, a return knock, an answer sort of. It

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<v Speaker 2>wasn't as loud because it was further away, but it

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<v Speaker 2>was it was a wood knock, and so I just

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<v Speaker 2>stood there for a minute and just I was in shock,

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<v Speaker 2>basically because I've been hunting up there for several years

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<v Speaker 2>and I've been all around the world, and like I said,

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<v Speaker 2>I kind of didn't really know what to believe about this,

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<v Speaker 2>but I heard this, and I'm thinking, there's there's no

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<v Speaker 2>trails going up there. I didn't see any trucks or

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<v Speaker 2>cars on my way up there, so there, I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>could it have been a person up there? Maybe technically,

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<v Speaker 2>I guess, but they would have had to hike all

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<v Speaker 2>the way up the road for two miles, and then

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<v Speaker 2>they would have had to hike for the better part

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<v Speaker 2>of a day at least to get up there, and

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<v Speaker 2>then their buddy that answered the call would have had

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<v Speaker 2>to high I don't know how I'm going to take

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<v Speaker 2>it hike to that other location because there's nothing over there.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, they have they have signs on the side

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<v Speaker 2>of the road that says Wilderness area, and they're not

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<v Speaker 2>kid it's it's seriously thick. They're I'm betting nobody's been

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<v Speaker 2>over there since the Native Americans, probably because most of

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<v Speaker 2>the guys that hunt out here. They're like me, and

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<v Speaker 2>they're kind of lazy. They don't want to, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>bust bush any more than after. That's why we hung

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<v Speaker 2>all these these big fields that the the state makes

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<v Speaker 2>for us. You know, you could just walk right out

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<v Speaker 2>there and sit on the edge of them. So to

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<v Speaker 2>get up there and to just randomly, I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>if you're if you're be hoaxing somebody or what, but

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<v Speaker 2>I just can't believe that people would have walked all

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<v Speaker 2>the way up there. They would have had to take

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<v Speaker 2>backpacks and stayed up there for the night, because there's

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<v Speaker 2>no way they're going to get down that mountain in

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<v Speaker 2>the dark like that. There's just no way. So I'm

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<v Speaker 2>just standing there a shock, like what else could it be?

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<v Speaker 2>The only other big thing that lives out there that

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<v Speaker 2>would have the strength to do that would be a bear,

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<v Speaker 2>And you know they can't hold a stick like that

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<v Speaker 2>and beat on the side of a tree. So I

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<v Speaker 2>was just in shock, and I decided to get my

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<v Speaker 2>truck and leave. So I got my truck and I

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<v Speaker 2>went home, and I told my wife about it quite

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<v Speaker 2>and she doesn't really care that much about it. And

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<v Speaker 2>so the next day I go down to the the

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<v Speaker 2>dump nearby to dump my trash, and there's a gentleman

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<v Speaker 2>that works there and he's he's always been working there,

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<v Speaker 2>and so I thought, you know, if anybody knows what's

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<v Speaker 2>going on up here, maybe this guy. So I asked

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<v Speaker 2>him and said, hey, how how long have you? How

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<v Speaker 2>long have you here? He goes, I've lived here all

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<v Speaker 2>my life? And I said, have you do you go

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<v Speaker 2>out and hunt and feace? He goes, yeah, I used

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<v Speaker 2>to quite a bit. So I asked him the same

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<v Speaker 2>question I ask everybody. I said, what, so, what's the

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<v Speaker 2>weirdest thing you've ever seen? Out? And before I could

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<v Speaker 2>finish it, he goes, I've seen Bigfoot. And my jaw

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<v Speaker 2>just dropped and I was like what, And he said,

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<v Speaker 2>I was driving up to Hazel of North Carolina the

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<v Speaker 2>other day and I seen this thing walking through this

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<v Speaker 2>guy's yard and he went on to tell me about it,

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<v Speaker 2>and I thought, oh, my god, that's And then he

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<v Speaker 2>tells me that he's seeing these giant tracks right outside

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<v Speaker 2>case they're watching, and just let them know that I'm

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<v Speaker 2>me when I'm hunting. I'm I'm not here to mess

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<v Speaker 2>with you. So I'm driving back up that road again,

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<v Speaker 2>Mill Creek Road, and I get within about twenty yards

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<v Speaker 2>to that field, and now there is a tree bent

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<v Speaker 2>across the road. Not broken, not blown down by the

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<v Speaker 2>had to be as big around as my leg. I

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<v Speaker 2>stopped right there and I was, I was like, what

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<v Speaker 2>what in the world is this. This wasn't here yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>when I left, and there was no you know, rough

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<v Speaker 2>It was spring weather. We didn't have any windstorms. And

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<v Speaker 2>none of the other trees around this tree were molested

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<v Speaker 2>or touch They were all fine. And the base of

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<v Speaker 2>don't know, ten twelve feet off the road down the

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<v Speaker 2>side of the hill, and it stretched all across the road.

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<v Speaker 2>So I got up. I gotta see how the stays

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<v Speaker 2>being held in place. And the funny thing is there

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<v Speaker 2>was nothing holding this tree down. It looked, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>for it should have just sprung right back up, you

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<v Speaker 2>would think. And I pulled on it and everything, and

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<v Speaker 2>I couldn't get it to the pop out there was.

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<v Speaker 2>I said, there's nothing holding it. And so for a

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<v Speaker 2>you'd't need like a football team gorillas out there, and

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<v Speaker 2>somebody climb way up that tree with a rope and

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<v Speaker 2>you know, a whole bunch of guys pulling on it

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<v Speaker 2>or a wench. And then still I don't know how

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<v Speaker 2>to this day, I don't know how it's being held down.

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't gone back up there since, but I thought

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<v Speaker 2>that was really odd that right after I heard those knocks.

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<v Speaker 2>The next day I come up here and there's this

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<v Speaker 2>this tree across the road which I've seen on you know,

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<v Speaker 2>some of the different shows and stuff like that, and

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<v Speaker 2>I've encountered that one other time up here when I

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<v Speaker 2>was out hunting with my son in law on the

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<v Speaker 2>Chattahoochee part of the forest.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a road that we were walking down the

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<v Speaker 2>surface road and there was another big tree just pulled

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<v Speaker 2>all the way across the road like that, just out

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<v Speaker 2>of the blue. None of the other trees were affected,

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<v Speaker 2>and I just I just kind of put it in

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<v Speaker 2>the back of my mind, going that's weird, but you

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<v Speaker 2>know whatever. But now I kind of think back about it,

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<v Speaker 2>it's wall who knows. So that was really odd. And

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<v Speaker 2>the next thing going back, oh, let's see about it.

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<v Speaker 2>A year or two ago, my son in law and

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<v Speaker 2>I were hunting hogs up there in the same area,

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<v Speaker 2>on the same road that mil Creek Road. We were

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<v Speaker 2>just at a different food plot. There's one at the

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<v Speaker 2>very beginning the park and then you it takes you

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<v Speaker 2>about a half hour to walk up to this field.

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<v Speaker 2>It's it's pretty far up the mountain. And I think

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<v Speaker 2>it was in like it was small game season. Is

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<v Speaker 2>it was like August and Georgia. Heree, funny season for

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<v Speaker 2>small game open as August. They've take him. So you

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<v Speaker 2>got to take a twenty two or something like that

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<v Speaker 2>up there. But you can say, what if there's anything

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<v Speaker 2>in season, they let you hunt hogs. So we were

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<v Speaker 2>up there looking for hogs. And we walked way up

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<v Speaker 2>there with our califlies and our Orange fast and everything,

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<v Speaker 2>and so we finally get up to this field. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a pretty good sized field, and I told him, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna post up down here on the bottom. I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 2>treat it set up against it. He went further up

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<v Speaker 2>to the top of the field and I see him

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<v Speaker 2>disappear up into the bushes and he was going to

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<v Speaker 2>wait up there, and so we said, And the thing

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<v Speaker 2>about up there is there's there's no phone service anywhere,

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<v Speaker 2>so you can't text, call, nothing. Your phones just don't work.

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<v Speaker 2>Come there. So I'd been sitting over there, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>twiddling my thumbs, waiting for about an hour, maybe an

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<v Speaker 2>hour and a half, sitting against this tree. And my

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<v Speaker 2>rifle had a scope on it so I could watch

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<v Speaker 2>the whole field. And about that time I see him

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<v Speaker 2>coming out from the top of the field of his

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<v Speaker 2>orange vest, and he keeps stopping and looking back up

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<v Speaker 2>the mountain as he's walking down towards me and everything.

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<v Speaker 2>About every twenty feet he stops and he looks back

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<v Speaker 2>up again like he's looking at something. Wonder what was

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<v Speaker 2>he looking at? So I came out down the road.

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<v Speaker 2>I was starting to get late and we forgot flashlights.

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<v Speaker 2>So when he comes down there, he says, were you

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<v Speaker 2>were you beating on a tree down here, trying to

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<v Speaker 2>signal me? And I said what, and he goes, I

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<v Speaker 2>heard somebody. It sounded like you were down here with

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<v Speaker 2>a big wooden branch or something smacking a tree. And

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<v Speaker 2>I thought you were trying to signal me to come

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<v Speaker 2>back because we don't have phone service. I said, no, dude,

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<v Speaker 2>I haven't moved. I've been sitting here, you know, quite

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<v Speaker 2>as church wise and he goes, well, I heard it.

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<v Speaker 2>It was coming from down here by you. I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>hear a thing. That's the odd thing about it. I

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<v Speaker 2>didn't hear anything. I didn't fall asleep either, And then

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<v Speaker 2>he tells me, he said, when I got up and

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<v Speaker 2>started walking out right after I heard that noise, it

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<v Speaker 2>sounded like somebody was further up the mountain yelling at something.

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<v Speaker 2>Except he said, he couldn't understand what they were saying.

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<v Speaker 2>It wasn't like, you know, they were enunciating words or anything.

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<v Speaker 2>It was just like he just he thought initially that

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<v Speaker 2>somebody who had hunting dogs up there baby and was

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<v Speaker 2>yelling for their dogs, trying to find them. And I

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<v Speaker 2>told him, well, there's nobody else up here but us.

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<v Speaker 2>There's no other trucks down here on the road, so

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<v Speaker 2>how would they get in here if even if they

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<v Speaker 2>came from the other side of the ridge. I mean, man,

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<v Speaker 2>they would have been walking for days to get up there.

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<v Speaker 2>And he goes, yeah, but he goes, I didn't hear

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<v Speaker 2>any dogs, but it was just he said, it sounded

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<v Speaker 2>like a person yelling. And I said, man, that's that's

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<v Speaker 2>kind of creepy because there's once again technically somebody could

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<v Speaker 2>have walked up there. I've never seen anybody do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Everybody drives in there. But you know, it's started to

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<v Speaker 2>get dark. Dude, we forgot our flarelights. Let's let's get

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<v Speaker 2>on don and mount because we've got really small caliber rifles.

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<v Speaker 2>So that was the next thing that I thought was

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<v Speaker 2>really odd that he heard wood knocks that I didn't hear,

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<v Speaker 2>and then he hears something up there yelling. Now, this

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<v Speaker 2>food pot was within a mile of the other one

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<v Speaker 2>where I had first heard those knocks that I just

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<v Speaker 2>told you about. One of the other weird things about

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<v Speaker 2>this area that I have encountered while I'm up there,

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<v Speaker 2>and I'm not sure if it has anything to do

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<v Speaker 2>with with sasquatch so much or not, but I've heard

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<v Speaker 2>other people talk about it is these balls of light.

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<v Speaker 2>I have seen those things going through the woods out there.

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<v Speaker 2>Like So, like, if I go turkey hunting, you can

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<v Speaker 2>hunt legally a half hour before sunrise. Well, it's like

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<v Speaker 2>I said, it's first come, first server on the spot's

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<v Speaker 2>up there. So I'll go there an hour or two early.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be up there, like three thirty in the morning,

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<v Speaker 2>parked just so I can get my spot and I'll

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<v Speaker 2>just sit in my truck and wait. And I've seen

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<v Speaker 2>these lights going through the woods or down the road.

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<v Speaker 2>It looks about the size of a softball. And it's

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<v Speaker 2>not like a flashlight or it's projecting light. It's just

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<v Speaker 2>it's just a light and they just kind of, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>fhase out. It's a steady light.

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<v Speaker 1>And we are getting some really weird feedback. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>know if that's on you're aware of that on your

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<v Speaker 1>side or anything. Really, it was when you were trying

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<v Speaker 1>to describe the balls of light, all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>it was just went crazy on your side of the phone.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know if you could restate that part at all.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, let me move over here to the other

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<v Speaker 2>end of the room. Sure. Yeah. So, like I said,

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<v Speaker 2>there was there was these balls of light up there

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<v Speaker 2>in this area where I've heard the wood box and everything,

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<v Speaker 2>and I see them. I've seen him a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>times going through the like through the woods and or

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<v Speaker 2>down a road. Like they're about the size of maybe

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<v Speaker 2>a baseball or a softball, and they're just uh. The

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<v Speaker 2>first time I saw it, I thought it was a

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<v Speaker 2>guy on a bicycle coming through and then he never

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<v Speaker 2>passed me, and I jumped out there and turned on

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<v Speaker 2>my flastide and there's nothing there, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 2>what was that? It was? It was a you know,

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<v Speaker 2>a ball of light. And then a couple other times,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll be sitting on a stand, you know, waiting for

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<v Speaker 2>pigs or whatever, and I see these things moving through

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<v Speaker 2>there and I rub my eyes and I see them again,

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<v Speaker 2>and you know, I don't know what that is. That's

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<v Speaker 2>the most bizarre thing. But I've heard other people talk

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<v Speaker 2>about that in connection with sasquats. And one of my

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<v Speaker 2>neighbors up here, we have a campground close by where

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<v Speaker 2>I live, and one of the guys over there said

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<v Speaker 2>he's seen those down by this creek that's next to

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<v Speaker 2>my property. And I'm like, oh, that's that's crazy. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought I was the only one, but he goes, no,

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<v Speaker 2>I've seen them. I've seen these balls of light, so

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<v Speaker 2>we don't really know what that is. I saw something

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<v Speaker 2>like that a desert storm while I was out there,

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<v Speaker 2>a ball of light, me and a couple other guys,

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<v Speaker 2>and it was just in this big thing of woods.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's a big foot Saudi Arabia, but

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<v Speaker 2>that's the only other place I saw these lights like that,

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<v Speaker 2>and they just disappeared, and it was really odd. One

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<v Speaker 2>of the other things was my son in law and I.

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<v Speaker 2>My son in law and my stepdaughter moved here from Hawaii.

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<v Speaker 2>My wife is from Hawaii, and so they moved up

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<v Speaker 2>here to live with us. And he's a big hog hunter.

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<v Speaker 2>That's why I ended up, you know, got out and

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<v Speaker 2>learning how to hunt hogs and stuff, because that's all

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<v Speaker 2>I had to hunt in Hawaii's hogs. And one of

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<v Speaker 2>the other times that and this is something that one

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<v Speaker 2>of your other guests have I have noted that they experienced,

417
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<v Speaker 2>and when they said this, it just came rushing back

418
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<v Speaker 2>to me and I remembered it. But my son in

419
00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:57.880
<v Speaker 2>law and I we were hog hunting off of Highway

420
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<v Speaker 2>one eighty up here right right near Brasstown Ball. Brass

421
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<v Speaker 2>Town Ball is the highest mountain in Georgia. So you

422
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<v Speaker 2>get there via Highway one eighty and it's all National

423
00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:15.839
<v Speaker 2>forests out there, which means you can hunt out there.

424
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<v Speaker 2>It's a public hunting area and there's a couple of

425
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<v Speaker 2>roads and stuff that you can you know, you can

426
00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:24.839
<v Speaker 2>park and get out there. And so he and I

427
00:25:24.920 --> 00:25:26.680
<v Speaker 2>had found a place where the hogs had just been

428
00:25:26.759 --> 00:25:29.200
<v Speaker 2>tearing the tearing the you know, the grass up on

429
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<v Speaker 2>the side of the road. They will it looks like

430
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<v Speaker 2>someone goes through with a plow and just plows everything up.

431
00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:39.960
<v Speaker 2>So we had gone out there and we were following

432
00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:45.400
<v Speaker 2>this hog signs down this old service road. It was.

433
00:25:45.480 --> 00:25:47.039
<v Speaker 2>It was a good enough road where you could walk

434
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<v Speaker 2>on it. You couldn't drive because there was little trees

435
00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:50.160
<v Speaker 2>who were up in it and everything, but we could

436
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<v Speaker 2>tell the hogs had been through there. And we had

437
00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.559
<v Speaker 2>been walking, oh, I don't know, maybe half hour. So,

438
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<v Speaker 2>like I said, I'm not as young as I used

439
00:25:59.400 --> 00:26:02.480
<v Speaker 2>to be, and East in his thirties. So we came

440
00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:05.119
<v Speaker 2>across an area where there's a tree had fallen over

441
00:26:05.160 --> 00:26:06.759
<v Speaker 2>the road, and I thought it was just perfect. I

442
00:26:06.799 --> 00:26:09.480
<v Speaker 2>can sit down and take a break. I told him.

443
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<v Speaker 2>I said, I'm gonna sit down and you know, take

444
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<v Speaker 2>a break for a few minutes. And he was like, okay,

445
00:26:14.240 --> 00:26:17.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to go on up ahead and I'll be

446
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:21.960
<v Speaker 2>back in like fifteen minutes. I said, okay, great. So

447
00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:27.680
<v Speaker 2>I'm sitting there and after I don't know, five or

448
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<v Speaker 2>ten minutes or so. The only way I can describe.

449
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<v Speaker 2>It is up up the side of the mountain aways,

450
00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:37.359
<v Speaker 2>maybe about fifty yards up from where I was sitting.

451
00:26:38.799 --> 00:26:43.680
<v Speaker 2>It sounded like an elephant just stomped his foot on

452
00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:46.640
<v Speaker 2>the ground as hard as it could, or like someone

453
00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:50.160
<v Speaker 2>was way up in a tree and dropped a huge

454
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:53.160
<v Speaker 2>bowling ball or something. I mean, I felt good to

455
00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:57.599
<v Speaker 2>my mind. It was just this big thud like boom,

456
00:26:57.759 --> 00:27:00.559
<v Speaker 2>and it scared me. I jumped off that lawe, the

457
00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:04.079
<v Speaker 2>safety came off my rifle and looked up there. I

458
00:27:04.119 --> 00:27:07.079
<v Speaker 2>didn't see anything, but I mean, it was just this

459
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:10.759
<v Speaker 2>big thud, like there was an visial elephant up there

460
00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:16.880
<v Speaker 2>and it had just stomped the ground. So the whole time,

461
00:27:17.559 --> 00:27:19.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm waiting for my son Alain to come back, because

462
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.960
<v Speaker 2>like I said, there's there's no phone reception out in

463
00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:25.759
<v Speaker 2>these areas. So I'm standing there the whole time with

464
00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:30.759
<v Speaker 2>my rifle, just watching like what was that. Because so

465
00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.039
<v Speaker 2>he comes, he finally comes back. I told him what happened,

466
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:35.640
<v Speaker 2>and we went up to the point where it sounded

467
00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:41.240
<v Speaker 2>like it came flog. There's nothing disturbed there, no, I mean,

468
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:43.839
<v Speaker 2>if if a limb had fallen out of a tree,

469
00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:47.640
<v Speaker 2>you'd hear it coming down. I've heard trees fall, I've

470
00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:50.400
<v Speaker 2>heard limbs falling out of trees, and you all hear

471
00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:53.319
<v Speaker 2>it busting other branches on the way down or something,

472
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:57.480
<v Speaker 2>and when it hits the ground, it'll crack. That's not

473
00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:03.079
<v Speaker 2>what this was. This was just this big food. I mean,

474
00:28:03.240 --> 00:28:06.519
<v Speaker 2>just I saw, I can describe it. It's just this

475
00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:10.279
<v Speaker 2>big bud hit something hitting the ground like that. And

476
00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:13.279
<v Speaker 2>we went up there and looked around and there was nothing.

477
00:28:13.359 --> 00:28:18.319
<v Speaker 2>There was no trees, you know, recently broken off or anything.

478
00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.720
<v Speaker 2>So I'm not sure what that was or how I

479
00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:26.640
<v Speaker 2>have no idea what it was, but I've heard a

480
00:28:26.680 --> 00:28:29.920
<v Speaker 2>couple of other guys that had that was up here

481
00:28:29.920 --> 00:28:33.960
<v Speaker 2>in North Georgia. Then it described something similar to that,

482
00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:38.640
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, man, I've heard that and it

483
00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:42.599
<v Speaker 2>just creeps you out because you look around, like what

484
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.920
<v Speaker 2>was that? Just out of the blue. So that was

485
00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:48.400
<v Speaker 2>one of the other things. And like I said, I'm

486
00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:52.039
<v Speaker 2>not going to say any of this was bigfoot, but

487
00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.720
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna say it wasn't because I don't know what

488
00:28:55.880 --> 00:29:00.640
<v Speaker 2>else it could have been. I mean, bears, bears don't

489
00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:02.960
<v Speaker 2>make you know the biggest thing that lives out here

490
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:06.400
<v Speaker 2>that I'm aware of that. I have seen. I've got

491
00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:12.599
<v Speaker 2>one on my my webcam, not letting camp, my game

492
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:14.160
<v Speaker 2>camp out of my front yard.

493
00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:17.519
<v Speaker 1>Big for Society will be right back after these messages.

494
00:29:34.359 --> 00:29:36.480
<v Speaker 2>I got a bear on it that that's easily six

495
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:39.559
<v Speaker 2>seven hundred pounds. But I don't even think that bear

496
00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:42.880
<v Speaker 2>could could make a noise like that unless he was

497
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.599
<v Speaker 2>way up in the hunter foot up in a tree

498
00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:47.039
<v Speaker 2>and just fell out, in which case I would have

499
00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:52.240
<v Speaker 2>seen him, which I didn't. So there was that. That's

500
00:29:52.319 --> 00:30:00.240
<v Speaker 2>that's a really odd thing. The other thing I've experienced. Yeah,

501
00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:04.240
<v Speaker 2>that's a point notes here. It was probably back in

502
00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:10.359
<v Speaker 2>two thousand and eight. And this one is really to me,

503
00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:13.160
<v Speaker 2>this is the most bizarre of all of them because

504
00:30:14.640 --> 00:30:20.960
<v Speaker 2>this is where I grew up south of Atlanta. This

505
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:24.759
<v Speaker 2>is basically a suburbia. I mean, there's a lot of

506
00:30:24.759 --> 00:30:27.680
<v Speaker 2>woods and stuff around. This is right at my parents' house,

507
00:30:28.759 --> 00:30:31.720
<v Speaker 2>and there's some big swamps that looks like Cambodia back there.

508
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:33.720
<v Speaker 2>I used to play in when I was growing up,

509
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:38.759
<v Speaker 2>hunting fishing. But there's a lot it's a very populated

510
00:30:38.799 --> 00:30:44.400
<v Speaker 2>area and I was there I think it was May.

511
00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:47.519
<v Speaker 2>There's my parents wedding anniversary. I was there visiting him.

512
00:30:48.680 --> 00:30:52.839
<v Speaker 2>I had flown in from Hawaii, and at that point

513
00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:55.440
<v Speaker 2>in time, my mom and dad still didn't have air

514
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:59.119
<v Speaker 2>conditioning in their house, and it was kind of warm

515
00:30:59.400 --> 00:31:03.359
<v Speaker 2>for what may. And I was sleeping in my whole

516
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:08.920
<v Speaker 2>bedroom and that room had a big window that went

517
00:31:08.960 --> 00:31:13.599
<v Speaker 2>from the floor to the ceiling, and then back behind

518
00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:18.319
<v Speaker 2>the house was woods for about oh an easy mile

519
00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:21.799
<v Speaker 2>before you hit the next subdivision, you know, like I said,

520
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.440
<v Speaker 2>creeks and swamps and stuff. And I'm laying there asleep

521
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.720
<v Speaker 2>and something wakes me up. And it was the most

522
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:35.680
<v Speaker 2>ungodly sound I have ever heard in my life. The

523
00:31:35.680 --> 00:31:39.160
<v Speaker 2>only way I can describe it is if you took

524
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:48.480
<v Speaker 2>a roaring African lion and a mountain silver backed mountain

525
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:52.240
<v Speaker 2>gorilla roaring as loud as he can, and then you

526
00:31:52.359 --> 00:31:55.960
<v Speaker 2>take that t Rex from that Jurassic Park movie that

527
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.240
<v Speaker 2>sounded that t Rex makes, and you combine all three

528
00:31:59.319 --> 00:32:02.319
<v Speaker 2>of those and you run it through like a big

529
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:05.119
<v Speaker 2>marshal ample like a kiss concert, and you turn the

530
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:08.920
<v Speaker 2>hamp all the way up and you let that noise

531
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.880
<v Speaker 2>go for about a good fifteen seconds. I could feel

532
00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:17.359
<v Speaker 2>it through my bones. I mean, my body was vibrating

533
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.079
<v Speaker 2>when I heard this thing, and it did it two

534
00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:24.240
<v Speaker 2>or three times, and I had a three fifty seven

535
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:28.319
<v Speaker 2>magnum revolver in on the night stand next to me,

536
00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:30.680
<v Speaker 2>and I didn't even think about reaching over for it

537
00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:33.039
<v Speaker 2>because I was like, oh my god, whatever that is,

538
00:32:34.599 --> 00:32:39.119
<v Speaker 2>this isn't even going to tickle it. Because to be

539
00:32:39.160 --> 00:32:41.200
<v Speaker 2>able to make a sound like that, you would need

540
00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:45.359
<v Speaker 2>some gigantic lungs. I mean, I don't know how big.

541
00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:48.119
<v Speaker 2>But it just went on and I'm just like right,

542
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:51.519
<v Speaker 2>I mean just went on and at least a good

543
00:32:51.519 --> 00:32:54.079
<v Speaker 2>fifteen seconds each time. And they did it two or

544
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:56.880
<v Speaker 2>three times, and it sounded like it was only I

545
00:32:56.920 --> 00:33:01.039
<v Speaker 2>don't know, maybe one hundred yards down my parents' backyard.

546
00:33:01.519 --> 00:33:05.519
<v Speaker 2>It scared me so bad that I just lay there

547
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:08.759
<v Speaker 2>and I tried not to move. I mean I did

548
00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:11.000
<v Speaker 2>that thing where I opened my mouth and I tried

549
00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:14.319
<v Speaker 2>to breathe real shallow. So because I thought this thing

550
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:16.079
<v Speaker 2>could walk right up to the window. The only thing

551
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.319
<v Speaker 2>between me and it is the screen from the window,

552
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:23.319
<v Speaker 2>and it could just you know, pop that out and

553
00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:27.960
<v Speaker 2>be in here. And I was just I couldn't believe it.

554
00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:29.920
<v Speaker 2>I had never heard anything like that in my life.

555
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:33.880
<v Speaker 2>It was horrifying. And like I said, it was like

556
00:33:33.960 --> 00:33:38.960
<v Speaker 2>if you took that sound and you pumped, if you

557
00:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.680
<v Speaker 2>were in front of the speakers up on a stage

558
00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:44.559
<v Speaker 2>at a Kiss concert and they turned the speakers all

559
00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:47.079
<v Speaker 2>the way up. That's what it felt like going through

560
00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:51.000
<v Speaker 2>my body. And I had grew like that. I grew

561
00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:53.359
<v Speaker 2>up in those woods. I had never heard anything like that.

562
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:58.480
<v Speaker 2>And so finally it stopped at It made that sound

563
00:33:58.640 --> 00:34:02.079
<v Speaker 2>that scream how old yellow thing two or three times

564
00:34:03.039 --> 00:34:04.960
<v Speaker 2>and it finally stopped. And I just kept laying there

565
00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:08.440
<v Speaker 2>listening as hard as I could, just wait to see

566
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:10.599
<v Speaker 2>if I could hear anything moving. And I never heard

567
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:13.400
<v Speaker 2>anything else, and I finally fell asleep. And so the

568
00:34:13.440 --> 00:34:15.000
<v Speaker 2>next morning I get up and I asked my dad,

569
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:18.800
<v Speaker 2>I said, did you hear that thing last night? And

570
00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:20.719
<v Speaker 2>he goes, I didn't hear anything. I was like, oh

571
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.840
<v Speaker 2>my god, you must have been in a coma. How

572
00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:30.480
<v Speaker 2>could you not hear that? It was ungodly. So I

573
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:32.639
<v Speaker 2>didn't go down there in the woods to look around

574
00:34:32.679 --> 00:34:35.360
<v Speaker 2>that day. It was just me. Like I said, three

575
00:34:35.440 --> 00:34:37.960
<v Speaker 2>fifty seven was the biggest guy I had at the

576
00:34:38.000 --> 00:34:40.920
<v Speaker 2>time over there, and I wasn't going to get my

577
00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:42.920
<v Speaker 2>dad to go down there with me because he was

578
00:34:43.000 --> 00:34:46.360
<v Speaker 2>getting older, and so I had one more night to

579
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:51.159
<v Speaker 2>stay there, and the next night it happened again. I mean,

580
00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:55.840
<v Speaker 2>it was just unbelievable, the volume on this thing and

581
00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:59.920
<v Speaker 2>how long this kept going. And in my mind, I'm like,

582
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:04.280
<v Speaker 2>how big do you have to be to generate that

583
00:35:04.400 --> 00:35:09.280
<v Speaker 2>much's noise for that long of a period of time.

584
00:35:10.199 --> 00:35:13.679
<v Speaker 2>I mean, a human being, you know, you could scream

585
00:35:13.800 --> 00:35:16.480
<v Speaker 2>as loud as you could for maybe I don't know,

586
00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:18.440
<v Speaker 2>ten seconds or so, and then you'd be like out

587
00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:21.280
<v Speaker 2>of breath. But this thing just kept going. It was

588
00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:24.559
<v Speaker 2>just unbelievable. So the next morning I got him ask

589
00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:26.320
<v Speaker 2>my dad again, did you hear it? He goes, yeah,

590
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:29.559
<v Speaker 2>I heard it last night. I said, what why was that?

591
00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:32.039
<v Speaker 2>He was, I don't know, I've never heard anything like

592
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.119
<v Speaker 2>that in my life. And my dad was like, he'd

593
00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.639
<v Speaker 2>been basically to all the states in the country, and

594
00:35:38.760 --> 00:35:40.719
<v Speaker 2>he was he was in the military, he'd been around

595
00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:43.559
<v Speaker 2>the world, and you know the same thing. He was like,

596
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:46.199
<v Speaker 2>you know, you've never heard anything like that. You've been

597
00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:47.880
<v Speaker 2>all the way around the world, You've experienced a lot

598
00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:52.360
<v Speaker 2>of stuff, and for you know that, that's just so crazy, bizarre.

599
00:35:53.119 --> 00:35:57.360
<v Speaker 2>So my sister came to pick me up later that afternoon.

600
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.800
<v Speaker 2>I was going to go to her house and I

601
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.400
<v Speaker 2>told her, I said, come with me. We got to

602
00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:05.159
<v Speaker 2>go down the woods behind the house. I want to

603
00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:06.840
<v Speaker 2>see if there's any tracks down there, because there was

604
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:09.480
<v Speaker 2>like a real sandy area where the water bubbled up

605
00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:11.880
<v Speaker 2>on the ground down there. And had a gun stuck

606
00:36:11.880 --> 00:36:15.280
<v Speaker 2>in the back of my pocket. And so she's going

607
00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.320
<v Speaker 2>down the hill with me. She goes, why do I

608
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.960
<v Speaker 2>have to go with you? I said, in case something

609
00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:22.559
<v Speaker 2>happens to one of us, the other one can run

610
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:25.360
<v Speaker 2>back and you know, get some help or tell people

611
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:28.400
<v Speaker 2>what's going on. She goes, well, why do you get

612
00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:31.519
<v Speaker 2>to carry the gun? Is my gun? I'm not letting

613
00:36:31.519 --> 00:36:36.559
<v Speaker 2>you have it. But anyways, so that was just I

614
00:36:36.639 --> 00:36:39.920
<v Speaker 2>never figured out what that was. And then I can't

615
00:36:39.960 --> 00:36:45.320
<v Speaker 2>say that it was bigfoot, but it's I don't know

616
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.760
<v Speaker 2>what it was. I mean, it was unbelievable. Whatever it was,

617
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:57.599
<v Speaker 2>it was just this crazy, crazy, loud. And then one

618
00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:01.039
<v Speaker 2>of the other things this was I was when I

619
00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:03.920
<v Speaker 2>was in the army. I was stacing up in Fort Lewis, Washington,

620
00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:07.480
<v Speaker 2>and this was before I went to desert storm, so

621
00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:14.119
<v Speaker 2>I think it was in about nineteen ninety. So the

622
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:18.280
<v Speaker 2>way the divisions in the Army works, or at least

623
00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:20.840
<v Speaker 2>the way they used to work, was about every month

624
00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:26.039
<v Speaker 2>a unit would be the duty battalion, and you got

625
00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:29.360
<v Speaker 2>stuck doing all the the thirty jobs around the base,

626
00:37:29.400 --> 00:37:35.039
<v Speaker 2>picking up the trash and mowing grass in different places

627
00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:37.920
<v Speaker 2>and all kinds of you know, crap like that. So

628
00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:43.320
<v Speaker 2>we were on that duty, and the fourth sergeant gave

629
00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.800
<v Speaker 2>Michaeltendent's ergeant, who was the guy I was pretty close with,

630
00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:49.639
<v Speaker 2>we were pretty different. He gave him a they call

631
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:54.039
<v Speaker 2>it a detail that this one training area needed to

632
00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:56.480
<v Speaker 2>be have a they call it a police call. All

633
00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:57.800
<v Speaker 2>that means is you're going to go out and pick

634
00:37:57.840 --> 00:38:00.360
<v Speaker 2>up trash. If God didn't put it there, it up.

635
00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:03.760
<v Speaker 2>So there was this training area somewhere out on the

636
00:38:03.800 --> 00:38:08.039
<v Speaker 2>outskirts of the base that needed a two day police call.

637
00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:09.480
<v Speaker 2>So we're gonna go two days in a row and

638
00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:13.199
<v Speaker 2>pick up trash. So it was me the Politican sergeant,

639
00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:17.360
<v Speaker 2>and they saw a private who was our driver. We

640
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:21.079
<v Speaker 2>had a humpee and so we drive way out there

641
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.000
<v Speaker 2>and we got these trash bags and everything and all

642
00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.360
<v Speaker 2>our mr used to eat and there was a They

643
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.360
<v Speaker 2>had a gate across this area, believe or not, and

644
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:33.840
<v Speaker 2>you had to unlock it and go inside. And if

645
00:38:33.840 --> 00:38:38.719
<v Speaker 2>you've never been up to the Pacific Northwest, especially the

646
00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:43.159
<v Speaker 2>Tacoma Salle area, I think it's a temperate rainforest is

647
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:46.519
<v Speaker 2>what they called it. It's like it's like a Jurassic

648
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:50.840
<v Speaker 2>park back in there. The trees are just gigantic. They

649
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.039
<v Speaker 2>have ant hills that are three or four feet tall

650
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:58.840
<v Speaker 2>made out of pine needles, and it's I mean, it's beautiful.

651
00:38:58.840 --> 00:39:01.480
<v Speaker 2>There's ferns that are I'm six one and they were

652
00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:04.519
<v Speaker 2>these ferns has towered over me. It's just the only

653
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:08.000
<v Speaker 2>thing I could think it was this Jurassic park. So

654
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:13.519
<v Speaker 2>we pull in there and we immediately can tell that

655
00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:16.000
<v Speaker 2>this is just a sham job. There's there's not any

656
00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.480
<v Speaker 2>trash back here to pick up. Nobody's been back here

657
00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:23.840
<v Speaker 2>since you know, Moses weren't private. So we figured, okay,

658
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:27.039
<v Speaker 2>we get we basically get two days off. We just

659
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:31.079
<v Speaker 2>sit out here, hang out, and as long as First

660
00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:33.079
<v Speaker 2>Startiant doesn't find out that we were just out here,

661
00:39:33.360 --> 00:39:35.480
<v Speaker 2>you know bs and around what, we're fine. We had

662
00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:40.159
<v Speaker 2>two days offer away from the company. So the three

663
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:43.400
<v Speaker 2>of us decide we're going to go out and walk

664
00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:47.199
<v Speaker 2>around because I told the platoon started and said, you know, Bob,

665
00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:50.000
<v Speaker 2>this would be a great place to bring the platoon

666
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.920
<v Speaker 2>up here for like jungle train, because it basically looks

667
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:55.880
<v Speaker 2>like a big jungle and said, yeah, so let's let's

668
00:39:55.920 --> 00:39:59.280
<v Speaker 2>go and check out the area. So we're walking around

669
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:06.119
<v Speaker 2>and we find this game trail going up. It's not

670
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.440
<v Speaker 2>really that mountains over there, but there were some pret

671
00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:12.119
<v Speaker 2>good hills. We're going up this hill and at some

672
00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:16.119
<v Speaker 2>point across this game trail, we come across this big

673
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:26.000
<v Speaker 2>pile of poop and it looked like a person, except

674
00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:29.239
<v Speaker 2>if it was a person that was like ten feet tall.

675
00:40:29.320 --> 00:40:33.239
<v Speaker 2>Maybe it wasn't like, you know, regular person poop. It

676
00:40:33.320 --> 00:40:37.559
<v Speaker 2>was gigantic person poop. It wasn't a dog, It wasn't

677
00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:39.679
<v Speaker 2>a coyote or a wolf or a bear, I know

678
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:42.559
<v Speaker 2>what all that stuff looks like. That wasn't what this was.

679
00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:47.119
<v Speaker 2>This stuff was huge, and we're all just standing there

680
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:50.280
<v Speaker 2>looking at it, and we're looking at each other and

681
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:52.800
<v Speaker 2>we're all thinking the same thing. I know. We are like,

682
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:56.639
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, this this can't be you know, bigfoot

683
00:40:56.760 --> 00:40:59.480
<v Speaker 2>but that's what we're thinking, I know, because we're like,

684
00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.719
<v Speaker 2>what hell could it be up here? Is it's not deer,

685
00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:06.280
<v Speaker 2>elk or anything else like that. That their poop doesn't

686
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:09.480
<v Speaker 2>look anything like that, And so we're looking at it,

687
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:12.960
<v Speaker 2>looking at it, and we thought, well, maybe we should

688
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:17.400
<v Speaker 2>head back already, because not of us wanted to being

689
00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:21.679
<v Speaker 2>scared or anything. But you know, there's no point in

690
00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.159
<v Speaker 2>this challenging whatever out that we didn't have any guns

691
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.880
<v Speaker 2>or anything. So on the way back, I told my

692
00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:32.199
<v Speaker 2>little I said, hey, I got a nine millimeter pistol.

693
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:34.320
<v Speaker 2>I think I'm going to bring it tomorrow just for

694
00:41:34.360 --> 00:41:37.599
<v Speaker 2>our own safety. And he goes, yeah, I think that's

695
00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:41.000
<v Speaker 2>a good idea. So we kind of stay close to

696
00:41:41.039 --> 00:41:44.000
<v Speaker 2>the home being the rest of the day, and the

697
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.360
<v Speaker 2>next day we come back out there with the pistol.

698
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:50.760
<v Speaker 2>This time will feel a lot safer with a you know,

699
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:54.519
<v Speaker 2>even though it's a nine mionmeter pistol, it's better than nothing.

700
00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:58.599
<v Speaker 2>So we go and we start to explore in the

701
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:02.360
<v Speaker 2>opposite direction, going down the hill, and there's a river

702
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:04.239
<v Speaker 2>down there and I don't remember the name of the

703
00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:06.519
<v Speaker 2>river that saved my life, but it was it was

704
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:12.719
<v Speaker 2>a pretty good size piece of water. I don't know,

705
00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:16.559
<v Speaker 2>it was maybe fifty forty fifty feet across, and it

706
00:42:16.639 --> 00:42:19.039
<v Speaker 2>was running pretty good. It had salmon in it. It was,

707
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:21.239
<v Speaker 2>you know, that kind of a river. It had salmon,

708
00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.199
<v Speaker 2>because as we walked down the river, we found a

709
00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:28.239
<v Speaker 2>salmon that was kind of almost up on the bank

710
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:30.199
<v Speaker 2>but just barely in the water, and you can still

711
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.280
<v Speaker 2>you could tell it was it was still fresh, you know,

712
00:42:32.760 --> 00:42:35.760
<v Speaker 2>just you know, it wasn't rotten or anything. And the

713
00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:40.559
<v Speaker 2>thing about it was there was this huge bite mark

714
00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:45.360
<v Speaker 2>on the belly of it. And we were standing there

715
00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:49.400
<v Speaker 2>looking at that, going, what do you think bit that

716
00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:54.800
<v Speaker 2>big chunk of salmon? Because it wasn't like a bear

717
00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.639
<v Speaker 2>has a kind of a pointed muzzle, a coyote, you know,

718
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:04.159
<v Speaker 2>they got there kind of canine shaped muzzle. This wasn't

719
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:09.440
<v Speaker 2>shape like that. This was shaped like a person, except

720
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.159
<v Speaker 2>a person that was whose head would have been two

721
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.960
<v Speaker 2>or three times bigger than ours, you know, that's what

722
00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:19.960
<v Speaker 2>it looked like. It was kind of a half moon shape.

723
00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:22.519
<v Speaker 2>And so we're standing there looking at that, and we're

724
00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:26.800
<v Speaker 2>thinking about the poop from the day before, and we

725
00:43:26.840 --> 00:43:30.639
<v Speaker 2>walked maybe about ten or fifteen yards further down the river,

726
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:33.840
<v Speaker 2>and on the other side of the river, the bank

727
00:43:33.920 --> 00:43:39.280
<v Speaker 2>went up drastically, I mean, almost like a cliff, up

728
00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:41.920
<v Speaker 2>about I don't know, fifty sixty feet up, and there

729
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.519
<v Speaker 2>was a lot of brush on the side of it.

730
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:50.719
<v Speaker 2>And as we going down, we heard something I don't

731
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:55.480
<v Speaker 2>know what it was up there in that brush, moving around,

732
00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.400
<v Speaker 2>and the next thing you know, there's rocks hitting river

733
00:44:00.960 --> 00:44:04.760
<v Speaker 2>right out in front with us, like if I don't

734
00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:08.599
<v Speaker 2>know if somebody was throwing rocks, and they weren't you know,

735
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:12.079
<v Speaker 2>like basketballs or anything. They were just maybe the size

736
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:16.039
<v Speaker 2>of your fist or something. But so I'm not sure

737
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:18.760
<v Speaker 2>if whatever it was was scrambling up that mountain, would

738
00:44:18.800 --> 00:44:22.519
<v Speaker 2>a person. I guess a person could get up it,

739
00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:25.639
<v Speaker 2>but it would be really hard. I wouldn't have even

740
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:27.280
<v Speaker 2>back then I was young and you know, in the

741
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.280
<v Speaker 2>army and everything, I wouldn't have wanted to try it.

742
00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:34.679
<v Speaker 2>But we weren't sure if it was somebody something scrambling

743
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:37.400
<v Speaker 2>up there and kicking rocks loose. But I don't think so,

744
00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:41.199
<v Speaker 2>because they would have hit closer to that the foreshore,

745
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:43.920
<v Speaker 2>and most of them were hitting out in the middle

746
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:48.760
<v Speaker 2>or on our side of the shoreline, and so we

747
00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:53.079
<v Speaker 2>were like, we couldn't see what it was. But when

748
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:57.559
<v Speaker 2>that happened, we put that together with the salmon that's

749
00:44:57.599 --> 00:45:01.039
<v Speaker 2>just right upstream a few few yards, I want that

750
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:04.360
<v Speaker 2>giant bite out of it, and then the poop from

751
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.079
<v Speaker 2>the day before, and we were like, oh, that's it.

752
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:09.639
<v Speaker 2>I took off running up the side of the mountains

753
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:11.960
<v Speaker 2>and then they goes like, hey, wait, wait for us,

754
00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:12.760
<v Speaker 2>wait for us.

755
00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:16.000
<v Speaker 1>Bikes for the Society will be right back after these messages.

756
00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:35.480
<v Speaker 2>Why because you've got the gun. And so we got

757
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.239
<v Speaker 2>back up to the Humbie and we we stayed up

758
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:41.280
<v Speaker 2>there like for the rest of the day, and we

759
00:45:41.280 --> 00:45:44.119
<v Speaker 2>didn't really you know, we didn't really talk, like we

760
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:47.679
<v Speaker 2>ate our lunch and stuff, and it was almost like

761
00:45:47.760 --> 00:45:50.599
<v Speaker 2>we were on guard. We were we were sitting around

762
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:53.400
<v Speaker 2>and standing around right outside the vehicle and just watching,

763
00:45:54.239 --> 00:45:56.719
<v Speaker 2>waiting to see if something was going to show up

764
00:45:56.760 --> 00:46:01.159
<v Speaker 2>out there. And it never did. And you know, when

765
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:03.679
<v Speaker 2>the time came, we we went back to the company

766
00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:07.199
<v Speaker 2>area and we didn't really discuss it with anybody, but

767
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:11.320
<v Speaker 2>it was really really odd. Uh. Like I said, I

768
00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:16.320
<v Speaker 2>can't say that it was bigfoot, but I've never seen

769
00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:21.880
<v Speaker 2>any proof like that since except that the uh, the

770
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:25.000
<v Speaker 2>Bigfoot Museum over here in Terry Loge, Georgia, which is

771
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:28.760
<v Speaker 2>about half far down the road from me. They've got

772
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:32.239
<v Speaker 2>the I don't know if it's fake poop or whatever

773
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:35.559
<v Speaker 2>it is, but supposedly Bigfoot poop on display. And I

774
00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:37.039
<v Speaker 2>looked at that. As soon as I saw that, I

775
00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.519
<v Speaker 2>was like, wow, that looks just like what I saw

776
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:45.079
<v Speaker 2>up up in Washington. And since Washington is, you know,

777
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:49.559
<v Speaker 2>kind of the Bigfoot central up there according to everything else,

778
00:46:50.039 --> 00:46:54.039
<v Speaker 2>that's that's the first thing I thought of. So that's

779
00:46:54.119 --> 00:46:59.679
<v Speaker 2>that's basically some of the stuff that I've experienced.

780
00:46:59.480 --> 00:47:03.320
<v Speaker 1>And that's that's incredible. My goodness. Thank you for Sharon.

781
00:47:03.760 --> 00:47:06.880
<v Speaker 1>I was actually going to ask you the question you

782
00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:11.239
<v Speaker 1>pretty much just answered, which is what was the orientation

783
00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:13.599
<v Speaker 1>of the scat that you saw? And it sounds like

784
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:16.599
<v Speaker 1>it was kind of in a straight line, because I'm picturing.

785
00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:20.199
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, yeah, exactly. It was right there on that

786
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:26.079
<v Speaker 2>trail of all places, and like I said, there's no

787
00:47:26.199 --> 00:47:30.000
<v Speaker 2>homeless people out there. There was a military training area

788
00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:33.320
<v Speaker 2>on the base, and it was just plain as day.

789
00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:35.320
<v Speaker 2>We were just walking and boom, there it is. I mean,

790
00:47:35.320 --> 00:47:40.400
<v Speaker 2>you couldn't miss it. I love the Honting fish. So

791
00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:41.840
<v Speaker 2>I'm out in the woods a lot out here, and

792
00:47:41.920 --> 00:47:46.679
<v Speaker 2>I see bear scat all the time, and it doesn't

793
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:51.039
<v Speaker 2>look anything like that I had hogs. I've never seen

794
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.800
<v Speaker 2>anything like that ever again, except for that stuff that

795
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:58.639
<v Speaker 2>they have in this little museum over here, but that

796
00:47:58.840 --> 00:48:04.280
<v Speaker 2>was kind of bizarre. And the whole tree thing I've

797
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.920
<v Speaker 2>now that I remember right down here on my property,

798
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:11.199
<v Speaker 2>I go deer hunting. Like, here's the other thing I

799
00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:13.599
<v Speaker 2>want to get to about the pigs and the deer

800
00:48:13.760 --> 00:48:18.840
<v Speaker 2>on the wildlife management areas. I've been up there. Like

801
00:48:18.840 --> 00:48:21.320
<v Speaker 2>I said, turkey hunting. I always see turkeys out there.

802
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:26.079
<v Speaker 2>There's tons of them out there, and up until about

803
00:48:26.079 --> 00:48:30.519
<v Speaker 2>two years ago there was there was lots of hogs

804
00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:33.199
<v Speaker 2>out there. I mean you would see signs of them

805
00:48:33.400 --> 00:48:36.119
<v Speaker 2>even driving down the road down here in the mountains.

806
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:39.280
<v Speaker 2>You know, there's always a grassy area on the media

807
00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:41.320
<v Speaker 2>in the side of the road or whatever, and you

808
00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:43.039
<v Speaker 2>can tell where the hogs have been because it looks

809
00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:45.079
<v Speaker 2>like someone took a row tiller and just went out

810
00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:50.079
<v Speaker 2>there and filled up a garden plot. Even in the woods,

811
00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:52.559
<v Speaker 2>they go through there and they'll be fifteen or twenty

812
00:48:52.599 --> 00:48:54.559
<v Speaker 2>of them, and they just take their noses and they

813
00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:57.760
<v Speaker 2>just turned the earth over and just tear it up.

814
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.960
<v Speaker 2>So basically, every time I would go or me and

815
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:04.119
<v Speaker 2>my son law would go out here into the wm

816
00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.960
<v Speaker 2>a's or even in the National Forest, we would find spots.

817
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:11.440
<v Speaker 2>It was pretty easy. Just you go out here and

818
00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:13.360
<v Speaker 2>start walking and you'll find a spout where the hogs

819
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:18.719
<v Speaker 2>have been. Until about two years ago and suddenly we

820
00:49:18.800 --> 00:49:22.400
<v Speaker 2>just didn't see hogs anymore. There was no signs anywhere.

821
00:49:23.360 --> 00:49:24.880
<v Speaker 2>I mean I used to get them on my twelve

822
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:27.840
<v Speaker 2>cameras over here on my property. We even sat down

823
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.280
<v Speaker 2>here at the bottom part of my yard a year

824
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:32.159
<v Speaker 2>or two ago with our bows one night in the

825
00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:34.679
<v Speaker 2>summer and our green lights because we had about a

826
00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:38.800
<v Speaker 2>two hundred and something pound hog kept coming through. And

827
00:49:38.840 --> 00:49:45.440
<v Speaker 2>then suddenly they were just gone. And I just wondered,

828
00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:49.039
<v Speaker 2>I thought, well what And I've never seen a deer

829
00:49:49.079 --> 00:49:52.320
<v Speaker 2>on those WMA's, not maybe one. I don't even go

830
00:49:52.320 --> 00:49:53.960
<v Speaker 2>deer hunt nobody. I just I come down here on

831
00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:56.239
<v Speaker 2>my property here. My next door neighbor lets me hunt

832
00:49:56.280 --> 00:50:00.440
<v Speaker 2>on their property, but I have never seen a deer

833
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:04.880
<v Speaker 2>other than maybe just one on there. And and then

834
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:08.960
<v Speaker 2>the hogs just suddenly It's like it's like, you know,

835
00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:12.000
<v Speaker 2>star trek came and beamed them up or something. And

836
00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:17.800
<v Speaker 2>after hearing those wooden knocks up there, I kind of wondered,

837
00:50:17.840 --> 00:50:22.039
<v Speaker 2>did are these things nomadic? Did they move into this area?

838
00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.199
<v Speaker 2>And then did they eat all the hogs or did

839
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:28.440
<v Speaker 2>they run all the hogs off? And then oh, there

840
00:50:28.519 --> 00:50:32.280
<v Speaker 2>was one other thing I almost forgot when I was

841
00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:36.320
<v Speaker 2>talking about the turkey hunting. I met a guy a

842
00:50:36.320 --> 00:50:40.480
<v Speaker 2>couple of years ago out here. We met up we

843
00:50:40.480 --> 00:50:44.199
<v Speaker 2>were out hunting turkey in the same area, and we came,

844
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:46.880
<v Speaker 2>we came friends, and we were up there in the

845
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:52.199
<v Speaker 2>Chattahoochee Wildlife Management Area, and uh, we had decided to

846
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:56.159
<v Speaker 2>basically call it a morning, and we knew that there

847
00:50:56.239 --> 00:50:59.519
<v Speaker 2>was these two guys camping at this one camp spot

848
00:50:59.679 --> 00:51:02.159
<v Speaker 2>and this spot is the only place up on the

849
00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:04.280
<v Speaker 2>mountain where you can get a phone signal, so they

850
00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:07.320
<v Speaker 2>call it the phone booth, oddly enough, and they had

851
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:10.719
<v Speaker 2>a fire going, and so we kind of meandered over

852
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:13.599
<v Speaker 2>there and started up the conversation with him and kind

853
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.400
<v Speaker 2>of an excuse us to stand by the fire because

854
00:51:15.400 --> 00:51:20.800
<v Speaker 2>it was cold that day, and so I was going

855
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.079
<v Speaker 2>to ask them the same thing. Whenever I meet anybody

856
00:51:23.079 --> 00:51:25.360
<v Speaker 2>out here in the woods hunt their fishing, I always

857
00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:27.920
<v Speaker 2>ask them, are you from up here? And they usually

858
00:51:27.920 --> 00:51:31.840
<v Speaker 2>it's always yes. And I'd ask them kind of around about,

859
00:51:31.880 --> 00:51:34.039
<v Speaker 2>beat around the bush, what's the weirdest thing you've seen

860
00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:36.480
<v Speaker 2>out here in the woods? And I'd usually ask him

861
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:39.559
<v Speaker 2>to find have you ever seen big food? They always laugh.

862
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:46.000
<v Speaker 2>Everybody laughs and says no. But these guys were a

863
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:50.239
<v Speaker 2>little bit different. So they were camping. Apparently they come

864
00:51:50.280 --> 00:51:51.800
<v Speaker 2>up here every year to get away from their wives

865
00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:55.000
<v Speaker 2>for a couple of days. And so while we're standing

866
00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:58.280
<v Speaker 2>there putting the dogs and standing by the fire, I

867
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.599
<v Speaker 2>asked the guy, what's the weirdest thing you guys have

868
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:05.800
<v Speaker 2>ever seen up here? It's one guy tells me he'll

869
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.639
<v Speaker 2>back down here in such and such hollow, which I

870
00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:11.480
<v Speaker 2>had a specific name, and I don't remember what it was.

871
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:15.079
<v Speaker 2>He said, I was hunting back there, and I've heard

872
00:52:15.440 --> 00:52:21.440
<v Speaker 2>children laughing, giggling, and there's no children back there. I thought, well,

873
00:52:21.519 --> 00:52:25.760
<v Speaker 2>that's that's pretty creepy, you know. So I don't know

874
00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:31.679
<v Speaker 2>if that's a residual, you know, Native American thing, or

875
00:52:33.280 --> 00:52:38.079
<v Speaker 2>is it you've all sasquats that he doesn't see and

876
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:40.960
<v Speaker 2>they're I don't you know, I don't know if they

877
00:52:41.039 --> 00:52:43.760
<v Speaker 2>laugh or not. Because I was listening to a different

878
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.519
<v Speaker 2>podcast the other night and there was another guy from

879
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:50.639
<v Speaker 2>up here in Georgia and he said he heard one

880
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:53.679
<v Speaker 2>sound like it was singing, which I was like, singing. Wow,

881
00:52:53.719 --> 00:52:57.079
<v Speaker 2>that's that's different. So I guess if you could sing,

882
00:52:58.440 --> 00:53:01.840
<v Speaker 2>possibly you could maybe make something that sounds like laughter.

883
00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:04.320
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but he seemed to think it was

884
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:07.599
<v Speaker 2>a kind of a honking sort of thing. I was like, okay,

885
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:11.400
<v Speaker 2>well that's that's kind of strange. I'll try to avoid

886
00:53:11.440 --> 00:53:15.760
<v Speaker 2>that area. And then he tells me, he said, I

887
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:21.440
<v Speaker 2>haven't seen Bigfoot, but and he goes, you remember when

888
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.000
<v Speaker 2>you was a kid, used to watch the Pink Panther cartoon.

889
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:26.719
<v Speaker 2>And I was like yeah. He goes, remember how the

890
00:53:26.719 --> 00:53:30.719
<v Speaker 2>Pink Panther walked in that funny goofy walk. I was

891
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:34.039
<v Speaker 2>like yeah. He said, well, I was down here coming

892
00:53:34.039 --> 00:53:36.800
<v Speaker 2>off of whatever highway was just right up in this

893
00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:39.400
<v Speaker 2>area somewhere. I forget what's one it was, and he said,

894
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:43.920
<v Speaker 2>and this thing stepped out on the road, and he

895
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:48.920
<v Speaker 2>said it had to be seven plus foot tall, had

896
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:53.400
<v Speaker 2>a real long tail, walked on through legs, and he said,

897
00:53:53.440 --> 00:53:55.639
<v Speaker 2>walk across the road. He goes. The funny thing about

898
00:53:55.679 --> 00:54:00.440
<v Speaker 2>it was it walked just like that pink Panther tune

899
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:03.519
<v Speaker 2>and that little bebop kind of thing as it walked

900
00:54:03.559 --> 00:54:08.280
<v Speaker 2>across the road. And I'm looking at him. I was like,

901
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:11.599
<v Speaker 2>what I'm thinking, this guy just you know, yank in

902
00:54:11.639 --> 00:54:15.480
<v Speaker 2>my tin. But he was deadly serious, and he said,

903
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:18.559
<v Speaker 2>I it went across the road, he goes, I turned

904
00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:20.400
<v Speaker 2>around and I came back, he goes. I thought there

905
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:22.800
<v Speaker 2>was some kids or somebody here playing a joke on me,

906
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:24.559
<v Speaker 2>and I wanted to catch him, so he said, I

907
00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:27.880
<v Speaker 2>turned around, came back, and he goes, I stopped where

908
00:54:27.880 --> 00:54:30.840
<v Speaker 2>I saw go into the woods, and I didn't see anything,

909
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:33.679
<v Speaker 2>and I thought, you're serious, and I just, you know,

910
00:54:33.760 --> 00:54:35.960
<v Speaker 2>you know, just bs me. He goes, no, I'm deadly serious.

911
00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:39.159
<v Speaker 2>I saw this. I thought, okay, that's that sounds like

912
00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:41.360
<v Speaker 2>one of those dog men things, because I've never heard

913
00:54:41.440 --> 00:54:44.320
<v Speaker 2>seen anything about a sasquatch with a big, long, bushy tail.

914
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:49.559
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, so that's something else that someone has related

915
00:54:49.639 --> 00:54:52.480
<v Speaker 2>to me up here. And then, like I said, the

916
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:55.440
<v Speaker 2>guy down here at the dump. That told me that

917
00:54:55.559 --> 00:54:57.920
<v Speaker 2>he'd seen the one in Hazel in a guy's yard,

918
00:54:58.400 --> 00:54:59.880
<v Speaker 2>and he said it was it was like been over

919
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.199
<v Speaker 2>making something up as they walk by. And this was

920
00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:05.360
<v Speaker 2>like at eleven o'clock in the day, and you know, daytime.

921
00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:08.760
<v Speaker 2>And I said, well, you know the thing about that

922
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:15.039
<v Speaker 2>is if somebody was trying to hoax somebody people driving by,

923
00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:18.880
<v Speaker 2>or say the guy that lived at that house, they're

924
00:55:18.920 --> 00:55:22.920
<v Speaker 2>taking their life in their own hands. Because everybody up

925
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:27.079
<v Speaker 2>here is armed to the teeth. I mean, everybody up

926
00:55:27.079 --> 00:55:30.679
<v Speaker 2>here in the mountains has guns. It's just a culture.

927
00:55:30.719 --> 00:55:33.119
<v Speaker 2>You know. We're not not out looking for a fight.

928
00:55:33.199 --> 00:55:38.039
<v Speaker 2>That's just everybody carries guns. And sooner or later there's

929
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:40.639
<v Speaker 2>going to be some good old boy redneck. And I

930
00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:43.840
<v Speaker 2>don't use that as a disparaging term. I'm a redneck myself,

931
00:55:43.840 --> 00:55:48.639
<v Speaker 2>I'm pretty sure. But sooner or later, you know there's

932
00:55:48.679 --> 00:55:50.719
<v Speaker 2>going to be somebody sees one and goes, there's a

933
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:52.960
<v Speaker 2>money foot, and I'm going to shoot it, and they're

934
00:55:52.960 --> 00:55:55.159
<v Speaker 2>going to shoot at it. So if you put on

935
00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:00.000
<v Speaker 2>a big furry costume and start walking through people's front

936
00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:02.960
<v Speaker 2>yards trying to scare him, either that guy that owns

937
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:05.199
<v Speaker 2>the house is going to come out and put some

938
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:08.079
<v Speaker 2>hot lead on you, or somebody's going to stop there

939
00:56:08.599 --> 00:56:11.519
<v Speaker 2>their f one fifty pick up on the side the

940
00:56:11.599 --> 00:56:14.079
<v Speaker 2>road and pull out his rifle and put some lead

941
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:18.159
<v Speaker 2>on you. You know. So it's either that a crazy person,

942
00:56:18.239 --> 00:56:21.719
<v Speaker 2>which you'd have to be mental to do something like that,

943
00:56:22.320 --> 00:56:28.360
<v Speaker 2>or it was real. So I don't know, but that's

944
00:56:29.119 --> 00:56:32.679
<v Speaker 2>that's what he told me. And then the other neighbor

945
00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:35.199
<v Speaker 2>over here where the campground is, there was a guy

946
00:56:35.239 --> 00:56:38.719
<v Speaker 2>over there and he's from Florida, and he claimed that

947
00:56:39.159 --> 00:56:41.119
<v Speaker 2>he was going to the everglade and there was one

948
00:56:41.199 --> 00:56:43.440
<v Speaker 2>standing right out on the side the road. He said,

949
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.800
<v Speaker 2>traffic came to a stop and him and his wife

950
00:56:46.960 --> 00:56:49.159
<v Speaker 2>both saw it. So he when I talked to him

951
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:51.280
<v Speaker 2>about it, he doesn't laugh. He's like, yeah, I saw one.

952
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.079
<v Speaker 2>And he said, well, I'm not the only person that

953
00:56:55.360 --> 00:57:00.920
<v Speaker 2>you know, encounters this. But then so this year, like

954
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:04.039
<v Speaker 2>I said, I deer hunt back here right on my property,

955
00:57:04.639 --> 00:57:07.960
<v Speaker 2>and my next door neighbors said giving me permission to

956
00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:11.639
<v Speaker 2>hunt their property. So during the rut, I was putting

957
00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:14.320
<v Speaker 2>up cameras back there, trying to, you know, see what

958
00:57:14.400 --> 00:57:17.920
<v Speaker 2>time the bos are coming. Through. So I go down

959
00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:20.800
<v Speaker 2>through to every day and check these cameras, so I

960
00:57:20.960 --> 00:57:25.000
<v Speaker 2>know what's what in the woods right in that area.

961
00:57:26.159 --> 00:57:29.920
<v Speaker 2>So I go down there one day and there's a

962
00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:32.679
<v Speaker 2>tree that's about, I don't know, about as big around

963
00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:37.039
<v Speaker 2>as my arm, maybe about fifteen twenty feet tall, and

964
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:40.519
<v Speaker 2>I thought it had been pulled well, I guess it

965
00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:43.960
<v Speaker 2>was pulled over, but it was pulled over and broken

966
00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:49.360
<v Speaker 2>off down by the base. And I thought, now, why

967
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:51.320
<v Speaker 2>the world would have done that, because there wasn't any

968
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:55.280
<v Speaker 2>windstorms or anything last night, and nobody else goes down

969
00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:57.840
<v Speaker 2>there hunts but me. I mean, I'm the only person

970
00:57:57.840 --> 00:58:02.079
<v Speaker 2>who goes down there. Now, I guess it could have

971
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:06.800
<v Speaker 2>been a bear that did it. I guess maybe I've

972
00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:11.079
<v Speaker 2>never seen bears pulling trees over like that before, but

973
00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:14.719
<v Speaker 2>I guess it could have been a bear. But I

974
00:58:14.760 --> 00:58:17.119
<v Speaker 2>don't know, because down in that area is where the

975
00:58:17.159 --> 00:58:20.000
<v Speaker 2>guy said he saw the balls of white. And then

976
00:58:20.039 --> 00:58:22.719
<v Speaker 2>the next thing you know, I got this tree down

977
00:58:22.800 --> 00:58:26.679
<v Speaker 2>there that's pulled down. Out of millions of trees, there's

978
00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:30.079
<v Speaker 2>just this one tree right there, and it's along the

979
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:33.519
<v Speaker 2>avenue that I was traveling to go check the cameras,

980
00:58:34.039 --> 00:58:37.639
<v Speaker 2>which is kind of creeps me out because it's almost

981
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:41.159
<v Speaker 2>like in your face, like hey, letting you know that

982
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:47.119
<v Speaker 2>I'm over here. So to it may sound strange to people.

983
00:58:47.159 --> 00:58:49.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, but it makes me feel better because

984
00:58:49.480 --> 00:58:53.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Like I said, I listen to all

985
00:58:53.119 --> 00:58:56.239
<v Speaker 2>this stuff. I see the shows on TV, and some

986
00:58:56.280 --> 00:58:59.639
<v Speaker 2>people think that they're telepathic and whatnot. Maybe they are,

987
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:02.360
<v Speaker 2>they're not. I don't know, but just in case, they

988
00:59:02.360 --> 00:59:05.800
<v Speaker 2>are just all the odd off chants that they are.

989
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.159
<v Speaker 2>When I get out of my truck to the hunting now,

990
00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:11.320
<v Speaker 2>I say a little not a maybe a prayer, but

991
00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:13.159
<v Speaker 2>a little message to them in my mind. You know,

992
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:16.599
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, Hey, I'm not here to bother you your family.

993
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:20.360
<v Speaker 2>I'm just out here hunting deer, big sturky water. The

994
00:59:20.400 --> 00:59:22.679
<v Speaker 2>case may be, I don't really want to see you,

995
00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:26.039
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to be bothered by you. And as

996
00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:28.119
<v Speaker 2>soon as i'm done, I'll take all my trash with

997
00:59:28.239 --> 00:59:31.480
<v Speaker 2>me and I'll leave. So I don't know if that

998
00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:33.920
<v Speaker 2>helps or not, but it can't hurt, you know what

999
00:59:33.920 --> 00:59:41.679
<v Speaker 2>I mean. So I do that. But yeah, so I

1000
00:59:41.719 --> 00:59:43.719
<v Speaker 2>don't know, Like I said, with the hogs, they're just

1001
00:59:43.920 --> 00:59:46.440
<v Speaker 2>suddenly disappeared up here, So I don't know if it's

1002
00:59:47.719 --> 00:59:52.800
<v Speaker 2>if Bigfoot is wipe them out, or if they've decided

1003
00:59:52.840 --> 00:59:54.920
<v Speaker 2>Bigfoot is something they don't want to deal with so

1004
00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:58.360
<v Speaker 2>they've left the area. But I haven't seen one up

1005
00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:02.159
<v Speaker 2>here really in about two years, and I think that's

1006
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:05.119
<v Speaker 2>just so bizarre because there's not too many guys up

1007
01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:08.880
<v Speaker 2>here to actually hunt hogs. I asked guys that to

1008
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:11.800
<v Speaker 2>you seeing hogs or hunt hogs? All they like one

1009
01:00:11.880 --> 01:00:14.599
<v Speaker 2>or two other guys and actually, you know, dedicated to

1010
01:00:14.760 --> 01:00:18.239
<v Speaker 2>hunt hogs. And I'm pretty sure they didn't mike them

1011
01:00:18.239 --> 01:00:21.760
<v Speaker 2>a lot, because there's must be thousands, hundreds of thousands

1012
01:00:21.760 --> 01:00:24.639
<v Speaker 2>of them up there. Probably they breed like roaches.

1013
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:28.039
<v Speaker 1>Big for Society will be right back after these messages.

1014
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:50.280
<v Speaker 1>It's extremely interesting. You have a ton of really interesting

1015
01:00:50.440 --> 01:00:56.119
<v Speaker 1>anecdotes from all over the place. I had no idea

1016
01:00:56.239 --> 01:00:58.599
<v Speaker 1>you're really going to go all over the place. This

1017
01:00:58.639 --> 01:01:03.079
<v Speaker 1>has been a very cool conversation. It's it's very unique

1018
01:01:03.119 --> 01:01:06.719
<v Speaker 1>to have someone on the show that, or at least

1019
01:01:06.719 --> 01:01:09.320
<v Speaker 1>for my show. I've only been able to talk to

1020
01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:14.679
<v Speaker 1>a handful of individuals that have been involved with out

1021
01:01:14.719 --> 01:01:20.519
<v Speaker 1>there in Fort Lewis in Washington. It's such an interesting

1022
01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:21.960
<v Speaker 1>area out there.

1023
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:26.719
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's crazy out there. So I've never seen

1024
01:01:26.719 --> 01:01:29.079
<v Speaker 2>angels like got in my life until I first got there,

1025
01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:32.159
<v Speaker 2>and you can just see the ants crawling all over.

1026
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:35.800
<v Speaker 2>The whole thing is pulsate. Oh man, no way. That's

1027
01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:38.639
<v Speaker 2>the only place I ever slept in an igloo overnight too.

1028
01:01:38.840 --> 01:01:42.920
<v Speaker 2>It snowed on us, start snowing one night and we

1029
01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:45.199
<v Speaker 2>didn't have tents and made it in like a sleeping

1030
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:50.079
<v Speaker 2>inside the vehicle. So we actually built a snow shelter

1031
01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:52.719
<v Speaker 2>and our whole squad of was got in there like

1032
01:01:52.760 --> 01:01:57.199
<v Speaker 2>sardines and we were very comfortable. So it was I

1033
01:01:57.199 --> 01:02:01.960
<v Speaker 2>experienced quite a few things out there. You go to

1034
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:03.840
<v Speaker 2>the eastern part of the state and it's a whole desert,

1035
01:02:03.880 --> 01:02:07.639
<v Speaker 2>and we did lots of training out there, and yeah,

1036
01:02:07.880 --> 01:02:11.760
<v Speaker 2>it was different, really different. But so so when I

1037
01:02:11.840 --> 01:02:14.400
<v Speaker 2>moved here, when I moved back home to Georgia and

1038
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:16.559
<v Speaker 2>the whole Bigfoot thing was I blame it on my

1039
01:02:16.639 --> 01:02:20.880
<v Speaker 2>father because when I was a little kid, they didn't

1040
01:02:20.920 --> 01:02:23.280
<v Speaker 2>have all these shows on TV. There was no internet

1041
01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:25.960
<v Speaker 2>back there in the late sixties, thirty seventies. Like I said,

1042
01:02:25.960 --> 01:02:29.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm older than dirt, but you had to go to

1043
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:34.960
<v Speaker 2>the theater to see these documentaries about Bigfoot, and every

1044
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.519
<v Speaker 2>time one came on, my dad drugged me to the

1045
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:41.880
<v Speaker 2>theaters to see him. So I always kind of blame

1046
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:48.639
<v Speaker 2>him for that. But I never I never really thought

1047
01:02:48.719 --> 01:02:52.239
<v Speaker 2>that Georgia would be a place where there was bigfoots.

1048
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:55.960
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know, there's I believe in polar bears,

1049
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:59.559
<v Speaker 2>but I don't think there's any living in Georgia because this,

1050
01:02:59.840 --> 01:03:02.119
<v Speaker 2>you know, that's not where they live up in the

1051
01:03:02.199 --> 01:03:05.079
<v Speaker 2>Arctic Circle. So I believe in moose, but I've never

1052
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:08.440
<v Speaker 2>seen one in Georgia, so that was my rationale. And

1053
01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:11.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, they they all live up in the Pacific

1054
01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:16.400
<v Speaker 2>Northwest or Canada or somewhere far up north. And I

1055
01:03:16.440 --> 01:03:19.840
<v Speaker 2>even talked to a guy right down the road. I

1056
01:03:19.840 --> 01:03:21.159
<v Speaker 2>think it was last year. I was going to go

1057
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:23.639
<v Speaker 2>turkey hunt, and in this case, I got a lot

1058
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:26.599
<v Speaker 2>of national forests around my property here, and I was

1059
01:03:26.639 --> 01:03:28.599
<v Speaker 2>going to this one spot and there was a couple

1060
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.360
<v Speaker 2>walking down the road and when I came back out,

1061
01:03:31.440 --> 01:03:33.760
<v Speaker 2>they were going the other way, and I figured they

1062
01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:35.360
<v Speaker 2>must live over here in one of these houses. So

1063
01:03:35.360 --> 01:03:39.519
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to ask him about the turkeys, and so

1064
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.719
<v Speaker 2>he said, oh, we don't live here. We're here with

1065
01:03:43.639 --> 01:03:47.599
<v Speaker 2>my wife's parents live over here. We're from Ohio. And

1066
01:03:48.679 --> 01:03:50.920
<v Speaker 2>so I told him about, you know, the turkey. He goes, oh,

1067
01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:53.000
<v Speaker 2>I'm a turkey hunter too. I loved the turkey hunt.

1068
01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:55.880
<v Speaker 2>And I said, oh, really, so here we go. He

1069
01:03:55.960 --> 01:03:58.199
<v Speaker 2>opens me up. Now I know he's an outdoorsman. I

1070
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:01.159
<v Speaker 2>can ask him my question. To ask him, I said,

1071
01:04:02.199 --> 01:04:04.880
<v Speaker 2>you're from Ohio, I said, so, I just came out

1072
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:06.760
<v Speaker 2>and asked him. I said, have you have you ever

1073
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:11.119
<v Speaker 2>seen Bigfoot? Because it's some you know, pretty popular thing

1074
01:04:11.199 --> 01:04:14.320
<v Speaker 2>up there. And he goes no. He goes no, but

1075
01:04:14.440 --> 01:04:16.039
<v Speaker 2>I believe in it. He goes, I live on the

1076
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:18.119
<v Speaker 2>wrong side of the state. All the Bigfoot lives on

1077
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:20.800
<v Speaker 2>the other side of the state. And I was like, what,

1078
01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:25.039
<v Speaker 2>I had no idea that there were, you know, segregated

1079
01:04:25.119 --> 01:04:26.679
<v Speaker 2>like that where they only live on one part. But

1080
01:04:26.719 --> 01:04:29.679
<v Speaker 2>I guess, I guess that's you know whatever. But he goes, yeah,

1081
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:31.480
<v Speaker 2>I believe in it. I was like, you're the first

1082
01:04:31.519 --> 01:04:35.079
<v Speaker 2>guy I've talked to at this time it has ever

1083
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:37.239
<v Speaker 2>told me yes, I believe in this, because everyone else

1084
01:04:37.239 --> 01:04:40.199
<v Speaker 2>says I asked him, they just start snickering, laughing and whatever.

1085
01:04:41.000 --> 01:04:46.280
<v Speaker 2>So for me to experience these things up here. And

1086
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:48.320
<v Speaker 2>you know how a lot of these people will tell

1087
01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:51.079
<v Speaker 2>you I was out here and the hair stood up

1088
01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:52.480
<v Speaker 2>on the back of my neck. Well, I don't have

1089
01:04:52.519 --> 01:04:58.840
<v Speaker 2>hair anymore, but if I did. There's only one place. Oh,

1090
01:04:59.239 --> 01:05:01.000
<v Speaker 2>I almost I have to tell you this one. This

1091
01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:03.920
<v Speaker 2>is I'm not really sure, but I got to tell

1092
01:05:03.920 --> 01:05:09.320
<v Speaker 2>you this. It's another It's also part of the Swallow

1093
01:05:09.400 --> 01:05:14.199
<v Speaker 2>Creek Wildlife Management Area that it's that that some people know.

1094
01:05:14.360 --> 01:05:21.679
<v Speaker 2>This Wildlife Management Area encapsulates about nineteen thousands square acres

1095
01:05:21.760 --> 01:05:26.079
<v Speaker 2>up here. It's a pretty large area and there's lots

1096
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:29.039
<v Speaker 2>of little feeder roads to go into it all around

1097
01:05:29.079 --> 01:05:31.519
<v Speaker 2>it kind of uh, you know, you got a spider

1098
01:05:31.559 --> 01:05:33.559
<v Speaker 2>and then all the legs come out those roads. The

1099
01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:37.239
<v Speaker 2>legs would be the roads going in. So I had

1100
01:05:37.280 --> 01:05:42.800
<v Speaker 2>found another road that wasn't even marked. It was just

1101
01:05:42.920 --> 01:05:45.719
<v Speaker 2>off of another road, and I went down and come

1102
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:49.559
<v Speaker 2>to find out that's the service road for that part

1103
01:05:49.559 --> 01:05:53.840
<v Speaker 2>of the WMA. And then I found a trail to

1104
01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:56.079
<v Speaker 2>go down the mountain. It takes about ten minutes to

1105
01:05:56.079 --> 01:05:58.679
<v Speaker 2>get all the way down this mountain, and there's three

1106
01:05:58.960 --> 01:06:00.840
<v Speaker 2>food plots down there, and I find him on this

1107
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:03.519
<v Speaker 2>map on this hunting app that I got, and I

1108
01:06:03.559 --> 01:06:05.920
<v Speaker 2>saw him on there, and I was like, okay, I

1109
01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:09.079
<v Speaker 2>had to find the trail. Finally found the trail and

1110
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:12.360
<v Speaker 2>sure enough, turkey's down there are stick as peanut butter.

1111
01:06:12.760 --> 01:06:15.079
<v Speaker 2>So I decided I'm going to start turkey hunting down there.

1112
01:06:16.119 --> 01:06:22.880
<v Speaker 2>So getting down there in the dark, it's it's creepy

1113
01:06:22.880 --> 01:06:25.719
<v Speaker 2>to say the least. And I'm you know, I'm heavily armed.

1114
01:06:26.320 --> 01:06:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Not only do I carry my shotgun and I got

1115
01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:31.239
<v Speaker 2>a ten millimeter pistol with me in case the bears

1116
01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:33.159
<v Speaker 2>want to, you know, try to eat me for lunch.

1117
01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:37.880
<v Speaker 2>I have been paced by a coyote going down there before,

1118
01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:40.280
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'd be walking and I hear something walking

1119
01:06:40.320 --> 01:06:42.079
<v Speaker 2>next to me and then I stopped and they would stop.

1120
01:06:42.559 --> 01:06:44.280
<v Speaker 2>I walk a little more and they were all I thought,

1121
01:06:44.280 --> 01:06:47.639
<v Speaker 2>what does that turn the light? Streaky coyote, he's got

1122
01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:53.039
<v Speaker 2>the balls to you know, he's pacting me better run.

1123
01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:57.880
<v Speaker 2>So I'm down there one one morning and I get

1124
01:06:57.920 --> 01:07:01.920
<v Speaker 2>down there before sunrise because the sunrise is when the

1125
01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:04.000
<v Speaker 2>turkeys come off the roost and they're gonna fly down

1126
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:07.000
<v Speaker 2>onto these shields and that's when your best chance again one.

1127
01:07:07.360 --> 01:07:09.320
<v Speaker 2>So I get down there, and like I said before,

1128
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:13.000
<v Speaker 2>there was no truck in the area, so I felt

1129
01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:15.840
<v Speaker 2>comfortable to stop there and go down and figure this.

1130
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:19.599
<v Speaker 2>And nobody else down there. Well, I get down there,

1131
01:07:19.880 --> 01:07:22.199
<v Speaker 2>and I have to pass through two other fields to

1132
01:07:22.239 --> 01:07:23.960
<v Speaker 2>get to the very last one to where I want

1133
01:07:24.000 --> 01:07:26.800
<v Speaker 2>it to be. And I'm sitting down there and this

1134
01:07:26.840 --> 01:07:29.320
<v Speaker 2>field is long and it shaved like a football. I

1135
01:07:29.320 --> 01:07:34.119
<v Speaker 2>feel long and skinny. And the very back end is

1136
01:07:34.159 --> 01:07:37.199
<v Speaker 2>the service road where the dn R comes in and

1137
01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:39.119
<v Speaker 2>they'll plow these things in the summer or whatever, and

1138
01:07:39.199 --> 01:07:42.639
<v Speaker 2>they plant different food for the animals. And I had

1139
01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:45.039
<v Speaker 2>talked to another gentleman who lived back there. He goes, yeah,

1140
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:48.760
<v Speaker 2>that road goes through my property, so the DNR has

1141
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:51.800
<v Speaker 2>come through my property to get to their road. And

1142
01:07:51.840 --> 01:07:55.440
<v Speaker 2>I thought, okay, that's interesting. So I'm down there this

1143
01:07:55.599 --> 01:08:00.800
<v Speaker 2>morning and I'm sitting there, waiting, waiting, waiting, and from

1144
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:05.079
<v Speaker 2>across this field further down from me, towards where that

1145
01:08:05.119 --> 01:08:08.599
<v Speaker 2>guy said his property was at, I see what I

1146
01:08:10.159 --> 01:08:14.320
<v Speaker 2>thought at the time was a person emerged out of

1147
01:08:14.320 --> 01:08:18.439
<v Speaker 2>the woods and he kind of walked out into the

1148
01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:21.159
<v Speaker 2>field a little bit and then went down towards where

1149
01:08:21.159 --> 01:08:25.640
<v Speaker 2>that guy's house was. The thing is, I couldn't really

1150
01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:28.439
<v Speaker 2>see clearly because the sun was just starting to come

1151
01:08:28.520 --> 01:08:31.319
<v Speaker 2>up a little bit, but I know he didn't have

1152
01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:35.159
<v Speaker 2>a gun, which I thought was kind of odd because

1153
01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:38.880
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking, who else comes down here on this field

1154
01:08:39.960 --> 01:08:43.000
<v Speaker 2>first thing in the morning, Turkey season and is not

1155
01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:49.239
<v Speaker 2>packing a shotgun? That's just odd. And you know, it

1156
01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:51.560
<v Speaker 2>just he was. I couldn't see if he was wearing

1157
01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:53.359
<v Speaker 2>camel or whatdy. It just it was like a black

1158
01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:56.600
<v Speaker 2>figure and it came out of the bushes, and I

1159
01:08:56.680 --> 01:08:59.399
<v Speaker 2>kept thinking about it and thinking about that, why would somebody

1160
01:08:59.560 --> 01:09:04.199
<v Speaker 2>be over there if you know there was And when

1161
01:09:04.199 --> 01:09:05.920
<v Speaker 2>I got back up, when I left, I went back

1162
01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:08.279
<v Speaker 2>up to my truck, there was no trucks up there.

1163
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:10.520
<v Speaker 2>So if he came from up on the road, he

1164
01:09:10.640 --> 01:09:17.000
<v Speaker 2>had to walk down a pretty hazardous decline through all

1165
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:19.920
<v Speaker 2>that brush that we've talked about, I think I would

1166
01:09:19.920 --> 01:09:24.279
<v Speaker 2>have heard him coming down, and I don't know it

1167
01:09:24.439 --> 01:09:27.439
<v Speaker 2>just I didn't hear anybody out there. And to get

1168
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:31.359
<v Speaker 2>there that way, I mean, you're you're really working hard

1169
01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:33.119
<v Speaker 2>to get through that stuff. If you're gonna come down

1170
01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:35.720
<v Speaker 2>there just to go and get on that road and walk.

1171
01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:38.239
<v Speaker 2>And then I thought, well, if it's the guy that

1172
01:09:38.359 --> 01:09:42.680
<v Speaker 2>lives here, what's he doing over there in the woods

1173
01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:47.319
<v Speaker 2>in the dark, you know, And he doesn't have a gun,

1174
01:09:48.199 --> 01:09:51.119
<v Speaker 2>not that I could see, but it just it came out.

1175
01:09:51.640 --> 01:09:53.159
<v Speaker 2>So the more I thought about it, the more I

1176
01:09:53.239 --> 01:09:55.720
<v Speaker 2>kind of wondered, you know, after I heard the max

1177
01:09:55.760 --> 01:09:59.680
<v Speaker 2>and if I thought, was that really a man that

1178
01:09:59.720 --> 01:10:04.279
<v Speaker 2>I I don't know, but it just you know, makes

1179
01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:09.079
<v Speaker 2>it gives me pause to wonder, because, like I said,

1180
01:10:09.119 --> 01:10:11.279
<v Speaker 2>I went back up, got in my truck and there

1181
01:10:11.359 --> 01:10:15.680
<v Speaker 2>was there want any other trucks up there. It was

1182
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:20.279
<v Speaker 2>just me. It was kind of odd. So I don't know,

1183
01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:25.079
<v Speaker 2>And honestly, to be honest with you, I don't I

1184
01:10:25.119 --> 01:10:28.359
<v Speaker 2>don't want Bigfoot to be real because I enjoying going

1185
01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:30.359
<v Speaker 2>out in the woods and the thought that I'm going

1186
01:10:30.359 --> 01:10:34.319
<v Speaker 2>out there and there's some eight nine foot thousand pound

1187
01:10:34.680 --> 01:10:38.119
<v Speaker 2>gorilla out there that could rip my head off, it's

1188
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:42.079
<v Speaker 2>kind of kind of freaks me out. Now, you know,

1189
01:10:42.319 --> 01:10:43.880
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to see it. I don't want to know.

1190
01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:45.560
<v Speaker 2>It's like I said, when I go out and say

1191
01:10:45.560 --> 01:10:47.920
<v Speaker 2>my little thing, I don't want to know you're anywhere around.

1192
01:10:47.960 --> 01:10:49.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to smell you. I don't want to

1193
01:10:49.359 --> 01:10:51.279
<v Speaker 2>see you. I don't want to see your head peeking

1194
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:53.840
<v Speaker 2>out from any tree or anything of that kind of stuff.

1195
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:55.920
<v Speaker 2>I just I don't want to. I don't. What I

1196
01:10:55.960 --> 01:10:58.359
<v Speaker 2>really don't want is the people that I hear them

1197
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.439
<v Speaker 2>when they say they're coming up and whacking side of

1198
01:11:00.439 --> 01:11:02.439
<v Speaker 2>the houses at night and stuff like. I'm not gonna

1199
01:11:02.479 --> 01:11:05.319
<v Speaker 2>put up with that. I mean, I I have more

1200
01:11:05.479 --> 01:11:08.760
<v Speaker 2>guns than God would allow a parent that that kind

1201
01:11:08.800 --> 01:11:11.159
<v Speaker 2>of stuff starts. You know, I'm going to take you're

1202
01:11:11.199 --> 01:11:13.800
<v Speaker 2>a business, but you know, do you stay out of

1203
01:11:13.800 --> 01:11:17.119
<v Speaker 2>my yard and I won't bother you. But so far

1204
01:11:17.319 --> 01:11:20.119
<v Speaker 2>I haven't had any you know, problems with stuff like that.

1205
01:11:20.239 --> 01:11:23.159
<v Speaker 2>Knock on wood. Yeah, I don't. I don't want to,

1206
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:26.600
<v Speaker 2>but uh, you know, just the thought that you're you're

1207
01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:29.840
<v Speaker 2>going out there and there's this thing that could just

1208
01:11:29.960 --> 01:11:34.840
<v Speaker 2>rip your arms off, It's kind of this kind of

1209
01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:35.439
<v Speaker 2>creeps me out.

1210
01:11:35.560 --> 01:11:40.359
<v Speaker 1>The good thing though, is that I like, how before

1211
01:11:40.479 --> 01:11:43.479
<v Speaker 1>you go out hunting, you even though you may not

1212
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:49.600
<v Speaker 1>entirely believe in the communication, you know mentally you are

1213
01:11:49.640 --> 01:11:53.199
<v Speaker 1>still having that you know you're sending that out, you know,

1214
01:11:53.359 --> 01:11:57.560
<v Speaker 1>and so your intention is correct, you know.

1215
01:11:58.079 --> 01:12:02.119
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, let them know my very respectful. When I go

1216
01:12:02.199 --> 01:12:05.479
<v Speaker 2>out there, I see places. I mean sometimes I walk

1217
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:08.239
<v Speaker 2>for a couple of miles out there and I'll find

1218
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:12.560
<v Speaker 2>beer cans and trash. I'm like, who walks way out

1219
01:12:12.680 --> 01:12:17.119
<v Speaker 2>here to drink beer? You know? Who brought a six

1220
01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:20.199
<v Speaker 2>pack two miles up the side of a mountain to

1221
01:12:20.279 --> 01:12:21.960
<v Speaker 2>drink beer? And then there's a store on the ground,

1222
01:12:22.640 --> 01:12:24.840
<v Speaker 2>And I'm like, you know, you have no respect for

1223
01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:28.600
<v Speaker 2>the woods and you know, Mother Earth and all that

1224
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:33.000
<v Speaker 2>kind of stuff. Because one thing I learned in the

1225
01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:38.720
<v Speaker 2>army was trash is the enemy can tell a lot

1226
01:12:38.720 --> 01:12:41.800
<v Speaker 2>about you by your trash. So if you leave trash

1227
01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.439
<v Speaker 2>on the battlefield and they find it, they can tell

1228
01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:47.520
<v Speaker 2>a lot about you. So I learned early on in

1229
01:12:47.560 --> 01:12:50.159
<v Speaker 2>my life when you're out in the woods, everything that

1230
01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:53.600
<v Speaker 2>you bring out there with you basically goes back out

1231
01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.800
<v Speaker 2>with you. I mean, I went through a school when

1232
01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:01.439
<v Speaker 2>I was in the Army, which was I don't want

1233
01:13:01.439 --> 01:13:03.640
<v Speaker 2>to mention the name of it because I don't like

1234
01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:07.520
<v Speaker 2>the politics involved with it. Now, one phase of it,

1235
01:13:07.800 --> 01:13:09.640
<v Speaker 2>most of it that is actually here in Georgia one

1236
01:13:09.640 --> 01:13:12.000
<v Speaker 2>phase of it is actually up here in the North

1237
01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:18.479
<v Speaker 2>Georgia Mountains, and so they would give us a certain

1238
01:13:18.520 --> 01:13:22.239
<v Speaker 2>amount of food to take out on the patrols and say,

1239
01:13:22.800 --> 01:13:26.680
<v Speaker 2>if it was a seven day patrol, you got seven meals.

1240
01:13:26.960 --> 01:13:30.359
<v Speaker 2>When you got back, you better have either the meals

1241
01:13:30.359 --> 01:13:32.640
<v Speaker 2>that you didn't eat, which was basically most of them,

1242
01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:36.000
<v Speaker 2>or you better have the trash, because they would check

1243
01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:39.560
<v Speaker 2>to make sure that whatever you took out you brought

1244
01:13:39.720 --> 01:13:43.720
<v Speaker 2>back because otherwise people can you know, hey, I found

1245
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:46.439
<v Speaker 2>this toilet paper, and I found the candy wrappers. These

1246
01:13:46.479 --> 01:13:49.920
<v Speaker 2>guys are very well supplied because they got candy, toilet paper,

1247
01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:52.399
<v Speaker 2>they got cigarettes where they did their cigarette butts down

1248
01:13:52.479 --> 01:13:55.199
<v Speaker 2>up you know, all those little things. I've learned, you know,

1249
01:13:55.239 --> 01:13:59.079
<v Speaker 2>over the years. So I don't leave stuff out in

1250
01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:01.640
<v Speaker 2>the woods like that habit. And when I see people

1251
01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:04.079
<v Speaker 2>leaving trash and stuff out there, just it just burns

1252
01:14:04.119 --> 01:14:06.359
<v Speaker 2>me up. I'm like, you know, you're just destroying it

1253
01:14:06.399 --> 01:14:10.039
<v Speaker 2>for the next generation or the animals that are out

1254
01:14:10.039 --> 01:14:14.279
<v Speaker 2>here and whatnot. So like I said, I try, if

1255
01:14:14.279 --> 01:14:16.840
<v Speaker 2>they are real, if they really are out there, I'll

1256
01:14:16.920 --> 01:14:20.760
<v Speaker 2>let them know, Hey, I respect you, and I'm not

1257
01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:24.000
<v Speaker 2>out here to cause you any problems. You know, if

1258
01:14:24.119 --> 01:14:25.920
<v Speaker 2>you really don't want me out here, you throw a

1259
01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:27.600
<v Speaker 2>couple of ocks ors and sticks at me, and I'll

1260
01:14:28.000 --> 01:14:32.119
<v Speaker 2>believe me goutch because I don't want to. I'm not

1261
01:14:32.199 --> 01:14:35.000
<v Speaker 2>the redneck that says I'm going to shoot one because

1262
01:14:35.000 --> 01:14:39.119
<v Speaker 2>I don't believe that there's just one run around by itself.

1263
01:14:39.399 --> 01:14:43.199
<v Speaker 2>I have a feeling that they're probably family units, and

1264
01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:46.800
<v Speaker 2>if you, I just I just get the feeling if

1265
01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:48.840
<v Speaker 2>you mess with one of them, that the rest of

1266
01:14:48.840 --> 01:14:50.279
<v Speaker 2>them are just going to gang up on you and

1267
01:14:50.279 --> 01:14:52.720
<v Speaker 2>that's going to be a real bad day for you.

1268
01:14:52.720 --> 01:14:52.960
<v Speaker 2>You know.

1269
01:14:54.000 --> 01:15:00.800
<v Speaker 1>No, I have the same thought where you know, and

1270
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:03.600
<v Speaker 1>I think there's a lot of other people that also

1271
01:15:03.920 --> 01:15:05.720
<v Speaker 1>have the same feeling. It kind of kind of like

1272
01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:09.479
<v Speaker 1>in you remember Jurassic Park, the first one, and you

1273
01:15:09.560 --> 01:15:13.039
<v Speaker 1>have Muldoune, you know, tries to take down the raptor,

1274
01:15:13.079 --> 01:15:15.840
<v Speaker 1>and then the other two raptors show up on either

1275
01:15:15.840 --> 01:15:18.760
<v Speaker 1>side of them. Big for Society will be right back

1276
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:19.880
<v Speaker 1>after these messages.

1277
01:15:36.760 --> 01:15:37.600
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's gonna be.

1278
01:15:37.600 --> 01:15:40.680
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be like that pretty much on a lot, or.

1279
01:15:40.680 --> 01:15:43.760
<v Speaker 2>Like uh or it would be like uh, you know

1280
01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:47.119
<v Speaker 2>how mountain gorillas live there there are big family units,

1281
01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:50.000
<v Speaker 2>and there's not there's not this want of want there

1282
01:15:50.920 --> 01:15:55.039
<v Speaker 2>a matter of fact, pretty much everything out here except

1283
01:15:55.079 --> 01:15:57.800
<v Speaker 2>for the bears. The bears are pretty much the owners

1284
01:15:58.600 --> 01:16:02.760
<v Speaker 2>unless you have a slow or ubs. But everything else

1285
01:16:02.800 --> 01:16:07.000
<v Speaker 2>out here. I kid people, I tell them I basically

1286
01:16:07.079 --> 01:16:10.039
<v Speaker 2>have a deer farm, a deer and a turkey farm

1287
01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:13.760
<v Speaker 2>out in my front yard. Because it slopes away, we're

1288
01:16:13.880 --> 01:16:15.920
<v Speaker 2>kind of up on the side of the mountain and

1289
01:16:15.960 --> 01:16:17.960
<v Speaker 2>sometimes I have to hank the horn on my car

1290
01:16:18.560 --> 01:16:21.520
<v Speaker 2>to get the deer to move off my driveway. They're

1291
01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:24.359
<v Speaker 2>just standing there looking at me, and they're like, what

1292
01:16:23.960 --> 01:16:26.119
<v Speaker 2>what do you want? You know, I would like to

1293
01:16:26.119 --> 01:16:28.159
<v Speaker 2>I would like to get by. Please, Can you just

1294
01:16:28.279 --> 01:16:31.600
<v Speaker 2>move out away? And then you can come back and

1295
01:16:31.640 --> 01:16:33.520
<v Speaker 2>eat all the grass you want. The more you eat,

1296
01:16:33.520 --> 01:16:37.319
<v Speaker 2>the less I have to mow. But uh, you know,

1297
01:16:37.359 --> 01:16:39.720
<v Speaker 2>and like I said, we've had hogs and stuff out here,

1298
01:16:39.760 --> 01:16:45.119
<v Speaker 2>But I do think it's strange about the hogs and

1299
01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:48.199
<v Speaker 2>the deer. As a matter of fact, this month there's

1300
01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:53.039
<v Speaker 2>a I think it's called Georgia's Sportsman Magazine something like that.

1301
01:16:53.119 --> 01:16:57.159
<v Speaker 2>It's a Georgia specific hunting and fishing magazine and on

1302
01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:02.000
<v Speaker 2>the front cover is a wild boar, and so you know,

1303
01:17:02.000 --> 01:17:03.800
<v Speaker 2>I want to grif stot flipping through it while my

1304
01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:08.439
<v Speaker 2>wife's shopping. And you don't have to report killing hogs

1305
01:17:08.520 --> 01:17:10.760
<v Speaker 2>up here, there's no limit, but the game warden told me,

1306
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:13.239
<v Speaker 2>I want tom kill as many as you can, you know,

1307
01:17:13.239 --> 01:17:15.560
<v Speaker 2>because there's just so many of them. At that time

1308
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:19.800
<v Speaker 2>they were and they have this state divided up into

1309
01:17:20.239 --> 01:17:24.319
<v Speaker 2>different sectors. So I looked on my sector up here

1310
01:17:24.359 --> 01:17:28.000
<v Speaker 2>in Towns County, and like I said, I don't know

1311
01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:32.239
<v Speaker 2>who's reporting to the DNA that they kill hogs, but

1312
01:17:32.439 --> 01:17:35.319
<v Speaker 2>for the whole hunting season, I said, like either one

1313
01:17:35.640 --> 01:17:41.479
<v Speaker 2>or two had been reported killed. And that's odd. That's see,

1314
01:17:41.560 --> 01:17:43.720
<v Speaker 2>every time I tell you something like this, it makes

1315
01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:48.399
<v Speaker 2>me remember something else. So my son in law, the

1316
01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:54.239
<v Speaker 2>big hog hunter from Hawaii, is taking my granddaughter to school,

1317
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:56.439
<v Speaker 2>and the school's just right around the corner down here.

1318
01:17:57.840 --> 01:18:02.079
<v Speaker 2>One morning, and apparently someone had hit a hog out

1319
01:18:02.119 --> 01:18:04.920
<v Speaker 2>on the road out there, and he threw it on

1320
01:18:05.000 --> 01:18:07.319
<v Speaker 2>top of his jeep. Turkey brought it back to our

1321
01:18:07.359 --> 01:18:09.840
<v Speaker 2>house and threw it out here on the side of

1322
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:12.520
<v Speaker 2>the yard because he wanted to see how his dog

1323
01:18:12.560 --> 01:18:16.600
<v Speaker 2>would interact with it. Well, he didn't tell me about it, So,

1324
01:18:17.720 --> 01:18:20.000
<v Speaker 2>you know, he goes to work, my granddaughter goes to school,

1325
01:18:20.319 --> 01:18:23.439
<v Speaker 2>and I come outside, let my dog out. I got

1326
01:18:23.439 --> 01:18:27.039
<v Speaker 2>a Rottweiler, and then my son Wall's healer, and I

1327
01:18:27.119 --> 01:18:28.800
<v Speaker 2>see this thing out there in the yard. I'm like,

1328
01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:31.079
<v Speaker 2>what the world is that. I go down there and

1329
01:18:31.079 --> 01:18:34.720
<v Speaker 2>it's a dead hog. How did this hog get in

1330
01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:37.760
<v Speaker 2>the yard and just fall over dead? So anyway, long

1331
01:18:37.800 --> 01:18:40.920
<v Speaker 2>story short, he tells me what happened, and I said, well,

1332
01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:42.880
<v Speaker 2>we can't just leave that hog laying out here in

1333
01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:45.239
<v Speaker 2>the yard. It's going to start to stink the place up.

1334
01:18:45.880 --> 01:18:48.239
<v Speaker 2>So I put it on the back of my truck,

1335
01:18:48.640 --> 01:18:50.720
<v Speaker 2>and I had an idea, said, I'm gonna I'm gonna

1336
01:18:50.720 --> 01:18:52.560
<v Speaker 2>take it down to the other end of the property

1337
01:18:53.079 --> 01:18:56.000
<v Speaker 2>where there's a power line cut that goes through our property,

1338
01:18:56.800 --> 01:18:59.000
<v Speaker 2>and I'm going to stake it down and get a

1339
01:18:59.079 --> 01:19:01.279
<v Speaker 2>metal steak and I'm going to tie it down to

1340
01:19:01.319 --> 01:19:02.840
<v Speaker 2>that and I'm going to put a camera on it,

1341
01:19:03.159 --> 01:19:05.199
<v Speaker 2>and I'm going to watch and see what comes over

1342
01:19:05.239 --> 01:19:11.199
<v Speaker 2>there to eat it. So for about I don't know,

1343
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:14.399
<v Speaker 2>three or four days or so, I can drive by

1344
01:19:14.439 --> 01:19:16.359
<v Speaker 2>there and I could look with my binoculars and see

1345
01:19:16.359 --> 01:19:19.960
<v Speaker 2>the hog laying there. And I checked the camera a

1346
01:19:19.960 --> 01:19:23.039
<v Speaker 2>couple of times, and it was like nothing wanted to touch

1347
01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:25.520
<v Speaker 2>that hog. For some strange reason. Once in a while

1348
01:19:25.560 --> 01:19:28.640
<v Speaker 2>there'd be a crow or a buzzard come down. Nothing.

1349
01:19:29.399 --> 01:19:31.520
<v Speaker 2>And then in the afternoon, I usually go and pick

1350
01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:34.079
<v Speaker 2>up my granddaughter from school, and so on the way home,

1351
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:37.880
<v Speaker 2>she says, Papa, let's drive by and see if the hog.

1352
01:19:38.039 --> 01:19:40.119
<v Speaker 2>What's going on with the hog? Because I had already

1353
01:19:40.119 --> 01:19:42.720
<v Speaker 2>pulled the camera off of it because I needed it

1354
01:19:42.760 --> 01:19:45.239
<v Speaker 2>somewhere else, because I was like, nothing's touching that hog.

1355
01:19:45.239 --> 01:19:47.520
<v Speaker 2>I'm not wasting camera time. I've only got a few

1356
01:19:47.560 --> 01:19:50.399
<v Speaker 2>of them, and you and I've had bears take my

1357
01:19:50.479 --> 01:19:54.119
<v Speaker 2>cameras and chew them up before. And so the camera

1358
01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:55.880
<v Speaker 2>was gone. But we drive by and I get to

1359
01:19:55.880 --> 01:20:01.560
<v Speaker 2>buy it. No, look, the hog is gone and completely gone.

1360
01:20:01.840 --> 01:20:05.800
<v Speaker 2>And I was said, wow, is it's gone? I mean

1361
01:20:05.800 --> 01:20:09.439
<v Speaker 2>overnight was gone. Now when I took that hog out

1362
01:20:09.439 --> 01:20:11.680
<v Speaker 2>of my truck and I had to drag him over

1363
01:20:11.680 --> 01:20:15.039
<v Speaker 2>there to that power line. You know, okay, probably weigh

1364
01:20:15.039 --> 01:20:17.640
<v Speaker 2>about fifty pounds. Maybe I had drug him through the

1365
01:20:17.720 --> 01:20:20.600
<v Speaker 2>leaves and had left a trail a big drag mark

1366
01:20:20.720 --> 01:20:25.199
<v Speaker 2>through the woods. So I go down there after I

1367
01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:27.479
<v Speaker 2>dropped my granddaughter off, you know, at the house, and

1368
01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:32.359
<v Speaker 2>go down there in my truck. The cord, which was

1369
01:20:33.039 --> 01:20:36.279
<v Speaker 2>it was like a almost like parachute cord, real high

1370
01:20:36.319 --> 01:20:39.840
<v Speaker 2>kncel strength cord had been broken. It didn't look like

1371
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:41.560
<v Speaker 2>it had been chewed through. It looked like something had

1372
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:46.159
<v Speaker 2>just snapped it and the hog was gone. There were

1373
01:20:46.159 --> 01:20:49.560
<v Speaker 2>no drag marks anywhere. It's like that hog just stood

1374
01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:53.720
<v Speaker 2>up and walked off, or something came over there, snapped

1375
01:20:53.720 --> 01:20:56.319
<v Speaker 2>that cord, picked up that hog and left with it.

1376
01:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.880
<v Speaker 2>Now we have a bear out here, like I said,

1377
01:20:59.880 --> 01:21:02.439
<v Speaker 2>we have about a six on a plus pound blackbrother.

1378
01:21:02.520 --> 01:21:05.560
<v Speaker 2>We call it big Gym. I guess big Gym could

1379
01:21:05.640 --> 01:21:08.720
<v Speaker 2>have picked it up in his mouth and walked off

1380
01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.960
<v Speaker 2>with it. I don't know, but I thought that was

1381
01:21:12.000 --> 01:21:16.359
<v Speaker 2>really odd that there wasn't a drag mark anywhere, and

1382
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:18.039
<v Speaker 2>you can see the drag marks where I drug it

1383
01:21:18.079 --> 01:21:21.880
<v Speaker 2>over there. But so whatever, I had no idea what

1384
01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:25.239
<v Speaker 2>picked that plog up and ran off with it? There

1385
01:21:25.319 --> 01:21:28.239
<v Speaker 2>was there wasn't any pieces of it laying around nothing.

1386
01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:29.760
<v Speaker 2>You know.

1387
01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:34.520
<v Speaker 1>That's that's so weird because I hear man, I hear

1388
01:21:34.560 --> 01:21:37.800
<v Speaker 1>people tell me stuff similar with like elks they've shot

1389
01:21:38.039 --> 01:21:41.600
<v Speaker 1>out in uh Idaho where they come back real quick.

1390
01:21:42.119 --> 01:21:44.439
<v Speaker 1>The elk is entirely gone. It's like where to go,

1391
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:48.079
<v Speaker 1>It's there's no drag marks. It's just it's crazy stuff.

1392
01:21:48.199 --> 01:21:48.279
<v Speaker 2>Ed.

1393
01:21:48.359 --> 01:21:52.840
<v Speaker 1>You've got some really interesting things that have happened over

1394
01:21:52.840 --> 01:21:54.560
<v Speaker 1>the years. And I think if you keep doing what

1395
01:21:54.600 --> 01:21:58.520
<v Speaker 1>you're doing, stuff is just gonna keep happening to you.

1396
01:21:58.560 --> 01:22:00.039
<v Speaker 1>And I'd love to keep in touch with.

1397
01:22:00.079 --> 01:22:04.399
<v Speaker 2>The Okay, maybe I'll stop doing because I don't really

1398
01:22:04.399 --> 01:22:04.880
<v Speaker 2>want to do.

1399
01:22:05.680 --> 01:22:09.159
<v Speaker 1>That's that's true. I forgot most people are like, well,

1400
01:22:09.199 --> 01:22:10.199
<v Speaker 1>this isn't really my thing.

1401
01:22:10.359 --> 01:22:14.680
<v Speaker 2>So I mean, I I'm fascinating by me. Like I said,

1402
01:22:14.800 --> 01:22:16.399
<v Speaker 2>I've since been a part of me since I was

1403
01:22:16.439 --> 01:22:21.520
<v Speaker 2>a kid. I watched every TV show there's one on there.

1404
01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:25.279
<v Speaker 2>I watched just the Heckle because I think it's kind

1405
01:22:25.279 --> 01:22:28.079
<v Speaker 2>of funny. Yeah, this is this will be my last

1406
01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:31.880
<v Speaker 2>little story. Is when I was still a policeman in

1407
01:22:31.920 --> 01:22:35.600
<v Speaker 2>Hawaii a few years before I retired, I said, my

1408
01:22:35.640 --> 01:22:38.479
<v Speaker 2>wife was from Hawaii. I brought her back over here

1409
01:22:38.520 --> 01:22:41.680
<v Speaker 2>to Georgia and we came up here to North Georgia

1410
01:22:41.680 --> 01:22:43.680
<v Speaker 2>for a day, she and I and my sister to

1411
01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:46.000
<v Speaker 2>drive around and I said, this is where we're going

1412
01:22:46.079 --> 01:22:49.840
<v Speaker 2>to live. And she was like, there's there's no how

1413
01:22:49.840 --> 01:22:51.399
<v Speaker 2>do see any houses up here? Where are we going

1414
01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:53.520
<v Speaker 2>to live? But most of the place were going through

1415
01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:56.600
<v Speaker 2>was national forest. Still, of course there's snow houses and

1416
01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:59.640
<v Speaker 2>in Hawaiian people live on top of each other basically,

1417
01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:04.399
<v Speaker 2>so she was like, wow, this is there's nothing up here.

1418
01:23:04.479 --> 01:23:07.000
<v Speaker 2>I was like, yeah, it's perfect. There's no people up

1419
01:23:07.000 --> 01:23:09.439
<v Speaker 2>here to bother me, nothing, because after being a copy

1420
01:23:09.479 --> 01:23:11.119
<v Speaker 2>you just don't want to be around people no more.

1421
01:23:11.560 --> 01:23:15.199
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, so this was the first year that the

1422
01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:19.640
<v Speaker 2>show Finding Bigfoot was coming on, and we had gone

1423
01:23:19.640 --> 01:23:22.479
<v Speaker 2>back to Hawaiian went back home and the very first

1424
01:23:22.520 --> 01:23:24.479
<v Speaker 2>episode was going to come on, and I was I

1425
01:23:24.520 --> 01:23:28.119
<v Speaker 2>couldn't wait to watch it, you know, And my wife

1426
01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:30.199
<v Speaker 2>was laying on a little sofa in front of the

1427
01:23:30.239 --> 01:23:33.960
<v Speaker 2>TV and she had fallen asleep. And so the show

1428
01:23:34.039 --> 01:23:37.960
<v Speaker 2>comes on and what do you know, they're right up

1429
01:23:38.159 --> 01:23:42.359
<v Speaker 2>here in Helen, George. It's a little alpine village thing, right,

1430
01:23:42.479 --> 01:23:46.199
<v Speaker 2>It's like fifteen miles from my house. Tonight, we're in

1431
01:23:46.239 --> 01:23:50.760
<v Speaker 2>the North Georgia Mountains looking for a sasquats and I thought, oh, oh,

1432
01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:55.640
<v Speaker 2>my wife sees this. She had never moving to Georgia,

1433
01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:57.840
<v Speaker 2>so I tried to stink. I turned the volume down

1434
01:23:58.000 --> 01:24:01.319
<v Speaker 2>a little bit, thinking she won't wake up. And you

1435
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:04.039
<v Speaker 2>know they do their their little town hall meeting things. Well,

1436
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:08.279
<v Speaker 2>they had their town hall meeting right there in Alpine Helen.

1437
01:24:09.119 --> 01:24:10.560
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if you've ever heard of her word.

1438
01:24:10.800 --> 01:24:14.359
<v Speaker 2>It looks like a little German town. They have October Festa, right,

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<v Speaker 2>so they're having their little town hall right there, right

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<v Speaker 2>where we went through, right by where we had lunch

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<v Speaker 2>and everything. Right when that was that part of the show

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<v Speaker 2>was airing, my wife wakes up and she looks up

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<v Speaker 2>at the TV and she watches it for like about

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<v Speaker 2>thirty seconds. So she goes, hey, that looks like that

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<v Speaker 2>place we went. And I'm sitting out there going oh no,

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<v Speaker 2>and she goes, I said, it is that's Helen Georgia.

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<v Speaker 2>Because what show is this? I was like, here we go.

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01:24:46.680 --> 01:24:51.319
<v Speaker 2>I said, it's it's Finding Bigfoot. Oh that was it.

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<v Speaker 2>She does lost it. There's big cut, George. I am

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<v Speaker 2>not moving over there nowhere. She just kind of lost

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<v Speaker 2>your right about the whole Bigfoot thing. But she got

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<v Speaker 2>but I was like, what the odds she would wake

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<v Speaker 2>up right when that was on, you know, and I

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<v Speaker 2>got to tell her.

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<v Speaker 1>Larious, Oh my god, oh good stuff. Uh absolutely, man,

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<v Speaker 1>thank you for for coming on the show and for

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<v Speaker 1>for sharing what you've experienced over the years. And you know, definitely,

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<v Speaker 1>you know.

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<v Speaker 2>If anything else happened, dog, you will be the first.

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<v Speaker 1>One please reach out. Yeah. Absolute, but thank you, thank

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<v Speaker 1>you for coming on. I greatly appreciate it.

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<v Speaker 2>I appreciate it too, Thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to take a few minutes to say

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<v Speaker 1>thank you to you allman listeners for listening to the podcast.

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<v Speaker 1>Please take a minute to help out the show by

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<v Speaker 1>you're subscribed, share the show with a friend. Really, it's

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<v Speaker 1>all about sharing the show wherever you can. If you've

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<v Speaker 1>had a Bigfoot encounter related to the following, or know

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01:26:19.000 --> 01:26:23.079
<v Speaker 1>someone who has, please reach out to me at Bigfoot

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<v Speaker 1>Society at gmail dot com or pass on my email.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's the list the Subtle Lake area of Oregon, Rainbow, Oregon,

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<v Speaker 1>McKinsey Bridge area, Sweet Home, pretty much that entire area,

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<v Speaker 1>the north part. If you get what I mean, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>see you back next time. Listeners. SASA Summerfest this year

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<v Speaker 1>July eleventh through the twelfth. It's going to be fantastic.

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<v Speaker 1>July eleventh through twelfth in Greenwaters Park and Oakridge, Oregon.

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<v Speaker 2>So there you go.

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<v Speaker 1>I look forward to seeing you there. So make sure

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<v Speaker 1>you head over to www dot Sasquatch Summerfest dot com

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<v Speaker 1>and pick up your tickets today